New Palin Person

Having garnered a few hits from examiner.com in the past couple days came as something of a surprise, since I'm so critical of that venture.

(We here in Sodom/Gomorrah rev.2 don't exactly appreciate the exploits of Philip Anschutz. Neither does the Jackson family nor the entire city of Los Angeles, from what I understand, though that's for somebody else's blog to take up, not this one.)

Anyway, Lori Calabrese, a children's book author with titles in both Paul Carus's Cobblestone press and Clubhouse magazine, (a Focus on the Family endeavor), started last week as an "examiner" on Sarah Palin.

May her readers find plenty to entertain themselves, here at OCIHACOSP, commentary on Sarah Palin you're just not gonna find anywhere else.

Welcome to the Sarahsphere, Lori.

Left Behind: Booed By Her Own Fans

Sarah sed:

I've been told that yesterday there were supporters in Noblesville who stood in long lines for hours in the cold and rain, and the book signing event ended without a chance to say hello to everyone who showed up. I am so sorry. We are working on a solution for those who were left behind.

Certainly, the wordage/dogwhistle, "left behind", cannot be overlooked.

Sarah might want to check that messianism at the next bus stop, as, I've said before, we know the story about a certain savior who was welcomed one day and sent to a harrowing end not too much later, so goes that tall tale.

After all, no child was supposed to be left behind. We also all know how badly that's worked out.

She should not set herself up with these people -- the same sorts who booed their own candidate -- with messianic, pseudo-biblical self-references, given that many/most are the type who take such references with cold-sober literalism.

Although...it's not her first time.

Likely, it will not be the last. It could have bad consequences for her political/public career.

Monster Tweets Return

Not satisfied with poking at the populace from behind the safety of Facebook, Sarah's partisan monster tweets began again in earnest, today:

# Not sure I can convince Sen. Lincoln to vote no - but will do everything in my pwr to convince my friends in Arkansas to vote against her.
21 minutes ago from TwitterBerry

# My mom, Trig & I in Pennsylvania for nxt book event;Good folks have been lined up outside;Trying r very best to see everyone! U r inspiring!
6 hours ago from TwitterBerry

# Senate healthcare takeover debate begins in an hour. Pls call senators if u care about another 1/6th of our economy swallowed up by Big Govt
about 6 hours ago from TwitterBerry

# Thot I'd stick w tour news on Twitter but can't help digress: Call senators! Tell 'em KILL THE BILL tonite;horrible govt healthcare takeover
about 7 hours ago from TwitterBerry

The Sarahberry's back.

Killer diller.

The Liberal Media Won't Let Sarah Sign Books!!!

Oh wait, it's HarperCollins/Zondervan running the signing tour, not the liberal/gotcha/hollywood starlet/gungrabbing Jesus-free media.

Oh well...it's probably an ACORN/SEIU liberal driving that bus. Everything is the fault of the liberals. Sarah is a victim of liberals. And now so are her acolytes worshippers fans, waiting to touch the hem of her garments get their book signed by poor, put-upon her.

She Tweets

The Sarahberry returns...




http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA

Crossing border to Hoosier territory 4 book events tomrrw. Excited to meet Indiana folks who want to read about solutions to US challenges


Michigan-thx 4 Going Rogue! Perfect tour kickoff w/Kid Rock tune praising Northern MI humming in backgrnd @ Barnes/Noble. Above expectations

Took 'er long enough...

From the Unfortunate Headlines Department...

And now for something completely different, Chicago Sun-Times: Condi Rice Beats Sarah Palin

They should not be putting unclever things like that in the news.

Several noted Republicans will publish memoirs within the year, and the most anticipated turns out to be neither that of the two-term president nor the media magnet John McCain chose as his running mate last year. Rice, the first black, female secretary of state, beat out both Bush and Palin. Asked which memoir--Rice's, Bush's, Palin's, Laura Bush's, or Dick Cheney's--they would most likely read, 22 percent of respondents picked Rice's, followed by 11 percent for Bush's, 9 percent for Palin's, 7 percent for Laura Bush's, and just 4 percent for Cheney's.

