GREAD DUMBER THAN PALIN
Always tuned in to what Tim Blair is up to, the hyper-intelligent lefties at Grods couldn't ignore his mocking of a channel 10 "moron program" attacking Sarah Palin:
Update: In an earlier channel 10 "moron program" social commentator Stephen Mayne explains why it's important for our Prime Minister to be in New York:
Poor widdle Timmeh Blair has had a raging erection for Sarah Palin ever since she was announced as John McCain’s running mate. And such is his lust/love for sweet, sweet Sarah that he gets very defensive when anyone dares take the piss out of her.And here I thought Blair was into guys. Anyway, Grods team member Bridgit Gread elaborates on the Palin problem:
Democracy means that everyone can choose government; it doesn’t mean everyone can be in it. Commonality is not a barrier to political participation but on its own it means nothing.Here's a catalogue of Bridgit's obvious errors.
Personally I don’t give a shit that Palin is inexperienced, it’s her obvious lack of anything else that’s a problem: education, an empathy for the environment, secular logic, worldliness, tolerance of other living things. And if she hasn’t the mind to deal with Katie Couric then she certainly doesn’t have it to be 2IC to the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal. If JFK’s days were spent reading Sweet Valley High instead of The Guns of August then we’d all be cinders.
- Democracy does mean that "everyone can be in it".
- Commonality has nothing to do with it; the word is commonalty.
- It is impossible to have "empathy for the environment".
- JFK couldn't read "Sweet Valley High", which was published after his death.
- We were almost cinderised in a missile crisis resulting from Kennedy's provocations of the the Soviet Union.
Update: In an earlier channel 10 "moron program" social commentator Stephen Mayne explains why it's important for our Prime Minister to be in New York:
You have to go to New York to watch the American financial system collapse, I mean it's falling over. He's gotta be talking to the leaders there. This is history being made and Australia's fine, we're strong. New York is the place to be with the world's leaders while America collapses... We're fine.Mayne's analysis of Australia's Security Council bid is even more insightful. With Tracee Hutchison and SBS's Julia Zemiro you know the show is worth watching, so watch it.
posted by J F Beck at 4:05 PM
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We were almost cinderised in a missile crisis resulting from Kennedy's provocations of the the Soviet Union.
Jesus. And I thought Tim Lambert was deluded.
The new documentation, combined with recent testimony by Soviet and Cuban officials, also sheds light on what is perhaps the most important puzzle of the missile crisis, namely, what motivated the Soviets to deploy nuclear weapons in Cuba. The declassified record shows that U.S. officials were well aware that their deployment of Jupiter missiles near Soviet borders in Turkey and Italy in 1959 would be deeply resented by Soviet officials; even President Eisenhower noted that it would be a "provocative" step analogous to the deployment of Soviet missiles in "Mexico or Cuba.(9) A declassified military history of the Jupiter system reveals that the rockets became operational in April 1962—an event that may have contributed to Khrushchev's proposal, made the very same month, to deploy similar weapons in Cuba.(10)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/declass.htm
Also at the link above:
In addition, the documents lend credence to Khrushchev's claim that a primary Soviet motivation was the defense of Cuba against a U.S. invasion. For years, U.S. analysts have dismissed this as a face-saving, after-the-fact rationale that enabled the Soviets to declare victory in the confrontation rather than admit defeat. But formerly top-secret documents, released to the National Security Archive in January 1989, provide a detailed description of a 1962 U.S. covert action program known as OPERATION MONGOOSE, which combined sabotage, infiltration, and psychological warfare activities with military exercises and contingency operations for a possible invasion to overthrow the Castro government. Guidelines for OPERATION MONGOOSE, tacitly approved by President Kennedy in March 1962, noted that the "final success" of the program would "require decisive U.S. military intervention." Although Kennedy never formally authorized an invasion, former administration officials acknowledge that Cuban intelligence had infiltrated the CIA's exile groups and learned of plans for a potential invasion—which, ironically, was scheduled for October 1962.
BIA, regardless of why, it's an historical fact that Kennedy confronted the Soviets because they positioned nukes in Cuba specifically to target the United States. The Soviets could have pushed the button at any time....and vaporized a lot of the US.
I'm not going to argue whether or not JFK was justified, but it's obvious that he did indeed push the world very close to the edge. So JF's comment is anything but deluded.
Fidel Castro was telling the world that he was going to nuke New York so I'm not too sure that BIA has read much history about what was going on back then.
