More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 97

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Special "Woo hoo Wookie woman, she got the moonbat in her eye" Edition...

Jackie Gingrich Cushman at Townhall.com:

"Palin's focus is on the will of the people. Her visuals are positive and uplifting... The Emily's List video's unidentified growling women in grizzly suits come off more like mean girls than mama grizzlies. The juxtaposition between Palin smiling and hugging people, and the Emily's List growlers is almost too good to be true -- for Palin."

VotingFemale:

"Honest to goodness! This Obama Mama Wookies video saying Sarah Palin does not speak for them is a RIOT! I nearly fainted from laughing at them!!!"

The Daley Gator:

"The latest pathetic Liberal attempt to smear Sarah Palin... this awful video, and by awful I mean worse than 'Natural Born Killers'... So, basically, the entire video is dedicated to women, dressed in corny bear costumes telling 'bear-faced' lies about what Sarah Palin stands for."

Jane Jamison at Uncoverage.net:

"The length and breadth and extent to which liberal leftie women will go to attack Sarah Palin…is bordering on psychotic."

Nice Deb:

"These are the weakest and ugliest mama grizzlies I’ve ever seen. These feministas fail miserably at the most important trait of the mama grizzly bear, the trait that pretty much defines a mama grizzly’s character. She fights to protect her young. She doesn’t advocate killing them... These mama grizzlies are just as fake as they look. A better analogy would be worker bees – infertile collectivists who believe that the rights of the individual should be forfeited for the good of group."

Samuel Gonzalez at The Last Tradition:

"Never underestimate a Liberal's capacity for stupidity."

Kempite at White House 2012:

"Instead of using their resources to support their fellow liberal feminists, the group invested their time and money into even creating a website for their new anti-Palin campaign... On the site you will find one of the most asinine and embarrassingly vindictive videos imaginable. It is complete with tired old liberal cliché, after cliché, and in my opinion sets the feminist movement back twenty years..."

Doug Brady at Conservatives 4 Palin:

"There is nothing quite like angry liberals dressing up in really bad Halloween costumes and saying stupid, incoherent things."

Rufus at threedonia.com:

"I honestly feel sorry for the women in this ad... There is no logic to their statements at all. They are free to protect their children. They are free to buy medicine for their children and they are free to hire physicians to care for their children’s health. They are free to purchase health insurance. They are also free to hibernate with any number of consenting bears they may find. And there isn’t a single statement Sarah Palin has made in objection to any of these things."

Moe Lane:

"Seriously, though: what the heck is it with Left-feminists, anyway? Every time they speak out these days it’s apparently their goal to cater to yet another sexual fetish."

Cassy Fiano at NewsReal Blog:

"EMILY’s List decided to make a video trying to hijack the term mama grizzlies from Sarah Palin. This plan radically backfired, and they’ve been the laughingstock of the blogosphere ever since... Sarah Palin doesn’t speak for these women. Sarah Palin is a pro-life conservative Republican. These women are pro-abortion lefty femisogynists. The major difference? Sarah Palin wouldn’t likely tell these women that they can’t call themselves feminists or that they aren’t true women."

theblogprof:

"Palin Derangement Syndrome is alive and well..."

Merv Benson at Prairie Pundit:

"Even Palin's offbeat male endorsements are shrewdly picked to work on her behalf if she chooses to run in 2012. Liberal women have always seen her as a threat. That is because they are liberals first and feminist second. The Emily's List crowd just recognizes that the "Mama Grizzlies" campaign is a existential threat to the election of liberals."

Jessica Grose at Slate's XX factor blog:

"I think liberals must cede this round in the debate to the sassy Ms. Palin. The Emily's List video wasn't gathering liberals around an electrifying idea—it was attempting to co-opt Palin's very effective rallying cry."

