Editor's Note/Update: Whoopi's blog has since corrected the error listed below.
Who let Whoopi Goldberg blog without an editor? In her Wow-O-Wow blog post titled "Sarah Palin Is a Very Dangerous Woman," she lobs a wild pitch about the Alaskan Independence Party kerfuffle: "I also thought that this idea of America first coming from her was kind of strange because she was one of the people who wanted to succeed from the United States. She was part of a campaign to succeed Alaska from the United States of America." Where’s the editor to say "Sorry, dear, don't you mean ‘secede’?"
Whoopi’s article concluded by suggesting Gov. Palin's speech reminded her of a German-American Nazi rally: "This girl is dangerous to me. This is a very dangerous woman, because I believe for her intents and purposes, she’s OK if everybody lives a certain way, that is to say, the way God ordained men and women to be. Well, already she’s breaking that because she’s the daddy. She’s going to run the country and the husband is going to take care of the kids. I just found the whole thing sad and very musty and very much like a Bund rally, but maybe that was just me."
The rest of the post was more predictable, with Whoopi associating conservative rhetoric with meanness and snideness:
I thought the speech in its body was energizing for Republicans, as I said, and sent them the message they wanted to hear, but what I heard was a lot of meanness and snideness and some inaccuracies and some dismissive talk to community organizers and other people’s adversities. She sort of mentioned the idea after Rudolph Giuliani did — and Rudolph Giuliani is a bonehead to start with, but that’s neither here nor there — but I thought once she began her discussion about community organizers and that they don’t have real responsibilities … I guess I can’t say I don’t know where she’s been living, because she’s been living in Alaska and maybe they don’t have community organizers there but they do in Chicago. Anyone who leaves their gig from school and goes to the people who most need help, that seems to me an admirable American way of thinking.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.




















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Yeah, you're right,
September 5, 2008 - 10:57 ET by motherbeltYeah, you're right, Whoopi....it was just you.
Whoppi's ramblings
September 5, 2008 - 11:12 ET by merlin61Yeah, Whoopi, just ramble on and on about
something you know nothing about. Don't
check facts. Whats with everybody jumping
on the Nazi bandwagon to describe what they
think of people. Hitler and his followers were
the most despicable people on the earth in their
time. The Dems must be really scared about
Sarah and Mc Cain gaining on them. She's so
charasmatic, and down to earth and not elite
like Obama and they can't stand it. Whoopi,
stick to comedy and learn how to spell and
understand what the words mean before you
talk about them.
And she's only been in this
September 5, 2008 - 11:27 ET by danboAnd she's only been in this for one week. And was quiet for much of it. (Just heard her talking again. More zingers. And the roar of people calling her name.)
They're already having to clean out their undies.
Imagine what the next 2 month will be like.
Thank you John. Thank you Sarah.
Limited Disclosure: I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.
Nazis! They are all
September 5, 2008 - 11:45 ET by lotrNazis! They are all freaking Nazis!
NAZI
September 5, 2008 - 16:10 ET by BurgherNational Socialism is Liberalism gone mad. Do you homework Woopie-pie. There's not a conservative idea in mein-kamfp.
from Jonah Goldbergs book Liberal Fascism:
In this provocative and well-researched book, Goldberg probes modern liberalism’s spooky origins in early 20th-century fascist politics. With chapter titles such as “Adolf Hitler: Man of the Left” and “Brave New Village: Hillary Clinton and the Meaning of Liberal Fascism”—Goldberg argues that fascism “has always” been “a phenomenon of the left.” This is Goldberg’s first book, and he wisely curbs his wry National Review style. Goldberg’s study of the conceptual overlap between fascism and ideas emanating from the environmental movement, Hollywood, the Democratic Party and what he calls other left-wing organs is shocking and hilarious. He lays low such lights of liberal history as Margaret Sanger, apparently a radical eugenicist, and JFK, whose cult of personality, according to Goldberg, reeks of fascist political theater. Much of this will be music to conservatives’ ears, but other readers may be stopped cold by the parallels Goldberg draws between Nazi Germany and the New Deal. The book’s tone suffers as it oscillates between revisionist historical analyses and the application of fascist themes to American popular culture; nonetheless, the controversial arc Goldberg draws from Mussolini to The Matrix is well-researched, seriously argued—and funny
It was just you,
September 5, 2008 - 10:57 ET by Hero SquadIt was just you, Whoopsi.
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
open up a can of Whoopi ass
September 5, 2008 - 11:06 ET by RackieUgly is as ugly does.
X
September 5, 2008 - 14:31 ET by serfer62Is Whoopie Uglier then Helen Thomas? or am I being a racist?
Nobody's uglier that HT,
September 5, 2008 - 15:54 ET by RESTLESS 1Nobody's uglier that HT, inside or out.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
naw...
September 5, 2008 - 20:14 ET by abeautifulpersonjust a wanker.
X
September 5, 2008 - 14:31 ET by serfer62Is Whoopie Uglier then Helen Thomas? or am I being a racist?
I have a picture of Whoopi
September 5, 2008 - 19:01 ET by Clear thinkerI have a picture of Whoopi without makeup here... Sarah Palin A Nazi?
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Benjamin Moore could not
September 6, 2008 - 09:11 ET by USA4freedomBenjamin Moore could not cover that face..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Nah, she is just confused
September 5, 2008 - 11:44 ET by Evil CapitalistNah, she is just confused about the name... Person whose followers remind anyone who knows anything about history is BO.
Whoopi, running a country
September 5, 2008 - 11:02 ET by taterWhoopi, running a country and raising kids are two different things. The family roles is how God ordianed men and women, not jobs.
Plus isn't femimism all about a woman having a career and family and having it all. Now the left is talking about God ordianed roles???? Maybe Palin is causing our good natured friends to have some religious awakening.
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"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia
Nazis?
September 5, 2008 - 11:16 ET by iveseenitallMay I recommend a book---"Hitler:A Study in Tranny" by Alan Bullock. When you read how he came to power, you'll see the comparison should not be with Sarah Palin, but rather Barry Obama and the Democrats. Whoopie and the wits on The View are wrong again. But what's new? It's ironic,however, since Hitler hated the Communism of which Barry is an ardent follower.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Yes, a typo, but I couldn't resist
September 5, 2008 - 11:22 ET by JeffC...May I recommend a book---"Hitler:A Study in Tranny" by Alan Bullock.
I thought it was Goering who wore women's clothing.
Rumor has it old Adolf had
September 5, 2008 - 18:58 ET by ReaverRumor has it old Adolf had quite a few fetishes of his own. Nuff said.
yes and one of those rumors
September 6, 2008 - 12:04 ET by jkwtradingyes and one of those rumors is whoopi was a friday night love fest in the back seat of a VW
sure she can raise 5 kids AND be VP
September 5, 2008 - 20:23 ET by abeautifulpersonthere's nothing to raising 5 kids, is there? its so easy, it incites the kids to have kids.
and the VP job is 9-5, right?
from what i've seen in the past 8 yrs, running the country can be done with one's eye's closed.
maybe if she spent more time raising 5 kids and less being the mayor of a town the size of some high schools, she wouldn't have to look forward to being a grandma in her mid 40's. but that was part of the child raising...
i want to write a commercial about who will be there to take that call at 3am. why, palin of course. she'll be up bottle feeding her grandchild, showing her daughter how to do it. its what being a mother (and grandmother) is allllll about.
Perhaps you're not aware
September 5, 2008 - 20:56 ET by PeskyDanePerhaps you're not aware that even leaders have families. It's useful to note that very few of us in leadership positions have perfect families. Among grown-ups, the measure of a leader's character is determined in part by how they handle the inevitable adversity they encounter. Your assessment of the last 8 years as well as the judgment you see fit to pass on this woman demonstrates a grade-school level analysis.
Wow.
September 5, 2008 - 21:41 ET by lotrWow. There was a time, not even 100 years ago, when a large family (mind you, 5 children wouldn't have been considered "large," but I digress), and grandchildren, were considered a great, great blessing. Now, thanks to pop "liberalism," a grandchild is considered a "punishment."
Personaly, I find
September 5, 2008 - 21:47 ET by PeskyDanePersonally, I find the Left's sudden gasping at teen pregnancy rather amusing.
Pesky,
September 6, 2008 - 02:09 ET by RESTLESS 1Agreed. I thought the left encouraged this sort of thing.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
i don't speak for the 'left', i speak for me
September 6, 2008 - 11:12 ET by abeautifulpersonand i see teen pregnancy as a real challenge to any young person. i also see it as a failure on the part of the parent to ummm... parent. BUT, accidents happen and life goes on.
its really shows the blinders some folks have to think 'the left' encourages teen pregnancy. that said, it is seen as hypocrisy of conservatives to brush it aside as 'just part of family values', because we all know conservatives would land on this with both feet if the shoe were on the liberal foot.
you thinking the 'left' encourages this irresponsibe behaviour just illustrates your ignorance. try to educate yourself a little better and try painting people with the same brush, a little less.
You amuse me. The glee
September 6, 2008 - 12:42 ET by PeskyDaneYou amuse me. The glee with which you judge this family demonstrates your own hypocrisy.
...hypocrisy of conservatives to brush it aside as 'just part of family values'...
