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Sarah Palin’s Perry Mason Moment

February 11, 2022 Buck Banks

“I admit, at this point in her testimony, I was a little impressed. Palin in no way resembled the caricature I had in my head. She was confident, articulate, and—somewhat to my surprise—quite lucid. I’m not saying she was Stephen Hawking, but she at least evinced a sort of horse sense, paired with grinning charisma, that you could imagine might make her an effective mayor or governor. Then, about a half hour in, the wheels came off.”

Sarah Palin Has Never Experienced Workplace Harassment Because …

November 17, 2017 Buck Banks

“People know that I’m probably packing, so I don’t think there’s a whole lot of people who would necessarily mess with me.”

— Sarah Palin, when asked by NBC News if she had ever experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.

Federal Judge Dismisses Palin’s Defamation Suit Against the Times

August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Buck Banks

“Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States. In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others.”

— Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, dismissing Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, CNN reports.

The healthcare bill brought out trump’s old reliable,
And Sarah Palin remains still reliably delusional.
She calls the plan socialist,
But said Donald would fix it.
She told Brietbart it’s “unaffordable, unsustainable, unwanted, unconstitutional.”

A Conspicuous Absence

February 24, 2017March 17, 2017 Buck Banks

At CPAC they’re all speculatin’
That her political star is a-fadin’.
Formerly a major presence,
She’s a conspicuous absence —
So where in the heck is Sarah Palin?

Donald’s Latest Palinesque Word Salad

November 30, 2016November 30, 2016 Jon Ponder

The New York Times has posted the transcript from its reporters’ and editors’ sit-down with Donald last week. It reminds us again that the man is barely articulate, can’t formulate a sentence or keep a thought in his head.

The full transcript is here. Read it and weep for our country.

A brief peroration on birds and windmills follows:

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Obama Traces the Line of the GOP’s Descent to Trump

October 4, 2016 Buck Banks

I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center of gravity for the Republican Party.

— President Obama, in an interview with New York Magazine.

Trump’s Debate Answer on Cybersecurity Was Palinesque Word Salad

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 Jon Ponder

Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don’t know, because the truth is, under President Obama we’ve lost control of things that we used to have control over. We came in with the Internet, we came up with the Internet, and I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what [the Islamic State] is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS. So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is — it is a huge problem. I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly doable.

– Donald Trump’s Sarah Palinesque word salad response to a question about cybersecurity during the first 2016 presidential debate.

Trump Explains Why Palin Isn’t on GOP Convention Program

July 15, 2016 Buck Banks

She was asked. It’s a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it’s a long ways away.

— Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin isn’t included in the official list of speakers for the Republican National Convention next week, quoted by the Washington Examiner.

SarahPAC makes Big Money — for Sarah Palin

January 25, 2016 Buck Banks

$25,000

As of Nov. 16, amount SarahPAC had given to congressional Republicans this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In the same period it spent 15 times as much — $394,000 — on fundraising, and almost $72,000 on administrative costs, such as accountants, lawyers, travel and website management.

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Sarah Palin’s Perry Mason Moment

— Seth Stevenson

Sarah Palin Has Never Experienced Workplace Harassment Because …

“People know that I’m probably packing, so I don’t think there’s a whole lot of people who would necessarily mess with me.”

— Sarah Palin, when asked by NBC News if she had ever experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.

Federal Judge Dismisses Palin’s Defamation Suit Against the Times

“Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States. In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others.”

— Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, dismissing Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, CNN reports.

Palin’s Still Playin’

A Conspicuous Absence

Donald’s Latest Palinesque Word Salad

Obama Traces the Line of the GOP’s Descent to Trump

I see a straight line from the announcement of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential nominee to what we see today in Donald Trump, the emergence of the Freedom Caucus, the tea party, and the shift in the center of gravity for the Republican Party.

— President Obama, in an interview with New York Magazine.

Trump’s Debate Answer on Cybersecurity Was Palinesque Word Salad

– Donald Trump’s Sarah Palinesque word salad response to a question about cybersecurity during the first 2016 presidential debate.

Trump Explains Why Palin Isn’t on GOP Convention Program

She was asked. It’s a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it’s a long ways away.

— Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin isn’t included in the official list of speakers for the Republican National Convention next week, quoted by the Washington Examiner.

SarahPAC makes Big Money — for Sarah Palin

$25,000

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I don’t believe that Trump is going to plea bargain. I think he could go to prison, but it is more likely that he will serve home confinement. In all likelihood, he will be convicted of multiple felonies.”

— George Conway, in an interview with Salon.

— Washington Post

“Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey — God, he’s so disconnected.”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by Rolling Stone, on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) push of a nationwide abortion ban.

— Barack Obama during the waning days of his presidency told reporters in off-the-record conversations that the Republican Party had become “ideologically completely incoherent,” according to Bloomberg.

“States’ rights. Did you know that a governor can declare war? A governor can declare war. And we’re going to probably see that.”

— Donald Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn warned at an Arizona campaign event that governors may soon “declare war.”

Numerati

68-in-100

54%

A new Monmouth poll finds that 61% of Republican voters still believe Joe Biden only won the 2020 presidential election because of voter fraud.

20 points

A new Gallup poll finds 47% of U.S. adults say they have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the Supreme Court. That represents a 20-percentage-point drop from two years ago, including seven points since last year, and is now the lowest in Gallup’s trend by six points.

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