Revisiting Sarah Palin & The Confederacy Of MAGA Dunces

The above is a screen shot of part of a blog post from way back in 2010. Back then "Confederacy of Dunces" is what we now refer to as MAGATs. Or Right Wing Nutjobs.

Yesterday someone named Anonymous commented regarding this old blog post. I found that comment to be amusing. Which then caused me to read that blog post, again, to find there were several amusing comments made, way back then. And that blog post includes a video full of right wing nutjobs, giving us a fair warning of the utter nuttery to come in six more years.

First yesterday's comment, then the comments from way back in 2010. And click the link to the blog post to watch the video. It's worth the bother...

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Sarah Palin & The Anonymous Confederacy Of Dunces":

Popular for hateful people to HATE Sarah Palin. And to hate anyone that is right, true , loving and good. After all, she’s a healthy, hardworking, God loving MOTHER , and leader. Oh, and of course she’s not on the pro abortion slaughter Campaign. She actually respects life. Loves children. Wow. The venom on this site is horrific. All to cover up the God bashing and immoral culture of the Democratic Party. I pray for you all that are so far from God. He is our only hope. We could all learn a better lifestyle with Sarah palin as a role model. For the love of God our creator—STOP THE HATRED AND SLANDER. GET ON your KNEES AND PRAY.

And now the comments from way back in 2010....

Anonymous said...

At least Ms. Palin chooses to identify herself and stand behind what she says, be it right or wrong.

Most unliike yourself, who seems to be afraid or ashamed to let your identity be known.

Of course, now you will dismiss my statement as I have chosen not to identify myself.

Identify who you are, and I will do likewise. Of course I know you won't as people like you like to hide in a cloud of anonymity so that your silly little ego trip can go on and on.

You really are a moron!

Calamity June said...

Where do you find them, Durango? These dunces like Anonymous, I mean? And he/she/it calls you a moron? This Anonymous moron is so moronic it can't figure out your identity? What is it? Two clicks to reading your name, phone number and address? That and how many people who read your blog have you met in person, thus know your identity?

Why do you publish comments from stupid people like this? I'll hazard to guess it's because you find it funny that someone as moronic as those in the Sarah Palin video is making a similar clueless comment.

Durango said...

CJ---You guessed correctly as to why I hit the publish button on Anonymous. She/he/it is too stupid to see the irony.

I also love how I'm anonymous, with how many pictures of me floating about and how many times saying where I'm gonna be at a particular time?

This particular Anonymous has been making pretty much the same comment over and over again for a few days. I think I have hit the publish button on only one.

Do you have any desire to know the identity of this Anonymous? Me neither. You can just tell he/she/it is a creepy troll. There will likely be another Anonymous comment to this comment, telling me again what a moron I am. I likely won't hit the publish button on that one. Unless I find it amusing.

Anonymous said...

Durango, you shouldn't indulge trolls like that Anonymous creep. They are a plague on civil discussion everywhere and acknowledging them only gives them attention they are craving. You probably already knew that, because I do see what you mean by the irony of this Anonymous person commenting as stupidly as all those stupid Palin lovers. I'm commenting as Anonymous. But I'm not the stupid Anonymous.

 

Drifter said...

Why the phony picture? Sarah wouldn't be caught with a BB gun...

2016's Third Thursday Drips Wet & Noisy At My Texas Location With Sarah Palin

I stepped outside to take an outer world photo on this third Thursday of the new year to find myself surprised by water dripping from above.

Just minutes prior I heard on the radio that the drippage was not scheduled to arrive for several hours, coming in from the west, along with some thunderstorming.

Does the fact that water is already dripping portend that the incoming storm may be more severe than predicted?

I hope not. But before we find out if the incoming storm is going to be a bad one.

A knock on the front door.

Incoming plumber, replacing bathroom faucets.

Speaking of dumber than a plumber.

Yesterday I watched as much as I could stand of Sarah Palin's Trump endorsement  speech.

Yikes!

It is terribly troubling that apparently there are some Americans, including Donald Trump, who are unable to tell that there is something seriously unhinged in this woman.

Blaming Obama for her drunken son Track's assault on his girl friend? Shamefully embarrassing.

Yesterday I also watched the British Parliament's debate on banning Trump from entering the UK. Words like idiot, imbecile, embarrassing, ridiculous, bigot and a mugwat sounding word I'd not heard before were used, all sounding very elevated with a British accent.

The plumber is making a lot of noise with his plumbing. I do not like a lot of noise. Must escape....

Does Sarah Palin Think A Travel Ban Is Needed For Ebola, Dallas & Lubbock?

From my main online news source, on Facebook, Fort Worth Star-Telegram food critic and columnist, Bud Kennedy, I learned that Lubbock has possibly joined Dallas in the Texas Ebola Outbreak.

Apparently, judging by the photo, a large police and emergency team crew sealed off a Lubbock neighborhood where someone returned from Africa's Ivory Coast with flu symptoms.

The amount of info in Mr. Kennedy's Facebook news about the Lubbock Ebola Outbreak was limited.

And I did not click the link to learn more.

One can not help but wonder when this Africa traveler's flu symptoms showed up. After he or she was home? Before boarding the plane in Africa? Whilst in mid-flight?

The Ebola Crisis sure seems to be wearing on people's nerves. Both those freaked out about it and those tired of hearing about it.

I have been unable to determine if it was an Internet hoax or not if Sarah Palin actually said something like "My prayers go out to the people of Ebola."

I suspect Mrs. Palin likely did say something like this. Isn't she the one who had to have it explained to her that Africa was not a country? Or was that Joe Biden?

America has a lot of inadvertent comical politicians. It's hard to keep up....

Rosie The Rat Dog's Grizzly Bear & Sarah Palin Encounters In Alaska

Rosie the Rat Dog and her entourage have now made it to the Valdez zone of Alaska.

The latest entry on Rosie's Alaska! Blog has some really good pictures of grizzly bear encounters, like the one you are looking at here, in a blogging appropriately titled "Stay in your car."

The only place I've been where I had dozens of bear encounters, none of them grizzlies, was at Stehekin, on Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washington.

Rosie's pictures of all sorts of critters having a salmon feeding are something I don't recollect seeing before.

I also do not recollect ever seeing a picture of my sister paddling a kayak so close to a glacier before.

Does my sister not know that in summer glaciers break off humongous chunks of ice that are known as icebergs? And that it is likely a bit dangerous to get too close?

What with all the bears, moose, dodging icebergs and visiting Sarah Palin in Wasilla, I am appalled at all the dangerous situations to which Rosie the Rat Dog is leading her entourage.

Looks fun though.

Sarah Palin Visits Paul Revere's House & Revises History

If Sarah Palin was homely and thick as a brick would she have been elected governor of Alaska and nominated for vice-president?

I suspect not.

For some unfathomable to me reason Sarah Palin can say the most ridiculous things and continue to be taken seriously.

By some.

In a saner world Sarah Palin's infamous Katie Couric interview would have been the end of her in politics.

But it wasn't.

Currently Sarah Palin is roaming America on her "One Nation" traveling bus tour. On Thursday Sarah was in Boston with her mom and dad, first husband, and one of her daughters, visiting historic sites, like Paul Revere's house.

At one point Sarah Palin was blindsided by a ruthless reporter who asked Sarah the extremely difficult question, "Who was Paul Revere?"

Sarah answered that terribly difficult question with, "He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."

You'd think, if she couldn't come up with a coherent answer to such a simple question, she'd simple look incredulous at the reporter and flip it back at him by saying, "You actually don't know who Paul Revere is? Did you miss that day in your American History class?"

You can watch a YouTube video of Sarah Palin's latest gaffe below...

Sarah Palin & The Anonymous Confederacy Of Dunces

Way back on November 29, 2009, I blogged about Sarah Palin, the Confederacy of Dunces and the bizarre incident where the mayor of Fort Worth, Mike Moncrief, attempted to dye the Trinity River purple.

Yesterday I got several bizarrely dunce-like Anonymous comments to various bloggings, which were just a tad off. Well, actually, more than a tad.

