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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

“My Son Is Fighting for Freedom, so Shut Up!”

posted by on October 7 at 16:54 PM

Sarah Palin was heckled at a rally yesterday, and her response, “You know, bless your heart sir, my son is over in Eye-rack fighting for your right to protest right now,” was predictably a big hit with the crowd. So that’s Trig and Track…does she have any children she won’t hide behind?

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1

Ok psycho.

Posted by Lord Summerisle | October 7, 2008 5:00 PM
2

I despise her too, but you have to admit that was a pretty gosh darn good retort.

Posted by jackie treehorn | October 7, 2008 5:01 PM
3

What a great idea, draw more attention to your son while he's in a war zone.

Posted by Pack Tralin | October 7, 2008 5:02 PM
4

@2

Iraq has as much to do with our freedom as the $700 billion bailout has to do with how big of a shit I'm taking tomorrow morning.

Posted by The CHZA | October 7, 2008 5:03 PM
5

And my cousin's in Iraq because your running mate's good buddy, George W. Bush, thought it would be really great to send the whole U.S. Army over there to go get shot at for a decade or two. What's your fuckin' point?

Posted by Greg | October 7, 2008 5:04 PM
6

Reminder that these are the same people who would love to revoke that right to protest as well.

Posted by laterite | October 7, 2008 5:04 PM
7

Really, he's fighting for the right to protest? How is that? What's the connection?

Or, if he wasn't fighting, how would that hurt the right to protest? Does she really think that by not fighting in Iraq we're that much closer to losing some right? How?

Does she think if we don't kill some Muslims they'll somehow make us follow sharia law?

Probably, yes, she does.

Posted by sadie | October 7, 2008 5:07 PM
8

Dear Stupid, Iraq has nothing to do with our freedom of speech. Such as.

Posted by Porkchop Sandwiches! | October 7, 2008 5:10 PM
9

And then the protestor was promptly thrown out.

Posted by disintegrator | October 7, 2008 5:11 PM
10

Jesus. Shut your pie hole, Hooker Heels.

Posted by Balt-O-Matt | October 7, 2008 5:11 PM
11

of all the right wing tautologies, this one drives me the most insane.

OBL never attacked our freedom of speech. he wants our imperialism in the ME to end. a reasonable goal, unreasonable tactics.

i'd love to see a GOP pol fill in the blank:
1. we invade iraq.
2. _________________
3. your freedom of speech is protected.

Posted by max solomon | October 7, 2008 5:16 PM
12

Perhaps Guantanamo being in Cuba has messed up her poor little mind's sense of geography and she feels that somehow Iraqi insurgents pose a threat to free speech in America.

Posted by kinaidos | October 7, 2008 5:25 PM
13

What #5 said.

Posted by Dougsf | October 7, 2008 5:27 PM
14

Eye-rack. I'm so fucking sick of that pronunciation. If you don't want to say Ee-rahk, then at least say Er-ahk.
I bet she says Ay-rab too.

Posted by keshmeshi | October 7, 2008 5:30 PM
15

@14: Do you speak for all Persian cookies?

Posted by Mikki | October 7, 2008 5:40 PM
16

I know this sounds like a joke, but I keep suffering from serious cases of Palin rage. When she spouts off shit like this I get so angry that I can't think of anything except how much I hate her. If I donate to Obama's campaign every time this happens, I will go broke. I really need a way to deal with this.

Posted by Jen | October 7, 2008 6:12 PM
17

@14: I actually like Eye-rack. It's only third world countries that we're supposed to for some reason pronounce the way their citizens pronounce them. We don't say Frahnce or Deutschland or Nippon or (insert name of virtually any developed country here). And I seriously doubt that they call us the United States.

Posted by kk | October 7, 2008 6:47 PM
18

The war has nothing to do with free speech. September 11 had nothing to do with Iraq. How are Iraq's threatening free speech. It is the Republican policy and corruption that is threatening US democracy.

Posted by Ren | October 7, 2008 7:48 PM
19

@17,

To each their own, but I generally see it as similar to pronouncing names. It's ok to be a little lazy with pronunciations, but is it acceptable to say Jack Chee-rack? Anyone who pronounces it that way would look like an idiot or an asshole, which of course means that Palin would totally do it.

Posted by keshmeshi | October 7, 2008 8:06 PM
20

@16, me too. Every time it happened I'd walk to the Student Union and volunteer to register people to vote...only now the deadline is up. So I play violent video games.

Posted by Leslie N. | October 7, 2008 8:16 PM
21

I hate my Mother, she really is a clueless bitch.

Posted by Trig | October 7, 2008 9:07 PM
22

What #5 said too. Maybe I was asleep, but since when are our troops in Iraq fighting the tyranny of King George and the redcoats. Anyone? Anyone?

Posted by Grant | October 7, 2008 9:38 PM
23

Actually, I don't think our war with Iraq is about freedom of speech. Is it?

Posted by jean genie | October 7, 2008 9:56 PM
24

And of course, we know for absolute certain the heckler: A.) doesn't have a child serving in ehrock; B.) hasn't already served there; or C.) in any case didn't join the army simply to avoid going to jail for vandalizing school buses.

Posted by COMTE | October 7, 2008 11:10 PM
25

Sarah Palin, Zeus bless her heart, is a total air head!

Posted by Vince | October 8, 2008 7:18 AM

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