An aide to Sarah Palin says she was not turned away at a checkpoint crossing into Bethlehem this week, as has been widely reported. SarahPAC Treasurer Tim Crawford told POLITICO on Tuesday that “Gov. Palin was never scheduled to go to Bethlehem.”
“They had always planned on viewing Bethlehem from the Separation Wall,” Crawford said of Palin’s visit to Israel with her husband, Todd. “They did that, then drove past the checkpoint on the way out.”
Yeah, and you believe that I have a bridge to nowhere I would like to sell you.
By the way NOBODY said she was turned away at the checkpoint. We said that she did not cross over for some reason when it appeared that was her intent. My best guess is that she did not realize Bethlehem was in Palestinian territory until the very last minute.
Sorry, Jesus, you just weren't important enough. Call me E$ther and bring on the Rapture.
ReplyDeleteIn probably her only moment of clarity, Stupid Sarah was probably worried she'd be struck by lightning if she crossed into the birthplace of Jesus...
ReplyDelete"So, I teased up my hair and then I went to that town in Bethlehem, there, and also too, I found out that I did not get permission from the terrists. It's gotta be all about job creation, too."
ReplyDeleteI'm still laughing about them making such a big deal about her husband Todd being with her on this trip. They can't seem to say that enough. I wonder how much Sarah had to pay Todd to go on this trip with her and act like he still likes her...or ever did.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, she is probably lying like crazy. We in Alaska (especially) don't believe an explanation she ever has to something derogatory that has been said about her.
ReplyDeleteI know there is getting to be a bigger space for her in hell...each lie expands it!! (just guessing!)
It would be like her to say, "OH we don't need not papers, they'll just let us in if we act like we belong".
ReplyDeleteIf you look up "shit eating grin" in the dictionary, there'll be that picture of Palin. She looks for once like she realizes she is totally out of her element and hasn't a clue what to do next.
ReplyDeletelol @ 5:12 pm.
ReplyDeleteGryphen: "My best guess is that she did not realize Bethlehem was in Palestinian territory until the very last minute."
Mine is that she didn't want to be late for her photo op with Bibi.
Gryphen, please check out the 2 photos of Sarah in the red jacket in India at palingates. I had not seen those 2 photos, check out the mouth. You might want to add those 2 to your file. Also look at the hair style.
ReplyDeleteThose photos were taken up closer than others I had seen. You might need a drink first before you look.
She thought she heard there were outlets so she made them turn the car around.
ReplyDelete“Gov. Palin was never scheduled to go to Bethlehem.”
ReplyDeleteYes, that's exactly what was reported: Checkpoint Charlie didn't see her name on the "guest list" and sent her packing!
She didn't visit the Taj Mahal with the love of her life because it's closed on mondays, so she settled instead for a quick glance at the Middle Eastern Berlin Wall.
Poor, silly Sarah . . . .
ReplyDeleteShe probably thought Bethlehem was in some sort of theme park with dinosaurs.
ReplyDeleteI can see Bethlehem from her van!
ReplyDeleteExplain to me how you see anything from a moving vehicle with a wall obstructing your view?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, you know that by now the diarrhea must be hittin' her pretty hard by now!!
ReplyDeleteWhat Rough Beast Comes Slouching. . .?
ReplyDeleteMicMac
Even as a perennially confused agnostic I jumped at the chance to see the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the Nativity when the opportunities presented themselves, and found them both profoundly moving. You see diddly squat from the Israeli checkpoint, nothing remotely interesting, let alone significant. Gryph, I think you nailed it: she had no clue, and majorly freaked.
ReplyDeleteShe has Executive Function Disorder. She is unable to keep appointments and schedules. Ask her former staff in the AK gov't about that. And we all remember how many times Meg Staplewhatever had to sing her sad "Excuses" song....This latest song is RAM's songwriting.
ReplyDelete“The former governor of Alaska pulled up to the checkpoint run by the Israeli border police to the south of Jerusalem in a white people carrier, with her husband, Todd, her assistant and Israeli guides,”
ReplyDelete"What????!!!!!????? The original stable Jezus was born in, Hallelujah PRAISE the Lord, is no longer there??!!??
