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A clever programmer has put up a webpage allowing you to ask Sarah Palin questions, the answers to which are generated from real responses she's given. I like this one:
Q: What is your foreign policy experience?I said, to a position like we are today with so much collapse on Wall Street. That's to blame. And that violation of the status quo, going with the flow and just assuming that the people of America are not fully satisfied with all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the people of America are not given to those hands of Ahmadinejad, not that he would allow terrorists to be all about job creation too, shoring up allies and positions and figuring out what sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what America and American troops are providing in his country.
It's just barely a parody.
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If there's one thing that terrorists are definitely all about, it's job creation.
Well, that and terror.
Posted by: MartinM | October 3, 2008 10:05 AM
I'm surprised nobody has made a Sara Palin chatbot. Throw any question at it and get a convoluted answer with her buzzwords.
Posted by: namowal | October 3, 2008 10:46 AM
I'm surprised nobody has made a Sara Palin chatbot.
I'm not surprised someone hasn't made a Barack Obama chatbot. Throw any question at it and get one of his several positions intermingled with "hope," "change" and the ever popular "yes we can."
After all, we wouldn't dare poke fun at the messiah.
Posted by: JED | October 3, 2008 10:59 AM
Obama has campaign slogans? The dastard! This behaviour is completely unacceptable and anyone who dares to defend it is an Obama cultist who has drank the Kool-Aid and is meaningless buzzword meaningless buzzword maningless buzzword!
Posted by: Der Bruno Stroszek | October 3, 2008 11:09 AM
Jed - shouldn't you be out 'shooin fer some food' for your kinfolks, including Elle-Mae, oops sorry Gov. Palin - ;) DJ
Posted by: Dingojack | October 3, 2008 11:53 AM
Dingojack, I don gets up at the crack o' noon, I get my shooin fer food dun long fore you city slickers get out of bed. :)
Yeah Bruno, it's only the people you disagree with who give convoluted answers and buzzwords. Obama's no different than any other politician.
Posted by: JED | October 3, 2008 1:07 PM
JED - Hope you get some early morning crude, dude* :) DJ
*Just steer clear of Elle-Mae's coffee
Guest: Hmm thick and brown, just how I like my gravy.
Elle-Mae: But thet's the coffee!
Posted by: DingoJack | October 3, 2008 1:24 PM
Palin endorses Obama? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ca_1223036903
Posted by: Deepsix | October 3, 2008 1:32 PM
Posted by: Kaerion | October 3, 2008 1:46 PM
C'mon JED, no candidate for national office in my memory (goin' on 4 decades here) has so well imitated a Markov Chain generator as Sarah Palin. You just have to set the chain length long enough (I'd guess 6 or 7 words), and the result is remarkably close to her original statements. I've not heard one sentence out of her with any content. Obama, OTOH, regularly says things that are so content-oriented that the pundits disparage them as "dry", "professorial", or from the Republican side, "elitist".
Or put it this way. Ask Obama to express his thoughts on, say, Kelo without using the words "hope", "change", or "yes we can". Now ask Palin her thoughts on the same without using the phrases "what's best for America", "beacon of light and hope", or "democratic values". I know who I'd bet on in that contest.
Posted by: Johnny Vector | October 3, 2008 3:45 PM
You can't seriously be suggesting that all politicians are created equal when it comes to their ability to churn out disconnected, rambling idiocy, can you? The verbal oatmeal that Palin puts out makes GW Bush look like a master of lucid discourse.
When I first heard that McCain had picked some young, female governor as his running mate, I thought, "Uh-oh. Sounds like he found an energetic political upstart with quick wits and a fast-moving career to counter Obama's energy. This could be trouble." After hearing her interviews, that thought changed to, "Holy crap. This woman has *absolutely no clue* what she's talking about, and even if she did, she wouldn't be any better at getting her thoughts out to us than George W. Bush."
When you consider questions like, "What newspapers do you read?" and, "What are your thoughts on what could potentially become the most significant economic crisis in generations--the one that *everybody* is talking about?" to be "gotcha" questions that make your head pop off like one of the Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, I think you've reached a level of unpreparedness that even the most bumbling politician would be ashamed of. Not all nonsense is created equal. Some of it is truly gourmet, world class nonsense.
Posted by: Troublesome Frog | October 3, 2008 4:35 PM
Nice.
Here's a pretty funny video about Sarah Palin:
http://vimeo.com/1862815
Posted by: Rob Cozzens | October 3, 2008 5:31 PM
A thought...
Take Zappa's Valley Girl and re-dub Moon Zappa's spoken statements with some clips from Sarah Palin.
Posted by: NJ | October 3, 2008 6:36 PM
NJ:
Why do you hate Frank Zappa? I mean Sarah IS a "Valley Girl", it's just a different valley. But to defile one of Frank's masterworks, I just don't know if I can go with that. "Yellow Snow", however, would work for me, or "Dynamo Hum" or an update of "Catholic Girls" (although "Assemblies of God Girls" is a bit clumsy to sing).
JED:
You need to put more asspartame in your koolaid.
Posted by: democommie | October 4, 2008 8:32 AM
Ah, but might not Zappa support such misuse of his work for the greater good?
Posted by: nj | October 4, 2008 10:33 AM
Alas, too true, too true.
Posted by: No Blood for Hubris | October 7, 2008 8:37 AM