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Tina Fey recycles Palin rape kit lie

By Michelle Malkin • November 11, 2010 10:31 AM

Oh, Hollyweird.

Still Palin-induced crazy after all these months.

And still repeating thoroughly debunked campaign lies spread by the Soros-supported Internet smear machine.

Last night, comedian/actress Tina Fey won a humor award for her Sarah Palin schtick and used her acceptance speech to indulge in a broader swipe at the conservative women’s revolution in politics.

Via Newsbusters:

Comedienne and actress Tina Fey on Tuesday thanked former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as she accepted this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

According to the Washington Post, she then mocked conservative women “first to nervous laughter and then to not much laughter at all”:

In her acceptance speech, Fey touched on her best-known bit — her Palin imitation –and offered some mock hands-across-the-political-divide commentary. The rise of conservative women in politics, she said pointedly, is good for all women, “unless you don’t want to pay for your own rape kit . . . unless you’re a lesbian who wants to get married to your partner of 20 years . . . [or] unless you believe in evolution.”

The lines played first to nervous laughter and then to not much laughter at all.

Maybe the joke bombed because the joke is on Fey.

The “rape kit” canard was totally dismantled two years ago (more on the timeline/smear merchants here):

The latest myth touted on liberal blogs that’s bubbled its way into mainstream news headlines is the one where Sarah Palin ordered rape victims to pay for their own rape kits.

“Palin’s Town Used to Bill Victims for Rape Kits” was headline on a Thursday USA Today news story. Reporters Ken Dilanian and Matt Kelley used a 2000 quote from former Wasilla Police Chief to blame Palin for an outdated, now illegal policy she never supported.

“In the past, we’ve charged the cost of exams to victim’s insurance companies when possible,” former chief Charlie Fannon told the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman in 2000 as then-Democratic Governor Tony Knowles was signing legislation to make local police branches cover the costs of the kits.

“I just don’t want to see any more burden on the taxpayer,” Fannon said at the time, which was reprinted in the USA Today.

Fannon went on to say that he believed the criminal should be held responsible for the costs, which run from $5,000-$14,000 per year for all assault cases. USA Today did not reprint those quotes from the interview, though. “The forensic exam is just one part of the equation,” Fannon said at the time “I’d like to see the courts make these people pay restitution for these things.”

Liberal blogs like HuffingtonPost, DailyKos and Salon.com are using this interview the Frontier conducted with Fannon to accuse Palin, who was mayor of Wasilla from 1996-2002, of supporting making rape victims pay for their rape kits– a charge vehemently denied by her aides.

“It would appear that Sarah Palin has a problem with Rape,” blogger Steven R wrote on the DailyKos. “In addition to not supporting the availability of Abortion for victims of Rape, Mayor Sarah Palin, Maverick, Fiscal Conservative, also had citizens of Wasilla pick up the bill for their own forensics tests.”

Palin spokeswoman Maria Cornella told USA Today that Palin, “does not believe, nor has ever believed, that rape victims should have to pay for an evidence-gathering test.”

“Gov. Palin’s position could not be more clear,” Cornella said. “To suggest otherwise is a deliberate misrepresentation of her commitment to supporting victims and bringing violent criminals to justice.”

Fey went on to say: “I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping me get here tonight. My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that have ever happened to me.”

Well, I certainly agree about the “liar” and “idiot” parts.

Shame on Tina Fey for scraping the bottom of the liberal blog barrel for a cheap laugh. Next time, tell your jokes at the next Arianna Huffington soiree where they will be far better received by the Soros monkeys.

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#101

On November 11th, 2010 at 4:38 pm, Mister P said:

RSS thinks this thread is an opportunity to bash the Jews.”

I am sure Obama’s views are the same. Israel has no right to exists. That is why Obama was pandering in his childhood homeland.
#102

On November 11th, 2010 at 4:57 pm, Flyoverman said:

RSS,

Who has turned where they live into a productive society and who has turned their countries into wastelands despite the unbelievable amounts of oil revenue that could be used for investment.

The state of Israel now has six universities ranked as among the best on the face of the planet. Hebrew University Jerusalem is in the top-100. Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science are in the top-200. Bar Ilan University and Ben Gurion University are in the top-300. The Arab League does not have a single university in the top-400 (http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm). One in two Arab women can neither read nor write.

Between 1998 and 2000 more than 15,000 Arab physicians migrated. According to the World Bank, “roughly 25 per cent of 300,000 first degree graduates from Arab universities emigrated. Roughly 23 per cent of Arab engineers, 50 per cent of Arab doctors and 15 per cent of Arab BSc holders had emigrated.”

Israel, on the other hand, has more engineers and scientists per capita than any other country (for every 10,000 Israelis there are 145 engineers or scientists). Israel ranks among the top-7 countries worldwide for patents per capita. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Israel’s pharmaceutical giant, is the world’s largest producer of antibiotics (Teva developed Copaxone, a unique immunomodulator therapy for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, the only non-interferon agent available).

Most members of the Arab League grant Muslim women fewer rights — with regards to marriage, divorce, dress code, civil rights, legal status and education. Israel does not.

Spain translates more books in a year than has the Arab world in the past thousand years (since the reign of Caliph Mamoun; Abbasid, caliph 813-833). Six million Israelis buy 12 million books every year making them one of the highest consumers of books in the world.

Israel has the highest number of university degrees per capita in the world; the Arab world has the lowest. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other country (109 per 10,000 Israelis); the Arab world — next to nothing.

