Quote of the Day (July 18, 2011)

Liberal Icon Bill Maher: Sarah Palin’s Children Are “Inbred Weirdos”
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Jim Hoft, at Gateway Pundit:

“And this is today’s liberal hero. Maybe he’ll get an award from the White House?”

- JP

Quote of the Day (July 15, 2011)

“The Undefeated” Roars to Big Opening Day…
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Jim Hoft, at Gateway Pundit:

“The Sarah Palin documentary ‘The Undefeated’ opened to a huge opening day. They are selling out from Atlanta to Orange County.”

- JP

Thatcher Aide Denies Guardian's Palin 'Snub' Report

"Would Lady Thatcher have ever described a prominent US conservative politician as ‘nuts’?"
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Well, well, well. The left-wing media has been caught making things up about Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin. Gov. Palin told a correspondent for The Times of London last week that she intended to visit Sudan in July and mentioned that the trip would possibly include a stopover in London, where the governor said she hoped to pay a call on Margaret Thatcher if the former PM would be feeling up to it.

The Guardian, arguably the most left wing of the UK's "mainstream" newspapers, saw the opportunity to take a gratuitous swipe at Gov. Palin and falsely reported that the governor should forget about paying Lady Thatcher a visit, and not simply because of the Iron Lady's failing health:

Her allies believe that Palin is a frivolous figure who is unworthy of an audience with the Iron Lady. This is what one ally tells me:

“Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts.”

Paliniste-across-the-Pond David Riddick did not believe that nonsense for even a second, and he lists his reasons here. Among them, The Guardian has always loathed Lady Thatcher, they loathe Sarah Palin and no professional on her staff would ever use the pejorative "nuts."

Another red flag (ahem) in the Guardian's little spot o' propaganda, at least in our humble opinion, was the alleged "ally" referred to her as "Margaret" in the quote. Your editor is hardly an Anglophile (although I was an Episcopalian for most of my life, but I digress...), I can't even imagine anyone on her staff or in her close company using her given name. That's too familiar for someone of her status, and anyone truly inside her inner circle would refer to her as "Lady Thatcher" instead.

The Guardian's account also seemed highly suspect to one of Jim Hoft's readers at Gateway Pundit, who decided to investigate. The reader sent an inquiry to The Thatcher Foundation, and here's an excerpt of the reply which came back:

I have no inside knowledge of this business to offer I am afraid and certainly am not in a position to make any kind of statement on Lady Thatcher’s behalf. I’m happy though to give you my personal view.

The Guardian, of course, is not a newspaper at all sympathetic to Lady Thatcher (or to Mrs. Palin), so reports on this topic, from that source, have minimal credibility. If nothing else, would Lady Thatcher have ever described a prominent US conservative politician as ‘nuts’, or approved an ‘ally’ who used the description? I would hope that question answers itself.

Of course, sadly, Lady Thatcher’s health is not good these days and such considerations naturally dominate her schedule. That much is true. Someone once said that if you plaster together the true and the false you thereby manufacture the plausible, but in this case I don’t think even that much has been achieved by the Guardian.

Notice the respectful use of "Lady Thatcher" in the reply.

The Guardian's credibility, which is always dubious at best, is totally destroyed by Christopher Collins, the Foundation's historian. So if Gov. Palin visits England and does not meet with Lady Thatcher, you can be reasonably assured that illness, not scorn, is what kept the two conservative women of different eras apart.

h/t: Brian Preston

- JP

Sarah Palin: 'I didn't mess up about Paul Revere'

"I know my American history."
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In her Fox News Sunday interview today, Gov. Palin stands by her comments last week about Paul Revere warning the colonists and bluffing the British. Her narrative has been shown -- in Revere's own words and in other historical accounts (here and here) -- to be essentially correct.


h/t: Jim Hoft and Scott Baker

- JP

Quote of the Day (April 2, 2011)

Killing two birds with one stone.
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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:

“The left found a way to display their hate for Jesus and Sarah Palin in one art exhibit...”

