Sarah Palin: A Life In Google Searches

That Super Bowl ad, I’m sure, is going to launch 1,000 parodies. Here’s one:

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UPDATE: An NBC spokeswoman informs me that this video first appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show. You can see the original link here.

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  • trifecta55

    It would be more funny if the searches were like Sarah Palin’s tweets with CAPS, teen OMG talk.
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    How 2 B Governor of ALASKA!!?!?!??

  • deconstructiva

    KT, that’s a good video but the real websites tracking Sarah dig up far worse – and likely true – stuff. Does anyone on your team regularly follow those places? Alaska sites like mudflats, shannyn moore, and immoral minority had done lots of heavy lifting, as well as Palin-specific sites like palingates and Bree Palin. Some things are just too wild (like the Wild Ride) to make up.
    .
    …and I hope you and Mr. Swamp are having a nice V-Day. Can you two walk somewhere for a fancy dinner or have one catered in? Per your tweets, figure skating starts at 7:30 (msnbc site). I understand guys staying away these days. Women’s skating used to have …well, women, like Katerina witt and Dorothy Hamill. Now it’s all teen girls and even so, 16-yr. Sarah Hughes skated a far tougher program than the ones now. But hockey is where it’s at. Have a good rest of V-Day evening, KT.

  • jcapan

    Hmm, delightful mockery-opps aside, what happens to a nation when:

    1 particularly unintelligent spokesperson stands in for all conservatives

    +

    1 particularly charming cypher stands in for all liberals

    What does this = ?

  • kbanginmotown

    you mean governer, don’t you trifecta?

  • ilikechips

    surprise surprise! a liberal lefty journo poking fun at Sarah Palin. Very old and boring KT. I love the fact that the media and whacky libs suffer from Palin Derangement syndrome. The more the MSM are scared of her and try to tear her down the more I like her. Keep it up KT.

  • Ike Jakson

    Well, I suppose next week we will have a request from Swampland to the President to ban Google and the Internet. After all if goggling is bad for Sarah Palin it can’t be good to let your children do it.

  • afguy

    The more the MSM are scared of her and try to tear her down the more I like her.
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    Hey ilikechips! You sound just like my middle son. He likes to say he likes things too – just to piss off the parents, and because we told him it was a bad idea.
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    I especially don’t like to step in a fresh dog turd on my way to the car in the morning.
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    Can I count on you now to come to the defense of fresh canine sh!t now, as well as its benefits to my shoes and the inside of my car?

  • anon76

    I’d say that oversimplification and reductionism are problems which are not unique to US politics. In any case, while I hear relatively few people say that Palin isn’t a conservative (though plenty say that she doesn’t stand for all conservatives), there are plenty of folks (you and SZ being particularly vocal examples) that would say that Obama is not even close to being a liberal, so I think the parallel falls short there.

    In my mind, a more worrisome situation is the one which the political calculus means that the entire opposition party benefits more from opposing legislation than it does from aiding the electorate.

  • jcapan

    Anon,
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    My pt. was about who wants us to reduce our discourse to such carciatures. If our debate is between crazy and corporatist…

  • anon76

    I think you meant crazy corporatist and plain corporatist, but meh.
    Maybe it’s because I get the majority of my news from Swampland comments that I have a hard time seeing the liberal vs. conservative dynamic being reduced to those two for anybody who bothers to disambiguate liberal from democrat and conservative from republican (its hard to argue that these two are not important voices in their respective parties).
    As for those who can not differentiate party from ideology, well, what is the appropriate amount of information that should be spent on them?

  • tstar3

    afguy, why bother? I ilikechips is part of the 29% majority(snark) that thinks Palin is qualified to be President…Perhaps you should know dear leader (Joe the not a plumber)said that he does not support McCain nor Palin. Lock up your kids, the village idiots are lose.

  • lupercal5

    lol i like how you have to put (snark) after “29% majority”. knowing full well, some of us might deliberately choose to ignore the 29% and embrace the ‘majority’. haha

  • lupercal5

    lol. im sure it has certain medicinal values. it’s organic after all. haha

  • apr2563

    Palin suffers from Palin Derangement Syndrome. That is why we wish her derangement continues. Please, nominate her for President.

  • Cliff

    Good lord, he’s learned how to properly use the period to end a sentence.
    Will wonders never cease.

  • cfukara

    Dear KT, Will you get a life, please?

  • Cliff

    If this were Scherer or Sullivan, I could support your statement.
    .
    But this is Tumulty, and while people (including myself) disagree with her often, you can’t argue that she doesn’t work on adding value to Swampland.

  • textee

    Nothing against unattractive, overweight, out of shape, 85 year-old women, but why did Saturday Night Live have an unattractive, overweight, out of shape, 85 year-old woman (i.e., Tina Fey) play the part of an attractive, ideal weight, in shape, 45 year-old woman (i.e., Sarah Palin)?

  • jcapan

    Yes, Anon, yours (I think you meant crazy corporatist and plain corporatist) is more precise. As I just told another commenter, I’m striving to stay engaged at times when there’s literally a shitstorm on the premises. There are times when I should withhold contributions.
    .
    I was struck by your comment: “Maybe it’s because I get the majority of my news from Swampland comments”
    .
    Meaning the links everyone provide? That’s pretty cool if so. Certainly a fact that we’d all be better informed by doing so compared to watching cable for instance.
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    Again, though, my pt. is the media has harnessed such a polarization on us. Of course, you and I and millions of others see nuance, but the media is complicit in a discourse stream that elides nuance and complexity for simplicity (AND ratings’) sake. I’d say that the bases of both parties are either completely ignored or thoroughly disparaged. At the moment, the latter tack is focused on Palin. Progressives, too coopted to do much of anything at the moment, aren’t worthy of MSM disparagment. We’re simply back to the norm–being ignored.

  • Matt

    Someone needs to show this clip to David Broder. Remind him that his glorious P{alin quit on the job…

    http://www.political-buzz.com/

  • kevin

    According to the polls, more than 70% of the country suffers from Palin Derangement Syndrome.
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    Or, as psychiatrists call it, “sanity.”
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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_021010.html?sid=ST2010021100035

  • kevin

    Seriously. She does great work and this was funny.
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    Lighten up, Francis.

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  • charlieromeobravo

    Stay classy Textee!

  • cfukara

    textee: ” .. why did Saturday Night Live have .. 85 year-old woman … play the part of an attractive, ..”

    If “attractive” is in the (jaundiced) eye of the beholder, then can it be that someone is telling you something about your age? [Who would see "attractive" in a moose-killer and hang around watching teevee live on saturday night?]

  • earljr1

    I just love it…NO one tweaks liberal noses better than Sarah! She effectively pokes holes in your elitist armor and it becomes the best comedy in town. You remind me of a disturbed hen house with all of the squawking, fluttering and self righteous indignation. You guys need to get a life and realize there is a serious segment of our population disenchanted with the far left lean of our government (see Massachusetts). You may THINK you have all of the answers, but the majority of us take considerable exception to that premise. The elections this year will prove me right.

  • cfukara

    ” .. NO one tweaks liberal noses better than Sarah! ..”

    No one?
    Last time I checked, those exotic cappertbaggers of the Chai brand were all gaga over sPalin, the wink.

    Forget Pavlov. Those tweaked, suddenly-alive curmudgeons – the patrons of the order of geezerhood – at FOX couldn’t stop the drool … They had to have her close, in-house.

  • Ike Jakson

    Well done ilikechips and

    If you want a good laugh on those who disagree with you read this one:

    http://ikejakson.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/chatterboxes-of-comedy/

    There is more from Karin Tumulty and others, and a true gem at the end. Let me know what you find.

  • earljr1

    You prove my point,cfukra and btw, what in the heck is a cappertbagger? Is this some new, liberal terminology? Liberalspeak is hard to understand, sometimes. Oh, well… You better look out, the geezers are going to getcha!

  • kathy

    Very funny clip (though it would be funnier if they waited til after the olympics so it wasn’t so february 2010)

    They missed “what do vice presidents do?”

  • towandavt

    Don’t count your chickens just yet and pay attention to those polls that say 70% (a majority sans snark) say Sarah isn’t qualified. Please…keep dragging her out there. She’s wonderful for the opposition. And don’t let that tweak YOUR noses!

  • earljr1

    More clucking from the hen house, towandavt. Sarah throws liberals into a tizzy and we conservatives laugh until our sides hurt at your ineffectual squawking. She serves a VERY GOOD purpose because it shows America how elitist snobbery prevails in this administration and how OUT OF TOUCH you are with the mainstream. “How is that touchy, feely stuff going for ya?” I LOVE it!

  • towandavt

    Say what…take a look at the audience and demographics of the tea baggers and you’ll see the elite. That is not a reflection of America. Tizzy, I think not. She’s more fun than a barrel of selfish-geezers!

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