William Shatner made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien last night doing a recitation of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech in the form of beat poem, complete with an accompaniment of bongos and a bass.
via Huffington Post
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The video hasn’t even loaded yet, but I know that this is going to be Shattastic!
I was just listening to Jack Kerouac on my iPod the other day. This is in the same league LOL… ya gotta love Bill Shatner :)
Sarah Palin will haunt all the liberals all the way to the White House. It will be fun to watch the irrationallity displayed by those who fear Sarah.
Perfect! A tip of the hat is in order for poor old Dan Quayle. Prior to Governor Palin’s nomination as vice-presidential candidate ten months ago, he was generally regarded as the very worst choice of a running mate in living memory. All that has changed. Compared to Sarah, Danny boy is starting to look like Albert Einstein.
E=M.C. Hammer.
I guess the time has come for all of us breathe a collective sigh of relief. But for the mysterious workings of fate, President McCain would at this minute be snoozing away in the White House and this idiotic woman would be a seventy-three-year-old heartbeat away from the Oval Office. Regardless of one’s political viewpoint or party affiliation, it must be admitted that we really dodged a bullet with the defeat of the McCain/Unable ticket last November. Had these two been inaugurated on January 20, the law of averages virtually guaranteed that at some point between the years 2009 and 2013 this country would have been stuck with President Gidget von Braun.
In his column a few days ago in the Washington Post, Richard Cohen suggested that John McCain’s judgement should be put into question for making such an abysmal choice when he chose Governor Palin. Much as I admire Cohen as a writer, his assessment isn’t quite fair. McCain’s first two choices were former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge or that doofus Joe Lieberman. It was the Right Wing extremists who control the Republican party that forced Sarah Palin down his throat.
Instead of focusing a glare of condemnation toward John McCain, the real target of our collective wrath should be aimed at the “grand old party” itself. Think about that for a minute: So far down the ideological deep end has that party fallen, the prospect of a probable Sarah Palin presidency seemed to most of them a perfectly fine and dandy idea. A new Gallup poll has just been released: Seventy-one percent of registered Republicans would be “likely” to vote for her if she runs in 2012. Medications, please.
What, you may well ask, is her motivation for committing political suicide by abandoning the office that the people of Alaska entrusted to her care two years ago? When NBC’s Andrea Mitchell suggested to her that after ten months in the national limelight, the comparative drudgery of her duties as governor might have started to seem boring, Sarah Palin responded in words that should be etched in granite at the base of Mount Rushmore:
“The nitty-gritty, like, you mean the fish slime and the dirt under the fingernails and stuff that’s me?”
Brilliant. Someone hand me my chisel.
Why did she resign? She says that as a lame duck governor she won’t be as effective as she would like to be. The fact that she expects the voters of Alaska to swallow this nonsense without a chaser shows the utter contempt she must feel toward the people she was sworn to serve.
Does she really believe that she has a shot at the nomination three years from now? The answer (unbelievably) is yes. Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News put it well: The woman has “delusions of adequacy”. The pundits (most of them anyway) are starting to compare her rambling “farewell press conference” the other day to Dick Nixon’s infamous tirade when he lost the California governor’s race in 1962 (”You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore”). Some are even daring to suggest that, like Tricky Dick, she will ultimately be victorious. The only problem with that scenario is the fact that there are slightly over one-hundred things that separate Sarah Palin from Richard Milhaus Nixon: I.Q. points.
What else were her motivations for quitting? Money. She knows damned well that there is a nice chunk of change to be made in the lower forty-eight and that getting from there to here is an expensive and time-consuming process that infringes upon her gubernatorial responsibilities. Were you aware that the distance between Fairbanks and Washington is almost as great as the distance between Washington and London? What to do? To hell with her constituents and head off to the land of the golden goose.
When asked what her future plans were, she said that she will continue to work overtime for the people of Alaska. I’m willing to bet anyone that in the next twelve months, most – if not all of her time – will be spent in New York and Washington. Any takers?
The next three years will find her cashing in on her status as a….uhh….well, whatever her status just might be. Count on her making a national speaking tour for at least one-hundred thousand dollars a pop. A radio talk show? Probably. A gig on FOX Noise? That’s almost inevitable. There is a fortune to be made here and she’s not about to let something as trivial as her oath of office prevent her from making it.
Does she really have a shot at the nomination in three years? I sure hope so. That would be too good to be true.
SA-RAH! SA-RAH!
You go, girl!
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Tom Degan
So “we” dodged a bullet when McCain and Palin were defeated. Well, swallow your malicious tongue and listen up. This new health care plan Obama is trying to push through Congress is as squirrely as they come. Govenment are heads bragging that they are going to “squeeze”(their words) $35 billion out of medicare to help pay for this mess of health care. Giving health care to nonresident alien immigrants and not charge them any taxes to make them pay for their health care. Robbing the seniors of this country, who paid taxes all of their adult lives, raised their kids to be decent citizens and some even fought and died to protect our freedoms. Then giving health care to people, who never paid a dime into the system and either send their money to Mexico or live it up on alcohol/drugs.
