Sarah Palin on Twitter? You betcha! — Update: TV critic has PDS
Sarah Palin is now using Twitter (AKGovSarahPalin), and I see she’s increased about 100 followers just in the time to write this sentence.
Update: Maybe the governor will be doing some Tweeting about her upcoming appearance on American Chopper. I think I’ll go to the Sturgis rally this August… ya know, just in case.
Update II: Via Newsbusters — The Baltimore Sun’s pencil-necked TV critic put his Palin Derangement Syndrome out for all to see in his description of the American Chopper episode featuring Palin:
Move over, Kate Gosselin, a bigger hot dog than you is coming to The Learning Channel Thursday night when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appears on American Chopper.
Is this a marriage made in reality TV heaven or what?
Thursday’s episode featues Paul Teutul Sr., the father of the chopper building clan that stars in this series, journeying to Alaska to do research on a special bike that he and his posse are building to honor the 50th anniversary of the state.
And, of course, who better to be his new best biker mama friend than that moose hunting sharpshooter, who blew up any chance the Republicans had to make it to the White House last fall with her divisive rhetoric and disastrous TV interviews.
American Chooper airs at 9 Thursday night on TLC.
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Andrew Sullivan is all over it! Gawd! He’s a stalker!
He does seem to have some minor issues with her.
OMG! Now I’ll have to join Twitter?
I feel so used …
know how ya feel Danno I just had to join myself!!
It took me forever to do facebook. Aw, man.
Sarah is going to be on American Chopper tonight. HA has a video on part of the show. She is one great gal!
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Hey, she’s kinda easy on the eyes, ain’t she?
Libs vs Cons
At 11:39 AM ET:
Barack H. Obama (President of the United States of America)
766,379 Following
1,033,727 Followers
Typical followers: Young people from all over the world.
Sarah Palin (Governor of Alaska)
36 Following
5,118 Followers
Typical followers: Angry old w…. American men.
Only the ones not aborted by their mothers.
Barack H. Obama (President of the United States of America)
766,379 Following
1,033,727 Followers
Typical followers:
Young people from all over the world.SHEEPThere, Fixed that for ya.
Barack H. Obama (President of the United States of America)
766,379 Following
1,033,727 Followers
Typical followers: Angry Young people from all over the middle east.
There fixed it for you.
Such a bias. Palin’s been on Twitter for a matter of hours. And I’m a follower…not angry and not a man.
If you want Obama so bad in Europe, I’ll pay for a plane ticket. He can be your incompetent leader.
By the way, every time I refresh her Twitter page, there are 3 or so more followers.
Dangerous, adolescent socialists/statists/collectivists either still don’t get it; or they do get it, but just don’t give a damn.
This is not a popularity contest, an election for class officers, or a contest for prom queen we are discussing here.
The issues being discussed here go to the very core of our personal, societal, cultural, national and international existence; to how we view the world.
Go back and play with your dolls.
Typical libtard. Comparing a poser who’s been on Twitter for what..2 years? Compared to someone who joined in the past 24 hours.
Yeah, that’s a comparison.
Idiot.
It sounds to me like edelweiss is suffering from a lack of oxygen from picking flowers high in the mountains.
Lil Swiss Miss is one of those who have drunk the kool-aid! She is the perfect caricature of a leftard.
I grew up in Europe and have lived abroad for more than 12 years. Thank goodness it didn’t turn my brain to mush…
While I am no Sarah Palin fan, I can’t help but notice this:
Just can’t help dragging race into this, can you?
Quick! Someone call John Edwards!!
The only one who sounds angry and insecure is you, kiddo.
Seen any “good” Euro tv lately? It’s hard to take seriously anyone who goes to Europe and can think of nothing better to do than watch television.
They use naked bosoms in advertisements for butter.
The Pinhead that wants to compare followers should consider a couple of things.
1. Lil bHo has been at the whole net thing a bit longer that Sarah P. He should have more twitter followers than she does.
2. Sarah P.’s followers are actually a bit more experienced in life than lil bHo’s idiot children.
When the children grow up, most of them will realize they voted for a personality, not a President.
And, BTW Mountain Flower, no one really cares what people all around the world think of US. The United States did in little over two centuries what the rest of the world failed to do in two millenia, and they’re basically just jealous. So put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.
I bet Lil Swiss Miss is a HUGE David Hasselhoff fan! Either that or a Mainzelmännchen fan, or both…
That kinda sorta makes sense.
