Sarah Palin=Fried Butter on a Stick//UPDATE: She REALLY wants that fried butter
August 12, 2011
Sarah makes her own metaphors, which saves me some work.
But this one? Honestly, at first I thought it was a parody.
Someone sent me a link to a post, allegedly by Sarah Palin, that said, in regard to her upcoming visit to the Iowa State Fair:
I’m excited to try some of that famous fried butter-on-a-stick, fried cheesecake-on-a-stick, fried twinkies, etc. I’ll enjoy them in honor of those who’d rather make us just “eat our peas”!
Surely, this wasn’t real. Not even Sarah herself would say she was eager to eat fried butter on a stick.
But the line about “eat our peas” made me wonder. Yes, Sarah is so resentful of Michelle Obama that she could take a cheap shot at the First Lady’s concern with improving the dietary habits of Americans in order to rein in our current epidemic of obesity.
So I went to SarahPAC and saw it was true–unless somebody hacked their account.
Then I started reading about the Iowa State Fair and saw that, yes, vendors really are offering fried butter on a stick.
And then I realized that Sarah has created her own perfect metaphor for herself.
She is fried butter on a stick.
She’s a grotesque novelty appropriate for a brief run on a carnival midway.
She offers only empty calories, no nutritional value.
She melts away to nothing when exposed to heat and light, leaving us looking for the nearest trash can, into which we can deposit the stick.
But Sarah’s carnival came and went in 2008.
Now she’s like a 1920’s vaudeville act in the age of talking pictures.
Her every attempt to recapture center stage becomes an exercise in self-humiliation.
Next stop on her bus tour?
Coney Island.
UPDATE: Report from the Fairgrounds
“Asked if she was ‘looking for votes,’ she told CBS News: ‘Looking for votes? I’m looking for hands to shake, and I’m looking for fried butter on a stick…'”
I sure hope the swarming media at the Iowa State Fair doesn’t blow the photo opp.
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In a nutshell.
Dear Sarah,
All we are saying is give ‘peas’ a chance.
John L.
Looking for the nearest trash can into which we can vomit! How can people put crap like that in their pie holes?
In fact, I would take sweet, nutritious peas any day over that garbage. Fried butter on a stick, indeed! It’s enough to gag a maggot.
Of course we know she’s lying, once again, if she says she’s excited about eating fried butter on a stick. I’d love to see her actually eat those fried foods like the butter, cheesecake and twinkies. I think she prefers Baileys, Red Bull and drugs than the fried dishes.
I think she even blew her ‘peas’ jibe as she does with nearly everything she says. President Obama said it was time to eat our ‘peas’ related to passing the debt ceiling increase but she in her typical word salad way twisted it with Michelle Obama’s efforts to promote healthier eating. I hope she avoids the pig judging area while she’s at the State Fair if only as a professional courtesy.
Perfect! Wish I had thought of that myself, and I don’t say that about many comments.
–Joe
Listen I am FAT, really fat but honestly who in the right mind would eat butter fried on a stick? The thought makes me very sick. I really am not much of butter. If I use it I use very little. Heck I don’t even like much salt on my food. I am not much on veggies. I do like salads, I do like corn, I do like peas. I love peas.
LOL! I can’t believe I am reading this bit of news as I am just settling in with a big bowl of PEAS to munch on for my nightly snack! (I LOVE peas!) This woman is such a moron. What the hell is wrong with PEAS? Why does she hate food that’s healthy? Oh yeah……she’s fast food, all fluff, white bread, no substance, empty calories….cheap & fast. Gives you gas.
Talk about beating a dead horse. She gets hold of a schtick and just won’t let go. Give it up you idiot. We get it, you don’t like the Obama’s. You just make yourself look like a jealous high school kid with your incessant rants. Can’t you come up with anything new? Writing on your had, did that like a hundred times, snide remarks toward Michelle, did that too. All bumper sticker slogans and no ideas. Get out of the way and let the grown ups lead you ditzy dolt.
Just scamming the bots out of their butter after she’s taken their bread.
Nicely said Joe, that’s why you are the writer, and I am not.
