Discussion: Sarah Palin To Critics Of 'American Sniper' Movie: God Bless Our Snipers

system1 · January 21, 2015, 9:08pm

Discussion for article #232326

captaincommonsense · January 21, 2015, 9:54pm

Blah, blah, blah…

doremus_jessup · January 21, 2015, 9:55pm

But your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore
They’re already overcrowded from your dirty little war
Now Jesus don’t like killin’, no matter what the reason’s for
And your flag decal won’t get you into Heaven anymore

darrtown · January 21, 2015, 10:07pm

Sarah loves her some Hollywood style combat. Had she seen the real thing up close and personal she might have a different opinion about how glorious it is. That Sarah is even looked to for a comment is just distasteful to me. I wish she had te good sense and good manners to “just fade away”.

austin_dave · January 21, 2015, 10:08pm

Kyle was likely a great navy seal but he was also a master of self-promotion and, well, a liar.

http://blogs.star-telegram.com/crime_time/2013/02/did-slain-american-sniper-fatally-shoot-two-armed-robbers-in-2009.html

ottnott · January 21, 2015, 10:17pm

The incredibly shrinking Palin.

mattinpa · January 21, 2015, 10:17pm

I wish there were a button in this commenting system you could click to show you really weren’t interested enough to comment.

blueberrytomatosoup · January 21, 2015, 10:30pm

I personally know one person who was a sniper fairly well. And while he is a nice enough guy, he is also the first person I will think of if I see a mass shooting in my city. I think to be a sniper you have to be a little sociopathic to begin with and the military just makes you that much more so. And once you are out, there is no undoing that programming. As he is fond of saying, “the worth of a human life is only three breaths and a trigger pull”, just like he was taught in brainwashing… I mean the military.

Sorry, I cannot celebrate the life of, or see a movie about, anyone who has killed people they did not know in cold blood (snipers are very rarely under fire when they make their kills) because they were under orders to. The ability to not think critically when a human life is on the line is not a commendable trait. It is a mental disorder. So, no I won’t go see any movie promoting snipers. Shameless self-promoting sociopath Chris Kyle least of all.

richardinjax · January 21, 2015, 10:34pm

It was a movie. But why in the hell would anyone want to feed the likes of Palin or set her up with unnecessary criticism of a stinking movie. A movie about a highly decorated American military guy. Why can’t Moore shut his damn mouth? How much could he actually know about combat? Have your opinions but STFU and let it go.

richardinjax · January 21, 2015, 10:38pm

Why don’t you hand the GOP’ers some more proof Liberals hate the Military? Or try this: STFU…what in the hell do you think you are going to achieve?

austin_dave · January 21, 2015, 10:42pm

Kyle’s estate lost a lawsuit, not because of liberals, but because Jesse Ventura–a ~~GOP~~ mouth-breathing libertarian Navy Seal–proved Kyle is/was a liar. Kyle claimed to have killed two men at a gas station (and there was no follow-up! He just drove off???), and made a big deal out of it, and reporters can’t find any evidence that it happened–NONE.

Oh and I don’t care what the GOP thinks of liberals. Nothing I do will influence it in the least, either.

chammy · January 21, 2015, 10:49pm

And if all Navy Seals are as disrespectful to their president as the bunch who killed Bin Laden and several other examples we have seen since, fuck them.

austin_dave · January 21, 2015, 10:49pm

here you go

chammy · January 21, 2015, 10:51pm

The GOPERs don’t need an excuse to hate liberals an Austin-Dave is correct. Who gives a flying fuck about what repukes think., I sure don’t

lochsabill · January 21, 2015, 10:57pm

Probably about as much as palin does. I see no need to stfu about someone who has been proven a liar in court. Who gives a shit what the tea baggers think. All the over the top shit is coming from the palin crowd if you hadn’t noticed.

mattinpa · January 21, 2015, 10:57pm

Well, if it helps, 19 times out of 20 in the last few years any comments she’s made have been on her Facebook page. I can comment on my own Facebook page, the man in the moon can comment on his, and nobody has to give a damn. It gets repeated here because it gets the sweet sweet clicks. The more we all ignore her, the more she fades away like the Cheshire Cat.

ottnott · January 21, 2015, 11:03pm

This is a label that could stick:

Troll Barbie

blueberrytomatosoup · January 21, 2015, 11:11pm

I don’t want her to fade away. She is widely loathed, and is a perfect example of the GOP laid bare for all the world to see, without the filter to make them “more electable”. She says exactly what the GOP is thinking and she is disgusting and trashy, and every single f-ing day America should be reminded that she came just 7 percentage points away from being one heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Let Palin represent the GOP. I can’t possibly think of a better symbol.

wwss · January 21, 2015, 11:18pm

I wonder if $ister $arah would still call them little plastic statues if she’d won an emmy for her forays into reality TV?
And we all should of course bow down in abject gratitude for her son’s remarkable service to his country. Of course he would have been serving a bit differently had he not taken the Judge’s offer to go into military service vs. being jailed for cutting the brake lines on a school bus. And after the latest Palin outing celebrating their dear friends birthday, I most certainly will take all of my marching orders from this wonderful paragon of virtue, intelligence and compassion.

lochsabill · January 21, 2015, 11:21pm

Curious you never hear the palin clan talking much about his actual experiences in the military. You think palin et al would have ghosted a book about his exploits in Iraq whatever they were.