Just a little something to keep in mind.

The sort of unspoken rule in politics is not to compare politicians to Hitler.

But to be honest in this case I find it unavoidable.

The rule is to never compare anything to the Nazis, or anyone to Hitler. But you have to admit, they have a point.

Sarah Palin offers global apology to America on last night's Hannity. Well it's about time! Oh, and GMA interviews witness to the brawl. Update!

I think Palin looks visibly upset during this segment (Which is only a little over four minutes.), especially when she is listening to Hannity attempt to feed her the answers.

At one point Palin says "And as I watch the speech last night Sean, the thought going through my mind is I owe America a global apology. Because John McCain through all of this, John McCain should be our President."

So is Palin finally admitting that she damaged McCain's chances of winning in 2008?

Because that would be huge!

This woman never admits any fault.

Later, after much babbling, Palin tries to compare ISIS to Hitler, at which point Hannity decides "Oops, all out of time now."

So apparently THAT was Sarah Palin trying to change the conversation and get people to stop talking about the throwdown at the hoedown.

However it did not work out for her like that, because when I woke up this morning I saw them discussing it on Morning Joe, Seth Meyers had it last night, and Good Morning America interviewed a witness:

“She was punching him [another man] in the face like six times; it was an assault if I’ve ever seen one,” Eric Thompson said, adding that he was among 70 guests at the birthday party in Anchorage Saturday.

“It wasn’t a light punch either she really hitting him I’m surprised he just sat there and took it.”

The Palin family was asked to leave the party after Track Palin, 21, allegedly attacked another party guest who had previously dated his younger sister, Willow Palin, Thompson said. 

“I heard Sarah Palin yell do you know who I am? All of us could not believe it. We thought we were watching an episode of Jerry Springer,” he added. 

“I gave a statement to police; my wife did and like 10 other people did,” Thompson said.

(Here is video of the interview.)

So that just happened. And it confirms just about everything that we have been hearing about the brawl from our other sources.

And speaking of other sources Amanda Coyne has all kinds of juicy new details, including the actual name of the guy that Bristol Punched, Korey Klingenmeyer, and the fact that Todd tried to choke out somebody who was trying to break up a fight started by the Trackster.

Take a gander at these details:

After that ended (The Track fight), Conner, Steve, and Melissa Cleary huddled together close to Thompson, who spotted Bristol and Willow from a distance, walking straight towards them with purpose. 

“They were on a b-line, coming straight at Melissa,” Thompson said. 

The owner of the house, Klingenmeyer, was trying to head them off at the pass. He approached them and told them to leave. Bristol, according to Thompson and other witnesses, planted her feet, “stood straight up, brought her arm back and cold-cocked him right in the face,” Thompson said. 

And then she did it again, about six more times (I actually heard it was more like nine or ten.), before he pushed her away, and she fell, and Todd appeared. 

“I was thoroughly amazed at the restraint Korey showed. He’s a total gentlemen,” Thompson said. 

Another melee. This time Sarah got involved and began to scream profanities at everyone. One source, who didn’t want to be named, said that she was “nearly crawling on top of people,” trying to get into the scrum. 

(Everybody who reads this please take a moment to visit Amanda's site today. She is doing incredible work and deserves as much traffic as possible.)

A quick Google search this morning shows that the Telegraph now has the story, as does the New York Daily News.

Clearly this story still has legs, and it looks like today it is going to move from the blogs and websites to broadcast TV. Oh boy!

Oh I shudder to think about the fate of a certain Wasilla refrigerator this morning.

Update: I just talked to CNN and they are planning to cover this story later today.

You will not see my pretty face, but you may see someone else you know.

The ad that the NFL would never allow to air during the Superbowl.

Courtesy of Films For Action:  

The National Congress of American Indians did not have the funds to run this ad during the Super Bowl. You should watch it and share it anyway.

Yeah let's face it, even if this group had the money to place a Superbowl ad this would never see the light of day. 

But it should, and that's why I am putting it here.

By the way the next time that you hear somebody pining for the America that our Founding Father's intended, while at the same time comparing our President to Adolph Hitler, you might want to educate them as to exactly what inspired Hitler's attempt to wipe out the Jews:

Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in South Africa and for the Indians in the wild west; and often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination—by starvation and uneven combat—of the red savages who could not be tamed by captivity. 

He was very interested in the way the Indian population had rapidly declined due to epidemics and starvation when the United States government forced them to live on the reservations. He thought the American government's forced migrations of the Indians over great distances to barren reservation land was a deliberate policy of extermination. Just how much Hitler took from the American example of the destruction of the Indian nations is hard to say; however, frightening parallels can be drawn. For some time Hitler considered deporting the Jews to a large 'reservation' in the Lubin area where their numbers would be reduced through starvation and disease.

Yeah America sure was a great place in the old days, if you were a white male Christian who did not have the misfortune of being born poor that is. 

A few interesting, and some very troubling, tidbits from the new unauthorized Roger Ailes biography.

Quotes from "The Loudest Voice in the Room" courtesy of The Daily Beast:

Roger Ailes admired Adolph Hitler's propagandist:

Ailes was “a big fan” of Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s notorious favorite filmmaker—not for her Nazi ideology but for her cinematic talent as a propagandist. “Ailes was especially taken by Riefenstahl’s use of camera angles.”

Why am I not surprised by that?

