# Sarah Palin vs. the Anchorage Daily News, or Palling Around With The Facts? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176 "2009-01-14T01:21:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/81 "2009-01-15T19:18:10Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Heh. > > I know boomers who got more conservative, like my Uncle, but he’s a conservative Democrat. My wife’s aunt is a liberal down in Florida, was a radical leftist in college she claims. Her kids are both Republicans, one is a lawyer like his Dad also Republican, and the other works for ICE. My die-hard Republican Father voted for Barack Obama. Most boomers I know who were hippy leftists are generally still hippy leftists, or at the most conservative Democrats like my Uncle. At least this is just an empirical question. With a few grand from the NSF, it can be answered. I just tend to think that stupidity does not discriminate. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/82 "2009-01-15T19:38:07Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > At least this is just an empirical question. With a few grand from the NSF, it can be answered. I just tend to think that stupidity does not discriminate. Heh, it would be an interesting study to see. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/83 "2009-01-15T21:21:54Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Heh, it would be an interesting study to see. People have to accurately remember their beliefs of [del]20[/del] [del]30[/del] 40 (40? fuck, I’m old) years ago. Some would say, “Yeah, I was radical,” recalling halcyon days of bellbottoms and the 1910 Fruitgum Company. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/84 "2009-01-15T21:31:20Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > People have to accurately remember their beliefs of [del]20[/del] [del]30[/del] 40 (40? fuck, I’m old) years ago. Some would say, “Yeah, I was radical,” recalling halcyon days of bellbottoms and the 1910 Fruitgum Company. It would be longitudinal study. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/85 "2009-01-15T21:59:15Z")
From the Whale article > [@](#): > > “Once again Governor Palin has demonstrated either a complete lack of understanding or lack of concern over the plight of endangered species,” Brendan Cummings, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement Wednesday. Why couldn’t it be both? ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/86 "2009-01-15T22:16:22Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Well lets see, lets start with recently the number of, “Don’t let them cut funding for X, we need X.”, sorts of arguments, never recognizing that the state is broke. Liberals want every welfare program funded and generally act like it’s some kind of conspiracy when those programs are being cut. Liberals wear shirts with the images of murderers like Che Guevara or Mao with pride. They don’t recognize that Fidel Castro destroyed Cuba. B…b…but they have good medical care. They think that Hugo Chavez is a ‘man of the people’. They never look at the good things the US does abroad only the bad things, and never recognize that a lot of the good things and the bad things go hand in hand. ‘Look at all those people the US slaughtered in Mogadishu!’, yeah, when they were trying to capture the warlords who were organizing the raids on the UN supply convoys who were keeping them from feeding the starving. ‘Why don’t you do something in Darfur?’, because every time we do something you throw a coniption. They believe dogmatically that Polar Bears are dying out so we need to stop people from drilling for oil in Alaska, though they don’t stop driving their cars to frivolous things like the movies, even though polar bear experts who monitor them in the wild don’t think Polar bears are endangered. They carry ‘Free Mumia’, placards to Free Palestine rallies, and Free Palestine placards to Free Tibet rallies, and Free Tibet placards to Immigration rallies. They think that not electing Hillary Clinton is evidence of sexism. > > And don’t pull any horseshit, “You are describing leftists not liberals”, stuff, because if you are going to lump the moderate fiscal conservative with the radical right wingnut then you’ve gotta take your leftists too. You’re not describing leftists. Or liberals. You’re describing expensive liberal arts college students. 😉 Seriously, I’m a liberal. I understand fiscal realities. I have no illusions about Fidel Castro or Che Guavera (and I’ve been to Cuba). I think Mumia belongs in prison, although I oppose the death penalty. I know exactly what Hugo Chavez is (although he does have great entertainment value). I could even fairly be described as pro-life. We’re not all nuts, you know. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/87 "2009-01-15T22:17:56Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > You’re not describing leftists. Or liberals. You’re describing expensive liberal arts college students. 😉 > > Seriously, I’m a liberal. I understand fiscal realities. I have no illusions about Fidel Castro or Che Guavera (and I’ve been to Cuba). I think Mumia belongs in prison, although I oppose the death penalty. I know exactly what Hugo Chavez is (although he does have great entertainment value). I could even fairly be described as pro-life. > > We’re not all nuts, you know. I know, the point was regarding portraying the nutty fringe as the mainstream. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/88 "2009-01-15T23:56:54Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > No, she is not a great character. She is mediocrity in every way. She’s a flibbertigibbet. But not a funny one. Anyone thinking she’s a figure of fun is thinking of Tina Fey doing her, not actually her. Palin herself is just sad. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/89 "2009-01-16T00:09:36Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > She’s a flibbertigibbet. But not a funny one. > > Anyone thinking she’s a figure of fun is thinking of Tina Fey doing her, not actually her. Palin herself is just sad. I think it’d be fun to watch Tina Fey do her. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/90 "2009-01-16T00:34:25Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > At least this is just an empirical question. With a few grand from the NSF, it can be answered. I just tend to think that stupidity does not discriminate. But the message does. Greed is good resonates with base and selfish people. To ignore the plight of your fellow man does not suggest enlightenment. Rush is not a spokesman for the intelligent and caring man. ---
**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/91 "2009-01-16T00:43:17Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I think it’d be fun to watch Tina Fey do her. I’d pay to watch that. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/92 "2009-01-16T01:40:18Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I think it’d be fun to watch Tina Fey do her. I’m about as far from being an easily offended, over-sensitive feminist as someone could be (and a HUGE fan of one-on-one female action) but I’ve got to be critical of the unending interest on the part of Palin’s avowed core in her “hotness.” I could see how a high testosterone count might impair your judgment for the first few days, or maybe weeks, of exposure to a candidate for national office whom you might consider fucking, but can you nitwits still rattling on about her sex appeal take a cool shower already, or jerk off, or something? Beyond a point (which we reached months ago) it just makes you seem very stupid, very unable to think with your upper brain, very satisfied wtih the way your lower brain thinks for you, and simply as retrograde as those pro-Hillary sheep seriously suggesting that her insight as a woman into world issues is a reason to vote for her. In fact, you look almost as idiotic as John McCain checking out Palin’s ass during one of her early national speeches. Your focus on her body gives people the impression that those of us who oppose her do so because she’s a woman, not because she’s uninformed, defensive, illiterate, undereducated, provincial, and unqualified, which are IMO sufficient reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/93 "2009-01-16T01:45:01Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Rush is not a spokesman for the intelligent and caring man. You don’t say. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/94 "2009-01-16T01:45:44Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > I’m about as far from being an easily offended, over-sensitive feminist as someone could be (and a HUGE fan of one-on-one female action) but I’ve got to be critical of the unending interest on the part of Palin’s avowed core in her “hotness.” I could see how a high testosterone count might impair your judgment for the first few days, or maybe weeks, of exposure to a candidate for national office whom you might consider fucking, but can you nitwits still rattling on about her sex appeal take a cool shower already, or jerk off, or something? Beyond a point (which we reached months ago) it just makes you seem very stupid, very unable to think with your upper brain, very satisfied wtih the way your lower brain thinks for you, and simply as retrograde as those pro-Hillary sheep seriously suggesting that her insight as a woman into world issues is a reason to vote for her. In fact, you look almost as idiotic as John McCain checking out Palin’s ass during one of her early national speeches. Your focus on her body gives people the impression that those of us who oppose her do so because she’s a woman, not because she’s uninformed, defensive, illiterate, undereducated, provincial, and unqualified, which are IMO sufficient reasons. Hillary has Cankles. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/95 "2009-01-16T03:06:05Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Should liberals apologize for this, when the bulk of conservatives deny the reality of global warming, or the validity of the theory of ‘evilution’? Or claim that tax cuts increase Federal revenues, or that Bush only invaded Iraq because the CIA misled him about WMDs? Or favor the sort of abstinence-only sex ed that claims condoms aren’t effective in preventing pregnancy or STD transmission? Or believed, at least for the duration of the campaign season, that Barack Obama was really a Muslim, or that he wasn’t born a U.S. citizen? Or believed, also for the duration of the campaign season, that the fact that Alaska is located near Russia made Sarah Palin knowledgeable about U.S.