The Sarah Palin War-on-Christmas Soundboard!

By Dan Amira

For religious conservatives, howling over the so-called "war on Christmas" has become an annual holiday tradition almost as enjoyable as Christmas itself. On Tuesday, Sarah Palin seeks to capitalize on the phenomenon with the release of her newest book, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas. Daily Intelligencer purchased the Palin-narrated audiobook from a local bookstore, where it was on sale early, and listened to all four-and-a-half hours, which is technically not a violation of the Geneva Convention if you're getting paid to do it, New York's legal team insists.

The book is part tribute to the joys of Christmas, part how-to guide for oppressed Christians looking for ways to fight back against whiny and litigious secularists, and part manifesto on the general superiority of Christianity over atheism. Palin, throughout, appears incapable of fathoming why a business catering to people from all walks of life may prefer to use inclusive holiday-season language in promotional items, or why a non-Christian may not appreciate a government institution expressing a preference for Christianity over other religions. To hear her tell it, such attitudes imperil America's dedication to religious freedom itself. Click the recordings that correspond with the number on the Christmas tree below to hear some of the book's more memorable lines.

 

 

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Sarah #12: "So are you ready for some good, old-fashioned words? Here are some: work, honesty, courage, justice, thrift, perseverance."

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"The Top 10 Things Sarah Palin, Republics, NeoCons, and RWNJ lie About Ronnie Reagan and His Legacy"

Sarah Palin has a little place in her heart for Ronnie and the Faux Legend. I bet the ranch on it, but if you sat Palin down and asked her about these following 10 lies, she would say all the lies are true. Any Takers?

Today will mark the 100th anniversary of President Reagan's birth, and all week, conservatives have been trying to outdo each others' remembrances of the great conservative icon. Senate Republicans spent much of Thursday singing Reagan's praise from the Senate floor, while conservative publications have been running non-stop commemorations. Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee and former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich are hoping to make a few bucks off the Gipper's centennial.

But Reagan was not the man conservatives claim he was. This image of Reagan as a conservative superhero is myth, created to untie the various factions of the right behind a common leader. In reality, Reagan was no conservative ideologue or flawless commander-in-chief. Reagan regularly strayed from conservative dogma — he raised taxes eleven times as president while tripling the deficit — and he often ended up on the wrong side of history, like when he vetoed an Anti-Apartheid bill.

Remind you of anything happening now?

ThinkProgress has compiled a list of the top 10 things conservatives rarely mention when talking about President Reagan:

1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan "signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then." Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled. As president, Reagan "raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office," including four times in just two years. As former GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who called Reagan "a dear friend," told NPR, "Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration — I was there." "Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes," said historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan's memoir. Reagan the anti-tax zealot is "false mythology," Brinkley said.
2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, "roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether." Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously. Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.
3. Unemployment soared after Reagan's 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class, but the economic growth of the 1980′s did little help them. "Since 1980, median household income has risen only 30 percent, adjusted for inflation, while average incomes at the top have tripled or quadrupled," the New York Times' David Leonhardt noted.
4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised "to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending," but federal spending "ballooned" under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. He promised to cut government agencies like the Department of Energy and Education but ended up adding one of the largest — the Department of Veterans' Affairs, which today has a budget of nearly $90 billion and close to 300,000 employees. He also hiked defense spending by over $100 billion a year to a level not seen since the height of the Vietnam war.
5. Reagan did little to fight a woman's right to choose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state's abortion laws that "resulted in more than a million abortions." When Reagan ran for president, he advocated a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited all abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, but once in office, he "never seriously pursued" curbing choice.
6. Reagan was a "bellicose peacenik." He wrote in his memoirs that "[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons." "This vision stemmed from the president's belief that the biblical account of Armageddon prophesied nuclear war — and that apocalypse could be averted if everyone, especially the Soviets, eliminated nuclear weapons," the Washington Monthly noted. And Reagan's military buildup was meant to crush the Soviet Union, but "also to put the United States in a stronger position from which to establish effective arms control" for the the entire world — a vision acted out by Reagan's vice president, George H.W. Bush, when he became president.
7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty. The bill was sold as a crackdown, but its tough sanctions on employers who hired undocumented immigrants were removed before final passage. The bill helped 3 million people and millions more family members gain American residency. It has since become a source of major embarrassment for conservatives.
8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing. When the deals went public, the Iran-Contra Affair, as it came to be know, was an enormous political scandal that forced several senior administration officials to resign.
9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan's veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate. Reagan responded by saying "I deeply regret that Congress has seen fit to override my veto," saying that the law "will not solve the serious problems that plague that country."
10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Taliban and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujaheddin commander — emerged from these mujaheddin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services' close relations to these fighters. In fact, Reagan's decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden's ascendancy.

