{"id":4579,"date":"2015-05-26T00:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/03\/16\/not-a-parody-libs-pounce-on-sarah-palins-big-gulp-gaffe\/"},"modified":"2015-05-26T00:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:47:20","slug":"not-a-parody-libs-pounce-on-sarah-palins-big-gulp-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/4579","title":{"rendered":"perhaps not a parody: Libs pounce on Sarah Palin’s Big Gulp ‘gaffe’"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rkylesmith\/status\/313012409256275968\r\n

That Sarah Palin is really so dumb. She believed she was using a swipe at federal government overreach by pausing to simply take a drink<\/a> of a Big Gulp during the woman CPAC message these days, but truly, she ended up being just revealing her ignorance all over again. Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s “arbitrary and capricious” ban on sugary drinks wouldn’t theoretically cover the major Gulp® as sold by 7-Eleven®. The convenience shop isn’t included in the soda ban. Don’t you rubes comprehend Bloomberg’s perfectly reasonable legislation? The New York Post’s Kyle Smith (not merely one regarding the libs to which the title relates) sets the record right for all those people outside nyc limits.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

7-11s: NYS regulated-no meals prepped on premises. Bodegas city-regulated b\/c they prep meals. Recommended soft drink ban placed on latter not former<\/p>\r\n

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Thank you. RT @rkylesmith<\/a>: We tire of saying this: BIG GULPS NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN BANNED IN NYC. 7-11s aren’t city-regulated. #CPAC2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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@buzzfeedandrew<\/a> @rkylesmith<\/a> Which, from what I study, is a component of exactly what managed to get arbitrary and capricious.<\/p>\r\n

— Brennan Monaco (@Brennan) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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@brennan<\/a> @buzzfeedandrew<\/a> yes, absolutely. Also would have privileged a big nationwide biz over in your area possessed mom and pop shops<\/p>\r\n

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Fortune explains<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n

Bloomberg’s plan pertains to restaurants and delis, but it doesn’t cover supermarkets and convenience shops like 7-Elevens because they’re not managed by the Board of Health, which grades the quality of businesses where significantly more than 50per cent of yearly product sales result from meals for immediate consumption. The State Department of Agriculture and advertising regulates convenience shops. This could seem like an arbitrary technicality, but it’s a lot more than that. Bloomberg’s policy got the okay through the Board of wellness, whose users were appointed because of the mayor.<\/p>\r\n

Regardless, liberals had been nervous to pounce on Palin’s “gaffe.” We can’t verify the following aren’t parody accounts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

This is how ignorant Sarah Palin is: huge Gulps were exempt from Bloomberg’s soft drink ban: finance.fortune.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/13\/sod…<\/a> #CPAC2013<\/a> #p2<\/a><\/p>\r\n

— David Badash (@davidbadash) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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She can’t actually an idiot right. MT @buzzfeedandrew<\/a>: FYI, Big Gulp resistant to ban because 7-11 not susceptible to BOH. twitpic.com\/cbviul<\/a><\/p>\r\n

— Peter Capineri (@pcap) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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@jasonfebery<\/a> She also mocked the NYC soft drink ban by-drinking a large Gulp. Which was exempt from the NYC ban. Realities aren’t the woman strong fit.<\/p>\r\n

— Jed Sorokin-Altmann (@jedsalawyer) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Sarah Palin drank away from a ‘Big Gulp’ at CPAC today – 7-11’s would-have-been exempt under Bloomberg’s soda ban- Bullseye again Sarah<\/p>\r\n

— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnuts_mama\/status\/313014148898377729<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Got that? Folks are dying every day<\/a> from sweet drinks, so Bloomberg bans all of them in portions bigger than 16 oz., then adds that absolutely nothing can end you from buying two if you’d like even more. If the restaurant you’re in can’t offer you that lethal huge cola, you can buy one from 7-Eleven next-door. Oh, and Palin’s the idiot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

Libs countering CPAC\/Palin Big Gulp motif with fact that Bloomberg’s ban didn’t affect 7\/11 are lacking the idea.<\/p>\r\n

— Hunter Buckworth (@HunterBuckworth) March 16, 2013<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Editor’s note: This post has been amended to clarify that Kyle Smith is certainly not among “libs” to which the name refers. whilst it had not been our objective to declare that Smith is a liberal, we apologize for just about any misunderstanding.<\/p>\r\n

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rkylesmith\/status\/313012409256275968 That Sarah Palin is really so dumb. She believed she was using a swipe at federal government overreach by pausing to simply take a drink of a Big Gulp during the woman CPAC message these days, but truly, she ended up being just revealing her ignorance all over again. Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s “arbitrary and … Continue reading perhaps not a parody: Libs pounce on Sarah Palin’s Big Gulp ‘gaffe’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14325256549842-super-big-gulp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}