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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: MrsSmith on November 30, 2009, 06:36:56 PM
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-30-09 07:27 PM
Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7119499)
Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe
Gaffe may be quite the understatement!!!
Total screw up is closer to the facts.
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Palin's Latest Rogue Gaffe
Geoffrey Dunn - Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian
Posted: November 30, 2009 03:32 AM - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-late...
There have been so many lies and distortions pointed out in Sarah Palin's Going Rogue since it was released last week that her memoir has already become something of a gag line.
But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden.
As the epigram to Chapter Three, "Drill, Baby, Drill," Palin assigns the following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach:
Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their lives.
Only the quote wasn't by John Wooden. It was written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled "Back on the War Ponies," which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.
Here's the full quote:
Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Big Horn.
Oops! That's not quite the sentiment that Sister Sarah was trying to convey ......
Hmmmm...http://thinkexist.com/quotes/john_wooden/4.html
John Wooden quotes:
“Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.â€
Anand_Singh John Wooden quote
Gee. do you suppose Huffington may not have actually checked all their facts? :rotf:
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Hmmmm...http://thinkexist.com/quotes/john_wooden/4.html
John Wooden quotes:
“Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.â€
Anand_Singh John Wooden quote
Gee. do you suppose Huffington may not have actually checked all their facts? :rotf:
A lib checking facts? Surely you jest. :-)
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A lib checking facts? Surely you jest. :-)
Facts are to libs what words were to Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland:‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master— that's all.’
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Facts are to libs what words were to Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland:
Hmm sounds like Obama after all he rejected the notion that the health care bill was a tax increase it's happy fun payments we all must make now. :-)
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I did my own research (allways the best way)! This 'Anand Singh' guy got the name wrong, it really was a John Wooden Legs (a Native American) quote from "Back on the War Ponies". Not John Wooden the basketball coach, sorry.
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I did my own research (allways the best way)! This 'Anand Singh' guy got the name wrong, it really was a John Wooden Legs (a Native American) quote from "Back on the War Ponies". Not John Wooden the basketball coach, sorry.
So, you can prove that John Wooden never said those words?
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Maybe I'm just thick, but I'm not sure I get what all the brouhaha is about.
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Maybe I'm just thick, but I'm not sure I get what all the brouhaha is about.
OMG Sarah!!! :ohnoes: :overreaction:
Or in other words.....a typical day in DUmmieland. :whatever: :lmao:
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Complain all you want to, DUmmies.
Fact is, Sarah is in Tempe, AZ today to sign her book.
People started lining up YESTERDAY at 0800 to buy the book and get her signature.
The first person in line drove in from Orange County, CA.
I don't see that kind of draw for ANY of your icons.
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Maybe I'm just thick, but I'm not sure I get what all the brouhaha is about.
Shhhh, don't disturb them while they're masturbating.
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B-b-b-b-but Badcat! Joe Biden was in my town in early November, and he packed a wedding hall almost half full!!!!!!
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Shhhh, don't disturb them while they're masturbating.
:rotf:....and they do it with their left hand wheather they're left handed or not.