Monday, May 30, 2011

Greta Van Susteren on Sarah Palin: " She is not obliged to tell me or my crew where she is going."

Apparently Snowdrift Snooki is refusing to tell even BFF Greta what her plans are for the future, but Greta did make an interesting point about why Palin simply does not give interviews to anybody other than Fox News.

On her blog Gretawire Van Susteren interviews herself on all things Palin:

Is she giving a press conference today? or giving another interview?

I don’t think so. She can’t. She works for Fox, and just as with any employee or someone on contract with another network, she is contractually obliged NOT to speak to others. For instance, when I was in Haiti, I could not interview CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta or when I want to talk politics, I can’t interview CNN’s Donna Brazile. They work for another network. As far as I know, her contract is like every other media contract and that means it would be a breach of contract to speak to other media outlets. ** She is in an unusual situation in that we in the media have made her into a media topic by virtue of us always talking about her. She, of course, contributes to that intense interest by painting a bus and taking a tour and taking a tour to historic sites.

Where is her bus tour going ?

You got me. My producer who talked to someone who works with her in order to set up the interview told me last night that he would not tell her. We were told to check their website for any information they are releasing. He said they don’t want the media following them and that includes us. Well…with the intense interest in her by everyone (almost everyone) in the media, that is, I suspect, going to happen. The media will probably be in hot pursuit. I do know where she is this morning since I am meeting up with the bus with our crew. She is not obliged to tell me or my crew where she is going. I guess that is like my contract – I am not obliged to tell Fox where I vacation.

Van Sustern's point about Palin NOT being able to give interviews to any other news organization besides Fox is an interesting one, in that it is essentially the perfect excuse for her not to give access to CNN, or ABC, or NBC, while simply using her Fox contract as a shield against accusations of inaccessibility or unpreparedness.

In fact that might be another reason why she has not yet quit that job. If she were no longer working for Fox, and still wanted to tease the low hanging fruit that she might start a campaign, she would have a much harder time avoiding media demands that she make a decision about that one way or the other.

As it is by only giving Fox access to her, she can, in some ways, control the questions and keep herself from being embarrassed. Well, any more than usual that is.

It is still my firm belief that she will NOT actually run a true campaign, but she is definitely going to play the tease, and get as much attention and money as possible using what I now call the "Strip Club" approach to politics.

You see Palin will gladly work that pole, while undulating for the masses to keep their eyes glued on her for the possibility she might actually reveal something to satisfy their lust.


Yet all she will provide is some partisan tongue action which will thrill her pasty white, never been touched by a woman base, while disgusting the majority of America.


And when that fails to sufficiently titillate her audience she will attempt to draw attention to her few remaining assets, in the hopes they will be distracted from her less than satisfying performance.


Often she may need to use extraordinary means to accentuate these asssets, in order to give them the appearance of being far more impressive than what nature provided.


And when her bag of tricks has been depleted she will then have to drag up onto the stage another surgically enhanced performer to draw the attention away from her own withered attributes while still presenting her metaphoric g-string for those last few wrinkled dollar bills.

I think it should be obvious that Palin wants to keep this tease going as long as humanly possible, because when the last song is played, and her supporters shuffle out of the darkened club and back to their real lives, Sarah Palin will be nothing but a middle aged grandmother, dreaming of the glory days when she was the political fantasy of thousands of Republicans across the country.


And THAT does not paint a pretty picture for the future of this most divisive of political personalities.  Not a pretty picture at all.

Perhaps the best thing for any of those promoting Sarah Palin's possible candidacy to keep in mind, is the disappointing lesson that many men learn while sitting in a darkened room watching the glistening form of an exotic creature they have convinced themselves is dancing just for them, no matter what is promised, "There is NO sex in the champagne room!"

And there is NO chance that Sarah Palin will ever be President of the United States.

(Thank God!)

193 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:11 AM

    " told to check their website for any information they are releasing. He said they don’t want the media following them "

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    One wonders why their heads don't explode with the cognitive dissonance. When you have a freaking huge motor home with a freaking huge advertisement for donations on it, you are TRYING to attract attention. Pretending you are don't want attention makes you sound STUPID.

    attention whore Sarah Palin being the poor little victim has gotten so obvious even FOX has to admit it.

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  2. Anonymous7:14 AM

    I suppose sarah thinks she could just go into, say, IBM, and expect to get a high paying job such as COO or CFO and not submit to an interview there either ?

    If you're applying for the highest job in the land, you'd better damn well expect to be interviewed by friends and foes alike.

    The American people want to thoroughly interview anyone/everyone running for President of the United States, in fact, they DEMAND IT !!

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  3. Anonymous7:19 AM

    You didn't know people who work for networks cant politically associate with other networks?

    Well, that doesnt really matter. Sarah still talks to random reporters and engages pretty much anyone who will listen. Shes not shy nor is she afraid of anything. She handles the crazy press with amazing fortitude and Im for one glad she isnt releasing her destinations far ahead of time. Keep the crazies at bay. She HATES yesmen, panty sniffers, fawners, and people with no lives who do nothing but stalk others. Heck thats anyone. More and more celebs are revolting against freaky paparazzi. Maybe one day, no one will feel the need to live other people's lives.

    The sad part is, "palinbots" have lives. Most of the ones ive spoken to are contributing members of society, are successful at young ages, have met huge political figures or work for them.

    I see no complaining about life over in the comments at c4p. However, I see immense complaining on liberal blogs, about money, the world, people in general.

    Makes you think what party draws more happy people. I've said it before, I grew up in average size/small towns and it's nearly impossible to meet a stranger or see a frown. I've also lived in metropolis' and its IMPOSSIBLE to go one day and NOT see boatloads of sad looking people, people who have hope behind their eyes yet are struggling to fight tears in their soul.

    Why is that?

    America generally lives to the Right. Less regulation, more freedom.

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  4. Anonymous7:19 AM

    Oh my gosh, this just hit me as being so funny, and yet so sad. Fantastic post, Gryphen. You always know how to strike just the right tone, because you have her number but you also seem to be able to extract the humor out all of it.

    All things Palin defy common sense, are completely surreal. She most definitely plays by her own, twisted, misguided, delusional rules. We are fascinated by her, both her supporters and detractors, because we sense we are watching a train wreck. Her chaos draws us in. But she will collapse, there is no question.

    I do think the MSM will absolutely not tolerate her insistence on question-free coverage. It won't fly, not this time. There will be columns written, TV pieces done. It will be negative coverage in that kind of void. She is too stupid to realize it, however. She will be doing damage control on a daily basis.

    If her making a big point of publicizing a bus tour and yet not providing any information about it does not strike people as STRANGE, well I don't know what to say. Just plain weird.

    I agree, she won't really run. She thinks she's a kingmaker, she will cut some kind of deal (God help us all, what if she lands in the Cabinet if the GOP wins...I don't think they have a chance though.)

    I just pray these other books can provided the final nails. Please, please.

    PS Just really sad to read about how she basically has abandoned her children up in AK, never mind these little photo ops in DC. They are struggling with their basic education, others are watching them. It's so sick. I can't think of a political family that has sacrificed their children's well being to this extent, in the service of overweaning ambition for power.

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  5. Anonymous7:19 AM

    Sarah Palin is a boob!

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  6. Anonymous7:20 AM

    Monday morning's crap cluster report

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/
    2011/05/30/palin-swings-national
    -archives-presidential-plans-remain-mystery/

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  7. Anonymous7:24 AM

    Oh, yeah, right, it would be just impossible for the media to spot that inconspicuous li'l ole rv they're taking their private vacation in. Just station a volunteer at every Walmart parking lot.

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  8. Anonymous7:25 AM

    Oh, please, Greta.

    You know you're a big part of the "political cock-teasing" of the Palin camp.

    And you'll be right there with Ailes, rehabilitating Quitler's image.

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  9. Anonymous7:27 AM

    Gryphen, Thanks for all that you do, going "there" so the rest of us don't have to.
    In the 2nd photo, is Sarah getting ready to take her t-shirt off for the guy in back to her left? That woman is such a fake. I can't believe that so many people hang on to her every word. The one and only reason I come to visit IM everyday is so that I will know what the quitter is up to and to be entertained by Gryphen's amazing, intelligent, and witty writing. Thanks again!

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  10. Dear Granny Palin,

    LOVE the cross! Such a CUTE fashion accessory!!

    But where is your Star of David or your Key?

    It almost seems like you were just wearing them just for show, but, but, you would NEVER lie about your RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS, right?

    Pig.

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  11. Anonymous7:29 AM

    i have long averred that rah-rah is a polebrity(political celeb), nothing more. she is anna nicole, a bimbo. so what if she has what some might call "charisma"? we don't want her for president, and there is no way she's running.
    the e-mails are coming, the e-mails are coming!!!!!

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  12. Anonymous7:32 AM

    Didn't Sarah appear on the Oprah show? Does Oprah work for Fox?

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  13. Anonymous7:32 AM

    Oh, the comment about Sarah not wanting the media to follow her - does Sarah Palin project much? It must be opposite day. Whatever Palin says, it's the opposite of what she means. Too bad we can't all just turn away from this ginormous train wreck!
    BTW, I wish I had a PAC to pay for my family vacation in a huge customized million-dollar RV and a PAC to pay for my 2.7 million dollar Arizona mansion. Could the IRS/FBI/FEC get off their collective asses and ivestigate this grifter bitch and her corrupt family?

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  14. Anonymous7:33 AM

    After crashing the Rolling Thunder event yesterday, today sarah palin plans on crashing the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.

    She will give an "off-hand" speech from atop the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from WWI.

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  15. Anonymous7:43 AM

    Great idea not telling the schedule. No protesting, and playing the old trick that keeps the media following - catch me if you can! Nobody would bother if she didn't make this all about the tease.

    That woman is stupid, but she has the instincts of a master manipulator.

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  16. Anonymous7:44 AM

    There is a real possibility, before this bus tour (¨The Lame Excuse Express¨) is over, sarah will become a fugitive on the lam. She is literally hiding from everyone now.

    Run away, sarah, run away!

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  17. Anonymous7:50 AM

    I think I remember hearing many people say that there is no way that Geroge W Bush will be elected to a second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people.

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  18. laprofesora7:52 AM

    Does anyone else notice how FLAT she looks in the last picture? Maybe that's why the sourpuss. What happened to the big bazoombas so nicely accentuated by the look-at-me-I'm-Chrissstian cross?

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  19. Anonymous7:53 AM

    What's the matter, Palin couldn't find a big cross to wear for the event?

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  20. Anonymous7:58 AM

    Again, oh please, Greta.

    Your husband is already on the Palin bus: http://lockerz.com/s/106172233

    Jason Recher is, too. He's been writing those blurbs for SarahPac. They've been twattered out 4 times in 24 hrs from SarahPalinUSA.

    So cut the crap.

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  21. Anonymous8:02 AM

    She can't announce a schedule. She has Executive Function Disorder, and can't keep a proper schedule. You all KNOW this. She can't hold a regular job because she has such trouble maintaining an announced schedule and meeting contractual responsibilities, due to her mental disability.

