Palin is the original Lady Gaga, but much scarier for it.

"That woman is an idiot."

What she is doing, is what I have seen referred to as DOG WHISTLING. She puts things in the context of her whacko tea-party nonsense and drops little keywords into her speeches. When her faithful hear it, their ears perk up, and give her more loyalty, despite the fact that sane people just shake their heads in confusion and become more convinced that she is an idiot. But sane people are not the people she's selling tickets to at her next speaking engagement.

Look, she's nothing more than an instigator. Fox news already outed her. Everyone that had presidential aspirations was removed from Fox's payroll a few months ago, yet Palin remains. All she is doing it causing trouble in an effort to keep her speaking fees up.

Listen up kids, it's Grizzly Mom here
Ta tell ya 'bout ridin' Paul Revere
On the Eighteenth of Somethin' (The facts I contrive;
Hardly a dude is now alive
Ta refudiate legends that I smear.)

He says ta his pal, "If the British march
By plane or sea from the town ta-night,
Hanging bells all aloft in the belfry arch
Of the Chrysler tower will be their invite.
The press is so lame, soon they will see
That I, their opponent, surely will be
Ready ta rise n' spread the alarm
Ta every Diddlesex village n' farm
Fer the Redcoat folk ta be up n' ta arm."

News Short n' Sweet by JFD8
http://twitter.com/JFD8

Is there a link to a transcript available? The sound of that woman's voice makes me want to stab my brain with red-hot iron pokers.

Sarah Palin Uses A Teleprompter to Blast Obama on Fox News Sunday

Fox Hypes Sarah Palin’s Sunday Talk Show Appearance But She’s Using Teleprompter
http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-fox-news-teleprompter

I can't believe anyone could think that she'd make a good president of anything.

The attempts today by "Palin's Pals" to edit the Wikipedia entry on Paul Revere -a furious flurry of futile falsifications- demonstrates that in the modern, online world, even politicians' efforts at rewriting history are faster than ever.

Sarah's supporters stand out in their blatant disregard for truth. If Ms. Palin speaks it, it must be true! (Even if they have to update every historical record to make it so.)

Just more material for Tina Fey and/or SNL.

I love the "gotcha" question thing. "What newspapers do you read?" and "What do you have to say about Paul Revere?", are apparently major gotcha questions. She probably scolds waitresses at restaurants for pummeling her with gotcha questions like '"How would you like your eggs cooked?" or "Would you like an extra napkin?".

Yes. Dog Whistle in the political context means code words that her base hears, but rational people don't.

She know about American History - it's just not OUR America. (GOTCHA! It's the one that lives in her imagination.) She does seem to know about applying lip-gloss. To some that makes her worthy of being leader of our country & the free world. (It's just not our country or our world...gotcha.)

"I do not, by the way, consider anyone asking her about Revere's ride (during her visit to the Old North Church) to be a "Gotcha" question."

Hey Roger - There was no question posed other than "What have you been doing during your visit to Boston?" Palin spontaneously gave the history lesson.

Ebert: What an unfair shot!

She's still has the history wrong.

http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html

If she gets caught up in misspeaking when she's issuing a correction like this, can she accuse herself of gotcha journalism?

The Palin-snark of late is really pissing me off.

You guys were wrong when you savaged her on the Tuscon shooting.

You were wrong when you savaged her on her usage of the term "blood libel". You falsely accused her of culpability in a heinous mass murder for God's sake. Her use of that term was perfectly appropriate, as was backed up by Alan Dershowitz.

And you're wrong about her answer on the Paul Revere question. She was correct historically. http://j.mp/m56eS8

But you don't care. You're in a feeding frenzy to validate your meme that Sarah Palin is stupid. Doesn't matter that you're wrong every time.

Have fun. Snark yourself silly in the echo chamber.

She complains about gotcha questions, but that's not the item of real concern...it's her gag-ya answers that put the spotlight in focus.

The Twitter has tage was fun. Here are a few I contributed to the mix yesterday:

- Tomorrow is D-Day, anniversary of the day we defeated France in WW II. Freedom Fries for everyone! #accordingtopalin

- We fought the Battle of the Bulge to teach those teenage boys to keep it in their pants. #accordingtopalin

- The best part of the Bible is when Jesus teaches the Apostles the Pledge of Allegiance #accordingtopalin

Roger, dpes maybe Sarah Palin suffer from a speech disorder called dysfluency, a.ka. "anacoluthon'' in medical parlance? Does this explain why she speaks so weird in live interviews?

An expert on speech and language disorders, but not a medical doctor, tells me:

Sir,

Although I think it's fair to say that during interviews (that is, in
unscripted speech) former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin has sometimes exhibited dysfluency (a
general term for speech that isn't smoothly delivered or grammatically
well formed), I'm not qualified to judge whether she suffers from a
chronic speech disorder. (Anacoluthon, by the way, is not usually
considered a chronic disorder; rather, it's an occasional practice that we
may all fall into--especially in times of stress.) For a credible
diagnosis of Ms Palin's speech patterns, you really should consult with a speech-language pathologist,
not a rhetorician.

Sincerely,

A Rhetorician in the USA

Roger, this is good example: "our well-armed persons individual private militias that we have."

-- it is like a kind of dyslexia of the speech region of the brain, and nothign to make fun of, it's a real mediacl problem for some people and can be treated, it even has a latin name..... google "dyslfuency + Palin" to see my POV...and again, i don't mock her speech disorder, i merely mention it to explaion her rants.....and to understand her BETTER...