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By the way, the part of the Matt Lauer interview where Sarah Paln says "Take it however you want to take it", is perhaps one of the most chilling peeks into her psyche that I have ever seen. In that one moment she looks for all the world like a mental patient whose medication has just worn off.
"She is the most dangerous person I have ever dealt with" says my source.
Can you everybody see the crazy now?
Would someone please put Sarah back in her straight jacket until her meds take efferct?
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm the one that appears crazy trying to explain her illness and devious manipulations of facts.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, has GINO averted the Iceberg by teaming up with Exxon?
Forever.
I completely agree that the "take it however you wanna take it " with her eyes rolling and her snarky grin gave me the chills. I loathe this woman.
ReplyDeleteSaw this on c4p: www.firedavidletterman.com
A rally's being held Monday in NYC in support of having him fired. I will never, ever get over being floored by these insane people. Every time I think I've seen it all - TaDa!! There's a whole new nugget of crazy to deal with.
KO rocks!
ReplyDeleteShe talks just like a high school "mean girl". I think she took the "slutty flight attendant look" comment to heart too. Best hair and make-up I've seen on her since the campaign. I think she's like a lot of 40s women who try to re-create their looks from their 20s but they're not fooling anyone but themselves. But you don't usually see professional women or elected officials doing that. Do the mental side-by-side comparison with Hillary, Kathleen Sebelius, Susan Rice, Kay Bailey Hutchinson.... Palin is just not in the same league of professional appearance. Can you imagine Hillary in her 40s doing hair extensions? Please.
ReplyDeleteDelusional is so correct a definition for this woman. I wonder if a single staff member of hers has ever asked her to think about the things she says.
ReplyDeleteI really can't understand how the media has let her slide on so many of her inaccuracies. In several of her statements this week she mentioned David Letterman's jokes (and they were jokes) from Tuesday. Well to start the jokes in question were from Monday. She (and the first dud Todd) have made statements condemning Letterman for joking about the 'rape' of their daughter Willow. Of course Dave never mentioned rape or even Willow (he didn't even mention a daughter by name). Any person of even moderate intelligence is aware of this, but hey, this is Palin, so it becomes time to "spin baby spin". She claims that her daughter was at the game with her, yet just like the birth certificate of her "son" there doesn't seem to be any proof of that except for her word. It is known that she left the game during the 6th inning to attend a function, yet there are people out there now who have twisted this even further saying that Willow was actually assaulted at the game during the 7th inning.
Does this woman have any clue how bad she appears to the general public?
This kind of hate inspired speech is what Sarah was so good at during the convention ("Kill Him"). She is always rounding up the villagers with the pitchforks to "rise up" and "go get him" this time Letterman.
ReplyDeleteIf you google the words Bristol Palin Late Night Jokes, you'' see websites full of them, including Letterman, Maher, Kimmel, Leno and O'Brien. Here is an exampe:
Saturday night Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers' hockey game. Then, Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box. Conan O'Brien (NBC)
Here's the thing. My image is Sarah with Piper as the shield against the booing crowd. We don't know if the other daughters were at the game, too. The image of the hockey team and little Piper is worse that the image that Letterman conjured up. Where was the outrage then?
I have been sending these jokes to the groups who are so fired up about firing Dave. I have also sent them to some of the Alaska government websites. For a governor with plenty of other things to do, it is beneath her dignity to be answering every wisecrack about her instead of tending to business. Anything that has to do with Bristol, Willow or Piper is private, not public business.
By announcing Bristol's pregnancy in such a public way, putting her on the cover of People Magazine (you too can graduate with your pretty baby) and the spokesperson-for-sexy-Candies thing put Bristol in an unnecessary spotlight. If the Palin family was so concerned about privacy, they should not use those kids as political props. Didn't Sarah get in enough trouble trying to get the state to pay for dragging them around everyplace? That worked out well.
So now the teabaggers are protesting David Letterman. Are they rallying against Maher, too, after what he said about Palin and her kids last night? He's had running gags against Palin kids for a looooong time. Did they boycott the #1 Judd Apatow film KNOCKED UP years ago?
ReplyDeleteAnd where were they against ALL the late night hosts who had made jokes about Bristol for years?
Also, I watched Letterman last night; I never used to, so this has garnered him two new viewers in my husband and me. They showed a film clip from a new romantic comedy set in Alaska starring Sandra Bullock. Eighy-something year-old Betty White said the phrase "knocked up" in the scene they showed. Coincidence? Ha ha. I think not!
I truly think that Palin will soon be advised to apologize to Letterman, by her legal team, as she has lied about what he actually said. Everyone knows this now. She looks crazy. Her own record laughing at far nastier things through the years is DOCUMENTED.
