Posted on 10/17/2008 4:23:37 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Has Mike Barnicle called Sarah Palin stupid? Seems that way. In a Huffington Post column that Mika Brzezinski read on today's Morning Joe, Barnicle, referring to Palin, wrote of the:
"preposterous pronouncements of a woman whose candidacy is an insult to intelligence."
Let's deconstruct. The normal formulation is to speak of something being an "insult to our intelligence" in the sense of asserting something that is obviously unbelievable. For example, you might say Barack Obama insulted our intelligence when he claimed against all evidence during this week's debate that his only tie to ACORN is his past representation of the group in a lawsuit. But when Barnicle writes that Sarah Palin's candidacy is an insult not to "our" intelligence, but to intelligence itself, it's hard to read that other than as suggesting Palin is something other than smart. Throw in his reference to "preposterous pronouncements" and there's little doubt that the person Barnicle intended to insult is Palin herself.
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Barnicle suggests Sarah’s stupid ping to Today show list.
Barnicle’s own life is an insult to Americans.
Who gives a rat’s *ss what Barnicle has to say...
Imagine: Barnicle being in the tank for an empty suit and a plagiarizer! Whoda thunkit?
Forget him - he makes it up all the time. He’s a disgraced dope.
A vote for MeCain/Palin is a vote against Obamah/Biden/Big Media!
It is astonishing how similar such comments are to those at one time made about a former movie actor who was governor of another western state by similar eastern “intellectuals.”
I suppose you must be pretty stupid to be elected as governor of a state and chosen as a vice presidential candidate. Yep, stupid is as stupid does. /s
I hope I made it clear that was an “end sarcasm” tag. This darn French keyboard—I’m really having trouble with html. Anyway... it’s hubby’s laptop. :)
Thanks for the ping, glgb. :)
If there ever was an insult to anyone’s intelligence, it was the selection of Joe Biden as Obama’s running mate.
considering Barnicle’s past, amazing he feels he can castigate others.
Oh I forgot your not there your so smart you plagiarize Mike Royko.
Frankly speaking comparing Palin to Reagan is about as stupid as comparing California to Alaksa. You did both.
Me: Barnicle existence “ An Insult to Crustacean Intelligence”
“preposterous pronouncements of a woman whose candidacy is an insult to intelligence.”
What he meant to say...
“preposterous pronouncements of a woman whose candidacy is an insult to intelligencia.”
Poor elitist snobgobber.
Still copying others’ words isn’t he???
When I heard that I thought Barnicle’s “insult to intelligence” was focused on Mika the Mouth!
“Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle. Mr. Kettle, Mr. Pot.”
Hey, Mike, judge not lest ye be judged as well.
Considering what Mike’s been through in his life, it is an insult for him to judge Governor Palin.
Viva Palin!
Barnicle
Will
Brooks
Kristol
Parker
The list grows...
Barnicle's daughter and her husband live in my town. They are Birkenstock wearing moonbats. He was fired from his job as Beach Manager after it was discovered by the state that he was allowing the beach to erode so he could protect the 'plovers'.
Barnicle’s son-in-law sounds like a typical liberal: save the plovers, sacrifice the unborn.
What I compared were the comments. The ones that stick in my mind in particular in those days were from Norman Mailer but there were many others. The number of those making such comments also including rock musicians and others of the ilk that plague us with political comments reflecting their ignorance and arrogance.
The point, which you seem to have avoided, is that the attitudes were the same.
But if you want to make comparisons why not be specific? For example, what was different about Governor Reagan’s “foreign policy experience” then from that of Governor Palin today?
You don’t seem to be employing reason, but rather rodomontade.
Did Barnicle write this, or did he plagiarize this too?
Who is Mike Barnicle, and why does anyone care.
Obama has less experience than Palin. Has any journalist asked if we are concerned about Obmama's lack of experience? Heck no. A vote for McCain is a vote against liberal media.
Barnicle would be backing Biden above all. The Plagerists have to stick together you know.
Rereading your comment, you are correct. I was skipping by too quickly.
Still, since you went ahead and decided to compare Palin to Reagan, I am astonished - since you are clearly an intelligent individual.
Reagan led a state of 20 million people with a varied economy that was the world’s 6th largest a diverse population and huge budgetary issues. Palin ran a town of 5000 and then a state of 600,000. The state pumps its money from the ground and from the federal government and sends it citizens a check.
Reagan was involved in politics and had thought deeply about them for decades. Palin thought the Russians were flying Sorties over Alaska.
For me, Palin is to be more appropriate compared to W. Bush then to Reagan. The tendency of the GOP to move from a party with an intellectual base to one of trying to only appeal to fans of professional wrestling is incredibly distressing. There are not bumper sticker answers to every problem.
McCain’s choice of this woman and Drill Baby Drill caused me to look at a 3rd party as America’s only hope.