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  22. This is nonsense. O'Reilly has sat down for interviews with Jon Stewart and other media outlets.News correspondents are often interviewed by another network if they are directly involved with a news events.

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  23. TruthSeeker8:06 AM

    Anonymous @ 7:50 am said...
    "I think I remember hearing many people say that there is no way that Geroge W Bush will be elected to a second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people."

    Thank you Anon for that reminder. I second your cautionary remark.

    And now more than ever the newsmedia is negligent on doing its job, by always giving this mutated spectacle Palin free passes, instead of investigating her and calling her out on all her deceptive deviations.

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  24. Anonymous8:09 AM

    Fox is enabling Sarah all the way and they know exactly whether she will run or not. So Greta and a camera crew are meeting up with Sarah today?

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  25. Anonymous8:14 AM

    CNN has just announced that at the National Archives this morning the half term governor said she is contemplating running for President and she thinks Obama can be defeated in 2012. They are now following her to Mt. Vernon and then Gettysburg. I am certain they will ask her the same questions, receive the same answers, and report the breaking news. Unbelievable.


    Bill

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  26. @7:19 - This Ones 4 U8:14 AM

    @7:19 - Thank you for caring about my happiness. That a Palinbot is sitting around and wondering about my personal happiness on Memorial Day thrills me. I'll clear it up for you: I am VERY HAPPY. I have a President who I am proud of at every level. I just returned from the U.K., and I can tell you I was so proud to be there when Pres. and First Lady Obama were there. The folks in the U.K. ADORE them! I was so proud to be an American.

    Back here at home, my spouse and I are employed. We have 7 college degrees between us (2 undergrad degrees, 4 masters degrees & 1 Ph.D.) and we publicly contribute to society as educators and writers. I advise top thinkers in the international business world (I'm not kidding) and my spouse is tenured at a university. We thank God every day that Pres. Obama is in office and that we both have jobs. Our families are doing well; everyone is in good health. I walk 5 miles a day. I have a book being published in the fall, my fourth. I am appearing at 2 national conferences in June. My spouse is extremely happy with me; I am extremely happy with my spouse.

    If I had more space, I'd enumerate the various ways in which I have volunteered to help out my community, which is also an indication of my happiness. Oh, and by the way: neither my spouse nor I have ever voted for anyone who was not a Democrat in our entire lives. So that's the story of this liberal family and our happiness.

    Now, let's share a moment of silence to honor our vets together on this Memorial Day. Thank you.

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  27. Anonymous8:15 AM

    7:19 am

    The first comment at ----


    Ram, that you? Are you getting paid to post all this shit or are you just sending BigBoss some more love? You really need to get a life and quit kissing up to Sarah all the time, people think you are a loser and desperate.

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  28. CharlotteB8:18 AM

    All of your posts are fabulous, but this one is particularly excellent. Bravo!

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  29. grammy978:20 AM

    There are three posts @ 7:19 a.m.

    To the first of the three: Is that you, Brooklyn?

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  30. Anonymous8:21 AM

    She was seen talking to a CNN anchor at Rolling Thunder..isn't she in violation?

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  31. Anonymous8:23 AM

    @7:19 AM,

    $arah Palin sure was getting a kick out of those panty-sniffers, redneck fawners and yesman yesterday. $arah Palin is scared shitless of real reporters, and will only talk to the same few "reporters" like Barbara Walters, Matt Lauer, Andrea Mitchell, People Magazine, and everybody at Fake News)who will ask her easy questions, and listen to her whine, and play the victim. $arah Palin would never dare talk to someone like Rachel Maddow. Palin uses the lame excuse, that the "liberal media" will just twist her words around. When is she going to give a LIVE hour long press conference, answering random questions, from random, non-right-wing reporters, without having the questions in advance? I won't hold my breath.

    Conservatives are angrier than liberals. Conservatives are pissed because there's a black democrat in the White House. Bitter, unhappy, conservatives, like $arah Palin, are always bitching about Barack Obama.

    This is not a Right-wing country. Most people hate the idea of deregulation, hate Wall Steet criminals, want rich people to pay more taxes, and love "socialized" medicine, Medicare. That's why you re-thugs lost that special election in NY-26. Also, Barack Obama wouldn't have been elected president. But, I'm sure bigots like you, believe he only won because of the ACORN lie. And if this country was so damn right-wing, $arah Palin would be popular, and so many people would not be opposed to her.

    $arah Palin IS a crazy person.

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  32. Anonymous8:23 AM

    Anonymous @7:19 a.m.

    You grew up in towns where it was almost impossible to see a frown? And you ask why is that?

    Check out the Queen on the back of a motorcycle yesterday - I think that's a frown! She didn't look too happy. "Why is that?"

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  33. Anonymous8:23 AM

    I am almost seventy years old and my face is not as wrinkled up as that hussy. I have never had any kind of facial surgery. Whoever worked on her face did a piss poor job. For someone who thinks she is a hotty, she is passing middle age and heading for the elderly look fast. Look at the old hands. Just creepy for a woman her age. My daughter, who is $p's age is not old looking like her. No surgery either. When one is ugly inside this is what you get.

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  34. Anonymous8:25 AM

    She was talking to someone from CNN just yesterday - on camera. What a crock of moose poop.

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  35. Anonymous8:27 AM

    "What happened to the big bazoombas so nicely accentuated by the look-at-me-I'm-Chrissstian cross?"

    Maybe she was wearing her "water bra" and her water broke, again!

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  36. The world's biggest (and oldest) cocktease. Wait until the day she slithers and wiggles and winks and teases and waggles her tongue and finds out that no one any longer wants to er, come and join the fan club.

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  37. Anonymous8:32 AM

    anybody that has lived in Wasilla as I have can see Sarah can really identify with these people with Rolling Thunder. Walmart undeducated trash

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  38. Anonymous8:36 AM

    sounds like the Palins are taking a summer vacation paid in full by SarahPAC.c Is that legal?

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  39. No one thought that idiot Bush could win either.

    No one thought that idiot Hitler could gain power either.

    God help us.

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  40. Anonymous8:37 AM

    "I think I remember hearing many people say that there is no way that Geroge W Bush will be elected to a second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people."

    7:50 AM

    Except, there are several differences between Palin and "W."


    1. W was the son of a former president.

    2. His brother was the governor of Florida, which Jeb Bush helped him steal.

    3. W had the backing of the republican establishment. the republican establishment hates Palin, and doesn't want her to run.

    4. People actually liked W, and wanted to have a beer with him. Most Americans don't like Palin.

    5. W won like 40% of the Latino vote, (with help from Jeb Bush) which is a lot for a republican. Plus, he promised them immigration reform.

    6.The U.S. Supreme court installed him in the White House.

    Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000. So, W didn't actually win, the first time.

    W only won in 2004 (but barely) because of 9/11, and fears about terrorism. He played the terror-card, and there's this crap about voting against a "wartime president."

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  41. Anonymous8:37 AM

    Bristol looks like Liberace!! I knew she reminded me of someone with her new chin and veneers.

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  42. Anonymous8:38 AM

    You know, that's a really sad picture of Bristol. She's what, 20 years old? She looks like some of the old 50-ish cosmetic-surgery dowagers I've seen at LA charity events. Her hair looks totally fake - even if it's real, that color job makes it look fake.

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  43. Anonymous8:40 AM

    Palin as a wannabe biker chick -- Sullivan 'nails' her

    http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.
    com/2011/05/face-of-the-day-10.html

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  44. Anonymous8:41 AM

    Palin: Christ's Whore.

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  45. Anonymous8:41 AM

    People hate to feel manipulated and when they do feel it, finally, they turn on the manipulator in anger. Tongue flicking might work on a b-list porn film (especially if you're over 30 as the main actress) but it doesn't solve the problems facing this country. Platitudes and slogans won't reassure a nation depleted financially and psychologically from a decade of war; we the people will insist that whoever the GOP decides to run, has more to offer than a set of tatas and designer sunglasses, special needs prop or not. The time for childish reality show hype is over. Shit or get off the pot quitter. Put your man pants on, grab your cajones and stop being limp about it.

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  46. Anonymous8:41 AM

    That stupid decorated bus can probably be seen from satellite!! Must be a hellish place to be if the entire clan is on it, Chuckles, Toad, Scarah, Willow, Bristles, Pissy Piper all together. Talk about family togetherness. Maybe they are afraid to venture out alone?

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  47. Anonymous said...

    You didn't know people who work for networks cant politically associate with other networks?

    Well, that doesnt really matter. Sarah still talks to random reporters and engages pretty much anyone who will listen. Shes not shy nor is she afraid of anything. She handles the crazy press with amazing fortitude and Im for one glad she isnt releasing her destinations far ahead of time. Keep the crazies at bay. She HATES yesmen, panty sniffers, fawners, and people with no lives who do nothing but stalk others. Heck thats anyone. More and more celebs are revolting against freaky paparazzi. Maybe one day, no one will feel the need to live other people's lives.

    The sad part is, "palinbots" have lives. Most of the ones ive spoken to are contributing members of society, are successful at young ages, have met huge political figures or work for them.

    I see no complaining about life over in the comments at c4p. However, I see immense complaining on liberal blogs, about money, the world, people in general.

    Makes you think what party draws more happy people. I've said it before, I grew up in average size/small towns and it's nearly impossible to meet a stranger or see a frown. I've also lived in metropolis' and its IMPOSSIBLE to go one day and NOT see boatloads of sad looking people, people who have hope behind their eyes yet are struggling to fight tears in their soul.

    Why is that?

    America generally lives to the Right. Less regulation, more freedom.

    7:19 AM
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    Nice fantasy life you have there, palinbot. Every word you wrote is a lie and/or sweeping, meaningless generalization. I have lived in tiny towns and huge cities, and guess what? People are people no matter where they live.

    But then I see people as individuals.

    "She HATES yesmen, panty sniffers, fawners,..." Nonsense. It's demonstrably true that those are the only people she'll tolerate.

    "You didn't know people who work for networks cant politically associate with other networks?" Depends entirely on the individual person's individual contract. And she has never used that as a reason, but has only whined that anyone other than Fox isn't fair wah wah wah.

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  48. CharlotteB8:45 AM

    This morning, when asked why she is running around in a big bus, Palin offers this explanation:

    “This isn’t a campaign bus. This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America," the former Alaska governor said as she left the National Archives. "And to be able to remind ourselves that we don’t need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore what’s good about America."

    Then at 0:43, Palin acts as if she has forgotten to finish her sentence and starts talking to a fan in the middle of an ABC interview:

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/05/sarah-palin-visits-national-archives-insists-bus-tour-isnt-for-campaigning.html

    It's the beginning of the end. Even the most unpracticed eye can see it's all coming apart for this multi-millionaire poser. Wow, just wow.

