Palin Praises The "Energy" Of The Crowds At Her Rallies
This is a good one. In an interview with a local TV station in North Carolina, Sarah Palin offered glowing praise of what she rather delicately termed the "energy" of her rallies:
QUESTION: You've been at this particular part of your career now for several weeks. what's been your greatest surprise and greatest frustration so far?PALIN: Oh, greatest surprise has been the energy at these rallies. Amazing people -- it's such a diverse group of people showing up at these rallies, just very energizing and supportive.
And that encourages us of course to get through the day and get that message out there about the change that's coming, about the tickets that have such contrasts in them. So the people who've been at these rallies have just been absolutely the most wonderful and encouraging surprise.
There's no quibbling with one thing she said: Her crowds are indeed "supportive." As for the "energy" at these rallies, the reporter who was assaulted at a recent Palin gathering might find that a bit of an understatement.
Late Update: Here's the video:
Yeah, but Palin Got Snubbed by the Alfred E. Neuman Dinner
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=4087
October 17, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, well, if by "diverse" you mean "older and whiter" than the rest of America, then, I'd agree: you've got quite the "diverse" audience, Guv.
October 17, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Mentally challenged.
October 17, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
W00t!
The Ohio voting case? Possibly 600,000 votes lost? The court just sided with us!
WooooooooooooHoooooooooooooooooo
October 17, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Democracy wins.
October 17, 2008 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG that makes me so happy!
October 17, 2008 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Truth in advertising, 200,000 of the 600,000 (you falsly claim) don't match SSN and DMV data bases. All the GOP wanted was county election officials to have access to the 200,000 now to start correcting the list.
October 17, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Diverse? I've seen the crowd shots at her rallies. Diverse really isn't the first word that comes to mind.
I really need a Palin-American dictionary to help me understand this woman.
October 17, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
There are a lot of different shades of white.
October 17, 2008 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
A whiter shade of Palin.
October 17, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
damn you two, now I keep humming Kights in white satin as I read through the posts
October 17, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
You obviously don't speak Pro-American.
October 17, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can tell how that other reporter's being assaulted sits with you, Greg. Your sarcasm fairly dripped from that post.
LOL
Good work - it's outrageous - that guy was kicked hard enough to go down - that's insane. That's too fucking fascist thug for words.
October 17, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Diverse"??
Does she mean they run the whole gamut of tall to short, male to female, white to really white conservatives?
October 17, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're very diverse. Some shout "Kill him" while others shout "Terrorist!"
See, diversity!
October 17, 2008 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Feel better about your Red Sux? Told you not to give up so early (although, byt the middle of the 7th, I already had).
October 17, 2008 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “We’ve watched John McCain over the years do things like Patients’ Bill of Rights, the McCain-Feingold reform bill. A number of cases where he has been able to reach across the aisle and get things done, even with Kennedy and Edwards and people like that, Feingold, people like that on the Democratic side. Can you give me a case where Barack Obama has reached across the aisle and cut a deal and gotten something done for the country? One example.”
Governor David Paterson: “Well, Senator Obama has been there two years and I can’t cite an example right now. But I know that did he collaborate with one of Republican senators on one of the issues. I just can’t name it off the top — ”
Matthews: “But the problem is you’re basing his success on a lack of achievement aren’t you? You’re saying he’s going to succeed and you can’t name a success.” …
Proving once again that Oilbama, who voted FOR the Bush Cheney Energy Bill, is the Emptyist of Empty Suits.
October 17, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're really a parody, aren't you? You never vary and I find your comments utterly hilarious these days.
Good job with the satire on stupid McLame-Painful supporters.
October 17, 2008 12:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pathetic is more like it. Chances are excellent that DemBillC didn't even write that.
October 17, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I agree - it's always the same shit. Maybe it's just a troll program.
October 17, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Be nice if Dem Bill C would stick around to argue some of these points.
October 17, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe Paterson couldn't remember, but I can.
Obama successfully worked with Dick Lugar to pass the Lugar-Obama bill which dealt with securing weapons in old soviet countries to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.
He also worked Sen. Coburn to pass the "Google for government" bill that created the website that allows people to see everything that the government is spending money on and who they're contracting with.
Any notion that Obama doesn't have a track-record of working across the aisle is pure ignorance.
October 17, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
High-larious.
Imagine putting out this much energy to achieve nothing?
Must be a Cubs fan. (Sorry Chicago, just kidding)
October 17, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Proving once again that Oilbama, who voted FOR the Bush Cheney Energy Bill, is the Emptyist of Empty Suits."
Dem Bill C, starring in the new movie, "Troll Jizz: The Goo that gets you"
October 17, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Diverse? Well we know know why Palin believes Alaska is a microcosm of America, because she's sees about as many non-White folks at her rallies as she does in Alaska.
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October 17, 2008 12:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
The African Press International news agency, which reported that Michelle Obama called to protest its coverage of WND investigative stories about her husband – characterizing the source of the material as "racist" and describing WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi as "evil" – now is calling on the possible first lady of the United States to "come clean" about her call.
As WND reported, the Norway-based API said Michelle Obama called to accuse the agency of "colluding with American Internet bloggers in an effort to bring down her husband."
The Obama campaign immediately denied there had been any telephone call from Michelle Obama, flatly dismissing the story as "not real" and "made up." API later responded by claiming it had recorded the conversation. Besieged by demands from both sides of a campaign that has reached the white-hot stage, the agency said although it had the tapes, it would not release them immediately. Now, in a statement dated Friday because of the time difference, API Chief Editor Korir has promised that the tape will be made available after his lawyers clear it for publication, and he denied being an advocate either for or against Obama's campaign. He said the delay also is intended to allow Michelle Obama to explain her actions first. There was no response to a WND call to the Obama campaign headquarters in Chicago tonight to request a comment.
