China to Attack India Before 2012? Not Going to Happen

Bharat Verma (editor of the Indian Defence Review) thinks that India will be attacked by China within the next three years; "China
will launch an attack on India before 2012. There are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring Chinese supremacy in Asia in this century" (http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/china_could_attack_india_by_2012_defence_journal.php).

The reasoning is fairly strait forward. Growing unrest in China will cause them to look for something to distract their people with. They also want to strike India before the country grows to powerful and might threaten them. Lastly, attacking a country the West is affiliated with would be a mistake.

The reasoning is also foolish. China is facing growing unrest, but launching a major war will force them to use troops in the conflict that they may currently be using to suppress the unrest. India can also safely be considered an affiliate of the West. The West would likely not take well to China invading any country unprovoked. There is also the slight problem of nuclear annihilation that China would face attacking the nuclear equipped India. Ok, India does not have enough nukes to 'annihilate' China, but they do have enough to kill well north of 100 million people, maybe even closer to half a billion.

China is not going to invade India in the next three years any more then they are going to invade Russia.

WhatIsFailWhale.info

Most Twitter users (Twitter.com/BermanPost) have come across the infamous "Fail Whale":

(http://twitter.com/home?status=%)


It means that the site has crashed, at least for a few minutes. WhatIsFailWhale.info explores how the "Fail Whale" has become a pop culture icon. At WhatIsFailWhale.info you will find many pictures and videos of the "Fail Whale" being utilized in around the web, in real life, and variations created by other people. You will also see products that use the image/name.

"Martin Luther King, Jr. Was a Republican"

This looks like a good way for Republicans to make some inroads into minority communities. It looks like it has already sparked some debate.

Video embedded below. (from http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/republicans-leading-americas-2nd.html)

US Consumer Spending Visualized

A great visualization of how the American consumer spends their money.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/11/visualization-of-us.html



"Here's a nice dataviz of US consumer spending as of April 2009. How depressing is that minuscule slice labelled "reading"?

How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck

(via Sociological Images)"

Fourth of July Fireworks

I told you on the fourth (of July) that with any luck I would have some fireworks pictures to share with you (Berman Post: Happy Independence Day). It may have taken me more than a week to get them online, but here they are.



































More at http://picasaweb.google.com/BermanPost.com/742009JulyFourth#.

Phelps Breaks The 100 Metres Butterfly World Record

Michael Phelps shaved .18 seconds off the 100-meter butterfly world record last Thursday at the US championships. He now has the world records in the five individual strokes he compete in. This was the final feather left to add to his 'total domination of the sport' cap.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/09/sportsline/main5148169.shtml

"Michael Phelps broke the world record in the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. championships on Thursday, giving him ownership of five individual world marks.

The 14-time Olympic gold medalist swam the two-lap final in 50.22 seconds at the Indiana University Natatorium. He lowered Ian Crocker's mark of 50.40 set at the 2005 world championships in Montreal.

Phelps led at 50 meters with a split of 23.83, just three-tenths off world-record pace. Known for his strong finishes, he pulled clear to beat Tyler McGill, who touched in 51.06. Aaron Peirsol was third in 51.30.
...
Phelps holds world records in the 100 and 200 flys, 200 and 400 individual medleys, and the 200 free."

Iranian Revolution (Day Thirty)

Great photo (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/iran-revolution-day-28-did-you-say-goodbye-to-your-mother.html).

"Freedom for Iran .............

 

"

A picture of one of the dead protesters and a video of his mother can be seen at http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/2009/07/19-year-old-prisoner-got-killed-in-evin.html.

More on the five Iranian 'Diplomats' by Iran Press TV that Obama just freed (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/5-iranian-qods-members-released-by-iraq.html).



"Candidate Declares Iran May Face ‘Disintegration’ . “In an implicit rebuke to Iran’s ruling elite, a conservative presidential candidate warned Sunday that the political and social rifts opened by the disputed June 12 vote and subsequent crackdown could lead to the nation’s ‘disintegration’ if they were not resolved soon.”" (http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/81777).

Ahmad Batebi "believes President Barack Obama needs to act more forcefully to put pressure on the regime.

