Sarah Palin has an open display of cognitive dissonance while discussing Pope Francis on CNN:
“Having read through media outlets, he’s had some statements that to me sounded kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me,” the former Republican vice presidential nominee said on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” “But there again unless I really dig deep into what his messaging is, and do my own homework, I’m not going to just trust what I hear in the media.”
Here’s what he said, Sarah. “Mind yo’ business.”
He’s tired of your right-wing act. He doesn’t want to hear about gays and abortion every goddamn second of the day. Go feed the hungry and help an old lady cross the street. Until then, just shut your stupid mouth.
Hi-LARIOUS.
That’s a pretty classic exchange, all right; it’s like the best stuff in “Found” magazine. Love that Davy Rothbart; he’s one of the best monologuists on Earth.
Some of the notes to thieves below the linked story are pretty great as well. “Att Bike Thief, This Is Not Post War Italy, Stealing Is Not Cool.” Hope the thief went to film school so it really sinks in.
Since Palin reads all of the papers, shouldn’t she already have a balanced view of the Pope’s statements?
You know, I think the problem is that there’s a long mail delay from Rome to Wasilla. She’s just not quite up to date.
But really, why should Palin care what Francis has to say at all? She’s a Protestant. She doesn’t go in for all that Caesarian, fish-eatin’ popery.
There’s no need for the failed former half-term governor to worry about trusting the media. She can get the pope’s own words in tasty 140 character morsels directly through the Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pontifex
Sarah Palin is not Catholic. Why would I, a (regular, church-going) Catholic, care what she has to say about the pope?
True enough. Sarah Palin’s family was originally Catholic, and Sarah was baptized as a Catholic, but at some point during her childhood, her family left Catholicism for the Assembly of God.
If she actually does her own homework on this, I suspect it may be a first for her.
Hey Sarah, do you know who else was a liberal? Jesus. You want some homework, try actually reading the Bible … and don’t stop at Leviticus.
What newspapers (of the many she told Katy Curiic she read) would she likely read to do her homework? Oops, she doesn’t trust the media. So what right wing blogger is she going to consult?
Or is she just going to go the bible and leapfrog the pope’s scholarly work on the subject?
That’s the Jersey version.
Cuddly enough for ya?
As cuddly as a broken bottle. “This is Jersey, man!”
We’re a bit more courtly here in the Midwest, and Southerners are lot more courtly. The East Coast is much more likely to call a spade a f___ing shovel. The Pope would talk like that if he was a Jersey Boy.
Sarah who?
Palin doesn’t believe Catholics are Christians. Why does she care what the great satanic whore has to say anyway?
Speaking of, why are we still forced to listen to what she has to say about anything?
Why was I given a 2?
I mean, she flatly says Catholics aren’t Christians:
“In the 70s, she would tune into the Billy Graham crusades, televised. My mom was raised Catholic, and she … was yearning for something more,” she said. “His invitation for people to know that they could have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ — my mom understood that from the way that he could articulate it. She became a Christian, led the rest of the family to Christ, and that I believe transformed our family.”
Billy Graham’s final sermon: ‘I’ve wept’ for America
Dunno, seabe. A former Catholic told me that Revelations 16,17,& 18 refer to the Great Harlot sitting on Seven Hills, interpreted by him as the Vatican, so the reference is a common interpretation.
Evangelical Christians reference it as that all the time; it’s why they don’t think Catholics are true Christians. They’ve been led astray to worship Mary and the Saints, and believe that you can be saved with works.
True Christians know that you can only be saved through faith and faith alone. Anything else is heresy.
Including Pastor John Hagee
“Having read through media outlets, he’s had some statements that to me sounded kind of liberal, has taken me aback, has kind of surprised me,” the former Republican vice presidential nominee said on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” “But there again unless I really dig deep into what his messaging is, and do my own homework, I’m not going to just trust what I hear in the media.”
Wow, it seems that not a single one of all those newspapers “that have been in front of me over all these years” has bothered to report a single thing that the Pope has said!!! Why, one might wonder what these papers are doing with their time. I would be more than happy to fish through my stack of recent newspapers waiting for the recycling truck and send them to Sarah, so she can get up to speed on all these crazy, un-Jesus like, bleeding heart shit that is pouring out of the Pope’s mouth. After all, if one is going to be an icon of the right, it just wouldn’t do to fall behind on your homework to keep on top of George Soros’ buddy Francis.