The average per capita income in Israel is $25,000 while the average income within the League of Arab States is $5,000.
#103

On November 11th, 2010 at 4:58 pm, spaceycakes said:

taking their side in the fight to kill all those who want their land back.

Now you’re just pulling the dirt down on top of your own grave, while you stand at the bottom.
#104

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:14 pm, rightisright said:

Is that not a picture of Rachal Madcow? Seriously that’s who I thought that was.
#105

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:18 pm, madmonkphotog said:

If Tina Fey were to need a blood transfusion, and I was the only person in the world who could provide the blood, there would be one less loud mouth in the world.
#106

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:20 pm, stillontheroad said:

spaceycakes said:
I think ole RSS is watching his private collection of Fritz Hipler films.
#107

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:21 pm, cicerokid said:

Tina Feye: “I’m not a woman of moral fibre or integrity, but I play one on TV.”
#108

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:22 pm, rightisright said:

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:18 pm, madmonkphotog said

That’s cold, I agree…-), along with Rachel Madcow and sooo many others on the left.
#109

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:33 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

On November 11th, 2010 at 4:57 pm, Flyoverman said:

Who has turned where they live into a productive society and who has turned their countries into wastelands despite the unbelievable amounts of oil revenue that could be used for investment.

Jews rock. They’re probably the smartest people on the planet, they thrive almost everywhere they live even in the face of persecution, and since this thread started about comedy I might as well add that they’re hilarious to boot. Does that mean they can just take over any place that isn’t already prosperous just because they can do better with that land? If I get a few buddies to go to Vanuatu, we might be able to do more with their land they then can, but that doesn’t mean we should.
#110

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:49 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

RSS: but that doesn’t mean we should.

You’re a Jew? I know you can’t have a buddy…
#111

On November 11th, 2010 at 5:49 pm, stillontheroad said:

Red State Skeptic said:
And what would your final solution be for the “Jewish Question” be?
#112

On November 11th, 2010 at 6:35 pm, spaceycakes said:

If I get a few buddies to go to Vanuatu

Did G-d promise Vanuatu to your ancestors?
#113

On November 11th, 2010 at 6:56 pm, Mister P said:

Red State Skeptic said:
And what would your final solution be for the “Jewish Question” be?

He said it. Give the land to the Palestinians and send them to the US as refugees. He said he would welcome them with open hands. (I am sure they would be thrilled._
#114

On November 11th, 2010 at 8:18 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

On November 11th, 2010 at 4:05 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
I think that most of us can can agree that it was wrong to rob Native Americans of the land they had occupied for hundreds if not thousands of years.

I can either listen to you or John Wayne, …I’m sticking with the Duke!

““I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
-John Wayne
#115

On November 11th, 2010 at 9:06 pm, txvet2 said:

On November 11th, 2010 at 3:25 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

On November 11th, 2010 at 3:19 pm, AlohaGuy said:
OT – You do know they were there much earlier right?

So because they had free reign of Israel 2000 years ago, they had the right to take it over and kick out everyone else? Did they “save their seat” like little kids?

They didn’t kick everyone out. There are over 1 million non-Jewish citizens of Israel.
#116

On November 11th, 2010 at 11:59 pm, mattymatt10 said:

Getting here for the first time today, am amazed that comments in a thread about Tina Fey are about a Jewish/Palestinian thing. Fascinating. It’s like the old telephone game.

Tina Fey looks like Gozer (or is it Zuul?) from Ghostbusters in that pic.
#117

On November 12th, 2010 at 2:08 am, happy2behere said:

Oh Boy! The we-was-here-first, so give it back, argument! Yay! If there was ever a stupid argument, its that one. Especially since so many people on this planet have such 100% pure ancestry, land will be so easy to parcel out! And even if some groups did get “their land” back, they dont deserve the infrastructure others built, do they? RSS, I have defended you in the past and I so regret it.
#118

On November 12th, 2010 at 9:43 am, spaceycakes said:

Really? There’s no accountability for this statement? I asked earlier, and it is still standing.

Come here and live prosperously, safely and morally

Wow. Actually, I don’t want an explanation. Anything would be a lie. You are a liar–like your father: Satan the Devil.
#119

On November 12th, 2010 at 5:21 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

I think that most of us can can agree that it was wrong to rob Native Americans of the land they had occupied for hundreds if not thousands of years.

No one “stole” anyone else’s land. In fact, many Native Americans still receive cash and in-kind restitution.

In the reservation I grew up near, there is no word or phrase in the native language that means to “own the land”.

I think we can also agree that at a certain point, history becomes somewhat arbitrary and irrelevant to the reality of modern life (so we’re not giving California back to Mexico).

Political boundaries have been changing for thousands and thousands of years. Native Americans are no exception.

All the Western European male colonists did was beat the rest of the world and many cases each other at their own game.

It’s as simple as that.

Personally, I feel that since a) it was wrong for the Jews to take the land of Muslims in Palestine in the first place, b) it wasn’t that long ago, and c) it’s not working out that well anyway, we shouldn’t be taking their side in the fight to kill all those who want their land back.

All parties and administrations play both sides. Support for Israel remains quite strong among republicans and democrats.
#120

On November 12th, 2010 at 8:21 pm, Tuesday said:

fey – irrational: behaving or talking in very unusual, uninhibited ways that suggest possible psychiatric disorder, nutty.

So Tina is!