Tuesday Morning News Dump

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1 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:09 AM (TAu/7)

2 Early again.

Posted by: HH at January 27, 2015 08:10 AM (Ce4DF)

3 Morning Morons

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 27, 2015 08:11 AM (znRvO)

4 Yay, Dump!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 08:11 AM (fwARV)

5 Did everyone get lost?

Posted by: HH at January 27, 2015 08:11 AM (Ce4DF)

6 What Eurocrats Really Fear, Greece Quits And Thrives

Not. Going. To. Happen. Communists will be Communists and fail spectacularly, even if they hang onto power longer than they would without the inevitable repression of their opposition.

Posted by: steveegg at January 27, 2015 08:11 AM (cL79m)

7 Mornin! Just finished reading the morning thread comments... here's inside look at NFL ballboy investigation!! http://bit.ly/1CbLXfD

Posted by: Yip at January 27, 2015 08:13 AM (84SRe)

8 Washington Nearsider, if you make it over here.... hang in there!

Posted by: Yip at January 27, 2015 08:14 AM (84SRe)

9
In first the lawyers, then the judges news:

The Supreme Court has ended a lawsuit against a disgraced Detroit judge who had an affair with a woman whose child support case he was presiding over.

Former Wayne County judge Wade McCree had a sexual relationship with Geniene La Shay Mott while he was overseeing the case between her and her ex-husband, Robert King, in 2012.

But on Monday, the Supreme Courts justices dismissed the action, stating that judges are immune from lawsuits stemming from their judicial actions. They offered no further comment.

The justices decision followed similar rulings by lower courts, including the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, which also cited existing US law that judges are immune from such suits.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:15 AM (kdS6q)

10 I'm here.

Still hanging in.

I have to say, I'd be a lot better if they'd let me drink in the office.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at January 27, 2015 08:15 AM (fwARV)

11 Tuesday is Palin Bashing Day.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (MQEz6)

12 Falling Gas Tax Revenue Has CA Considering A Mileage Tax

Usage or conservation. But not both.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (TAu/7)

13 Sarah Palin article made me look up "pasquinade".

I appreciate that. Don't get enough occasions to learn new words.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (1xUj/)

14 Amy Winehouse? Sarah Palin may be a lot of things but Winehouse, not.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (znRvO)

15 Al Sharpton Vs. The Teleprompter Part: 4

For the record, RVERY night is Al vs. The Teleprompter. It's truly hilarious. Some of the best comedy on TV. He's a parody of himself.

And he never gets any better.

"Coach.......uh...of the Noo En-gland Pay. Tree. Ots. Bill Belly...Bella...uh, coach..."

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (7ObY1)

16
Benedict Cumberbatch in race storm: 12 Years A Slave star says he was an "idiot" for calling black people "coloured" on Tavis Smiley show

Asked for comment, the NAACP expressed their outrage....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (kdS6q)

17 Sigh, EVERY, not whatever mishmash my fingers typed.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (7ObY1)

18 Did everyone get lost?
Posted by: HH

We're slow readers.

Posted by: dogfish at January 27, 2015 08:17 AM (1vYi0)

19 Morning all. Running late this AM.

Posted by: Bigby's Baseball Mitt at January 27, 2015 08:17 AM (3ZtZW)

20 Palin had it partly right. The man can't climb on my back if my back is bent...but the boys sure can.

Posted by: Noted Pederast Hairy Reid at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (7ObY1)

21
Sarah Palin Slips into Self-Parody

NRO, the voice of the RNCe. There is a reason I quit going to that site long ago.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (wlDny)

22 Foreign Firms funding anti-fracking greens. Kinda makes one believe the suspicions of the 60s anti-war movement. Kinda makes one suspicious of the democrat party's efforts to stop the CIA from 'spying on Americans'. Kinda makes one suspicious of our current government who seems so sympathetic to the environmental groups.

But of course, only ignorant, rednecks believe there are communists in the US working to sabotage the country.

Posted by: Reginald Smythe-Beufort at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (dfVpK)

23 Ben and Gabe getting some ink this morning.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (VlmBw)

24 Same for the WaEx.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (wlDny)

25 "Falling gas tax revenue"

From the article itself: 2003 = 2.3 Billion, 2013 = 2.62 Billion.

Only in Leftcoastland is an increase "falling"...
or in Potowmackland.

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (/jpU8)

26 16
Benedict Cumberbatch in race storm: 12 Years A Slave star says he was an "idiot" for calling black people "coloured" on Tavis Smiley show

Asked for comment, the NAACP expressed their outrage....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM

Translucent?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (znRvO)

27 reposting from end of last thread

President Obama's 2012 campaign field director has been selected to be a part of a "five-man Obama team" that will run a campaign against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As Caroline Glick--Israeli journalist and Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center--notes, the far-left Israeli news outlet "for whatever reason... chose not to translate this article in its English edition." Fortunately, Independent Media Review and Analysis did:

Foreign Funding Bankrolls Anti-Netanyahu Campaign -- Flies in 5-Man Obama Team
Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 26 January 2015

Haaretz reporter Roi Arad revealed in an article in the Hebrew edition today that the foreign funded organization, "One Voice", is bankrolling the V-2015 campaign to defeat Binyamin Netanyahu's national camp in the March 2015 Knesset Elections.

One indication of the generous financing is that it has now flown in a team of five American campaign experts (including Jeremy Bird, the Obama campaign's national field director) who will run the campaign out of offices taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building.

V-2015 is careful not to support a specific party - rather "just not Bibi". As such, the foreign funds pouring into the campaign are not subject to Israel's campaign finance laws.

stunning
shines more light on why Bibi is addressing our nation and Boehner gave JEF the finger

truthrevolt.org

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:19 AM (IXrOn)

28 I see the NRO is still on it's knees furiously fellating the RINO squishes. I can also see by their well worn knee pads that they love them some salty ball taste.

Posted by: 2L at January 27, 2015 08:19 AM (TaO1J)

29 23 Ben and Gabe getting some ink this morning.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (VlmBw)

Tattoos? Where?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 27, 2015 08:20 AM (znRvO)

30 In all seriousness, I gotta be objective here. Palin's speech was pretty awful.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:20 AM (7ObY1)

31 21
Sarah Palin Slips into Self-Parody

NRO, the voice of the RNCe. There is a reason I quit going to that site long ago.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (wlDny)

Yup, it's cold oatmeal with a spoon stuck in it.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:20 AM (MQEz6)

32 @30

As quoted, rather strange.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 08:23 AM (VlmBw)

33 So if this ball boy thing is the answer...based on Belichick's performance at that press conference, wouldn't that mean Belichick is a spinning lying dissembler?

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 08:23 AM (PFy0L)

34 Timex Or Rolex

Not one of his stronger pieces.

People look at people's crap. Yup.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:23 AM (IXrOn)

35 i.e. 3% down payment:

As I said this morning:

Obama is setting up for another major bank failure in the mortgage market. Democrat commies never learn.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 08:23 AM (wlDny)

36 How funny that the slogan "Merit Matters" would be recognized as an anti-affirmative action t-shirt.

Wouldn't you be accepting his point when you say that creates a hostile work environment for the affirmative action hires?

Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2015 08:23 AM (FcR7P)

37 today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, The National World War Two Museum has a livestream of a panel. If you are stuck in the snow (or lack of snow) tune in with your kids.
http://pointsandfigures.com/2015/01/25/70th-anniversary-of-liberation-the-holocaust/

Posted by: Jeffrey Carter (@pointsnfigures) at January 27, 2015 08:24 AM (LnE5F)

38 30 In all seriousness, I gotta be objective here. Palin's speech was pretty awful.
Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:20 AM (7ObY1)

Okay.

The NRO despises Palin and good speech or bad speech they will always throw mud at her.

She's just so flyover.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:24 AM (MQEz6)

39 Morning Horde.

A moment for shameless self promotion....AtC and I's newest podcast goes up at 945 this morning.

Link in nic.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:24 AM (da5Wo)

40
Sarah Palin article made me look up "pasquinade".
Posted by: Bandersnatch

We used it all the time at Oxford! Perfect for every occasion, from a casual afternoon tea to an evening of Dress-up like Princess Di and get flogged by the Vicar.

Tres amuse.

Posted by: Charles C. W. "Carry On" Cooke

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:24 AM (kdS6q)

41 Blizzard Buddies?

Can't access JWF from here. What is a 'blizzard buddy'? The guy you eat last?

Posted by: Bigby's Baseball Mitt at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (3ZtZW)

42 As far as Greece thriving,ain't no co country run by leftists going to thrive.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (v5UtH)

43 Okay.

The NRO despises Palin and good speech or bad speech they will always throw mud at her.

But I do not despise Palin, and my opinion is that it was an awful speech. I watched it live. Compare it with Walker's or Cruz's or even Carson's.

Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (7ObY1)

44 Kit Carson Passed Away

I read the whole thing.

Heartwarming and sad.

Creepy how he was okay for a short while after an operation, than so quickly it came back and he died.

at 56
56...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (IXrOn)

45 re the Judge lawsuit. If they had some real ethics laws there would be no need for a lawsuit. This judge should be disbarred.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (wlDny)

46 "Tattoos? Where?"

Heh, no, cites in the links.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 08:26 AM (VlmBw)

47 I'm glad Palin's speech was so bad the other day.. now maybe some of youse guys who thought she was a serious presidential contender will drop it.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2015 08:26 AM (/9Mak)

48 But I do not despise Palin, and my opinion is that it was an awful speech. I watched it live. Compare it with Walker's or Cruz's or even Carson's.
Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (7ObY1)

I didn't watch it, so do not have any input on that.

But her Facebook posts, and so forth - her writings, which she seems to do so well, are usually dead on. With substance.

I think sites still bring up Palin for the clicks. It's just click bait. Or, they really do have Palin Derangement Syndrome. Don't know.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:27 AM (IXrOn)

49 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:19 AM (IXrOn)

wow and wasn't there a few shrieks from the left on how bibi was interfering wit Obamas politics re Iran?

and how baaaad that is?

as if Bibis only concern were Obamas political needs and not Israels survival against an opnely murderous regime?

they are a rotten group all the way up and down

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (nqBYe)

50 43 Okay.

The NRO despises Palin and good speech or bad speech they will always throw mud at her.

But I do not despise Palin, and my opinion is that it was an awful speech. I watched it live. Compare it with Walker's or Cruz's or even Carson's.
Posted by: Citizen X at January 27, 2015 08:25 AM (7ObY1)

Not saying it wasn't awful or that you are biased.

I'm saying the NRO will attack her no matter what she says, what she does, well or poorly.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (MQEz6)

51 Sounds like Palin love is still a big thing around here? Bizarre.

Posted by: HoboJerk, Completely Unreasonable at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (E8IHS)

52 I like Sarah Palin,I do not see her as a presidential contender.

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (v5UtH)

53 A pasquinade is like a tapenade but made with valu-rite and hobo liver

Posted by: Bigby's Baseball Mitt at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (3ZtZW)

54
Ball boy. Oh sure, blame the bottom rung.

The buck stops...there! Sounds like Obama.

Posted by: Case at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (VctSv)

55 "What Eurocrats Really Fear, Greece Quits And Thrives "

Not going to happen. It's going to turn into Zimbabwe on the Mediterranean.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at January 27, 2015 08:29 AM (A1Dcl)

56 47 I'm glad Palin's speech was so bad the other day.. now maybe some of youse guys who thought she was a serious presidential contender will drop it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2015 08:26 AM (/9Mak)

Shall we call it "The One-Speech Rule"?

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:30 AM (MQEz6)

57 >>stunning

shines more light on why Bibi is addressing our nation and Boehner gave JEF the finger

Also explains why Obama won't meet w/Bibi. He's all in for Bibi's opponent in the upcoming election.
O is such as a$$hole.

Posted by: Pres. of Argentina at January 27, 2015 08:30 AM (ABcz/)

58 Blizzard Buddies?

Can't access JWF from here. What is a 'blizzard buddy'? The guy you eat last?

Man Country date on the down low.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:30 AM (TAu/7)

59 RO, the voice of the RNCe. There is a reason I quit going to that site long ago.

Posted by: Vic at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (wlDny)

Yup, it's cold oatmeal with a spoon stuck in it.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:20 AM (MQEz6)

I read Williamson and Jonah. Pretty much it over there.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:30 AM (IXrOn)

60 6 Steveegg,

So long as there is a market for hairy m3n and women at a tourist trap Grease is golden...

How do day "rule 42 rocks!" in Greek?

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:30 AM (Ge1eO)

61 58 rickb223,

Puts the "house" in "bathhouse"

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:31 AM (Ge1eO)

62 i believe a lot of the palin love is directly related to how she was treated by the gopE in the first place.

i gave up on her running because i believe a win is impossible.
still the pure hate for everything Palin is a site to behold , that should be reserved for the left

just my 2 cents

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (nqBYe)

63 National Review hasn't been a conservative magazine since Buckley died. It is a mouthpiece for an increasingly corrupt and out of touch Republican Establishment.

It's unfortunate that the so-called "conservative" media mouth platitudes about Reaganism but when an actual Reaganite comes along, they run for the tall grass of approval by the elite press.

Posted by: section9 at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (CUoon)

64 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (2Ayux)

65
I'm saying the NRO will attack her no matter what she says, what she does, well or poorly.
Posted by: eman

But of course. Here's a pull from Cooke's hissy fit:

"we might at least unite against the belief that there exist superheroes who are able to save the country from itself; against the idea that any one person can be the official standard bearer of a whole ideological or demographic group"

Who are -- Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II and so on.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (kdS6q)

66 Sounds like Palin love is still a big thing around here? Bizarre.
Posted by: HoboJerk, Completely Unreasonable at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (E8IHS)

Not love, but pointing out the anti-Palin fanatics.

That is what is so bizarre to me.