Perhaps you can team up with a butter company to donate sticks of butter to food banks for every “The Rogue” sold.
Wee little Sarah in big Iowa.
or…….. in a peapod…………LOL
peas.
Stupid sarah was FOR healthy eating/healthy lifestyle before she was against it:
“That’s why as governor in 2008, Palin called for increasing state funds to “reverse childhood obesity.” And that’s why the same year Palin also pushed to “develop a statewide initiative called Live Well Alaska. The interactive web-based campaign will provide the best recommendations for eating healthier, being more physically active and quitting tobacco use.”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102230005
Haha. Or even whirled peas.
Her insult is a twofer, at Michelle Obama for daring to encourage healthy eating and working to help neglected communities recieve much needed access to healthier foods. Oh and I suppose could be considered a slame on her gardening project. And here, all along I thought Sarah was a gardener too.
President Obama made the reference in his speech that addressed and eviscerated Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.
Any tips for how to weather the increasingly insane and IMO, malicious, machinations that these Republicans and their MSM surrogates are engaging in. I seriously need to figure out a way to fortify myself…it’s still early and it’s already pushing me to my limits. Did any of you witness Mitt in action in Iowa, engaging in a shouting match with some of the crowd in attendance, and reminding the crowd that corporations are people too?
Fox is banned in our household, but even if it wasn’t I really doubt if I could stomach watching the Republicans debate tonight. Maybe I’ll take up drinking, or drugs, hell maybe both!
The better choice would be the ‘peas’. As in ‘Right back at ya Highjacker Palin’.
I now call her Highjacker Palin in that this is one of her many parachuting in appearances to highjack someone else’s event which she has no involvement in. For example, the day Romney announced he was running and this appearance in Iowa and at the Iowa Fair where Romney has appeared I believe today. There is also the debate and all the various events over the weekend. Wouldn’t surprise me if she sticks around to highjack and attempt to suck the air out of Obama’s trip next week.
Praise the Lard!
Don’t knock Butter! How else does one finish a pan sauce, other than monter au buerre? Butter is the sole ingredient that takes a mundane dish and turns it into a fantastic dish. Granted, fried butter on a stick is something best left to Iditarod mushers to use for fuel and calories during their grueling cold weather dog race (Martin Buser eats sticks of frozen butter on the Iditarod trail to maintain his daily fat content and calories.)
As a matter of fact, I’d think that most Middle Americans that attend fairs and eat at Midway food stands would be more likely to be Margarine eaters and not real butter folks. I’m hard pressed to find anyone that is not a serious cook that actually uses butter for their daily cooking oil requirements. I know many people who eat those crazy “butter spreads” that come in the plastic containers. I try to explain to them that they are actually worse for them than butter, but alas, they cannot be convinced. They have blood high in bad fats, and I eat butter everyday and don’t. So, bring on the fried butter; I’ll give it a taste test.
Greetings Mr. McGinniss! OOOHH, the thought of ANYONE ingesting that crap makes me want to puke! Obviously, nutrition awareness was not a high priority in the Heath household when $arah was supposedly growing up; and Butterbean Chuckles was a school teacher? It makes me sick every time this uneducated bimbozo and her ilk make cheap derogatory insults towards President Obama and the First Lady. Sure $arah, take your busload of porkers to the fair and gorge yourselves on tons of grease; but make sure you bought enough health insurance with your grifted millions. Don’t expect any help from Medicare, since YOU were so dead set against it. One more thing; don’t get any ideas of crossing the border to get free health care in Whitehorse like your cheap daddy did when you were just little piss ants! This time, we’ll be watching for you! Judgment Day is coming $arah; be very afraid…
During and after the Christmas holidays a commercial is shown with a young lady eating a whole stick of butter…if you have seen it, I guarantee you can’t forget it. Butter is probably my second favorite food on the planet, right behind good bread…..even though I like all kinds of food. But the commercial is so sickening I actually quit eating butter, until we had our first ears of sweet corn this year. Come to think of it, I am sorry I brought it up. The imagery is just that disturbing.
Go ahead Sarah, eat up….I hear lip-dissolve is just a convenient shot away.