Jedediah Bila at Human Events:

"I’ve said it before about Sarah Palin and I’ll say it again: that earmark-slashing, fiscally responsible, 10th Amendment-upholding, veteran-loving, pro-Constitution, cost-cutting, transparency-advocating, fetus-friendly, oil and gas aficionado is a menace! As entertaining as the EMILY’s List video is—and I truly do thank you, ladies, as I’ve been waiting with bated breath for something to induce a fit of laughter besides Keith Olbermann speaking—there’s much more fun to come... The EMILY’s List ladies are certainly entitled to their opinions. This is America, after all. But misrepresenting policy in order to market propaganda shouldn’t be the trademark of any organization, be it on the left or the right. Now I’d love to stick around, but I’m about to get suited up in a donkey costume for my “Party of No” video on the DNC. Hee-haw!"

- JP

Abortion Grizzlies get the 'Red Eye' treatment

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The "Red Eye" rogues dissect the Abortion Grizzlies video by Emily's List:



Yub, yub.

- JP

More Quote of the Day Honorable Mention, Part 96

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Special "Femisogynists, rads and Ewoks, oh my!" Edition...

Jason at StoryBalloon.org:

"Emily's Lists Creates Anti-Sarah Palin Ad Mocking Her 'Momma Grizzlies' Line... This is one of the stupidest commercials I’ve ever seen. I doubt it will change a single person’s mind on Sarah Palin. A bunch of furry moonbats with too much time on their hands."

Christine at A Catholic View:

"It's pretty ironic to hear pro-aborts say 'she doesn't speak for me' about a pro-lifer when they do so much damage to women with abortion. (they also look pretty silly in those costumes :)"

H Hughes at The New Agenda:

"Is this the best that liberal and Democratic women get? Just a negative ad and an ask for money? Just a low budget video with women in costumes? Couldn’t you at least show us one woman’s face, perhaps one who is running for office and very likely needs our support? ... There is a problem here. If any liberals are scratching their heads wondering why so many women view Sarah Palin as an icon for women’s empowerment, this could be why."

Amy at Modern Commentaries:

"Left tries 'Mama Grizzlies', fails horribly..."

David Gianatasio at AdWeek Blogs:

"Emily's List takes the wrong approach in this anti-Sarah-Palin video, showing women dressed up in bear masks and paws... Plus, these women complain and actually growl. Who wants to come home to that after a rough day at the office? No wonder they're raising their 'cubs' alone. Compared to these shaggy whiners, Palin sounds reasoned and thoughtful."

S. Weasel at Weasel Times & Stoat Intelligencer:

"Why is it when lefties really, really want to persuade the rest of us, they always dress up, strip naked or use puppets?"

Frank J at IMAO:

"Liberals counter Sarah Palin’s mama grizzlies by having women dress up as Ewoks and demand abortion... You’d think with the drubbing the left is about to take in November, that would motivate them to act less like weirdos, but it’s possible they don’t even know how to do that. They knew that Palin’s mama grizzlies stuff is popular, so they thought that if they put on bear costumes and whine about the things liberals always whine about, then maybe they would be popular — I don’t really know how their deranged minds work."

William A. Jacobson at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion:

"I know mama grizzlies, mama grizzlies are friends of mine, and Emily's List ladies, you're no mama grizzlies."

Daisy at Chicks On The Right:

"The chicks in this video hate Sarah Palin so much that they’re willing to look like toddlers on Halloween by dressing up in really bad bear outfits, making bear-like sounds, and talking about how if Palin was in charge, they’d have no healthcare for their kids. And you know, their daughters wouldn’t have the right to freakin’ choose. They haaaate Palin so much, and instead of being examples of REAL independent, self-sufficient women, they’d rather bitch and moan about how the government needs to take care of them and stuff."

Da Techguy:

"The Ewock of Emily’s list, a group that is supposed to exist to advance women in office, hate Sarah Palin so much that they proudly declare their grandchildren expendable."

Kini at E Māua Ola i Moku o Keawe:

"Their hatred of Sarah Palin is downright hilarious and condescending. They want Obama, they want Obamacare, they want government funded abortions, they want socialism, they want bigger government, and they want your money. Nuff said, they all want your stuff."

