STUNNER: A Palin announcement: Resigning in weeks; “It hurts to make this choice. But I’m doing what’s best for Alaska”
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Lots of heavy media anticipation over a Sarah Palin announcement expected any minute from Wasilla.
Here’s CBS:
There was no indication as to the topic of the announcement.
CBSNews.com producer Scott Conroy, who covered Palin’s vice presidential campaign last year, said it is rare that Palin sends a press release out nationally.
Feel free to speculate.
Allahpundit has a developing round-up; multiple sources reporting that Palin will say she’s not going to run for governor again in 2010.
Here comes 2012?
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A contrary take: FNC’s Chris Wallace take the announcement as a sign that Palin is not interested in pursuing national politics.
Palin supporters take cable news anchors to task for puzzling over announcement on “slow holiday news day” and missing Independence Day timing.
Latest from BNO on Twitter: Palin resigning in weeks????
From KTUU TV in Alaska:
Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her Wasilla home Friday morning.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic at the end of the month, Palin said.
There was no immediate word as to why she will resign, though speculation has been rampant that the former vice presidential candidate is gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Palin made the announcement flanked by Parnell and most, if not all, of her cabinet.
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CNN showing the press conference video:
Palin: “I love my job. I love Alaska. It hurts to make this choice. But I’m doing what’s best for Alaska.” Tears in her eyes.
Says she will be able “to effect change from the outside.” America needs protectors of individual rights now more than ever. Promises to always be there for Alaska. Wants to work not just for Alaska, for the rest of the country. Taking a fight for Alaska in a new direction. Quotes MacArthur: “We are not retreating, just advancing in a different direction.”
Lt Gov. Sean Parnell says he receives announcement with a “heavy heart.” Thanks Sarah for inspiring so many.
More from press conference: After touting Alaska’s accomplishments, Palin laments “politics of personal destruction.” Notes attacks. $500,000 in legal bills. “Life is about choices. I choose a path of fruitfulness and productivity. Life is too short to compromise time and resources…I will work very hard for others…I will support others…”
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Chuck Heath, Palin’s brother, on FNC talking about incessant attacks. Very emotional. “It’s weighed on her a long time.” Couldn’t effectively govern when having to defend herself against attacks.
The Anchoress is wondering what’s really going on:
Either she or someone in her family is ill, and she wants to keep it private and not subject it to the vulgarity of the Palin-hating beasts in the press, who savaged her last year, or…she and Todd are on the rocks, and she doesn’t want to subject her children and her marriage to the same vulgarity.
Can’t say I blame her in either case. And I hope I’m wrong on both counts.
But nothing else makes sense, does it?
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In Georgetown Law, I was in 1st section. My small section Torts teacher was Mari Matsuda and the absolute worst Evidence professor is Tague, whose nickname is “Vague Tague.” I had Marty Ginsburg for two tax classes. He is husband to Justice Ginsburg, and always jokes that he left his NYC job whan his wife go a “really good job offer.” The best Contracts Professor is Goldberg, who famously always opens his class with an homage to the Houseman character from the Paper Chase (the “Hairy Hand” case).
I passed MD easily, waived into DC and passed the RI bar as well since they have no reciprocity.
Feel free to take me at my word…or not.
“How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country. And though it’s honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.”
I’m on the flipside of that, Rags. I’m hoping her plans for the future including putting the media up for a “public trial”. It’s about time someone did and she’s just the one with the required chutzpah to do it.
Oh, so since Sarah Palin is a public person, Goldberg is incapable of sending her private advice?
Yup, cuz that never happens to public officials, right? Karl Rove never privately advised President Bush, right?
Oh believe me, it’s intact. I need it to get through your posts without feeling the need to introduce my brains to the business end of a gun.
Don’t tempt me. I’ve got a Ruger .357 magnum you could suck the business end with.
Just kidding! Stop whining, little man!
Question, Ragspierre:
Since you think Sarah Palin the public official should not fight back the media lies and harassment, do you think she is allowed to do so as a private citizen, which she will be at the end of the month?
Since my posts makes Chapoutier suicidal, I’m going to post as often as I can, just for his edification.
This will be fun.
