The Grizzled Mama uses Thanksgiving Facebook message to stomp her feet and throw a tantrum about "unfair" reporting on her North/South Korea gaffe.

In the beginning of this Facebook rant Palin's ghostwriters mashed together a number of gaffes made by President Obama, many of them occurring during his exhausting campaign and health care debate, apparently to illustrate that the media does not report HIS verbal blunders with the same aggression and consistency that they report Sister Sarah's.

I will not cut and paste it here because I want to focus on Palin's completely over the top response, on Thanksgiving Day no less, to the criticism that came from the fact that she mixed up South and North Korea. (You can read the cobbled together "speech" of Obama gaffes by clicking the "Facebook rant" link above.)

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.

If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)

“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

- Sarah Palin

Wow!  Can you believe THAT post?

This is essentially an entire post that could be summed up with "Not fair! Not fair! Not fair! He said a stupid thing too, why is everybody always picking on ME?

What Palin, and whoever spent all day yesterday researching her little bitch-fest for her, fail to understand is that, unlike Palin, the huge majority of things that the President says are highly intelligent and delivered with authority. 

However Sarah Palin is a potpourri of ridiculous statements and uneducated responses to questions from reporters.  Even the reporters on Fox News.

From her Katie Couric interviews, to the turkey slaughter video I put up yesterday, Palin stumbles every time she is without a carefully scripted speech delivered to a receptive audience.  And even THEN she can fuck it up.

And then we have President Obama who almost always gives a seamless speech, and even when in a room full of hostile Republicans without the help of teleprompters, can not only stand his ground but use his vast intellect to eat their lunch for them.

You know the funny thing is I kind of agreed with Caribou Barbie about the North Korea slip up. I DID listen to the rest of the interview with Glenn Beck and heard her refer to North Korea in the proper context, and even though I was sent the link over a dozen times, I gave it a pass.  My feeling was that she had said more ignorant things in the past, and would say more ignorant things in the future, so jumping on this seemed a little petty.

That is until today.

Sure anybody can make a mistake, Sarah Palin's staff of researchers just proved that in this Facebook post, but what is much more news worthy is the Grizzled Mama's over the top reaction to being called out on HER mistakes.

Remember this is a woman who wants to seriously be considered for the MOST IMPORTANT job in America, and THIS is how she responds to criticism.

Sarah Palin is the most thin skinned and defensive person on the political stage, can ANYBODY seriously believe that she could handle the kind of intense scrutiny and criticism that she would receive on the campaign trail, much less in the White House?