-Russian relations? ([Krista at Balloon Juice](http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=15093): “And when I look out my window I can see the moon. Doesn’t make me a fucking astronaut now, does it?”) > > I won’t claim to be more in touch with reality than conservatives who believe none of these things. But that’s a pretty small slice of American conservatism. > > Not only that, but the believers in these fallacies are largely impervious to logic, proof, or any other sort of correction in their belief in these things. > > Accordingly, hell yes, we liberals have every reason to believe we are more in touch with reality than the vast majority of conservatives. I will be interested in your arguments to the contrary. Maybe liberals and conservatives should stop swallowing the stereotypes of each other and make more of an effort. ---
**Author:** ![Aquila\_Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a698b9/32.png) [@Aquila\_Be](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquila_Be)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/96 "2009-01-16T06:13:11Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > Almost no one is still pushing the Trig/Bristol conspiracy story. Aside from a few hours on Labor Day weekend, no one ever really did. > > However, since then a few people (led by Andrew Sullivan) have written about the circumstances surrounding the story–namely, that the Palin camp never really denied the story, and the concrete evidence that would have quickly settled the matter once and for all was never produced. > > I don’t think Palin has any interest in settling the matter once and for all. Any time the story comes up–even, as we see here, in the service of shutting it down–Palin can rend her garments and wail about how the LIBERAL ELITE MEDIA is being so HORRIBLE to her and her PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS FAMILY. And yet the totally insane Trig/Bristol conspiracy story frequently made it into the Australian press. It was sometimes used as an illustrative example of how totally deranged some of the people who work for the American media, like Andrew Sullivan and the Anchorage newspaper editor, actually are. Not that Australian reporters and editors are all that much better – they have their own locally based things to get all deranged about. It’s no different to a newspaper running yet another article on how the attack on the WTC could have been an inside job. “Oh look” says your typical reporter/editor, “how interesting! Makes you really think, hmmm?” It’s the kind of thing you’d expect when up to 40% of any given demographic, including reporters, are not just capable of believing anything that fits in with their belief system but have a need to reinforce it. If a story appeals to them emotionally then they’ll run with it. This phenomenon cannot be defeated; it’s just something we all need to learn to accept and live with. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/97 "2009-01-16T11:19:25Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > Maybe liberals and conservatives should stop swallowing the stereotypes of each other and make more of an effort. When GOP Congresscritters, and conservative spokesnuts with huge followings such as Rush Limbaugh, spout this sort of tripe, this ain’t a stereotype; it’s reality. This isn’t some Cindy fucking Sheehan fringenuts I’m talking about; Republican Senators say crazy stuff like this on a regular basis. Here’s [Sen. Inhofe](http://mediamatters.org/items/200803070012?f=s_search), for instance: > [@](#): > > With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is. The National Review website has, for years, maintained a “Planet Gore” section of their website, basically devoted to ridiculing Al Gore’s notions about the environment. And the National Review - William F. Buckley’s magazine - is supposedly at the intellectual end of the conservative movement, the folks who are at least a little bit more thinkers than propagandists. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/98 "2009-01-16T11:56:28Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Do you have cites for each of your claims proving that the majority of conservatives believe this? I’m claiming that a substantial majority of conservatives believes (or believed, during the campaign; less so, now that that noise machine has been turned off) some subset of these absurdities. Do I have cites? This is the Pit; if you want to start a GD thread, I’ll see you there. Over the past year, I’ve heard the Barack = Muslim BS from random people on the street. The lies about global warming are widely spread, as my response to \*\*cosmodan \*\*notes. But I read the wingnut websites, I hear what Rush has to say, and I see the same things spouted by everyone from GOP Congresscritters to my in-laws. This stuff has wide distribution and wide credence among conservatives. So yeah, I feel comfortable in saying that I’m far more grounded in reality than these people. Millions upon millions of them have views where there’s no ‘you have your opinion and I have mine’ logic; they’ve swallowed total bullshit from right-wing purveyors of total bullshit, from Rush to Pat Robertson and James Dobson to their own Congresscritters and pastors. > [@](#): > > I see a lot of unrealistic arguments from the left too. Like if everyone suddenly stopped believing in religion we’d have whirled peas. In the coming atheist wars, I gotta tell you, I’m rooting for the otters. “The left”? Please. From who? Nancy Pelosi? Markos Moulitsas? Who - anyone with widespread cred among liberals? C’mon, give me the most ridiculous argument you can find by the most credible lefty spokesperson you can find. > [@](#): > > Well lets see, lets start with recently the number of, “Don’t let them cut funding for X, we need X.”, sorts of arguments, Got a particular one? Some of those arguments are, after all, quite legitimate. > [@](#): > > never recognizing that the state is broke. _Bzzzzzzzzzzzt! **IDIOT ALERT!!