Karl Rove also got a paycheck from Bush and has zero issue criticizing Palin himself.
Fair enough, Chappy. I was just pointing out this is the internet, afterall. Anybody can be anything – and Google just makes it all the easier. As I sez, it’s a “just sayin” heads up.
Somehow I get the feeling you were “shrouded”.
That would be wonderful, but a terrible loss to the future leadership pool of the country.
She could do one or the other. Not both.
It would be red meat to you and I, but the death knell of her political future on the national level.
I think Sarah Palin cares more for her country than her “political future”. She’s the one who said, “If I die politically, I die”.
I respect that more than anything else in an American.
How’s the end of the barrel taste?
Just joking, Chapoutier! Keep on smiling!
Did anyone besides love2rumba actually read the link I provided earlier, which is a very good analysis of why Sarah Palin resigned, and what her future holds?
She is now free to fly the lower 48 and act as kingmaker in 2010. She can draw crowds that only Romney and Pawlenty dream of.
What the media and the RINOs think is irrelevant – the conservative base only matters – and she owns it.
I hoped I was clear in my previous posts, but…
IF Gov. Palin wants to have a political career in the future, she CANNOT get down and dirty with the crazies on the Left.
They will only be energized by it, and she will have fallen into the Tar Baby.
She HAS a very capable cadre of people who can do the knife-fighting for her, while she floats in dignity and serenity over the nutters.
If she fails to do this, the ignorant, complacent middle of American opinion will only see a brawler. I value her brawler instincts, but I understand she has to learn to point them at people and issues MUCH higher up the food-chain.
Believe me, I have had to learn to NOT take some of my “learned opposing counsel” out the courthouse door and beat the dog-spit out of them. What works to instill civility in the oil field (a place where you are not called a liar with impunity) does not go in the courthouse. More’s the pity…
Kind of woody. Wait…the “barrel” is the business end? The round hollow thingy?
Saturday Night Massacre writ large.
Sad to say but the FBI is as dirty as any other Fedzilla agency-they have sniffed the wind, moved Left and let Rule of Law fall by the wayside. There will be no new investigations of BroBama’s friends–until the winds change anyway–New Black Panthers Party/Philadelphia is their template-maybe Ruby Ridge.
They will do what they can to destroy the Governor; her family has had to spend several hundreds of thousands already to fend off phony ethics charges. Litigation by annihilation is definitely a favored Justice Department/DNC tactic.
“I’m on the flipside of that, Rags. I’m hoping her plans for the future including putting the media up for a “public trial”. It’s about time someone did and she’s just the one with the required chutzpah to do it.”
Again, I’m the flipside of your thinkin’, Rags. I believe part of the reason for recent GOP losses is the candidate’s coziness and kissing up to the media instead of taking it to task.
It’s not the “red meat” factor at all – it’s coldly calculating. The American populace has an underlying general disgust of the media. Polls regularly show the majority (quite correctly) see it as too liberal.
So it would be more like the proverbial “cake icing” personal satisfaction-wise.
Looks like a “we’ll have to agree to disagree” thingee, Rags.
I always blame a bad distillation process for that and just open another barrel.
And that is a reductio ad absurdum misstatement of my position.
NOBODY here said get cozy or kiss up to the media.
I hope we agree that there is a WIDE margin that one can occupy without being Ann Coulter (who I love) on one end of the scale, and John McAnus on the other.
Again, I evoke Mr. Reagan. He used humor as both his shield and sword, and he used them both carefully and economically.
He NEVER had anything but an unflaggingly hostile MSM to deal with, and that was in the day of MSM monopoly. He just floated above them, and took his optimistic message to the people.
W had the strength, but never the capacity with words. I think Palin can have both.
Rags:
You know, you are asking Palin to fight clean while the media fights dirty.
That’s like asking our troops to play according to Geneva while the Islamofascists play every dirty trick in the book.
I’m fed up with playing nice to those bastards in Big Media; they need a kick in the pants big time.
No matter what Palin did it was going to be wrong. We’ve heard it all before. She’s to much this and not enough that. No matter what her experience, it was not going to be what she needed. She is in the middle of the biggest no win situation, so she might as well do what her gut tells her to do. All these pundits and talking heads have nothing really to offer. She’ll do just fine ignoring their advise. She’s self-made; no fancy affirmative action programs helped her. What she has, she earned and now the political elites want to diminish her achievements. A pox on all their houses. Let’s see just how foolish the elites are in 6 months.
If elected, would she resign the Presidency for the good of the nation to show she’s not a quitter?
Obama’s Little Jew Lapdog, Kapo lgm rears his shaggy little head.
Dear Leader feeding you any treats, oh loyal friend of Israel?
Do you wag your tail when you hear Dear Leader interfering by telling your fellow Jews that they aren’t allowed to build more settlements while he refuses to “interfere” with other nations?
Kinda makes one wonder if he hates Jews or something, doesn’t it?
Loser.
Rags:
You again avoid my question about the treatment Sarah Palin endured compared to Reagan’s.
Do you actually believe that they were treated equally?
YES!!! And their market is giving it to them.
Maybe part of our problem here is referring to the “media” as a coherent whole (hole???).
The MSM NEWS media is what they have pretty much always been in my memory; Collectivists. Cheerleaders for the Statists of both Parties. They HATE real conservatives, but will feign civility.
The MSM chattering class has not really gotten too much worse. I remember Molly Ivins and others. Dowd and her ilk are, if anything, less talented and less persuasive.
The only new thing under the Sun is the blogosphere, and that is a truly vicious and untethered pack of pigs…or not, depending solely on the constraints of the individual writer. Andrew Sullivan is a brilliant fruitcake (in every possible sense), and it only goes downhill from there on the Statist side on the subject of Palin. I include in this group Mahr and Uberman, plus Letterman.
So, maybe we should define WHICH media segment we are discussing here.
Should Palin lay down for Perky Katie? No. And I think, with some seasoning, the Sarahcuda can roll Katie like a bald log in the river. While smiling…a la Reagan.
Should Palin try to give tit-for-tat to the MSM. I think it would be a fatal mistake to try. That does NOT mean her camp cannot get a rebuttal out that will serve the purpose quite effectively. (One HUGH mistake that I think W made was not letting Cheney out of the house more often. Others, too…). Use surrogates freely.
Should Palin even appear to respond to the bomb-throwers in the blogosphere? Absolutely not! Most Americans don’t even know they exist, much less care what they say. We do, and the stuff they write drives us ape-spit crazy (which is more than they deserve, really).
Look, I know something about shaping people’s perceptions, and that is what winning a political contest is really about. We can WISH it to be otherwise, but that won’t carry our candidate into office. There is an old, but still very powerful icon in American politics; the statesman…stateswoman.
I’ve always wondered why the media keep spewing lib hate garbage the way they do, watch their readership/viewership decline, and still keep doing this, and the only answer that seems logical to me is that the media people don’t care because in the end they hope to receive taxpayer money ala GM, Chrysler for their “critical” industry.
Atheling, you’ve good taste in handguns. Rugers definmitely rock (in competition and durability over Smith and Wesson)IMHO.
Just don’t mistake me for Chapoutier, ok?
Your thinking could be right, but there’s more to it.
They are ideologues, for one thing. Statism is a world-view. We are the bad people. They are the good people. It is really that stark.
They live in an echo-chamber. Group-think is a powerful…and powerfully dangerous…thing. There is nothing I’ve seen that is more conformist than these people who think they are such “free-thinkers”. To depart, in the least degree, from the party line is to die.
M. Medved wrote a book about the same phenomenon in Hollywood. The cold, hard black and white accounting shows that good family-oriented movies make money. The crap that Hollywood loves looses money. They still make crap movies at 10:1. Why? See above.
True, true. Way better design. Taurus is a great value, though.
It is hard to beat a Python with gold plated moving parts, though. Low co-efficient of drag…
Sorry, low co-efficient of friction…gold is sort of slick naturally.
“Again, I’m the flipside of your thinkin’, Rags. I believe part of the reason for recent GOP losses is the candidate’s coziness and kissing up to the media instead of taking it to task.”
