The Palin Follies

Oliver's got up some great (and often funny) stuff on The Sarah.

It's never a dull day at Oliver's.

Palin Vlog Treat

Benincasa's back...



See Sara's latest Palin Vlog revival here:



Funny stuff.

Carpetbag Campaigning As Higher Calling

Just found this while browsing for something else.

Palin is said to have a book in the works. In addition, Nick Ayers, executive director of the Republican Governors Association, told Fox News on Friday that Plain wants to expand her role in the national party.

"Part of her decision is she wants to spend more time campaigning for candidates," he said.

That could be a welcome role for her in some parts of the Republican Party, which has suffered devastating losses in elections in 2006 and 2008 and is seeking ways -- and new leaders -- to help it rebuild.

Perino said that while the "2008 election and the aftermath of it would be something very hard to overcome politically" for Palin, she could be a powerful symbol for the party as it tries to encourage more women to run for office.

In light of her released statement about her "higher calling", a common Evangeloid malapropism based in Philippians 3:12-14, and some of the suspicions OCIHACOSP has published since the November elections, Nick Ayers just might be right, or at least partially right.

Sarah doesn't exactly seem to mind being the tokenistic cypher for the rightwing's massive gender anxieties, too.

I'll wait on her to elucidate more regarding her decision, though. In the meantime, it sure is a lot of fun watching everyone clamor to let us all know they saw it coming.

No, they didn't. Nobody did.

Looks Like Sarah Was Up in Time For Early Service Today

Twittering like mad in the wee hours of the morning.

- Trying to keep up w/getting truth to u, like proof there's no "FBI scandal",

- so I'll make attempt to keep up w/attaching corrected info.

- Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they feed false info on the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again....

- To see full text of the letter from my attorney on baseless allegations of past 24hrs check gretagretagreta.com

Ok, I added the gretagretagreta part.

If she had handled her resignation properly, she would not be in this mess trying to play catch-up with what are supposed to be bogus stories.

Sarah quits midstream claiming it's what's best for Alaska and thinks that is a logical reason to give for quitting.

The reason "critics are spinning" is because she gave no reason at all. The "team" deserves it. States deserve a real answer as to why a governor quits.

Republicans are the party of personal responsibility, my butt...

Greta, Greta, Greta, Pt. 4

As the guessing games continue about what Sarah's up to, Crooks and Liars has some fun with Greta.

Greta, Greta, Greta.

Made'ja Look...

Tee hee.

Sarah Palin is the Michael Jackson of the Republican Party

That is, if she doesn't do what I've long suspected she'd do and ditch the Republicans for a third party more in line with her views, like the Constitution Party.

Who else could take over Michael Jackson headlines except Gen. MacArthur 2.0?

The Queen of Pop arises.

4 Minutes Ago...

In Juneau- gorgeous & 82¤ on eve of Independence Day. Thinking of our vets who kept us free & our troops keeping us free today: THANK YOU!4 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

Doubtful that that's what Sarah was really thinking about on this eve of Independence Day.

Sarah's STILL such a tease. I love it. LOL!

New Trend: Anti-Schadenfreude from the Left

Noticing a new trend of Anti-Schadenfreude from the left today, among some of my Facebook friends and beyond, such as this post from BradBlog.

FURTHER UPDATE: Okay, I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to be possible federal indictments against Palin, concerning an embezzlement scandal related to the building of Palin's house and the Wasilla Sports Complex built during her tenure as Mayor. Both structures, it is said, feature the "same windows, same wood, same products." Federal investigators have been looking into this for some time, and indictments could be imminent, according to the Alaska sources.

The BRAD BLOG has not been able to receive confirm from any federal sources on this. Our information comes from local Alaskans who follow Palin, and who have been keeping an eye on this for some time, while keeping it quiet at the request of federal investigators.

* * *

With all of the above in mind, her rather manic, rather rambling, rather bizarre announcement (as seen below, via RAW STORY, text transcript here), seems to make a bit more sense, I'd say...

In short, I've noticed people expressing a feeling that OCIHACOSP sought to explore in myself dating back to several months ago: a rather unexpected sense of empathy for a rather wacky human being in a rather weird historical and political position.

It's not what I thought would come of today, believe me.

Sarah has such a strange effect on people, self inclusive. I find it fascinating.

Embrace your ambivalence, you'll feel a lot better because of it!

That's the End?

Mother of mercy...

The Guessing Game Continues...

...at Firedoglake.

June 29: Meg Writes from SarahPAC...

Well ain't this sweet. Sarah's prom date/travel partner speaks.

Memorandum

From: Meghan Stapleton, SarahPAC
To: SarahPAC Supporters

Greetings from Alaska where the fish are running and the sun is shining late![*]

Not long ago, I had the opportunity to spend time with Governor Palin as we visited Central New York, Manhattan, Long Island, Washington, D.C. and Texas.

It never ceases to amaze me that every time we travel together, virtually every moment of her time is spent talking to and caring for others, while listening to and learning from them as well - like brave, young Robert whose life we celebrated at the Autism Speaks Walk or the historical voices of the strong men and women upon whose shoulders we stand, including Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and former Secretary William H. Seward.

Below, I attached a quick note from the Governor which she penned before leaving the country last week. I am attaching it to this memo because I am asking you to help Governor Palin and SarahPAC today!

You have been so incredibly supportive and generous, and now we ask you again for your help - and we ask that you please also encourage your friends and family to give.

SarahPAC needs to be in the position to help fund candidates who are going to fight for what we all believe - smaller government, less spending, and fewer taxes. With your help, we can take the Governor's message and encourage others who also have hope and are firmly rooted in the conservative belief that you know how best to spend your money and not government.

SarahPAC can't do that without your help. Please visit this link and give to SarahPAC today - and encourage others to do so as well.

Sincerely,
Meghan Stapleton
SarahPAC

Dear Meghan,

Did your Harriet Tubman just pull up the tracks of her own underground railroad?

Is SarahPAC going to continue to ask for $$$?

Are you going to be changing the front page of Sarahpac.com, soon? It's been the same for, like, ever.

Sincerely,
OCIHACOSP

P.S.: *The lyric is, "fish are jumping, and the cotton is high"...

"A Servant's Heart" Revisited, Or, What Happens When the Point Guard Passes Off?

