Last night on Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News show, big-haired Alaskan squawk-box Sarah Palin was on to express her fears about “intolerants” on the left shaming people right-wingers who spew intolerance, people like Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. During her appearance on the show, Trixie Klondike expressed hope that the government — the same government she and her ilk constantly bray about limiting the power of — should do something about “whether we’re allowed to express our personal opinions without threats of intimidation and mockery and criticism and loss of jobs and revenue.” So there was that.
And then Van Susteren said/asked this: “It is one thing to express your opinion. Do you have any problem about the manner of how he said it. I mean, we don’t talk about it on television much. But if you actually read the article, it is a rather graphic and offensive, or at least I think offensive description of it.”
Which in turn led Palin to respond thusly: “I haven’t read the article. I don’t know exactly how he said it.”
Well that’s just perfect, isn’t it? She never even read the article to know what it is that Robertson said that she’s been going on TV left and right to defend. Sarah Palin is truly the Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
(Via Politico)
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What a surprise.
“I haven’t read the article. I don’t know exactly how he said it.”
Well, if THAT isn’t representative of the Sarah Palin Experience, I don’t know what is…
cajin boy, you are fucking obsessed with palin. no one gives a fuck what this stupid bitch thinks. fucking quit it already you psychopath. christ.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, JAROSLAV!
Is this Todd? Or John “I’m so sorry I introduced this woman to the nation” McCain?
Said the pot to the kettle…
Wow Just wow.
Ain’t nothing wrong with a detailed hate-fuck fantasy.
You must care, if you read the article and commented on it.
well she is fun to look at
She is in fact not fun to look at.
I’m a Christian illiterate Elizabeth and I find offensive to that!
This week on THAT’S SO SARAH…
I’m pretty sure this duck dynasty guy believes and says a bunch of stuff, no one else agrees with, we don’t have debates about that, who gives a shit, unless he starts inciting hatred, this is just giving him more publicity, i never heard of him or the show until the whole anti-gay thing. That’s like watching a documentary on Hitler and being offended, it’s a reality show.
Honestly, I’d be surprised if she had read anything.
What’re the odds she’s read one of her own books?
None. There is none chance she’s read her own book.
Or, for that matter, wrote her own book.
What surprises me is that she admits to it. But I suppose that shouldn’t surprise me either.
I hear Palin actively maintains a comprehensive reading list.
Wait, I meant wrist.
Uh pretty sure when wondering what books she’s read the answer is “all of them”.
Well, we already knew that she didn’t read newspapers..
Fairly positive her mouth moves when she tries to read.
Somebody call Lisa Ann, a plot is shaping up for the ‘Who’s Nailin’ Paylin?’ sequel.
Maybe it can be a crossover with the Duck Dynasty gay porn.
I have no idea if it actually exists. I’m just assuming it does.
Duck Dynasty gay porn… I wonder what they would be called…
Something sexual that rhymes with “duck”… hmmm…
Buck Naked Dynasty?
Fuck Fine Ass Nasty.
Suck Mine-asty
Otto, is Lex Steele in that with Montanna Fishburne?
Woo! My first ever comment to start a gay porn brainstorm!
Where’s that fucking badge, Uproxx?
Sorry Capt’n, I don’t think there is a gay porn badge. But there should be!
I’ve suggested that badge, like, so many times.
Phil Robertson wouldn’t approve of this queer flauntin’. At least I think, I haven’t read what he really said.
P.s. Pluck Gyna-sty
If they really wanna go in with the Duck Dynasty porno, they should introduce a revolutionising dildo into the plot, that just dominates the sex toy game.
Vuh Gynasty, following the exports of the family behind Fuck Commander
Do ducks have cork-screw penises? or is that pigs? Anyway, there’s your hook Vladimir. Now get that script on my desk by noon tomorrow.
Don’t spend too much time on the plot.
Horatio: it’s ducks.
Butt fuck Dynasty?
Ugh, I hope she gets hit by a spear.
I can’t play the clip because the sound of Palin’s voice will render me stabby. But prey tell, did Van Susteren bother with a follow-up to, “I don’t know exactly how he said it”? Like, “Are you fucking kidding me, bitch?”
Van Susteren is going to write a hilarious tell-all when she quits. The woman’s got a J.D. from Georgetown, there’s no way she’s actually as dumb as she pretends to be.
Nope, there was nothing like that.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if she wanted to say something but the producers nixed it.
I don’t know, Dan. The plastic surgery she out herself through seems to suggest she committed completely.
Gretchen Carlson is a Stanford alumna, and that doesn’t seem to slow her down n her job as Cruise Director on the SS Dipshit.
Reason why there was no follow up was A. Fox News wouldn’t allow it and B. Van Susteren is good friends with Palin.
I learned they were good friends after Van Susteren got her panties in a bunch about Louis CK hosting some dinner because he tweeted some jokes about Palin when he was drunk on a plane.
I guess free speech isn’t alright when it’s about your friend.
Odd thing is that Ol’ Greta is a big SCIENTOLOGIST and those folks are well known for their tolerance towards gay people.
But Tom Cruise is a Scientologist…..
Sarah Palin: “I don’t read things, I just vent outrage for millions of dollars!”
Was it Fox or Palin responsible for misspelling “intolerance” in the chyron?
I think they were referring to those who are intolerant, not the concept of intolerance. Of course, when Palin shows up on Fox News, all bets are off, so there’s really no telling.
Intallerhence.
Appears that they have decided that those people who are being intolerant of others’ intolerance should be referred to as intolerants, which is not a real word.
It is truly impressive how stupid she is.
“Guys, come on… quit being intolerant of people!”
….. wut???
I am hoping it is Palin vs. Clinton in 2016. Mostly because I live for disaster and the media frenzy would be unbearable for everyone.
Sarah Palin has been relegated to media personality bin and for good reason – how can one possibly defend something one hasn’t even read and not feel embarrassed when that fact is exposed?
Not going to happen; she’s burned every political bridge possible. 2012 was going to be the year if it was going to happen. Expect her to have plenty of bitchy comments about Clinton, though.
But if current patterns in GOP nominations hold (i.e. the guy who comes in second gets the prize in the next cycle), Rick Santorum will be the nominee.
Please be Santorum.
It’ll be fine with or without her. It’ll be two opposing sides full of blowhards and clowns.
It’s going to be Kris Krispy, obviously.
(unrelated to the sarah palin thing, just a question)
While I have no doubt the DUck Dynasty idiot is a GIANT bigot (the 2010 videos kind of prove that), I truly have to ask… is what he said in the GQ interview that offensive? It amounts to “I odn’t get why people would want to do an ass over a vagina.” It’s… ignorant, and stupid, but… it’s not even particularly judgy. Not defending him, I swear, I’m legit curious why this one little soundbite has turned into SUCH a thing. Saying “I don’t undersatnd gay sex” is like, the least offensive way of hating gays I can possibly think of.
Yes.
He didn’t say he didn’t understand homosexuality. He drew a line from homosexuality to promiscuity to bestiality.
“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men.”
Gay, slut, dogfucker – all the same to him. So yes, offensive. He understood damn well the association he was making.
(Never mind his rainbows and unicorns recollection of the Jim Crow days. That’s a whole other can of stupid.)
I didn’t see the dog thing. I thought I read the whole article, but apparently missed a good chunk of it.
And you don’t have to add the parenthetical aside at the end. I was NOT defending these assholes — the defense of Jim Crow was WAY more offensive to me than what I read about what he thought of gays (until now) — merely confused as to why the quote I read was being SO focused on.
For reference, the only quote about gays that I saw was :
“It seems to me, a vagina — as a man — would be more desirable than a man’s anus,” he said. “That’s just me. I’m just thinking, ‘There’s more there! She’s got more to offer.’ I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”
Seeing the bestiality quote…. well, I take back my confusion.
