Live Mic Left On, Reporters Call Palin “Dumb”

[charlie]

At her CSU speech today...

During the live mic drama at the end, the reporters said now they know that her “dumbness doesn’t come from soundbites” and wondered if she had finished ONE statement, but decided, no she had not. They laughed derisively and made jokes about having to text their conservative friends about this. Other various comments:

“I feel like I just got off a rollercoaster.”
“She didn’t finish a statement.”
“I don’t know how you’re gonna make a story out of that.” “Well, that’s the story.”
“Did she even make a point?”
“Lots of Reagan.”
“Just put as many random quotes in as you can.”

...more (w/audio):

http://www.politicususa.com/en/palin-live-mic

[EFerrari]

1. LOL. It was just a matter of time.

I hope they don't get into too much trouble.

[tblue37]

35. Not student reporters--professionals. The student reporters were

not permitted there.

[EFerrari]

41. I was thinking she would try to get them fired. nt

[bluestateguy]

2. Swell. Now she gets to play the victim again.

Something she is very good at.

[Flubadubya]

19. Yep, that goddamned Lame Stream Media...

is persecuting Ms. Happy-Ass Bendy Straws again! :rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

3. How long till these reporters get death threats?

I wonder...

[HipChick]

24. Already happened...Palin's brownshirts have been attacking them

since they spoke the truth about their viper

[NewJeffCT]

25. sigh

I hate being right about these things, but the brownshirts are predictable.

[slampoet]

29. Even death threats won't make reporters grow up and become Real Americans

[EFerrari]

38. If she is twitting them, can't we reply on her thingy?

What is it? I hardly use Twitter but this could be fun. :)

[SeattleGirl]

47. She got a barrage of negative tweets the other night after

she did a couple of tweets about the BP oil spew, and how it's BS that the "lamestream media" is making BP the bad guy. I and many others were so incensed at what she was saying that we all fired off tweets at her, calling her on HER bullshit. It was probably all for naught, but it felt good.

[EFerrari]

48. What is the feed name?

I'd love to set up a spoof. Only do it for an hour every night, make it an event. "Lmestrem media: You can take my cntrct out of dmpster but you'll nvr get my spch.'

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

54. It's @SarahPalinUSA

Here are the two tweets she did last night that got her a barrage of nasty tweets back:

GOP: Don't let the lamestream media suck you into "they're defending BP over Gulf spill victims" bs… 9:36 PM Jun 24th via web

…This is about the rule of law vs. an unconstitutional power grab. Read Thomas Sowell's article: http://u.nu/6e4ec 9:37 PM Jun 24th via web

Thomas Sowell? :rofl:

[EFerrari]

62. Thanks!

:hi:

[Zephie]

4. Well... They're right?

She IS dumb. :rofl:

[EFerrari]

5. What I thought I heard is one of them saying she reminded him

of college students that just put in as many random quotes as they can. He pointed out that she even quoted Kennedy and he says, come on.

And whoever said that is right. It sounds like the same speech she gave at that tea klanner conference. She was completely incoherent to the point of sounding like a parody of herself.

/oops

[charlie]

8. Well, now we know she's a miserly pinchwallet

She can certainly afford a pro speechwriter, but won't do it. Better to carry on with the bafflegab than divert a few stray dollars from the torrent pouring into her purse.

[EFerrari]

9. I'm sorry Douglas Adams is gone. He would have loved

the way she makes no sense whatsoever. :)

[charlie]

13. Haw!

The man who noted Vogon poetry sometimes caused internal organs to murder the (grateful) host... oh yeah, he would happily swap places with any of the poor schmucks stuck on the Palin beat. Carlin too!

If these idiot media organizations don't at long last go on record with what's plainly obvious, we're in worse trouble than we think. Look at the progression of Republican presidential aspirants:

Reagan --> Quayle --> Dubya --> Palin --> ?????

There's no bottom for the Republicans to plumb, they always manage to go lower. And the next halfwit Joe the Plumber might be an effective kingmaker.

[GoCubsGo]

30. LOL!!! Vogon poetry!

The perfect analogy to her screeching, incoherent blabbery.

[awoke_in_2003]

55. ...

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

oh, here's a Vogon poetry generator
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/vogonpoetry/lettergen.shtml

[Caretha]

67. A new Tina Fey

parody using her own words would be hysterically funny about right now. Can't you just see/hear it....a hundred quotes strung together in incoherent sentences, all the while defending BP.

[justabob]

18. bafflegab

What a perfect word! Hahaha

[Mariana]

39. I don't think that's because she's miserly.

I think she won't hire a speechwriter because she honestly believes that she's more brilliant and talented they are. She's constantly told by her worshippers that she's perfect; they blame anyone and everyone else for her goofy-ass statements and it's never HER fault when she comes off sounding like a fool. She's dumb enough to believe them.