No one on the right is "brushing it aside." What you see is a family handling adversity with dignity in accordance with their values. These two young people are have allowed their natures to get the better of themselves and now they are dealing with the consequences. However, they are dealing with it in a supportive and nurturing environment. Would you have prefered the parents cast them out? Would this have appealed to your anti-christian paradigm?
...because we all know conservatives would land on this with both feet if the shoe were on the liberal foot.
I tend to think that if the shoe were on the liberal foot, we would never have heard of it given the likelyhood of a quiet trip to Planned Parenthood.
And yes, all the puritanical caterwalling is coming from the Left. Sundenly out-of-wedlock pregnancy is considered a bad thing.
uhhh... yes, they are brushing it aside
September 6, 2008 - 12:56 ET by abeautifulpersonone could suggest being supportive isn't taking on a job which will uproot the entire family; an extremely demanding job that will take a mother away at a time when one child needs constant love and time and another child who is about to have a child of their own.
having a pregnant teen is life. having a downs syndrome child is life. not optimal but its life. those aren't choices.
taking on the vice presidency is putting one's career before family. plain and simple. THAT's a choice. its her choice. fine. i don't have to agree with it. anyone who has children should know that 5 kids, a grandkid on the way and one child with special needs is big commitment.
and if you see a liberal being moral about family as a surprise, that shows your shortcomings. not mine.
The difference between
September 6, 2008 - 13:24 ET by Dan The Man 2The difference between y'all "not optimal but its life. those aren't choices" and the right is we accept the choices and don't whine. Stop your idiotic whining. Palin understands what she is doing and accepts it. You seem to have this misogynist attitude of the woman doing all the parenting and family stuff. Grow up ABP.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
danny boy you got it all wrong...
September 6, 2008 - 14:12 ET by abeautifulpersonthe liberal whining... is so boring.... can you come up with a less tired rebuttal?
who said the woman does all the parenting. you? i didn't.
i'm saying it takes TWO to raise a family, and grandparents too (which palin will soon be), if possible. a family of 5 with all the challenges palin's family has, needs even more care and attention from the parents.
then again, no doubt there will be a team of nannies on this one. but there's nothing insurmountable here. not until you try to take on the vice presidency. its doing the country a disservice when one splits themselves such as she is.
...and all to grab the angry, female, pro-hillary, dem vote.
hey. she stepped up for public scrutiny (i can imagine size of the team that approached her with this idea), i wish her well, but she's doing no one a favour by attempting to take this one on. not her family and not the american people.
danny, try to keep the personal jabs to a minimum. its unbecoming.
Your're right. The liberal
September 6, 2008 - 16:23 ET by RESTLESS 1Your're right. The liberal whining is so boring, so could you cut it out?
We all know that if Paling were ont the left, you would be leading the cheers of how brave and patriotic she is for serving her country even in the face of such adversity.
I have seen no admonitions of teen pregnancy from the left until Palin was selected to run as V.P. Quit calling her a bad mother and stick to the issues.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
...if you see a liberal
September 6, 2008 - 13:36 ET by PeskyDane...if you see a liberal being moral about family as a surprise, that shows your shortcomings. not mine.
No, it shows my observations of every election cycle since I started voting nearly 30 years ago.
And what is this crap about "putting one's career before family?" That's like crying "racism." Another term from which you have slurred all meaning. Taken to the ridiculous extreme, by the standards you are setting forth, the Palin family should be living in a wig-wam from the morning catch in Prince William Sound. That way, both parents can be home with the kids aaaallll the time. Yeah, that's putting family first, right Hawking? Everyone stays together, no one has to make hard decisions, and, oh yeah - no one grows. Ever. That should make you happy.
BTW, I don't see liberals being moral about family as a surprise. Because it's not happening. Like a politian who is fed a single verse of scripture by a staffer in preparation for a speech, you really don't know what you're talking about. I thought that would come across without me using the "sarc button." You're knee-jerk judgement of this family shows your shortcomings into shortcomings in stark relief. You think you know christians, and you think you have a baseline for morality, but the truth is, you've never truly reflected on either. In the Palins, you have an imperfect family who are struggling with a number of decisions, and Earth-Mother forbid that this family takes a few rungs up the ladder. And that's really at the heart of what is bothering you. You see a philosophy being advanced by this family and you find it hateful. I would hope that you would feel some shame, but that would require a sense of right and wrong on your part.
Stop pretending you actually care about that baby. And stop pretending you care about that girl. No one is fooled.
you have no idea who i am. none.
September 6, 2008 - 14:27 ET by abeautifulpersonbut with that, i'll give you the last word.
nuff said.
Wrong. I know who you
September 7, 2008 - 07:21 ET by PeskyDaneWrong. I know who you are. I run into you all the time.
one could suggest being
September 6, 2008 - 13:43 ET by PeskyDaneone could suggest being supportive isn't taking on a job which will uproot the entire family;
Then one would be wrong. The one thing missing from this debate is the obvious: No one, NO ONE would turn down this opportunity under ANY circumstances (OK, maybe if you had terminal cancer and only 30 days to live). I may be too polite to call you a liar to your face at the church social, but now you know what I'm thinking.
being vice president isn't a lottery to win
September 6, 2008 - 14:19 ET by abeautifulpersonits a very important job. it requires huge amounts of work and commitment.
this isn't a vote for the 2nd most popular person in the country.
balancing career and family should be everyone's priority. palin could make a very good vice president. but not at this time in her life. wait for the kids to grow up.
Gee Pesky
September 6, 2008 - 14:38 ET by BlondeThe uprooting thing has given me a burr under my saddle.
Doesn't that happen all the time in the Military? Like every three years?
It's okay for MEN to uproot their families, hmmmm? But not for Sarah Palin?
Sorry, PD....you know I'm not ranting at you.
Hawking here has me really p'o'ed.
You however, (and as usual) have made me smile. :)
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
a military family knows they will be moving
September 6, 2008 - 14:54 ET by abeautifulpersonand besides, i tied this in w/ other variables. don't cherry pick a line without including the rest.
but i do agree there is a double-standard. guilty as charged. if she was a man, i wouldn't think so much about the uprooting. but she had 5, count 'em FIVE children. its not a part-time job to raise an infant, more children and soon, a grandchild AND be VP.
but its okay. i understand why ya'll are so rankled. your party is being strategic here. pull in the evangelicals and disgruntled hillary fans. you gotta circle the wagons. i confess, no one does it better than conservatives. its something that lefties could learn from.
let the kids grow up. both obama's and palin's.
let them have their parents.
abp
September 6, 2008 - 15:04 ET by BlondeAnd she had these five children all by herself?
You said it yourself. You are guilty of the double standard.
I'm rankled because hypocrites like you are here, taking pathetic and idiotic shots at someone who is imminently qualified for the position to which she has been nominated.
Gee, by your logic, only childless people should have big jobs or big resonsibilities. That's the ticket! Yeah.
Finally, I'll address any bloody point I damn well please. Cherry pick that, abp.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
an absent mother is more damaging than an absent father
September 6, 2008 - 15:49 ET by abeautifulpersoni have not once questioned her career qualifications (even though i do believe she probably is as good as it gets... for a conservative).
i speak as a parent, a person who juggles a successful career, someone intimate with downs syndrome and someone who observes far too many broken homes, neglected children (rich or poor) and career-driven people who make those closest to them, pay for it.
she could wait until her children (and grandchildren) are older to run for VP, but this is all about strategy. that's the shame of it all.
i'm not saying family first - NO career. i'm saying family first, career second.
nuff said.
You mean like Hillary?
September 6, 2008 - 16:03 ET by BlondeYour argument is PATHETIC. You say "she could" when you mean "she should".
I am sick to death of the misogynistic crap you liberals sling around.
It's okay for liberal women to hold high office (after all, they ABORT their babies and wait until they are too old to have them....so they adopt them, or buy them). Or have nannies. Whatever.
But a conservative woman, who has decided, ALONG WITH HER HUSBAND, to have a large family, is, by your standards, not capable of having a big career before menopause. Claptrap!
I am totally stunned by your position on this (although I must admit I am also surprised at your honesty, today).
Time to grow up, America.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Blonde - I can not believe
September 7, 2008 - 07:11 ET by PeskyDaneBlonde - I can not believe that this joker is actually suggesting that Palin waits for her children to grow up, as if the VP position will be there waiting for her. The sheer stupidity is beyond staggering. As I asserted earlier, no one would turn down this opportunity. NO ONE.
Another observation - my
September 7, 2008 - 07:15 ET by PeskyDaneAnother observation - my wife took note of Mr. Palin - this guy looks like he can't wait to up his role in taking care of the kids in order to support his wife. This family will never have it so good when they move into the Naval Observatory. Now that's putting your family first.
Yet more... we joke about
September 7, 2008 - 07:20 ET by PeskyDaneYet more... we joke about purse holding husbands - well, just try to pry Sarah's purse from Mr. Palin fingers for the next 8 years - to quote the late, great Chuck, "From my cold dead hand."
Truly beyond pathetic, PD
September 7, 2008 - 07:45 ET by BlondeBut hey....abp's "work is done".
What a load of leaping liberal illogic.
They're running scared, & becoming totally unglued. It's a joy to behold.
