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PECK, PECK... SQUAWK!
By Rip Rense (about the author) Page 2 of 3 page(s)
Yet this is what Palin wants people to think. How can such a claim possibly do this country anything but harm? Sarah couldn't care less. O.J. Simpson has more shame than this woman. How else could she blame Katie Couric for her own unintelligible sentences, gibberish about Putin "rearing his head," and her blank stare in return for such "gotcha" questions as "What publications do you read?"
Guess she couldn't very well answer, "The National Enquirer, People, and The Bible."
Aside from firing up massive amounts of fire-breathing jingoism (Palin would call it "patriotism"), and comments such as this one made by a Palin lover, "Obama scares the bejeezus out of me!" Palin's sociopathic speeches have now succeeded in inspiring threats to kill. The Secret Service is investigating a fine Amerrygun Palin supporter who shouted, "Kill him!" after Sarah's "Obama's pallin' around with terrorists" stump talk.
Well done, Sarah Smile! You've tapped into the bottomless well of paranoiac blood-white-and-blue blog-fueled murderousness. Next stop: chants of Kill, Baby, Kill! Meanwhile, still other Palin-eolithic supporters are snarling and shaking their hooves at the evil, elitist media filter. Read this excerpt from the Washington Post:
"Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her 'less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media. At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African-American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
Oh, beautiful, for spacious minds, for empty waves of brain. . .
Why, one reasonably wonders, is Palin not arrested for inciting terrorism? After all, 53 nonviolent protesters were classified as "terrorists" by Maryland state police. Why not a woman who accuses Obama of supporting the violent overthrow of the country, whipping up crowds into a slavering frenzy? (If anything happens to Obama, some of the blood will be on Palin's hands.) This all brings to mind another power-coveting public figure who once exploited racial hatred, paranoia, feelings of disenfranchisement, economic strife, and paralyzing fear in order to take over a nation. Like Sarah, he was just one of the folks, too. Or should I say volks.
Yes, Sarah is such a fine "Christian" lady, isn't she? One can just imagine what Jesus will say to her when he comes roaring down from heaven, after first stopping off to turn Pat Robertson to a nice pile of cold ash. I like to think it would be something like that scene in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall," where this pompous ass spouts off pretentiously about the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Allen promptly produces McLuhan, who excoriates the pompous ass with "You know nothing of my work!"
I wish I could deftly, understatedly sum up the things about Palin that unnerve me. If I could, you'd probably believe as I do. But I can only wildly declaim. For what it's worth, the first time I heard that George W. Bush was being talked up as a presidential candidate, I said, "If that son-of-a-b--- (and I mean that especially literally in his case) gets elected, the country will be lucky to survive."
I was right sure about that.
Yet many commentators and pundits continue to simply dismiss Palin as "unqualified," while a shocking number of mainstream media people treat her as if she is a perfectly respectable, ordinary candidate (if "extreme in some of her views'). As I heard one of the great hordes of CNN jabberers say after the Palin/Joe Biden debate, "I think both candidates acquitted themselves nicely." The closest Palin will come to the word, "acquit," will be when she is investigated for abuse of office as Alaska governor. (And I'll bet she comes closer to "convict.")
The only commentator I've read yet who has correctly picked up Palin's callousness and blood-lust for power is, not surprisingly, the NYT's Frank Rich, who wrote:
"But there's a steady unnerving undertone to Palin's utterances, a consistent message of hubristic self-confidence and hyper-ambition. She wants to be president, she thinks she can be president, she thinks she will be president. And perhaps soon."
And:
"But the debate's most telling passage arrived when Biden welled up in recounting his days as a single father after his first wife and one of his children were killed in a car crash. Palin's perky response - she immediately started selling McCain as a "consummate maverick" again - was as emotionally disconnected as Michael Dukakis's notoriously cerebral answer to the hypothetical 1988 debate question about his wife being "raped and murdered." If, as some feel, Obama is cool, Palin is ice cold. She didn't even acknowledge Biden's devastating personal history."
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