Sarah Palin shows her lightning-fast political instincts and breadth of historical knowledge,,,

[brooklynite]

on "Paul Revere's Ride"

“He who warned, uh, the…the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and um by makin’ sure that as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warnin’ shots and bells that uh we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free…and we were gonna be armed.”

[monmouth]

1. Oh god, how awful...n/t

[VWolf]

She makes Shrub sound erudite n/t

[LynneSin]

44. Well at least shrub was a C student at an Ivy league college which is still...

a far cry from taking 6 years 5 different state schools to get the same average.

[trueblue2007]

51. sarah palin is an awful role model for our studentsshe

she is soooooooooooooooo stupid

[malaise]

62. Hahahahahahahaha +1,000

and that's some talent :rofl:

[denverbill]

2. Mama grizzlies don't need no book-learnin. n/t

[MineralMan]

3. What a moron! Yes, indeed. And she wants to be President?

Uff da!

[hamsterjill]

4. Hee hee hee!!

My giggle for the day! Thank you very much.

[Champion Jack]

5. I can't wait for the video

[brooklynite]

9. see attached link...

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-cnn-anchors-deadpan-reaction-to-sarah-palins-version-of-paul-reveres-midnight-ride/

bottom of the page

[NYC_SKP]

13. No Need to Wait. Video Clip Link Here:

Pretty pathetic, but the anchor woman is funny.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-cnn-anchors-deadpan-reaction-to-sarah-palins-version-of-paul-reveres-midnight-ride/

:patriot:

[Maru Kitteh]

42. That video is PRICELESS. n/t

[Champion Jack]

56. Thanks!

[EOTE]

22. No need to wait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8insI0Ab9I

[Brother Buzz]

52. The first comment I read at YouTube® was precious

Paul Revere went on to become a legendary lumberjack in Minnesota along with his trusty blue ox Babe Ruth. Sadly Babe then died of Mad Cow disease or as it was called back then Lou Gehrigs disease. Revere was never the same, he hit the bottle pretty hard, but on the plus side he then found Jesus, and changed his name to Saul and became a famous saint. He was burned at the state by the British who had sailed to America in Joan's Ark. His place of death is now the Minnesota state capital, St. Paul

[EOTE]

58. That makes more sense than the drivel coming from Palin's mouth.

I wonder what her campaign slogan is going to be. I'm kinda thinking "Let's Just Wing It, America!"

[no_hypocrisy]

6. A first grader could do better than that.

[TrogL]

7. Charmin' and folksy wins votes

Shrub is the perfect example. Bushisms actually gained him votes.

[Mz Pip]

18. So does stupid apparently

a good chunk of our citizenry wants her to be president.

But a person only needs to have a couple more IQ points than someone else to appear smarter. I really think Palin appeals to people who just aren't very bright. They can relate to her. Remember in 2008 those people who loved Palin because "She's just like ME!!"

[TrogL]

32. I appear stupid in a roomful of idiots

They're usually better socializers than I am, and I get tongue-tied thinking "my God, where do I begin?"

You cannot have a coherent political or religious discussion with these people because you cannot have a coherent discussion about anything with these people. They just plain don't "think" like we do.

[immoderate]

8. That's good for a conservative.

--imm

[rfranklin]

10. Good thing she was a communications major...

Otherwise she might be incoherent.

[gratuitous]

11. And every reporter responded in unison, "What the hell did you just say?"

Kidding, of course. They just nodded, pretended to make notes, and thought about what they were going to have for dinner.

[Arugula Latte]

12. Yes, all school children know that Paul revere warned the British.

:eyes:

My gawd, the word "dumbass" doesn't begin to cover the breadth and depth of her stupidity and ignorance.

[nichomachus]

14. The Wizard of "Uhs"

[BlueStater]

15. 300 million people in this country and this is the "best" the GOP has to offer.

If they had any brains, they'd be fucking ashamed of themselves.

[nichomachus]

25. No, not at all

The "best" that the GOP has to offer wears magic underpants and thinks that when he dies, he's going to become a god and get his own planet to rule.

[Maru Kitteh]

37. Oh hell. He thinks he's a god NOW. n/t

[Bake]

16. What the hell is WRONG with people who, in public discourse, drop the damn G's on the ends of words?

I think it's just plain effing LAZINESS.

And it's all too prevalent in politics, corporate America, etc. A bunch of lazy ignorant bastards. It makes them sound like the buffoons that they ARE!!

FWIW,

Bake

[hfojvt]

29. you don't like "gonna"?

That's gonna be less popular than 'sneaked'. It ain't gonna go away.

[MilesColtrane]

36. That's an affectation to prove that she's "just folk".

Take a look at her resignation speech or other video of her as Governor. She doesn't really talk like that.

[kick-ass-bob]

17. I thought this quote was a joke. I really did.

I can't say anything further.

[IDemo]

19. She shore is purty, though, ain't she?

[FSogol]

20. "As King George rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America,

where– where do they go? It's Alaska Boston. It's just right over the border." --Sarah "Revere" Palin

[JuniperLea]

27. She forgot the part about the no-fly zone... eom

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. Who? Never heard of her. n/t

[hifiguy]

23. That woman is the Michaelangelo

of stupidity, ignorance and just plain idiocy.