Unlike this.
Bovine bosoms might make sense when it comes to butter ads. I guess Chappy and Lil Swiss Miss don’t know that…
I guess that’s maybe why I said “kinda sorta”.
I am well aware of where dairy products come from, having only grown up on a dairy farm, sport.
The naked females in the ad were in a canoe. There were pretty flowers growing on the bank.
I wonder how much time Chappy spent trying to milk the bulls on his dairy farm…
Exactly what part of heterosexual romance didn’t make sense in your Calvin Cline ad? Or is it just the whole idea of heterosexual relations that you object to?
I just amazes me how much the Gov sets lefties off. Just mentioning that she has a Twitter account prompts deranged insults from anyone on the left.
None of the other 2008 or potential 2012 candidates generate the kind of vitriol that Sarah does. What is it about her that scares them so?
Another point of comparison…
Sarah Palin (and/or her team) has made more tweets in the last 24 hours than Barack Obama (and/or his team) has made in the last three months.
FYI, Mike Huckabee is also using Twitter (GovMikeHuckabee), and Sarah Palin is one of his followers.
I may just try “twittering”.
Sarah has the same problem Clarence Thomas. She is a traitor to her designated group, in this case gender. CT was a traitor to his designated group, African-Americans.
In the leftard world all people must accept the “approved and acceptable liturgy” of their assigned group. This is called “diversity” in the leftard world. Any variance from the accepted liturgy renders one a “traitor.” Variance from the “norm” in the leftward world is not acceptable.
Being in wayyy over her head?
Chap:
Well, one of us had to say it. I am going to lunch, I’ll check out the fireworks when i get back. See ya.
Chappy got Munsonned!
Roy: Hey, I hope you don’t mind, I got up a little early, so I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one, whew.
[Takes a drink from the bucket]
Mr. Boorg: We don’t have a cow. We have a bull.
Roy: I’m gonna brush my teeth.
That would be the having the same problem as Obama.
I lived in Germany for 20 years and can tell you that the citizens that actually go to work do not appreciate all the taxes they pay going to every government-socio-distribution scheme.
edelweiss is merely a leftist edelscheiss!
Well, she’s a strong, white woman that doesn’t rely on others to guide her through life, along with she’s intelligent, attractive, religious, family oriented person, with morals and values that can’t be confused with the weak minded, hate induced women of the left.
Perfect? no, but she is one fine person.
Liar! If you knew then you also know that dairy farmers don’t store manure in their brains like every living breathing libtard does.
Funny…where was all this outrage during her run for Governor? And why did she have the highest rating in the country AS governor…until the liberals went crazy when she was picked as the VP choice?
rooster,
Long time no speak. How are things going in the States? Finally retired from 3747. 7 ARCOM is now 7CSC and they are in K-Town. Miller commands. Gardner now working as a GS to the best of my knowledge. Full timers are starting to turn over.
Edelsheiss, you are going to have to explain it better. I don’t think the little girl will understand what manure is.
Dude, she still does.
All right, let me amend. She may be a fine governor of Alaska. “In over her head” should have referred only to her Veep nomination.
Lets not debate this. I am certain neither side is going to convince the other of Palin’s qualifications or lack thereof.
Same with Thomas, I suppose.
Best revenge evah? Watch the episode and then take note of the sponsors and advertisers and go out and buy their stuff.
Sorry Chap, but Obama and his administration are the ones in wayyy over their heads.
Governor does not equal veep, but state senator equals President? Come on Chap, you are better than that.
Who hates and who is tolerant? The facts speak for themselves.
Brilliant! Chappy knows nothing about Palin, Thomas or Obama. But Palin and Thomas are in “way over their head” while the less experienced “little community organizer” is the savior of the world!
This is what passes for “analysis” in the leftard world.
I would have thought that die hard leftists would abhor American Chopper for all the pro-military regalia on display in their shop. 82nd Airborne! OORRAAHH!
We’ve heard this from you before, Chap. It usually means YOU are the one in “wayyy over your head.”
Who said I know nothing about them? I simply think it would be pretty useless to argue back and forth about it. And who said Obama is the savior of the world?
I guess that is what passes for “reading comprehension” in your world.
Who said I know nothing about them? I simply think it would be pretty useless to argue back and forth about it. And who said Obama is the savior of the world?I know I can’t win this argument lets move on.How about that Chappy, better?