Give her two months and she’ll be screaming: “I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille. Mr. DeMille? MR.DEMILLE?!?!?”
She really has the emotional IQ of a pre- teen. Her psychopathology is on full display all the time now, and she doesn’t even know it. The constant digs at Michelle( who has never said one unkind word about Sarah, her sick attempts to discredit the President, her writing on the hands, made up words ( refudiate, etc), It’s all so juvenile and petty. There are other things too , lots of them, that she thinks are so clever. Who can believe she has the gall to still use retreat and reload!!
She’s just become a big joke. I like the metaphor comment!! You really have a way with words which is great since you are a writer!!
I’m with you. I love butter on toast or corn or such. The idea of fried butter on a stick makes me feel ill. I would not willingly try it. As for fried cheesecake, who would want to ruin cheesecake that way? Bleech.
Not quite as bad as it sounds, evidently.
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DES MOINES, IA (KCCI/CNN) – The Iowa State Fair opened Thursday in Des Moines, IA, and that means lots of funky food on a stick. This year’s specialty is fried butter.
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“You’re not biting into no stick of butter, no. It’s all melted, most of it, into the mix. Maybe a little bit of butter might run out yet, but the lion’s share of it melts right into the mix,” Fyfe said.
The “breakfasty” batter reminds many at the fair of a cinnamon roll or French toast.
When she debuted her film in Iowa, it was speculated that she would suck the air out of Obama’s same day event. If you are talking everyday Americans, she doesn’t come close to the energy and enthusiasm or crowds that he draws. If you are talking about media attention, she is their creation and their product, they must. I follow President Obama closely, and in doing so discovered what I have come to believe about our MSM, it’s a gigantic propoganda machine peddling alternate realities and influence. I say ingest it with care.
One more thing $arah; just curious to know, since we all know you will be at the fair. Is the Matanuska Creamery supplying the butter?
This crashing thing will put her in the shitty 4 sure. WaPo wrote a article comparing her to “Neely O’hara” of Valley of the dolls!!!
@SarahPalinusa crashes Iowa http://goo.gl/6PLTe WaPo compares her to #NeelyO’hara in #ValleyOfTheDolls, lol
That was very clever, and very true. Thanks for the smile.
slam not slame….sorry, I speak better than I write.
She’s a freak show.
This was meant to be in response to Dicer.
I’ld rather go without than eat margarine. I grew up in household where my Father refused to allow margarine in the house. He worked in the industry that manufactured and sold food processing equipment, and for a long time worked primarily with dairy food production. Perhaps he wasn’t telling us all he knew. But I agree, that margarine is not a healthier alternative to butter because of the transfats. and although many say they can not taste the difference, I don’t think they taste anything at all alike.
Yum butter, just not deep fried on a stick.
I am thrilled to hear that Perry is running. He makes Palin irrelevant.
Game over.
I love this quote from Rachel Maddow…
“Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot showing off his car, five years after he graduated.”
I don’t buy her bragging about eating that stuff; maybe she’ll bite off a tiny bit to say she tasted it. As a 40-something woman, eating junk food like that would throw her into a night of anguish, gall bladder attack or something. She isn’t made of steel, but this latest statement is another juvenile effort to get people in awe of her perfect metabolism. She seems to need people to think she’s Superwoman, can eat a bucket of fat and still look like a twig.
It’s the need to be an awesome wonder of a human being. She is fearless, she dares to eat whatever. Not like the rest of us middle-aged fogies who can’t drink past 6:00 pm or we’ll be up all night running to the bathroom.
And as the star attraction, the most hideous of freaks.
omg–this comment is fabulous!
Ha! Excellent, omomma!
She is such a wasted opportunity. Her show could have been of her taking people who didn’t have long to live on tours of the state, bringing inner-city kids up here, doing cool things, but it was one buzz-line after another.
The people who eat this fried garbage die young of heart attacks. I just don’t get why she’d be bragging about eating this kind of stuff when, in her own state, her own area, is known for giant cabbages and vegetables. Shouldn’t she be promoting Alaskan potatoes and vegetables? Challenging some state to a Great Alaskan Interstate Vegetable Cook-off? She should get creative and do something along these lines, maybe on celebrity chef be a guest and bring on some uniquely Alaskan foods?