I really think it is just click bait. Or knee jerk weirdness.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (IXrOn)

67 64 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (2Ayux)

Flee. Flee and don't look back. There's a Palin fight brewing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:33 AM (da5Wo)

68 55 Blue Falcon in Boston,

Quite but EUTOPIA'S will still flock there on holiday

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:33 AM (Ge1eO)

69 the administration is supporting livni, of the two state idea?

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:33 AM (nqBYe)

70 i believe a lot of the palin love is directly related to how she was treated by the gopE in the first place.

i gave up on her running because i believe a win is impossible.
still the pure hate for everything Palin is a site to behold , that should be reserved for the left

just my 2 cents
Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (nqBYe)

exactly

firing squad from inside - sick of it

just shut up already

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:34 AM (IXrOn)

71
Also, his Lordship is getting hammered in the NRO comments. 1200 and counting.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:35 AM (kdS6q)

72 67 64 g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 27, 2015 08:32 AM (2Ayux)

Flee. Flee and don't look back. There's a Palin fight brewing.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:33 AM (da5Wo)

I rented some raptors from our Mighty Empress.

Reasonable rates.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:35 AM (MQEz6)

73 >>But her Facebook posts, and so forth - her writings, which she seems to do so well, are usually dead on. With substance.

Yeah, Palin can usually see right trough an issue and lock in on the key points, such as her "death panel" comment. Even if she didn't coin the phrase, she knew it was the essence of everything that was wrong with that bill. We're always annoyed that the GOP can't seem to come up w/a simle, winning messgae for conservatism - and yet she does this often w/her tweets and fb posts.

I haven't seen any of the speeches, but I would prefer Palin not run, instead continue as an outsider endorsing candidates (like Cruz), because she can draw fire from the MSM.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 08:35 AM (ABcz/)

74
51 Sounds like Palin love is still a big thing around here? Bizarre.
Posted by: HoboJerk, Completely Unreasonable at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (E8IHS)

Quite frankly it is far less bizarre than those here that still try to push the most milquetoast of pathetic establishment shills that never met a big government program that they didn't think they could run better, that believe Open borders and amnesty is genius political winner, or a tax that they could support if they just call it a"fee"

Posted by: Baseketball at January 27, 2015 08:35 AM (zt+N6)

75 I'm glad Palin's speech was so bad the other day.. now maybe some of youse guys who thought she was a serious presidential contender will drop it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

Sorry. After 6 years of barky, EVERYONE has a shot.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:36 AM (TAu/7)

76 "most milquetoast of pathetic establishment shills that never met a big government program that they didn't think they could run better, that believe Open borders and amnesty is genius political winner, or a tax that they could support if they just call it a"fee"

I see that you've spent time in and around Northern Virginia then...

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 08:37 AM (/jpU8)

77 Don't spend the blizzard alone.

I have Chick Fil A and a sound proof 'safe' room.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 08:37 AM (fWAjv)

78 *ponders a Palin post that can unite the Horde*

I'd like to see her tits.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:37 AM (1xUj/)

79 BCochran heh, like your podcast, you both are quick i don't know how you keep the flow.

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:37 AM (nqBYe)

80 Sarah Palin. What a wasted opportunity.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at January 27, 2015 08:38 AM (lG2E3)

81 79 BCochran heh, like your podcast, you both are quick i don't know how you keep the flow.

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:37 AM (nqBYe)

Thank you kindly!

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:38 AM (da5Wo)

82
now maybe some of youse guys who thought she was a serious presidential contender will drop it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry

"George, tell me again about how President Romney and us are going to live on a farm."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:38 AM (kdS6q)

83 omg. Mika Sweaterpuppies just said Massachusetts is still facing 30 feet of snow.

Have to stay through the break to hear what that meant.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:40 AM (1xUj/)

84 cannot imagine how hard the knives will come out in 2016

media , left, unions, gopE

lol

i have a head ache already

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:40 AM (nqBYe)

85 I'd like to see her tits."

+2

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 08:40 AM (/jpU8)

86 83 omg. Mika Sweaterpuppies just said Massachusetts is still facing 30 feet of snow.

Have to stay through the break to hear what that meant.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:40 AM (1xUj/)

YOU KNOW THE RULE

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:41 AM (da5Wo)

87 Even if Palin's speech was as bad as some believe....so what? She's given many a memorable speech, and the idea that one speech means she's over is a delusion on NRO's part. Bad enough that not enough of the right stood by and did nothing while the left launched smear after insane smear...but now they have to team up with Andrew "Captain Uterus" Sullivan in smearing her as well?

Posted by: KngFish at January 27, 2015 08:41 AM (t0+u1)

88 Palin may not be presidential material, but like it or not she has far more influence with the base than most politicians. Just as surely as there is much palin love, there is quite a lot of palin hate (on our side). You would think a women who was instrumental in many GOP victories in 2010 and 2014 would be treated better. But obviously that is not the case.

Posted by: SH at January 27, 2015 08:41 AM (Ehjtd)

89 I love Hannan, but Greece thriving is a pipe dream. Socialists have ruined that country. And the Socialists they just elected are more left-wing than ever. Greece will become the Argentina of Europe or worse.

Posted by: WannabeAnglican at January 27, 2015 08:41 AM (vFmT2)

90 Sarah, Mika puppy contest?

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:42 AM (MQEz6)

91 BCochran oops the "heh" was for your post re Palin..

and anyway you guys are a good team, i really was impressed.

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:42 AM (nqBYe)

92 82 Laurie David's Cervix,

Milt Rombley just sent out an email saying he fully en d roses Ogabes next EPA overreach...whatever it is.

//GOP why not settle for 1 1/2 parties?

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (Ge1eO)

93 I would still vote for Sarah Palin. Because.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (go5uR)

94 I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall our own Sven challenging Cooke on a few things on Twitter fairly recently. I do remember Cooke not acquitting himself well in the exchange.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (eytER)

95 I haven't seen any of the speeches, but I would prefer Palin not run, instead continue as an outsider endorsing candidates (like Cruz), because she can draw fire from the MSM.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 08:35 AM (ABcz/)

I agree. Like the send headline on the dump says, people have moved on (I didn't read it yet, but I assume that is what it means). There is no way she could win. She was destroyed. It's just "cheesy" if I can borrow the one of the new meme's floating around for the NRO to use her name for the sake of click-bait. (I really would hate to think it is Palin Derangement Syndrome, aren't they big boys and girls over there?)

You know what's worse than Palin?

Jeb supporting amnesty and/or common core.
Bush supporting amnesty and/or common core.
Mitt redux.

That's worse to me, because they might be running.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (IXrOn)

96 Why is it taking so long for President Romney to make his Cabinet picks?

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (MQEz6)

97
83 omg. Mika Sweaterpuppies just said Massachusetts is still facing 30 feet of snow. Have to stay through the break to hear what that meant.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:40 AM (1xUj/)

Probably meant the potential for 30 foot snow drifts. That's my guess, that she is too stupid to know that a snow drift is not related to how much snow will fall. Of course even that sounds too stupid to be correct.

Posted by: buzzion at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (zt+N6)

98 nevermind i think i need to drink more coffee.
not torture you guys .

Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (nqBYe)

99 Biggest problem with Palin is that she resigned as governor after the 2008
election to become a conservative media star. She should have stayed
on, fought the Dems in her state and gained more government experience.
The fact that she was being harassed by the Dems was unfortunate but
was an opportunity to show how she would have dealt with the leftist
weasels if she ever were elected president. When she resigned it was
the end of her govt. career as far as I was concerned.

Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (1BQGO)

100 93 I would still vote for Sarah Palin. Because.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (go5uR)

I would vote for her because the frothing hatred she engenders on the Left makes my soul shaped space smile.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (da5Wo)

101 87 KngFish,

B/C a private citizen should be held to standards worthy of Cicero...whilst Giggles is granted the space for a senile Hortentius...

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (Ge1eO)

102 Sarah, Mika puppy contest?

PPV. I'm in up to $79.

You can come over if you bring bourbon.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (1xUj/)

103 I don't really have any feelings about Palin other than how much I enjoy watching all the libs she makes foam at the mouth. Clearly, she was and is a threat or they wouldn't have gone after her so hard and often.

Sadly, just like the tea party brand, her reputation has been destroyed by the liberal lunatics.

Reading about sun-tan-man and turtle's race to out elbow each other to claim the cheese eating surrender monkey trophy makes me want to puke. Say what you want about Palin, but I'd take her over the pathetic squishes any day. They hated Reagan too.

I'm done with the RINO party.

Posted by: 2L at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (TaO1J)

104 Al Sharpton's bloopers might be funnier if his show and recent comeback (due to the show?) hadn't made him such a powerful, destructive force in current domestic politics. How is it this idiot race-baiter is Obama's go-to guy on racial matters? He has blood on his hands and should have faded into obscurity (and in shame) years ago. Meanwhile intelligent, level-headed people like Alfonzo Rachel are only reaching people via the internet.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (ABcz/)

105 I am fascinated by people's devotion to Sarah Palin. It can be every bit as intense and symbol-driven ("you're not criticizing one woman, you're criticizing rural Americans/evangelical Christians/long-haired women/whatever") as the attacks.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at January 27, 2015 08:45 AM (p9/A3)

106 Fuck it, I have no reason to listen to people who promoted mitt Romney bash Sarah palin. Her record in winning elections is far greater.

Posted by: SH at January 27, 2015 08:45 AM (Ehjtd)

107 Sarah, Mika puppy contest?

Sarah hunts. No contest.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (TAu/7)

108 Sarah, Mika puppy contest?

PPV. I'm in up to $79.

You can come over if you bring bourbon"

I've got a decent batch of cigars. Will that do?

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (/jpU8)

109 103 I don't really have any feelings about Palin other than how much I enjoy watching all the libs she makes foam at the mouth. Clearly, she was and is a threat or they wouldn't have gone after her so hard and often.

Especially the ones that comment here.

Posted by: buzzion at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (zt+N6)

110 Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (1BQGO)

She was being financially crushed and could do nothing about it as long as she was still Governor.

The "quitter" meme is fools and trolls.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (MQEz6)

111 99

Yep.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (p9/A3)

112 I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall our own Sven challenging Cooke on a few things on Twitter fairly recently. I do remember Cooke not acquitting himself well in the exchange.
Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 08:43 AM (eytER)

he seems quite emo
else he drinks way too much coffee and it's like a drunk who can't drink well... starts busting up the place

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (IXrOn)

113 Biggest problem with Palin is that she resigned as governor after the 2008 election to become a conservative media star. She should have stayed
on, fought the Dems in her state and

went bankrupt.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:47 AM (TAu/7)

114 94 John Tant,

It's true Cooke and I are not pen pals and yes I whipped his ass on liberty and foreign policy.

Cooke has always struck me as being a less Vaginally orientated Andi Sulli...

I have seen little to disabuse the notion.

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:47 AM (Ge1eO)

115 102 Sarah, Mika puppy contest?

PPV. I'm in up to $79.

You can come over if you bring bourbon.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (1xUj/)

Rye okay?

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:47 AM (MQEz6)

116 Amy Winehouse? Sarah Palin may be a lot of things but Winehouse, not.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (znRvO)

Heard a song from Amy Winehouse the other day, and forgot how good her voice was.

What a waste.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:48 AM (IXrOn)

117 Yes. Cigars work.

Bourbon, cigars, tits. Can you imagine a better evening?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 27, 2015 08:48 AM (1xUj/)

118 I like cooke but the palin piece was beneath him. Pure click bait.

Posted by: SH at January 27, 2015 08:48 AM (Ehjtd)

119 So...
how much snow did NYC get?

Posted by: Reginald Smythe-Beufort at January 27, 2015 08:49 AM (dfVpK)

120 Bourbon, cigars, tits. Can you imagine a better evening?"

Not with my pants on...

Posted by: anon a mouse at January 27, 2015 08:49 AM (/jpU8)

121 he seems quite emo
else he drinks way too much coffee and it's like a drunk who can't drink well... starts busting up the place
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:46 AM (IXrOn)

Cooke is actually quite good when he's had some time to think, but off-the-cuff he's just another meat head.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 08:49 AM (MbqmP)

122 Hahaahaahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:49 AM (da5Wo)

123 What a waste.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:48 AM (IXrOn)

They wanted her to go to rehab and she said no, no, no.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at January 27, 2015 08:50 AM (fWAjv)

124 Yes. Cigars work.

Bourbon, cigars, tits. Can you imagine a better evening?

Bourbon, cigars, tits. Hummers.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2015 08:50 AM (TAu/7)

125 Ben and Gabe getting some ink this morning.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 08:18 AM (VlmBw)

where?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:51 AM (IXrOn)

126 Cooke, and to a large extent Ace, just can't stand the attention Palin gets. She recognizes that the enemy is the press in most of it's forms.

Cooke lies awake at night convinced he's the deepest thinker on the right and being so, he should have throngs of admirers. It's his fantasy that people should hang on every word he says or prints, fawning over the complexity of thoughts.

The trouble is, he's never actually done anything. If he had shown courage and integrity by giving up a high paying position to out corruption in his own party, perhaps people would give him the "cult" recognition some afford to Palin. It is a telling sign that he fells the need to attack her in a target rich environment of leftists.

What is the special hatred that keeps bubbling to the surface?

Posted by: jwest at January 27, 2015 08:51 AM (9ZZd+)

127 116

The thing that always stuck out to me about Amy Winehouse was how hilarious the media found her horrible mental illness to be (ha! Let's laugh at a 26 year old missing teeth due to ruinous addiction!) and then how quickly they turned to "sad, poor Amy, why didn't anyone heeeelllp her and save this musical genius?!?" when she died. Fuck them.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at January 27, 2015 08:51 AM (p9/A3)

128 how much snow did NYC get?
Posted by: Reginald Smythe-Beufort at January 27, 2015 08:49 AM (dfVpK)

All of it!

http://tinyurl.com/lmnp254

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (MbqmP)

129 So Mika is manning the MSNBC weather desk? Yeah, that's about her speed.
Love the sleeveless dress while reporting on a blizzard, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (ABcz/)

130 I dunno - maybe it's me, but I tend to see National Review bitch about internecine rivalry in the GOP when it comes to the conservative wing bitching about moderate candidates. But then they publish hit pieces like this and I just kind of shake my head.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (eytER)

131 I don't think palin will actually run but I wish she would.

Posted by: SH at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (Ehjtd)

132 The storm has claimed a casualty.

I just plucked a junco off the suet feeder. Snow in the yard is over 30".

