Dear Rightwing Media Noise Machine:
It’s the GOP that’s the pig and Palin that’s the lipstick.
DUH.
Women
Life, Art; What’s The Difference?
Sarah Palin’s sudden rise to political prominence reminds me sharply of Nicole Kidman’s fanatically ambitious smalltown US weathergirl in the sadly underrated movie “To Die For”.
She’s a solipsistic provincial beauty queen who backstabs, (literally and metaphorically), manipulates and double-deals her way to power and fame on the back of anyone she can use to advantage:
Watch this:
That is scarily like.
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do ANYTHING to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
To Die For (1995)
Family friends, colleagues, husbands; it matters not. All that matters is that she gets what she wants. The trouble is her lies become so blatant and so obvious there has to be a reckoning.
So far Palin’s narrative matches the movie too. She’s got everything she ever wanted and now she’s a rigged election and a flatlining EKG away from the presidency. We’re building up to the big denouement.
In the movies Kidman’s lies and manipulations begin to catch up with her. However, unlike ‘Suzanne Stone’, Palin can’t just physically get rid of inconvenient obstacles and people (not that that hasn’t been known in gubernatorial politics before) – there are laws against that sort of thing. But she may well be thinking she can up and off back to the frozen wastes when it all gets too difficult.
If her fallback position is to drop out of the race, return to Alaska in a blaze of almost-was-vice-presidential glory to reign as the undisputed Matriarch and Bitch Queen of all Wasilia, then she’s got another think coming. The thing about shitting on people on your way up is that unlike in the movies, you’ll see them again on the way down.
Enough of the drama
Submitted by Sylvia Plath (not verified) on Fri, 2008-09-05 08:23.There are those who say that we should fully support McCain just to get Palin and her “me first” dramas out of here so that the Karl Rove, Republican machine can groom her into what they want, which may include fresh dialog on ANWR and America First populist rhetoric. Many think that she help us more in that way. Yes, perhaps, but only if for once she takes the advise of others over her stubborn “don’t tell me what to do” attitude. There are those who said in 2006 that an “R” is an “R” and when the Republican party fully supports her to help her to Juneau, she would be beholding to the Republican party. They (we) were wrong in 2006. Why would she conform to expectations of a party now? McCain needs to dump her now. She needs to come back here and face the music of the mess she has left us. Is she planning to jet off to media star status land and expect zombie rat Frank Bailey take the blame and consequences for her? Or will she blame Todd or others? Expect anyting from her as she advances herself. We as citizens must not expect her to do the right thing. We must make her. Or else, Thomas Paine will be rolling in his grave.
And that’s a Republican supporter.
It’s always satisfying when the villainess gets their comeuppance in the movies, but it doesn’t happen so often in real life. Usually they just walk away and die quietly and comfortably in bed after a lifetime of treating people like crap. This time Palin may well get hers, if pissed off Alaskans have any say in it.
Colour Me Shocked – Yet Hardly Surprised
If what’s being reported is true, Sarah Palin is apparently a vicious racist as well as the class cow. But then, did I really ever think she’d be anything else?
From the LA Progressive [Via The Poor Man] comes this heartwarming story of everyday gubernatorial bigotry:
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”
Well, there it is, racism in the raw out and on the table. Wherever do the campaigns go from here?
UPDATE:
An Alaskan anti-Palinist casts doubt on the allegations.
Read both and make your own mind up.
Interesting If True
Which of course it may not be, they’ve been wrong before. But then again it might.
Daily Kos: Breaking:Alleged Palin Affair w/ Husband’s Bus. Partner
Update & ObDisclaimer: as one of the commenters to this post points out this may be false flag strategy by the McCain campaign:
Promote the most outlandish stories.
Debunk them.
Obtain symparthy [sic] for Palin.
No one believes the true stuff.
He or she has a very good point: however I’m not sure that McCain’s people are that disciplined at this point. If true, that might really put the wind up the fundies; on the other hand they’ve shown their IOKIYAR reserves are just about inexhaustible. Whatever the outcome, you can tell I’m getting more than a little obsessed.
Update II
Curiouser and curiouser – one of the Right’s own organs, the NRO has taken up the story – is there an organised attempt to sink her from within the party?
So I Lied, So Sue Me
I know I said I’d do nothing else on Palin but I just came across this post at Cornell Professor Michael Dorf’s personal blog.
While decrying the GOP’s vetting procedure Dorf makes a point I’ve not seen anywhere else – the massive disconnect between evangelist Palin’s professed anti-abortionism and her having amniocentesis while pregnant herself:
….one acquires the information available through an amniocentesis only at the small but real risk of terminating the pregnancy. This is why younger women are generally not offered an amniocentesis at all — the risk of miscarriage is too great to justify the procedure. For a person in a higher-risk category (an older woman, for example) who either will or might terminate a pregnancy on the basis of a positive result, this risk might be worth taking. But for a person who will not abort no matter what the result is, it would not appear to be. This makes me think that,
at least for the moment that she decided to have an amniocentesis, Sarah Palin considered having an abortion.