Sarah weighs in<\/a> on … um … something incoherent, in chatting about the State of the Union on Fox with Greta Van Susteren:<\/p>\nGRETA: Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik Moment the President wants us to have. Do you agree with him? Is this our moment?<\/p>\n
PALIN: That was another one of those WTF moments, when he has so often repeated, the Sputnik Moment, that he would aspire Americans to celebrate, he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory and that race to space, yeah, they won, but they also incured so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union so I listen to that Sputnik Moment talk over and over again and I think, no we don\u2019t need one of those.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Does the woman have any idea<\/em> what she’s actually saying? Or talking about?<\/p>\nDoes she know what Sputnik was?<\/p>\n
Does she know what the US did in response to Sputnik?<\/p>\n
Did she ever watch The Right Stuff<\/em>?<\/p>\nIs she trying to say that the American space program (you know, one of those Big, Grand, Exciting, Flag-Waving, Patriotic Things that Americans once felt really good and proud about) was a mistake because it … well, because the Soviet space program bankrupted the USSR?<\/p>\n
Does she actually believe the their space program was what bankrupted the Soviet Union?<\/p>\n
Does the Divine Ms. Half-Term Governor actually know what “WTF” means, even?<\/p>\n
One wonders.<\/p>\n
Remember, this is the woman who wanted to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency … and who lots of people seem \u00a0to want to be our next President. \u00a0Crikey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OMG. And WTF. Sarah weighs in on … um … something incoherent, in chatting about the State of the Union on Fox with Greta Van Susteren: GRETA: Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik Moment the President wants us to have. Do you agree with him? Is this our moment? … Continue reading “Sarah Palin is a Dolt (Sputnik Edition)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,10,9,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2012","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-politics-law","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":570,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/16\/my_favorite_com.html","url_meta":{"origin":19951,"position":0},"title":"My favorite commericial (at the moment)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 16-Sep-01 2:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Various quick intercuts between different people in different walks of life -- sitting on a couch, lying in bed, sitting at a lunch counter, sitting in an office, looking through...","rel":"","context":"In "Media & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Media & Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19964,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/28\/unblogged-bits-fri-28-jan-11-1631.html","url_meta":{"origin":19951,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 28-Jan-11 1631)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jan-11 4:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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