Conservatives seem to be in such denial about the less flattering aspects of Reagan; it sometimes appears as if they genuinely don't know the truth of his legacy. Yesterday, when liberal activist Mike Stark challenged hate radio host Rush Limbaugh on why Reagan remains a conservative hero despite raising taxes so many times, Limbaugh flew into a tirade and demanded, "Where did you get this silly notion that Reagan raised taxes?"


Read original post here and this is another great article by: By Alex Seitz-Wald at Think Progress!  http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/05/reagan-centennial/

Update- Salon has more in their series "The Real Reagan," including how he cared more about UFOs than AIDS and how Reagan destroyed respect for the social compact that rebuilt America after World War II.  http://www.salon.com/news/the_real_reagan/index.html

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paolo Friere-

Sarah Palin's consultant on European Economic Issues forgot to tutor SP on fall of Soviet Union! But the Apologist on the right are out there rationalizing the whole affair! Idiots!

Well, the dingbat is at it again. Everytime she has to go off script (Not using a teleprompter, and speaking off the cuff, so to speak!) she makes a complete ass of herself. Always! And her paid support team is about a useful as teats on a bull. I think that is standard operating procedure for the right these days. We have Bachmann rewriting the history of slavery, we have Glennie Beckster rewriting everything he talks about history wise, with I am sure help from his mentor and Professor at Beck U., the infamous adjunct “professor,” David Barton. Barton is just a nuts as Beck, and his grasp of history is just as flawed. And on to Spud"NUT" Sarah, who makes up shit as she goes along. She really should do her Greta breaking news commentaries using a teleprompter, because she just stutters and stammers her way to serious laugh-ability!
Take a gander at this, with her interpretation of world and European history. And and rambling nonsensical rants. This lady is really nuts! But she has her cult following! (See below)



Hey, where is Dutchman Joshua Livestro? Or does he just get paid the $4000.00 a month for current European economic issues. I find it ironic that a person, Ole' SpudNut herself, who disrespects, dislikes, disparages, dishonors, and totally disses Europeans on a regular basis hires a European as a consultant. Granted it all wasn't above boards, and they tried to hide it at some obscure LLC buried in Wyoming LLC paperwork and maze. But we figured them out, right "SpudNut" Sarah?

There are the monthly payments to Joshua Livetro, the right-winged Dutchman. As discussed in previous posts, and at Mother Jones, we had discovered that Paideia Research LLC, using the Sheridan WY address was setup up to funnel money to Livestro. This setup was done by world-class LLC setter-upper David DeLoach from California. He use to be an attorney, but then life happened and he didn't pay his attorney club fees and bam, disbarred. Or so the story goes.


Here is a recent tweet that was retweeted by Livestro, so we know where his mind is:

Original tweet by  iowahawkblog David Burge And retweeted by JoshuaLivestro

And 'Obama' is Kenyan for 'Carter.' RT @JohnFugelsang 'Mubarak' is Egyptian for 'Shah.'

I mean it isn't horrible, but obviously the Dutchman who "SpudNut" Sarah is suppose to hate "She hates European Socialist Politics" is still fascinated by the Kenyan meme. But he has done a fabulous job with Spudnuts European Economic issues consulting, don't you think?
Hey SpudNut- How's that Europeny Economikiny Thing working out for you? Idiot!

I truly think "SpudNut" Sarah missed the point of Obama's Sputnik comment. Either she didn't understand the analogy or whatever, but it flew way over her head. Most of us who have studied international politics, and governments know that the Soviet Union's economy was not one to emulate. It had it's problems which effected it for years, if not decades. We all knew that, at least the educated grownups in the room. Yet SputNut puts up another FaceBook rant citing a source that shows her comment was correct, and she is now a Rhodes Scholar when it comes to past European Economies, but mainly the the Communist U.S.S.R. as she called them. 
The guy she references. a one Peter Schweizer,,the author of a piece that was a way to justify and rationalize what SpudNut said, also missing Obama's point about Sputnik. What do we have to do with these folks, draw them a freaking picture? But I must point out Schweizer's leanings are to the right, as some of his books are- "Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" and "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph over Communism." So, of course his little apologist breakdown and justification of SpudNuts miss-speak was going to lean right, and to the meme he advocates. Of course Spudnut didn't mention that in her FaceBook post to her cult, because they already assume she would reference a friendly justifier and rationalizer! Pathetic, just so pathetic! Oh, before I forget, Peter and his wife, Rochelle, wrote "The Bushes: Profile of a Dynasty", which the New York Times called "the best" of the books on the Bush family.  Now those are some awe inspiring books I do say. I haven't read them, but I can probably guess which way they lean, but I could be wrong. Hey, did you hear that Spudnut, I said I could be wrong! That wasn't too hard. You might want to try it sometime.

