127 Replies to “I Can Sight In Aaron Sorkin From My House”

  1. That’s superb, Kate. You’re a great on-air guest, too – I love listening to your conversations with him.

  2. Hye Mouther…it’s a tv show on TLC. Not the g’dam Zapbruder film…
    Sarah Palin lives rent free in Libtard’s minds!!

  4. RFC,
    We had the same though at pretty much the same time, but I misspelled ‘cares’.
    I had my finger on the ‘enter’ key before I was ready so shoot.
    I hope mouthy doesn’t get too upset about that … it’s only a comment.

  5. If you think that’s bad wait til you see Kate Gosselin peeing and moaning about the “tough” camping conditons. In one of Kate better moments said something to the effect “Why would anyone want to live like a homeless person?” Really classy there, my message to Gosselin, suck it up princess.

  6. These are the criticisms of elitist snob hunters. Range rats with all their fancy gear, blathering on with “blah blah blah feet-per-second, blah blah blah bonded bullets, blah blah blah finally got em grouping in a nickle”.Armchair quarterbacks, all of em.
    Her dad was carrying the rifle when he fell. down the hill. This is the logical time to assume that he knocked the scope. He clearly stated that he HAD sighted the rifle in before the hunt, and knew it was zeroed.
    As for the “she put her finger on the trigger too soon” criticism: Oh give me a freakin’ break!! She was prone, had the animal downrange, and was taking the shot. I suppose they think the other guy should have had it cased too.
    I use a plain jane rifle, and use off the shelf ammo. And I get at least one animal almost every year. She looked to me like she had hunted before. And yes, a smaller caliber is just fine for a caribou, especially over all that big open country. I have shot deer with a .243, and with a 25-06.
    As for sexual obsession: Hey dude, I am not the one watching the scene over and over again, commenting on every little bit of minutia.

  7. Hey mouther, 2 things – my wife says the .243 win kicks harder than her 7mm Rem Mag. Recoil is a very subjective thing dependant upon the design of the stock and the build of the person. Second, what is with you non-gun people and the infatuation with the trigger? BARREL CONTROL first, a gun is AUTOMATICALLY dangerous irrespective of placement of your digits. BARREL CONTROL! BARREL CONTROL! BARREL CONTROL! And if you’re in doubt, barrel control first, trigger 2nd. NEVER the other way around.

  8. “When Palin is handed the second weapon..”
    Dude. A hunting rifle is not a “weapon”. But kudos on the first rate cut ‘n paste job!

  9. I finally just watched the episode that Sorkin calls a “snuff film” and I have to say, the only reason I can see for this guy’s commentary is Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS).
    I have seen, in a couple of my friends, Palin Derangement Syndrome first-hand, and the total apoplexy from the left (so-called tolerant people) after the start of the show. It has baffled me until tonight when, like I said, I watched it for the first time (including the infamous caribou hunting episode).
    The question comes to me, then: why such vitriol aimed in her direction? I would like to hear what some of you other SDAers think, but I have my own ideas about it.
    First off, she’s a conservative woman. Immediate strike against her from our moral and intellectual superiors (sic).
    She chose not to abort Trig when she found out he has Down Syndrome. Pro-life? She must cling to God and guns then, too!
    The love expressed for her kids and her husband and her cousin’s son, who also has Down Syndrome, is genuine. Which leads me to my main hypothesis about her haters: I think the biggest part of the obsession and unfounded hatred of her is in the fact that she’s happy. She loves her family and she obviously lives her life, truly embraces it, rather than letting it pass her by. And I think and wonder if maybe, just maybe, those who hate her the most are those who hate their own lives, who have no joy in life, who have no fulfillment. It seems to me that Mrs. Palin is so happy and that just irks a lot of people, very much in the same way that, to night owls, morning people (especially the super chipper kind) are the most annoying type.
    And just to rub salt in the left’s wounds, after all the crap flung at her, she keeps at ‘er like the freaking Energizer bunny. Must drive them round the bend.
    So that’s where I’m at. This show, if anything, has made me more of a Palin fan. I’m still on the fence about her potential as a President or VP (not that it matters, since I’m Canadian and thus don’t have a vote), but as a person, WOW! Her whole family, in fact, is a bunch of people I’d gladly love to hang out with and just experience the energy.