[Urban Prairie]

24. You betcha, Paul was sendin' those warnin' shots and ringin' those bells

and makin' sure that he was ridin' his horse and not his neighbor's woolly mammoth or his pet dinosaur, Dino...



:silly: :crazy: :patriot: :rofl:

[pipi_k]

46. He had his own band, too. Why didn't she mention that?

*snort*

:7

[Pisces]

26. "Ignorance" is the number 1 quality for the GOP candidate. Can't be knowing to much book learning.

You can't trust those elitist smarties. Guts and instincts is all it takes to run this country.

[ewagner]

28. Quoting Keith Olbermann:

"That Woman is an idiot!"

[Octafish]

30. That's Bachmannesque.

Meaning, Pinheaded.

[Urban Prairie]

55. Imagine a Palin/Bachmann duo in the Oval Office

Or vice-versa, if they were to win the GOP nomination, and then "somehow" the '12 presidential election as the Rethug POTUS and VPOTUS candidates.

Yikes!!

Yeah, I know that the odds of that very unrealistic scenario actually happening are extremely low, but I do believe that potentially millions, if not tens of millions in the US would actually pull the "voting lever" for them. It would be interesting to see how many would have voted for them, so that we would then have a better idea of what the percentage really is of complete morans who are living in the US.

But building an igloo in Nunavut, Canada, or Vostok, Antartica, or maybe a mountain cave in Kathmandu, Nepal would not be far enough away from the US for me to run away to and try to survive after their (s)election on 11/06/12.


:scared:

[hfojvt]

31. Quick, somebody ask her about Israel Bissell

I bet she will take a strong stand against Palestinians having their own vacuum cleaners.

[MilesColtrane]

33. She's a walking brainstem with a coiffure and a mouth.

Still, I won't discount her potential to actually get elected.

[Shagbark Hickory]

34. nevermind, found it

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

35. "gonna be" used four times in one sentence.

this wannabe isn't gonna be president.

[pansypoo53219]

38. A POX ON MCCANT. A POX I SAY.

for releasing the kralin.

[woodsprite]

39. Maybe she would have actualy learned something on her

Spaz-ticle Herstory tour if she was paying attention to where she was instead of keeping an eye out for media and photo opportunities.

[backscatter712]

40. The Amazing Human Markov Chain Generator!

The one human being that cannot pass a Turing Test!

[sarge43]

43. A pocket calculator could do better. n/t

[Morning Dew]

41. Meanwhile, at Holt and at Prentice Hall

textbooks are being rewritten to reflect this version.

[sarge43]

45. Wasn't that one where she confused Concord MA and Concord NH?

If so, that won the hearts and minds of New England.

[tammywammy]

47. That was Bachmann. n/t

[sarge43]

49. Thanks. Same difference

All mouth, no brain.

[NoGOPZone]

48. What's she trying to say? That Paul could see the British from his horse?

I'd like to ask her who William Dawes was just to see the look on her face.

[Bobbie Jo]

50. WTF? WTF? WTF?

....and to think, relative to her audience she's the smartest one in the room.

Again, WTF??????

She makes my head hurt.

[kestrel91316]

53. She is emulating Bush with that phoney way she drops her g's.

Definitely running for president.

[hifiguy]

59. That is the one thing about her I don't think is phony

Her accent is virtually identical to the one found in northern Minnesota, North Dakota, much of Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan. Dropping gs at the end of words is pretty common in that syntax.

[rurallib]

54. I propose a debate between that high school sophomore from NJ

and the whole kit'n'kaboodle of the repuke pres candidates.
1 vs. 8 or 10 or whatever they got.

[demmiblue]

57. I would pay to see that!

:D

[rurallib]

60. She would tie them in knots.

[Brickbat]

61. Good God, is she DRUNK? She looks and sounds drunk on that video.

[spin]

63. When 75%$ of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S....

is Sarah Palin's lack of knowledge about history all that amazing? Note: I am in no way defending Sarah Palin. I am just pointing out the failure of our educational system.

75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.
Posted: Sep 16, 2009 1:17 PM EDT Updated: Oct 06, 2009 10:54 AM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.

The survey was commissioned by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs in observance of Constitution Day on Thursday.

***snip***

Dutcher said this is not just a problem in Oklahoma. He said Arizona had similar results, which left him concerned for the entire country.

"Jefferson later said that a nation can't expect to be ignorant and free," Dutcher said. "It points to a real serious problem. We're not going to remain ignorant and free."
http://www.news9.com/story/11141949/75-percent-of-oklahoma-high-school-students-cant-name-the-first-president-of-the-us?redirected=true

Here is an interesting civics test to see how much you know about government and American history.

Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)

Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692

At the end of the test you can review just how well elected officials did.

Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public

The ISI civic Literacy survey was not designed to test the civic knowledge of elected officials, but it did discover evidence of an interesting pattern that may merit further exploration.

Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions. This table shows the “knowledge gap” for each question: the difference between the percentage of common citizens who answered correctly and the percentage of officeholders who answered correctly.
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html

[MadMaddie]

64. I took the survey 78.9%

Some of the ones I missed I shouldn't have....grrr...