Posted by: fluffy at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (Ua6T/)

133 People, can we lay off Amy Winehouse? This is probably the longest she's ever been sober.

Posted by: @JohnTant at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (eytER)

134 It's a little disappointing, I must admit, to find that Palin Unscripted can be every bit the dunce that TFG who the LIVs of the US of A elected and re-elected to the Presidency in very recent history.

I continue to thoroughly enjoy watching her send the leftards into frothing spasms of uncontrollable rage over posts on social media, but I'm afraid that unless this is her 1964 "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" moment this probably marks The End of Palin's political career.

Posted by: DocJ at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (0RQVM)

135 If Palin runs, I will support her and vote for her.

There are more GOP rivals that are worse than her than are better than her.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:53 AM (MQEz6)

136 as if Bibis only concern were Obamas political needs and not Israels survival against an opnely murderous regime?

they are a rotten group all the way up and down
Posted by: willow at January 27, 2015 08:28 AM (nqBYe)

yep

I do not get why this isn't getting more play.

Well, I do, actually...

sad days
bad days

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:53 AM (IXrOn)

137 There are more GOP rivals that are worse than her than are better than her.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:53 AM (MQEz6)

Now that is a damn true statement.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at January 27, 2015 08:54 AM (da5Wo)

138 Up here in Magical New Hampster Land we have about a foot on the ground now & it's still coming down in buckets. Fun!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Smoked Sausages at January 27, 2015 08:54 AM (MbqmP)

139 Also explains why Obama won't meet w/Bibi. He's all in for Bibi's opponent in the upcoming election.
O is such as a$$hole.
Posted by: Pres. of Argentina at January 27, 2015 08:30 AM (ABcz/)

again, yep

no one holds that sh*thead to account
no one

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 08:55 AM (IXrOn)

140 And a new NOOD, already

STOMP!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 27, 2015 08:55 AM (fL+1V)

141 Oh, and 20" of global warming in my suburban Boston backyard already, with anywhere from 6-18 more on the way before it all ends.

Posted by: DocJ at January 27, 2015 08:55 AM (0RQVM)

142 126 Jwrst,

That was also something I went after Mr Cook about all the targets to his left and he can punch only right

Posted by: Sven10077 at January 27, 2015 08:55 AM (Ge1eO)

143 132 The storm has claimed a casualty.

I just plucked a junco off the suet feeder. Snow in the yard is over 30".
Posted by: fluffy at January 27, 2015 08:52 AM (Ua6T/)

Damn. I like juncos.

Fiesty little mofos.

Posted by: eman at January 27, 2015 08:56 AM (MQEz6)

144 >>The thing that always stuck out to me about Amy Winehouse was how hilarious the media found her horrible mental illness to be...

They do this with most young stars, such as Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus. It seems almost abusive, the feeding frenzy over and mockery of every move. And then when the rare normal teen star comes along, such as Taylor Switft or Emma Watson, they treat them worse for the sin of being a boring prude.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 08:57 AM (ABcz/)

145 Since sons of liberty is on let me offer this thought. Palin is more Sam Adams and Patrick Henry than John Adams or Washington. Someone needs to stoke the fire of liberty. They are necessary for the cause. She may never be a statesman or achieve higher office but she is instrumental in the resurgent GOP. Gratuitous hit jobs by meme era of the right are simply unnecessary.

Posted by: SH at January 27, 2015 08:57 AM (Ehjtd)

146 "where?"

Dump item #2, the Washington Examiner piece.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at January 27, 2015 08:57 AM (VlmBw)

147 Falling Gas Tax Revenue Has CA Considering A Mileage Tax

Heads they win, tails we lose. Guess they got used to spending the windfall from $4 gas.

Posted by: t-bird at January 27, 2015 08:58 AM (FcR7P)

148 Asked for comment, the NAACP expressed their outrage....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 08:16 AM (kdS6q)

Don't they always? One-note Johnnies, that lot.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 27, 2015 09:00 AM (2Ojst)

149 >>> Damn. I like juncos.
>>> Fiesty little mofos.

I like them, too. Massachusetts is where they go 'South for the winter'

Posted by: fluffy at January 27, 2015 09:01 AM (Ua6T/)

150 Winter Storm Not As Bad As Anticipated

Well, yeah, since we were anticipating an extinction-level event.

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2015 09:03 AM (zoehZ)

151 Al Sharpton's bloopers might be funnier if his show and recent comeback (due to the show?) hadn't made him such a powerful, destructive force in current domestic politics. How is it this idiot race-baiter is Obama's go-to guy on racial matters? He has blood on his hands and should have faded into obscurity (and in shame) years ago. Meanwhile intelligent, level-headed people like Alfonzo Rachel are only reaching people via the internet.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 08:44 AM (ABcz/)

Greg Gutfeld had an interesting theory, if I can remember it. heh. I'll try to dig it up. It was on an old Redeye, but it was something I had not thought of before. Sometimes that Greg has his lucid moments...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 09:03 AM (IXrOn)

152 Here's the problem I have with the anti-Palin article:

When has Charles BF Cooke ever launched into a

tear-out-the-throat, ad hominem, mocking tirade

against the likes of Hillary!, Fauxcahontas, or even

Preezy Cakeboy?

The answer would be.....Never.

And that tells you all you need to know.

So, she gave a bad speech.

Both King Putt and Cat Lady Clinton have given terrible rambling speeches before.

Did Charles BF Cooke launch into them?

No, he did not.

It's simply that Palin is too d�class�, dear boy.

Wouldn't do to have that sort of person representing us now, would it? Imagine, she might use the salad fork to eat her meal! Oh my, get me a fainting couch!

Meh, these ckufing ckufs. Yes, do the Democrats work for them. By all means.

I like Palin. I think she would've been a far better President than TFG or Senile McCain.

Her time is past for that due to the hit job the Dims did on her.

But, is it too much to ask that the Charles BF Cooke's, who are theoretically on our side not join in,

or at least turn equal venom on the Democrat side?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:03 AM (KBvAm)

153 That Cooke piece sounds like it's been in his back pocket for years, anticipating an opportunity to try to close the book on Palin. One sloppy speech is one sloppy speech,find a candidate who has never made one.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 09:05 AM (2cS/G)

154 Whether one agrees or not with his description of Palin, he definitely hit the nail on the head about Palin defenders.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:05 AM (cNJvW)

155 Here's part of what Gutfeld said:

The Five co-host and Red Eye anchor Greg Gutfeld said: "I applaud Al Sharpton. How does this man still have a career? He is a recipient of media welfare..."

