Sarah Palin is now asking for divine intervention come Election Day. Fair enough. A hope and a prayer is all the GOP has going for it right now, seeing as how they are out of money, time, and voter confidence.
Asked by crazy evangelical James Dobson if the Alaskan lady is worried about the polls, Palin replied in her typical, scary, Crusades-era rhetoric:
CONTINUED »
The media has a terrible habit of comparing their serendipitous successes with horrific human tragedies. When Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston split up in Jan. 2005, Us Weekly's Kent Brownridge (then Jann Wenner's No. 2, and now the head of OK!) said, "For a celebrity weekly, this is our tsunami," before rushing to print a 40,000-word book on the break-up. That was, of course, one month after an earthquake in the Indian Ocean created devastating tsunamis that killed a quarter of a million people in 11 countries. Brownridge apologized the very next day.
Then, in the summer of 2005, back when Gruner + Jahr still had a U.S. presence, then-editor of Fast Company John Bryne described the countdown to a decision about which mags would survive — G+J was selling four titles to Meredith, but ended up keeping FC and Inc. — as "kind of like being in a hostage crisis." TOTALLY THE SAME THING!
So how does Lorne Michaels, the Saturday Night Live executive producer, feel about the way things have transpired in this presidential election, which he has reaped for comedic gold? CONTINUED »
Munger, who writes the Progressive Alaska blog, told me Palin is not just a creationist, but a "young Earth" creationist who believes that man and dinosaurs once shared the planet, and that the world will end in her lifetime.
…
Munger claims she tried to stock the local school board with creationists several years ago, which caused him to quiz her on her beliefs."She doesn't believe in science, and her father was a science teacher," Munger said. "She told me she felt she would see Jesus in her lifetime."
(emphasis ours)
The latest ruckus caused by Sherri Shepherd has nothing to do with the shape of the earth — this time, the View co-host is admitting that she’s “had more abortions than [she] would like to count.” Scandalous! Except that didn’t bother us as much as this quote from Shepherd:
