Intermission from Going Rogue – Sarah Palin Cries “Sexism”
After blogging two chapters of Going Rogue, and getting up and rubbing my eyeballs, shaking out my arms, brushing my teeth and scrubbing my brain vigorously with a Brill-O pad, I clicked around to see what ELSE might be happening today in the news that didn’t have to do with Sarah Palin. So, what’s on the front page of Yahoo News right now? Sarah Palin.
Apparently she’s very upset because Newsweek put a picture of her posing in running shorts leaning on an American flag that’s draped over a bar stool like an afghan.
“The choice of photo for the cover of this week’s Newsweek is unfortunate,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page. “When it comes to Sarah Palin, this ‘news’ magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner’s World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness — a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation.”
“The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention – even if out of context,” she adds.
Color of skin? Is she worried that someone is going to judge her because she’s white?
First of all, why does this picture even exist in the first place? Let me remind everyone, that this completely “out of context” picture was taken while she was a sitting governor holding her Blackberries. She’s inside, with full hair and makeup posing with a flag and her “blue star” banner on the window. So, how exactly is this in the context of running or health and fitness, and not in the context of the governor posing like a weird patriotic pinup girl?
I think it’s the perfect image for the cover. Why? Because the title of the article is “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?” And behold, the problem. She has no boundaries, and no concept of how she is perceived by others, or why no governor should pose in short shorts, leaning on a flag in front of a blue star banner with a bumpit and makeup for a photo that makes her look like a cupcake.
When they find that picture of Barack Obama in a bathing suit leaning on a flag draped over a bar stool, they can feel free to publish it wherever they want. Because anyone who is mindless and unaware enough to pose for something like that should not be surprised that people think it’s a PROBLEM, and call it one on the cover of a magazine.
Am I a little grumpy? You betcha. I’ve just spent more than six hours reading Going Rogue, and I’m more than a little over-saturated. I’m up to here (hand at eyeball level) with the manipulation and the sugar coating and the distortion, and the “everything bad that happens to me is someone else’s fault.”
So let me pass on a word of advice to all budding politicians out there. If you don’t want to look like a mindless patriotic cupcake, then don’t pose for pictures posing like a mindless patriotic cupcake. Just a suggestion.
And while we’re talking about sexism, and reading Palin’s incessant yammering in Going Rogue, I recall something I read on page 80.
The quote in question happened when someone compared Palin to a Spice Girl. A reporter came up to her and said she couldn’t believe that someone called her that. Here’s what Palin said:
I shook my head in a “can you believe what we women have to put up with?” way and milked it for all it was worth. “I know, I know,” I said. “But you just have to rise above all that and plow through! Look, we have to work twice as hard to prove we’re half as capable as men think they are.” Then I gave her a wink and whispered the old familiar punchline, “Thankfully it’s not that difficult.”
So, if that were reversed and some guy said that about women, how would Palin feel? Is what’s good for the gander, good for the goose? Apparently not.
And she’ll just keep “milking it for all it’s worth,” on Facebook – a strategy that is “oh so expected by now.”
Got a scrip of vicoden if you need it AKM, an abcessed tooth is nothing compared to what you are going through.
AKM,
Sarah is an idiot. Period. I thought that picture was great on Newsweek magazine. What is she whining about? Anyway she is Sarah, that is all I can say.
THIS is what really pisses me off. How dare a woman who poses like that for a photo shoot complain about SEXISM. She’s frick’n keeping it alive and well!
AKM, as usual, you are SPOT ON.
Amen, sister!
You really are taking one for the team, braving that ghostobiography. I hope you know how much we appreciate it.
This woman is very calculating. She knows her game. She can lie shamelessly and what is frightening is there are people who still believes her crap.
Every coner she turns, there is a word following her. “Lie”.
Newsweek says “we will never need a quote from Palin ever again for any reason, and we don’t care whether she can figure that out or not because the rest of the world sure can.”
or
Newsweek says “Palin will never notice the reference to the Sound of Music song so she’ll think we are being creatively poetic.”
It’s a toss up.
So the Runner’s World piece was all about “health and fitness”? Uh, right. That would be why they featured–on their cover, no less–a picture of her 1) inside her house 2) posing with an American flag 3) holding two Blackberries. So readers could focus on how healthy she is rather than, say, the fact that she was a governor with national political aspirations. Yup, that must be it.
She truly does live in an alternate reality.
