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HappyFeminist
07/05/09

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Somewhere out there, Jon Stewart is wondering why this shit happens when he's on vacation.
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onestrawplz
07/05/09

@MooseWood: Hah, that may very well be why she waited til the Friday before the Fourth to announce it...she knew he'd tear her apart.
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sybann
07/05/09

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AH! Someone already mentioned her living in NYC and getting her own show. Anyone know why else she was all over NY a couple of weeks ago? Was there a legit reason?
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onestrawplz
07/05/09

@sybann: Bleh, I hope not. NYC doesn't want her.
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cynopt
07/05/09

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Apparently she'd rather be head of the Koalition of Krazy Kristians than a senator, go figure. At least she knows she can win it; her ta-ta's are WAY bigger than Limbaugh's.
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emily.jayne
07/05/09

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Legal question that might be slightly off topic, but I've been wondering about this: can her lawyer really tell people they'll get sued for writing that it might be a scandal? I mean, I get that it's defamation/libel if they write that it IS DEFINITELY a scandal forcing her to resign, but just to write that there have been rumors seems kind of irrefutable. I suppose my question is: is her lawyer totally overstepping?
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onestrawplz
07/05/09

@emily.jayne: I'm not a lawyer either, but I had the same question. My initial thought was that merely suggesting the existence of rumors was not libelous. It would make no sense. To me, it seems like the same idea as when you hear journalists using "the alleged killer" instead of "the killer." I think Palin's lawyers are stretching things juuuuustt a little bit.
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meritxell: an erotic life
07/05/09

@emily.jayne: yeah this is bullshit, it's almost impossible for a PUBLIC FIGURE on a matter of PUBLIC INTEREST to win a defamation suit in the US, this is just scare tactics
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wilmawonker
07/05/09

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i am *this* much closer to winning the pizza my friend and i bet about if she would run for president in 2012. come here pepperoni and onions!
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krismry
07/05/09

@wilmawonker: she said she would.
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unmoldednicole
07/05/09

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What is she talking about the "mean spirited adults" mocking Trigg? Who did that?
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Cicada
07/05/09

@unmoldednicole: Me. I hate special-needs babies. I also like to punch kittens and torture butterflies.

Really, though, I think she's referring to the Trig photoshop 'scandal'. A blogger mocked an Alaskan radio host by photoshopping his head onto Trig's body, so that it looked like he was being cuddled by Palin. Palin managed to infer from this that the blogger was MOCKING TRIG. It was ridiculous really. And then, the internet being what it is, tons of people started photoshopping the same picture. Wonkette did a nice snarky piece on it:

[wonkette.com]
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thegogglesdonothing
07/05/09

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Palin's a tabloid sideshow that nobody except the ever-shrinking hardcore evangelical conservative base takes seriously. She's not in any danger of attaining national elected office. Most likely, she'll make a decent living giving speeches to conservative organizations and pop up in the regular pundit rotation on cable news a'la Newt Gingrich. I certainly don't think she's worthy of any further attention now that she's resigned.
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Laulau
07/05/09

@thegogglesdonothing: Bush was RE-elected. Now, I don't think Palin has the same party support that Bush did (like the GOP can even agree on anything these days), but Bush being reelected with two wars, obvious lies, and an economy that was already starting to flounder made me lose whatever trust I may have had in the judgment of the American people.
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thegogglesdonothing
07/05/09

@Laulau: And Obama being elected with the largest popular vote-count and fund-raising totals of any candidate in United States history did nothing to restore this trust?
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Laulau
07/05/09

@thegogglesdonothing: Obama still got just over half - that means almost half of the people who bothered to vote voted for the trainwreck that was McCain/Palin. There was a big chunk of the US that (a) believed Obama is Muslim, and (b) thought that freaking mattered. Rush Limbaugh has millions of listeners. I honestly have little trust in my neighbors.
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BlackFrancine
07/05/09

@Laulau: I think the difference is that Bush would shut up and do what he was told to do. Told to start a war? OK. Told to deregulate banks? You bet. The brain trust of the GOP supported him because of that--They wanted his Jesus street cred to appease the Christians, but his willingness to do what he's told appeased the fiscal conservatives who really run the GOP.

