Palin: Filibuster reform a conspiracy to stop talk of big government at Thanksgiving dinner
Fox News contributor Sarah Palin suggested on Sunday that Senate Democrats had reformed filibuster rules so that a only simply majority is needed for most presidential nominations as a conspiracy to stop people from talking about failed government during Thanksgiving dinner.
In an interview on Fox News, host Chris Wallace pointed out to Palin that President Barack Obama had faced more than twice the filibusters on presidential nominees than had President George W. Bush.
“Doesn’t any president — Republican or Democrat — have the right to be able to name his team unless a nominee is just wildly outside the mainstream?” Wallace asked.
Palin insisted that the president had a lot of “pals” who were “wildly outside the mainstream” and wanted to help him “usher in an agenda to transform America.”
“As for this rule change that some people are calling the nuclear option under Senate rules, you know, I guarantee, this week, Thanksgiving Dinner, people sitting around their tables were not going to be talking about the president blessing this thwarting of a balance of power in Congress with new Senate rules,” she explained. “People are going to be talking about our failed big government policies that will bankrupt this country.”
“So, this distraction, this new talking point in the media and with Congress and with Senators and with the president blessing this action, it’s a distraction and it’s a lot of, you know, double standard and Democrat hypocrisy because just a few years ago they were so anti, anti-nuclear option.”
Palin added: “So, American people, they don’t care about distractions like that. They’re not in the inside baseball Senate rules stuff. They want government to be back on our side. They want it to get out of our lives… So, this new rule change, it stinks.”
Watch this video from Fox News’ Fox News Sunday, broadcast Nov. 24, 2013 (at link):
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/24/palin-filibuster-reform-a-conspiracy-to-stop-talk-of-big-government-at-thanksgiving-dinner/
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Palin: God ‘blessed’ with me a platform on Fox News to defend myself
By David Edwards
Sunday, November 24, 2013 11:03 EST
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday defended colleague Sarah Palin said that he found comparisons between federal debt to human slavery to be “fairly unobjectionable.”
Earlier this month, MSNBC host Martin Bashir had blasted Palin after a speech in Iowa, where she had said that borrowing money from China was “going to be like slavery when that note is due.”
Bashir read remarks from the diary from notorious slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood, who allegedly forced slaves to eat human feces. He said that if anyone was deserving of such punishment, it was Palin.
The MSNBC host later apologized, insisting that he had “brought shame upon my friends and colleagues at this network.”
In a Sunday interview, Wallace told Palin she had made “fairly unobjectionable remarks” by comparing federal debt to slavery.
“The definition of slavery is to be beholden to a master and we will be beholden when that note is due,” Palin insisted. “As for the network’s condoning those type of statements, because there’s been no punishment of the fellow who said these words, that’s hypocrisy. That’s a given, though, when a conservative woman says something that they take offense, they usually just kind of poo-poo it, laugh it off as no big deal.”
But the former Alaska governor said that she was used to people attacking her and God had given her a platform on Fox News to defend herself.
“I move on and I charge forth,” she explained. “However, if Mr. Bashir or anybody else in this media elite bubble that they put themselves were to attack someone who is defenseless like a vulnerable child who does not have the podium, that microphone that God has blessed me to be able to express my opinion, if they don’t have that type of platform to defend themselves, well, if you want to see a mama grizzly get riled up and slap that person down then you come after a vulnerable child.”
“As for the apologies, well obviously, you know, who am I not to accept an apology? Everyone must humble themselves and accept that offer to — of apology.”
Watch this video from Fox News’ Fox News Sunday, broadcast Nov. 24, 2013. (at link):
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/24/palin-god-blessed-with-me-a-platform-on-fox-news-to-defend-myself/
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"This person never makes any sense whatsoever," and stop their guest appearances? Don't they ever watch replays of her interviews and cringe? Oh, that's right. I forgot they're playing to a dumbed down audience. 
Same idiocy.
from whatever Ms. Sarah and her fellow Republicans want to obsess on (and have the media obsess on)? 
I guess that it should be good that, however it happens, that the Republicans aren't able to always drive the media (though it often does). Of course, the media always eventually moves on to the next "shiny object". It's just inevitable and will happen sooner or later, especially when there doesn't seem to be any more juice to be wrung out of it.