Even Michael Steele told the Crazies for Palin to just change the channel.
Any "politician" engaged in a prolonged battle with a comedian only ends up looking like a joker. Even McCain knew that.
What scared me the most was when she referred to our president as "he who must be obeyed". Sounds like something she should be calling herself. Somewhat lacking in respect, I would say.
ReplyDeleteShe even looks demented at this point. It was pretty obvious she was off her meds during the Matt interview. She looked AWFUL (doing the happy dance here).
ReplyDeleteThe wiggly video (it is best to turn off the sound) with Willow's "outfit" featured prominently says a lot about SP as a mom. What Willow is wearing is fine when she's with friends, etc. This is a public appearance with her mother speaking at a "political" forum on autism. She is dressed just like a hooker.
As I've said before, she is old enough to know how to dress for appropriate occasions, and her mother is too stupid to instill any type of behavior parameters into her. Fortunately most YOUNG mothers try to direct their kids to dress for an appropriate occasion.
SP exploits her kids. I have no problem with how Willow dresses - it's where she is when she dresses like that. And the simple fact that SP thinks Willow is dressed appropriately.
Willow will go the way of her mother and her older sister.
Move over Willow - here comes Piper.
Dave Letterman is about 500% MORE popular than Sarah will ever be. He is adding viewers with this public spat.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't used to watch him regularly, now he's a can't miss for us.
If you don't like him, don't watch him.
I hate her, so I try to never look at her.
I want her to go very very far away and never come back. She is a dangerous crazy woman who is making herself look like a fool in public.
These nutcases have taken this WAY TOO FAR! It is really an extreme reaction. It also proves how dangerous Sarah Palin is. His joke was in bad taste but he apologized, and clarified what he meant. That would be enough for a normal person.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that makes me sick to my stomach is her "holier than thou" attitude! This woman has more secrets and garbage and nastiness in her background, and she has the nerve to chastize Letterman over and over again??
She may think this is great now, but I think it is going to backfire later. It is still a fringe nut case group that she is firing up. She did not impress anyone else that much this week.. Her tabloid style is a turn off to anyone who has real intelligence and isn't so partisan.
Can you imagine her as President and what she would do with a crisis or difference of opinion? It is a frightening thought. People say liberals are afraid of Palin? Well yes, but not for the reasons they think. It is because she is a narcisstic power-hungry egomaniac nut! And the kind of people who are drawn to her are crazy. Not all of them are the type to go into a Holocaust museum and let out the shotgun, BUT....the right wing extremists who are interested in that, WOULD BE SARAH PALIN FANS. She cannot be allowed to get higher than she is.
The media is pissing me off right now. I think CNN in particular is doing a very bad job of exposing her lies and BS. And Matt Lauer could have done a much better job as well..... I want to see her in the hands of some really bright interviewers...Let her talk and she'll hang herself, just like fringe psycho Bachman did with Chris Matthews.......
The way she talks about President Obama is also shameful, but she is following the fringe nut right leadership - Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich who have no respect for the office of President.
I really wish Alaskans would come together in an organized effort to expose her. If she ends up in the lower 48, I blame your AK legislature for not having the strength to stand up to her the way they should....... My guess is they are just counting the months until she is gone, which is not right..... I was hoping at your party last night, you all had some drinks and talked about what to do about her...Ethics complaints will do nothing....
Geez, if Palin is flipping out this hard over David Letterman's joke about her family, I sure hope no one ever shows her a Bill Maher clip! Her head might pop off!
ReplyDeletePerhaps her base doesn't have cable....
To Gryphen and everybody. This is a great article that explains why Palin is the one who is wrong in this situation! Very good reading. It talks about how the way she fires up people is what has led to far right terrorism in the past and it gives specific examples. I wish there were more articles like this.....
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PS I had a few more, but I cannot cut and paste to this blog. Gryphen, your blog has some serious technical problems. Have you thought of starting a different one and just transferring everything? Or talk to blogger? Other people have blogspot blogs (like Palingates) and I have zero problems there. It could be your settings. I have this happen on every browser. My Sarafari browser types Chinese characters (seriously) when I try to post on your blog using my Ipod touch......
She owes Letterman and all rape victims an apology. He is NOT a pedophile or a rapist, and for her to imply that he is one is outrageous. She is also desensetizing rape by using it as a political weapon. Shame on her.
ReplyDeleteBut, then, we know that narcissists have no sense of shame.
Can you imagine her in charge of foreign relations with this kind of petty, over-reactive vindictiveness? Good Lord, we were saved on Nov 4.
