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Politics | 11/09/2008 6:08 pm

Sarah Palin Fights Back (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Sarah Palin is mad as hell and she’s not gonna take it anymore.

After listening to anonymous people within John McCain’s presidential campaign leak allegations to the press about whether she thinks Africa is a country or a continent, who the members of NAFTA are, how much she charged the Republican National Committee for clothes for her and her family and other nasty rumors, the Alaska governor is letting loose.

Not mincing words, the governor called those behind the smears "sexist, unprofessional jerks," and also said she has talked to McCain since the post-election leaks began, and said he agrees with her that the rumors are uncalled for. "I never asked for anything more other than a Dr. Pepper after awhile," she told reporters Friday.

She also said there was definitely a double standard in the media’s scrutiny of her as compared with the media scrutiny endured by the male candidates. She urged young girls to study hard, but also advised them to be ready to endure that double standard.

"I don’t know if anybody’s asking Barack Obama, for intance, ‘Who did your makeup before you went on stage?’ But they’ve been asking me. And they’ve been reporting who powdered her nose before she went on stage … who purchased the hair spray on the trail?" Palin said. "That’s a double standard and I’m not afraid or ashamed to say that is my feeling on this."

Here’s video of Palin talking to reporters as she returned to the governor’s office Friday.

 

 

 