Joe McGinniss once suggested that Ailes get therapy. He didn't:

As a theatrical producer, Ailes backed an environmental musical, Mother Earth, and cast his girlfriend, Kelly Garrett, in the lead even though she couldn’t dance. The show closed shortly after it opened. Ailes had better success staging Lanford Wilson’s Hot l Baltimore, a play about destitute social outcasts. Yet he confided to McGinniss, by then a close friend: “I’m walking around, and I feel just all this anger. I can’t figure out where it’s coming from.” He resisted McGinniss’s suggestion that he get therapy.

As many of us have long suspected Ailes may have had something to do with the firing of Keith Olbermann at MSNBC:  

In the summer of 2007, enraged by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s constant attacks on Fox News, Ailes reached NBC chief Jeff Zucker on his cell phone. If Olbermann didn’t stop, he warned, Ailes would tell the New York Post “to go after Zucker.” 

Olberamann remained on Countdown until 2011, however he was also suspended once in 2010 for giving political donations to candidates without first getting approval of management. I believe that, and his ultimate firing, were due in no small part by pressure from Ailes and Fox News.

And finally, Roger Ailes always thought Sarah Palin was an idiot, and Fox producers seemed to dislike her and her husband as well: 

Ailes thought Sarah Palin was “an idiot,” but paid her a million dollars a year and built a home studio for her in Wasilla, Alaska. Before her appearances, she regularly carped at husband Todd, who handled the camera. Fox News producers nicknamed the Palins “The Bitch” and “The Eskimo.”

Okay as an Alaskan I take some offense at the second label, but certainly cannot argue with the first. 

I have to imagine that Ailes must have imagined that Palin had some heretofore undiscovered talent for broadcasting before he committed to building her that studio in Wasilla.

Clearly he was wrong about that.

Her only talent is teasing men into believing she is willing to provide a service that she is woefully unprepared, or unwilling, to provide.

I have class today and tomorrow but I am going to purchase this book at my earliest convenience, since it seems to be just chock full of things that Roger Ailes desperately wants to keep hidden from the public.

Conservative logic.

Teabaggers boycotting Fox News for not being Right Wing enough. Oh this should be good!

Image Courtesy of Benghazi-truth

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

Is Fox News going soft? 

That is what a number of Tea Party activists are saying and they are organizing a boycott to protest the conservative station’s coverage, especially what they view as the network’s relative silence in investigating the attacks on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. 

“Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said Stan Hjerlied, 75, of Fort Collins, Colo., and a participant in the boycott. He pointed to an interview Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave after the election in which he said that the Republican Party and Fox News need to modernize, especially around immigration. “So we are really losing our only conservative network.” 

The three-day boycott lasted Thursday morning through Sunday morning, and is the second time this group of activists have gone Fox-free in an effort to steer the coverage. Organizers say a two-day boycott earlier this month knocked 20 percent off of the network’s regular viewership. (A Daily Beast analysis of the same data showed that the boycott had little effect.) 

(A "three day boycott." That is like a junkie teaching heroin a lesson by refusing to shoot up for three whole days. You KNOW they are going back.)

A spokeswoman for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment. 

A leader of the boycott, Kathy Amidon, of Nashville, declined an interview, instead directing The Daily Beast to a website, Benghazi-Truth. The website, a single-page, 23,000-word manifesto complete with multicolored fonts, supposedly incriminating videos of Fox News’s complicity in a coverup, and communist propaganda photographs, is kept by someone who identifies himself online as “Proe Graphique,” and who other members of boycott described as someone who works “in New York media.” 

By way of explanation, the website reports: “People ask why not all mainstream media? Why just Boycott FOX? The answer, again, is that FOX needs the Tea Party/conservatives more than the conservatives need FOX after FOX turned left, basically selling out the people who made FOX successful in an attempt to earn an extra buck. FOX is extremely vulnerable to these boycotts while the rest of the MSM doesn’t need us at all, to speak of.”

Is it Christmas already? It MUST be Christmas since I just got this great new gift in my stocking!

I have to agree with the crazy guy quoted in the website, Fox News really DOES need the lunatics to keep watching or else they will start to lose their viewers even more rapidly than they already are now.  It is bad enough that they keep dying off, but if the more radical ones turn against them then all they will have left are the ones in the facilities that won't allow the patients to change the channels.

And if you were wondering how this story can be legitimately about the Right Wing nuts without one reference to Hitler, well you spoke to soon now didn't you?

Among the demands the protesters have is that Fox News “be the right-wing CBS News: to break stories, to break information, and to do what news organizations have always done with such stories: break politicians,” that the network have at least one segment on Benghazi every night on two of its prime-time shows; that Fox similarly devote investigative resources to discovering the truth of Obama’s birth certificate; and that the network cease striving to be “fair and balanced.” 

“We need Fox to turn right,” said Hjerlied. “We think this is a coverup and Fox is aiding and abetting it. This is the way Hitler started taking over Germany, by managing and manipulating the news media.” 

Demanding that Fox focus more on Obama's birth certificate, embarrass themselves more over Benghazi, and stop trying to be "fair and balanced?" Sounds good to me!

Man if this kind of thing keeps happening Orville Redenbacher sales are going to go through the roof!

Sobering checklist of the day.

Trying not to panic here.

Inside the Palin HQ as the launch of "The Undefeated" fails.

For those of you who sent this to me today, I am sorry it took me so long to post it, but I was a wee busy.

For those who have NOT watched it yet, drop everything and have a seat, because this video is HYSTERICAL!

Inside Palin Campaign HQ - Launch of 'The Undefeated' Fails from Moosehelmet Films on Vimeo.

Now that was very well done!

There are SOME people who were really counting on winning that dinner with Sarah.

That may be the funniest Hitler parody thus far!