I saw an interview with Sarah Palin yesterday....Todd apparently already has the purse, so it's all good.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
abp, spoken like a true welfare,person. R U 3rd generation now?
September 6, 2008 - 16:05 ET by upcountrywaterbright enough to juggle the busses to pick up that check.
How else could you EVER put family above "career", in your upside down thinking?
because you are a Liberal
IranianUranium
U couldn't B more wrong. and yes, i'm honest & you are stunned.
September 6, 2008 - 19:15 ET by abeautifulpersonbut i'll leave you guys with the final word.
i've completed my mission, here.
Ta ta....
September 6, 2008 - 19:32 ET by BlondeAnd never more....
Que'lle idiote!
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
B - What's with the sudden
September 6, 2008 - 19:47 ET by Free StinkerB - What's with the sudden increase in Troll activity?
I suspect the Demoncrats have dispatched their operatives out into the 'net to try and sway public opinion.
They should have gotten smarter operatives.
Free... They can send all
September 6, 2008 - 19:53 ET by Clear thinkerFree...
They can send all the losers they want. It won't help them one little bit. In fact, they probably push people away everytime they open their mouths.
Children Of Conservatives - Trailer Trash
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Well Free saying " I've
September 6, 2008 - 20:02 ET by BlazerWell Free saying " I've completed my mission here" should be proof enough.
Everytime these fools open their ironic, racist, misogynist mouths they expose themselves as the hypocrites they truly are. Not to mention bring many more votes for our side.
Evidently they've never looked up the definition of "backfire".
Perhaps she can now go back to Kos fetch his slippers, climb up on his lap and get a "good doggie" pat on the head.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
fetch his slippers LOL!
September 6, 2008 - 20:11 ET by Free Stinkerfetch his slippers
LOL!
100 years ago, eh?
September 6, 2008 - 11:23 ET by abeautifulpersonsee, that's part of the problem. that some of us have to look back 100 years to rationalize what is considered bad planning and a miss on the part of a parent.
i'm not going to go into what has changed in the past 100 years. but one thing is for certain, palin wouldn't be running as VP. so let's put the 100 year-old argument to bed, shall we?
A beautiful what????
September 6, 2008 - 02:03 ET by Sue GallionYou don't sound like a beautiful person to me (--as your email reflects). You better check either your age,maturity or both. Either you have a serious problem or you're just a resentful, "catty" woman. --Or maybe you're an egotistical husband who couldn't deal with a woman with ambition.
Sarah Palin happens to have a husband secure enough with his own manhood that he's more than willing to share in the responsibilities of raising the children that he helped to create. And she is secure enough with who she is, and confident in the strength that God gave her; that she's not afraid to be a good mother ...and a good leader.
And you..."abeautifulperson"....what and who are you so afraid of that you would put down such a woman as Sarah Palin for having enough drive to be a parent and anything else she wants to be? Are you so limited in your aspirations??
where to start...
September 6, 2008 - 10:29 ET by abeautifulpersonas a parent of 2, i know how much effort is required...
as someone who has had downs syndrome children in the family (and a close friend with a downs syndrome child), i know the energy involved and the commitment required...
palin has every right to have 5 kids. and grandkids. and have whatever career she wants. but does that make her an optimal candidate for the 2nd in command to the most powerful country in the world? no. will her children suffer? definitely yes.
is she REALLY the best candidate or is she some concocted strategy to pull in the disgruntled clinton supporters?
its a lame strategy.
btw, i also think obama is too young. parent first, then politic.
BUY A CLUE
September 6, 2008 - 20:45 ET by stratmanThe above Subject Line and the proceeding post is not particularly directed at you, Abeautifulperson, but to all the anti-Palins concerning this parental (non) issue.
Why is it you all think that the Palins will be on their own in raising their children while she is vice president?
This is the lamest and most hairbrained thought processes yet from the anti-Palin crowd.
Do you think JFK and Jackie took care of their two young children by themselves? Do you think the Vice President of America would have no assistance?
THERE WILL BE HELP FOR ANY AND ALL CHILDREN OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT!
Sheesh! Stop with this inane conversation. You all are embarassing yourselves.
Dangerous to you because
September 5, 2008 - 11:03 ET by FishFace222Dangerous to you because she exposes you for the phoney that you are.
Whopoi spels leike Striesande.
And what did you expect from...
September 5, 2008 - 11:06 ET by AgentAmericanAnd what did you expect from Fontaine? Logic?
You expect nothing less than moonbat nonsense from The Spew!
Drill ANWAR
Keep Dreaming Ugly
September 5, 2008 - 11:08 ET by NoMoreClintonsSure she's dangerous . . . to your little dream of having ZeroBama run this country (into the ground) Ain't gonna happen.
Dangerous Social Policy
September 5, 2008 - 11:11 ET by Hunter12If Whoopi wants to consider dangerous individuals and social policies and things outside the mainstream of the general American thought process, here's people and policies she might want to look into:
As evidence of the lengths to which the Obama campaign is willing to go to discourage an open and forthright exploration of the Obama-Ayers relationship, this week I received an unsolicited email from Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, of the Stanford University School of Education. Professor Darling-Hammond is an education advisor to the Obama campaign. In the email, she said she was writing to me about my blog which she found “completely mysterious” because I “tie [her] in” with Bill Ayers. She states “while I know Bill Ayers, I have never talked to him about policy in the Obama campaign or about whatever you mean by ‘reparations.’”
Now, as it turns out, I have no evidence that Professor Darling-Hammond has ever talked to Ayers about policy in the Obama campaign or reparations. I have, in fact, never said that on my blog. I have only said that Bill Ayers endorsed the proposal for the repayment of the centuries of “educational debt” that some allege is owed to people of color. This is a proposal that Professor Darling-Hammond has also endorsed. Both Ayers and Darling-Hammond support the idea of replacing the widely used concept of an “achievement gap” between different groups of students with the idea of an “educational debt” that has accumulated over centuries and that is responsible for poor academic outcomes for black and some other minority students.
Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings first proposed the “repayment of centuries of educational debt” idea in her Presidential Address to the American Education Research Association (AERA) in April 2006. AERA is the leading professional body for faculty in schools of education. Bill Ayers is currently a Vice President of AERA.
Ladson-Billings based her argument for the “educational debt” idea, in part, on the work of Randall Robinson in his book arguing for reparations for slavery. She quoted Robinson to support her approach as follows:
“What is it that we might owe to citizens who historically have been excluded from social benefits and opportunities? Randall Robinson (2000) states: ‘No nation can enslave a race of people for hundreds of years, set them free bedraggled and penniless, pit them, without assistance in a hostile environment, against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap between the heirs of the two groups to narrow. Lines, begun parallel and left alone, can never touch. (p. 74)’”
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Hunter 12
September 5, 2008 - 11:32 ET by iveseenitallAs one closely assoctiated with educators my entire life, hearing once again the names you metion makes my blood boil. These people are at the heart of the failure of public schools in America. For forty years I've heard them talk and talk and do absolutely nothing to improve the schools. As John McCain mentioned about Congress, these people are self-serving individuals who put the common good and real progess on the back burner. Unfortunately, their socialist , hate-America agenda is so deeply embedded, the system has no chance at of ever recovering at this point. It is truly an issue of our time. American education is a corruption that will never be adressed by the likes of Barry Obama, who is a good buddy of one of the most corrupt "educators", William Ayres.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
You look at Bill Ayers and
September 5, 2008 - 11:56 ET by Hunter12You look at Bill Ayers and here's a guy who has consumed so much "white-guilt", he sweats "blame whitey". His dad was the president of ConEd and probably made six figures or more as Bill grew up in the '50's and '60's. Poor little rich kid. I bet Tom Ayers was proud on the day his son spouted, "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents." No wonder Obama is desperate to hide his long association with this kook. [To save time, you libs who will post, "Barack didn't know this man. He was just a guy from his neighborhood.", Obama is lying. These guys served on boards together and ran a grant program in Chicago together. When you blow a $160 million of someone else's money together with no results, you get to know each other pretty well. Obama gave 'hundreds of thousands' to Michael Klonsky, a former crony of Ayers (and former cab driver), who was blogging for Obama up until last week.]
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Poor Whoopi
September 5, 2008 - 11:11 ET by Cool ArrowThe Doctor reached in a little too deep while removing one of those parasites. Got part of her brain.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
When they open their mouths...
September 5, 2008 - 11:12 ET by ThalpyWhen they open their mouths, they remove all doubt. Whoopi is a celebrity, she may be wealthy, but she remains dumb as a rock.
Right Thalpy
September 5, 2008 - 11:13 ET by Cool Arrow"X" gets the square.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
Palin's speech a Nazi rally???!!!
September 5, 2008 - 11:14 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarI guess she missed the visuals of B Hussein's little talk.
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
Maybe I am just hopelessly
September 5, 2008 - 11:14 ET by SnappyMaybe I am just hopelessly uninformed here, but isnt it the goal of every Governer of ervery state to fight for the success of their state? Wouldnt everyone want their state to succeed?
You are right
September 5, 2008 - 11:18 ET by Cool ArrowAnd when Governor Palin got the earmark for "Bridge to Nowhere" reassigned as discretionary, Ted Stevens wasn't able to direct the money to his preassigned cronies.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
Fix that fer ya
September 5, 2008 - 11:21 ET by acumen...fight for the success of their state?