  10. From my meager hunting experience a smaller caliber round causes less “bruising” to the meat, a front or side shot to the heart or lungs with a hollow point best.
    Pulling out the “big cannon” just causes more damage to the tasty meat.

  11. Thanks Johann @ 1:19 a.m. you expressed my thoughts better than I would have.
    As for Sorkin, a Mr. is not appropriate for this individuals self serving utterance. I agree with the analogy by Charles Adler. Possibly the programme for inner city kids to learn milk does not come from cardbord containers and plastic bags but from animals would be appropriate for Sorkin.
    Mind you “back in the day” a wise dairy farmer would always rub his hands together to warm them before milking. Cheers;

  12. “Shed some light on the twisted workings of the authoritarian mind!”
    Wrong blog to troll if you want to know about that. Try over at rabble/babble.

  13. As to Sorkin, he’s just another intolerant bigoted city boy who can’t stand to see other people having fun. The fact that he worked on West Wing is just more proof of that. Total waste of electrons.

  14. Posted by: mouther>
    “what’s the deal with you guys and hunting?”
    What’s the deal with you and gay bathhouses?
    See, everyone allows you to pursue whatever you wish to in a free and open society, why not leave everyone else alone?
    Your “authoritarian” comment is the typical left wing hypocrisy that makes rational people sick. Of course that’s the goal to be sure, and what makes liberalism outside the sphere of rationality.

  15. Posted by: Johann>
    Indeed the left has some freakish fear of women in power that do not conform to the feminist bra burning, man hating, hairy armpit bull dyke variety that they envision “real women” to be.
    After decades of work to demonize white males as oppressors of women they end up dealing with Sarah Palins and Ann Coulters, whom they view as traitors.
    It’s simply another example of the mentally disturbed showing off their fantastical delusions of reality. Nobody of any worth is listening to them anymore, because the damage they have caused is becoming clear to normal everyday working people as their society falls noticeably apart.

  16. Actually Knight, I tend to think it is the opposite.
    Gov Palin is everything the left said the modern woman could be. Great family, successful career and still feminine.
    Her crime is that she did it all as a conservative. That is the unforgivable part.
    The audio piece is a perfect add on to the Rex Murphy column that cjunk linked to earlier.

  18. Atta girl, Kate. Excellent remarks read by Adler. Do they appear “in print” somewhere? They should. Time for a “What Canadians need is a good deer hunt” column.

  19. AtlanticJim>
    I see what you’re saying, but still tend to disagree.
    My view is that the left wants effeminate men, broken families, and dominant women with psychotic antiestablishment idealisms. An example of that psychosis would be, white male bashers, but Islamic male acceptance.
    They to me are the hippy bra burning generation with communist aspirations that never grew up. In fact they now sit in seats of power like Napoliton, Pelosie, Kegan dictating their repressive idealism, under the veil of sensitivity, security and equality. Yet everything they do is destructive, self-serving and totalitarian in practice. Their target victims appear to be the “white conservative male establishment”, yet the collateral damage is for everyone.

  20. Mouther –
    There is no “deal with you guys and hunting”. I’ve never hunted. I’ve never fired anything bigger than a bb gun. I don’t think that I’ve ever even touched an actual firearm (as far as I’m concerned, a bb gun is not a firearm). It’s just fine with me, though, that other people like, and perhaps even have a passion for, hunting. It’s probably okay with them that I have a passion for chamber music. The freedom for each of us to do the things that makes him happy is one of the reasons that the United States was founded; to quote Thomas Jefferson, men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Yes, the Declaration of Independence says “men”. It includes women, too.

  21. “My view is that the left wants effeminate men, broken families, and dominant women with psychotic antiestablishment idealisms . . .”
    Bingo. Right on comment.
    The left is very scared of an independent, conservative, HAPPY woman. And left-wing men hate decent women. They know what disdain decent women feel for them and their inability to be a guy’s guy who loves his woman, and so feel more emasculated than they already are.
    The male trolls out to get people like Kate and Kathy, not to mention all the left-wing males with a hate-on for Palin, are pretty creepy and obsessive.

