Might as well be Europe, but with less white people, for Sarah Palin. I mean, where did she think Ghana was on the map? Can you imagine an intelligence briefing with someone who couldn’t understand that Africa is a continent? How on Earth can someone be so fucking dumb? Did she watch the movie “Hotel Rwanda” and think to herself, “Thank God this is only a movie”? How many rhetorical questions can I ask in one post? One of my favorite tidbits that has come out is that she couldn’t name the countries in NAFTA… It’s amazing that this woman could have been the Vice President. Are Republicans crazy enough to nominate her in 2012? Jesus Titty-fucking Christ I hope so.
Go ahead and watch for yourself.
Nice use of “fucking.” I approve.
Rush, so glad you picked up on this. These stories, I’m sad to say, don’t even astonish me anymore, but they need to be told.
Here’s another hilarious video on the same topic, this one featuring Bill O’Reilly:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_141653.html
Notice how Mr. Independent tries as hard as possible to excuse the fact that the woman who might have been vice president DIDN’T KNOW WHICH COUNTRIES ARE IN NORTH AMERICA, NOR DID SHE HAVE A BASIC GRASP OF GOVERNMENT AND CIVICS. (Among other reports of Palin’s comedic insufficiencies.)
A person can be tutored, O’Reilly said nonchalantly, as if grasping the facts that eluded Palin is the most trivial thing in the world. Well, true enough — you can learn certain information by rote, but what does it say about Palin that she even would need tutoring on such rudimentary topics in the first place? What does it say about her curiosity about the world, about her capacity to learn from mere observation and absorption of simple, basic, elementary stimuli? In short, whether she could eventually be brought up to speed on such heady stuff is at this point all but irrelevant. Sorry Bill.
And it bears repeating: This shouldn’t just trouble people about Palin’s (now hypothetical, thank god) ability to be vice president (to the oldest first-termer ever, let’s remind everyone for the thousandth time), but it should also further underscore what sensible people began to realize a while back — that John McCain made the most cynical, pandering VP selection possible and in doing so put Country Last.
I love lamp.