No worries. That piece was a treasure trove of dumb. Although I think I’ve stumbled on my 2014 fantasy baseball team name, the Gay Slut Dogfuckers. Thanks Phil! :)
@Stella – don’t forget drunks in that group.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the bar owner and wife that were severely beaten.
I couldn’t find the gospel quote that Palin mentioned either.
@Max, ah, brilliant. The Gay Drunk Slut Dogfuckers. I like! :)
With so much to get outraged at, there was quite a bit that’s been underreported. There are so many reasons these bozos shouldn’t be on the air, it’s hard to narrow it down to one or two.
Although maybe A&E can replace DD with a more honest reality show about the family: “Romneys or Robertsons?”
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Because it wasn’t that offensive. He said homosexuality is a sin, and according to biblical teachings, it is. That’s alright. It’s not the only one. Everyone is a sinner, gay or straight. Drunk, terrorist, or one prone to promiscuous behavior, or something else. Everyone’s a sinner and needs salvation. That is the gist of what he said.
And if you’re gay you’re like a dog fucker. He also said that.
@WarmingBlow, as mentioned many times above, I didn’t see / hear that the first time.
Bobman: Sorry, I should have through up an @Smalley
threw >.<
Look at the cords on her neck. I think we need to reclassify her as a GILF.
Palin claims that Robertson was quoting the Gospel. This is insane.
Also, there is no mention of Robertson severely beating a bar owner and his wife, as mentioned in the article.
BUT AT LEAST HE AINT NO HEATHEN QUEER!
Its amazing how many people think they can hide behind “Well I’m a born again Christian” to excuse whatever they’ve done.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Palins ignorance extended to the Bible.
“Which of the gospels do I read? Oh, y’know, all of them. Matthew, Paul, Ringo….”
The vagina vs. anus Gospel quote is actually from the Bro Bible.
“Uproxx Writers Still Don’t Have Any Idea What ‘Anti-Gay’ Means”
That is an excellent title for an article. Please do enlighten us plebeians by providing a link to the blog/site that you write for.
“Uproxx Writers Still Don’t Have Any Idea What ‘Anti-Gay’ Means”
Huh. Not just Uproxx writers, considering the comments were classified as anti-gay by many, many others, including some of the Fox talking heads who defended his “First Amendment rights.” And I took them that way as well as a life-long speaker of the English language. At a certain point, if the large majority of educated English-speakers interpret the comments that way, then that’s what they are, and your fervent rubbing of your fairy wings together and wishing for it not to be doesn’t make it not.
“Writers Still Don’t Have Any Idea What ‘Anti-Gay’ Means, But I’m the Smart Guy Who ‘Gets It’ When No One Else Does, Look At Me Out Here Being All Brave and Shit.”
Oooooh, this looks fun. Do enlighten us, BD? Or are you one of those trolls that throws out wild claims and then disappears in the night without out ever elaborating?
Oh please…do enlighten them and us.
Wow. The duck dynasty fans that exist actually visit this site? I pictured* all these blowhards being sweat stained shirt wearing, tobacco dippin’, starting their sentences with “I tell you what” type crowds that were limited in their use of the Internet to yahoo news comments.
*I didn’t really picture it, it’s just funner that way
The door that was opened to this conversation softly closes behind BD as he shamefully exits without a peep…
HA-HA (Nelson laugh)…
Classic Leftist “tolerance” = we’ll tolerate you so long as you 100% agree with us, otherwise we seek not to convert you but to silence you. Sorry folks, there’s nothing progressive about that. That’s fascism pure and simple.
This isn’t a hard concept (for logical-thinking people) to understand but Rick Warren (who I’m sure you all hate as well), explains it best:
“Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.”
“You’re all such fascists. Why won’t you LIBRULS just let us be bigots?!”
Believing that a behavior is wrong or immoral is in no way shape or form “bigotry”. Never has been, never will be. That you Leftists are attempting to make it so simply demonstrates your fascist tendencies and opposition to the “tolerance” that you purport to preach.