Brilliant! We get to have another discussion about how a [half-]black male Democrat Senator from Illinois with no executive experience is perfectly qualified to be President, but a white female Republican Governor lacks the qualifications to be Vice President.
Always good for a lark!
Sure. I am going to convince no one here that Palin would be a good Veep. Nor is anyone going to convince me that Thomas is a good SCJ.
FWIW, I consider Scalia, Alito and Roberts to be imminently qualified. Any opposition to their nominations was purely partisan.
Exactly. Somehow the leftists believe that if they REPEAT SOMETHING OFTEN ENOUGH, it becomes true.
Show of hands…how many of us here held our noses and voted for McCain because of Sarah Palin?
I’m #1
She didn’t blow it. In fact, after her announcement, McCain was ahead in the polls…
Yep. If McCain had chosen Pawlenty or Romney I’d say it’s a 50/50 chance he’d be the prez right now.
That’s right, and what happen after she started appearing on TV in interviews? That’s right, a big, slow, trainwreck of a slide.
So are you gonna convince us that Biden is a goog veep?
And the RNC received a flood of donations.
Governor does not equal veep, but FRESHMAN state senator equals President? Come on Chap, you are better than that.
forgot that part, hunter.
Arguably no less of a train wreck than what we have now.
/oh hay sup!
After the qualifications debate, we can discuss how liberals are adamantly certain that Palin sunk McCain’s campaign, despite the show of support from the conservative side of individuals who voted for McCain because of Sarah Palin.
Less of a lark, though :/
MUST you continue to bring up the fawning, slobbering media love affair with Obama?
Thanks to the media and creative editing.
Also, the economy took a dump…and that’s what swung the election for Obama. The economy.
NOT Sarah Palin.
And no one here can say with a straight face that the Gaffe-Twins are more capable than Sarah Palin. She can learn world capitals. You can’t fix stupidity and arrogance.
Actually I intentionally left out the freshman US senator and stopped at the state senator level just due to the fact that I don’t believe that zero ever really started the job of US senator and went into campaign mode for President immediately.
Wait a minute! Are you saying you don’t believe in Affirmative Action?
englishqueen01, make that 2. Sarah made me Vote for McCain. Sure was a better choice then BHO!
Btw, some of the comments after that snide article are pretty brutal. Seems some people don’t understand anything about TV reporting. /sarc
Not quite true, sure you know that, anyway, truth was McShame closed down his campaign to return to Washington, the moment he announced the closure his numbers went down. Supporters of Palin were not effected by the ambushed t.v. interviewers, sure you also know that. But nice try.
The biggest cause of the collapse of the campaign was the economy taking a huge hit, no thanks to the hacks on TV every day screaming about how the world was ending, and McCain suspending his campaign to go back to lobby and vote for the first of the bailouts. Thats when many conservatives decided that they would stay home or leave the President box blank on the ballot.
You brought up the polls, so choose Rasmussen or whatever reputable pollster you want. Look at her approval/favorability ratings after her convention speech. Next, look at those same ratings on 11/3/08.
Blame the media all you want. Blaming the media won’t get you ready for 2012. Truth is, the GOP chose a woman who completely lacked media savvy, and appeared incapable of answering some of the most basic questions.
Question:
Do you blame the media for McCain staffers trashing her and throwing her under the bus after the campaign, due to her behavior and incompetence?
thats gonna leave a mark!
I believe…it’s time for lunch.
Yup. Any respect I ever had for Charlie Gibson vanished forever. He revealed himself to be just another water carrying Obamagasmic MSM libtard.
Beat me to it rightisright! Keybording class was a looong time ago!
obummer won this election not on any of his qualifications (some one lst them, please, for i have found none) but by media blitz tactics and racism. Pure and simple
I love American Chopper, although I usually watch it with the sound off… lol I hate bickering and that father is a… jerk. I can’t stand listening to him.
I’ve been to Sturgis twice. Rode my Harley Dyna both times from Arizona. I’m not surprised at all that Palin would like motorcycles.
I think what still hurts Chappy and the other lefties is that Palin was and is more experienced than hussein.
It was the LEFT who immediately started in comparing her to hussein instead of to Biden. Funny!
Hussein got in because the MSM never stopped drooling over him and attacked her like aligators on a zebra.
If the MSM had done even the smallest amout of vetting, the Usurper in Chief wouldn’t have been elected. We know that, and the LEFT knows that. They will simply never admit it.
