The New York Daily News couldn’t get an interview with Sarah Palin (we know the feeling) but that didn’t stop them from getting an exclusive story out of her visit to the Big Apple. The News sent out an impersonator to see how real New Yorkers would respond to a fake candidate:
Now who was it that told the CIA at his very first briefing ‘Lay off the Saudis’ and scuttled off on holiday after he got the security briefing/warning entitled ‘Bin Laden determined to strike within America’?
9/11 got Dubya an extra 4 years he could never have managed for himself, but a new one is all that can save McLiar. Even if you’re not praying for it, Walt, I’m sure millions of your wingbat buddies are.
John,
You are a fruitcake! I do not pray for another 9/11 attack that you leftists allowed. Your guy, Clinton, encouraged 9/11 by not responding to the Somalia attacks, attacks on the Kobar Towers, the first attack on the World Trade Center, and the attack on the USS Cole.
The public does not know that Obama is capable of doing anything except ‘community organizing’. Your remarks reveal how hateful you are.
Another serial loser crying out in anger and anguish as the dopey old liar and his clueless sidekick are flushed down the toilet.
52-43, Walt. And a public that knows Obama is way more capable of fixing the economy. I suppose you are up late praying for another 9/11 terrorist attack…
John, Um & Sara: You leftists are really entertaining! The US economy is in peril, thanks to Democratic regulatory blocking by Chris Dodd & Barney Frank. Meanwhile, you discuss rape kits and who pays for them.
Your are entitled to your loony ideas! You are not entitled to run things!
And you, furry puss, are a pathetic little whiner. Are you one of the fundie lemmings sent here to punish Alan by the Malkins of the world? If so, you seem to have missed your bus home.
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Cant anyone see that Mc Cain is a puppet? He does and says what he is told! Its so obvious!
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Alan,
What do you mean, “…we know the feeling..?”
Didn’t she talk on your show for an hour?
Were you not aware of that?
Did you not see the schedule of your own show? Look at you archived shows to refresh your memory.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
CC, it is your memory that needs to be refreshed. In case you didn’t notice, Sean did that interview. Palin has been unwilling to face Alan, though she has an open invitation.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Has Obama been on Hannity and Colmes yet?
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Yes, he has. But not recently.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I’m biased because I like Alan but I honestly can’t imagine getting a fairer shake from anyone else on the liberal side.
I don’t know why people like Palin don’t interview with Alan. Obviously the questions would be harder-hitting than the softballs served up by Hannity but I can’t imagine Alan doing some sort of hit job like some extreme (or just rude) lib hosts might do.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Yes I am aware of that Joel. I was wondering if Alan remembered that by his statement mentioned above.
Thank you for your attention.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
You can put lipstick on a liberal, but; you cannot hide !
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I can see how “fake Sarah” might have fooled a few people but her “guards” were obvious fakes.
Genuine Secret Service personnel (the ones I’ve seen anyway) don’t use boom mikes. They speak into their wrists.
And genuine Secret Service men/women dress much better than “fake Sarah’s” fake guards.
While the black guy appears to be in good shape, the white kid is … kind of soft.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Palin has shown that women are NOT ready to be president. The circus of today shows that she is not able to handle the media and answer tough questions.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:43 am
A funny, but really useless stunt!
September 24th, 2008 at 12:54 am
The actress got her down exactly. Palin talks almost like she’s Canadian and that all this gal needs to do to mimic Palin’s voice.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Alan,
Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your sense of humor. While listening to your show not only do I find it thought provoking but quite often break out in sheer laughter. Keep up the good work!
Many thanks.
George
Wilmington, Delaware
September 24th, 2008 at 3:04 am
The rape kit nonstory is all about Fiscal conservatives versus liberals. That’s what this discussion is about. Liberals operate under the fantasy that government can just absorb the cost of everything and all will be well. I work for a non-profit and we get that all the time — well, why can’t you pay for this because I don’t want to and the state gives you money to give me what I want?