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  49. Anonymous8:45 AM

    7:19 For the love of gawd, get yourself a LIFE. Is this Bristles or Willow? Your sentence structure and poor spelling is giving you away. Plus, to be so enamoured with the empty headed grifting $carah you would have to be related.

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  50. Anonymous8:45 AM

    Sarah was on Oprah and also interviewed by Barbara Walters neither of which are on FOX. Barbara has said on the View that Roger Ailes is a good friend of hers though. That is why Barbara will not say anything bad abut Sarah.

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  51. Anonymous8:46 AM

    howling monkey @ 7:19:

    Here´s a ¨newsflash¨ for you: Happiness is not looking upon your queen and seeing only cherubs and lollipops.

    Quit your whining and take a good look at that Belmont Stakes photo. What you are seeing is sarah´s judgment on display.

    je je je je je

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  52. I had nuns in elementary school in full habits that didn't wear crosses that big. But then again, they wore theirs all the time, and they were acutely aware of the deep and profound meaning that it gave their lives.

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  53. Anonymous8:49 AM

    7:19 - you are so full of it, I can smell it halfway across this continent.

    Your characterization of small towns is highly suspicious and seriously skewed. You may live in utopia, but I have lived in small towns where gossiping and backstabbing is as natural to the inhabitants as breathing.

    In case you haven't notice, dear one, we are all human subject to the same failings. Living in a particular size town does not change that; small towns do, however, make our failings more prominent because there is no where to hide.

    Perhaps you have not seen the studies that indicate liberals/progressives live longer, are happier, and have fulling sex more often (okay, I made up that last bit about sex - well, on second thought, we seem to talk less about it so maybe that means we do indulge more often and find it more satisfying - you know what they say - ultra-conservatives talk about it so much that they probably are all talk and no action).

    Ahem, back to the point: your "conclusions" betray either your limited experience or your limited intelligence. Your pick.

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  54. Anonymous8:50 AM

    Bill, this is apparently some of what she said in front of the Natinal Archives, I believe:

    "This isn't a campaign bus," Palin said. "This is a bus to be able to express to America how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested in all that is good about America and to remind ourselves we don't need to fundamentally transform America, we need to restore what's good about America."

    "The mission that we're on is to highlight America's foundation and that's a nice thing that we're getting to do, bring the family along for the ride but making sure the people are aware of where America came from," Palin said.

    Uh...okaaaayyyyyy.....

    When is everyone going to catch on that she is doing this for $$$?

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  55. Anonymous8:50 AM

    Anon 7:19...whaaaaattt?

    Small town people are happier? Sarah hates fawners and pantysniffers? Palinbots have met huge political figures or work for them?

    Wow. You're insane. Truly. It's so obvious Sarah has "masterminded" people to respond on "enemy" blogs...just like Bailey said. We're on to you, Sarah.

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  56. I finally see in that picture of Bristol what many of you have been saying: her new look is much more similar to Willow's. Since Willow is out of the spotlight, maybe she is having surgery to look even more like the new Bristol. Or maybe this photo is actually Willow instead of Bristol?

    Imagine the convenience of always having a non-pregnant daughter to take on a bus tour, and the public being able to think it is the adult one who'd like people to watch her on TV.

    On this Memorial Day, I hope Sarah, Todd, and Bristol remember their very young children whom they have left behind somewhere with someone so that the parents can travel around being media hogs.

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  57. Anonymous9:00 AM

    To 7:50; Bush was never "elected" to either term - he stole them both through dirty, under-handed, illegal tactics.

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  58. Anonymous9:00 AM

    I have a deep suspicion that most progressives/liberals, are like me: quite well off, and happy in our lives...

    HOWEVER: that is no excuse to be complacent about how crappy it is becoming for MOST people in the middle class, as the upper crust of careless Americans continues to make things more and more lopsided.

    I heard someone say, about this 1% of Americans owning an absurd percentage of the total wealth of the country, that its the other 99% who keep ARMING THEMSELVES. Most think its to keep the "government" from going overboard, but sooner or later, its going to dawn on even the craziest Teabanger out there, that elected officials--especially Republicans--are nothing more than shills for those super-rich Americans, bent on getting EVERYTHING for themselves.

    And, Americans, even the lower classes, are spoiled...not used to going hungry. Watch what happens when they are pushed into a situation in which they finally wake up to what is really happening to them.

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  59. Anonymous9:02 AM

    Oh, poor sarah (sniff). She must have been whining (boo hoo) about the blogs again. There are trolls everywhere, repeating saraland fantasy.

    HowÅ› the bait taste, sarah?

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  60. Anonymous9:04 AM

    Whoring for attention, lying it is the opposite, get the attention sought (shrink wrapped bus, press releases, plan to go first center of media etc), then unleash recruits to begin psychotic campaign about "stalkers".

    The cross is a prop displayed as "proof" lies are truth. I had traumatic nightmare ending of a life by an ex who revealed and boasted his use of similar props used to deceive people manipulating human vulnerability. To deceive people you also are their religion is a devil in disguise.

    Greta must have a few screws loose to compare a private family vacation to the Palin parents orchestrating a circus complete with a shrink wrapped bus advertising for $$, driving a billboard RV claiming it is not political, teething, social media, pyromaniac media then lying etc etc.

    One plus one equals thirteen in Palin land.

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  61. Anonymous9:04 AM

    Palin isn't announcing her bus tour schedule because she doesn't really want crowds - especially since crowds are iffy for her these days.

    But let's get real. She doesn't want crowds who might get organized against her but she does want media and press and she will get media and press. No one knew until yesterday if she was really coming to the Rolling Thunder event until almost the last minute, yet there she was and there were the media lapdogs lapping up her 'emmissions'.

    Sarah plays the media like a fiddle and they dance when she yells dance.

    Sarah doesn't care about crowds and people, she cares about media attention and she is guaranteed that no matter what she does.

    She is so smug in her self-deluded ability to believe that she calls the shots and has the media wrapped around her little finger, that I don't think she really has a clue how ugly this could get if the media finally decides a bigger story is what a fraud Ms. Palin really is. And believe me that story is out there waiting to be tapped.

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  62. Anonymous9:05 AM

    @719

    No idiot, America is left of center.

    That is WHY we have our super smart Mr. President Barack Hussain Obama in the WHITE HOUSE!

    Your pathetic Quitler will never-EVER see the WH except on a guided tourist tour.

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  63. Anonymous9:05 AM

    HOW is it legal for SarahPac to be paying for the bus and the trip when Sarah admits it is a "family vacation" ????

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  64. Anonymous9:11 AM

    CNN just announced that John King is following the Palin bus. So much for "secrecy" from the press. As if, with such a conspicuous bus.

    She is "contemplating" a presidential run. Why not go ahead and say definitively? If she really were serious, she would. She's just being a cocktease. The minute she declines, she is old news.

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  65. Anonymous9:13 AM

    Gryphen,

    The CNN Express Bus is following Palin around and I believe it includes John King.

    They were in the gaggle of moron MSM and tossed the lame question whether she was running when she was at the National Archives this morning. The bus is presently parked waiting for her at Gettysburg where Drew Griffin is there and saying that there are people gathering.

    Can we just say it -- CNN as we know is Faux Lite. Griffin is so lame as we know from his softball interview with Palin. Given the opportunity, he'd 'do' Palin. He looks like he drools when he sees or talks about her. It's sickening.

    Show how desperate CNN is for ratings -- bad ratings!!

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  66. Beldar Bibble Conehead9:15 AM

    Gryphen, our president's re-election is not assured. The convergence of a bad economy, a quirky primary season, a precarious electoral college and a country filled with angry, bibble-thumping. racist low-information voters could easily tip the scales towards any GOP candidate who opposes a successful black man in the white house. If that candidate is the screechy wretch, so be it. Remember, Democrats fall in love, Repugs fall in line. If she's the nom, the party will follow. And you can't dismiss the possibility of an unethical Rovian October Surprise that unhinges enough independents to further imbalance the electorate.

    Let's be confident and supportive, but never cocky. Catastrophes (yes, Lulu, I'm looking at you!) can happen. Of course, I pray to Zeus it doesn't!

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  67. Anonymous9:15 AM

    That picture of Bristol is disturbing. Something has gone wrong post-surgery.

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  68. Anonymous9:16 AM

    "Ms. Palin announced her bus tour with great fanfare last week and is using it on her Web site to raise money for her political action committee. Despite that, Ms. Palin is acting as though her family is just like any other taking a sight-seeing vacation to see the country.

    Never mind the charter bus plastered with images of the Constitution. Or the fact that her family vacation has a name: the “One Nation Tour.” Or that she is documenting her family’s movements on a Web site that invites Americans along. Or that she might just run for president.

    No. Ms. Palin, the former governor of Alaska, has made it quite clear that she just wants to be left alone..."

    BTW ... isn't her "bus", her RV which sarapac bought? anyone have a link to this information?

    http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/palin-family-tours-washington-incognito/#

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  69. MC30319:23 AM

    Oh Anon @7:19, you paint such a lovely picture of the world of a palin-bot with your "lives" and whatnot.

    Gee, I wish we liberals had something like that. You know, the kind with more freedom (like religion or birth choices or perhaps whom we marry) and less regulation (of religion, birth choices and whom we marry).

    That might be a lovely sort of thing to work toward - not having people get all up in our business because they cannot handle the idea of two men/women having a sexual relationship (as if it's ANY of ANYONE'S business what they do with their body).

    And btw, I call hard core bullshit on your comment that American "lives" (leans? Is that what you meant perhaps?) to the right.

    That may be your perspective but it's rather skewed. Most Americans (really, most people) just want to be happy, love who they love, have decent jobs, and take care of their family. That's neither a left nor right value, it's called being human.

    Yeesh. Please go back to Pleasantville USA where no one complains, ever. (Or, apparently, thinks with any sort of logic or reason.)

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  70. Anonymous9:27 AM

    @ 7:19A - you are so funny. What kind of strange either/or paradigm are you suggesting there? Sad city folk vs. cheerful contented small town folk? Not too simplistic, huh?

    Last I checked small town America was the hardest hit by this recession. Kinda doubt your Leave It to Beaver fantasy would hold much water, anywhere. People are struggling all over.

    We are all extremely amused at your trying to portray conservatives as being happy people, I assure you. Don't think they are happy with our changing world, that's for sure. They want to turn back time - to a mythical era, for that matter.

    Where America generally lives, politically, is in the MIDDLE. Not on the Right. But have it your way, I am sure that analysis will be super relevant in the next election. Seems the GOP is putting their money on that one ;-).

    As for Sarah Palin managing the press, which press do you mean? Who does she talk to? Examples, please. She avoids almost all of the press. She is deeply fearful and paranoid when it comes to them. If you call that handling them with amazing fortitude, I guess that's your prerogative.

    Just wait until she gets some guts and actually allows them to interview without prepared questions. Then we'll see how that amazing fortitude fares.

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  71. Anonymous9:29 AM

    Greta: "I guess that is like my contract – I am not obliged to tell Fox where I vacation."

