Palin’s Practical and Humorous Tweets

Sarah Palin took to her Twitter account today to provide some practical advice to the current administration with an added dash of humor.

 

Twitchy featured the #ObamaScandalMovies tweet here and the Lois Lerner, #sequestersolutions, tweet here.

Palin: Armed Services WMCA Alaska Combat Fishing Tournament

Posted to Sarah Palin’s Facebook page on May 23rd:

The Armed Services WMCA Alaska Combat Fishing Tournament is taking place today in Seward, Alaska. Some of you may have heard about this organization because Todd and his operative J.W. Cortes raised money for it on the show “Stars Earn Stripes.” The Combat Fishing Tournament is a wonderful way to pay tribute to our vets who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s the largest military appreciation fishing tournament in the country, and many of the local Alaskan fishing vessels volunteer to help put this on every year. We’re so honored to be involved with this. We appreciate Armed Services YMCA and all the volunteers who make this event happen. If you’d like to donate or learn more about the event, you can visit their website at:

http://www.asymcaofalaska.com/events/combatfishingtournament.html

Later in the day Palin posted two pictures from the tournament:

 

Todd and J.W. Cortes at today’s Armed Services WMCA Alaska Combat Fishing Tournament in Seward.

Catching octopus, along with halibut, in Alaska’s frigid waters during today’s Combat Fishing Tournament.

Palin: Obama Administration Talking Points

Governor Palin posted this caricature on her Facebook page today:

Sarah Palin

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Obama Administration Talking Points

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Followed by this one:

Touché.

PALIN: Will We Stand for This?

“These Obama administration scandals are a sad and stark reminder that only limited government can ensure liberty.”

Breitbart has published the following op-ed from Sarah Palin. She asks the right question, that being, “will we stand for this”?

Going Rogue in the Wrong Direction

As more information about the IRS scandal trickles out daily, the White House’s involvement is becoming clearer. Those of us who’ve been warning about the demise of freedom with Barack Obama’s efforts to “fundamentally transform” our great nation are about to witness some sad vindication. Will awakened Americans finally join us in saying “enough is enough”?

The president would like us to believe that he only learned about the IRS corruption from watching the news. But we recently learned that the White House was actively working with the IRS on how to roll out the story of this scandal. So, Mr. President, how can you have your staff work on the roll out of the biggest controversy since Watergate, and yet claim that you only heard about it by watching the news with the rest of us?

For the president to deny any knowledge of what was brewing and to claim to know nothing about the Benghazi cover-up or anything about anything White House-related lately, he’s either a liar or a hugely incompetent CEO. You decide.

Yesterday, we also learned that the top IRS official involved in the targeting scandal is planning on pleading the Fifth during her Congressional hearings. That’s keen – she’ll be able to enjoy her Fifth Amendment rights in a hearing about how her intimidating organization denied Americans the ability to fully exercise their First Amendment rights.

Keep in mind that the IRS considers you guilty until proven innocent when they audit you.  The Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply.

This scandal is not just about the IRS targeting Americans to deny them tax-except status or subjecting them to harassing retaliatory audits. The IRS also leaked to left-wing reporters the confidential application information submitted by conservative groups.

The IRS claims that their leaking of information was “inadvertent and unintentional disclosures by the employees involved.” They at first blamed the entire IRS scandal on a couple of employees who “went rogue,” but we soon found out that this was just more malarkey coming from the president’s spokesman. But even if these were “inadvertent and unintentional disclosures,” is that supposed to make us feel better? With the IRS running Obamacare, what are the chances that our confidential information and medical records will “inadvertently” and “unintentionally” be disclosed? Please remember that some of us warned America about the dangers of having the IRS play such a big role with the administration of Obamacare. We were laughed at and mocked relentlessly back then. It sure doesn’t seem funny now, does it?

This IRS scandal is especially terrible because Americans live in fear of the IRS like no other entity because this monstrous bureaucracy has the power to take your hard-earned money. Your wages are the sum of your labors; hence, the IRS has the power to steal the fruits of your labors. Average Americans live in fear of making an error on their tax returns that could cost them massive amounts of money, plus their reputation and good name.  If a small business makes a mistake, the IRS can shut them down and send them to jail.

The IRS has always been the face of intimidating and controlling big government. Now it’s the face of corrupt big government that actively attacks the people it is supposed to serve. This isn’t the change America was hoping for, Mr. President, but it certainly is transformative.

