Palin visit to Bethlehem goes awry

[Scurrilous]

Palin U-turns before entering Bethlehem

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4046016,00.html

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"The 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate and former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night and wrote an emotional greeting in his guestbook. However, her tour to the West Bank city of Bethlehem was canceled unexpectedly.

British media reports claim Palin was making her way to the city when suddenly her vehicle, approaching the checkpoint, stopped for a few moments and then turned back towards Jerusalem.

According to British newspaper The Guardian, Palin was accompanied by her husband Todd, her assistant as well as Israeli tour guides. Photographers on the scene said no one got out of the car to talk to Border Guard soldiers manning the checkpoint.

IDF officials refused to explain why Palin backtracked and did not enter Bethlehem, however Defense Ministry officials claim the US politician neglected to submit a formal request to tour the West Bank, despite it being standard procedure for any foreign dignitary.

The Daily Telegraph hinted that Palin was not aware of the fact that Bethlehem is not Israeli territory, saying this is a common mistake amongst foreign tourists but not amongst politicians."


Sarah Palin aborts visit to Bethlehem

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/8396467/Sarah-Palin-aborts-visit-to-Bethlehem.html

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Twit. nt

I think she's secretly doing a rewrite of Mark Twain's old book on his travels.

She's gonna call it Idiots Abroad.

[polichick]

2. Wonder if Netanyahu agrees to meet with all American visitors...

...or only the dumbshit attention whores.

[jpak]

3. QUITTER!!!11

:rofl:

[yellowcanine]

4. Barbie and Tawd's excellent adventure gets derailed.

"The Daily Telegraph hinted that Palin was not aware of the fact that Bethlehem is not Israeli territory, saying this is a common mistake amongst foreign tourists but not amongst politicians."


Duh - they ARE "foreign tourists".

[missheidi]

23. That should be the new SNL skit n/t

[whoneedstickets]

5. No room in the Inn? I guess...

Make her stay in the manger.

[vanbean]

15. LOL! Now that's funny.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. No wise men in her party apparently.

She was so looking forward to being the star of Bethlehem.

[undeterred]

7. Just a couple of dumb asses.

[JuniperLea]

8. Did anyone actually expect that she would follow through with anything?

I'm surprised she finished signing the guest book.

[PearliePoo2]

12. !

hahahaha!
:evilgrin:
:toast:
:thumbsup:
best comment yet!
K&R

[tavalon]

9. Foreign Dignitary?

Foreign, yes, Dignified, never!

[Erose999]

11. 404 dignity not found.

[warrior1]

10. US politician?

Please, this woman is nothing more than a grifter.

[peekaloo]

13. But she now has foreign policy experience!

:dunce:

[n2doc]

14. She saw it from her window, though n/t

[Scurrilous]

19. LOL

:thumbsup:

[Snoutport]

33. for her followers, that is good enough nt

[joeunderdog]

16. Suddenly, she realized this didn't look like Pennsylvania to her.

So she made up some excuse like she left her disabled toddler at home by accident.

Oh, wait. She really did.

[Ikonoklast]

17. She didn't know that Bethlehem is in Palestinian territory?

I though everyone knew that Bethlehem was in the West Bank.


Oy.

[yellowcanine]

25. She thought you could see Bethehem from Jerusalem and so it would be easy to go there.

They are real close together on the "Walking to Jerusalem" board game.

[BeHereNow]

34. She did a "you turn" because she was frightened of...

THE BROWN PEOPLE!!!!
BWAHAHAHA!

BHN
Seriously, what a fucking idiot she is.

[MilesColtrane]

18. What a dumb ass.

I'll bet she tried, "Don't you know who I AM!" and "I've been on TV!" on the checkpoint soldiers.

[femrap]

20. Abort Palin. nt

[spanone]

21. she's no dignitary

[randr]

22. Foreign "dignitary"?

Now that IS lipstick on a pig.
There is nothing dignified, never was.

[grasswire]

24. "Dignitary"? Palin? Hmmmmmpf.

A ridiculous characterization.

[lpbk2713]

26. It all went down hill right after she asked for a ham sandwich.

Who knew? :rofl:

[yellowcanine]

27. Hopefully not a ham sandwich which was indicted by the Grand Jury.

[TahitiNut]

39. Worse was that she wanted a glass of milk to wash it down with.

:dunce:

[Stuckinthebush]

28. Backtracking from Bethlehem

So ironic.

[Auntie Bush]

29. The unworldly, uneducated ding-bat strikes again!

How ya doin girl? Is everyone pickin on ya?

[Cheap_Trick]

30. Not her first abortion....

you betcha.

[Snoutport]

31. priceless

[Shagbark Hickory]

32. She's not a politician and there's nothing dignitarious about her. She was afraid to get out. Simple

nt

[MilesColtrane]

35. Slouching From Bethlehem (The Second Dumbing)

...with all apologies to Yeats.

Turning and turning in the widening hype
The handled cannot hear the handler;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere idiocy is loosed upon the world,
The brain-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of rationality is drowned;
The best lack all interest, while the Grifter
Is full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Dumbing is at hand.
The Second Dumbing! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Wasilla
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the frozen tundra atop permafrost.

A shape with moose body and the head of a woman,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of its brainless clan and followers.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a McCain running mate selection,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches from Bethlehem to campaign?

[Johnny2X2X]

36. Palin is the real victim here

Let's just take a moment of silence for the real victim in all of this, Sarah Palin.

She'll blame whatever happened on the Liberal media.

[yellowcanine]

37. I'll bet Sarah and Tawd were each blaming the other for not making the proper arrangements.

I am amazed that the marriage holds together.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. Did she ask to see the dinosaur stables?

[bullwinkle428]

40. Didn't some legal claim of hers fall apart after she failed to sign

a document recently? :rofl:

[dembotoz]

41. no need to see it-she can see if from home thru her kitchen window

or maybe she realized that the saviour they were talking about was not her