Here is part of what Schweitzer said- 
But Stromberg misses Palin’s larger and more important point about history: Sputnik was really meaningless in the larger scheme of things.  It was all hype, and it was basically used by people in Washington to advance their own political agenda. (Palin had no larger point about history because she is clueless, an idiot, and not a serious and deep thinker, as her toughest decision each day is which outfit, or which pair of shorts or sweatpants to wear, so come on Peter, you Palin apologist who thinks his chivalry will get him a piece of the cherry pie! Your an asshole Peter!) and

Palin is right: Sputnik was the typical government solution; symbolism over substance.  The Soviets did not really create the high-tech communications satellite everyone thought they did, and Washington really wasn’t threatened by it.  They “welcomed it.” Palin’s other point is that Sputnik was the sort of government bureaucratic program that got the Soviet Union in trouble;  it’s an example of what eventually did them in.

I think SputNut had no clue about how tying together the Sputnik as a government bureaucratic program and the Soviet's final economic demise could be accomplished. But her word salad flowed, albeit not to lucid and/or cognizant. Her comment was just part of a rant where she was stitching words together to make a sentence. Was I the only one who saw her stutter and stammer her way through the answers? All those short stop and goes where her slow brain processing and searching for words to form a sentence, and something that might sound believable. Obviously she succeeded because the apologists are all over the place on the right, rationalizing how SpudNuts brain was actually processing her thoughts. Amazing, because by her own non-verbals she appeared to be wanting out of the discussion about Sputnik and the "Communist U.S.S.R.", so she segwayed into her SpudNut Promotion, something she was more comfortable in talking about, because the word began to flow, and her grimace that made her look like she really had to go take a pee was gone!

 Now, I am going to say this just once SpudNut, Obama's analogy had to do with the American Spirit and American Exceptionalism, (Something you accuse him of not promoting, and here he is promoting it and you have to say negative stuff again. Grow-up little girl, and realize your damn beauty pageants are over, so stop trying to win the  popularity contest. Admit it, you lost.) and was meant as a motivational comment. Everyone isn't a deep-thinker like yourself, which in and of itself is sarcasm, and for once in your life can you say you might have been wrong in you comments? You were wrong about the scope-sights on politicians, you were wrong about blood libel, you were wrong in your Sputnik/Sputnut moment, and you are a fucking crazy, vindictive, lying, narcissistic, neurotic, manipulating, hateful, fearmongering bitch! Get over it. Quit trying to justifying everything you fuckup! You remind me of some people I know!

So, have you figured it out Spudnut? The object of that part of his speech was motivational in nature, and not talking about the decline of the Communist U.S.S.R.. Got it? 

No one disagrees that the Soviets eventually went bankrupt, in part because if their massive military, and yes, space spending, while their people went hungry. But the space race didn't end with the Soviets putting a satellite into space. The race ended when Americans landed on the moon. Well partially, as there were follow up objectives over the next 20+ years, like space stations (Mir) and the Soviet version of the space shuttle. It's obvious that Spudnut didn't understand her history when she spoke, and so should have come right out an apologized. Not going to happen, ever!

For all those interested in SarahPAC'S FEC Filings, here is a good site:

http://www.fec.gov/law/feca/feca.pdf

And as an added feature I have brought to you the reason why Palin will never make it on the national stage- Her Cult of Followers that are just as insane and irrational as her. There seems to be a common thread amongst the cult and the cult-leader, that being a glaring love for the anti-intellectual, and the educational goal of being pro anti-intelligence. The dumber the better. For them being called smart as a box of rocks is a compliment. So, without delay, and for your entertainment I introduce the members of the newly former "SpudNut Society" whose secret leader sends them secret messages through her Facebook Page! Dorothy tried to have an intelligent discussion with Joe Coelho but as you see, it was fruitless!

Dorothy Adams @ Sarah Palin 2012

What is up with the Todd Palin affair thing? Is there really proof? What is Sarah going to do if this turns out to be true? I'm so worried about it if it's the truth...it could hurt her chances of getting the nomination in 2012.

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    Joe Coelho Who cares, Obama's closets can fill a football stadium and he got elected.
    

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    Dorothy Adams Really? I've never heard that he was anything but faithful to Michelle...what gives??
    

