The Bob and Mark Show

Bob and Sarah at the Combat Fishing Tournament

The Bob and Mark Show is a morning show in Anchorage, Alaska. They were big supporters of Palin in her campaign for Governor, and if you want to check out those audio bites, just check out my You Tube channel. Link is on the right-hand side.

Here's Bob and Mark early this morning on the Todd Palin advising his wife "scandal":


And I thought this was kinda fun too:

Vids, Vids....and More Vids

Ted Nugent rocks the Star Spangled Banner at the Palin/Perry event:



Perry makes Palin an honorary Texan:



Another vid of the Perry event:



Dennis Prager on Palin's Palm:



Beck today:



Palin's Palm Pilot:



And while I don't agree with Bush on many things, and have probably been a tad too hard on him, I like this video:

Crowder on SNL

Steven Crowder article on Big Hollywood:

SNL… They were doing so well for a while. It looked like rather than bending over for the administration, they were going to return to the irreverent brand of “take no prisoners” humor that has made them the political powerhouse that they are today. There was the infamous “Obama Deals with China” sketch, followed by a few subtle jabs at the POTUS, but it has ended there. In an attempt to remain politically relevant, SNL has decided to once again go after none other than Sarah Palin. At the very least, you have to respect them for being ballsy, right?

To the untrained eye, SNL’s recent “Rahm Emanuel Apology” sketch would seem to be poking fun at the chief-of-staff designate. To be fair, they make him look like a bit of a jerk (albeit still a smart one.) Personally I would have gone with the whole “he looks like Brad Garret on a heroin-bender” angle, but keep in mind that I’m a bi-partisan hack. The most notable part of the SNL piece had nothing to do with Emmanuel himself, but the jabs taken at Sarah Palin:

“You come after me on Facebook? What, are your fourteen? Here’s a status update: Grow the f–k up! Poke me again, and I will write s–t on your wall so obscene your computer will cry. Go back to the tundra, you f–king gimmick!”

One has to ask themselves, “Where are the jokes?” The only truthful premise for any of these punchlines is that Sarah Palin effectively used social networking tools to make a fool out of the pencil-necked Emanuel. Does that really make her immature? Most of the current administration use some form of new media (including the President himself who seems quite the twitter-fiend).

The only difference is that Palin seems to currently have more sway over public opinion and the ultimate ability to define policy (even though she holds no official). Still, I haven’t yet seen anyone address the mean-spiritedness of the SNL swipes at Palin. Maybe that’s because those attacks are only reserved to Palin herself, as seen by the reaction to a recent joke at her latest Tea Party speech.

“We really do love our trees. I named my daughter Willow. Isn’t that granola enough for them?”

Don’t expect to see Palin at your local comedy club anytime soon, but the joke can stand on its own two feet. According to the mainstream media however, it was seen as too edgy or (according to some) flat out “mean.” How can a joke with no clear-cut personal target, no true social relevancy or words of hatred be mean? Maybe I’m just a simp.

See when it comes to dealing with Palin, none of the facts matter. Much like their sentiments towards FoxNews, the media is blinded by its hatred for the woman. You’re going to see a lot more “pile-ons” when it comes to Palin in the coming months, and here’s why…

Palin’s Achilles heel was her lack of experience in dealing with the media. Much like Reagan, she decided to control her own message. She did so by hitting the road with her book and dealing directly with the American people. Unlike Reagan (who worked in the entertainment industry for years), this wasn’t going to help her where she needed it most. The only way to gain media experience is to get in front of the media.

Enter Palin’s Fox News contributorship. Palin now has an open venue where she can get her feet wet in dealing with the press, without having to worry about getting sucker-punched like a photographer adjacent to a coked-out Sean Penn.

It really is a genius move on her part, and the folks at NBC hate that. The fact that she’s incredibly hot only exacerbates their problem. While I’m not necessarily 100% sold on Palin as an 2012 candidate so far, what the media continues to do to her is criminal. I’m talking Barney Frank-level criminal. Why isn’t he in federal prison, by the way? I’d pay a nickel to see that mugshot.

