Palin Flashback. Thoughts on “Thick Skin.”
17 07 2009
Sarah Palin on “hurt feelings” from Dennis Zaki on Vimeo.
Dennis Zaki recorded this when ex-VP candidate Sarah Palin returned to Alaska from the campaign trail. I was there that night, freezing to death, just across the way from where Dennis was camped out with his camera with the rest of the media. While I was standing next to Sean Parnell, listening to a bunch of rabid Palin fans, clutchhing a cup of hot chocolate to keep from getting frostbite, Dennis got this great clip of Sarah Palin speaking words which now seem particularly amusing.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:21 AM
She opens her mouth and a bunch of nonsense spews out. She can’t keeps her lies straight even in a typical mangled sentence.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:23 AM
Duhbya used to brag about how bipartisan he was, as governor. ‘Course both houses of the Leg were dominated by Repugs.
We saw just how bipartisan he really was as Prez UH dint.
We also just how bipartisan Palin is when Begich was asked to resign from his seat, and in her handling of appointing a legislator for juneau last spring.
The lies will never end for people like them. They live in their own tiny universe and protect their fragile vanities with lies.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
Question for all:
Other than her famous “in what respect?” response to a question about the Bush Doctrine or rhetorical questions peppered throughout her speeches, have you ever heard this gal ask a question and stop to listen to the answer?
July 18th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Not a flashback, but a flash forward: This site would be an interesting one to keep an eye on, and perhaps help update…
July 18th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
96 overthemoon Says:
July 18th, 2009 at 8:16 AM
I tried to find a video I saw recently with preVP candidate Palin taking Hillary Clinton to task for suggesting much of the criticism of her was sexist. Palin said she was doing a disservice to all women who should rise above and have a thick skin when playing in the political realm. I thought it was on the Atlantic site. Anyone else see this. It is pretty funny considering her constant whining.
Maybe we can come up with a new name for her Whiney the Poop Out or somesuch.
When you have deluded yourself that God is your personal door man, the rules that apply to the rabble don’t apply to you.
Palin couldn’t handle 6 months of the the political arena, Hillary has had the RabidRepos lying about her since Bill became Governor. 20 years or more.
I read some of my parent’s PR mail in the early 90’s What they said about Hillare (who wasn’t running for any office.) was appaling and truly disgusting, gutter level mentality tripe. Repos hate vaginas, they can’t get the image out of their discourse.
Sarah has put herself mentally in a place that no one will ever make her happy, she is now a full flegged professional 24/7/365 Drama Queen.
She reminds me of my brother’s cat who has pointless hissy fits and runs upstairs to pout a dozen or more times a day.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Do we have an open thread for Saturday?
July 18th, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Gosh, I don’t want to be the voice of reason here; No really I don’t, so:
HA HA, YOU LOSE SARAH!
Every single person who reads this blog could make some GREAT anti-Sarah ads with the video (and links) provided using only what she said. Not one would even need to be out of context or have a voice over, just her own words.
You can bet if she runs for anything it will be a party of one. No one will make the mistake of asking her to be their running mate. And who would she ask? She would have to ask someone to be number 2 if she got the GOP nom for pres. Oh, oh, oh, I bet she would ask Todd to be her VP running mate. Seriously, with the shift we voters made to the current admin, the only thine I see it swinging her way are doors closing in her face.
She she will make her money, the lunatic fringe need their voice, we don’t like it and I bet she will move out of Alaska (but maintain a “residency” here, probably keep getting dividends for her and the family – HEY wouldn’t she be disqualified from getting one for the amount of time she was on the road last year?).
July 18th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
XGINO taking a poll of her kids–All these people dieing and taking the spotlight away from me. What should I do, I know I’ll quit, I’ll say the mean people drove me out!! Everyone will feel sorry for me..it’s getting to hot around here anyway. OK kids what do you think,
Piper- will I get a new purse? will I have to go to school? will we travel again? Sarah-yes, no, yes
Bristol- can I quit the abstinence thing, It’s kinda stupid anyway Mom.- Sarah-yes
Willow- Whatever Mom
Track-Do whatever you want Mom, you do know I’m fighting in a war and ‘ I’m trying to stay focused.
Trig thinking, when is she going to pay attention to me?