Robert Wiles at Palin Promotions:

"Sarah is pro-life, so they hate her. Plain and simple. All the attack proves is that Sarah is getting under their skin and is winning the battle."

Stacy McCain at The Other McCain:

"I stopped cold at the woman expressing adamant support for her daughter’s 'right to choose.' Isn’t that kind of creepy? Basically, you’re saying that the abortion of your own grandchild is such a grand idea as to assume paramount importance in your political worldview. Yeah, I know: She’s talking about the 'right to choose,' but the abstract right to abortion can’t be separated from the concrete reality of abortion, and that reality is a gruesome, blood-chilling thing to consider. Philosophical theorizing about 'rights' can’t elude that reality. And neither can bear costumes."

Phineas at Sister Toldjah:

"On matters of national politics and policy, whom do you take more seriously? A Sarah Palin talking with gravity about empowering women to deal responsibly with the problems facing the nation, or a bunch of women dressed like … a dating service for furries?"

Jill Stanek:

"The problem, of course, is EMILY’s List and its bear-en followers abhor cubs, which makes it pretty hard to portend mama grizzliness. And so the female grizzlies in EMILY’s video make such incoherent statements as, 'Sure, I attack when my cubs are threatened,' and 'But wanna know what threatens me? My daughter not having the right to choose.' Um, no, you depraved, savage female grizzlies kill your cubs, thereby leaving no female offspring to kill their cubs, your grandcubs. Nice try but what idiots."

Morgan at My Two Cents Worth:

"In short, if these women are supposed to be mama grizzlies, they make the poorest excuse I've ever seen. I've seen a mama grizzly defend her cubs; Sarah Palin fits that description, not these women in their lousy costumes."

Dean at Beers with Demo:

"We'd like to take a moment to remind Emily's MGs who it is that is leading the pack among Republicans who like to blaze. In case they hadn't noticed, this particular Alaskan has got a pretty well-defined libertarian stripe running down her back and murky allegorical charges won't stand up to scrutiny. What Sarah and the MGs know and what the rest of the nation is coming around to is that being family values-oriented and not being a social-conservative fire-brand does not an oxymoronic state of being make."

Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony List:

"EMILY’s List is running scared — and it shows."

Conservative Pup:

"I have continued to notice that some of the most horrific crimes and abuse of women all over the world get not a word from NOW. They can’t be bothered to take a stand, unless it involves abortion in some way. Until now. Now they’ve taken a stand against a new foe. Women. To be specific, women who don’t think like they do. To be even more specific, Sarah Palin. And all those other women who are running for office whom Gov. Palin has endorsed. They would rather spend their money and time opposing women who hold a different point of view, than supporting like-minded women like themselves who are running for office."

Matthew Balan at NewsBusters:

"CNN's Jessica Yellin, a one-time 'prominent feminist activist,' helped forward the talking points of the pro-abortion lobby by devoting part of a segment on Tuesday's Rick's List to EMILY List's new anti-Sarah Palin ad."

- JP

Sarah Palin doubles down on mama grizzly endorsements

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Sarah Palin has answered her pro-abortion opponents on the left with with another batch of mama grizzly endorsements and by poking some good-natured fun, Reagan style, at the new video from Emily's List. From Facebook:

Proud to Support More Women Leaders on the 90th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which granted American women the right to vote. Words cannot express the depth of gratitude we owe to those brave feminist foremothers who struggled and sacrificed, endured imprisonment and ridicule, and fought fearlessly to grant future generations of American women a voice. We stand on their shoulders. Our opportunities are their legacy; our achievements, their monument.

