Palinheads speak!
The guys at New Left Media decided to interview people waiting in line to meet Sarah Palin at a booksigning event.
The Palin supporters were asked questions like what they believe Palin stands for and what is happening in America. Much akin to the deer in headlights look that Palin showed Charles Gibson when it became abundantly clear that she had no idea how to answer his questions, these Palinheads grow increasingly uncomfortable when they are pressed about actual issues.
Aimai over at No More Mister Nice Blog has an amazing summary of the contents.
...If you watch the video lots of people were prepared with a first sound bite "she stands for America!" "She makes me proud to be a woman!" That was like the moment in Palin's interviews when she knew she'd handled the softball questions well. But as the interviewer didn't end the interview but instead asked for more detail the interviewee begins to get nervous. They have to explain some things that they had taken for granted. The very question seems to challenge them. As they start to talk more, and find themselves giving an impromptu lecture to this helpful student they find that they don't have the faintest idea what to offer to back up their gut feeling. Some of them become puzzled, others apologetic, others excitable....
At first, I found some of the ignorance on display absolutely stunning and at times mildly amusing. Then I read the following:
On November 20, 2009, at a Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio, Sarah Palin held a book signing event in support of “Going Rogue”.
Shit. I live in Ohio. These people live around me.
I'm going to go cry now.
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I'll bring the tissues.
Ok, I just can't let this one go. I live in Ohio, and right now, I am kind of ashamed of it. If there has ever been an argument for higher standards of education, then that video is it.
Why would you want to vote for someone that you know ABSOLUTELY nothing about? Is it the way her purse and shoes match? Does she not wear white after Labor Day? I'll give her this much, she DOES have style.
For the folks that said she'd reduce government spending....a good start to that would be not flying your family all over the country on the government's dime. A pay decrease wouldn't hurt either.
Foreign Policy people...before you assume you'd agree with it, find out what it is. You know what they say about ASSuming.
Anti-immigration people...don't forget that YOUR people came here on "the boats" too.
Getting back to what America is...America is about freedom, and not the freedom to think as long as it is exactly like you.
Not born in America guy...Last time I checked, Hawaii has been a state now for 50 years (as opposed to that not so original colony of Alaska that joined the Union a whole 8.5 months before that). As a matter of fact, it is such a great state, that Ms Palin went to college there for a semester.
Ok, enough knocking on Sarah. Folks, all I'm saying is that if you are going to vote for someone, know what you are voting for. If you are going to form an opinion, educate yourself on the issue first. Don't agree to answer questions on camera about a subject you are completely ill informed on (I will admit I don't know shit about quantum physics, so I keep my mouth shut when the subject comes up).
If you don't know something....find out.
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