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FOX: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent, she thought it was a country
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Via Huff Post: According to Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."Why don't the Republicans just pick Gumby next time. More from Greg Mitchell: Carl Cameron talking ...
And They Were Going to Tell Us...When?
Hoffmania! —
... Of course. They waited until after they lost. If they won, we'd have a vice president who was a total global retard and "a diva." And while Carl Cameron is imparting this frightening information, Bill O'Reilly still thinks she could have been "tutored" and her insane actions are "nitpicking." But how much of this was Fox sitting on before yesterday? ...
Sarah Palin Was A Republican Vice Presidential Candidate
The Moderate Voice —
... And now it’s coming out that she was also a terror to the GOP Presidential candidate John McCain’s staff and to her own staff. Details HERE. ...
Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... help for her interview with Katie Couric and then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the morning and throw "tantrums" over the negative coverage. There were times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced to tears. Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-kn... I cannot believe that anyone would allow this ...
Palin: ‘Small, Bitter Type Of Person’ Is ‘Falsely’ Claiming I Didn’t Know Africa Was A Continent
Think Progress —
... [sic] necessary to be a running mate, vice president, and a heartbeat away from the Presidency.” For example, aides said Palin did not know that Africa was a continent, rather than a country. According to ABC News, Palin dismissed the internal criticism and refused to comment on the specific allegations: ...
Knives Come Out for Palin
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... But most remarkable is a Fox News report on how bad it was. McCain aides say Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency." ...
Sarah Palin As Jezebel, 'Wearing Nothing But a Towel'
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... colony? Michelle Malkin: The McCain campaign’s classless cowards -- The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. . .Shame on the smearers who don’t have the balls to show their faces. Thank you, Sarah Palin. Thank you for stepping up the plate and serving your country. Fox Dishes The Dirt On Palin Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO) ...
Sarah Palin Is Toast, the Melba Kind…
The Moderate Voice —
... Of all people, Fox’s Carl Cameron rattles off a long litany of such diva incidents and about concerns the McCain campaign had about the fact that Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency…” ...
The audacity of hype
The Reaction —
... that 59 percent of voters surveyed said Palin wasn’t prepared for the job of vice president, much less president. Can her reputation be helped by the latest revelations, coming from FOX News and other GOP sources, that Palin didn’t know that Africa is a continent, rather than a country, and couldn’t name the three members of NAFTA (Canada, the United States, and Mexico)? There’s a chance that her right-wing Christianist fans, the folks in possession of today’s Republican’t Party, might continue to look on her favorably. But she couldn’t win in ...
G-Fascism…A Whole New Era
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... has been validated with all the gusto that unintentional irony can provide. The proposal that conservatives wholeheartedly embrace the fascist purge of dissenters and dangerous elements - in response to a liberal victory - is actually the Final Solution of the Liberal Fascist movement, designed to get the innocent and wholesome conservatives of America to pick each other off, stupid rumor by ...
McCain on Leno: 'I Couldn't Be Happier With Sarah Palin'
News —
... , however, have noted that McCain didn't denounce leaks about her alleged lack of foreign policy knowledge and her shopping habits. McCain also suggested that Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) will remain an independent instead of a member of the Republican Party. McCain himself demurred when asked by Leno whether he would become an "Independent Republican," just like Lieberman has called himself an "Independent Democrat." Watch McCain talk about Palin and Lieberman below:
If it's too good to be true...
Daimnation! —
... The news that Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent was symbolic of her ignorance, stupidity and lack of curiosity about parts of the world she couldn't see from her own house. ...
We Got Pwnd
James Richardson's Skepticians —
John McCain ’s loss ushered in broad and swift accusations of poor campaigning, poor messaging, and, in essence, taking too many pages from Bob Dole ’s failed ’96 campaign. Jilted staffers, now jockeying for jobs in the opposition, are hemorrhaging campaign secrets, and yes, rumors at light speed pace (i.e., Q: Where’s “Africa,” Sarah ? A: Ohhh, don’t ya’ know I can’t see that country from my house, so I’m not sure. Can I call you Joe? [wink]) The classlessness exhibited by some of my former colleagues is not surprising, nor unusual. After a loss of this magnitude (365 Obama – ...
We Got Pwnd, Now What? The Race for the RNC Chairmanship
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... John McCain’s loss ushered in broad and swift
accusations of poor campaigning, poor messaging, and, in essence,
taking too many pages from Bob Dole’s failed ’96
campaign. Jilted staffers, now jockeying for jobs in the
opposition, are hemorrhaging campaign secrets, and yes, rumors at
light speed pace (i.e., Q:
Where’s “Africa,” Sarah? A: Ohhh, don’t ya’ know I can’t see
that country from my house, so I’m not sure. Can I call you Joe?
[wink]) The classlessness exhibited by some of my former colleagues
is not surprising, nor unusual. After a loss ...
McCain On Palin's Book
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... The McCain campaign was fraught with internal squabbles between staffers at headquarters in the DC suburbs of Virginia and Palin, who reportedly saw staff requests as attempts to control her. Some negative stuff has come out about Palin since the campaign (see Fox's report that, as the McCain staff prepped her, she didn't know South Africa was a country), assumed to be leaked by former McCain staffers. ...