In honor of their sacrifice and triumph, I’m proud to endorse another group of strong American women who continue this tradition of service to our country. Their willingness to make sacrifices in order to serve others and make this world a better place by empowering individual Americans deserves our support. Regardless of whether the many candidates I’ve had the honor of endorsing win or lose this time around, I support them because they boldly shake things up in their primary races. They don’t just sit on the sidelines whining; instead, they are in the arena fighting for commonsense constitutional conservative solutions; and in their oft-characterized (and enormously challenging) “underdog” status, they all exemplify the qualities of a winner who will serve admirably and for all the right reasons.

So let us highlight some more winners.

Martha Roby served on the Montgomery City Council where she fought tax increases and worked hard to reduce government spending. She’s now running to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District with a strong message of reform to get our country back on the right track. Please join me in supporting this hardworking, proud mother of two by visiting her website at www.martharoby.com and following her on Facebook and Twitter.

Renee Ellmers is a true citizen-politician running in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District. Having worked in the health care industry all her life, she joined countless other concerned Americans at the town hall meetings last summer to protest the disastrous Obamacare legislation. And she didn’t stop there! Renee decided to join the ranks of patriotic mothers across the country who have the courage to run for office this year and fight to make sure our children have as bright a future as we were given. Renee has an uphill battle against a truly out of touch incumbent who made news not too long ago when he was caught on video assaulting a student who asked him if he supported the Obama agenda. Simple enough question, but this Democrat Congressman who’s been in Washington for 14 years turned violent rather than answer it. My point with this is that Renee is willing to answer that question. She supports a commonsense conservative agenda which will put our country back on sound fiscal footing. Please visit Renee’s website at www.reneeforcongress.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Jackie Walorski will make an excellent representative of Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District, having been born and raised there and serving as a state representative for the past five years. She knows the people, she knows the issues that matter to them, and most importantly, she knows what she stands for – limited government, fiscal restraint, and a proper respect for our Constitution. The incumbent Democrat she’s running against has already launched his first attack ad against her, so I hope you’ll join me in standing with Jackie. She truly knows what public service means. Please visit her website at www.standwithjackie.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Vicky Hartzler is determined to shake things up in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District. She ran an underdog campaign to win her primary and is now determined to challenge a 17-term Democrat incumbent who has long lost touch with the good people of Missouri. Vicky grew up on her family farm and is still a farmer with her husband. Her diverse background includes being a teacher, a state legislator, a grassroots organizer, a successful small business owner, and a proud mom of a wonderful daughter. She’s a dynamic commonsense conservative who is running to get our economy and long-term fiscal security back on track for her daughter and all of our children. Please visit this farmer’s daughter’s website and learn more about Vicky at www.vickyhartzler.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Pam Bondi and Brenna Findley are running for Attorney General in their states – Pam in Florida, and Brenna in Iowa. These are both bold, sharp, selfless women who will respect our Constitution, defend their states, protect our rights, and push back against any overreach of the federal government. We desperately need these conservative leaders who won’t kowtow to the Obama administration’s big government overreach into our states, small businesses, families, and individual lives. Please visit Pam’s website at www.pambondi.com and Brenna’s at www.findleyforiowa.com.

Also on the state level, I would like to endorse Beth Chapman who is running for re-election as Secretary of State of Alabama and will continue to serve the good people there with distinction, integrity, and common sense. Let’s not forget that reform often begins with the tough work at the local level, and it’s important to get good conservative reformers working from the ground up. Please visit her website at www.bethchapman.com.

On this anniversary of women’s suffrage, let’s take a moment to be grateful for the diversity of the debate. Women don’t walk in lockstep with each other in politics, any more than men do. We should be proud of our ability to engage in a civil discussion and healthy debate. I know I am. Unfortunately, I’ve recently come under attack for speaking up for sisters who seek to serve in public office. The sad part is that the attack comes from other sisters who happen to be on the other side of an issue that has been of great importance to American women from the time of our feminist foremothers, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, down to today. I’m speaking of the issue of life. I feel compelled to offer some advice to our sisters who like to throw stones at those of us who respectfully disagree with them on this issue (and they sometimes refuse to even countenance the fact that some of us can call ourselves feminists and disagree with those who claim the mantle of “real feminists”). First, ladies, it’s hard to take a critic seriously when they lecture you wearing a bear suit. So, it’s difficult for me to drum up much outrage at this latest ad. But, really, lying about a sister while wearing an Ewok outfit is no way to honor our foremothers on the eve of the 90th anniversary of their victory. But, that aside, I’d love to know where you got those get-ups. Halloween is just around the corner, and Piper and Trig would look adorable as little grizzly bears.

