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| Geoffrey Dunn and Gryphen. |
Talk about a circular right-wing firing squad: Donald Trump; the marginalia at Breitbart Snooze; RedState's Erick Erikson & Co.; Sarah Palin; and her eldest daughter (aka Palin-Lite), are all going after each other in the ultra-rightwing blogosphere, and it's tempting to just sit back and watch the fur fly. Talk about some truly WWE material suitable for drive-in viewing. Where in the hell is Joe Bob Briggs when you need him?
Let us see if it's possible to set the stage, which is a theatrical euphemism, because this conflagration is taking place in the middle of a cesspool of grand dimensions. If hypocrisy and deceit were bullshit, you could float the proverbial battleship in the muck. And the stench would spread all the way to Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley and back again.
In the wake of what was clearly a sexist and misogynistic attack by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Fox News' Megyn Kelly -- is there really anyone who can argue otherwise? Really? -- Erikson courageously barred Trump from attending his annual RedState Gathering in Atlanta. Erickson was then unceremoniously attacked by that paragon of integrity and political insight, Palin-Liteweight, who charged Erickson with running a "demeaning fake photo" of her mother.
I bet Palin wishes somebody would pay this much attention to her ACTUAL chesticles.
This entire article is awesome, start to finish, and Geoffrey has a great deal of fun pointing out how ridiculous this whole thing really is. And oh yes he also accurately identifies the fact that Bristol Palin's words, are not in fact Bristol Palin's words:
The Real Palin, who, as I noted here in HuffPost with rather perfect prognostication, was avoiding the Kelly-Trump scuffle, sent out one her pups -- or more accurately one of her pups' ghost writers -- to enter the fray, so that there was no serious blowback on her. And as I accurately noted -- because the person I cited in Alaska had actually identified Palin-Lite as his source (I spared Lite that little embarassment the first time around), absolutely confirmed my speculation that there was no longer any love lost between Mama Grizzled and Faux News. How do we now know with certainty? Because Palin-Lite's ghost writer went after Fox's Chris Wallace and the Big Bad Wolf himself, Roger Ailes.
Hell -- and Wasilla -- hath no fury like a Palin scorned.
Yes as I said you really need to read this whole thing, as it is chock full of delicious details that only someone who spent as much time studying Palin-tology as Geoffrey Dunn has could possibly offer to the visitors to the Huffington Post.
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ReplyDeleteDid anybody see Sarah Palin’s facebook page? Sarah posted a SarahPac poster regarding the subject of Hilary Clinton exposing classified information?
Any second now, I guess we can expect Sarah Palin and SarahPAC to post posters of President Bush and Dick Cheney doing the same thing on unsecured email servers?
What about Sarah's own email problems? At least Hillary was not running her Secretary of State office out of her home.
DeleteBut but like Sarah Palin said, she can do whatever she wants until the court says she can't.
DeleteOooooh! Geoffrey did such a great job of slitting the throat of the "Holy whore of Abstinence" and her little dog too!!! And CleavageGate was one I had forgotten!!! Oh he ripped Mama griz a new one, lets see how she whines How everyone is attacking her family boofuckinghoo :/
DeleteSarah and HoHoHo are sucking up to Trump big time as IF he has a "chance" of winning. Did that fucker even GO to high school? Well he is a idiot like her and water seeks its own level she is burning bridges like crazy and she is gambling everything on this trump "dill" or she is trying desperately to get in front of something.
G- have you heard of anything coming down? We know the new Gov is investigation the DOC there anything else?
She is really burning all her bridges for Trump???or... also.
This couldn't make me happier if it was topped with a big BLUE bow. Sarah,my dear...you'rea Gift after all. The republican party is imploding and eating their own.
Delete2:13, trying desperately to get in front of something.......
DeleteA train engine? A semi load of bricks? A charging elephant. The willfully ignorant line?