"Obama and Western countries must stop talking in political circles," he said. "Instead they should clearly repeat the following sentence: 'The coup d'etat regime of Iran must step aside and give power to the elected representatives of the people, and if it continues to imprison, shoot and torture people, it will face international consequences.'"" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5789372/Exiled-Iranian-student-Ahmad-Batebi-the-face-of-1999-protest-urges-anniversary-unrest.html).

The Iranian authorities are forcing protesters to give up the identity of their friends using social media, and they are good at it (http://www.google.com/notebook/public/02890511943185295863/BDR-OIgoQmd2Y7Lki). This is not the first story about this, and was not surprising when it was. Just take it as another warning to be careful.

Past related posts:
Berman Post: Iranian Election Viewed as Rigged
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Protest (NYC)
Berman Post: Iranian Riots Continue
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Three)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Four)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Protest at Union Square (NYC)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Five)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Six)
Berman Post: Prayer Vigil For The Fallen Iranian Protesters (NYC)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Seven)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Eight)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Nine)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Ten)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Eleven)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twelve)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Thirteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Fourteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Fifteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Sixteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Seventeen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Eighteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Nineteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-One)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Two)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Three)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Four)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Five)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Six)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Seven)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Eight)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Nine)

Girl Falls In Manhole While Texting, Blames City

With my luck I may end up taking a dive into a open manhole because I say this, but really... A fifteen year old girl was texting while she walked and did not notice an open manhole. She fell in, but does not appear to be seriously hurt. She blames the lack of an orange warning cone on her fall. Lack of a warning cone? What happened to watching where you are going? It is not as if the giant hole in the ground was camouflaged.

http://wcbstv.com/local/texting.manhole.raw.2.1081403.html

"She said the manhole she fell in to was left open and unattended with no warning signs or orange cones. She said two workers with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection failed to secure the area as they prepared to flush the sewer.

"It was just really gross and it was shocking and scary," she said. "Because of their careless mistake I got hurt."
...
"Regardless of whether I'm texting or not if there was a cone there I'm going to see a big orange cone," she said. "I walk that sidewalk every day, I don't expect a big hole there.""

Saying Obama Glanced at a Female's Rear is Racist?!?

For a few days pictures have been circulating that appear to show Obama 'checking out' the rear of a few females at G-8 Summit in Italy. After the pictures came the 'exonerating video' which, in my opinion, did not really exonerate him. I can not tell you if Obama glanced or not, but someone reasoning that he did is not racist. Shuster (MSNBC) and Frisch (Media Matters) disagree.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/07/10/msnbc-labels-obama-stare-photo-right-wing-smear-singles-out-drudge-fo (bold mine)

"Shuster then introduced Carl Frisch, “a senior fellow at Media Matters for America” (as you can see, the MSNBC anchor omitted the left-wing affiliation of the organization), and asked, “Carl, this has been bouncing around all over the conservative blogosphere, conservative networks. What are they doing here?”
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FRISCH: You know, one of the things that was said on Free Republic was comparing President Obama to Michael Jackson, calling him a pedophile. That’s the length to which this kind of stuff will be twisted....We’re seeing a misconstruction of a photo. To many people online, this has racial overtones. You know, this is like the antiquated racist stereotype of an oversexed black man being a predator, and that’s the way some conservative circles are talking about it online, and that’s unfortunate. And the problem here is that it’s not even true. This didn’t even happen.
...
The only response either Shuster or Hall said in response to the fellow’s inflammatory accusation against conservatives was Hall replying, “Yeah.” Shuster thanked Frisch, and concluded the segment with his own lament/condemnation of the conservative websites"


In case you have no idea what pictures I am talking about:

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2009/07/hey-michelle.html

"Just FYI- looks like Barack's having plenty of fun without you while checking-out the local talent at the G-8 Summit at L'Aquila, Italy-

First class, this guy- doesn't he have more sense than to be such a letch, checking-out a 16-year-old Brazilian girl... and before a bank of cameras at a G-8 Summit? Isn't this the same Obama that was afraid to kiss French First Lady Carla Bruni when his wife was monitoring the situation? Good thing Michelle's not the type to get jealous, hold a grudge, or anything like that...