** _ Which state has defaulted on its obligations? No, “the state” is not “broke.” Quit talking like an idiot. > [@](#): > > Liberals want every welfare program funded Maybe you missed welfare reform, back in the mid-1990s. > [@](#): > > Liberals wear shirts with the images of murderers like Che Guevara or Mao with pride. Yeah, I wear mine all the time. :rolleyes: Seriously, name one liberal of any consequence who does that. > [@](#): > > They don’t recognize that Fidel Castro destroyed Cuba. B…b…but they have good medical care. Maybe their point is that if an absolutely piss-poor country like Cuba can offer a credible level of universal health care, the Richest Country On Earth could do the same, only a wee tad better. > [@](#): > > They think that Hugo Chavez is a ‘man of the people’. Again, name one liberal of consequence… > [@](#): > > They never look at the good things the US does abroad only the bad things, and never recognize that a lot of the good things and the bad things go hand in hand. I answered that one a few years ago [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7140770&postcount=49). I was asked, “Anyway, Starving\_Artist sincerely seems to think you just like to blame America for various things, as some sort pf personal entertainment. You gonna set the record straight or what?” Feel free to follow the link to my answer. > [@](#): > > ‘Look at all those people the US slaughtered in Mogadishu!’, yeah, when they were trying to capture the warlords who were organizing the raids on the UN supply convoys who were keeping them from feeding the starving. If 1993, then remember that it was the right wing that was having a conniption fit about how things were working out for us in Somalia. If 2006, please note the downstream consequences of the U.S.-backed destabilization of the Somalian government by Ethiopia, of which the resumption of piracy on the open seas is only one side effect. > [@](#): > > ‘Why don’t you do something in Darfur?’, because every time we do something you throw a coniption. They believe dogmatically that Polar Bears are dying out so we need to stop people from drilling for oil in Alaska, though they don’t stop driving their cars to frivolous things like the movies, even though polar bear experts who monitor them in the wild don’t think Polar bears are endangered. They carry ‘Free Mumia’, placards to Free Palestine rallies, and Free Palestine placards to Free Tibet rallies, and Free Tibet placards to Immigration rallies. They think that not electing Hillary Clinton is evidence of sexism. > > And don’t pull any horseshit, “You are describing leftists not liberals”, stuff, because if you are going to lump the moderate fiscal conservative with the radical right wingnut then you’ve gotta take your leftists too. Now you’re just tossing bullshit around. On the one hand, you’ve got some random noise from a tiny minority without power or influence. On the other, I’ve got U.S. Senators and major right-wing media figures. Game dead. Go watch TV. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/99 "2009-01-16T13:23:04Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Hillary has Cankles. Good one. The Palin nitwit squad doesn’t seem to understand that all this continued talk of her hotness, which is plainly not addressing her qualifications or justifying her positions, is just making the anti-Palin position plainer. “That’s all you’ve got? She’s got better legs than Hillary?” Why don’t you just come right out and declare “Yeah, she’s a vapid moron, but I’d like to tap that ass, mmm-hmmmm”? Probably because you will be ignored and dismissed if you did that, so you dress your case up in empty but divisive political rhetoric (and speaking of “dressing up,” how’s that clothing issue coming along? Got receipts for charitable donations yet? Thought not.) Really, after the first few days, this dwelling on her appearance is the strongest possible statement that her defenders got nothin’ but are still chargin’ forward. And speakin’ (this is fun!) of her “busy doctor,” I wonder what takes up more of his time, dealing’ with Andrew Sullivan’s frequent requests for an interview on the subject of her delivery of Trig (for which she’d have to release him from confidentiality) or givin’ a ten-minute interview? In the past five months, the poor beleaguered man hasn’t had a few minutes to answer questions, or even to provide medical records (of hospital admittance, of official records, of personnel present at the delivery, etc.)–and she’s stickin’ in her high heels and blamin’ the people askin’ the questions rather than the ones refusin’ to answer them? What’s the guy a doctor of, anyway? Spin? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176/100 "2009-01-16T13:55:37Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > I’m about as far from being an easily offended, over-sensitive feminist as someone could be (and a HUGE fan of one-on-one female action) but I’ve got to be critical of the unending interest on the part of Palin’s avowed core in her “hotness.” Insofar as the comment is anything but a one-liner joke riffing on the original “do her” (impression) comment, it actually agrees with your point by mocking the “OMG she’s hawt!” starbursters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-vs-the-anchorage-daily-news-or-palling-around-with-the-facts/481176.md?page=6)