On New Year’s Day, Sarah Palin posted some photos of her youngest son Trig using the dog as a step stool. Palin posted three Facebook photos of Trig climbing up on the dog and standing on the dog’s back. She also posted a message: “He, determined to help wash dishes with an oblivious mama not acknowledging his signs for “up!”, found me and a lazy dog blocking his way. He made his stepping stone.”
As you can imagine, there was backlash from animal-rights people and people who are just uncomfortable with the idea of a boy putting all of his weight on a dog’s back. People criticized Palin on her Facebook and PETA issued a statement basically saying “please don’t teach kids to stand on dogs, for the love of God.” And because Sarah Palin never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, she wrote a Facebook post about the controversy:
Dear PETA,
Chill. At least Trig didn’t eat the dog.
Hey, by the way, remember your “Woman of the Year”, Ellen DeGeneres? Did you get all wee-wee’d up when she posted this sweet picture? http://conservatives4palin.com/…/peta-woman-year-posts-phot… Hypocritical, much?
Did you go as crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dead dog meat?
Aren’t you the double-standard radicals always opposing Alaska’s Iditarod – the Last Great Race honoring dogs who are born to run in wide open spaces, while some of your pets “thrive” in a concrete jungle where they’re allowed outdoors to breathe and pee maybe once a day? (http://iditarod.com/ http://www.irondog.org/)
Aren’t you the same herd that opposes our commercial fishing jobs, claiming I encourage slaying and consuming wild, organic healthy protein sources called “fish”? (I do.)
Aren’t you the same anti-beef screamers blogging hate from your comfy leather office chairs, wrapped in your fashionable leather belts above your kickin’ new leather pumps you bought because your celebrity idols (who sport fur and crocodile purses) grinned in a tabloid wearing the exact same Louboutins exiting sleek cowhide covered limo seats on their way to some liberal fundraiser shindig at some sushi bar that features poor dead smelly roe (that I used to strip from our Bristol Bay-caught fish, and in a Dillingham cannery I packed those castoff fish eggs for you while laughing with co-workers about the suckers paying absurdly high prices to party with the throw away parts of our wild seafood)? I believe you call those discarded funky eggs “caviar”.
Yeah, you’re real credible on this, PETA. A shame, because I’ll bet we agree on what I hope is the true meaning of your mission – respecting God’s creation and critters.
Our pets, including Trig’s best buddy Jill Hadassah, are loved, spoiled and cared for more than some people care for their fellow man whose politics may not mesh with nonsensical liberally failed ways or don’t fit your flighty standards.
Jill is a precious part of our world. So is Trig.
First, it’s been a while since I’ve read a good old-fashioned word salad from Palin, so it’s nice to see she’s still in fine form. Second, of course it’s all a giant liberal conspiracy!!! OF COURSE. It’s never actually the controversy that’s simple and easily explained, like “please don’t teach your kids to put their whole weight on the family pet.” It’s always going to have something to do with Obama, vegans, celebrities, bloggers and the lamestream media. Third… their dog is named Jill Hadassah?!!?!?!?! That’s kind of the best part of the story. Sarah Palin gives dog names to her children and named her dog “Jill Hadassah.”
Photos courtesy of Palin’s Facebook.
Oh Sarah…you idiot!!!!!
She got all wee wee’d up.
Furthermore, anybody (like Palin) that supports the massive sh-t storm otherwise known as the proposed Pebble Mine, does not support commercial fishing jobs or wild, organic healthy protein sources called fish.
That open letter is pretty hilarious, particularly the “wee-wee’d” up part, when you read it in Palin’s voice.
I think she needs to smoke more wee’d.
How do people feel about Obama eating dead dogs since he said he liked it and you can read it in his own book he authored??? Well, whatcha think about him? The dog is healthy and happy and better off than most people ., .. it has love and it’s alive and Obama hasn’t had it for supper.
Obama was a child in a foreign culture and how many children can get away with telling adults no about what they’re given to eat, especially back in the 1960’s? He certainly doesn’t eat dog now.
Just because the Klondike Kardashian isn’t happy unless she’s insulting the President, doesn’t mean you should join in.
When you are being fed by locals in a foreign country you want to call home – you eat the damn food. Especially as a child. You can’t just pretend that he’s some wild, rampant dog eater. Bo and Sunny, are, as I recall, still alive and well and presumably not being pre-seasoned for a state dinner. They are also not being stepped on.
he didn’t say that he liked it.
he said that it was one of many never-eaten-before things that he tried while living in Indonesia with his mother and step father.
he also ate snakes and insects.
but it’s much easier for you to just spew false things and hope that people just accept them. OH! you must work for Fox, right?
Okay, here’s the thing. I like beef. I eat beef. However, I do not think beef cattle should be abused, tortured, or in any way mistreated while they are alive. That said, do you not see that vegan v. carnivore has absolutely nothing to do with not allowing your spoiled-ass kid to stand on your dog’s back?!
OMG reminds me of that SNL skit- “annoying girl to you wish you never talked to at a party”. Say one thing and she goes on a long, hyperactive tangent.
Wow. And we (Australians) think Pauline Hanson and Jackie Lambie are loopy…
Hahaha, pretty sure Jackie still takes the cake.. It’s close though!!
Holy crap, that is one effed up word salad. Fine form, indeed.
I think she herself hit the nail on the head…that if she had just acknowledged her son when he asked to help instead of ignoring him, he wouldn’t have used the dog as a step stool.
