As you can see the program features a who's who from the "I have never heard of these people" list. And of course Sarah Palin, who is only a handful of years away from being added to that list.
So as all of you know I just say stuff. I really don't think that anybody is paying attention most of the time.
Especially the person who is the subject of my posts.
But this time I may have been wrong about that. Because as it turned out Palin herself may not have wanted to be included on a list of "I have never heard of these people."
So instead of flying out to the Fox News studio, Palin simply phoned it in. Literally.
Sarah Palin, phoning it in from Wasilla, Up-There-In-Alaska. Because Jesus might be the reason for the season, but he’s not reason enough to hop a plane to show up in person.
The other reason for the season, besides Jesus, is a reminder to buy Sarah Palin’s book about the “War on Christmas,” which apparently was inspired by none other than Todd Starnes and his coverage of those who would “take Christ out of Christmas” — by failing to buy Sarah’s book, we assume. (Wonkette also has the video.)
So to be clear not only did Palin NOT show up in person for the "special," but she also took up valuable airtime hawking last year's ghostwritten Christmas book that nobody bothered to buy in 2013.
Now I have to admit that I don't watch Christmas specials anymore, but my memory of them were that they had actual people who showed in person up to perform, like the Mandrell Sisters, Jose Feliciano, Johnny Mathis, Mariah Carey, and so on. All dressed up in suits and beautiful gowns to entertain the audience.
I simply cannot think of a single incident where a guest simply phoned in their appearance so that they could stay home in their pajamas and drink instead. Can you?
I think that indicates just how little Palin thought of Todd Starnes and his "Christmas special" jam packed with people nobody had every even fucking heard of.
And trust me, if you cannot even get Sarah Palin to show up at your event you have really sunk to a new low. That woman once showed up at a bowling alley trade show for fuck's sake, and yet she would not show up for this.
Damn, that's gotta hurt!
phoning in to a radio show, with all the announcements she'd be "on the show". Even Fox news did not put it on TV. lol
ReplyDeleteSo....does that mean Fox news claimed their TV shit or what?
DeleteWe know they didn't offer a private jet with bendy straws for her...LOLOLOLOL!!!
But why not use her equipment and show off her new tits unless.....FOX news took their equipment back?
That would explain the cheesy ass video on her channel which is prob done on a Iphone....or whatEVERY the KOCKS are telling R's to use, used to be the crackberry but no more...
Did fox take their shit back or what?
Who knows?
Nancy? Brancy? PissyBrissy?Did big bad fox news steal your mom's equipment? :( Oh noes...and xmas also,too :\
Is that why she is promoting a craptastic book that is well over a year old and selling for .01 on Amazon?
Happy Festivus to all :)
Oh, and MOLOTOV to all also, too.
DeleteI think, $he stood him up. Plain and simple. $he probably was supposed to be there like all the others (were there any guests at all on his show?), but pleaded with him to be able to call it in.
ReplyDeleteStarnes is a doughy, lunchy wannabe tough-guy pussy. He'd shit his pants if ever he was faced with the opportunity to "do the right thing," AK-47 or not in hand.
ReplyDeleteHere's another video from Baldy's Vlog Channel...
ReplyDeletehttps://sarahpalinchannel.com/video/defending-the-heart-of-christmas-1405
In this one she's going off on those "angry atheist with lawyers"...makes me think that some atheists has sued the shit out of Baldy and she can't let that shit go....Uh Gryphen you got something to tell is! LOL!!
Sarah's too busy living vibrantly to show up anywhere unless she can arrive in a stretch hummer with her entourage of drunken thugs. Thonghazi! Thonghazi! Thonghazi!
ReplyDelete"Tawwwd! Tell those damn kids to put down the pipe, get their thongs on and get in the limo. WAIT! Ask Bristol if she's gone to the potty yet?"
HOOHAH!
Merry Christmas, Gryphen and all you IMers.