Looks like world's-most-perfect-husband Barack's in for a icy reception back at the White House"

Public Support For Sotomayor Second-Lowest For a Supreme Court Nominee in 20 Year

Public support for the confirmation of Sotomayor is the second lowest of any nominee to the Supreme Court in two decades. The only nominee with more public opposition was Bush nominated Harriet Miers (2005). Miers withdrew her nomination, but with Sotomayor's confirmation hearings scheduled for tomorrow it is extremely unlikely she will withdraw.

http://www.nowhampshire.com/2009/07/10/sotomayor-enters-confirmation-process-with-miers-like-numbers

"Sonia Sotomayor will begin her confirmation hearings next week with some of the highest levels of public opposition of any Supreme Court nominee in the last two decades, according to a new poll by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation.

sotoIn fact, only one nominee had a higher level of opposition: Harriet Miers, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2005. Miers later withdrew her nomination under questions about her qualifications from both the political left and right.

Forty-seven percent of respondents to the poll say they would like to see the U.S. Senate vote to confirm Sotomayor versus forty-percent who say they would not. In the final CNN poll taken before Miers withdrew her nomination, forty-three percent of respondents said the Senate should oppose her confirmation.

No other recent nominee, not even Robert Bork, whose own nomination under President Ronald Reagan was scuttled, faced public opposition this severe."




Past Sotomayor posts:
Berman Post: Supreme Court Justice David Souter Will Retire
Berman Post: Obama Comments On Supreme Court Justice David Souter's Retirement
Berman Post: Specter's Defection May Hurt Obama in Picking a New Supreme Court Justice
Berman Post: ObamasFrontrunners.com
Berman Post: Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court Justice
Berman Post: Is Sotomayor a Racist?
Berman Post: When Life Experience Apparently Matters (in Politics)
Berman Post: Harry Reid on Sotomayor - "She's Written Hundreds And Hundreds of Opinions. I Haven't Read a Single One of Them"
Berman Post: Sotomayor Made Other Sexist Comments
Berman Post: Aide To Sotomayor - "Don't Answer Any Questions", Sotomayor to Aide - "I Know"
Berman Post: Sotomayor Was a Member of La Raza For Six Years
Berman Post: Sotomayor's Senior Thesis
Berman Post: Sotomayor Repeatedly Made 'Wise Latino Woman' Statements
Berman Post: Sotomayor Questionnaire Omits Death Penalty Memo, Said Death Penalty Is Racist
Berman Post: Sotomayor And Liberalism (She Said She Does Not Know What Liberalism is After Calling Herself One)
Berman Post: Does Sotomayor's Past Shows a Propensity to be Swept Away by Radical Causes or Theories That Relate to Her Identity?
Berman Post: Sotomayor Fractures Her Ankle
Berman Post: Confirmation Hearings For Sotomayor Start July 13
Berman Post: Sotomayor - "I Am A Product Of Affirmative Action"
Berman Post: 300 New Boxes of Sotomayor's Work Discovered
Berman Post: Sotomayor's Ricci Decision Overruled by The Supreme Court
Berman Post: Public Support For Sotomayor Slipping
Berman Post: Sotomayor Helped Bork Bork
Berman Post: Tax 'Issues' For Sotomayor?
Berman Post: Sotomayor Supporters Trying to Smear Ricci

EternalMoonwalk.com

EternalMoonwalk.com is a tribute to Michael Jackson. Users submit short clips of themselves moonwalking across the screen from right to left. When the person (or people) in the video get to the other side, the next video in the chain starts. Michael Jackson is featured in the first video, then it appears to be randomized. There is a meter counter that runs along the top of the video chain to let you know how far people you are watching have moonwalked.

Obama's Welcome in Africa Similar to Bush's

Obama's welcome in Africa not quite as "unprecedented" as Don Lemon (CNN) thinks.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/07/11/cnn-hosts-smackdown-bush-got-just-warm-welcome-africa-obama



" DON LEMON, ANCHOR CNN NEWSROOM: Nkepile, I was watching you yesterday on the "Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer when President Obama was arriving, and they were doing the dancing, and all of the people who were running up to him. For a western leader, I know when presidents come over there, they are usually warmly received. But for a western leader, have you ever seen anything like this? Is this unprecedented?

NKEPILE MABUSE, CORRESPONDENT: It's not unprecedented. When President Bush was here, you will remember, in February, there were people who were drumming, there were dances, and President Bush joined some of them. So, it's not unprecedented. This is a truly African welcome that is given to anybody whether they are from Africa or anywhere else in the world, Don.

LEMON: So, they welcome everyone. It doesn't matter. That's just part of how the people do it, right?

MABUSE: Indeed, Don."

Bush vs. Obama Stimulus Plans

An interesting comparison of the effects of Bush and Obama stimulus plans. It also looks at the economic condition preceding the stimulus plan.

http://bizblogger.blogspot.com/2009/07/market-analysis-bush-vs-obama-stimulus.html

"Bush: From March 2003 to October 2003, the S&P 500 went from 835 to 1034 or +23.8%.

Obama: From January 2009 through July 2009, the S&P went from 932 to 879 or -5.2%.

By way of comparison, I also reviewed the market returns a full year prior to these time periods and the results show a very similar situation.

The S&P 500 return under Bush 1-year prior was -26.2%, hurt by the internet bubble collapse, 9/11 and corporate scandals. Trillions of dollars in lost wealth.

The S&P 500 return under Obama 1-year prior was -35.9%, hurt by the housing bubble collapse. Also trillions of dollars in lost wealth.

Both presidents had very similar economic challenges, but the difference in market confidence inspired by the two stimulus plans couldn't be more stark. The market discounted that Bush's plans would return the economy to strong growth, while the market is discounting that Obama's plans will do nothing or even harm the economy's growth."

Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Nine)

Update (7/12/2009):Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Thirty). End of Update:

A hunger strike in the works (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/iran-revolution-day-27-mullahs-use-axes-daggers-to-attack-iranian.html)? If the government does not have a problem killing the protesters, I am not sure they are going to have much of a problem with the protesters hurting themselves. It may however get some renewed attention from the world press.

Protests video.



A video at http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/2009/07/guards-are-speaking-arabic.html is said to be of guards speaking Arabic (not Farsi). If that is the case, it could be evidence that the Iranian authorities are importing thugs to beat down the protesters.

Calls for "International Criminal Court to prosecute the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, for crimes against humanity." (http://shooresh1917.blogspot.com/2009/07/khamenei-must-be-prosecuted-for-crimes.html).

A call from within the Iranian government for tolerance was met with a promise from a different part of the government of violence against the protesters; "A top advisor to Iran's supreme leader Saturday urged the country's establishment to be more tolerant of dissent, even as military officials stepped up their rhetoric in the latest signs of divisions created by the marred reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad one month ago.
...
Providing an unyielding counterpoint, Maj. Gen. Hassan Firoozabadi, the armed forces chief of staff, issued stern warnings against protesters.

"God has chosen us in military uniform to sacrifice our lives against the enemies," he said, according to the Iranian Students News Agency, or ISNA. "Certain individuals and groups imagine that we will back down if they shout slogans against us. We have come to die, and we have proved our determination during the war with Iraq."" (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran12-2009jul12,0,2061606.story).

Interesting first hand account from a Basij at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124726981104525893.html.

Political cartoons relating to the fraudulent Iranian election from the Arab media (http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA53409): (much more at the source)

"Iranian Elections"

Khamenei Guards the Election Results, Ignores the Civil Revolt

Ahmadinejad Shouts "Stop" to Wave Of "Protests"

More thoughts on the five Iranians freed by Obama by Andrew McCarthy at http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjY0MjkwOWVkYTNlYzE2ZjM1N2E5M2M0MTdiYTI3MzM.

Iranian authorities are using social media to try and find protesters (http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/10/are_iranian_authorities_more_sophisticated_than_we_think). Not much of a surprise here, but a good reminder to be careful.

Past related posts:
Berman Post: Iranian Election Viewed as Rigged
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Protest (NYC)
Berman Post: Iranian Riots Continue
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Three)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Four)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Protest at Union Square (NYC)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Five)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Six)
Berman Post: Prayer Vigil For The Fallen Iranian Protesters (NYC)
Berman Post: Iranian Election Fraud Riots (Day Seven)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Eight)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Nine)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Ten)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Eleven)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twelve)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Thirteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Fourteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Fifteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Sixteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Seventeen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Eighteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Nineteen)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-One)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Two)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Three)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Four)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Five)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Six)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Seven)
Berman Post: Iranian Revolution (Day Twenty-Eight)

Sotomayor Supporters Trying to Smear Ricci

Sotomayor supporters appear to be trying to smear Frank Ricci; the white firefighter who was denied a promotion based on race, the decision which Sotomayor supported but was recently overturned by the Supreme Court (Berman Post: Sotomayor's Ricci Decision Overruled by The Supreme Court). He will be testifying against Sotomayor at her confirmation hearing (http://washingtonindependent.com/50247/frank-ricci-to-testify-against-sotomayor). It looks like Ricci may be on the receiving end of some 'Joe the Plumber' treatment.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/71660.html

"Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling.