I didn’t say it was your position, Rags – it’s my take on one reason for recent GOP losses. (Along with running “Tweedledees” against the Dem “Tweedledums”). My observations entirely, you shouldn’t take it as a recounting of your own.
In think you’re getting into apple v. oranges chronological territory there, Rags. i.e. that was (the media) then, this is the (media) now. Entirely different animal. And as you pointed out it was a total monopoly, so “playing nice” was the only option even though they portrayed him as an insane warmonger who wanted WWIII.
I was reading some comments elsewhere pointing out the stark differences. One being that the frothed-mouth, psychotic ranting Keith Olbermann would not have been a network news anchor assigned to political coverage. It’s a whole new ballgame. Back in the day, the press (as it was called then) had a “gentleman’s understanding” about JFKs womanizing – it wasn’t reported, much less fodder for the front page. Different times, different rules.
As I sez, we’ll just have to agree to disagee.
But I do believe the media is fair game and Sarah is one helluva hunter. Besides that, regular folks love her for straight-forward, plainspoken way. She has her learnin’ to do, but I hope that wouldnt include turning into the prepackaged, generic politician.
Ruger is much more affordable and made in the USA, like S&W. Don’t get me wrong, I like S&W too, but Ruger is a good value, I think.
Would be impossible to do!
There is another point of agreement. To over-polish her would be another fatal mistake. She HAS a gift, and it is manifold.
One minor point…Uberman is not a news anchor, and is fast becoming a joke, as is his cable channel. He is strictly commentary, and even a lot of KosSacks are tuning out.
A good example of what I am trying to get across is Rush. He has people taking the most vile shots at him all the stinking time. He won’t even dream of responding, because he knows he has better uses of his time and talent, it will give his critics more exposure than they could EVER get on their own, and that ignoring them will KILL them.
He just cruises above all the nutters, making money hand over fist, saying stuff that needs to be said, driving his opponents into a frothing fit, and doing God’s work.
Not a bad set of hopes for Sarahcuda.
Rags:
Peeps is right. The media is a whole different animal now.
And a much more feral one, too. They are going for Palin’s jugular, and they NEVER did that to Reagan.
If they go for the jugular, you have to destroy them if you want to live.
Don’t know about Sarah, but I can’t think of anything better for America that for Barry to do just that, even the thought of Crazy Joe for President doesn’t dampen my enthusiasium for NO MORE BARRY!!
I’m with rambler and others(hard nosed conservatives), I’m ship full of the left and their hate spewing garbage. They say one thing and do the opposite… irregardless of the hurt and or damage they do. It’s time they paid for their insulting, demeaning remarks made with self righteous attitudes.
I got the impression from the Gov. and her legal eagles they put out a fair warning, she is full of the slanderous, degrading crap. In other words if your slanderous remarks go beyond a policy or public action we’ll be coming after you.
I hope Sarah fights like hell, she’ll win in the end, no doubt…besides I get the impression she can’t wait to start kicking some slime ball butt.
Again, which media?
I remember the night Reagan won his first term. The MONOPOLY broadcast media were on suicide watch. The mourning in the newsrooms was palpable. Wasn’t that the night that a major network anchor first said the country was having a fit of anger?
Reagan was called everything but a child of God. Don’t you remember the stories about how he was going to have g’ma eating cat food, how he was personally killing AIDS victims, how he was a racist, etc., etc., etc.
He was nuts, stoooopid, dangerous, had had a failed marriage, his kids hated him, was a B actor (on a good day), and more etc.
What about W? Is Sarah facing anything that he didn’t? Maybe you didn’t get all the vile stuff people said about him, his kids, his wife, Condi Rice, his dog…you name it.
But, no two ways about it, our society is coarsening. We can’t expect our blood-fight with Statists to get more civil as our culture goes the other direction. They are in it for all the marbles, and there has never been a time when more of the marbles were in play.
Which is why I say we have to play smart. Not soft. Smart. There’s what works, and there’s what feels good. Sometimes they are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Beating a thief to death with a cheater-pipe could feel good (therein lies a tale for another day), but Momma and the kids would go hungry as a result.
See?
Hi guys!
