Fox News: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year ago in Political NewsAnd you thought she sounded dumb during her Couric interview, or when she got pranked? Nah, this takes the cake.... In the Fox News clip below, Carl Cameron lets the cat out of the bag when it comes to the gaping holes in Sarah Palin's knowledge base.
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Aidenag1 year ago
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Tangent0011 year ago
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Yes, all of it was put 'off the record' until after the election. Often this sort of thing is a condition of having your reporters part of the press on the plane following the campaign around.
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Sounds like Palin was a real Diva. I mean, who refuses interview prep unless they think their sh!t don't stink? -
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MotiGui1 year ago
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If you listen to the report all the way through, you'll notice that it was one of her "aids" that said she said and believed it. The same aid that Palin accused of screwing up her pre-interview texts. The same "aid" also said that Palin didn't know what countries are part of NAFTA. Oh, and btw, I voted for Obama for reasons OTHER than Palin or McCain. Like the McCain campaign aids, these people are OUT OF A JOB now and covering their butts for future employment. It's time to move on gang!!!
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UnusualSuspect1 year ago
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Well, the election certainly worked out for the best, then, didn't it?
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Will we see her in 4 or 8 years? I have more doubts now than I had previously.
I mean, we don't want someone who apparently "cracked" (Carl Cameron's words) under the pressure of running as a VP to crack under the pressures as a President, do we? -
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kobzikov1 year ago
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This is yet another example of the elitist liberal media unfairly attacking real conservatives like Sarah Palin who aren't beholden to the special interests that are promoting their erudite agenda of knowing that Africa is a continent and which countries belong to NAFTA.
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Shame on you liberal FOX News! -
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not2needy1 year ago
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I'm surprised that Fox aired this at all, but this little tid bit of information is more telling of the people who worshiped her unconditionally than it was of her. Sarah Palin was full of herself, she thought she had all the answers, had gone farther than her highest expectations, and had probably bullied her way to where she was.. I think she thought that her ability to bully people was going to pay off for her in this election, and she got fooled.
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I haven't heard any definites about Ted Stevens yet, but his seat in the Senate affects everyone in the whole country, not just Alaska.. If he's censured, and Palin seats herself, we are still stuck with this KNOW NOTHING of a woman, who gives intelligent women a bad name. She has set women's chances back 50 years in just a few short months. -
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Neophile1 year ago
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lvrofwolves1 year ago
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More 'stay the coarse' even if you're wrong! I agree, that is unforgivable.
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I'm positive there were people that were going to vote McCain until Palin came along. I kinda feel bad for her, poor thing thinking she could be VP, and if she thinks she's got a chance in 2012, I really feel sorry for her..
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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47% of America voted for this person.
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Almost half the american population voted for this person.
Ronald Reagan ushered in the era of anti-intellectualism and religious superstition as a platform for the republican party, of course they were manipulated by the brains and money, and were reacting to the 60's counter culture, but times have changed, and still the "moral majority" (ignorant backwoods megachurch mal-educated superstitous hate-filled fear-filled morons) are the sleeping giant in american politics.
The pendulum has swung randomly to the left for now. FOR NOW.
These silent moron superstitous creationist endtimers for the baby Jesus have not gone away. Look what happened in California and Arkansas.
The evangelical vote was 85% for Palin/McCain. That voting block is still sitting there, like a herd of buffalo, waiting for someone like Rove to scare them into burning gays or something, or even worse, electing some creationist anti science anti rational freak like Palin.-
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BB641 year ago
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You're calling those of us with a faith cattle and you guys voted for Obama because preached hope and change sounding like a messiah. By the way you will find most of your charities are paid for by people with a declared faith.
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Tell you what, you're claiming science can prove anything. Duplicate the primordial ooze and bring it to life. Prove to me that you guys can create life from nothing. No more theories, no more dreams. Just do it. Until then don't pick on the faithful. -
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chuck-the-canuck1 year ago
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"The evangelical vote was 85% for Palin/McCain. That voting block is still sitting there, like a herd of buffalo, waiting for someone like Rove to scare them into burning gays or something, or even worse, electing some creationist anti science anti rational freak like Palin."
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Scary stuff, for sure. But, I think you can all relax now. This election proved that the religious right are completely impotent. They can bitch and rant and gnash their teeth all they want to, but nobody really has to listen to them anymore. They are a dying breed.
America isn't becoming more WASP like. It isn't becoming whiter, more protestant , more anti-intellectual, and more close minded. The days of having to kowtow to the religious right are over. We gave those morons way more respect than they ever deserved.
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Will13131 year ago
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Huffington Post... has Bill O's reaction...
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"she can be tutored".. what from the 5th grade level....WOW.. I said a long time ago.. SHE'S A DOLT.....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-did...-
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CajunChamp1 year ago
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Yeah really ... Puffington heard it from Cameron who heard from an unknown source from within the botched campaign who turned out to be a disgruntled campaign aid that was admonished by Palin for bumbling some pre-text preparation for an interview.