    Thanks for acknowledging the obvious, Greta: donators to SarahPAC are funding an all expenses paid vacation for the parasitical Palin family.

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  72. Anonymous9:30 AM

    She should be careful if she's trying to avoid the media, she might have a Princess Di ending

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  73. Anonymous9:33 AM

    Snowdrift and Toad were at the National Archives??

    Lock the doors! Don't let them out until you frisk them and check for every document, every display.

    These people cannot be trusted.

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  74. Anonymous9:33 AM

    7:19

    You want less regulation? Then why are you supporting legislation aimed at stripping women of the their right to choose and gays of the right to marry? Among other things those seem to stand out

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  75. Anonymous9:34 AM

    Regarding Sarah's oral vulva/labial substitute. (Book title anyone?)

    I once went to sequential performances of the four operas of Wagner's Ring Cycle in which the motif of the set was so blatantly pointy things and round things that after the first two scene changes the audience began to giggle with each new scene with its version of overt sexual symbolism. And of course the giggles increased as more and more of the audience began to catch on.

    Sarah dear, about the that tonguing labia licking thing you do so very frequently. It is just way to obvious and you go there way too often. It has become the thing of comedy and farce, as have you.
    And it is cheap and trashy, as are you.

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  76. Anonymous9:36 AM

    7:17 am: "I see no complaining about life over in the comments at c4p. However, I see immense complaining on liberal blogs, about money, the world, people in general."

    It's not complaining, you twisted sociopath, it's called empathy for others besides ourselves. Except for palinbots who let themselves be grifted by a transparent huckster.

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  77. Chenagrrl9:36 AM

    Don't follow the bus. It's really clear. Make her go out on a limb to tease in some attention.

    So she zips through Antietam and Gettysburg. What? She was leaking it would be Mount Vernon Sunday.

    I don't think I would send an intern for a down-market rag after her.

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  78. Someone ought to tell Greta that she's blowing hot air. Sarah Palin talked rather extensively and posed for pictures for a CNN reporter and cameraman yesterday.

    http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/05/29/palin.thunder.tour.cnn

    I guess the Fox reporter couldn't get that close to her...wonder why? Sarah thumbing her nose at the rules again?

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  79. Chenagrrl9:41 AM

    I actually wondered if she thought the previous bus tours just arrived. That there were no advance people making sure there was a place to park the bus and bonbons for the passengers.

    What would be interesting is where they stop for food, when the bus is serviced, what provisions are put on board. That takes a good reporter -- not political hounds.

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  80. Anonymous9:43 AM

    Anon 8:15

    Ram, that you? Are you getting paid to post all this shit or are you just sending BigBoss some more love? You really need to get a life and quit kissing up to Sarah all the time, people think you are a loser and desperate.
    ------------------

    If the AK police would do their job instead of sniffing Palin's panties, they should have checked the Palin compound.

    They would have caught RAM breaking in to steal Scarah's panties. RAM's fantasy dream is 'to do' Scarah!

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  81. Pursang9:43 AM

    ah yes, the "2011 Sarah Palin Fleeces the Rubes Tour" begins by hijacking a veterans event.

    As far as her supposed assets, the majority of men are going to be looking above them at that huge neck wattle.

    I hope the media stops reporting on Palin's Grifter Tour as she has not done anything positive in her life to deserve a second of coverage. If people want to give her money for nothing then so be it but let's not report about it.

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  82. Anonymous9:43 AM

    If Sarah Palin doesn't want the media to follow her little trip up the East Coast, then why does she paint up a bus to looke "Sarah Palins's Snake Oil Medicine Show?

    Gryphen, the picture with Sarah tugging on her t-shirt shows how the AZ sun is causing freckles and drying out her skin. My guess, the chemicals in the swimming pool are the reason for her dry hair.

    A couple of years in the AZ sun and she will look like Jan Brewer.

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  83. I am so glad to see a new photo of that grotesque down-turned mouth...the old one was becoming so tiresome...

    Simply can't imagine what would cause a face to contort like that...utter disdain for other human beings? disgust at someone else getting recognition? a face she has developed in responding to Todd? I imagine your readers could have a lot of fun providing even more creative captions!

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  84. Anonymous9:50 AM

    The reason she is being "coy" with the media is because she doesn't want them to see that this tour is just a half-assed facade for a luxurious family vacation. It continues to amaze me how brazenly rightwing PACs flaunt the rules. How is this vacation helping to elect political candidates, or "educate on the issues"? I too would like to figure out how to draw a tax-free income stream to support a lavish lifestyle, but unlike Sarah Palin, I'd get thrown in jail for it.

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  85. Anonymous9:52 AM

    I have just sent an e-mail to Rolling Thunder with my thoughts on this past week-end's fiasco with Rolling Blunder and Stolen Thunder (as some have called it).

    I did pose a question to them in the e-mail:

    "I have just one question for the vets who support half-term ex-governor Sarah Palin:

    'Did YOU quit half-way through your tour of duty?'"

    How anyone, especially vets, can support someone (Palin) whose goals are totally self-serving, is beyond me.

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  86. Anonymous9:55 AM

    Gabrielle Giffords was at a supermarket meeting her constituents when she was attacked and nearly killed.

    Perhaps Sarah Palin is smart enough to realize what happened to Giffords could happen to her or any of her family on this well publicized tour.

    Sarah Palin is a known supporter of the "guns for the insane" program promoted by the NRA. As long as her PAC is paying for all the security, Palin can waltz around, flicking her tongue and coyly answering random press questions.

    Someday, the money will be less plentiful, Sarah Palin will have to pay for her own security. We'll see much LESS of her then.

    Because even Sarah Palin remembers what happend to Gaby Giffords.

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  87. Anonymous9:55 AM

    She doesn't want to announce ahead of time because she knows the crowds that show up will be paltry. She can't pull in crowds of her own. That's why she has to grift off events like Rolling Thunder.

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  88. Pursang10:03 AM

    I also find it interesting that her tour stops are all reverent historical locations. It wouldn't be wise to mount major protests against her at Gettysburg, Arlington National Cemetery, etc. and Palin or more accurately her handlers knows that.

    It still boggles the mind that enough people in this country donate enough money to this grifter that she can do this. Good scam I guess but between working for my money and begging for it I'll take working for it. Palin is just a slightly higher class of panhandler than the people you see on street corners. The biggest difference is that the street corner panhandler is more honest than Palin and her clan.

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  89. Anonymous10:08 AM

    Anonymous 7:19 AM (FIRST POST)
    "She (Sarah) HATES yesmen panty sniffers, fawners, and people with no lives who do nothing but stalk others."

    That is all poor old sagging Sarah has, misfits in the above categories!

    Obviously written by Palinista or Teabagger, they are all too fucking stupid to write a complete sentence much less several paragraphs and spell that many words.

    Punctuation and capitalization are NOT Palinite/teabagger skills either as evidenced in the Anonymous 7:19 AM post.
    (yesmen doesnt Shes im isnt thats ive) However, defending stupidity and the inability to think and reason for themselves they become the willing victims (SUCKERS) of a greedy grifter family.

    Stay tuned SUCKERS as the grifters take a luxury vacation at YOUR expense while filming their next RE-ALITY SHOW, "SARAH PALIN'S AMURAKA". Which state will get to pay her for it with YOUR TAX MONIES?

    It is only a matter of time until one of the Palins start collecting funds for the widow of the Unknown Soldier!

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  90. Anonymous10:10 AM

    Okay, the funniest thing I've ever read is the Palin doesn't want the media following her. I mean, really?

    Next, the photos of her in her little conservative striped shirt and skirt at her private tour of the national archives making believe she is soaking it all in and so serious is HYSTERICAL. Of course, the media FOUND her outside, because her massive bus is so very inconspicuous.

    I mean really - this woman - how does she get away with this crap? It's like the biggest joke in the world? Oh and Todd is staring up at the ceiling, thinking, when the hell am i gonna get our of her and grab a beer?

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  91. Anonymous10:13 AM

    B @ 9:00 am

    Willow is in DC with them. She was in pics at the monuments after the RT ride. Also in the pics were Chuckles & Sally. The only ones not in the pics were Trig and Tripp. Who knows where they've been stashed as I'm sure Snowdrift doesn't want to be bothered with two young kids on the bus -- but then you never know. Trig is not the small 'lovable' prop for her to hold up anymore. He's long passed his 'expiry' date of use.

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  92. Anonymous10:15 AM

    Y'all come right in to the dimlit Fox lounge, have a seat on your hid-a-bed sofa and watch the gyrations of pay for view $ultry $arah Poll-dancer. Join Joe the dumber,and several mindalike chri$tions. Put your donations in an envelope and tuck into the fund a mentalist g-stringalong campaign tease-a-throng's booty. Keep on watchin cause soon she'll show you a exciting announcement climax.

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  93. In one picture Bristol's face looks like that of a chipmunk. Like that "cat woman" plastic surgery mess. It is a serious deal when someone so young, who has no signs of disfigurement, would go through such an expensive and life-altering procedure. Palin's Triumphant Tease Tour is so transparent that everyone in the media should be ashamed to be following this mess and reporting on her every ridiculous move. Someone said she was a master manipulator and she is. Just like many other psychopaths who led their followers into hell.

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  94. Anonymous10:17 AM

    Sarah gave interviews to Robin Roberts,Oprah and Barbara walters several times.Another Fox Liar.I'm so surprised.

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  95. Anonymous10:19 AM

    That despicable tongue action from a 50 year old makes me heave. When will she grow up?

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  96. Anonymous10:21 AM

    Bristol's new face looks uncomfortable.

    And in that last photo, Sarah looks pregnant...well, about as pregnant as she did in the squarepillow shot from the Elan Frank video. Something seems weird about her midsection, although maybe it's just weird in relation to the non-breasts.

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  97. Anonymous10:22 AM

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55905.html...according to Politico..Greta is doing an interview on the bus with Palin tomorrow..another well crafted publicity story..Palin/Greta must think everyone else is as stupid as they are..

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  98. Anonymous10:24 AM

    I wouldn't call that walking interview with the CNN reporter extensive. Sarah repeated her worn out cliches and that was it.

    She is playing a dangerous game here. If she got tense (through her clenched-teeth smile) at two or three persistent questions, can you just imagine what she'd do if there were further questions?

    The woman is b'sing everyone with that gibberish. She cannot get away with saying "this isn't a campaign bus" even once more. In a 24/7 news cycle, they will just end up chewing her up and spitting her out.

    They are ready to test her this time, you watch. No mercy. She is under pressure now, big time, and she is going to crack. She will wish she never did this tour, whatever it's about.

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  99. Anonymous10:25 AM

    Anon 9:15: I thought the same thing. Bumps? Pouchiness? Crenellation?

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  100. Anonymous10:26 AM

    Before hopping on the back of a Harley and riding out among the first wave of riders, HuffPost asked Palin about the reason for her popularity -- what does she think representing 'Real America' actually means?