In the words of General MacArthur said, “We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
--Sarah Palin

"You are remembered for the rules you break."
--Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Back in January, OCIHACOSP posted a quickie essay on Sarah Palin's "servant's heart"/"servant leadership" rhetoric, oxymoronic Evangeloid code for someone specially appointed by God to lead others.

...“servant’s heart” is taken from Matthew 23:11-12

11- But the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12- Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

So it’s one of those circular logic things they apply to SP — she’s being exalted and is a leader (e.g. governor, VP nom), therefore she must be a humble person and a servant. I know, it’s ironic as hell but logic has never been the forte of modern Evangelicalism in the US.

They also have this bit called “servant leadership”, which of course is an oxymoron. It works really well for people who are narcissists and users, because those who believe in such things are looking to the SP’s of the world to “lead” them.

In light of today's hurried quit announcement -- in which Sarah characterizes herself as a point guard taking one for the team and handing off to someone else when faced with a full court press -- Sarah's followers will be forced to ask themselves: How do you follow someone who isn't leading anymore?

This kind of upside-down-in-a-circle-speak is characteristic not only of people like Palin/savior-of-america/Resurrection-of-Reaganism, but the same Messiah into whose mold she's been cast as, by her loyalists.

Don't think the Palinoid faction of the Republican party is going to have a hard time reconciling their savior's words with her behavior, as doing so has never been an issue for them.

We should watch, though, how quickly they start to spin Sarah-as-Savior into the current Sarah-as-Martyr meme they've been carefully cultivating since McCain's defeat in November.

Sarah can do no wrong, just like Jesus

Conversely, everything Sarah does is right, just like Jesus

Everything Sarah says is right, just like Jesus

Sarah is now humbling herself in order to be exalted, just like Jesus

Sarah is the perpetual victim of the establishment, just like Jesus

Palinoids ought to take note, however: your Jesus was never a Christian, unlike Sarah.

I wonder if she won't come to deeply regret that last line of her speech comparing herself to General MacArthur, whose own most notorious speech ends with "old soldiers never die, they just fade away".

Only time will tell.

Sarah Palin's Quitting Speech

One of the most breathlessly incoherent things ever put to video since Alphaville:

Oh my. This is just...

Everything's showbiz. Too bad Sarah seems to be working without any cue cards, today.

Sarah Palin Appreciation Moments

People who ought to be having Sarah Palin Appreciation Moments today:


- The state of Alaska (hey, she said herself this is in Alaska's best interest)

- The Jackson family, for knocking them out of the headline news today

Sarah is Resigning Because We're Afraid of Her

Or something like that.

Statement's Up...

Nothing on Twitter yet, though. It will be interesting to see how they whittle this down to 140 chars or less.

“People who know me know that besides faith and family, nothing's more important to me than our beloved Alaska,” said Governor Palin. “Serving her people is the greatest honor I could imagine.”

Standing outside her home in Wasilla, Alaska, Governor Palin reflected upon some of the administration’s accomplishments for Alaska as she approaches her final year in office.

“I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” said Governor Palin after the announcement. “Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose.

"It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success.

"I look forward to helping others – to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops, and energy independence.”

The transfer of power will occur following the Governor’s picnic in Fairbanks on July 26. At that point in time, Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be sworn in and Lieutenant General Craig Campbell will assume his role as Lieutenant Governor. Governor Palin will spend July 4th in Juneau.

Paragraph breaks added for readability.

This is a classic example of Sarah's upside-down logic, akin to "the state of Alaska's budget should be poor because that means we can't spend any money".

Does anybody else get the feeling that she's not, you know, REALLY quitting to REALLY "protect" Alaska? And why is she spending the 4th in Juneau?

Stay tuned...this vintage is bound to age well, today.

Is This The End...of Sarah?

And in other news:

(CBS) Sarah Palin has announced that she will resign as governor of Alaska and will not seek a second term.

CBS Affiliate KTVA reports that at a press conference this morning Palin said she will resign the governorship within a few weeks.

I'm sure the evil media is behind this!

(Aren't they the ones behind everything?)

More as the reports start to trickle in.

Hahahaha Mark Sanford

Exclusive: E-mails between Sanford, woman: Woman in affair declines interview

How long until the conservative blame the gays and the feminists for Mark "Stimulate ME, not the Economy" Sanford?

Dumb, Stupid, Conservative Angry White Males Cannot Even Spell

How are you guys going to be "English only" when you can't even use the language yourselves??



Playing to the Palinoid wing of the unhinged GOP, an anti-Sonia/white nationalist "conference" put on by paleonazi Pat Oh-god-I-wish-I-was-WASP-and-not-Irish-Catholic Buchanan.

LOL!

"Fire David Letterman"

Fire David Letterman!!! is another John Ziegler production.

Both he and Letterman need to be having a public Sarah Palin Appreciation Moment about now.

Conservative Political Correctness, or, "Fire David Letterman!!!"

Where were all the newly-minted Palin feminists suddenly so concerned about "women" when she ran that filthy man for Attorney General, calling for his firing, and hers for nominating him?

Wayne Ross actually made "rape jokes", in case any of these conservative tools has conveniently forgotten.

Oh well, hope all 12 of them* are having fun at their picket/protest to "fire David Letterman" today.

Conservative idiots and their selective outrage need to get a job.

The last thing on earth "women" need is conservative faux-advocates like Sarah Palin and her Palinoid lemmings.


UPDATE: Correction, all 15 of them. Literally. HT 2 O-dub.

Praying for April Rose = Praying Away the Gay

Hahahahaha

Ah, the power of prayer. To a god that doesn't exist, for made-up individuals like "April Rose" and for non-starters like homosexuality: the occam's razor of Christian conservatism, at its dullest.

Palinoids, doctor killers, trigger-happy Holocaust-deniers, and all other Christian murderers with guns, please take note.

April Rose/"April's Mom" vs Real Moms Who Had to Make a REAL Choice

I really hope all the gullible, stupid/conservative tools, who clung like pollen to a bees knees to the bogus "April Rose" story promoted by some Christian idiot, get the chance to read the REAL stories of people who have actually been in that situation and been faced with the REAL choice.

Conservatives treat this issue like an abstract joke. Conservatives want to bust up other people's familes over their unprincipled stand, based in Bible verses.

Conservatives/forced-birth/fetus-first fascists raise and encourage people like "April's mom".