TODD- I’m kinda busy fishing , but do whatever you want honey, God will show you the way, as long as it brings in the money.
SO SHE QUIT!!!!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
@winkwinkWA
thanks for making me laugh
July 18th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Poor woman – she’s confused having thick skin with being thick-witted.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
Someone here questioned whether she had a real prescription in her eyeglasses.
I also used to think she wore those glasses just for effect (as in appearing SMART) because they do not show the normal distortion for myopia or..whatever the opposite condition is called.
But I believe her lenses do correct an eye condition called strombosis (sp?). From footage I’ve seen of her early short career in sports broadcsting, she is without glasses and she clearly has one eye (maybe 2) out-of-whack.
Also (too), childhood photos of Sarah show her wearing glasses. So, that is one vanity she can’t be accused of.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:30 AM
I’m not able to view the video but I did look at the screen-shot photos, courtesy of EyeOnYou #37.
Ms. Palin looks absolutely exhausted, shell-shocked, with an overlay of anger…..truly revealing photos. Pitiful, really……..very much at odds with her “thick skin” comments.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
@Teutonic #92:
I read 3 or 4 of your blog posts, and they were really wonderful! You have a very original and poetic way with words, and your writing evokes emotion beautifully! Keep it up!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Palin thinks she and her family has had it tough, read this 2001 article that was written about chelsea and her parents. No one has written this type of article about palin and her family. This crazy repub thinks chelsea should not have kids because they will turn out to be little stalins. I know chelsea is an adult,but this article to me is crazy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire021501.shtml
July 18th, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Ziggy, she can’t quit her bible terms, lol…..manifest to her means shown or brought about or as evidenced or created or plainly seen, something along those lines, lol.
So she is saying the “proof” that she is bipartisan is “supposedly” shown by the people she appointed, that they are from all 3 parties, but I doubt that. Most of them are family friends, highschool buddies and church members, which would be repubs.
But, it would be kinda interesting to see who, if any, are Independents or Dems because they could be AIP “plants” infiltrating the government, I could see her doing dirty work like that.
Maybe I’ve missed this or AKM is working on the story but the little trial businsess concerning the young collage student who guessed her yahoo email password is getting mighty interesting. His lawyer, supposedly top notch, is requesting a subpena for Scarahs email, a bunch of them. This is a FED trial TN?, she can’t say no, lol.
I think this is the ice berg, the trial started on Monday, she twittered about it, on Wed. she told Parnell she was quitting, Friday am she resigns. I can’t wait to see what the judge does.
Phil Munger has a write up about it…….I’m sure AKM will too.
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/
July 18th, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Karen in OR — Strabismus is the word you were looking for? If this were the case, without glasses she would be seeing double…..
July 18th, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Huh? Everybody should have thick skin like she has??? Thanks but no thanks! If I had Palin’s type of thick skin I’d be treated for leprosy!!! lol
July 18th, 2009 at 9:55 AM
overthemoon and marnie:
Here is a link to the video where Palin is critical of Hillary’s suggestion that criticism of female politicians was sexist (”that perceived whine”).
There are several clips listed on the right such as Palin on Hillary and The Perceived Whine. The video opens to the beauty queen discussion, so you have to find the whine video on the right side of the page.
http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=1761951181&l=1759767670
spread the words from Palin herself!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:59 AM
LOL
whinneeeeee quitty pants Bwwaaaaaaaaa baby
whinneeeeee quitty pants drill ‘er, baby!
Born in the wrong century!! A hundred years ago she wudda been King.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
LOL- awesome video clip. Although, I’m sure she’ll argue that she has thick political skin. She’s been quiet about the masses of criticism and debunking of her op-ed in the WAPO- no hitting back there!
July 18th, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Hahahaha. OMGosh. That’s a good one, Dennis. It’s even better than her slamming Hillary Clinton for her ‘perceived whine.’ I love too how you stopped the clip with her staring at your your camera. She cracks me up.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:07 AM
#108, July 18th, 2009 at 9:10 AM, karen in OR Says: “”Someone here questioned whether she had a real prescription in her eyeglasses.
But I believe her lenses do correct an eye condition called strombosis (sp?). “”
She is cross-eyed in the first Vanity Fair Article, too (where she’s wearing the big green parka and no glasses).