On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing, her advocates have been urging journalists to scrutinize what one called the "troubled and litigious work history" of firefighter Frank Ricci.

This is opposition research: a constant shadow on Capitol Hill.
...
"To go after so sympathetic a plaintiff as Frank Ricci . . . is a new low in the politics of personal destruction," said Roger Pilon, the director of the libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies. "If they were smart, they'd keep a low profile."

Ricci, though, has his own advocates, including conservative commentators such as CNN's Lou Dobbs and Fox's Sean Hannity."

Past Sotomayor posts:
Berman Post: Supreme Court Justice David Souter Will Retire
Berman Post: Obama Comments On Supreme Court Justice David Souter's Retirement
Berman Post: Specter's Defection May Hurt Obama in Picking a New Supreme Court Justice
Berman Post: ObamasFrontrunners.com
Berman Post: Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court Justice
Berman Post: Is Sotomayor a Racist?
Berman Post: When Life Experience Apparently Matters (in Politics)
Berman Post: Harry Reid on Sotomayor - "She's Written Hundreds And Hundreds of Opinions. I Haven't Read a Single One of Them"
Berman Post: Sotomayor Made Other Sexist Comments
Berman Post: Aide To Sotomayor - "Don't Answer Any Questions", Sotomayor to Aide - "I Know"
Berman Post: Sotomayor Was a Member of La Raza For Six Years
Berman Post: Sotomayor's Senior Thesis
Berman Post: Sotomayor Repeatedly Made 'Wise Latino Woman' Statements
Berman Post: Sotomayor Questionnaire Omits Death Penalty Memo, Said Death Penalty Is Racist
Berman Post: Sotomayor And Liberalism (She Said She Does Not Know What Liberalism is After Calling Herself One)
Berman Post: Does Sotomayor's Past Shows a Propensity to be Swept Away by Radical Causes or Theories That Relate to Her Identity?
Berman Post: Sotomayor Fractures Her Ankle
Berman Post: Confirmation Hearings For Sotomayor Start July 13
Berman Post: Sotomayor - "I Am A Product Of Affirmative Action"
Berman Post: 300 New Boxes of Sotomayor's Work Discovered
Berman Post: Sotomayor's Ricci Decision Overruled by The Supreme Court
Berman Post: Public Support For Sotomayor Slipping
Berman Post: Sotomayor Helped Bork Bork
Berman Post: Tax 'Issues' For Sotomayor?

Obama - 'Economic Stimulus Plan Worked as Intended'

Worked as intended? I must have totally misunderstood what Obama said the stimulus (bailout) package would accomplish. According to the metrics the administration set it is better described as a failure; not "worked as intended".

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0StZd9y2rCY

"President Barack Obama said his $787 billion stimulus bill “has worked as intended” as he pushed back against Republican criticism that his recovery program has failed to rescue the economy."

Palin "Did Something" to Jackson?!?

Is Sarah Palin stepping down as Governor of Alaska (Berman Post: Sarah Palin to Resigns as Governor of Alaska) because she had a part in Michael Jackson death (Berman Post: Michael Jackson Dies of an Apparent Heart Attack)? Of course not, but Sharpton seems to think it is an "interesting" theory.

Video embedded below. (from http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2009/07/sharpton-caller-links-sarah-palin.html)



Transcript:

"FEMALE CALLER (31:50): He (Michael Jackson) is truly the soundtrack of my life. I also have a theory about Sarah Palin as well and I’m going to put it out there on radio, hopefully someone can investigate.

But, I think maybe she did something to Michael Jackson. Maybe there’s a scandal there. Maybe she’s stepping down because something’s about to come out. I don’t know, but I’m gonna just put it out there on your show so we’ll see.


SHARPTON: All right, thank you for your call, Ashley. That’s interesting. I’ll put it out, we’ll see. I don’t know."

InstaPoll Tracker

Stick with it, the clip gets better as it goes.

Video embedded below. (from http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_live_poll_allows_pundits_to)


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