If I recall, she was still hawking book number one a year later as well..didn't she go 'on tour' with Bristol and HER lousy book about that time, and nobody showed up to see either of them at Mall of America? I'm sure a big corner of Todd's hanger is full of boxes of books the PAC bought and that Sarah is now trying to sell.
ReplyDeleteHappy Christmas, Sarah..may it be your final one as Grifter in Chief, USA.
Todd probably wasn't offering very much money, and he certainly wasn't paying for Sarah and Todd to fly in first class, stay in a five star hotel, order steaks from room service and maybe pad the bill with some clothes because, you know, the airlines always lose Sarah's luggage. No, the money that Todd offered Sarah was just enough to cover the cost of the phone call, reverse the charges.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want to watch the first 7 minutes of Todd's Super Duper Christmas special, and you want to get right to the Sarah interview, her fans at C4P have her 4 minute phone call up there.
ReplyDeleteHonest to goodness, Sarah said that Christmas is not just for Christians. It is also for those who, uh, just want to celebrate, have a holiday that they can unite around, and today, unfortunately, people feel that they have to be so politically correct......
Listen, Sarah. Christmas IS a holiday for CHRISTIANS TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. People of other religions do not celebrate Christmas. It is not their holiday and it is not part of their religious faith. At this time of year, Jews celebrate Hanukkah, a completely different holiday which does not honor the birth of anyone. Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims-- none of them worship Christ as their god.
I know this is hard to accept, but there is an American holiday where people can get together with friends and/'or family and enjoy a swell meal together. That would be Thanksgiving. Instead of GETTING presents, that's a holiday for GIVING, as in GIVING THANKS. The origin of the holiday goes back before Christ was born when people gave thanks for a bountiful harvest. It is a holiday as old as agriculture when people depended on the sun, rain and good weather to provide enough food to get them through another year. Every religion has some kind of ritual where thanks is given, in the spring for another good harvest and in the fall thanks is given for that harvest. It is a celebration as old as mankind.
Meanwhile, Sarah wants to get the joy back in Christmas by putting Christ back in Christmas. Sarah, if you are a good Christian, you always have Christ in your heart. And, it is not your place to tell me how to worship or whether or not I should be worshiping at all. You go right ahead and keep Christ. No one has stolen him from you.
It's a pity that you don't have one specific wonderful Christmas moment to remember for those people listening-- it's almost like not knowing what books you read or what Supreme Court decisions Alaska people disagree with (Exxon Valdez). Make something up on the spur of the moment, the joy that the children had when they got their favorite presents, the joy that you had when you got your favorite present-- wait-- that's too commercial-- your favorite memory is going to church for Midnight Mass, isn't it??? Does you church have Midnight Mass, or is that another gotcha question?
Todd's second question was also a gotcha question because Sarah never did share her recipe for her moose chili, the only thing that she will really brag about. (Sarah, I saw the commercial package of moose meat on her stove in the Juanita cookie video. I think that you must open a can of chili-and-beans and add the moose meat, but I don't want to steal your recipe for inorganic self-harvested moose meat chili). For a planned phone call where no one can see the notes that Sarah reads from, she was totally unprepared for even that short phoned in appearance. Since it was a church, I guess that they don't pay very much.
Warning: After watching Todd, the Gaydar goes off the chart and you may have to reset it.
+1000!
DeleteDear Sarah,
DeleteThe answer to the question, "What books do you read?" is "The Bible."
The answer to best Christmas memory ever is "Every Christmas, being with my family" or better yet "Every Christmas, our family goes to Midnight Mass together." You do go to church, right? Chuckie just got home from his church's Candellight Service, which works out to some time before 10 PM Alaska Time. Don't you people have Midnight Mass, you know, at the time when Christ was born?
I don't think she's really bragging about her moose chili.