  22. I’m not a hunter, although I have had occasion to discharge handguns & rifles for fun; I do, however, have an ingrained habit – food consumption – and anyone, (who doesn’t exist on tofu), who thinks supermarket meat is ‘kinder’ than game has obviously never been in the vicinity of a slaughterhouse, where terrified animals can smell the blood of their counterparts.
    If I am given, (rarely, unfortunately), some wild game by someone who does hunt, I cook it and enjoy it. This is ‘life’.

  23. Ann>
    Agreed.
    I’m still laughing my butt off at Mouthers first idiotic comment on this thread.
    “What’s the obsession?” Exactly! What is the obsession Mouther? Is it Sarah Palin or SDA Kate?
    Needless to say, it wouldn’t be much of a reach to assume that Sarah Palin is more successful than mouther in anything she has done in life whether handling a gun, becoming a popular US governor or earning respect in general.

  24. nemo2>
    Bingo!
    You need to be a real fruit to not comprehend that humans are at the top of the food chain, and that hunting has provided much of our subsistence since time began.
    The fact is that farming and society’s rapid growth has disharmonized the predator/ prey balance in nature. It is through game management via hunters that helps correct the imbalance that the latte lappers are equally guilty of creating.
    These are the people that live in their manufactured bubbles of reality, believing that they will always be cared for by someone else. They eat concentration camp raised meats, and wear the skins of abused animals without a second thought. Yet to allow another human being to instinctively and cleanly harvest a game animal as we have for tens of thousands of years is beyond these peoples scope of reality.

  25. “Shed some light on the twisted workings of the authoritarian mind!”
    There’s a case of the statist pot calling the kettle black.
    What is it about assertive and self-confident, self-assured women that threatens you pantywaist liberals so, mouth/bleet? Please do share your hilarious rationale.
    There may one day be hope for those who sire liberals, if science can test in vitro for the liberal gene. On that happy day, I’d make an exception to my thoughts on genetic screening and possible gene therapy for my unborn child, for his or her own sake.
    Until then, mouth, you can always try psychotherapy. Even though we’ll subsidize it as either socialized medicine or some other form of social assistance, I’ll pony up to help your recovery.
    mhb23re
    at gmail d0t calm

  26. I have always regarded the thought of Jung and Freud to be mere contributions to my data-base….Freud was a suicide….no exactly a valid role model.
    Freud reduced everything into Psycho-sexual terms….which may be an appropriate way to regarded the leftist thought pattern.
    I have posted elsewhere that lefties are sexually obsessed with Sarah Palin and then project this obsession on the general electorate.
    McCain’s Campaign crowd also feared Palin for the same reason….that and what she did to the the Republican oligarchy in Alaska.
    In short, the political establishment views Palin as a political threat to them and their feather-nests.
    Elements of this is seen in the treatment of McConnel by RNC. McConnell defeated their annointed in the primaries.
    the bear
    [….Recoil is a very subjective thing dependant upon the design of the stock and the build of the person…..]
    Pretty much……unless it has wheels.
    Kate
    […….Dude. A hunting rifle is not a “weapon”…..]
    What defines a “weapon” is intent/use. Generally an object intended to do harm to a human(s).
    Hence artillerymen do not regard a “gun” as a weapon but rather the shell that it sends downrange.

  27. Right on Johann. The left can’t stand anyone being happy because if someone is happy, they won’t accept the left’s preferred solution – imposed happiness. Therefore you find the left going about their life creating envy, creating a population of victims, moaning about the absence of support for people who create what they tell us is beauty, and finding wrongs needing to be righted. All of these can be solved by the philospher kings taking control and running our lives for us.

  28. Knight 99 says “my view is that the left wants effeminant men, broken families, and dominant women with psychotic antiestablishment idealisms…white male bashers, but Islamic male acceptance”. Think Jennifer Lynch. That is one sharp observation; my mouse has assumed the genuflective(is that a word) in your general direction.