...fight for the secese of their state?
I actually meant the literal
September 5, 2008 - 13:03 ET by SnappyI actually meant the literal spelling that Whoopi used...........
Whoopi STFU. Thank You.
September 5, 2008 - 11:16 ET by ConservativeRexWhoopi STFU. Thank You.
Liberals are definately
September 5, 2008 - 11:17 ET by Clear thinkerLiberals are definately wired differently than Conservatives, but I'm starting to think that their wiring has been short-circuited.
If, and it's a big "if", Whoopi watched the same woman on Wednesday night that I did, then Whoopi is either nuts, or she's a damn liar!
I saw a strong, articulate woman that definately has every value that feminist have been screaming about for years. The one exception would be... she believes in God. I thank God every day for many things, but today I must thank him for showing the world how morally bankrupt liberals truly are.
Liberal View Of Historical Events = Crappola
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"I just found the whole
September 5, 2008 - 11:18 ET by ckc1227"I just found the whole thing sad and very musty and very much like a Bund rally, but maybe that was just me."
Hey hoopi, for the most part....it is just you. Our VP candidate has a higher approval rating than either presidential candidate. Maybe you and the Oprah can get together and cry about it.
Maybe it's just Woopsie
September 5, 2008 - 11:19 ET by KC BeachI know it has been widely reported that Palin was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, that was just another lie to smear a good person. Perhaps Woopsie could "secede" in checking the facts before saying Palin wanted to "succeed" from the USA.
Sarah Pallin Switched Colleges Six Times in Six Years!
September 5, 2008 - 11:22 ET by bacaloveIt seems that our Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, who could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency seems, to have switched colleges at least six times in six years, including two stints at the University of Idaho before graduating from there in 1987.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/...
No wonder McCain wants to keep Sarah Palin away from the Press, but Sarah Palin is a Celebrity now and just like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears will be pursued by the Press and paparazzi! As you can see, Sentaor McCain, what goes around, Comes Around --God's Hand of Judgment is Swift! As you know McCain/Palin, Jesus was a Community Organizer and Pilate was a Governor (Hah!) so was George Bush, so much for Executive Experience...
Yes, Barack worked as a community organizer, but he also worked as a civil rights lawyer, taught constitutional law, 8 years as a Legislature in the state legislature, and 4 years in the US Senate, where he is currently a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee with Joe Biden (an almost carbon copy resume to the great, Abraham Lincoln, America's Greatest President)!
Barack Obama is more than qualified to lead and bring true and positive change to this nation. Barack Obama is an intellectual genuis who is committed to looking forward. He wants to talk about the Future, not about the Past, unlike McCain who is stuck in reverse and continues to focus on his horrible treatment as a POW when he was a very young man. However, he is much older now -- that was a long time ago. McCain voted for authorization of the Iraq War and McCain certainly does not want to talk about the fact that Maverick McCain is code for the fact that McCain loves to gamble, loves the gaming tables and that is who McCain is today!
care to back up some of your claims?
September 5, 2008 - 11:26 ET by SouthJersey1953Yawn....
McCain/PALIN '08
PALIN/Jindal '12
Reply
September 6, 2008 - 08:41 ET by kenman923I am with you. If Obama happens to win, God forbid, I could see a Palin/Jindal ticken in '12. Whether Sarah Palin goes up against Obama or Hillary, she can win by a landslide.
Thanks bacalove
September 5, 2008 - 11:27 ET by Cool ArrowAnd Whoopi has used her body as an oven of extermination six times.
Who's the Nazi?
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
Wait a minute, Cool
September 5, 2008 - 11:40 ET by BlondeWhoopi is confused about pregnancy....to wit (from her blog):
So now we come to this other thing that I don’t understand: The idea that her daughter’s pregnancy is a family affair makes absolute sense to me because I think that it is a family matter. But I find it interesting that if this girl was Chelsea Clinton or black she probably wouldn’t have been treated the same way. When a black teenager gets pregnant she’s a welfare mother. When this teenager, when this nice white-lady-girl-teenager gets pregnant, it’s an Evangelical Christian choice. She’s unwed, and so how do we balance that?
Whoopi is clearly stupid, too....if she unintentionally got pregnant six times.
Shut up and sing, Whoopi.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Whoopi's Choice
September 5, 2008 - 12:02 ET by Cool ArrowSounds like Whoopi has a bit of a problem stereotyping Black mothers.
IMHO When a woman gets pregnant and receives Welfare, she's a welfare mother. Why does Whoopi think they have to be black? I guess her party told her Welfare is strictly for black people.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
body of extermination
September 5, 2008 - 11:50 ET by jkwtradingWhooppi reminds me of the joke of a lady with 2 kids agred 3 and 10 going to a pharmacist and asking if the pharamcy had condoms.
the pharmacist asked her if the kids were twins, she replied NO! do they look like twins? He said "nope" but couldn't figure out how someone so ugly got laid twice.
Touche' , Cool Arrow!
September 6, 2008 - 02:12 ET by Sue GallionTouche' , Cool Arrow!
Care to supply a valid link?
September 5, 2008 - 11:28 ET by CPT_ClawHmmm?
bacalove, is this supposed
September 5, 2008 - 11:32 ET by ConservativeRexbacalove, is this supposed to be sarcasm? If so you ought to label it as such.
If not, please, call your doctor. Either you intentionally skipped a dose, or he needs to radically increase the dosage. Better yet, call your mental health hot line now! It is in the yellow pages. Good luck on your treatmeant!
Dead Link
September 5, 2008 - 11:51 ET by T-Bone MassMust have been scrubbed by the RWC.
"Barack Obama is an
September 5, 2008 - 12:38 ET by ckc1227"Barack Obama is an intellectual genuis who is committed to looking forward."
Ahhh, yes, cocaine use just screams "intellectual genius".
Hey loser, it's not about being a community organizer, it's about claiming you're qualified to be president because you were a community organizer. Posting ACORN posters on telephone poles doesn't qualify you to be president.
The meltdown that is occuring is a glorious thing to witness, lol.
"Intellectual genius", Bacalove??
September 5, 2008 - 14:46 ET by iveseenitallI've known a very few "intellectual geniuses" in my long life and ,believe me, Barry is not one of them. In fact I find him to be rather slow. He certainly lacks a thorough education, as many of his gaffes prove. After all, having any college dipoma these days isn't necessaritly an indication of knowledge or brain power. Barry's frequent "uh's" aren't simply a speech impediment, you know. The boy needs to go back to school and return when he is ready to run for the local school board, never the presidency.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Hmmm, was it 6 schools or 5
September 5, 2008 - 16:45 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsHmmm, was it 6 schools or 5 schools. The MSM (like bacalove) can't seem to get their facts straight.
D
P.S. Who cares?
Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.
bacalove
September 6, 2008 - 09:26 ET by ShaftBigScoreSwitching colleges 6 times is not relevant. What is relevant, is this..Barack H.Obama is not qualified to be president based on his lack of executive accomplishments. Because Jesus was a community organizer, does not make Sen.Obama qualfied to be President.That is a fallacious argument. Secondly, Governor Palin is a VP candidate, not Presidential candidate.
What executive experience does Mr. Obama have? Please site 3-5 executive accomplishments that Mr. Obama has achieved in his resume.What companies has he run? What is his management philosphy? What bills did sponsor and lead in the Senate? Who hired him as a community organizer? Who did he report to on a day-today basis? Can these indiduals provide some work references for Obama?
You guys know the answer, that is why you are worried about Gov Palin's college transcript. Why dont you go find Biden's transcript? How did Obama get into Columbia with his FINE high school transcript? Is drug use a requirement upon entry into most Ivy League schools? Please advise.
" On my signal, unleash hell" Maximus Decimus Meridius
Learn how to count,
September 6, 2008 - 20:56 ET by stratmanLearn how to count, moron.
FOUR schools in FIVE years, taking 9 semesters (instead of eight semesters customarily proposed) to complete undergraduate schooling.
Joe Biden plagiarized in Law School and should have been expelled. Wonder if the family money and power had anything to do with Slow Joe being allowed to stay in the program, because it sure wasn't his academic performance that convinced the disciplinary board.
Keeping trying, fool.
McCain/Biden
September 5, 2008 - 11:21 ET by GothampcWhoopi Girl, you need to lay off the wacky weed.
"I also found it really bizarre when Palin said there was only one person who has fought for your rights, dismissing Joe Biden’s work offhand."
The point she was trying to make dear Whoopi is that McCain fought as a soldier. You can't compare his military service with Biden sitting on his butt in Congress and possibly getting a paper cut off some legislation. Do you realize that Biden "student deferred" his way out of Vietnam?
"Do you have to be left in a box in Vietnam to count for something?" If that’s the only kind of adversity that counts then she’d be right."
I don't dismiss that Biden had a tough time after this tragedy, but at least he was living in a free country and had access to a support system to help him. Do you realize that McCain was being tortured physically and mentally for the service of his country?
Dangerous? You wanna expound on that Whoopi?
September 5, 2008 - 11:23 ET by lotrBy "dangerous" she wouldn't happen to mean "dangerous to neolibs and radical feminstas," would she?
WHOOP-T-DO...
September 5, 2008 - 11:25 ET by danybhoyA Nazi rally? Tell me Whoopi, who made a campaign stop to speak in Berlin?