We face so many challenges today. We struggle to provide a better future for our children despite our economic downturn and a federal government intent on robbing from our children’s tomorrow to pay for politicians’ recklessness today. We struggle against the Obama administration’s pending decision to remove a drug treatment for breast cancer based on cost considerations and what could be argued as a person’s “productivity in life” rather than medicine. We struggle against our reliance on foreign countries to provide necessary energy supplies while America’s plentiful energy resources sit idle, warehoused under locked-up lands, just as the unemployed sit and wait for government to allow them the opportunity to responsibly utilize our resources. We struggle to ensure that America is strong and vigilant so that our sons and daughters can live by the motto “Peace through Strength.”

We may disagree about how to get there, but I’d like to think that we all want an America that is strong, prosperous, peaceful, and free.

So, ladies, let’s lead. In the words of that great American woman, Abigail Adams, “We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” Let’s get things done.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Quote of the Day (August 17, 2010)

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Bluegrass Pundit:

"I am not sure [the] video ad, attacking Sarah Palin, by the pro-choice EMILY's List PAC has the desired impact. The women in the ad look ridiculous in their bear costumes and makeup. I almost fell out of my chair laughing when they started growling."

- JP

Ewok's List anti-Palin attack ad FAIL

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What were they thinking?

When we reported Monday that the pro-abortion group Emily's List was launching a campaign targeting (ahem!) Sarah Palin and her Mama Grizzlies, we expected a lot of hate and a lot of lies from their effort. But no way we could have predicted what a ridiculously stupid ad these leftists would cobble together.

Ed Morrissey debunks the lies in the Emily Listers' campaign here. But now for the really surrealistic part...

Here's Ace:

A method of getting an internet ad a lot of views is to make it so strange people just view it for the WTF factor.

Is that what Emily's List is doing here?

If so, they've failed; this makes them look stupid (and... physically unattractive), but it's too cutesy and contrived for anyone to care about.

So here's their big Palin-Hate ad, featuring... Ewoks, which really isn't how liberal women ought to be selling themselves.

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Silly costumes sort of remind people that these women have to play dress up to be Mama Grizzlies, doesn't it?

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If Sarah Palin's so dumb and silly, why is it you who are dressed up in the bear costumes?

Tammy Bruce chimes in:

Ewokie’s List finally came out with their ‘attack’ on Sarah Palin. And let me just say, it’s a very sad day for Mama Ewoks. Or for people who dress up in bear suits. Is this what liberals did when they went to the, er, Coffee Parties that were so fabulously successful at energizing liberals to counter the Tea Party? Yeah, well, it gets hot in those Ewok suits!

KingShamus points out the obvious -- how the femi-leftists beclowned themselves with their pathetic ad:

Did EMILY’s List think Sarah Palin was taking her metaphor of the ‘Mamma Grizzly’ literally?

I guess it’s up to me to point out that Mrs. Palin never donned a cheap bear costume, put some black-out paint around her eyes and delivered a speech about the maternal instincts of conservative women.

The only people who look like amateur hour clowns are the gals that EMILY’s list roped into starring in this goofy exercise.

And Brian Faughnan has the exit question:

Isn’t it a little demeaning to portray professional women in these ridiculous costumes?

Well, yeah. What struck us is the contrast between SarahPAC's beautifully done Mama Grizzly ad and the embarrassingly childish ad that Ewok's... er, Emily's List shot poor Emily in the foot with.