Fiscal conservatives understand that “stuff” costs. Be it a bus token or a rape kit, someone has to absorb the cost of that. Rape kits are administered in HOSPITALS. Trust me, I know this for a fact! Hospitals routinely charge insurance companies for crime victims’ medical care. Fairbanks Memorial Hospital charged off the copays for years; often state Medicaid would pick it up. Now the State Victims fund does it. But the majority of the cost is charged to the victim’s insurance company BY THE HOSPITAL, not the city or the police. It still is charged by the the hospital. Now, a law exists preventing municapalities from doing so. Okay, but who pays for that? Why should I as an Alaskan taxpayer or my buddy Randy as a Wasilla taxpayer pay for a rape kit? We didn’t rape anyone. And, maybe that accounts for $10 of my annual tax bill, but that’s my $10 that I could have used for, IDK, one board in the deck I’m building. OTOH, I pay my health insurance company a lot of money every year that I almost never use. So, yeah, I think they can pick up the principle on that rape kit while the cash-strapped Victims fund can pick up the copay. After all, the woman who was raped at least was a party to the rape. Randy and I were not! Hopefully, they’ll catch the rapist and take the payment from him, but you know, these same liberals will then whine we’re being unfair to convicts.
Fiscal conservatives live in reality. Liberals — well, no so much!
September 24th, 2008 at 3:25 am
“Fiscal conservatives live in reality. Liberals — well, no so much!”
Fiscal conservatives today are faith-based, reality is not a part of your belief system. Reference: the Paulson/Bernanke bailout thread.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Now we have to endure dummies like Anonymouse preach to us about economics when it’s obvious she has no clue what she’s talking about.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:06 am
Oh happy day! 52-43 :)
September 24th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Why do I have to pay $4 a gallon to the oil companies so that Sarah Palin can dole it out to Alaskans?
September 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Hope for change,
Maybe the question you should ask yourself is why other countries pay a LOT less than we do for gas. they actually utilize their natural resources instead of bickering about it.
September 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Still sounds like socialism to me. Conservatives complain about Obama and his ’socialized programs’. While Alaska’s Republican governor directly distributes Oil company wealth to everyone in Alaska, and claims that as a feather in her hat.
Also, a lot of countries pay a lot MORE for gas than we do, so…what’s your point again?
September 24th, 2008 at 10:39 am
T. Mason said:
Maybe the question you should ask yourself is why other countries pay a LOT less than we do for gas. they actually utilize their natural resources instead of bickering about it.
What countries pay less for gas than the U.S.? The only ones I am aware of are able to provide for 100% of their energy usage domestically, or very heavily subsidize fuel. U.S. gas costs are very low compared to other western countries.
The U.S. could only produce a very small % of our energy needs locally. I, personally, don’t think it bad policy to keep some of it in the ground for a rainy day.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Republican deregulation has led us to socialism. Republicans. But keep trying to link it to Obama…
September 24th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Hope for CHange,
The Governor of Alaska isn’t taking money from taxpaper A and giving it to taxpayer B (to my knowledge). She is taking money that is EARNED, not by taxpayers, and giving it back to the people.
I guess you could argue that’s socialism, but it is not in any way anything like what Obama wants to do.
UM,
I have a list I can post of cheaper gas prices, and yes most of them provide more of their own gas. I do realize, however, that some countries do pay more than us.
I disagree that we should keep it in the ground. I think if we pushed forward with building more refineries and drilling more of our own oil our gas prices would drop. I do, however, think we should also pursue clean coal, nuclear, wind, solar, etc.
FURYUS, Democrats and Republicans are responsible for this economic mess.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:58 am
T. Mason,
Our gas prices are going to drop when the $ becomes worth something again, not through some tiny increase in world oil production through additional U.S. drilling.
The majority of the increase in gas prices are due to the $ which has been purposely devalued to stave off the economic crises we are now, belatedly, going through.
The U.S. is never going to be a major provider of oil, certainly not enough to significantly affect world oil cost. We just don’t have the juice to be a significant player.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Drilling in the US will NOT lower gas prices here. The fact is in the countries where gas is cheap the government (Kings or Presidents) OWN the oilfields. They can sell it to their own people for any price they want! The US is not smart enough to keep the oil, they lease the land to oil companies who are in oil for a profit. They sell at world market prices and if we don’t want to pay that price for it they will sell it to someone who will. Do you seriously think Exxon, Chevron and BP are going to sell it here for less? If so, I would love to know how you got to that conclusion. Why has gas gone up during Bush’s terms? Because he invaded Iraq, until that time Iran ignored OPEC and sold for less than they did. Now that GW has alienated well, basically everyone, OPEC sets the price and everyone adheres to their price/supply. Our only hope is to come up with clean renewable sources of energy. Why are we looking backwards?????
September 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Palin has been unwilling to face Alan, though she has an open invitation.
If you watch fuax news, and the hannity & colmes show in particular you can see that Alan clearly has a problem with powerful women.
Alan wouldn’t survive a 5 minute segment with her.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Well, if Taxpayer A is the Oil company (EARNED through taxes on their profits) and Taxpayer B is the people of Alaska, I propose that is EXACTLY what she is doing, but I guess you could make claim that Palin did not start this. Alaska has had a ‘permanent fund’ dividend for years.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I am pretty sure that OPEC puts the oil on the market and influences the market by the amount of oil that they offer. There is not one entity really that sets the price, it depends on the condition of the market (kinda like an auction).
I don’t think our presence in Iraq is the only issue that increased oil prices. You have some saying the only reason we are there is for oil (not saying that isn’t ONE of the reasons we are there). But, the Iraqi’s aren’t going to give us their oil. If that was truly the case our oil prices would be going down, not up.
We might try to buy the Iraqi oil, but we aren’t going to just take it from them.
I don’t think anyone is looking back. I want to do everything possible to get off oil, but the reality is we have to deal with what we have while we move forward.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
T. Mason correctly stated:
am pretty sure that OPEC puts the oil on the market and influences the market by the amount of oil that they offer.
Correct. Which is also why some tiny additional input to the world market through additional U.S. drilling would have no affect. OPEC could easily offset it by lowering production (though the amount the U.S. would likely produce would be so small as to not require OPEC meddling)
September 24th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“Why should I as an Alaskan taxpayer or my buddy Randy as a Wasilla taxpayer pay for a rape kit? We didn’t rape anyone. And, maybe that accounts for $10 of my annual tax bill, but that’s my $10 that I could have used for, IDK, one board in the deck I’m building.”
Wow. I bet you go to a church where it’s preached that the “Good Samaritan” then took a knife, and harvested the organs of the naked, unconscious robbery victim, so the “Good Samaritan” could come up with the last bit of cash to buy boards for his deck.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
T Mason: ” I want to do everything possible to get off oil, but the reality is we have to deal with what we have while we move forward.”
Agreed. And the way other European countries deal with it, is they offer expanded public transportation, to help offset the high cost of gas.
Drilling now, in this country, is the easy way out, and it’s a “liberal” move. We need to conserve our country’s resources for our children’s futures. If there’s any drilling to be done, let the oil companies use the land they already have leases on.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Bastion of humanity Aurorawatcher vomited forth:
Why should I as an Alaskan taxpayer or my buddy Randy as a Wasilla taxpayer pay for a rape kit? We didn’t rape anyone. And, maybe that accounts for $10 of my annual tax bill, but that’s my $10 that I could have used for, IDK, one board in the deck I’m building. OTOH, I pay my health insurance company a lot of money every year that I almost never use. So, yeah, I think they can pick up the principle on that rape kit while the cash-strapped Victims fund can pick up the copay. After all, the woman who was raped at least was a party to the rape. Randy and I were not!