    And for one brief moment, she stopped smiling and wasn’t quite so sure what to say next.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/30/rolling-thunder-vets-sarah-palin_n_868610.html

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  101. Anonymous10:29 AM

    @7:19am - go ahead and worship at the feet of the Whore of Babble On. Only when she drains your bank account of your last cent on earth will you realize what a con artist she is.

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  102. Anonymous10:32 AM

    Question:

    Couldn't a complaint be filed with the FEC for the fact that she's using SarahPAC funds for a 'vacation'?

    The fact that there is no schedule published for info, thereby not giving notice to people and therefore the funds paying for this 'supposed educational family tour' is a scam??

    a.k.a. - Illegal use of funds!!!

    I don't care the Rectum, I mean Rector and other morons are there as they are irrelevant and along for the 'family ride'. Gives you a clue as to the character of Rector et al -- they're pondscum!!

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  103. Anonymous10:36 AM

    Wouldn't surprise me to see on her next PAC filing to see fees paid to BristleSlut's company.

    All the PAC funds being used for transportation - RV, planes, the hotels, meals, staff, etc. -- should be reported to FEC as this is an unpublished destination family vacation tour using donations.

    SarahPAC = Palin Family Slush Fund

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  104. Anonymous10:37 AM

    So, someone who works for Fox cannot interview or talk to anyone else from some other media. Very interesting.
    1. Jon Stewart appeared on O'Reilly's show
    2. O'Reilly appeared on Stewart's show
    3. Brian Williams (NBC) has appeared on Letterman, The Daily Show
    4. During the coverage of the earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Gupta was there in his official capacity as a reporter/commenter at CNN, yet I saw him giving first aid to a wounded child and discussing the wounded with Katie Couric (CBS).
    5. When a reporter is captured, injured or killed in the course of covering a battle, that reporter is covered by other stations. In the case of the reporter being injured or escaping capture, ,they are interviewed by other networks.

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  105. So Sarah's gone from winking to lip licking... gross. What's next? The lip biting and hair twirling?
    And for the TROLL who thinks (R)'s are happier than (D)'s: good lord, what warped reality do you live in? I have family that are palin-bots, and the only thing that makes them smile is thinking of our POTUS getting assassinated. It's sick... All this talk of "we're in such turmoil," "I'm terrfied of the world we live in today," "the Muslims are hiding under my bed" BS... that's not the talk of happy people.
    And having come from a small town myself (less than 3000 people), the reason everyone looks happy all the damn time in so small a town is that no one wants anyone to look closer and realize that they're cheating on their spouse, beating the hell out of their children, harboring a meth lab in their downstairs bathroom, or on the verge of shooting themselves in the face down by the beach.

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  106. Anonymous10:44 AM

    For the last couple of months, former Governor Palin has suggested that being President of this country was, to a certain extent, about character. And although I've not been willing to engage in her attacks on me, I have been here two and a half years , and I can tell you without hesitation: Being President of this country is entirely about character.

    For the record, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU, but the more important question is "Why aren't you, Sarah?" Now this is an organization whose sole purpose is to defend the Bill of Rights, so it naturally begs the question, why would a former Governor, her party's most powerful spokesman and a candidate for President, choose to reject upholding the constitution? Now if you can answer that question, folks, then you're smarter than I am, because I didn't understand it until a few hours ago.

    America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a woman whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of her lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms.

    Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.

    I've known Sarah Palin for years. And I've been operating under the assumption that the reason Sarah devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that she simply didn't get it. Well, I was wrong. Sarah's problem isn't that she doesn't get it. Sarah's problem is that she can't sell it!

    We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you Sarah Palin is not the least bit interested in solving it. She is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.

    You gather a group of middle age, middle class, middle income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family, and American values and character, and you make up lies about the President's birth certificate and former affiliations and you scream about patriotism. You tell them he's to blame for their lot in life. And you go on television and you make fun of his middle name, and you call him a Muslim terrorist.

    We've got serious problems, and we need serious people. And if you want to talk about character, Sarah, you'd better come at me with more than a fake Kenyan birth certificate and a membership card.

    If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I'll show up. This a time for serious people, Sarah, and your fifteen minutes are up.

    My name is Barack Obama, and I AM the President.

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  107. anon @10:10 - Tell me that your last sentence has a typo - that you left the "e" off of "her." Otherwise,
    eeeeewwwwwww!

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  108. Anonymous10:50 AM

    8:37 Yes !
    Liberace is exactly who Bristol looks like now.
    She's going to look like the Cat Woman
    before she's 25.
    Wasn't it reported that those under contract to FOX could speak with other networks
    if they got clearance
    from the top beforehand ?
    Palin shouted an interview to CNN yesterday-
    did she think she was talking to FOX ?
    She's certainly stupid enough .

    Anyone who has visited Washington , DC knows how traffic and parking can be.
    Palin brings an impractical and ginormous tour bus and thinks she's going to be incognito ?
    Yeah right.
    How to contact her PAC and send money is conveniently written on the back.
    This is the " I need new furniture for my Scottsdale McMansion Tour. "

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  109. Anonymous10:53 AM

    Gryphen, don't you believe PeakSe! "The Pout" picture from 2008 is STILL one of my favorites. However, I do hope you will archive this new "helmet pout" picture and display it in the future.

    I would love to know the story behind it. Maybe Granny Palin caught a few looks of distain, and for a fleeting moment realized that crowd was there to honor veterans, not her.

    That picture of Bristol is ghastly. How she must have hated her own face. She is just 20 years old, too young to peer out at the world through a plastic mask.

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  110. imnofred10:56 AM

    Greta is full of shit. Sarah was talking with a CNN reporter and there are rumors that CNN has a reporter and camera crew following her.

    CNN joins Greta and the others at Fox who fawn over everything that she says and does. When is the media going to wake the fuck up and see Sarah for what she really is???

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  111. Anonymous10:56 AM

    Or maybe this photo is actually Willow instead of Bristol?



    ******


    hmmmm. that's what I said! she looks like Willow now, if that IS Bristol.

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  112. Anonymous10:57 AM

    I don't believe Greta. She is Palin's coverwith this article and always..

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  113. Anonymous10:58 AM

    Anon 7:19, Since you can only handle 'happy faces,' why do you
    visit us sad sacks on "liberal"
    blogs? Looking for a little honesty,
    maybe? Tired of all the make believe
    joy 'n wonder provided on say,
    c4p? Palin is scared stiff of her own shadow, otherwise she'd have been
    on the Sunday talk shows sharing her
    pearls of wisdom. She travels with body guards, in case you didn't know, the discreet professional types who are close-by, but not obvious. What is the point of your comments?

    Sharon TN

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  114. Someone tell this fucking bitch, ok, I will, Lulu, STFU. Most everyone knows more about the Founding of this country than you do. I do. Don't dare tell me that I need your educatin' on our historic sites. This is all such utter BULLSHIT! (thanks for letting us curse here)

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  115. Anonymous11:00 AM

    Pursang: "Palin is just a slightly higher class of panhandler than the people you see on street corners. The biggest difference is that the street corner panhandler is more honest than Palin and her clan."

    Oh man, did you just hit the nail on the head. That should be the name of this absurdity, "The Palin Family Panhandlin' Across America Tour."

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  116. Anonymous11:01 AM

    Did anybody see the picture of her pledging allegiance and she had on this gigantic wooden cross. I can not believe people takes this boob seriously. Are they effin crazy,

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  117. Anonymous11:04 AM

    Pricless..

    http://edge.imgur.com/LusFr.jpg

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  118. Anonymous11:05 AM

    I saw a headline where the repubs ate having a medical insurance problem because they backed diff plans is palin going to get away with ths fact that her whole family is covered by government run healthcare? Because of Todd Todd Todd coverage?

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  119. Anonymous11:05 AM

    "I think I remember hearing many people say that there is no way that Geroge W Bush will be elected to a second term. Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people."

    7:50 AM


    As an Independent who voted for Bush in 04, I think there's one key difference: the opponent in the race. I didn't vote for Kerry because I couldn't find any info about what he was actually going to do as president. I remember being very frustrated by his website--it laid out all the problems facing America, and every page ended with "John Kerry has a plan!" But what that plan was, I had no more clue after reading his entire website than before. I really wanted a reason to vote *for* him, rather than against Bush, and couldn't find one.

    Most of my family was solidly pro-Bush and friends were emphatically anti-Bush. But I stood in the voting booth for a full five minutes, trying to figure out if I'd sleep better that night voting for Bush or for Kerry. It was a very difficult decision. If Kerry had taken a stronger stand on certain issues--eg had come out in favor of gay marriage--that might have swayed me in his direction. But he didn't, so ultimately I opted to vote for the devil I knew.

    In 2008 I proudly voted for Obama. I knew well before the election that I would vote for him. His comments on Letterman, of all places, convinced me that his view of foreign policy was rooted in a global, compassionate, common-sense perspective. So I was leaning heavily toward him already when McCain chose Palin, and I did a little research on her and decided that I was *definitely* voting Obama-Biden. Didn't want that woman anywhere near the White House.

    I was excited, though, to not just be voting against one candidate but FOR another--I believed Obama would make a positive impact, not simply cause the least amount of damage. And I will vote for him again in 2012. He's facing some tough issues, but he consistently responds to crises with grace, calmness, and dignity. **I trust him to make good decisions under pressure.**

    He handled the Tucson tragedy admirably, he repealed DADT, and bin Laden was killed under his leadership. He has an impressive track record of accomplishments to put before voters during the 2012 campaign.

    Also, seeing the direction the Republican party has gone in the past 2 1/2 years has moved me, personally, much closer to the Democrat/progressive camp. This is also true for some of my formerly dyed-in-the-wool evangelical Christian relatives.

    All that is to say that while I don't take for granted an Obama win in '12, I am also not losing sleep over the possibility of a Palin presidency.

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  120. Anonymous11:05 AM

    That woman is vomit-inducing! The nerve of her claiming to "educate" us on the meaning and implications of the Constitution. What a joke! She knows nothing, reads nothing and feels nothing. It is so disappointing to see reputable journalists/commentators get visibly aroused when they speak of her antics. Yuck! Please excuse me now, I have to take a shower.

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  121. Anonymous11:10 AM

    I post here often as "Anonymous" - it's a guilty "pleasure" and like most, I am waiting for SP's meeting with Karma. I am going to try and avoid everything (reading blogs/news) about Palin for a week or so, and see how I feel. Her energy is sucking my energy. My brain can use a "vacation"...

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  122. Anonymous11:11 AM

    She looks a mess, hair all stringy
    & that horrid shot with that cruel mouth turned down. She must've been
    royally ticked at something, her eyes
    even behind the sunglasses are just glaring at some poor devil out of the camera range. And she's a glamorous sex symbol? Also, Bristol close-up
    looks strained or tired or something.

    Sharon TN

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  123. Anonymous11:14 AM

    For someone who is so 'gadget' addicted to getting the hate messages out, it amazes me that there is not a single new tweet on RAMansour tweet page since the day she was outed on May 20th.

    The bitch got called out and she's dragging her tail between her legs.