I liked that he gave props to that Wolf guy fro standing up to the paymes and speaking out even though he got trolled. Is that the Same guy who stood up after the Brawl and said the Left was right all along about Palin? I thought it WAS someone from RedState?
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DeleteWell....a herd of elephants would be nice or semi load of bricks! But she/they haven't done this much CYA Poxpoutrage since "THE BRAWL" that's why me thinks something's up. Maybe pissy had a wite out?
Why is the baby? The elephant in the room?
They are all pissy over stupid shit, a PICTURE!? Like the poutrage over the TriG Iconic pic? FFS Puhlease! How does anyone take these idiots for real?
These are RW politicians! Trump, her Ben Carson the rest of the loser, CLOWN CAR! Unfucking believable, well pissy is a wannabe poli like her mama but of course doesn't want to work.
G- OT interesting hastag popped up on my twitter account.
DeleteCould this be what the palins are trying to get ahead of?
#WhoresUnited907
Distractions are how palins operate.
Delete“They have to go.”
ReplyDelete- The Donald
To paraphrase, get rid of all illegal Mexicans and some legal ones born here in my United States of America. Does that sound about right?
WTF? Mexicans will all have to go back to Mexico? What about the Palins when they enter the Lower 48? Trump didn't say they had to go back to Wasilla!
That is some bullshit!
If you're White you all right.
If you're brown get out of town and take your minority children who were born here in the good old USA back to Mexico with you!
What about the 10s of thousands of undocumented Irish? http://www.latimes.com/la-op-rodriguez8apr08-column.html Or Polish http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/31177-trump-tower-was-built-on-undocumented-workers-backs Or...
DeleteHave you seen Sarah Palin's facebook page in the "About" section?
ReplyDeleteTalk about your Narcissistic Personality Disorders. There's no mentioned that Gov Sarah Palin quit her job as the governor of Alaska about halfway through her only term.
But yes Sarah everybody knows you were the loser 2008 Republican Party Vice-Presidential nominee and the State of Alaska Quitter Governor. Do you have to remind everybody?
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This article is in the Entertainment section of HP and not getting the traffic his articles usually get when in the Politics section. It is a great article.
ReplyDeletePat Padrnos
Agree with you. I remember when the HuffPo posted every little thing Sarah did on the politics page when it should have been on the back page of comics.
DeletePat, that's a shame. Dunn really knows how to reveal these folks for what they really are.
DeleteWell, what do we say when a few of the baby-palin posts have shown up on the HP 'politics' page. Far as I've read, Miss Briss never ran for so much as sgt-at-harms in her high school student body elections. Constant bouts of morning sickness can ruin any meaningful chance of high school political activity.
DeleteOh come on, we're talking HuffPo here, a former news site that now has become entertainment only. FFS they have an entire section dedicated to "sideboob". Arianna is a media whore, nothing more. I think Mr. Dunn is lucky that she even publishes him any longer as he's a little heavy on politics, which HuffPo seems to find distasteful compared to all the clicks they get from underaged Kardashians fucking 30-year old tattooed rapper felons.
DeleteAnonymous2:43 PM
DeleteOh come on, we're talking HuffPo here
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I'm talking about Geoffrey's excellent article that ripped mama griz and little ho a new one.
Don't care where it is on huff blow.
We don't mind when huff rakes them over the coals.
DeleteDunn has always been one of my favorites when it comes to describing the Palin cabal. His way with words is unique and perfectly suited to describing those charlatans to a T. Wider exposure of his article would be better of course but at least it's out there on one of the most widely read sites out there.
DeleteSarah Palin does have cleavage. Sarah didn't want to flaunt it and covered it up with her coat in the left picture just like Sarah had a big baby bump during her 5th pregnancy but didn't want to flaunt and covered it up.
ReplyDeleteRight. That so explains the tee shirt pictures with zero chest at all. She has no boobs.
DeleteSarah has two boobs
DeleteTodd
Bristol
1:56 make that four...Todd, Bristol, Track, and Willow.
