Sliming Palin

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  Posted By: Mwalimu @ 11/15/2009 1:12:16 PM

  While the media is trumpeting Sarah Palin's book, which sounds like a very bad soap opera, they are ignoring a report by Goldman-Sachs about health insurance stock. According to the Goldman-Sachs report, if the proposed health care reform contains no public options, stock earnings would grow 5% a year from 2010 to 2019. If health insurance companies kill health care reform, the stock earnings would grow 10% a year and by 2019, the value of stock in health insurance companies would rise 59%.*
  
  The folks who will pay for this financial bonanza are the tea-baggers who make up Sarah Palin's fan club. In addition to paying stock dividends, Sarah Palin's fans will also pay the salaries for CEO's, lobbyists, advertising campaigns, and right-wing organizers. They'll make generous campaign contributions to politicians because 2010 is an election year. They can expect their health insurance rates to skyrocket. Many companies will off-shore to avoid insurance costs, precipitating an exodus of American jobs - or they will offer crummy insurance policies that really do not cover anything, so that when a tea-bagger gets sick, he or she also has to file for bankruptcy.
  
  Needless to say, if tea baggers gain too much weight, get diagnosed with breast-cancer, or if one of their children gets asthma, they will get dropped by their insurance companies and left to die. After call insurance companies really invented the death panels, except it's called "controlled utilization." (Term courtesy of Humana, and I got the info from David Sirota.)
  
  Why doesn't any one in the media ask Sarah Palin these questions? The answer is simple. As a rogue, which by definition means a crook, a charlatan or an con-artist, The Queen of the Rogues, Sarah Palin gets to pick and choose the questions she wants to answer, and as rogue, she also gets to pick and choose when she's going to tell the truth.
  
  * Source, The Progress Report, November 13 by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Colrey, Benjamin Armruster, pat Garafolo Zaid Jilani.
  

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  Posted By: Mwalimu @ 11/15/2009 1:10:54 PM

  In 2008, Sarah Palin was hailed as the world's top energy expert. She promised a trans-Canada natural gas pipeline from Alaska, to the energy hungry lower 48. It seems therefore appropriate that the media would ask Sarah Palin a few questions about her field of expertise.
  
  They could ask her what happened to the trans-Canada pipeline. They could ask Sarah Palin why she quit her job rather than completing this project, especially when she claimed that she's to original "no quitter."
  They could ask if it might be more economically viable to get methane from landfills. They could ask about the energy potential of miscanthus, or how Moore's Law would apply the development of solar energy.
  
  I could answer these questions, and I'm not an energy expert. I've just read Our Choice by Al Gore. Wouldn't an energy expert like Sarah Palin be familiar with Al Gore's work? And as an energy expert, why doesn't Sarah Palin accept the most fundamental scientific truth of the 21st century - that global climate change is REAL and that it man-made? Sure, Sarah Palin doesn't have to believe in global warming - and she doesn't have to believe in the law of gravity either. Sarah Palin can believe whatever she wants, but she shouldn't go around telling her Tea Bagger fan club to drive off a cliff - and that in a way is precisely what she is doing.
  
  Why doesn't anyone in the media ask Sarah Palin these questions? The answer is simple. As a rogue, which by definition means a crook, a charlatan or an con-artist, The Queen of the Rogues, Sarah Palin gets to pick and choose the questions she wants to answer, and as rogue, she also gets to pick and choose when she's going to tell the truth.
  

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  Posted By: tinker thinjer @ 01/02/2009 3:23:23 PM

  The far left has nothing to complain about except that she doesn't believe what they do. They should do as they said during the election and stick to the issues.
  Bush policy? Which one? There were 4. Palin talked about the last one the 4th one, Gibson was talking the 2nd one. So if anyone was stupid it was Gibson for not knowing the 3rd and 4th.
  Newspapers she reads? Huh? To ask a VP presidential candidate such an irrelevant question was disgusting to begin with,, why didn't she ask about any issues? It was an insult, like people in Alaska don't read.... the VP is what ever and merely talking to child on their level doesn't cut the criticism jwtrotman claims...