Are you aware “special needs” persons will be restricted? Are you aware poor people will have to reach a certain wage level to be eligible for this program? Go read it and weep–for America.
There will be committees to decide who gets what kind of health care and when and how much. Doctors and hospitals can be penalized for repeat admissions to be decided by these committees–so can patients. I have always believed this was a decision to be made by a patient and his/her doctor.
There will also be “End of Life” consultants. Have you checked the cost of just one session with a consultant? Who will pay for all of these committees and consultants? Oh, come on. You really didn’t think it would be free, did you? Of course, a light goes on! Americans have the privilege of paying. Oh and as a patient”s health deteriorates, there will be an increased amount of consultation. Do you even realize how much, just talking about one’s condition, can worsen the symptoms?
Were you aware your bank account can be accessed by the government to transfer funds for elections? No? Read the entire 1,000 page report, if you think these things are not true. Medicaid and medicare will be cut back affecting seniors, the poor and special needs people.
Do you recall Hitler’s final solution plan? Well, welcome to NAZI Socialism, America. This plan definitely is against the Constitution of the USA. I’m surprised the Supreme court hasn’t spoken up about it. But wait a moment! Don’t our President and government workers, Senators and Congressmen and women have wonderful retirement benefits and pensions even if they serve only one term in office? So why should they care what they do to us?
AND are you aware all Health Care administrators And their employees will have access to all of our financial and personal information. What a perfect set-up for a dishonest person to do Theft Identity on a grand scale. It can and probably will be done sometime. So this little old great grandma thinks you are petty to poke fun at Sarah Palin and McCain, when you voted for the biggest scam America has been confronted with. No wonder the demos didn’t want to let the GOP debate this on the House or Senate floors, so they entire nation could hear what is planned for the unsuspecting citizens. Do you love your mama? Your papa? If so, why would you let thes A-double so and sos get away with this. I sent my Senators and Congressmen emails strongly objecting to this stupid bill and told them we still had the vote and who had been voted in could just as easy be voted out. Party line is one thing, but this is another thing–a terrible miscarriage of justice and a disservice to the trust of the people.
Iris Seyfried
“It must be admitted that we really dodged a bullet with the defeat of the McCain/Unable ticket last November.”
Are you kidding me?
Is there anyone that gullible, even on the Left, that thinks that McCain seriously wanted to win?
When you rig an election, just like when you rig a fight, one of the most important steps is to find a fall guy who will go down and stay down.
The only thing McCain did for the entire election was to make Obama look good.
And look at what we got. A War Monger president that wants $200 Billion MORE for the Pentagon than Bush did. A War Monger president who has predator drones blowing up kids in Pakistan. Bush drops bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan and San Francisco will throw a few anti-war protests, more so for the photo-opts for their own blogs and just as an exercise to make them feel good about themselves.
Obama is blowing up Pakistan on A DAILY BASIS and no one on the anti-war front gives a fuck.
Yee-haw! Pat yourself on the back San Francisco. We really dodged a bullet on that one, huh gang?
The fear mongers say..”do you want the govt in charge of your health care?”…I am a doctor, in practice 15 years now. My question to you is: “do you want Aetna (United, Blue Cross, etc.) in charge of your health care?”…do you want corporate america in charge of your health care?…the same prototype of people that were recently in charge of your 401K.
your fantasy that somehow you are in “charge” of your health care is false anyway..
Oh, but I have choice you say…really??…try to exercise some choice and see how expensive that gets… go out of network and see your bill explode….one of the doctor’s in my practice had a situation where his 2 yo son needed a liver transplant, he got it, but a year later, we had changed plans, but his son needed another liver, the carrier told him he would have go to another state to have the surgery, they didn’t have a contract with transplant center in our state….I suppose he had a “choice”….
I love William Shatner he’s great on Heartbeat of America and Raw Nerve and besides Sarah Palin is a scam.
Hey did you you see the episode on Solar on Heartbeat of America. I am so glad someone out there is promoting a greener planet and not some scam that Global Warming does not exist. You rule Shatner keep up the good work on keeping our planet a better place for our kids.
Heartbeat of America is going to be doing several more green shows including one with Ed Begley. The world can be a greener place and don’t let anyone scam you into believing otherwise.
I just watched Raw Nerve. William Shatner is great he tells it like is. No sugar coated scam just because some one is famous. The questions are frank with a don’t give a shit your a celebrity attitude. Try and watch it even if your not a Shatner fan.
Check out Heartbeat of America. It airs on cable on American Life Network and is hosted by William Shatner.