Not on “Evening News” basis, but MSNBC does drag him to anchor political coverage. Or, it used to – remember:KEITH OLBERMANN & CHRIS MATTHEWS FIRED! (MSNBC ANCHOR SPOT)
Like I said, Sarah has some lessons to learn. I think whoever advised her to go on SNL, for example, was wrong.
And I’m not thinking she should wildly lash out just for the helluvit, but lay out a reasoned wide indictment that most Americans already agree with and can say “yeah, that media is way over the top” and/or “it’s not doing it’s job”.
I think there is a balance she can achieve in taking on the hostile media and still be very effective.
That was “Ted Baxter’s” usual intro on the MTM show, y’know, ZA.
Hi, Ted.
Eww… More agreement!
Very few people in America are better qualified to speak…in a very high-concept level…to the failure in our media. Global, big ideas…loss of civility, loss of decency, loss of integrity, loss of perspective, loss of objectivity. Point to structural failures. NEVER personalize it, but say it anyhow.
There you have a recipe to tap that distrust of the media that is growing in America. And the disgust…
Above the little rats.
…it’s also a typical greeting.
Agreed, Rags. They did go after Reagan hard and nasty whenever they could when he was President, and Reagan f#’d them right back. The difference then versus now was they went for the jugular and were supercilious about it believing, I think, that his popularity was a flash in the pan, and he’d be gone so it would be cool to be an A$$hole toward him, but pull back to maintain the appearance of civility.
Today, the left for the most part reminds me of a paranoid animal locked in a cramped, filthy cage with no perceived recourse but uncivility and hate because they know they can be on the outside looking in again if they do so.
I also believe their behavior is the result of their gradual and generational abandonment of Judeo-Christian tenets of morality (no, I do not mean necessarily that they went to church/Temple/Synagogue, etc., but rather the practice and useage of the philosophical reasoning of what ought one should do if confronted with this or that was slowly abandoned), for which they have never developed a consistently-practiced replacement for the same Judeo-Christian thinking they chose to reject over time.
Damn- If Only, and here I could have loaned them a Ruger AND a Smith & Wesson, Colt, Marlin, JC Higgins (Sears and Roebuck) and a Winchester.
If Only-the bitterest words in the English language
Two problems there:
1. You couldn’t find enough “spherical objects” in the room unless there was a pool table; and,
2. You would have had to give them instructions on which was the “money” end. Assisted suicide was a universal no-no…
Ah, the good old days…
Yup, the whole “politics of personal destruction by media” indictment, being out of touch/over PC, crudeness (e.g. pushng a mic into the face of family member of a murder victim to ask “how do you feel?”), which media is in bed with whom, things like the WaPo $25,000 elbow-rubbing & influence peddling gigs – it’s ad infinitum.
Yeah, I think a strategically used “and I can tell ya, by personal experience, it’s so” side note at the right times could be effective (as kind of a verbal “wink”) but quid pro quo personal stuff should be avoided for the most part.
I say “for the most part” as there is a sometimes a place for it and it should be done artfully, if possible. As you noted with Reagan – he had has fun, I recall when he mentioned about how “PacMan” was explained to him: how it was a little round guy who eats up millions of quarters every day – he said he thought they were talking about Tip O’Neill.
If we both say it at the same time it would be stereo-typical.
Dang, I’m funny.
Right. And it will get worse. That is dialed in, as power becomes more and more concentrated.
I said earlier this is a blood-fight. I was not using hyperbole.
But, we have to remember, those of us here are not your average American.
A little vignette: I was talking to a couple of friends the Friday after the House vote on CRAP & RAID. One of these guys is VERY political in Houston, and thinks THE ONE is the Anti-Christ. Both are Hispanic. Neither knew what I was talking about.
We have to remember, they are our target market. They have to be brought along carefully, or we just sound like nuts.
I think they have, L2R – some might call it “secular humanism” or other highfalutin euphemism, but “anything goes” works better as a description.
(Come to think of it, “Absolute Relativism” would work as an accurate – albeit oxymoronic – highfalutin term.)
That’s the ticket, but if I were writing the speech, there would never be an overt personal allusion.
It would be about everyone BUT me (or Sarah). The country is getting sick of Obama’s I, I, I. Make it about other victims.