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Rue Robinson
We all heard about the cost of Obama’s suits, Mccain’s shoes & John Edward’s haircuts. Sarah Palin is the one who is cowardly, cruel, mean-spirited, immature, and unprofessional. Palin is the jerk whose campaign speeches took things out of context that were neither fair nor right.
By Rue Robinson on 11/10/2008 10:41 am
rocky rocky
It’s difficult to feel sorry for a mudslinger when the mud is aimed at her.
By rocky rocky on 11/10/2008 12:33 pm
Okpulot Taha
Our American Secret Service is blaming Sarah Palin for death threats against Barack Obama. Sarah is at fault for those death threats. Couple of whacko skin head neo-nazis hatch a plan to slip on white tuxedoes then drive a Cadiallac into an Obama rally while firing automatic weapons. Secret Service: Yes, Sarah Palin is at fault for this. Some toothless inbred red neck retard trailer trash sitting in lawn chair drinking beer belches, “I’m gonna kill that there boy.” Secret Service: Yes, Sarah Palin is at fault for this. Democrats plant Obama supporters at McCain rally and one of them yells about Obama, “Kill him!” Secret Service: Yes, Sarah Palin is at fault for this. What is next? Will America begin blaming Sarah for some dog which dumps a load on the Obama family front lawn? What is wrong with Americans they are so ignorant and so gullible to join this Sarah shark feeding frenzy going on? Dang, never before have I witnessed such widespread ignorance and hatred amongst our peoples. America, sit down, shut up and go back to mindlessly watching that airhead bimbo Oprah on daytime television; you are absolutely disgusting. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation
By Okpulot Taha on 11/10/2008 12:53 pm
Ms. Dee
I’m reminded of a family joke…”the smeller is the stinker.” She did take a pummelling, but she’s right. She’s got a lot of work to do in Alaska.
By Ms. Dee on 11/10/2008 12:56 pm
Okpulot Taha
Ms. Dee comments, “She did take a pummelling, but she’s right.” Darn straight! This blaming Sarah for everything, these daily rants about Sarah, all this well reflects Obama supporters are fervently intolerant, just as intolerant as the Nation of Islam and as the Ku Klux Klan. I would not be surprised if Obama supporters take to wearing khaki shirts and “O” armbands. I am thinking to start up a new business to help our economy. My new business will be manufacturing and selling Glossy Black Jack Boots for Obama cultists to wear while Goose Stepping around America making sure all Americans are thinking right thoughts. Why is Obama not objecting to all this hatred? Why is McCain not objecting to all this hatred? Why are Americans not objecting to all this hatred? Interesting only a woman, Sarah, is the target for American’s hatred. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation
By Okpulot Taha on 11/10/2008 1:31 pm
kermie b
I never cared for Palin, but as a human being, she looks and sounds exhausted. She and McSame did some deplorable things while campaigning, but there is so much she isn’t saying. As a female, I can only imagine what “old boy” crap the woman had to put up with. She should keep the damned clothes. She earned at least that much. I don’t exactly feel sorry for her, mainly because of all she put Obama through, but I hear the stress in her voice and the falseness in her happy demeanor. This is probably the most honest she has let people see her, and she is hurting.
By kermie b on 11/10/2008 1:35 pm
Mary NSB-Florida
Losing the campaign was not Ms. Palin’s fault. Her lack of engagement in the issues, before accepting the offer, is her fault and needs to be corrected if she ever plans to seek an office outside Alaska. Politics is no longer a popularity game to be an effective government. The transparency is going to show those that need to think about retirement. We’ve certainly seen what has been accomplished with the choices in the past. The bar just needs to be set higher in the future.
By Mary NSB-Florida on 11/10/2008 1:58 pm
starry Nite
I hope we don’t have to endure this much longer. All the clothes will be found and Sarah will be forgiven . She is making the rounds just like Joe the Plumber.
By starry Nite on 11/10/2008 5:18 pm
Elizabeth Bennett
I do not understand why she allowed the Republican National Committee to declare that she needed new clothes and that they would pay for it. Has any other candidate been clothes with campaign contributions? I don’t think so; the practice is illegal. ILLEGAL! So no matter what smears, lies and innuendos are going on, it is clear to me that Sarah Palin was at fault herself for accepting those clothes for herself, her husband and her children. I vaguely recall that she file tax returns revealing a six figure income last year, enough to buy clothes for anyone in her family. Maybe not designer duds, but since when were these required to win political office? I heard a report the other day that the RNC was sending an investigator to Alaska to see if the Palins still had any of the clothes purchased by the RNC or its employees to recover them so that they could be accounted for an valued and donated to charity. I don’t know if it is true, but it sounds about right to me.
By Elizabeth Bennett on 11/10/2008 7:56 pm
Tee Zee
Another fine example of why she’s not qualified for higher office…
By Tee Zee on 11/10/2008 10:37 pm
Tee Zee