    Love it that the Palin panty sniffer lesbo is sulking.

    She thinks she can get away with so much but there are peeps watching her too!!! She's toast!!

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  124. dancingthroughlife11:28 AM

    Saw my first "Palin 2012" bumper sticker on my 'jog' this morning... almost lost my breakfast. I'm currently in northeastern Indiana/Michigan border area... on a lake with very affluent residents. Definitely an interesting area- I also followed a van with a "Ditch Mitch" (Daniels) sticker into the parking lot yesterday at church.

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  125. Wasn't she interviewed by CNN yesterday?

    "I'm an American. I have no title. I have no office," Palin told CNN's Sandra Endo.

    Can I get an Amen? Too bad about the American part though. Our country would be a much better place without her divisive ass.

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  126. Perry Noyac11:37 AM

    I sure hope you're right about Grisly Mama not running. The thought literally keeps me up nights ... especially considering:

    1. As we know all too well by now, Palin will stop at NOTHING to get what she wants. (That would, of course, be M-O-N-E-Y. And ex-Presidents do command 10 times the speaking fees and book advances of ex-governors.)

    2. With such a dreadful list of potential candidates, the Rethugs must be getting a little desperate.

    3. They'd forget their hatred of Palin in a split second if they thought she might actually win.

    4. Like Palin, the Rethugs will stop at nothing to take back the White House. This is especially worrisome when taking into account such "variables" as Reagan's secret deal to keep the hostages in Iran so he'd win in 1980, Bush being declared winner by the head of his Florida campaign in 2000, the bizarre election procedures in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election, the fact that the easily manipulated electronic voting machines are STILL (astoundingly) being used, the idea that some well-timed debt ceiling "terror-talk" could send the economy into another tailspin ... etc. etc.

    So, if there's no trick too dirty for Palin to pull, and she manages to strike a deal with the Rethugs and their vast array of WCDs (weapons of class destruction) ... it sure seems like 2012 could wind up being the dirtiest, filthiest, most under-handed Presidential election ever.

    Like, while "Libs" and idealists debate the "facts" til we're blue in the face, the Rethugs will be responding with anonymously-posted pix of Moose Mama hefting an AK-47 and wrapped in an American flag (and nothing else) so she can go on Fake News the next day and bat her eyes while making more indignant, incoherent word-salad.

    Please know: I don't worry about sounding paranoid. I worry about BEING paranoid !

    It's just that when I try to imagine the world through Palin's sociopathic purview, all manner of dark deeds seem perfectly feasible.

    If she can fake a pregnancy all by herself, surely she can "fix" a presidential election with a little help from her fiends -- er -- friends.

    Anybody who wants to, feel free to talk me down off the ledge.

    Otherwise, I'll just sit up here dangling my legs and sipping my Kool-Aid.

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  127. Anonymous11:41 AM

    WHERE'S BABY TRIG?
    WHERE'S BABY TRIPP?
    Isn't Juicy using props for the bus trip this go round?

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  128. I think (unless I'm omitting something) that I will call bullsh*t on Ms. Van Susteren.
    Didn't/doesn't Mr. Huckabee, Bill O'Reilly, Wallace, and others go on other shows and spew? Focks enables the citizen from Alaska/Arizona to hide behind a blatant lie regarding her not appearing on other shows. The citizen will not appear on any other media venues, and we all know the reason why. The citizen is afraid of appearing publicly without her bodyguard children, she always brings Piper when it truly an open appearance. She knows that no one with a different view will attempt to confront her with a small child in tow.

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  129. Anonymous11:51 AM

    Palin thinks the Rolling Thunder vets showed up to service her.

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  130. Anonymous11:55 AM

    I just sent an e-mail to rolling thunder headquarters. I told them I have been married twice, once to an Air Force 20 year man who served in VietNam. Once to an Army man veteran of Korea. Both are gone now, but I know they would have been outraged at the treatment of Palin yesterday. All she does is insult the President. Anyone who got their photos taken with her, got her autograph or fawned over her should be ashamed. President Obama is the C in C of all forces. Palin is uneducated, unintelligent. God have mercy on the country if she becomes president. She is a low-class grifter.

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  131. Anonymous11:59 AM

    Sarah's not telling because she's a c--k teaser.

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  132. Anonymous12:01 PM

    Deceptively clever. Don't announce your next stop and you don't have to fulfill any press expectations -- or criticisms -- about the crowds that do or do not gather.

    But please do mention that you'll be near a huge, garish bus (insert photo) and you're going to historic sites on the east coast during the first busy vacation week of the season. Of course the press can arrange to have lookouts follow the bus beacon and have someone show up in time at the next spot to get photos and maybe a screech or two in a microphone, therefore proving her point that she's newsworthy and those lamestreamers will have to work to get her attention.

    In the unlikely event that NO press show for any of her stops, she can rely on a fan or two to giddily report; easy enough to have staff search the intertubes for "Palin" and retweet/republish any and all of 'em. As a backup, her staff photographer will always be there, as he/she/they were for the "incognito" evening D.C. "tour."

    She controls the message yet again; maybe it was pre-planning and maybe she learned a lesson from the Rolling Thunder announcement blowback.

    As far as her contract goes, I'm guessing the she could grant interviews or appearances to other outlets with permission from Fox. Just the other day I heard Juan Williams on an NPR show, where the host had to introduce him as a "Fox [something-or-other] contributor." He's not going to embarrass Fox and Fox gets publicity and maybe a little cred from its critics. Think Fox would risk that with Palin?

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  133. Anonymous12:03 PM

    Who the hell cares about her bus tour? I mean really, who cares? This coverage is as bad as all the other media coverage. Isn't there anything more important to focus on?

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  134. wakeUpAmerica12:04 PM

    Anon@7:19 Hahahahahahahaha. You are so transparent. Go back over the rainbow to the Land of Pee.

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  135. Anonymous12:11 PM

    Is it just me or is Bristol getting chunky again? While the new elongated chin is still in evidence, Bristol's face overall has a decidedly pudgy look.

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  136. Anonymous12:16 PM

    Fine, if Sarah can't go on ABC or NBC (right...I'm sure I've seen Beck on some of these other channels), why doesn't she go on Jon Stewart? Plenty of Fox faces go there.

    I'm sure Sarah is just too chicken.

    And if you don't want to attract media attention for your family "vacation," maybe you should not send out press releases about your event, use your donors' money to fund your family vacation, drive around in a painted bus with your name on it, and launch a video announcing your "vacation."

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  137. Anonymous12:19 PM

    I wish Gaby Giffords had had the kind of security that Sarah Palin is getting free from her PAC.

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  138. Anonymous12:21 PM

    @719:

    What a crock about small towns vs large towns. I grew up in a town in northern Wisconsin with a population of 1700. Trust me, plenty of sad faces. In fact, our small county had one of the highest alcoholism rates in the USA.

    Speaking empirically, however, it stands to reason that if you come into contact with a larger number of people (like you do in a large city), you are bound to see more diversity of moods.

    To simplify: Let's say 2 out of every 10 people have unhappy faces. Walking down your small town street, you walk by about 50 people--or 10 with unhappy faces.

    Walking down a street in New York City, you go past 200 people--or 40 unhappy faces.

    Given that the unhappy faces are the minority, they are more likely to stand out than the innumerable happy faces and you are more likely to notice them--hence your ridiculous perception that small town people are so much happier.

    If small town people are so much happier, why is it that so many small town high school graduates can't wait to leave them?

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  139. Anonymous12:25 PM

    News from inside the RV.

    They are having a blast. Bristol sent out notes to cousins etc "youre majorly missing out"

    The RV looks like the one used in the Homer episode, which I think is their private RV that theyve had for a couple years. The rafting episode, I believe, was rented. (hence sarah vacuuming maybe?) idk

    Remember they took an RV trip last summer in June and prob used this same vehicle, save the bus wrapping.

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  140. johnie2xs12:25 PM

    Palin's followers are both Geographically and Psychologically predisposed to following her to the grave; theirs, not hers.
    These are a bunch of Nascar, Southern influenced, knuckle-draggers,who like the Confederate deniers, will never give in to the possibility that they may be wrong. All we can hope is that their numbers can be controlled, they practice safe sex, and the complete discrediting of Sarah happens sooner, rather than later.

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  141. Anonymous12:25 PM

    This is all a HUGE distraction so that no one talks about the Bailey book or the Dunn book. The tease is so everyone will be totally focused on her to see where she pops up and no one is talking about all the revelations in the books.

    IWantTheTruth

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  142. Anonymous12:26 PM

    She's taking her bus to Iowa - said so on CNN today. This depresses and scares me.

    Why is the media so obsessed with her? Why was there virtually no coverage of Dunn's book and a little - but not enough - of Bailey's?

    Scary days ahead, I fear.

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  143. Anonymous12:26 PM

    Oh, one more thing. This past Friday, Willow was spotted in Palmer at Friday Fling. Ive gathered that Trig does indeed travel wherever Sarah goes, as HE was spotted in AZ out and about a couple weeks ago.

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  144. Anonymous12:43 PM

    anon 7:19

    Fuck you! Really for someone who says they are so so happy, successful, well adjusted, you don't ACT Ike that.
    I mean what are you doing here? You know it's a liberal blog devoted to exposing Sarah for the fraud she is.
    Yet you choose to come here, write a bunch of nonsense, and then put everyone down?
    Sorry honey, but that is not how a successful happy person chooses to spend her time. That's how an angry demented frustrated person spends her time.
    Most of what you spouted about Sarah is inaccurate. She's thin skinned. She's not a tough person unafraid of all.
    And statistics have proven that in general Palinbots are less educated and don't make as much as Romnet supporters.
    I could go on and disprove every ignorant statement you wrote but it wouldn't help. You are ignorant, small-minded, unhappy and bitter or you wouldn't have written what you did. What a nasty person you are. Gee, just like your queen.

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  145. Anonymous12:58 PM

    I'm so glad this blog thinks she won't run. It's out there that she definitely will, and it's worrisome.

    I agree it's a tease. And SP doesn't want to work in a stuffy old office with boring national paperwork and stuffy old meetings. As President she can't hand over every responsibility to aides. As President, she'd have to attend functions, ON TIME, and couldn't just send Todd in her place when she wears down.

    Bringing her kids to functions that the President normally goes to alone to meet dignitaries would not be allowed. Her parents wouldn't be allowed to have carbon copies of confidential national matters sent to their home. She would have to submit to her Oath of Office, pledges and be where her staff tells her to be based on her many promises to her constituents. Can she keep a promise? She lies so much who would believe her.

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  146. Nan C1:09 PM

    to Anonymous at 10:44 Awesome post, just one li'l detail. The Pres of this country has far more important things to deal with than a rapidly aging, over-the-hill has been (that never really was).

    Again, terrific comment. thank you!

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  147. Anonymous1:14 PM

    $P is SCARED of the media that she so loves to loathe . . . and the fact that sane Americans could care less where she and her brood are bussed. A padded cell or the grey-bar hotel would suffice quite nicely.

