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[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

I wouldn't even bother, NB; I don't know anyone who actually believes that the SNL skit was anything more than a political joke.

That is exactly what it was, a joke on SNL, but people believed Palin said it after the press kept referring to it over and over as fact. Just showing how screwed up the press is.

[AK76]

Originally Posted by starlite9

That is exactly what it was, a joke on SNL, but people believed Palin said it after the press kept referring to it over and over as fact. Just showing how screwed up the press is.

Not to mention how gullible people can be.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by AK76

Not to mention how gullible people can be.

Wonder how many times the Brooklyn bridge was sold....

[richelles]

I don't recall exactly what Palin's comments were about the show after it aired but she actually was willing to accept that it was about her. She did mention that there was a place where a person could see Russia from Alaska on a clear day but I don't think she called it out by name. The entire episode derived from her comment about her foreign experience when she was governor being she was governor of the only state that bordered two foreign countries.

It's not how many times the Brooklyn Bridge was sold; it is how many times did the buyer collect tolls after the purchase that counts.

[YellowstoneDate]

Letting everyone know that Bob is a republican and likes taxes. It is thinkable that for lower gasoline prices. Its best to build more oil refineries for supply and demand. At the same time have whole electric autos for generating competition in the oil industry. Think simple and win big agenda.

[Metlakatla]

Originally Posted by starlite9

That is exactly what it was, a joke on SNL, but people believed Palin said it after the press kept referring to it over and over as fact. Just showing how screwed up the press is.

I don't know one single person who actually believed it. Not one. There may have been an idiot or two out there who took it as literal fact, but that didn't have any substantial impact on the course of that particular election. The voters had plenty of reasons to reject McCain/Palin, and this was just a political joke.

[akck]

Apparently 5 believe it so far.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

I don't know one single person who actually believed it. Not one. There may have been an idiot or two out there who took it as literal fact, but that didn't have any substantial impact on the course of that particular election. The voters had plenty of reasons to reject McCain/Palin, and this was just a political joke.

No actually there is a lot of people that will believe a non truth, because they are basically too lazy to find out for themselves. The followed the chants as if they are gospel. In 1936 the Germans chanted "Hitler" in the same way they do "Obama". Even in this poll you have people clearly not in touch with the truth. Sad, but I expected no less from some of them, it fits their views.

I just hope this next election cycle people start to do a bit of cross checking before voting, getting your news sources from Comidy skits is just lame.

[Metlakatla]

The real joke is that anyone actually thinks that the comedy skit on SNL actually swayed the 2008 election.

Face it; the tea party's over.

[Matt Marcinkiewicz]

Originally Posted by starlite9

[Obama] was only elected by about 15% of the American voters, that's not a mandate for anyone.

Whaaat. Bit of a gaff (actually "gaffe", but I figured I'd use your spelling) on your part there. Obama got 65,899,660 votes in November, according to Wikipedia. According to the site referenced at the end of this comment, there were ~206,072,000 Americans eligible to vote as of February of last year. Round that number up all the way to 207,000,000 if you'd like to account for the increase that would've occurred over the course of most of a calendar year. 65,899,660/207,000,000 = ~31.84% of eligible voters voted for Barack (I was one of the ~65.9 million people you have to blame).

Also, according to a USA Today article from around the election that I just encountered in the course of researching these stats, people who were unlikely to vote favored Obama by a 2-1 ratio. So maybe your cause is better served by getting fewer people to vote...maybe you should head to the continental 48, perhaps to the fabled region of the lower 48 known as "the South", and engage in some voter suppression efforts in heavily black precincts. North Carolina seems to be governing to your liking these days; perhaps Shrangi-La awaits you on the Outer Banks. Just be sure not to tell the locals that climate change-induced rising sea levels might be worrisome out there at some point later this century.

Voting Statistics | Statistic Brain

For kicks, let's attach that USA Today article, too:

USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll: Stay-at-home Americans disgusted.