60 Minutes of Palin? Sixty seconds of her is about 59 seconds too much. Bleh.

Btw, that’s “booger-eating moron and future President” to you.

I have very low expectations of this book as an unbiased campaign narrative, but the excerpts I’ve read so far will certainly piss off some people I enjoy pissing off.

PS: Palin doesn’t watch TV. She’s too busy reading all of those newspapers and magazines that have been in front of her all these years.

The whole Palin phenomenon was—and remains!—surreal. Her fans bristle if you point out the undeniable fact that she is a booger-eating moron. But really, all you have to do is go back and read the transcripts. Any of them. Go back and read any random transcript of any event in which Palin wasn’t reading a script, and her booger-eating moronitude is simply beyond question.

The same people who get all huffy if you rightly call Palin a booger-eating moron are the very same folks who accuse Obama of being an empty suit on which his supporters project their own hopes and longings. But love him or hate him, Obama can string together phrases, sentences and even whole paragraphs extemporaneously without sounding like Miss Teen South Carolina.

Palin can’t. She just can’t do it. That’s why I’m not particularly worried about the prospect of a <<shudder>> Palin presidency. It was outrageous and unprecedented for a VP candidate to get through a race with so little non-Fox media exposure, but it would be impossible for the person at the top of the ticket to do so. And when you get Palin under the lights without a script, it is game over. I think even she knows that.

Betty, I think you’re right. Certain segments of the booger-eating media set tend to think that “notoriety” and “celebrity” lead to inevitable electoral success. These are the people who wondered, for example, if John Glenn running for president the same year that The Right Stuff came out gave him an unfair advantage, inasmuch as it would remind people of his space cowboy heroics. (Of course, in the film, Glenn’s character comes off as the priggish tight-ass of the bunch.)

That’s also why they flogged the idea of Fred Thompson’s candidacy as being such a total game-changer. Everybody knew him from L&O! It was golden!

And remind me how that worked out, again? Palin has high name rec, but it’s a lot like the PUMAs and PUMA-lites bragging about “hits” on their site meter. Differentiating between those who share their beliefs and those who just like seeing a hilarious online disaster is tough.

SARAH PALIN IS A BOOGER-EATING MORON.

Thanks, Kevin, I don’t get to say that as often as I should.

Umm ... when the fuck did Pretty Boy join the 60 Minutes team?

It’s not her fault! If Biden had an easier to remember first name this wouldn’t have been a problem, but noooo! His parents had to give him a liberal elitist name instead of a ReaLAMErican name like Bog or Flute or Elm.

Besides, Sarah met an Asian named Joseph and once that name TOTALLY freaks her out.

Umm ... when the fuck did Pretty Boy join the 60 Minutes team?
Comment by HumboldtBlue on 01/08/10 at 03:51 PM

I was wondering the same damned thing.

How much do you think it’s killing Palin not to lash out at Schmidt on Facebook yet?  I’m sure it’s driving her batshit insane to wait until after the 60 Minutes broadcast on Sunday to go for his throat, which she most certainly will.

Hard to figure who to root for in that fight; with any luck, they’ll kill each other.

Hard to figure who to root for in that fight; with any luck, they’ll kill each other.

The suspense is terrible! I hope it never ends!

Just had to get this out.
I saw this on the Daily show a while back. It was a Barbara Walters interview of Palin. At some point in the interview Walters commented to Palin “You have a way with words” to which Palin replied “Just calling it like it is”.

Why does Jeebus hate us so much? He got his bestseller after we put him on the cross but if this is payback from him then he has gone over the line.