Among those identifying themselves as either Republicans or Democrats, Rice won out again with 25 percent of both groups saying they would read her book. Cheney was just as unpopular within his own party, as only 4 percent of the Republicans picked his book as the one they would most likely read.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know Condi's perspective on all the hoo-ha. Well? Wouldn't it?

My heavily-discounted copy of Going Rogue should arrive by week's end. But like a Black person trying to avoid the Precious phenomenon, it will be all I can do to avoid everyone else and her uncle's commentary on The SaPa.

It's almost as if it's 2008, again.

Thankfully, it's almost 2010.

Laziest Post Ever in the History of Blogging: Sarah Palin Newsweek Cover 11-09

Hey, can I help it that's what people are looking for this week?

Oh Christ, The Palin Ph o t osh op s Are Back

Huffington Post, where else...

Bleh.

Sarah Palin Lookin' Cute on Oprah

The screamer/loyalist guntoting Bibleclingers at Team Sarah/Sarahjugend and other C4P types swore up and down she'd NEVER stoop to going on the Oprah Winfrey Show after, they claim, Oprah dissed her.

Of course, those of us who actually pay attention to what Sarah says and does could have predicted quite the opposite would be true.

Huffington Post has a couple CBS clips from the interview, set to air on Nov. 16th, the day before Going Rogue's public release.




What's anyone's guess that GR will end up in the book club?

Look for conservative loyalists to now change their story 180 and laud Ms. Palin's "bravery" for going on the most popular talk show to promote her book.

It's just showbiz...Sarah's got it down cold, when will her minions get the clue?

Palin's New Twitter Account

Camera ready...

http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA

Sarah Palin Interests Church Historians

...as well she should.

I wondered who would be giving a paper on Sarah at the American Historical Association's Society of Church History sessions.

From Molly Marshall to Sarah Palin: Southern Baptists' Shifting Rhetoric on Women in Leadership, Karen K. Seat, University of Arizona

I was thinking of submitting an ad-hoc paper with a similar topic to the American Academy of Religion for Montreal 2010, since that's what I talk about here. But then I thought eh, whatever for.

I'm not sure of Seat's slant, but the labels for this post reveal what a paper by me might entail.

Next year....or not.

Ok, Anyone Under 17 Must Shield Their Eyes...

or else you must pay a quarter.

Hahaha

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

* death (19x)
* crap (13x)
* queer (3x)
* drugs (2x)
* hell (1x)




Hahaha...

Rouguery: Sarah's Book out on 11-17

Sarah's book is due out on November 17th. 400 pages worth of...I guess we'll see.

That was quick.

Palin, 45, spent weeks in San Diego shortly after leaving office and worked on the manuscript with collaborator Lynn Vincent, a person close to her said. She was joined in San Diego by her family and her top aide, Meghan Stapleton, then spent several weeks in New York working around the clock with editors at Harper, said the person, who wasn't authorized to comment and asked not to be identified.

S * M * H

Nothing about the Zondervan release, though. Interesting.

Proving the Critics Wrong, She Actually Showed Up in Hong Kong...

...but jury's still out on what she actually said (or if anyone really cared):

Chad Tendler, who works in the financial industry, said Palin's speech tried "to tick a lot of boxes," touching on domestic and foreign policy, as well as issues that resonate with investors. He said she spoke about the U.S. relationship with China and recent issues, such as a tariff dispute between the two nations involving the sale of tires.

He said her speech was "very well scripted," but a question-and-answer session afterward "brought out a bit more color about her as a person" and reminded everyone of "the candidate who we all saw campaigning for vice president."

She talked about her family, her interests and even Alaskan moose, he said.

"She said on her way to the airport in Anchorage, there was a moose in the town," he said. "As she arrived in Hong Kong, coming in from the airport, she was surprised -- not surprised -- but, very different from the rural setting to an urban setting."

Wheeler said Palin would be in Hong Kong only for the speech, adding that it was a short trip. Chinese-language media did not give much coverage to her appearance, and some residents and visitors were surprised to learn she was in town.

Well good on Sarah. I hope the speaker's fee was as much as "some say" it was. I don't begrudge her making bank, especially off her idiot minions still shrieking "2012!!" in this country. They deserve to be ripped off by someone who doesn't seem to give a GDA about them.