Sometimes in jury argument, you NEVER say directly the thing you know everyone will think of when you talk about a theme. To do so would be to beat them over the head with the concept, and they get it. You give them credit for understanding what you mean without having to show them the guts.
Such a speech, given the right way, would take it to the press…not the bloggers, because they are hopeless…but the MSM.
“Here are standards of journalistic practice that Americans should be able to expect from the people they trust (cough, choke) to bring them both news and comment. In the Twenty-First century, this is a call to an ethical standard that all people entrusted with this sacred function in our society should, we hope, accept and adhere to…”
That is how it could be done.
Got mine, too, l2r.
The little Ranch Rifle in .223, stainless, with a folding stock…
hard to beat for knock-around work.
Long live the 2nd Amendment!!
P.S. I noticed S&W has a certain superiority, as well. I’m not an expert on these things, but in a shooting range, I can hit a bulls-eye consistently w/S&W. I like the way the Ruger feels in my hands, too.
Glad to have the God-given freedom to own an equalizer.
I expect it won’t be about you, Rags
But, yeah, and bring in other news-media transgressions like the 24/7 Paris Hilton legal problem-type coverage orgy. Silly, stupid stuff that ticks off the average Jane&Joe Does.
Use jokes like “Obama is guest-hosting for Letterman again this week” or funny barbs of that genre.
During the last election when the McCain campaign did the “Obama as just another big egomaniacal celebrity” ads McCain’s poll numbers started matching/topping Obama’s. I wouldn’t have gone with that as the sole line of attack, but I would have kept it in the mix. Instead, they dropped it altogether.
Peep, IIRC, they did this b/c they “offended” Paris Hilton, and that, I thought, would be hard to do.
Remember when PH did the counter-ad calling him basically an old fuddy-duddy. I think she had at first contributed to his campaign, so it was kind of odd that they chose a pic of her for the vid, but….
He comes up with a catchy strategy and drops it like a hot potato b/c some one was tangentially offended. This and other ridiculous stunts meant I REALLY had to hold my nose to vote R, and like so many others, I was voting for Sarahcuda.
I trust her judgment. She is now unfettered and needs to surround herself with only those she can trust, not those appointed by the wolves in sheeps’ clothing.
Personally, I think that if one looked microscopically at the McAnus campaign for any evidence that they actually wanted to win…
BESIDES Palin…
there would be nothing on which to convict.
LOL. He was the “spoiler” for Obama.
LOL. He was the “spoiler” for Obama.
sorry 4 dbl post
Yup, I think she can handle herself pretty well, MtsEdge. She’ll keep on driving the MSM and hardcore leftwing nuts, ala Reagan being a thorn in their sides even long before he achieved the Presidency. All things considered, she really has nothing to lose no matter what she chooses to do. Know that Rick Nelson song “Garden Party”?
“It’s alright now,
I learned my lesson well;
You can’t please everyone,
So you’ve got to please yourself.”
Yeah! Let’s abandon the GOP and go third party. Then we can have the same kind of success we had in ’92 and ’08. Starting from scratch would be a lot easier than using an existing infrastructure. Recreate ’08 can be the new third party motto!
As far as whacko, lgm has set the bar way too high for either one of you.
I just don’t like the way you’ve taken to ad hominem attacks lately. I’ve seen too much infighting here lately. Rags has valid points and he’s doing what he can to put them in motion and the best you can do is mock him.
Yep, all she has to do is show up and speak from the heart. No tit-for-tat w/the media is necessary, IMHO. People can already see through “Big Media”, and her conservative principles and record of achievements will resonate with Americans.
I haven’t read any of the previous posts but can tell there is momemtum and excitement here.
Her decision was brillant and totally appropriate for her charisma and star power.
It’s obvious she got under the skin of Obama and his forces.
It’s obvious she is under the skin of liberals.
She’s even under the skin of constipated, old school Republicans.
If there is an antidote threat to Obama,
it has to be someone who can match his charisma and media infatuation.
P.S. I sorta remember Rick(y?) Nelson…but my earliest memories of records I listened to were Donny Osmond and Shaun Cassidy. I think he was a little before them???
