This is actually a real blind spot for liberals in general — the idea that things that are crazy or tawdry or just outrageous are really best ignored. Don’t give them more attention. You’re just giving them what they want. Or maybe it’s not so practical and utilitarian. Maybe, they say, it’s just beneath us. Focus on the important stuff.
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Sarah Palin is The GOP Standard Bearer
I’m a firm believer in free speech, even for maggots festering on the political body such as Sarah Palin, but enjoying free speech doesn’t preclude others from criticizing your words if they are as inflammatory as Palin’s.
Sarah Palin and her Sad and Moldering Sadness
anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath.
Sarah Palin Is Still A Joke
I sincerely hope Sarah Palin runs for President in 2012, perhaps with Michelle Bachman as her sidekick, just for the comedy alone. Ms. Palin is not a serious person, and not even mentally strong enough to withstand softball question from the corporate media.
Sarah Palin Wasilla Diva
The Diva of Wasilla, Sarah Palin, can’t stand if she isn’t in the media spotlight, so has found another faux controversy to blather about.
Sarah Palin and TLC
The show will be supervised by Mark Burnett, the force behind such TV hits as CBS’s “Survivor” and NBC’s “The Apprentice,” and will strive to “reveal Alaska’s powerful beauty as it has never been filmed,” as Discovery’s chief operating officer, Peter Liguori, said in a statement today.
…”They’ll do anything they can do to get ratings and it’s a short-term fix, but I think it’s really hurting many networks in the long term,” because such stunts often draw broader audiences that don’t stick with the channel.
Media, Hillary and Sarah Palin
“Why Obama Won: The Making of a President 2008” (Greg Mitchell) I thought this was a big turning point in the 2008 election as well: Greg Mitchell writes: But I believe that a true turning point — though rarely noted — actually came in the summer, at the Democratic convention in Denver. … And it was said (by commentators, not just by the new pro-Hillary media stars), that women, particularly older ones and suburban/blue-collar types who had voted for Hillary in the primaries, would likely abandon the Democrats in November.
Michele Bachmann – The new Sarah Palin
Here’s what I find interesting: Michele Bachmann is so partisan or so stupid (or both) that she thinks she’s actually being coy enough not to be called out on this insidious piece of shit.
…Yet, the prescription that Coolidge put on that — from history — is lower taxes, lower regulatory burden, and we saw the “Roaring 20s,” where we saw markets and growth in the economy like we’d never seen before in the history of the country.
How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin
Jane Mayer has an interesting piece of reporting, covering how two boatloads of conservative pundits made the trek up to visit with Sarah Palin in 2007. … Matthew Dowd, the former Bush campaign strategist turned critic of the President, said recently that McCain “knows in his gut” that Palin isn’t qualified for the job, “and when this race is over, that is something he will have to live with. . . .
Sarah Palin – Black Helicopter Mama
Palin, when a Wasilla city council member, formed an alliance with some of the more radical far-right citizens in Wasilla and vicinity, particularly members of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party who were allied with local John Birch Society activists. … She remained associated politically with the local AIP/Birch faction throughout her tenure as mayor on other issues, particularly a successful effort to amend the Alaska Constitution to prohibit local governments from issuing any local gun-control ordinances.
What Is Sarah Palin Hiding in her Yahoo e-mails
These, of course, are the same authoritarians who have cheered on every last expansion of the Lawless Surveillance State of the last eight years — put their fists in the air with glee as the Federal Government seized the power to listen to innocent Americans’ telephone calls; read our emails; obtain our banking, credit card , and library records ; and create vast data bases of every call we make and receive and every prescription we fill and every instance of travel and other vast categories of information that remain largely unknown — all without warrants or oversight of any kind and often in clear violation of the law. The same political faction which today is prancing around in full-throated fits of melodramatic hysteria and Victim mode (their absolute favorite state of being) over the sanctity of Sarah Palin’s privacy are the same ones who scoffed with indifference as it was revealed during the Bush era that the FBI systematically abused its Patriot Act powers to gather and store private information on thousands of innocent Americans; that Homeland Security officials illegally infiltrated and monitored peaceful, law-abiding left-wing groups devoted to peace activism, civil liberties and other political agendas disliked by the state; and that the telephone calls of journalists and lawyers have been illegally and repeatedly monitored .
Sarah Palin Is NOT The Mother of Trig
In a perfect world, news like this deception by Sarah Palin would not matter one iota, but Republican “family values” hypocrites need to be called out on their hypocrisy so they can leave the rest of us hypocrites the frack alone. … People like to think the vetting process is secure, and completed months ahead of time, but ABC News has reported otherwise , painting a picture of a quick vetting process for Sarah by a small, but secretive group of McCain’s legal staff.
Palin knows more about energy policy than anyone else in America
It offers nothing more than assertions about the emissions reduction part of the bill, ignores the energy investment and green jobs provisions, blames “Washington bureaucrats” for hampering oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (not Congress, where elected lawmakers have repeatedly expressed the American public’s desire to keep ANWR off limits), and fails to even take note of the underlying issue—catastrophic climate change.
…No, what’s so laughable about this piece is that Palin wouldn’t even be considered by the Post as a suitable candidate for an op-ed on the climate bill if it weren’t for the national media’s focus on personality-driven politics.
Possible Palin problem – the iceberg scandal?
[People, maybe journalists, looking for stuff , Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, 2007] The Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett wrote about a very questionable construction project back in October of 2008: THE $12.5 MILLION sports complex and hockey rink that is the lasting monument to Palin’s two terms as Wasilla mayor is also a monument to the kind of insider politics that dismays Americans of both parties. … When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office.
Straight Talk From Sarah
Gail Collins laughs, as so many of are this weekend, at Sarah Barracuda Palin and her quitter’s mentality. ((sorry for the poor grammar, but I need more coffee still.
… [ House and Car, Ketchikan, Alaska ] So far my favorite Palin resignation piece is the Daily Kos diarist who turned portions of Palin’s speech into free verse : and im not gonna put alaskans through that