I’m struck by the fact that even short, simple sentences come out of Mooselini with grammatical errors and/or malapropisms. The “I” and “we” in that last sentence, for example. None of these sentences are proper English.
It’s truly strange that such a subnormal was elevated to her level of leadership. I’m actually made to feel a little sorry for Sarah. How difficult it must be to have your mistakes and lack of comprehension pointed out by lots of people, in public, every day. Her pure Mean Girls nastiness prevents my sympathies from extending very far, though. It’s just good to remember that much of her nastiness likely comes from fear and vulnerability.
This simple quote – but it’s Palin, so that’s a redundant phrase – this quote is, like so many of Sarah’s utterings, a motherlode of snarkalicious nectar. But I keep getting hung up on the whole infallibility of the Pope thing. I mean, I know Sarah’s not Catholic – and honestly, her only true religion is Sarah – but she seems happy to believe in papal infallibility when the pontiff was an old Nazi, or oversaw a global criminal conspiracy of pedarasts. But now that the new Pope wants to emphasize the actual teachings of Christ, he’s some sort of freak horror show?
Every major world religion – all of them – start from a premise of hope, love, and empathy. All of them. That Palin finds such concepts horrifying says a lot about just how far she and some (not all) of her fellow evangelicals have drifted from Christ’s original message. Of course, the other thing all the major religions have in common is texts vague enough that people, especially people in power, can use them to justify whatever horrors they wanted to perpetrate anyway. That is Sarah’s idea of religion.
Or, paraphrasing an old Leonard Pitts column, I’ve known a lot of people who both claimed and genuinely believed that God spoke to them. Not one of them liked what He had to say.
It’s so much easier if you just cherry-pick the bits that seem to justify your own abhorrent behavior.
Oh, and – WTF is an irrelevant simpleton – a failed half-term governor of a state literally as far away from the American mainstream as is physically possible – doing being interviewed by Jake Tapper on broadcast network TV? My neighbor’s dog would have more interesting insights into just about everything. And she does a better job of “doing her homework,” too.
She’s got a phony-baloney book to flog, and there’s always a substantial portion of the public who can be counted on to arrive when you cry out, “Come look at the geek!”
Plus there’s the geeks themselves, who just want to hear from family.
Have to reply in defence of all star wars, computer nerd, comic-con geeks in the universe;
St Sarah of Wasilla is NO GEEK,
never was couldn’t pass the simple test
of having a functioning brain and
consistently using it
to UNDERSTAND the universe
on the universe’s terms.
Freak, aeration of nature occupying a human form,
de-evolving human yes,
geek never.
I was thinking of the way “geek” was used before the tech boom. I’d concede “Geek Squad” has popularized a different labeling of the term, but here’s what I had in mind:
“The Online Etymology Dictionary give the following for “geek”: “sideshow freak,” 1916, U.S. carnival and circus slang, perhaps a variant of geck “a fool, dupe, simpleton” (1510s), apparently from Low Ger. geck, from an imitative verb found in North Sea Germanic and Scandinavian meaning “to croak, cackle,” and also “to mock, cheat.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_show
And to think, if the President’s popularity continues to drop there could be more Senators as intelligent as her in the Senate. I truly hope Obama hasn’t been permanently injured by the ACA rollout.
Well the pope’s messages has different interpretation whether you’re a religious or not. It really doesn’t matter how it affects other people. It’s what you do with it is.
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physical therapy
Get back to me in June and tell me if any dems are “permanently injured”.
Numbers out of CA in the last few days are epic. This will turn around very fast once the site is at least working tolerably.
Didn’t she major in communications when she was at those colleges she attended? Why is it she can’t seem to speak without dangling her participial phrases?
when you transfer as many times as she did, I’m not sure you can say you “majored” in anything…
Princess world salad speaks. The way I interpreted this was: I think the pope is a liberal, but I can’t be sure cause I can’t trust the liberal media.