In an interview with WTMJ, Channel 4 Milwaukee on Feb. 16, 2011, Palin insisted that Abe Lincoln built the "intercontinental railroad" during the Civil War.That's the last straw for me. I'm out. I can't support a moron.
Sorry, Mrs. Governor, but Lincoln had a hand in legislation that helped built the TRANScontinental railroad, not any "intercontinental" railroad.
BUT...
It wasn't Sarah Palin. The real story:
In an interview with WTMJ, Channel 4 Milwaukee on Feb. 16, 2011, Obama insisted that Abe Lincoln built the "intercontinental railroad" during the Civil War.Camped out in his anus if I don't miss my guess, probably worrying at this point if there isn't some form of flesh-eating bacteria that only takes effect after prolonged exposure numbering in the years. The video:
Sorry, Mr. President, but Lincoln had a hand in legislation that helped built the TRANScontinental railroad, not any "intercontinental" railroad.
So, where is the media to make fun of this?
If Sarah Palin had indeed made the exact same mistake, she would have been ridiculed as a dimwitted bimbo unfit for any office. Same with Michelle Bachmann. Speaking of: Ann Coulter: Media Assumes Palin and Bachmann are Idiots
Together Palin and Bachmann have a small fraction of the amount of gaffes that Obama himself has made, none of which were big news stories and many of which the media simply spiked altogether. As Michelle Obama said the other week: "Fortunately, We Have Help From The Media". Indeed.Related: Video of Democratic Pollster: Media Likes to Make Bachmann Out to Be an Idiot. And from a prior post: Sarah Palin makes small mistake about North Korea. Sheila Jackson Lee thinks there are 2 Vietnams. Guess which one makes the news? Palin called out Obama regrading that made-up controversy:
My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…Tip of the iceberg. Of course, the liberal media ignore the above, and episodes like this: Video: Smartest President in History Barack Obama Confuses Iraq and Afghanistan - Claims Combat Operation Over In Afghanistan. If only the MSM would have reported what Obama was really like during the campaign, he may not be President right now:
This is the same guy that thought there are 60 states in the union (visited 57 of them with 1 left to go minus Hawaii and Alaska):
How is it again that Palin and Bachmann labeled as dumb in light of the above?The latest of course is what Ed Morrissey refers to as Great moments in journalism: “Are you a flake?”
I can understand why Chris Wallace asked this question. Given his guest’s propensity for gaffes, such as picking the name of a dead hero as a live Medal of Honor winner, botching a toast to Queen Elizabeth II, discussing the high points of the Austrian language, and several references to a military medic as a “corpseman,” it might be hard to take the person seriously.Above video via Gateway Pundit. Ed also points these other gaffes out:
Oh, wait — Wallace wasn’t interviewing Barack Obama after all:
Not then, nor now. Instead they are painting Bachmann to be an idiot that she is not but our community organizer-in-chief does indeed appear to be.Did any of the national media ask Barack Obama in the summer of 2008 if he was a “flake”?
- The Selma March in 1965 did not contribute to his birth in 1961.
- Kansas tornadoes in May 2007 killed 12 people, not “ten thousand”.
- Afghans do not speak Arabic.
- Within 24 hours, Obama reversed his assertion that Iran did not pose a “serious threat” to the US to an assertion that the threat is “grave”.
- Declaring that Memorial Day honors an “unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today“
- Saying that his uncle liberated Auschwitz
- Asserted that the Nuremberg tribunals offered habeas corpus and appeal rights
- Referred to “the bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor“
UPDATE: Shouldn't have left this one out: Pic of the day: Smartest President in history of history can't button his own jacket
