So Sarah Palin kicked off a nationwide Tea Party Express tour with a rally on Monday. And of course, she made a classic Sarah Palin mistake.
Seeking to channel the sign-bearing, flag-waving enthusiasm of the “tea party” movement into ballot-box victories, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told hundreds of supporters Monday they couldn’t “party like it’s 1773” until Washington was flooded with like-minded conservatives.
What a dumb, embarassing gaffe, right?? So naturally, the lefties, led by Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas and Gwen “I Heart Obama” Ifill, jumped all over this, cackling with self-righteous glee, via Cuffy Meigs.
Jeez, that Sarah Palin, what a moron! Nothing noteworthy happened in 1773, right??
Oh… wait a second… she was talking about the Tea Party movement, and the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773! Most kids learn that in, what the third grade? But hey, what do they care? They’re either stupid, lazy, or just don’t care about reality in their quest to humiliate Sarah. (My guess would be a combination of the three.)
Gwen Ifill is busily trying to spin, spin, spin. So far, nothing from Markos Moulitsas, who is probably ignoring the fact that he got schooled by Sarah Palin (who did fire back, by the way).
Of course, given the anti-American leanings of these progressive liberal idiots, they might just be angry to be reminded of a significant event that helped lead to the founding of the greatest country on Earth. Thinking about our nation’s founding probably gets in the way of their I-Hate-America fantasies. I can only imagine how much it must bother them to be reminded of moments of American greatness and all, especially from an ignoramus like Sarah Palin… who just schooled them on American history.
I couldn’t have nailed the date of the Tea Party off the top of my head, but you NEVER assume your adversary has made an error without double-checking. This reveals they are so confident she’s a moron they don’t even take two seconds to Google if that date had some significance.
Twitter sure is revealing a lot of people with their pants around their ankles.
Lorie says: I can’t believe this and the O’Donnell “separation of church and state” stories both in the same week. I wish someone would run an ad using both examples to show how ignorant so many in the media are about basic American history. Scary, actually.
kirroth says: I didn’t recall 1773 as the year of the Boston Tea Party, but it was incredibly foolish of them (surprise surprise) to jump to conclusions. That whole time period is chock full of significant events, they should have fact checked first.
JoAnn Knowles says: These morons don’t fact check…they don’t have time for truth. They are to busy showing everyone else how smart they are.
Amos says: Okay what I cant figure out is what they THOUGHT s meant to say, “don’t party like it’s 1999”? Jackasses
You can’t expect these people to know American history…if they went to school after 1980…that’s about when schools here stopped teaching American history.
1773inBoston says: Sarah Palin plays the left-wing media like a concert pianist. She has them figured out. The ding-dongs keep walking right into her traps. They are just too arrogant to learn anything…like Obama.
Hans Johnson says: Lorie, you’re right. O’Donnell should make an ad out the First Amendment question. Deflect that arro right back at him
wpdunn71901 says: Like I’ve said before, Kos and his ilk are functionally retarded
Diane S. says: A quick scan of Moulitsas’s recent tweets regarding Palin & O’Donnell and women in government.
http://i56.tinypic.com/2m85mkm.jpg
wth???!!!
Or, maybe I should just say, He’s soooo smart!
Liberals continually prove that their psychology is firmly rooted in arrogance, condescension, and narcissim.
I have noticed there are some people on Twitter who are misusing it, or depending on your point of view, maybe using it correctly while others are misusing it. People like Markos Moulitsas are liberals, in the first place, for a specific reason: They are confused about how to make decisions, and have settled on a juvenile mindset that a group setting is the appropriate way to make the most important ones.
I say they are confused because, while they’re obviously convinced as group-oriented thinkers that the group must be greater and wiser than the sum of its component parts, the content of their comments is selected to elevate or preserve the status of the individual within the group. I went into gory detail describing how this works over here. Picking on Palin, among liberals, is an exercise that promises a bountiful reward in terms of elevating or preserving individual stature with relatively low risk.
But you have to strike while the iron is hot. Moulitsas, Ifill, et al, placed themselves in an absurd sort of a race — “You heard it from me first.” This gets back to my comment about mis-using twitter. A group has a “consensus,” except it isn’t really a consensus because it’s the product of certain individual thoughts that were thrown, spaghetti-against-wall style, and stuck.
The ultimate outcome: People are given a powerful incentive to say ironic things. Which, once the group matures past a certain point, end up being silly things. People start to worry more about getting credit for saying it first, than about saying something that is beneficial to the stated goals, or correct. After a time, the group’s priorities shift into the same formation. And the group starts to systematically engage in beliefs that are nonsensical. It defines what it wants to believe, emphasizing evidence that lends support to it, filtering out evidence that would create problems for it. This explains why, when our economy sucks and the government is in a big budget deficit, the solution is for our government to spend money…and when oil is spilled in the Gulf, the solution is a drilling moratorium. Individuals in a group setting, advancing ideas to elevate their stature within the group, instead of to solve the problem as it has been stated.
I suspect if you were to make a list of Twitterers…Twits?…and then focus in on to the people at the very top, with the most followers, you’d find everyone within this elite is misusing Twitter in this way. They “tweet” silly, absurd, easily falsifiable things to shore up their stature as individuals within a group. I know this is a case of misusing a tool and it no more incriminates Twitter than a gun is incriminated in a murder; but as the Twitter fad jumps the shark and fades from prominence, I’m not going to be crying over it. It’s become something of a mass-production mistake-making embarrassment-blossoming engine. In this case, couldn’t happen to nicer folks.
The left loves to grab what they perceive as a ‘got’ch moment’ and run with it. Reminds me of way back when, when they thought Sarah Palin said that you could see Russia from her house. Big joke, lot’s o’fun… only she never said it. However what she DID say was, like this is, correct. Somehow I think we are missing the boat not using this better to our advantage. Surely there is a lot more stuff out there that the dumocrats might just miss the point of and we can use. After all, the dems are an awful gullible bunch (they bought into the Obama thing didn’t they? – nuff said).
SoCalBill says: This is why I do not, and have never even go to Twitter’s site!
1773inBoston says: King George and Qwen Ifill hate 1773. It turned out to be a major embarassment for both. “Stand down ye rebels!” didn’t work for either of them.
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