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77 Million Americans Voted For Socialism and Subservience To China
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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4680508" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Some people will fall for anything! SMH</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 26px">Snopes</span></strong></p><h3><span style="font-size: 26px">Did Sarah Palin Say: ‘I Can See Russia from My House’?</span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: 18px">2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin did not say 'I can see Russia from my house.' </span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: 18px">That line originated with an SNL spoof.</span></h3><p>Paradoxically, one of the common features of catch phrases associated with famous figures (both real and fictional) is that those phrases are often caricatures that do not reflect statements actually made by the people with whom they’re associated. For years, impersonators merely had to utter the lines “Judy, Judy, Judy” or “Come with me to the Casbah,” and listeners immediately knew they were portraying actors <a href="http://www.carygrant.net/articles/judy.htm" target="_blank">Cary Grant</a> and <a href="http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=20494" target="_blank">Charles Boyer</a>, respectively, though neither man ever delivered such a line in any of his roles. Likewise, the phrase most indelibly associated with the fictional character of <a href="https://www.snopes.com/quotes/signature/elementary.asp" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes</a>, “Elementary, my dear Watson,” appeared in none of the original works authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.</p><p></p><p><strong>So it is that one of the quotes most strongly associated with former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is the exclamation “I can see Russia from my house!” even though she didn’t actually utter that phrase during the campaign.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sarah-palin-russia-house/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4680508, member: 18222"] [B][SIZE=7][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Some people will fall for anything! SMH[/COLOR] Snopes[/SIZE][/B] [HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Did Sarah Palin Say: ‘I Can See Russia from My House’?[/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin did not say 'I can see Russia from my house.' [/SIZE][/HEADING] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]That line originated with an SNL spoof.[/SIZE][/HEADING] Paradoxically, one of the common features of catch phrases associated with famous figures (both real and fictional) is that those phrases are often caricatures that do not reflect statements actually made by the people with whom they’re associated. For years, impersonators merely had to utter the lines “Judy, Judy, Judy” or “Come with me to the Casbah,” and listeners immediately knew they were portraying actors [URL='http://www.carygrant.net/articles/judy.htm']Cary Grant[/URL] and [URL='http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=20494']Charles Boyer[/URL], respectively, though neither man ever delivered such a line in any of his roles. Likewise, the phrase most indelibly associated with the fictional character of [URL='https://www.snopes.com/quotes/signature/elementary.asp']Sherlock Holmes[/URL], “Elementary, my dear Watson,” appeared in none of the original works authored by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [B]So it is that one of the quotes most strongly associated with former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is the exclamation “I can see Russia from my house!” even though she didn’t actually utter that phrase during the campaign.[/B] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sarah-palin-russia-house/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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