Wow. I’m straight so the thought of two guys doing it isn’t my thing. But equating two guys doing it as the same as someone screwing an animal is baseless. And after reading the comments on blacks in the south, I’d wager to call it batshit crazy. That’s as delusional as saying “I’ve never seen racial profiling happen in l.a. so I’m not sure it happened”. But hey git’er done pal.
You’re right, BD. Calling gays immoral and wrong is totally acceptable. I mean, isn’t that how you start a conversation with them? “I think your behavior is wrong and immoral, now lets open the Christmas presents and have some egg nog.”
There’s a huge difference between disallowing free ignorant speech and disagreeing with someone’s opinion. He’s welcome to believe whatever he wants and tell people all about it. No one stopped him from doing that. A&E doesn’t want to be associated with his beliefs so it decided to boot him from his contract. He did then and still does have every right to say what he wants. And people with consciences who comprehend that homosexuals are so much more than just butt sex with each other heard what he was saying and vehemently disagreed.
How is that fascist?
Surprise, surprise that your gender studies degree didn’t teach anything about basic Christianity, history or fascism.
Actually, BD, I was raised as an evangelical Christian. I’ve read the bible front to back more times than most Christians, and considering my father was a pastor, I’ve studied the bible in an extensive way.
I also studied political science in college. I took an entire class on facism taught by a Polish immigrant that saw real facism while living under the Soviet regime.
So don’t lecture me about not knowing why facism means or what the scripture says.
I suggest you be the one to do some studying.
Also, you never explained why “anti-gay” really means. You only said being intolerant towards ignorant people was facism
**what, not why.
Damn, I cannot type on my new phone.
“Classic Leftist “tolerance” = we’ll tolerate you so long as you 100% agree with us, otherwise we seek not to convert you but to silence you. Sorry folks, there’s nothing progressive about that. That’s fascism pure and simple.”
No one was trying to silence Phil Robertson other than his employer that has to worry about advertisers. My goodness, your inability to understand this basic fact is impressive.
Wait, is BD really saying that fascists were all about making sure nothing bad ever happened to the gays?
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Jeez, guys, I know this might be hard to believe, but it seems BD is a total fucking moron.
“Facism: an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.” From Webster’s.
Now, tell me how liberals are fascists again…
And here’s along we definition that seems to paint your side as the facists:
“1: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized government headed by a leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition 2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control”
*a longer
Again, I cannot type today
So what were you saying, BD?
Actually, I’m sure BD thinks in intolerant for not accepting his incorrect definition of facism.
Fascism is not ipso facto “right wing” – the Nazis were socialists after all. I suspect your father and professors, not to mention your reading comprehension were quite shitty.
Attempting to silence any belief that homosexuality is morally wrong and drive such views from the public sphere is certainly an exercise of “strong autocratic control”. GLAAD certainly meets definition 2 quoted above.
And to suggest that no Leftist group or “gay rights” advocacy group pressured to A&E suspend Robinson is laughable.
Finally, I’m *sure* you all openly called BHO anti-gay up until 10 months ago.
I got a little carried away here. Sorry guys. But I have a lot of free time today and all my family and friends are 2000 miles away.
Ahhh the old “:you’re dumb I know things” routine.
Go fuck yourself and Happy Xmas.
Wow, I haven’t attacked you or said anything disparaging. But you call my father shitty? What a great Christian you are. Go choke on a big fat gay cock you fucking cunt. ( I don’t like people talking shot about my wonderful father).
You’re actually a great representation of why I left the Church, BD.
You hate gay people because it’s a sin, but in your deluded eyes, it’s okay to insult people you’ve never met (and a pastor you’ve never met, at that).
Go read the fucking bible, and maybe you’ll realize your attitude shits in the face of everything Jesus preached. You ignorant dick head.
That’s actually the perfect glimpse into this kind of crowd. The “I don’t get why the liberals are so easily offended” types, while following with a personal insult like “buncha sensitive fags”
the Nazis were socialists after all
They most definitely were NOT socialists.