DeleteAnon 1:56. That's funny!
DeleteI find it quite amusing that despite Sarah Palin's constant need to publicly define herself as 'bold' and 'stiff spined', she has no problem cowardly hiding behind her eldest daughter's ghostwritten blog.
ReplyDeleteIt's also amusing that a soon to be 25 year old woman with two out of wedlock children allows this to go on, making her the constant butt of others' jokes.
The Palins really know how to put the fun in dysfunction. May they continue to make public fools of themselves for a long time to come.
P.S. Once again, a very insightful essay from Mr. Dunn on the hypocrisy of all things Palin. Thanks for posting it. I had missed it on HuffPo.
DeleteMini me has no other skills than to be screchs puppet. She couldn't support her 3 1/2. kids,otherwise.
DeleteHi Gryphen! Once again, spot-on assessment from Mr. Dunn; he can see clearly through that dysfunctional bunch! $arah must be giddy with glee over the Erickson debacle, but she will get her ass royally kicked by Mr. Dunn if she pisses him off!
ReplyDeleteAm traveling. Will look forward to read, asap! Duly noted that article finally in the appropriate section for a palin (entertainment).
ReplyDeleteFilo
Bristol Palin has an incorporated public relations company. Public relations is about getting a message in the press without paying for it as in advertising.
ReplyDeleteSo to keep the Palin "Brand" in the news, Nancy French, RAM, and Sarah and Sarah Light, post Out RAGED Rants, leading photos of random dates, and then claim to be victimized when they did the set up and the response was the punchline they were bitching about.
So, is SarahPAC BSMP LLC's only client? Who else would hire her?
So IMers, when the Palins bait the waters with red herring. we should not bite. Don't take their hooks. Right now, they are using boobs as their flotation device to keep their names in the news and the PAC balance above water.
So let me get this straight.
ReplyDeleteTrump is #1. Fox gets mad at Trump for being #1 so Fox sabotages Trump at the debates. Trump wins the debate and fires back at Fox. The senior Palin, already mad at Fox, jumps on Trump's bandwagon and attacks Fox also too. Ailes calls Erickson and gets him to un-invite Trump from his cowboy themed sleepover. Out of the blue, Palin-Lite jumps into the fray to defend Trump's honor by dredging up some old #hashtag about the senior Palin's flat-chestiness. Erickson responds to Palin-Lite asking if she wants some cheese with that age-old whine. In the meantime, Trump calls Ailes, Erickson and Fox stupid-heads but, to everyone's surprise, the TEAPub pep squad starts shaking their pom-poms for Team Trump. Ailes panics and calls Trump to say, "Man, I was just kidding! Chillax!", takes his letterman jacket back from Megyn, and kicks her off the cheerleading squad". Ailes and Trump kinda sorta kiss and makeup and Erikson is left picking whatever was on the bottom of Trump's shoes off his tongue.
So my question is: What did senior Palin get out of all of this -- she's still unemployed by Fox and unusually quiet about this new granddaughter of hers. So bizarre!!!
She got her 15 minutes of fame last week...Nancy is busy writing up the next screed for this week's time in the lowlights. Hey, Nancy, how does Palin the Elder feel about the new baby? Heck, how does she feel about the other grandkids..she has a few now. And did Trigg have a good first day of school? Did Willow take him?
DeleteI'm sure she thinks she scored points with Trump so he'll give her a juicy appointment in his administration once he becomes president.
DeleteI'm sure she'd like Ambassador to Hawaii.
Superman, you pretty much nailed it other than leaving Rupie out of the sludge fest. I believe it is RogerDodger who adores The Donald but Murdock doesn't (anymore). The mental fisticuffs between Murdock and Ailes have been hinted at since Murdock decided to 'retire'. The palins who somehow think their opinions are important are merely chum-bait to bring the other sharks to the surface.
