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http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-whcd-tweet-white-house-correspondents-dinner-2013-4Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin came out with a strongly worded tweet condemning the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, calling its participants "assclowns" after the dinner concluded.
Here's the tweet:
cantbeserious
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)And Palin has never been right.
cantbeserious
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)People don't know about this dinner, not because its a secret, but because they don't care.
Its just not a big deal for anyone.
Well, almost anyone. Like Sarah Palin. Who is upset because she knows she'll never get to speak there.
cantbeserious
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Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)So put her picture down, open the door and step out of the bathroom.....
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Yes, I believe she is starting to use language equivalent to raising and flailing ones arms... "look over here!!!"
Hell, the only person I'd be interested in at a correspondence dinner is the comedian.
cantbeserious
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Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Or a digital one with bad LED's.
Palin is of both varieties, she is never correct.
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)cantbeserious
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MADem
(135,425 posts)more than you realize.
That's a simple fact, not a "castigation."
Further, there are no "DU Rules" anymore. That was DU2. This is DU3.
There are "community standards" and I'd say, by your deliberately abrasive and uncivil conduct, to say nothing of your championing one of the biggest nitwits in the GOP, you're running a bit afoul of them even as we communicate, here!
Your inability to understand that the origin and entire purpose of that dinner is to raise scholarship money for college journalism students is probably the funniest thing of all, though. Why do you think Conan O'Brien handed over his fee for the event? For his personal amusement?
cantbeserious
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(11,660 posts)cantbeserious
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Like I said, your name -- that you chose -- suits you.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Or maybe spend it on another yacht or home on the French Riviera rather than provide scholarships??
Again I find myself wondering who the real assclown in this picture is.
eShirl
(18,480 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Speaking as a Main streeter, the dinner doesn't bother me at all. It's a tradition for media types, and they, just like us, are allowed to have some fun.
cantbeserious
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NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)cantbeserious
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NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)cantbeserious
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lunatica
(53,410 posts)No one can help that you have a dismal lack of sense of humor.
MADem
(135,425 posts)cantbeserious
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NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)GEEEE, I dunno......................maybe you can help me out with that............
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)And everything to do with a personal pet peeve on your part.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)if so...choosing can'tbeserious as a username is even more appropo!
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)A) Parts some of the 1% from their money and
B) Provides journalism scholarships.
I guess you want the 1% to hang onto their ill-gotten gains AND you oppose scholarships and perhaps even education.
Got it.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Some people only want to see misery.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Because it's the "White House" correspondents who are running the charity, the individual they cover is nice enough to show up to help boost the scholarship fund. It's a bit of noblesse oblige, if you will, and it's also an opportunity for the President to show his lighter side.
This year, the comedian (best in a long while, Conan was--ripping the shit out of the media with a smile) gave his check to the charity.
It's more than just "insider hijinks," they actually do give out a few scholarships as part of the process.
I think it "bothers" Sarah Palin...because she wasn't THERE!
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)But I can't understand why it bothered someone on DU.
MADem
(135,425 posts)No wonder her envy rises--scholarships are given to young people with futures, and bozos with sketchy pasts who have recently been "let go" from their "journalistic" (cough, choke) gig at Fauxsnooze can't even buy a seat at one of the tables!
And, insult to injury, the President of the shindig this year was a guy from....Faux! They had to have purchased a few choice tables at that soiree. Next year the presidency passes to McClatchy, so she won't have a hope in hell of getting in the door next year either, I suspect--unless she does something really, REALLY stupid in the next year, and her buffoonery earns her the "Look at the Train Wreck" designation, like Ozzie Osborn and Lindsay Lohan.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)that brought them all back down to earth.
It's worth watching if you haven't see it.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)you can skip to the last five or so minutes without
missing much but the end is really worth it.
cantbeserious
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CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Did you get a chance to listen to it?
emulatorloo
(44,072 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)I live well below poverty level and don't know if I will even have a place to live in a few months. I am currently unemployed and my husband is working his ass off in an attempt to keep our family from losing our apartment. I think a good portion of the 1% has seriously fucked this country over. I have worked with Occupy and I speak up and out when possible.
