Ooof.

She’s echoing Tito the Carpenter or whatever his trade was, who argued that journalists scrutinizing JTP’s story were violating Joe’s right of free speech.

This is up there with her dismissal of fruit fly studies in terms of absolute incoherence. Someone please explain to Ms. Palin that the media are not a part of the government, so they have no power to abridge her freedom of speech.

Does this woman understand ANYTHING about the constitution?

Or to resurrect an old question, “Are you lying or are you stupid?”

2nd try to elude moderation:

Does this woman understand anything at all about the const!tution?

Or to resurrect an old question, “Are you ly ing or are you $tupid?”

Thank you, Ms. Palin. Now, if you do move forward with a national political career, I will always have this handy quote I can cite, which will discredit you immediately.

Thanks for highlighting this. It’s good to know that I’m not the only one who finds the fact that the potential Vice-president of the United States is utterly ignorant of the Constitution disturbing.

At least Cheney had a descent understanding of the document he was undermining!

She’s right. The government should greatly restrict the media for this in order to protect the First Amendment. What am I missing here?

Is she serious? What version of the Constitution is she reading?

She apparently doesn’t know much about the constitution, or else she would know that the VP is not “in charge of the Senate”.

Amending my previous post.

dindc Says:
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Is she serious? What version of the Constitution is she reading (or not reading)?

And Michael, thanks for posting this.

Which Amendment to the Constitution protects politicians from being criticized by the media? Anyone?

This woman is an affront to the Constitution. In every way and at every opportunity, the suggestion that she has a political future at the national level must be resisted.

She is dangerous.

Is she really the best the GOP’s got??

Makes perfect sense to me. But then again, I’m thinking of changing my name to “drunkee mcstagger”, so there you go.

Cheney at least understood the constitution, he just didn’t agree with it. I can at least sort of respect that…

There is a typo in your headline, isn’t there? Shouldn’t that be Oaf?

Palin has so egregiously mangled the truth in attacking Obama for his associations that even the generally reticent journalists of the traditional media have exercised their First Amendment right to correct her. And she considers that to be an attack on the First Amendment.

And she again attacks the “Main Stream Media” and Washington D.C. “elites” when the likes of William Kristol and Fred Barnes, both D.C. elites and fixtures of the MSM have been embarrassing themselves in defending her against the knives of McCain campaign hacks.

The fact that Palin is tone deaf to the irony and contradictions in her comments is proof positive of your headline typo.

bobcn1 Says:
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Is she really the best the GOP’s got??

Do you really want me to answer that?

I know lawyers are kicked around a lot but having 8 years with neither the President or Vice President having a law degree has had consequences.

Do we need to insert tags to force a paragraph break?

From a sociological standpoint, it is a heartwarming testament to the altruism inherent in our human society that this woman has managed to survive past breeding age.

a lot but having 8 years with neither the President or Vice President having a law degree has had consequences.

I learned more in Jr. High School than this woman has managed to grasp after all her time in public office. It’s bad enough when we have idiots like Addington and Yoo trying to rewrite Article II. But as I said, at least they’ve read and understand the document they’re trying to undermine. This is just appalling!

A good idea to protect ourselves from this kind of First Amendment abuse would be for the media to submit their remarks for approval in advance to an agency headed by Palin in a McCain administration. Let’s keep our fingers crossed! Go America!

Your critics on the right want to bring you up on treason charges whenever you report a fact that stirs negative emotions in them.
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Your critics on the left want you to do a good job reporting the news.

Yeah, that’s exactly what the framers had in mind. Keep that pesky media in its place. I hear King George III had a similar problem.
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If this woman becomes president, it will be exciting to see what kind of SCOTUS justices she picks. Instead of originalists, she’ll have to pick Bizarro-ists.
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I hope the sudden CSS breakage means someone at TIME is working on fixing the wordpress issues.

To paraphrase Justice Hugo Black, I find no such provision in the Constitution – but perhaps I have an old copy.

pourmecoffee: “for the media to submit their remarks for approval in advance”
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Should be easy. Isn’t that what reporters on the Straight Talk Express already do?
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MS: When does the media exhibit a self-preservation reflex? Oh wait, you work for AOLTimeWarner,Inc. It’s all just infotainment to your corporate masters.

Michael Scherer…the Sarah Palin of the MSM.

You know what else the government should demand more of from the media? Jesus.

Calling you out on your BS is not an infringement on your freedom of speech Caribou Barbie.

I’ve so had it with Palin and the McCain campaign generally. I was hoping that once McCain lost she’d be ostracized back to Alaska but it appears that the Republican elders are prepping to groom her for 2012. What does that tell you? Substance doesn’t even run a close second to image in their grand design. They’ll put her through Republican talking point school for the next 4 years and she’ll get a brand new coming out party for the next election. It just goes to show you how enslaved by their base certain portions of the Republican party really is. How they can still think a woman like Palin, who has presented so badly in the last two and half months, is a rising star in their party just makes my head swim.

