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Intelligent comment from a moron governor June 11, 2009

Posted by downwithabsolutes in Crazy.
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Said in response to the ridiculous David Letterman/Sarah Palin imbroglio:

“The Palins have no intention of providing a ratings boost for David Letterman by appearing on his show,” said Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton. “Plus, it would be wise to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

At least Gov. Palin gets it. That’s all she is and all she’ll ever be: a “ratings boost[er]“. She has absolutely nothing of interest to say on any topic of import. She is an attractive woman who, for some reason, seems to stir up some fantasies in right-wing men who like their woman locked and loaded. The other people who would provide the ratings boost? People who, like me, can’t turn away from the trainwreck because they want to see what stupid thing she’s going to say next.

By the way, nice line there inferring that David Letterman is a pedophile. Now, if that was a joke, then haha, it was actually funny. If not, and you actually BELIEVE that David Letterman is a pedophile, then, who cares? Just like any fool (read: the Palins) who thinks Letterman was ACTUALLY referring to the 14-year-old daughter needs to have his or or her head checked because the INTENT of the joke was so clearly aimed at the Palins’ promiscuous, once-knocked-up, abstinence-is-the-way-to-go, 18-year-old daughter.

Update: Famed feigned-outrage goddess Michelle Malkin never misses a chance to make herself look an obnoxious fool.

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1. cousinavi - June 12, 2009

I guess the premise of the rape humor accusation, then, rests on the presumption that Letterman can distinguish between one Palin spawn and another, and the age of consent – 16 in Alaska and 17 in New York.
Assuming Dave can distinguish between Sleepy, Dopey, Farty, Tic Tic and the rest of the Palin brood, Willow is 14, could not legally consent to sex with A-Rod, so Letterman is making rape jokes.
It’s a bit of stretch. Especially when Bristol was riding Levi just down the hall in the family home.
Frankly, in terms of providing financial support for any accidental, abstinence-only oopsie daisy, Alex is a step up for the Palin girls.
Willow is fourteen, she lives in Alaska where there’s not much else to do, and she has a couple of stunning role models. Who’s taking bets on the due date? They’ll WISH the daddy was A-Rod, instead of the paint huffing son of the turkey geeker.

http://cousinavi.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/save-willow-palin-from-her-mother/

2. Rob Foraker - June 12, 2009

David Letterman sounded and looked like perverted old man when he said things about children, he should leave children out of his topics for comedy….Maybe him and Rush can take trips together…

cousinavi - June 12, 2009

LOL. CNN iReporter?

You must love Sarah Palin – you both speak English like it’s your third language and you barely your first.

3. Mikes boyfriend - June 12, 2009

That’s all she is and all she’ll ever be: a “ratings boost[er]“. She has absolutely nothing of interest to say on any topic of import

This coming from a hack blogger, what have you done in your life? A fat pathetic clown, still at home sucking on mamas tit.

TD - June 15, 2009

Wow…there is some intelligent commentary!

4. Mike Matthews - June 12, 2009

It’s comments like those from Mikes boyfriend that got me into this blogging business five years ago. I really wish there were more comments like this. I find them fascinating.

5. s k - June 12, 2009

you said clearly those comments about rape are not about willow but bristol. but the person who was at the game is willow. then what is so clear to that is not to me in david’s absurd trash??

6. A rod - June 12, 2009

Alex Rodriguez,
Born: 7/27/1975 in New York, NY
That makes him 33.

An older woman I knew pointed out the differences of age and sex.
For the woman in her 40’s she asked “How many times does Twenty go into Forty”.

For A-Rod and Letterman – “Does 33 go into 18? “

7. Dave Christensen - June 12, 2009

Now that Letterman and his ilk have opened up the gates of smarmy comments about the spouses and children of our politicians, have you heard that Michelle Obama fantasizes about having sex with the most powerful man in the world – George Soros?

cousinavi - June 12, 2009

And she will, as soon as your momma leaves Soro’s place.

Ed - September 29, 2009

What a brilliant and original comeback! You must have got up before breakfast to think that one up.

8. Mike Matthews - June 12, 2009

Hell, if he gave me some of his dough, I’d have sex with him, too! Next…!

9. Paula Gropp - June 12, 2009

Since politician’s children are now fair game, I’m looking forward to David’s joke about A-Rod punishing one of Obama’s daughters (pick one, apparently it doesn’t matter) being punished with a baby. That’ll be a hoot!!!!!!!

Oh, that’s right, nevermind. The Palins are pro-life and dealing with a family issue in the public eye that is fair game for ridicule. The Obamas would probably just flush it. No harm, no foul.

cousinavi - June 12, 2009

If Chelsea Clinton had humped her way to teen pregnancy under her mother’s own roof, and then been pimped all over the country to promote her mother’s vapid, hypocritical abstinence only sex-ed crap, it would have been open season.
When Sasha shows up…pregnant on the campaign trail, with Michelle using that pregnancy as an excuse to blither about some ridiculous plank in the party platform, it will be fair enough to ask if and when Malia might follow in her older sister’s footsteps.
The only kid humping the local hockey stick…or the turkey geeker’s son…under their mother’s own roof, then being dressed up in red, white and blue maternity clothes to stump for their vacant, idiot, semi-literate, entitled, certain, arrogant gasbag of a mother IS NAMED PALIN.
Don’t send your kids into the paint and then bawl when they get fouled. You want them off limits, keep them out of the spotlight. Hypocrisy is as hypocrisy does.

Paula Gropp - June 13, 2009

Wow. I sense some deep rooted anger. That’s some first rate classiness you got going on there.