Okay, I have Tuesdays off from work and am oversaturated as well on the Palin crap, oh wait, “Bullcrap”.
I cannot tell you how many times today I have read a passage or a quote and said outloud (with dogs and cats staring at me in awe)
Oh no she didn’t!
That has pretty much summed up each and every passage from her book and each and every word that issued from her mouth on Oprah and Barbara…
Oh not she didn’t (say that, wear that, quote that, or do that).
Dang Sarah, your are more priceless that I ever thought possible!
Perhaps someone forgot to read the contract before the Runner’s World photo shoot?
as she ages her brain cells are diminishing and there were not many to begin with……HTH does she expect a sane educated person to believe this crap????
Sort of OT (but still snickering):
Our King Soopers has “Going Rogue” prominently displayed…at 40% off list price. Nice to know what good ol’ capitalism (S’error is so fond of promoting) feels her word salad is worth…
Someone posted a link to this on Huffington Post. This is by far the best analysis/response I’ve heard. What really upsets me about women like Palin is the fact that strong, smart, hardworking women who have faced REAL sexism don’t have a voice. When airheads like Palin cry sexism it diminishes a real and serious problem that many women face every day. Maybe Palin should try working at a job where a man, doing the same job, makes $10,000 a year more than you do, as I did for 7 yrs. Then again, the job I did required me to use my brain so she wouldn’t have lasted 7 days.
If I behaved like her I would be wearing an ankle bracelet and have to register my residence on a state-run website.
AKM~
So glad that your arose from the “dim” for some fresh air, a good scrubbin’ and a stretch. Is she not the most bizzare episode that we’ve had in quite awhile…well since she sucked all the air out of a lame campaign ~ and was staging a gihad to position herself to be one failed heartbeat away from the Oval office. I can only imagine who she would have appointed as her cabinet buddies!
Wake me from this nightmare scenario….
Hang in there.
wonder if there is a correlation between H1N1 and lipstick on a ….
Oh gag! She said:
I shook my head in a “can you believe what we women have to put up with?” way and milked it for all it was worth. “I know, I know,” I said. “But you just have to rise above all that and plow through! Look, we have to work twice as hard to prove we’re half as capable as men think they are.” Then I gave her a wink and whispered the old familiar punchline, “Thankfully it’s not that difficult.”
Then she cries foul. I wish Newsweek had used this photo from the same shoot. Lol!
http://www.runnersworld.com/photo/sarahpalin/slide4.html
US Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8, Respect for flag:
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free.
So of course we have seen pictures of $P with the flag draped, touching the bar stool, and wrapped around her shoulders. Anybody hear Republicans protesting this disrespect for the flag?
I wonder if she was as upset when the media was busy discussing President Obama and his “mom” jeans from a while back? Did she feel it was irrelevant for news papers and magazines to be discussing the rise of the President’s jeans? Did she think it was sexist when some reporters felt he should wear pants with a lower rise? Did anyone learn from President Obama and his ‘mom’ jeans? Was there a FB note addressing this that I missed? *lol* She’s such an empty Twinkie!
P.S. She’s coming to my local Borders on 12/8.
The comments about this photo has been on the news here all day and I’ve wanted to scream back at them, “Didn’t she pose for this photo?”. The woman is nothing other than a complete idiot. That and an liar. I’ve had to laugh listening to Palin saying to Oprah that they didn’t have a family vote on her accepting McCain’s invitation to run for VP and seeing the Hannity interview of her saying the girls voted and said “Yes!”. One has to wonder if you lie about such things, what are you teaching your children, especially when they sit right in front of you listening to your every word while you’re doing it. Also, what big issues you’d lie about given the opportunity. McCain helped create a monster.
Up until now I’ve been inclined to question some of the things that Levi had to say about Palin. Not anymore! Now I’m really hoping he becomes fed up and tells everything he knows.
So, Miss Quittypants in her 4 inch FMP’s wants to be taken seriously?
Remember the picture in Esquire (May 2009), where she’s sitting on her kitchen counter during the Superbowl game wearing a Colts tee-shirt and tights with shiny black knee-high patent leather heeled boots? (page 74)
Trash is as Trash does, my Mother said.
But Mom was one of those “Iowa elitists”.
Add 100 pounds to Palin and she would be NOTHING.
AKM, you’re crazy good when you’re grumpy!
You have to watch Dave Letterman tonite!! His summary of the Sarah-Oprah interview is hilarious!!
