Comments on: Unfair!

By: ZoBabe

ZoBabe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:49:21 +0000

Funny thing is that, with my lack of access to blaring US media and propaganda, I sometimes see the Tina Fey version before the Sara Palin version. Tina has me cracking up, and then I see that it’s a literal reenactment a good part of the time.

Though, for some reason, it’s still funnier when Tina Fey does it.

By: late to the party

late to the party — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:33:29 +0000

Why do you even come here? You grabbed your YouTube link from the incredibly (to quote Biden: literally incredibly) misogynistic Ace of Spades blog. If you can not only stomach but enjoy the bile over there, you’re clearly just here to troll. Not that any more evidence was needed of that.

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:07:26 +0000

…but she’s a foreign policy expert, she can see Russia from her house…

By: SnowdropExplodes

SnowdropExplodes — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:57:27 +0000

Wow. I wonder how that would work in other fields?

American football: “It’s not fair. The other team are a lot better at passing the ball, so the match officials ought not to allow them to!”

Dating: “It’s not fair. S/he’s got a much sexier face than me, so should have to wear a bag over their head!” (actually, there is a real life variation on this – the Nice Guy ™ approach!)

Economics: “It’s not fair, we didn’t know what we were doing, the Government should buy up our bad debts” (Oh, wait a minute…)

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:11:47 +0000

@sophonisba Exactly they remind me of trained lap dogs. They have decided that the compromise of personal agency worth the rewards that they receive from partriarchy. Men will never turn on them. Isn’t one of the first lessons we learn is to never bite the hand that feeds you?

By: MaryC

MaryC — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:06:33 +0000

What makes me crazy is Obama’s “Wall Street blah blah blah Main Street blah blah blah” babytalk. Maybe Tina Fey should do him, too, since he’s running for president. Why doesn’t just acknowledge that the Democrats caused this mess, since the proof is all on videotape?

Translation: I can’t formulate my problems with Obama or his policies, so I’m just going to harp on a meaningless flub by his running mate.

By: sophonisba

sophonisba — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:46:33 +0000

Renee–yeah, and that’s why it drives me crazy when feminists try to make themselves feel better about the Phyllis Schlaflys and Sarah Palins of the world by fantasizing that their conservative male friends will turn on them someday and show them the same contempt other women get. No, they won’t! If a sexist, conservative white woman plays her cards right, she’s set for life. Sure, Palin has to keep her mouth shut and let McCain direct her every move, but if she can put up with it, she gets her reward.

By: The Raving Atheist

The Raving Atheist — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:01:55 +0000

But you’re right, Raving Atheist, mispoken words and pure ignorance are exactly the same thing. Biden might as well have been talking about about Abraham Lincoln flying around in airplanes. No one with an elementary school grasp of history would have "misspoken" like that. Notwithstanding the ridiculous Daily Kos spin about Roosevelt being on radio in 1929, there's nothing from the context of Biden's statement that even remotely suggests he was talking about gubernatorial broadcasts and significantly, not even the Biden campaign has asserted that defense.. Biden barely has a grasp of his own history. In this video, he claims he (1) finished in the top half of his law school class, (2) got three undergraduate degrees and (3) received a full academic scholarship, when in fact he (1) finished 176 out of 185, (2) got one undergrad degree, and (3) received a needs-based stipend. Not to mention that he copped a plea to plagiarism while there, something that would ordinarily disqualify one from admission to the bar. And how do you excuse Biden calling Obama the "first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy"? Would you have ever even have considered saying something like that? If Palin engaged in anything approaching Biden's lying, cheating and racism, she'd have been history long ago. Biden isn't merely "gaffe-prone." He's an ignoramus with a couple of very obvious screws loose.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:00 +0000

What gives? Republicans spent the last 6 years telling us that national security/foreign policy was the most important issue, and that the fundamentals of the economy were strong.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:37:08 +0000

“Domestic stuff” is more important than “foreign stuff?”

I thought Steve Doocy was all about teh war on teh terrorz!