Visualize Whirled Peas.
With all the GOP action this weekend I’ll be curious to see how much attention the “butter stick” will get from her LSM.
You sound like someone who might actually eat a Brussels Sprout.
Yo. At least She know the price of Slim Jims is out of control; yer boy dun’ know that, I guarantee.
Must confess to morbid curiosity, but yuck… and yes to moderate butter, and pepper instead of (more) salt.
I thought that was a great analogy…because yes she is the freak show! The bearded lady!
sp just wanted to apPEASe her supporters with a swipe at president obama and michelle obama……..
Please don’t send her to Coney Island.
We Brooklynites don’t need her to sully up our Historical Landmark.
One of Saturn’s moons would be a much better place to send her to.
Thank you from a born & raised Brooklyn girl.
Sooo True! I love Rachel’s humor.
I am kind of embarrassed for Sarah, she really is unhinged, but then again, she has no shame so whats the point.
Best comment of the day award!
I wonder why she keeps needing to re-affirm her place as top nitwit? Maybe not enough people realize she is best at SOMEthing?
Do some research on Perry. He is WAY more dangerous than $P. Theocracy much?
Oh yes, I understand exactly who Perry is and how dangerous he is. I’m just enjoying that he totally steals Sarah’s thunder.
Alaska Dispatch tweeted a link to this a few daze ago:
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/08/an-update-on-the-victory2012-fundraising-idea.html
When you look around the rest of the site, you’ll see that the plan is for a bunch of C4P types to descend upon Iowa on Sept 2, in order to be present on the 3rd when Her Foolishness announces that yes, she really is running for the presidency.
Unless they start sneaking peas in her CrunchWraps, she’ll never touch them… And I’m sure that snide comment played real well in “rill amerika” where all the pea farmers are, also too. Typical mean-girl that can’t pass up the chance to throw a barb at someone else.
She’s so jealous of the Obamas that it oozes from her pores.
I happen to LOVE nice fresh gently cooked peas, but I suppose to Ms Red Bull that is like ingesting poison.
Brilliant, Joe! And she’s being tagged “party crasher” for taking the bus to Iowa and trying, as a non-candidate, to steal their thunder.
It really is all about being an attention whore, not a serious candidate of substance. Although she’ll pretend she is.
“Her every attempt to recapture center stage becomes an exercise in self-humiliation.” I like that sentence. Yes, she is definitely a has been. A loser. A really sore loser. Its incredible that she’s going on 50 and has the emotions and mind of a twelve year old. Incredible! I think its very clear by now that she has not one clue how she comes across. The peas comment (one among the many many) really pointed that up. No intelligence. No class. None. Just a shockingly immature comment How many times and how many ways can it be said: she has a narcissist personality disorder. It could not be more clear. An aberrant ego. It would be bad enough to have her just in Wasilla, Alaska, but to have her smear her mental illness upon the public at large is going too far. What an ugly ugly Pandora’s Box – of evil, I will add – John McCain and the american media set loose upon us all. Of her own accord she won’t be going away soon. She doesn’t have what it takes to do that. She’s unhinged.
Older-Wiser – this is getting hilarious! I do believe that Governor Goodhair of Texas, Rick Perry, has pulled the rug out from under her transparent, juvenile scheme. As you’ve undoubtedly heard, Perry’s spokesperson proclaimed this afternoon that Perry will announce his run for the Presidency this Saturday. Not only did that make his absence at tonight’s debate of no real consequence, it should deprive Palin’s Friday fair-crashing schtick of some oxygen. HA! Perry announced before he officially announced.
The Palinbots like to chant, “Game On!” I’d say, “Yup, it sure is. But now you’re playing in the Big Leagues, $ister $arah. This is ooonly the beginning, m’dear.”
Nice comparison, except that:
a) Neely O’Hara was a highly gifted singer, and
b) the scene for which most people remember Neely is the one in which Neely pulls off Helen Lawson’s wig and attempts to flush it down a toilet. Neely is NOT the one wearing the wig, you see.