She's got a baby with a serious disability. They're going to need all the dough they can get for his care.

Hannah Giles ACORN Prostitute Bikini Naked Nude Hot Pictures Video

Here

Hannah Giles, Playing With Prostitution and ACORN: Conservative Hypocrite Family Values At Work Pt. 2

This post is based on some interesting things I read in WaPo's Duo in Sting Video Say Their Effort Was Independent, by Darryl Fears and Carol D. Leonnig.

Prostitute photo of Hannah Giles removed.
Thanks for the major traffic boost, conservative male pervert trash, hahaha!

"Hannah Giles" hot

Fascinating.

Move over Granma Sarah and needlessly-siliconed homophobe Carrie Prejean, you've got competition for redmeat/gunhugger attention: "hot" Preacher's Kid, Hannah Giles, that stupid conservobot YAFfer, posing as the "prostitute" trying to frame up ACORN for opening "brothels".

Those Goebbels/Reaganite commie-baiting Youth at Young Americas Foundation are even worse than the old commie-baiting Yaffers, conservative/hate group also known as Young Americans for Fascism Freedom.

YAF is actually bragging about her exploits.

Wonder what her classically sexist pig father Doug Giles -- pastor of Clash Church, FL and a Townhall columnist -- would say about her acting job, since he doles out advice on how to "Raise Girls That Pimps and Thugs Will Hate":

Nice dad, if you’re going to send your daughter to a state run university, then you’ve got to teach your lass to not just sit there in class being a good girl and taking whatever the secular “progressives” shove down her throat. You must teach to her to deftly defy defunct dogmas and not turn a blonde eye to bad ideas.

Yeah, traditional father, teach your girl to feel proud and comfortable with not being a communist, with believing in God, with our nation’s spiritual heritage and with not having her genitals turned into a campus Jiffy Lube.

5. Teach Them How to Be Classy (That’s mostly my wife’s job.) Look, I’m all for girls being Tom-boy rough around the edges. I like an earthy woman. My youngest daughter can burp so loud that it shakes a whole restaurant. It is quite amazing. That said, dad, keep your girls from being as gross as men are allowed to be. Men are supposed to be semi-vile beasts. Not you ladies.

Girls have now been liberated to be just as vulgar as men are. Girls, don’t try to be as base as us. We suck. It’s the feminine difference that keeps us in line. Your grace and mystery keep us in balance. Therefore, be prettier, daintier and more honorable—and we’ll conquer the planet for you. By being elegant and tasteful, you give us a reason to clip our braidable nose hairs, to learn which fork to use at dinner and to stop scratching our polyps when we’re in public. Let your girl know, however, that not being a gross, rowdy and disgusting slut might cause her to not get invited to every keg party. But she shouldn’t sweat it, because her tastefulness will cause her to excel in life and land her a worthy man. (Emphasis in original.)

Classy.

Maybe Hannah can make daddy proud by going out with one of the gropers in her newly-formed internet fanclubs wanking off to her Youtube stills.

Or, maybe Doug Giles will pull a Wally George and claim that these "videos" are proof of Hannah's "talents", because she, like George's daughter Rebecca De Mornay, "isn't really like...[u]that[/u]..." and has, in fact, been raised right.

It's difficult to say. It's quite possible Ms. Giles is in fact an exploited party herself, as according to Richard Bartholomew of Talk2Action, Doug Giles' Clash Church is a spinoff of the Maranatha Ministries/His People Church Evangellicult parachurch movement.

Preacher's kids like Hannah Giles end up trapped at places like Fundagelical U. Having been one myself, I know.

More on Clash/Maranatha/His People and their neo-Pentecostal parachurch connections to the python spirit weirdness Palin herself is said to be party to later, as this story isn't going away.

Everything's showbiz...

Country of Quitters

First Palin, now Van Jones.

Ok GOP, your turn.

Woody, "Special Needs" and Health Care Reform

Recently came across David's posterous, a site dedicated to his growing boy, Woody, and to the issue of affordable healthcare. Some great pix up of Woody who is now 11.

Love this video of Woody on an Aspen ski trip!