[awoke_in_2003]

56. i believe you are right...

I work with a Hannity/Drudge fan. I have never seen someone so pig ignorant that thinks they are smart.

[pinboy3niner]

46. The self-parody is sublime

Even long before this, Tina Fey's brilliance wasn't able to improve upon it. In one SNL sketch, Fey-as-Palin delivered a long word salad that was, in fact, virtually verbatim Palin's own words:

"PALIN": "Like every American I'm speaking with, we are ill about this. We're saying, 'Hey, why bail out Fanny and Freddie and not me?' But ultimately, what the bailout does is, help those that are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy to help, uhhh, it's gotta be all about job creation too. Also, too, shoring up our economy and putting Fannie and Freddie back on the right track, and so health care reform and reducing taxes and reigning in spending...'cause Barack Obama, ya know, has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans, also, having a dollar value meal at restaurants. That's gonna help. But 1 in 5 jobs being created today under the umbrella of job creation. That, you know. Also....."

[EFerrari]

49. "America is great because she is good".

Now, how can anyone disagree with that, whatever it means? All the charm of a squeaky hamster wheel, all the wisdom of a badly translated fortune cookie! :hi:

[pinboy3niner]

53. "All the charm of a squeaky hamster wheel, all the wisdom of a badly translated fortune cookie!"

Thanks for the great line! I WILL take the liberty of sharing it. :hi:

[patrice]

68. O.M.G. ! That's worse than I imagined.

[pinboy3niner]

70. Isn't it?

That quote was Tina Fey doing Palin on SNL. Note how little it differs (apart from the "dollar value meal" reference) from the transcript of the actual Couric interview with Palin:

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? Allow them to spend more, and put more money into the economy, instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in. Where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh, it’s got to be about job creation, too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade — we have got to see trade as opportunity, not as, uh, competitive, um, scary thing, but one in five jobs created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/interview.asp
(Transcript and video)

To me, it looks like she was prepped for the interview but retained nothing but the buzz words--and she figured she might as well throw ALL of them into her reply to a single question!:rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

6. HAHAHAHA!!!!!

:rofl:

[patrice]

69. WOW! Swampy! That is just frakking AWESOME!! Love, Love, Love!! the crocodile tears!!!

I know you hear it a lot, but your work is just really Really Growing.

Such a pleasure to share, Thank! You!!

:loveya:

[6000eliot]

7. Why do they all pretend she isn't on the air?

[Scuba]

10. It's not smart to make fun of someone who shoots wolves from a chopper.

[EFerrari]

11. Maybe she didn't shoot them. Maybe she spoke to them.

[IDemo]

20. Now that right there was funny

:rofl:

[awoke_in_2003]

57. If I were a wolf...

I would take the bullet- much less painful.

[xchrom]

12. And they were expecting different? Nt

[slampoet]

14. Fucker should be REPORTING SHE IS STUPID!!! But they aren't interesting in doing their jobs

[Barack_America]

23. .

:applause:

Getting caught revealing their true opinions to a live mic is probably the most important contribution they'll ever make. Sad isn't it?

[Octafish]

36. That would be the story.

Then, that's not the purpose of Corporate McPravda. Making money and providing a sideshow are.

[TwilightGardener]

37. Exactly--it's incredible that we all have to pretend the truth isn't the truth.

[Richard Steele]

52. Yup. nm

[progressoid]

72. +1 brazillion

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. Perhaps she should look here

http://www.aspergerresources.com/famous_people_with_aspergers.html

[AlienGirl]

75. Who should? Palin? She'd have no ability to communicate with us Aspies!

We tend to relate best to logic and intellect, so she'd be hard-pressed to find an Aspie who'd help her write her speeches--she makes so little sense, it's like listening to a random-word generator but less interesting.

Tucker

[HysteryDiagnosis]

78. A random word generator..... purrrrrrrfect!! Can't wait to pass

this on to a few people.... thanks!!

[mwb970]

16. This is news? That $arah is dumb?

Gosh, we've all known that for almost two years now. Did these "reporters" just discover this?

:eyes:

[tanyev]

17. Oooh, get ready fer Sarah to unload some whup-ass on Twitter and Facebook!

[canetoad]

21. She really needs to shut up

[spanone]

22. ah poor sarah, the 'lamestream' media is picking on her again

if she wasn't so stupid, they wouldn't pick

[Maestro]

26. Well duh!

What did they expect?

[unblock]

27. crap. another round of "liberal media" b.s.