However, I enjoy the WHCD. It's good for a laugh. And, to be totally superficial, I like seeing all of the pretty dresses. Sometimes, I like to take a break from wallowing in my own despair and from my hatred towards Wall Street and corrupt 1% folks. It's not always good for the soul.
I obviously didn't get the memo that I was supposed to be outraged. Damn.
cantbeserious
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Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)And watching it is an indulgence for my poor ass.
cantbeserious
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Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)Isoldeblue
(1,135 posts)ljm2002
(10,751 posts)The WHCD is a fun event that happens every year, whatever else is going on in the world. It's a chance to lighten up, and a chance to throw some well-placed barbs (I believe that some of Obama's barbs hit the mark).
The only assclown is the half-term governer (aka "quitter Palin" herself. Probably pissed because she wasn't invited. Sour grapes much, Sarah?
cantbeserious
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ljm2002
(10,751 posts)Sarah's remark is purely sour grapes IMO.
The White House has all sorts of traditional festivities that could be seen as gala events by and for the 1%. Now I'm as cynical as the next person, but personally I don't begrudge them a bit of fun.
Don't get me wrong. The 1% are truly at fault for a lot of things right now, most of the people attending that dinner included. But if we want them to go around wearing sackcloth and ashes... well, I don't think we'd be better off.
My vote: Let 'em play. YMMV.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Who's the assclown now, eh?
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)at 10:00 on a Saturday night. Sure, there are people working somewhere, but most of the country is not.
cantbeserious
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narnian60
(3,510 posts)I thought she quit.
cantbeserious
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Number23
(24,544 posts)There was probably nothing at that dinner half as funny as your ridiculous, self-righteous, self-congratulating posts in this thread. They should have hired you for the entertainment.
cantbeserious
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Number23
(24,544 posts)Response to Number23 (Reply #141)
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Number23
(24,544 posts)behind and rail about everything in an effort to stay relevant because relevance = more money for her grifting family. She has been front and center at other WHCD, but don't let that fact keep you from pretending that she, or you, represent the downtrodden. Her only issue with this particular dinner was that she wasn't invited to it, unlike the others.
The fact that you said that this hideous human being "speaks for you" says everything that needs to be said. And if that woman ever said anything that anyone here agreed with, that would be the first bit of proof that they were on the wrong side of whatever the issue was.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)That DUers don't like her is irrelevant.
That none at DU see the wisdom of her comment in that the WHCD is a gala event for the 1% media elite is just as telling.
Number23
(24,544 posts)And just because you appear to be among the simple-minded (though rapidly shrinking) throngs that think she has the first damn clue what she's talking about, the rest of us know better.
You are outvoted here. And talking about Sarah Palin's "wisdom" is punching a number of holes in your already sinking shit... er, ship.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Her cougar days are vanishing fast. The screeching voice is beginning to overtake the sexy cougar look.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)At her last (poorly attended) speaking gig, she showed up with some fake DD cups strapped on her normally flat chest.
It was pathetic. As her methed-up body ages and atrophies, her falsies keep getting bigger!
I almost feel embarrassed for her, it's so pathetic and fake...almost...
Someone really needs to do an intervention.
tblue
(16,350 posts)is a flat chest.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Her chest is as phony and fake as the rest of her.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=palin+flat+chest&sa=X&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US494&biw=1264&bih=591&tbm=isch&tbnid=XavB5m-yJr_UQM:&imgrefurl=http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm%3Fid%3D88023&docid=kCIUq_bME2JgJM&imgurl=&w=500&h=800&ei=BGV9UfHWCKOjigKC-YD4Aw&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:8,s:0,i:110&iact=rc&dur=6802&page=1&tbnh=198&tbnw=120&start=0&ndsp=16&tx=70&ty=50
spanone
(135,795 posts)yea, i bet SHE'S working her ass off...bwahahahahahaaa
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)When is she working her ass off? Oh I forgot she a Twitterer. That's all she does.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)... it would be The Quitta from Wasilla, having made to the Assclown Hall of Fame, herself.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)lpbk2713
(42,742 posts)Is the Quitter hitting the bottle these days now that her star is fading?