Unlike $P.
I honestly don’t know what Sarah is up to, but there is no doubt she loves the spotlight. And the media is starting to notice and has begun to comment on her arrival to Iowa in a negative way.
Hopefully, Sarah will go the way of the butter and have a big gooey meltdown.
I may have accidentally hit “Submit” before the comment was complete. If I did I apologize. Here is what I meant to say:
I would love to see the media hold her to her comments about enjoying eating fried butter on a stick, fried chees ecake on a stick, and deep fried twinkies. I want to see the video evidence of her eating all of that stuff – every last crumb and then smile for the camera and tell everyone how delicious it was.
No doubt, Sarah’s preferred food choices are an indication of her poor judgement in general. She really has become political comedy. The evidence is when you are not sure if her comments are parody or something she actually said.
Not a serious cook here, but I love butter and do use it for many things to cook with. I’m really dating myself here, but as a child, it was my duty to mix the color into the dead white margarine (lard?). Anyone else do that?
I never could understand (at the time) why toast & so many other items tasted like heaven at my Grandparents home and not at mine. They were farmers who also had dairy cows & sold milk/cream & used only butter & my parents only used margarine. As soon as I married I switched to butter & have never used anything else since. That said, the thought of fried butter leaves me cold. Yuck! Much better on warm homemade bread or fresh picked peas. 🙂
….and pass the Lipitor! ;-D
I love the comment; “give peas a chance”. Haha….very clever. As far as sp looking forward to eating fried butter on a stick…that turns my stomach just thinking about what that tastes like. ewwww!!
There is something so wrong with this woman it defies sanity that she’s still here in our faces, day after day after day….it’s exhausting and I can’t imagine what she’s like at home behind closed doors. The whole country is sick of sp and her grifting family. Hard to believe it all started back in 2008 with lame mccain.
We had no idea how much worse it would become – instead we all breathed a sigh of relief thinking since mccain was defeated she’d go back to alaska and give us “peas’ but no……she’s still here over and over and over again. Please god, make it stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love it. Sarah Palin is fried butter on a stick. Joe, you have captured her essence.
I’m not too worried about Palin anymore. I was looking through the comments sections on a couple of news articles yesterday and no one had a complimentary word to say about her. One person even complained that he used to like her but he was now sick to death of her – she had no class!
The media even seems tired of her. They are rightfully calling her out on her attention-grabbing stunts. And the lovely thing is, she did this all on her own. 🙂
There are butter substitutes that don’t have trans fats. At our house we use Smart Balance, and just this week at Aldi’s I saw their copycat product Better Balance.
is that a schtick of butter?
i agree, SPAZ is tired and worn out
she should try Iowa State Fair egg-on-a-stick
very delicious
May all that butter go straight to her arteries and clog baby clog.Man talk about disgusting,I really didn’t need that imagery in my brain to start the day.
Sarah is an anorexic (or maybe bullemic) now. She doesn’t really eat anymore — no more crunchwrap supremes! She may have a photo op to make it look like she is eating that stuff, but she won’t. She lives on diet Red Bull and Skinny Lattes.
I think she is blowing a dog whistle for her followers that find her attractive and sexy; ” eating a stick of butter,”
Sarah Palin enjoys being photographed licking her lips or turning up her tongue like an aging amateur porn star.
The viper’s tongue action, the push-up bra, and her eating a stick of butter; the checks to SarahPAC are as good as cashed!
Fried butter and cheesecake sound gross but I’ve eaten a deep fried Twinkies with whipped cream and chocolate sauce and they are delish, I was in Vegas..that’s my excuse.
I seriously wish there was a “like” button on this comment page!
What continues to amaze me about her is her stupidity.
We know she was a disengaged Gov. Even so, she had to realize how poorly her state measures up health wise to the rest of the US. Or not.
Sarah palin is rich. If one of her family members had a catastrophic illness, she could pay for it(or start a PAC so someone else would pay for it!).
She is not like you and me anymore. She can say she is one of us, but that is no longer true.