Will Racist and American Hater, Michelle Oilbama, whose husband voted for the Bush Cheney Energy Bill, sink her husbands campaign with her big fat mouth?
Stay tuned.
October 17, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very deadpan! One would almost believe you mean the shit you are saying. Not sure about your Norway-based punctuation, however.
October 17, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw that supposed quote. The cadence is all wrong, and anybody who thinks it's an accurate quote from Michelle is delusional. It reads like a Nigerian scam e-mail.
October 17, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
DumbBill,
That article was proven to be fake days ago. We're on a new news cycle now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/15/fake-michelle-obama-inter_n_134864.html
October 17, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
ROFL...I bet she said "Whitey" in that call too. Speaking of which, exactly when is Larry Johnson going to release his video or was it audio or did he just hear it or did someone tell him about it?
October 17, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
When she talks about the 'change that is coming,' why do I get a slight chill down my spine?
There's something very ominous about those words when they come from her mouth.
October 17, 2008 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, that's when Bambi starts showing her true side - the side that would watch with it's head cocked to one side, so kittenish, that sparkling smile playing about her lips, while her supporters burnt you at the stake.
October 17, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean the real life version of Deloris Umbridge?
October 17, 2008 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
She scares the crap out of me as well.
October 17, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good - she should.
My mother warned about women like her - I keep trying to pass that along to other women, too.
God my mom was smart about some things.
October 17, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does she know something we don't? October surprise?
October 17, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, DEATH THREATS and ASSAULT, what's not to be "proud" of???
And the partisan Bush-controlled Secret Service is aiding and abetting it all
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/observer2/2008/10/bush-rove-controlled-secret-se.php
As for "diverse", well she might have a point. You got:
* closet racists who use "muslim" fears as an excuse to vote against the black guy
* rightwing ideologues who itch for a culture war
* religious fanatics who believe Palin is a signal the Rapture is coming
* uncloseted out-and-out racists
* criminal thugs, who agitate for violence -- can we call them terrorists?
It's a regular Rainbow Coalition all right.
It really is something of a lynch mob developing there. All it takes is one wacko with a gun to show up for this to become something very dangerous. Playing with fire.....
October 17, 2008 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm...an actual report of prosecutable violence against a campaig supporter.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-supporter-assaults-female-mccain-volunteer-in-new-york/
October 17, 2008 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
TPM? DemBillC routinely plagiarizes the writing of other individuals. For instance, the post beginning with "The African Press...." is lifted entirely from World News Daily.
I tend to think WDN is one of the crack-pottiest of the crackpots, but plagiarism is plagiarism, and why is Election Central willing to accept comments from an individual who does nothing BUT plagiarize other writers?
October 17, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, DEATH THREATS and ASSAULT, what's not to be "proud" of???
And the partisan Bush-controlled Secret Service is aiding and abetting it all
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/observer2/2008/10/bush-rove-controlled-secret-se.php
As for "diverse", well she might have a point. You got:
* closet racists who use "muslim" fears as an excuse to vote against the black guy
* rightwing ideologues who itch for a culture war
* religious fanatics who believe Palin is a signal the Rapture is coming
* uncloseted out-and-out racists
* criminal thugs, who agitate for violence -- can we call them terrorists?
It's a regular Rainbow Coalition all right.
It really is something of a lynch mob developing there. All it takes is one wacko with a gun to show up for this to become something very dangerous. Playing with fire.....
October 17, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
No offense, but can we take a cue from Obama and stay cool about this rather than not? I don't like seeing the fear-factor ratcheted up like this - we can't do anything about it, in the first place, except worry.
I can tell you from years and years of experience: worrying never changed one damn thing.
October 17, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
^C^V Co-sign. Nothing to see here. The loonies will stay marginalized as long as we don't feed them attention. As for the radical palinites taking seditious action, say what you want about the SS but those guys are all about their job. They do not play games or mess around. They take protecting their man VERY seriously. Is much as I love the conspiratorial notion that the bushies have politicized the SS, I don't believe it for a minute.
October 17, 2008 1:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's the stupidest goddamn conspiracy yet.
Hands down!~
October 17, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Secret Service is as immune from Bush/Rove political machinations as the DOJ. Oh wait ....
I listened to people lecture us about the 'tremendous professionalism' of the SS, and that they were on top of these threats.
Then the SS claimed the threats didn't happen based on interviews with the pro-McCain crowds themselves.
And remember this?
http://www.star-telegram.com/667/story/486413.html
Stinks to high heaven.
Tena, this is not about ratcheting up fear, but about the outrage of another government agency being abused by Bush-Rove-McCain.
October 17, 2008 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Worrying alone might not solve anything, but as I've posted elsewhere, it's getting harder not to be a little afraid. And I'm definitely considering finding a good self-defense class in case I run into one of these bearded bigots looking to buckle my knee.
October 17, 2008 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, that is a damn funny comment coming from someone who uses Don Knotts as an avatar.
;)
October 17, 2008 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Golly, that lynch mob sure is full of team spirit.
October 17, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm so fucking sick of this woman. Less than three weeks until she becomes a Trivial Pursuit answer.
October 17, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heh thats a nice way to put it.
October 17, 2008 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was thinking about what the future holds for her after the Secret Service and protective media shield is gone. Her approval rating in Alaska is dropping, she may have charges waiting for her when she gets back. I'm betting that Levi's going to ditch Bristol before there's any wedding. She'll be in a "Where Are They Now?" column in Parade magazine in a couple of years.
On the upside, she'll have some great career opportunities open up for her in supermarket openings and car shows. If she gets contact lenses, they might even let her show the sexy new concept cars.
October 17, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink