So you guys REALLY let Simon have it for declining to rake the Bristol Palin muck the other day. Congratulations, you set a Deceiver commenting record.
Now can we talk about her policies?
As Radley Balko at Reason magazine points out, the McCain campaign might have done better in vetting their candidate before trotting her out as a hero against government waste.
The Washington Independent has unearthed a document that shows Sarah Palin boasting about $3.5-million in federal earmarks she secured as mayor of Wasilla, her little Alaskan town of 9,000. The millions were granted for airport repaving, water treatment, and sidewalks.
McCain has made fighting pork-barrel spending a campaign tenet, and there’s a certain irony that he once criticized earmarks requested by Palin herself: $500,000 for a public-transportation project in Wasilla in 2001. Even though if you live in rural Alaska, you definitely have a car.
But now that she is his running mate, he is recasting her pursuit of earmarks as something she was loathe to do:
Taylor Griffin, a McCain campaign spokesman, said that when Palin became mayor in 1996, “she faced a system that was broken. Small towns like Wasilla in Alaska depended on earmarks to take care of basic needs. . . . That was something that Gov. Palin was alarmed about and was one of the formative experiences that led her toward the reform-oriented stance that she has taken as her career has progressed.”
And what exactly did Palin write in the document I mentioned above?
Would someone who wasn’t zealously going after government money give themselves a pat on the back with three exclamation points?
Bonus: Jon Stewart did a related video Deceiver post. Have a watch:
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There we go, substantial attacks.
And she didn’t sell the plane on E-Bay either, according to Radar Online. She listed it, but it went unsold for months. The plane finally sold through a broker.
And she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it too.
About the Stewart video, good up until the Palin thing. She hasn’t cried because it’s not easy or it’s hard or whatever it was Clinton said before the New Hampshire primary. Excuse me, attempted to cry.
Jon Stewart is such a dick.
“And she didn’t sell the plane on E-Bay either, according to Radar Online. She listed it, but it went unsold for months. The plane finally sold through a broker.”
What?!? A f*cking broker?!? G-d DAMN her! IMPEACH THE BITCH!!! IMPEACH THE BITCH!!!
I love The Daily Show. Stewart has the cojones to say on national television what most of the nation is thinking.
I still remember his comments to Tucker Carlson during a Crossfire interview.
Deceiver.com should consider doing a television show. If not daily then weekly.
Boring. Clips of people saying one thing and then the other. Sure the “kids” love it… it’s a gotcha moment. But anyone in the public eye, who is constantly filmed… well, that’s gonnna happen. Any politician, celebrity, or public figure; it’s not too hard to find a couple of clips with contradictory statements. The smirky humor of a Jon Stewart is a weak humor. It’s the kind of stuff you like in Jr. High school… making fun of others.
Well, back to the Peace Rally now. I’ve got some windows to break and police to spit on.
Chris
For some of us, it’s a living.
And now that you’re bringing up legitimate, non-conspiracy-related issues, watch as this post only grabs a small fraction of the comments that any of the other posts about Palin have…
Why is Jon Stewart a “dick” for pointing out that the McCain staff and Rove have used the exact same attacks towards another woman? It’s ok if they are ragging on Hillary Clinton? It isn’t sexist because Hillary is a bitch? But if it’s Palin, “Back off.” That’s what being a hypocrite is all about. Different rules apply when it is convenient. Stewart and Deceiver love to point it out.
So, where is the Deciever post on William Ayers and the 110 million wasted by Obama and his terrorist cronies?
Link?
“The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama’s most important administrative leadership experience, helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed to produce any measurable academic gains, according to the project’s own final report.
Add in the fact that former Weatherman and admitted terrorist William Ayers (whom Obama described in the Philadelphia debate as merely a “neighbor”) was head of the operating arm of the CAC, working with Obama on distributing scores of millions of dollars to grantees in the wards of the city, and you have a topic that the Obama campaign wishes to avoid at all costs.
A compliant media has averted its eyes so far.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_lost_annenberg_years_co.html
National television? I could’ve sworn Comedy Central was a cable channel.
