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If It Were Me, I'd Be Embarrassed - Republicans Idolize Idiocy When They Should Be Bowing Their Heads In Shame

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:52 PM EST
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It's nice to see that even after the election, conservatives are still playing the "liberal gotcha media" card every time they expose themselves as being shamefully ignorant regarding the issues they care about most.

Last Wednesday, a media firestorm erupted after a seventeen-year-old girl named Jackie was interviewed by MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell while standing in line during Sarah Palin's Michigan book signing. Jackie, wearing a shirt that read, "The US government handed out $700 billion in Wall Street bailouts and all I got was this lousy t-shirt," was caught off-guard when O'Donnell informed her that Sarah Palin was on record as supporting the bailout.

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{"commentId":10843013,"authorDomain":"celiaarm"}
CCArm

17 or 70, there isn't much difference in the ideology or the intelligence. It's a missing gene.

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Reply#1 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:46 AM EST
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MotherKnowsBest-719453

Ahh, that's not nice (funny, but not nice). As the high school senior who wrote the story said, these are "low information voters." Euphemisms are so much more civilized. LOL

As far as Sarah Palin and the bailouts are concerned, as Jackie, the teenager interviewed said, "Sarah was for it before she was against it." Now where have we heard that before?

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#1.1 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:07 AM EST
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ron c. baker sr.

the far wrong-wing gene pool is drying up as we speak, er...ugh, write !!!

luv,

ron

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  • 5 votes
Reply#2 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:58 AM EST
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A. Macarthur

the far wrong-wing gene pool is drying up as we speak ...

It's that "abstinence only" thing ...

And many of them are chipping their teeth on vibrators.

And they say they hate the "alternative life styles."

Hey righties ... what's all the Buzzzzzzzz about?

Batteries not included.

A. Mac

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Reply#3 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:02 PM EST
{"commentId":10846584,"authorDomain":"Nic-24"}
Nic-24

You wear a politically charged T-shirt to an event such as this, you are asking to be questioned on it. No excuses when you get called out on not knowing something. This girl's response should have been that regardless of Palin's views, the t-shirt expressed her own... but no, she felt foolish and blamed other people. Clearly she learned this tactic from watching Fox.

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  • 5 votes
Reply#4 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:25 PM EST
{"commentId":10846737,"authorDomain":"ronco104"}
ron c. baker sr.

clearly she learned from her hero...

luv,

ron

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Reply#5 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:31 PM EST
{"commentId":10847234,"authorDomain":"celiaarm"}
CCArm

Clearly she learned this tactic from watching Fox.

Nic-24

coupled with the fact that she stated clearly that any other form of media are biased and liberal and therefore worthless in her opinion. Even worse, the "liberal" reporter was out to get her.

it's a sad thing in the information age, that ideology gets in the way of seeking opinions from other sources. They are in deep do do if they continue to bash the MSM as biased when in all fairness, they are NOT.

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Reply#6 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:51 PM EST
{"commentId":10848437,"authorDomain":"Nic-24"}
Nic-24

it's a sad thing in the information age, that ideology gets in the way of seeking opinions from other sources

Agreed. It amazes me at how closed-minded so many people still are.

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#6.1 - Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:35 PM EST
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1623 yankee

It's not in me to criticize children for perpetuating adult faux pas. What IS in me is to wonder, once again, where were the parents in this? This girl may be 17, but she's STILL an easily influenced child.

Are THEY (the parents) woefully ignorant of the facts? Have THEY stood by idly while their child draws all the WRONG examples from society? Have THEY watched in wonder and awe while their child was brainwashed with misinformation? Are THEY the instruments of a future that will include blind followers who fail to know the truth because of popular hate?

This may be a minor incident but it serves as a reminder that our innocents are easily led and steered onto the wrong path just as well as the correct one. It is fearsome to be reminded of another group of youth that followed charismatic leaders in 1939 and to what they became.

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Reply#7 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:57 AM EST
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