Warning: gratuitous diss diary.
Everyone remembers the video that went wildly viral of Miss South Carolina's spectacularly illiterate response to her pageant question, right? The one with "the Iraq" and the alarming dearth of maps in America?
Well, I dare anyone to claim, after even a superficial examination of the following transcript of a passage from Sarah Palin's interview yesterday with Katie Couric, that Miss Wasilla is any less of an imbecile than Miss South Carolina.
Just to remind you of this golden moment in the history of American achievement, here is Miss South Carolina, in the Miss Teen USA pageant, responding to the question, 'Why is it that one fifth of Americans can't find the US on a map?':
"Here's the, I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, um, I believe that our ed... education, like, such as in South Africa and, uh, the... the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here, in the U.S., should help the U.S., or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future."
Now, again, I ask you, is there really any substantive difference between the immortal words reported above and the following response to a question about Afghanistan from Miss Wasilla, aka one of our nation's two candidates for the vice presidency?
"The logistics that we are already suggesting here, not having enough troops in the area right now -- the... things like the terrain even in Afghanistan and that border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where, you know, we believe that -- Bin Laden is -- is hiding out right now and... and is still such a leader of this terrorist movement. There... there are many more challenges there.
So, again, I believe that... a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there as it has proven to have done in Iraq. And as I say, Katie, that we cannot afford to retreat, to withdraw in Iraq. That's not gonna get us any better off in Afghanistan either.
And as our leaders are telling us in our military, we do need to ramp it up in Afghanistan, counting on our friends and allies to assist with us there because these terrorists who hate America, they hate what we stand for with the... the freedoms, the democracy, the... the women's rights, the tolerance... they hate what it is that we represent and our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent.
If we were... were to allow a stronghold to be captured by these terrorists then the world is in even greater peril than it is today. We cannot afford to lose in Afghanistan."
No analysis required. The woman is a CRETIN. Read it again. It has an even greater impact in print than in video, doesn't it? I mean, LOOK at that shit! I wouldn't know where to begin if someone asked me to edit it into coherent English, and that's what I do for a living.
When the press prints stories about how "only" 40 percent of Americans think that this blathering moron is qualified to be vice president, I just don't get why they're not saying instead that as many as 40% of Americans actually think she IS.
W. T. F. ?????