From Wiki; Cross-eyed may refer to: Strabismus, a condition in which the eyes are not properly aligned with each other.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Thick skin? More like a thick head.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:21 AM
120 annforhill Says:
July 18th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Thick skin? More like a thick head.
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ROFL
July 18th, 2009 at 10:27 AM
I tried to google cross-eyed Palin – got a lot of hits but the actual pages have been removed. Including the Wonkette page of her first political ad for mayor.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
google “cross-eyed Palin” using the quotation marks. then click on “images,” on the upper left hand corner of google page. there is a pic of cross eyed $arah.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:52 AM
Cross-eyed Palin pic:
http://sarahpalintruthsquad.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/11palin.jpg
July 18th, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I watched the video on Gryphen’s blog earlier. The most telling part was the end when she looked directly at the camera.
Yes, Palin does have thick skin. Palin is not that wimp over all that distraction stuff, family matters. Just a ploy, damsel in distress syndrome I’d call it, to focus away from Palin’s political activities.
The Federal Government had to step in to take over the Medicare/Medicaid program. The cult has maneuvered within the state government it seems.
The cult group that Palin has been associated with would like to do away social services. That is why there are deaths because of lack of services. That is why she took cookies to hungry native Alaskans. That is why she tells the young native Alaskans to leave their communities for the big city for jobs. That is why she talks with lack of respect about the “feds” the way she does. That is why she said she would fund raise for candidates outside the republican party. That is why she disgraced the American flag by draping it over a chair with her elbow resting on it. It should be obvious by the statements of the cult that they are anti-American in their beliefs. And they want to progress further by taking over the world’s Christianity. Then what?
The only thing that protects me and my beliefs in how I interpret the Bible and God I serve is laws of this land, Bill of Rights, Constitution and amendments, particular separation of church and state. I am a heathen to this particular cult who professes to worship the real god. They should have the right to believe whatever they want; so should I. Their principles do not reflect the nature of Jesus and my Father. So what then? Because I cannot accept their beliefs, they want to strip me of my social security and kick me out of the land that my fore fathers built so they can have it all? How would that be any different than the cleric over Iran? Or the Taliban over Afghanistan? By a “Do as I say, not as I do” cult in it for the power and money.
Bruce Wilson has another fine article on Huff Post about Palin and her association with that cult.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:50 AM
oops, strombosis is an accidentally completely made-up word. My goof. Anyway, it (her eye condition) starts with an “S”. Strabismus (like Bretta said)
July 18th, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Ripley in CT Says:
Cold as a witch’s left hooter
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Ahhhh…brings me back to one of my first jobs after college. That was one of my former boss’ favorite sayings, although he used the other version of ‘hooter’. He also loved to complain about some of his less-self-motivated employees and say they were “as useless as t___ on a bull”. He was an ex-Marine and sometimes forgot about the -ex- part. He was certainly not politically correct but he was highly entertaining!
As for our little Miss Buttercup, the expression in the final frame of the video is truly frightening. I think it captures her honest emotions which she may have been too exhausted to cover. The more meltdowns she has over trivial insults, the more I wonder HOW she was expecting to be able to deal with world leaders who hate the US. If she can’t ignore a joke from David Letterman, how on earth was she planning to deal with someone like Kim Jong Il from S Korea???
July 18th, 2009 at 12:04 PM
“Cross-eyed Palin” you say? Get ready for another laugh…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8IGpEze74U
July 18th, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Oops! Meant NORTH Korea, not South Korea.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:31 PM
#67 JHop Says:
what i think is funny is that she doesn’t think about her answers….ever. there is no truth to them. she is like a beauty queen/robot that simply repeats whatever she thinks sounds good as a talking point at any given moment.
#85 Professor Geezer Says:
Calling all Mudflats psychologists and therapists: is this video possibly a sign of Palin’s schizophrenia? It is the exact opposite view of what she supposedly thinks today…
I’ve often wondered how she manages—for such a self-centered, self-involved person—to have absolutely zero self-awareness and self-knowledge. It’s truly hard to fathom.