Just Islamic Palestinian impoverished slums???!!?? Praise Jezus, Praise Israel - let's go back to the hotel. No point here getting attacked by Al Quaida and such"
The white people carrier turned around without the occupants ever getting out.
http://www.frumforum.com/is-palin-alienating-israels-gop-friends
ReplyDeleteArticle in Frum Forum. Sarah, apparently because she has been criticized by a couple of people in a Republican Jewish group that,among its support, arranges tours from visiting Repub Pols; Sarah snubbed their overtures to arrange her Israeli tour.
Perhaps now they too are getting the sense that Sarah is, despite her claims of Christianity, unforgiving and spiteful.
Cross off a few hundred more votes and probably any future campaign money that in2008 went to McCain but will likely never go to Sarah.
It is also possible that in Sarah's vast political inexperience,and self imposed isolation, she simply has no clue what she just let slip away.
Watching Sarah is like watching a tornado, you are in awe watching the inexorable destruction. In Sarah's case self destruction.
Looks like Brisdol is in charge of all the youngins while Stud Boy Todd and featherhead Sarah are out grifting for dollars and fools.
ReplyDeleteI guess you can't go to Bethlehem if you got fake tits, it's against the law I think.
ReplyDeleteSarah thinks she has got her foreign policy aced as her feet hit the soil in another country.
ReplyDeleteWhat you want to bet that George "W" Bush is laughing his ass off at this ignorant fool of a woman. Even George's light bulb was much brighter than the dim witted one.
Oh yeah, we're supposed to believe a known liar. It was leaked that she was going to Bethlehem... so she was going before she wasn't going...like her bridge to nowhere...she was for it before she was against it. Tell us some more lies Palin but I doubt we'll believe you.
ReplyDeleteI saw Bethlehem from my BUS!
ReplyDeletelol, she is such a fail.
Seagull Junker Palin
Momma always says "stupid is a stupid does."
ReplyDelete1. Sarah probably forgot to bring their passports. She doesn't follow those regulations about carrying ID. People ought to know who she is by now.
ReplyDelete2. Her staff didn't make the proper arrangements. Yes, it was on the schedule.
3. Nobody looks at Bethlehem from afar, taking a picture from behind a wall. The point in going there is to visit the Church of the Nativity and see the star marking the spot where Jesus was born.
4. For that matter, Sarah didn't appear to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Christ is supposed to have died.
5. Nazareth is called the home town of Christ. It is also the Arab Capital and run by the PLO.
So much for the corner stones of Christianity. The Greek Orthodox Church will have to do.
6. Too bad that Bristol didn't google this stuff in advance. Too bad that Sarah doesn't have a staff capable of organizing a visit to the most famous building in India, the Taj Mahal.
7. Too bad that Sarah doesn't have a staff capable of organizing a visit to the holy place where Christ was born, a special visit for the good Christian, Sarah.
8. Maybe Sarah realized that if she was wearing her Jewish star, some Arabs might mistake her for a Jew, and she chickened out.
Those Palingates pix have a Michael Jackson look to them; a llittle too much cosmetic work. Any more heads farther into the freakish. It's too bad that some people can't be happy with who they are.
ReplyDeleteThe only story Palin never corrects is that she didn't birth Trig.
ReplyDelete(and she thinks her silence on the matter goes unnoticed - stupid twit)
She appears so out of her element and non Presidential like - plus, she is crosseyed!
ReplyDeleteWow, how obtuse can that woman be? First, we never said she was turned back. Second, she's probably right - they meant to turn around in the middle of the road ---- when they realized the collosal mistake they made (no escort on the other side). Dumb a$$
ReplyDeleteWho the hell goes all the way to Israel, then drives all the way to the gates of Bethlehem, and says "oh, we didn't want to go in, we just wanted to look from a distance."
"I can see Bethlehem from my check point." Sorry, I just returned from Israel and it included a visit to Bethlehem. It is IMPOSSIBLE to see the sacred church in Bethlehem from the checkpoint unless one has the divine power to look through a hill. Just another lie from the Palin tribe.
ReplyDeleteI hope Toad's choke chain is not too tight. How much does it cost her to keep a man around who obviously does not even LIKE her anymore? Would it be worth it? Living a lie is beginning to show on her face.
ReplyDeletegawd that cross_eyed skank can lie, her entire freaking worthless existence is a lie
ReplyDeleteWith her odd sense of geography, how does the woman find her way home from Walmart?