Thank you. Also, we don’t have quotas here. Just because we post a story you disagree with, that doesn’t mean we’re required to post one you agree with.
Ok. Back the article:
“The Washington Independent has unearthed a document that shows Sarah Palin boasting about $3.5-million in federal earmarks she secured as mayor of Wasilla, her little Alaskan town of 9,000. The millions were granted for airport repaving, water treatment, and sidewalks.”
The funds were STATE funds. Not “federal earmarks”.
I quote from the link:
“This little gem outlines some of the state-funded projects that Wasilla City secured that year, including $1.2 million for storm water treatment and $605,000 for pedestrian pathways.”
1) They were STATE funds. Mayors are supposed to be trying for STATE funds.
2) They were for storm water treatment (a good thing) and pedestrian pathways.
Whay whould it be HYPOCRITICAL to request STATE funds for a city in ALASKA from the ALASKA government?
Isn’t that her job?
There may be legitimate criticism for Sarah, but so far I see clutching at straws on top of ourtight lies and misogyny.
By the way, the article snippet posted has “STATE FUNDS” in her handwriting.
OMG. A Mayor wanted STATE funds to help with the sewer system! Call out the police!
Do you people know what an EARMARK is … compared to funding projects through channels?
http://earmarks.omb.gov/earmarks_definition.html
“OMB defines earmarks as funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents Executive Branch merit-based or competitive allocation processes, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to manage critical aspects of the funds allocation process.”
IS there a shred of evidence the funding requested by Sarah Palin was an EARMARK?
“The Daily Show” has full episodes on teh Tubes!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=184082
Same goes for the “The Colbert Report”!
So in a city that doubled in size in less than ten years there was no need for:
1. Storm water treatment?
2. Waste water treatment,
3. Sidewalks? or
4. Septic upgrades?
Because that’s what those fed dollars were for.
(Source US Census Bureau: http://tinyurl.com/6qezff)
Cutting government waste is hypocritical, not efficient?
Rocko
Sep 4th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
National television? I could’ve sworn Comedy Central was a cable channel.
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Are cable channels not broadcast nationally?
No Discordia, you pay for them.
Considering the new Edward Roybal high school in Los Angeles cost $350 million for 2400 students, $3.5 million for 9780 residents seems like the bargain of the century.
Average Cost Per Person:
Roybal High School = $145,833
Wasilla Alaska = $ 357
That works out to Roybal High spending 400 times the amount per person that Palin spent.
That’s just good stewardship of public funds, not hypocrisy.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080904/D92VIUS02.html
John Edwards cancels his October 15 Hofstra college appearance because:
Apparently the Enquirer has some blockbuster new allegations coming out next Wednesday.
I expect Edwards to come out immediately after the November election and announce he’s just emerged from a ninety day private rehabilitation for an unnamed addictive condition he will refuse to discuss ever again.
He will however, continue to have employees like Hargrave McElroy, Jonathan Prince, and Dave ‘Mudcat’ Saunders give one sided press releases celebrating his ’sobriety’ and leadership on addiction issues.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-liedwa0905,0,3599991.story
All funds for the Edward Roybal high school were paid for by Angelinos, who, you know, attend the school or have kids who do.
Palin was asking taxpayers in Indianapolis to pay for the sewer system in some tiny town in Alaska that they would probably never set foot in, instead of asking the residents of the town to pay for their own sewer system.
Rocko
Sep 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
No Discordia, you pay for them.
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But, they’re still available nationally; unlike local channels which are regional. I mean, I pay to get Comedy Central in Fresno, California, just like my nephew pays to get Comedy Central in Boca Raton, Florida. However, he cannot get KFSN Channel 30 which is a Fresno station that is also available by cable.
CL, the sewer system was paid for by STATE funds. Can’t you read?
Bruce, CL is right. According to the LA Times (which I linked to above), Palin’s sewer project used $1.5-million in federal earmarks:
KFSN which is an ABC affiliate. Ask your nephew if he enjoyed the Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy episodes that aired toady on WPBF, the Boca Raton ABC affiliate. Those are nationally broadcast shows. Those are the same episodes I’d see here in New York on our ABC affiliate WABC.
Compare it this way, 100% of households with a TV can watch Ugly Betty whereas only 60% of households in the US have cable TV and can watch the Daily Show.
The document with her handwriting on it says state funds … for 2002.
But I look forward to you mentioning the earmarks of Democrats.
Clinton: 530 million
Obama: 40.6 million
Biden: 67 million
Oh, by the way
McCain: 0
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-tops-2008-rivals-gets-530m-in-earmarks-2007-11-09.html
I can’t believe Edwards was actually dumb enough to publicly admit he’s a political liability. Wait, yes I can. Guess I know what I’m posting about tomorrow…
That’s the way the Federal Government works, CL.
Do you think anybody in Alaska helped pay the $114 BILLION dollars spent on rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina? Of course they did.
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14009346)
Furthermore, Alaska and Puerto Rico are overcontributors that are primarily excluded from most road building dollars, including those of the Interstate Highway system.
(http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/)
That’s it?! That’s the big scoop?!!!
Egad, by implication then, no politician should secure any funds for anything at any time of their administration …
… even if they are for infrastructure items such as storm water treatment, pedestrian pathways, and septic upgrades.
Did you guys get the information on her Sold Plane to ebay? Apparently, she indeed listed the plane on ebay - where it sat for many weeks unsold. Then she sold it (or someone sold it) to a company that squires wealthy hunters around Alaska. Not a big deal - and I suppose not technically a lie, in that she DID list it. But it’s certainly not the truth, either.
And nice going! It’s much more interesting to pry into what she’s done in office, or in power, than in bed, or as a mother. Those things matter, when hypocrisy is involved, as with Edwards. And that would be a factor with the hockey mom Christian, too. But what how she intends to govern (or back-up govern) is more important to our own futures.
I am continually amazed at where I find the best information. Here, other small sites, The Daily Show & Colbert, & now - geez - the Enquirer seems almost professional.
Mean Dean got it right. All this complaining about where the funds came from is irrelevant. From everything I’ve read so far, it sounds like Sarah Palin was doing her best to take care of her constituents legally, and she did it efficiently and successfully. I haven’t seen or heard anything that indicated she was advancing herself financially with those public funds. So what if the plane didn’t sell on ebay? The point is, she saw it as a waste of tax payer’s money and sold it. Saying “I put it on Ebay” (truth) is more fun to say than “I got a broker to sell it for me.” Sounds like nay sayers still can’t find anything of real substance to quibble about.
Using Jon Stewert as a source for ANY legitimate news source autpmatically cancels out your credibility.
Man, poor Deceiver mods…if you don’t cover a story, people scream that you’re biased. If you do cover a story, people complain that it isn’t a big enough scoop. Is the new rule that all journalism must work on one-upsmanship? It can only be mentioned if it’s the biggest damn deal EVER?
We aim to please none of the people none of the time.
@Holly Won’t “We aim to please none of the people none of the time.”
Well I’m satisfied … oh wait … that would mean you guys failed in succeeding in not pleasing any of us all the time … or is that none of the time?
I’m so confused … perhaps instead I should just calculate how much Biden is saving all of us by taking the Amtrak’s Acela line instead of buying a house in nearby Montgomery County, MD like everyone else …
… that’s about $97 a pop each way … about 115 days a year … crud … $23k a year? Hmm ….
Some perspective here (warning I will be making assumptions on human behavior)
You are recenetly elected Mayor of a small town - due to growth the infrastructure of your little town is going to need some big (relatively) improvements - you want to avoid taxing because it will overburdening current residents and may stall the current growth spurt - you learn that there are federal funds available for your situation - Do you pass on it?
You are now the governor of a state - you learn how the funds that you had used in the town are appropriated and are appalled (maybe or you see an oppurtunity for career boost) - you now realize how damaging this process is and how curruptible the system is - Do you try and change it or just say “well since I took advantage of this in the past I have no right to demand changes” ?
So, let me re-iterate. Sara Palin inherits a city which historically relied on federal grants to get anything accomplished and she is being denigrated because she’s happy to receive those funds? Then she finds a way to turn the system around and make their community independent of this funding, and you think she is the deceiver? Maybe if those wishing to opine on a story, would move out from under their partisan bias long enough to see the truth of the story we wouldn’t have so many fallacies swirling through the air.
I agree MeanDean, SC, Kathy, etc., if those funds went for something like a facelift or post-five-births-tummytuck, it would get me ticked off.
Maybe I don’t completely understand the story.
Do you guys have the update on her theoretical affair? The man named in the NE article is in an awful rush to get his divorce records sealed. Gee.
Scott Alan Richter is the possible “deceiver” and for sure the “deceived”. See Kos…or Salon. Or just about anyone…
Now parent of baby Trig is in question - this time the baby-daddy - that is if we believe the Hockey Mom is the baby-Momma.
Sarah Palin seems like the type of woman whose sofa is covered in tater chip dust and smells of motor oil and Hamburger Helper - and I’d rather let the mainstream media get this one if I were “Deceiver” too…
Except they won’t. They’ll do another Edwards lip-smack and then act all-shook when yet another story comes out of them second hand. And more readers head for the Blogs. Gawd. And bless the bunch of yuz.
“Sarah Palin seems like the type of woman whose sofa is covered in tater chip dust…”
Actually, her office sofa is covered in a Grizzly Bear skin - shot by her Dad (I think).
Apologeeze! Her OFFICE sofa, according to Brucie, is covered in tater chip dust on the Grizzly Carcase and smells of both along with the motor oil and Hamburger Helper.
No tator chip dust.
I did see the blood of all those idiots who didn’t take her seriously.
Dogsniff, exactly what “type of woman” are you referring to, whose sofa you seem so wonderfully aromatically sure of? You seem to be shoving every white trash stereotype into that little vignette, and it’s a neat trick to fuel your criticism with some poignant details you just made up, but I’m curious where you’re getting this from.
Wow. That may be just as irritating as the stories about lawsuits filed questioning the validity of Obama’s birth certificate. According to some sites, he was born in Kenya and has forged his birth certificate! I know Obama is going to institute Sharia after he is elected, after all, he is a Muslim. Hoewever, he is just so darn cute and is such a rock star, I can’t help but vote for him.
Yeah, one side plays so fair and sticks to the issues that affect the country. Guess which one?
Phoenix - you think Hamburger Helper, motor oil, and tater chip dust is “white trash”? Okay - wow - good to know.
Like Hockey Mom - you conservative folks sure know how to come right out and call names…
By the way - this Election time around - I think the gloves are safely off. Keep slinging it and expect it to come back.
Dogsniff, I didn’t invent the stereotypes you were so wonderfully using, I was just pointing them out, and asking why the hell you were so freely applying them to someone. Please, do me a favor and ask a few people what they think you’re saying when you tell them you think someone’s couch smells of tater chips, hamburger helper, and motor oil. They aren’t going to think you’re complimenting the woman. Those are not things you say about WASPs or rich liberals. What the hell did you think you were saying about her, exactly? Which was, ya know, what I was asking. But please, ignore anything I actually said and try to turn my words into something completely different.
I am not conservative. I did not call her white trash. I asked why you are using every white trash stereotype to refer to her. They are white trash stereotypes. That’s your problem for using them, not mine. Me asking you what you are implying is not “slinging it”, nor is it name calling.
I asked you a question. What “type of woman” are you referring to? If you had answered that instead of pretending that I am the one slandering her, your post might have had some actual content.
Not everyone who calls you on your completely baseless, facetious description of meaningless details of someone’s life is necessarily conservative and mud slinging. Disagreeing with what you say doesn’t make me the embodiment of everything you hate. But I know realize that is very hard to understand for some people, so if you need to think the entire world is wrong for questioning you, fine. Just know that the rest of us can see through the projectionist tactics you’re so poorly employing.
Heh heh heh heh… Sarah? That you girl?
Just a sec, gotta wipe the tater chip dust off my keyboard…
You kind of need to read my original post, Phoenix. Nobody is calling names but you… Bruce said she had a grizzly carcass on her couch.
We are commenting here, yes? (I just pinched myself and looked at the monitor through the Hamburger Helper and Twinkie grease film - and sure enough - these are comments on a blog.)
Looks like I hit a “truth” nerve somewhere - and that SOMEONE sure doesn’t like lower middle class working people to get all undone about it?
Dogsniff. You missed the memo. The DNC and the Obamabots have a new plan.
Disparaging Sarah Palin is out (because people notice she is more qualified than Obama - and it makes them look insane) and attack McCain is in.
Oh … and panic is the new emotion:
“In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-07-poll_N.htm
Missed again, Dogsniff.
Please point out the part where I was calling names. No?
Can I ask a *third* time what you meant by “type of woman”? Gonna ever say what the heck that was about? No?
So the fact I was asking what on earth you meant by that random and rather poetic first post means you “hit a ‘truth’ nerve” ? Nope. Although it must be fun to live in a world that anytime someone asks what you mean, that means what you said is true.
I did read your comments. And this is a blog! Congratulations on recognizing that, that’s the first sign I’ve seen so far that you understand basic communication. Did you read my comments? Where all I did was ask what you meant? Awesome how that means I was conservative and name calling. Did ya read the one where I said I wasn’t and asked again what you meant? Awesome, apparently that meant that you spoke the “truth” and I didn’t like the lower middle class working people getting all undone about it.
I am liberal, lower middle class working people, and am amazed at your mastery of misdirection. Since you seem to revel in assuming completely random and non factual things, I’m going to make a few assumptions. I’ll hafta assume from now on you’re either just trolling or are actually just incapable of communicating what you mean and got lost in a fog of “nuh-uh, you are!” retorts. Either way, you have my sympathy. But after two tries to ask you what on earth you’re talking about, I’ve hit my limit.
But I admit I’m curious as to how you’ll respond to this as further proof that I am in fact Sarah herself in all her Republican glory…as proven by my name calling and aversion to the truth of your words. Or whatever else you’ll pretend I said.
Grammatically speaking, it should be, “We did GOOD,” not “We did well.” “Well,” in this instance, says we are well, as in not sick. You can’t do not-sick. It should have been good. I love how people try to use the right words to sound educated, but then use them incorrectly to sound even more stupid than they already are.
Dan - That’s funny, cause I love it when pompous blowhards try to prove they’re more intelligent than someone else simply because they made a grammatical mistake. Being a grammar Nazi doesn’t prove you’re smart, just that you’re good at memorizing ridiculous and often contradictory rules at the expense of developing actual interpersonal skills. Most of us realize that the message (the actual point of human communication after all) is more important than the imperfect medium used to convey it.
Affairs, babies, whatever. What about fringe domestic terrorist groups?
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/palin-republican-party-infiltrator-damning-video/#comments
Of course, this could be another youtube joke. I can’t watch it at work.
Oh for the love… Anyone else tired of playing with repubs pretending to be dems?
To end Sarah’s turmoil I’ll say again, “Sarah Palin reminds me of the type of woman whose sofa is covered in tater chip dust and smells of Hamburger Helper and Motor oil” - and for Brucie I’ll add the lingering stench of a Grizzly Carcass that died violently at the end of a gun for no other reason but to decorate said smelly couch.
That’s what type of woman she reminds me of.
What it reminded a certain other reader of - or so she/he says - are “white trash”.
I can’t help you any further, dear. I have enjoyed you trying to put words in my mouth - but not that much.
Forgive the boring discourse - I shall try to avoid using “poetic” descriptions of Sarah’s personal furniture in the future.
“That’s what type of woman she reminds me of.”
Wow, dogsniff. For someone who knows virtually nothing about the woman, it’s nice to see you not reflexively retreating head-long into elitist, liberal stereotyping.
We’ll all pay dearly when she goes toe-to-toe against Joe Biden’s superior *cough* IQ, won’t we?