My guess is that she operates on gut instinct (not “gutteral”
) at the level of a junior-high bully mean girl: Her object is to best the other side because she’s arrogant enough to believe she ought to / deserves to come out on top, and these pseudo victories assuage an underlying inferiority complex.
There, and as Lucy van Pelt would say, “That’ll be five cents, please.”
BTW, I’m also on a Mac with FireFox, and Vimeo is very, very choppy—when it works.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:39 PM
The ex thrilla from wasilla is now a bitter quitter on twitter
July 18th, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Isn’t Palin twittering all day the same as bloggers sitting in the basement of their parents home. Maybe she realized she even lost against the bloggers. Her higher calling is from leadership governor to yelling from the sidelines. WOW
July 18th, 2009 at 12:45 PM
OTHER PEOPLE are supposed to have thick skins. Not SP.
Just like OTHER PEOPLE are supposed to play by the rules, do their jobs, leave people’s kids out of it, etc. Not SP.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Is the 140 word limit on twitter the on line version of her book
July 18th, 2009 at 1:29 PM
LisanTX
Thank you! That’s it. You know, the funny thing is she is speaking slowly and clearly and actually makes sense. I really think the whole campaign thing, being so far over her head, really blew some synapses.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:25 PM
This is wild – found it looking for some of the pictures mentioned above.
http://gawker.com/5051510/sarah-palins-jazzy-mayoral-campaign-ad
July 18th, 2009 at 3:56 PM
EXTRA-GiNO, she’s funny…maybe Tina will do another one of her famous word 4 word skits from this video…
someone pls do a PhotoShop from that last frame – with her eyes blazing – being made manifest by fire…
July 18th, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Bretta Says:::: her eyes – not the only thing ‘not properly aligned.’
July 18th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
@Super Bee
ROFL re:cross-eyed Star Trek….caught me totally off guard!
btw, that last frame of thick-skinned palin as she stares into camera…STILL gives me the creeps!
And I agree with you, anon blogger #125
July 18th, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Eyeglass lenses most often used for correcting strabismus either incorporate prisms (in the lens of the eye that ‘wanders’), or are those used to compensate for severe farsightedness, which is often the cause of estropia (crossed eyes).
Both types would distort the appearance of the eye(s). $arah’s lenses don’t seem to distort her eyes at all.
Just sayin’…
July 18th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Okay, enough with the cross-eyed threads please. I have severe Strabismus (although I love the term “Strombosis” – reminds me of the tempestuous volcano Stromboli in Italy), which can’t be corrected by eyeglasses or the multiple surguries I had as a kid. Besides being called “Cross-Eyed” in my youth, I was tremendously uncoordinated and clumsy. I have adapted (we all do) but still have very limited depth perception and problems with perspective. For people like me, simple things like stepping off a curb or going down stairs can be a challenege. I can’t tell if the next step down is six inches or six feet.
That being said, I’ll be the first to say that Sarah has no emotional depth, no social perspective, and is blinded by her ambition. But blame it on her soul, not her eyesight.
July 18th, 2009 at 5:45 PM
MonaLisa IS MY NAME!
Both types would distort the appearance of the eye(s). $arah’s lenses don’t seem to distort her eyes at all.
Just sayin’
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so r u sayin’ that she’s just trying to “look” intelligent??? lol
it takes more than lenses & frames, right?
July 18th, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Let me state upfront that I despise Sarah Palin. She is responsible for the choices she makes, of course, and she seems to have made a Faustian bargain, willing to exchange her basic humanity so she can gets gobs of attention. Getting attention seems to be what matters to her. She doesn’t really seem to care about any policy. She seems to have a very strong need for lots of attention and in small town Alaska, celebrity-hood not being a viable career choice, politics was really the only place she could put herself before screaming fans once her high school basketball career came to an end.
I think she is being used. I think she freely allows herself to be used.
Sometimes, even though I despise her, I feel sorry for her.
I have read suggestions that George W. entered politics, sought the presidency and even invaded Iraq as part of an infantile, immature, dysfunctional attempt to one-up his father. It was like he was working out some kind of psychological complex rooted in his childhood. Heck, we are all working through childhood wounds. It is way scary when someone can play out their psychodramas, literally in the case of George W. on the world stage.
