This is the kind of nonsense that panders to extremists. Were I not a patriot and thankful for the sacrifices of our men in women in uniform, I would say something like, “such videos should never be produced”. However you feel about this video, you can take pride in supporting a country that tolerates the production of such nonsense. You can also feel ashamed for the people that produce and happily consume it.

I’m quite sure that you’d be just as indignant if the video depicted say, Hillary Clinton being tackled.

Oh, and just because she’s woman, you’re not allowed to show her being tackled? Isn’t that also a form of sexism?

Please distinguish this from the ridiculous insinuation that Obama is a terrorist and a socialist (simply because he favors a progressive tax system,the essence of a civilized society.)

Palin has stood by and encouraged people to yell, “kill him,” and “terrorist” at her rallies. She and her husband support the Alaska Independence Party, which is devoted to secession from the United States and to the violent destruction of the US government.

A little humor can’t hurt her allegedly steely character.

I read the article and thought it would just something stupid. This is totally sick. And please tell me that this isn’t racist. If lyle alzado did this to Michell Obama, you know what you would hear.

Oriele,

The “kill him” was a complete fabrication and a lie. You go on to repeat other discounted lies about Palin, you are a perfect idiot, and perfection is hard these days.

This is truly disgusting. The character playing Gov. Palin is posed to look very injured. It makes me sick to my stomach The left are truly haters I weep for the US under Obama because they will be political terry tate’s attacking free speech under the guise of the faireness doctrine.

All owmen should be particularly disgusted. If a man this size really hit a women like that IT MIGHT KILL HER THIS IS AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.

I would say shame on you but you don’t care how low you sink.

Pretty big crowd at the polling place. I haven’t voted since Reagan’s second term but this time I was highly motivated. I suspect there are many others like me. 40s woman, professional job (equity trader), basically independent. I like Sarah Palin.

dumb and “so 30 minutes ago” as my 11 year old daughter is so fond of saying. This guy made a bunch of commercials with the same premise a few years ago. The first one was funny because it was unexpected. The rest were repetitive and therefore uninteresting. You might as well have a video of a office dweeb making up new nicknames for the Governor – “The Governator”, “Sarah Bear-ah”. Lame.

Isn’t it untouchable since Tate is black, even if you ignore the KnownFact™ that Palin is racist?

treat people they disagree with. They made Bush out to be a guy with an IQ of 10. Now they are turning their attacks towards McCain/Palin. McCain isn’t smart enough to send email they say. Sarah Palin is not too bright as well. Yet Joe Biden is a walking, talking gaffe machine and BHO tells everyone he has been to 57 states. And yet the repub ticket is portrayed as the dumb ticket. Go figure.

That is the left M.O. Ridicule, degrade, attack, lie if necessary. So I am not surprised that there are videos out there like this. Palin is such a threat to them that they have to find a way to attack her and make her look weak. Like Baldwin said on SNL, she represents everything we fight against: Family, God, country. So they attack. Every time I get upset about the unfair media coverage and BHO how gets a free pass when it comes to answering any questions about his past political and personal associations, I get energized knowing McCain/Palin are fighting this every day on the campaign trail and it is a battle we MUST win.

n/t

I know it’s been a while, but there was a series of commercial (I think online-only) for Reebok where Terry Tate was an “office linebacker”

They were actually pretty funny. Even in the context of the old videos, I didn’t find any humor in these. I even tried to see it as funny, but I just don’t get it.

A YouTube search for office linebacker is worth your time.

Sure, we have Freedom of Speech. Although, I feel it is often taken as a license to commit anything in the public domain.

Unfortunately the same rights do not imply common decency or respect. This video lacks any of those traits. Perhaps these desirable traits have been lost due to the progressive movement to improve the state of the US?

I didn’t register 37 minutes ago, I’m not a liberal, and I respect your right to have and express an opinion. I just happen to disagree with it.

I have also been repulsed by some of the hateful lies spread about Gov Palin – but they are not related to this video.

This video is not very funny, but – frankly – that’s all I can say about it. I like Terry Tate. He used to be funny. This made me half-chuckle for about 1 second and that was it.

This skit is “not very funny” that’s all there is to it. To read much more into it, frankly, is much ado about nothing. I’m pretty sure the governor is a big girl who can take care of herself without any manufactured outrage.

It’s obviously not real. If it were real, Terry Tate would drop – about 99.5 yds short of the Gov. – with a .223 sized hole in his knee. She seems to know her way around an M-4 carbine, after all.

I would recommend leaving the “outrage” for the liberals. They are better at it than we are. It’s not particularly funny, but it will be gone and forgotten tomorrow.

Why not keep the focus on more important items – at least on the front page?

nt

I’m a liberal feminist (married to a Republican who used to spend a lot of time on redstate) who was pretty active here in 2004 but haven’t lurked or replied in years, and I found that video to be very offensive.

As a society we should never find the idea of someone knocking somebody else down as funny, and anything that normalizes it should be eschewed.

Just as I am a liberal who has never been to dkos, don’t tar us all with the radical brush implying that we condone that kind of crap. I am no fan of Sarah Palin, but I would never find that funny or acceptable.

And see if he doesn’t get his ass kicked. This inconsequential twit is specifically promoting violence against conservative women, to keep them ‘in their place’.

He can try it on me.

how to find out about such meetings!

I have enjoyed the history of Terry Tate commercials and similar videos (like the ones the Army makes for training purposes).

I’m late and this is along comment thread so adding my 2 cents isn’t much, but…

I listened closely to the other video of Palin being tackled. I don’t think I would construe it as her whimpering at the end. She says “oooh!” mostly as if she’s surprised. She’s saying “Didn’t hurt!”, which would only speak to how tough she is. In the video you’ve featured, she simply says “Dog gonit” and says “oooh!” again as if it didn’t hurt.

Tate isn’t shouting incoherently, but the audio is lousy. What he’s saying in the feature ad above is: “How’s that for Drill Baby Drill! You just subscribed to Terry’s Journal of Pain!! And the first issue is free, baby! Whoo!! … Hey Katie!”

The Tate ads are not about actually tackling people – the tackle is used as a metaphor for knocking sense into them. Understanding that is important to understanding the context of any of the ads.

I don’t agree with your outrage, and that’s only becuase honestly this ad campaign hasn’t been all that relevant 300,000 views is pretty low on the internet ladder. Who knows how many you may have generated by simply posting it here.

All that being said, I don’t think this ad is malicious, but it’s pretty ignorant to create an ad of an elected official getting tackled. Tate needs to tackle himself.

…to Terry Tate’s video tackling Obama during his O’Reilly interview. Or Joe Biden as he tries to spell at a rally. Any minute now…