[Scurrilous]

28. K & R

:thumbsup:

[IndianaGreen]

31. Keith Olbermann: Palin is 'stupid'

Palin has a tremendous capacity for being un-curious about the world in which she lives, preferring that simulation that exists only in that tiny little head of hers. Make no mistake about it, however ignorant Palin chooses to be, there are very smart and ruthless people that will benefit from having someone like her in the White House.

Palin is a sock puppet for the ruling class, one of many!

[annabanana]

43. I believe "That Woman Is An Idiot" is his preferred locution. . n/t

[elzenmahn]

74. Agreed, and I would take this even further...

...one of the reporters cited her constant citings of Reagan.

She's using the same damned playbook Ronniebaby used. Remember that people said similar things about Saint Ronnie prior to his first election victory. Look what that got us.

It's not so much her that concerns me as it is the millions of followers she has garnered, and the media backing of Rupert Murdoch. She's become a cult of personality, just like what Ronniebaby did back in those good old days. She's an idiot to be sure, but she is not to be taken lightly. Call her out on her bullshit, and defeat her if she gets the hankering to run.

[HughMoran]

32. lol

I can't see her running for President - there's just too much resentment toward her and an infinite amount of 'stupid' to run continuously on the air for the last 2 months - no need to repeat any ad more than once!

[CoffeeCat]

33. These reporters speak for percent of Americans!

Of course, Sarah is too ignorant and lacking in any sort of self awareness, to understand
that the vast majority of Americans think she is a walking tool.

This will be pawned off as "Oh the librul media hates me! Waaaaa!!!" but this is the majority opinion
about her.

The right wing of the right wing loves her. The rest of us are so tired of this stupid, ingrate
being foisted on us. Her speech was so ridiculous, it's obvious that the Republican party is
allowing her to "go rogue"--giving her just enough rope with which to hang herself.

There are many conservatives that I can tolerate, and even agree with. However, Palin is
a complete fool. She's such an embarrassment to herself and to this country. The only
people who can't see this--are Sarah and her blissfully ignorant fan base. :eyes:

[Contrary1]

34. Improved Audio Clip here:

And, you only have to stomach about 30 seconds of The Quitter.

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/06/sarah-palins-speech-tonight-at-csu.html

[gratuitous]

40. "Don't know how you're gonna make a story"

Clearly, a straight report is out of the question for some reason. After all, they're just journalists.

[Raschel]

42. OUCH!! She's gotta feel spanked by that! To know they think that nobody can hear them

and they're talking about her stupidity, it's just, well - THE GREATEST!!! :rofl:

[asdjrocky]

44. That should teach here not to come to Cali. nt

[valerief]

45. DOTD. Dumbest of the Dumb. Love it! nt

[ehrnst]

50. Finally. (nt)

[KonaKane]

51. Captured on tape. I love it.

Let the stupid flow, Sarah.

[Liberal_in_LA]

58. HEE! n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

59. Imagine if Murrow

or Cronkite had to cover this woman.

[dorkulon]

60. Better transcript here

I left out the tech talk (including "how you gonna make a story out of that, which I interpreted as being about the tech difficulties they were having)

"Oh my God, I feel like I just got off a roller coaster. Round and round, up and down, shit flying out everywhere and scaring you--"

"It's like when you gotta write a report as a college student, and you just try to jam as many quotes in as possible, you know, from as many random, you know, things as you can, that's what I got out of it."

"And she didn't finish a statement."

"Right"

"Did she make a statement? Cause I didn't catch that either."

"To think she can even quote Kennedy, that's like a holy event!" (or an unholy event?)

"Twice!"


"Now I know: The dumbness doesn't come from just soundbites."

"I'm gonna go send this text to my conservative friend."

[EFerrari]

63. Much better!

:hi:

[CitizenPatriot]

79. one note

Actually,it's the reporters talking about the writing this speech up:

"how are you going to make a story out of that (the speech)"? the reporter answers, "that is the story" (the fact that she can't speak).

[BumRushDaShow]

61. The re-gifted gift keeps on being re-gifted and keeps giving.

:rofl:

[pinboy3niner]

64. Ad at student newspaper online after Palin visit: PRICELESS!!!

[MidwestTransplant]

65. Why do those reporters hate America

[DeeDeeNY]

66. poor Sarah

She didn't have time to write notes on her hand!

[liberal N proud]

71. now they know that her “dumbness doesn’t come from soundbites”

:rofl:

[Historic NY]

73. I think they wasted a lot of time and money...with dumb as a stump.

[Beartracks]

76. So, when are they due to publicly apologize?

'Cause that always seems to be demanded of those who speak truth to dumb.

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[Robert DAH Bruce]

77. "Now I know the dumbness doesn't come from just soundbites."

My fav line! :rofl: