Posted on 04/21/2017 11:17:58 AM PDT by C19fan
For the fourth time in as many days, Russian military planes have flown too close to the U.S. for comfort. Each night this week starting Monday, the Russian military has sent planes flying towards Alaska. The planes have remained in international airspace for the length of their journeys, but have gotten as close as 36 nautical miles off the Alaskan mainland.
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We shouldn’t send any fighters up intercept but say we did just to mess with their heads.
Only Sarah didn’t ever say that.
It was Tina Fey, impersonating Sarah, in a SNL skit during the 2008 campaign, who said those words.
Aren’t we talking about “Bear” bombers here. Those things have roughly the radar cross section of a large barn, and fly as quickly as one. They’re 1950s-era turboprops.
Russian aircraft are not a threat to America. An actual attack by these things would elicit the same sort of response that a USSR actual aircraft attack run would have got. Putin is not terribly stupid. This is an insult, not a threat.
She never said that. That was an MSM fabrication.
“I don’t think she ever said it. Tina Fey did in an SNL skit.”
This ^^^^^
I imagine it’s being done for electronic surveillance, trying to catch anything that covers Trump’s actual intentions and instructions to DOD that might be manifest in any U.S. military communications in the northern Pacific.
That would be the maximum in “stealthy.”
The basis for the line was Governor Palin’s 11 September 2008 appearance on ABC News, her first major interview after being tapped as the vice-presidential nominee. During that appearance, interviewer Charles Gibson asked her what insight she had gained from living so close to Russia, and she responded: “They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska”:
Two days later, on the 2008 season premiere of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler appeared in a sketch portraying Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, during which Fey spoofed Governor Palin’s remark of a few days earlier with the following exchange:
FEY AS PALIN: “You know, Hillary and I don’t agree on everything …”
POEHLER AS CLINTON: (OVERLAPPING) “Anything. I believe that diplomacy should be the cornerstone of any foreign policy.”
FEY AS PALIN: “And I can see Russia from my house.”
Henceforth, invocations of Sarah Palin frequently employed the line “I can see Russia from my house,” rather than the words she actually spoke, “You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”
As to the question of whether one can actually see Russia from Alaska, Governor Palin was correct: such a view is possible from more than one site in that state. A Slate article on the topic noted that:
In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other.
Also, a 1988 New York Times article reported that:
To the Russian mainland from St. Lawrence Island, a bleak ice-bound expanse the size of Long Island out in the middle of the Bering Sea, the distance is 37 miles. From high ground there or from the Air Force facility at Tin City atop Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost edge of mainland North America, on a clear day you can see Siberia with the naked eye.
Neither of these viewpoints offers the observer much more than a glimpse of a vast, desolate expanse, however.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/russia.asp
Never say that that quote is attributable to Palin when it’s not. The quote is attributable to Tina Fey.
Lol. Bears. Lear jets with 50cal pods could shoot them down. Also you don’t need radar to find them. You just need good ears.
Hi entropy12
I hope you are well, my FRiend. This statement allegedly made by Palin was dismissed by Snopes.com years ago. I’m not a big believer in Snopes.com, but in this case they are correct.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/russia.asp
Hey now don’t confuse with facts.
“But you gotta admit, saying she can see Russia from her backyard, was giving the comedians big fodder”
That is because comedians will never admit that they didn’t or don’t actually understand what a metaphor is... even though they use them in just about every comedy routine they perform... sadly a large percentage of the public doesn’t understand metaphor’s either.
I wonder if this has something to do with it??? Russia buzzed Alaska the day before 9/11 in Anchorage. I wouldn’t be surprised if they think Korea is about to do something....
Source in military reports they’re hunting North Korean sub off California coast, may launch missile.
https://twitter.com/polNewsNet/status/855244695806648320/photo/1
I can not dispute anything in your detailed and well researched post. However keep in mind, in Politics, perception is everything. Facts reside only in the minds of really serious and intelligent people. Majority of Americans are not political junkies. Whatever you think of Tina Fey, she was very effective in portraying Sarah as not very smart. You know and I know it is different. But majority is what wins elections, not knowledgeable voters. Therefore it is important for all aspiring politicians to avoid being caricatured.
“these Russian aircraft were “state of art” in 1960s,...”
Turboprops - not turbojets. Its got freaking PROPELLERS, for crying out loud.
I want you to know, if I could vote for Sarah Palin for ANY position she was running for, I would. But I also enjoy laughing when comedians make me laugh, and Tina Fey was very funny. She was just doing her job, for which she was hired on SNL.
Thank you for info.
No soft computer chips on those planes...
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