Coinciding with the release of Bristol Palin's memoir this week, I have a need to revisit a couple of interviews that Levi did with his Mom and sister. One was on the Tyra Banks show and the other was on Larry King Live. This was after Levi and Bristol's first breakup when they were fighting over custody of Tripp...spring of 2009. There is a lot of information in these interviews and videos. I think it is time to listen to Levi's side of the story. Did the Palin's know that Bristol and Levi were sexually active? Was Levi at the Palin's house most of the time? Were the couple trying to have a child? How did they break the news to both families? What was their reaction?
Take a look at this interview with Larry King. Watch Levi's face when he speaks and listen carefully. At about 4:16 he stumbles and recovers very quickly when referring to Bristol's age. He starts to say 16 and then changes it to 18. Watch his eyes dart at the camera when he recovers. This has bothered me since the first time I watched this video. What do you think?
Here is the link to the Part II of the interview. And here is part III.
And then there is this video compilation by The Young Turks of Levi, Sherrie and Mercede on the Tyra Banks Show. Watch around the 6:30 minute mark for Sherrie to make reference to Levi's age..".forget about being 17. That went right out the window. I was excited to be a gramma," she says.
Showing posts with label Sarah Palin. Show all posts
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Palin's Emails Are Out...Enjoy Links And Comments From Alaskan Bloggers
After three years, the state of Alaska has finally released over 24K emails under the Palin administration. You can follow these links to get right to the heart of what is uncovered...
Politicalgates
Immoral Minority
After most of the afternoon, Politicusa reveals that after sifting through a few thousand initial emails , it seems that those in Alaska who were responsible for releasing these emails are the same people who were appointed by Palin in the first place. So, what we are finding is that they have redacted emails that reveal anything of interest about Palin, but leave in the emails that criticize Palin so it looks like she is the victim again and again. And they don't stop there. They very thoughtfully left the names, addresses and even phone numbers on those emails.
I won't hold my breath that there is anything worth the time and energy it will take to look through the rest of the emails. They have been combed through and sanitized just like Sarah wanted.
Politicalgates
Immoral Minority
After most of the afternoon, Politicusa reveals that after sifting through a few thousand initial emails , it seems that those in Alaska who were responsible for releasing these emails are the same people who were appointed by Palin in the first place. So, what we are finding is that they have redacted emails that reveal anything of interest about Palin, but leave in the emails that criticize Palin so it looks like she is the victim again and again. And they don't stop there. They very thoughtfully left the names, addresses and even phone numbers on those emails.
"Once again, Sarah Palin shows a remarkable ability to turn a normal request (freedom of information or open records request in this case) into an opportunity for revenge on citizens whom she feels have wronged her. These emails were so heavily redacted that they tell the same story the upcoming propaganda film tells about Sarah Palin, though not even all of the Palin lawyers could put Sarah the Governor back together again. It’s clear from her emails that Sarah Palin was not governing the state of Alaska; she was a CC on emails between other people who governed for her, with very little guidance, direction or input from Sarah Palin until it came to her myth management."
I won't hold my breath that there is anything worth the time and energy it will take to look through the rest of the emails. They have been combed through and sanitized just like Sarah wanted.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Sarah Palin Makes Up Stuff About Paul Revere
Sarah Palin spent the day being all folksy with the people of Boston as she and her family toured the Freedom Trail. But Sarah doesn't blink as she recounts her version of Paul Revere's ride and how it fit into our American history. I just love watching video that captures those idiotic moments for eternity. Enjoy this from Mediaite!
Palin said, “He who warned uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”
I have to agree with what Jason Easley wrote in Politicausa. Sarah Palin must be held accountable for her ignorance. She does not get a free pass when she makes up stuff when speaking about the history of this country. She must be exposed for the joke that she is.
She says this "vacation" of hers is not about posturing for her run at the Presidency? This family trip is not about raking in money for SarahPAC? No. No. She says this bus tour is about showing "us?" about the history of our country and how exceptional we are?
I say spare us, Sarah. My ears are bleeding.
Palin said, “He who warned uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”
I have to agree with what Jason Easley wrote in Politicausa. Sarah Palin must be held accountable for her ignorance. She does not get a free pass when she makes up stuff when speaking about the history of this country. She must be exposed for the joke that she is.