DeleteNah, Trump will leave Sarah in Alaska, just in case Putin rears his ugly head and comes into the air space of the United States.
DeleteShe did her best with the Blowjob photoshopped picture to attract trump de dumps attention. Shes out of the loop at present. Is there no room in your stone cold heart for those little mocha grandbabies,gramma??!?
DeleteThat was a perfect recap Superfan! I'm in Gainesville, GA!
DeleteMay I just add to superfan's fabulous screed that mini skank in an uproar over a photoshopped enhanced cleavage photo of mama skank is uproariously funny. When you consider the magically changing bust size skank displays including those "belmonts" I would think mama skank would use this same photo for one of her fb screeches! Seriously? Skank can strap on various sized breasts according to a whim of hers but Erik Erickson can't? Baawwwaaahh! Maybe mini me is getting tired of her mama's belmonts . Peace out.
DeleteYeah, out of the loop, never to be back in. The more shit like this she pulls, the more she'll be ignored by the fools who are out there breaking their backs to make even bigger fools of themselves.
Delete25 years old and still a big mommy's baby. Willow must scoff at her as she's younger, not a mother and is able to live an independent life away from her mommy. I suppose it is true that Bristol is somewhat challenged and still needs to under her mommy's care.
ReplyDeleteOT, you're a very attractive man Gryph.
Ditto...
DeleteI think you are good looking too G.
DeleteGryphen IS good looking. And he's even more attractive because he's smart and funny and has a good heart!
DeleteThanks Liz.
DeleteI'm going to borrow that for my next OK Cupid profile.
What, Gryphen? You're not on Christian Mingle?!
DeleteYeah, I don't want to be unPC and sexualize anything-but, Gryph-you are not what I imagined-And I have a good imagination... Rock on, my hot friend! Love, From Georgia US
DeleteMy first thought was "Farmers Only.com" - except he is not a farmer. How about "Bloggers Only.com"? Except - I think if he was really interested he could find a very fantastic lady.
DeleteYes - he is quite attractive - face and body. How about a centerfold on your site? Uh - oh!! Was that a sexist question? I will take the chance.
Pat Padrnos
oohhhhh I see what's going on now...Gryph is now just a piece of man meat now.....
Deletethe girls wont care if he can even speak english, just sit there looking prurrdy and nod a lot
drlager
Well, Dunn sure told it like it is.
ReplyDeleteI well remember that 'cleavage' fiasco and Palin sure has a nerve to condemn Erickson on the Santa photo.
We know Sarah, per Bristol, is hot and bothered that she's not getting any attention from the RNC, GOP, Fox News, pundits, anyone. She's been barred and she's taunting for a fight from anyone. It's not working. It just makes her look more and more foolish and a nitwit.
It's a crazy funny fiasco, but one small sad thing is how a mother could use her daughter to throw the stones and become the target of mockery. It's Bristol that gets her face and name attached to this. Sarah just pretends she's an innocent bystander, proudly observing her daughter's political coming out. She has no heart.
The idea of "Bristol Palin: Political Pundit" is as outrageous as it is stupid. As my Dad used to say, she doesn't have enough brains to pour pee out of a boot.
DeleteSarah uses all the special people in her family to score political points. Trig and Bristol are her special needs pawns. Kind of sad really.
DeleteSoliloquy..Sarah's tits and ass were o.k. with her back then. It was all fun and games. But Now its offensive.
DeleteAnd all this over a photo from years ago. The PayMe's are going through all their trash to dig up other slights and wrongs to spew into the media swirl.
DeleteI'm glad that The Chin is getting called out for NOT being the one to write her own blog posts, etc. It makes the hypocrisy and fraud of the PayMes even more obvious. Let the mockery continue!
