Rachel Maddow on Palin & Fruit Flies

Sarah Palin 'attacked' an earmark by Mike Thompson (D-CA) for $215K towards fruit fly (olive) research.

Found this via PhysioProf: "UPDATE: So it turns out that Palin was talking not about basic biomedical research using Drososphila melanogaster, but about practical agricultural research....they do the research at a USDA research station in France...

Links: ARS-USDA http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/mar00/weed0300.htm

PhysioProf: http://physioprof.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/olbermann-palin-basic-science-and-...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• fruit-fly-research
• Sarah-Palin
• Rachel-Maddow

[Malsipots]

she's a democrat plant.

[ecoflame]

and you're an idiot......

[trinitymike]

Rachel and Keithie sitting a tree

P U N D It ING

(had to make it (fit)

First comes Facts

Then comes Logic

Then comes the Neocon Pundits who aren';t fit to eat the corn out of rachel's poo.

[ecoflame]

This little ditty is not 'attacking' Rachel (or Keith, FTM). I had to read it twice before getting it.

[ecoflame]

I know why I like her. Besides being smart she's inquisitive, quick, AND she listens. So while someone is presenting their argument or stance, she's listening. She's not (necessarily) formulating a response. She doesn't have to. She educated; she knows her stuff and she knwos how to tie in her knowledge with what's happening either in the conversation she listening to or the issue at hand.

[nursemama0771]

She is so bright, so rational- she must be an Atheist.

[ottopotomas]

Rachel Maddow is one of the best political analysts I've ever seen.

She's quick, smart, funny, is outrageously clever. Sometimes I have to watch clips of her two or three times to understand what she's saying.

And she's saying this stuff unscripted, with a brilliant vocabulary but at the same time not trying to wow people with big words.

I wish I was as quick and bright as she is. She is one powerful woman, one I would NOT want to be in an intellectual debate with :P

[MrBolas33]

Maddow is something of a freak.

[megabigblur]

Even given the "update" that Maddow was wrong in that Palin was referring to a USDA research station and not biomedical research, Palin still doesn't have a leg to stand her idiotic statment on. Insects that eat crops have a huge impact on any nation that grows them and finding ways to stop them is a totally valid way of using research funding.

[XTYNoLuck]

amazing women...the later one.

[XTYNoLuck]

@nursemama0771 here...here...indeed

[sens3mann]

Palin 0 Fruit fly's 1

Go fruit fly's we believes in you!

[horbergaren]

she's a lot hotter then palin

[xxRockst4r]

@PancakeRecipes hey, she could be both... lol

[PancakeRecipes]

@nursemama0771

Hey she could be Agnostic...

[SerraAngelDK]

@ecoflame what you said about Palin is the exactly things she dont got, she's a fucking creationist who dosen't belive in sceince or in anything besides religion....she change her opinion as the rain drops.. its a shame she was born in the wrong cuntry i think North korea whould have suited her perfectly.