$P is a jacka$$–there, it had to be said. Her husband knows she’s a two-faced liar from that mayor thing with his mom and so do we.
seattlefan, this one’s my personal favorite. naughty, coy expression. “i’m innocent, but not really.” the body language is really suggestive. i mean, WTF? why, oh why would she pose like this???? bizarro sarah.
http://www.runnersworld.com/photo/sarahpalin/slide2.html
glenda @ 17. gosh, i’d forgotten the mom jeans thing. and just yesterday on huffpo there was this dumb article, with a poll, on what hillary was wearing.
any reference to clothing and palin by the msm or sites like huffpo has always been about how hot she looked or how expensive the clothes were (lol). i dont’ recall her being ridiculed for not looking cool or glam enough.
Sing along with me:
“…. how do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?”
It’s interesting that Palin, who as former governor had powers and duties related to the US and Alaska flag (USC Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 7 et. al.), allowed herself to be photographed with a US flag displayed flagrant violation of the flag code.
This person is not selling herself to the country on intellect and brains – this picture is how she is selling herself. So to complain about it, it’s her continuation of playing victim – something she is not.
The picture is totally appropriate to the cover comments in that it shows one of the reasons Palin is a problem and bad for the GOP & everyone else. It shows that she does not think of the consequences of her actions. She gives no thought to what she does in a now very public life and how it will show up.
It confirms in her reaction of being a whiney, I’m not responsible for anything but someone else is person. No taking of responsibility for anything. Her reaction shows she volatile. Not the type of person you want in nuclear discussions with Iran’s President Ahmadinejad. (or as I usually call him – Imadinnerjacket!)
Adding to the issue, which no one in media is addressing to turn it around, is her disrespect of the American flag. But of course that would be the photographer’s or set-up person’s fault – not her’s. She certainly has a voice at rallies, etc., so to say nothing and play victim — A day late, a dollar short for a person who vocalizes loudly and often of being the ‘real American Patriot’ and ‘supporter of the troops’ as if she has the market on both.
Slightly OT, but related to the book. Wasn’t sure where to put it, since there are so many threads on the topic, but did also post it at the 2nd chapter thread.
Now, I live in RED RED RED Cobb County, GA, the infamous place where the school board decided to put the ‘evolution is a theory’ stickers on books and got summarily swatted down by the courts, so take this for what you will.
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At local Walmart, during a 3 hour visit to the store, I passed the display with the book. During 5 pass bys, not a single book was removed from the display. This was during late afternoon/just past working hours by the way.
My prediction…book tour will be scaled back.
In Sarah’s mind (?), the whole world revolves around Sarah.
txindygirl: why oh why did she pose for any of these pics as a sitting Governor? I Lmao everytime I see them. My favorite is the ballerina one. Talk about WTF! This is the gov of Alaska and she is making a picture like that.
So glad this is intermission and we can have a breath of fresh air and perhaps a drink and a laugh. I hope AKM is rejuvenating.
So, when the photo is in Runner’s World, it represents that “which is critically important to this nation.” However, when the EXACT SAME PHOTO is on the cover of Newsweek, it is sexist? Did she complain about the picture before? Then why now?
She is a moron.
Glenda Says:
She’s such an empty Twinkie!
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Without the creme filling, she’s just preservatives, like botox and collagen.
Had a professor once that had save a twinkie from every year they were made and hung them on his science classroom wall to show what preservatives do. They didn’t rot. They dried out and got dusty, but basically they’re preservatives with flavoring. Sad to say, her flavoring is wearing verrrrrry thin!
Oh. My. God. Read the reviews to both Failin’s and “That’s Inappropriate” Prejean’s books
on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AAUSVPYNJ8TDZ/ref=cm_pdp_rev_title_1?ie=UTF8&sort_by=MostRecentReview#R35WSCBIWF503D
These are hysterical…
Just one question:
Is there a full moon out or something? Might explain the lunacy response of the SP crew, all trying to defend her at so many websites.
Does she have to finish the book tour to get her next payment?
So why did Palin think her interview with the anchor of CBS News would be “light and fun”? Couldn’t have been because Katie Couric is a woman, could it? Palin’s exactly as bad as those she criticises, but she’s not smart enough, or self-aware enough, to notice.
Knittingbull:
This is a link to just the reviews….18 of them now and most are crucifying her attempt at being an author.