Are you trying to tell me that you lost because conservatives stayed home due to McCain’s mishandling of the economic crisis?? But, but I thought many of you always knew McCain was a moderate RINO with 0 economic chops. If Palin was the reason for voting for the ticket, how can you opine that conservatives stayed home, and essentially abandoned Palin, just because McCain was being McCain? I don’t think so.
hunter, sure you were much more articulate than I.
On April 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm, hunter said:
On April 30th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, rightisright said:
Beat me to it rightisright! Keybording class was a looong time ago!
Keyboarding class? Is that what they call it now-a-days? Back when I was walking to school uphill both ways barefoot in the snow, we called it Typing I and II. Still can’t get it right most days…backspace is my friend.
Listen to Sarah speak for 30 minutes.
Then let’s listen to obama speak, not read, for 30 minutes.
My 9 year old speaks more eloquently than our president.
I blame the fact that McCain’s EGO will never allow that HE lost that race… plain and simple. He also can’t stand that Palin was far more popular than he was.
And can you ADMIT that Katie Couric and the rest of the MSM never gave hussein any tough questions like they threw at Palin? And when hussein would say STUPID things like, ‘We don’t need to fear Iran, they’re just a little country.’ the MSM simply IGNORED IT.
If the MEDIA had focused on hussein and Biden’s idiocy and drummed on their gaffes like they did Palin’s, those two morons would never have been elected.
Game over.
The economy tanked, McCain made the stupid move of suspending his campaign, and agreed to the bailout.
The economic drop in October is the single biggest factor that decided this election. Any honest person from either side will tell you that.
Believe it or not, I actually took Typing as well! We even used the manual typewriters that you had to cycle the carriage by hand! I did have shoes while walking uphill both ways in the snow though!
Odopey has the right job now…president of GM…Giverment Motors, after all he’s always selling something, usually himself.
I’ll never buy another big 3 auto-makers car as long as the giverment has anything to do with them and the unions are running the companies.
starve the beast
I’m actually agreeing with you, so you may have gotten confused somewhere, unless I was less than clear. Palin never lost “the base”. However, and this is the part “the base” doesn’t seem to get:
You have to have moderates and independents to win the White House.
Period. There’s no debate. Palin alienated many moderates and independents over time. If that’s not the main reason McCain lost, it’s a close second to McCain’s “the fundamentals of the economy are sound” followed by a lack of leadership on the crisis. The Palin issue has to do with the moderate, middle of the road voters. You need these voters. EQ mentioned the polls. Go back to EQ’s polls and you’ll read em and weep.
I could live with him suspending his campaign for a good reason, e.g., to STOP the bailout madness. But when he made such a big production out of the “selfless” and “patriotic” decision to go to DC and sit like a lump while our country’s future was being washed down the drain, it just made no sense to me. I’m guessing I’m not alone in this.
It’s a shame that being media savvy seems to be the measure by which a person’s qualifications for higher office trumps actual experience. Undreseige just revealed the shallowness of his intellect.
The economic issue certainly, probably, was the overriding factor, but any honest person would admit that Palin could not get the support of “the middle”.
McCain’s “moderation” (translation: lack of principles) is what cost him the White House.
Why is it OK when Obama says this?
If you don’t think media savvy is necessary for a successful politician, you are once again, hopelessly naive, or dishonest. Only you know which one.
Goes along with my “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Sarah” bumper sticker.
Drives my libtard bro in law nuts.
LOL! Yeah, forgot to mention that manual typewriter thingy. The old Royal is still in my brother’s garage, somewhere. Probably be an antigue some day.
Exactly! Doesn’t say much for the quality of voters in the greatest country to ever exist.
No, on the right side she alienated the old guard Repubs that was it…her numbers didn’t fall, McNasty’s did…she couldn’t carry the old man over the finish line by herself, he had to help a little…which he did not.
If it hadn’t been for Gov. Palin, the election would have been a landslide, not a 3 percentage points difference.
McCain’s decision making and demeanor cost him the White House.
I wouldn’t be so insulting to “moderates” as to suggest they don’t have principles. They just may not share yours.
It’s impossible to be media savvy when the media is looking for any excuse to tar and feather you.
Your guy can read a teleprompter and had the MSM in total drool mode through the whole campaign.
I’ll say it again: If the MEDIA had focused on hussein and Biden’s idiocy and drummed on their gaffes like they did Palin’s, those two morons would never have been elected.
And I’ll add that they never asked either of them any tough questions like they did Palin.