Learned about Challenge Aspen, too.

Challenge Aspen is dedicated to impacting lives by presenting meaningful recreational, cultural and competitive experiences to individuals faced with cognitive or physical challenges.

The aim of Challenge Aspen is to carefully orchestrate life changing adventures, giving participants the courage to learn something new, trust their own abilities and carry that ideal forward, reaching toward goals in other areas of their lives.

David recently sent a letter to the Obama Administration regarding Woody's situation and how health care reform might help him and the family, posted in full with emphasis added.

Now, my letter to President Obama about why Health Care Reform means so much to me and y family. To Woody, who can't speak for himself.


August 18, 2009

President Barack Obama
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

Thank you for your leadership on Healthcare reform. This is a very personal issue for me. It’s not abstract. It’s not optional. You see, my youngest son, Woody, has been severely disabled since birth. He spent his first 6 weeks of life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Such a unit costs up to $50,000 per day. It is a staggering sum to start life. Since then, he has been hospitalized dozens of times, and had numerous surgeries.

His last unexpected hospitalization over Christmas 2008 was over 30 days long. His surgery was over 11 hours. We estimate the costs of that stay to be in excess of $560,000. Getting true costs are almost impossible, given how hospitals bill, how insurance companies pay, and how these things are reported to us, the consumers. We may never know the full cost.

Additionally Woody is fed through a gastronomy tube (G-Tube). He is unable to get any nutrition orally. His food is a special, prescription, liquid diet costing over $1,800 per month. Every month. For life. It will only get more expensive as he grows and requires more.

If you’re getting the impression that my medical bills are astronomical, you’re partially right. I am one of the lucky ones. I have coverage through my employer (for now). My insurance company (United Healthcare) does an admirable job of denying claims and refusing payment. Luckily, my son also qualified for Medicaid here in North Carolina -- he had the G-Tube, shunt tubes in his head, and a tracheostomy so he got in on the “3-Tubes” loophole -- so his out-of-pocket costs are close to zero. But that could change in an instant. North Carolina is considering changing the Medicaid guidelines which would make Woody ineligible.

My company is being acquired by another, and I may lose my job. Either one of those things would mean I lose my insurance, and Woody loses his. If he were to get sick again, I’d lose my house and everything I own or ever hope to own. As it stands, Woody is getting dangerously close to his “lifetime maximum benefit” with United Healthcare at which point they will refuse any more claims for him for the rest of his life. He’s 11, and though no one knows how long he will live, it will certainly be longer than United Healthcare will cover him.

In addition, and more frightening, I am uninsurable. With Woody’s history, I could not get insurance on the “Free Market” for any amount of money. Ever. No one will take on a family with a kid that has already cost millions of dollars. He is a pre-existing condition. The daily struggles to care for Woody are nothing in comparison to the fear that I will one day not be able to pay for the care he needs in order to survive. To be blunt, without insurance to pay for his food, Woody will starve to death. For me, and for my family, this is a life or death struggle. The fear of losing my insurance is a daily nightmare.

I have called dozens of Senators and Representatives. I have met with the staff of my congressional delegations. I have written letters to the editor of my local paper. I am doing everything I can think of to work for healthcare reform. I beg you not to give up on the public option. While I would prefer a single-payer solution where I would never have to worry about being covered, at least a public option, for now, would fill the gap. Please remember that this is, for some of us, literally a life or death matter.

Sincerely yours,

David

Every situation is unique, because every person and every family is unique. And there are a LOT of similar situations in the US right now.

And this being the sort of site it is, might as well engage in some editorializing: Certain people with certain box-office draw personas as well as credz as a "special needs parent" and 1100 requests for speaking engagements could actually do some useful advocacy work re: HCR, and, as the so-called "prolife" community euphhemistically terms it, "post-birth issues".

I wish she would.

Alas, she's instead yapping about nonsense like death panels.

Levi Is Running His Yap Again...

Oh God...






Well, since my copy is in the mail I'll be waiting to read the whole article instead of the teaser VF has up, before I comment. That is, if it's even worth commenting on.