"Al Sharpton has a job when he shouldn't have one. This guy was behind one of the most horrific hoaxes in New York history -- the Tawana Brawley case. How he still has a job is beyond me

but he went on further, trying to find the clip...
it was interesting

The media welfare angle.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 27, 2015 09:06 AM (IXrOn)

156 Racism! It's everywhere! Everywhere! No people of color philosophers! No Womyn! You can not make this shit up.

http://tinyurl.com/lag2dcs

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 27, 2015 09:07 AM (0FSuD)

157 "Sadly, just like the tea party brand, her reputation has been destroyed by the liberal lunatics"

Respectfully disagree. Yes, the left despises Palin. But all the hate in the world would not have destroyed her if "our side" had defended her from the start. The establishment stood aside as the arrows came in, smirking all the while, because they hate her, too.

Can't have the little people get uppity, can we?

Posted by: jjod at January 27, 2015 09:08 AM (0r7PZ)

158 Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:03 AM (KBvAm)

Come on. Simply google Charles Cooke and anyone of those names to get an negative column.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:09 AM (cNJvW)

159 I'm no fan of Palin but let's not pretend these conservative bloggers are suddenly concerned that having her as a face of conservatism is somehow going to hurt conservatism. Palin hasn't changed so why the sudden outburst of criticism? It's just the bandwagon effect inside the conservative blogosphere, there are hardly any conservative bloggers left with an original thought.
That's why ace is a must read, he may not be the a social conservative but no one can accuse him of not thinking or being entertaining.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 27, 2015 09:12 AM (+ebSh)

160
Amy Winehouse? Sarah Palin may be a lot of things but Winehouse, not.
--

Yeah, that article made me think very poorly of its author, not Palin. You complain that people gripe at you that you are full of hate? It's because you say shit like that.

Posted by: Lea hates Peppa Pig but will watch it for freedom (not really) at January 27, 2015 09:14 AM (lIU4e)

161 Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:03 AM (KBvAm)

Come on. Simply google Charles Cooke and anyone of those names to get an negative column.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:09 AM (cNJvW)

That's simply not true.

Find one Cooke article about Hillary!, Fauxcahontas, or TFG-

where he turns up the ad hominem lemon up to 11 like he did to Palin.

You won't find a single one.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:16 AM (KBvAm)

162 In one case a Total Call agent used someone else's food stamp card to provide eligibility for a CBS4 producer. On another occasion another Total Call agent said it would be perfectly fine to use a friend's food stamp card to establish eligibility and obtain a free phone.

In a letter to CBS4, Total Call has now responded saying, "Total Call Mobile is outraged by the unacceptable actions shown in the broadcast. The broadcast depicted both agents and applicants seeking to improperly participate in the Lifeline program. They were both engaged in fraudulent activity ... to enroll in the Lifeline program among other improper actions."

The company said based on the CBS4 report it would be providing evidence of wrongdoing to "the appropriate governmental authorities. Regarding the incorrect or improper statements by agents that were brought to our attention in your broadcast, all of the agents that were distributing for Total Call Mobile have been identified and their access to our system has been permanently blocked."

Posted by: Captain Louis Renault at January 27, 2015 09:16 AM (e8kgV)

163 >>"I applaud Al Sharpton. How does this man still have a career? He is a recipient of media welfare..."

He is an affirmative action hire by MSNBC when amidst all of their race-baiting it was pointed out that their line up was all white.
Still can't believe that Sharpton was who they hired to fill that quota. Melizza Harriis-Perry is only on teh weekends - Sharpton is prime time on weeknights.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2015 09:16 AM (ABcz/)

164 lemon = venom

That's autocorrect!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:17 AM (KBvAm)

165 There is no way Sarah Palin would get the GOP nom.

However.

Not only would Palin crush Hilldabeast in the election, our smoldering civil war might go hot because of it.

Sounds okay to me. Never did like the days of "people will endure while evils are endurable" stage.

Palin/West 2016.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 2016 is right around the corner at January 27, 2015 09:18 AM (+BxpP)

166 I do not want Palin to run for POTUS, nor would I vite for her if she ran. But I do not get the energy and enthusiasmbehind the Palin Is Weird articles I have seen since her Iowa speech.

It will do nothing to sway her current supporters and it is not necessary for the rest of us. All it does is make her a martyr. Very unhelpful.

Moreover, Palin is not the only pol, past or present, to have enthusiastic supporters who sound like silly schoolgirls or, in some cases, teenaged boys who play D&D. So I am finding this to be quite irritating.

/end rant

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at January 27, 2015 09:20 AM (9BRsg)

167 Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:16 AM (KBvAm)

It's a no win for me because no matter how negative the article on Hillary you will claim it's not as bad as what he wrote about Palin . It's funny to me because I can pull up just as many 'ad hominen' articles by conservatives on Romney , Bush , McCain etc but those seem to be okay.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:21 AM (cNJvW)

168 Charles Cooke is often very tiresome.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at January 27, 2015 09:22 AM (9BRsg)

169 It can be every bit as intense and symbol-driven ("you're not
criticizing one woman, you're criticizing rural Americans/evangelical
Christians/long-haired women/whatever") as the attacks.
...types the woman who goes ape that you're attacking all gays when you point out the link between pederasty and homosexuality and want it punished severely.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 27, 2015 09:23 AM (L6/+u)

170 I think it might have snowed more here (Western PA, more than 6 inches) than in NYC. The media REALLY overplayed this storm for NYC.

Posted by: Baldy at January 27, 2015 09:26 AM (+35FH)

171 Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:16 AM (KBvAm)

It's a no win for me because no matter how negative the article on Hillary you will claim it's not as bad as what he wrote about Palin . It's funny to me because I can pull up just as many 'ad hominen' articles by conservatives on Romney , Bush , McCain etc but those seem to be okay.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:21 AM (cNJvW)

It's not a "no win"-

You made a claim. Back it up.

Show me one article....hell, I'll even make it easy for you-

show me one paragraph that Cooke has written that displays the visceral hate and venom of the Palin article.

I'll be honest in my assessment,

you be honest in your claim.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 09:27 AM (KBvAm)

172
Biggest problem with Palin is that she resigned as governor after the 2008
election to become a conservative media star.
---------------

See I don't think there is anything wrong with that, but then I took it as a signal that she had no more electoral ambitions. Which is totally fine, but since I believe that to be the case, idiots like Cooke are basically spending a lot of energy attacking a person who is doing nothing but personal appearances and facebook. So...why are you still obsessed with her then? She's a private citizen, hanging around, doing her thing. That shouldn't invite so much interest.

Posted by: Lea hates Peppa Pig but will watch it for freedom (not really) at January 27, 2015 09:27 AM (lIU4e)

173 165
Not only would Palin crush Hilldabeast in the election, our smoldering civil war might go hot because of it.

Sounds okay to me. Never did like the days of "people will endure while evils are endurable" stage.

Palin/West 2016.

Posted by: mindful webworker - 2016 is right around the corner at January 27, 2015 09:18 AM (+BxpP)

Hear, hear! Let's get the party started.