10. Mike Matthews - June 13, 2009

Avi’s also 100% right, Paula.

11. cousinavi - June 13, 2009

@ Paula

Will make every effort to rise to the level of class displayed by Sarah Palin.
Damn. Sorry, I have trouble lying, pandering, exploiting children, being a hypocrite, mangling sentences.
Deep rooted anger, eh? Excellent. You can’t manage the facts, have no principles, so you accuse me of being motivated by anger rather than a sickening frustration at watching some vapid, winking, brainless hillbilly lie her ass off for political advantage and pimp her children for her own selfish, deluded reasons.
You Palin apologists deserve nothing but contempt. If THAT”S the sort of hopelessly ignorant twit you think represents American values and the future, you know nothing about America and have no values.

Paula Gropp - June 13, 2009

I’m calling bullshit on this one. I am NOT a Palin apoligist.

I believe:

1. The sins of the children should not be visited upon the parents, and vice versa. When you have a 17 year old child, you hope that your values have been instilled. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes not. When you use that to attack and destroy a parent, that’s just mean. We all hope that we have done our best. Obama also trotted out his children for an interview on national TV. So far, they are too young to have antics that are of interest to the National Enquirer. But when they are, are they fair game?

2. If you have an issue with the politician, take apart the policy positions. Resorting to name calling and commenting on physical appearance seems to be directed at female politicians, as in “slutty flight attendent.” I never hear the same directed on national TV directed at males, such as Barney Frank’s boyfriend running a male prostitution ring out of Frank’s apartment. I could think up hundreds of jokes about that, but there seems to be an obvious double standard when inferring a female politician is a whore solely because of her looks, when the real whores were in his home. There is so much dirt under Barney’s rug, but no one wants to pick it up and look. Instead, Palin is slammed for being vapid and brainless, and (gasp) she winked!

And for pointing out all of this, I’m called a hopelessly ignorant twit. And that I know nothing about America and I have no values.

The vitriol from the left is astounding. No wonder the USA is going down the shithole.

I also find it incredible that the author of this blog has the balls to call the Governor of a state (that runs a surplus unlike Delaware) calling Palin a moron and stupid, while still living with his mother.

Let me add, cousinavi, you alledge I have no principles. Prove it, or shut your piehole. I disagree with this entire post and thread because bringing children into the mix to destroy the parent, especially for political reasons, is never acceptable. Ever.

cousinavi - June 14, 2009

Bringing in the children to destroy the parent?

Don’t be obtuse. Caribou Barbie’s abstinence only daughter was knocked up under her own roof, then exploited by her mother for POLITICAL ADVANTAGE – paraded around at the RNC and made into a GOP campaign poster BY HER MOTHER.
No one on the other side had to bring anyone INTO anything. Sarah Palin PIMPED her daughter. If mommy is going to use and exploit her kids for politics, you don’t get to whine and be indignant when they take hits for being political props AND a walking demonstration of Sarah Palin’s stupidity and poor parenting skills.
You can object all you like. Go complain to Sarah for cravenly using her teen daughter’s pregnancy as a another wink and wiggle in her vapid, grasping drive for attention and power.

12. Liberalism is indeed a mental disease, just like the PHD written book says. - June 13, 2009

Down with Absolutes (Unless it happens to be a far left wing ideologues in which case its perfectly ok to be be an ‘Absolute’)

Is it ok with you that day after day after day hate speech is being spewed from left wing blogs like KOS, Janeane Garofalo or Rosie O’Donnell and left wing cable TV shows with Olberman, Matthews, EDTV, Anderson Cooper, etc etc with ‘Tea Bagging’ ‘jokes’ and constantly condemnation, ridicule, and discrediting Conservatives with their divisive hate speech? Its ok isn’t it, as long as someone doesn’t return their overwhelming attacks with a few conservative blogs like Michelle Malkin’s, that has opposing views.

Nice. Free speech is a very difficult concept for unhinged libs to understand, isn’t it.

I will give you credit though, You were able to sort of say that a far leftist, Letterman, shouldn’t make rape jokes about SOME conservative women.

One of these days you may even be able to see that ALL conservative women are equal to liberal-communist, democrat women.

13. Mike Matthews - June 13, 2009

Anyone who is ridiculous enough to quote the title to a Michael Savage book proves himself the fool that he obviously is. Come back soon, y’hear!?!?

14. FSP - June 13, 2009

It’s hard for me to objectively weigh in on this whole mess because I honestly don’t like Sarah Palin, and I think that clouds the whole thing for me.

15. Paula Gropp - June 13, 2009

Let me add, if Palin hadn’t shown her children, she’d be bashed for trying to hide them. She was screwed either way by the left.

16. John Young - June 14, 2009
17. Mike Matthews - June 14, 2009

Cousinavi wins the award for best new DWA commenter of the month! Thanks for joining us, avi! I couldn’t agree with you more on this issue.

18. Humpty Dumpty - June 14, 2009

Cousin avi sounds like a product of midnight basket ball.

Good thing Mike is an English major.

Lets first recognize, Mikes first rule of success is to be
“Outrageous”.

99% outrageous. 1% for making sense.

c-avi wins.

19. Maria Evans - June 15, 2009

“…during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.”

That was the comment, but the daughter in NY with Sarah Palin and at the game was the 14 year old, not the 18 year old.

Now, obviously the Letterman writers were unaware of that, but when you find out the Palin kid at the game is the 14 year old daughter, you apologize sincerely for the totally inappropriate comment about a 14 year old girl, instead of making a bigger joke of it the way Letterman did.