"A Warning About the Tea Parties"

Conservobots, Palinoids and other unhooded vigilantes, you are once again being used as tools. You've gotten very good at that over the years, so I've noticed.

A Warning About The Tea Parties

The "tea parties" are promoted as a "grassroots uprising" against "high taxes." Tea stands for "Taxes Enough Already." However, 95% of Americans will received a tax cut in the next year if the upcoming Obama budget passes. Only Americans with incomes above $250,000 will receive a small tax increase -- and even then their taxes will be much lower than almost any time in the last 80 or so years. This increase on the top incomes will help pay for some of the Republican-caused economic damage as well as reduce the budget deficits that the country has faced ever since the same income group received tax cuts after George W. Bush was elected. (This is similar to the tax increase in first Clinton budget that led to the great economy of the 1990s and large budget surpluses.)

The other complaint from tea party organizers is that President Obama is "spending too much." The increased spending in the stimulus package and upcoming budget funds education, unemployment checks, efforts to ward off foreclosures and other programs designed to help bring us out of the recession and provide jobs. These are programs that benefit regular people instead of big corporations and the rich.

So regular people who go to these corporate-organized tea parties are asking the government to undo their own tax cuts and reduce their own government services in order to keep taxes low for the very rich. I wonder if people have really thought this through?

American Conservatives never think about ANYTHING. Thinking is against their religion, which tells them that Teh Womon brought knowledge of good and evil to the planet.

They react to their limited, myopic, me-only environment based solely on emotion and irrational fear. You're really wondering if any of these fetus-hugging, shrieking, biblebagging pitchforks have thought a particular issue through?

That's got to be a joke, speakoutca.org.

This is Excellent - Theopalinism

Theopalinism: The Face of Failed Extremism blog.

SarahPAC, Bob McDonnell, and Real America

Via Fake Virginia: Bob McDonnell's Grad Skool Thesis in 140 chars or less

Consider it the Cliff’s Notes version [as edited by OCIHACOSP for the tweet-impaired] of McDonnell’s blueprint for Virginia.

Bob McDonnell believes liberalism has given us “homelessness, heartlessness, death of God & heroes.”

Bob McDonnell in http://bit.ly/bobsmanifesto says Aid to Families w Dependent Children is “anti-family”. pg 5. [How is feeding kids bad? -FV]

Bob McDonnell says...that people w/o kids or who are single are “self-centered”

Bob McDonnell says IRS “wrecked havoc upon the trad. family” on pg 7...[Dependents = deduction, no? -FV]

Bob McDonnell...longs for a time when “sexual intercourse between unmarried ppl was a crime”

Bob McDonnell says it’s “perverted” that govt isn’t allowed to interfere w/ your sex life.

More at Fake Virginia, a true not-Real, Imaginary American like the rest of us.

McDonnell, a Regent University graduate -- was: Pat Robertson's CBN University; ACLJ legal resources "transferred" to CBN/Regent from Oral Roberts University in 1985. Anita Hill; remember her? She taught at ORU Law -- is running for governor of Virginia, trying to pretend he's some kind of mainstream moderate conservative.

Quoting Amy Gardner's WaPo article, Progressive Review sez: If You Liked Sarah Palin You'll Love Bob McDonnell.

That could very well be true, but what Prorev missed is, Sarah herself apparently loves Bob McDonnell, or so Federal Election Commission scrutiny of SarahPAC's spending reveals:

The commission, which commonly sends out letters seeking more information from candidates’ committees, demanded that the PAC “request a refund of the excessive amount” from McCain and Murkowski, and also prove that it had contributed to at least five different federal candidates.

Even that won’t necessarily absolve the PAC from penalties, according to an FEC auditor, who wrote “Although the Commission may take further legal action regarding the excessive contribution(s), your prompt action in obtaining a refund and/or redesignating the contribution(s) will be taken into consideration.”

On Friday, Sarah PAC reported that it had made contributions of an undisclosed amount to the Senate campaigns of Graham, Hatch, and former Rep. Rob Portman of Ohio.

A Palin spokeswoman told POLITICO on Monday that McCain and Murkowski had refunded $200 each to the PAC, reducing its contributions to them to $4,800 each, and that the PAC had given $1,000 each to Bachmann, Blackburn, Graham, Hatch and Portman, as well as $2,500 to McDonnell.