He is adorable, breaks my heart to imagine him growing up in that environment of cray.
She really needs a basic lesson in sentence structure, because the run-ons here are absolutely atrocious.
Also, embarrassingly revealing.
Her most egregious run-on comes off as hyper-focused on the luxuries that these ‘hypocritical liberals’ are enjoying:
‘Aren’t you the same anti-beef screamers blogging hate from your comfy leather office chairs, wrapped in your fashionable leather belts above your kickin’ new leather pumps you bought because your celebrity idols (who sport fur and crocodile purses) grinned in a tabloid wearing the exact same Louboutins exiting sleek cowhide covered limo seats on their way to some liberal fundraiser shindig at some sushi bar that features poor dead smelly roe…’
Now I know to her sans culottes fan-base, bitter is their favorite sauce- but I think this is a sincere rant with very little pandering. Run-ons are a often sign of great passion about your subject (as well as poor self-discipline). You can practically hear her drooling over the leather pumps, limos. Aside from the national spotlight, she must really miss all those (conservative) fundraiser shindigs; the best she can get now are snowmobile, trifecta-birthday parties.
So that’s my take, anyone else want to play?
Tiger Blood, Alaska-style.
Good point about her focus on materialism, Jane.
Pretty hypocritical for her to shame the luxury of others when she likes to take Hummer Limos to block parties and start shirtless family brawls.
JWT, you are so right, it is revealing. After all she’s the one who tore through the GOP’s coffers by outfitting herself and her family on the priciest duds she could get her hands on. She’s such a nasty piece of work, again it reinforces my sadness for her son who can’t even get her attention unless it’s for a “cutesy” photo op.
That sentence has almost 120 words. I think there are 118, but I was getting somewhat dizzy trying to count while attempting to tune out word salad madness.
And yes, I think she’s a tad ‘jelly’ thinking about her brush with the higher end lifestyle. She doth protest too much, methinks. If expensive food and clothing are so ridiculous, why didn’t she insist on campaigning in ‘regular folk’ brand clothing and carry a brown bag lunch?
This is why I love this website (even though I mostly lurk); the great insights and commentary. Thanks for the responses 🙂 I try not to think about her poor children much because it is so sad and nothing can be done to fix it- easier to focus on her vacuous materialism and personality disorders.
I only click on Palin articles for the photos. Nothing makes my morning like a shot of Palin with her fake boobies, face fillers all paid for with tax payers’ hard earned dollars, tweener fashion sense, and those sagging butt cheeks we saw through her legs from a front shot. Man, that was amazing! Sadly, though, the only photos here were of her boy and their dog. Very disappointing.
BTW, she may use leather, but since most of her shoes are peep toes, she’s not using quite as much leather.
I read the first two paragraphs and then gave up, I knew it was going to be a bunch of Palin conspiracy theories LOL.
To think this idiot could have been VP (or President if McCain had passed) of the United States.
This is not a political issue; it’s a poor-parenting issue. She couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to her son so he could use a step-stool, but she had the time to snap and post photos. And instead of saying, My bad, she doubles down. It was a teachable moment; ‘Honey, we dont stand on the dog, we use a step-stool’ but instead the poor service dog gets mashed.
I have a 120# dog, and I wouldn’t let a 5 year old stand on him. Ever.
+ 1000
Exactly. Dogs are not meant to have anyone stepping in or trying to ride their backs.
Let’s allow someone to step on and stand on her back and see how she likes being a ‘stepping stone’.
I cannot recommend this comment enough. You hit the nail on the head – this is not a political issue (no matter who this was – Democrat, Republican, celebrity, etc. I would still say it is wrong). this is a parenting issue.
Trig has Downs Syndrome and the fact that she admits that she “ignored” his signs means she wasn’t paying attention to him even though she admits he tried multiple times to get her attention that he needed assistance. Standing on the dog was his way of doing it himself – and the fact that she laughs at that rather than teach him not to do that speaks volumes about her parenting skills.
It’s my understanding that Trig has required hearing aids and glasses since he was a baby – aids that they rarely bothered to use.
** One tiny correction – it’s actually called Down Syndrome, but your spelling is very common.
Exactly. But rather than accept responsibility for herself and actions (or in this case lack of parenting) good ol’ Sarah turns it political and cries victim. That’s all this woman ever does, and it’s so pathetic.
I feel badly for the dog and for her son.
I think it is a little much to criticize her for ignoring her son. Every parent with kids can’t pay attention and respond to their demands immediately, nor should they, even a kid with special needs. Given her track record, I’m not going to give her the benefit of the doubt in terms of her judgement calls, but the photo seems similar to many I’ve seen of “I turned my back for a second and look what trouble my kid got into”. The question is, is the dog tolerating it because he doesn’t mind too badly, or is the dog pinned to the ground and scared. If it is the latter, she shouldn’t be prolonging his torture to get a funny picture.