Sorry for a third comment, but there is an INCREDIBLE post on Daily Kos that says Sean Hannity totally ignored the Holocaust Killer and did not even mention it! WTF???
ReplyDelete@9:49, as a rape victim, I thank you for your comments. Yes, Palin has equated "rape" to a joke in her behavior this past week. For that and her governing record on rape kits and sexual abuse in AK, Palin should be on NOW's Wall of Shame.
ReplyDeleteI do think it's ironic that Rightwingers are donating to NOW, as NOW will always be "Pro-Choice." I wrote a letter to NOW about this faux flap and they immediately sent me an automated letter asking me if I wanted to join and donate. I KNOW that they will get some right wing $$ out of this...There's some silver lining for pro-choicers.
Where were Palin's raving lunatic rants when Conan, Leno and SNL were cracking Bristol jokes? Or as it just because they named her and Letterman didn't, thus allowing them to control the spin?
ReplyDeleteI think it's just because she needs to deflect from the Exxon deal and the plagiarism.
She is a piece of work.
Letterman is taking the high road and ignoring her. But...every time he makes fun of himself, it's a dig against her that she can do nothing about. He is a MASTER at this.
She's a walking politically dead woman.
Re: "He who must be obeyed" ( funny how she hissed that!) I think she's jealous that Pres Obama commands respect just by entering a room. She wants people to just "obey" her too. The difference, Ms Palin, is the Obama girls were rarely visible during the campaign. They were at home, in Chicago, going to school every day during the school year and being little girls during the summer. You, Ms Palin, put your kids out there in the media and made them fair game by using them as your little props or shields, depending on what you needed. Mr Obama didn't need props.
ReplyDeleteSomewhere on the web, there will be a counter clocking the number of times Letterman slides in yet another "knocked up" line. As the count goes up, Gov. Palin will hear the laughter, know it is at her and be helpless. Not pleasant for her type of personality, but endlessly amusing for the rest of us.
ReplyDeleteLisbeth--I can't get your link to work--the site says the link is not available and to check back later. Would it be possible to just put in the literal link?
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Someone 5150 her! Escalating and decompensating simultaneously does not bode well. She obviously needs mental health/psychiatric intervention and current diagnostic evaluation and medication. It is long over due!
ReplyDeleteAs a parent, what has Palin done, or is doing, for her own Down's Syndrome child who from birth needed specific and special treatments to enhance his life? That would be a resounding Nothing!
It would be refreshing if Palin focused on her family's needs and well-being. It would be wonderful if she were a parent who was actively. sensitively, and positively involved in raising her children.
Optimally, having parents who thoughtfully provide an environment that is consistent with a loving, safe, stable, honest, and genuinely caring home would be such a welcome change.
But alas, Pain cares only about herself and her own agenda, aspirations, and audience. Everybody else can just wait in line--and do whatever they want. Palin first, last, and always--even at the expense of her children--and, of course, anybody else who gets in her way.
She has a fleet buses on alert and ready for throwing people under them.
This clip and another one seem to have a background that looks like a horse farm. Where is she? Who are her handlers who helped her change her look and who clearly attempted to curb her word salad approach to public speaking? Is it the husband of Greta Van sustern? Is she already back in Alaska somewhere?
ReplyDeleteIt's so creepy how she shifts her persona at will. I can imagine a dress up doll based on her... I so agree with Midnight Cajun that she's in no position to tell her kids what to wear because of her own poor choices--she would have no credibility. That's a walk and talk she has never done.
It's been interesting reading all the points of view on whether the way a woman dresses makes her responsible for people's reactions to the image she projects. Although I do NOT believe how a woman dresses can be any valid excuse for criminal behavior, I do know that to expect people to not form opinions based on that image is totally unrealistic! Sarah Palin is using her sexuality in a blatant way and it's sort of working for her and then she's turning around and complaining about anybody who speaks the truth about what she's doing. It's crazy making!!!
I hope every comedian on TV joins in ripping her to shreds non stop. They have to; otherwise, she's going to destroy their stock and trade (with the help of the idiots at NOW). Face it, at least half of their jokes are offensive to someone. It's called late night ADULT comedy.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I am highly offended at the suggestion that comedians can talk about male politicians' private parts and sex lives in the most graphic terms, yet they call a woman who dresses in a sexually provocative way "slutty" or make a joke about a woman who takes money from Candies to advocate abstinence with her illegitimate baby in her arms, and everyone screams sexism? If we want to play with the big boys, we have to stop crying to the principal every time someone yanks our pigtail.