They don't like Sarah Palin. Not because she's a "maverick," but because she's a petulant child--as those emails that were released last week show. She was lying to her own handlers about issues. She just didn't have a fundamental understanding of how professional political machines work. And now with this stunt, she's really proved that she doesn't understand how things work (unless of course she's about to be indicted for something). I predict she'll have a show on Fox News, living in "unreal" America in NYC.
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Laulau
07/05/09

@BlackFrancine: I totally agree on Palin and the GOP - my original comment noted that I doubt she'll get ahead politically because of the party. Funnily, I really trust the party to weed her out more than the people. As I said when this news first came out, it galls me to think she'll be getting ahead, but a Fox News position would suit me just fine. She'd be out of my life, which is good enough.
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whynotshesaid
07/05/09

@thegogglesdonothing: That is exactly all she has waiting for her. The GOP knows that she only appeals to an ever-shrinking minority of their party, and they won't support her.

She is delusional if she thinks she's headed to higher office.
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onestrawplz
07/05/09

@thegogglesdonothing: Is the conservative evangelical base really shrinking though? They seem to be multiplying like bunnies, except they're not as cute and cuddly. They're not cute and cuddly at all, for that matter.
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tiredfairy
07/05/09

@onestrawplz: See, that's my concern. I'm not seeing that shrinking. Fox News has its highest ratings ever right now. And there were protests in the major West Coast city I live in this weekend, chanting that Obama is a cult leader.

I'd love to call this is a crazy minority..and sure, I don't think most people are harboring ideas of our president as the anti-chris.

But I think the rhetoric is dangerous, because it's insidious, and there are a lot of scared people out there, looking for something to focus on. And a lot of things they pick are the platforms and rhetoric she supported.
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onestrawplz
07/05/09

@tiredfairy: Those protests are scary as shit. Where were these protestors when we decided to spend TRILLIONS in Iraq? The people who are protesting big government and Obama are the ones who were most likely to have supported the war. I know people repeat it over and over again, but it needs to be drilled into people's heads. I'm against big government when they foolishly spend money on things like a preemptive war, but for healthcare and things like that....why not? Palin and her ilk are dangerous people. Palin gives them (the KKKrazies), to some degree of credibility, since she is (was) an office-holding politician. Granted, I'd say most people probably think she's a dumbass, but she's still given a platform, and some people do buy her bullshit, which is the scary part.

@Kaehoku: I am seeing a reactionary response to our new president and the newly Democratic-majority Congress. These people want to return us to Medieval times. I know we saw a rise of neoconservatism from the Reagan years to the Bush years, but it seems that more and more crazies keep coming out of the woodwork, because now there's actually a threat to the white patriarchy (gasp).

@galaxina: To be fair, babies taste delicious when spread on toast with a light serving of nutella.
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Ms. Stewbert has left the building (suck it Gawker)
07/06/09

@onestrawplz: Really, though, what doesn't taste delicious with Nutella?
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onestrawplz
07/06/09

@Ms. Stewbert is tired of hyphenating: Fair point.
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SisterMaryMartha
07/05/09

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I think Richard should do a recap of her resignation speech. I think he could do a lot with that kind of material.
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bluebears
07/05/09

@SisterMaryMartha: I heard Richard was leaving Gawker at the end of the month. of june? idk.
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mmstk101
07/05/09

@bluebears: At the end of July, I think.
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LaComtesse
07/05/09

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I want a surly, self-absorbed teenager to deliver all of Palin's speeches from now on, cuz that's the tone I get.

