Sarah Palin tries to use Secret Service scandal to smear President on Fox News. Surprisingly Obama finds a defender.

Greta starts off by asking Palin about the Secret Service agent who posted pictures of her with the comment  “I was really checking her out, if you know what I mean?”

Palin's response:  "Well this agent who was...kind of ridiculous there in posting pictures and comments about checking someone out, well check this out BODYGUARD you're fired. And I hope his wife kicks his okole (Hawaiian slang for butt.) and sends him to the doghouse. Long as he's not eating the dog along with his former boss."

Okay let's stop and take a moment here, because this sentence is extraordinarily ugly.

First Palin has every right to be disgusted by what this agent wrote on his Facebook page, however the glee she demonstrates concerning his dismissal and possibility of marital trouble is especially nasty. (Especially considering the things that HER husband has been up to!)

Then there is the use of the word "okole" in the place of the word "butt." I lived in Hawaii for a year while I attended college, just like Palin, but I have to admit that I had forgotten this particular slang word, and I actually hung out with the locals quite a lot. I doubt very seriously that Palin remembers the phrase from her time in Hawaii, so she undoubtedly looked it up just to tenuously connect the President to this scandal.

Then, just to further drive the point home, she mentions hoping that the agent's wife sends him to the doghouse, "Long as he's not eating the dog  along with his former boss." This is clearly a reference to a recent news article that revealed President Obama was fed dog meat as a child living in Indonesia. Which is apparently the hot new Right Wing way to attack Obama this week.

And this is JUST the first sentence!

She goes on: "Greta, you know a lot of people will just, I guess, say that this is just 'boys being boys.' and boys will be boys but they shouldn't be in positions of authority and yeah I think it's pretty embarrassing. But if you consider what's going on in the state of our government with..uh..look who's running the show. These boys not considering that there ramifications for their actions. Whether it comes to a budget at a Congress in the White House to a GSA overspends, to the Secret Service scandals. You know I've had enough of these men being dogs and not being responsible, and not entrusting, being able TO allow us TO TRUST what these boys are doing in Washington."

I don't think that Palin's fundamental dislike for the male gender has been expressed as openly recently like it is in the above paragraph. This is a woman who CLEARLY has deeply seated issues with men, and whenever a guy makes a real, or politically exaggerated, blunder Palin jumps right in with her talons extended to flay the very flesh from their manhood.

Palin spends the next several minutes twisting and turning the truth in an effort to slime the President with the Secret Service scandal, the GSA scandal, and just about everything except Washington D.C. traffic gridlock, before Greta decides, somewhat surprisingly, that she has heard enough. (You really MUST see Palin's expression starting at the 5:26 mark.)

Van Susteren: " I agree with you yes the buck stops with the boss always, I agree with that. However the one thing at least I'm mindful of the Secret Service event that happened with regard to YOU was during the race when he wasn't even president, in fact he was running against you. So obviously there are problems within the Secret Service as far back as then. As for GSA, at least what I'm hearing is it goes back, at least these sort of parties and wilds things, go back to the Carter administration. You know he is the President, so by virtue of that he does get stuck with it. I think it's fair to say he should take ALL the responsibility, the credit and blame for where the economy is, but this one um it's really not so much, it's really how he reacts to it and what he does from here on, not that it happened while he was president."

It has been awhile it seems since Greta actually demonstrated fairness, and even longer since she stood up to the Grizzled Mama, but I have to hand it to her, she totally shut down Palin's argument, and left her looking like a spiteful little bitch.

In response a clearly shaken Palin refuses to discontinue her attacks,


"Well Greta it's not just this issue with GSA, or with the Secret Service, it's EVERYTHING that's going on in our Federal government right now. "

Yes, EVERYTHING wrong in the Federal government is clearly Obama's fault. Dumbass!

Palin goes on to slam Obama for everything she can think of, exaggerating details and pulling things out of her ass in an effort to drive home her point. She remarks on the unemployment numbers (Giving no credit to how Obama has turned them around with NO help from Congress), suggests that he has made the country less energy secure (Disregarding his April 17 speech on exactly how far we have come on the road to energy independence), and slams him for not having a Federal budget in place. (Of course she chooses to ignore the fact that there is no budget because the Republicans have taken an oath to NEVER raise taxes, which is the only way to move forward on a reasonable budget plan. It has NOTHING to do with the President and EVERYTHING to do with anti-tax fetishist Grover Norquist.)

Palin even becomes so desperate to make her point, that she carelessly brings up her time as Mayor to suggest that she fired people to reduce the city's budget without admitting that she really only fired political rivals, the museum staff (A place she never understood anyhow), and attempted, yet failed, to fire the city's librarian for not getting rid of books that she found offensive. She also left out the part where Wasilla was over 20 million dollars in debt after her second term.

Nasty, spiteful, and vicious, Sarah Palin never fails to demonstrate the absolute WORST in Fox News punditry. I can only imagine how proud Roger Ailes feels every day for keeping this snarling, rabid, heavily made up lunatic on the national stage.

Quite a legacy there Roger.