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/product-reviews/0061939897/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
32. Knittingbull,
Are they advertising the books together? People who have bought this book have bought this one too!!
Reading both – that would require some serious rehab!
Meede, I don’t know about offers. There aren’t enough drugs in the world to get
me to read, let alone buy either book. I’ve kept up with this guy’s blog and he’s pretty
funny. I just liked his reviews. I didn’t know he did them!
There is is a point of saturation when Americans will tune her endless whining off. Her 15 minutes was up last year. I recall sitting in the waiting room at a hospital, while cable was running Hilton, Britney, and Anna Nicole clips 24/7. Everyone was upset. Someone yells, either turn to another station and just turn the **^^&$ tube off.
Without a doubt, there is a curiousity if she had anything new and interesting to say, being unscripted and out of office. But she is just whining, acting childish, not saying anything new, or interesting.
Now that a fair amount has been revealed about the content of her book, I am sure glad I didn’t buy it, and I won’t even waste my time to take it out from the library.
LOL love Countdown pic of Palinocchio with a very long nose. It fits her well.
I don’t care if she sits down or not. Just make her shut up! Every time she opens her mouth, all I hear is WHINE, WHINE, WHINE!!! EVERYBODY IS PICKING ON ME!!! Good grief. Suck it up, Buttercup! Oh yeah, suck it up or get in the truck! And stop whining, you big sissy pants!
How long before someone sues her for the lies in her book?
PepperzMom (GA)-I can’t imagine what her ghostwriter had to go through, and I’m pretty sure from what I’ve read about Vincent she’s almost as evil as Palin. Maybe not as nasty, but then she doesn’t seem to have aspirations for power like our Twitter Quitter. I just hope, hope, hope that somebody puts @30 on Palin’s ass soon (I believe that, or something similar, used to be the journalistic equivalent to “end of story”).
I would LOVE to hear what Cindy McCain has to say about Sarah and her new book. Or–for that matter—Sarah. Does anyone think that John has a muzzle on her? Towards the end of the campaign, I could see Cindy seetheing.
How’s this for another great photo?
http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/palin-wrapped-in-the-flag.png
Talk about desecrating the flag!!
AKM I must admit also, you are at some of your best when you have been Palined to far!
I agree with you and the mudpups and as an Alaskan I can tell you the thing that got me when the runners world mag first came out, was how campy the whole photo spread was and that picture in particular. I recall there was lots of choked up coffee and adult beverages being cleaned off computer screens as AKM and the mudpupies absorbed the photos. And to me the most telling thing that spoke of her ambition and her complete disregard for her job as Governor of Alaska was the use of the American Flag in that photo. It was not the State of Alaska Flag nope it was the “Stars and Stripes”.
Lacy Lady,
I’m sure if you asked Cindy to stick her tongue out during the campaign, you would see in blood the word ‘Hillbilly’ or many others that have been said. I’m not a Cindy fan either but I imagine it took every ounce for Cindy to get through it as the majority of the campaign was spent with McCain and Palin campaigning together. Speaks for not trusting her to go out on her own like Biden and Mrs. Obama.
Thank you for this post AKM! I love the Newsweek cover and love her facebook rant as well. The facebook post is $arah in a nutshell.
Is she whining because of the scathing headline? No.
Is she whining that the choice is unfortunate because once again all the world can see her desecrate the American flag? No.
No. No. No. It is all about $arah. She cannot pull her narcissistic eyes away from her own image long enough to notice what surrounds her in the photo or what the headline says.
Someone pointed it out to her or she read it on a blog and decided to throw the shiny sexism rant out their to deflect the point of the cover and the story.
She says she finds the choice unfortunate but she chose to pose that way, dressed that way and let (did it herself) her home propped that way. (I recall at the time the photo was released one of the mudpups calling Runner’s World regarding the treatment of the American flag. The response from the photographer/producer was that $arah was the one who put the flag in.)
She accuses Newsweek of focusing on the irrelevant and in the very next sentence says that health and fitness are something she is devoted to and are critically important to this nation. So, which is it Sarah? Are health and fitness critically important or irrelevant?
The next to last sentence really threw me for a moment. Huh? I didn’t know books had gender or skin. Paylinese. Then I thought, perhaps the first part is right. Maybe, just maybe Mc Cain et al might have learned just because YOU think she looks hot doesn’t mean she should be nominated for VP. If anyone has worked hard on their cover it is our $arah.
