I loved Dr. Strangelove; especially the cowboy bomber pilot, Major T.J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens), and General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott). If you've seen the movie, you may remember the scene in the war room, when The President asked the general about whether the plane that wasn't shot down or recalled would be able to drop a bomb. General Turgidson became ecstatic as he praised the major's abilites; he had no doubt that Major Kong would complete his mission. He did, and in one of the film's most memorable scenes rode the bomb down to its target. Later, the movie ended with a series of nuclear blasts set to Vera Lynn's song, "We'll Meet Again." It is a brilliant movie.But it is a movie. In reality we have an incident with Sarah Palin that illustrates how she cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. The NY Daily News reported:
Blame it on the Blackberry.She is attributing her "mistake" to "technology mismanagement." It was an "accident."
After being slammed for appearing to list a controversial tweet from Ann Coulter's as a "favorite" on her Twitter account, Sarah Palin defended herself Friday by saying she didn't even know how to tag Twitter posts.
On her account, Palin had appeared to list a Coulter tweet with a photograph of a sign outside of a church that said "The blood of Jesus against Obama history made 4 Nov 2008 a Taliban Muslim illegally elected president USA: Hussein."Palin, however, said it was simply a case of technology mismanagement.
"I've never purposefully 'favorited' any Tweet," Palin wrote in an email to an ABC reporter on Friday. "I had to go back to my BlackBerry to even see if such a function was possible."
And even if she did know how to tag a favorite tweet, she said she had been traveling that day anyway.
"I was traveling to Alaska that day ... it was an obvious accidental 'favoriting,'" she argued.
Do you want Sarah Palin's thumb on the nuclear button?
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