This is where homeschooling/anti-intellect/anti-science movement has landed you: right in the lap of conservobots like "April's mom".

Pro-Lie (No, Not a Typo)

More unhinged conservatism in action.

Anti-Abortion Blogger's Miracle Baby Was, In Fact, A Doll:

'"I have that exact doll in my house," said Elizabeth Russell, a dollmaker from Buffalo who had been following the blog. "As soon as I saw that picture, I knew it was a scam."'

"April's Mom," a single mother whose blog chronicled her pregnancy with a child, terminally ill with Trisomy 13 and HPE, whom she was carrying to term, attracted the attention and support of abortion opponents across the country. Every day, thousands of people read about her commitment to keeping the baby, her struggles, her pain - all set to a Christian rock soundtrack and interspersed with Bible verses and anti-abortion links. They sent her stories and prayers, letters and gifts. As the site took off, she got links from other pro-life sites and a number of advertisers. Prominent pro-lifers added a "Pray for April Rose" button to their blogs. By the time "April's Mom" gave birth to the baby - who lived only a few hours - almost a million people were deeply invested in the story.

And so, when they realized it was an elaborate hoax, people were mad (albeit, in many cases, glad a baby hadn't died.)

Leave it to another doodle-whack conservative Christian/Liar to think people are too stupid to tell real life from dolls.

Apology to the gullible dupes/conservatives hoaxed, because they are ripe for the picking here.

Score another one for the colossal failure that is the conservative Christian lifestyle choice.

You filth need to be raptured out of here, ASAP. We do not want you around our children.

Headline Does Not Match Story, Part 15: More Letterman

Headline:
TV Host 'Makes Rape Jokes' About Palin's Teen

Story:
Letterman did not make any "rape jokes" about Palin's teen.

Get your story straight, conservatives/killers. You are perpetual perps, not perpetual victims.

Another Conservative/Murder-Minded Terrorist

Wonder how many Palin rallies James von Brunn, the face of Real America You-Just-Get-It Conservatism, attended.

Freaks.

I'm going to have a lot of fun watching conservatives try to distance themselves from yet another domestic terrorist.

Pretty Pathetic Fake Outrage There Also From the Palins Re: Letterman

Are far rightwing gun-worshipping secessionist/America-haters like Todd Palin so obsessed on the idea of raping 14 year olds they impose their lifestyle/mentality onto every other male they see?

Quite likely. Else, how can one explain away this level of stupidity?

Dumb Todd's false indignation:

The CBS funnyman joked Monday of Palin's recent New York visit that "during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."

Palin was incensed.

"Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is...disgusting," the Alaska governor said in a statement.

The former GOP veep nominee's 14-year-old daughter, Willow, was the only Palin child with her for a trip to New York last weekend that included a Yankees game.

Alaska's First Dude, Todd Palin, said "any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable."

No person made any such "jokes", Todd/Stupid-conservative-male/ignoramus.

Then again, they don't teach listening skills in homeschool, I guess, so I suppose we ought to feel pity for his being so frackin' idiotic.

Get it right, stupid conservative males/rapists. Stop acting like poor hapless victims who hide behind guns to vindicate your hurt feelings about losing the white house.

Go secede and be incensed in some other country already. We're sick of having to look at you.

Sarah Lies About Tiller's Murder

Omg, Sarah's so full of shit.

"I feel sorrow for the Tiller family. I respect the sanctity of life and the tragedy that took place today in Kansas clearly violates respect for life. This murder also damages the positive message of life, for the unborn, and for those living. Ask yourself, 'What will those who have not yet decided personally where they stand on this issue take away from today's event in Kansas?'

Regardless of my strong objection to Dr. Tiller's abortion practices, violence is never an answer in advancing the pro-life message."

"Sanctity of life", LOL oh please, since when. That idiotic phrase alone qualifies this post for Cliche Watch.

Sarah's klan rallies during the campaign helped unhinge the so-called "pro-life" movement, completely off its rocker, as if any of those people needed any help being pushed over the edge of total homicidal insanity.

Lying doesn't become her. Sadly, lying -- especially to oneself -- is foundational to the conservative lifestyle. Let public figures like Sarah bring themselves to acknowledge that this murder was a violation of Tiller's civil rights, an act of political and religious terrorism, and denounce fellow hatemongers on the television labeling Tiller as "babykiller".

Until then, fuck them.

The statement is useful, though, coming from the pro-life leader who is just barely to the left of the Taliban on the issue: their only concern is how they look to people they are trying to sway.

Well, fascist filth, you're looking crappy as ever. Not even Sarah's beauty and quirk can pull you people out of this one; your entire movement has been reset to square one. Sarah knows it, what's wrong with Bildo and the rest of these jaw-flappers that they don't yet?

"Muslim Terrorist" vs Conservative Christian Terrorist

Interesting difference in news coverage.

One soldier killed, one injured by Islam convert in Arkansas shooting:

A Muslim convert "with political and religious motives" shot two uniformed soldiers outside an Arkansas military recruiting center Monday, killing one and wounding the other, authorities said.

Police arrested Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, on a nearby interstate shortly after the bloodshed at the Army-Navy Career Center in a shopping center in west Little Rock. Three guns were found in his SUV, they said.

He will be charged with first-degree murder, plus 15 counts of committing a terroristic act, authorities said.

But they stressed there was no evidence of a broader plot, saying they believed "political and religious motives" were behind the attack.

The suspect appeared to have a "disagreement over the military operations" and opened fire "with the specific purpose of targeting military personnel," they said.

Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press the shooter struck without warning.

"He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them," he said.

Muhammad, a Little Rock resident formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe, is a convert to Islam, but when that happened was unclear.

His father, Melvin, declined to comment.

An FBI spokesman said agents are investigating to see if "there is any federal jurisdiction to prosecute."

"Political and religious motives were behind the attack."

Unlike the suspect in the murder of George Tiller, who of course probably had no political or religious motives whatsoever /sarcasm.

When they do it, it's heroism which gets a celebratory free pass from the fascist christian right, especially its Palinoid faction.

When everyone else does it it's first degree murder and "a terroristic act".

Muslim fanatics and their American Christian conservative counterparts. Flip sides of the same old murderous, reactionary, humanity-hating coin. Both thrive on and celebrate the deaths of others; they deserve each other.