That's precisely the ticket I wanted to see in 2012, too.

Posted by: rickl at January 27, 2015 09:28 AM (zoehZ)

174 The other exists in the real world. This Hillary is a person who lacks concrete achievements; whose inevitability never quite translates into evitability; whose rhetoric always seems to turn up empty; who has an impressive capacity for saying things that hurt her and her interests; and, most distressingly of all, who becomes instantly less likeable the moment she opens her mouth. - Charles Cooke June 4, 2014

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:30 AM (cNJvW)

175 I'd say Romney gets far more hate at this site than Palin ever has, not sure about other conservative sites.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 27, 2015 09:31 AM (2cS/G)

176 I went ahead and listened to the entire Palin speech. It was boiler plate Sarah. I liked it. Don't know where all the Vodka comments were coning from. She's just not the great orator like "The One". I must be one of the cultist they spoke of...well I guess they don't want my money or vote. See ya Ruling Class!

Posted by: Paladin at January 27, 2015 09:34 AM (hxLER)

177 I have nearly a foot of snow here in beautiful Brattleboro. Time for my organic fair-trade tea.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at January 27, 2015 09:37 AM (a94gW)

178 One can acknowledge certain shortcomings in Palin, and I did notice how pretty she could be reading Going Rogue, a book which I otherwise very much enjoyed. But Cooke's rant seemed to be every bit as unfocused and wanting as Sarah's speech.

I've noticed for a while a deterioration in his writing. He rarely offers any meaningful insights, but rather is in love with cloying witticisms. I find Williamson to be a far superior writer.

Posted by: Paul at January 27, 2015 09:37 AM (1vxz6)

179 I get the (probably insane) feeling that Palin's goal is to draw fire away from the "serious" contenders for the foreseeable future.

Oddly enough, I also think that's what Mitt is doing.

But ... Jeb -- he actually thinks he's a contender.

Posted by: jwb7605 at January 27, 2015 09:39 AM (ZALPg)

180 jwest is right about the feds owning land though. The NPS should be about 50 people taking care of a few National Parks in D.C., and that's it.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 27, 2015 09:41 AM (+ebSh)

181 Environmentalist groups 'bought by Big Russian Oil'

A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.

One of those executives, Nicholas Hoskins, is a director at a hedge fund management firm that has invested heavily in Russian oil and gas. He is also senior counsel at the Bermudan law firm Wakefield Quin and the vice president of a London-based investment firm whose president until recently chaired the board of the state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft.

In addition to those roles, Hoskins is a director at a company called Klein Ltd. No one knows where that firm's money comes from. Its only publicly documented activities have been transfers of $23 million to U.S. environmentalist groups that push policies that would hamstring surging American oil and gas production, which has hurt Russia's energy-reliant economy.

Posted by: Sid Bass at January 27, 2015 09:41 AM (e8kgV)

182 180, wrong thread.

Posted by: lowandslow at January 27, 2015 09:42 AM (+ebSh)

183 "But I do not get the energy and enthusiasmbehind the Palin Is Weird articles I have seen since her Iowa speech"

The above is clearly referring to articles, such as those linked above, and not to comments in this blog.

So, again, I ask what is with the need of columnists, not blog commenters, to Otherize Palin?

Posted by: Y-not at January 27, 2015 09:44 AM (9BRsg)

184 Exhibit A: Byron York (link in nick)
Who, incidentally, click-baited this "weird" column of his on Twitter by implying the article was going to be about the GOP field, not how freaky Palin is.
Profiles in courage, that.

Posted by: Y-not at January 27, 2015 09:46 AM (9BRsg)

185 Exhibit B: Crooks & Liars gleefully rounds up conservatives throwing Palin under the bus.
You know you're a real GOP strategist and Smart Setter when you've given C&L fodder.

Posted by: Y-not at January 27, 2015 09:49 AM (9BRsg)

186 Well done, GOPe, well done. *golf clap*

Posted by: Y-not at January 27, 2015 09:51 AM (9BRsg)

187 Palin is a reminder of what the GOPe will allow the left to do and in some cases actually join the left.

She's over and we all know that - but she is a reminder to not let the next star of the party get railroaded by the left. That's why she still gets support - not for her career... but for the next target's career and chance to actually fix this country.

Posted by: Reality Man at January 27, 2015 09:51 AM (9AQdP)

188
New York governor says massive storms are 'part of the changing
climate': Andrew Cuomo says frequency of extreme weather, such as
hurricane Sandy and current blizzard sweeping across north-east, 'is a
pattern never seen before'
... and never to be seen
I guess this means that climate change isn't so settled

Posted by: Governor Edmund Brown, Sr at January 27, 2015 09:53 AM (e8kgV)

189 The NRO writer, as well as York, also fail to mention that Palin's teleprompter crashed in the middle of her speech. I get this warm, happy feeling when an Englishman lectures me as to which American candidate I should support or disown.

Sarah Palin will deliver an address before the Cambridge Union (England) in a few weeks. Let's see how that works out.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2015 09:59 AM (JBggj)

190 "So, again, I ask what is with the need of columnists, not blog commenters, to Otherize Palin?"

Good question. I read the Cooke article. Can't really understand the need for the opprobrium. It should be directed towards those that deserve it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2015 10:02 AM (DXzRD)

191 The other exists in the real world. This Hillary is a person who lacks concrete achievements; whose inevitability never quite translates into evitability; whose rhetoric always seems to turn up empty; who has an impressive capacity for saying things that hurt her and her interests; and, most distressingly of all, who becomes instantly less likeable the moment she opens her mouth. - Charles Cooke June 4, 2014

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 09:30 AM (cNJvW)

Swing and a miss.

Here's why- that paragraph contains no ad hominem venom at all.

There's no equivalent comparison of Hillary! to a famous drunk and drugged up junkie singer.

Nor the implication throughout that she's a drunk who needs to sober up or anything of similar hate.

No implication that Hillary! doesn't possess the brains, is too stupid, etc.

The example above is negative but it's all about Hillary!'s process of being Hillary! and how that fails-

it is not a vicious ad hominem attack on her character and Palin as a human being.

Try again.

Find an out and out ad hominem attack on Hillary!, Fauxcahontas or TFG by Cooke-

or admit you're wrong.

There's no shame in being wrong.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2015 10:05 AM (0cMkb)

192 47 I'm glad Palin's speech was so bad the other day.. now maybe some of youse guys who thought she was a serious presidential contender will drop it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2015 08:26 AM (/9Mak)
Of course, that means no one will give Perry serious consideration ever again, right?

Posted by: Apathetic and proud of it at January 27, 2015 10:06 AM (8n+U+)

193 I can remember the vitriol aimed at ace for daring to criticize Palin. So much so he was prevented from writing what he felt in order not to damage his site.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 10:08 AM (cNJvW)

194 I'm glad Palin's speech was so bad the other day.. now maybe some of
youse guys who thought she was a serious presidential contender will
drop it.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 27, 2015 08:26 AM (/9Mak)
========

If Sarah Palin wants the job, she will be the GOP 2016 presidential nominee.