It doesn’t matter if you like the kid’s parent or not, or if the kid is on the campaign trail or not, finding out that the joke was about a grown man knocking up a 14 year old girl should make us all gag.

NOW has amazingly stepped up to agree:

The National Organization for Women agrees with Palin, adding Letterman to its hall of shame and chiding him for “wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.”

20. cousinavi - June 15, 2009

I’m beginning to wonder if some folks are either just too stupid, or just obsessed with their own outrage and indignation to get it through their heads…
WHICH DAUGHTER WAS AT THE GAME IS IRRELEVANT.
LETTERMAN THOUGHT IT WAS BRISTOL. THE JOKE WAS ABOUT BRISTOL.
IT WAS AN ABSTINENCE SEX EDUCATION JOKE!
That it turns out to have been Willow does NOT make the joke “about Willow.”
It only allows you sclerotic rage pimps to, ex post facto, accuse Letterman of making a joke about a 14-year-old girl.
There’s no need for any apology, except from Sarah Palin for twisting this into a vicious unfounded accusation that has no basis in fact, AND which would never have been made in the first place if SHE had not cravenly exploited her daughter’s pregnancy for her own personal political ends.
And what NOW thinks is utterly beside the point. They see an opportunity – just like Sarah Palin – to use twisted logic and an assload of tortured assumptions for some attention and a chance to shout up their program.

The suggestion that David Letterman intentionally made a joke about assaulting a child is ridiculous on its face. Anyone who suggests it ought to be embarrassed to engage in such contortions in order to justify such ginned up, misplaced and wasted righteous indignation

21. Maria Evans - June 15, 2009

Letterman’s joke was about A-Rod knocking up Palin’s daughter during the 7th inning stretch of a Yankee’s game. There was only one of Palin’s daughters at the game and she was 14.

That’s the kind of mistake you apologize for because that’s the decent thing to do, even if you don’t like the mother and you thought it was the 18 year old.

22. Mike Matthews - June 15, 2009

Maria,

In case you don’t know what COMEDY is, it relies on the KNOWN. People (en masse) didn’t KNOW it was the 14-year-old in attendance. People DO KNOW that Palin’s 18-year-old, abstinence-lovin’, baby-totin’ daughter is the one who likes sex. Cousinavi’s explanation is right on point. Letterman has no reason to apologize to the 14-year-old because the joke WASN’T ABOUT THE 14-YEAR-OLD!

Had they done the right thing, the Palins would have just kept the fuck quiet and let this thing blow over. Now they’re capitalizing and appearing on every network news broadcast. We get it, Sarah. We know you’re still out there. We know you want to be elected president in 2012. You’ll have your chance. Now stop exploiting your daughters!

John Young - June 16, 2009

Mike, I agree with most of your posts and ideas, but for what Dave Letterman is getting paid, it IS his job to know the 14 year old is at the game, it just is…and apparently Dave has discovered why:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/06/15/letterman_makes_official_apology_to_palin_family.html

Anonymous - June 16, 2009

The fact that Letterman apologized for THE PERCEPTION does not lend any weight to the accusation that he joked about assaulting a child.

Letterman’s JOB is to tell jokes, to amuse and entertain.

The right-wing blithering hypocrisy being loud and strident enough to gain the concession of an apology does not prove the premise – only that squeaky wheels get greased.

Keep on squeaking.

23. Rob Foraker - June 15, 2009

14, 18 or whatever young age, He sounded like a desperate old man. Would you let someone insult you young sibling?

cousinavi - June 15, 2009

If I FIRST advised my teenage daughter not to have sex, THEN let her shack up with her unemployed hockey stick under my own roof, THEN dragged her around the country, pregnant, as a poster child for my Republican family values, it would be sort of tough to complain when people made jokes about my glaring hypocrisy.

Your false equivalency is showing. I can see you trying to hide it behind weak reasoning and poor assumptions, but it’s still showing.

24. John Young - June 16, 2009

I’m not right wing, I’m a common sense guy, if you want to be a David Letterman apologist, go right ahead. Dave is, can be, and should be better than that crass joke, and you know it.

25. cousinavi - June 16, 2009

Letterman is a comedian. He has a perfect right under the First Amendment to make ANY joke he wants, and certainly the right to make a joke about Bristol Palin and abstinence only sex ed. Many other comics have made very similar jokes about Bristol Palin.
To turn THIS joke into some pathetic argument that Letterman intentionally made a joke about sexual assault of a child is disgusting. That was not the joke Letterman told, and he should never have apologized for that twisted interpretation being inflicted upon it.
It’s not Dave’s fault they didn’t…or didn’t WANT to get the joke…and chose to contort logic in order to express their simmering rage.

26. John Young - June 16, 2009

He sure is a comedian and has EVERY right. Each person in America has the co-equal right to interpret it the way they want as well. Dave obviously felt that many many Americans had mis-understood the joke and rightfully concluded it was not their fault, but HIS.

He apologized as he should, now it’s done. Bad joke. He has every right to tell it. I have the right to think he should have at least researched that Willow was at the game because he says A-rod knocked “her” up at the game and even if he meant Bristol, it was Willow at the game, so the joke was very off color. If the joke was about Bristol, which it probably was, it is still a bad joke (not terribly funny) in my book. People reacted witht their freedoms as Dave told the joke with his freedoms.

The FREE MARKET bore a solution: Dave saw fit to apologize, it was sincere, time to move on.

cousinavi - June 16, 2009

Do you think Palin will now apologize for suggesting that David Letterman is a threat to children?