Carolina
(6,960 posts)ass off (notice her use of the collective 1st person plural our modifying asses)!
Moreover, she's just jealous she didn't get a ticket to sit at the FUX table or with Bill O'Liely and his buddy/seatmate Fat Tony Scalia
And finally, the biggest assembly of assclowns was, is and always will be the CPAC gathering where this year, she was one of the featured speakers.
Sarah, STFU and go back to Wasilla
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)What a complete dope.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Where she's wrong is the part about working her ass off.
rurallib
(62,387 posts)biting the hand that fed her
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)She seems to have hit the nail right on the head, "assclowns" indeed.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)but as poses go, I don't mind anyone taking it.
marmar
(77,056 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Really? What bullshit. That grifter never does any real work.
And everyone takes time off occasionally. People watching it on TV - were they lazy too?
She's such a moron.
Trekologer
(996 posts)You still have to convince others to allow you to mooch off you.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)Does shooting wolves from a helicopter constitute work? Or does that fall under recreation?
Loup Garou
(99 posts)You betcha!
Five years since her nomination as VP, and Sarah Palin has NEVER been invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner.
She attended some of the WHCD parties in 2011, however.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)"Assclown" is not really her style. I'm not buying it until she comes out with an unqualified acknowledgement that she sent it. Assuming that she confesses to this, I really could not think less of her, so ... meh.
Heidi
(58,237 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)I happen to agree with her sentiment (first time in my life). But, she wasn't invited, and after all, it's always All About Her.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)hard-working people? this coming from someone who quit her job halfway through the shift?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)former Governor half term in calling the President and his wife "assclowns."
RKP5637
(67,088 posts)thucythucy
(8,039 posts)when he gave the keynote in the presence of Bush et al., calling out the entire Washington press corps for its cowardice, making the most scathing comments about Bush, and him right there at the dias having to listen.
For that one moment alone, this entire tradition is worth while.
(Just an aside: I wonder who at the White House thought inviting Colbert that year was a bright thing to do? Did they actually fall for his pseudo-right personna?)
The dinner provides an opportunity--alas generally not taken--for speaking truth to power.
As for Palin, I doubt she puts in much work these days. Unless you count shooting your mouth off and displaying your ignorance for all to see as "work."
Initech
(100,043 posts)I've seen that video countless times and still laugh my ass off every single time. I'm reading his new book "Rebuilding America: Becoming The Greatness We Weren't". Funny shit!
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)The dinner IS a toxic spectacle of self-congratulatory privilege and exclusivity. It's the same people - only with some different names since 2006 - Colbert so righteously ran though his meat grinder.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)She must be really frosted that she wasn't sitting/invited with her former FOX cronies at their table.
Even Fox wised up and shit-canned her when they had enough of her mean, incoherent babble.
Now this idiot's resorted to even nastier, name-calling to try and get attention.
Expect it to get worse as she'll hurl more invective for shock value.
McCain...hang your head in shame.
polly7
(20,582 posts)kimbutgar
(21,060 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Night and day you torture me!!!!
pnwest
(3,266 posts)thecrow
(5,519 posts)Gothmog
(144,945 posts)She was not mentioned at this event and Palin craves attention. The worst thing that you can do to an attention whore is to ignore them
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Fresh in from the Grammar police = the rest ... their ass .... Singular and singular AND the correct possessive = two errors in one.
Go back to one of those colleges, Girl!
People who quit their jobs working their asses off ?? FAIL. Sarah needs to explain how she can include herself in the workforce!
Tikki
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OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)at the Fox table and she's pissed.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)because none of the jokes were about her.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I long for the day when everyone stops caring what this twit thinks.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Greybnk48
(10,162 posts)Hey Sarah, when it comes to assclowns, it takes one to know one. And a year and a 1/2 as Gov. of almost no people is not "working your ass off."
Lex
(34,108 posts)by Palin. Nice.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)invite.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,158 posts)Stop trying to seduce us!