Rut roh, Will Sarah jump on the bandwagon and go after Coulter with her idol the great one, Mark Levin? Hell no, she knows Coulter could verbally pound her flabby ass into the ground with 90% of her brain tied behind her back in a NY minute. Of course, she could sic mini me via horse face after her on the fakey christian blog. As if really anyone reads that shit horse face and mini me shovel out daily.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good point, 2:10. How many people actually read Bristol's blog? I mean, say, as a percentage of registered voters? or people with working brains?
DeleteWhere did my link go?
DeleteSo Sarah Palin goes to different places wearing different sizes of fake breasts for whatever reasons, maybe likes to give guys hard ons, has poor self-esteem or whatever but if someone does the same thing Sarah Palin been doing by photoshop breasts on Sarah Palin on the internet then it becomes a crime to society. These professional victims needs to find real jobs where they work 9 to 5. Then and maybe then they will be too tired and spend less time bothering people.
ReplyDeleteShe allows pictures of her posted with men with Hard ons without demanding they be removed?! Where's the outrage there?
DeletePalin-lite is the perfect description of MiniMe (Bristol) who cannot speak for herself. She needs someone to write in the voice of a teenager, even though Bristol is now 24 and old enough to have gone to college and read some books-- but-- she hasn't. So Bristol still has the mental age of a teenaged kid, and that's being generous.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit underwhelmed by the full article for many reasons. For starters, he vacillates spelling "Erikson" and "Erickson". Anyway...
ReplyDeleteAnyway.....
DeletePat Padrnos
Nobody has editors anymore, not even the pros.
DeleteI no, write!!!
DeleteSo Sarah is outraged a a nicely photoshopped photo but she's not embarrassed at all to strap on the Double D front loaded super boobs.
ReplyDeleteThe Belmonts: http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/201059/425.palin.sarah.lc.060910.jpg
Yes, they are big! http://us4palin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/BI1RxhFCIAA-tK0.jpg-large.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c1ANhcwYb7c/UtmVSKCe17I/AAAAAAAAFbw/ZIz72-_Z3rk/s1600/sarah+palin+in+new+york+2013.jpg
Or a rubber bubble butt.
DeleteI still HOOT at those Boopsie Bubble Butt pics, especially the one of her coming up the stairs to the stage, legs all cockeyed.
DeleteMy favorite!
DeleteI think the wolf man said it best when he said that the whole debacle was designed to get the Palin name in the news.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if Sarah actually contributed to society and worked for its betterment instead of sucking up all the money she can from suckers, she might get in the news for the right reason.
But this debacle shows Sarah's true nature, which is to burn every bridge she ever crossed for her own advantage. What Sarah fails to realize is that there are only so many bridges one can cross in a lifetime. If you burn them all, then all you have left is the Bridge to Nowhere.
Bridge to Nowhere? Isn't that where she started? Sarah go round in circles.....
DeleteI prefer to don my tinfoil hat and see the Brancy post as...bottom line...Sarah forcing Bristol into the roll of Palin-family-defender.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, Is there an update to the rumor that Bristol and Sarah are feuding?
Don't tell me these two are still fighting over who lost Duhkota.
DeleteSarah will never get over Dakota.
DeleteAnd it chaps Bristol's butt that Levi married Sunny and THEN had kids. To quote Frothy Mix "What a Snob!"
DeleteBristol can't fill the void Levi left, so the next best thing is to "plan" a pregnancy in the hopes of snagging the baby's daddy into marriage. The best laid plans..... .
Mommy how do I distract people from laughing at me because I'm so damn dumb I got pregnant again, still not married and haven't learned a damn thing 7 years after the first pregnancy.
ReplyDeleteOkay mommy, I will get Brancy to create controversy.
What's this make, the fourth damn time she got pregnant again? A person just can NOT be that damn dumb to get pregnant not once but at least three times that we know of without being labeled retarded. A normal person would have been shamed off the stage but not the Palins who think their shit don't stink. It's a wonder they even get publicity anymore for their antics.