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    Joe Coelho Dorothy, go to google and search on Obama gay lovers.. Your going to have to start thinking for yourself I can't help you
    

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    Dorothy Adams Oh, I've seen all that. Those are lies. That was like one crazy dude.
    

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    Joe Coelho There is a trail of crazy dudes and crazy lies in Obama's past and present. He did have an affair with Vera Baker, which I found hard to believe as I don't think he likes woman. Hard to argue with you Dorothy if you just call everything a lie, like arguing with a Jehovah's Witness.
    

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    Dorothy Adams Huh? That's really an odd response. I guess I'm concentrating on the present and the 2012 election. And I guess I think that if any of those rumors had been true, they'd have been proven during the 2008 election. Now, back to my original question...could this hurt Sarah's chances in 2012? I really want her to be the Repub. nominee!
    

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    Joe Coelho No, this will have no effect as Sarah will be president in 2012 if she runs. Once the American people see Sarah and Obama debate each other, they will see who the strongest candidate is. Unlike McCain and the MSM media, Sarah will not hold back and will unmask the Teleprompter president. Without that Teleprompter Obama wont stand a chance. Sarah, is already our generation most powerful woman and she doesn't even have a title. There is a reason why the liberals, democrats and the left are so afraid of her... because she can win.
    

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    Dorothy Adams Why do you talk about the teleprompter? Everyone uses them? Sarah uses them...in what areas do you think Sarah is stronger than Barack?
    

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    Joe Coelho The only thing Obama is better at is that he has master that teleprompter and the CHE look. Take away that Teleprompter and there is nothing there. What do you think Obama is stronger in...
    

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    Dorothy Adams Hold on, I think I asked you first.
    

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    Joe Coelho She is stronger in energy, leadership, better executive, knows the constitution better, more experienced business person and doesn't need to hide behind a teleprompter. She also has a birth certificate and we can see her school records, medical records and work history records. She has been vetted inside and out by the media unlike Obama.
    

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    Dorothy Adams Oh no, you're not a birther are you? See, I wonder why people start in on birth certificates instead of focusing on what's important in our country.
    

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    Joe Coelho

    Blame Obama for not producing his birth certificate, school and medical records for the controversy and spending millions on lawyers defended it. Calling people birthers is not going to make this go away. Did you ever stop to think what this might do to this nation if he is found ineligible. 
    
    As for focusing on the issues, under Obama there has been more debt, more poor people, more homeless and the highest unemployment in this countries history. We have a country that is close to bankruptcy thanks to Obama's spending spree.

    
    

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    Dorothy Adams But he did produce it. He did. And what medical records are you wanting? I know where he went to school and how he did. I've read and learned, not stuck my head in the sand and said "no one knows anything about him...aaauuggghhhh."
    

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    I will give you 5000 dollars if you can show me a link/proof to his long birth certificate, his medical records, his school grades... or even copy of his passport. In a recent poll, half the population of US now wants to see his birth certificate.. 
    
    He is going to have to address this if he wants to get re-elected and calling people who want to see it Birthers is getting old now. States are putting in laws that candidates must show their birth certificates now.
    
    The online birth certificate that Obama put up was fake, the document was a copy of the short form with computer fonts that didn't exists in 1961. They quickly took it down after so many comments brought to light the fake document.

    
    

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    Dorothy Adams http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
    
    They took it down?
    

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    Joe Coelho They show the short form that anyone can get from Hawaii..
    
    You do know that factcheck.org is run by the left
    http://ngoldfarb.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/state-of-hawaii-says-obama-birth-certificate-not-valid/
    

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    Dorothy Adams Yes, and the long form is not available. This is acceptable to get a passport and for Obama to be a Senator. Why not President? It just feels like you're really reaching, and it makes you less believable to many people. If you want to focus on issues, fine. But birth certificates? When I looked at it, what convinced me wasn't this birth certificate but the two birth announcements in the paper from 1961. Those are pretty hard to explain if you're going with the birther theory.
    

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    Dorothy Adams And you just posted a blog. I'm to believe that blogger over Factcheck.org??
    

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    Dorothy Adams I know Joe, birth announcements in the paper are a hard thing to refute. I get it...
    

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    Joe Coelho Why is Obama spending so much to lawyers to keep his records locked... Blame Obama.. What is he hiding.. I will take any blog over factcheck the liberal website
    

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    Dorothy Adams But what about birth announcements from 1961?
    

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    Joe Coelho http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-research-on-obama-newspaper-birth.html
    
    Maybe the above can shed some light... Obama can make it all go away by producing the papers.
    

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    Joe Coelho http://beforeitsnews.com/story/296/164/The_Real_Truth_about_Sarah_Palin.html
    
    Read about this great woman
    

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