Republicans: do you love fetuses, guns and god (read: Jesus Christ) above all else? If yes, then we have a place for you!

Don’t underestimate the currency of this meme among wingnuts, though. They seem to think that the First Amendment includes the right to keep your high-profile job if you say something that embarrasses your employer (cf Al Campanis, Rick Barry, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, all examples taken from sports oddly enough). In general, that you should be able to say anything you want without any consequences of any kind.

Uh-oh. Sarah Palin just gave Chris Matthews his primary topic for another week.

26: isn’t that a little unfair given that Scherer, however much he has availed himself of the tire swing, brought this little morsel to our attention?

“Which Amendment to the Constitution protects politicians from being criticized by the media? Anyone?”

Cheney was working on it. That is, before those un-American Obama supporters went and screwed up his plans.

pourmecoffee:
Wouldn’t it just be better to submit them to the DOJ? I mean, they were working on that too, afore we done messed up things!

Off topic:

Sully links to this international view from Gallup:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/gallup/

What I find most interesting is that Latvia supports Obama by a margin of +8, and it’s in the Top Ten countries for McCain support!

Poor demented soul. We are dealing with a narcissistic personality.

From Mayo clinic.com:

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

Sound familiar? Hopefully some enterprising reporter will look up a mental health expert and let them expound on Gov. Palin’s behavior.

Now anyone out there want Gov. Palin’s finger on the button?

Oh, c’mon, cincinnatus. That’s entirely unfair.

Which version of the Constitution did Sarah Palin read?

All of them! Just like the newspapers.

Item 33 which is in moderation deals with Ms. Palin and possible behavioral issues specifically narcissistic personality disorder.

Try again

We are dealing with a narcissistic personality.

From Mayo clinic.com:

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

Sound familiar? Hopefully some enterprising reporter will look up a mental health expert and let them expound on Gov. Palin’s behavior.

Now anyone out there want Gov. Palin’s finger on the button?

“Alaska but it appears that the Republican elders are prepping to groom her for 2012.”

Isn’t there some old tradition up there that involves slathering her up with tallow or whale blubber or something? Is that what you’re talking about?

Let this sink in: three-time Hannity guest Sarah Palin is worried about the media becoming too prosecutorial. I think a unicorn just died somewhere. A really cute one.

Try again:

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

Sound familiar? Hopefully some enterprising reporter will look up a mental health expert and let them expound on Gov. Palin’s behavior.

Now anyone out there want Gov. Palin’s finger on the button?

Paul Dirks Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!

@armyliberal – Ha! We have a winner!

Dang moderation will not allow me to post definition of Narcissistic personality and it’s realtionship to the subject of this article by Michael. . Look it up at Mayo

Wheres’ those paddles!

Oh, well, this taser will do…

Palin’s missing the point. She has total freedom to raise the irrelevant, tangential non-issues and ignore the substantial themes that are actually exercising voters.
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And commentators in the media have total freedom to call her out on it and criticize her for doing so.
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That’s kinda how free speech works.
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God bless America.
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This has to be the least educated ticket ever to run for the presidency, no?

The whole question of “reading” is being raised. Atrios wonders if her kids ever go to school. Maybe she also missed a lot of time.

Time to work, not rag on Sarah.

Time for the final push! I live in Austin, Texas. After spending a weekend in Albuquerque canvassing for Obama weekend before last, this evening I joining 49 others for a “Bus Ride for Change” to canvass in Springfield, Missouri, through election day. Springfield, home of the 1906 hanging of 3 Black men, now has barely over 3% African-American and 2% Hispanic/Latino. We may have our work cut out for us in trying to bring Missouri into Obama’s column. Still, this 65-year old is more optimistic about the overall election outcome and the resulting leadership in Washington than I can remember. Be active!

C’mon, the press is free … within reason. Sarah Palin comes from a small town and has a good heart and she can see through someone like Barack Obama. Now, what little lady would like to go to the Halloween Hayride with me and sneak off to Old Man Hooterton’s silo with me tonight, dadblame it?!

What’s really so funny is not that she’s so dumb, but the pained expressions on the faces of the hacks that have to go on TV to defend her.

Basically, that means that I can say something false and horrible without any fear of being disputed or slammed for saying it? How cool is that?…

OT: Rumor has it that Sarah Palin had Trig in order to use him for parts in case she needed an organ transplant…

What? Like it has to be true. Slander is so 20th Century…

/snark

What’s really so funny is not that she’s so dumb, but the pained expressions on the faces of the hacks that have to go on TV to defend her.

