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Sarah Palin and the Lizards of Satan

Monday September 8, 2008
Among other stupefyingly ridiculous utterances, we are asked to believe that Governor Sarah Palin said the following during an interview with the Anchorage Daily News two years ago:
God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats.
Status: Too funny to be true.

Comments

September 9, 2008 at 5:33 pm
(1) James says:

Sounds like something that would appear in the New York Daily News though

September 9, 2008 at 10:50 pm
(2) army says:

Total fabrication, I just see it on CNN. I wish it was true (I’m a Democrat)

September 9, 2008 at 11:51 pm
(3) GammaRae says:

I doubt she DID say anything that stupid, but I don’t doubt that she’s stupid enough to believe it.
She’s nothing more than Caribou Barbie. Fluff. Distracting, gun-totin’ fluff.
And her ‘fabulous speech’ at the RNC? A string of personal attacks, lies, one-liners and childish insults, read fairly competently from a teleprompter…ooooooh. I’m SO impressed.

No way. No how. NO McCAIN. NO PALIN.

September 10, 2008 at 7:05 am
(4) Jack says:

And Obama makes all his speeches off the cuff… uh, yeah right! All politicians have their speeches written for them, even the glorious Obama! You liberal pukes need to get over it, and realize your opinions are just that – OPINIONS! Just because you, or your candidate, said it, doesn’t make it a law.

September 10, 2008 at 7:16 am
(5) Carol Greene says:

If she did ever say it, it would have been before she was under the control of the Right Wing Machine. She can only say the same words over and over and over and over and over again now.

September 10, 2008 at 7:51 pm
(6) Connor Brown says:

Was publicly announced by the *man* who wrote, that it was nothing but a joke, and to question Sarah Palin’s competence while you sit backseat to a candidate that so ‘clearly’ demonstrated his wit(some verbal irony for you), well that just about proves your state of intelligence,
Oh no he didn’t just make a personal
attack.

September 10, 2008 at 8:25 pm
(7) Tara Riordan says:

Are you kidding me? Do people really believe ANYONE would say this? Matt Damon, what are you smoking? I thought you Harvard drop-outs were smarter than this.

September 11, 2008 at 10:53 am
(8) Andreas says:

Look, it’s just as bad. Palin didn’t say that dinosaurs are the “lizards of Satan”, but she has said she believes in creationism (and doesn’t accept evolution”). It’s ridiculous to believe the earth and all life was created 4,000 years ago.

September 12, 2008 at 2:09 am
(9) jok says:

Palin did not say that the Earth was created by God 4000 years ago. it was created 10,000 years ago in her belief, by Lord Barok. His wife, Princess Cheel created the dinosaurs 4000 years ago. They dominated the earth for 1000 years, and then were melted by an increase in solar radiation and became oil, which seeped into the earth.

This is why she wants to ban approximately 10,000 books. Barch Obama, no relation to Lord Barok, wants to ban books also, but a somewhat smaller list. I’m noping they can trade off books. The worst case scenario would be they join forces, and then we can just give up reading for a hobby.

September 14, 2008 at 7:44 pm
(10) debbie in texas says:

It’s sad that only ugly smart women can try to be president. If you’re attractive in anyway, and a woman, you really can’t do much besides breed little bitty attractive people. Anything beyond that is simply not acceptable to the Harv’s and Lib’s in general.

I can’t believe the Harvard dropouts even believe in Dinosaurs. They all believe that 75 million years ago an evil galactic ruler, named Xenu, solved overpopulation by bringing trillions of people to Earth in DC-8 space planes, stacking them around volcanoes and nuking them. Then the souls of these dead space aliens were captured and boxed up and taken to cinemas where they were shown films of what life should be like, false ideas containing God, the devil and Christ and told to get ill.

After that they clustered together and now inhabit our bodies. Hollyweirds believe that if they rid themselves of these body thetans then they will be healthier and will gain special powers like mind-over-matter.

Perhaps Matt needs to go back to the bottom of the volcano and request another H Bomb.

September 15, 2008 at 6:27 am
(11) CarsonBoi says:

Okay, honestly.. even if Sarah Palin never made the comment about dinosaurs existing up until 4000 years ago, she still believes in creationism, which i will not denounce, but will disagree with.. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but you can’t ignore the fact that science says NO to 4000 year old dinosaurs and creationism alike.. there is such a thing called “carbon dating” which if you look up will be self-explanatory.. if you still say no to science then destroy every piece of technology you own and go hunt butt-ass naked in the forest somewhere with your bare hands.
A president shouldn’t be so close minded as to say that one way is the right way.. a good leader should be open minded, pliable to adapt to new situations, someone with a progressive approach.. a “liberal” if you must.. not the same old that’s keeps us in the shitter we’re stuck in.

September 15, 2008 at 8:20 pm
(12) Steven says:

Not surprising that a note about Sarah Palin starts, “even if Sarah Palin never made the comment…”. The same sort of comments can be found on those blogs which have listed books that Sarah Palin banned while mayor of Wasilla. The “unfortunate” fact for the Democrats is that she didn’t ban any books and she didn’t make this comment about dinosaurs (sorry Matt Damon). If you still doubt me, go to urbanlegends.com and look it up; they clearly disprove her ever having said this.

I have to say, when McCain nominated Sarah Palin, I thought, “wow, she isn’t very experienced for the job”. However, as Obama and his minions repeat such outrageous lies, the focus has moved off her lack of experience and has instead focused on the media bias.

I’m not likely to vote for either McCain or Obama, but I have to say that the childish attacks on Palin makes me more likely, rather than less likely to support McCain.

September 15, 2008 at 8:48 pm
(13) Rebel not withstanding says:

Sarah Palin is an idiot and so is John McCain for picking her. He is too old to be President and anyone who knowingly brings a child into this world with genetic defects is certainly not someone I want running this country when the old man croaks! Not to mention she can’t even keep her own daughters pants up. PLEASE

September 15, 2008 at 11:47 pm
(14) John Smith says:

#13…..

we won’t fall for your lies and deception satan spawn.

September 16, 2008 at 6:22 pm
(15) Gadi says:

#14…

We won’t fall for your stupidity. #13 was right. While John McCain had lived in the time of dinasours, Sarah Palin still lives there. But if Sarah Palin (and John McCain) win, I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean, eight years ago we voted for the youthful governor of an oil-rich state that was hyped up as an agent of change by his idiotic party. It might just happen again.

September 19, 2008 at 3:17 pm
(16) MikeyBillz says:

Palin is satan herself.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8111666@N03/2870995996/

October 19, 2008 at 10:52 pm
(17) R. Maveety says:

So, #10 is under the impression that everyone who lives in Los Angeles, or works in the entertainment industry is a Scientologist?? There’s a closed minded individual for you, just slap the same tag on everyone and have done with it.

Come to think of it, that’s pretty much the same tack as those who have labeled Sarah Palin as a creationist nut job.

For myself, I don’t like the way she abused her power while she was in office as governor of Alaska. I certainly don’t like her views on procreative rights. Her attitude about sex education explains why she’s got a 17 year old daughter who is preggers, and I don’t think much of that either.

So, I guess I won’t be voting for McCain/Palin. And here I had such hopes for the Republicans making a turn around after eight years of a complete idiot in office …

October 12, 2009 at 9:41 am
(18) Charlie says:

Mix wacko religion with politics with a reasonably attractive airhead and this is what you get…..

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