  29. From reading various leftist blogs I believe most posters here are incorrect when they imagine the type and role of women in the leftist mindset. Most ardent leftists believe women only have one purpose and that is sex. They want women sexually available at all times. This means not pregnant and without children or husbands. It also means that any pregnancy resulting from any leftist male’s dalliance must be terminated.

  30. I cringed watching the vid because of “some” of the very hunting issues mouther brings up (although he/she/it is just cut’n and past’n having no personal knowledge of hunting). There were a whole series of mistakes committed by Sarah and her father … but, her tenacity and determination came through.
    The final shot was really “iffy” … for at those ranges a wounding was just a matter of tiny flinch of the rifle because the “moose” was presenting a tiny target facing head-on.
    But Palin’s tenacity powered through. That’s what I love about Palin … she’s a natural, not a puffed up politico who holds her finger in the wind before moving in a scripted and phony direction. Millions of people are falling in love with her because they see themselves, their loved ones, and friends, in Sarah … loaded with strengths and weaknesses, but straight-up natural.
    She is everything that the hacks aren’t. So, while I find much to criticize about the hunt itself … I can think of nobody in politics today who can endear themselves to the folks like Sarah … she is truly the people’s politician because she so bloody natural. And that, is why she kills the effete elites and their cling-on sycophants.

  31. I wish to add my name to those who stated that they don’t hunt. I don’t hunt either. I have no desire to shoot an animal. I can afford to buy meat at the store.
    However, being a freedom loving libertarian type conservative, I don’t wish to prevent others from doing what they want to do.
    If it’s hunting, fine, enjoy the meat. If it’s gay bathousing, fine, enjoy the meat.
    Live and let live eh? That, indeed, is one of the key differences between the Insanes and the Sanes … AKA the Left and the Right.

  32. mouther at 11:59 PM: “A New York blogger showed the video … to some hunter friends.”
    We are amused.

  33. Kathy Shaidle>
    “Why take the rest of his rant seriously”
    I not sure anyone has except mouther.
    What I find hilarious is that these “guys” are inadvertently trying to compare how tough they are to Sarah Palin. Mouther even tries to effeminate her by attempting to prove that she “is not a real hunter”, ignoring the fact that she indeed has gone out and bagged herself a nice caribou.
    Who on earth would sit and try and nitpick to how sissy she looked as viewed by “other hunters” online opinions?? Simply nuts to be sure.

  34. Sasquatch said: “I have always regarded the thought of Jung and Freud to be mere contributions to my data-base….Freud was a suicide….no exactly a valid role model.”
    Freud’s model of the human mind was a -steam engine-, so safe to say pretty much all of his hypotheses based on it are suspect.
    Yet the Left dearly loves to cling to ol’ Sigmund, he’s got such an awesome back-cataloge of wheeze they can trot out on demand. His greatest contribution was to reveal the extent of child abuse in the upper classes of his time, funny how the Left never seems to talk about that part.

  35. WAY too many people have grown up thinking that Bambi was a documentary and we are too many generations removed from a time when we had to work, fight and maybe die to survive. Having gone hunting a few times, whatever it is we are harvesting has all the advantages apart from the weapon of choice. (bow, rifle, snare, etc.)BTW, I never shot anything as muzzle loaders are somewhat limited in range but certainly not stopping power.
    Living in rural Alberta, our kids knew where their food came from and how it was harvested. They all have a healthy respect for livestock and nature. As was mentioned earlier, ranching and farming in North america is recent history. Why aren’t the likes of Mouther and friends getting on the natives for the way they used to harvest meat? Oh yeah, it’s not politically correct. Just me brief rant. Thanks Kate.

  36. I have a hard time believing all these limp-wristed millies who hated the Palin show, had time to even watch it, what with Sex in the City and the W network reruns of Sean Penn and Joy Behar how do all these angry faces find the time. My dream show would be Don Cherry and Rex Murphy taking Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman to a hockey game in a Hummer. The cleanup bill from all the lefties soiling themselves would be bigger that the deficit.

  37. > But seriously folks: what’s the deal
    > with you guys and hunting?
    Simple: Grass and grain fed moose and deer are rather tasty. Had some moose stew last night courtesy of Darcey (metisonline.ca) Jerrom who took down the fence destroying critter.
    Also worth mentioning, the moose had a good life before it was downed. This stands in stark contrast to the life of the factory farmed turkeys everyone is buying this Christmas. In many cases, hunted meat is the more ethical choice. And in the case of last night’s moose, locally sourced and organic, too.