It's also worth noting that the Soviets were encouraged by JFK's early incompetence and thought they could station missiles in Cuba and have no backlash.
On that video link:
Difficult to work out who is the most air-headed.
None of them (host included) have any idea what they are talking about.
Gread is an especially nasty piece of work.
So desperate for "obvious errors" that we included jokes?
1. Learn to read, JF. Stupid people shouldn't reach executive positions in democratic government any more than they should in a corporation. We're still waiting for evidence that Sarah Palin is not stupid, which you may volunteer to offer (quick hint: being governor of Alaska ain't it).
2. Commonality can be analagous with commonalty. Check any dictionary, they are useful in this kind of situation.
3. It's conceptually impossible to have a "war on terror" too, but yet there seems to be one going on.
4. I concede the point - you must be more up on teen romance literature than I. What do you think Sarah Palin reads: Dostoevsky? Whitman? Bertrand Russell?
5. I'm not sailing in your ship of historical revisionism, other to point out to you that the Jupiter missiles in Turkey were authorised well before JFK hit the White House. In any event, my comment was about his handling of the crisis, not the causes for it. How do you think Miss Swimsuit 1984 would have gone in a comparable situation, with Maxwell Taylor and Curtis Le May whispering in her air that tactical airstrikes would just be A-OK?
If Palin gets the nod then maybe you could take over as governor of Alaska, JF.
We're still waiting for evidence that Sarah Palin is not stupid.
I'm still waiting for evidence that Obama and Joe Biden aren't stupid. Obama has said there are 57 states in America and that asthmatic children are treated with "breathalysers". Biden recently claimed that FDR addressed the nation as president in 1929 - on television! (And before he was president).
...conceptually impossible...
"We are the ones we've been waiting for." Um, say again?
What do you think Sarah Palin reads...?
Neil Kinnock?
...my comment was about his handling of the crisis, not the causes for it.
Well, his "handling" of the crisis included causing the crisis. That's excluding his botched invasion of the Bay of Pigs the year before and his gung-ho zeal for waging war in a little place called Vietnam.
How do you think Miss Swimsuit 1984 would have gone in a comparable situation?
Who's to say but she couldn't do much worse than the dopey John Kennedy. When I say dopey, I do mean dopey - he was addicted to drugs and made a fool of himself in Vienna meeting Kruschev. Journalists have since attested that his eyes were glazed over. He was on Planet X.
And at least Palin strutted her stuff on the catwalk in her own name. Kennedy had two "best sellers" that were a) bought up and made possible by his father; and b) plagiarised.
I see. Obama's a dumb-arse and Kennedy was a catatonic dope fiend with a yen for plagiarism - but being a swimsuit bimbo is just great, provided it's 'in your own name'.
Heaven help us.
So you admit Obama is dumb. We're getting somewhere.
Like an Islamist, your major problem seems to be females wearing swimsuits in public. This is apparently a more serious disqualification for national office in your Tammy Wynette eyes than being a man addicted to drugs, invading Cuba and losing, trying to kill a foreign leader with - amongst other things - poisonous cigars and milkshakes, or passing off an entire book as his own work. Perhaps women should be banned from wearing swimsuits in public or in pageants. If Palin is a "bimbo," aren't you as well? Your knowledge of history and world affairs is embarrassingly limited.
Au contraire, it's more than competent enough to deal with the likes of you, Currently Loony. The question is, why should I waste my energy? You know what they say about wrestling in the mud with pigs.
You've coughed up nothing here but the usual ham-fisted JFK conspiracy theories and one of the most thinly drawn analogies in recent memory (swimsuits and Islamicists, I mean really, is that the best you can muster?) Oh, and attacking Kennedy because he allegedly disregarded the sovereignty of Castro, a figure who your lot ordinarily pictures with horns and a red cape. It's absolutely laughable.
Please do try harder, you're letting the team down.
...it's more than competent enough to deal with the likes of you...
Perhaps you might explain this illogical sentence, then.
So Tammy, sweetie, you think Kennedy didn't really invade Cuba and lose? He wasn't really obsessed with killing Castro - as everyone knows? He wasn't really a client of Max Jacobson - also as everyone knows? These are conspiracy theories! I suppose you think he was also highly respectful towards women at all times!
By the way, I know you won't mind me calling you sweetie, sweetie.
"Currently Loony"? What was that meant to be, some sort of prepubescent slap down?
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