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So I finally found out where that Sarah Palin dinosaurs mess originated — a blogger made up a lie saying that Sarah Palin said that dinosaurs were here a mere 4,000 years ago — and now that lie traveled all the way from Matt Damon to SNL and thankfully stops here when CNN clears it up:
Again, this is why I don’t like satire sites. Even if you write all over it that it’s made up, a lie, not the truth — some people will run with it as Gospel.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
If we’re going to clear up the lies about Obama, the lies about Sarah Palin and dinosaurs should be cleared up, too.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Yeah, I want truth no matter who it inconveniences. I get what you’re saying. If you can you look into a somewhat different claim about Palin here: http://freedemocracy.blogspot.com/2008/09/palin-yes-i-have-seen-images-of.html
I’d like to know if it’s true. This one is different because it claims a source – someone who knew Palin before she was “all that”.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
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September 26th, 2008 at 11:25 am
That’s all well and good that this particular rumor is false. However, a quote from a reputable web site story, salon.com, says this:
Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. “She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, ‘Sarah, how can you believe in creationism — your father’s a science teacher.’ And she said, ‘We don’t have to agree on everything.’
“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”
Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. “She looked in my eyes and said, ‘Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.’”
This IS NOT made up. Go to this link to read the story. This is A REAL QUOTE!
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index1.html
September 28th, 2008 at 1:00 am
Watching this woman talk…what a moron. To select this unqualified candidate (nobody had heard of her, McCain has a senatorial record of voting against women’s rights) just because she has a vagina is the epitome of pandering.
God, bring the flood now because this world is being overrun by buffoons
September 28th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
even if it is fake we are missing the point….you shouldnt be stupid enough for people to actually believe that. damn jesus freak
September 29th, 2008 at 1:13 am
yes she did say it
September 29th, 2008 at 10:16 am
SOME THINGS AREN’T RUMORS. THEY’RE TRUE. You need to look at how stupid your own party is before you attack ours.
Obama without his teleprompter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU&feature=related
Obama thinks we have 57 states
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Biden doesn’t know his presidents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glrnb_G34E4
September 30th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Heather those were just mistakes, minor ones at that. How can you possibly decide Obama is stupid on the strength of some minor mistakes? In fact that “Obama without the teleprompter” is almost entirely him getting interrupted by his audience (in a supportive way) which isn’t being picked up by the mic.
If you think that making mistakes makes you “stupid” then McCain and Palin must be total imbeciles!
McCain: Putin is the President of Germany!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOSYRm137Aw
McCain’s advisors have to step in and correct McCain that Iranian extremists are not Al Qaeda. Doh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GBdyws5YU
A whole bunch more set to Rick Astley’s music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRUhlws5TOI
Even more!! Oh gosh!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adlOm2BjL4M
Get with the program please!
October 1st, 2008 at 2:49 am
Sarah is a very smart people, and soon her views will be admired like salomon prophecy!
she have an IO near enstein one. she looks like cleopatra…
hourrah sarah, GOP GOP GUROOOPPPPPPP…
October 5th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I agree with Gerry!!!
I’m sure the particular quote referenced by CNN is false but that does not mean that other quotes are false. They are hiding the truth (Palins beliefs) among other information that can be proven to be false. We should ask her directly. Maybe the media has already but I have not seen it yet. This is really important – think about it – the ramifications of such a belief! CNN should interview Philip Munger. Ask Munger!!! Assuming this person exists.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Wow, dede, I hope that intended as satire!
The fact of the matter is: whether or not Palin believes in creationism vs. evolution, there is a decent chance she will become the President. We are living in a rocky time: an economic crisis of potentially unprecedented proportions, foreign policy tangles which could escalate, etc. Is Palin prepared to be President at a time like this? Absolutely not. Could she be President in the future? Who knows? But in the next four years? God help us if she is.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Lyns…and what makes Obama qualified for this “rocky time”? His many years as a community organizer? Give me a break…
October 9th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Uh, yeah, she *did* say that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story?track=rss
But given everything else she’s said, why would that surprise anybody?
October 9th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
If you actualy listened to the CNN clip you would NOT hear the dinosaur quote mentioned at all.
This is why McCain picked her, because SOME people are THAT stupid.
It’d be really funny if it weren’t so serious.
So, yea, stupid people, go ahead and vote for McCain/Palin.
Let’s see how much more of a mess can be made after 8 years of W.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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October 17th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Is there any chance a partisan of either side could state a fact without adding their opinion? And who posted the comment about Palin being a damn Jesus freak? Doesn’t Obama claim to be a Christian?
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 am
In the past there have been many false quotes attributed to politicians on both sides, and these false quotes are quickly and widely spread thanks to forwarding emails.
Many of the quotes are assumed to be true because they confirm the image we have of that politician. Example, remember Dan Quayle? One false quote attributed to him was that he said he wish he learned Latin so that he could communicate with everyone in Latin America. The quote was believable because he had actually said many equally ridiculous things.
This thing about Palin believing and saying that humans and dinosaurs lived side-by-side a few thousands years ago, it’s easy to believe because of (a) Her long time membership of Evangelical churches where creationism and Biblical Literalism is the norm (b) Her (or her Church’s) literal interpretation of Christian eschatology (end times, rapture, Antichrist, tribulation, Armageddon) (c) The Christian Right interpretation and application of Christian belief in national and international affairs.
The scary thing is that there are many in the Christian Right that would handle Middle East affairs according to their own Dispensationalist view of the “end-times”. Many of them relish the idea of war in the Middle east because it fits their biblical beliefs.
Obama professes Christianity, but like most European or Western politicians, his faith is pretty much personal or applied social policy kind of way. Generally speaking, in the rest of the Western world where there are Christian leaders, they don’t go around talking about being on a “mission from God”, “or God told me this or that”. They don’t go around saying God told them to do this political decision.
Obama only mentions his Christianity because he HAS to. for some reason, these days – since the 80’s, in America you’ve gotta stand on the roof tops and proclaim your Evangelical Protestant Christianity. In the rest of the democratic Christian West you wouldn’t have to assure half the electorate that you literally believed in the Bible and you would actually pray to God to guidance on policy decisions.
Also in the other Western Christian democratic nations, creationism is kept in Religious Studies or Comparative Religion classes, and evolution is taught in science classes. There isn’t a big controversy that gets fought out in courts.
Sorry for waffling.
November 13th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
This stuff gets at the heart of how “disinformation” is used by those who are in a position to use it. What’s going on here is similar to the way Dan Rather was ruined: Someone took information that was true and circulated it with a misattributed source. Anyone who repeated the “true” information with the “untrue” source could not only then be discredited, but the original “true” information could be dismissed as well. This is esoteric think-tanky stuff, but we’re seeing more and more of it. Very scary as so many of us are unwary of what conservative think tanks are about.
Consider that Rather received a perfect forgery containing information that was verifiable and all vetted by the person who allegedly typed the letter. The only person who knew the flaw in the letter was the forger. Once the letter was made public, the forger could disclose the flaw — thus destroying the reputation of the reporter AND, by association, discrediting the TRUE information! Clever, huh?
“But that’s just a conspiracy theory!”
Well, duh. But somebody forged the perfect letter, right?
Same thing with the Palin/dinosaur stuff. Like many other mainstream Christians, Palin believes all of that Biblical stuff; this is sourced to a resident of Wasilla named Philip Munger who, knowing she attends a fundamentalist church, in 1997 asked her about her religious views. It is NOT sourced to the satirical blogger named “Bob” from the video above who, admittedly, made the claim as a joke. “Bob” was used to discredit the information (which was true) and those who were saying it (who may not have sourced it correctly)…
…so if we’re not careful, we might mistakenly believe that Sarah Palin DOESN’T believe that dinosaurs lived 4,000 years ago when in fact she does.
November 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
It is funny to see what our definition of “science” is. The public schools do not teach fact in the science department, they teach theory. Public schools used to teach the “fact” that you could survive a nuclear blast by hiding under your desk. Science is not the only area where the public schools teach theory as fact. They still teach that Columbus discovered America although there is evidence that Celts, Vikings and Asians sailed here much earlier.
Taking what public school teaches you as fact is the least intelligent thing you can do.
You have to keep researching and learning for yourself. There is also evidence that suggest dinosaurs were here at the same time as humans. There is a lot of ancient art that depicts humans and dinosaurs interacting. Humans hunting and killing dinosaurs and vise versa. There is evidence that humans existed long before the popularly accepted timeline. Research Virginia Steen McIntyre and the site at Hueyatlaco. The problem is, what does not fit is simply ignored and it takes great leaps in understanding to change a pattern of thinking. Did the earth really used to be round as humans were taught for hundreds of years or was it that we refused to change our way of thinking even in the face of overwhelming evidence till there was one of these leaps in understanding. It is possible that some dinosaurs were around 6000 years ago but I doubt it. It is more likely that humans are much older than we think and did coexist with dinosaurs. True stupidity is thinking that what we know now is the apex of understanding and that no evidence will ever be discovered to the contrary. It is people like you who ridicule new ideas into obscurity because you think you know all there is to know. If you guys were blogging several hundred years ago, who knows, the earth my still be flat.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Fossil evidence is quite clear on the age of human beings and many (though not all) other bipeds from which we descended or to whom we are related. The figure does not coincide with the dinosaurs’ timeline, which ended at the KT extinction event (big impact in the Yucutan region, South America). Fossil evidence suggests primitive mamals prior which were allowed to flourish and develop into humans after the event.
Also, to quote, “If you guys were blogging several hundred years ago, who knows, the earth my still be flat.”, most of the educated world from 3BC onwards knew that the Earth was round. That Europeans thought it to be flat “till Columbus” is a misconception popularized in the 19th century after the publication of a novel. Ancient Greeks and Iranians figured out the diameter of the Earth using shadow measurements, Eratosthenes’ estimates coming within the same order of magnitude in accuracy (if you use the km as the unit of measurement).