Average everyday Americans like my dad and his non-political buddies are outraged by this IRS scandal, perhaps more so than all the other White House fiascos that are making the radical Left’s intentions crystal clear. It’s because this IRS cluster hits close to home for everyone. It’s tangible proof of how a corrupt government can intimidate and target a person’s record, reputation, and life, and make them feel helpless.

These Obama administration scandals are a sad and stark reminder that only limited government can ensure liberty. At our core, we Americans just want to be left alone to live freely, peacefully, and productively.  More

Gov. Palin Impressed with Jake Tapper’s Integrity and Professionalism

Gov. Palin posted this comment on her Facebook page tonight:

Sarah Palin · 3,548,629 like this

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There’s something different, certainly refreshing, about Jake Tapper. I call it integrity and professionalism. What would you call his conscientious approach to news coverage?

She linked to this article by Kate O’Hare at ZAP2it:

‘The Lead’: From Gosnell to Newtown to Boston to Oklahoma, Jake Tapper asks, ‘Is anyone listening to this?’

By Kate O’Hare

May 21, 2013  2:36 PM ET

In the tense hours overnight from Thursday, April 18, to Friday, April 19, after Boston Marathon bombing suspects and brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsnarnev engaged in a shootout with police — and after the murder of MIT police Officer Sean Collier — Jake Tapper essentially was CNN.

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“I was anchoring,” he tells Zap2it, talking on Thursday (May 16), “from something like 1:30 in the morning till 9:30 in the morning. That was a crazy night.”

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With photos of the suspects circulating, Tapper stayed on his iPad, following news and social-media reports and listening to the local police scanners, via a link provided to him by followers of his popular Twitter feed, @jaketapper.

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“I reached out to the CNN news desk,” he recalls, “and said, ‘Is anyone listening to this?’ This is one in the morning. ‘Is anyone listening to this? Something serious is going on.’”

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Throughout the entire incident, which resulted in the death of older brother Tamerlan and the eventual apprehension of the wounded Dzhokhar shortly after a general lockdown order was lifted in Watertown, Mass., national news — both broadcast and cable — relied not only on their own people but also on the work of Boston-area newspapers and TV stations.

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Fast-forward to yesterday and today, as powerful tornadoes have ripped through the suburbs of Oklahoma City, Okla., killing dozens — including elementary-school students and others in Moore, Okla. — and injuring many more.

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On Thursday, the tornado was still in motion during Tapper’s weekday, 4 p.m. ET, CNN show, “The Lead With Jake Tapper,” and he anchored with frequent cutaways to local affiliates and storm chasers, similar to what was also being done at the same time on MSNBC and FNC (click here for news from The Oklahoman).

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Today, Tapper is anchoring “The Lead” from Oklahoma City, and he sends this quick email update: “Stories like these — as in other tragedies we’ve covered in the last several weeks — are horrific and hard to cover. But, as a reporter, it’s important to be here on the ground to tell the stories of the people and community affected, their loss and the recovery process that will follow.”

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On the subject of horrific stories, Tapper and “The Lead” were one of the few places in the mainstream media to offer coverage of the Kermit Gosnell trial in Philadelphia before FNC commentator Kirsten Powers wrote a USA Today op-ed that alerted a largely indifferent or unknowing media to the stomach-churning tale of an abortionist accused — and now convicted – of killing babies born alive after abortions.

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“The truth of the matter is,” Tapper says, “it is such a horrifying story that it’s not an easy story to tell on television. That’s not just about Gosnell, that’s about anything that involves horrific things happening to babies, to children. Those stories are often very, very difficult to tell.

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“There were a lot of details from [the mass school shooting] at Newtown, Conn., that did not come forward on television. I’m not talking about the story write large, I just mean the details. There are details about Newtown that the public does not know, that reporters know, that police know, and quite honestly, that the public does not want to know.”

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Regarding the Gosnell trial, which much of the media either wasn’t aware of or had averted its eyes from, Tapper had a personal connection.

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“Look,” he says, “my dad is a pediatrician from Philadelphia. I know where Lancaster Ave. is. I know that was a story when I first heard about it, because I read a lot of Philadelphia media. So when it first exploded in Philadelphia media, I was horrified.

