I’m so old, I remember when conservatives thought celebrity politicians were a bad thing.
You know - two or three months ago.

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This one’s pretty funny. Sarah Palin doing an interview while the guy in the background just keeps on killing turkeys. While she’s talking about the state’s budget process, etc.
Sometimes I think Tina Fey was the less ridiculous of the two.
Colleague JM says the only way this could be better is if there were banjo music in […]

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She really won’t go away, will she? Kevin Drum explains the continuing fascination with Sarah Palin:
Despite all the grief she’s gotten, I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate represents the breaking of a consensual cultural barrier far more fundamental than most people realize. It’s not just that […]

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Piece of work, these conservatives:
BECK: I mean, I have to tell you if I heard once, I heard 1,000 times from people, and I never said this, never said this on the air because you just don’t say these things, but I heard a million times from people, “I’m going to vote for John McCain […]

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Sullivan on Palin’s thinking Africa was a country, and the campaign that kept it quiet:
Now all I want to say here, ahem, is that they realized all this about this person within a few days of picking her and yet they went ahead for two months bullsh*tting us  … and risking the live possibility that she […]

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Oh. My. God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZHTJsR4Bc

Palin didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA. You know, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
She didn’t realize Africa was a continent - thinking it was a country.
And then the story in Newsweek about how Palin spent way more than $150,000 on clothes:
While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what […]

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Hilarious.
Update: Here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbEwKcs-7Hc

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Sarah Palin seems to think so.

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On the LA Times refusal to do what the GOP sez and let loose with that terrorist tape:
“It must be nice for a candidate to have major news organizations looking out for their best interests like that. Politicians would love to have a pet newspaper of their very own,” she said.
But then you’ve got Fox News, […]

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My favorite ad of the campaign, hands down.

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Christopher Hitchens on Sarah Palin and the GOP’s anti-science crusade:
This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and […]

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The McCain-Palin campaign appears to be coming apart at the seams.
Largely because they remain behind in the polls, of course; winning tends to paper over the cracks rather nicely. But the accusations and counter-accusations here are fascinating; Palin’s camp is claiming that the McCain advisers over-managed and stifled her, which sounds correct to me. She […]

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Sarah Palin is about to give her fourth interview to Sean Hannity this week - and the Fox News blondebots are whining that Palin isn’t giving enough face time to the official network of the GOP:
KELLY: Was it the McCain campaign’s responsibility to give her out to other organizations so that there wasn’t this monopoly […]

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This is vintage Katie Couric Sarah Palin, the Sarah Palin we all know and loathe. From the Brian Williams interview:
WILLIAMS: Who is a member of the elite?
PALIN: Oh, I guess just people who think that they’re better than anyone else. And– John McCain and I are so committed to serving every American. Hard-working, middle-class Americans […]

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No kidding:
New polls showed Wednesday that seven weeks after John McCain plucked the Alaska governor from political obscurity to be his running mate in the November 4 elections, Palin is seen as an increasing liability for Republicans.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that Americans are less and less convinced she is worthy to serve […]

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Amazing, actually - read the whole thing. But again, the one thing that jumps out:
Dobson says to her, “We’re on the same team. I’m just trying to serve the lord as you are.” He notes that he and other ministers have prayed for “God’s intervention” and that “God’s perfect will will be done in November […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlwwFZdXck

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Palin to James Dobson:

“I know at the end of the day, putting this in God’s hands, the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4,” the GOP vice presidential nominee told James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, who interviewed Palin by phone Monday in Colorado. […]

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Via Matt Y., we see that Sarah Palin, woman of the people, is dressing just a little better than the jes’folks these days:
The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial […]

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Not exactly what you’d call a ringing endorsement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_84xFEO-Bk

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