Aristus
(66,294 posts)Or are you just ticked-off because you didn't get an invite?
bvar22
(39,909 posts)No one asked her to the "NerdProm",
so she had to sit home on Saturday Night and play with her Twitter all by herself.
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)on the money. Bunch of self-congratulatory assholes. Stephen Colbert was the only time that this "event" was any fun at all. These people are supposed to be checking up on each other, not giving reach-arounds.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)of his speech...well, uncomfortable for most of the audience but obvious to everyone else.
I didn't see the other speeches though.
leftstreet
(36,101 posts)And props for 'reach-arounds,' which is very apt
Loup Garou
(99 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)kimbutgar
(21,060 posts)Stupid person is so passé, so yesterday. STFU you silly hillbilly.
edbermac
(15,933 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)I just walked away to check my email for a moment and saw this post. Surreal is what I'd call it.
It's amazing that this woman was ever taken seriously as a political figure. We've really fallen a long way.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)But then again, using her position as a sports reporter to get sex with college basketball players coming through town is probably not something that the "family values" crowd would normally endorse.
But she's a maverick.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)from losers upset with the fact they are losers
Sarah, you lost, Barack won! Get over it already, it's term #2 FCS!!
Not to mention, if you were President of the Wasilla Chamber of Commerce (hypothetically, of course, because you know how improbable that has become), we all know that if you sponsored a benefit, you'd only have poor, unknown people there and serve real American food, like Big Macs and no humor would be allowed, just mindless ranting.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)Who decides who goes?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)I would have said they confined their political choices to politically relevant people, but that certainly wouldn't explain Newt!
OTOH, nothing can.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)Thanks again to John McCain for setting her on the national stage.
1Independent
(17 posts)Ye gads and holy hallelujah!
Jealosy.
She didn't get invited.
Lookin' old.
She has a studio in her house, paid for by Focx Newz. Why didn't she hold one honoring herself?
You betcha!
Apophis
(1,407 posts)Initech
(100,043 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)do people say "assclowns" in places other than Alaska? It's a common phrase here, because we have so many of them, along with the equally popular "asshat."
Inquiring minds want to know.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Good to know we're keeping up with the rest of the world.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)We're having kind of a chilly spring. There's even the possibility we might still get a little more snow, although I hope not. The geese are running a couple of weeks late.
ecstatic
(32,653 posts)What is she famous for again?
rrneck
(17,671 posts)jazzimov
(1,456 posts)"working our asses off"
Hugin
(33,059 posts)Yup.
LyndaG
(683 posts)Did she forget her daughter Bristol has attended??!!!!!!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)from her current position of skidmark in America's underpants. Better to be an ass than the shit from that ass.
BainsBane
(53,016 posts)She quit her job as Governor and couldn't even hack it as a Fox blow hard.
Iggo
(47,536 posts)Bless her heart.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)She's a full blown rectal circus.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Other than that, though ...
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)These dinners are such dog and pony shows. The jokes are so bad. Obama really did sound like a clown with some of those jokes.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)She's a disgusting human being who contributes absolutely nothing to society. She has zero credibility to speak up for the working class considering the closet thing she has to a job is sitting on her ass all day and spouting her moronic opinions.
I can't believe there are people here agreeing with her. She doesn't give a shit about the 99%. She just wants to promote herself, same as always. She's a useless, idiotic, selfish, revolting waste of time and that's all she ever will be.
Number23
(24,544 posts)+ a million on every single word of your post
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Even when she had a "job" she rarely bothered to showed up for more than an hour or two.
People in Juneau started wearing pins that said, "Where's Sarah?"
Her hubby, "First Dude" Todd actually spent more time acting as Governor than she did!
Her almost son-in-law, Levi, said that she'd come home from the office early, get in her jammies, gather up her gossip mags, retreat to her room and turn on daytime soaps. I believe him!
He also said the kids were left to fend for themselves, do their own laundry and cook their own food.
Frequently, she send them to get take-out "Crunch Wraps Supreme" for dinner as that was one of her favorite meals.
This must be Palin's version of "working her ass off".
What a P.O.S.
Captain Stern
(2,199 posts)This from a grifter that hasn't worked a day in her life, and doesn't plan to.