Palin's Critics Refudiated

Well gosh-darn... turns out Sarah Palin wasn't the first to coin the term "to refudiate". Reading Alan Moore's excellent Watchmen (written 1986-1987), this is what I found:

This is at the end of Chapter 4, in the excerpt from "Dr. Manhattan: Super-Powers and the Superpowers" by Professor Milton Glass. A quick reminder: In an interview with douchnozzle Sean Hannity, the half-term quitter from Wasilla had called on Barack Obama to "refudiate" the NAACP's statement of the obvious, namely, that the Republican Tea Party is a bunch of racist halfwits.

Note to Palin: Read Watchmen, you might like it and would certainly benefit from reading it. There are some interesting points there about the dangers of a black-and-white worldview and how that Manichaean mindset can quickly bleed over into cryptofascism.

Also: Unlike you, Dr. Manhattan really can see Russia from his backyard. Regardless of where his house is.

My name is Phil Davison and I'm MAD AS HELL

Sarah Palin hasn't said yet whether she will be running in 2012, but if so, her running mate should be Republican Councilman Phil Davison of Minerva, OH. Here he is trying to convince his audience that he is the right choice for Stark County treasurer. It is the funniest (unintentionally) speech I have ever come across, and I immediately switched by party affiliation to "(R)".



As Davidson rightly says, politics is about winning, or rather: "POLITICS IS ABOUT WINNING!!" The kicker: he has a masters' degree in communication - as one commenter said, probably from the University of Mordor...