All that trigger-happy, rage-based hype about Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis from 1985 went viral to the point of pandemic. Let's see how long it takes, if ever, for news about Bob McDonnell's 1989 Fundofascist U thesis to do the same. Or news about Sarah Palin's gun-jumping support of his campaign, for that matter.

Nah, not holding my breath for that.

Post #501. Only Time Will Tell

Sarah's going to Asia.

Time has Details:

--The address is planned for September 23.

--The CSLA is "a well-known annual conference of global investment managers.... hosted by brokerage and investment group CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets."

--Previous keynote speakers at the event include Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Alan Greenspan.

--It is Palin's first commercial speaking engagement.

--Her fee has not been disclosed.

--It is Palin's first trip to East Asia.

Oh, really.

Well, let's just hope Meg Stapleton and them get their act together and don't end up telling the CSLA at the last minute that she never heard anything about it.

Or that she doesn't just flake.

Fee not disclosed. That's probably a good thing. The Palinoids really don't want to know how much Sarah/Deborah/Esther/Moses/Sexy Puritan sold their little dream of 2012 out for. Sarah doesn't even give them the time of day anymore, which is just as well because they have NEVER listened to much of what she says.

As the American conservative death spiral continues, this post is also going under Counting Chickens 2012, because I've no doubt the diehard loyalists will interpret this as some sort of...I dunno...strategic move of some sort...or something.

Dorks.

All Sarah, All the Time

From the worst of the worst tabloid crap and lower, to the occasional semi-serious op-ed, every so often: Sarah Palin page at Addictomatic

We live in a crazy, crazy world.

Rings Into Lakes: Palin Divorce Smear Goes Tabloid

"Throwing her ring in the lake" is quickly becoming the latest cliche to watch.

OCIHACOSP stayed away from the divorce rumors because it seemed to me to be on the level of Sarah Palin's head photoshopped onto porn bodies.

Gryphyn, the guy who kicked off the rumors, got himself outed and threatened with legal action by doing so.

I don't think anyone made good on the threats, because yesterday, I bought the latest edition of Star Magazine, (basically National Enquirer on glossy paper.)

The main "source" (if that's even a relevant term) is Mercede Johnston, Levi's sister.

Gryphyn's "source" was in part more tabloid reporting from....wait for it....a couple issues of last year's National Enquirer.

(Levi hon, please don't pose nude. You look absurd enough with your clothes ON, much less off.)

Ring up Star Magazine, Merdede Johnston and Levi/Personality-of-a-block as three entities who need to have themselves a Sarah Palin Appreciation Moment.

Talk about riding coattails...

It will be interesting, however, to see if the Star is also going to be threatened with legal action. Somehow, I doubt it.

Huffington Post Has Been Reading OCIHACOSP

Andy Ostroy repeats what I wrote yesterday.

Subtitle sums up what this blog has been saying for 10 mos:

Like it or Not, this Woman's Influence on the National Stage is Now Crystal Clear

Yep. Not going away. Not any time soon.

There Ought To Be A Death Panel For Conservative Ignorance

This is one for wishfulthinkingwatch, for all those deluded souls who keep trying to wish Sarah Palin away.

It's not going to happen, not any time soon. She writes two ignorant paragraphs on a social networking site, and now it's part of the national conversation on healthcare (if it can be called a "conversation" with all her screaming minions trying to shout down everyone in their path).

Now, if only we could wish conservative stupidity away. That would really be something.

#deathpanel

OMG...

http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23deathpanel

Hahahaha! This is even funnier than #quitstock.

Obamacare Death Panel

Sarah, dear, for the sake of our troops, STOP MAKING THINGS UP!

Christ, these conservatives.

Are they all on drugs?

Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator

http://kenyanbirthcertificategenerator.com/

Conservatives are so stupid, they will believe ANYTHING. LOL!

Monster Tweets

Shatner strikes again...

O, my motherfracking god...hahahaha!

Quitstock in the news

Quitstock: Twitter Celebrates Palin's Resignation

Who Will Protect Us From Putin, Now? I Hope Parnell is Up To the Job...

