She should be outraged. The actress looked nothing like her and had the worst boob job I’ve seen outside of a “plastic surgery disasters” website.
All of this media whoring is keeping Palin in the public eye but I think she’s actually hurting her political career. Sure conservatives love the idea that liberals are evil people that pick on a poor helpless mother who’s just trying to protect her innocent family. But are they going to want to make that same victim President? Palin’s turning her public image into one of stereotypically female weakness - somebody who needs to be defended. The Republicans are not going to want that in 2012 - they’ll want somebody who looks strong and unbeatable.
“…and here, ladies and gentlemen, you can see Biegel’s best-known work, Madonna of the Baby With a Moustache, which she completed in 2009…”
Besides, being catty about a woman I’ll never meet lets me exercise my catty skills in a way that being catty about my sister or my brother in laws girlfriend doesn’t.
I think that there is a certain about of recreational outrage and recreational cattiness that we exercise regarding public figures - because you can talk about Lindsey Lohan’s trainwreck life or Jon and Kate’s marriage or Sarah Palin’s stupidity - if you do that about your sister in law, your friend’s friend, or your neighbor it might come back to haunt you. Most of us enjoy rolling our eyes, judging, being catty, and gossip. If you don’t, you are a better person than I am.
I can’t believe you didn’t realize yourself this after typing that, but look here: feigning outrage over trivial or imagined slights keeps Palin busy - and a busy Palin is a Palin that doesn’t have time to introduce an Alaskan DOMA or send National Guardsmen to occupy Vladivostok or any one of a hundred other stupid things she might otherwise think of.
McCain it is then.
Relations with Latin America are becoming more and more important, and Mark Sanford’s got lots of experience in that area.
Honestly, I didn’t believe she was as stupid as she actually is. I thought she was a wingnut, but had some intelligence. I was thinking about her making “defense of the family” speeches for millions a pop, stuff like that until 2012.
I’m eagerly awaiting her next foible. This is fun to watch.
I hadn’t! Thanks for pointing it out. Sounds like a good cause. However, I also didn’t hear about the 20 other governers who have enacted the Interstate Compact on Opportunities for Military Childrenfor their states. It also doesn’t seem that any governors have refused to do so (at least at this point).
It’s a fair cop, that’s actually respectable.
For those who don’t know:
Eddie Burke is a right-wing talk radio asshole who has managed to offend the entire Native population of Alaska, most of the women, and a fair number of all the rest.
Meg Stapleton is a former news reporter for the local NBC station who went first to a comm company and was then drafted by Palin to be her attack dog.
The only thing they have in common is that they’re both cunts.
Definitely a courageous stand against the powerful “No Support for Army Kids” lobby.
I’m having trouble figuring out why this was big news to Palin. If a government official put this image on their blog that’d be one thing, but this is just some random internet blogger. Has Palin been on the internet before? Surely this isn’t the most offensive thing about her she can find?
He will be what…85?
If she had half a brain she would be actually reading about the world and then make some half intelligent policy speech. But that would require her admitting to herself that she’s ignorant today, and that will never happen
According to Politico, John Kerry commented on the Sanford disappearance by saying (paraphrased from memory), “If it had to be a missing governor, why not the one from Alaska?”
Palin, upon hearing of the remark quipped back “I wish he was here. I’d ask him, ‘Why the long face, John?’”
I admit I chuckled. If she was more prone to respond like that (if at all) instead of climbing up on a cross every time the chance comes up, she might actually win respect among someone outside the choir.
That was actually sort of stupid and uncool for John Kerry to say.
Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it? Look how smiley and cuddly and cheek-to-cheeky she is with the baby in that picture. Clearly, this is a Down Syndrome baby with special need for some high-grade mommying. If it had been one of her other kids, the only thing you’d see in a photo of her and said kid would be her presenting the baby with a high-powered hunting rifle, and saying, “If some jerk-ass kid from Tennessee can kill him a b’ar at age three, you can manage a moose. Now get out there and don’t come back without supper. And mind you don’t spoil the trophy.”
Has anyone ever accused John Kerry of being cool?