“…It’s a good idea to keep Willow away from David Letterman.”

I reject the notion that anyone is free to interpret a joke in ANY way they see fit. Some interpretations are fair, others are not.
For example, the old joke about the truck breaking down and the driver asks a passerby to take the penguins he’s hauling to the zoo. Later, seeing the passerby and the penguins walking down the street, he asks what’s going on. “I took them to the zoo. Now we’re going to the movies.”
If anyone tries to interpret that joke as racist, sexist, offensive to penguins or truck drivers, they clearly have their head up their ass.
I blogged at length about the logical contortions required to come up with “rape joke”, and about the utter hypocrisy of these same people for FAILING to object to extraordinarily similar jokes by other comedians (absent that niggling little fact of WHICH daughter was ACTUALLY at the game), AND their total silence when a politician remarked than an escaped gorilla was just one of Michelle Obama’s ancestors!
This was nothing more than an opportunity to indignantly climb atop a soap box and express ready made indignation in a craven attempt to shut down any and all future condemnation of Sarah Palin and her despicable exploitation of her rotten parenting skills. SEE who’s willing to take a poke at the vapid, yammering, self-righteous Wasilla twit NOW.
Letterman apologized, but he shouldn’t have. While the joke might not have been funny, it was not “rape joke”, no matter WHAT the blithering idiots THINK they heard. And he should never apologize for their failure to get the joke, or their contemptible infliction of such disgusting motives.

John Young - June 16, 2009

too much venom for my taste. Que sera, sera. Many many Americans do not see it your way and for you to label them with a blanket statement indicting their intelligence speaks voulmes of yours.

Peace.

John Young - June 16, 2009

Also, how much vitriol do youhave for Dave?

He comletely caved according to your logic.

John Young - June 16, 2009

she should apologize 100%. That was as out of line as David.

27. John Young - June 16, 2009

IMUS exercised his freedoms and the market bore its solution there too.

28. cousinavi - June 16, 2009

@ John Young re: Vitriol for Dave.

I don’t think Vitriol is the right word. I’m quite profoundly disappointed that Dave caved – and I do see it as caving.
It was a legitimate joke that had been done before by many.
It was his absolute unfettered right to tell it.
It was not intended to be a rape joke, and in the matter I believe intention is almost everything and perception – especially contorted, strained, willfully blind ones – count for very little.
Now, any time anyone says anything that might possibly be CONSTRUED in SOME way to be offensive, sufficient yammering will extract an apology.
It smacks of speech codes on University campuses which define offensive speech as anything said that offends anyone. That’s no way to measure anything – ALL speech is offensive to SOMEONE.
It would have been one thing for Sarah to say, “Hey, wrong daughter.”
It’s another to say he’s making statutory rape jokes. The extra three steps required to get there reveals the true motive…how badly Palin wanted to strike back.
It would be a shame if comedians now felt that the craven exploitation of the Palin kids by their mother was something that CANNOT be commented upon…the hypocrisy and blatant double standard is exactly the stuff of satire and derision.

29. cousinavi - June 16, 2009

Also @ John….

I think there’s something to that, as well.
There had been many Bristol jokes, and I suspect it bothered the living hell out of Sarah Palin. It drove her BATSHIT to have her nose rubbed in her holier-than-thou Family Values by the facts. And to be made the subject of JOKES? Seething.
SNL made very similar jokes even BEFORE Sarah Palin appeared, yet she still went on the program (perhaps a calculated failure to object in defense of her daughter, perhaps not…it at least appears to be hypocrisy).
In any case, having no office to run for and given this perfect opportunity to strike back while being seen to take a principled stand…off the back of Letterman’s confusing the daughters…ooh.
I really think the joke is UTTERLY beside the point. It was nothing more than manipulative grandstanding. Yet another craven exploitation of her kids. There is NO point beneath which Sarah Palin will not stoop.
SHE made her daughter the subject of rape joke. Not Letterman. And by calling him a pedophile, she looks like a fighter for women’s rights.
Absolutely disgusting.

cousinavi - June 16, 2009

Christ…now I’m wondering if Palin was flipping her traveling offspring back and forth and just waiting for someone to make the mistake.
She can’t object to jokes about Bristol…she DID get knocked up. She might have a case if she left the kid at home, but so long as she’s pimping Bristol out as the No Sex poster child…

AHA! How DARE you JOKE about the RAPE of my 14-year-old daughter WILLOW!

Jesus. Even if Willow turns up preggers next month, no one will dare say a fucking word! Who wants to be labeled a pedophile for making a goddamn ironic observation?

Ashley Rivers - June 17, 2009

It is impossible to read any of the crap signed “cousinavi” without seeing an apoplectic purple face, a wide open mouth, emitting a glass-shattering, E above high C noise. Amazing.

30. cousinavi - June 17, 2009

@ Ashley Rivers:

Eat shit, you snotty biatch.
If you have an argument to make in defense of Sarah Palin, go for it.
Otherwise, hold your yammering ad hominem fantasies for your therapist.
Apoplectic, indeed. Save your dress-up condescension for the day you manage to find someone beneath you.

31. Ashley Rivers - June 18, 2009

I rest my–no, YOU rest my case.