Full speech, so-called, here.

She is seriously off her rocker.

Best Birthday Present, EVER!

SP's re-resignation speech.

OMG, it was just surreal. Live twittered on #palin and #quitstock.

Is Sarah on drugs?

Adding the "wishful thinking watch" tag to this post, because she's not going anywhere but up.

Oh Noooo Yet MORE Monster Tweets!!

Some shite about long range ballistic missles, this time.

Who knows when she'll be done with them, but OCIHACOSP will post them when she is.

Sarah! TURN THE TWITTERBERRY OFF!

Crikey!

Something Wrong With This Picture: Twitter Accounts and the Newsroom

Picking up on yesterday's theme of "come on people, this is b.s.", I've noticed that Politico and Reuters apparently consider Sarah Palin's Twitter account as a valid hard news source.

The Alaska governor has made a habit of responding to the most recent complaints via her Twitter feed, firing off eight tweets within three hours following McLeod's complaint Monday.

"In violation of Ethics Act more allegations were filed today by serial complainer; gave to press be4 we could respond; ridiculous, wasteful," Palin tweeted from her Blackberry. "Some ask why not sue abusers of Ethics Act bc state wastes 1000's hrs/millions of tax dollars to fight (and win!) frivolous charges, though it costs political critics NOTHING to file/play their wasteful game; They should debate policy in political arena, not hide w/process abuse."

"BUT if there was a suit to end public waste of time/funds to constantly address false allegations I could see perhaps a veteran filing it, someone who's put their life on the line protecting even opponents' right to speak & protest, was willing to die for freedom of press but knows it's shameful 4 valuable time& public resources to be diverted from needed causes to deal w/this abuse of government accountability system," she continued. "Hopefully these political critics filing this stuff (& some in press perpetuating it) appreciate the freedom to do so, protected by our vets."

They also included a formal statement by the gov. which seems to have come primarily from an ABC News report:

"I am informed that this fund was created by experienced attorneys in DC and was modeled after other similar funds established for senators and others. The fund itself was not created by me nor is it controlled by me. Neither I nor my lawyer has received a penny from this fund, and I am informed the Trustee was withholding any action or payment pending final resolution with the Personnel Board. This is the hallmark of legal compliance and prudent conduct," Palin said.

"In short, I have not 'acted' relative to the defense fund and it is misleading to say I have," she added. "I have no doubt that the Trust will welcome guidance by the Board, as do we all, but it is my understanding that this matter was not resolved and the complainant's violation of law has served to mislead the public and prejudice a fair review of this matter."

Several of the governor's top confidants also sharply criticized the report, pointing out that under Alaska law the contents of the document should have remained confidential because the matter is still under review.

And it's not just her "top confidants". The author of Mudflats, one of Palin's most vocal and prolific critics, also raised the same question regarding what is clearly leaked information.

Reuters/Politico continues,

"The investigator is still confidentially reviewing this matter," said Palin spokeswoman and top advisor Meg Stapleton in a statement. "It appears suspect that in the final days of the Governor's term, someone would again violate the law and announce a supposed conclusion before it is reached."

Much as I hate to admit it, I find myself agreeing with Meg the Prom Date. Yesterday's stories about this matter were nothing but a series of question marks and pointed speculations, many with raggedly-drawn quasi conclusions that this was the reason Sarah quit.

We still don't know the answer to that. (And no, Mrs. Palin, we do not take what you said in your resignation speech "at face value", because your vague reason given for leaving office with a year and a half left didn't make a lick of sense.)

Meanwhile, Sarah's Monster Tweets have garnered big guffaws in the past couple days, as the Sarahsphere and Twitterati have watched them in wonder. But I find something disturbing about this...both the bizarre content of the tweets and also Politico/Reuter's reprinting of them.

I'm not sure why, but it just does not set right with me. Of course, it could have been avoided if Sarah would just turned the Twitterberry OFF.

Are Twitter accounts where one has to cram-140 legitimate representations or reflections of policy? Do politicians who use Twitter think this through, or have the appropriate staff to consider such BASIC questions about internet use on government time?