Ladies, you are all missing the whole, or should I say, missing picture. TMZ had two photos that were on her facebook page. On one of them, Trig is in the act of climbing up on the dog. So how is it that Palin just happened to see her son standing on the dog to do dishes and just happened to have her camera or cell in her hand? If she is there to photograph him stepping up on the dog, then she was clearly paying attention. Also, you can see from the picture above, the kid is in no way able to do dishes, and her pictures do not show him doing them, just leaning on the sink. This is all a carefully orchestrated photo op to go along with her New Years homily about “making obstacles into stepping stones”. This vulgar woman used her special needs son and his dog to create her tacky New Years message to her fans. The silliness about her being too distracted to get him a footstool is clearly made up. Apparently, the most important thing in the Palin household is the Palin fame, and she will do anything to keep it going, even have her special needs child stand on the spine of his dog for a photo.
btw, the dog’s name–Jill Hadasssah? Hadassah is the name of Joe Lieberman’s wife, and Jill is the name of Joe Biden’s second wife. How fing weird is that? Are we supposed to take that as a compliment to our Vice President? I’m not.
And that right there is another reason why I will probably never vote Republican again, That party owes all of the citizens of the US an apology for the Iraq wars, torture and Sarah Palin as a national political figure.
Obama likes dead dog meat?! WTH is wrong with this woman? (I’m sure some of you can write a thesis about that). I detest this woman so much that I normally stay far away from any stories about her. But when I saw the photo I just had to know how in the heck she could justify this child standing on the family dog. I see that she justified it by slinging a bunch of batsh*t crazy.
Obama never said that. She is so jealous of Obama it’s laughable.
Sorry Jules he did in his book
no, dennis, he didn’t.
all he said was that he had tried it and found it “tough”.
if you’d like the exact quote, I can get it for you.
Cosign. I feel dirty for reading this article.
Ditto.
I read his book. Technically….Obama wrote that he ate dog meat while in Indonesia and described doing so with one word — “tough”. He didn’t say he enjoyed the taste; he didn’t describe it as unpleasant. One can infer that by describing it as tough it wasn’t an enjoyable experience, but who knows? Some people like beef jerky and consider it a culinary treat.
WHen inferences are made, people tend to assume what they wish the answer to be. Palin did it–she wanted him to like it. But it would be equally wrong to assume he didn’t enjoy it, unless he has expounded on the experience outside the book, and I am unaware of that.
Pre-vegan I did a lot of overseas travel and cringe to think what I might have eaten because I loathe cruelty and suffering- but I don’t believe the dog trade is crueler than the goat or cow trade. All are pretty horrific.
He also indicated he ate snake, goats, and other animals in the same passage etc. and he didn’t express regret of any of them. (He did say snake was tougher than dog meat and I’ve tasted snake and it wasn’t all that tough.) I too am a meat eater and I don’t have regret but I fully appreciate the juxtaposition that I wouldn’t want to eat the meat of an animal I associate with being a companion animal. I wouldn’t knowingly/willingly eat a dog or a cat. But I love a good steak, chicken is for dinner tonight and yes I’ve even enjoyed deer venison, buffalo, and a few rabbits in my life. I imagine I am not unlike most posters here on this matter. DIfferent strokes for different folks.
This woman is so painfully stupid I can’t wrap my head around her popularity. I have family members who think she’s wonderful. They are stupid too, which is one reason I prefer animals and will always be alone.
I really and truly believe she is so high on pharmaceutical drugs (Adderal, most likely) that her brain has turned into a delusional mush. She is a hateful and crazy mess. Man, earth to Sarah! Do you copy?
I’d believe that. She looks so busted in person. So. busted.
That is an interesting theory. She absolutely cannot accept criticism at all. Always deflecting, yet it seems a bit more than a hateful personality and ego.
Now that you mentioned it, perhaps mmixing “mummies little helpers” contributed to that absurd drunken brawl her family got into months ago. I stopped drinking once I was prescribed Xanax because I turned into a raging asshole.
Most of the conservatives that I know think she is an idiot. So that puts a hole in her “everyone who hates me is a narrow-minded lamestream media loving liberal” theory.
God, she’s just such an idiot. It’s not a good idea to stand on your dog, Sarah. Just admit that and take some responsibility, for once in your life, for your own stupid decisions.
She has empty head syndrome. Much more difficult to get over than empty nest syndrome.
Apparently.
And I am still drying off from that drink you threw on me, btw.
I’m more appalled that Kiddo would waste a perfectly good drink like that.
She was supposed to drink it O’Kitt, but the grouchy force field kept her from imbibing. She needs Green Lederhosen another…
*Here’s a gallon, SPLASH*
I once threw a perfectly good donut out the car window because I was mad at the bf.
The more-sane me looked back on that with HORROR, once the anger subsided.
At least I had my mouth open that time as I was agreeing with the Kitten, so some went in. Not a total waste. Another change of clothes, though. Starting to grate a little.
I was homesteading all weekend, and wouldn’t call my dogs “lazy” because they wanted to be near me as God’s loving companions. What kind of human thinks it’s “funny” when a child steps on a living being? When my son was three I told him that to pull a dog’s tail is to pull the spinal column, and I asked him how that would feel to his own body. He doesn’t allow any of his friends to tease or pull ours dogs’ tails. This is called good parenting and an imparted lesson in kindness.
Some people are just missing a compassion chip, and oddly these Palin types are both ignorant and arrogant at the same time. My question is- why did God grant fertility to these types of human beings??
Absolutely. I have no tolerance for people who don’t raise their children to respect animals.
The only laziness I see is lazy parenting on the part of Palin.
That’s why I’m so confused about the whole thing. I’ve never known anyone who let their kid stand on their dogs–especially when they’re older. I mean, I’ve put my (baby/toddler sized) nephew on my bulldog’s back–holding him up in a sitting position, but my dog doesn’t like it and just lays down…..but we’ve never done anything that actually put pressure on her back.
You know what the scariest part is? That she has NO idea that she is an idiot…..
My father once said that meanness combined with stupidity is a dangerous combination. She is a shining example.
The problem, I think, is that at some point she was voted into office and then given a platform on a national stage. She still believes that hype.
She cannot; it is not possible for a narcissist to take responsibility and/or admit failures. There is always deflection and blame placed on others.
“Just admit that and take some responsibility, for once in your life, for your own stupid decisions. ”
So.Freakin.True!!!!!
I can’t believe she is trying to rope in so many unassociated people/groups into this mess! Just admit it wasn’t a great choice and move on, Sarah dear.
I couldn’t finish reading her stupid tirade. Made me want to hurl, no surprise.
Yup bad for the dog for sure, but hell it’s also dangerous for the kid. If the dog gets scared and runs away you have a kid falling onto a tile floor. Instead, mom thinks it’s a good idea to stop and get several photos.
Good point.
Yes, can’t you just see the poor little guy splitting his chin on the counter as he fell? She is incorrigible, to be sure.
I thought that as well. A dog isn’t exactly a stable surface! Plus even the sweetest, most gentle dogs might snip at someone who hurts them, especially if they’re startled. I’d hate for a kid to get bit or hurt because his mom’s a raging moron. And they’d probably blame the poor dog too.
For once, I actually kind of agree with her here. PETA does cherrypick their battles – and with whom they battle. If you believe half of what you read, Ellen is probably one of the worst animal rights activists out there, constantly gifting rescued pets to people with no regard to whether or not they actually want them. She just assumes people love them as much as she does. Of all the things to focus on, a special needs tot crawling around on the family pet is probably not the battle I would choose. Idk. I just agreed with Palin on something. Must. Go. Shower.
I think I dislike PETA as much as I dislike Palin. Which would be immensely.
Same here. I’m kinda ashamed that I actually side with her on this one. The dog isn’t in distress, and the little boy isn’t jumping up and down on the dog. Dogs aren’t stupid… she would have gotten up and moved if she was uncomfortable or in pain. Jill Hadassah (snort) will get up and move when she no longer wants to be stepped on. Sarah Palin isn’t responsible for teaching the world the ins and outs of safe treatment of pets.
And yes, it’s extremely hypocritical of PETA to holler about this and not at Ellen for posting a photo of the EXACT same thing.
PETA is an awful organization and there’s plenty to criticize them for, but it’s hard to take anything Palin says seriously because… well… it’s her.
Is it possible she could place a step stool for the kid? What if the dog abruptly got up? It’s stupid on a number of safety issues; both the kid’s and the dog’s.
This.
There are many, many people who disagree with others treating animals like furniture, it’s not just PETA.
Plus, as a parent, doesn’t she feel any obligation to attempt to TEACH this kid the right way to go about getting to the counter and whatnot? Just because he has Down syndrome doesn’t mean he is incapable or unwilling to learn.
Sarah, it might not be so much as cherry picking as the other incidents simply weren’t on their radar
I dislike PETA, too, but let’s face it – it’s stupid for many reasons to let your child stand on your dog. In this case, she was wrong and PETA was right. But she can’t ever take responsibility for anything. Ever.
You can disagree with PETA and still disagree with Sarah Palin and animal abuse. I’m pretty hardcore about my animal rights views, and I hate celebrity hypocrites, and I hate PETA… but I also hate Sarah, and this deflecting rant just triples the list of reasons. She never takes accountability for ANYTHING, and in this instance, she’s raising a child to treat an animal with disrespect. Then again, she’s also raising children to kill animals for fun… not sure why anyone’s surprised at this picture.
I can’t stand PETA but I side with them over Palin. The dog is a pet, not a step stool. I don’t watch a lot of Ellen DeGeneres but if she did post photos of people standing on their dogs then that is wrong too and Ellen should be criticized. It is wrong no matter who does it. I agree with you that Ellen does some sketchy things that she gets a pass on.
This dog was given to the Palins by a service dog organization called Puppy Jake – which trains service dogs for wounded veterans. So Palin already got special treatment by receiving a dog for her son by an organization who normally only gives them out to service members.
Say Trig tries this with a dog who doesn’t know him or a non-service dog and the dog mauls him or bucks him off and he gets hurt. Whose fault is it that Trig gets hurt – his or the dog’s? I wouldn’t blame Trig because he simply wasn’t taught better. And I can’t blame the dog because you can’t blame a dog for acting like a dog (especially if some strange kid is standing on you or – unintentionally – hurting you). The only person who is to blame is his moron of a mother who laughs at him standing on dogs instead of gently telling him not to do that.
This is very bad publicity for that charity. It could affect their donations.
I am not a fan of Palin but I’m not a fan of PETA either. I’ve seen similar photos of small children standing on or riding the family dog. And it’s true that Ellen posted a similar photograph that did not elicit any major criticism. Personally I would not want a family dog to be ridden or stepped on, but I don’t believe this photo should cause so much hand wringing. People are piling on Palin because of who she is not because of the photograph. I really think Palin like most conservative talking heads would be harmless if we didn’t give them all of this attention over silly harmless stuff like this.
I agree. The pic itself isnt a big deal. I do find PETA and their ilk very irritating and smug. Its a cute photo and as Trig (who has downsyndrome I believe) grows heavier I’m sure they will start to intervene. That and the dog itself will show it is uncomfortable.