As for Palin poking fun at "community organizers", why not? Obama must have made a real impression on the old neighborhood. Chicago has had 1 of the bloodiest summers in their history, & that's saying something. I will take the liberty of assuming that most those murders were on the south side, & I will also assume that it is overwelmingly black on black crime.
I'm seeing a pattern here with Obama, he never sticks around to finish the job. He leaves his job as a "community organizer" to run for the IL state assembly. Does'nt seem to have done very much, & with 130 plus "present" votes, he did'nt seem to want to take a stand. He then gets elected in 2004 to the US Senate, & after 143 days, decided to run for President. It is clear to me that he only takes a job so he can advance to another. That's fine, as long as he at least tries to do something that would make you think he was doing the work of the people. That would mean you would finish a term or 2 before getting bored & running for a better office.
Sorry Whoopi, I thought you were smarter then that, but I was wrong. Bitching about Palin's making fun of "community organizers" does'nt change the facts about the troubles in "the community", & looking at Obama's old "community", I would not be too quick to defend the work of Barack Obama back in the streets of Chicago's southside.
"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth
WHOOPS...
September 5, 2008 - 11:35 ET by danybhoyDouble-post. Sorry...
An absolute joy watching
September 5, 2008 - 11:32 ET by krendlerAn absolute joy watching the left chasing their tails this Palin thing. They don't know if they're coming or going.
Wasn't it Whoopi and the rest of The Left recently complaining that the evil, racist, Nazi-like conservatives - because of their criticisms of Michelle Obama - were actually afraid of a strong woman. Now we get to sit back and witness the libs having a complete meltdown over a female who happens to have the highest approval rating of any governor in the country. Palin's a Nazi everybody!!!!
McCain is a friggin' genious.
I've got to hand it to
September 5, 2008 - 11:33 ET by MassConservI've got to hand it to Whoopi, she writes like she talks. I could almost hear her when I read that.
Not that it is necessarily a good thing.
I think it's safe to say she's not a PUMA, at least.
As an aside, for any one else that doesn't know what a PUMA is (I didn't until I looked it up yesterday after another NBer's post, and I won't tell you what I THOUGHT it meant [ahem])...
Party Unity My A[sterisk]
Obama never succeeded
September 5, 2008 - 11:42 ET by flyingmonkeyIt's a good thing that the kind of people that listen to Whoopie are already in Obama's tribe. I loved the way she described Republicans as mean and snide just a sentence before calling Giuliani a bonehead.
Maybe Palin doesn't know about community organizers because there is no need for them in Alaska. People like that do exist on the south side of Chicago though. By the way, let me know when Obama finally gets them organized.
Before Whoopi gets into
September 5, 2008 - 11:43 ET by jkwtradingBefore Whoopi gets into generalizing..I wonder how she would feel if all white America were to generalize all blacks as lazy would she like that.
There is an old saying obviously never passed onto to Goldberg, when you live in a glass house do not throw rocks.
Dear God Whoopi!
September 5, 2008 - 12:14 ET by KTPlease for the love of humanity and intelligence, just be quiet.
This is why I don't watch the view, I really wish Elizabeth was there.
And why are we even commenting on this? A majority of the women on there are deranged to begin with. (Edit, I didn't read the whole thing, sorry.) After reading the WHOLE thing I have to say that is the most stupidest thing I have ever heard Whoopi say. It's secede not succeed. And I thought the earth is flat claim was bad.
Succeed at seceding whoopi...
September 5, 2008 - 11:53 ET by VT Con ManAnd like they say, don't let the door hit you in the tushy on the way out.
What an irrelevent doofus.
Running in circles
September 5, 2008 - 11:54 ET by rick007The good thing about the Libs running arround chasing their tails is pretty soon they are going to slip on their own S---.
today's feminists
September 5, 2008 - 11:56 ET by sawing battawill the View boycott Sarah Palin like Oprah?
Question Whoopi, Oprah and the Viewgals:
Are today's feminists about the advancement of women or just the advancement of Liberal women?
This is a good thing
September 5, 2008 - 12:06 ET by Cool ArrowI'm hoping the View will come out early also and refuse to invite Sarah.
Nothing good can come from that catfight. Sorry, but "dogfight" opens up a whole 'nother can of worms.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
How do we help people?
September 5, 2008 - 12:01 ET by sixlbs9oz"Anyone who leaves their gig from school and goes to the people who most
need help, that seems to me an admirable American way of thinking."
Umm, 'community organizers' are like union bosses for poor people. The job is not to help people get a leg up, but to foment an outcry from the 'disadvantaged' to have the gubmint somehow 'fix' the problem. It's akin to unionizing the poor, except that at least unions understand that their folks have to work to get paid.
And this kind of thing is "admirable"?
unions understand that their folks have to work to get paid
September 5, 2008 - 12:24 ET by wizardjrAh come on now, I was a union officer for years and I know better. You only have to show up (from time to time). No one said anything about "work".
Ms. Goldberg proves herself to be uneducated
September 5, 2008 - 12:12 ET by attorneygirlMs. Goldberg proves herself to be uneducated because she believes anything the liberal left-wing bloggers, party hacks and media tell her and she fails to research the issues to find the truth. (And I'm not even picking on her for her failure to spell correctly. Note to Ms. Goldberg: Get a dictionary.)
If Ms. Goldberg had studied history, or politics, she would have learned that Nazism has nothing to do with Governor Palin.
Nazism was an ideology based on racism, nationalism, and the supremacy of the state over the individual. This sounds like the Democratic Party.
History reveals that Nazi Germany taught that Jews were subhuman. Nazi Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 which ripped basic rights from Jews, and which forbade Jews from marrying a non-Jew. With this law the violence and attempted extermination of an entire race began, culminating in concentration camps and the murder of 6 million Jews.
So how, Ms. Goldberg, is Sarah Palin similar to a Nazi? I don't see it.
Ms. Goldberg might want to examine the tactics used by the Obama campaign and learn where Senator Obama learned those tactics. Let's look at, for example, Sen. Obama's relationship with the self-admitted terrorist Bill Ayers in Chicago.
A well-respected academic researcher named Stanley Kurtz has been researching the relationship between Obama and Ayers. In doing so, he has sought the release of public information--namely, 132 boxes of records of files for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge stored at the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where Ayers is a professor. Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the 1960s, and turned into fugitives when a bomb designed to kill army officers in New Jersey accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his team succeeded in bombing the Pentagon.
Obama's political career was launched in Ayres and Dohrn's living room. Obama and Ayres live close to each other and have served on boards together, and socialized together, and come from the same closely tied Chicago political machine.
I can't give the story justice about how Obama's campaign has used socialist (and Nazi-type) tactics to shut up Stanley Kurtz on a radio show discussing his research into the relation between Obama and Ayres: Here's a copy of an article about it, written by Guy Benson:
Stanley Kurtz's Fairness Doctrine Preview [Guy Benson]
Stanley Kurtz's appearance on the Milt Rosenberg radio program in Chicago last night provided an unsettling look into the authoritarian tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate its critics.
I happened to be in the WGN studios for the entire affair because my friend, Zack Christenson, produces the show in question. He was aware of my previous reporting on the Obama-Ayers connection and kindly invited me to sit in on the two-hour interview.(For full disclosure, I work for two other radio stations in Chicago, WIND, and WYLL).
As I arrived at the downtown Chicago studios a few hours before show time, the phones began ringing off the hook with irate callers demanding Kurtz be axed from the program. It didn't take long to discover that the Obama campaign—which had declined invitations to join the show for its duration to offer rebuttals to Kurtz's points—had sent an "Obama Action Wire" e-mail to its supporters, encouraging them to deluge the station with complaints.
Why? Because, naturally, Kurtz is a "right-wing hatchet man," a "smear merchant" and a "slimy character assassin" who is perpetrating one of the "most cynical and offensive smears ever launched against Barack."
Evidently, much of Obama nation is composed of obedient and persistent sheep. They jammed all five studio lines for nearly the entire show while firing off dozens of angry emails. Many vowed to kick their grievances up the food chain to station management.After 90 minutes of alleged smear peddling, Milt Rosenberg (a well-respected host whose long-form interview show has aired in Chicago for decades) opened the phone lines, and blind ignorance soon began to crackle across the AM airwaves. The overwhelming message was clear: The interview must be put to an end immediately, and the station management should prevent similar discussions from taking place.
One female caller, when pressed about what precisely she objected to, simply replied, "We just want it to stop!" Another angry caller was asked what "lies" Kurtz had told in any of his reporting on Barack Obama. The thoughtful response? "Everything he said is dishonest." The same caller later refused to get into "specifics." Another gentleman called Kurtz "the most un-American person" he'd ever heard. Several of the callers did not even know Stanley's name, most had obviously never read a sentence of his meticulous research, and more than simply read verbatim from the Obama talking points.
As Rosenberg repeatedly pointed out that Team Obama had been offered the opportunity to take part in the conversation, the agitated masses adapted their argument to suggest it was outrageous to request an interview from the Obama campaign in the thick of the DNC. Delivering the line of the night, Rosenberg countered, "The Obama national headquarters is just down the street from here. They obviously have the time to send out these angry emails, but they can't walk a few blocks to our studios?"