She can no longer continue to just complain about and attack the Obama’s if she is even thinking about a run to the White House. She will have to come up with *horror* policies and solutions. And talk about them intelligently.
But then again, anybody that eats fried butter must have a clogged artery or two. Maybe palin sounds great to them. But God help them if they are poor and in need of health care!!
Yes, KatzKids! My younger brother and I used to fight over who got to start that red button moving through the white lard! I loved the crazy designs that showed up, streaks and swirls of yellow/orange/reds. Sigh. . . . but the stuff tasted like crap. ‘Serious’ cooking is not part of my old age; but I absolutely refuse to eat oleo. And I’m proud that six of my seven children also eat proper butter.
Slim Jims? I thought they made their own jerky out of the moose she shoots and field dresses all by her brave self out in the cold wilderness dressed only in a tight skirt and various scarves?
Coney Island and the Freak Show Tent. After she consumes her fat-fried foods and goes for a lipo-dissolve session, lords only knows what will morph as a result.
In all my days of hating Sarah Palin I’ve never read anything that captured her essence any better. Fried butter on a stick. INDEED!!! Dear GAWD I hope her public days are numbered. Now if we can figure out a way to get her scrawny ass out of Alaska permanently.
roasted brussel sprouts with olice oil and a dash of s&p are delish!! esp. the crispy layers that get extra brown! 😉
Personally, I have never eaten margarine, only REAL BUTTER for me, but I was born & raised in the Dairy State. I love butter, and I am now just a “home-chef”, no longer working as a chef, so butter is my holy grail. 🙂 Just not a stick of it please deep fried. Disgusting! Blech! Well, anything deep-fried actually.
When our son was little we had a really cute book called “War and Peas,” with wonderful illustrations.
Unfortunately for us, we knew better in Alaska. I warned friends, family and strangers until I was both hoarse and exhausted from writing – they all pretty much said the same thing they did when she was running “Oh, so and so will keep her in check” (fill in McCain, the SOA, etc). “She can’t be THAT bad – no one is THAT bad”. It’s the nightmare you wake from in a sweat – ringin’ those bells, hollerin’ those words – and not a single soul hears any of it.
However, I retained my sense of humor even though it was a barely recognizable little thing flopping around gasping for air at times. In the bigger picture – she is comedy brass – a caricature of all that is bad with holier than thou fake religion, and the type of person who is exhilarated by lying and attention of any kind (and I do mean “any kind”.) Her plain family fed the monster, as did her school, the community and so on.
She would have had to have true character to weather the onslaught & come out the other side with compassion and a conscience – and she did not. She is a product of Wasilla – an ugly strip mall town which has been a laughingstock in Alaska almost since it began to exist. My family in Anchorage used to say…well never mind, I shouldn’t really say what they said. It wasn’t a “Valley” thing – it was a “Wasilla” thing. If you’d seen it back then, you’d understand. It was about the ugliest little town I’d ever seen – surrounded by breathtaking beauty which did not rub off on the residents. Full of transplanted people who felt entitlement of all sorts.
Yes, we knew she wasn’t done. Her ambition, greed and hubris are all she has. Once you open that lid just a tad…
I’m sorry to see you use the word “hate” – that should never be taken or used lightly. You hand your soul to her on a platter by “hating” her – despise her instead. Laugh at her, stick your tongue out, yell at your plants, imagine her bald and fat (not hard to do) – but in the end, hate is an exhausting and dangerous emotion.
Yes, she’s on the road to self-annihilation. Where does this leave babygate?
Fried Butter on a Stick, like deep fried Twinkies and what ever else they fry (which is nearly everything in the South!)~ it’s all a Heart Attack waiting to happen.
They even deep fry pickles!!
Eeeewwwww.
You go Sarah! I’ll help you eat all the fried butter & cheesecake on the planet – I’ll serve it to you, make it for you, steal it for you, beg it for you! After you throw up, you’ll head straight for your plastic surgeon team for more work. You’ll be a walking, talking, toxic chemical plant before long! Wait, isn’t this a waste of perfectly good butter? Naah.
On another blog a commenter was relating comments on yet another blog during the debate last night: Sarah’s bus circling the parking lot looking for a space, then trying to force her way past security, etc. Funny images!