    One thing is certain, and that is that she cannot ESCAPE the principle of "reaping what you sow."

    Happy Memorial Day . . . in honor of our TRUE AMERICAN HEROES.

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  148. Anonymous1:22 PM

    Just heard Sarah is going to Iowa. Roger? You got that? She's running!

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  149. hauksdottir1:24 PM

    "She is in an unusual situation in that we in the media have made her into a media topic by virtue of us always talking about her."

    I've revised my title.

    PALIN:

    PREGNANCY,
    PRETENSE,
    POLITICS
    & the PRESS


    By doing the title vertically, the words can be much larger and eye-grabbing.

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  150. hauksdottir1:26 PM

    And, Gryphen, when commenters tuck titles into various threads (I've seen them scattered around), are you collecting them for "Fred"?

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  151. Anonymous1:30 PM

    Real Clear Politics announcing Palin going to Iowa. Strategy now transparent. She is going to show, hang on the perimeter and let the other candidates implode, then ride in on the groundswell and try to steal the nomination at the 11th hour. No need to get into the debates or have to speak to the reporters or state policy. She thinks she'll win by flicking her tongue.

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  152. Anonymous said...

    For the last couple of months, former Governor Palin has suggested that being President of this country was, to a certain extent, about character. ...
    My name is Barack Obama, and I AM the President.

    10:44 AM
    ------------------------------
    Beautiful, Anonymous! You should send this update to Aaron Sorkin. I'll bet he would get a kick out of realizing how prescient he was. I am going to have to watch that movie again. It's kind of scary how little needed to be changed all these years later.

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  153. Anonymous1:36 PM

    Please, time for a new post. This "tour" with no- itinerary-but-keep-checking-in-and-we-might-tell-you has out-lived its shelf life. It has gotten way more attention than it ever deserved. YAAAWWWNNN.

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  154. ""I'm an American. I have no title. I have no office," Palin told CNN's Sandra Endo."

    Really? And yet you assumed like any other little ol' all-American family you could ride your flabby ass right to the front of the parade and be interviewed by CNN.

    Lying bitch, as usual.

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  155. Anonymous1:52 PM

    Gryphen

    I think Greta knows , she too is playing and tom eve she will be interviewing her just see.

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  156. Anonymous1:53 PM

    ...The blog felt compelled to include two pictures of the media cameras and Palin, because that’s what this is really about. This bus tour isn’t about the media being obsessed with Sarah. It is about Palin being obsessed with the media. 2012 is rolling around and the political Norma Desmond is ready for her close up. Just like the famed character in the film Sunset Boulevard, Palin refuses to understand that she is not a star anymore.

    Barack Obama is the star, and Sarah Palin can’t stop living in 2008. Palin is stuck in a bubble where she replays all of the dialogue from those brief few weeks when she was a star back in the last presidential campaign on an endless psychological loop. For Sarah Palin, everything is about proving that she is as big or a bigger star than Obama.

    The reality that 2012 was quickly approaching and no one was talking about her didn’t sit well with Miss Desmond, um, I mean Palin. Sarah Palin needs media attention like a mosquito needs blood. She feeds off of it. As she condemns the media, Palin thirsts for it. She is a media parasite.

    If we really want to talk about Sarah Palin, the question that must be asked isn’t will she run for president in 2012? The real question should be, is Sarah Palin so desperate to keep herself in the spotlight that she is willing to run for president? Palin believes that her presidency is God’s will, so it isn’t a stretch to think that she also believes that fame is her destiny too.

    My personal opinion is that nothing can stop Sarah Palin’s lust for the fame and power of the presidency. Palin is once again using a slow news holiday weekend to put herself back in the spotlight. This bus tour was never about the media following Sarah Palin. It is all about Sarah Palin needing to feed off the media.

    The person is who is most obsessed with Sarah Palin is always Sarah Palin.

    Mr. Bannon, Sarah is ready for her close up.

    Don’t forget to enter our PoliticusUSA Sarah Palin Rolling Thunder Caption Contest

    http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-media-dc?

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  157. Anonymous1:54 PM

    Bristol cheeks is like blow fish , did she get more work done on her cheeks? or is it just my eyes?

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  158. Anonymous1:57 PM

    Dear IM readers: As a mother, of 3 grown children now... I have to say that:

    I am worried about Bristol..

    1. She has been raised by a mother who cashed in on her appearance and has worked hard to maintain her MILF poster-mum credentials. Starvation diets for Sarah while Bristol & Levi cooked for the family.. is that what I read?

    2. Bristol gained so much weight during DWTS.. yes she could have been pregnant, some of those photos were very persuasive.

    But Bristol is not a natural performer: Sarah gravitates to the spotlight.

    So for Bristol, stress eating of chocolate & comfort food would a natural reaction. As it's a reaction I've had while doing exams.. I can't criticize her for weight gain or struggles with her weight.

    But I wonder, is it happening again.. after the facial surgery and her mother's move to Arizona.

    3. Bristol escaped permanent servitude in her Mother's Alaskan home by purchasing her own home in Arizona..Good for you Bristol..Sometimes the only sane answer is to get out of the situation.

    But now, her mother has bought a [bigger] McMansion near enough to Bristol...

    And, I'm sure that $arah for years has reminded Todd and the kids that she brings in the $$ and therefore expects the whole family to fall in line with her plans.

    4. To me, something is off/odd about this bus tour.. maybe just new handlers..but it is too loosy-goosy, too unprepared... so I wonder is Sarah falling apart emotionally. And that RAM may have papered over numerous cracks in the Sarah facade.

    5. Finally, it makes me angry that Bristol's plastic surgery isn't as successful, YET, as Sarah's plastic surgeries..

    Sarah is a competitive woman.. and that may even unconsciously include her relationship with her daughters, especially Bristol.. who still have got youth on their side. So I don't know how much help Sarah would actually be to Bristol.. if there was a problem with Bristol's surgery.

    All I can say is that the photos of Bristol with her baby show a loving Mother.. and I hope that the strain of having a demanding Sarah on Bristol's 'doorstep' with the intention of never being left out of the limelight.. and that spotlight involves the daughters appearing with Sarah and Todd once again..

    may just be too stressful for Bristol.

    I wish Bristol luck and hope she learns that it's OK to sometimes say NO, even if your mother is Sarah Palin.

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  159. Anonymous2:09 PM

    11:05 AM who sat in the booth for 5 minutes trying to make a decision who to vote for. I find it hard to believe you couldn't just look up the record of George W. Bush like I did. The simple way to look at it would be to just look at the Republican versus the Dem platform. I think you were probably like a lot of other scared Americans who thought George W. could protect you from big bad Bin Laden. As you saw how it ended he was only concerned about himself and his cronies money.

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  160. Anonymous2:18 PM

    "And there is NO chance that Sarah Palin will ever be President of the United States."

    Then what is the purpose of your website? Oh, I see it's "finding the truth". Wouldn't it be easier to find the truth if you weren't censoring comments that disagree with your point of view?

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  161. johnie2xs2:19 PM

    Palin's followers are both Geographically and Psychologically predisposed to following her to the grave; theirs, not hers.
    These are a bunch of Nascar, Southern influenced, knuckle-draggers,who like the Confederate deniers, will never give in to the possibility that they may be wrong. All we can hope is that their numbers can be controlled, they practice safe sex, and the complete discrediting of Sarah happens sooner, rather than later.

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  162. Anonymous2:30 PM

    Bristols face is looking stranger and stranger. That lipo suction only went so far and the fat is there.

    Saw some pictures of Sarah with the rattiest hair yet. I think over at malia litmans blog.

    I think that frowning shot shoes the real Sarah.

    So the family is having a free trip courtesy of her PAC??? Wow.

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  163. Anonymous2:31 PM

    Sarah Palin talks to Greta on the tour bus: “I Don’t Think I Owe Anything to the Mainstream Media”

    http://politicons.net/sarah-palin-talks-to-greta-on-the-tour-bus/

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  164. FloridaDem2:38 PM

    Greta needs to GET OVER HERSELF. She doesn't need to give us a blow by blow of Sarah Palin. Sarah will do that pretty well on her own. And what is that crap about Palin "contributing" to the interest by riding a bus? Palin doesn't contribute to it, she CREATES IT. If another celebrity or politician gets five minutes of air time, that's five minutes sucked away from her and she freaks out. She painstakingly creates controversy, drama, mystery, complaints, unsolicited political commentary, and fiddles with her blackberry and twitter account until her fingers bleed. YES OF COURSE the press notices, who wouldn't?

    Also, I don't know why Greta doesn't acknowledge that the right wing media try very hard to keep Palin in the news, because it directly benefits them. THAT'S the media that buzzes around her. The rest of us are secondary.

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  165. FloridaDem2:42 PM

    The commentator pointing out that without a planned schedule, Sarah won't have to worry about pesky protesters. So basically, she's not looking for reporters, she's looking for paparazzi.

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  166. Anonymous2:58 PM

    Sarah said that she would run an unconventional campaign. From what I can tell, what she's doing is unconventional since most candidates put a lot of effort in getting familiar with issues. But it also doesn't look like a campaign, just riding out the money trail as long as she possibly can.

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  167. Anonymous2:58 PM

    _Shoplifting The Nation's Capitol_

    The final analysis on Rolling Thunder. The organization knew Sarah was coming. They either punked their own board member or he was intentionally playing the patsy.

    The many photos from the event show Rolling Thunder organizers, staff and board members (the national director is the Lee Marvin-looking-guy with a black beret) with Sarah and her family. Clearly, she was an honored guest and expected.
    http://tinyurl.com/42duu9m
    Clearly, they planned in advance for her presence. You don't really believe that bus just rolled into the Pentagon parking lot unannounced during a major event that required permits and police, do you?

    Here's "Artie's Corner" (National Executive Director). http://tinyurl.com/3raavo5
    Here's what he has to say about our president and our government: "Did you ever think of why we have Generals in charge of our Military, when those in Washington, DC who have never put on a military uniform, are telling the Generals how to run a War? Those politicians are getting our Military personnel killed and putting charges against some of our Troops. Our Troops are not police, they are trained to kill or to be killed in a split second decision."
    All right, obviously this is about Jeremy Morlock and the Kill Team.
    Yep, he's Sarah Palin fan club.

    http://pentagon.afis.osd.mil/parking.html
    Parking
    "There is no public parking on the Pentagon Reservation. Parking arrangements should be made through the primary point of contact coordinating your visit."

    But here's what's most telling - Sarah _did not_ participate in any of a number of far more significant solemn events on Friday and Saturday, but without the pageantry and film crews of the parade.
    Friday: Candlelight Vigil at the Veteran's Memorial.
    Saturday: Wreath Presentation, U.S. Navy Memorial; Troop Salute at the Reflecting Pool in front of Lincoln Memorial.