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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Think about this. What if..................
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A BLACK woman who believed in end times creationism and didn't know Africa was a continent was in the presidential ticket.
Would she have garnered the white evangelical vote?????
The republican party is the party with a white working class uneducated base. It won them Reagan, and Bush, and Bush. But, the dems have just tapped into another disenfranchised actual MAJORITY in america, and its not totally white, it a loose colalition of races, and educated whites.
To be blunt, the republicans need to figure out how to hold rallies that don't look like a white supremacist gathering. Or a Mormon Church picnic.-
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cleare1 year ago
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Will13131 year ago
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McCain was defending her as ready to take over .. all the way to the end... AMERICA FIRST indeed..
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I thought he was the McCain of old during his concession speech.. but he should have told the audience.. many of whom will look to Palin to lead the Republican party back in 2012 that she is a MORON.. a DOLT and he was wrong to pick her..
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nikkibabe1 year ago
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Shame on you Republican voters for wasting your valuable vote on this piece of TRASH. The RED states that remained RED are inhabited by worthless pieces of creatures called Americans. I would not call them Americans, I call them all jungle creatures ready to be shipped to some remote desert island.
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I read it. She said she thought South Africa was part of the country of Africa!
On Fox News, that white rat Bill O'reilly reacted to this by saying that she can be tutored. It is not a big thing. So, if they had won the Presidency, this trash would go to a DC school to learn world history and geography?-
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Mutainia1 year ago
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It's looking more and more like we dodged a bullet...only to get bit by a mamba. Well, we were apparently screwed no matter what. Atleast we can say we have the first black President in our life time now, and, I must admit, that's pretty damn cool.
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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I'm looking forward to see Michelle Obama greeting the Queen of England.
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That will be so cool......5 ft 11 Michelle Obama walking off the helicopter, towering over the little old white queen of England, and curtsying or whatever the freak. What a comedy, I can't wait.
I like the idea of Obama's kids having a bunch of other black kids over for a giant sleepover, running around the white house, knocking over priceless statues and drawing mustashes on all the dead white guys on the walls.
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simonsez1 year ago
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I suspect the majority of Obama's voters didn't know the correct answer either and they call themselves African Americans. In Harlem, They didn't seem to know that Palin wasn't running with Obama.
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Sarah will be back and better prepared ...-
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ybdogsct1 year ago
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SIMONSEZ: "Sarah will be back and better prepared ..."
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You sound so confident about that. But GOP leaders may not want her back after her refusal to be a team player. And Palin couldn't even deliver the demographic that she was supposed to deliver as McCain's VP candidate -- Republicans did NOT win the female vote, nor the first-time voters vote, nor the middle-class (those making under $100,000) vote. So much for Palin's appeal to women, the Republican base, and the average "Joe Six-Pack."
LOL.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=61...
"Fox News reports that Palin didn't know Africa was a continent and did not know the member nations of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- the United States, Mexico and Canada. The New York Times reports that McCain aides were outraged when Palin staffers scheduled her to speak with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, a conversation that turned out to be a radio station prank. Newsweek reports that Palin spent far more than the previously reported $150,000 on clothes for herself and her family. Several publications say she irked the McCain campaign by asking to make her own concession speech on election night.
The tension is likely to continue or get worse. Lawyers for the Republican National Committee are heading to Alaska to try to account for all the money that was spent on clothing, jewelry and luggage, according to The New York Times. McCain loyalists are now blasting away at the Alaska governor, who was a favorite of the Republican right during the campaign, but was cited in numerous polls as a reason why many Americans wouldn't vote for the Arizona Republican.
Perhaps the most dangerous allegation for Palin are reports in The New York Times and Newsweek that when she was urged by McCain adviser Nicole Wallace to buy three suits for the Republican convention and three suits for the campaign trail, she went on the now-infamous shopping spree at swank stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
A Republican donor who agreed to foot a majority of the expenses was stunned when he received the bill, Newsweek reported. Both the Times and Newsweek report that the budget for the clothing was expected to be between $20,000 and $25,000. Instead, the amount reported by the Republican National Committee was $150,000.
That wasn't the whole tab, however, according to Newsweek. The magazine claims that Palin leaned on some low-level staffers to put thousands of dollars of additional purchases on their credit cards. The national committee and McCain became aware of the extra expenditures, including clothes for husband Todd Palin, when the staffers sought reimbursement, Newsweek reported.
McCain aides had numerous complaints about Palin. She was unwilling or unable to find the time and energy to prep for her disastrous interview with Couric. And when she did study, she astonished her handlers by her unsophisticated views."
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/05/electio...
According to exit polls, Obama crushed McCain among women voters (56% to 43%), first-time voters (68% to 31%); and voters making less than $100,000 a year (55% to 43%). -
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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Unless Palin can attract Latino's and Blacks, she won't be elected. In case you didn't notice, joe the plumber is not the majority any more. The majority is a loose colitiion of educated whites, and brown skinned latinos and african americans.