DeleteI think she's bragging about her MOOSE chili. Because she makes chili with MOOSE meat. It is of course a MOOSE that she hunted and shot and field-dressed herself because she is an awesome rootin' tootin' Last Frontierin' kinda gal, also too. And up there in the Great North, there is no way to buy sissified hamburger or moocow meat. Ya gotta git your MOOSE, because no where else in the US of A does anyone use anything like MOOSE meat.
Except the millions of people all over the country that do in fact hunt and put by a freezer full of meat, let's say venison.
But those people just call it chili. Not VENISON chili, or even DEER chili, because they see no reason to brag as if they did something that no one else evah, has ever done.
It is just chili, Palin, you dimwitted nincompoop. Just... chili. No need to call it MOOSE chili, dear.
Well stated! Thank you!
Delete"People of other religions do not celebrate Christmas."
DeleteNot so fast there, Anonymous, if that's even your actual name!
According to renowned Professor Bartholomew J Simpson, Phd, chairman of the Gerry Falwell Joint Institute On Theology And Historically Significant Hors d'Oeuvres, "Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ"
And that is LITERALLY the last word on the subject.
(tho technically the last word is word)
Can it get any worse? This is such a great time of the year, you would think she could have pulled herself together for the folks that she wants to spend their cash on her book.
ReplyDeleteHer wannabee is having the best of times.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2886402/Kris-Jenner-having-best-sex-life-new-man-Corey-Gamble.html
I'd like to put Todd Starnes and Marcus Bachman in a room together, alone, for just 10 minutes and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteThrow pillows would be exactly where they should be, flower arrangements would be stunning...net out, the room would be FABULOUS!!!!
DeletePalin, being that you are sooooooo busy with sooooooo
ReplyDeletemany invitations from Washington DC parties, and hardly any time to do a Christmas dinner in the hanger like you did for
Thanksgiving, try this. It is called slopping the hogs. Get
a bunch of pig troughs. Line them up in a row on the hanger
floor, fill them with that slop you were cooking , wearing your
black, hooker top while wiping your nose and your wig hair falling into the food .Then have your guests get down on
all fours in front of the troughs , say grace and slurp away.
All you have to do is open the hanger door, hose them all down plus the troughs and floor , and it's all over in
twenty minutes! That will give you more time to hawk
those boxes of books the PAC bought !
Haven't read the comments yet, but maybe he did not want to pay the first class airfare and a stay for her whole clan at a five star hotel...
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ...this guy looks like a pedophile.
ReplyDeleteot....
ReplyDeleteAmerican Sniper’s Dad Threatened to ‘Unleash Hell’ on Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper
http://www.mediaite.com/online/american-snipers-dad-threatened-to-unleash-hell-on-clint-eastwood-and-bradley-cooper/
Track Palin said about Chris, “Mom, he’s the ONE person in the entire world I would be star-struck to meet. He’s it.”
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/02/thousands-expected-for-navy-seal-sniper-chris-kyles-funeral-at-cowboys-stadium-today.html/
I laugh everytime I see that movie trailer because that guy was a douche and got just what he deserved. I do also find it rather humorous that a gay actor is playing him in the movie; can't say I've ever seen Bradley Cooper look so manly.
DeleteI don't think Bradley is gay. Is he really?
DeleteTurn on your adblockers and popups blockers and here is THE INTERVIEW!!! It's now all over the streaming sites, like this, and also fully available on the torrents.
ReplyDeletehttp://vodlocker.com/91fh8awvu7r2
Review: ‘The Interview’ has some laughs and makes some points but isn’t as edgy as its reputation suggests
DeleteForget “Is it funny?” The question now is “Was it worth it?”
“The Interview,” a genial, occasionally incisive, generally lackadaisical comedy about a dunderheaded journalist tasked with assassinating Kim Jong Un, was never supposed to get this far. As one of several movies opening Christmas Day, it was aimed squarely at fans of the humor perfected by Seth Rogen and his frequent collaborator James Franco — humor that usually centers around partying, having sex, flirting “bromantically” with each other and ingratiating themselves with viewers who can’t resist charms that range from nebbishy to disarmingly dumb.