Barnicle should be clinging to the bottom of a garbage scow.
vaudine
"Like Deval Patrick who stole from Sammy Davis Jr., and like Biden who stole from everyone
and Doris Kearns Goodwin who only steals from other authors,
I, like my idols Janet Cooke and Jason Blair, have something to repeat."
Mr and Mrs Barnicle
Barnicle: A type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters. Barnicles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile suspension feeders, and have two nektonic larval stages.
The stupid people live in states like Alaska, which husbands its resources and gives its citizens money BACK, in the form of an annual royalty check.
This year, Alaska under Sarah Palin's insulting governance gave the stupid peasants $3200 back to spend on stupid peasant stuff.
You sure are smart, Mike Barnicle. ;-)
Idiot.
Who cares what Barnicel thinks or said
Barnicle = liberal elitist
What the hell ? Are you not tired of paying 3 or 4 bucks for a gallon of gasoline ?
How is “drill baby drill” a bad thing ?
Sarah Palin is smart. and she will prove the doubters wrong.
BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to watch Morning Joe and Mika, but no more. When I check out what they're saying, it's usually in favor of Obama.
I spoke to a democrat the other day, and she doesn't like Palin either. I told this woman that I love Palin and that she'd make a great president.
If you think the answer to the problem with gas prices is to drill for limited amounts of oil that will become available in 7 years, you need to think a bit more.
It is not that I do not support drilling, but rather I do not support it as either the first nor the only solution.
Drilling is a small part in a larger solution. Only people who have real problems with math and/or a complete lack of the concept of time would think that it was. Thus, the GOP has made itself the party of stupid solutions (although on this one, McCain was not so bad - except for the gas tax holiday which was just dumb).
join the Obama Campaign then you ignorant P.O.S.
They will let you trash Sarah and spew out Democratic talking points all day long.
Uh no genius. While biofuels are not the future of Gaia long term, they are the future of America for many decades to come and America has an abundance of oil and natural gas in Gaias gut. So, short term relatively speaking, drilling is the solution and the best and the brightest, like yourself I presume, would do well to understand that we will be sending trillions of dollars to folks who don't like us too much unless we get that through our advanced minds.
This has become a talking point. Of course, no no would ever be permitted to talk about a Democrat woman that way.
And besides, habitiual plagiarists like Barnicle make very weak accusers.
Hmm let’s see. Drilling estimates that at some point 5-7 years in the future a maximum of 21 billion barrels are available.
Let’s assume that there is really 60 billion out there.
At the US’s current consumption rate of 20 MPD that would last about 12 years.
Of course a genius like you would probably calculate in increased rates of consumption considering the price would go down and demand would go up. But dummies like me don’t understand that supply and demand stuff. Or are you in favour of that whole girly-man efficiency thinger?
You know they hate that. Like a Mafia family, it sends them into fits of rage when they don't get their cut.
No solutions, no real thinking but lots of venom. That isn't consverative talk, that is reactionary populism.
Gosh, with you as the poster child, the GOP really needs a split, a total makeover or to just finally die.
The American Petroleum Institute estimates recoverable U.S. oil resources at about 86 billion barrels offshore and 32 billion barrels onshore.
Natural gas?
Shale?
Tar sands?
Coal?
In 1920 estimates were worldwide oil reserves were 60 billion barrels. I’m quite sure had you been alive then you would have believed it.
Bakken has reserves estimated at 5 billion barrels. ANWR 9-16.
That about covers your 21 billion right there and we haven’t even got offshore yet. Not to mention that there is a helluva lot more America than Bakken and ANWR.
As for supply and demand I got a good chuckle. Americans are demanding we drill in America and off our shores. You? Not so much. Do you think we can power America on windmills and solar panels for the next 50 years?
When did the Russians cease testing our Alaskan borders with aircraft?
It was not revealed until much later about the depth of Reagan’s thought. At the time the criticism of Reagan indicated that the bulk of our “intellectuals” thought he was a very shallow thinker, a cowboy movie star who could hardly match wits with their like. One rock idiot called him “Ronald Raygun” and many of that idiotic ilk picked up on it and there were many other epithets. When he made Norman Mailer look like what he was they were completely caught by surprise.
We really don’t know much about Sarah Palin but it is easy to tell that she is neither stupid nor unlearned as one would expect from a descendent of Baltic Jews, who were among the most intelligent and accomplished peoples in history.
As for Alaska: strategically it has been since World War Ii extremely important and its vast resources have made it a major player with our allies in the Far East as well as with the Russians who have never ceased their attempts to encroach upon it and us. Nor is it an easy state to govern because of its size and the diversity of its population and ecology. I don’t recall that there was any long term foe continually seeking to encroach upon California much less take over some of its land.
More illegal Mexicans Invade California on a daily basis than have Russians ever entered Alaska.
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