32. cousinavi - June 18, 2009

No one suffering the blithering cockwit suburban moniker ASHLEY – the spawn of people who took baby names from the serial Dynasty – has any business asserting ANY “case.”
Who the fuck do you think you are, you blithering little cheerleader?
IF you ever find someone BENEATH you, THEN you might deign to condescend. Until that unlikely day, show some respect for your betters, you ignorant little crotch fruit.
Your case? You haven’t the spine or brain required for half an attempt at failing. You’ve made no point…no argument…presented no evidence. And until you can work up something resembling reason, feel free to shut the fuck up, you yammering little fuckwit nothing.

33. Ashley Rivers - June 18, 2009

Sometimes it’s just too easy!

34. John Young - June 18, 2009

cousinavi,

you are revolting, oh and weak.

truth.

35. Susan - June 19, 2009

“Nice. Free speech is a very difficult concept for unhinged libs to understand, isn’t it.”

More idiot-speak from the group that worships Limbaugh, Hannity and allowed our free speech to be compromised in the name of “National Security”. And all posted anonymously too.

I think Rush may have some Oxycontin for you, and really it would be a benefit to us all if you took some.

36. Ashley Rivers - June 19, 2009

Susan, the good news is: everyone has free speech. The bad news is: everyone has free speech. The exercise of the first amendment provides both its reward and its penalty.

37. Angry D. - June 20, 2009

What I find amazing is that I have read not one single word here, not ONE, that accurately provides evidence to the following points:

1) That Sarah Palin is not intelligent. Prove it. The commenters on this blog have never run a state, never campaigned for public office, and (judging from their inability to put subject, predicate, and punctuation together) have never attended anything more than community college.

or:

2) That Sarah Palin was “pimping” her daughter for political advantage. In the first place, the comment itself is preposterous. Sarah Palin’s daughter was not a part of the campaign until the MSM broke a story about her pregnancy. At that point, Palin brought her daughter out in an attempt to avoid an Obama-style “hide it and it will go away” rug sweeping attempt. Palin has ALWAYS faced challenges head on. (By contrast, when was the last time someone actually brought up Obama’s connections to more than 31 known anti-American terrorist groups through his mid-twenties and splashed it on the front page of a magazine. Oh, right. NEVER!)

What I have seen is a lot of name calling. Just because some jackass with a blog calls someone stupid doesn’t make it so. I have a blog. So frickin’ what? 13-year-old GIRLS have blogs (and most of them write better than Mike Matthews, from what I’ve witnessed here.)

This same ridiculous crap was leveled at Bush while he was in office. Celebrities who barely graduated from community colleges (Streisand) or never even made it INTO college (Pick a Baldwin, Penn, Sarandon) called him stupid, ignorant, and bumbling.

Um. Yeah. Yale graduates are known for these things, aren’t they?

Unless you can find a way to prove Palin’s supposed lack of intelligence, such as by outing her raw SAT scores, college transcripts, or an actual I.Q. test, your name calling is superficial and transparent. It covers up for the things you CAN’T attack about Palin:

1) She’s good at what she does. Her primary detractors are from California and New York, two states that are reeling and about to declare bankruptcy because leftists have been running them into the ground for decades. (Hey, why is no one commenting on how stupid Pelosi is now that her home city is running a 73% budget shortfall under her “management.”) Doesn’t competence denote some matter of intelligence and skill? Doesn’t INCOMPETENCE denote some matter of stupidity and fumbling?

Palin’s state is running a surplus and has one of the highest education standards and lowest jobless rates in the country. Even from here in Washington State I can see that she’s a hell of a lot better at what she does than our governor Gregoire.

2) She’s poised. I’ve never seen the woman raise her voice, lose her composure, or be even one whit as disrespectful to her opponents as they are to her. These are people that have trumpeted that she has sex for money (they called her a whore) because she was a beauty pageant winner and used those proceeds to go to school. (My mom was a cocktail waitress and it paid for three Master’s degrees. I used the military to get to my four degrees. Everyone takes a route that suits them.)

3) She’s smarter than they are. Mathews, put your money where your mouth is. Why don’t you write a nice letter to Governor Palin? Explain that you are under the impression that she’s not particularly intelligent and you would like a chance to debate her publicly. Explain to her that a third-rate blogger such as yourself has a better handle on how to run a state than she does. I’m sure she’d be interested in taking up your challenge.

But we all know you’ll never have the courage to do that. You’ll come up with some lame-ass excuse: “Right! The Governwhore will never respond to me!” Maybe you’ll just laugh and ignore this. Who knows? Who cares? We all know that as soon as you read it you’ll delete it so no one else sees it– but it’s going to continue to gnaw at you. You’ll be laying in bed tonight and you’re going to suddenly remember my challenge and the reality that you DIDN’T have the balls to rise to it.

What really is going to ass you off is my next point: You know as well as I do that you really don’t have a leg to stand on when you attack Palin on these grounds. I can easily point to Obama as INCOMPETENT and CORRUPT. One need only look at his appointments to see this, why else would a governor who can’t keep her own borders secure be named Homeland Security Director? Why else would a known tax cheat be appointed treasury secretary.

These are called FACTS, and they support my allegations and provide evidence to bolster my less-than-stellar opinion of our Chief Executive.

Unfortunately, you DON’T have facts about Palin. You have windy rhetoric and some vile names. You attack her on the grounds that her daughter got pregnant so her whole campaign platform is flawed. Nice try. Speaking as a teacher I can tell you that abstinence education actually DOES work, unfortunately not that well, which is why I don’t support it myself and disagree with Palin on those grounds.

However will you please explain what her abstinence-based sex education flaws have to do with developing a state budget? Could you perhaps cover why her position on this matter has something to do with coordinating state taxation? Maybe you could help me out and explain what her position on illegitimate children has to do with, well, ANYTHING that has to do with running an executive branch properly.