Conservatism = Death: There is Little In This World More Effed Up Than Stories Like These

A Heartbreaking Choice

Conservatives claim to be so "pro-family" yet have no problems voting for intrusive laws that force families into these kinds of situations. They revel in the death of the already-born, especially those like Dr. Tiller, who don't live life according to the personal hangups of socially conservative people.

Come quickly lord jeezuss, take these people far, far away from the rest of us. Send them to Saudi Arabia or some other fucked up conservative country where they belong. Abortion's illegal and just about everybody is under the threat of the death penalty; they'll love it there.

Murder Suspect/Criminal = Militia/Teabagger Trash

This just gets gooder and gooder.

Murder suspect is militia filth.

Morris Wilson, commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia in the mid-1990s, said he knew [unhinged trigger-happy conservative male Scott] Roeder fairly well.

"I'd say he's a good ol' boy except he was just so fanatic about abortion," said Wilson, who now lives in western Nebraska. "He was always talking about how awful abortion was. But there's a lot of people who think abortion is awful."

Suzanne James, former director of victim's services for Shawnee County, said she remembered Roeder.

"He was part of the One Supreme Court, a Freemen group based out of Shawnee County," James said. "He was fanatic about a lot of things. I went to one of his court appearances and thought, 'This guy is dangerous.' There were a lot of red flags that came up about him."

In recent years, someone using the name Scott Roeder has posted anti-Tiller comments on various Internet sites. One post, dated Sept. 3, 2007, and placed on a site called chargetiller.com, said that Tiller needed to be "stopped."

"It seems as though what is happening in Kansas could be compared to the 'lawlessness' which is spoken of in the Bible," it said. "Tiller is the concentration camp 'Mengele' of our day and needs to be stopped before he and those who protect him bring judgment upon our nation."

On May 19, 2007, a Scott Roeder commented on an invitation by Operation Rescue to join an event being held May 17-20 in Wichita, "the 'Nation's Abortion Capital,' to pray for an end to George R. Tiller's late-term abortion business and for all pre-born babies everywhere to once again come under the protection of law."

The post said: "Bleass everyone for attending and praying in May to bring justice to Tiller and the closing of his death camp. Sometime soon, would it be feasible to organize as many people as possible to attend Tillers church (inside, not just outside) to have much more of a presence and possibly ask questions of the Pastor, Deacons, Elders and members while there? Doesn't seem like it would hurt anything but bring more attention to Tiller."

This is where coddling these good ol' boys gets everyone else: stone cold DEAD.

Want to find religious extremists and baldfaced domestic terrorists to send to Gitmo for waterboarding? Forget Afghanistan or Chicago educational non-profits, go look in Kansas.

(But then, we've been telling you stupid conservative dupes calling yourselves "moderates" this very thing, for several generations now.)

Susie Bright on TPMtv on Bristol Palin/Abstinence Hypocrisy, and Having a Normal Person in the White House

Realism in the White House: reproductive rights and accountability.

Accountability, as opposed to Palinism, which blames everyone but oneself for one's own very obvious flaws, then cries "liberal meeeeeeeeeeeeedia!!!!!" when shown up for the trigger-happy doctor-killers they really are.

Congratulations, "Pro-Lifers"/Brownshirts

Today, your militant misogyny movement has just been set back 50 years, and shown up for what it is: pro-death, and pro-murder.

Too bad an already-born/post-fetus/actual person/father of 4 had to be MURDERED because of you filthy fascists and your rampant freakery. The suspect was quickly caught.

If this is the murderer, I hope they lock him up in a super-max and keep him pumped full of debilitating drugs. He would deserve much, much worse.

So, so much for those legendary "pro-family" values. "Pro-family" for fetus-huggers only. Death and murder for everyone else (and going to church will not shield you from these unhinged conservative angry/bitters -- they kill people in Sunday service, now.)

"Pro-Life" for American Fetus Only, Murder All Others With Guns

How many conservative Christian sociopaths are celebrating today because someone they don't like was just killed in their own church?

Another unhinged conservative/psychotic who listens to people like Sarah Palin and these other fetuses-first hypocrites, another murderer. What's anyone's guess this terrorist/murderer is 1- white, 2- conservative, 3- male, 4- all three. I really hope I'm wrong about that but seriously, I doubt it.

Nobody should have to post about things like this, regardless of the background of the perp, because these supposed "culture of life" advocates shouldn't be killing people. Much less, IN A CHURCH.

Right-to-worship for conservative murderers, only. Everyone else they kill. No wonder they're so pro-gun.

All of them need to be raptured, ASAP.

I Sure Hope Sarah's NOT ON HER PERIOD When She Has to Make A Decision!!

For all the conservative males who suddenly became aware that sexism is real during election year '08, I'm waiting for you to repudiate Nixon-era criminal G. Gordon Liddy's statement that Sonia Sotomayor wouldn't be a good pick because she menstruates.











Waiting.












Ok, no longer holding my breath for that.

Dana, Sonia, and Sarah

Regular readers of OCIHACOSP might recall those early days of the "kill him" story, which was traced back -- and in my opinion/findings, NEVER confirmed -- to a blog post by Dana Milbank.

Well, he's making noise again, this time about Sonia Sotomayor (though, what rightwing hack isn't, these days.) Media Matters has more:

As purported evidence that President Obama "opted for biography over brain," Dana Milbank asserted in his May 27 Washington Post column: "As a legal mind, [Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia] Sotomayor is described in portraits as competent, but no Louis Brandeis. Nor is Sotomayor, often described as an abrasive jurist, likely to be the next Earl Warren. But her bio is quite a hit." In doing so, Milbank echoed recent attacks on Sotomayor's intellect. However, Media Matters for America has identified numerous "portraits" -- by law scholars and legal professionals who have worked with Sotomayor -- in which she is described as "highly intelligent" and even "brilliant."

And on it goes.

I didn't trust Milbank on "kill him", and he's once again showing true colors on Sotomayor. I'm told they always come out in the wash.

Further, Media Matters needs to be more upfront about exactly why these sudden challenges to Sotomayor's "intelligence" are problematic in the first place, and really ought to stop playing into that game; I certainly don't remember the question of "intelligence" coming up with a white SCOTUS candidate of any gender.

