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Palin Without a Prompter....Part 7
PALIN WITHOUT A PROMPTER....PART 7....Have I used up my quota of two Sarah Palin references today? No? Then check out this phenomenal answer she offered up at a townhall meeting today about — well, I'm not sure what it's about. But it's energy related in some way:
"Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans who get stuck holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It's got to flow into our domestic markets first."
Be sure to click on the video to see the whole thing. It's priceless watching Wolf Blitzer tactfully admit that it's "not exactly easy to understand what she was saying" before he tries to tease out the "nuggets" in her answer. You almost feel sorry for him.
Mock her all you want but she has close to a 50% of being our President.
She reminds me of the know-nothing bullshitters in the corporate world who nevertheless ultimately become the bosses of people more knowledgeable and competent.
Scary.
Sarah Palin on foreign policy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII
Forget being without a teleprompter -- Just imagine the disaster if she ever appeared in front of a camera without a 'fluffer' like Blitzer!
She sounds very much like a student who crammed all night and now has everything all mixed up. Voice of experience talking. Still, I think she's saying that we're going to plant our flag on molecular fungi and hold back bags of it so it doesn't get exported except according to the bans we allow or don't allow to feed our hungry by degrees... Oh, the heck with it.
The nuggets, such as they are, contradict each other. She says Congress won't allow export bans of oil so that the oil can be sent to domestic markets. But, of course, what would make logic sense is to say that Congress will allow export bans. It's a double negative. Unsurprising given the quality of community colleges nowadays.
Maybe the solution is to give the molecules souls, so as to take away their fungibility.
She's easy to make fun of, but I'm coming to the conclusion that she's a bit of an Eve Harrington. Today she condescendingly referred to McCain as her "running mate." Her ongoing lies are basically the work of a borderline pyschopath-- a clever one, but a psychopath nonetheless. I can readily see why she appealed to Rove. What makes Sarah run?
It's like listening to Peggy Hill speaking Spanish.
I think what she's trying to work towards is addressing the fact that if they do go ahead and drill drill drill that much of what gets produced will be shipped overseas. She's trying to say that they'll keep the oil in the U.S. (the remark with the molecules is saying you can't put a stamp on oil saying "produced in the U.S.A.").
This is a pretty silly thing to say, since the price and supply of oil are part of a world market, so it doesn't really matter whether you hang onto or sell your crude; whatever you do, the fungible nature of oil will mean that crude produced off Florida or in Nigeria or in Saudi Arabia all has the same effect on world supply, and thus, world oil prices. But since much of the GOP appeal goes to ignorant nativists, they have to pretend that they care about whether domestically-produced oil gets consumed domestically.
I don't think it's time to break out the popcorn yet. Say all you want about oil being a global commodity, yadda yadda yadda, but the reptilian brain that many people vote with resonates with "it's ours, all ours, and no one else can have it."
Now who can argue with that?
I think we're all indebted to Sarah Palin for clearly stating what needed to be said. I'm particularly glad these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish - it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5Mr5eCF2U
What the fuck is she talking about? She reminds me of Damon Wayans' character on In Loving Colour that was always trying to use big words to demonstrate his intelligence but had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
She's tipping her debate strategy: Make every answer so completely incoherent that Joe Biden's head finally explodes from trying to follow her arguments. (I'm only half joking.)
I can't wait for South Park to feature Sarah and her Energy Expertise.
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It was the first competitive hat-trick for an England player since Michael Owen bagged three against Germany in the 5-1 win in Munich in 2001, and they can be every bit as pleased withthis result in the cauldron of the Maksimir Stadium.
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It was like watching England at their Euro 96 best as they passed the ball around with devastating accuracy and Lampard was cruelly denied a goal after another gorgeous team move when his goal
Totally agree that Sarah Palin is an Eve Harrington type. Laugh at her if you want, but keep in mind -- you could end up living in her world.
folks, since palin became mccain's nominee, the enthusiasm of the gop has moved up about 20 points.
the gop is maybe 30 percent of the american public.
so the really hard-core palin supporters are roughly 6% of the population.
because you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
smitisan, i think you're onto something: notice that "try to stump the candidate" remark yesterday, which evoked the same thought for me.
the blissful arrogance of believing you can learn year's worth of background on a variety of issues in hours....
It's like her answer was run through Inuit to English on Babelfish.
Actually, the polls are swinging back Obama's way. McCain (part of the Palin/McCain ticket she also spoke of earlier) may croak before the election! I don't think even Rove had anything to do with this debacle - he's evil, but he's smarter than this - or is he? Maybe senility is starting there also. And I'm not that young, so forget offending anyone older. Unreal - or not!
