Most Hysterical Headline Of The Year: Palin Pulverizes Obama

I know it’s only May, but this is going to be tough to beat:

Fox Nation

How anyone could take seriously the notion that Sarah Palin would provide any intellectual competition for President Obama is utterly unfathomable. This is the woman who thinks that a “gotcha” question is “What newspapers do you read?” This is the woman who thought that Africa was a country. This is the woman who thinks the vice-president is in charge of the Senate. And now Fox thinks that her nearly incoherent rambling on Sean Hannity’s program represents some sort of victory – and not just a victory, but a pulverization.

Fox Nation is fond of overextending itself with puerile hyperbole, but this is so far removed from reality that the guys with butterfly nets must not be far behind. The subject of the discussion was Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s remarks criticizing Obama for attacking Mitt Romney on his business resume, and specifically on Bain Capital. Booker was wrong on the substance of his criticism and went completely out of bounds when he conflated the right-wing’s obsession over Jeremiah Wright with the legitimate criticisms of Romney’s tenure at Bain. Booker later clarified what he meant and reiterated his support for Obama. Ignoring that, Palin referenced Booker as well as Democrats Harold Ford and Steve Rattner in an attempt to suggest that they were anti-Obama. She said…

“His surrogates there come from, in many respects the private sector, and each one of those individuals does have a lot of private sector experience, unlike their leader Barack Obama.”

Well, it was nice of her to praise these surrogates so highly. Indeed, they do have a lot of private sector experience. And what’s more, they all endorse Obama for reelection. So if we are to accept Palin’s commentary that these are intelligent, experienced people with insight into business and economics, then we should, therefore, be sure to vote for Obama in November.

Thanks for your support, Sarah. And thanks for a pulverizing so thorough that it whipped back around and transformed into an endorsement. Seriously, after seeing this I have to wonder if Palin would even know what pulverize means. Clearly the editors at Fox Nation don’t.

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18 thoughts on “Most Hysterical Headline Of The Year: Palin Pulverizes Obama

  1. The juveniles who put Fox Nation out there for all to get nausious on show how utterly clueless they are again. But since their target audience is utterly clueless as well they think they are geniuses. Has anyone found the gene that causes this kind of thinking in humans? A rational, coherent person could not read this stuff and ever take it seriously.

  2. Have you ever read the Articles of the Constitution? Article 1 Section 3 I think about three paragraphs down

    http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

    It states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate.

    I am sure people do make mistakes. But you are not doing your homework and you are putting yourself out there as an expert. Be very careful that you do not shove your foot so far in your mouth that people will laugh instead of listen. I was willing to read all information but I really hate factual inconsistencies, especially about the constitution. Read it. It really isn’t that long or complicated.

    “The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.” That is a direct quote from the United States constitution.

    Interpretation would be that he is in control of the Senate. Not that he is in control of how it votes but of its Parliamentary Procedure.

    I have found that a lot of journalists on both sides seem to go on rants and do not support their comments with facts. I truly respect the ones who do. Inconsistencies even in one small part of an article make the person who wrote the article look unprepared and unintelligent.

    • Good lord. Are you serious? The “Presidency of the Senate” is a mostly ceremonial position. It has just one official function: to cast tie-breaking votes. The vice-president cannot participate in legislative business, cannot control the calendar, cannot engage in debate, may not even speak on the floor. He certainly has no control over parliamentary (or any other) procedure.

      Talk about shoving your foot in your mouth…

      • Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Lyndon Johnson, who was Senate majority leader before he was VP, when he was VP request to come down to the Senate chamber for some reasn or other and they basically said thanks but no thanks you don’t belong here anymore?

  3. I know it’s just an idiom, but this: “His surrogates THERE…” just fries any sense of respect I could begrudge her. And the idea that she’d close with a jab at Obama’s experience is baffling. Does she really have that luxury if the topic is anything but killing wolves from a helicopter?

    • I really get a kick out her syntax. It reminds of the the two dumb girls in the movie Fargo who spent the night with Steve Buscemi and his accomplice. Palin did reside in the area for awhile when she was in college.

  4. Now we know why Palin has been so quiet recently, she got another facelift! I guess all those remarks about how haggard she looked since ’08 got to her. Unfortunately, she can’t do a thing about her lack of intelligence. That would require real work on her part and we all know how she feels about actually working, that’s why she quit the governor’s position in Alaska and went the Hollywood route to make $$$. Lazy, grifting low-life remains clueless and does nothing more than use talking points and signs her name to posts and editorials that her advisers write for her. That’s why she won’t appear anywhere but Fox, she’d have to answer questions that she wouldn’t receive ahead of time. The proof that this is her M.O. is in her emails where we see her staff presenting answers for the questions sent prior to interviews, for her approval. Palin remains a joke.

    • Yes, I figured when she dropped off the radar she was either having her face rearranged or was in rehab. It sounds as if instead of babbling on to seany insanity she ought to be helping old tawd lawyer up. Apparently the congressional committee investigating the Secret Service’s little prostitution problem is aware of tawd procuring “dates” for the SS when they were “protecting” 1/2 wit sarah in alasky…Bring on the popcorn!!

    • Facelift? I don’t see it. Wherever she’s been she looks – and sounds – exactly the same to me. Unfortunately for all of us.

  5. Her face is beginning to look a bit like the Joker in Batman. Her lips stretching closer to her ears with each facelift. I don’t know what happens with turkey wattle tightening or skin dermabrasion or too much Botox. Eventually she will be in the tabloids along with other aging celebrity plastic repair horrors. Not quite yet, but she’ll get there.

    She and Bristol are plastic surgery addicted.

    And the raspy voice, from surgery or screaming at Todd?

    She can say she is rested out of the public eye, and so looks better than she has been. LOL.

  6. OK, enough of the face-lift stuff. I really couldn’t care less about her vanity. I’m way more concerned about her stupidity, and I’m only concerned about that because there are actually people who are influenced by it.

    I know she is easily mockable, and in the photo above looks like she smells something unpleasant (Sean?), but let’s try to stick to substance.

    • Agreed, Mark, though the case could be made (and I’m not making it) that the speculation about plastic surgery goes to her vain personality which is not irrelevant to the whoppers emanating from her mouth. Though lots of public figures who can well afford the surgery go for it, and it doesn’t mean they all lack credibility.

      How’s that for a passive-aggressive paragraph?

      Anyway, that twisted mouth translates to me not as a bad smell she’s reacting to but smugness. When she thinks she’s pulverized someone, she thinks she’s pulverized someone, whether or not she’s ever heard the word.

  7. I’m so confused. Whose “surrogates,” where? What does that mean?
    Seriously, I’m feeling left out…do you all actually know what that means…or are you just guessing by context and filling in the blanks she left behind?

    Whatever. Why is she speaking? What is she doing? Is this a screen test or something? The video portion of an application for Celebrity Apprentice?

  8. “each one of those individuals does have a lot of private sector experience, unlike their leader Barack Obama.”

    Unlike Sarah – no private sector experience.at.all. None. Zero. Zip.

  9. everytime Sarah Palin opens her mouth I think… what a great place to pour some concrete.

    • I have never commented on here before…but that.was.HIGH LARRY US! Brilliant…

  10. palin is beyond belief, how can anyone listen to this nut.

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