- JP

Quote of the Day (March 21, 2011)

Wonderful
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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:

"It looks like Sarah was a huge hit her first day in the Holy Land."

- JP

Quote of the Day (March 19, 2011)

Sarah Palin Says “It’s Time A Woman Became President of the United States”
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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:

"What an amazing speech!"

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 10, 2010)

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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:

"Last night on her television special liberal... Barbara Walters dismissed Sarah Palin as 'uninformed', telling the former Republican governor, 'Many people find the thought of you as president a little scary.' She wishes... In the real world, away from Hollywood and DC pundits, Americans are afraid of another two years of record deficits, historic debt, record unemployment, Keynesian spending, illogical foreign policy and TSA agents groping children, nuns and grandmothers. Americans saw Obama triple the national deficit in one year on a failed stimulus plan. That’s what scares Americans, Barbara."

Addendum: Via TheRightScoop, according to Mark Levin, ABC edited out the part of Sarah Palin's answer where she said she read his book Liberty and Tyranny.

- JP

Meet Christine O'Donnell

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Here's video of a short interview of Christine O'Donnell by Jim Hoft recorded prior to Gov. Palin's endorsement:



h/t: Bluegrass Pundit

- JP

Quote of the Day (August 28, 2010)

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Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:

"The patriotic crowd that had already gathered at the Lincoln Memorial today in our nation’s capital stood and sang “God Bless America” at 6:30 AM during a sound check. No wonder the left hates these guys... Freedom’s Lighthouse has lovely Sarah Palin’s speech at the rally. What an awesome speech!"

- JP

The "Tea Party leader" who wasn't:

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Leftist websites TPM Muckraker, Huffington Post and the rest of the usual suspects have been pushing the lie that Dale Robertson is a "Tea Party leader" in the attempt to lend Robertson's criticism of Sarah Palin some credibility. The problem is that Robertson is not a leader of the Tea Party Movement, but rather has been shunned by it. In an op-ed for Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website, Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft reveals that Robertson is a racist and a kook who has been rejected by the Tea Party movement.

Hoift includes a photo of Robertson with a crude sign with the n-word scrawled upon it at a tea party in Texas last year. Robertson was asked to leave, but he won’t go away.

Andrew Ian Dodge wrote about the Robertson problem at Pajamas Media:

Dale is very much not a hero to those who first encountered him in February of last year. He has been described as a fake, a con artist, and worse by frustrated tea party groups across the land. Houston’s, in particular, is so upset at being associated with the man that they sent out the following press release:

1. He is NOT a member of our Leadership team.

2. He owns a website with which we have never been affiliated.

3. He has never been a part of organizing any of the Tea Party rallies in the Houston area, or any other area that we can find.

4. We addressed some issues involving him back in April. Here it is on our website, where Mr. Robertson himself comments: http://houstontps.org/?p=318

5. We do not choose to associate with people that use his type of disgusting language.

Robertson and his publicist encourage the MSM to consider it a mere squabble between various factions involved in the tea party movement. But quick research on the internet shows that no one in the actual tea party movement wants anything to do with the man.

Needless to say, left-wing sites have been repeatedly drawing attention to him as an example of racism in the tea party.

Hoft points out that even leftist magazine Mother Jones has reported the truth that Robertson is not and has never been a leader in the Tea Party movement. Mother Jones even went so far as to state that that the mainstream media had erred in linking Robertson to the movement.

Hoft calls for TPM Muckraker to retract this story. Good luck with that. TPM and other websites are on a mission to spread innuendo, distortion, and lies, so there's little chance they will suddenly feel compelled to tell the truth.

Still, no matter how far the left stretches to conjure up a connection between Robertson and Gov. Palin where none exists, only deranged leftists are gullible enough to believe it. And as it is increasingly becoming clear to the rest of the country, the Left has marginalized itself to the point where the only ones who take it seriously are leftists. Fearful of being contaminated by the stench, independents and libertarians have been running away from the Left as fast as they possibly can.

- JP