Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe

[L. Coyote]

Gaffe may be quite the understatement!!!
:rofl: Total screw up is closer to the facts. :rofl:

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Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe
Geoffrey Dunn - Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian
Posted: November 30, 2009 03:32 AM - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-latest-emrogueem-g_b_373453.html


There have been so many lies and distortions pointed out in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue since it was released last week that her memoir has already become something of a gag line.

But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden.

As the epigram to Chapter Three, "Drill, Baby, Drill," Palin assigns the following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach:

Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their lives.

Only the quote wasn't by John Wooden. It was written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled "Back on the War Ponies," which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.

Here's the full quote:

Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Big Horn.

Oops! That's not quite the sentiment that Sister Sarah was trying to convey ......

[left coaster]

1. D'oh! Painus blows it yet again! nt

[L. Coyote]

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A few quotes Palin missed:

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[Happyhippychick]

2. ...

:rofl:

Sarah Palin = Humongous idjit

[The_Commonist]

3. Sarah is such a moron!

And her followers are morans...

[L. Coyote]

10. McCain gave the USA the rouge gaffer that just keeps on gaffing

[Brother Buzz]

4. Too her credit, she got close

Kinda like horseshoes and hand grenades. Two out of three ain't half bad for a nitt-witt, just ask Art Beal, AKA Captain Nit Wit. :rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Yikes

Sarah's ghostwriter burned badly in an attempt to make the usual dogwhistle racist statement. :rofl:

[Bluebear]

6. OK...that is about the funniest misappropriations ever. You go, girl!

[malaise]

12. Seriously

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha :rofl:

[BlueIdaho]

8. Once again Palin thinks she's entitled to her very own person version of reality

Fuck up a quote? who cares - just so long as the half term governor and part time blogger gets someone to point a camera at her.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Mudflats writes about this today,

and also, too, throwing the bus under the bus.

http://www.themudflats.net/2009/11/30/twin-tidbits-from-palin-book-authors/

[malaise]

13. The rogue on wheels

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha :rofl:

[malaise]

11. Freaking priceless

KO loves this one - he's going to discuss it.
As dumb as Sarah Palin has new meaning. :rofl:

[L. Coyote]

21. Let's coin a phrase, "Pulling a Palin" and try to define it properly, do it real justice

Pulling a Palin = "getting something ass backwards and upside down at the same time"
that should be a good start.
I'm sure people can improve on this though. :rofl:

[ProgressiveFool]

30. that visual is the first time I've actually found myself attracted to Palin

Ass backwards and upside down? Hawt!

[donco6]

14. Wow. That's a pretty horrific boo boo.

What a complete twisting of the entire sentiment. And to slash the quote like you can just trim off the corners to fit into your missing puzzle piece. That shows you the mentality of Palin right there.

[livetohike]

15. I think she opened a bunch of fortune cookies and just

scattered the words everywhere. She's a piece of work.

[HipChick]

16. If you steal quotes from people without quoting, isnt that Plagiarism

[donco6]

18. In this case, she just made the whole thing up -

so maybe she's off the hook!

LOL!

[ThomThom]

17. Isn't Sarah Plain a member of the Pentecostal Church?

Don't Pentecostals believe that women should be subservient to the men. That the men should lead the family? That women should do what the men say? That women should not cut their hair? If these things are true how can she be a true believer if she doesn't practice the fundamental?

I am knew around here so if this question has already been raised and answered my apologies. It just seems kind of fundamental to someone claiming to be devout that they follow the teachings of their faith.

[Electric Monk]

19. Nice catch. K&R

[WorseBeforeBetter]

20. Keith O. is covering this now...

with guest Shannon Moore. She's good. (Er, Moore, not Yukon Barbie.)

[Cha]

22. How in the world could anyone's ghost writer

get that mixed up?

[L. Coyote]

23. You mean team of writers, etc., not? But, whose name is on the book?

At the end of the day, the author is responsible for the manuscript!
Hang this yoke on the main mule, sister Sarah! :rofl:

[Cha]

25. Definetly it's her mistake.

Whomever was checking that out.

[L. Coyote]

28. And, you definitely hit on what I expect to hear as a RW talking excuse.

[opihimoimoi]

24. WAIT A FREAKING MOMENT,,,you mean to say this FOOL wanna be in charge of the BLK BOX>>??

OMG???? what have we become???

[gratuitous]

26. Oh, there ya go again, L.

Is it okay with you if I call you L.? Thanks, you betcha. See, yer gettin' yerself all tangled up in who said what and whether it was basketball coaching legend John Wooden or someone else no one ever heard of. By the way, did you know I played basketball? My nickname was the Barracuda! Musical group Heart from South Juneau wrote a song about it. Some people call South Juneau "Seattle," but that's just a silly mispronunciation. Anywho, where was I? Oh yeah! Why do you hate basketball so much? It's the only major sport invented totally in the United States, you know! So why don't you honor the troops and what they're fightin' for, and quit hatin' basketball, fer petesakes?

Also.

[L. Coyote]

27. LOL. You should write a book

:rofl: I know, I'm just a socialist attackin' a great American tradition, plagiarism :rofl:

[L. Coyote]

29. KO VIDEO link: More errors found in Palin book

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

[TwilightGardener]

31. That is one deep basketball coach.

:spray:

[myrna minx]

32. LOL. K&R n/t

[montanto]

33. Oh, SHIT!!!

That is hilarious. I mean, there is no way to even attempt to explain how you mis-took John Wooden Legs for John Wooden. How the hell did her writer even come up with that quote? Read it excerpted already from some blog somewhere without even google-searching to see that it really was coach Wooden? This is like the hot-shot gangster who shoves his gun into his pants and blows his willie off.

[Dappleganger]

34. Still stealing from NA's and not giving anything in return...

but a slap in the face.

[L. Coyote]

36. Well put! So, I'm waiting for the apology, waiting, waiting, waiting, ........

and I expect it will be another blunder :rofl:

[era veteran]

35. DOLT

A quitter,liar,poor mother, terrible local pol., & a dolt. Lots of other words can be used.

[L. Coyote]

37. Let's define a phrase, "Pulling a Palin." What, no takers?

I was thinking this could be a major subthread. Give it your best shot:

Pulling a Palin, phrase, definition = ____________

[Ignis]

38. Couldn't happen to a nicer gal, you betcha!

:crazy:

[surrealAmerican]

39. I think it's safe to say there were no fact-checkers ...

... for this book. If they had hired fact-checkers, there would be no book.