This morning in the Dallas Morning News there was a letter to the editor about Sarah Palin which brought to mind the Confederacy of Dunces.

I'll copy the letter below, and below that, a YouTube video I've posted previously which shows a bunch of Anonymous dunces being dunce-like regarding Sarah Palin...

Why This Palin Mystique?

The Republicans must have taken leave of their collective minds to keep listening to this charlatan, Sarah Palin. A group that wouldn't let someone mow their lawn without a thorough background check has been duped by someone with fewer skins on the wall than the average mayor of a small U.S. city. Oh, wait! That's what she was five years ago.

Her public appearances are nothing but conservative rabble-rousing, have little substance, consist of right-wing talking point generality-speak (tax cuts, less government, blah, blah), and yet she holds sway over these people like some messiah.

If she weren't physically attractive, her 15 minutes would have been up long ago. She wouldn't even last 15 minutes in a political/foreign policy debate with a community college poly-sci teacher, much less President Barack Obama or former President Bill Clinton -- yet her handlers have her somehow blindly criticizing the president on every issue.

Going rogue? Oxford's dictionary defines rogue as an unprincipled, undisciplined, stray, irresponsible member of a group of otherwise acceptable specimens in a social setting. What a gorgeously ironic title for Palin's book -- no doubt totally lost on her, I'm sure.

Bret Davis, Forney

Facebook Found Out I Know Sarah Palin

Facebook can be entertaining. When I first signed on to Facebook I figured it'd be like MySpace and I'd not like it and see no use for it.

Instead Facebook has me talking to people I've not talked to in in a long time.

Facebook has exercised my lazy brain due to me trying, unsuccessfully, to beat the Scrabble Queen of Washington, known as Scrabble Queen Karen, or SQK. Currently I have a slight lead in one game. That lead won't last.

Facebook is constantly suggesting that this that or another person may be a friend of mine. As you can see in the Facebook screen cap, currently among the many suggestions, is Sarah Palin. Now how did Facebook find out I knew Sarah back during her short stint in school in Idaho? It feels like some sort of Big Brother thing.

Also on the list is my ex-sister-in-law and the namesake of my ex-sister-in-law's grandson, Spencer Jack, with the namesake being my ex-wife, Loretta. How did Facebook know to put Loretta on this list? I have not seen Loretta in over a year. We don't email. How did Facebook know I know Loretta? Even if Loretta and I exchanged emails, that Facebook could somehow snoop, she doesn't use her Loretta name in Internet World. She calls herself Otterpengu.

On the list of possible friends is someone who would, in reality, be on my Enemies List, if I had such a list. How did this person get on a list of my possible friends? We did not go to the same school.

Years ago I made a website for a guy, here in Texas, named Lewis Shallcross. He is on the list of possible friends. I have never even met the guy. His website is not on this computer. How did Facebook make this connection?

Anyway, Facebook is fun and perplexing. And don't get me started on Farmville.

Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin's Quarter Million $ Wardrobe Budget

I've admitted before I find Rush Limbaugh to be pretty funny at times. But lately he is being way over the top with his strident yammering. I get an email from Rush every day that sums up his radio show. What got on my nerves today was the Rush outrage over the media fuss over Sarah Palin spending a quarter million Republican bucks on clothes. When just days ago it was from Rush I learned the story that turned out to be a lie about Michelle Obama eating way too much lobster.

On Today’s Show...

Show Highlight: "We still can't get a look into Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright or Tony Rezko or any of these other people allied with Obama, but we gotta look into Sarah Palin's wardrobe. Most candidates get their designer clothes for free, folks. She actually paid for them like a regular person."

The media smears Sarah Palin (the very kind of woman they claim to care about) for buying clothes. Who paid for Hillary's pantsuits, Pelosi's pearls, and Biden's hair plugs? You couldn't pay off one of Tim Mahoney's mistresses for 150 grand, or Jesse Jackson's, or John Edwards' -- not to mention the $80,000 Spitzer spent on hookers!

Obama "rushes" to his grandmother's bedside (after three days). He says you have to "put family first." Uh, how many of his half-siblings are living in squalor in huts?