She says this "vacation" of hers is not about posturing for her run at the Presidency? This family trip is not about raking in money for SarahPAC? No. No. She says this bus tour is about showing "us?" about the history of our country and how exceptional we are?
I say spare us, Sarah. My ears are bleeding.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers
It started with a tweet...by Sarah Palin. And now her ignorance can't be so easily dismissed any more. Juan R. I. Cole weighs in with these comments in his blog Informed Comment...
But first, a little about the author of this article...
Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He has been a regular guest on PBS’s Lehrer News Hour, and has also appeared on ABC Nightly News, Nightline, the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper 360, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others. He has given many radio and press interviews. He has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. He has commented extensively on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Iraq War, the politics of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Iranian domestic struggles and foreign affairs. He has a regular column at Salon.com. He continues to study and write about contemporary Islamic movements, whether mainstream or radical, whether Sunni and Salafi or Shi`ite. Cole commands Arabic, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam. He lived in various parts of the Muslim world for nearly 10 years, and continues to travel widely there.
This is the first time he has written about Sarah Palin....
Palin on the Ground Zero Mosque vs. the Founding Fathers
Friday, February 19, 2010
In Response To Sarah Palin's Latest FB Note - How To Handle Climate Change Deniers At Work (video)
Sarah Palin's note writer on Facebook was at it again today, but it wasn't about retards or Down's Syndrome, it was about how global warming is a big hoax and how we should laugh at all those silly scientists and drill, baby, drill.
I think this video offers a reasonable response to those who won't educate themselves about the relationship between the phenomenon of global warming and the most recent abnormal snow storms across the country. Thank you Second City...
I think this video offers a reasonable response to those who won't educate themselves about the relationship between the phenomenon of global warming and the most recent abnormal snow storms across the country. Thank you Second City...
Monday, February 15, 2010
One of the Best Palin Put-down Packages Yet!
Imagine my surprise today to find out that a Fox News Producer, Kara Vallow, sent Sarah Palin a Valentine....unfortunately it wasn't all hearts and flowers.
Just a warning - you might want to grab your hazmat suit...it's kinda bloody here....
Happy Palintine's Day! A Love Letter From Me To Sarah.
by Kara Vallow
Hi Sarah!
I thought I really ought to send you a Valentine's Day greeting today, because I fear that next year you will be forgotten by all but your most rabid and demented fans. The more we learn about you, the less impressed (and more shocked and often nauseated) we are, the more we harden our suspicion that you really ARE an empty vessel, a vacuous, amoral small-town grifter with an eye for nothing beyond the main chance, the next pay-day and the next photo-op. Sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant, and they're not wrong. But for you, the one most sorely in need of disinfecting, sunlight has the same effect it does on vampires. It eats away at you little by little, rotting you until nothing is left. The next time I address you it won't be in the form of a Valentine's Day greeting - it'll be an anti-panegyric preached over the coffin of your political ambitions.
I will miss you when you're gone. Your entertainment-value quotient is off the charts, especially for "over educated", cultural-elitist snobs like me. There's the maddening little sing-song delivery of your speeches, with those weird, unmotivated upticks and misplaced emphases that suggest you are literally reading "your own words" for the very first time. For anyone who appreciates real oratorical skills, like those of Churchill, MLK or Pliny the Elder (you can google all these names, sweetie), it's like having knitting-needles kicked into one's ears over and over again. There's your matchless ability to grind grammar and syntax into a non-intelligible word-pulp containing the odd sharp, indigestible fragment of John Birch ("Bomb Iran!") or Jesus-Freak ("More Divine Intervention!") insanity, the frequent cheap slurs against your political enemies - who, I can't help noticing, are sprouting up even in the madder precincts at your own end of the political spectrum - and the usual genuflections towards Boy Jesus and Saint Ronnie (who I bet wouldn't touch your ass with a forty-foot pole). And then there's your sorry history of climbing towards the top over the corpses of the people who helped get you into office in the first place. It's like a pathology you can't seem to conquer. I don't think there's a step you've taken on your long (albeit short) march to infamy that hasn't featured the wholesale betrayal of the most recent tier of your erstwhile political mentors - the corpses of the disgruntled and thrown-over now surely make up a substantial percentage of the Alaskan electorate. No wonder you quit your job.