The quote from the book is perfect AKM and of course there is that video of $arah way back when taking Hillary to task. I believe $arah was being interviewed by….. oh yes, Newsweek.
She’s pissed cause Newsweek didn’t pay her for her photo.
AKM, once again I’m impressed by the depth of your analysis. I hadn’t thought about that photograph in those terms, but you’re right. The problem is that she has no issue with using anything solemn as a backdrop for her career as a political pinup.
Meanwhile, I hadn’t actually looked at the non-flag-bedecked pictures from that shoot. That yoga pose she’s attempting is one of the easiest standing poses, and yet her form is horrible.
Even the WSJ says she whines:
This is the memoir as prolonged, keening wail, larded with petty vindictiveness. With an impressive attention to detail, Ms. Palin settles every score, answers every criticism; locates a scapegoat for every foul-up, and fastens an insult on every critic, down to the last obscure Palin-doubter back in Alaska.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704782304574542051447849052.html
I feel like we’re in the next edition of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
AKM! You are so wonderful at expressing yourself and really getting to the root of the hypocrisy. I’m starting to feel sick, I mean really sick about this whole thing and what people like Sarah Palin bring out in our society.
Caught Rachel Maddow’s show tonight and started to feel angry and it isn’t how I want to feel. The lunacy in this country right now is out of control and totally unwarranted. Frank Schaeffer said it tonight, if we don’t rise up against this lunacy we’re not protecting our President, our country or our freedoms and we’ll be partly to blame if things get beyond control. She’s one of the first that needs to go. She only contributes and gives ammunition to the lunacy and ‘if I think it’s true, it’s true’ menality, whatever the subject.
Everyone look up the video on Rachel’s MSNBC site if any of you missed it. Look at all her clips from tonight. We have to get motivated and get cracking, because this lunacy has to end.
Keep your head up AKM. We’re all rooting for you and love you for your dedication and hard work. We know it isn’t just for us, but also because you care deeply for Alaska and your country so it matters to you. That makes you matter to us.
McCain has actually come out and denied that the $50,000 was billed to her to pay for her own vetting. He has said it was for legal fees regarding legals for Troopergate and he’s not sure she was even billed for them.
I feel faint – I need smelling salts!
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-410–13221-2-1X2X3X4-5,00.html
From the Runners World article…..
“Tell me about running in Alaska.”
“It’s so cool to go out on a summer night at 10 or 11 o’clock with the sun still shining and the beauty of Alaska right there at my feet. Winter isn’t as much fun, but even when it’s 20 or 30 below and pitch black, I still try to get out. I just put on tons of layers and bigger shoes so I can wear two pairs of wool socks. There are runners all over our state. I’m just one of hundreds of thousands out there getting that good clean Alaskan air whether it’s 20 below or 60 with the sun shining at midnight.”
Hundreds of thousands of Alaskans running at night in 20 or 60 below zero temps? How many people actually LIVE in Alaska? I think it’s about 700k?
So, what, HALF the population is out running around every night?? LOL I am
cracking myself up with this one.
She’s such a compulsive liar!!
I’ve been searching for just the right award for AKM for braving Palin’s Pages. http://www.medal-medaille.com/images/YU267a.jpg Is the closest that I can come to finding a Medal for Bravery. I don’t even know where it comes from, but it well deserved. Thanks for Service Above and Beyond the Call.
(Maybe some of you can find appropriate awards for AKM, or at least a virtual toast of something bubbly.)
And more intermission material, this time from Andrew Halcro, it is hysterical!!!! He reads what Mean Girl Quittypants wrote about him in Going Rogue – must see video on YouTube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVrlpxqlZ0M&feature=player_embedded
Thanks AKM – that must have been painful – I could hardly read the whole thing.
I’ve said it before, but reading this just reinforced it:
She’s a whack job and it’s sad that no one loves her enough to tell her she is completely delusional.
Heavy sigh….man’s inhumanity to man.
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-410–13221-3-1X2X3X4-5,00.html
“As I get out there and run, I see the most beautiful signs of this evolutionary process that has created the mountains and the glacial retreats that have left the valleys and the rivers.”
Another quote from the Runners World Article. So does she or doesn’t she believe in evolution? Or maybe she just thinks McKinley is about 5 thousand years old and has “evolved” really quickly? She’s like the rest of her flat earth whacko friend- nutz.
My head hurts.
Dude – I read this earlier and I rolled my eyes exactly like you did, I am sure.