OT, but breaking
SEC bans short selling of 799 names for 10 days - SEC press release at 2AM, no less
Poor thing is starting to believe her own PR. Did you see hand-wringing John McCain scootching over next to her with a pained look on his face?
He'd have to pry that mic out of her cold dead hand.
But, what I really want to know: Where did that orange tie trend come from? And what does it mean? First McCain at the convention, now Blitzer and all I can think of is Dutch football.
What may eventually trip her up is not this kind of thing (nobody understands it all anyway) but that she may be a pathological liar.
Today on Hannity she tells touching story of her kids voting for her to accept McCain's offer. "Go for it, Mom" sort of thing.
But... The original "cute" story had the kids arrive in Ohio on that Friday announcement day having been told they were going there to surprise Dad on an anniversary.
These people are strange.
Oil is a fungible commodity. That is no matter from where its bought it all gets mixed together at the refinery. The oil molecules arent 'flagged' as to where they came from be it Saudi or Canada or how much those molecules cost [bbl oil price varies] and are mixed together. Thus we dont have foreign and domestic gas pumps to choose from when we fill up.
Basically, I think, she doesnt believe congress will, or should, let our energy source [oil gas etc] become a fungible commodity thru export bans.
I find this kind of odd because we dont have the refinery capacity for more oil. So maybe shes talking of natural gas, which her proposed pipeline [Which Murkowski proposed] would carry to Alberta, Canada and then into existing pipelines into the US.
She's used to speaking in "tongues". What do you expect? I'm sure that right wing nut bags understood it exactly what she said, since they only hear what they want to hear anyway.
Is it just me, or is the average right winger going insane, lately? Not that they weren't before, but I've noticed a move to complete and utter bonkers over the last couple of weeks. It wouldn't worry me so much, but because they are insane and armed (remember the gun orgasm they received from the Supreme Court awhile back?), that makes them more dangerous then ever.
You almost feel sorry for [Blitzer].
Not really.
I love the 'All About Eve' reference, hollywood. I can see Rove in the role of Addison DeWitt very handily; the arrogance, the contempt for humanity thing, etc. Oh, crap! This would have to culminate in Palin trying to seduce Cindy McCain away from John to get the benefit of all that beer money for future campaigns. Too odd. Maybe not. Maybe she starts that tactic and then Cindy rebuffs her. The scene takes place in the bathroom of a high school gymnasium after one of those town hall discussions: "Don't be too discouraged, Sarah. I used to do that in college." So then she goes for the seduction of Carl Rove. I bet she's already doing that - but I'll try to be sophisticated about it: perhaps it is all about mental seduction. After all, her stint at the convention was purely stroking Republican ego with an all too familiar lubricant, Alaska's finest reserve.
Everyone keeps dancing around it, but no one wants to seem to say it:
Palin is stupid.
It's priceless watching Wolf Blitzer tactfully admit that it's "not exactly easy to understand what she was saying" before he tries to tease out the "nuggets" in her answer. You almost feel sorry for him.
Since when is it a journalist's job to try to put a favorable spin on an embarrassingly ignorant statment from any politician, let alone one who's buckign to be a feeble heartbeat from the Presidency? If it's "not exactly easy to understand what she was saying," that's the story, and trying to tease out the "nuggets" is a fool's errand.
Of course, it's Blitzer, so what better fool for the job?
Where the hell is Brian?
Brian, we need you!
Translation, please.
If she gets elected, do you think it will become popular to drop the "g"'s?
Like we'll all be out shootin', and losin' our homes, and goin' bankrupt, cryin' in our beer...
folks, since palin became mccain's nominee, the enthusiasm of the gop has moved up about 20 points.
As Obama pointed out, they're proud of their ignorance.
But I'm having a hard time "teasing out the nuggets" in this strategy. Palin's popularity is plummeting, even among women (and I fervently hope that as they learn more about her radical anti-choice views, McCain's attempt to pretend he's a moderate will go down in flames). Rove's energize-the-base, 50.1% strategy is doomed to fail this election -- it simply can't worjk in the face of an energized Democratic voter base, massive new registrations and the disgust the vast majority of Americans have with the once-Grand Old Party.
And we see these trends as McCain's feeble post-convention bounce flattens out. If McCain goes into the debates trailing, him and Palin not drooling on themselves won't do -- they'll need a breakout moment, and it increasingly appears that if and when it happens, it'll come as yet another embarrassing gaffe.