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Here's a video of Steven's:

Palin: Get Motivated

Someone took some camera snippets of Palin's Get Motivated speech:

Vids and Ceremonial Bannings

First up, Tammy Bruce had a sensational program yesterday. There's five parts. They should play after each other automatically:




And here's Rush Limbaugh today talking about Palin's palm and the polls:



And now on to the fun stuff.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, my first banning. I'm putting on my figurative ceremonial banning hat for this one. It's very stylish.

I was going to let the little fellow stay and have his fun, but then I thought about how cruel that really was. Here's a person who obviously has nothing better to do than hang around websites that he/she/it doesn't even like and spew meaningless Palin-hating talking points gleaned from the Underworld at someone that is small potatoes to say the least. Not much of a life. I must help this poor soul get that life he/she/it is obviously sorely lacking.

So, in the spirit of human decency, I must push this little scumbirdie out of my nest. You know who you are. From here on, all of your comments will be deleted. Your past comments have already been deleted. It is as if you never existed, at least, not in my universe. I suggest you take advantage of this opportunity to expand beyond your hatred and do something productive with your life.

As for my blog, consider yourself blacklisted, extinct, banished, barred, disallowed, excluded, or (my personal favorite) gone poof. It was nice knowin' ya.

Not.

Palin's Team, Meghan McCain, and Sickos

An interesting article in the New York Times found here. Excerpts:
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Ms. Palin is quietly assembling the infrastructure of an expanding political operation. In addition to her longtime spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, Ms. Palin’s closest aides include members of her former running mate’s staff. Her current operations chief, Jason Recher, was a loyal lieutenant on Ms. Palin’s campaign plane — loyal to a point where some top McCain aides believed he was encouraging Ms. Palin’s “rogue” behavior. (According to internal campaign e-mail messages provided by a former top McCain aide, campaign officials considered firing Mr. Recher in October 2008 over “unacceptable” and “unprofessional” conduct during a rough swing through New Hampshire and Maine.)

“I wouldn’t exactly call it a badge of honor to be thought of negatively by some of these people,” Mr. Recher said. “But the bottom line is, I was incredibly proud to serve John McCain, and I couldn’t be happier to be part of Sarah Palin’s world now.”

People with knowledge of the daily briefings say they are conducted by phone or e-mail. They typically include information on the day’s news, material that could be relevant to an upcoming speech, or guidance about a candidate Ms. Palin might endorse. Mr. Scheunemann in particular is known as a conservative hawk on foreign affairs, in keeping with what many Palin-watchers have viewed as her steady shift to the right.

“She used to be a moderate Republican in Alaska, but I think all of these attacks have hardened her and made her absolutely more conservative,” said John Coale, a Washington lawyer and longtime Democratic fund-raiser who helped Ms. Palin set up her political action committee.

Mr. Coale, the husband of the Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, said the crowds that swarmed Ms. Palin’s campaign and book events have provided comfort amid so much criticism.

“I think there have been times during all the attacks when she thought, ‘This is just too much,’ ” Mr. Coale said. “But now I think it all makes her more determined. Whatever she’s doing now, it feels like a calling to her.”

Along with her paid advisers, Ms. Palin has been in regular contact with a kitchen cabinet of Washington power brokers: Mr. Barnett, a Democrat, on business and media decisions, and Fred Malek, an aide to Presidents Richard M. Nixon and the elder George Bush, on political matters.

When asked by The New York Times for others to speak to about Ms. Palin, her spokeswoman, Ms. Stapleton, mentioned the Republican media adviser Mary Matalin (who has been in sporadic contact with Ms. Palin’s camp) and Dana Perino, the former White House press secretary for George W. Bush (who seemed barely to know her)....

“I think if Sarah has a passion, it’s that she really believes that there is a silent majority out there that she wants the folks in Washington to know about,” said Kristan Cole, a friend in Wasilla.
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Not sure how reliable the New York Times is, but I think the parts by Jason Recher and John Coale are interesting.