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DenCuddy1 year ago
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Hey Simonsez, The election was a blowout, you picked an inane VP candidate who other than being vacuuous was found to abuse her power. Bluster and arrogance, lies and incompetance, claiming God and who is a real american are the things that have doomed your party. While McCain’s speech reminded me of the candidate I truly liked in 2000, the hate speech and smears by republican candidates defined the mandate you saw on tuesday. It’s about time the repubican party grew up, hopefully for the good of the nation, not party first as they have been.
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simonsez1 year ago
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She was thrown into a losing cause and had to be the "attack dog" for John. She was unprepared for such attention so quickly, but she will mature and grow and become a player.
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Obama ran an excellent campaign and deserved to win. Now, we will see if he can walk the walk
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BB641 year ago
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So what you're saying is that race is all that matters? I don't think running a woman will happen for a while. When you had a credible woman running the NOW ran to the DNC party once again. Questioning if a mother could handle the pressures of being a VP. A woman who not only runs a state, maintains a full family with all of the joys and sorrows of being a parent, she snowmobiles and hunts right along side the men. Proving a woman can do anything a man does, sometimes better. However, NOW, by supporting the all male ticket, clearly stated they feel woman's place is in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. What an insult. Either that or they've become nothing more than a DNC front group.
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Why attack the Swift boaters again? That was 2 elections ago. Or is it easier to attack a bunch of retired vets than answer a few questions about your candidate? -
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antibrainwasher1 year ago
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If republicans had any brains at all, they'd be running a Latino woman presidential candidate, with a black woman VP candidate, both with PhD's in economics, and both non-religious. I'd vote for that every time, and so would everybody else. I'd turn republican on the spot.
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What people will not vote for anymore, is a creationist white supremist idiot hillbilly folksy moron with the moral arrogance to attack in some endless McCarthyistic swiftboating rant.-
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Candida1 year ago
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antibrainwasher: "If republicans had any brains at all, they'd be running a Latino woman presidential candidate, with a black woman VP candidate, both with PhD's in economics, and both non-religious."
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Sorry to disappoint you, but "non-religious" candidates would not even get off the starting blocks in the US. No non-Christian will be elected in your country anytime soon. During the past two years, I've asked a few reasonable members on Propeller why they would never vote for an atheist. The few times when I've actually got an answer it was something vague about morals and character, but the bottom line is that even many of those who condemn racism and sexism would openly discriminate on the basis of religion.
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Charlson1 year ago
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Beware! Speak no ill of the "Ice Queen", she will return and crush all you nay sayers. She will send her pack of pitbulls without their lipstick to nip at the heels of you godless liberals and socialist creeps. Her army of incestuous white trash will roam the countryside winking at everyone they see and shouting "got'cha!" scaring the bejesus out of them. Beware!
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amazed1 year ago
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You know, you guys (those who voted for Obama) claim to want those who did not to work with him and respect him and basically, give him a chance. I actually want that also..he is my President and I hope he's successful. I can see that it is more important for the President of our country to be effective than to have the guy of my choice. I realize that if the President fails the entire country fails.
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Now, you guys won. Congratulations. Get over your bitterness -- there is no reason for it YOU WON!
You are unlikely to get the majority of those who were not enamored of Obama on board with him if you continue to gloat and carry on about how evil and stupid all of us who did vote for Obama are. One of the things of the last eight years should have taught us is how ineffective a President can be when he does not have the support of his country.
If Obama has nearly half the country crowing about what a sleazeball he is, harping on his "terrorist ties" and "muslim religion", "racist minister", "PLO buddies", etc., he will, most likely, follow in the steps of Bush with a failed Presidency.
Both Obama and McCain had truly touching and classy speeches the other night. It's time we all take a page from them and try to heal this country instead of continuing to tear it apart.-
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GWHayduke1 year ago
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May we all step back from our ideological preferences and look toward the future and the condition we will leave this country in when we pass on the reigns to our decendents.
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We need to make our decisions pragmatically and not fundamentally.
We need to analyze the role our country plays in global affairs. I'm sure that everyone saw the jubilation throughout the world when Obama was elected to the highest office in the US.
Just like that.....we went from being the most despised country on the planet, to the country that holds the greatest prospect for generating global good-will, prosperity and solutions that will lead to peace.
Real or symbolic we dont yet know......but we do know that we have to act in unison to execute the vision.
Unilateralism and nationalistic extremism has isolated us from some of our staunchest allies and has created new enemies.
We must work with the people of all nations, and all governments to form economic and political alliances if we want to achieve the goals we claim to strive for. -
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cloud151 year ago
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We dodged a bullet there huh?
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Seriously though, she is the main reason I just couldn't vote for McCain. Her as a vice president is just flat out ridiculous. The fact the a good amount of Republicans want her to run in 2012 scares me.-
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