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Palin Says She Considers Herself Intellectual

October 23, 2008

As a colleague puts it: “Yes, this is real… Ya can’t make this stuff up. OK, you can, but why bother? This reads like an improv routine…” One the one hand, she does sport the sexy librarian look fairly well. On the other hand bbrbrbrbrbrrb <sputter> what!? <cough, cough>. Really? Although Palin didn’t name a single [...]

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Sam Harris: Sarah Palin “all too ordinary”

October 13, 2008

Sam Harris may ring a bell as the author of The New York Times best sellers The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. He had this to say in a recent Newsweek Op-Ed piece about Sarah Palin…

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Palin pre-empts state report, clears self

October 10, 2008

Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.

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Brigitte Bardot: Sarah Palin Is “A Disgrace For Women”

October 9, 2008

This from the Huffington Post:

“I hope you lose these elections because that would be a victory for the world,” Bardot wrote in an open letter to Republican John McCain’s running mate in the November vote.

and

“I know them well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal for that matter is as dangerous as you are,” Bardot wrote.

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Palin Debate Flow Chart

October 3, 2008

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New Yorker Cover Mocks Palin’s Claim Of Foreign Policy Experience

October 2, 2008

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George Lakoff & Nick Naylor Know What Joe Biden Needs to Do to Nail the Debate

October 2, 2008

George Lakoff often talks about “frames,” particularly the way Republicans create their own and draw you into them, regardless of what the question or topic was to begin with. If you recall the conversation about ice cream between Nick Naylor and his son in Thank You For Smoking, that’s reframing. Lakoff gives a great breakdown and list of stratagem for Joe Biden to employ against Sarah Palin tonight. It’s well worth a read, even after the debate

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Incompetent People Are Truly Clueless (to their own inabilities)

October 1, 2008

Reading all this about Sarah Palin I’m reminded of a New York Times article by Erica Goode someone pointed me to a loooong time ago on what is now called the Dunning–Kruger Effect… When Sarah Palin tells us she did not blink when John McCain asked her to be his running mate, I have a strong suspicion we’re looking at this effect in action.

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Republican Senator Chuck Hagel Questions Palin’s Experience

September 30, 2008

Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska became the nation’s most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president.

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Sarah Palin for Planned Parenthood

September 30, 2008

Make a donation to Planned Parenthood. In Sarah Palin’s name. And here’s the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they’ll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor.

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