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Posted on 10/07/2008 3:58:20 PM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 10/07/2008 4:04:57 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Bless your heart, sir, my son is over in Eye-Rack, fighting for your right to protest. -- Sarah Palin, to a purported heckler at a rally yesterday.
There's something doubly evil about a self-avowed Christian who prefaces almost every uncharitable remark she makes with a disingenuous "Bless your heart!" In any case, I say this without even the slightest amount of support or emboldening from the US military-- **** you and your jingoistic blather, Palin. How's that for freedom?
I've dealt with the intellectually bereft assertion that there is a direct relation between domestic freedom and this country's militant imperialism many times so please consider this a brief general election refresher tirade.
We were told years ago that our freedom was on the line in Vietnam. The USA then LOST the Vietnam War but we remained free. To this very day, Charlie has made no forays into my neighborhood -- unless of course you count the NIKE Store that he fills with manufactured goods in exchange for subhuman wages.
If I heart my freedom, thank a vet? Well, maybe a WWII vet but after that, you've got to be kidding me. The military/police state that is America in 2008 is overrun by people who think they have a perfect right to crack protesters in the head, restrict speech and impose ridiculous limitations upon civil liberties-- all in the name of freedom! Habeas corpus is a memory, constitutional safeguards against consolidation of power by the executive branch have been bound and gagged in Dick Cheney's inner office, the Fourth Amendment has been extraordinarily renditioned to parts unknown and the federal government is the silent partner in everyone's cell phone "friends and family" plan. For this I'm supposed to thank some poor sap, stupid enough to join a military with a draft-dodging rich boy serving as its commander in chief? Please. The war in Iraq (and allegedly on terrorism) has been used to curtail my freedoms. Loose lips sink bull**** at times of unnecessary war and we can't have that, can we?
To deal specifically with Palin's putdown of the person at the rally:
1- It's even money the 'heckler' was a plant. Has anyone spoken to him since the rally? Where is he? Gitmo?
2- Considering all the people who have been arrested over the past several years for protesting (or wearing tee-shirts or not being card-carrying Republicans or whatever) at mainstream American political gatherings (both R & D), Palin is relying upon American ignorance with her talk of "fighting for freedom." She has no use for protesters except when she can put them down by exploiting her own son.
3- With her outburst yesterday, Governor Palin only underscored the fact that her son is in Iraq as a potential human sacrifice to her political ambition. Like her daughter she is forcing into marriage, he has been shoved by his stupid family into an arrangement that may well destroy his life because it is what is best for his mother's cynical aspirations. (At least Biden's son is also promoting his own political ambitions.) Young Palin is also serving as a Hessian in the cause of corporate imperialism. Sadly, that pretty much sums up what this poor dupe is doing in Iraq. To repeat, he doesn't have a goddamned thing to do with my freedom to call Palin on her bumper sticker jingoism. His presence in Iraq doesn't make it safe for me to speak out against reactionary slime like his mother. The First Amendment to the Constitution is what guarantees my right to accurately label political bottom-feeders like Sarah Palin.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and Palin opens with it. Then the freeze-dried fascist sinks even lower by terrorist-baiting her political opponents. She is the worst America has to offer.
So if you love your freedom, thank a protester for confronting penny-ante political thugs like Sarah Palin.
For a long time this WAS steering the politicics of popular culture. Until he flipped his lid, he was doing a lot of mainstream TV comedy writing. If he were still useful today, he'd be writing for the Colbert Report, and the guys who replace him there today are politically identical.
“Bless your heart, sir, my son is over in Eye-Rack, fighting for your right to protest.”
I wouldn’t have said this. The heckler has no right to interrupt another speaker, thereby denying her right of free speech. I would have said something like, “Bite my ass, you lying babboon. My son is in Eye-Rack fighting your friends and trying to make sure they don’t take over another country completely.”
(Probably one reason I am not running for VP. Being ineligible is another one.)
I was surprised to hear Palin say this. It is very commom in the south...
The old joke is, you know when a Southern Bell is going to say something bad about a person, she will start the sentence with “Bless their heart,BUT...”
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Yeah, I guess you’re right - except that it probably should be labeled as a vanity, so people won’t expect the link to really jibe with the headline and be some op-ed piece found at the link.
Idiot.....Democrats plant these hacks in their own rallies......re: IRON MY SHIRTS...was a DEMOCRAT plant ..... Republicans aren’t that clever!
There’s porn out there too. I don’t visit those sites for the same reason I don’t care to visit this type of garbage.
There was nothing on this page to warrant a Freeper reading it... nothing.
They are so vain. I bet they think this site is about them.
For the record: Barry is a recognized pundit, who has been posted in the Boston Globe and elsewhere. If you ask him, he’ll tell you that the reason he is not published regularly any more is by his own choice and his alone.
The robotic sloganeer thinks it's important.
*snicker*
The phrase serves two purposes - it extends the will to bestow God's blessings upon the recipient of that phrase, and if the recipient is a raving, brain-dead liberal lunatic, it also serves to provoke an incoherent, vicious response. Like this article.
So Bless your Heart, there Barry.
To be honest, I never thought of you personally. I the future, I promise to always keep you in mind when I am considering if something is or is not postworthy. In return, I'm informing you that I will no longer be needing any future posts from you voicing you approval or disapproval of something that I may have posted. I'm already looking out for you. Is it a deal?
Fearful liberals are funny, in a confused sort of way.
In any case, there was nothing “uncharitable” with what followed anyway. So what’s the big deal?
He’s right! Let’s go blow up the Pentagon!
(/sarcasm)
I need to take a shower after reading this. What neutralizes bile and acid?
Rats projecting again. Plants are their tactic.
I think the fat guy was maybe... mmm... Barry Crimmins?
This is one of the funniest articles I’ve seen in a while. What a dork.
He is considered the founder of the Boston school and Godfather of the 1980's class of stand-up-comics. He influenced and guided comics such as Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, Bobcat Goldthwait, Kevin Meaney, Jimmy Tingle to fame if you can call it that.
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