I’d demand you ban yourself – if it were possible – just based on that alone, MtsEdge.
i’m ashamed to admit it myself – i promise you it was youthful indiscretion
Well, that’s different, then. Ego te absolvo.
Now, the record I remember as a wee lad was an old 78RPM we had around the house:
The Freckle Song – Youtube
Still makes me giggle.
Yeesh, what a puppy…
You missed The Ventures, The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean…
Strange…that all sounds so gay now…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmvDUrzxQ4
Tel-Star, by the Ventures
I checked the link – sorta like a racy Lawrence Welk???
Made me giggle, too.
By the time I was a teenybopper, we had stuff like Aerosmith in the house. None of the cutesy, except for my Mom’s stuff.
Now that I’m so much older and wiser (LOL), I think I’d have rather had more Beach Boys and less Beastie Boys.
Depends on how you define it…
G’night all. *yawn*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLLcvWeiKw&feature=related
Runaway, by Del Shannon
Yeah, lol – you sing it with a slight pause after “she has freckles on her but”.
On the flipside of the 78 was “Roll Me Over In The Clover”, where the recurring lyrics were “Roll me over in the clover – roll me over, lay me down and do it again”. The original versions were very bawdy, but the 78 had a cleaned-up version.
That was a step in the right direction, especially if you “Walk This Way”. heh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__EwAT8VM&feature=related
Wipe out, the Ventures
Rock on…!!!
Naw, when it comes to “Wipeout” there’s nobody but The Safaris. Anything else is heresy.
Just had a flashback of my then gf dancing to this way back then….er, gotta go and start that cold shower now.
Del Shannon’s music was punky and ahead of its time, especially for 1961…”Runaway” is one of my all time favorites for timeless pop music (it still sounds great after all these years and not ‘dated’)…
Judging from your link, Rags. I’d bet this was filmed/recorded about 1964-66 (judging from the women’s hair-styles) and probably from American Bandstand (as oposed to “Shindig”)…am I right?
The live “Wipeout” cover, L2R? I’d guess it was neither – I’m not 100% sure sure about Shindig, but Bandstand was always lipsynched.
Maybe it’s from Ed Sullivan or other taped-live show?
Couldn’t say from wince it came.
I was looking at all that young pulchritude…
and thinking those are somebody’s grandma now. Maybe great-grandma.
Time…cruel, cruel time… sigh.
atheling said (#423):
When I was a kid, the bullies who beat up Jews were conservative Christians. Those bullies are all growed up, and just as dumb. When conservative Christians claim to support Israel, I just remember them as stupid bullies.
You conservatives here are welcome to prove me wrong. Stand up to atheling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8&feature=related
Dick Dale and the Del Tones, Misirlou
Funny, Fender hasn’t changed much of anything. Those axes are pushing 50 years old…
Sorry, I just don’t believe you knew the politics of those little girls….
it strains credulity.
ROFL!!!
I severely doubt she would’ve willfully resigned were she governor of New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio or Mass. She made it seem like she was bailing out of a 2nd class hillbilly state to find a “better ladder” for her ambitions. It’s not my judgment of the woman. That’s a perception, not opinion.
James Geenidge
Queens NY
I hope Gov Palin’s resignation is the start of true opposition to the supreme idiocy in DC. It starts with some 2010 RINO hunting and coalition building. If we want any American future, we cannot afford to do stuff like cap and trade. I guess if Gov Palin wanted out of politics I wouldn’t blame her, I just see her as a potentially great movement conservative.
It would be great to see her replace Steele, be a true leader of the GOP and headhunt some real conservatives for key races.
I actualy kind of agree with atheling. Your tin gods policy will probably get lots of israelis killed. Thus the ka[o label.
Sorry.
Yeah, that was a had-to-wipe-the-coffee-off-the-monitor, 3-pointer comeback, atheling.
However, the resident idiot is right (first time for everything) if his complaint is about being called a “Jew Lapdog”. His idiocy is up for ridicule and disdain, but his religion is irrelevant. i.e. the appellation “Idiot Laptop” (“Moronic Lapdog”, “Dipstick Lapdog”, etc – too many too list) would be right, but not the one you used.
