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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe ugly way Sarah Palin turns down a cable news interview
Sarah Palin found a novel way to turn down an interview request from Piers Morgan on Friday, posting a picture on Facebook of a bear she had shot dead and a note saying she was busy.
The former Alaska governor thanked chat show host Morgan for inviting her on his 'shambolic show' but added she was 'kind of busy right now'.
The Facebook message, which had been liked by nearly 3,000 of Palin's supporters within two hours of it being posted, is part of an online spat between the pair after Morgan poked fun at her intellect.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477047/Sarah-Palin-taunts-Piers-Morgan-picture-bear-shot-dead-posted-Facebook.html#ixzz2j0ztVzWo
CincyDem
(6,378 posts)I'm going to have to start watching this guy. That's pretty f'ing good. Like poking fun at a unicorn.
How the hell does someone "poke fun" at something that doesn't exist.
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)If we would just leave her alone, she will crawl back into that cave.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)20% of America believes in her.
80% of America loves to tune in to see the car wreck.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)madaboutharry
(40,216 posts)She behaves like she is still in 5th grade.
LuvNewcastle
(16,849 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)They have the mentality of pissy little fifth graders too. Everything they say and do and believe is out of spite for someone else.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)She's a brand. She probably wasn't 'shopped into the picture with the bear, but there's no reason to believe she writes her own FB updates or signs her own pin-ups.
JHB
(37,161 posts)...then she probably didn't shoot the bear either. Someone else did, and she's just posing (again).
Mayberry Machiavelli
(21,096 posts)where her daddy was working the bolt action on the rifle for her and conclude anything but the fact that the whole "huntress grizzly mama" persona of the frontier woman who kills and skins her own game is complete sham.
Interestingly, one of the clips I found of that edited the stuff that was negative to Sarah out of there (the missed shots and her dad working the bolt), but the Daily Caller's version has not:
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It was so obviously a canned hunt. Her father even says "don't worry, take your time, he's not going anywhere" after her 5TH miss. And her bullshit urgency like her family would starve if not for that meat? I am sure that just pissed alot of people off also. There are alot of families up there that rely on moose and caribou and bear to get through the winter... hers is not one of them.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Hunting for caribou means food on the table and in the freezer for a lot of Alaskans, the former Govenor extolled. She opened her freezer to let us see how the Palin meat pantry was getting bare.
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The grand Palin total to bag a caribou and get it back to the Palin homestead added up to $42,400, or $141.33 per lb. of caribou meat. Sarah shot and killed a female cow which may have weighed up to 300 lbs. Just to put this is perspective, the Palins could have filled their freezer with ribeye steak at $10.99 a lb. from Alaskas Mr. Prime Beef, which is based in Anchorage and ships anywhere in the state.
I have no problem with hunting as a hobby and eating what you catch. But when Sarah goes on about being tough, independent and self sufficent and thats why she hunts, she cant be serious. How many Americans can afford to be that self sufficent and self sustaining when it costs $42,400 to personally hunt for their meat?
Myrina
(12,296 posts).... to see just how often she and Tawd dined out rather than putting 'food on the table' for her own family.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)The less of her the better.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)I second your motion.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)was about to say the same. For comparison a dandelion comes to mind.
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)high powered rifle pointing directly at your head.
What a moron.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)she went ahead and completed the circle.
riqster
(13,986 posts)These are the people who claim to be for gun rights, and they don't even know how to handle a weapon. smh.
sammytko
(2,480 posts)Delphinus
(11,840 posts)a horrible person. What a waste of life.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)represented, in the second highest office in the land, by this fine, classy woman. You blew it, America!!
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)Let's get the conspiracy theory going!
#Beargate
Beacool
(30,250 posts)What did Morgan do to incite this crass response? Palin is very thin skinned for a politician.
BTW, does she realize that the rifle is pointing at her?
Rex
(65,616 posts)Repukes are the biggest phonies ever to exist in American politics. I doubt she even shot the poor bear.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Either way, she's such a "responsible gun owner" it makes me want to puke.
Blue Owl
(50,482 posts)n/t
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)How did this slimy asshole ever get elected...to anything?
Erose999
(5,624 posts)for her to come up with on her own. I really wish one of those wolves or bears her handlers shoot for her to pose with would wake up and just maul the motherfucking shit out of her.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)....and hunting is a big thing here.
Another big thing in this area is posing the least capable member of the family with
whatever was killed, and then posting the photo at the WalMart or in the local paper.
Every year we see photos of 4 year old babies posed with a hunting rifle or a 6' longbow in front of a kill arranged to look like they were the actual hunter.
This is very popular, and everybody laughs.
I see they do the same in Alaska.