corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
Are you kidding?
I haven't seen it myself (since that would require me to read about DWTS and/or sites where Palin supporters would be posting), but have seen mentions about it.
Are you kidding?
"Willow and I shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize," read a message posted on her page Wednesday.
"On a nicer note, thank you for supporting the great competition in 'Dancing With the Stars.' "
if the former half-term governor of Alaska somehow wins the GOP nomination & (God forbid) the 2012 election, we're all fucked.
I'm much more offended by her simply thinking this is a "What's Obama going to do to fix it?" issue, that simply will come down to a black-and-white partisan politics.
'Dancing' producers are reportedly trying once again to get Todd Palin to sign on for next season, which may coincide with the 2012 presidential campaign.
otherwise i'd think these remarks both sexist and racist...but i know it's just another link in the long chain of diversity of ideas
Willow is very cute, but she's gonna be knocked up soon enough.
I think the show is meant to fetishize as much as normalize. Remember Camille Paglia's starry-eyed slobbering over Palin's "can-do, no-excuses, moose-hunting feminism"? It's a novelty. I'm more bothered by her spiteful-petty tendencies than her "blood lust"--so she likes to kill it 'n' grill it, so what, so do millions of other Americans, some of them standup people, some not. "Provincialism," yes, that's bad when it's crude xenophobia masquerading as community-mindedness, although, many people who spend their lives moving from one suburban 'community' or gentrifying 'neighborhood' to another have more in common with that agenda in practice than they'd like to admit. Can't disagree on the obvious ill-preparedness, though I still think that's more to do with the age-old American question of whether the President should be equal parts bureaucrat and visionary, or a totemistic ClanSPA is, at it's core, about branding and marketing Sarah's snow-white American-ness, what with all the huntin' and fishin' and talkin' and forced folksiness, thusly setting her up as the perfect white foil to black/Muslim/other Obama.
and when she guts a halibut or guns down a caribou for fun you realize that this ill-informed yet attractive woman, who supposedly reinforces the best of what "regular, non-elite" white America likes thinks of itself, is actually the terrifying epitome of it's absolute worst qualities -- proudly ignorant, aggressively provincial, and possessed with an inexplicable lust for blood letting.
The fake folksiness is just bait, and Obama shouldn't take it. In reality, it's pretty damned insulting to suggest rural Americans are incapable of "relating to" or evaluating a Honolulu-bred President who bodysurfs and shoots hoops rather than hunting and fishing; we all have our own regional inflections and perspectives, that's a strength not a weakness. He should point that out and move on undeterred, not play into their hands with snotty-sounding invocations of dumb-redneck stereotypes.
Hey, be careful when messing with Willow Palin on the internet. Sharp tongue on that one. NSFW.
People probably think that my greatest frustration is the lies that are told in the tabloids and on hateful blogs full of anonymous sources about my family … and there are constant everyday lies that we have to read that are out there in the public. But my family and I…thick skin…we can take it, you know…we can take what the haters say despite the fact that there’s injustice in the situation.
I mean, look at the other day. Willow, finally, my 16 year old, she had had it up to here with somebody saying very, very hateful things about the family and saying mean things about her little brother Trig, and Willow finally responded and she used a bad word when she responded in defense of her family. And her response became national news, even hard news copy it turned into, so that’s ridiculous and I had to explain to her, “Willow, there is no justice here but you have to just zip your lip and let’s move forward.”
You aren't running for President. I was thinking of Obama's "they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...to explain their frustrations" gaffe, not anything you said. It doesn't matter what you or I think about what exactly Palin's up to, or who exactly is gung-ho for her and why. Although, if enough of a blogosphere mantra gets going that everyone looking for an alternative to Obama is a pinheaded troglodyte enslaved by primitive racial fears, then he will pay the price, whatever it is. I don't understand not being concerned about that. You are trusting that rank-and-file Republicans and conservative-leaning independents will "see through" her? Fine, then let her crash and burn by exposing her own phoniness to those the SPA persona means to appeal to; don't feed the sense of shared victimhood if you really believe it's there.i'm not terribly concerned about sounding snooty given the shocking amount of americans who believe the President is a Muslim.
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is it wrong to paint all of rural America with such a brush? of course, but this is more akin to most-men-aren't-rapists-but-most-rapists-are-men type of thinking -- most-rural-americans-wont-fall-for-her-bullshit-but-most-who-fall-for-her-bullshit-are-rural-americans, and there's enough of them to make the GOP primary hers to lose.
I don't understand not being concerned about that. You are trusting that rank-and-file Republicans and conservative-leaning independents will "see through" her? Fine, then let her crash and burn by exposing her own phoniness to those the SPA persona means to appeal to; don't feed the sense of shared victimhood if you really believe it's there.
Although, if enough of a blogosphere mantra gets going that everyone looking for an alternative to Obama is a pinheaded troglodyte enslaved by primitive racial fears, then he will pay the price, whatever it is. I don't understand not being concerned about that. You are trusting that rank-and-file Republicans and conservative-leaning independents will "see through" her?
Sarah's presidential aspirations are DOA.
I bet Huck's not afraid to look her in the eye. Don't know if he'll run though, and unlike her he's never had any foothold beyond hardcore evangelical conservatives (not fiscally conservative enough, for starters).she's proven herself, so far, to be fairly adept at this kind of media judo. remember how (O')Biden didn't make eye contact or address her in the VP debate? that's really the only way to deal with her politically, but how do you get through the primaries with it's myriad debates by ignoring her?
Rural voters are usually around 9-10% of the GOP vote in the general election; anyone who appeals only to them would be doomed, even in the primaries. But they've always been a tempting canvas for national politicians to project their visions of "Main Street America" onto, and this can be a coded way of invoking "fantasies" one couldn't state otherwise, like effective re-segregation for example (that is, if you overlook that a fifth and counting of rural Americans are nonwhite). Although, to be fair to Palin, that particular potential subtext couldn't possibly mean to her quite what it does to your "de facto in-laws"--which isn't to say she wouldn't knowingly exploit it anyway. Point being, by figuratively patting your DFILs on the head, she's also sending (multiple) messages to people in the 'burbs and the cities who share some of their "insecurities," but can't be called out as such directly.you're right in that what Obama absolutely needs to do is ignore her for as long as possible, though given the exposure i've had to rural America via de facto in-laws, Obama's marks, while absolutely politically silly, aren't all that far off the mark. there's an enormous amount of insecurity, and it's not just about jobs, and Palin presents an aspirational fantasy, like any good celebrity.