ReplyDelete"They had always planned on viewing Bethlehem from the Separation Wall."
ReplyDeleteReally? THIS is what they came to see?
The reason the Palins did not go to Bethlehem is because they just heard the First Family is in Brazil so they were rushing to Washington DC to claim squatters rights to the White House before the Obamas get home.
ReplyDeleteSquatters rights are things trailer park billies do when they want to upgrade to a vacant trailer next to them.
Sarah tried to claim squatters rights to the land that the hockey rink was built on, but the dumb ignorant billy forgot to notice that the porch lights were on and somebody was still living there.
Willow tried to claim squatters rights to a vacant house in Alaska but it turned out not to be vacant and the Dept of Law was called. Luckily for the Alaskan Fund Trust and SarahPAC funds, Willow got a lawyer and beat the rap.
Sarah got the tongue thingy going again, she is aflicted with something. Is it her meds, drinking, meth, nerves, mental, or what in heck ails her to make her do that weird mouth thing?
ReplyDeleteShe is nuts!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 5:12 ... hilarious!
and OT..
Here is new information on the militia in Alaska.
http://tiny.cc/fpzqr
"Palin camp responds to quick turn around at Israeli checkpoint. Essentially saying "We meant to do that!""
ReplyDeleteMy cat does something similar when she tries to jump up on something and misses. She immediately starts vigorously washing her butt, and pretending the fall never happened.
This reminds me of the "taxi driver got lost on the way to the racetrack" line she gave last year.
ReplyDelete"My best guess is that she did not realize Bethlehem was in Palestinian territory until the very last minute."
ReplyDeleteTalk about foreign policy credentials...sheesh.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteShe appears so out of her element and non Presidential like - plus, she is crosseyed!
6:27 PM
Are you sure Sarah Palin is crossed eyed? Are her eyes pointed towards her nose?
Sarah could be "Walled Eye". That means when she is walking straight, her one eye is looking straight ahead while her other eye closet to the wall is pointed towards the wall.
Maybe that is why it took Sarah 5 shots to bring down a non moving caribou. She had no reference, no wall was in her line of sight.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteShe appears so out of her element and non Presidential like - plus, she is crosseyed!
6:27 PM
Could that be the reason Sarah never made it to Bethlehem? She was driving and her one lazy eye kept trying to take over for her strong eye and she could never find the place.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteShe appears so out of her element and non Presidential like - plus, she is crosseyed!
6:27 PM
According to Shailey Tripp, Todd Palin's weenie is only 4 inches on a good day. So when Sarah seen Todd naked in the back seat of her father's car with her crossed eyes, she thought she was looking at 8 inches of manhood and married him.
I'm not a religious person (but did read the Bible in college as a literature class). Wasn't Jesus from Palestine and a Jew?
ReplyDeletePerhaps that is why she turned around. Someone texted her the 411 and she freaked out.
That and the fact that she and her handlers are totally clueless on how things work over there and what needs to be done to get proper photo-ops. (snark).
I think she is afraid of the Palestinians. In reality she's a coward. Remember those tweets against building the mosque in NYC? She's a fake friend of Israel but a known enemy/hater of the Muslim world and besides she forgot to wear her depends in case she sh*t herself.
ReplyDeleteTim Crawford? What happened to RAM?
ReplyDeleteI see that Shailey Tripp is auctioning some of her email correspondence with Todd Palin on Ebay! The links to the Ebay auctions are posted on her website:
ReplyDeletehttp://shaileytripp.yolasite.com/blog/e-bay-up-now-for-3-days
This is going to drive the Palin camp bat shit crazy for sure!
Sarah and her fans need to give up and except two simple truths: 1) almost everyone who's heard about her across the globe thinks she's stupid, incompetent and only out for money and publicity and 2) this is almost entirely her own fault.
ReplyDeleteIf they would only give up trying to convince people that 1) and 2) above aren't true, they would save themselves alot of time and trouble.
Her excuses are always worse than the errors. Always!
ReplyDeleteThe trip to India and Israel is nothing more than Palin begging for attention once again. The woman is a psychotic narcissist and the sooner we stop paying attention to her the better. She will have meltdown and eventually be admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
ReplyDeleteQUIT FEEDING THE BEAST!!