Throughout the open-line segments, Rosenberg and Kurtz wore incredulous expressions. The hostile callers were so bereft of any legitimate argument, there was little to do but sit back and marvel at what was going on.
The experience was surreal, amusing, and chilling. In a matter of hours, a major national campaign had called on its legions to bully a radio show out of airing an interview with a legitimate scholar asking legitimate political questions. Coupled with the Obama campaign's recent attempts to sic the DOJ on the creators of a truthful political advertisement —which also happened to feature Obama's relationship with an unrepentant terrorist— last night's call to action represents an emerging pattern. Any criticism of Obama's unknown past is to be immediately denounced as a "smear," and the messenger is to be shut down at all costs.
Stanley Kurtz is poring through mounds of documents (access to which was initially blocked) in a public university's library that (a) establish a deeper link between a major party presidential nominee and a man who is proud of bombing US government buildings, and (b) shed light on said candidate's brief, unexplored executive experience.It's entirely understandable why the Obama campaign would prefer that the files remain out of the public eye until at least November 5, but Kurtz's careful research is completely within the bounds of reasonable inquiry. One might even argue it's vital that a man who may be the next leader of the free world be thoroughly vetted.
Team Obama is fast becoming the campaign that cried "smear." They labeled the National Right to Life committee "liars" for providing evidence of some unpleasant facts about their candidate's record on a series of infanticide votes. This tendency to lash out and engage in baseless name-calling not only smacks of desperation; it also may foreshadow an Obama presidency's strategy in handling unfavorable media reports and sources.
If anyone still believes reinstating the Fairness Doctrine isn't a top priority for the American Left, last night's example offered a stark and alarming wake-up call. Still not convinced? For goodness sake, read Jonah's book.
UPDATE: Here is the podcast of the full show.
Great analysis.
September 5, 2008 - 12:20 ET by KTWow attorneygirl. That was very thorough and I thank you for that. and the libs are always saying they believe in the personal freedoms of people and that they are for the freedom of speech but this fairness doctrine that I hope DOESN'T pass says differently.
And you will absolutely
September 5, 2008 - 16:07 ET by winston smithAnd you will absolutely never hear this story repeated in the MSM because it's yet another unattractive truth about Obummer they don't want us to know about. But just imagine if McCain were guilty of something like this -- you can't bet your last buck you'd have Olbermann in your face the next night with his evil grimmace and his hateful, spiteful comments.
I just love having the internet and talk radio because it's the 'end-around' for conservative/Republican voters who are continually fed biased, one-sided 'hit' stories from the establishment media. Now there are all these little 'leaks' from other sources that are beyond their control that at last tell the other side of the story. In the ensuing years we will see how the media attempt to respond and/or control information from these new sources that they do not wish to be made public. I am betting that if Obummer gets in there will be renewed legislative interest in the so-called 'Fairness Doctrine' and I have full expectation that there will be those "progressives" who will attempt to apply it to the internet as well as radio.
Comedian?
September 5, 2008 - 12:13 ET by lareeWas Whoopi doing schtick? Just so everyone knows, there are movements all over this country, to secede from the union. Off the top of my head Vermont and Montana. Those movements by all different kinds of people, for all different kinds of reasons.
Yes Whoopi It was just you
September 5, 2008 - 12:17 ET by laree. I just found the whole thing sad and very musty and very much like a Bund rally, but maybe that was just me."
Somewhere a Mensa scout is looking over his/her shoulder, shuddering.
A German American Nazi not to be confused with other types of Nazis? So Whoopi nuances Nazis' "This should be a public service commercial- Kids don't do drugs"
Which Candidate Holds a Nazi-like Rally?
September 5, 2008 - 13:47 ET by Darwin AkbarHere's a question for Whoopi:
What two well-known politicans:
- had few accomplishments before coming to power, but were lavishly praised by the world at large as "masterful orators"?
- purged their parties and political organizations of those who were unfaithful?
- promised change and to empower the powerless?
- wanted the government to control the means of production?
- had their acolytes attempt to crush opposing points of view (cf. sent threatening letters to supporters of the other side or demanded that critics be prosecuted like criminals?
- wrote best-selling books about their personal and political struggles?
- spoke at lenght about the grievances suffered by their people, real or imagined, and promised to address those grievances;
- were selected by popular vote to lead their parties?
- campaigned as if they'd been sent by God to rule and restore their country's rightful place in the world?
- held a big party rally in a large outdoor stadium before a throng of cheering acolytes?
and
either used or designed a gesture or symbol of faith involving the elevation of one or more hands above the head?
The answers:
One was B. Hussein Obama, who had a big rally in Denver just last week.
I forget the other guy's name, but he had a little mustache and had someone film his big rally in a place called Nuremburg in 1934 that was captured on film for posterity.
scary
September 5, 2008 - 14:30 ET by lotr- wrote best-selling books about their personal and political struggles?
- spoke at length about the grievances suffered by their people, real or imagined, and promised to address those grievances;
Not sure if you intentionally included these two bullets side by side, but let us also mention that his best-selling autobiography, Dreams of my Father (bullet one), which spoke at length about bullet two, is also quite disturbing in its published unapologetic demonization of a specific group (in this case, race) of people.
Thanks for the link, lotr.
September 5, 2008 - 15:32 ET by KarmaIt reveals a snippet of what drives him. This, along with Palin as VP, brings me to hair's-breadth away from voting for McCain.
Whoopi and Darfur
September 5, 2008 - 12:17 ET by Mica the MagnificentI wonder what Whoopi thinks about the insecticide going on over in Darfur?
waiting for the millions of liberal heads to explode
September 5, 2008 - 12:20 ET by wizardjrThis must be what it's like to live in Manhatten or the Gold Coast in Chicago. These people see the end coming for their utopian, no-rules society. The only problem is, is that it only existed in these liberal enclaves. The majority of Americans did not have sex with children, went to work every day, did not divorce six times, did not abort six times, etc., etc., etc.
As these aging Boomers like Whoopi-trek and Steinem watch, normalcy is returning to America. It confuses them because everyone around them is just like them. The non-important people who supply these vampires with food, drink, transportation, etc. are just a nuisance and belong to the unwashed "hick state" set who are hardly worth acknowledging. Except.... SURPRISE! we're taking back the country and it's culture.
PUH-LEEZE!
September 5, 2008 - 12:25 ET by ArtisteWhy anyone would listen to Whoopi is beyond me. She is certifiable. If there is anyone dangerous out there, it would be her and those nuts like her. Where do they come up with such nonsense?
Whoopi = Rosie
September 5, 2008 - 12:36 ET by TjexciteWhoopi = Rosie
Whats next, fire does not melt steal on 9/11 only and Sarah is not the outsider, she was part of RWC that caused it
et cetera ad nauseam
McCain / Palin '08
Many are those who are my vigorous enemies
September 5, 2008 - 12:44 ET by lotrMany are those who are my vigorous enemies; those who hate me without reason are numerous. -- Psalm 38:19
Guiliani = bonehead, Goldberg = genius
September 5, 2008 - 12:44 ET by SickofLibsThis girl Palin is a nazi...
and this whackjob is looking (and acting) more and more like a crazed witch doctor.
You've got to be kidding me!
September 5, 2008 - 13:09 ET by Kevin D. BakkoIs it just me? It seems that the level of credibility of the comment is in direct proportion the the credibility of the individual making it. In this case; Zero / Zero.
Whoopi Goldberg has about as much politcial credibility as as a stray cat. Constantly digging for scraps and howling at the moon!
Kevin D. Bakko
As a representative of "Stray Cats Of America"
September 5, 2008 - 13:15 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasAs a representative of "Stray Cats Of America" I protest that comparison!
The answer to terrorism IS war. Next Please!
But can you really blame
September 5, 2008 - 14:39 ET by winston smithBut can you really blame Whoopie for making such an outrageous statement? Remember last year how successfully Rosie espoused the utter lies and falsehoods of the 'controlled demolition' of the WTC on 9/11? You have to remember that "The View" audience and people who seriously entertain the childish political rants of celebrities consist of a lot of ignorant dunderheads who are already conditioned to believe such moronic bilge.
This is a Presidential election year and leftists can use the media as a platform to lie with impunity. And since the very same liberal devotees are running the show in the first place, who's gonna say anything? As long as all of the establishment media outlets are on the same page politicallly --- following the same template as Rush would say --- they can lie and character assassinate at will and it will always give the appearance of truth --- especially to the politically naive.
Nazi's
September 5, 2008 - 14:21 ET by bsmarjJoy and Whoopi, sounds good in name but no class, no brains.
Ellwood: Alaskan Nazis.
Jake: I hate Alaskan Nazis.
Not just her
September 5, 2008 - 14:27 ET by KC MulvilleThe liberal point of view as a whole felt the same way.
Once again, however, here we have another liberal who, without a trace of self-reflection, claims that the angry, bitter, narrow-minded, racist, sexist, and Nazi Republicans are being "mean." Paul Krugman did the same thing in his op-ed piece this morning. While they're piling on the stereotypical insults on conservatives, these liberals complain about what they're doing themselves at that very moment. Whoopi argues that Palin is a Nazi and dangerous because she has the nerve to promote a different opinion than the rest of "us" correct-thinking mainstream folks.
No grasp of irony at all.