My problem with her is this stupid rant of hers. Why the hell is she going on about fish? And whats Obama got to do with this or is he just her go-to boogeyman.
See, I kinda think the pic is a big deal. I don’t understand reaching for a camera when the next sound you might hear is A) my kid’s head hitting the tile because the dog moved abruptly, or B) my dog’s spine breaking because a 50 lb. kid is standing on him.
One thing that was different in the photo Ellen posted was that it was a tiny three year old standing on a large dog. A three year old weighs a lot less than a 6 year old. Still wrong to do, but there is a difference between the weight. And the lab in the photo with the three year old seems larger than this one. Still dumb of Ellen to share, but there is certainly a difference.
Ellen has been crappy with animals too. Not sure why she gets a pass, but Palin has a history of severe disregard for animals, in general.
PS:
I don’t love PETA.
Yeah, they’re all idiots, Kiddo. It makes me mad. I feel bad enough just grumbling my annoyance at our dog haha.
Wow, did she really not think animal rights groups were going to say it is okay for your kid to stand on your dog? The reality is we shouldn’t stand on our dogs, but the dog seems fine and and probably doesn’t care so why make a big deal out of it. Let it go Sarah. Oh I forgot we are talking about Sarah the world is against me while I make millions complaining about it.
I’m not a fan of Palin whatsoever and while the dog pic is obviously bad PR, I think her original point was to post a pic of her son with Down’s Syndrome being clever. He’s not a typical 5-year-old who would know that stepping on a dog is cruel. So while she would have said don’t do that instead of taking a photo of it, I kinda get her original intent.
There is footage of her grandson Tripp kicking the same dog in the head to keep it off of the couch (from Palin’s own channel).
Damn
Wait. U watch her channel? Double damn😞😞.
I worry about the beyond bratty grandson harming someone. Wait for the headlines when he gets older.
This does not surprise me one bit. Look at the resignation/ broken spirit of that dog just waiting until the child gets off him. I am guessing he is used to much more unpleasant treatment than a child standing on him, sad as that is.
The dog is a service dog. It has been trained to Not React To Anything. That the dog isn’t in “visible distress” is a testament to how well it was trained.
Even if her child can’t tell that it’s wrong to stand on the dog, SHE supposedly has the wherewithall to be able to do so. Poor parenting. Poor judgement. Poor dog.
+1
She had time to take a picture. That’s what bugs me, too. Like she thought it was cute and allowed that big kid to stand on that dogs spine for a picture.
Puppy Jake “review” page on FB has multiple commenters stating that they know the trainer, this is NOT a service dog. It was a purchased pet that spent time being obedience trained at a facility that shares space with PJF.
It is NOT a service dog, Sarah mischaracterized it to publicize Puppy Jake for her right wing donor, Ms. Beach. I wish people would stop calling it a service dog.
I’ve got screenshots and links but can’t post ’em here, you can look for yourself, though. One person lives next door to the girl who trained Sarah’s pet and owns the brother to the puppy Palin’s bought. NOT a service dog. PJF themselves declare on their FB page that they have only distributed ONE service dog.
If that’s true, I apologize for my mischaracterization. However, as it has been reported to be a service dog, that’s what I repeated.
Also: Whether it’s a service dog or not, it doesn’t change the fact that the poor dog is being stepped on. It doesn’t change the fact that Sarah Palin should have been able to show her child that it isn’t appropriate to stand on the dog, and she chose not to; instead she chose to photograph it.
@Donna: Thank you for the clarification. Every other site is calling the dog a service dog so that’s what I thought it was. Sounds like this is s shady organization (that is probably using this as a tax write-off/money scam).
@Flora Kitty: Her grandson kicked the dog in the head? I did not know that. Holy crap, how has this dog not snapped on someone in that household yet? if it ever happens, the Palins will say ‘We had no idea our dog was this vicious” and put the dog down. I wonder what abuse goes on with that dog that is not filmed/photographed.
UGH this lady and her ridiculous edicts are Trash … and you know what else? This is why people go in on her and her family at large cause she continues to parade and use them in this type of pandery- for-her-B*llshit- agenda ways and when they show out people are only too glad to bring it up
Can I be #TeamNeither?
wow…talk about deflecting responsibility.
then again, why would anyone expect her to realize that allowing her son to stand on the family dog’s back is WRONG…
and to acknowledge the error in judgment.
she took the time to step back and snap snap snap multiple pics of it then post it.
she’s got the intellectual capacity of a flea.
+1
Did you really just say that her child with Down’s has a dog name? That’s really shameful. I’m not a Palin fan either but that’s low and dirty.
Read it again, she wrote “her children”. ALL of the kids have Alaska themed names, she wasn’t singling anyone out. Why she didn’t name one of her kids Wasyphilis after her home town is beyond me.
OMG. Wasyphilis – you just made my day, mimif 😘
I think “Flighty Standards” is a good name for a girl in that family.
Wasyphilis sounds like a venereal disease.
I think it is Wassilla. Wasyphilis does song like a bad disease.
Jill Hadassah? As in Jill Biden and Hadassah Lieberman? A Second Lady and a potential Second Lady? A born again Christian using Hadassah as a name for her dog? Hmmmm… Many thoughts.
