Beck Calls 'Bullcrap' On Palin's Non-Answer About Favorite Founding Father

[HipChick]

Joe Snooze and co barely tip-toed around this..

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/beck-calls-bullcrap-on-palins-non-answer-about-favorite-founding-father.php

[stray cat]

1. Palin is a pundit on fox - why should any other network even talk about her

I don't go around worrying about what pundits on Fox news say and I don't need to hear about it from legitimate news sources.

[customerserviceguy]

8. This kind of crap goes on all the time

between the pundits of the three 24/7 news channels, especially between Fox and MSNBC. It reminds me of the fake "wars" that DJ's on Chicago's WLS radio had during the mid 1960's, it drove both DJ's ratings up.

I shifted over to very basic cable about six months ago (only $20 a month) and I miss that kind of wrangling like I'd miss a hemorrhoid!

[lapfog_1]

2. She really does have about a 5th grade education.

or at least, that's all that she has retained.

Not surprising, watch the old "Jay walking" segments that Leno used to do. Palin would fit right in.

The only founding father that she could THINK OF was George Washington. And even then she couldn't really think of how he contributed to the founding of this country.

She is the quintessential stupid person attempting to sound educated by giving glib and broad generalities as answers to specific questions.

[JNelson6563]

4. Yep and she uses the same style as little boots

to answer the many questions she doesn't know the answer to. What a stinky pantload.

[SheilaT]

9. She comes across, in my opinion,

much like a beauty contest participant, who has learned a number of stock phrases, who knows in general terms what kind of vague non-answer platitudes will please the judges. Think back on the Carrie Prejean same sex marriage, and the one of that other young, unfortunate beauty contestant, and ignore the actual content, but pay attention to the fixed smile, the pattern of the answer/words used.

Sarah Palin, I think, has been mostly shaped by specific things that have enabled her to go through life not learning anything, and have allowed her to say vague things that win her a beauty contest or get her elected to office. Playing basketball in high school was the first. She was rewarded for her athletic talent, and as is so common for athletes, wasn't really required to do much academically. Then she won the Miss Wasilla contest, and learned that she could get a very long way on her good looks.

Her very checkered college career shows that she had no interest in learning anything of substance but took a degree in a field that has very low requirements. In adulthood she had continued a pattern of willful ignorance and a great unwillingness to work hard and finish a job.

I expect that her Fox job will be very short because she's extremely thin-skinned and very quickly the criticisms of her from all sides will get through and she'll figure, why bother?

[nolabear]

17. Well, George Washington was the only picture on Glenn's opening credits.

She may have just seen him on the monitor. OR, that new down-do of the hair and devotion to the one-camera side shot makes that ear bud really easy to hide. Beck and Palin can both pretend to be mavericks all they want, but this is a show, and there are producers and directors and writers and I don't care if the Statue of Liberty is giving GB a BJ, it's staged.

[lapfog_1]

18. Might have been

but then they would have fed her a more intelligent answer. Or at least SOME sort of an answer.

No, I suspect her response was "pure Palin".

She doesn't even SOUND as intelligent as Chauncey Gardener (aka Chance the Gardener).

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Wonder if Beckerhead feels threatened by Iquitarod's ascendancy on FAUX?

I can't believe his 'bullcrap' challenge was scripted. After all, MILFy McMooseburger certainly didn't redeem herself with the jibberish she uttered trying to defend herself.

[peekaloo]

5. Her answer was diverse in its diversity.

Why didn't he start crying and longing for an America where coherent answers were the norm?

:-)

[Jennicut]

12. He is jealous. And nuts. But I wonder which one is more off their rocker.

[doc03]

6. It is frightening that anyone could have thought

she could ever be President. What is more frightening is there are still millions of people who think she should be President. I have seen several Palin 2012 bumper stickers already. Thamk God McCain wasn't elected.

[DainBramaged]

7. This woman is a fraud

"so much diverse and so much diversity in terms of belief, but collectively they came together -- and they were led by, of course George Washington, so he's got to rise to the top."

[peekaloo]

10. 'cause , you know, he chewed through that cherry tree, you know, with his

wooden teeth. He never told a lie he didn't believe, just like her.

[lunatica]

11. My fave is Thomas Jefferson

'cause he slept around in more places than George Washington ever did. He's the country's real Great Great Great Grandfather.

[MineralMan]

13. "Oh, you know.....all of them..."

Same response that she gave when asked what newspapers she reads. When she's stumped, things just come out of her mouth. She has them all ready.

[Nye Bevan]

14. I've liked John Adams ever since reading the biography

A farsighted genius, but also a plainspoken farmer who lived simply and refused to own slaves, unlike many of the other Founding Fathers.


One thing that has become clear to me is just how far ahead of the curve Adams was in several important ways. It is almost breathtaking how much Adams saw and predicted things correctly, but the flip side of that is just how unappreciated this was at the time. He foresaw that Washington would be THE leader because of his character, morality and determination, and his unique circumstances, despite his lack of experience as a general. He foresaw that the Navy would be the critical factor in the coming War and beyond. Almost alone, he sensed that help should be gotten from France, Holland, Prussia and Portugal without becoming entangled in their political battles; just about everyone else wanted to back some horse or another. Looking back, he was almost certainly THE key figure in pushing “independency”, in getting financial help from Holland and in providing the theoretical backdrop for the New Constitution. He saw that human nature demanded the bicameral legislature and strong executive with an independent court system and that the unicameral model was fraught with enormous danger. He was right about the good outcome of the first in America and the violent, chaotic outcome of the French Reign of Terror in the second. He predicted what happened before it did because his analysis was dead on. And yet, he was smeared as being a little crazy, much too old, a closet royalist (!) and hopelessly out of touch!

from http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/07/16/obamas-pride-adamsae%E2%84%A2-shame-or-obamaae%E2%84%A2s-pride-a-damned-shame-reader-post/

[MUAD_DIB]

15. Q: Sarah, what papers do you read. A: Well, all of them.

Q: Sarah, what founding fathers do you like bestest. A: Well, all of them.


Q: Sarah, who do you plan to fool with your shtick. A: Well, all of them.

[monmouth]

16. Ben Franklin would have made her cry...He was a pretty dry wit and

was no stranger to sarcasm. Ah Ben, we sure could use ya about now....LOL.

[chat_noir]

19. If they knew this about George Washington, would they still love him?

George Washington: "Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause."