John Hayward: The Paul Revere Trap

"My God, she’s a fiend."
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In a Human Events Monday opinion piece John Hayward has a little fun at the Palin-hating elite's expense, as he wrings his hands, with tongue in cheek, over "an obvious act of cruelty from Sarah Palin":

I can believe she was thinking only of her intended audience when she told the Tea Party to “party like it’s 1773.” Of course liberals have no idea when the original Tea Party occurred, and raced to demonstrate their deplorable ignorance of history by attacking her for saying it. She didn’t know they were going to make fools of themselves. She was thinking about the Tea Party enthusiasts she was speaking to, not ignorant lefty bloggers and talking heads.

But this time… this time was on purpose. She knew exactly what she was doing when she said Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells, and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that were going to be secure, and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”

She knew that lefty bloggers and media talking heads would walk right into it. She knew they are as ignorant of the Revolution as they were of the Tea Party, and remember nothing about Paul Revere except “one if by land, two if by sea.” She knew damn well they wouldn’t be able to resist the opportunity to stick their noses in the air and arrogantly inform their audiences that she needs to go back to school and take high-school history over again.

There’s no way I’m letting Palin slide on this...

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Frightened liberals flailing around for ways to attack Palin should give up on writing ridiculous diatribes about how she’s endangering the lives of reporters by refusing to provide the exact route of her “One Nation” tour in advance. It’s manifestly absurd to keep bleating that she has no “substance” when she belts out impromptu policy speeches every time she hops off that bus. Instead, you should be complaining about her cruel genius for making liberals look stupid. Only Anthony Weiner can hold a candle to her at that… and she’s obviously having much more fun doing it.

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Heh.

- JP

CNN Uploads Wrong Photo After Pointing Out Palin Tweeted Wrong State

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Just one day after the left and their media stooges made fools of themselves by mocking Sarah Palin for her "don't party like it's 1773 just yet" comment, the elitists at CNN thought it would be a good idea to again try to characterize her as ignorant for a Twitter typo she made. But things had already gone terribly wrong at the Clinton News Network, as HotAirPundit explains:

CNN posts this story: "West Virginia senate battle," there's one problem....



Umm, that would be John Kasich in the photo, not John Raese...

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Again the left is bitten by its own attack dog of personal destruction.

- JP

'Smart' liberals get snared in Sarah Palin's '1773' trap (Updated)

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At the time she said it, it occurred to us that our Sarah might be setting a little trap for for fact-challenged leftists. Sure, she was delivering a speech at a Tea Party event, to a Tea Party crowd and talking about the Tea Party. Still, The Arctic Fox just knew that the ignorant and spiteful left would not be able to resist taking cheap shots at her. And she just knew that very few of them would bother to look up the year of the original Boston Tea Party:

Sarah Palin at Monday's Tea Party rally in Reno, Nevada, told attendees, "Don't be thinking that we've got victory for America in the bag yet...We can't party like it's 1773."

Clearly not understanding that was the year of the famed Boston Tea Party, history challenged media members, including PBS's Gwen Ifill and Daily Kos's Markos Moulitsas, mocked Palin via their twitter accounts...

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Of course, all these geniuses needed to do was a simple Google search of "historical events of 1773." The first response would have helped them identify that the Boston Tea Party happened on December 16th of that year.

I guess it's easier for arrogant members of the Left to just ridicule rather than research.

Hey, research requires actual effort, like putting down the bong and turning on the computer and stuff. We're willing to bet that when Sarah's dad taught her how to fish, hunt and trap, little did he realize that some day it would have a political payoff.

Update: Gov. Palin retweets Michelle Malkin: "Own up, dear"

"Gwen Ifill, et al... Really? Silly. RT @michellemalkin: 'Stand down,' says @pbsgwen re. her Palin bashing. Own up, dear. http://is.gd/g8AYb"

How sweet that tweet!

- JP

Don Surber on The arrogance of Sarah Palin's critics

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As we reported here the left and its media puppets have again made fools out of themselves mocking Gov. Palin when she was right all the time. Arrogance + Ignorance = Hubris. Don Surber observes:

Royal Dutch Shell has oil rigs in the North Sea.

And 20% of the land in the Netherlands is below sea level, protected by dikes. Unless you live in New Orleans, you try to make sure your dikes are maintained.

In a Fox News interview, Sarah Palin alluded to this turn down of the Dutch offer.