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“When I got my own show, in the first week, I said, ‘We have to cover this, and we have to keep an eye on it and cover it periodically.’ I don’t disagree with anyone who says this should have been covered more. I’m only saying it was a challenge to tell it for a mass audience because it was so horrifying. Not that we shouldn’t have or not that we didn’t, but it was a challenge.”
One thing that comes through in all these stories is the vital importance of local media, which brings speed, access, knowledge, institutional memory and passion to stories that most national media can’t provide.

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“You’re absolutely right,” says Tapper. “Look at the great work the Boston Globe did during the Marathon bombings. Look at the work that the Hartford (Conn.) newspaper did after Newtown. I agree with you 100 percent.

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“The Philadelphia media — I say this as a Philadelphian, it is heartbreaking to see how the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News have been decimated over the years by bad management decisions.”

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Tapper attributes part of this to the work of online news aggregators like the Huffington Post, which frequently rewrite news stories all or in part, leaving little reason for the reader to click through to the original source — often local news — even if a link is provided.

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“It shows why,” Tapper says, “we, as a society, need to figure out ways to continue to keep these newspapers alive, because what they do is so important. … I don’t want to single out the Huffington Post, because a lot of these big, popular Websites do this.

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“Drudge” — a.k.a. The Drudge Report, created by Matt Drudge — “gives you the headline, then you click and go to the local story. He’s not guilty of this at all. He’s the opposite. He helps local media. But what these other aggregators do — it seems to me that they could make an editorial decision and still get the clicks for their site but also be a little bit more generous and also more forward-leaning by sending more people to local media.

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Palin: IRS Official to Plead Fifth

Posted to Governor Palin’s Facebook page:

IRS official to plead the Fifth to avoid embarrassment or burden? But no worries about citizens’ embarrassment or burden while being targeted.

Palin then linked to this ABC article:

Lois Lerner, the top IRS official who is at the center of the controversy for the targeting of tea party and other conservative groups, will refuse to answer questions at a congressional hearing Wednesday and invoke her Fifth Amendment rights, ABC News has learned.

She is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee.  Congressional aides said today that they received a notice from Lerner’s lawyers that she would not answer their questions because it is now part of a criminal investigation.

“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation, but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” according to a letter that her lawyer, William Taylor, sent to Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the committee, which was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.  More

 

Gov. Palin: Prayers for strength with Oklahoma tornado victims

Governor Palin tweeted her concern tonight for the tornado victims in Oklahoma:

With a broken heart, America reaches out to the brave souls of Moore, Oklahoma. Our prayers for strength are with all of you.

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Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) May 21, 2013

Gov. Palin: ‘Grad blast’ in Alaska today; Congratulations to all graduates across America

Governor Palin posted this on her Facebook page earlier today:

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One last blast of Alaska winter today, hopefully? This is what “Grad Blast” means in Alaska! We’ll move our graduation b-b-q indoors and watch the mini-blizzard from ’round the fireplace. (Global warming my gluteus maximus.) Congratulations to this year’s graduates all across America. Job well done. Now the real job begins.

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Andrew Marcus: Why Breitbart Walked into the Fire with Palin

From the powerful article at Big Government by the director of  Hating Breitbart, which was released in theaters and on DVD yesterday:

Why Andrew Breitbart Walked into the Fire with Sarah Palin

by  Andrew  Marcus  May 2013, 3:37 PM PDT   9  post a comment

Whenever Andrew Breitbart saw that somebody was being unfairly maligned by the institutional Left, he became that person’s stalwart defender. Sarah Palin, perhaps more than any other person in recent history, endured the full weight of what Breitbart called the “Democrat-media complex,” and so Sarah Palin had no more fierce a defender than Andrew Breitbart.

He never explicitly endorsed her for President–Breitbart, as a rule, didn’t endorse candidates. He wasn’t a policy wonk, nor did he enjoy punditry–Breitbart’s sights were consistently set on the media. He understood how the media can shape, influence, or even manipulate the general public’s perception of events and individuals. A favorite theme of the Progressive media’s smear-machine, and one which was aimed with particular savagery at Sarah Palin, is the notion that Conservatives are, in a word, dummies. One need not look very far for specific examples.

If Barack Obama claims to have visited all 57 states, we are told he was simply tired and misspoke. If Dan Quayle misspells potato, we are told that he is the stupidest man to ever set foot in Washington, D.C.

