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ErinBerin84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:04 PM
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Sarah Palin tries to explain why her whining is different than Hillary Clinton's
Edited on Wed Jul-08-09 05:05 PM by ErinBerin84
Forgive me, I know that there are probably too many Palin threads, but I just thought this was hilarious. First, we know that she was basically rolled out as a VP candidate as Republican Hillary, even though she was nothing close to resembling Hillary. It was a cheap gimmick. Secondly, Palin acts as if she hasn't cared about "criticism", when in fact she freaking did a DOCUMENTARY with some nutjob on media bias, how she was robbed, "not everything is about you, Katie", etc. Plus, people who lie about public officials are not protected by freedom of speech? Isn't that what right wing radio is BASED on?


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/08/palin-hillary-whining-time/

Palin: My whining is different than Hillary Clinton’s.

Since announcing that she would resign as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin (R) has been blaming her decision on the “mainstream media” and political operatives who accused her of “all sorts of frivolous ethics violations.” Ironically, Palin last year criticized Hillary Clinton for complaining about being put under “a sharper microscope,” saying that when there is “any kind of perceived whine” coming from a “woman candidate,” she thinks, “Man that doesn’t do us any good.” Time’s Jay Newton-Small asked Palin about this contradiction in a new interview. Palin replied that she’s totally different than Clinton because the accusations she’s facing are way worse:

"What I said was, it doesn’t do her or anybody else any good to whine about the criticism. And that’s why I’m trying to make it clear that the criticism, I invite that. But freedom of speech and that invitation to constructively criticize a public servant is a lot different than the allowance to lie, to continually falsely accuse a public servant when they have proven over and over again that they have not done what the accuser is saying they did. It doesn’t cost them a dime to continue to accuse. That’s a whole different situation. But that’s why when I talk about the political potshots that I take or my family takes, we can handle that. I can handle that. I expect it. But there has to be opportunity provided for truth to get out there, and truth isn’t getting out there when the political game that’s being played right now is going to continue, and it is."
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:08 PM
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1. Sarah is an idiot
this is the first Sarah post I have clicked on and usually I would never comment on one but Hillary can roll with the punches and Hillary is not a whiner.
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mkultra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:09 PM
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2. almost incoherent
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:16 PM
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3. I wonder if she is related to Casey Anthony
She makes about as much sense. Talking in circles. LOL!
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:31 PM
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4. Palin needs to go tell that to Faux News
and their legion of liars, smear merchants and ratfuckers.

"But freedom of speech and that invitation to constructively criticize a public servant is a
lot different than the allowance to lie, to continually falsely accuse a public servant when
they have proven over and over again that they have not done what the accuser is saying they did."

Yeah go tell it to Faux.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:39 PM
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5. Actually, she has done all the things she was accused of
in the ethics complaints. It's just that the personnel board, the members of which serve at her pleasure, have chosen to rule that it's all okay. They like their nice jobs, and who can blame them for not crossing Sarah when she has a history of firing people who don't "get with the program."
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StreetKnowledge Donating Member (921 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 05:42 PM
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6. We actually care about Palin still?
I think that since she'll probably never successfully return to the national stage, we can treat her just like most of us treat Limbaugh or O'Reilly - the occasional contempt, and laughing at them when they do or say something monumentally stupid.

Sarah's resigning as Governor? So what. She's probably gonna try for the White House, forgetting that its Obama she's up against. Bit of a problem, that. :D
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 06:12 PM
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7. Three words, Sarah
Vince
Foster
Whitewater

Hillary Clinton was hounded for not only the eight years her husband was President but even now, almost NINE YEARS after he left office, she is still confronted with the lies from the right wing noise machine.

Not that I would expect a know-nothing like Sarah to even bother, but someone really, really, really ought to point out a little book titled "The Hunting of the President" about how the rightwing media, partly funded by Richard Mellon-Scaife, kept up an almost non-stop persecution of the Clintons. And their legal bills ran way over a mere $500,000 to defend themselves against allegations that were almost entirely without foundation and that had virtually nothing to do with their professional ethics. They were the victims not of their own hubris but of the vendettas of small, miserable, jealous, spiteful people just like you, Sarah.

John McCain, yes, that John McCain, made the infamous and disgusting joke about Chelsea Clinton -- google it if you must because I won't repeat it here -- but that didn't send Hillary or Bill racing to resign. Of course, they didn't trot Chelsea out like a stage prop at every turn the way you and Trod, er Todd, haul out your family.

Someone needs to interview you, Sarah and then, at the end, call you the lying sack of self-centered salmon shit that you are.

Did Harry Truman quit when people made fun of his daughter?

Did Jimmy Carter quit when his brother embarrassed him?

One of the reason I have personally never had more than a joking interest in running for public office is that I know quite well how thin-skinned I am. Like Sarah Palin, I would take every criticism personally. Unlike her, however, I would never put myself in a position where other people were counting on me and my thin-skinnedness would let them down.

Sarah Palin, I don't know Hillary Clinton, but I know that you are no Hillary. You aren't fit to pump her gas. And I'm sure you could do a better job of it than she could -- yes, Sarah, I'm remembering that rather embarrassing Indiana gas station video-op -- but you're still not good enough.

You, Sarah, are a whiney little twit. A spoiled brat. A sore loser and even a sorer winner. Oh, you'll always have your fans, your hangers on, the little people who will fawn all over you in hopes you'll throw them some crumbs as well as the rich and powerful who will eagerly pay you to do their dirty work, pay you to tell their lies, pay you to do the deeds that will funnel more of the little people's money into the rich people's pockets.

You, Sarah, are a whore. You're the worst kind of whore, the dishonest kind who lies about what she's doing not only to her customers but to herself. Don't bother with your outrage; it would be totally wasted on me since I think you're about the least honorable thing to come this way since, well, probably since Dick Nixon. There is absolutely nothing honorable about you, Sarah, and even Nixon opened relations with China and started the EPA. He and his wife Pat, whatever their personal failings may have been, raised two daughters who at least never embarrassed their parents. One of them even supported Obama.


Tansy Gold
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DeschutesRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 11:17 AM
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15. Well said, absolutely accurate. nt
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 06:35 PM
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8. Here is Sarah Palin's words in picture form
This Gordian Knot represents Sarah Palin's talking points



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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 06:37 PM
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9. And yet some DUers are still scared of her.
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rhiannon55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 08:42 PM
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10. DUers are NOT "scared" of her...
That is such a bullshit thing for another DUer to say. Please stop it!

The woman is a JOKE. Nothing scary about her.
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:19 PM
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11. Hillary > Sarah. That's it.
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:27 PM
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12. C'mon Sarah. Ya gotta catapult the propaganda.
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agentS Donating Member (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:44 PM
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13. Reccommend for a DUzy award.
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riderinthestorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:04 AM
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14. Watergate??! Travelgate?! Vince Foster?! Rose Law Firm?!
I am incredulous that Sarah Palin believes she is being "lied about" MORE than Hillary?!

Hillary took a decade or more of abuse. Constant abuse, lies and critique from the right.

Palin has some nerve thinking Hillary is a whiner without cause while Palin is simply some poor picked-on Rethug politician.

Un-fucking-believable.
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