Greta will have her interview with Sarah on tonight's show.

Off the charts ratings?

isnt that on MSNBiotCh? never watch it.

In the second segment Greta and Sarah do a strip off.

Is Greta a girl? If so I might turn away from the Cardinals game for a minute or two.

Greta Van Susterenenen of OJ trial and CNN fame.

Wanna see it naked? I have my doubts.

To sit through the OJ trial you'd have to be. I listened on radio, but I could go home and forget about it at night. The journalists lived and breathed it from start to finish. 24/7

Porn director offers her, husband staring role
$2 million and a snowmobile for Palin-porn
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/11/11/59926.html

Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin has received a different kind of job offer after she failed to beat Joe Biden in the U.S. vice-presidential race.

"Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations."

"Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations."

There went my last two brain cells.

i personally believe that u.s americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and i believe that our education like such as south africa and the iraq everywhere like such as and i believe that they should our education over here in the u.s. should help the u.s. or should help south africa and should help the iraq and asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for.

Palin's Coattails
Her popularity saves Don Young

Much has been made of Governor Sarah Palin's wardrobe in recent weeks. But no one is more thankful for her long coattails than fellow Republican politicians in Alaska.

Don Young, the state's lone U.S. Representative, is headed back to the House to serve a 19th term. After barely surviving a primary challenge in August, Mr. Young was declared the victor Wednesday over his Democratic opponent, Ethan Berkowitz. With about 30,000 votes still to be counted, Mr. Young was ahead, 50% to 45%.

Meanwhile, the Senate contest between 40-year incumbent Ted Stevens and his Democratic rival, Mark Begich, remains too tight to call. On Friday, Mr. Stevens was trailing by about 800 votes with 35,000 ballots yet to tally.

Both Messrs. Stevens and Young sought re-election under an ethical cloud that's as thick as the mosquitoes in a Fairbanks summer. The week before Election Day, Senator Stevens was convicted on seven felony counts of failing to disclose gifts and services he had received from Veco Corp., an oil contractor. Congressman Young is also being investigated for his connections to Veco, whose former CEO has pleaded guilty to bribing state officials.

Without Sarah Palin's name next to John McCain's at the top of the ticket on November 4, Mr. Young's victory would have been much less likely, and the Stevens race might not even have been close. Governor Palin's popularity in the state helped to drive up GOP turnout and certainly assisted both tainted incumbents. Mr. McCain and Governor Palin carried the state, 60%-38%, though Democrats talked even after Labor Day about making it competitive.

The irony is that Sarah Palin distinguished herself in Alaskan politics as a reformer, someone who took on corruption and cronyism within a GOP establishment that both Messrs. Stevens and Young represent. They owe her a debt of gratitude, though it's probably too much to hope that either man would change his ways.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122670574255229689.html

I'm sure they'd be willing. More than a few men would.

By Dick Cavett:


November 14, 2008, 10:00 pm
The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days.

Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.

I can play a kind of Alaskan roulette. Any random channel clicked on by the remote brings up that eager face, with its continuing assaults on the English Lang.

There she is with Larry and Matt and just about everyone else but Dr. Phil (so far). If she is not yet on “Judge Judy,” I suspect it can’t be for lack of trying.

What have we done to deserve this, this media blitz that the astute Andrea Mitchell has labeled “The Victory Tour”?

I suppose it will be recorded as among political history’s ironies that Palin was brought in to help John McCain. I can’t blame feminists who might draw amusement from the fact that a woman managed to both cripple the male she was supposed to help while gleaning an almost Elvis-sized following for herself. Mac loses, Sarah wins big-time was the gist of headlines.

I feel a little sorry for John. He aimed low and missed.

What will ambitious politicos learn from this? That frayed syntax, bungled grammar and run-on sentences that ramble on long after thought has given out completely are a candidate’s valuable traits?

And how much more of all that lies in our future if God points her to those open-a-crack doors she refers to? The ones she resolves to splinter and bulldoze her way through upon glimpsing the opportunities, revealed from on high.

What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.

And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.

(A cynic might wonder if Wasilla High School’s English and geography departments are draped in black.)

(How many contradictory and lying answers about The Empress’s New Clothes have you collected? I’ve got, so far, only four. Your additional ones welcome.)

Matt Lauer asked her about her daughter’s pregnancy and what went into the decision about how to handle it. Her “answer” did not contain the words “daughter,” “pregnancy,” “what to do about it” or, in fact, any two consecutive words related to Lauer’s query.

I saw this as a brief clip, so I don’t know whether Lauer recovered sufficiently to follow up, or could only sit there, covered in disbelief. If it happens again, Matt, I bequeath you what I heard myself say once to an elusive guest who stiffed me that way: “Were you able to hear any part of my question?”

At the risk of offending, well, you, for example, I worry about just what it is her hollering fans see in her that makes her the ideal choice to deal with the world’s problems: collapsed economies, global warming, hostile enemies and our current and far-flung twin battlefronts, either of which may prove to be the world’s second “30 Years’ War.”

Has there been a poll to see if the Sarah-ites are numbered among that baffling 26 percent of our population who, despite everything, still maintain that President George has done a heckuva job?

A woman in one of Palin’s crowds praised her for being “a mom like me … who thinks the way I do” and added, for ill measure, “That’s what I want in the White House.” Fine, but in what capacity?

Do this lady’s like-minded folk wonder how, say, Jefferson, Lincoln, the Roosevelts, et al (add your own favorites) managed so well without being soccer moms? Without being whizzes in the kitchen, whipping up moose soufflés? Without executing and wounding wolves from the air and without promoting that sad, threadbare hoax — sexual abstinence — as the answer to the sizzling loins of the young?

(In passing, has anyone observed that hunting animals with high-powered guns could only be defined as sport if both sides were equally armed?)

I’d love to hear what you think has caused such an alarming number of our fellow Americans to fall into the Sarah Swoon.

Could the willingness to crown one who seems to have no first language have anything to do with the oft-lamented fact that we seem to be alone among nations in having made the word “intellectual” an insult? (And yet…and yet…we did elect Obama. Surely not despite his brains.)

Sorry about all of the foregoing, as if you didn’t get enough of the lady every day in every medium but smoke signals.

I do not wish her ill. But I also don’t wish us ill. I hope she continues to find happiness in Alaska.

May I confess that upon first seeing her, I liked her looks? With the sound off, she presents a not uncomely frontal appearance.

But now, as the Brits say, “I’ll be glad to see the back of her.”

**********

PS: Lagniappe for English mavens: A friend of mine has made you laugh greatly over the years. David Lloyd is a comic genius (I can hear you wince, David) who wrote for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Cheers,” “Taxi,” “Frasier,” Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and me, not necessarily in that order. As a language fan, he has preserved many gems for posterity in his prodigious memory bank. Here comes my favorite:

A Navy lecturer was talking about some directives on the blackboard that he said to do something about, “except for these here ones with the asteroids in back of.”

Even David couldn’t make that up.

He certainly was, and the fact is the anti-intellectual nature of mass entertainment and CNNFauxNewsTainment doesn't lend itself to intelligent use of language or anything else.

Dick Cavett:

What's anti-intellectual about talking like you talk and like the common folk where you come from? Most of that stuff that's been quoted don't sound all that bad when you listen to the actual audio/videos. Also the dude is citing sources of some stuff that just ain't true. Not very intellectual in my book.

Another NE elitists opinion:

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14...ith-of-wasilla/

Dick Cavett...I really miss that guy.

What's anti-intellectual about talking like you talk and like the common folk where you come from? Most of that stuff that's been quoted don't sound all that bad when you listen to the actual audio/videos. Also the dude is citing sources of some stuff that just ain't true. Not very intellectual in my book.

"It is undisputed that Cavett has a lengthy history of mental illness, and has in the past been diagnosed as suffering from manic-depressive illness."

http://bipolar.about.com/cs/celebs/a/dickcavett.htm

Post his falsehoods then.

Half my in-laws are from Alaska and they are all more intelligent, informed and aware of domestic and international affairs than she is and they are all more articulate, even the one that voted for McCain/Palin.

There's nothing common about her, she's a member of that carpet-bag class that moved into the upper middle class of Alaska directly from the lower 48 and think they own it, invented it and have it by right.

My In-laws got there in the mid-fifties, married local and their grandchildren will be the next generation of born and raised in Alaska from Alaskans who will be in charge up there for the first time. I can tell you the first generation of actual Alaskans are quite different from the picture presented by Palin whatever her positives.

"It is undisputed that Cavett has a lengthy history of mental illness, and has in the past been diagnosed as suffering from manic-depressive illness."

http://bipolar.about.com/cs/celebs/a/dickcavett.htm

No need to refute a crazy guy, just because you're totally uninformed.

So, you were lying about his falsehoods ?

Why ?

He's farking crazy but they think it's that he's an intellectual.

I havn't seen him for years. He had his own TV show some time ago and I remember him mainly for his dry, tongue-in-cheek wit...know nothing of his politics or recent history.

As far as him being an intellectual it shouldn't be much of a jump for the lefties here...they consider Inyer a genius.

They say it's a fine line.