Did Sara Palin Really Say That?

September 4, 2008

A fascinating quotation of something allegedly said by Gov. Sarah Palin when she was running for that office has been generating some interest on the Internet.

"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."

The quotation turns out to have been written as a joke by a blogger. It's sad, because this would have been so good. But the blog from which it sprang is rather good, anyway. It's called TUBOB, which stands for "The Unbearable Bobness of Being".

Here's the link to the blog page in question:

http://unbearablebobness.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/governor-sarah-palin-quotes.html

One wonders if this Bob is in any way related to Fierce Bob, who has recently started a new blog at http://www.fiercebob.com. As I say, it's new (as if the world needed another blog) but it seems like a promising start.

The two Bobs certainly have similar senses of humor, but we understand that the name Bob alone isn't indicative of any connection.

In any case, the phrase "lizards of satan", written by Unbearable Bob, was too good to leave alone. It would be a fine name for so many things; a motorcycle gang, heavy metal band, a novel, a maternity shop, or best of all, as our friend, cartoonist Carol Lay suggested, a codpiece manufacturer. And obviously, it's a fabulous name for a website. We registered it as a domain name because we couldn't resist. (The devil made us do it.) To be honest, we did that before discovering the true source of the quotation. We apologize to Bob, the author of TUBOB, and congratulate him for his fine writing and excellent sense of humor.

Things Sarah Palin and John McCain Actually Did Say

If we're going to talk about goofy stuff Sarah Palin didn't say, we think it's only fair to also post goofy things she really has said. And while we're at it, we can add some wacky wisdom from John McCain.

To make this even more fun, we're going to ask you, our readers, to contribute. In a day or so, we'll set up blogging software that will allow you to post your own Palin or McCain quotations. All of them will be checked for accuracy and verifiability before appearing here.

Please come see us again, and participate. We'll be giving away free Lizards of Satan t-shirts to selected contributors.

Bonus: Two Things Karl Rove Said:

Speaking on Face the Nation on August 10th, Rove said this about the possibility that Obama might choose Gov. Tim Kaine as his running mate:

"He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; north Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town. So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, 'You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States?'"

Interestingly, on Fox News, on August 28th, he said the following while praising Sarah Palin as being highly qualified:

"She’s a former mayor. She’s the mayor of, I think, the second largest city in Alaska before she ran for governor."

Mr. Rove, I hate to tell you this, but at the time when she was the mayor of Wasilla, it had a population of fewer than 6,000 residents. It's not even close to being second, since Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau all have more than 30,000.

But it turns out that Alaska is such a sparsely populated state that Wasilla now ranks fourth in population, with just over 9,000 people.

Jon Stewart goes to the video tape: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=Sarah-Palin-Gender-Card

Remember, come back and see us again soon.

UPDATE: 9/10/2008

We've decided not to proceed with the Lizards of Satan project, because we have other things to do. If you are one of the two or three people who might have been looking forward to posting wacky McCain or Palin quotations here, we apologize.

This page will be left here as a monument to the extreme silliness of this political season.