Added: Dec 5, 2008
From: punkie999
Duration: 5:17
There go her foreign policy credentials!! I just have discovered this clip, it's really too funny...+++Just when you thought the whole "I can see Russia from Alaska" thing couldn't get any funnier...CNN's Gary Tuchman delivers the goods: it turns out that Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska.Tuchman went up to the part of Alaska from which you can actually see Russia, a remote island called Little Diomede located just 2.4 miles from its Russian twin, Big Diomede.It turns out Gary Tuchman's trip to Little Diomede sets him apart from Sarah Palin -- because she's never actually been there, nor has she set eyes on its neighbor in Russia.Here's the video of Tuchman's report:Tuchman says that only 150 people live on Little Diomede, and that the town of Diomede has no streets and no cars. The poverty rate is over 40%, there is no television, and the only practical way to reach it is by helicopter. Anchorage (near Palin's hometown) is 550 miles away.No Alaskan governor has ever visited Little Diomede, though indicted U.S. Senator Ted Stevens has made the trip. The town's residents barely knew who Palin was, and one of them didn't know she was the VP nominee.It's going to be fun watching McCain-land spin this one, and it's going to be even more fun watching Tina Fey parody it.
Channel: News
Tags: 2008 alaska campaign cnn election experience foreign from land palin policy president presidential russia sarah seeing vice
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SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - "Yet anothe Palin lie exposed"What was the lie? She said that Russia can be seen from Alaska. "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska -- from an island in Alaska"That is true. It CAN be seen from Alaska.Do YOU know what truth is?
oxat Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Yes, Putin asks America to move away from Russian borders. Is it too much to ask? I bet America will not be happy if Russia place military bases close to America's borders as well.
geffel Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - How to deal with this in 500 characters...She's never been to the one town in Alaska from which Russia can be seen. Even if she did go there, that doesn't give her ANY more foreign policy experience with Russia than the residents of the little fishing village that is in sight of Russia. It's as if the residents of Dover were all experts on France. It's nonsensical, just like Palin.Please try to have an opinion of your own instead of getting all of them from Fox and from Rush Limbaugh.
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Please try to have an understanding of the English language. A lie is a false statement made with the intent to decieve. She said that Russia can be seen from an island in Alaska. That is not a false statement, it can. Therefore there was no lie.Please try to use your brain, if such a thing is possible, rather than indulging in such vacuous hatred of a conservative woman...again if such a thing is possible.
kathleen2709 Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Sarah's reality and attempts at logic make it difficult for anyone to understand what is fact and what is fiction and I believe that this gives rise to the fact that many people believe that she tells untruths.
geffel Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - She intended to deceive. She claimed that because Russia can be seen from Alaska that made her an authority on US/Russian diplomacy.A vacuous hatred would require a lack of evidence. In Palin's case the evidence is overwhelming that she is a laughable uneducated liar.Please, oh please, don't teach your grandma to suck eggs.She's done, McCain is done. It's all over. Although here's hoping she returns to run for president in 2012. I'll enjoy watching her get crushed Again.
geffel Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - FYI, you're presenting what's known as a strawman argument, O'reilly style. That's when you put your version of the question into someone else's mouth. No-one has said that you cannot see Russia from Alaska, and no-one has said that was a lie.Broadly speaking the evidence is that palin lies continually. In this instance I/we/thinking people object to her lying about her foreign-policy experience.Listen to or read the objections before posting fallacious statements.
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - "She claimed that because Russia can be seen from Alaska that made her an authority on US/Russian diplomacy."Nonsense. Show me the quote where she makes this claim"No-one has said that you cannot see Russia from Alaska, and no-one has said that was a lie."The headline of the video certainly implies it, don't you think?Well -I- am claiming that YOU are lying in saying that Palin claimed that this made her an authority on US/Russian diplomacy
geffel Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - That's what she said! That's the whole point!Where have you been since she was put on the ticket? Did you see the interviews?You've now officially bored the pants off me.
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - "That's what she said! That's the whole point!"Er...no she doesn't. I don't see her claiming authority anywhere.It should be noted, however that the governor of Alaska is the only governor that is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism, as CIC of 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard is the only Guard unit on permanent active duty.
a1mint Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Goofy Palin is going to gotcha proof herself with enough fakery where she can win enough people over.One thing is for sure, Allaskaahh is full of idiots.
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Fewer idiots in Alaska than in the two nations next to it.
a1mint Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Canada for one, would never provide the opportunity for a mega doofus like Palin to get this far. The fact that she could is just plain embarrassing for America.
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - This is coming from a citizen of a country where a major government official declares that freedom of speech is an American concept that should not apply to Canadians?
a1mint Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Reference please. And don't try to claim ownership of the notion of freedom. Freedom is a very wide subject. Freedom of what? Some things are less free in America, so right there, America is not automatically better about everything freedom.Are you learning yet?
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - It's hardly solely an American value, dating back to Voltaire, Locke, and many other intellectual luminaries.However..."Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value."-- Dean Steacy, Canadian Human Rights Commission.I'd give the website, but it would be easier and more thorough if you just copied and Googled.
a1mint Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - What the point in all of this?Palin was running for veepee, Dean is a nobody.
imnoromeo Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - That because Inuit (Saying Eskimo is the same as saying the N-word) are directly related to native Americans. Mongoloid races traveled through Russia, down through Canada, and eventually into America and South America. So Technically that means Mayans and Inca are related to Blackfoot and other native races, who are related to inuit, who are related to the proto-Mongol race, who are related to the proto-Chinese races.
imnoromeo Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Dean Steacy was also a member of Stormfront a white supremeists group. He lost his job no sooner than this came to light and he made his comments. In Canada if someone in power is found to be lying or overtly corrupt we fire them. We would not allow someone to start a war over WMD based on manufactured evidence, or purchasing all the military supplies for that war from companies owed by the President and Vice President. It's easy to say America is #1, as long as you never say what your #1 at.
sunnygirl1126 Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - I betcha Putin "reared his head" at this comment
12valvepower1 Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - CCCP!
12valvepower1 Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Камчатка.
a1mint Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Writing Russian makes no sense, because the language that is used in forums like this is English.
punkie999 Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Ehhhmmm...knowledge of foreign languages is useful sometimes...he said "Kamchatka"...look it up on the net...;-)
SCE2AUX Says:
Dec 5, 2008 - Um, read the comments from Vladimir Putin lately?