    Rolling Thunder is a 501c4 non-profit organization, with charities that are separate 501c3.
    501c3 organizations are prohibited by law from lobbying, advertising politics, political action, etc. etc. In order to take public money, they have to be neutral and non-partisan.
    Some activities are okay and some are not; there's a very fine line there.
    But you can see that Artie very definitely has an agenda.
    I think they pretended they whole thing up. I think Rolling Thunder and Sarah Palin together punked the whole country. I think it was one big huge giant staged promotion.

    Know what's in Gettysberg? Another big HOG event.

    Last, but equally important. What's up with all the CNN coverage? According to Greta Van Susteren (who apparently didn't enjoy any Palin love and motorcycle broadcasts from D.C.?), Palin is "contractually obligated NOT to speak to others."
    What happened to Greta? What happened with Fox? Is Sarah in trouble for breach of contract?
    Or is she no longer under contract to Fox?

    In the meantime, Sarah Palin toured the sights "covertly." Uh huh. With a film crew.
    Here's a nice photo staging a meet-and-greet directly in front of security guards at the National Archives.
    http://tinyurl.com/3w3uews

    Well, shucks. As long as she pays her taxes, I guess she can do this, right?

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  168. Anonymous3:06 PM

    @Sharon, I think Bristol has a vague resemblance to that cat woman who went overboard with the plastic surgery, too! I was trying to think who Bristol reminded me of, and thanks for jogging my memory because now I realize just who. I didn't realize until this picture bristol had made a sad mistake with a lip procedure along with everything else.

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  169. Anonymous3:11 PM

    2:09, I think 11:05 made it completely clear why he or she voted against Kerry. It was about Kerry, not Bush. And I think he/she has a point.

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  170. Anonymous3:24 PM

    Too bad Donald Trump didn't think up this bus tour racket. He might have gotten a nomination out of it.

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  171. Anonymous3:45 PM

    I'm with you 12:03 -- who gives a flying rat's ass where this media 'ho is going in a bus? These historic sites have been around forever, but now they're so much more special because some retarded woman is suddenly 'super duper interested in 'em'? The media is following this twit around like Jesus himself is at the wheel of this traveling circus.

    Give me a break. Stop feeding the ignorant beast and eventually it'll go away, right?

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  172. Anonymous4:06 PM

    I think an earlier post referring to Granny Palin as "Nora Desmond", an aging starlet unwilling to believe that she is no longer a superstar is very apt.

    Those few months when the RNC provided her with a hundred thousand dollars worth of clothes (or more), makeup, hair stylist, voice and media coaches, when she was babied and pampered back from the edge of one of her depressive episodes, when crowds chanted her name, is the loop she is playing in her head RIGHT NOW.

    She has ZERO qualifications for any kind of office, but I think that from now until she draws her last breath, this delusional woman will be campaigning for POTUS, draping herself in an American flag and rabble-rousing through her capped, veneered teeth.

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  173. Anonymous4:09 PM

    "This bus tour isn’t about the media being obsessed with Sarah. It is about Palin being obsessed with the media."

    Best succint analysis I've seen in a long time. I'd leave out the "this bus tour" part and just say "It isn't about ..."

    That's why I think she will run, throwing her hat in at the llth hour. Remember last time she only had 8 weeks or so and lookie what magic happened then! I agree with others that if she ever said "no" she'd be dropped from everyone's radar.

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  174. Anonymous4:11 PM

    Brisdull looks like she is wearing dentures.

    VernD

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  175. Anonymous4:14 PM

    They are having a blast. Bristol sent out notes to cousins etc "youre majorly missing out"

    Hell, yeah.

    The cash from the rubes is rolling in, why wouldn't she be having fun?

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  176. wakeUpAmerica4:20 PM

    @12:26 Where's the proof? Put up or shut up.

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  177. Anonymous4:23 PM

    For someone who wants to meet up with the American people and hear what they think, she sure as hell doesn't provide an opportunity for everyday citizens to give her feedback.

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  178. Anonymous4:46 PM

    Anon 1:57

    "Dear IM readers: As a mother, of 3 grown children now... I have to say that:

    I am worried about Bristol....."

    ----------

    Really? You're kidding.

    Bristleslut lost any opportunity for sympathy or anyone caring for her a million dollars or so ago.

    That little slut will be thumpin' a pole soon in her life as when her mother drops, so will Bristleslut.

    Bristle gave you the finger on DWTS. She not a kid and it's time for the little slut to friggin' grow up.

    You want to sympathize for her - go do it on another board that cares as this isn't it.

    Go cry a river elsewhere. She is what she is. She a WHORING SLUT

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  179. Anonymous4:53 PM

    What kind of imbecile makes a media splash about her bus tour to
    " educate Americans on their history " and then refuses to announce a schedule ?
    Oh wait...
    The Grate ( or Hate ) Talk Express is
    becoming National Lampoon's Vacation meets Where's Waldo.
    Palin's best friend is the media.
    If not for them slavishly following her every move, no one would
    be giving her a second thought.
    They're all suffering from Battered Media Syndrome.
    Palin and her lackeys
    insult them daily
    and yet, they continue to do her bidding.
    Politico, Huffington, AP-they're no different than FOX when it comes
    to drooling over Palin.

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  180. Anonymous5:14 PM

    That last photo say is all about the Belmont boobs. Sarah is totally flat chested. Ive got two decades on Sarah and I still wear a 36C. Sarah is totally deflated in the chest and presumably is pre -menopausal.

    I keep looking at her supposedly 47 year old hands and my 67 year old hands and she is as old or older than I am in hand years.
    And my hands are well worn from push law mowers in the 1950's to Tennis to bicycling all in Texas in the blazing sun. Far more abuse and manual labor that Sarah grew up with or has lived with.

    And of course the hatred that flows from that face. I can't even make my mouth do what she does repeatedly. I bet she has been doing that expression for 45 or more years to get her frown muscles so strong.

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  181. Anonymous6:26 PM

    Greta Van Sustern and her husband are Scientologists. Known fact, but worth mentioning again.

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  182. Anonymous6:46 PM

    EWWW look at those skeletor hands and that dirty weave. Grandma is looking like she's MILNF (Mother-in-Law Nobody Fucks)

    She should be embarrassed.

    GoL

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  183. Anonymous6:53 PM

    7:19- HAHAHA You're kidding right? Nobody can be that stupid...oh wait...repubaggers/kkk members

    If you are so busy why are you trolling progressive sites?

    Go fuel up you Hovaround for you trip to Israel.

    GTFOH

    GoL

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  184. Anonymous7:10 PM

    Bristol's picture does not look right. She has strange shadows that the light is showing. Her surgery is not smooth ?

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  185. Anonymous7:13 PM

    2:09 so you are defending a vote for Bush. He/she might have explained himself but that was not good enough for me or the countless that have lost their lives because of this numbfuck he voted for

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  186. Anonymous7:44 PM

    "You want less regulation? Then why are you supporting legislation aimed at stripping women of the their right to choose and gays of the right to marry? Among other things those seem to stand out

    9:33 AM"

    There is no reasoning with dumbasses. That poster doesn't even realize how stupid she sounds. Smart...what a joke.

    GoL

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  187. Nan C7:45 PM

    For SP, just because:
    Luke 14: 8-11

    "8“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for someone more distinguished than you may have been invited by him, 9and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place. 10“But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you. 11“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”"

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  188. Anonymous7:51 PM

    What a joke palin wanted to roll that gaudy bus along side Rolling Thunder's route. Of course they refused this shameless request.

    GoL

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  189. Anonymous7:56 PM

    Great Post.
    Greta van mushmouth can't associate with cnn because of her contract with Fox, yet Sarah, who has a contract with fox, talks to cnn at the rolling thunder event.

    Has Greta ever watched "This Week" with their political softball roundtable, where jounralists and pundits from other networks actually appear on another network, and somehow converse and interact with those from other networks?

    Shame on Greta. Of all the folks on Fox, Shep Smith and Greta Van Scientology were the closest to "fair and balanced", in comparison to the other bloviators they employ.

    She's infected with Palin Venom.

    Wanna bet word will get out where she goes and when? She couldn't make a map with crosshairs, so she's playing coy.

    Nothing would please me more than to have her on tape being totally ignored on one of the stops. She'd pout, quit, and go to her summer compound, I seriously think Alaska hasn't seen the last of the quitter.

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  190. Anonymous7:57 PM

    Driving to the FRONT of the Rolling Thunder rally with her "loving" family & elbowing her way through the crowd to talk to the media is just her way of having a leisurely PRIVATE family vacation isn't it?

    "Driving" in a One Nation ridiculous bus while asking for donations and followers to the tour is merely hiding who is inside so they can have a private vacation. I do it all the time. Don't you? =)

    Advertising everywhere that she is going to "educate" America on our founding principles is just a way to say that she's "home schoolin'" Piper while they travel. How CAN people think she's campaigning?

    Just because no one is buying what she's saying, even while changing it every two minutes is just our fault isn't it?

    We just don't get it. Or do we????? =)

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  191. Anonymous8:46 PM

    7:19 ... wow, you really checked your calling card at the door. And, it was pretty lame to add on the smaller govt. and less regulation crap. Are you possibly a small town American with a small town mind? I live in a small town in Alaska and believe me I find it absolutely absurd when anyone goes off about taxes and smaller government,as we really don't pay taxes in Alaska — yep, just property and sales tax. The oil companies pay for all the rest of our services. Pretty ridiculously small taxes, too — especially when you add in the fact we are essentially paid to live here every year with the permanent fund. As to smaller govt? Our town damn near fell apart because of the smaller govt BS contigent. The borough had so few employees that the town king pins were running the show, raping resources and dividing up land willy nilly, so much so the industrial areas were right next to the residential areas. How would you like to wake up to the sound of a gravel pit at 3 in the a.m.? Well, that's where our small town was headed. Thank goodness people realized there was such a thing as democracy and neighborhood councils were formed where citizens (I imagine you would call them SOCIALISTS because you really have no clue how democracy works) had a vote and some say in how their communities were designed. SO, how do you explain it when citizens rise up and demand some regulation of their environment? Don't give me the old worn out anti-regulation crap. Sit down, read the regulations and I can assure 9 times out of 10 those regulations are in place because citizens recognized there was a need for them! This is how democracy works! If you really can't see yourself in a regulated environment through democratic process then move. Move to a place where regulations are non-existent, like China! Try living next to a river polluted with industrial waste so outrageously toxic people's eyes burn as they approach. Now, go get an education and stop filling up blogs like this with crap you heard on Faux News or listening to Glenn Beck. They are entertainers who design lame straw man arguments for idle idiots like you. When you actually have an answer to the very real problems facing the world come back and present a real and well thought out plan. Then we'll take you seriously.

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  192. Anonymous9:08 PM

    Bristol, way, way too much filler/botox. Cannot really smile crisply anymore and signs of bunny wrinkles starting on the sides of the nose. So wrong for so many reasons.

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  193. Anonymous9:39 PM

    What happened to Bristol's non-prescription prescription glasses at RT?

    Bristol is not wearing them in the posted pictures. Did she forget she is suppose to wear them to look smart?

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