My late mother was manic depressive/bi-polar. SP shows many of the warning signs of both...the crazy fast talking, conspiracy theories, wacky and inappropriate clothing choices, petty vindictiveness, lying, and the constant projection of her own paranoias onto others.
ReplyDeleteWhy these TV reporters like Matt Lauer and Wolf Blitzer only throw her softball questions is beyond me.
well if Palin is successful in her new "mission" to end exploitation of women.. a big fat chunk of her base isn't going to be very happy about the outcome.. where does she go next? End porn? strip clubs? Nudity in movies?
ReplyDeleteLet her go and do this mission to clean up all media from offensiveness and all those burly gun tottin repubs will have to just get off photos of her in her short skirty skirt and peepy toes
Maybe that is her ultimate mission
Put the rest of the women in burkas so she can be the one and only "Hot" woman..
she makes my head spin....
sorry if double post.. the other one seemed to fly into never land
ReplyDeletewell if Palin is successful in her new "mission" to end exploitation of women.. a big fat chunk of her base isn't going to be very happy about the outcome.. where does she go next? End porn? strip clubs? Nudity in movies?
Let her go and do this mission to clean up all media from offensiveness and all those burly gun tottin repubs will have to just get off photos of her in her short skirty skirt and peepy toes
Maybe that is her ultimate mission
Put the rest of the women in burkas so she can be the one and only "Hot" woman..
she makes my head spin....
We already know how she feels about rape victums when she cut the funding for rape kits in Wasilla.
ReplyDeleteJust an fyi Gryphen. I have also had problems in the past and they have begun again with this blog.
ReplyDeleteI am running Firefox and/or Safari and this blog slams them shut quite frequently.
Perhaps I could train Firefox to Shut SP up?
No such luck huh?
lizabeth, have you tried firefox? I have no problems. For a couple of weeks I was having issues with the textbox her, not spell checking and couldn't cut and paste but all fine now.
ReplyDeleteThe peelanders are probably throwing malware at Gryphen :(
is SP starting to look painfully thin and tiny, indeed even vulnerable when she tones down the hair and lip-liner extravaganza?
ReplyDeletei know she's a runner, but she looks as if her quest to be sexy or thin or a real episode of mania or something is making her drop too much weight too fast.
i'm horrified that she turned this "fight" into a conversation about statutory rape and threw willows name into it. if she had said nothing people would have presumed it was a bristol joke and moved on.
if SP had said nothing it's probable that no one in the world would have walked up to willow and said "how was it with a-rod" or anything like that (someone might now, if she ever is at school (i know it's summer) or a non-palin event. teenagers are jerks).
seriously, i doubt that most people in the lower 48 knew willow's name before this, and plenty of them still don't know or care about bristol (shocking but true). if i was willow i would slap my mom and say thanks for trying to get the nation to associate my name with the phrase "(statutory )rape of a 14 year old" you bitch! dave never used the words "rape" "willow palin" or even "sex", that was all sarah's doing.
she is possibly a worse mother and female role model than octomom!
The more Palin becomes overwrought over non-issues, the more lampoonable she is!
ReplyDeleteC'mon over if you haven't already and add your future Palin Whitehouse headlines to the mix:
http://nailinpalinnow.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-are-your-palin-white-house.html
When sickened by ol' Sourpuss Palin,laughter IS the best medicine! Always will be.
Again and again so-called Governor Palin just blows words out of her mouth without thinking.
ReplyDeleteAs a governor, she has the ability to make a real difference in the lives of women in Alaska by finally addressing the long and shameful history of sexual violence against women.
Yet she chooses not to. Instead she just makes up crazy talk about non-issues again and again. She is a disgrace to women, Alaskans, everyone.
The loathsome stats of the "Alaska First" state:
Alaska is the #1 state in the country for rape and has been for 23 out of the last 30 years
Alaska's reported rate of rape per capita is 2.6 times the national average
Anchorage has the ninth highest sexual assault rate of any city in the United States, and Fairbanks is ranked first
Fairbanks rape rate is 4.7 times the national average
Alaska's child abuse rate is six times higher than the national average
Where's Sarah?
Did anyone hear SP say "Actions speak louder than words?" does she even listen to herself?
ReplyDeleteHey SP. Go back to Alaska and do the job you were elected to do. If you don't like Letterman, turn the channel. No one is listening to you anyway.. except the crazies.
Palin lacks tact, diplomacy, judgement, and professionalism. What a nut case. I'm so glad her inappropriate behavior, intellectual void and lack of character have been re-illuminated during this week's fiasco. 2010 cannot come soon enough.
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ReplyDeleteGino is her own worst enemy!