And I love your unmatched ability to pick fights with almost anyone, especially your own team members and handlers during last year's election. There's enough resentment and loathing among that group to guarantee you'll have a hard, nasty ride in the primaries come 2012 - except I don't for one minute believe you will run for President. Deep in your cold, flinty little excuse for a heart, you know as well as anyone else that you're not fit to boss a taco truck, let alone hold the reins of state. Your Nixonian hatreds and resentments are part of the public record - remind me what your state-trooper brother-in-law's name was, or the name of that guy you fired for not breaking the law and firing the bro-in-law for you? - and sooner or later, even your least discriminating, most intoxicated aficionados will take note of them and feel their gorges rising - as no doubt they have whilst watching your yoga-like, pretzel-bending exertions in re: Rush Limbaugh and "Retarded".
And talking of aficionados and all that "Run, Sarah Run!" jive, did you happen to notice that the room you addressed last Saturday was only half-full, with a mere 600 souls gathered there - for the price of $549 dollars a pop - to hymn, laud and exalt you? They were the ones devoted enough to pay to hear you speak, who didn't care about the massive speaker's fee you pocketed (with vague promises of using it to support Tea Party-ish candidates - promises you'll soon break, like all the other promises you make), the folks who really are dumb enough to believe that "someone just like me" is capable of running the country, the ones who laughed at the "TelePrompTer" joke even as you used a TelePrompTer of your own, and the ones who think that scrawling a cheat-sheet on your palm is a sign of genius and guts (and not a primitive, pre-digital version of a TelePrompTer - irony not being one of their/your strong suits).
The polls are starting to reflect a growing weariness with all your white-bread, small-town scams and poisonous airhead utterances. Last week a republicans-only poll of likely contenders for 2012 showed you in a distant second place to robotic Thunderbirds puppet Mitt Romney. He has spent billions of his own ill-gotten buckage to secure the princely figure of, oooh, 14 percent support for his putative presidential bid. You on the other hand, limped into second place with seven percent of the tally, barely beating out all the other scurrilous, ice-hearted has-beens and never-will-bes on the list (Huckabee, Gingrich et al). And another poll showed unfavorables towards you that should put paid to any presidential ambitions you might harbor - and here I reiterate my certainty that you will find the note-perfect, "I'm too pure for this" rationale for NOT running, and instead resuming your role as right-wing America's pallidly-pigmented equivalent of Oprah.
Given that your insatiable, almost neurotic appetite for ink, flashbulbs and headlines hasn't flagged for one second since you were plucked from the frigid tundra 18 months ago, it seems that the more we get to know you, the less we want to know.
Americans are finally waking up to your game, girl, and fewer and fewer of them display any inclination to play it. Happy Palintine's Day, Sarah, there won't be another.
XXXOOOO
Published in Huffington Post, February 15, 2010
Just a warning - you might want to grab your hazmat suit...it's kinda bloody here....
Happy Palintine's Day! A Love Letter From Me To Sarah.
by Kara Vallow
Hi Sarah!
I thought I really ought to send you a Valentine's Day greeting today, because I fear that next year you will be forgotten by all but your most rabid and demented fans. The more we learn about you, the less impressed (and more shocked and often nauseated) we are, the more we harden our suspicion that you really ARE an empty vessel, a vacuous, amoral small-town grifter with an eye for nothing beyond the main chance, the next pay-day and the next photo-op. Sunlight, they say, is the best disinfectant, and they're not wrong. But for you, the one most sorely in need of disinfecting, sunlight has the same effect it does on vampires. It eats away at you little by little, rotting you until nothing is left. The next time I address you it won't be in the form of a Valentine's Day greeting - it'll be an anti-panegyric preached over the coffin of your political ambitions.