Free Markets and Free Men.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2015 10:09 AM (JBggj)

195 Yes; I thought that it was a pretty tiresome article by him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2015 10:11 AM (DXzRD)

196 Cuomo said on Monday that "there is a pattern of extreme weather that we've never seen before" - reiterating his comments in the wake of hurricane Sandy, when he said that "anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns is probably denying reality."

What we got in the last 24 or so hours is a perfect metaphor for the entire AGW consensus.

First, through the use of computer models, we get a forecast of catastrophic portions. Then, almost nothing happens as the models, now referred to as 'a work in progress', were wrong.

Posted by: Michael Mann at January 27, 2015 10:11 AM (e8kgV)

197
I will stand behind Palin PERIOD--and all it took was a look at her stance on my make or break issues, plus a look at her past accomplishments.

Nothing she has said or done subsequently is altered--a for real example of walking the talk.

The entire affair has engendered ( from me) a considerable degree of contempt for her detractors plus a disinclination to have any type interaction with them.

Don't feel the need to further comment on it, either.

Posted by: irongrampa at January 27, 2015 10:12 AM (jeCnD)

198
Find an out and out ad hominem attack on Hillary!, Fauxcahontas or TFG by Cooke
Posted by: naturalfake

Close enough?:

Well, I must confess that I am not entirely sure what I think of Bushs record...Without doubt, he is a talented, upstanding, and accomplished man, and he would probably do an admirable job if he parachuted into power.

Charles C. W. Cooke December 16, 2014 http://tinyurl.com/ota8s3x

I mean, the red-eyed scathing wrath dripping from every word....

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at January 27, 2015 10:20 AM (kdS6q)

199 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Breath...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Hey New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, et al....how did you enjoy that little exercise of becoming police states?
Computer models...dire weather predictions from Oh So Serious weather folks, ...politicians making totally BS demands...Get off the Roads, etc.

What a bunch of friggin' BS.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2015 10:20 AM (08Znv)

200 SNOW JOB !!

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 10:21 AM (XzRw1)

201 Hey New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, et al....how did you enjoy that little exercise of becoming police states?

Fucking weaklings.

#nestrong

LOL

Posted by: Thin veneer of civility at January 27, 2015 10:22 AM (XzRw1)

202 BCochran @ 100- Exactimudo!
I only ever had one chance to vote for Palin. Yeah, I voted for Palin, not McCain, and I voted against,,,,well,,,we all know what I voted against. And coming up? Hillary will beat Jeb, Mitt, or whoever like a redheaded step-youngun. Put that in the back. I could support a Cruz/Jindal ticket, though.

Posted by: Eromero at January 27, 2015 10:23 AM (go5uR)

203 >>I can remember the vitriol aimed at ace for daring to criticize Palin. So much so he was prevented from writing what he felt in order not to damage his site.

ace's first two candidates in the last 2 elections, Rudy and T-Paw.

Eh, people have their favorites and don't like it when they are criticized. In other news, water is wet.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 27, 2015 10:25 AM (g1DWB)

204 193 I can remember the vitriol aimed at ace for daring to criticize Palin. So much so he was prevented from writing what he felt in order not to damage his site.
Posted by: Bob Belcher at January 27, 2015 10:08 AM (cNJvW)
Funnily enough, I remember that more as a period of Ace stubbornly poking the bear and declaring his exasperation over it trying to bite him every. Single. Time. Eventually he realized poking the bear could hurt his readership and mostly knocked it off. Which was probably a wise move.

Posted by: Apathetic and proud of it at January 27, 2015 10:28 AM (8n+U+)

205 Would you please stop talking about the NE states as if they have personalities. We "the citizens of the states" do not have a collective personality and even though as a group those states vote Democratic there were plenty of us who weren't panicked and we are not responsible for the decisions of the Governors/Mayors nor did media vote for them or the media. The weatherman didn't do a bang up job either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2015 10:29 AM (DXzRD)

206 Drudge has linked a Politico piece (Mike Allen 1/26/15) which contains this little bit:

"[former president Clinton ] got a heads-up from the camp of President George
H.W. Bush a few days before former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made his
surprise Facebook announcement in December that he would "actively
explore' a campaign. The two former presidents have developed a friendly
bond, partly because of their work together on relief for the 2004
Asian tsunami."

Me: "partly because ..." and what were the other parts?

The spice must flow ... to Washington

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2015 10:29 AM (JBggj)

207 Environmentalists in the pocket of "Big Russian Oil" ?!?

Tell me it isn't so !!!!!!!!!!!!

They must return the money immediately .. going belly-up if necessary.

Doesn't this make them foreign lobbyists ?

Posted by: Michael Mann at January 27, 2015 10:32 AM (e8kgV)

208 "197
I will stand behind Palin PERIOD--and all it took was a look at her stance on my make or break issues, plus a look at her past accomplishments."

Yeah. What he said.

Posted by: JohnInOhio at January 27, 2015 10:48 AM (aPfC6)

209 There is always endless excuses for Palin.

Seriously, you guys, a wimpy, RINO half-term governor who gets into random bar fights is the next Reagan! Haters gonna hate!

Posted by: Shoot Me at January 27, 2015 11:50 AM (EQcfE)

210 209 There is always endless excuses for Palin.

Seriously, you guys, a wimpy, RINO half-term governor who gets into random bar fights is the next Reagan! Haters gonna hate!
Posted by: Shoot Me at January 27, 2015 11:50 AM (EQcfE)
LOLZ! I no, rite?!?1. Every1 noes BUSH and CHRISTIES r the real reguns!!!!

Posted by: GOPerPyle at January 27, 2015 12:06 PM (8n+U+)

211 Sorry about the sock.

Posted by: Apathetic and proud of it at January 27, 2015 12:07 PM (8n+U+)

212 "Funnily enough, I remember that more as a period of Ace stubbornly
poking the bear and declaring his exasperation over it trying to bite
him every. Single. Time."

Palin Justice Warriors, away!

"Poking the bear." Brilliant. It's just like the former Little Greenies whining about "constant" posts about Evolution.

Posted by: Shoot Me at January 27, 2015 12:19 PM (EQcfE)

213 "LOLZ! I no, rite?!?1. Every1 noes BUSH and CHRISTIES r the real reguns!!!!"

Yes, because there's only two factions on the Right: Establishment RINOS and you. And you are the real Conservative, so whatever you feel in your gut must be true. And if someone attacks your feelings, WELL THEY MUST BE RINOS!

I know Jeb can't win because of his last name, and the Base deeply distrusts Christie (which I don't blame after his partying with Obama before the election.) Just because you can point out how lame the Donor Class faction picks are doesn't mean Palin is now a viable option.

Posted by: Shoot Me at January 27, 2015 12:29 PM (EQcfE)

214 Palin/West 2016 works for me.

Posted by: Paladin at January 27, 2015 12:59 PM (hxLER)

215 Memo to the Washington Examiner - Gabe being a spokesperson for the hard working folks in the Tea Party is about as passe as his support for Palin.

Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at January 27, 2015 01:17 PM (QKIQb)

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