It is also snide
September 5, 2008 - 14:28 ET by TheHistorianto pick on Whoopi for using "succeed" instead of "secede" and not pick on GWB for his mangling of the language. Let's get over the snarkiness and get to the issue.
Sarah Palin's HUSBAND was the secessionist, not her. If you want to hold spouses liable for husband's or wife's beliefs, then we need to start holding Mary Matelon responsible for James Carville's beliefs, or vice-versa.
And Whoopi, I agree with you; Barack's job of community organizer was very important, as David Plouffe says, because the politicians were out of touch with the people who needed help. First, the time when BO was a community organizer had a Democrat legislature in Springfield, a black Democrat mayor in Chicago, and a Democrat city council. The US House was Democrat, and we had just come off four years of the wonderful Carter administration. So, if you needed a community organizer, it must be because the DEMOCRATS were out of touch, not for any other reason. So, keep pushing his background; it is a GREAT statement on why the Democrats should not be returned to office.
"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel
How's ThatCommunity Doing?
September 5, 2008 - 14:57 ET by ChasvsAnybody do any reaearch onhow that community Barry organized is doing? Gee, think it was left any better when he left? Bet you can count the pockets he lined with Government dollars, but not show one bit of improvement in the lives of the people he used to get himself ahead!
This sucker is slicker than slick willie himself!
BO's Community Organizing
September 5, 2008 - 16:34 ET by ltdI think part of BO's job as community organizer was to sign up new voters. I'm wondering how many times he signed up the same people under different names. And I'd like to know how many dead people are going to show up to cast a vote????????????? Did you ever wonder why he chose Chicago to launch his political career???????? Do some research on your own about Chicago politics and politicians. It will make the hair on your neck stand up. This is exactly why we need a national voter system using a thumb print, eye scan, or at least a tamper proof voter Id card.
Barbara Walters
September 5, 2008 - 14:37 ET by Cool ArrowBarbara Walters must be turning over in her grave right now.
(Yeah, I know that)
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
Wah Wah is dead...oh god,
September 6, 2008 - 12:15 ET by jkwtradingWah Wah is dead...oh god, it's safe to watch TV again.. lol..
The Whew
September 5, 2008 - 14:46 ET by Emma GrumpIsn't this the same gaggle of mental giants that have been espousing feminism and girl power for years, heaping praise upon powerful women who have achieved success and have broken thru the glass ceiling thru their sheer determination. Now the epitome of what they speak emerges, but, alas, she doesn't rate any recognition, and is a "nazi"? I would like to see Gov. Palin appear on the view, but Baba Wawa will never allow that. Sarah would chew the ladies up, and Babs knows that. I apply this same logic to Oprah, another "champion" of the female species, unless, of course, It's Sarah Palin. Can't allow her sycophantic viewers to hear a woman with a different point of view. What would Barack and Michelle say????
Remember She's Black
September 5, 2008 - 14:54 ET by ChasvsSo don't be too quick to criticize her. You know, it's racist to point out waht an illiterate idiot she is!
She can spew her illogical bull shit all day long without fear of the MSM calling her on it. It's what's wrong with America today. If she wants to be stupid, that's her right. I also have the right to call her on it.
Hey Barack, another blithering idiot working over time to cover for you!
I know plenty of people who
September 5, 2008 - 15:08 ET by SickofLibsI know plenty of people who spew illogical bullshit all day long.
I should know, I'm one of them. I just don't earn millions for doing it.
I'm going to try submitting an invoice to Newbusters for this post. I'll let you guys know how I make out.
SOL
September 5, 2008 - 15:43 ET by Cool ArrowAt the very least your great-grandkids can demand reparations for your mistreatment.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
Oh yeah....thanks Cool. I
September 5, 2008 - 16:01 ET by SickofLibsOh yeah....thanks Cool. I gotta go now and register a .org website and write the grant papers for my BS Spewers Protection Foundation.
Whoopi's ramblings.
September 5, 2008 - 15:00 ET by KansasgirlPray tell Whoopi, what did Hussein accomplish? Nothing.
Poor Whoopi...ignorance on
September 5, 2008 - 15:39 ET by bigtimerPoor Whoopi...ignorance on display once again.
By the way...there were a lot of people who wanted to "succeed" from the lower 48 in Ak. all had to do with what the greenies and the Senate and a Pres. named Clinton and Carter who have stopped a lot this, including a Senator named John McCain with his votes against drilling...this has done for decades, they have stopped the progress that was promised to them when they joined the Union...Ak. is two thirds govt. property...the rest is rich in mining, timber, and OIL...yet it keeps being given the sick in the eye...it is not as if the AIP is a bad thing, I thought we all had freedom here in this country Whoopi...you may want to check out some of the backers of the leftist party who aren't exactly what I call all american.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Uggh! I feel so dirty
September 5, 2008 - 15:47 ET by RESTLESS 1I actually signed up there to post this:
"Uh, Whoopi, first of all, I want to congratulate you on finally figuring out the word is "secede" and not "succeed". Secondly, you are a liar. The NYT has admitted that they wrongly accused Palin of being a member of the Alaska Independence Party. Here is part of their mea culpa:
"On Tuesday, though, the party’s chairwoman, Lynette Clark, said the earlier statement was false. Ms. Clark said that she had based it on information another party member had given her, but that a review of the records showed only that Ms. Palin had attended the 1994 conference.
Ms. Clark added that while the review confirmed Todd Palin as a member, it did not indicate that Ms. Palin had been one.
On Wednesday, Ms. Clark released a corrected statement, saying, in part, “I, foolishly, repeated and accepted as fact what an officer of this membership shared with myself, and husband Dexter Clark, over a year ago.”
“I humbly apologize to Governor Palin, and to both national and local press and media,” she added.
Ms. Palin has been registered as a Republican since May 1982, according to the State Division of Elections. Mr. Palin registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995, remaining a member for all but two months of the next seven years, until he registered as an undeclared voter in July 2002."
Also, the "bridge to nowhere" was actually approved under the previous administration. While she said that she would uphold the decision to grant Alaska this money, she cancelled the bridge when costs skyrocketed. If they had gone along with the bridge, it would have cost more than $400 million. By cancelling the bridge, the cost is "only" $223 million.
You must search more than the liberal blogs to learn the whole truth."
That oughtta stir them up over there.
Now, I need a shower.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
Hey R1.... Excellent
September 5, 2008 - 15:55 ET by bigtimerHey R1....
Excellent post...I did forget to mention in mine above that I was speaking of Todd Palin, not Sarah...I had posted this same thing yesterday or the day before..
Funny how the msm kept going on about it too, when they very well knew the truth...
I was being sarcastic..we all know why they tried to make much ado about nothing...lol.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Hi BT,
September 5, 2008 - 16:07 ET by RESTLESS 1Thanks. I just replied to a poster over there who said they were supporting obama and wanted to shake things up "like Jesus" in His day. I responded by saying how nice it was of them to invoke Jesus' name while supporting the ticked that "fights" for a woman's right to kill her born an unborn babies. I told her that I wonder how Jesus would feel about that.
I'm going to stir it up over there.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
UNSUBSCRIBE IMMEDIATELY!
September 5, 2008 - 16:08 ET by SickofLibsIf you had to give your real email to register, I can just imagine the odious crap that'll probably be showing up in your inbox!
Excellent letter, and thank you for going undercover to do this most valuable work.
Had to share
September 5, 2008 - 18:11 ET by RESTLESS 1From a poster responding to my comment:
"You belong somewhere else. Calling someone a “liar” is unacceptable. Go
where you can get away with that kind of language. Your mother must be
so proud of you."
My response:
"Geez. I know “liar” is a four letter word, but unacceptable? Wow. Such tolerance from the “tolerant” left.
How about deceiving? Is that better. Whoopi infers that Palin is for
secession for Alaska. This is obviously not the case. She makes no
attempt to clarify for the reader the facts. THAT is lying."
Notice that there was no attempt to refute my original statement, just that I belong somewhre else. Well, I must admit, she was right. I belong at Newsbusters, however, I like driving the libs mad with the facts. :)
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
A single thing
September 5, 2008 - 21:07 ET by SchnikeysI guess that the only part of your post that I would challenge is why the money that was received by Alaska to build the bridge was not sent back to Congress, and instead spent on road and infrastructure repairs throughout the state.
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"My morality is your morality."
My guess is that once the
September 6, 2008 - 16:33 ET by RESTLESS 1My guess is that once the earmarks were removed, why not use it for needed repairs and upagrades to infrastructure? If the earmark language had remained, my guess is the money would have been sent back. Don't really know for sure though, do you?
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
The money
September 7, 2008 - 17:51 ET by SchnikeysNot for sure, but I will be keeping my eye on the issue for the next few weeks or until we find out exactly what went on.
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"My morality is your morality."
More fun toying with the left.
September 8, 2008 - 22:01 ET by RESTLESS 1Here is some guy having fun over on whoopi's blog. May have to scroll down to comments, but the fun starts on page 3.
BTW, that Michael guy is a genius. :)
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
Whoopi as Guinan
September 5, 2008 - 16:16 ET by nkviking75In the 90's Whoopi played a recurring character named "Guinan" on Star Trek:The Next Generation. Guinan was an alien of incredible wisdom. Now that I know the kind of drivel she spouts in real life, I have only one comment: What an actress!