As I’ve stated before – this woman is a total joke.
Basic guidelines to Life for Sarah Palin:
- I take no responsibility for anything I do
- Everything bad that happens as a consequence of my choices is always someone else’s fault
- Anyone who criticizes me for my foolish choices has a secret liberal agenda to destroy the world by picking on me
Please, God, have mercy. We can’t take much more. Please tell Sarah to spare us all and disappear from public life.
There’s no difference between the “message” conveyed by Palin in the Newsweek photo…… and her concupiscent winking at the VP debates.
She crafted (“bought and paid for”) her not-so-subtle message…..and now she’s outraged that people understood the message?
Newsweek’s use of that photo is perfect.
hhmmm…will this Runnerworld Pic get put in the same sexist classification as Levi’s PG Pics ??? Good thing she didn’t go to Rome; she’d label the Pope as a pervert with all the Greco-Roman statues at the Vatican…..
One more rant before I crash into the merciful embrace of sleep…..
Palin POSED for the bloody picture in the first place for ANOTHER magazine WHILE she was bloody Governor! WHY the bloody HECK is this an issue NOW?? Good grief, she is beyond belief. Why doesn’t every journalist take out a full page ad in every major newspaper asking Palin to stop bloody well lying and WHINING about EVERY SINGLE THING?!!?? Or even an ad that says:
Dear Sarah Palin: Shut up. Please. Just. Shut up. For a Week. Please. That’s all We ask. Sincerely, Sane People.
SIGH. Done. Good night you guys!
AKM – take care my dear, I will be praying for you tonight. I mean it – don’t get hurt, it’s not worth it! hehe
Since losing the Presidential campaign, it appears she hates America. Want proof? She no longer wears a flag pin.
Something new re: Oprah & the questions she should have asked over at HP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-alexander/five-questions-the-big-o_b_360991.html
Question for Runners World & Newsweek readers: are these magazines owned by the same company, because why would one magazine allow usage of the same photos to another one?
Can someone check the publisher info pages to see if they are related?
PepperzMom,
Have no idea if the magazines are related.
Newsweek or any other publication is able to purchase the photo for use from the Running World publishers as they are their property – not Palin’s.
The Runner’s World slideshow that was linked in the first page of comments states that the photograph was purchased from the photographer’s stock agency.
aussiegal77: Lol! I’m with you. Sweet dreams and sleep well!
She posed, winked and when it showed up in a place she didn’t like….she whined and claimed sexism. Whatever! I’m sure if Newsweek had a headline like “America’s Sweetheart”, she would not have said a word. She clearly did not like their headline and she is being guided by someone who has no clue. The blind leading the blind. Are we still in Intermission??
Andrew Sullivan got hold of some more leaked email..interesting read..what a diva whackjob..
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/11/e-mails_portray_palin_campaign_trail_chaos.php
One last post and I hope someone appreciates….
I was listening to NPR this A.M. and they had a piece on Talk of the Nation about George Carlin’s posthumously published memoir “Last Words” (or as he wanted to call it, his “sortabiography”)
At any rate, George Carlin spent 10 YEARS crafting the story of his life with a co-writer. 10 YEARS. One of America’s foremost comedic geniuses took 10 YEARS to put together his life story…America’s “foremost female political figure” took, well, 4 months….the humor, oh the humor that we will never see!
I so wish George was still around because he would find so much humor in Palin.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! You said everything I was thinking! Getting really, really tired of seeing Sarah’s face on the internet everytime I log on.
A little bit off topic:
Tonite I forced myself to watch the Barbara W. interview clips on Nightline. They were fawning all over her which was hard to take. The answers seemed very rehearsed to me.
Then I turned over to Letterman and caught Penelope Cruze. I had never had an opinion either way about her before. But I was impressed by her “class act”. There was quite a contrast between the 2 women. I enjoyed Penelope but could barely stomach Sara.
I am so pleased with Newsweek for publishing this shameful picture on the cover. It is completely appropriate that the disrespect shown to the American Flag (and our nation) by a sitting Governor be out there for everyone to know.
Especially when the person has national political aspirations.
I was shocked and ashamed for Alaska when the Runner’s World article and photos were published. The pictures were not appropriate, at the least, but I was really horrified at the treatment of the Flag.
I am one who believes that Americans have the right to burn the American Flag in protest. Desecration is another matter entirely, more subtle, insidious and in-your-face.
