How desperate is Sarah Palin for publicity?
You can’t get any more desperate than this. Last week, she tweeted that her brain-addled followers should read a column by Thomas Sowell, in which the extreme-right conservative compared President Obama to Hitler and accused him of Nazi-like tactics in convincing BP to contribute $20 billion to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill.
Palin not only recommended reading the column, she endorsed its conclusion. “This is about the rule of law versus an unconstitutional power grab,” she wrote herself.
Now, it’s not surprising that “Drill, baby, drill Baby” should rush to defend BP. But: comparing Obama to Hitler. Puh-leeze!
First of all, BP was not forced to do anything. They offered to set up an independent claims fund, with an initial $20 billion, and Obama accepted.
Second, this was no unconstitutional power grab. Current law requires that the oil company responsible for the spill pay all costs associated with the spill. That’s the law.
Third, any association with Hitler is simply odious. But, it’s part of the continuing Fox News refrain that started during the 2008 campaign, remember, and continues yet today.
Sarah Palin is just doing her job as a Fox News contributor. But nobody with half a brain would take her seriously.
That’s my parting shot for today.
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“THAT WOMAN IS AN IDIOT” (keith Olbermann)
Nice article. I see you don’t have any followers for your blog, I just increased your readership exponentially. Congratulations, you have managed to insult anyone that happens to like Sarah Palin, but because we like her doesn’t mean we agree with everything she says or think she would make a good presidential candidate. She sure does stir the pot for the establishment press though. Thank her for existing, otherwise you wouldn’t have anything to do a couples days a month, moron.
“But nobody with half a brain would take her seriously.” You obviously do or you wouldn’t be discussing it!
So comparing public figures to Hitler is “part of the continuing Fox News refrain that started during the 2008 campaign”?
Really? Started during 2008 campaign?
You are right to say that comparisons to Hitler are not usually helpful. However, to say that this was started by Foxnews in 2008 is silly.
I wonder, did Mr. Press bother watching any of the WTO “protests” during the Bush administration? How about the “civil disobedience” of the anti-war protesters?
I guess either Mr. Press is ignorant of the FACT that Mr. Bush was compared to Hitler very frequently, publicly, and hatefully by people who probably never watch Fox, or he is deceitful.
My guess is the latter.
Therefore, I think that no one with half a brain would take Mr. Press seriously. (Is it OK if I say that, since he said it first?)
Keith Olbermann spews nothing but lies and hate. And what Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann have brought up about this $20 billion claims fund is a legitimate question about Presidential overreach. Process matters.
“Nobody with half a brain” would take Bill Press seriously. That’s why his book is selling so poorly.
Jim – that woman is not an idiot. The ones who listen to her and believe in her are the idiots. She is making money – that is all she cares about. What are those ladies that sell themselves for money – oh yeah – prostitutes.
Bill, Thomas Sowell was referencing a political tactic used by Hitler, not Hitler’s beliefs. And I don’t think he wrote that piece for Fox News; I read it on the Kenosha News.
Jim,
So anyone who promotes themselves is a prostitute? Oh, on second look, you only save that term for “women” who promote themselves.
Misogyny much?
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