The reality is simple: you hate Palin because she’s everything you’re NOT: successful, attractive, focused, powerful, and a leader. She draws fire from the unhinged left because she galvanizes people to rise up against their insanity and she doesn’t fear them.

YOU fear HER. That’s why you hate her. That’s why she’s a legitimate target for the most baseless of attacks. That’s why the left sees it as open season on her family: ANYTHING is justified if it makes her look bad.

Guess what: YOU and your ilk look like BULLIES. SHE looks like she is handling you just fine.

Hey, tonight, when you’re lying in bed thinking about your lack of balls, remember this: the ends do not justify the means. Try attacking her on something a little more tangible than her daughter’s lack of judgment. God knows we’ve all made mistakes.

I can think of one YOUR MOM made. There, now I’ve descended to your level so you can actually understand a point I made.

I am Angry D and I approved this message. Accept no substitutes!

-=D=-

38. Mike Matthews - June 20, 2009

I’d like to extend an invite to Angry D to write on this here blog. It will surely increase the blog’s IQ by at least five or ten points! Thanks for that touching screed, O Angry One! Good stuff.

39. John Young - June 20, 2009

Angry,

Weak. Terribly one sided, and if you bother reading Mike you would know not only is he intelligent, if not a bit overindulgent in his use of adjectives and adverbs, he has begun to distance himself from Obama.

Check the FUBO tags.

You are a poor writer and a worse analyst.

I’m an educated blogger, accept that substitute!

40. Mike Matthews - June 20, 2009

To be sure, I really wasn’t kidding about extending that invite to Angry D. I’m ready to wrap things up here and I’m thinking of “auditioning” some new folks to take over.

41. cousinavi - June 22, 2009

@ Angry D

I’ve never seen Palin answer a question without descending into a ridiculous salad of nonsense; a string of unrelated words and concepts that I’m sure SOUNDS like a thoughtful answer to a five podunk school beauty queen, but which utterly fails to cut mustard with thinking people (or English speakers).

As for GWB being a Yalie, he wouldn’t be the first incompentent rich boob to gain admission or the degree based on a surname rather than performance. One notes you don’t post HIS transcript even as you demand Palin’s (a document SHE has not made public). We DO know, however, how John S. McCain performed academically and as a pilot…AND as a husband.

It isn’t ABOUT being able to “better run a state” (as though she were elected on that basis). It’s about having read the Constitution. It’s about having read a fucking NEWSPAPER. It’s about the inane blithering stupidity of “Drill, Baby, Drill!” and her hypocrisy, and her exploitation of her children, and her accusations that Obama “Pals around with terrorists” while SHE takes photo ops with HENRY KISSINGER while clearly lacking the FIRST FUCKING CLUE about Chile and Allende, or East Timor, or Cambodia, or ANY of the things that make that man a cunting WAR CRIMINAL.

Obama…incompetent and corrupt? Only if you rely on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity for “facts,” which would not surprise me in the least.

You, sire, are an idiot. Too stupid to know how stupid you are. My advice to you is this: Don’t change a thing, and get out there and campaign for the useless, brainless, Christ-fascist fuckwit Palin. You’re exactly what she needs. Don’t change a things, baby (and whatever you do, never start THINKING). I love you just the way you are.

42. Mike Matthews - June 22, 2009

Cousinavi FTW!

43. cousinavi - June 22, 2009

@ Mike

Never quit.
Take a break. Take a rest.
BUT NEVER QUIT.
They won’t. And those who persevere WILL win.

“And when we had thought about those words long enbough, “Endeavor to persevere,” we declared war on the Union.”

“They didn’t make me surrender. They made my horse surrender, though. I think they got him pullin’ a wagon up in Kansas.”

“Well…that’s how it always goes. Whenever I get to likin’ someone they ain’t around long.”
“I notice when you get to DISLIKIN’ someone, they ain’t around long neither.”

Never quit.
NEVER QUIT!

Are you gonna pull them pistols, or you gonna whistle Dixie?”

“Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin’, boy.

Never. Quit.
And the idea of ceding ANY ground to ignorant yammering fuckwits like Angry D cranks my shit into another entire dimension of WTF.

44. FSP - June 22, 2009

Without getting involved in the debate, I have to say that “a ridiculous salad of nonsense” is the funniest thing I’ve read in days.

45. RSmitty - June 22, 2009

FSP, you dare diss Clueville? To my office. We need to chat.

46. cousinavi - June 22, 2009

@ FSP & RSmitty

Far be it from me to call anyone quitters, but…
It would seem from your linkies that y’all are packing it in. Turning it over to other bloggers. Leaving the expression of principle in original words to others.
Does that also entail forgoing objection?
Just wondering how far your capitulation extends.

“They didn’t make me surrender. They made my horse surrender, though. I think they got him pullin’ a wagon up in Kansas.”

“And when we had thought about those words, ‘Endeavor to persevere,’ long enough, we declared war on the Union.”

NEVER. QUIT.
Get it RIGHT, son. NEVER.
NEVER QUIT.
Not ever.

47. RSmitty - June 22, 2009

Yeah, well, I have to work and refocus myself. I mean, you are more than welcome to be a sugar daddy and all, but I’m thinking that won’t pan out for now. ;-)

48. Ashley Rivers - June 22, 2009

Cousinavi, Cousinavi, tiny little Cousinavi, you’re just as incoherent as you were the last time mommie let you up out of the basement. Angry D, man, you rock!