Also fascinating, is people like fellow crushgirl Bay Buchanan, whose career is based on being the token white woman in conservative environments, labeling people like Sotomayor an "unqualified", "affirmative action" candidate. And somehow she nearly busted a gut trying to convince her viewers that Sarah was qualified to be VPOTUS, based solely on her stances on guns and abortion. (And probably because she was drooling over Sarah just as painfully as Greta was.)

LOL! The fun never ends with these dumb, ignorant conservative dupes.

The Reverse-Reverse Racists: Conservative White Male Yappers

Some white male conservative commentators get on television and say such idiotic, stupid things, one wonders if they are deliberately trying to make white males look like idiotic, stupid people to the rest of the world.

They are a discredit to their race.

Sarah Palin Will Be on Harper and Zondervan

Last night, OCIHACOSP wondered in print whether Sarah's book would end up on Zondervan. Guess I'm a laggard because it was already announced at least a couple days ago.

The book will be co-published for the Christian market by HarperCollins subsidiary Zondervan. Barnett said he's had other clients, such as Dan Quayle, Bill Bennett and Oliver North -- "people who have a faith element to their lives" -- who also had their books co-published by a religious subsidiary. Such firms have relationships with religious-oriented bookstores. It is also possible that the Zondervan version of the Palin book might be slightly different than the Harper one.

"Sometimes you put a different cover on it, sometimes you might add an extra chapter to the edition that's more faith oriented, all those plans remain to be made," [D.C. Big, Old Media Entertainment lawyer Robert] Barnett said.

So she's on two imprints, Harper (for the normal people) and Zondervan (for the evangelical/hayseed idiots). They're planning for both the normal people and the hayseeds/Palinoids giving them big bucks, looks like.

Oh well, we gave them money for Terminatrix (which imo was a total bust) so why not appeal to as many as they can.

That's the way it goes, in showbiz.

Palin Supports Conservative Christian Liar With the Fake Chest and Naughty Pictures

LOL


Sarah Palin backs, relates to, Miss California

"What I find so remarkable is that these politically-motivated attacks fail to show that what Carrie and I believe is also what President Obama and Secretary Clinton believe — marriage is between a man and a woman," Palin said.

Sarah's apparently gone socialist, now that she agrees with Obama and Clinton on something.

Funny, no outcries from the Palinoid right about it, only this classic tokenization of Obama. Oh well, she lets them do the same thing with her against the eeeeeeevil queers and feminists, so...

...

"I respect Carrie for standing strong and staying true to herself, and for not letting those who disagree with her deny her protection under the nation's First Amendment Rights," Palin said.

"Our Constitution protects us all - not just those who agree with the far left."

Predictably wrong and missing the point, as we've learned to expect from rightwingers, bent out of shape because their failed lifestyle is being held up for the pack of secrets and lies it's built on.

Disagreeing with extremists from the christofascist right, who believes they and only they are privy to "rights" in this country, is not unconstitutional.

Disallowing them from imposing their failed lifestyle choice on the rest of us via marriage segregation is also our right.

Get it right, rightwing nutballs.

Well, at least Sarah didn't have the Miss Alaska pageant cut open her chest and stuff 2 tennis balls in them unlike Stupid Carrie.

Dumb, ignorant conservatives...what do they know about anything, much less the Constitution.

Sarah Palin and HarperCollins

Been waiting to see which of HC's many imprints her book's slated to be on.

No such news yet, that I've found.

I'm guessing Zondervan, though. Home of the New International Version Bible.

The whackodoodles already read everything that reactionary label puts out, what's one more to them?

Cute Sarah Pic

Snagged this from a link on one of her tweets from yesterday.



Dang, she looks fantastic.

Too bad she has stupid-ignorant, conservative/contradictory/hypocrite politics.

Book Deal for Sarah Palin

The reports file in about Sarah's new book deal.

Harper Collins. Interesting. Murdoch property.

Let's wait to see how long it takes her shrieking minions to backpedal on how eeeeeeeeeevil the meeeeeeeeeeedia is, now that she's signed with one of the largest media concerns in the country.

(And also wait to see if it can help pull HarperCollins out of the doldrums, lord knows the publishing industry could use a boost.

Yes, I will be getting it, need anyone ask?)

Carrie Prejean, Another Rightwing Lying Christian Militant

Keeps the crown, but what of that infamous "personal responsibility"?

Caught in yet more lies about her one nudie photo.

The rightwing sure has some fantastic poster children for their failed victimhood lifestyle: a so-called hockey mom who is really a career politician, who contemplated being a babykiller according to her own definition and has an out-of-wedlock kid;

People who weep and gnash their rotting teeth about a joke at a roast, all while defending torture;

And now, Carrie Prejean, martyr of the month, who blames photographers for taking semi-nude pictures of her, then pretending to be a hapless victim of the very people she willingly discriminates against.

What a waste of humanity.

God Is Punishing Imperial County, California.

This is God's Very Obvious Payback to social conservatives for voting 70/30 against gay marriage:

25% unemployment and one of the highest swine flu rates in the country.

Next time, you'll know better.

Then again, you're conservatives. Learning anything new about ANYTHING is against your religion...

"Adam and Steve" is Here to Stay

I defy you conservative pieces of garbage to come stop us.

There is nothing you can do to change it; not even Sarah/Savior/Sainted-Vindicator-against-the-pro-aborts can save you.

'Cept maybe you could move to Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Torture Central, where they still kill gays just for daring to exist outside the confines of your filthy, dirty, diesease-ridden conservative norms.

You'd love it there.

Get out of my country; stop driving on my roads; quit using my firefighters and emergency disaster declarations to try and make yourselves look like "you care" so much about the very people you look down on, nasty rightwing teabaggers/nuzzlers of 'nards.

Why Do Conservatives Need Government to Tell Them What Their Brats Are Doing??

Conservatives are so full of crap.

Small government for themselves...big government/coersion for everyone else's children.

http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=1773&type=1

“This good legislation received support from legislators from both bodies on both sides of the aisle because it is, above all, pro-family,” Governor Palin said. “The lack of action on this bill is a blow to parents across the state who do not want government building a wall between them and their children. I will continue to work to ensure that Alaska’s families are represented and that the existing law truly reflects the will of the people — as intended by our state’s constitution.

Parental notification/consent laws are not "pro-family", they provice special rights to conservative parents -- the worst parents on earth -- whose own children are out of control.