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
To nkviking75
September 6, 2008 - 01:33 ET by Sue GallionLove the comment about the circus breaking out!!! It's like the liberal zoo at the circus!
"Well, already she’s breaking that because she’s the daddy"
September 5, 2008 - 16:54 ET by american-americanWhat? How can a working mother dare to use such a comment? What a double standard the left has.
note... I have never known of a daddy that breast feeds... except maybe the headliner about the "man" being pregnant earlier this year, but wait a minute, he/she was semi-post-operative, so she/he surely cannot breast feed... Crazy world we live in now.
Meanness and Snideness?
September 5, 2008 - 18:18 ET by awffp1890You hypocritical liberal moron. I cannot beleive what I am hearing coming from you. Have you read any of the liberal blogs out there? Talk about mean and snide. Do us a favor Whoopi, please stick to making low budget comedy films.
"Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity. But in simple obedience to duty." - From the barracks at Ft. Benning
Whoppi
September 5, 2008 - 20:30 ET by WolverWhoppi Goldberg is a complete idiot, if anyone sounds like Nazi's its her Messiah, Obama. Obama reminds me of the old films of Hitler where he is preaching to the crowds in the stadiums and they are mesmerized. Like Hitler, Obama can get his followers to believe whatever he says regardless how ridiculous it might be. Despite his being a communist and wanting to destroy our economy by raising taxes too much and wanting to send our money all over the world people still think he knows what he's talking about.
I find it interesting that Obama has friends who are former domestic terrorists. He has ties to foreign terrorists, he's connected to Louis Farrakhan, he studied under communists, he goes to a church where Black Revolution is taught and White people are called devils. Obama wants to eliminate our nuclear arsenal when Russia is building theirs up, Iran is getting nuclear arms,Pakistan is more dangerous and Venezuela is beating their war drums with the help of Cuba. Obama wants to even drastically reduce out military despite the World being more dangerous than ever. Despite all of this and Whoppi Goldberg says Sarah Palin scares her, give me a break. I guess she's afraid that fewer babies might be killed each year or that we might drill for oil near a polar bear, whatever it is Obama scares me and most American's much more than Palin ever could.
Let's call everyone who doesn't share our lefty ideals a NAZI!
September 5, 2008 - 21:16 ET by kathleenirishLord, Help Us!
What can you say? I cannot fathom the mental illness that is liberalism- they sure know how to stick to their propaganda points, huh? (anyone who doesn't agree with them can be labeled a 'Nazi' without second thought)...
I have never liked "The View"- more like "The Spew"- and especially do not get its staying power on the air. Throughout its history, I have often thought, "These are supposed to be intelligent, thoughtful, insightful women?" as they did their bimbo-bobbleheaded-silly-woman-thing i.e. DOPES!...and "Maybe women ARE silly and dumb... if this is the 'best' we have to offer?" I say this in respect to all women in the MSM and television and film...there are not many I admire or would emulate. "Ditzy" and "ignorant" are the nicest things one can say about them!
The Hollywood and MSM elites like Whoopi and Oprah can kiss my small town, middle- American arse!
P.S. Doesn't calling people 'Nazis' qualify as 'hate' speech? Never mind the rest of that b.s. about being fearful of Sarah Palin!
P. P.S. I'm glad the Leftists are afraid of her! They should be. We're coming out to vote for McCain now- and we won't even have to get drunk first!!!! hahahahahaha!
Whoopi Is An Idiot!
September 5, 2008 - 23:30 ET by DaMamaWhoopi Goldberg is in serious need of professional help. Every time she opens her mouth, her ignorance shows. Why she's on "The View" is beyond all reason. Why celebrities think that because they are famous and can memorize dialogue and pretend to be someone else for a living, that makes them political pundits. Whoopi Goldberg needs to get back to acting and shut her mouth. She is so incredibly deluded and ignorant.
Tell me about it.
September 5, 2008 - 23:40 ET by RESTLESS 1I'm having some serious fun at her blog though. Not many men there, I think I am one of two, but if you think Whoopi is an idiot, you should read the comments from her followers.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
This ignoramus never ceases
September 5, 2008 - 23:54 ET by NL207This ignoramus never ceases to amaze me.
Goldbert and Winphey... big disappointments..
September 6, 2008 - 01:26 ET by Sue GallionDate: September 6, 2008 - 02:22
Two
women who I once considered ahead of their time in intelligence and
vision have proven to be nothing more than followers of the "crowd" of
Hollywood elite liberals. The real tragedy is that Both have turned
their backs on the ONE from whom ALL BLESSINGS FLOW--the very ONE who
bestowed HIS BLESSINGS ON THEM.
I will NEVER AGAIN watch or listen to another Oprah Winphey Show and
will encourage friends,family and business associates to join with me.
As far as Whoopee Goldberg....I now think she is pathetic,duped and
a borderline racist. Her comedic career will never be the same now that
she demonstrated that she really can't see the forest for the color of
her skin. How dare she berate Sarah Palin and refer to her in such
demeaning terms. All the success, all the money and opportunity that
this great country has afforded these two women; and sadly, they turn
their back on the very Spirit who made it possible. And worse yet,they
bash a TRUE woman of God who will STILL fight for their rights to
equality in this country. SHAME ON BOTH OF THEM! Fortunately, God will
have mercy on them despite their lack of foresight. I only have pity
for them for being so blind that they can't find truth anymore.
Sue.... Pity
September 6, 2008 - 01:32 ET by bigtimerSue....
Pity indeed.
That is all they have left to be bestowed upon them.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Whoopi Goldberg's Comment
September 6, 2008 - 08:38 ET by kenman923You are off the mark Whoopster! Sarah Palin is the epitome of what feminism was intended to be, not the pro-abortion, conservative hating, feminazism. The bottom line is that the liberals are afraid of Sarah Palin because her values fly in the face of their agenda.
I saw a clip where Whoopi made Elizabeth Hasselbeck cry. Maybe when Elizabeth really gets on her soapbox, we will see Whoopi cry.
Whoopi leaves load in baby diaper
September 6, 2008 - 09:06 ET by PabloHoneywhoopi = IDIOT? Who knew??
Never underestimate the bias of the USA press.
Holy Crap
September 6, 2008 - 16:29 ET by boozywhat a liberal bonehead woopie is..sad, but i used to really enjoy her humor, but now, she is nothing but a piece of crap just like michael moore...
Whoopi Cushion is the
September 6, 2008 - 20:43 ET by marvlWhoopi Cushion is the classic illustration of that famous Mark Twain quip, "It is better to remain silent and appear to be a thumb-sucking moron than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." Who let this semi-literate woman have her own computer?
Yeah, Palin's speech was so mean...
September 6, 2008 - 21:37 ET by m4ster chiefUsed to be a typical "speech" by Whoop involved jutting her hips forward, pointing lewdly at her crotch, and laughingly comparing her "bush" to Goerge Bush. She is a foul mouthed, self-loathing, ugly person both inside and out.
Just trying to conjure up an image of Gov. Palin behaving like Goldberg is impossible; it just doesn't compute. Classy ladies always stand out in a crowd. When women like Goldberg finally realize they will never be accepted as a class act by anyone, they stop caring and revert to the lowest common denominator. And that, my friends, is Whoopie Goldberg.
Hitler Salute
September 6, 2008 - 23:15 ET by left_handed_right_thinkerSpeaking of Nazis...
The morning after Ms. Palin's acceptance speech, CNN's banner page displayed a huge photo of her waving to the crowd when she took the podium. I'm sure it was no accident that CNN picked the one photo (out of hundreds, probably) that most closely resembled the 'Hitler Salute'.
The photo was changed later in the day, but the subliminal message was obvious. I have a screen capture of it, but I'm a 'newbie' and couldn't figure out how to post it here. If there are users who know how to post photos here and would like a copy, send me a message and I'll e-mail it when I get a chance...
Godwin's Law applies here
September 7, 2008 - 03:55 ET by ptgOne of the popular 'corollaries' of Godwin's Law has it that the first party in an argument to invoke Hitler automatically loses. I don't believe the corollary is necessarily true, but when the shoe fits it might as well be worn.
More importantly, I can't imagine what reason anyone would have for taking Whoopi Goldberg seriously.
Dearest Whoopi
September 7, 2008 - 17:44 ET by TeddyAlaska does not have the "foreign policies" nor the crackheads to "succeed" from our Great Union.
So you needn't worry your vacant little head about such things.
Just 'axe' P Diddy.
Ergo, Sarah 'Eva Braun' Palin (BOO! Scary stuff, Huh Whoop?) couldn't take Alaska out of the union even if she wanted to. Which she Doesn't! MORON!
Another Moron Speaks
September 7, 2008 - 17:35 ET by GBoettnerObama/Biden.. Now I know why they have a JACKASS for party symbol.
Don't you just love these Hollywood types. Open mouth insert foot. As if Ms. Goldberg knew anything about history, specifically the NAZI.
Why can't these idiots realize their opinons rack at the same level as their IQ's, jsut below moron.
These people loved, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro and Chavez. Why don't they move to a country that espouses their rethoric.
secession
September 7, 2008 - 21:16 ET by TexasTomI support the secession of Vermont to join Quebec and take leahy, dean and sanders.