I will miss you when you're gone. Your entertainment-value quotient is off the charts, especially for "over educated", cultural-elitist snobs like me. There's the maddening little sing-song delivery of your speeches, with those weird, unmotivated upticks and misplaced emphases that suggest you are literally reading "your own words" for the very first time. For anyone who appreciates real oratorical skills, like those of Churchill, MLK or Pliny the Elder (you can google all these names, sweetie), it's like having knitting-needles kicked into one's ears over and over again. There's your matchless ability to grind grammar and syntax into a non-intelligible word-pulp containing the odd sharp, indigestible fragment of John Birch ("Bomb Iran!") or Jesus-Freak ("More Divine Intervention!") insanity, the frequent cheap slurs against your political enemies - who, I can't help noticing, are sprouting up even in the madder precincts at your own end of the political spectrum - and the usual genuflections towards Boy Jesus and Saint Ronnie (who I bet wouldn't touch your ass with a forty-foot pole). And then there's your sorry history of climbing towards the top over the corpses of the people who helped get you into office in the first place. It's like a pathology you can't seem to conquer. I don't think there's a step you've taken on your long (albeit short) march to infamy that hasn't featured the wholesale betrayal of the most recent tier of your erstwhile political mentors - the corpses of the disgruntled and thrown-over now surely make up a substantial percentage of the Alaskan electorate. No wonder you quit your job.
And I love your unmatched ability to pick fights with almost anyone, especially your own team members and handlers during last year's election. There's enough resentment and loathing among that group to guarantee you'll have a hard, nasty ride in the primaries come 2012 - except I don't for one minute believe you will run for President. Deep in your cold, flinty little excuse for a heart, you know as well as anyone else that you're not fit to boss a taco truck, let alone hold the reins of state. Your Nixonian hatreds and resentments are part of the public record - remind me what your state-trooper brother-in-law's name was, or the name of that guy you fired for not breaking the law and firing the bro-in-law for you? - and sooner or later, even your least discriminating, most intoxicated aficionados will take note of them and feel their gorges rising - as no doubt they have whilst watching your yoga-like, pretzel-bending exertions in re: Rush Limbaugh and "Retarded".
And talking of aficionados and all that "Run, Sarah Run!" jive, did you happen to notice that the room you addressed last Saturday was only half-full, with a mere 600 souls gathered there - for the price of $549 dollars a pop - to hymn, laud and exalt you? They were the ones devoted enough to pay to hear you speak, who didn't care about the massive speaker's fee you pocketed (with vague promises of using it to support Tea Party-ish candidates - promises you'll soon break, like all the other promises you make), the folks who really are dumb enough to believe that "someone just like me" is capable of running the country, the ones who laughed at the "TelePrompTer" joke even as you used a TelePrompTer of your own, and the ones who think that scrawling a cheat-sheet on your palm is a sign of genius and guts (and not a primitive, pre-digital version of a TelePrompTer - irony not being one of their/your strong suits).
The polls are starting to reflect a growing weariness with all your white-bread, small-town scams and poisonous airhead utterances. Last week a republicans-only poll of likely contenders for 2012 showed you in a distant second place to robotic Thunderbirds puppet Mitt Romney. He has spent billions of his own ill-gotten buckage to secure the princely figure of, oooh, 14 percent support for his putative presidential bid. You on the other hand, limped into second place with seven percent of the tally, barely beating out all the other scurrilous, ice-hearted has-beens and never-will-bes on the list (Huckabee, Gingrich et al). And another poll showed unfavorables towards you that should put paid to any presidential ambitions you might harbor - and here I reiterate my certainty that you will find the note-perfect, "I'm too pure for this" rationale for NOT running, and instead resuming your role as right-wing America's pallidly-pigmented equivalent of Oprah.
Given that your insatiable, almost neurotic appetite for ink, flashbulbs and headlines hasn't flagged for one second since you were plucked from the frigid tundra 18 months ago, it seems that the more we get to know you, the less we want to know.
Americans are finally waking up to your game, girl, and fewer and fewer of them display any inclination to play it. Happy Palintine's Day, Sarah, there won't be another.
XXXOOOO
Published in Huffington Post, February 15, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Emails From Palin Administration Implicate "First Dude" As Shadow Governor - UPDATED!