Sure, they had the word “socialist” in their name, but that was merely an effort to win over working class voters in the wake of the near-communist revolution in Germany after WWI. But that’s the only connection they have to socialism. Saying they were socialists because it was in their name is like saying communist East Germany must have been a democracy because they called themselves the German Democratic Republic.
Look at what the Nazis actually did. Before seizing power, they regularly engaged in street fights with socialists. and as soon as they did take power, they outlawed the trade unions and they aligned with big business (Krupp, Farben, etc.). Some of the very first political groups rounded up into the concentration camps were Communists and Socialists.
This is Modern History 101. Even the famous Martin Niemoller poem about the Holocaust makes it clear, as the very first line is “First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist….”
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But please, continue to lecture the rest of us about how we don’t understand fascism. You’ve really cobbled together an interesting worldview, apparently gathering “facts” from Red State message boards and oatmeal packets.
This is all very entertaining to read. What’s amazing is how people chose to blind themselves from things that are obvious whether it’s intent or actually the words on paper. Equating homosexuality to bestiality, on purpose or by monumental error on Robertson’s part, sure sounds like intolerance to me. Maybe you live in a country where bestiality isn’t looked down upon with the utmost scorn, that’s cool. I live in America, and ‘Murricans like Robertson don’t take that too lightly.
“The Nazis were socialists.” Are you a fucking moron? Rhetorical question.
I have a feeling we’ll never hear from BD again.
@GeneralBluth
Nah, we’ll hear from him many more times with many more account names.
Oh and while we’re here: Hitler didn’t “take the guns” either.
Don’t have to read it, he has a right to say it. That’s the whole argument – it doesn’t matter what he said.
It was still stupid.
God, you’re a moron. For the 1000th time, he has every right to say it. He wasn’t thrown in ducking (autocorrect for the win) jail. But his employer has rights too. Or are republicans now against corporations now that one fired a Christian homophobe?
I guess all this time when conservatives were stamping their feet about how corporations needed to be allowed to do whatever they wanted to do they really meant they needed to be allowed to do whatever they wanted to do [i]as long as it pissed off the liberals.[/i]
Your thesis pre-supposes the ability to read.
Sorry, do you think he was being PRO-gay by claiming homosexuality would lead to bestiality?
Is that a selling point for you?
Gives a new meaning to the term “pull wool.”
GILF indeed…
How that woman gets through the start of each day without stabbing herself with her toothbrush, falling up a flight of stairs or just plain forgetting to breathe is honestly a friggin’ MIRACLE, but the fact remains that once again the media is making a huge deal out of some idiot in the public eye saying something stupid. There are revolutions all around the world where people are overthrowing their governments and standing up for what’s right, but because there are no f*cking Kardashians involved, none of the corporate media are reporting it. Who cares what some faux-hillbilly said in a men’s magazine? He’s a homophobe who doesn’t know when to shut up, that’s news?
It’s hard to narrow it down to just one article, when she reads all of ’em!
I kinda want to hate bang her, and by that i mean with a hammer bat.
Just don’t look! Just don’t look!
That doofy expression just fills me with anger.
Sarah Palin doesn’t read? What a shock..
Leviticus isn’t the Gospel. John, Mark, Matthew and Luke were the Gospels.
Ahh yes the Bible. Greatest fictional/historical book of short stories ever written.
It’s not that good.
i would love to fuck this woman, wow
I assume you accidentally left out up. I would love to fuck this woman up, wow.
Ignorance of reality is her standard operating procedure.
Maybe we’re all missing the big picture here. I’m more insulted that Esquire Magazine chose to interview Phil Robertson.
Big Daddy Balls ftw!
So by her logic we can talk freely about her mongoloid child without any repercussions? Slippery slope. Sarah.
Girl I’d Like to Fuckingdie?
How about Sarah sticks a duck call inside herself and takes a deep breath? Do you think it would make a noise? If nature abhors a vacuum, then she’s naturally brain-dead. And what the hell do all these woodsmen do with a duck when they catch it? Find a Chinaman to cook it?