While Visiting Israel Sarah Palin Cuts Visit To Palestinian Controlled Bethlehem
ReplyDeleteThere is, of course, some speculation as to why Palin may have had second thoughts about entering the West Bank. Palestinian officials, who said they were disappointed about the change of plans, pointed out that Palin had written a controversial Facebook post that may have factored into her decision to avoid the West Bank:
As Israel makes concessions (and is still criticized by the Obama Administration), Arab leaders are just sitting back waiting for the White House to further pressure Israel. The Obama Administration needs to open its eyes and recognize that it is only Iran and her terrorist allies that benefit from this manufactured Israeli controversy.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/while-visiting-israel-sarah-palin-cuts-visit-to-palestinian-controlled-bethlehem/
http://theperilsofpalins.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/postcard-from-israel/
ReplyDeleteExecutive functioning is a term psychologists use to describe the many tasks our brains perform that are necessary to think, act, and solve problems. Executive functioning includes tasks that help us learn new information, remember and retrieve information we've learned in the past, and use this information to solve problems of everyday life.
ReplyDeleteExecutive functioning allows us to access information, think about solutions, and implement those solutions. Because executive functioning is a theory and not a fully defined, documented, and verified idea, psychologists have differing opinions about what mental processes are involved. However, we'll give it a shot. Executive functioning may involve abilities such as:
Estimating and visualizing outcomes;
Analyzing sights, sounds, and physical sensory information;
Perceiving and estimating time, distance, and force;
Anticipating consequences;
Mentally evaluating possible outcomes of different problem-solving strategies;
Choosing the most appropriate action; and
Performing tasks necessary to carry out decisions.
That's an impressive list, and most of us do this without knowing it. In people without executive functioning problems, the brain performs these tasks quickly in the subconscious, often without their awareness. In a sense, executive functioning is almost like instinct.
People with executive functioning problems do not perform these tasks intuitively. They have difficulty with planning, organizing and managing time and space. They also show weakness with working memory.
As with many other types of learning disorders, executive functioning problems can run in families. Executive functioning weaknesses can be seen at any age but become more obvious as children reach mid to upper elementary grades.
How Does Executive Function Affect Learning? In school, at home or in the workplace, we're called on all day, every day, to self-regulate behavior. Here are some signs to look for:
difficulty planning and completing projects;
problems understanding how long a project will take to complete;
struggling with telling a story in the right sequence with important details and minimal irrelevant details;
trouble communicating details in an organized, sequential manner;
problems initiating activities or tasks, or generating ideas independently; and
difficulty retaining information while doing something with it such as remembering a phone number while dialing.
How Are Problems with executive functioning Identified? There is no agreed upon assessment that measures all of the different features of executive functioning. Careful observation and working closely with a special education teacher are helpful in identifying executive functioning problems
Hey Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteSorry OT, but I've come across some of the comments on HuffPo by the person thought to be RAM.
Whoever he/she is, the poster "HammerofThor" is pushing out some pretty nutty stuff... The latest being on an article comparing Bachmann to SP:
“Michele Bachmann does have lovely long soft auburn hair, but nobody takes Sarah's "mantle. Actually, both ladies have the fiery sensuality of Rita Hayworth & Ava Gardner in their best days.”
I know, this is totally unvalidated, though the commenter's history is consistent with what & how I've seen Ram write. If it is RAM...then this club is more twisted than I realized. (enjoy...dont have to post comment...up to you)
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteI see that Shailey Tripp is auctioning some of her email correspondence with Todd Palin on Ebay! The links to the Ebay auctions are posted on her website:
http://shaileytripp.yolasite.com/blog/e-bay-up-now-for-3-days
This is going to drive the Palin camp bat shit crazy for sure!
7:37 PM
I would not be surprised if the Palins are bidding on them. It is to their beneFit to own them. They have the money to outbid anybody. They will win the bid and have somebody else claim the emails them.
Mrs Palin, whose trip to the Holy Land is being seen as an attempt to burnish her foreign policy credentials ahead of a possible presidential bid, had been planning to tour Christian sites before holding evening talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
ReplyDeleteBethlehem was supposed to be her first stop of the day, according to a leaked copy of her schedule.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
worldnews/sarah-palin/8396467/
Sarah-Palin-aborts-visit-to-Bethlehem.html
8:25pm...no doubt Shailey has copies and I seriously doubt the skank fraud slut grifter'll be able to con Shailey into signing some whacked non-disclosure agreement....