The problem is her target audience eats up that crap (no pun intended) – simplistic, snarky one liners. Only the evil librul elitists have time to waste on spelling, discussing issues, and speaking in complete sentences. They’ll eat their fried butter while riding around on their government subsidized hovercrafts all the while screaming ‘hands of my Medicare!’
I thought the two peas in the pod were Palin and Perry.
And the really sad thing is that so many of my countrymen are also stuck in middle school and think she has something clever to say.
Now she’s tweeting insults about Perry. That should about finish her up. I think has perry has cruel streak and he’s not going to take any shit off anyone stupider and more unhinged than he is, especially a girl….
argh, should read “I think perry has a cruel streak”
The other part of this that gets me is her claim that the fair is what rill Amerikuns do when the economy is bad, nice patriotic things like going to the fair. Have you Been to a fair lately? They’re really expensive! Not saying they aren’t worth it, but many, many families can’t afford the fair. How nice it would have been for SarahPac to send their money to families who can’t afford a day at the fair instead of to the fricking joke grifter empty bus tour while Sarah and her paid family spokesmodels stay in four-star hotels and meet up with the bus in rented Escalades.
A barfing affair in Iowa: Dick Perry and Fried Butter on a Stick.
Brought to you by The GOP.
I’m pretty sure Palin thinks she hits it out of the park every time she craps out snide remarks/tweets aimed at the Obamas. I’m pretty sure in her head she hears the applause and fist pumps of Real Americans every time she stands up for their/our right to eat them/ourselves into an early grave.
But here’s the thing and reality is funny like that – isn’t she a runner? She’s always going on about how she loves to go for long runs etc. Most runners I know (read: ALL runners that I know and am friends with) are almost obsessive about their diet and calorie intake. Even when not in training for a marathon – you’d be hard put to find a runner who would willingly ingest fried butter on a stick, let alone practically cheer-lead the notion.
But let’s downgrade and say well, Palin isn’t a runner per se, she’s just into fitness etc. Fair enough. But here again we run into that darn reality – most people who are into fitness and exercise would balk at ingesting FRIED BUTTER on a stick. Even elementary fitness buffs like me would recoil. So, what gives? Does anything this woman say correlate with reality or sanity?
Also……as a mother, would she insist on FRIED BUTTER being an acceptable snack at the Fair for her kids? As a grandmother? Seriously….we’re supposed to believe that Palin is the one mother who doesn’t want her kids to eat their veggies? Cuz….she’s a rogue?
Maybe Sarah Palin should take a few minutes to reflect before she spews out some random idiocy to score points against her perceived opponents and hopefully she will realise she sounds like a complete whack-job.
Don’t be dissing fried pickles. Particularly when there’s fried jalapenos in the mix. 😀
Hahaha….”Game on”. Yeah, right, if it really WAS game on – Palin wouldn’t last 10 mins. She always thinks she’s the Queen Bee – the only reason the other GOP players are still being “nice” to her is because she hasn’t officially announced her candidacy. So for now – they ignore her. If she really sacked up and actually ANNOUNCED her candidacy then it would in fact BE game on. But she won’t – she’s a coward. Or….maybe…..she might? Who knows. Is she a coward MORE than an attention whore? Only time will tell =D
I’d like to predict an epic fight between Perry, Bachmann and Palin if she runs. It’ll be the Evangelical Cage Match of the century. Palin will be out in the first round. Perry – long running Governor of Texas, Bachmann – Congresswoman and defacto Tea Party darling. Palin? Half-term Ex-Governor of Alaska, Reality Show personality and sometimes, Fox News Softball Interviewee. Game on? Yeah, don’t your breath.
The Austin Chronicle is the excellent “alternative” newspaper in the Texas state capital – although alternative is a mostly outdated and inaccurate term now. The Chronicle does a very credible job of covering local cultural and (to some extent) political issues; an edgier and in some respects juicier version of the Austin American Statesman, the relatively anemic daily which aspires to be the state newspaper, but hardly in the same league as the powerhouse political analysis over at the Texas Observer.
