Everyone's favorite John Bircher, Sarah Palin, resuscitates the myth about Ahmadinejad. Yeah, I'm not too comfortable with Palin tossing around references to the Final Solution...
And as Eli points out in an email, this from the woman who started a whispering campaign that the man against whom she was running was Jewish. Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. Not everyone named "Stein" is a Jew, y'know.
I'm sure her ideas will go over big with the world leaders she'll be meeting with this week. Batting your eyelashes and flipping your hair doesn't constitute a foreign policy, hon. Then again, the McCain campaign gorillas, Steve Beigun and Randy Scheunemann, will be keeping her on a short leash.
Palin's a freakin' sociopath. Sure she's appealing, eerily endearing (to mental cretins), somehow sexy(to some hard-up fellows or readers of Guns&Ammo) and will cozy up to you, oh so close...up until she slips the slim, almost imperceptible 7" of Solingen steel blade between your ribs and nicks your unsuspecting aorta and she grins maniacally as she watches you exsanguinate in short order.
C'mon, she hunts wolves and bear from planes and/or helicopters - they are small potatoes to her - she really lusts for human blood.
Elspeth
Posted by: Elspeth R | September 23, 2008 at 09:29 AM
All us Merikan sheeple (baaa!) hear about Iran from the media or the Admin is by way of MEMRI:
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/12/worlddispatch.brianwhitaker :
The second thing that makes me uneasy is that the stories selected by Memri for translation follow a familiar pattern: either they reflect badly on the character of Arabs or they in some way further the political agenda of Israel. I am not alone in this unease.
Is it any wonder that my religious extremist alarmist paranoid brethren here in the US as well as in the middle east are filled with this hatred and fear of someone "we" have never attempted to talk to?
What I always believed to be our eventual economic demise (the over-use of our military around the world) is first mention in the media by none other than Ahmadinejad! Speaking truth to power - no?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran23-2008sep23,0,2913574.story
Anyone else wonder how much Joe is influencing Moosilini's speech writing?
Posted by: queek | September 23, 2008 at 09:47 AM
Hey Watertiger - I love this site! It's become daily required reading for me.
I am completely creeped out by Palin - she has a combination of blind puppet and Cheney-like secrecy all wrapped up into one scary package. The fact that many Republicans pretend that they have no concerns about her complete lack of qualifications, not to mention many of her beliefs are way off the far fringe as a politician.
But I have to question that quote in the link you have with Palin's speech. Haaretz didn't mention where the copy of this speech came from. Who was their source? They didn't even put the text of the speech in quotes. It just gave me a funny feeling - was this definitely the speech Palin was going to give, or is it an interpretation of what they think she was planning to say?
Do they have any response from the Palin/McCain camp?
Something just smells funny about this - as if it's a story being planted to whip up us liberals into Palin outrage mode (and get us to stop paying attention to Senator McGaffesAlot's hourly flip-flops on the finanical crisis.)
Keep up the great work!
Posted by: amused | September 23, 2008 at 09:56 AM
butbutbut palin is the dom!
Posted by: pansypoo | September 23, 2008 at 12:48 PM
amused, there's another link around with the Palin speech, carried by the New York Sun, which is a right wing rag. Here
The scarey thing at that link is - this is a speech written for her by someone else, and never delivered, but the commenters on the site are all "Wow, she's so good!"
I found that link at Princess Sparklepony's.
Posted by: g | September 23, 2008 at 01:17 PM
She's a big hair '70s bimbo. Reminds me of a receptionist I dealth with back then who, unlike Palin was a very nice person, but like Palin, didn't know much about the world and the things in it.
What kills me is, she's of native ancestry, isn't she? So, what's with all the racist BS against natives and others and the pseudo-Xtian crap, not to mention the complete lack of respect for animals and the natural world?
Posted by: Caveat | September 23, 2008 at 01:40 PM
Caveat...Her husband has some native Alaskan, through his Grandmother, I believe. It entitles him to a few benefits but he doesn't particiapte in any tribal relationship...
Posted by: you're kidding, right? | September 23, 2008 at 02:01 PM
I know about her husband but her appearance made me assume she had some native ancestry too.
Probably my eyes. It's no big deal, I just don't get her attitude.
Posted by: Caveat | September 23, 2008 at 04:35 PM
" . . .the final solution?? That would be the rinse and the color set, right? Right . . . ?"
Posted by: JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde | September 23, 2008 at 05:14 PM
Oh, and Elspeth,
You've got to be careful divining the inner Palin, correct as you are.
If even a smidgen of that shit rubs off, you're in trouble.
:)
Posted by: JimmyDean'sFuckedUpCousinClyde | September 23, 2008 at 05:17 PM
c'mon Elspeth, tell us how you really feel about palin? Don't be shy.
Posted by: NOTeasy | September 23, 2008 at 06:57 PM
pansypoo - thanks for the link.
So, this speech with "the Final Solution" has been distributed to specific media outlets, huh?
Sounds like they're trying to speak to a very specific audience.
scary, indeed.
Posted by: amused | September 23, 2008 at 11:33 PM