LGM is a jew, and openly admits it. I admit that using that word gives me pause, but it is what he is.
Rags, for your shameless YouTube pulchritudic retro-ogling pleasure of “somebody’s grandma now” I give you, from British TV’s “Top Of The Pops” circa 1969, “TOTP sexi dancer outtake 60s”.
I think the kapo bit is what really upsets him.
http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/GlennFoden/2009/07/3
A pointed Palin cartoon. Sometimes they move the link, but it is worth looking for it.
I have to second Peep’s opinion as to religious references. Even “Jewish lapdog” would be preferable to “Jew lapdog”. Why? Dunno, except it registered on my over-the-top-o-meter. Not high, but a trimbler still.
While I suspect the thoughtless left were successful in burying Sarah’s political aspirations in Alaska through lawsuits, I hope her family’s okay otherwise. It is really frightening to think that the left will impose their will on the country using unethical and immoral strategies such as these. Wish the media had the ethical spine required to report this stuff.
SilverPuss:
The people of Arkansas were PROMISED by the man running for governor of that state that he would NOT quit and run for President. Bill Clinton then did exactly that. The people of Illinois elected BHO to a six-year term in the Senate. Two years into his term he started campaigning for President.
At least Gov Palin has left office and can freely pursue her goals without shorting the Alaskan voters like Slick Willie and BHO have done.
“I did not have sex with that woman…”
“I will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250K/year…”
Want some more? There are PLENTY to choose from!
Excellent self-diagnosis.
I think that might be a good point, SonO’DY, if he had prefeaced a remark with “As a Jew, I…” or something of that nature which made it germane. I don’t believe he did, so I would’ve gone with a noun or adjective that was both germane and applicable along the lines of my suggestions, e.g. “Doofus” Lapdog. (the possibilties are endless)
I’m one of the least politically correct folks you’ll ever meet and I enjoy funny religion-based jokes. I knew a priest who told the best “St.Peter at the Pearly Gates” jokes I’ve ever heard.
But there are the times when references to a person’s religion does, as you put it, give me “pause”.
Others folks are free to disagree, of course, but that’s my 2-cent take.
Good grief!!! That poor girl must have gone home with lens rash on her chestal regions!!!
Funny, isn’t it, how the female of the species is so much more interesting to observe than the plane, drab male.
“SilverPuss:
They elected her [Palin] to serve a 4 year term”
Also there’s this guy named Obama who didn’t fill out even his one – and only – term as US Senator.
I’m surprised that anyone thinks they can be taken seriously for feigning horror when a politician leaves one job to move on to something else. It’s a shocker along the lines of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.
Old movies are sometimes a great time machine. I often am struck by how little really changes, and how fresh or topical some of the themes are.
I watched Mr. Smith Goes To Washington over the weekend. Virtually every element that we see today…cronyism, graft, over-weening government, media manipulation…are dealt with in that movie. Oh, I think they are quantitatively VASTLY worse now, but there they were.
How did Jeff Smith fight back? Well, he stood on his principles, he used the rules to his advantage, he wired around the media, and good people supported him. In the end, his opposition’s conscience got the better of him, which is the part where we would be diving off into delusion if we expect that today.
Still, lessons to be learned, and prospective to be gained.
Well, you know on multiple camera shoots like this the director has “roving cameras” and once they find an -ahem- interesting shot they have the camera operator stick with it and they switch to it from time to time in the control room. I’d seen the full, aired clip of this with this girl-now-granny and she was just another dancer. I’d link to it, but I think YouTube pulled it for either being “inappropriate” or some copyright issue or other.
I suspect outtakes from the old American Bandstand show would be similiar.
There was a male in the clip?
Yeah, we guys are more built for function and the ladies for
aesthetics. “Viva la difference!” to coin a phrase.
Also, this is not what I call a “monkey-bar” move…the next rung on the linear ladder, one hand holding tight the preceding bar while grasping with the other. She could have held office and run for the Senate.
This was a lateral move, if anything. It takes her off the bars. We still don’t know for certain…it may take her out of politics altogether, or elective office. Awaiting further development.