49. cousinavi - June 22, 2009

@ Ashley

It’s truly sweet…
I love that you can’t get your head around the language – that it’s incomprehensible to you.
It merely confirms what a yammering, shallow fuckwit you were then and are now.
Keep it up, you blithering backward doggy-style whore.
Angry D Man? That’s what you consider reason and perspective?
Don’t change a thing. You stammering fuckwits are doing a GREAT job!
Conservative values will rise again on the strength of your brilliant insight.
Racist, regional, southern, gun-loving, anti-abortion, minority hating, backward dittohead imbeciles.
Really…don’t change A THING. I love you JUST the way you are.
Tom Tancredo, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor…
YOU GO, YOU WILD KIDS!

50. cousinavi - June 22, 2009

Also @ Ashley

ANY time, you yammering pee flap, you would like to step in any public forum and compare ANY sort of credentials – academic, work experience, citations, published work, visa stamps in passports…YOU can pick the measure (aside form squabs squeezed out of your birth canal)…I’d be more than happy to present bona fides. Have you got any?
Or are you limited to projection about living off your Momma’s teat?

51. A conservative, with a memory. - June 22, 2009

“the Palins would have just kept the fuck quiet and let this thing blow over.”

Keep rape secret?

50 years ago, this was the rule. especially if it was daddy,
or uncle avi.

It naturally was emulated by the church with pedophilia.

And works for today’s military, in don’t ask, don’t tell.

Wrong then, wrong now.

So the rape of an 18 year old is ok by a 32 year old celeb guy with a big club?

52. cousinavi - June 23, 2009

“Keep rape a secret?”

When you start from a fucked up, dirty, Freudian place like that, how am I supposes to oppose you with mere facts?

Don’t change a thing. I love you just the deluded way you are.

53. Ashley Rivers - June 23, 2009

Cousinavi your hatred of Sarah Palin is pathological. You have shown absolutely no sense of proportion, no frustration tolerance, a free-floating hostility toward people in general, along with overwhelming evidence that you live in a perpetual tantrum. In other words . . . you are still an infant! I see no point in speaking to you any longer, I feel squeamish . . . as if I am bullying a baby.

54. John - June 23, 2009

Ashley,

Cousinavi is a repressed and deranged individual with no respect for decency. Ignore is the new strategy. Knowing that Cousinavi is a lunatic will suffice.

55. cousinavi - June 24, 2009

Oooh! Someone is reading psychology!
Pathological, indeed. Here is a woman that traveled from whistle stop to podunk backwater ginning up racist hatred with accusations of being a Muslim…a terrorist sympathizer against the man who is now your President. A woman who is unable to string together a coherent sentence, doesn’t read, exercises political office for personal vendetta and advantage, and bases her thinking on faith in a particular sky wizard which, according to HER, casts out demons and protects her from WITCHCRAFT.
And you want her treated with some sense of PROPORTION!?
A woman who intentionally cast her own child in rape imagery to gin up attention by attacking a comedian over a joke that had been told 100 previous times, and which she had ignored or CONDONED on each and every occasion. That you defend such a craven, despicable, ignorant, talentless, vapid insult to democracy says more about you than my distaste for same says about me.

You can save your juvenile text book potpourri of symp-psych Dr. Phil label insults. Frustration tolerance, eh? I’ll GIVE you that one – I have no patience for the stubbornly stupid. No surprise you would defend Palin…birds of a feather.

Bullying a baby, huh? Get your nose back in your book – look up cognitive dissonance. I can only wonder what other fantastic things you need to believe in order to sort the world out in some utterly fucked up mythology that makes living tolerable for you.

56. John Young - June 24, 2009

a continuance of the weak and addled approach to attack. It reveals you and your stunning narcissism, not me. I have a very positive self esteem that is ot codependent on anyone or anything, least of all, the invective of an ill-mannered, blathering, sycophant, like you.

bring on the 50 centers, we can dance all you want, but you are simply not armed appropriately for this fight.

57. John Young - June 24, 2009

a continuance of the weak and addled approach to attack. It reveals you and your stunning narcissism, not me. I have a very positive self esteem that is not codependent on anyone or anything, least of all, the invective of an ill-mannered, blathering, sycophant, like you.

bring on the 50 centers, we can dance all you want, but you are simply not armed appropriately for this fight.

58. cousinavi - June 24, 2009

The post so nice you said it twice!
Narcissism? Sycophant? LOL! To whom would you suggest I’m sucking up?
Christ, do you people even bother with dictionaries, or do you merely love tossing around big words you don’t understand in the hope that others will be equally baffled and thus impressed?
There’s nothing weak or addled, little fella – my “attack” relies on facts. That you resort to such simpering ad hominum bullshit over anything resembling a substantive answer…well, that’s your problem, not mine. Ill-mannered, indeed. Perhaps I should take my cue from you and slap some insults about that have no relevance or reason about them, you angular, hirsute dodecagon! lmao.
When you can manage to put together a coherent sentence, employ words with some regard for their meaning, spell, punctuate, and (here’s hoping) drop the Oprah-esque resort to very telling claims about your “self-esteem” and resistance to “co-dependency,” feel free to try again. But if all you have is angry, shaking, frustrated, illiterate stomping, do yourself a favour and go back to pretending to ignore me.
One does not require much in the way of arms to dismiss a myopic little knee-jerk wet fart such as yourself. Armed appropriately? LOL. The way you keep stabbing yourself, all I need is time.

59. John Young - June 24, 2009

spell? ad hominem is correct.