You are only as good as the people you surround yourself with and it is obvious that she surrounds herself with advisors that don't have any clue hoe to play national politics.
Her team is using the same playbook they used to win her gov job in AK. and man are they in over there heads or what?!
Reminds me of when Earl Campbell played running back for the Houston Oilers.
The Oilers playbook shrunk to "ok, here's the play, give the ball to Earl and he'll run it up the middle!"
The backdrop in her interview in the clip looks like one of our public rest areas located on Interstate 45 here in Central Texas.
ReplyDeleteThe two (2) doors appear to be entrance/exit doors.
It kinda reminds me of the photo op she did last year with the turkey getting shredded in the background.
just saying!
The eyebrows, the eyebrows -- what happened?!? They are halfway up her forehead! That reads crazy to me just as much as her invective.
ReplyDeleteThis is a test. Gryphen, I love your blog. I've tried to post a million times with no success, so I'm testing again.
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What was with the constant blinking? Now she's the winky, blinky governor?
ReplyDeleteCons4Palin is sponsoring a Webathon to retire the legal debt that Governor Palin
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All any late night comedian has to say is "flight attendant" and there are snickers. And they are directed about her.
ReplyDelete*That* is why she's pissed. But she couldn't attack Letterman on that. So she had to concoct this rape/pervert angle.
I also think she's starting to spin the history rewrite on Levi and Bristol. I think she's eventually going to try to convince the public Levi raped Bristol.
Only her most basis base could fall for that one. But I wouldn't put it past her if she finds the slightest inclination that she could pull it off. Now that she is going to be a feminist she'll no doubt come up with some good ones.
ReplyDeleteGood News... Palin is still broke! Her Alaskan Fund Trust hasn't been able to raise any substantial amount of money to cover her legal bills. C4P is trying desperately to help out her money woes. Guess she not the great fundraiser that she tries to portray herself....hahaha
ReplyDeleteMaybe she will have to cover her own ethics troubles herself, Or file bankruptcy, or request a bailout...lol
It is good news though, shows she is losing more and more each day.
So many other comedians have made fun of her and Bristol, I'm wondering why she is going after D.L. Does anyone else think it could have something to do with the McCain/Letterman/Couric debacle from the campaign last Fall?
ReplyDeleteKnowing how vindictive she is, maybe she thinks Letterman had something to do with their loss.
Who knows...
Ginger
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ReplyDeleteit is possible that it's an illusion caused by the size of her glasses.
that said, it's a classic sign of a brow-lift plastic surgery. i don't think SP probably had plastic surgery (did she have 2 weeks off camera for the swelling to go down?) but i also wouldn't put it past her.
BUT i also wouldn't judge her if she had some. i hate SP for her values as shown by her political actions, and i say if you want to get plastic surgery in america today and have money, go for it! this isn't about judging her for her looks, but her words, deeds, and policies.
but yeah, it looks like a brow-lift. and modern "thread-lift" surgeries have a very rapid recovery time (like back in public w/a little cover-up in days, swelling gone in weeks to a month). i don't criticize most men or women in the public eye who have "work" done, but SP seems to want to achieve in politics based on her "beauty-queen" attributes, as opposed to her policy record, so, for her, i kinda hate it.
Then she better shut up about Letterman. Because she is coming real close to slander. And if she has to defend herself in court, she'll both lose and be broke. Letterman has more money and better lawyers.
ReplyDeleteShe'll also continue to be the butt of his jokes.
A few things--
ReplyDelete* What happened to Sarah's bangs all of the sudden?
When the media says she's flipping her wig about Letterman's comment- do they mean it quite literally?? Is Sarah P wearing a WIG??
• Letterman is up against the new Conan O'Brian late night spot... he HAD to come up with some hot material to woo viewers back his way.
What better than a Palin showdown???
• Palin has paraded her kids all over the place-- hell even Todd, "the first dude" just standing on the sidelines. Sometimes you cath his expression.... like he's soooooooooooooooo sick of hearing her scarecrow voice prattling on. If he could just get backstage & have a beer....
Fran pretty sure the princess is wearing a hair weave. It hasn't been that long in ages and it sure grew fast. If you look at Regina's site palingates, I think that is where I saw a "hair growing progression" that was incredibly fast.
ReplyDeleteShe gets rid of the bangs whenever she gets a new botox treatment. Remember the interview with Glenn Beck no bangs but no wrinkles or movements of the forehead when speaking. You will get some movement but it is unnatural-- and no forehead ripples (for now). Yeah Todd looks somedays like he can't believe everyone actually falls for this crap and other times he looks like a the little man behind the curtain pulling her puppet strings.