Sarah Palin Faithful Launch Voodoo Attack on Katie Couric
The Secret Service — pledged to protect the lives of Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin — might need to assign some agents to Katie Couric.
Or maybe to the media in general, given the reception they're getting at Palin rallies. As the Washington Post's Dana Milbank reports…
Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse.
Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
Attacking the traveling press pool to punish Couric is consistent with the "guilt by association" espoused by Palin in her endless "Barack Obama = Bill Ayers" cry from the stump. It's also consistent with the GOP's longstanding love of voodoo.
But why stop with the media? If Palin fanatics want another group of people to collectively hate, they might turn their gaze to police officers.
As you might have heard, one of their ilk has been giving Palin even more trouble than Katie Couric.
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Brett, check the scoreboard. There are only a couple of people on here who have had more purple comments over the last 10 months than I've had.
I've got a life. It may be the life of an angry douchebag. But I enjoy it.
@Brett: Don't hate the playa, hate the game. Strange people hate comedy when it's better than theirs, but, 'tis the nature of the sport perhaps. I think me lady (Brett) doth protest too much. Palin does incite mob violence and neither she nor McCain does anything about it at the rallies. Someone shouted, "off with his head," "treason," and other racial epithets. Joe 6pack has become cliche, so I'm down with Joe KeggerAngryDrunk despite it not having enough wordiness to describe that blowhard. I never thought "my friend" jokes, "you betcha" and "dogonnit" would become cliche.
As to purpledom, I'd be curious to see the scoreboard. So would my alter-egomaniacs. You fuck with bearness, you fuck with all of us. Did you come up with Brett all by yourself? I'm against ad-hominem attacks on commentators generally speaking. Except, I'm not sure you qualify as one of those. I question your personhood.
Whoa whoa whoa, let's cool down here fellas, I don't think it's wise to call anybody an ad-hominem, anyway I don't think this topic has anything to do with one's sexuality. Off with his head!
Joe KeggerAngryDrunk FTW!
Wow, If I were in the media I'd be pretty upset, and use this as serious fuel to start getting people to really slam her. Not only is she dumb, but hateful. Yuck!
Should have written "does not qualify for one of those" in that I was questioning whether if he was a person. I'll shy away from Latin expressions. "Off with his head" was what the crowd was yelling about Obama along with "kill him." Ad-hominem means a personal attack…iak. Fasting sucks. Woops. Sorry God. Sun's almost down.
That's ok, Cube, while the Lord wasn't looking I wrote "Cube" in the Book of Life.
Today, I'm not atoning for my sins. I'm paying for them.
Dave W: What a deal. I haven't eaten yet. My stomach just growled something fierce. What do I need to apologize for with this blog? I've got about 30 minutes. Let's see… I apologize for having pornographic thoughts about Palin and her gubernatorial knockers. I apologize to Brett. I apologize for using Latin on a comedy site. I apologize for eating bacon five times a day. I apologize for calling McCain an asshole. He's more of a fuckstick. Woops. Sorry for calling him a fuckstick. I apologize for praying to Obama as the Messiah spoken of in The Old Testicle. I'm not a Heathen. I apologize to Dennis for not shipping him absinthe from Amsterdam. I apologize to obamagramma for writing long shit. I'm sorry the blog wizards who run this thing have to read my crap (sometimes). I'm sorry for the tractor those inbreds were sitting on who ripped Obama and used bad words and stuff. I'm sorry for the hockey puck Palin has to drop. I'm sorry for laughing every time I hear the word trollop. And, I'm sorry for profusely using profanities and shit. I like profanities. Dammit. I will try to use less of them. I'm am sorry for espousing atheism yet willing to reap the benefits of a one day fast just in case. Sorry for ripping agnosticism as a bullshit ideology. Sorry for writing out the word God. From now on, I will use G-D so no one can figure it out. I am sorry for those who suffer from organic brain defects and are voting for McCain. I am sorry for Katie Couric. How she didn't strangle Palin is beyond me. I am sorry George Bush caused Hunter S. Thompson to kill himself. I'm sorry for fart jokes, objectifying women, and generally bad taste. Amen. Happy Yom Kippur. Break out the Lox and Chinese food.
Angry douchebags reunite!
Join us in our proudest fight.
To live in err
beyond compare
'tis ours bold hoard to disinvite.
Hilo08, that sounds almost Shakespearian.
Cool. Thanks Bearness for the inspiration.