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If Barack Obama refers to Navy Corpsmen as corpse-men, well, don’t say anything about that because shut up and you’re a racist. If Sarah Palin ends a sentence with a preposition, we are told she is the stupidest woman to ever set foot outside of Wasilla, Alaska.

In the meantime, and in the real world, Barack Obama has made Sarah Palin look like a prophet:

• In 2008, President Obama said he wanted to close Gitmo. Sarah Palin said it was a bad idea. Five years later, Gitmo is still open. Point: Sarah Palin.
• In 2009, the Obama administration said it wanted to put the September 11th terrorists on trial in New York. Sarah Palin said it was a bad idea. In 2011, the Obama administration concluded that holding the trial in New York was a bad idea. Point: Sarah Palin.
• President Obama and Nancy Pelosi used every trick in the book to force Obamacare, also know as The Affordable Care Act, down America’s gullet. Sarah Palin said it was a bad idea. Three years later, we see doctors dropping Medicare patients by the boatload and insurance companies forecasting premium increases as high as 400%. Point: Sarah Palin.

So, who’s the dummy?

Many Americans, to this very day, believe that Sarah Palin said, “I can see Russia from my house.” I have had to explain, on numerous occasions and to people who are otherwise well-educated and ostensibly intelligent, that it was in fact Tina Fey, a comedienne, who said that. That so many people, years later, continue to mistake an SNL skit for reality is a testament to the power of the media, to the power of manipulating perception–and the abuse of that power is precisely what Andrew Breitbart so passionately resisted.

But if Andrew Breitbart fiercely defended Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin also taught Andrew Breitbart an important lesson–one which he took to heart for himself, and one which he imparted to others wherever he went: refuse to be destroyed. Do not cower before the name-calling. Do not apologize for your beliefs. Do not hide.

If somebody calls you a racist for criticizing the Obama administration, demand that they explain how you’re a racist. If somebody demands that you apologize, respond with, “Apologize for what?” If somebody rhetorically attacks you, punch back twice as hard. Breitbart called this “walking into the fire.” He observed that Sarah Palin, by refusing to back down in the face of the smears, became stronger–and by refusing to retreat, she became a touchstone for millions who felt that her peril was their own. And so her resistance became their resistance.

Andrew Breitbart, tragically, is no longer here to walk into the fire with Sarah Palin–or any other targets of media malpractice. His legacy, Breitbart.com, and others must carry the mantle forward from where he left it. As the director of Hating Breitbart, which released nationwide May 17th, I had the profoundly unique experience of following Andrew during the closing years of his life, capturing him walking into the fire again and again on behalf of those who believe in a small, limited federal government, sustainable fiscal policy, and above all, those who revere genuine honesty in reporting.

Gov. Palin: ‘Surreal’ that IRS Asked Iowa Pro-Life Group What They Prayed About

Governor Palin tweeted this last night.   Haters pounced, and a Twitter war broke out as supporters responded.

"IRS Asks Iowa Pro-Life Group What They Pray About" is.gd/SqR2fT ...This is just surreal.

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Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) May 17, 2013

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This is the article that Gov. Palin linked to:

IRS Asks Iowa Pro-Life Group What They Pray About

Shane Vander Hart |May 17, 2013 | 1 Reply

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I was asked today by a reporter if any groups in Iowa were targeted by the IRS.   I didn’t know at the time.  I now have my answer.  The Coalition for Life of Iowa when it was applying for tax-exempt status received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service requesting details about their prayer.

The excerpt of the letter in question…

Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood, are considered educational as defined under 501(c)(3).  Organizations exempt under 501(c)(3) may present opinions with scientific or medical facts. Please explain in detail the activities at these prayer meetings. Also, please provide the percentage of time your organizations spends on prayer groups as compared with the other activities of the organization.

Wow, wow and wow…. Apparently the folks that wrote this didn’t realize that churches who are also 501(c)(3) organizations (usually) pray a lot and offer opinions all of the time.  So the idea they can only present opinions with “scientific or medical facts” is categorically false.

This on top of the news that the Treasury Department knew about this scandal back in 2012.  Surely they didn’t keep it quiet to shield President Obama did they?

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Breitbart TV has a video clip here of Congressman Aaron Schock’s interchange with IRS Commissioner Miller, during which Schock revealed that the Iowa pro-life group had been asked by the IRS to “detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers.”