Here is the Chronicle’s round-up of the “Perry Trap” links to coverage of our Governor Goodhair in all his shameful glory.
Joe, as much I love Bruce, I’d be pitching a book on Rick.
oops. Here’s the link: http://www.austinchronicle.com/rick-perry/
No thanks. Life’s too short for me to waste any more time on these crazies.
–Joe
The Rick Burns documentary about Coney Island is one of my favorite doc films of all time. But I don’t think even the geniuses who created Dreamland, Luna Park and Steeplechase could come up with the freak show that is Sarah Palin. Maybe if she grew a beard and gained 500 pounds (which could happen if she keeps eating fried butter). Also, they’d need to change the name to “Con Island.”
Me too, love butter, love to cook with it, but usually substitute olive oil except when only butter will do.
Yea, I worked in a Northern Minnesota hospital for years. Fried pickles often on the menu, and you should see the size of the majority of the hospital staff.
Depends on what you’re made of. To some, hate is not exhausting at all. It fires them up; it’s their lifeblood.
OMG, no!!! They are banned from my house. I cannot stand the smell of them growing in the fields even! I love 98% of all the other vegetables though.
“Hate” and “despise” have different energy quanta?
Is this something traceable?
I’d consider Sarah Palin (among others) a mortal enemy of mine. Should I hate her, or merely despise her? Do advise.
Amen.
I mix butter half-and half with either olive oil (for the flavor), sunflower oil (all purpose) or grapeseed oil (high cooking temps). Works great, cuts-down on the amount of butter with very little to no loss of flavor.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, dontcha know…
I HOPE not..one of the 3 farms left has been infecting people with a form of Listeria for the last three months. These nuts feel safe buying raw milk and are ending up with weeks and weeks of diarrhea. Blech……
yes. brussell sprouts.
i cook them in a savory broth.
don’t get the frozen kind. they should never be frozen.
Or lightly steamed and served with a sharp sauce with lemon, mustard and a bit of butter. Yum!
Cirrus, if I didn’t know better I would have thought that I wrote that about Wasilla. While a few of my relatives live “in the Valley”, it still doesn’t change my opinion about Wasilla proper. It makes me sick what has happened there as far as the natural beauty that surrounds that transplanted “anytown” usa. Especially what was done to the most peaceful and beautiful lake in the area: Lake Lucille. It seems its what “rill american’s do best – pollute and trash. I’m talking of the palin ilk. They foul their own nest. They do not understand the most basic fact that if they destroy their own natural surroundings – nature/earth/, that they will also be destroyed. If you kill your earth, you kill yourself. This is my most seething observation of what I see all around me. I guess that is the RILL meaning of “freedom, democracy and the individualism” of the american so called democracy. It doesn’t matter that these tenets demand maturity, responsibility and caring about your neighbor. That is the biggest assumption of all for the “american way” – that everyone is automatically conferred those attributes of maturity and wisdom with the responsibility of mind to shoulder that democracy and carry it into the world. I see now, since I have no choice BUT to see it, that the Palin’s are, the epitome of that kind of IDEA of democracy.
Cirrus, you also mentioned not to “hate”. I would say “rage” is more destructive if you want to bandy some words that carry high emotion. There are degrees of hate AND despicability. Rage is something that will force a physical action. It is an emotion that is eruptive, forceful and in the extreme of negative results. You can hate a lot of things and indeed, SHOULD do so. Remember “hate what is bad” from the christian bible? Well I think that perfectly applies to sarah palin. Otherwise, that WORD can be a warning signal for many things. Yes, it can come from empty, brainwashed minds just like the Palin’s as well. A MINDLESS hating is the real red flag to look out for. That kind of hating is not in this forum. Its over there at the sarah palin sites. You can’t get through to that kind of mindless “hate”. You (or anyone who CAN think) might even wonder if a lightning bolt from the hand of God striking those people directly would enlighten or shock them into sanity. Yeah. Really. (Yes, I am an Alaskan Native in both meanings of the word)
Hey! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate!
He always kept talking about this. I will forward this page to him.
Fairly certain he will have a good read. Thank you for sharing!