“Thank you for your service.”
(And remember, there’s no shame in seeking help for post-traumatic stress.)
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Wow, a tangent to a tangent…sad.
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my ‘benefit of the doubt’ reservoir is still intact. when palin is involved, i just tap into my ‘why should i give a fuck’ reservoir. my vital juices level is within parameters.
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I actually do check in there from time to time. It leaves me feeling defiled and sick and more than a bit frightened for my country. It shocks me that Fox’s allowing that festering fever swamp of hate and rage to bubble away unchecked goes unnoticed by anyone but DFH lefty blog commenters. They are putting that kind of “this is the audience we serve” message out there for anyone to see, leaving it unmonitored and unfiltered for fear that the angry villagers they dominate through fear and deft manipulation of their anger will turn on them, and no one else in the respectable establishment connects the dots and sees that those people, making those comments, are Fox’s audience. Or that Fox and its audience are trapped in a co-dependent relationship that just keeps making both of them worse.
But yeah, the smirk. Limbaugh brought us that, too.
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Agree with the defense that Palin is too dumb to realize what’s she’s passing on.
But doesn’t Josh Riddle sound like a pound of catmeat?
Snooky: I am glad Liberals think I am smart enough to know the very white 14 words.
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That’s the Palin we’ll all come to know and despise: equal parts nasty and stupid. Can be hard to say with any degree of certainty where one ends and the other begins.
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I half wonder if the speech writers (Bannon/Miller) didn’t end the thing with 14 words on purpose. Plausible deniability hat tip and all.
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I would also be thoroughly stunned if the words “vacuous” or “thoroughly” were part of her vocabulary. “Unqualified”, otoh…
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But with Palin the likelihood of her making a mistake at any time is higher than for most humans who ever lived.
Second only to donnie I’d wager.
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Somebody on her staff is fucking with her. Remember “blood libel”?
She probably does not realize it but White Supremacists are not too fond of people who have special needs kids. Apparently it’s that whole “racial and intellectual purity” thing.
Does anybody believe Sarah Palin in smart enough to craft subtext? No.
Does everybody believe Sarah Palin will stamp her fool face on anything for money or just attention these days? Yes.
Does anybody believe Sarah Palin wrote a single word of this, including its dog-whistle headline? No.
But that Young Republican fellow who wrote the 14 word headline and promptly lost his shit protesting too much when people made note? Yeah, he’s a white supremacist devoted to the cause. The only question is whether the KKK world is paying their spokesmodel or whether Barely-Literate Barbie gives it away for free.
In his letter the Daily Beast Riddle belies his real concern … and it isn’t that he disagrees with the implication of being sympathetic to or a believer in the “14 Words.”
You’ll never guess what the Young Conservatives co-founder’s true concern was.
“To jump to the conclusion in your article is slanderous, dishonest, lazy, and very unprofessional and harmful to our business.” [emphasis mine]
Color me surprised. NOT! YoungCons.com, indeed.
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Cause she likes living off the land-owners and doing nothing.
Since when did dishonest and lazy become unprofessional in journalism?
3 little words
8 little letters
that simply mean
I hate you!
Riddle says: “This is the 14-word quote the social media post is referencing: ‘Let us all fight like the Poles. For family, freedom, for country, for God.’”
It is 14 words, but I am not sure that is the correct quote. The usual way of saying the list at the end would be “for family, FOR freedom, for country, for God,” which is 15 words. Since the count of 14 is so important, I think it is worth determining the source of the error.
While Trump has trouble speaking standard English, it would be unusual for someone to forget one of the fors in that kind of construction. It think someone listening might think they heard the missing for. If someone was being extremely careful in transcribing the speech, did they purposely resist making Trump look better for posterity by fixing the error in the written transcript. Is the for missing in any pre-prepared remarks? Is the error entirely Palin’s? That seems unlikely, as Riddle presents the same erroneous 14-word quote.
Given so much attention to the count of 14 words, I think the normal 15-word way of saying the phrase should be considered part of the analysis.