S’arah scares the shit out of me. Blessed Be Newsweek. And the photographer who set the draped flag picture.
she was FOR that photo before she was against it…
I just watched parts 1 and 2 of Barbara Walters GMA interview on youtube… hmmmm I had to laugh watching Barbara… she was trying very hard NOT to laugh… and then when she talked to the kids.. it really was pretty sad/funny WTH is this woman allowing her young daughter (Piper) to be made up like a common street hoe… she had more make up on than her mother…..
AKM thanks for taking this one for the team… I would end up on IV drugs were it me from the vomiting!!!!!
Yes, the lunacy is out of control. I saw the recent interview with Frank Schaeffer on Maddow tonight. But there’s glimmers of hope. In the same interview Schaeffer and Maddow discussed the increasing focus on C Street, and on Faux Noise Dick Morris and Andrew Napolitano are calling out Palin as a nut. The Teabagger Party’s big debut in New York turned into an epic fail. Glenn BecKKK has lost 86 sponsors and counting thanks to ColorForChange.org. Palin’s book is the biggest nail holding the door shut which she wants to plow right through.
AK, you sound like you need a pick-me-up, so I’ll leave you with this major pwnage of a Teabagger rally in Minnesota…
Teabaggers getting punked into shouting for Europeans to leave America, complete with “Columbus, Go Home!”
Watch it until the end… it even includes an angry, inarticulate, swearing, out-of-control middle-age fat Teabagger stereotype in an NRA hat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rry_SlPW7oU
I’m not on Twitter but see this tweet from AKM: “Because nobody ever campaigned with a “change” theme before, you know.”
What about the Lincoln “team of rivals”? Bet she believes the President stole THAT idea too, also!
She can lie all she wants, nobody seems to care. Listen to the people on tv she can lie all she wants and all they can do is compare her to Reagan? I can’t watch.
I am glad you are reading it for us … because I promised myself years ago I would NEVER read another crappy High School essay. A few lines of Sarah’s book on a blog somewhere convinced me that Going Rogue would have me Going Nuts in no time. So Kudos to you!
The Schaeffer segment on Maddow’s show tonight came up on this thread so if you missed it, it’s on my blog. VERY POWERFUL stuff; leaves no doubt as to why Sarah and others like her, are not only annoying and pathetic, but DANGEROUS. Take five minutes to watch it.
http://archivist1000.blogspot.com/2009/11/going-enabler-xtian-taliban-and-her.html
Strange I have not been able to get to Huffpro now for over an hour. Time for bed so I give up for now. Guess the net is burning tonite… I wonder why.
Say, AKM — got any goods on why Frank Bailey bailed out of his book? That news was just a blip on the radar screen – can’t help wonder why there hasn’t been anything more dug up on that Palin lackey —
In what work place would any woman get away with the constant whining like Sarah Palin does?
You know what folks, this kind of faux outrage happens again and again with Palin. All she is trying to do is keep her faithful ‘bots on her side by creating empathy.
She has done nothing and stands for nothing except being a symbolic leader of the lunatic religious right. She acts like a victim solely so they don’t leave her – like everyone who has a brain has already done.
Her “memoir” is nothing but a pity-party-blame-all-except-me tome to keep her flock from straying.
Loved that the lead story on KTUU tonight showed a huge pile of Palin’s books at a local bookstore… with huge 40% OFF stickers on them!
Do Not Purchase this Novel: Spread the word! I for one will not drop a nickel into this well of bull–it. This will peak and flameout, once again, like Wile E. buying an ACME rocket over and over (how did he get the money to buy the rocket anyways???….Couldn’t he have just bought a sandwich?)—–Don’t give that coyote any mo money!
We should focus on the Calendar hypocrisy, flag etiquette (Sully nailed that here http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/palin-and-the-flag.html) — the Elephants wanted her to be next in line behind a melanoma?
Its a friggin outrage and its hilarious at the same time—what a dilemma.
Don’t let em takeover in 2010 – it wont be funny anymore.
What is wrong with her??? She POSED for that picture. I am not sure how it fits in with the context of running and fitness??? She’s faux outraged about appearing in, oh my gosh, shorts!!!! Yet she routinely wore skirts nearly as short as the shorts. I remember when I originally saw that photo after the runner’s world shoot and it sure looked like she had pantyhose on under the shorts. Not because her legs were so much darker, but because you could see that sort of sheen of nylons. She is posed like she is in a pageant, not like she is illustrating fitness. What’s that flag that she is disrespecting got to do with fitness? This is only superficially a photo about health and fitness. Kind of like a Wonder Woman comic is not really about health and fitness.
