Oh, great! Sarah Hires Breitbart Blogger as “Foreign Policy Adviser”// UPDATE: The Mouse that Roared
May 3, 2011
After being jilted by neocons Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, who told her “flat out: ‘We can’t give you the time,'” Sarah has scooped up Peter Schweizer, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and editor in chief of Breibart’s Big Peace blog.
You can take a look at this huckster in his natural habitat at his personal website.
For every rat that deserts a sinking ship, a new mouse can always be lured aboard.
UPDATE:
Mamma mia! I had no idea that Schweizer is so loony he once wrote a book attacking Disneyland and Disneyworld:
Disney actually allows gays in their theme parks! So keep your good Christian kiddies away.
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Joe v. Breitbart Twitterspat
May 3, 2011
I had an amusing little Twitter dustup with Breitbart last evening. He’s a bully and a blowhard, two types that ripple the normally zen-calm waters of my soul.
If these lefties are so convinced Obama’s gonna be reelected, why the high-level coordinated agitprop on what coulda been cool victory lap?
Oh, go lick Sarah’s Naughty Monkeys. Your followers were the worst filth I heard from last summer when I lived next door
You don’t think your living-next-doorness was creepiest creep job since @lizardoid‘s amazing ponytail of political confusion?
Nope. It was the practice of journalism. I invaded nobody’s privacy. Read THE ROGUE before judging.
Your book ‘The Last Brother: The Rise and Fall of Teddy Kennedy (1993)’ helped turn me from left to right, @joemcginniss! I swear! Thanks!
If that’s all it took, you weren’t very committed. But glad it did: I’d be embarrassed if you shared my political views
“Jew for Sarah”
May 3, 2011
See Allison Hoffman’s profile of Bertram Korn, Jr., founder of Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, in Tablet.
Talk about rolling a rock uphill…
Sarah Puts the “Jerk” into “Knee-Jerk”
May 3, 2011
Colorado TV station leads coverage of Palin speech with:
“Palin leaves out Obama during remarks on bin Laden”
Story here
Overflow crowd also heard Boykin described as “war hero.” Well, maybe a hero of the War on Sanity.
All I can say is those Colorado Christians got what they deserved for paying to hear it.
“Organizers said the event raised $40,000 for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS.)”
But was that before or after they paid Sarah her $100,000 fee?
Sarah and Jerry Boykin Share Stage at Colorado Christian U.//UPDATE//UPDATE 1.1
May 3, 2011
The Colorado Independent offers a fine preview of this “patriotic/Christian” event.
Conservatives4Palin site promised live streaming, but all it does is crash my browser.
Probably God telling me not to bother paying attention.
Even God must have limits when it comes to Sarahspeak.
UPDATE:
Jason Salzman at http://bigmedia.org writes that “neither Boykin nor Palin is going to discuss Islam,” and says: “She and Boykin should be asked the question that the organizer of tonight’s event posed but refused to answer, ‘Can a good Muslim be a good American?'”
Don’t hold your breath for either the question or answer. Although I think we know that if they were honest, both Palin and Boykin would have to answer, “No.” Their God is for evangelical Christian dominionists only. It’s not a big tent. Leave your shoes and rationality at the door before entering. But bring your guns, willful ignorance, intolerance and cross-hair maps. Donations to the cause gratefully accepted–especially by Sarah.
UPDATE 1.1
ABC News’ Claton Sandell reports from Lakewood, Colo.:
Sarah Palin gave passing praise to President Obama’s “decisive leadership” in the operation to kill Osama bin Laden, though in a speech here Monday night the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate did not once use Obama’s name.
“We want to thank our president,” Palin said, but then she quickly shifted focus to the previous administration for having laid the groundwork.
“We thank President Bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory,” Palin told a cheering crowd.
So Sarah mentioned Bush by name, but not Obama. One thing about people devoid of class: they’re consistent.
Hey, tomorrow is a new day. And Sarah will get up in the morning and realize that she’ll have to live with herself throughout it.
No wonder–as I report in THE ROGUE–she used to come home when she was mayor of Wasilla and go to bed at 4 p.m. with a box of chocolates and a handful of celebrity picture magazines.
Living with that self for sixteen hours a day would exhaust any of us.
The Girl Can’t Help It: Nastiness & Pettiness Form Sarah’s Core//UPDATE 1.1
May 2, 2011
Even knowing that it was the right thing to do–both from a standpoint of simple decency and for her own self-interest–Sarah Palin last night could not bring herself to congratulate President Obama.
On Twitter, she thanked “American men and women in uniform.”
On Facebook, she added “our intelligence services.”
But for President Obama, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. military and intelligence forces, nary a word.
She’s just too mean-spirited and resentful. It’s in unguarded moments that character–or lack of same–most often reveals itself.
First, after the Giffords shooting and again last night, Sarah inadvertently gave us a glimpse of what passes for her heart.