Bring on November!
Hey, she used the word "fungible"! Everyone knows that's a word that experts use. By golly, she must be an expert!
She's an idiot, who doesn't know anything about the energy field. That she's offered up as an expert is laughable.
The statement is certainly incoherent but my opinion is that said incoherence was not a result of her not knowing what she was talking about. Rather, the problem is that she knows the whole "drill here, drill now" campaign is fundamentally dishonest about the realities of oil production and she hasn't really mastered the art of bullshitting her way through a question without revealing that.
The question she was asked put pressure on the fundamental stupidity of their campaign's energy policy. Her choices, aside from admitting to the stupidity of course, were to
1. lie and pretend that their policy is not idiotic.
2. pretend that we can have the effect of an export ban (and that that would actually be a good effect) without actually having an export ban.
She chose the second option and that is not something that can be expressed coherently. Anyone would make themselves look like an idiot in that context.
She's outdone Chevy Chase.
Seriously though, it's interesting that once you actually do tease the nuggets out, IT'S STILL NONSENSE! She basically says that even though oil is a global/fungible commodity, she'd still expect Congress to require domestic oil to go into domestic markets first. Even though that would have ZERO impact on domestic price.
She's like a trained monkey at two levels: the "babbling nonsense" level, followed by quickly by the "telling people what they want to hear, even when it's pointless drivel" level.
Kevin wrote:
Then check out this phenomenal answer she offered up at a townhall meeting...
BZZT! Was the general public allowed in? No. It was a GOP, invitation-only event. Not a townhall meeting. Do not allow the Republicans to pervert the idea of a townhall meeting. These partisan events are meant to give the illusion of "ordinary folk meeting with the candidate to ask the tough questions" when in reality they are gatherings of true believers who are only allowed to ask softball questions.
"Teasing out the nuggets"? That sounds like cleaning a kitty litter box.
Different movie: Palin is Tracy Flick on the national stage.
Say all you want about oil being a global commodity, yadda yadda yadda, but the reptilian brain that many people vote with resonates with "it's ours, all ours, and no one else can have it."
Sure does.
This is a very good opportunity to point out that we'll need to nationalize the oil companies if they want that to be true.
Because capitalism says they're wrong about it being "ours".
Mean old capitalism is drinking your milkshake - you gonna take that lying down?
She's like Adlai Stevenson. She talks over the heads of the people.
Wow,
That's almost Heraclitean in its Delphic inscrutability. (Oh wait: Heraclitus actually had something to say.)
I think JimBob and Idlemind both make good points here, but if it's the "ignorant nativists" and "reptilian brains" she's trying to address, she better come up with some language that's a bit simpler than a discussion of fungibility.
Here's an idea for Sarah: "We are producing a fair amount of domestic oil and placing it on the world market for consumption by the highest bidder. In this way, we are treating our own stocks of oil as if they are of equal value to all others. Simultaneously our domestic oil suppliers are making record profits while Americans families can't pay their mortgages.....Oh wait, this is going in the wrong direction. What was I saying about fungibility? You know, as John McCain says, "Nobody knows more about energy than Sarah Palin!" That's me you know!"
Her base won't have any clue what's she's talking about either, but they'll take that as a sign that's she's just talkin' way too smart for them - further proof of her energy brilliance.
What Sarah Palin does know about energy is that the development and deployment of wind and solar energy technologies must be suppressed for as long as possible, in order to protect the the trillion-dollar profits of the fossil fuel corporations.
And in this she is entirely consistent with John McCain, who like Palin has disparaged and discouraged investment in wind and solar energy, and has voted against legislation that would support the growth of these new energy industries of the 21st century with investment and production tax credits.
National energy policy in the death-grip of the fossil fuel and nuclear industries: that's not the change we need. It's more of the same.
As the world's leading expert on energy, it is not surprising that she sometimes speaks over our heads. We are in the Twilight Zone.
Palin is practicing an old trick used by lawyers and newscasters. It doesn't matter what you say, it's how you say it. If you sound authoritative, like you are confident in your subject matter, it doesn't matter if the substance of what you are saying is pure bullshit. In this clip, she has a few words ("fungible") that make her sound like an expert, even if what she actually is saying is fundamentally unintelligible. To many, that will come off as expertise.
Where's Brian?
We need some excuses, quick!
Like, such as, molecules...
LEAVE SARAH PALIN ALONE!
(Although I will admit she needs to practice up on her Millerisms!)