Yeah, my first thought was: what’s with her trying to co-opt Jewish culture? That’s a great connection- Hadassah Liberman and Jill B- I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
I googled it looking for an explanation and all I found was a Jewish publication assuring readers that Palin’s dog has no connections to the women’s group Hadassah.
Lol, that’s great that they wrote that, thanks!
The dog was trained by a service-dog organization. It’s time for them to step in and remove the animal from this home. Donate her to a home that won’t glory in how she’s being abused. To people who won’t whine about the politics of it all.
What trash this woman is. What utter garbage.
THANK YOU, I feel like Ive been taking crazy pills reading comments with people justifying this argle-bargle!
They can’t remove the animal because it is not a service dog. It was a pet that Palin purchased from a breeder and had trained in the same building that houses Puppy Jake. She mischaractierized it to publicize Puppy Jake for her friend ….the right wing donor (and convicted criminal) Ms. Beach.
My bad, if Jill Hadassah is not actually a service dog. But I’d still love to see her removed and placed in a loving home.
Preferably by PETA. HA!
PETA’s latest response to her response was so hilariously on point:
PETA President Ingrid Newkirk responded on Saturday saying, “PETA simply believes that people shouldn’t step on dogs.”
“Palin’s Facebook response shows us that she knows PETA about as well as she knows geography.”
LOL!
Ouch, she better watch that burn so it doesn’t blister, lol!
Hehe! I can’t stand PETA either, but that’s a pretty sweet burn.
Get off the dog! Geez the woman is stupid!
No, it’s not Palin’s responsibility to teach the world about pet ownership. It’s her responsibility to teach that to her son. This is yet another failure on her part. Yet another.
And it’s time for her to move past her Obama fetish. It’s gotten beyond tedious.
I’m starting to think that she’s secretly/subconsciously attracted to him
I couldn’t read through all of her rant. Too much stupid and illogical statements to get through this early in the morning.
About her Obama comment, he was a little kid at the time, living in Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather from the ages of six to ten. Kids eat what their parents put in front of them. Kids also get in trouble for not eating what’s put in front of them. It’s not like after he grew up and was living in the US, he went out and got illegal dog meat and started frying it up for dinner and commented on how yummy it was.
I don’t even know if Obama ever said he enjoyed eating dogs. He wrote about eating a dog in his book, but when Palin puts her twists on things, it’s usually false.
We Americans eat animals that are considered taboo in other countries: for example pigs and cows. Other countries eat horse, but it’s illegal to sell for human consumption in states like California. In Peru, they eat guinea pigs. In some countries, people eat bats.
For Palin to keep bringing up Obama and dog meat, it just adds to the long list of examples of how unaware she is of the world outside her narrow-minded, pseudo reality.
Instead of just admitting imperfection, Palin goes all crazy with her crazy, stupid excuses YET AGAIN:
– What newspapers do you read? Just name a few or be honest and say NONE instead of saying it was a ‘gotcha question’ as if being questioned about her reading material was an evil, difficult inquiry.
– What foreign policy experience do you have? Just say none instead of saying that because Alaska is the state closest to Russia, that gives you some sort of expertise.
– Don’t do Thanksgiving interviews in front of a turkey-rendering scene with the guy slitting throats and draining blood from turkeys. Just admit that was a really stupid backdrop to use. – Don’t let your kids stand on a dog’s back. Just say yes, that was wrong to let the kid to that and he shouldn’t continue doing that. Instead she throws a tantrum against the world instead of teaching her kids the difference between right and wrong.
She is just a terrible mother, not kid’s fault.
My understanding is that Jill Hadassah is a service dog meant to be a companion for Trig. Which would explain the dog’s patience, but not excuse her making light of her kid’s inappropriate behavior.
The media backlash is a joke. The PETA backlash is a joke. Palin is a joke.
However, her point was that the media chooses when to be outraged and when not to be, and I find it hard to believe that any intelligent person could dispute that.
Bill Clinton’s lab, Buddy, got run over by a car through pure negligence and all we got was a collective “oh, how terrible, what a awful accident” from the media. If Palin’s dog had done the same, we’d be hearing all about how irresponsible they are, how they don’t have proper fencing, how incredibly careful you have to be with young dogs when opening and closing a door and how they shouldn’t be allowed to own a pet. But we didn’t hear that when Bill’s dog was running into the street and we wouldn’t hear it if the Obama’s dogs ran into the street.
Palin is wrong about just about everything, but she’s right about how the media chooses its outrage.
And she chooses her own outrage based on famewhoring for attention. Did Bill Clinton post a photo of the injured/dead dog, like it was something to be proud of, lol all around? SHE posted something she was proud of or thought was cute. Sorry, she doesn’t have to share every stupid fart of a thought. She knows this will garner attention. Poor poor victim ME.
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Who cares, bunch of hating women here at cb! Its just a silly picture, you act like you have never done anything wrong in your whole entire life. Give the woman a break.
YOU must care, you just commented. And Sarah never does anything wrong according to Sarah. She’s a victim.
Who wants attention.
If Palin didn’t want anybody criticizing her kid standing on a dog’s back, then she didn’t have to make public a private photo. But she posted it on purpose even though a normal person would know that it might garner criticism.
Though I’ve never heard of Clinton’s dog getting ran over, I’m sure he didn’t do it on purpose nor did he post photos of it during and after the accident. It was an accident and it’s not something he found cute or was in favor of.
What Palin and her son did wasn’t cute nor was it an accident.