In a similar fashion, it seems to me that Sarah Palin is a little girl who feels like she never gets enough attention. That she, as a child, was never good enough, never smart enough and, doggonit, unless she was being pretty, nothing she ever did was enough to impress her tough old man.
So she has become this dysfunctional girl-woman, going around the world feeling a little wounded but instead of taking it on on her private life, the way most of us work through our childhood wounds, she is playing on a very public stage.
I sometimes feel sorry for her. I want to give her an extra scoop of ice cream and promise her some new jewelry and lots of money for pretty clothes and fancy vacations. There there, little Sarah, honey, you are a good girl, smart, not just pretty.
I don’t think this woman will ever feel like she has enough attention. It is like she is a bucket and there is a tiny leak in the bucket, a hole in the bucket. It is impossible to fill the bucket, impossible for little Sarah Heath to feel full, to feel recognized, to feel sated. There is a hole in her being and no amount of adulation is ever going to fill it. She is the only one who can help Sarah Heath Palin feel like she is good enough and smart enough.
I find myself wanting to tuck her in at night, read her happy stories, pat her on the head, kiss her on the forehead as I turn out the light.
I have a theory that we should send all people who have impulses to hurt others or impulses to control others, to impose their beliefs on others, to love camps. Love camps would be a bit similar to treatment for alcohol and drug addictions, or maybe residential mental health facilities but the ‘treatment’ would be unconditional love. We might place Sarah Palin in a love camp, give her tons and tons of resources to help her achieve self-realization. We would love her well. We would teach her that she is enough, just the way she is, help her come to love herself.
Because, in the end, I think Sarah Palin doesn’t really believe that who she is is good enough. It is not enough, in her worldview, for her to be a good mother, a good wife, an active good citizen, a good business person or even a good politician. She seems to think that only when she is being adulated by mostly unthinking crowds that she amounts to ’something’.
Sarah, honey lamb. You are a good person. Love yourself a little more and stop offloading your personal sense of inadequacy on the rest of us.
July 18th, 2009 at 6:01 PM
@ Mag~
“That being said, I’ll be the first to say that Sarah has no emotional depth, no social perspective, and is blinded by her ambition. But blame it on her soul, not her eyesight.”
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Amen to that.
July 18th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
thanks, AKM, for this priceless clip. It is hilarious to hear her proclaiming that she has a thick skin.
I think her apparent decision to build her marketing campaign (we don’t know what, exactly, she is after, but she is definitely building her brand, definitely planning on a future before a national public) around the notion that she is a victim, some kind of little figure overcoming large obstacles. It has worked for her a few times, but it is, at is core, a negative approach.
Once she is out of public office, I predict, she will be able to control her public presentation. Remember how George W. would have scripted opportunities for citizens to ask questions but the questions had to be pre-screened and he only allowed himself to be asked questions that he was prepared to answer?
Sarah will get like that. Once she is removed from any obligation to be accountable to the public, to the citizenry, I think we’ll see her all over the conservative media talking inane talking points that still spark Joe-Sixpacks into liking her. She doesn’t really need to win over people like us, folks who follow AKM because Palin scares us.
It’s going to be kinda fun, watching her. But, man oh man, the phenomenon is wicked scary. I still haven’t quite accepted that the country re-elected George W., that millions and millions of Americans, after knowing that he lied us into war and broke endless laws under his twisted sense of executive privilege. . . real Americans still voted for him. Those are the people who might vote for Sarah Palin. And I believe her handlers understand how to reach that audience. They did it with George W. and they can do it with Sarah.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:46 PM
147 tizzielilsh Says
speaking of bed, I would let her lie in the bed she made. yessireee
Because, in the end, I think Sarah Palin doesn’t really believe that who she is is good enough. It is not enough, in her worldview, for her to be a good mother, a good wife, an active good citizen, a good business person or even a good politician. She seems to think that only when she is being adulated by mostly unthinking crowds that she amounts to ’something’.
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??? huh, it’s late …can’t tell if you’re being facetious. the list of good mother, good citizen, good politician, etc…. jmo, I don’t think she’s trying to be any of those. I do share your disdain of palin and agree with most of your other points…don’t have it in me to feel sorry for her though and wouldn’t want to pat her on the head or kiss her good-night-au contraire.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:21 AM
That’s funny!