Sayonara In which we bid a fond farewell to Sarah Palin, God’s gift to journalism and feminism—sort of Katha Pollitt November 10, 2008 And so we bid farewell to Sarah Palin. How I’ll miss her daily presence in my life! The mooseburgers, the wolf hunts, the kids named after bays and sports and trees and airplanes and who did not seem to go to school at all, the winks and blinks, the cute Alaska accent, and those great little flared jackets. People say she was a dingbat, but that is just sexist: The woman read everything, she said so herself; her knowledge of geography was unreal—she knew just where to find the pro-America part of the country; and don’t forget her keen interest in ancient history! You can snipe all you want, but she was truly God’s gift to Barack Obama, Katie Couric—notice no one’s making fun of America’s sweetheart now—Tina Fey and columnists all over America. She was also a gift to feminism. Seriously. I don’t mean she was a feminist—she told Couric she considered herself one, but in a later interview, perhaps after looking up the meaning of the word, coyly wondered why she needed to “label” herself. And I don’t mean she had a claim on the votes of feminists or women—why should women who care about equality vote for a woman who wants to take their rights away? The first way Palin was good for feminism is that she helped us clarify what it isn’t: Feminism doesn’t mean voting for “the woman” just because she’s female, and it doesn’t mean confusing self-injury with empowerment, like the Ellen Jamesians in “The World According to Garp” (I’ll vote for the forced-childbirth candidate, that’ll show Howard Dean!). It isn’t just feel-good, “you go, girl” appreciation of female moxie, which I cheerfully acknowledge Palin has by the gallon. As I wrote when she was selected, if she were my neighbor I would probably like her—at least until she organized with her fellow Christians to ban abortion at the local hospital, as Palin did in the 1990s. Yes, feminism is about women getting their fair share of power, and that includes the top jobs—but that can’t take a back seat to policies that benefit all women: equality on the job and the legal framework that undergirds it, anti-violence, reproductive self-determination, health care, education, child care and so on. Fortunately, women who care about equality get this, and in the end Barack Obama won the support of the vast majority of women who had supported Hillary Clinton. Second, Palin’s presence on the Republican ticket forced family-values conservatives to give public support to working mothers, equal marriages, pregnant teens and their much-maligned parents. Talk-show frothers, Christian zealots and professional anti-feminists—Rush Limbaugh and Phyllis Schlafly—insisted that a mother of five, including a “special-needs” newborn, could manage governing a state while running for veep and, who knows, field-dressing a moose. No one said she belonged at home. No one said she was neglecting her husband or failing to be appropriately submissive to him. No one blamed her for 17-year-old Bristol’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy. No one even wondered out loud why Bristol wasn’t getting married before the baby arrived. All these things have officially morphed from sins to “challenges,” just part of normal family life. No matter how strategic this newfound broadmindedness is, it will not be easy to row away from it. Thanks to Palin, ladies, we can do just about anything we want as long as we don’t have an abortion. Third, while Palin did not win the Clinton vote, the love she got from Republican women, including very conservative, traditional women, shows that what I like to call “the feminism of everyday life” is taking hold across the spectrum. That old frilly doormat model of femininity is gone: Even women who stay home and attend churches that bar them from the clergy thrill to the idea of women being all they can be and taking their rightful place in the public realm. Like everyone else, they want respect and power, and now, finally, thanks to the women’s movement they despise, they may actually get some. Finally, Palin completed the task Clinton began: Running in different parties across a single political season, they have normalized the idea of a woman in the White House. It is hard even to remember how iconoclastic Clinton was—how hard it was for her to negotiate femininity and ambition, to be warm but not weak, smart but not cold, attractive but not sexy, dynamic but not threatening. Only a year ago, it was a real question whether men would vote for a woman or, for that matter, whether women would. Palin may have been unfit for high office, but just by running she showed there was more than one mode for a female politician. After almost two years of the whole country watching two very different women in the White House race, it finally seems normal. So thanks, Sarah. And now, please—back to your iceberg.
By Tee Zee on 11/10/2008 11:09 pm
Joan Brown
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, you seem to be misguided. After the verbal bashing you gave Obama, I can only say what goes around comes around. You are not the only person who got bashed in the campaign. Everyone had mud on their faces, and you slung a bunch of it yourself.
By Joan Brown on 11/10/2008 11:11 pm
Okpulot Taha
Elizabeth Bennet comments about Sarah Palin, “I vaguely recall that she file tax returns revealing a six figure income last year, enough to buy clothes for anyone in her family.” Highly illogical. Quite impossible for you to know of the Palin family budget. You cannot know what this family can afford or cannot afford. Sarah is the bread winner for the Palin family. Her husband’s income is quite small. Additionally, their capital gains profit is insignificant. The Palin family falls well within the Obama definition of “middle class”, those who need help according to Obama. Five kids, one special needs, typical expenses of average Americans, the Palin family is no different than the average American family. You write, “I vaguely recall….” Perhaps this is why you are twisting around the Palin tax return into suggesting the Palin family is wealthy, which is not true. Based on typical expenses of a family with five kids, I would think the Palin family is just staying ahead of the game; modest savings. You also write, “…the practice is illegal. ILLEGAL!” Certainly this buying of clothes for Sarah Palin is the crime of the century. America should make sure the Palin family pays their pound of flesh for their horrific crimes. Sarah and Todd, prison time. Their oldest boy, court martial and dishonorable discharge. The rest of their kids, taken away then turned over to social services. We must destroy the Palin family, yes, America must destroy the Palin family; this is the Good Christian thing to do. Righteous retribution shall be ours. Christians are like that, you know. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation
By Okpulot Taha on 11/11/2008 12:35 am
Elizabeth Bennett
$166,080 per year is likely enough for the woman to clothe herself. I never said it was the crime of the century. The century is young.
By Elizabeth Bennett on 11/11/2008 12:12 pm