Coffee Talk
The Election is less than a month away and there are plenty of real issues separating the candidates. Most of these issues favor the Democrats. We could, and probably should, just spend the next 30 days running down the list. But then something so mind bogglingly inane happens, or is said, that you just have to stop and stare at the carnage.
Such is the case with the latest verbal car crash from the mouth of Sarah Palin:
“I’m reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, ok? The quote of the day… It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. … Now she said it, I didn’t. She said, ‘There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women.’”
There is just… so much to say about this. First, why is Sarah Palin using a Starbucks cup to get material for her speech? Second, does it really help her to site a coffee cup as her source? And finally, as Nico Pitney over at HuffPo points out, she didn’t even get the quote right!
Actually, Albright didn’t say that. The real quote is, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.”
As in “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who charge rape victims for their exams,” maybe?
I know Palin is just trying to prove that, just like Joe Sixpack, she is willing to pay $5 for a burnt cup of coffee. But this is just so many types of wrong all at once. It’s as if she had said “I went to the DMV today and I saw this adorable poster with this little kitten just hangin’ for dear life from a tree branch and underneath there was this little caption that said ‘keep on truckin!’”.
BTW, when I first read this I assumed that it was joke article, like when we publish open letters from civil war generals. Yeah, um… not so much.
Here is the video (quote starts about a minute in):
Yikes.
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I actually quite enjoyed Sarah Palin’s stump speech about Obama’s alleged (and pretty much debunked associations) with Ayers. She was basing her criticism of Obama on yesterday’s NYT article about Obama and Ayers–essentially saying that since it was written about in the NYT it had to be right. This is hilarious on two levels:
1) The McCain campaign’s relentless criticism of the NYT two weeks ago concerning articles about Rick Davis being on the payroll of Fannie Mae.
2) I thought Sarah Palin only read USA Today. *insert Infographic joke here*
okay
you betcha
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i guess you should also go to hell for being
* against the violence against women act
* against a right to choose even in the case of rape or incest
* against increased funding for breast cancer research
* against quality affordable health care
* against equal pay for women.
right?
you betcha.
It’s also nice to see the election pivoting back to bold faced pandering.
you betcha.
Democrat Albright said it, not Gov. Palin.
“Help” includes “support”.
There is a case where Albright saying would surely be true.
“Baby killers” who hate Gov. Palin go to hell for killing babies.
“Thou shalt not kill”.