Daily Show: Sarah Palin, Gams and Gammar

Well, gosh, Jon Stewart is now in the very list of journalists who I would smooch for raising awareness of the Palin Ignorance Threat. Should we start a Palin Ignorance Threat Level?

This Daily Show segment is a montage of Sarah Palin clips stitched into "Gams and Gammer", the best of dramatic reality TV...

Things Sarah Palin Can Name: Dinosaurs that Jesus Rode!

We just came across the awesome (and too short!) blog Things Sarah Palin Can Name. We loooove their list of Dinosaurs Jesus Rode (including Jehovasaurus Rex and Prolifeatops) and Questions I Hope Gwen Ifill Doesn't Ask Me Tonight (including "Do you support animal testing of cosmetics? Like for instance lipstick on a pitbull?").

Just sayin'.

Slate: Why Watching Sarah Palin is Agony for Women

Slate Magazine asks - how far back will the failed Sarah Palin candidacy set feminism?

Some choice excerpts from the XX Factor article:

But Palin's gender is at the center of another set of reactions I've been hearing and reading among women who don't support her ticket, filled with ambivalence over how bad she is. Laugh at the Tina Fey parodies that make Palin ridiculous just by quoting her verbatim. And then cry. When Palin tanks, it's good for the country if you want Obama and Biden to win, but it's bad for the future of women in national politics. I'm in this boat, too. Should we feel sorry for Sarah Palin? No. But if she fails miserably, we might be excused for feeling a bit sorry for ourselves.

Palin is the most prominent woman on the political stage at the moment. By taking unprepared hesitancy and lack of preparation to a sentence-stopping level, she's yanking us back to the old assumption that women can't hack it at these heights. We know that's not true—we've just watched Hillary Clinton power through a campaign with a masterful grasp of policy and detail. Clinton lost in part because she was the girl grind. Complex sentences, the names of Supreme Court cases, and bizarre warnings about foreign heads of state invading our airspace weren't her problem. The fear now is that Palin is the anti-Hillary and that her lack of competence threatens to undo what the Democratic primary did for women. Palin won't bust through the ceiling that has Hillary's 18 million cracks in it. She'll give men an excuse to replace it with a new one.

HRC: Alaska Gays react to Gov. Sarah Palin

The Human Rights Coalition PAC recently released a video of Alaskan lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered residents' views on Gov. Sarah Palin.

We learn from these brave LGBT Alaskans:

• Sarah Palin and her church turned their fundamentalist ideaology into a political mission.
• Mayor Sarah Palin installed church associates into political positions.
• Her religious values intersected with her role at the state.
• Sarah Palin's church was picketing to remove gay children's literature from Wasilla library at the same time that Mayor Sarah Palin was "asking rhetorical questions of" (aka intimidating) the local librarian about banning books.
• Sarah Palin's church sponsored a gay conversion through prayer conference.

HRC President President Joe Solmonese says:

Sarah Palin used the oldest trick in the book, citing her gay friend as a show of support for our community. I wonder how her friend feels about Palin being against hate crimes legislation, relationship recognition for same-sex couples, or Palin's belief that her sexuality is a choice.

HRC PAC urges everyone to Come Out Against Sarah Palin!

CBS News: Palin and Supreme Court Decisions

Who else is ready to smooch Katie Couric for surfacing the many inadequacies of the Sarah Palin candidacy? Mwah! Thanks to HuffPost for finding a clip of Sarah Palin unable to name a Supreme Court ruling that she disagrees with besides Roe v. Wade.

Clip is below and transcript of Palin's contradictory comments on Roe v. Wade follow...the Palin segment starts at ~ 2:00.

Palin: Well, let's see. There's --of course --in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings, there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are -- those issues, again, like Roe v Wade where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know -- going through the history of America, there would be others but--"

Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of -- of any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with. But you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a Vice President, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.

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COURIC (to Palin): Do you think there's an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?

PALIN: I do. Yeah, I do.

COURIC: The cornerstone of Roe v Wade.

PALIN: I do. And I believe that --individual states can handle what the people within the different constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in in an issue like that.