Is anything said on them regarding a pending legal case enterable as evidence?

How much more judicious should politicians be (especially closely-watched ones like Sarah Palin) in their use of Twitter?

Well, we'll give her one thing: she sure knows how to stay all up and through the news.

Poor Sarah. She's Got Some....Issues Going On.

Another spate of monster tweets yesterday

In violation of Ethics Act more allegations were filed today by serial complainer;gave to press be4 we could respond;ridiculous, wasteful...
4:49 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry


Some ask why not sue abusers of Ethics Act bc state wastes 1000's hrs/millions of tax dollars to fight (and win!) frivolous charges, tho....
4:57 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry


it costs political critics NOTHING to file/play their wasteful game;They should debate policy in political arena,not hide w/process abuse...
5:04 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry


BUT if there was a suit to end public waste of time/funds to constantly address false allegations I could see perhaps a veteran filing it...
5:08 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry


someone who's put their life on the line protecting even opponents' right to speak & protest, was willing to die for freedom of press but...
5:16 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry


knows it's shameful 4 valuable time& public resources to be diverted frm needed causes to deal w/this abuse of govt accountability system...
5:35 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry


Hopefully these political critics filing this stuff (& some in press perpetuating it) appreciate the freedom to do so, protected by our vets
5:37 PM Jul 20th from TwitterBerry

Sigh.

Legal Defense Stupidity, Redux

The Sarah Palin Blog (a political fansite not affiliated with Palin) covered the various Help-the-Sarah trust fund events -- now making big news again -- as they happened.

I notice there's nothing about today's events under their tag, hm. Oh well, they're pretty nice guys. We don't agree on much of anything except that heinous effigy being sold on ebay, but they're nice at least.

This page is particularly revealing. Somebody ought to look up Kristan Cole.

As Governor, Sarah (never daunted by controversy) named her BFF to the Alaska Board of Agriculture and Conservation, an appointed regulatory position that serves at the pleasure of the Governor. In September 2008, when the McCain-Palin campaign launched a "Truth Squad" to combat the liberal media and dirty Democrats, Kristan was named to the Squad. Recently, Kristan assumed the awkward role of interpreting her pal's bewildering resignation speech to the national press.

Or, just go to Mudflats for more on her.

I tried to tell the Palionids, who had a massive internecine squabble over this very thing in April, let SarahPAC handle the funding, your overzealous idiocy could get Sarah in trouble.

But do they listen?

Are they capable of listening, even to Sarah Palin herself??

Oh This IS Classic...

Sarah's resignation speech, edited. If you understand proofreader's marks it's 100X funnier.

Sarah MAY Have An Ethics Problem About The Ethics Problem

...or, she MAY not.

Report: Palin may have violated ethics law

Palin's attorney hasn't commented, the AP says, but given her and her camp's attitude about these kinds of stories recently, it'll be surprising if they don't come out to attack it, and hard, pretty soon. And, of course, this report could turn out to be nothing. But it will be interesting to see what's in it.

Look I'm as critical of Sarah's behavior as anyone, but this is from the people who just reported, Peeping on "America's Sexiest Sportscaster" , excoriating the news media for uncritically replaying a voyeuristic viral video, even as the author describes the video in detail.

Come on, people. This is b.s.

This site is hilarious.

Billy Bob Neck

KOTGW Billy Bob! LOL!

Sarah, Honey...What's Wrong, Dear.

Some particularly prickly little monster tweets, today. Ooh.

Todd & I r packing JNU house today; looking thru Piper's kindergarten schoolwork here reminds how quickly X flies;she enters 3rd grd in fall
about 2 hours ago from TwitterBerry

Time DOES fly! Work hard so u can genuinely enjoy every recreation minute! Avoid time spent tearing down, whining, complaining;WORK & ENJOY
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

No time to waste: teach US youth to avoid idleness;they can lead new American Industrial Revolution w/WORK & embrace "Buy American" mission
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

U.S. outsources jobs, industry; this must be turned around for nation's survival by: Buy American/produce domestically/encourage competition
about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

Poor Sarah. I think she done plum lost her mind. Does she think anybody cares about half the stuff she's saying??