The American Spectator

Crusader| 2.6.09 @ 5:52PM

How much will this get played by the knee-pad media compared to Pelosi's 500,000,000 jobs/month gaffe? 25-1? 100-1? 1,000-0?

Mary| 2.6.09 @ 6:17PM

From the interview:

My favorite place in Alaska is on a cold winter day in my own house, with fat snowflakes falling. In my nice warm home.

Growing up very near a Great Lake, I couldn't agree more.

A courageous person is anyone who loses a child and can still get out of bed in the morning.

That would be my mother, and many other mothers too.

This is what I've been telling Bristol, before she gets married, is, Bristol, there are definitely gonna be tough parts in marriage. You have to look at those tough times and remember that you have essentially a business contract with this person. You've signed an agreement: You're going to be together. And you look at it that way as you work through the tough times, because I guarantee the better time is there on the other side. That's how we've looked at it.

Thanks all the same, but I prefer a more romantic view.

When Greta headed down the first time to interview the Palins, she asked Todd about the title "First Dude," and he kind of shrugged it off and gave a lukewarm reply.

Greta finally asked him if she should call him that, and he became more animated and told her no.

He's not a talker, but in the extended interview he impressed me as articulate.

American men make some of the best husbands in the world.

I was at a local deli that's really popular and a South American woman and I struck up a conversation and she revealed that she had married an American man, and I was just on the verge of relaying that I thought American men made some of the best husbands in the world -because they really like women- and she anticipated what I was going to say and shook her head in impassioned agreement.

I like Todd Palin.

S.L. Toddard| 2.6.09 @ 7:59PM

While we're at it, just read the latest Michelle Malkin article, I couldn't agree more:

Ashley Judd: Clown in Wolf Guardian's Clothing

By Michelle Malkin

Actress Ashley Judd has finally earned her Hollywood stripes and provided award-winning comic relief. With Washington poised to shove a trillion-dollar "stimulus" pork pie down our throats, we need all the distractions we can get. I give Judd's unintentionally entertaining performance in a new Sarah Palin-bashing animal rights ad two diversionary thumbs up.

The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund sponsored the YouTube video starring Judd. They've dubbed their campaign, launched this week, "Eye on Palin." With all the serious, socially responsible celebrity earnestness she could muster, Judd decried the aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska, the GOP governor's state. "It is time to stop Sarah Palin and stop this senseless savagery," Judd intoned.

Casting herself as an environmental expert, Judd attacked Palin for "casting aside science and championing the slaughter of wildlife." The video shows a wolf being shot, writhing in pain, with an ominous soundtrack throbbing and menacing photos of Palin flashing across the screen. "Riddled with gunshots, biting at their backs in agony, they die (pause for quiver) a brutal death," Judd enunciates slowly as wolf squeals punctuate the video. Defenders of Wildlife assails Gov. Palin for proposing a $150 bounty for every wolf killed by aerial hunters. She's cruel and bloodthirsty, and she must be stopped!

It's a compelling black-and-white storyline. But like the world Judd inhabits, this plot is make-believe.

Fact is, the policy is intended to protect other animals — moose and caribou — from overpopulation of wolves. Alaskans rely on caribou and moose for food. Not all Americans care to live on environmentally correct starlet diets of tofu salad and Pinkberry yogurt.

Neither Palin nor the aerial hunters in those scary low-flying planes that have Judd quivering promote the program out of malice and animal insensitivity. On the contrary, they are the true compassionate conservationists. The bounty helped state biologists collecting wolf age data and provided incentives to reduce the wolf population when wildlife management efforts had fallen behind. This is about predator control. But to liberal, gun-control zealots thousands of miles away, it's all heartless murder.

Federal law makes specific exceptions to aerial hunting for the protection of "land, water, wildlife, livestock, domesticated animals, human life or crops." Targets are not limited to wolves. And, as Alaska wildlife officials note, the process is tightly controlled and "designed to sustain wolf populations in the future."

No matter. As Judd proclaimed, "It is time to stop Sarah Palin." That is the true aim of left-wing lobbying groups and their allies in Hollywood. Palin is a threat not to Alaska's wolves, but to the liberal establishment's wolves. Defenders of Wildlife isn't targeting the ads in states affected by these policies. They're running the Judd-fronted ads across battleground states. It's about electoral interests, not wildlife interests. The eco-Kabuki theater is just plain laughable.

On a deadly serious note, Judd's selective concern for savagery is not lost on longtime observers of the activist entertainer's political forays. A militant, pro-choice feminist, Judd lashed out at the Republican ticket during the campaign: "[A] woman voting for McCain and Palin is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." Yet, not a peep has been heard from Judd about the serial predators of Planned Parenthood who have been caught on tape urging young girls to cover up statutory rape to facilitate abortion procedures. And she won't be starring in any YouTube ads decrying grisly late-term abortion procedures.

In a starlet's world, "senseless savagery" only applies to the poster pet of the month.

Jeffrey Lord| 2.6.09 @ 8:24PM

I even found it on that weird french blog. Or is it a forum?
http://haussedecombat.xooit.fr/t51-Ashley-Judd-What-a-dumb-airhead.htm

ruth| 2.6.09 @ 8:57PM

The bloggers on haussedecombat are heroic; their views are shared by only 5% of the French public and the French government has threatened to shut them down. I give them props for speaking up.

Alan Brooks| 2.6.09 @ 9:18PM

perhaps Sarah will run in 2012.

but Obama will still win re-election because-- as i am going to remind you a hundred times until you all listen-- he is the black JFK; he is royalty, not a messiah... messiahs dont run for re-election, they are crucified.
so unless he somehow goes all-out to bungle it he WILL be re-elected. you dont understand how these things work. he is ALREADY re-elected.

you don't think so now, but you will later.

Jeremiah| 2.6.09 @ 9:34PM

Obama could have Bin Laden sleep in the Lincoln Room and get away with it. For the time being.

Alan Brooks| 2.7.09 @ 1:46AM

Sarah might be elected president 2020.
she'll still be fairly young then-- she'll be 55

ruth| 2.7.09 @ 2:48AM

If we're still holding elections, Alan

Basil Plumley| 2.7.09 @ 9:29AM

"Obama could have Bin Laden sleep in the Lincoln Room and get away with it. For the time being."

Attn moderator: Some nitwit has stolen Jeremiah's identity and password. Then again, this could be a false alarm. Sometimes his seeing eye dog has been known to post here.

Jeremiah| 2.7.09 @ 2:14PM

This is I, the REAL Jeremiah, unrepentant tax and spend liberal and last of the good guys.

Perpend:

While I'm delighted that people hunt and eat moose, which seems wholesome enough to me, I am disgusted by Palin's support of aerial wolf hunting, which is the savage pastime of weak, cruel, impotent, people who should be beaten with sticks and dumped in frozen waters.

ruth| 2.7.09 @ 3:45PM

Educate yourself first, Jeremiah, before your knee-jerk liberal impulses kick in. I don't like to see any animals hurt, but if you bothered to research this issue, you would see that aerial wolf hunting is a tightly controlled method of protecting moose, elk, etc. from wolf overpopulation. This is an attempt to create balance between predator and prey. You sound like just another ignorant city boy and as stupid as Ashley Judd. This isn't about the wolves, it's just another liberal attack on Palin. You guys just can't get her off your mind, can you? What are you afraid of?

ruth| 2.7.09 @ 3:48PM

If waterboarding were the punishment for stupidity, Jeremiah; you and Ashley Judd would be first up.