That “The Interview” landed amid the brouhaha of a hacking scandal, geopolitical crisis and First Amendment case study is as improbable as one of Rogen and Franco’s absurd plots. After dramatically pulling the movie from release last week, the film’s parent studio, Sony Pictures Entertainment, finally saw fit to make it available to independent theaters and online. “The Interview,” it turns out, isn’t nearly as sharp or politically pointed as the attendant kerfuffle suggested. But Rogen and Evan Goldberg — who co-directed “The Interview” from a script that they wrote with Dan Sterling — manage to make some germane points about life in North Korea and the repressive leadership of the Kim dynasty that — for the Hermit Nation’s young fans of silly sight gags — sophomorically raunchy jokes and scatological japes could prove to be surprisingly galvanizing, maybe even revolutionary.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/review-the-interview-has-some-laughs-and-makes-some-points-but-isnt-as-edgy-as-its-reputation-suggests/2014/12/24/97b85a8a-8ba9-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html
"Take the Christ out of Christmas" that inspires me to start my own campaign on the war on Solstice, those who have taken the Sol out of Solstice and forced Christmas down everyone's throat. Solstice was here first, and last I checked our beloved Sun was still sustaining life here on earth. Show some respect people!
ReplyDelete-Claudia
Where do I sign up! Better yet, let's do a Kickstarter campaign!
DeleteYES! As Mother Earth has begun Her new Turn around the Sun we are swept along...
DeleteYes solstice was here first.And ON THE THIRD DAY THE SUN (SON) ROSE AGAIN.
DeleteThe sun stays around the same spot on the horizon for three days around the solstice and then rises again.
Sound familiar??
Holy shite, I just listened to the lamest opening jokes EVER on a show , from Todd Starnes, who has the charisma of a stale doughnut.
ReplyDeleteThen, 5 minutes into the "show", Golly Gee, Guess who's on the phone, calling in folks?
Why it's Granny grifter! She repeats the same tripe she's been spouting for years to sell book, and mentions that first off about her book (please buy my book !, hint hint
Then, she takes two questions, from the audience, obviously prescreened.
Oh $arah, what's your fave Xmas memory?
All of em, any of 'em over all these years
Oh $arah, what's your fave Xmas recipe?
Oh, dontcha know it's moose chili!
Golly gee, such tough questions.
5 minutes on the phone, and the Tundra Turd goes back to her Redbull with vodka, Adderal, and readin' Immoral minority or barking at the kids.
Total 100% boring waste of time.
If you really want to experience the most boring show ever, here's the URL
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3956943117001/todd-starnes-all-american-christmas-special/?#sp=show-clips
How tacky that show was. I had to stop after Palin's call-in. Found Starnes to be disrespectful and offensive the way he spoke in reference to "Jesus", especially to a church audience.
ReplyDeleteThe opening singing-dancing thing was just, man, well, embarrassing.
Sarah's like a wind-up doll, she can only cover a few repetitive topics. Moose chili is one, cold in AK is another, hunted meat not wrapped in cellophane, (eyeroll), same old, same old. It would raise alarms if she was my relative. I'd be concerned she had some mental issues, because most fame-seekers like Palin (who markets herself and self-promotes) should at least pretend she has the ability have a spontaneous conversation and mix it up a bit.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of the IM readers and commenters, and especially to Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't Sarah Palin just write a Facebook post where she wishes people a Merry Christmas without selling her book from last year or using the military as her prop.
Sarah says that Christ is the centerpiece of her religious life, but when it came time for Sarah to visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, she blew it, looking at the Church of the Nativity through the fence at the border. Sarah didn't make the proper arrangements and she didn't bring her passport. Merry Christmas, Sarah. Keep us laughing for the rest of the holiday season.
I tried to watch the video of the Christmas special, but it was so bad that I only lasted up until he started babbling about Chick-Fil-A being the official Jesus chicken.
