Sarah Palin

From Libya to GE’s Tax Refund to Gingrich’s Hypocrisy, I’m With Jon Stewart: “I Give Up”

03.30.2011

Usually the everyday events in the world and in our country get me so riled up that I must type out my thoughts into this blog to clear them of my mind and allow me to let something else – ideally more positive and productive – fill the space in there. Lately I haven’t even [...]

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Interpreting the Tucson Shooting: It's Time Both Parties Denounce Hyperbolic, Aggressive Rhetoric

01.08.2011

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tucson, AZ, others were killed. Regardless of the motives, can we use this to finally end the aggressive, hyperbolic, dangerous rhetoric from politicians and pundits.

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Sarah Palin's Alaska Offers Nothing New to Reality Television Genre

11.16.2010

Sarah Palin’s Alaska offers nothing new to the reality-TV genre despite being on TLC. Except the fact that it stars a potential 2012 presidential candidate.

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Ground Zero Mosque Opposition Confuses Sensitivity with Intolerance

08.04.2010

Much has already been said surrounding the heated controversy over the planned Islamic community center and mosque being built near Ground Zero in New York City. Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and others have conflated all of Islam with the small sub-sect of terrorists, suggesting asserting that they are one and the same, that all Muslims [...]

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Tea Party Group Compares Obama to Hitler, Hurts Own Cause

07.15.2010

Less than a day after Sarah Palin blasted the NAACP for blasting the Tea Party groups as “racists,” a billboard in Iowa has been taken down for its depiction of President Obama as being in the same vein as Hitler and Lenin.  The billboard – which displayed pictures of Hitler, Obama, and Lenin – was [...]

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Sarah Palin Deconstructed: Facebook Note on BP and Obama

06.10.2010

I found it interesting when I examined Sarah Palin’s last Facebook note that I thought I would take a look at her latest: “Less Talkin’, More Kickin’.” As before, my goal is to take a look at her arguments and claims and see what stands up to critical thought and is not just impassioned non-truths [...]

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Sarah Palin's Good Advice: Seek Fair Reporting

06.02.2010

In the aftermath of the deadly attack by Israel on the flotilla delivering humanitarian aid for Gaza, most political pundits have voiced their opinions. Unsurprisingly, people seem to be harshly divided into two camps: those supporting Israel, and those condemning its actions.  And for the most part, that division falls along party lines. Sarah Palin [...]

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This Political Theater Lost Me in the 2nd Act

03.12.2010

I almost didn’t comment on my silence here on Agree to Disagree.  I thought maybe I should let my silence speak for itself.  But, what’s a blog when there’s nothing being said? I don’t consider myself jaded.  I just feel rather numb by all the major items in politics right now.  Perhaps I’ve burned myself [...]

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Palin Doesn't Understand Social Media

03.03.2010

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin claims that she never had – nor currently has – any opportunity to further explain her comments on the Family Guy-Down’s Syndrome controversy.  She even uses her time on Jay Leno’s return to The Tonight Show to reiterate her lack of ability to further explain: “But a special-needs family asking [...]

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The Insanity of the Tea Party Conspiracy Theorists

02.10.2010

I assumed that the Tea Partiers were compromised of particularly active and angry Republicans and libertarians.  According to this expose by Jonathan Kay at Newsweek, it’s way more than that: A software engineer from Clearwater, Fla., told me that Washington, D.C., liberals had engineered the financial crash so they could destroy the value of the [...]

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