This just might be the mother lode we've been waiting for. Today MSNBC reported that they have received 3,000 pages of emails from the Palin Administration that show "First Dude" Todd Palin as intimately involved in the day to day governing of the state of Alaska. These emails leave no doubt that Todd Palin sat in on meetings, was privy to confidential information and that he was basically involved in all aspects of the Alaskan state government.
MSNBC reporter, Bill Dedman, speaks of what he has found in this video...
As usual, Keith Olbermann follows up later in the day and sums it up very nicely here...
And we can't forget the hard working Alaskan bloggers and their faithful readers who continue to sift through the emails for shiny nuggets of clarity in the murky waters that was the Alaskan Governor's half-term. The Immoral Minority, Bree Palin (with over 600 comments) and Palingates (with nearly 1,000 comments) are three of my favorites.
MSNBC reporter, Bill Dedman, speaks of what he has found in this video...
As usual, Keith Olbermann follows up later in the day and sums it up very nicely here...
And we can't forget the hard working Alaskan bloggers and their faithful readers who continue to sift through the emails for shiny nuggets of clarity in the murky waters that was the Alaskan Governor's half-term. The Immoral Minority, Bree Palin (with over 600 comments) and Palingates (with nearly 1,000 comments) are three of my favorites.
UPDATE: This is what Sarah said Sunday morning (Feb.7) on Fox News regarding the emails and Todd's involvement in her governance...
"He was forwarding on emails. And here's another thing. Todd and I being, in some cases, thousands of miles apart, if I emailed him about being, say, outside traveling, Todd's home, he's there, there, as a desktop, and I'm telling Todd, "Hey! Todd! Print this off for me, I'm going to grab it on my way home, because I work off a Blackberry, constantly, for practical reasons, it helped too. Todd helped as Alaska's "First Dude" with no staff. with no office, being thousands of miles away during a lot of times, with his job in Prudhomme Bay on the North Slope and commercial fishing. He helped with workforce development issues, issues that meant a lot to him and people out there, IN THE REAL WORLD. With carhearts, and steeltoed boots and hardhats trying to build this country. Todd helped in that respect. He never got into the minutiae of the politics, Todd's too good for that, he hates this kind of periphery political bull-stuff that we go through. He's not a part of any of that and, no, more power to Todd for being a good adviser and being a good practical person with common sense solutions."
WTH?
Friday, January 15, 2010
Sarah Palin on 'Hannity'
This is Sarah Palin's third day on Fox News. Tonight she meets up with Sean Hannity. Obviously, she is feeling more comfortable with Mr. Hannity, since she is visibly more animated and chatty.
Until I figure out how to get a video to pop up here, please enjoy the video by clicking here.
Until I figure out how to get a video to pop up here, please enjoy the video by clicking here.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Bakersfield Business Conference to showcase Sarah Palin
The Bakersfield Business Conference will welcome former Governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin to the Conference stage for the first time in 2010. Also appearing for the first time in 2010 will be actress and producer Goldie Hawn.
Early ticket prices are $395. Tickets at the door are $495. I believe the conference is in October 2010.
Early ticket prices are $395. Tickets at the door are $495. I believe the conference is in October 2010.
Friday, January 1, 2010
January 1...Doonesbury cartoon
I love all things Sarah Palin...Check out this Doonesbury Cartoon for today.
Monday, December 21, 2009
The Best of Sarah Palin 2009
I have to admit it. I am a closet Sarah Palin follower. Well, I guess I'm not in the closet anymore since I've just published this for all the world to read. (yeah, like that's going to happen!)
These two videos say it all.
This first video from MSNBC features Sarah and her "death panels" comment during the health care reform debates.
Biggest lie of 2009
This second video is for the Wackjob Awards for 2009, also from MSNBC. Sarah was up, down, up, down. And her book, "Going Rogue" was riddled with untruths.
Sarah Palin had some ups and downs in 2009
These two videos say it all.
This first video from MSNBC features Sarah and her "death panels" comment during the health care reform debates.
Biggest lie of 2009
This second video is for the Wackjob Awards for 2009, also from MSNBC. Sarah was up, down, up, down. And her book, "Going Rogue" was riddled with untruths.
Sarah Palin had some ups and downs in 2009
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