So should all police investigations be paid for by the victim, or just rape, since:
After all, the woman who was raped at least was a party to the rape.
I can be occasionally snarky, but rarely resort to ad-hominem attacks. However, you are sickening, perverted, and fortunately not representative of any of the conservative, liberal, or apolitical people I know.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Dear Alan
I strongly believe that Governer. Sarah Palin is different than us. 42 years old————–a good looking woman will become a grnd mother? She is doing what ERA dreamed about. Having a profession and a understanding husband. As a woman I can say, she used her look and brain very wisely. She is getting out of Alaska. I can compair her with Woppi Goldberg getting out from Harlem. I give them a lot of credits. They both understand their weekness and strength.
At this point of my life, I do not want to suffer in a Great depression.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Full disclosure, Um.
Sorry, but I copied that Aurorawatcher post from the Town Hall site (The Palin Rape Kit Myth) to see whether Vince, Bradley, Working Mom, T Mason or any of our resident Caring Christians(TM) would at least distance themselves from such disgusting nastiness.
As you’d expect, not a peep.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
John, you’re a sneaky dude. And, of course, not a peep, as you so acutely observed.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
A lot of the land given to the oil companies is not as fruitful as they once thought. I don’t know how you call drilling a “liberal” move, but whatever.
If we don’t do something to fix the energy crisis we are in, our kids aren’t going to have to worry about anything. Our country will be in the tank.
September 24th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I seriously doubt that Governor Palin is evern remotely interested at this time to sit down and discuss her gynocological needs with Alan. Since that was his main line on questioning on Week one, hes already been written off as being trivial……….
September 24th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Hey Sarah – that Town Hall site is an eye-opener. Apart from the fact that the evil Carpenter woman in no way showed the rape kit story was a ‘myth’, the wingbats were lining up with every kind of justification for Palin – everything from ‘rape victims ask for it anyway’ to ‘it’s all just sexist lies to smear lovely Sarah’.
The facts are simple. She sacked the police chief who wanted to close the bars at 2am rather than 5am and who had included in his budget an allowance for rape evidence kits. She spent more than that amount on a new mayormobile for herself and appointed an AOG mate as police chief. He kept the bars open all night and reversed the rape kit budget allocation.
The state government put pressure on several small towns to stop this appalling charge. Only Wasilla refused, so they eventually had to pass a state law to make the SOBs comply.
Just disgusting.
September 24th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
And you, furry puss, are a pathetic little whiner. Are you one of the fundie lemmings sent here to punish Alan by the Malkins of the world? If so, you seem to have missed your bus home.
September 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
John, Um & Sara: You leftists are really entertaining! The US economy is in peril, thanks to Democratic regulatory blocking by Chris Dodd & Barney Frank. Meanwhile, you discuss rape kits and who pays for them.
Your are entitled to your loony ideas! You are not entitled to run things!
September 25th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Another serial loser crying out in anger and anguish as the dopey old liar and his clueless sidekick are flushed down the toilet.
52-43, Walt. And a public that knows Obama is way more capable of fixing the economy. I suppose you are up late praying for another 9/11 terrorist attack…
September 25th, 2008 at 2:51 am
John,
You are a fruitcake! I do not pray for another 9/11 attack that you leftists allowed. Your guy, Clinton, encouraged 9/11 by not responding to the Somalia attacks, attacks on the Kobar Towers, the first attack on the World Trade Center, and the attack on the USS Cole.
The public does not know that Obama is capable of doing anything except ‘community organizing’. Your remarks reveal how hateful you are.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Now who was it that told the CIA at his very first briefing ‘Lay off the Saudis’ and scuttled off on holiday after he got the security briefing/warning entitled ‘Bin Laden determined to strike within America’?
9/11 got Dubya an extra 4 years he could never have managed for himself, but a new one is all that can save McLiar. Even if you’re not praying for it, Walt, I’m sure millions of your wingbat buddies are.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:14 am