And Meghan McCain is an idiot. From her gross misunderstanding of Palin's remarks on Iran to Chris Wallace, to saying that the Tea Parties are due to an innate racism, Meghan is more of a pain in the butt than her father will ever be. As for Rush Limbaugh, see my post below. It's so stupid.

And can the Left do anything without sexual innunendo? First teabaggers and now hand jobs. Some people can't think about anything without making it about sex. No wonder the Palin-haters are obsessed with her legs.

And a note on the teleprompter: It's okay to use one. Yes, that's right. No one is saying that you should never use a teleprompter. But relying on it to such an extent that people doubt you can go to the bathroom unless it tells you to, is a tad extreme.

The Latest from Levi

Well, the Johnstons went on ET last night. Go to the ET website and scroll down for story and (if you can stomach it) video. It's Tripp's first birthday party video at the Johnston's house. I didn't watch it with the sound up, because, quite frankly, I didn't want to retch. The video looks like it's almost an exact copy of the Palin's birthday party. Cake, sink, and all. I thought the Palins weren't letting Levi see Tripp. Huh.

Listen, I absolutely hate that Levi turned scumbag. But I am forever and always a believer in redemption. And while I have vented on Levi from time to time, there is no doubt in my mind that he loves his son. How could you not love your son? I also assume that he will get joint custody. For one thing, Alaska law favors it. For another, I hold out hope that Levi will grow up. It's a slim hope, but it's still there. And if he does grow up, he should be a part of Tripp's life. Well, to be fair he would be part of his life whether he got joint custody or not, but you know what I mean. Emotions run high in these kinds of situations, and invariably, both sides think that they're right.

But Levi will also have to pay child support. Sucks, I know. My dad never made more than 20-25 thousand dollars a year while I was growing up. He logged for a couple years and only made around 10,000. He has three kids from a previous marriage, and he had to pay child support on all three of them. The judge looked right at my mom and me (I was a baby) and told my dad that he didn't care if we had a roof over our heads, the first kids got paid for first.

Is it always fair? Probably not. But it's life. Suck it up.

And I believe that child support is based on income, hence the high amount demanded by Bristol so far. That's what you get for posing nude in magazines.

Media

Videos on Palin's TPNC speech, among other things. First up, my favorite of the day, Sean Hannity:




Mark Levin. I posted this once already, but that was through Blogger because You Tube was being dumb:



Here's Laura, who, in some ways, still doesn't get it. But it's pretty good:



And finally, here's Glenn Beck on Palin's endorsement of Rand Paul:



I don't agree with Glenn on this one. I don't agree with Rand on everything, but he's solid on most things, and he's not as radical as his father is on defense. Read his defense platform here. Video there too.

Also, the nation will probably be passing some kind of health care reform, whether it's Obama's or someone else's. Rand Paul's background in medicine could be a huge asset to that debate. And Glenn, not all of the founding fathers believed the same thing. A few of the founders actually had feuds with each other. Alexander Hamilton practically favored a monarchy, for Pete's sake. Methinks your view of American history is too simplistic, Glenn. I tend to side with Mark Levin over you on some of these issues these days. For more on the founders, see my previous post here.

A Few Good Pics

Just wanted to post some of my favorite Palin pics from the last couple days:

Palin vs. Limbaugh

Forget Rush, Sarah Palin should call out herself. After all, she said the "R" word in her interview with Chris Wallace:

"I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with "F-ing retards."

Aha! She said it! She should call out herself!

Rush Limbaugh was obviously mocking Rahm Emanuel. Media: "But he said the "R" word..." Yeah, and so did most of you in reporting this story. Should Palin call you all out?

It's absurd. I don't like anyone using the word in any context, but there's a clear difference between the usages.

The media doesn't actually care about any of this. If they did, they'd rake everyone over the coals who has used this word and not just Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh was using satire. Satire is cutting and often shocking. That's the whole point. All the media wants to do is create a controversy between Palin and Rush, and neither one of them is going to step into that trap.