ReplyDeleteREACTIONS TO SARAH PALIN'S STAR OF DAVID NECKLACE
ReplyDeletehttp://bltwy.msnbc.msn.com/politics/
reactions-to-sarah-palins-star-of-
david-necklace-1684011.story
Jesus that woman has no brains at all! What a witless buffoon! Even her ass kissing sycophants are going to have trouble believing that load of bullshit.
ReplyDeleteNo self respecting batshit crazy fundagelical like Palin would EVER go all the way to Israel without going to Bethlehem. No way.
Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity are really amazing. We were there back in 1999 and bumped into people from our fairly small hometown who were there at the same time as well.
ReplyDeleteSorry she missed the Church of the Nativity.
Why did she? There must have been some reason. That's a real real real place to be.
"Separation Wall." Here is what it looks like ...what a ridiculous reason. No thinking person would buy this excuse. http://tinyurl.com/4poxz5gt
ReplyDeleteSo, is Crawford on the trip with her? If so, a nice perk from SarahPAC for him, eh?
I'm not surprised that Palin didn't make the proper arrangements ahead of time to go to Bethlehem. Her "advisors" are well known for not being on top of things.
ReplyDeleteThe REAL reason for Palin to go on this trip was India invited her and paid her ridiculous $100k fee, otherwise, there would have been no trip.
I hope she's really screwed things up with the RJC. She's so childish that because a few people who are members of the RJC said things about her that she didn't like, she cuts them off. How the hell could this woman function as President? Obviously she would have to deal with both parties and yet every time someone said something critical, what would happen? Would they be barred from the White House? Never mind, she'll never be President, just thinking of what a horror show it would be if someone like her was ever to become President.
Hey Crazies4Palin, she is so NOT Presidential!
So she didn't visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, either? Why not?
ReplyDeleteHas she given any explanation for not visiting either site, other than the schedule thing?
Sarah, teller of lies and more lies. This woman is dangerous and needs to be committed for everyone's safety.
ReplyDeleteEvil is the face of one who proclaims to be a Christian in name only. She lives her life each day as a sinner and constantly slimes others while collecting a paycheck to do the work of the devil.
Sarah Palin is the face of evil, beware she comes with her hands open for money and her mouth and heart loaded with hate and jealousy.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteLooks like Brisdol is in charge of all the youngins while Stud Boy Todd and featherhead Sarah are out grifting for dollars and fools.
6:02 PM
Apropriate as the youngest two are her kids.
Hey Gryphen, if someone hasn't mentioned it already.....find a clip of the Jay Leno show last and the Palin jokes he made in the monologue. Excellent. Guess he's over her, too.
ReplyDeleteNext person on Palin's enemy list - Jay Leno.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/monologue-3-22-11/1315410
Anon @ 6:49 PM "Palin camp responds to quick turn around at Israeli checkpoint. Essentially saying "We meant to do that!""
ReplyDeleteMy cat does something similar when she tries to jump up on something and misses. She immediately starts vigorously washing her butt, and pretending the fall never happened.
* * * That's priceless and so true - of the behaviour of both cats and Palin.
My question to Palin is: If you "meant to do that" why would you deliberately mean to make yourself look unprepared, inept, foolish and rejected by the Checkpoint?
8:00, ah, so Mediate is spinning the "Palestinian-controlled" Bethlehem angle. Naturally.
ReplyDeleteBut why didn't Palin know this before going there?
Team Palin would have been better off issuing no response, than putting forth this drivel.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the old saying? Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt? Oh, yeah.
Executive Function Disorder explains her "word salad," too. You can't be the nation's Chief Executive with Executive Function Disorder.
ReplyDeleteSarah: "What's that gate up there? A checkpoint? What? You mean Bethlehem is in A-rab territory? No way! Let's go shopping instead. I need a new red jacket."
ReplyDeleteThere's no other explanation why a publicity whore like Sarah Palin would give up the chance to be photographed stomping all over the birth place of Jesus.
Hmmm... Wonder what the savior of Israel and the world had to do with this?
ReplyDeleteJK, of course, but really had hoped that something like this would have happened during her brief stay there!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/23/jerusalem-explosion-israel-bus-blast_n_839455.html
Every thing she touches turns to shit:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-23/bombing-in-jerusalem-how-will-israel-react/#