Apparently, conservative parents are dependent on the gubment to help them raise their own brats, and think the rest of us are, too.

Pack of hypocrites.

Pro-Abort for the Supreme Court!!

Yeah, baby. That's what I'm talkin' bout.

Conservatives need to secede, ASAP. Get out of my country, go move to Saudi Arabia if you think abortion should be illegal.

It's True...

http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin

Schwein Flu or Hay Fever?

It's sneezy-season, most everywhere in the country.

So no, Palinoids, it's likely not The Muslims getting back at us pork-eaters; and no, militia paranoiac xenophobe gun nuts, it's probably not the ZOG getting back at us pork-eaters via the Mexico anchor babies invasion, either.

Get a grip, conservatives.

LOL!

Joseph Farah is Such a Queen

Via World O'Crap, contributing heartily to the unofficial Crap Family of biased, bored, anonymous internet bloggers,

The louder they squawk, they harder they...umm...

Well, you know.

Only the homosexuals would be depraved enough to think up different brands of oral sex. Heterosexuals, who are not so jaded as the sodomites, are perfectly content with the one, traditional form of oral sex, which the woman — make no mistake about that — performs on the man, after he’s begged and whined and she’s had three wine coolers and it’s his birthday.

Dumb, stupid conservative queens.

Who do they think they are kidding? LOL!

Sarah Palin Contemplated Murdering Trig!!!

After all, abortion = murder, right, Palinoids?

Funny, I thought it was The Libbbz were angry because she didn't "kill" Baby Trig.

Anyway, I think she's puttin' on a show, repeating rightwing baloney to the gawkers and true believers about how easy it is to consider abortion when it's "convenient", pretending she actually knows the process one goes through in deciding to carry or not to carry.

She really needs to stop using the baby as a prop.

He's a BABY, not a political device.

Get it right, Palinoids.

Vote for Sara Benincasa for "Best Individual Performance"

Mmmm, "the people's voice", sounds like socialism!!!!!!! to me.

Register and vote, Sara/Diana 2009!

(Perhaps some of the fellas should go have a bearracuda party at the DMV for motor voter registration.)

Oh Crap, I Have A Crush On Susan Boyle

She sounds better than Elaine Paige to me. Nothing against Elaine, but seriously...Susan's the best!!

Watch CBS Videos Online

OMG, I love her!

Sorry Sarah, your instant-stardom You Tube infamy popularity has been eclipsed by Susan Boyle.

Whackadoodle Wayne on the Road to Nowhere

This just in...

Alaska Legislature rejects Palin AG nominee

The Alaska Legislature on Thursday rejected Gov. Sarah Palin's nominee for state attorney general, the latest of several clashes between lawmakers and the governor since she became a national figure as the GOP's vice presidential nominee last year.

Nine Republicans and 26 Democrats rejected Anchorage attorney Wayne Anthony Ross in a 35-23 vote by a joint session of the House and Senate. Ross had been criticized for, among other things, refusing to disavow his past characterization of gays as "immoral" and "degenerate."

"The governor honored me by choosing me and I would have done a good job, and I would have enjoyed representing the [heterosexual white gun-polishing bible-clinger] people of the state of Alaska," Ross said following the vote. Ross, a current director of the National Rifle Association, said he planned to return to private practice.

Ok, now wait for it...




























Let's time how long it takes the Palinoids to screech "PC!!!!!!!!!" and threaten to start having bearacudda parties. I'm giving them about another 5 minutes till their latest meltdown.

WOOF!!!

Sarah Pics?

Ok, so the Queen of the Pre-Born Fetus-Huggers went to some fetuses-first "conference" today.

I'm betting someone from the Sarahjugend went and snapped some.

Pictures up as soon as I find them.

Sarah and Teabagging

Happily for her public image, she's remained totally silent on this issue.

Maybe these testicle sniffers tea baggers are embarassing even her.

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

David Neiwert's latest book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right is on the way.

Neiwert, Michelle Malkin's biggest thorn in the flesh, has done some invaluble and always-relevant work on the growth of the skinhead/white nationalist/white supremacist movement into today's completely unhinged conservative movement.

It's why his Orcinus blog is one of OCIHACOSP's blog parents. I don't think I will be disappointed with his latest effort.

We Didn't Call it "The Lynch Mob Express" For Nothin'...

Jackandjillpolitics has an interesting take-apart of these teabag twits.

Same old people at those Palin rallies, listening to her failed southern strategy rhetoric, more resentful, bitter, fetus-clinging and incensed than they've ever been at the rest of us; now they'll be pitching their forks tomorrow at all these idiotic tea rallies, the actual history of which they have gotten throroughly wrong.

Ah, this is where 8 years of No Child Left Able to Comprehend Their Own History has landed us.

Now, the skinheads and other neo-nazis are eagerly awaiting these stupid scrotum nuzzling teabagging parties. Imagine my shock.

White supremacists are loving the Tea Party movement btw. They hear the dogwhistle loud and clear and are looking to take advantage of the discontent. Much more including what white supremacists are saying, the top five questions journalists and bloggers should be asking Tea Party rallygoers and my updated criteria for undercover racist attacks after the jump.

Many white supremacists report planning to attend Tea Parties or already have and some are looking for a way to recruit into their White Nationalist movement. There’s an awful lot of Tea Party chatter among these folks. Why doesn’t the media cover this angle?

Because that's not news and doesn't sell.

FTR, I find the word "racist" to be an overused, misused and now totally ineffective term, especially given it's now considered "racist" by mainstreamers to even discuss the matter of "race", at all.

The Blacks are The Racists now -- don't forget this is the latest conservocrud conventional wisdom.

I prefer to cut to the chase: the "race issue" within social conservatism and its history in this country is and always has been white supremacist/whites first/whites only values, norms, and rules of law.

Anyone who dared protest these authorities were, you guessed it, "commies", "pinkos", "socialists", need to be put in their place, uppity.

Conservatives like this prick WAR express opinions that everyone must bend to authority, yet his defenders think their stupid ball-sucking teabagging "parties" are protesting government.

Huh. When leftists do that, we hate America, should all go live somewhere else, or should just be shot outright.

When leftists do it we get assassinated, our clinics bombed, harassed out of neighborhoods and schools, crosses burned on our lawns, family members murdered outright.

Maybe the recent Vaterland Security report on their violent elements will make them think twice about forming additional government agencies such as "Homeland Security" at all. After all, when Bush did it it was to protect from domestic terrorism. Right?

But then, they'd have to at least think about something even once to think about it twice...

Whackadoodle Wayne on the KKK Display

This screen shot was not photoshopped, it comes from a real incident on MSNBC

Sam Stein of HuffPo -- a site often lampooned in OCIHACOSP's "Headline Does Not Match Story" category, gets an 'A' for matching his headline to his story.

He got a hold of a (difficult to read) scan of Whackodoodle Wayne's 12/91 Anchorage Times screed against a Black student protesting an UNMARKED KKK display put up by another student, linked here.

Some excerpts:

But a KKK figure is a real monster. And the nightmare of racial prejudice is real also.

Indeed it is. Just ask any Alaska Native who has an opinion on WAR.

But no, Wayne, a KKK figure is not a real monster, left unmarked it can be taken in precisely the way Ms. Bynum did, as a WTF-what is this doing on my campus moment (or isn't it her campus, too?)

Now before anyone labels me a racist, or a sympathizer of the KKK, let me say that I am a card-carrying member of the Congress of Racial Equality.

I bet some of your best friends are Black, too, Wayne.

And the outtake:

In my day, universities were run by university officials, not by students. In my day, "ultimatums" were only rendered by persons of authority.

I don't know who Wayne was trying to kid.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was a civil rights group back in the day, known for nonviolent protest against segregation. But they have become something else entirely, and were certainly on that path by 1991. Republicans now, Republicans then.

What Whackadoodle Wayne seemed to have missed, though, in his haste to lecture a sole Black student on appropriate forms of school protests, is that CORE began as a student group, the Committee on Racial Equality, a group committed to CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

I hope he now realizes that CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is, by design, an ultimatum given to "authority".

Niger Innis, the son of CORE's National Chairman and CEO Roy Innis, is the "Republican Consultant" in the opening photo. That's a real screenshot, where some genius CG op typed his name as "Nigger Innis".

Innis's response to his host's apology:

"Oh, God, I thought you guys thought I was a rapper or something. Media bias continues. Just kidding. It's not the first time it's happened, but hopefully it's the last."

Only thing missing is the "yassa massa" at the end.

Well, Wayne was a "card-carrying member" in 1991, so he claims. Hope he never bothered to renew that membership because CORE also:

supported Ugandan military dictator Idi Amin, who was awarded a life membership. ^[9]

CORE has an African branch based in Uganda, with Fiona Kobusingye as is its director.^[10] Bringing attention to the malaria crisis is one of the organization's main activities, and it has championed the use of DDT to fight the disease.^[11] In 2007, CORE organized a 300-mile walk across Uganda to promote DDT-based interventions against malaria.^[12] CORE paid university students to participate in the walk, and then left them in Kampala at the walk's conclusion without means of returning home. "We feel used, dumped and taught to lie," said one student. CORE staff said the students were exaggerating.^[13]

Hope you've torn up that card by now, Whackadoodle Wayne. Cuz playing that "I'm not a racist/ some of my best friends...." hand is not going to do you much good on Thursday, not at the rate you're going.

All The Libs R Skared Uv Sarah and Are All Sexists!!!

...the latest sour grapes pouting-out-loud of the Palinoids, regardless of the topic at hand, including her latest pick for AK AG, Wayne Anthony Ross.

They really think we are afraid of her LOL!

But then, a lot of them think Obama is a Muslim socilaist fascist communist and the antichrist signalling the coming of the Apocalypse, so...

Anyway, Max Blumenthal ratcheted up the WAR story (and also engaged in counting some chickens, tsk tsk) and ended up sending a bunch of well-deserved hits to the Progressive Alaska link that's currently lighting up the left blogosphere.

Fine work, Philip!

(Blumenthal, as people may remember, is the one who exposed the goings-on at Wasilla Assembly of God. See also:

Sarah Palin, Charisma and Charisma

America's Black Pastor Mashup: Wright vs Muthee and

Neiwert on CNN, Re: Alaskan Independence Party, and the Palins.)

Folx should also take a look at that video posted here a couple days ago, as Governorcuda is pressed on some of the things being reported on Whackadoodle Wayne.

She's such a politician.

"KKK 'Art' Project Gets 'A' For Courage" Updata

Progressive Alaska went down to the library to do the archival research I myself started also, to get to the bottom of Palin Pick Wayne Anthony Ross's "KKK 'Art' Project Gets 'A' for Courage". This was an op ed written for a rightwing AK rag, acquired by the Anchorage Daily News in the early 90s. I found out it's only available locally.

(Last week, OCIHACOSP asked what exactly was in the op ed and if anyone's actually read it.)

PA reveals:

"KKK 'art' project" - defends a UAA student who created an art project. "He created a hooded and robed stick figure of a KKK member, bearing a cross in one hand and a flag in the other."

An African-American student objected. Ross, showed his lack of concern for her viewpoint. "Ms. [name redacted by PA] was obviously letting her inner hostilities rise to the surface."

After Prof. Ken Gray "capitulated," Ross had this to say about the protesting student:

It might have been more fun to see Ms. [-----] try to remove the display. Then she could have been arrested and her future as a student of the university could have been resolved through the university disciplinary proceedings.

Black people, apparently, are not permitted to have any "hostilities", inner or outer, regarding the KKK. Arrest them all, they're all criminals anyway, send them to Liberia.

Anti-Native, anti-Black, secessionist rhetoric gun-worshipping fetus-hugger; same old rightwing male crapola, different millenium.

I still have a call in to a local AK university library to get a copy. I want to see exactly what this far right freak of nature is all about, and I want it in print.

Those are some real class acts they have up there in Alyeska.

ETA: Meant to say, Progressive Alaska scanned 100+ articles by Whackodoodle Wayne. Read about his findings here.

Note to DontGo: Yes, Please Do Stay Your #$! At Home

Q: Who are these DontGo Movement tea party people?

A:

At TCOT, “projects are led by Project Servant-Leaders (PS-Ls). We chose that term very intentionally to reflect the stewardship nature of leadership in our group. Our overall cause of restoring limited government, free markets, and conservative principles to the governance of the United States is a worthy one.” That's really what it said, I'm not making this up. And Smart Girl Politics – whew. Let's see, they're for Sarah Palin in 2012 and have a shout-out on their website to Tammy Bruce and Michelle Malkin, so nothing more needs to be said there."

