Sarah the Panda

Posted on 11/15/2008 at 9:48 am by Bob Cesca

Digby dday on O’Reilly’s panda bear:

It’s really not that he got the name of the animal wrong. It’s that he was so sure of it, and immediately when told he was wrong, he clung to it. That’s not only his knee-jerk reaction, but the entire conservative movement. Their version of what’s right is whatever their opponents say is wrong. Facts are tangential.

Applied to our favorite Alaskan governor… The Republicans who still believe Sarah Palin is qualified to be president (64 percent of them) probably thought it was a panda, too. In other words, insisting that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president, even though she’s clearly not, doesn’t make it so. Facts are tangential.

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  • Strawdog

    Sarah Palin will still think global warming is not caused by man even when panda bears replace polar bears in Alaska.

  • JackDanieL

    Perfect parallel between that creepy O’Reilly ‘gaffe’ and the neocon mindset.Could ol’ Bill’o have punctuated Bob’s latest Huffpo article any better, or in a more timely fashion?Thx Bill!

  • Redmond

    Hats off to Digby! He freaking nailed it.And Bob nailed it on Palin. That is the right-wing mindset (especially out of the theocrats). “I’m right because you’re a liberal.” End of story.

  • bibimimi

    Colbert’s new tag:”Factose Intolerant”Oh, and Digby is a chick.

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    Panda Pundit: A MSM “personality” loyal to a narrative in spite of or in direct conflict with incontrovertible facts.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    @ LFOD – “Panda Pundit” – That’s BRILLIANT!

  • PackyJ

    LFOD: I think you’ve just coined a new term.It will be part of my vocabulary from here on.

  • bibimimi

    A Panda Fact:Black, and white…no shades of gray. [we are STILL AT WAR, PEOPLE!]

  • cactusgal

    Hell, my old man thought it was a squirrel. But he’d already chugged down a half gallon of merlot, and he thought O’Reilly was Wilfred Brimley.

  • jmrunning3

    “Panda Pundit”That is as perfect and apt a description as “BBQ Media”. I love it!This illustrates the axiom that repeating a lie often enough will result in it being accepted as truth, which results in our asking ourselves, “why do we have to debunk this”? Facts be damned.

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    We no longer need to respond to panda punditry, for it by definition invalidates itself. It just needs to be appropriately identified, for instance:”Oh, those are just panda points. Go away.”"If you can’t see that’s a panda talking, I feel sorry for you, but there’s just nothing I can say about that.”

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    PANDA PunditPurposelyAnnoyingNewscastDickheadAsshat

  • prcleburne

    I love Keith Olbermann’s characteization of Bill O’Reilly as ” Bill-O the Clown.”

  • prcleburne

    I may be anal-retentive, but that should be ” characterization.:

  • prcleburne

    Damn!That should be ” characterization.”