The markets are hysterical on fear of a tax-raising, anti-business Obama presidency. Small businesses are terrified out there.

If Obama is so confident, why do he and Ed Rendell have to lie to old folks and try to scare them into voting Democrat? McCain will NOT cut Medicare or Social Security. Even Obama TV, MSNBC, says so.

Brian Williams asked McCain and Palin who "elitists" are, and they gave great answers. It's not an address; it's an attitude that you're better and smarter than others.

Pearl of Wisdom: "We don't get truth from the Drive-Bys Media, yet we live in a world that's ultimately governed by reality. Propaganda couldn't keep the Soviet Union afloat, and propaganda will not protect the media from collapse, either."

A caller asks why liberal Jewish folks support Obama. It's simple: to a liberal, liberalism is their religion and their #1 loyalty. Everything else takes a back seat.

We have a growing dependent class in this country -- and, of course, who are their biggest champions? Well, the Democrat Party is considered to be the party of caring and the little guy. But look at the lives of the people they claim to help. Have their lives improved after 40 years of Democrat "help," or are they still living in misery?

Sarah Palin in the Oval Office

This is amusing. Go here and move your mouse around and do some clicking. Supposedly this is updated daily til November 4. Be sure to click the phone....

Joe Biden Sarah Palin Saturday Night Live Debate

Last night on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey once more became Sarah Palin in order to debate Joe Biden in front of Queen Latifah. Last night's "debate" is already on YouTube for your viewing pleasure below.... ooooops! YouTube has pulled the video. Sorry. It was original NBC content and thus a big NO NO. But, Mr. or Ms. Anonymous kindly provided a direct link to NBC's video of the Biden Palin Saturday Night Live Debate....

Go here to go to NBC....
It's worth the bother. It's funny.......

Sarah Palin Anti-Christ's No Gaffe VP Debate

Gar the Texan's mom is mass sending emailings saying Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. Obviously that is nonsense.

After watching tonight's Vice-Presidential debate I am convinced that it is Sarah Palin who is the Anti-Christ.

She set us up by acting like a total fool in interviews with Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson.

This cleverly got the media, and me, saying she was in way over her head. That she would not hold up debating veteran politician Joe Biden.

Causing millions more of us to watch as tonight Sarah Palin did not commit a single gaffe. I feel like I've just watched the Olympic champion ice skating competition without a single satisfying crash to the ice by a touted contender.

I don't know what to think now. Maybe I should quit thinking, since I seem to be always wrong.

I'm thinking, okay, after a short break, I'm back thinking, Sarah Palin's witch doctor did some major voo-doo ju-ju on her. And it's working.

I'm scared. First Washington Mutual's WaMu Ju-Ju and now this. I'm going to bed. I probably won't sleep. Maybe, if I do, I'll have a nightmare about Sarah Palin. She looked cute tonight. I never thought I'd see myself type such a thing. She is the Anti-Christ. We are all doomed.

Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden Tonight in VP Smackdown

I'm betting that tonight's debate is going to be a train wreck of historic proportions.

Joe Biden will likely make a bad gaffe or two. But handle the mistakes well.

Sarah Palin will likely say a thing or two, so astonishing, that the audience either gasps or giggles or both. She will get tongue-tied in an impossible to parse string of circular verbiage that will have eyes rolling.

There will be a foreign policy question where Sarah Palin will so obviously demonstrate that she is out of her league that the calls for her to step down will grow loud by the time the debate ends.

Sarah Palin may be asked if she believes in witches. This will be a dangerous mindfield for her to navigate without an explosion.

Sarah Palin may be asked again to explain how living in Alaska, close to Russia and Canada, gives her foreign policy experience.

Sarah Palin may be asked to defend her position that victims of rape should not be allowed to have an abortion.

Sarah Palin may be asked a lot of things tonight with answers that will astonish, perplex, upset, amuse, appall and maybe disgust the majority of Americans watching. There will be millions of us.

Below a blurb from yesterday about Sarah Palin and today's debate...

Sarah Palin Saved From Witches By African

Well. Another surprise from Sarah Palin that I thought couldn't be true when I first heard it. But then, in my defense, my skepticism was heightened by the way the person telling me this worded it.

As in "Sarah Palin had some African cast a spell on her to keep her safe from witches."

The real story isn't quite that ridiculous sounding. Quite.

Three 3 years ago, Sarah Palin was in her Wasilla church where a visiting Kenyan pastor prayed for her protection from "witchcraft" in her run for office.

A video of this is on Sarah Palin's church website. Of course, the video is now going viral on the Internet in various forms, one of which you can watch below. The video shows Ms. Palin standing in front of Bishop Thomas Muthee in the Wasilla Assembly of God church. She holds her hands open as the preacher asks Jesus Christ to keep her safe from "every form of witchcraft."

"Come on, talk to God about this woman. We declare, save her from Satan," Muthee prays as two other guys place their hands on her shoulders. "Make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus. Use her to turn this nation the other way around."

The anti-witchcraft ceremony took place October 16, 2005. Sarah Palin formally announced her bid for governor 2 days later.

The Assembly of God is a Pentacostal church. I need to look that up. Seems like I remember nutty and Pentacostal going together before.

Sarah Palin Charged Victims For Rape Exam Kits

This morning I was talking to a New York Times reader about the Sarah Palin ongoing in-over-her-head meltdown. I was told that the New York Times had an article about Sarah Palin's town of Wasilla charging rape victims for the exam kit that police use to gather evidence.

I thought this was ridiculous. That it couldn't be true. But it was in the New York Times. That's not like some tabloid or the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The NY Times is a respected, by many, real newspaper.

Googling quickly provided proof that this bizarre story is true.

After Sarah Palin became mayor of Wasilla, Alaska she did some budget slashing. It was decided to pass the costs of rape exams off to the victims. The exam kits cost ranges from $500 to $1200.

Sarah Palin also believes that an abortion should not be allowed for a rape victim.

Meanwhile, this charging the victims for rape exam kits became such an embarrassment to the rest of Alaska that the state legislature passed a law to stop it.

I thought, Wasilla is a little itty bitty town, how many rapes can there be in that little town? Well, apparently quite a few. Alaska's sex assault rate is America's worst, 2 and 1/2 times the rate for the other 49 states.

The Huffington Post has a good article about this Sarah Palin embarrassment.

Sarah Palin, Katie Couric Interview & Russia

I'd been hearing comments regarding the 3 interviews Sarah Palin has given. I'd only seen a bit of one of them, that being the one with Charlie Gibson.

The Charlie Gibson bit, I saw, was the part of the interview where he asks Ms. Palin about the Bush Doctrine. She got a deer in the headlights look and stumbled for an answer.

Well, this did not bother me too much, because I could not have answered that question til a few weeks ago when I read Bob Woodward's State of Denial. I'm guessing the vast majority of Americans did not know there was something called the Bush Doctrine. It's not like there are an awful lot of us who would take any Doctrine of Bush as a serious thing.

And then this morning, I read a columnist who had gone from hoping Sarah Palin was up to the challenge to being totally sure she was in way over her head. The columnist said she'd lost count of the cringe-inducing moments and suggested Sarah Palin bow out now, before it gets worse.

I have now seen the cringe-inducing Sarah Palin interview with Katie Couric. It was way way way more cringe-inducing than I thought it could be.

I think Sarah Palin is a nice lady, very smart, but, she is not ready to be president. I like the lady. I felt sorry for her watching her make a fool of herself with no awareness she was doing so. She just is not ready for this.

The debate on Thursday should likely be the end of it. Already her polls numbers are dropping.

I think there may be some sort of twisted reverse sexism going on here. If a man picked for VP had sounded this stupid there would be an uproar. Remember Dan Quayle? He never came close to this level of ineptness. Remember the grief he got? I think come Thursday night the majority of us are going to be on the this ain't right bandwagon.

Below are two videos. When I read the print version of how Sarah Palin explained that Alaska's proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience, I thought it was just artful editing to make her sound stupid. But no, what actually came out of Ms. Palin's mouth might be the most astonishingly dumb thing I've ever heard a politician say. And that covers a lot of ground.

The second video covers more of the interview and displays woeful ignorance in other areas. Watching Ms. Palin try to come up with examples of John McCain taking the lead on economic issues was very cringe-worthy.....

Clinton & Palin In 2012

Expert prognostiator that I am, always with an opinion, seldom correct, I am now going to make my prediction as to the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election. And the election of 2012.

I believe, come election day in November, the Obama-Biden ticket is going to lose to McCain-Palin.

McCain, being an old man, is only going to serve one term. The McCain presidency will be fairly popular with the people, much more so than the disgraced Bush presidency.

Sarah Palin will win the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Hillary Clinton will win the Democrat presidential nomination in 2012.

Hillary Clinton will beat Sarah Palin, to finally win the presidency, in the election of 2012. Making Hillary the first woman to be elected president.

One week before Hillary's inauguration John McCain will resign as President.

Making Sarah Palin, for one week, the first woman President of the United States.

Thus robbing Hillary of being the first female President, but still basking in the glory of being the first woman to be elected President of the United States.

Bill will take a cue from Sarah Palin's husband Todd and suggest that he be referred to as the First Dude.

Soon after they move into the White House, again, Hillary will announce she no longer needs the First Dude and is divorcing him.

Hillary's popularity ratings soar.

I forgot to mention, Hillary will pick Barack Obama as her Vice-President in 2012.

I doubt Hillary will re-marry.

Matt Damon Opines About Sarah Palin

Incoming Goofy George From A Goofy Georgian

The Georgia Magnolia known as Lauri the Chippy sent me an amusing video that made me wonder how anyone can think Sarah Palin isn't qualified to be president if this goober was. For 8 years....

Anne Kilkenny Letter About Sarah Palin

A pair of my favorite corespondents are heading to Texas to maybe see me. They call themselves Chippys. The also call themselves LuluRedstar and Lauri Evans. They are an amusing pair. Very smart and witty. And they have a blog. From them I learned I want to try a Jalapeno Margarita.

This afternoon Lauri sent me a link to a very interesting letter written by a Wasilla, Alaska resident named Anne Kilkenny. Each time I type Kilkenny I think South Park.

Below is an excerpt from the end of the letter. Go here to read the whole thing.

WHY AM I WRITING THIS?

First, I have long believed in the importance of being an informed voter. I am a voter registrar. For 10 years I put on student voting programs in the schools. If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations.

Secondly, I've always operated in the belief that "Bad things happen when good people stay silent". Few people know as much as I do because few have gone to as many City Council meetings.

Third, I am just a housewife. I don't have a job she can bump me out of. I don't belong to any organization that she can hurt. But, I am no fool; she is immensely popular here, and it is likely that this will cost me somehow in the future: that’s life.

Fourth, she has hated me since back in 1996, when I was one of the 100 or so people who rallied to support the City Librarian against Sarah's attempt at censorship.

Fifth, I looked around and realized that everybody else was afraid to say anything because they were somehow vulnerable.

Anne Kilkenny August 31, 2008

Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy Mic On Sarah Palin Gaffe

You'd think with the recent Jesse Jackson misstep, when he spoke ill of Barack Obama when he didn't realize he was still being recorded, that those talking head people on news shows would be really careful about what they say anytime they are within listening distance of any microphone.

A few days ago a former advisor to John McCain named Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan were on some cable news show being interviewed by an anchor named Chuck Todd.

On the air they were talking about the Sarah Palin pick for VP. Murphy and Noonan were gung-ho about the pick. On the air.

And then when they cut to show a clip a technical boo-boo let their real feelings be known, live, to the listening viewers.

The anchor Todd said, "I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchison."

Mike Murphy said, "Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good."

To which Peggy Noonan said, "It's over."

The anchor Todd then says, "Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?"

Noonan then says, "The most qualified? No! I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives."

Anchor Todd then agrees with, "Yeah, they went to a narrative."

Murphy then says, "I totally agree."

To which Peggy Noonan adds, "Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it."

Then former McCain advisor Murphy responds with, "You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."

To which anchor Todd says, "This is cynical and as you called it, gimmicky."

Then the clip ended and they went back to praising the pick of Sarah Palin.