EPIC FAIL

- JP

Emily's List vs. Sarah's List

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Emily's List, the leftist group that raises money to elect pro-abortion Democrat women to office, has declared war on Sarah Palin and the list of "mama grizzlies" she has endorsed:

Leaders of Emily's List are holding a press conference in Washington tomorrow to unveil a campaign targeting Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, and the candidates she has endorsed.

The group says it wants to counter Palin's appeal to women: "Sarah Palin has predicted a rising tide of mothers and women voters will support her so-called 'Mama Grizzly' candidates," says a just-issued Emily's List press release.

"We call upon women -- and men! -- to let their voices be heard and to reject Palin's reactionary candidates and backward-looking agenda."

Tammy Bruce comments:

Yeah, that’s the ticket! Let’s target and try to undermine as many independent Women! as possible to prove that you can stand up for Women! by making sure one particular Woman! you don’t like doesn’t keep inspiring and encouraging, uh, Women! Or something.

Oh yeah, and let’s now take a lot of time and money from supporting women candidates we like by spending it on trying to stop other women candidates from being successful. Because, uh, it’s really not at all about Women! It’s about being shills for the Left, which has been so successful in making sure we finally have equality. After all, Obama and the Dems have finally brought us Equal Pay for Equal Work–no one has a job and we’re all making the same amount of nothing! So Go Women! Or actually, Go Some Women, but not all!! Yea!! After all, if we can’t inspire Women! anymore, why should we allow someone else to do it?

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The Emily’s List project? It’s called “Sarah Palin Doesn’t Speak for Me.” Sounds a little…reactionary, no? What is the project? They’re “Launching an On-Line Arena Where Americans Can Speak Out Against Sarah Palin’s Backwards-Looking Candidates.” Great–they’re setting up a forum where Women! can trash other Women! Sounds Progressively Liberally Intolerant and Misogynistically Hopey-Changey-ish to me. After all, Palin’s work has been a forward-looking, positive support of candidates–women and men. In typical fashion, instead of countering that effort with a positive project of their own, the only thing liberals can do is create something to attack and demean others. Keep going Leftists–every time you react to Sarah Palin you reveal yourselves as the panicked cannibals you really are.

- JP

Jedediah Bila: EMILY’s List Targets Palin, Bachmann

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Jedediah Bila's Sunday commentary for Human Events is about an interesting mailing her mother recently received:

So, what summer gift did the Bilas receive in the mail this year? A request for donations from EMILY’s List... a left-wing women’s organization that... recruits pro-choice Democratic female candidates...

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I was amused beyond measure to see a featured timeline image of EMILY’s List founder and current Chair of the Board of Directors, Ellen Malcolm, standing beside President Bill Clinton with a big smile on her face. Now if Slick Willy doesn’t complement a pro-woman venture, I don’t know who does.

Let’s get to the meaty packet EMILY’s List put together for my Limbaugh-loving, pro-Palin, dresses-her-cats-in-Tea-Party-gear mother. The enclosed donation form leads with this: “I WILL STAND UP TO SARAH PALIN’S THREATS AND LIES.”

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The EMILY’s List pamphlet reads “FOUR EMILY’S LIST CANDIDATES ARE ON PALIN’S TARGET LIST” and “Help protect the pro-choice Democratic women who are already enduring vicious Republican attacks.”

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Much like many other supposedly pro-woman organizations (see NOW and Planned Parenthood for details), the priority of EMILY’s List is to foster a pro-abortion culture in America. A close second is to promote a comprehensive, far-left agenda under the guise of doing what’s best for women. Palin and Bachmann may be at the top of their figurative hit list, but don’t expect the likes of Nikki Haley or Sharron Angle to be too far behind.

Thank you to EMILY’s List for the much-needed entertainment (Mom says thanks, too!). Unfortunately, Mom won’t be able to help you guys out with some cash, but she has offered to mail you a very special photo of her and her three cats wearing “Read My Lipstick” tees (“RUSH IS RIGHT” bumper sticker included free!).

Read the full Jedediah Bila op-ed here.

- JP