ReplyDeleteIf I were in a coma and someone played this video, I would come out of my coma screaming for someone to either turn that garbage off or smother me with a pillow.
I do not understand how Todd Starnes has a career if this is representative of his work. Does he have pictures of some important person cavorting naked with goats? WTH???
Oh, he's being nice (boring) for Christmas. His real career is making horribly sexist, misogynistic, racist, and just all purpose hateful remarks at every opportunity. He is a disgusting pig.
DeleteSo, as you can imagine, he has a solid gold career on right wing sites, especially fox. They actually give him a paycheck for his filth.
Just google "Todd Starnes disgusting." Even Greta VS has called him out.
amazon one cent......the worthless useless book of toilet paper.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching Sarah's friend, Juanita make her famous cookies, I began to think that the recipe sounded familiar. It is a copy of the recipe that is printed on the lid of the Quaker Oatmeal carton, the "rill" kind, not the minute kind.(Quaker says that you can use quick or old fashioned uncooked oats). The difference is that Juanita uses 1.5 cups of granulated sugar, a cup too much. And for the record, recipes are written with fractions, such as 1/2 cup of sugar. 1.5 looks like 15 cups of sugar. Recipes are not written that way. Sarah should have begun the recipe by telling people to preheat the oven, but since Sarah does not cook, I don't give her any credit for knowing how to follow a recipe. Juanita just mixes everything together where someone who knows how to cook would cream the butter, add the sugar until creamy, and slowly add the eggs. I guess that's too much work for Juanita, who is famous for not measuring anything. Hey, 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar of 1/2 C of sugar, close enough.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the recipe that Sarah posted on SPC (and in her Christmas book) "The cookies have to be gooey soft, almost raw in the center. They'll harden a bit as cool on the counter." If there is uncooked egg in there, that's not a good idea. Juanita's recipe has the cookies dropped on a baking sheet from a medium sized ice cream scoop. The oatmeal recipe calls for rounded tablespoonfuls.
I can't wait until Sarah makes Rice Krispies treats.
Well said. When she whined about the dumb ol' publisher telling her that she needed actual recipes including measurements, it was pretty easy to see what happened.
DeleteI'll bet she had just written "mix uh, some eggs, and sugar and oatmeal and chocolate chips and whatnot, and then cook it at eleventy degrees for uh, 3 hours." Like those adorable cook books that elementary school teachers assemble from recipes dictated by eight year old kiddies.
She must have been pissed, not having any idea that there were whole books out there with "recipes" that explained exactly how to "cook" things and hence are called "cookbooks."
She really wasn't able to hide the fact that her drunken/stoned self found the whole concept of baking cookies to be a wondrously exotic endeavor.
I agree, that Juanita person did not strike me as an expert cook who doesn't need to measure. She just seemed like she couldn't be bothered to follow instructions and didn't really care how the cookies turned out.
When someone publishes a cook book, the recipes are always tested to make sure that they are accurate.
DeleteNo one is going to publish a cookbook if all the recipes are stolen from somewhere else!
DeleteSo we can add Quaker Oatmeal cookies to the list of stolen recipes, next she is going to " cook" peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Yup...nothing says Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus (aka the Prince of Peace) like a semi-automatic assault weapon. And no Starnes. It does not make you look more butch.
ReplyDeleteThat photo of the milquetoast Todd Starnes holding that weapon !is so incongruent
ReplyDeleteThe photo of that man looks like a pervert or child-molester. Why is it that most all rePUGS or palin friends, like Robertson and nugent, perverts and child molesters? Is it in their blood?
ReplyDeleteDidn't she start a pushing her book a little late in the season? Maybe she stumbled over a few cases of them while hosing down the garage after the Thanksgiving dinner.
ReplyDeletePalin's was probably still hung over and unable to get pulled together to appear anywhere in public. Expect more of this in 2015
ReplyDelete