  38. I’m no expert on firearms. My first rifle was a .243 Win. Great trajectory and negligible kick. It was a great open field gun, but was crap in the bush. I don’t think that it should be considered a varmint gun. A well placed shot will bring down a big animal.

  39. Darn, I can’t get the audio clip to work properly.
    “my view is that the left wants effeminant men, broken families, and dominant women with psychotic antiestablishment idealisms”
    Would that be dominant women or neurotic women?
    Personally, I think liberal males biggest problem with Sarah Palin and conservative women like her is that these men are embarrassed about their lack of traditional masculine traits. I am sure that being a metrosexual (not that there’s anything wrong with that) with manicured fingernails, expensive clothing, manscaping and perfectly coiffed hair puts the poor fellas under immense pressure. Eventually, the angst between their inherent knuckle-dragging nature and the reality of an existence that attempts to emulate the life a teenage girl is going to create a certain amount of rage that must be directed outwards.
    As for the hunting criticisms about Palin…whatever. I have too many responsibilities to hunt anymore but hunting is not as easy as it looks on TV. Often you are cold and the shots are rarely ideal. You know what else, I have always had my husband sight my rifle and clean the animals, too. Why? Because often couples or hunting partners divide responsibilities. I know, a shocking revelation.

  40. But a lot of people criticize the .243 as too light even for deer (and caribou is about the same size). I disagree, but there you have it.
    What caliber gun was Sarah Palin using?

  41. cjunk said: “There were a whole series of mistakes committed by Sarah and her father …”
    Dude. Hunting trip, not sniper mission. Its supposed to be fun.
    As to long shots, it isn’t like the caribou are going to let two hunters -plus a whole film crew of city boys- get within 200 yards, is it?
    Palin should be able to hit a “moose” at 200. Hell, she should be able to nail him in the head at 200 with a scope.

  42. Just googled it. It was a .225. A bit light for my tastes. But shot placement is what matters most. A gut shot with a 7mm mag (my fave) or a gut shot with a .225 still means the same thing. You got some walking to go. A boiler room shot with either? You got some skinning to do.

  43. Mouthier has been with the movement long enough to feel threatened by persons of ability that do not conform to the ideals they set. Therefore they must be vilified. The problem is the people doing the vilification are without merit. That becomes apparent when they dig a hole and instead of realizing they are wrong dig a deeper hole. Sorkin thinks he’s a real man with no evidence of same. He also shows his depth of knowledge of the natural order of moose. I must assume therefore he is ignorant and talking out his arse.
    Palin can look after herself. The left needs a massive government structure. Which do you care to emulate?

  44. Oh and mouthier the hairdresser Palin took to Haiti is her daughter. Let AP know because they have it wrong…again. Huff pro… yep wrong…again.

  45. Howie,
    “My first rifle was a .243 Win.”
    I know several experienced hunters that like to use the .243 for deer when the mood suites them. It’s a fine rifle for small or light statured people, and would work just fine on notoriously weak caribou.
    My personal small calibre of choice is the 6.5x55mm which I hand-load to a comfortable recoil level for my wife. Yea, she’s a non butch, conservative sissy like Palin, but I somehow manage to live with it.

  46. Karl, .243 Win is ~6mm, plenty of horsepower for a caribou/deer. Maybe a little small for a real moose, unless you have excellent bullet placement. Like, in the head.
    I’d go 6.5 Swedish, .303 or 8mm Mauser, but that’s because I like the old war horses. Actual weapons y’know, none of these hot-rod hunting guns. Worse comes to worst, you can fix bayonets and CHARGE your prey. ~:D

  47. What I find remarkable about Palin’s show is that this is the first time that I know of where a prominent conservative got her own TV show on a network other than Fox. This may indicate that a major cultural shift is underway. This might explain why the lefties are so indignant.