DeleteThat's what happens when your mom is never home to tell you about the facts of life. That's what happens when there is no sex education. And, that's what happens if you don't pay attention during the biology class. Maybe Bristol doesn't understand where babies come from. Maybe she's been listening to those conservative senators who talk about "legitimate rape" or want a woman to swallow a camera to take a picture of the developing fetus. Bristol may be just that dumb. Or, she is very needy and neglected and she goes looking for what she thinks is love. Is Bristol still trying to replace the baby that she gave to Sarah, namely Trig?
DeleteBristol keeps recreating the trauna of the ruffles/premie Tri-G pregnancy at a very young age. Rather than getting proper counselng and confronting the trauma of a sick mother taking your baby and faking a pregnancy to cover it...... This is what happens. Bristol will always make sexual mistakes of sone sort until the truth is out and she is set free.
DeleteI love the new nickname for Brancy - Palin-lite. I will forever use that. One of these days - Palin-lite - POW! To the MOON!
ReplyDeleteGryph, are you sitting on some story that will bring those grifters down? Please tell us you are. Didn't you mention a couple weeks ago that there is something in the works?
ReplyDeleteI loved the entire article, the last paragraph, especially. where he brings up Sarah's "e mail" "problem" and all the hard work Andree McLeod did to help quicken the former Governor's "shotgun" quit speech. I must remind myself to check out Geoffrey's Blog at HP, haven't been involved much since Arianna sold out, but Geoffrey Dunn's cunning wit and well placed barbs are perfect!!!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call Nancy "Palin lite", she may take it as a complement. but I understand why Geoffrey chose those words.
In the responses, there's a photo of Bristol with the caption "Straight Outta Condoms" - absolutely brilliant!
Aaghhhh
DeletePerfect!!
https://twitter.com/catbirdx/status/633431067924410368
ReplyDeleteDunn's Joe Bob review was almost spot on, but he left out the last sentence catch phrase: "Joe Bob sez,"Check it out."" In this case, since who would want to check out anything Palin-related, he was doing his readers a favor.
ReplyDeleteLee Murray · Granby, Connecticut
ReplyDeleteGood job shish-kebabing all the WAAAAY overdone meatsacks, Geoff.
And a great job deciphering the raddled babble of QuittyPants and QuittyPants version 2.0.
Someone should point out to those that write the dreck that's then attributed to Palin the Lesser and Palin the Least, that referring to oneself in the 3rd person is pathetically pretentious and only made worse when that 3rd person is also inferred to be a dumb--if notoriously bad-tempered--animal.
The entire world knows that you and your band of bratty boozers are the antithesis of sanity, scholarship, integrity, morality, tact, decorum and of course CLASS, Sarah. You don't need to continually prove it. WE aren't burdened with room temperature IQs, so please stop dunning our collective eardrums, ok?
What we need now is a rubber mallet sturdy enough to hammer that point through the titanium cranium protecting the pea-brained autopilot running the show behind those monumentally empty eyes.
That was fun, Jeff- except for the mention of the Sox, which should be cured in a few beers.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see Geoff again and read his pithy commentary on the Wasillabillies. He's very enjoyable. Also enjoyable is that picture of you and Geoff from a couple of years ago. You should publish some selfies occasionally, Gryph. Lookin' good.
ReplyDeleteOMG, Since Sarah is looking for outrage any place that she can find it, how about that Blood Libel speech? I thought that she was comparing herself to Christ, the way both of them were so cruelly attacked. Maybe the blood was just about menstruation. Or just another sexist attack.
ReplyDeleteGryphen you are a better built version of Mr. Healy from OITNB.
ReplyDeletethe guy that wrote this is more full of crap than the Xmas Turkey.Trump said Blood coming out of her eyes.Some would have said Fire coming out of her eyes.That's all he meant is that she was pissed off trying to rip his guts out.When he said" whatever" he was just ending the sentence.He has the greatest respect for women.Reporters are the bottom feeding sludge.
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