It ain’t pretty.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that when Sarah appeared at the MSNBC party after the White House Correspondents dinner, “Invariably, onlookers whispered to their friends: ‘Isn’t she pretty? Isn’t she nice?‘”
Answers?
No, and no.
UPDATE:
Even Rush Limbaugh was able to say what needs to be said: “Thank God for president Obama.”
Snarky Sarah has painted herself into another lonely corner by refusing to give the president credit for the successful Bin Laden operation.
UPDATE 1.1
Limbaugh now says he was being sarcastic, which makes him every bit as horrid as I always thought he was. Let’s see what Sarah says tonight at the “Honor the Troops” event at Colorado Christian U.
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For Bin Laden it was Abbottabad as it gets: also for Sarah Palin
May 2, 2011
As NYTimes and every other news outlet in the world reports:
President Obama said that on Sunday, a small team of U.S. operatives launched a “targeted assault’’ on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad where months of intelligence work had established that Mr. Bin Laden was living. Mr. Bin Laden was killed after a firefight, and the troops took custody of his body.
This is abbottabad as it gets for Sarah, too. Especially because, as President Obama reminded us tonight, Islam is not our enemy.
That crackpot ex-general Sarah’s sharing the stage with later today at Colorado Christian University says just the opposite.
The space between Sarah’s rock and hard place just got a whole lot smaller. She lamely tweeted last night:
Thank you, American men and women in uniform. You are America’s finest and we are all so proud. Thank you for fighting against terrorism.
It was with President Obama as commander-in-chief that American forces achieved what they’d never been able to achieve under George W. Bush. Obama had the tact and good grace not to continually emphasize how much effort was still going into the hunt for bin Laden, but as last night’s announcement demonstrated, that didn’t mean it wasn’t happening.
The wise man or woman doesn’t brag about what he or she intends to accomplish. Instead, after the fact, he or she credits others for the success.
Make no mistake: this was America’s most smashing success of the 21st century. That it puts egg on Sarah’s face is the least of it.
But the egg is there. U.S. soldiers killed America’s most dangerous enemy. And Barack Obama was commander-in-chief when it happened.
Sarah can tweet all the thanks she wants to American men and women in uniform.
But her failure to credit their commander-in-chief shows her up as the shallow, petty self-promoter she is.
GOP Might as well let Sarah have the nomination
May 2, 2011
Obama invulnerable after tonight’s announcement.
“Isn’t She Pretty, Isn’t She Nice?”
May 2, 2011
There’s really nothing to say about this Washington Post story about Sarah’s Saturday in DC, except:
a) it makes me want to throw up
and
b) Sarah’s comeback from Tucson is on track, exactly as she wants it to be, with mainstream media rolling over and begging her to scratch their jelly bellies once again.
Visitors to this blog, and even people who will buy The Rogue in September, constitute only a tiny minority of the American voting public. A much larger minority–encouraged by mainstream media such as Vanity Fair and the Washington Post–still find Sarah fascinating, even dazzling.
We might wish she was yesterday’s breakfast, but as long as mainstream editors, publishers and reporters beg for the chance to pose for a photo with her, she remains likely to be a main course at the 2012 election banquet. She might even wind up looking for a White House chef.
There is no morality in mainstream media. There is only venal self-interest. There are (with a certain few exceptions) only weary whores who would trade what’s left of their souls for the chance to pose for a snapshot with a celebrity.
This is your Washington “press corps,” ladies and gentlemen. Better described as the Washington “press corpse.”
Its theme song is “Celebrity Über Alles.”
Scientologist Van Susteren a-Twitter over Sarah’s Media Buzz//UPDATE
May 1, 2011
Greta is having her own after-glow, because her guest, Sarah Palin, stole the show before and after the annual White House Correspondents drunken one night stand with the people they cover.
She writes today:
“What is fascinating to watch is how the media (all of them!) just can’t get enough of Governor Sarah Palin. They were all taking pictures of her with themselves for souvenirs and writing about her. She was prominent in the Washington Post coverage, Politico and I think the New York Times. Her name and picture was everywhere!
With all the movie stars at the dinner, and big media and government names (Cabinet Secretaries and Senators etc.), whose picture does Vanity Fair show? You guessed it …(and she was only at their after party and not the dinner!)
After her vicious attacks on me last summer–she called me “The Wasilla Stalker”–I’m not eager to give Van Susteren credit, but she nailed it with the observation above.
The very same mainstream media that writes Sarah off from Monday to Friday gets into a tizzy of excitement if they get to meet her in person on Saturday night.
Is it hypocritical and revolting? Of course it is. But media outlets like Vanity Fair are the cash cows come to worship at Sarah’s altar, and we can hardly blame her for milking them for all they’re worth. And they love every tug on the teat she gives them.
UPDATE:
Even our friend Andrew Sullivan got caught up in the festive atmosphere.
Unfortunately, he missed the chance to ask Sarah face-to-face if she’d actually given birth to Trig.