KTH, read the following:
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/10/31/bright-shiny-states/

I expect Palin to come back to the national scence if McCain loses next week. And I expect that she will use the next 4 years to prep herself so that she will be able to answer such hard hitting questions as which newspaper she reads or what the Constitutional role of the V.P. is. But will she be able to answer a question coherently? Will she think she can continue to dodge out of press conferences or interviews not moderated by Hannity or O’Reily? I doubt it, so I say bring it on. If Palin is the best the GOP has, then they apparently don’t have much. The clips of her Couric interviews, the SNL skits and association with AIP will haunt her.

See, this is what happens when you get raised in a cult. You come out being really confident that whatever you believe in is right. No matter what it is that you believe in. You don’t need proof. You don’t need evidence. You just need…belief.
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It’s not really that complicated. She’s a cult leader.

I’ve calmed down, and I want to answer her directly. Where will the country be if the media are allowed to criticize her? Under 23%, that’s where.

Moderation has wiped out my post about Gov. Palin and narcissistic behavior.

Folks we are dealing with a behavioral issue that can turn bad. Try it one more time.

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

Sound familiar?
Now anyone out there want Gov. Palin’s finger on the button?

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

McCain’s leaps of logic are astounding. They are rooted in emotional fears and anger- the tragedy is that people have responded. …………..

http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/31/tragic-leaps-of-emotional-logic/

Got it through finally.

Actually, Queen, she’s not likely to ever get to “interviews not moderated by Hannity or O’Reilly”. Republican primary opponents won’t have to be so careful about attacking her as Democrats have been. She’ll be lucky to raise bus fare home from Iowa.

Glenn Greenwald: “This isn’t only about profound ignorance regarding our basic liberties, though it is obviously that. Palin here is also giving voice to the standard right-wing grievance instinct: that it’s inherently unfair when they’re criticized. And now, apparently, it’s even unconstitutional.”

Newfloridian, actually there’s something worse than narcissism. Borderline Personality Disorder really does lead people to believe that “Because I did it, it’s right”. Such folk do “splitting” — a 3-year-old’s view that everything and everyone is either ALL good or ALL bad.
So if there’s a problem, and it’s MY fault, then I’m bad. But I’m good, so it can’t be MY problem, so it must be — YOUR FAULT!
…, Bill Clinton!
Advice from hard-won personal experience — DO NOT marry such a person.

Ohg, I’m sure you have really nice Tupperware and Amway stuff over at your lovely pay-per-hit blogging site, but we’re all really busy here having lives and whatnot.
So if you have something useful to contribute, please be a dear and leave it here for us.
Thanks so much!

“See, this is what happens when you get raised in a cult. You come out being really confident that whatever you believe in is right.”

For a couple decades now, conservatives have lived in a bubble, which was reinforced by the MSM as they internalized conservative memes. The wisdom of uneducated white guys was held supreme. Anyone who dared point out long term problems this country had to deal w/ were ridiculed as limp wristed frenchies. We were told that the ‘American way of life’ was non negotiable. The pundit class stood and cheered. Anybody who dared suggest that the US was not indestructible was derided as being among the ‘radical left’. The parade is over.

As far as Oh Reah Tone….give the guy a break, throw him a bone and give him a hit. It’s not like he/she’s McCain4America…it’s hard out there for a blogger.

She is the poster girl for Christian Thug wing of the GOP.

My old roommate’s parents once taught me (in describing their own daughter): “You can’t teach stupid”. I think it applies to our dear Sarah Palin and Tall.

Palin is the one that is violating the first amendment by inciting riots in her hate filled speeches. She is also slandering Obama by spewing out her lies and slanderous accusations. Someone needs to get Palin the US Constitution for dummies edition.

Okay, but wait. Doesn’t she (and the McLame campaign) want the media to ask Obama about his (supposedly) “negative” campaign and his associations? Wouldn’t such “attacks” from the media then endanger his First Amendment rights?
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I thought their complaint was that the media hasn’t been tough enough on Obama, yet now I learn the problem is that, somehow, a free media doing its job violates the Constitution. Which guarantees a free media …
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My head hurts …

Trying again …
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Okay, but wait. Doesn’t she want the media to ask Obama about his (supposedly) “negative” campaign and his a$$ociations? Wouldn’t such “attacks” from the media then endanger his First Amendment rights?
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I thought their complaint was that the media hasn’t been tough enough on Obama, yet now I learn the problem is that, somehow, a free media doing its job violates the Constitution. Which guarantees a free media …
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My head hurts.

Sue, don’t think about it…it will just make your head explode.

bryanfromhouston, this is why I’d never make a good Republican. I keep thinking!

Agree with CM. You can’t have a conversation with a cult member. Either you are true believer, or an outcast. Expect McCain to be cast out sometime on Tuesday night by the Re(ligiousright)publican party.

sue_n: It only counts if you’re a Republican.
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Or to put it in schoolyard terms, they can dish it out, but they sure can’t take it.

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they’re superior to others and have little regard for other people’s feelings. Typically, those with NPD will post the same message over and over and over and over, wondering why others persist clogging up The Tubes with their effervescent drivel.