The analogy for what Palin did was what Mitt Romney did with his dog Seamus, which he put in a box on top of his car roof and drove around like that on his vacation. Both Palin and Romney have no clue about respect for animals it seems.
There is virtually no such thing as an accident. It’s what we call something when we’re afraid it’s a stupid thing we might do someday. We call it an accident when somebody rear ends you, but what it really is is somebody who followed too close and didn’t pay enough attention. We call it an accident when some hunter kills some other hunter without meaning to. What it really is is a lack of attention to who or what is in your area. Leaving a door open when you know you’ve got a young dog in the house isn’t an accident, it’s negligence, but we don’t like to place blame because someday it might be us doing it.
I think your point was that the Clintons were negligent? Even granting that (which is a bit of a stretch without more detail), there is a vast and gaping chasm between negligence/carelessness/an accident, and deliberately encouraging the mistreatment of an animal. If what jane16 writes is accurate, and this was a staged picture to go along with some homily type theme she’s been posting about, that’s so much worse. But even if this wasn’t a premeditated decision, it was still a deliberate choice.
ita the clinton’s were negligent with the dog and not great with that cat either, but that was before the internet, or at least before i was on it regularly. if it happened today, i dont think they would get a pass. i wouldnt give them one.
standing on a dog is wrong, it just is. whether or not someone else did it or someone else was a bad pet owner, doesnt make it better. and if it happened and she corrected him, we would never know. she thought it was charming. that is the problem.
sometimes i think sarah is punking all of us.
If the dog would have a problem with it he wouldn´t lie so patient. The problem here is the dog could jump up and run a way and then the little boy falls and breaks his skull thanks to the tiles and/or kitchen unit!
To me, one of the biggest problems is that the boy thinks it is ok to treat ALL dogs this way now. Another dog wouldn’t be so patient.
The boy received giggles and was rewarded with a photo taken for stepping on an animal. Way to go, mom.
From what other commenters are saying, it’s a service dog that has been trained not to react like a specially-trained dog would.
Someone else posted that this is the same dog that this same kid kicked in the head to get the dog off the sofa.
Obviously this dog is used to abuse from this kid and so by now, probably knows the punishment for reacting is worse than not reacting.
I have a Labrador (age 9) and had a Lab mix for 16 years. They tend to be very tolerant to the point of possibly masking pain.
A veterinarian told me something similar. We are used to humans acting/lashing out when in pain. Dogs aren’t humans and do not react in the same way. A dog may be in incredible pain and still have a calm demeanor (ie. we should stop expecting human behavior from dogs.) It doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing horrible pain, it just isn’t shown the same way a human would show pain.
Whenever someone responds to an animal abuse claim by shouting “hypocrite”, they give themselves away as someone who doesn’t actually care. Because even if they were confronted by a strict vegan who rescues animals and re-homes them in a free-roaming sanctuary, they still wouldn’t want to confront their own reasons for justifying the slaughter or abuse of animals for their own personal gain. In fact, they’d probably just minimize the source even further and call them “weak” or claim they care about animals instead of people. There’s no winning when you’re trying your damnedest to justify cruelty.
What I hate the most about PETA (and I’m a longtime vegan) is that they allow people to do this. People love to use PETA as a reason to invalidate every single compassionate and ethical and scientific reason to stop hurting animals. PETA doesn’t speak for all of us, Sarah, and they certainly don’t speak for all animals. How about you actually ANSWER to the way you treat your pets like objects (and don’t encourage your kids to respect them either), instead of spouting off paragraphs and paragraphs of ad-homonym attacks? I don’t sit in a leather chair or eat animal products or kill them for sport or cage my pets; can you tell ME why it’s okay for kids to walk all over animals?
This woman is vile. Everything is personal and political; nothing is actually rooted in compassion or common sense.
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I agree. I doubt there’s any leather at the Peta headquarters. Maybe this is how she builds are her arguments? With the assumption that the other side is completely hypocritical so no need to fact check? Maybe?
Jill – as in Joe Biden’s wife. Hadassah – as in Joe Lieberman’s wife. The fact she names her dog after the wives of her political opponents tells you what you need to know about Palin being petty and vindictive.
Personally I’ve never understood naming your dog after someone you don’t like, as if it’s an insult to the other person. It just makes the dog owner look like a bitter, resentful type who can’t get over the past.
Regarding Bill Clinton’s dog Buddy, a worker accidentally left the gate open, if memory serves.
This aspect of the story weirds me out completely. We now all know she devised this name for her dog. In most households a dog is a beloved pet. This poor creature has been given a name that seems motivated by some juvenile bitter rage revenge impulse. How low is low? I would be ashamed to admit to the world I thought this was an amazing choice in naming my dog.
She should have been paying attention and she hopefully told him not to do it again.
Is it animal cruelty? No. Ill advised, yes. Please do not repeat? Absolutely! But cruelty? No.
Shoot if that is cruelty I’m in trouble. My babies bounce on the cat when they’re in the jolly jumper. Yes, on the CAT. As soon as I put them in the jolly jumper and she hears that first squeak she runs from whatever room she is in and lies down underneath them and they do these tiny bounces on her and they wiggle their toes in her fur and she rolls onto her back and plays with their feet. (And yes, after the first few rescue attempts I finally gave up and took some pictures).