Tammy Bruce, rightwing tool.

Who the hell does she think she is kidding? LOL! Teabaggers...the homosocial/closet gay element in the conservative movement is about to, well, I can't say it.

OCIHACOSP wrote a bit on this baloney "servant's heart/servant leadership" rhetoric frothers like these conservatives/cult members/same thing attach to people who let them, people like Sarah Palin.

Sarah Gets Some Sense, Compromises on Stimulus and Parental Consent/Notification

But of course, we could have predicted this.

She gave a press conference today. Hopefully someone will have the footage up soon.

ADN headline says it all: Palin says she'll accept stimulus money under conditions, is willing to compromise on parental notification (updated)

Booyah, bayba-BAYba.




ETA 4-11-09, video's up.



I'd recommend watching at least a couple clips of the session, just to see how bogus and showbiz all that "you betcha wink wink" nonsense was during the campaign.

Outfit is fantastic, too.

Also ETA thanks to a clarification at Mudflats: title of this post is now "Sarah Gets Some Sense, Compromises on Stimulus and Parental Consent/Notification"

Aww, Conservative Males are Feminists Now, Ain't That Sweet

Or

Eminem (again) makes ass of self; Sarah's suiters stumble all over themselves to throw their coats over the puddle for their damsel in distress

Palinite numbskulls like Bill Oh Really, and some rightwing crushgirls like Tammy Bruce are all in a tizzy about Imitation Black Person Eminem's latest tub o'crap entitled "We Made You":

Well I can be as gentle and as smooth as a gentleman
Give me my venom, an inhaler, and two Xenadrine,
And I'll invite Sarah Palin out to dinner, then
Nail her. Baby, say hello to my little friend.

No, Marshall, you probably will not be nailing anyone you mention in your song with that little thing; it's highly unlikely that any of them would even look at you, much less say hello.

Can't help but wonder, however, if O'Reilly or anyone else upset about the song are equally outraged about the nasty (though definitively mainstream male) homophobia towards Portia di Rossi, Ellen de Generes, Lindsey Lohan and Sam.

He does not mean to lesbian offend
But Lindsay please come back to seeing men
Samantha’s a 2, You're practically a 10
I know you want me girl,
In fact I see your grin - now come in girl

And this is the Grammy-worthy brilliance that directly precedes the Palin lyric:

Sorry Portia, but whats Ellen DeGeneres
Have that I don't, are you telling me tenderness?
Well I can be as gentle and as smooth as a gentleman
Give me my venom, an inhaler, and two Xenadrine

Mmm, a scintillating evening of snake poison, albuterol, and weight loss pills, with a washed-up almost 40 year old who is still trying to pretend to be 19.

Really, what woman on earth could resist that.

Sorry Marshall, males like you obviously are not their type and besides, Portia's married, every bit as married as Sarah is.

And that screechmachine Tammy Bruce, token gay for the rightwing anti-rainbow coalition was utterly silent about the antigay lyrics along with the anti-Palin lyrics, when she went on O'Loofah's show. (She was also utterly silent about her own, otherwise totally "out" pro-choice lesbian feminism. Wonder why.)

Oh, I see. Only Sarah Palin and poor, put-upon rightwing women are "objectified victims" of woman-hatred and sexism.

When the rest of us talk about it, we're feminazis wallowing in liberal government-dependent victimology, unattractive lesbians who are only lesbians because we can't keep a man, jealous and frightened (lol!) of the Big Bad Barracuda.

Please. Keep dreaming, wingerbots.

Do any of hip hop's moralist detractors such as certain second-wave feminists or fat, ugly socially conservative O'Reilly-lemming males dependent on 19th century Victorian ideals of "traditional marriage" to ensure themselves a piece of ass; so suddenly tied up in self-righteous knots about "sexism and misogyny" (but only when it exposes/competes with their own very obvious desire to "nail" Sarah themselves) actually LISTEN to any hip hop songs at all?

Ever?

Doubtful. But alas, this is the way they are.

Commenters Don't Even Bother to READ Story

HuffPo, as regular readers of OCIHACOSP know, is little more than a tabloid, especially when it comes to The Sarah.

They pulled some of the same crap with Hillary, back during the Hillary vs Barack debacle which started about this time last year.

Found this gem on the latest Palin "legal defense fund" drama, enhanced by the comments of people who obviously DID NOT EVEN READ THE STORY:

Defenders of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have created a defense fund to help pay for her legal fees, including those stemming from the now-famous Troopergate probe.

Clayton Paslay, director of the group FreeAmericanCitizens.org, launched "Sarah Palin's Defense Fund" on Tuesday. Prompted, he said, by a segment on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News program detailing the governor's half-million dollar legal fees, Paslay set up a processor on his website to help solicit and steer donations Palin's way.

"[O'Reilly] said someone needs to put together a fund," Paslay recalled for the Huffington Post. "I already had [one] in progress, developers working with payment modules on another website. I asked how quickly we could get it up and, boom, we had it up the next day."

While some of the more rabid Sarahnoids are becoming completely unhinged over this, in that irrational way they have made so infamous, some 1100 comments and a critical update later, many Huffington Post readers apparently STILL believe Palin herself set up the fund.

No, friends, that was the POINT of the HuffPo story (complete with an update): somebody else set it up and thus it's legality is in question.

As for the sub-headline, "Supporters Drawn to Her Maternal Instincts", I'm not sure every "supporter" feels that way about her. But I do find Paslay's sentiment to be completely creepy, gender-biased, and classically conservative male sexual-repressive.

Why not just cut to the chase and say you like her because she has child-bearing hips, what's the difference?

Every President and VP has had kids; I can't think of one governor, anywhere, who hasn't. Doesn't make a hill of beans' difference in their ability or qualification to govern, and Sarah's "maternal instincts" certainly aren't doing much to protect and/or nurture Alaska from fetus-worshipping extremist whackodoodles like Wayne Anthony Ross; in fact, she appoints vultures like that to rule over the regular, normal people who live there.

Either way, it's really annoying when the commenters don't even bother to read the story.

ETA: For a different take on this from a conservative POV, see the fine peeps at The Sarah Palin Blog, which has been covering this from the outset and has had direct contact with most of the principals in the story.