From Tod Robberson of the Dallas Morning News: Bill O’Reilly “asks her how she would stop the leak. After a bit of hesitation, she blurts out: ‘The Dutch and the Norwegian. They are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.’ Hmmm, I do seem to remember that childhood story.”

Once again, a critic of Palin does not realize the joke is on him.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post fell into the same well of ignorance.

We went through this drill with Reagan.

Surber has the links and more in his Charleston Daily Mail column.

- JP

Olby calls Palin an 'idiot' but thinks Ark of Covenant had animals in it

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Bathtub boy doesn't know Noah's Ark from the Ark of the Covenant:



"What a maroon! What an ignoranimus!" - Bugs Bunny

How's that secular humanism thing working out for your credibility, MSNBC?

h/t: Scotty Starnes

- JP

MSNBC/Olbermann: The Worst Hubris in the World

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Excellent observation by Mark Finkelstein:

Note to Olbermann: when calling someone else an "idiot-woman," avoid misspelling "you're" as "your" in your show graphics...

BTW, why should Sarah Palin, who works for Fox News, appear on MSNBC? Doing so would reduce her Nielson ratings by 300 percent.

Silly liberals...

- JP

A picture is worth...

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One Piece of Posterboard: $1.29

One Bag of Magic Markers: $4.99

Leftist Spelling Hubris: Priceless!

- JP

Silly leftists, "mandation" is indeed a real word

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Some leftist bloggers decided they would have themselves a field day over Sarah Palin's use of the term "mandation"...

Oliver Willis, who pounces on any opportunity he sees to bash Gov. Palin (usually without bothering to engage his brain first), put his idiotarianism (a Web word) on display for all to see:

"America’s Idiot and Fox News front woman Sarah Palin has made up a new word (at least not in our Jesus hating dictionaries) to attack President Obama." 

"Plus, isn’t mandation something that eventually leads to gay marriage?"

Oh, but Jeanne Devon at Palin'-hatin' Mudflatulence (My name for Devon's hate blog) managed to go Ollie one better. When presented with evidence that "mandation" is indeed a word, Devon dismissed it because the source offered was Wiki.answers, chortling:

"Anyone familiar with dictionaries, and wikis will know immediately why I got such a good chuckle over this one."

While Devon was chuckling, people who are familiar with real research (i.e., not limiting themselves to sources intended for dummies such as dictionary.com) were searching places where Sarah Palin, in her own research, would have been likely to find the word -- in medical and public health journals. They were not surprised to see "mandation" is used, and not uncommonly so, in the literature...

Exhibit A:

The Mandation of Insurance Coverage for In Vitro Fertilization
Author: Joan Retsinas a Affiliation: Executive Director, Rhode Island Health Policy & Planning Consortium, Providence, RI, 02906,

DOI: 10.1300/J045v03n02_03
Published in: Journal of Health & Social Policy, Volume 3, Issue 2 February 1992, pages 33 - 48
Formats available: PDF (English)
Now published as: Social Work in Public Health

Exhibit B:

Compens Benefits Rev. 1989 Nov-Dec;21(6):17-23.
Healthcare for the uninsured: is mandation the answer?

Beadle CE.

The 37 million people in the United States who have no healthcare insurance pose a major social problem, but is legislation that requires employers to provide a minimum amount of healthcare coverage for employees the solution?

PMID: 10296100 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Clearly as we had figured, Gov. Palin, in her research for her Facebook op-eds on ObamaCare, also found the term "mandation" used in the journals, and employed it herself. So perhaps Devon should go to her font-of-all-knowledge site, dictionary.com, and look up the word "hubris." 

The leftists' latest attempt to paint Sarah Palin as "stupid" backfired on them because of their ignorance (yet again), and they just proved that she is a heck of lot smarter than they are. It's the Wyle E. Coyote Effect -- they are such "geniuses"...

But the most delicious thing about it all is that the libs will keep on making fools of themselves in this manner. Leftists never learn from their mistakes because they lack the intellectual honesty to admit that they made them in the first place.

h/t Rich Crowther

- JP

Another BUT WAIT! moment: Share this with your liberal friends.

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How stupid is Sarah Palin? Why, she's so stupid that we'll never forget the time that:

she said that our country has "57 states"

she thanked herself during a speech

she claimed that the U.S. is the "largest Muslim nation"

she said that BILL Gates was the Secretary of Defense

She is such an airhead...

BUT WAIT!!!!!!

It was Barack Obama who said this!

This BUT WAIT! moment was brought to you by GOP Thinker.

- JP