"I'm out of here. Cuz I'm, like, a maverick. It's not even like I could DO anything cuz I'm a lame duck. So fuck you, Alaska! I'm gonna get out of this stupid state and I'm gonna do BIG THINGS. Cuz I've got guts and dreams that are too big for you to understand."
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spamanda
07/05/09

@LaComtesse: If you add "nobody understands me here!" and an obnoxious door-slam, you've summed up my 12-16th years!
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greengrey
07/05/09

@LaComtesse: "No one in this town understands me! I'm different from the rest of you! Man, I can't WAIT until college, I'm gonna go so far it will blow your mind!!"
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LaComtesse
07/05/09

@spamanda: Oh you're right! Though she's already got that down in the form of snapping at every little comment about her she doesn't agree with her. "Sarah, you you have to honor your commitments..." "Shut up MOM, you don't even underSTAND I don't NEED to live YOUR LIFE!"
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LaComtesse
07/05/09

@greengrey (raidersofthelostSTAR): People at college KNOW things. Like art! When they listen to The Dead, they UNDERSTAND the poetry and how DEEP the lyrics are.
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SisterMaryMartha
07/05/09

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Okay jokes aside. I find her incredible ignorance and self-righteousness extremely obnoxious.

To suggest that the only thing governors do towards the end of their terms is travel and waste money and that is why she is quitting is MORONIC.

She could just do her job. But either she doesn't want to, or she has some kind of crazy scandal in the works. She was incredibly nervous, overly breathy and scattered during that speech. Nothing seems to add up right.
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bluebears
07/05/09

@SisterMaryMartha: even if all lame duck gov's do that, which they don't, it doesn't mean she HAS to do that. Like there's a dude there with a gun to her head screaming to get on that plane to NYC to appear on The Today Show.
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morninggloria
07/05/09

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July 26th is my birthday.

July 26th is the day that Sarah Palin is stepping down.

Happy birthday to me. I have been asking Zombie Thomas Jefferson for a present like this for months.
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bluebears
07/05/09

@morninggloria: I'm jealous of summer birthdays. true story.
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morninggloria
07/05/09

@bluebears: I'm not jealous of my mom, who was super pregnant with me during the hottest days of the year. Summer birthdays are awesome for kids but bad for ladies.
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bluebears
07/05/09

@morninggloria: it'll be a cold cold day in hell before I care about the comfort of pregant ladies. thats feminazi talk!
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Casquivana
07/05/09

@morninggloria: Aw, summer birthdays seem awesome! No school, lovely weather. My birthday is usually on Easter, and all I've gotten from it is sharing the spotlight with the stupid Easter Bunny and, you know, that Jesus in the cross thing.
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serreca
07/05/09

@morninggloria: My birthday is TODAY! July b-days rock!
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onestrawplz
07/05/09

@serreca: Haaaaappy birthdaaaay to youuuuuu!!! (crappy attempt at singing via comment).
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serreca
07/05/09

@onestrawplz: Thanks!!!
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
07/05/09

@Casquivana: Ditto! The day I was born was when Easter Monday fell that year. My dad is Catholic, the day before EVERYONE in his side of the family was convinced I'd be born.

I just... yeah. That wouldn't have ended well.
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sybann
07/05/09

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Nut. Job.
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spiraloflife
07/05/09

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Things keep happening that come out of nowhere. MJ died, Palin resigned... what's next?
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HereComesMyBaby
07/05/09

@spiraloflife: The Apocalypse?
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tinmiss
07/05/09

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I really hope I live long enough to see the tell-all HBO mini-series on her life (directed by Oliver Stone's brain in a cyborg body). Someone up in Alaska HAS to be keeping notes on the real story.
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Triana Orpheus
07/05/09

@tinmiss: I would bet any member of her staff that suddenly found themselves in need of income could be convinced to tell their story for a fee.
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SisterMaryMartha
07/05/09

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For all so inclined to see the written word of the actual speech she gave, the transcript can be read here:

[blogs.suntimes.com]

Also, there's this:

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whats_in_a_name
07/05/09

@SisterMaryMartha: shouldn't the dancing bananas sign say opposite vagina? or has that terminology not reached Alaska yet?
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whynotshesaid
07/05/09

@SisterMaryMartha: Alaska's mission? The contribute to America.

WHAT THE FUCK.
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