I warned you Noam. Now you have to suffer the indignity of being used to raise money for Sarah Palin.

Going from the world's top public intellectual to a pawn for Sarah Palin has to be the ultimate in humiliation.

As for Palin well the reason that she is so desperately pimping ANY mention of her name by celebrities, and pseudo celebrities, is to make up for the incredible loss in income that she suffered when she renegotiated her contract with Fox News.

Reports are that the one time darling of the Right Wing, and once popular pit bull for Fox News, had to crawl back to Roger Ailes with her tail between her stick thin legs and accept an offer that was only a quarter of what it had been receiving before.

This courtesy of TV Newser:

Megyn Kelly‘s new deal is estimated to be worth $6 million a year, twice what Hoda Kotb draws, and more than three times as much as ABC’s Josh Elliott. Ann Curry is still one of the highest-paid reporters at NBC, drawing $5 million a year, while Sarah Palin‘s new FNC contract is believed to be in the $250,000 range. 

From a cool one million a year to a paltry $250,000. Oh how the once mighty have fallen.

So is it any wonder that Palin is desperately trying to regain relevance? Even if that means connecting her name to liberal icons and, "shudder." celebrities?

And not to beat a dead horse, but once again I have to wonder if, like Ashton Kutcher, Chomsky can sue SarahPAC for using his image to fund raise without permission?

I mean not that he would get much if he did, but it's the principle of the thing. 

(H/T to Politicususa)

Why Noam, why?

“I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin,” Chomsky said, “but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey stuff,’ she was right, there was nothing there.” Noam Chomsky


God do I hate it when people start giving Sarah Palin legitimacy.

There are so many other ways to voice your displeasure with the President other than evoking a quote from the Wasilla Wendigo.

Besides I personally believe that if the Republicans had not gathered on the NIGHT OF OBAMA'S INAUGURATION, and decide to sabotage every single policy they he put forth, that we might very well have seen and incredibly hopeful change in this county. There was no way that Obama could institute change all by himself, though he did a pretty damn good job without their support.

As for hope, well I have rarely been more hopeful than I have been since Obama has been in office. Perhaps those who thought he would walk on water and then turn it into wine were disappointed but not I.

I am usually singing the same tune as Chomsky, but this time he definitely hit a sour note and in my opinion committed an unpardonable sin.

"See? I told you so!"

 And that is giving THIS lunatic any credibility whatsoever.

(Source.)