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Palin didn't know that Africa is a continent

littlebabyjesus said:
I knew a New Zealander when I was in the States whose mission was to find an American who knew where NZ was. Somewhere in Canada was the consensus opinion.
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You mean the only place they could find someone who knew the location of NZ was Canada? 'bout right.
 
She's un-fucking-believable.

She gave all the comedians an easy life though - they didn't need to frame or edit a single word she said in order to get a laugh, they just had to press play.
 
littlebabyjesus said:
It is relevant, I think. Just look at The Simpsons and how the outside world is portrayed there.
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Sterotyped to blazes, but they do exactly the same thing with states of the Union. (Compared to their take on Florida, New York and New England, Britain, Canada and Australia got off very lightly!)
 
A lot's being made of how stupid Palin is. Right now, a lot of it is coming from the republican campaign people, looking to blame her for the election loss.

But as someone on tv said, two things: either the campaign people knew about this, and were selling the american public a bill of goods about her being right to be VP, or they really really fell down on the job of advising who should be chosen to be the VP.
 
Revealing that the would-be VP doesn't know what Africa is after the election does tend to back up the scapegoat theory.
 
What many people here say about Americans in general, Americans will say about Alaskans. It really does seem to be a very odd, insular place.

Terrifying that someone whose main experience is of running somewhere with a population roughly the size of Bristol should get so close to the White House
 
And here's her attempt at a rebuttal:


"I think if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta or about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context and that is cruel," she told reporters in her home state of Alaska.
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She's still not looked it up :D
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
A lot's being made of how stupid Palin is. Right now, a lot of it is coming from the republican campaign people, looking to blame her for the election loss.

But as someone on tv said, two things: either the campaign people knew about this, and were selling the american public a bill of goods about her being right to be VP, or they really really fell down on the job of advising who should be chosen to be the VP.
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Palin was evidently chosen by the ultra-crazy Jeezo-Nazi freaks of the Council for National Policy. See e.g. this article
 
As I said: she's a mean, cruel woman - ad she's spiritually lazy, not to mention uninformed... And that, I suppose, makes her uniquely qualified for the Presidency... of some sort of another... provided it's in the US...:rolleyes:
 
nino_savatte said:
Just "spiritually lazy"? She's intellectually vacant and philosophically bankrupt too. :D
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She knows she's ignorant and is proud of it.

To think she ran for office and made a virtue of being ignorant! Trying vainly to wrap up willful anti-intellectualism with Uncle Sam and the flag.

Them liberal, elitist Easterners with their fancy book learnin' and 'gotcha journalism'.
 
nino_savatte said:
Palin is no different to a lot of Americans tbf. Have a look at the new series of Heroes. Currently Hiro and Ando are "somewhere in Africa"; they're not in a specific country, they are "somewhere".
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Every once in a while I give ppl the benefit of the doubt. Then along comes a multi-million TV series in which no expense is spared on special effects. "Somewhere in Africa". Like they can't be bothered to look at a map and say, "hey, WHERE in Africa shall we have this part of the story?". Same old ignorant, lazy shits.
 
jayeola said:
Every once in a while I give ppl the benefit of the doubt. Then along comes a multi-million TV series in which no expense is spared on special effects. "Somewhere in Africa". Like they can't be bothered to look at a map and say, "hey, WHERE in Africa shall we have this part of the story?". Same old ignorant, lazy shits.
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It's probably because most yanks will at least have heard of "Africa", but setting it in "Mozambique" or "Ghana" will definitely be too much to ask of Joe and Joelene Sixpack.
 
jayeola said:
Every once in a while I give ppl the benefit of the doubt. Then along comes a multi-million TV series in which no expense is spared on special effects. "Somewhere in Africa". Like they can't be bothered to look at a map and say, "hey, WHERE in Africa shall we have this part of the story?". Same old ignorant, lazy shits.
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It's probably because most yanks will at least have heard of "Africa", but setting it in "Mozambique" or "Ghana" will definitely be too much to ask of Joe and Joelene Sixpack.
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Yep and I find it strange, given the fact that Liberia, a country created by the US, is hardly ever mentioned.
 
I amazed and pleased, because it means I not the only one, but being asked "is Sweden in Europe?" by two different Americans just left me with total disbelieve:confused::eek: and I wasn't even in America (I was in Israel) how many would have asked me that question if i had been in America?:confused:
 
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