Calling me a hairy 12 sided polygon is the epitome of your banal and weak references to irrelevant issues.

you are indeed just a flame throwing pseudo-intellectual who is trying to brashly talk down anyone you can by spending your time with a dictionary and then deploying your fresh kill in scurrilous, ill-mannered and pointless attacks on anyone you don’t like. You motivations are not just suspect, they are unsubstantial and very self serivng. You operate in such a way that confirmation bias is your mous operandi and that’s just sad.

As I said before, you are just not well armed for indeed you have the knife at this gun fight.

60. cousinavi - June 24, 2009

spell? ad hominem is correct.

Calling me a hairy 12 sided polygon is the epitome of your banal and weak references to irrelevant issues.

Sarcasm. Do you get it? You have yet to make a substantial claim, or provide any evidence for anything you say. Save your “substantial” hypocrisy for someone who’s impressed by your vapid vocabulary and semi-literate ranting. The issue, you pathetic little brat, is Sarah Palin and her dramatic, craven, grasping, disingenuous, vacuous, bullshit double standards.
I well understand why you would hesitate to defend her on the facts – they all cut my way.
Similarly, it’s no surprise that you resort to stomping your feet in a series weakly constructed, misspelled, blithering foolishness that amounts to little more than breath-holding tantrums and insisting that I’m a poopy head. You haven’t the ability, the education or the knowledge base to respond with anything else.
As for my credentials, you pissant little spooge stain, I’ll lay odds and take any bet you can squeeze out of your piggy bank that I hold FAR greater academic credentials than you; have traveled to and lived in more countries, speak more languages and am more than qualified to disdain whatever it is that allows YOU to think you have ANY basis whatsoever for condescending to me, you ignorant little turd.

you are indeed just a flame throwing pseudo-intellectual who is trying to brashly talk down anyone you can by spending your time with a dictionary and then deploying your fresh kill in scurrilous, ill-mannered and pointless attacks on anyone you don’t like. You motivations are not just suspect, they are unsubstantial and very self serivng. You operate in such a way that confirmation bias is your mous operandi and that’s just sad.

As I said before, you are just not well armed for indeed you have the knife at this gun fight.

Yes, yes. You said that already. You simply have me intellectually outgunned, over matched. Any time you’re willing to put that desperate little notion (speaking of self-serving illusions) to the test, let me know. Somehow, I remain certain that being forced to concede that I have more paper, more mileage, more experience…more [insert relevant quality here], you will go on clinging to your ridiculous, unfounded and utterly stupid conviction that you’re just too smart to deal with anyone who has the nerve to disagree with you…and ESPECIALLY those that bury you with niggling little things like FACTS.
BTW, what is it with you and the word “indeed”? You toss it around like a yammering CNN anchor. On top of the poor punctuation, weak spelling and the rest of your cobbled up word crutches, do you think dropping that into every third or fourth sentence adds much? Indeed. It’s not a substitute for SUBSTANCE…you know, having a POINT and some sort of reason to support it.
Keep up the good work, you snotty little bitch. Never change. You’re perfect just the way you are.

61. John Young - June 24, 2009

yawn, oh yeah look up and you’ll see I attacked Lettermen and never defended Palin, a distinction you are too unrefined to make.

Indeed.

62. John Young - June 24, 2009

“As for my credentials, you pissant little spooge stain, I’ll lay odds and take any bet you can squeeze out of your piggy bank that I hold FAR greater academic credentials than you; have traveled to and lived in more countries, speak more languages and am more than qualified to disdain whatever it is that allows YOU to think you have ANY basis whatsoever for condescending to me, you ignorant little turd.”

arrogant much? I pity you. You are sad, vain, rude, obnoxious and your language is fetid. I hope you recover someday and learn that treating people as you do is a one way ticket. I hope you find the peace that you so obviously seek and need.

63. cousinavi - June 24, 2009

Your sample is too narrow. You have no idea how I treat people – only the yammering kneejerk brainless fuckwits…namely you and your little friend, Ms. Rivers.
It’s not arrogance. It’s the simple recognition that I know what I’m talking about and you don’t; that I’ve benefited from an education and that my perspective is not that of a poorly traveled, bitter, frustrated wannabe with a paltry vocabulary and pretentious attitude.
I understand you need to make your childish little assumptions about wants and needs – you have no argument, no substance nor ability to present anything beyond what must pass for gratifying condescension in your ugly little corner of the world.
YOU pity ME?? Haul your head out of your ass, kid. You’re an embarrassment. See something of the world. Read a fucking book. Learn something about…well..any-fucking-thing. But don’t come slopping around my planet with a soggy bag full of bad thinking and stunted literacy and expect to be taken seriously OR treated with the respect only you think you’ve earned.
Now, really…fuck off. You’re an annoying little shit, and unless you have something relevant to say and some evidence or argument to back it up, I’m finished wasting my time with you. You’re too stupid to know your place or recognize your better.

John Young - June 24, 2009

i also see you did not debunk my assertion that I never propped up the Palins. your flamethrowing is just weak.

indeed.

64. John Young - June 24, 2009

Wow, you are amazing. A real tool.

we finally agree, this conversation could not be more worthless or a waste of my time. You offer nothing to the planet, except arrogance and vapid ill informed diatribe to prop up your fragile and clearly deficient ego.

you got Id though, lots of addled id.

truth.

65. Susan - June 24, 2009

Please shut up.

Truth

66. anon - June 24, 2009

yeah cousinavi, shut up.

67. annoni - June 25, 2009

the truth is revealed…

cousinavi is really Joe Biden!!!!!