  48. The only critisim i WOULD have of palin is that she is alway’s making it seem like everything she does can only be done in alaska.
    Born and raised in manitoba then moving to alberta and having camped my whole life and is the rain and even the snow is normal and actually quit fun for me to It is not about how bad the weather is it is about how good your prepared for it and i use a tent and a blow up air matress.
    That would have been my only critisim of her but then i realized that the show is about sarah palin and ALASKA so yeah other than that i love the show i tape it and watch it …i am also jealous ofh er in the fact that she walks into a gun store and pick’s up rifles right off the shelf play’s with them there was a few hand guns there and it was lke a convienience store for guns …i wish we had that here in canada.
    politically i think sarah palin would ensure a second term for obama ,while i agree 100% with her politic’s and i have a huge admiration for her caracter and her passion for america the left would go to town on her and i am not sure she has the gut’s to handle something like north korea or china or pakistan or several other front’s where it some real strategy let’s admit it folks weather you want them there or not no matter where you stand anything you do there is going to be a negative reaction somewhere.
    I actually agree with what bush did as there are several hundred thousand iraqi ,pakistani,afaganistani,kuwati,iranian …..christians there who are calling for our help and to do what
    Kathie shadle,and my friends ,and just about every one else i know want’s done i think bush knew this and hence the reason he did not drop a few hundred nukes on the area it is not right …what we are doing there is and we are paying a huge price for it literally and metaphorically we are loosing far more good soldiers this way but it IS in my opinion the right thing to do .
    sorry off topic ..obama has dropped the ball as soon as it was handed to him so yes i beleive sarah could do a much better job than him but the left,the left wing nut job’s the center left, and even some center right people just don’t like palin and if she runs even as a vice she will have her work cut out for her and mc cain is a loser and a weakling he would pander to the leftoids and america deos not need that they need a president who will clearly draw his line in the sand for everyone to see so your either with him or your not becasue the bickering needs to stop and the work needs to get done.
    Palins show display’s her true personality and her passion for america not just alaska and i think it would be easy for anyone to like her….except the left.
    speaking of left kate is an embarassment and a perfect example of what the left want’s there women to be …her kids were having so much fun and becaseu she was not happy they were not allowed to be happy either she is a loser through and through you could tell how selfish and ignorant and just miserable she was she is a loser and i feel sorry for her kids they have no dad now becaseu she is a feminist man hating loser you work through stuff period her hubby was sackless and spinless …i am sure that no man i know would ever let a woman talk to them the way she did , And he is a loser to for cheating on her like i said a typical liberal eutopian family .

  49. I love the show. Beautiful shots of nature and wildlife. Palin is pretty cool, I have to say. Comments from mouther inspire me to buy a rifle and start shooting again.

  50. Phantom: After guiding a couple hundred hunters over the years, I can guarantee that there are very few people who can hit a “moose” in the head at 200 yards, with a scope, unless on a solid rest. Putting a killing shot into a trotting or running animal at over 100 yards is something that even fewer can do. If the editting was accurate, Sarah shot at a trotting broadside … I felt like crawling under my computer desk at that point. (the TV shows we did usually were heavily editted, so who knows if the shot was actually taken) I never allowed my clients to take those shots because earlier experiences had proven them to be 80% disasterous because almost every single person out there will wound that animal.
    I guess you could blame her father; but the myth has been that Sarah is an experienced hunter … she’s clearly not.
    “Sniper mission” … no, that’d involve 1000 yard shots. My concern was wounding, and that is not ever “about fun”.
    The other fellow in the vid had the right idea though; he got Sarah to go back to the rest … she was going to wing it. And, he raised the rest to give a better platform and save Sarah stitches if his gun kicked harder than what she was used to. Sarah asking about the kick was completely ok … that’s a good thing to know if you don’t want a halfmoon scare over your eye. Sarah is not a heavy framed person.
    As to the .243: A great choice. Shoots incredibly flat and will kill anything with a shot to the boiler-room. Plus, for light framed people it’s not too rude.
    Like I said above though, the vid connected Sarah to many more people than it isolated. She’s got incredible grit and is so wonderfully natural. I loved her intense focus … she was going to kill that thing come hell or high water.
    Unlike many admirers; I think she’d make an outstanding President and would provide a much needed change.

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