Bristol Palin's ghostwriter falls for internet prank, makes her employer's daughter a laughingstock. Again.

Yesterday after linking to her own blog post, which linked to her husband's blog post, which suggested that Iraq war veteran and double amputee Noah Galloway had been the runner up to an award being presented to Caitlin Jenner, Nancy French wrote this on Bristol's blog: 

Isn’t that crazy!!! I hate how everything in this liberal world is, “Oh equality for all, but not if you don’t agree with us!” 

 I hate, for example, how Tim Tebow is SOOO mocked for being a Christian!!!! If anyone says they don’t believe in gay marriage, they’re cursed. Here’s the thing. Caitliyn (Oops added an unnecessary "i") Jenner looks great! I don’t care what people do… honestly I have gay friends (Sure you do.), but it drives me crazy that people like Noah don’t get recognized for sacrificing their LIFE for our country, while being gay/transgender makes you a hero. 

But shouldn’t we let everyone have their own opinions? Without restrictions on them? 

We have way too many hypocrites.

The problem (Well one of the problems) is that the story of Noah Galloway being a runner up for the  Arthur Ashe Courage Award is a hoax:

Awkward. Like thousands of other Internet users, Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, just got duped. There’s a popular rumor circulating around the Internet that U.S. Army veteran and double amputee Noah Galloway lost the Courage Award to former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, but it’s just a hoax. Despite being debunked numerous times, Palin failed to do a simple Google search and wrote an ill-informed blog post about the rumor.

Snopes has all of the details about how this hoax got started right here.

Look I get it, conservatives are itching to go after Caitlyn Jenner, but they know that if they do they will get all kinds of flack. So when it looks like there might be an avenue of attack that is based on the snubbing of an Iraq war veteran and NOT on the fact that Jenner makes a more attractive woman than most of them or gives them a confusing boner, how can they be expected to resist?

However if I were Sarah Palin, and I were paying good SarahPAC money to this ghostwriter to make my daughter look like something besides a whiskey soaked floozy who could not string a coherent sentence together at gun point, I would be extremely angry that she did not do a little research before buying into a hoax that only attracts even more ridicule for her and the family.

After all, they really don't need any help in that department.

The ill wind of Fan-gate continues to blow in the face of Rick Scott.

Yesterday when I shared video of the awkward six minute plus pause before Rick Scott emerged from his sarcophagus to join Charlie Crist on stage for that Florida debate, I failed to include Scott's answer as to why he is such a baby.

I apologize for my indefensible oversight. Here it is.

And here is how AATP reported on it:  

“And Governor Scott, why the delay in coming out over a fan?” moderator Elliott Rodriguez asked. 

Scott, channeling Sarah Palin, offered a garbled, word salady response that is an embarrassment to any and all speakers of the English language. “I waited to see be he till we figured out he was gonna show up. He said he was gonna come to the, uh, he sss he said he was gonna come to the debate, so why come out until he’s ready?”

Yes Scott was merely waiting backstage for Crist to get off his ass and agree to participate in the debate, which clearly he had a whole six minutes earlier.

(I guess in reptile numbers that was really only a few seconds.)

Now if you think that initial response was awkward, trust me it really never got any better no matter how many times he was asked.

CNN's the Wolf tried asking him about it:

Blitzer asked, “What was the big deal?… Why was this even an issue going into the debate?” Scott didn’t directly answer, telling Blitzer that the reason he didn’t come out is because he was told Crist wouldn’t be coming out and debate organizers did not tell him to come on stage. (It’s worth noting here that the debate had started and Crist gave answers for several minutes before Scott appeared on-stage.) 

Blitzer brought up the debate agreement, which had a note from Crist that he may need a fan. Scott said he hadn’t seen that agreement, and as opposed to last night, when it sounded like he adamantly refused to come on stage if Crist had the fan, he said today, “I don’t care if he brings a microwave, if he brings a humidifier.”

A reporter later in the day tried asking him about it:  

"Charlie was throwing a fit," he told reporters. "He was saying he wasn't going to show up, so we waited to see if he would show up."

Charlie was throwing a fit? Really?

Did Scott not see the footage from the debate?

Of course for the best response to Fan-gate you have to go to Stephen Colbert: 

"Clearly, for Scott's campaign, last night blew," he continued. "And, if you turned the switch the other way, it sucked." 

But Colbert did think the whole thing was a little unfair. 

"I don't blame Crist for wanting to bring his own coolant," Colbert said. "Based on that skin tone, I'd say his core temperature's about 450 degrees. But why should Crist get to cool himself with a fan, but Scott isn't allowed to control his temperature by laying on a chilled rock?"

And just when you thought that nobody was going to do anything dumber than Sarah Palin allowing her family to start and lose a public fight in Anchorage.

Too perfect.

In light of the lunatics Tea Party and the pathetic showing by the so-called Operation American Spring folks, I think this flag should be flown at every future gathering of the Teabaggers.

"Look you can ridicule Sarah Palin all you want, but don't you dare photoshop her!" Signed, The Palin-bots.

Loves freedom, riding scooters, and Sarah Palin.

So, like many others, Redstate decided to point out how ridiculous it is for Sarah Palin to call for the formation of a third party.  

In 2008, to me, Sarah Palin was the “hope” and “change” the GOP could have used. Palin seemed to be more the ‘maverick’ than McCain ever was or could hope to be. 

However, shortly after her convention speech, the McCain campaign took over, the Left attacked, and the rest, as they say, is history. 

Now, after four years of being the quasi-professional bomb-throwing GOP outsider, Palin is tossing the idea out there that she’s open to supporting a third party. 

While the idea is somewhat appealing to those who would rather flee than fight to save America, it is, ultimately, a fool-hearty idea. 

In fact, starting a third party, would result in about as much success as Ralph Nader’s (or Ross Perot’s, for that matter) bid for the White House.

Now not only does the author essentially call Palin a "bomb thrower" and coward a who was prepared to flee rather than fight, but he also went on to categorize Palin's suggestions with those espoused by Unions and Socialists.

I know right?

So as you can imagine this made the Palin-bots take up their pitchforks and torches and prepare to drive the "Redstaters" away from their princess. But not so much for the reasons mentioned above.

You see they did a far worse thing than drag Klondike Kardashian's name through the mud, they dared to photoshop her picture.

The horror!

Now all of us here already know that picture is fake because it shows cleavage, and Palin only has fake breatesesses attached to a Victoria's Secret bra, and cannot show actual cleavage.

See?

But the "vibrantly living" folks over at the Sea O'Pee were indignant!

Considering the attire and position of the person who owns the body that they Photoshopped Governor Palin’s head on to, it’s obvious that this was posted to demean her.

The bastards!

They were SO insulted and riled up that they demanded that Redstate editor Erik Erickson admit what he had done. And take it down.

He seemed unimpressed.

Oh now he done did it!

In response to Erickson's refusal to admit that it was photoshopped, and his dismissal of their anger, they started digging up pictures to prove their point and even brought in their blogger attack dogs to say mean things about his sexuality.

Hmm, now who does that sound like?

All in all it made for one of the fumiest incidents of tantrum throwing and hair pulling that I have ever seen.

Ahh, good times.

Personally I think that Redstate was just too lazy to look for a good picture of Palin with Santa for their article.

Here's one.

Hell there's even one of her with Rudolph. Can't say THAT'S photoshopped.

And as for cleavage pictures, well where do we start?

I'm sure that the folks over at the Sea O'Pee will start protesting THESE photoshop images of Palin too. You know just as soon as they have both hands free to type.

If you get my drift.