Now are they WWF wrestle stomping? No, but it’s still not a good idea, for sure. My daughter is only 13 lbs and can’t do much bouncing but I still don’t want her jumping on the cat (who probably also weighs 13 lbs).How do you prevent it though when the cat runs to the jumper and yowls if you lock her in another room and she hears the jumper going.
Crazy cat.
Does it look bad? Yes. Does it sounds bad? For sure. But maybe people are blowing things out of proportion sometimes. Life happens no matter how careful you are and how well you supervise your (sometimes crazy) kids and pets.
I’d say the same with this dog.
Now I am sad that I round about defended something Sarah Palin did.
Um, she WAS paying attention, took a photo, posted it, instead of doing something constructive about it, she looked for attention, baited people on it, got called on it, and now is whining like a moron because she got the desired effect where she could scream that it’s all a ‘liberal conspiracy’ to get into HER BUSINESS that she freakin’ posted for public consumption.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
She will be a bitter attention seeker at 80. I don’t think she will ever change.
How much proof do we need that she is just too stupid to realize that this would raise a stink or was even wrong. I don’t think she was looking for attention. She just thought it was cute which says a lot.
I am impressed with most of the comments on here and none are blaming the boy, just the Mom. Obviously the readers here aren’t as stupid as Sarah.
On the original photo posted she admits that her son tried to get her attention multiple times and she ignored him. She was too busy to help him get a step stool but she wasn’t too busy to snap a photo and laughing at him stepping on their “lazy” (in her words) dog.
Word salad & politics aside, her little boy is precious.
I feel like she kind of is being targeted because she is a Republican and also known for being a wackadoodle. PETA is infamous for being arbitrary in who they criticize and knew they would get a reaction. I know Palin was the one to publicize the pictures but it makes me more uncomfortable that PETA chose to go after a picture with special needs child (or technically Palin’s parentin skills). The kid shouldn’t have been standing on the dog (in fact I am surprised he is being so docile! The few times I stepped on my small dog accidentally I was reminded by a loud pained yelp or an instinctual bite to my bare foot to remind me he was there in the dark). I think both parties are in the wrong here.
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Someone is acutely missing being front and center in the news as of late…
I don’t think it’s wise to let your kid stand on the dog, but if it was in serious pain, the dog would have reacted pretty quickly and thrown him off. Do I find her ridiculous? Yes. Do I think she’s getting more heat for it than is really necessary? Probably. On the other hand, she probably would have been better off had she not gone off on a tangent about liberal conspiracies. PETA is arbitrarily obnoxious to everyone, regardless of political affiliation.
Except that the pic from Ellen Degeneris is showing a kid who’s half the size of Trig and a dog who is twice the size of the one in the picture… I don’t condone that either… but they just got that dog in August. that poor thing is less than 6 months old!!
When I first read about this pic I expected the kid to be smaller and the dog to be bigger. The kid looks he weighs as much or more than the dog. That said, the dog would move if she was uncomfortable. Palin is lucky the dog didn’t bolt and send the kid flying. And why ceramic tiles in Alaska? That looks like a cold floor.
She misses the point that she was too dang lazy to help him.
And for dang sure she should teach him to not climb on unstable things so he does not crack his head open.
I know quite a few people with large dogs, and they have hip problems eventually. A good majority of my friends have had to have their dogs operated on. One couple have spent twelve thousand dollars on their babies (dogs) because of their hip problems.
My dog has now developed hip and walking problems this weekend , and she’s only mid size. It’s old age, I hope. Going to the vet tomorrow. . She’s on her last year on this earth most likely (next month will be 16 years old, living past the normal lifespan already). and it’s just one more thing that is going on now beyond blindness, senility, and now walking. It’s so sad. I’m sad.
Maybe I’m too sensitive right now, but that boy is too old to be standing on a dog’s spine whether he cries out or not. It’s not good for the dog.
Sorry about your dog, and I hope she gets bettre.
When you tangle with PETA and PETA comes out looking better, you’ve got a huge problem. That poor dog. That poor kid. The poor English language. What did words ever do to Sarah Palin that she feels the need to abuse them so?
You had me at “word salad.” baaaaaaa hahahahaaaaaa !! 🙂
wtf does her kid standing on her dog have to politics? is this the poor me, everyone’s picking on me defense?
You go Sarah!!! They can dish it, but can. not. take. it. Ha.
I’ve never seen so panties in a wad!
Didn’t Jon Stewart once say Sarah Palin was like a Youtube comment come to life? Perfect accuracy.
Dear Jesus: please allow this person to drop out of the public eye. Amen.
What I don’t understand is, if I saw my child standing on the dog, my first reaction would not be to grab my camera and snap photos. I’d be like, “Oh, hey kiddo! Get down off the dog! You might hurt her!” and lift my child off the dog immediately.
Why in the heck did she take the time to snap photos instead of helping her kid? Wtf did she think people were going to say when she posted those pics? She wanted attention, then got mad when it backfired on her. Just shut up, Sarah.
She reminds me of the saying, “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
I have a special needs child and if I saw him doing anything remotely close to this with one of our pets I would immediately correct his behavior. I just don’t know how Palin can be so clueless posting this on social media like this is cute or funny. I don’t know if the amount of the reaction is because she was once the Republucan VP nominee but her to “defend” herself by citing two other people only made it worse in my opinion. Her son is old enough to be taught how to treat animals and if he cannot intellectually understand then he should be seperated from the animals-it’s not about Obama or PETA its on her