Really she WANTS us to think sexy (for the old fart men) and sexism (for the women who can’t see she wants to have it both ways), and definitely pretend that flag is NOT there, and this is all about the unjustness of a magazine that should be “more about policy” having this “cheesy” (well, she did get it right that the actual photo is cheesy) cover. She is, as she would say, “milking it” with regard to her poutrage.
Actually, given that we are stuck in two wars, and her son has been fighting in them, and that she moves that star flag around all over the house so it’s in pretty much every photo ever taken there, given her insistence that she is a “patriot” and part of the “real America”, while the majority who voted in our current President apparently aren’t, I would say this photo IS a commentary on politics and policy, just not one that shows her in a good light. It also is yet another example of her poor judgment. The story here, people of the MSM, is the flag and the cheesecake pose. A picture is worth a thousand words, and there is a lot of truth here about Palin she doesn’t want us thinking about.
Dear, Dear AKM,
I’m on my knees raising both arms up, bowing down in tribute to your bravery and service beyond the call of duty for doing this for us. And doing it so very wonderfully! You’ve always been my hero, but this elevates you to goddess (don’t tell $carah). Many, many thanks!
Gotta also give a shout out to the other hero’s in my life too – Shannyn, Gryphen, Linda, Bree, Regina, Patrick, Kathleen, Audrey, Phil, Dennis, Ann, you wonderful mudpups & others who have all been doing yoeman-like work for so long to bring truth to the world.
I don’t comment often, but am always here and always appreciative of all of you.
Her book cover — wearing sports jacket, red/white/blue motif, flag pin. The mag cover — wearing sports outfit, red/white/blue motif, desecrated flag.
Umm… Sarah? Both are fully — even weirdly — posed, no breeze accidently exposing anything, both are oddly lifeless. You agreed to both pics and signed off on their use. Both were photoshopped in your favor.
Of course, one wasn’t used to aggrandize your pretty self. And by the way, just because you don’t like something DOESN’T MAKE IT SEXIST!!!
Do you think Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, etc, will be taking this issue of Newsweek and hiding it under their mattress like a teenage boy, and pulling it out whenever the ‘need’ arises ?
Republicans all over the country are probably right now hanging this picture in their lockers at work; using it as a computer desktop; etc, and drooling every time they look at it.
It’s scary that these people can actually vote; and they will vote, based solely on this picture and nothing of substance. Scary.
Exactly right oregonbird – PHOTOSHOPPED” !
And you can bet she was sitting in on the photoshop sessions:
“OK, remove more of the cellulite from my thighs. No ! More ! More ! That’s it.
Now, trim my waist and get rid of my double chin. Better.
How about adding some muscle tone to my biceps. Good.
And tan my legs up nice and dark. OK.
God ! I look hot !!”
This was another gem from the runners world interview, “When I run, I’m totally incognito because I’m not wearing the trough full of makeup. I can go running through a mob of tourists and they don’t recognize me.”
She doesn’t mind pagent walking in high heels and a bathing suit or posing in short shorts but Levi is p()rn? This woman is clearly insane.
As always Palin misses the point altogether. It is the PERFECT picture for the cover and the article. That’s the point Sarah! What better way is there to illustrate it? She posed for the picture in the first place and if she thinks it’s sexist and wants to blame someone for it, she should look in the mirror. How about the film clips from Oprah where she was running around in short-shorts even though it was obviously really cold outside? Was that taken out of context too? Was that sexist? Maybe she didn’t have a flag draped over her thighs, but that’s about the only difference. My condolences to AKM for having to read the entire book for the rest of us. I’m just getting started reading them and have to catch up.
mindless patriotic cupcake……OMG, AKM, that is perfect!!!!!! Here is a challenge for fly…I want to see her (in her cutsie shorts) popping out of a giant cupcake with stars and stripes surrounding her iconic image.
Let’s not forget that Palin posed for magazine covers a few years ago because she “won” the title of “America’s Hottest Governor”. Gee, isn’t it sexist to be calling a female governor, HOT?
I guess she didn’t mind because she held the title.
Does a woman who winks her way through a VP debate have the right to scream sexism? Especially since she posed for this photo.
She sets women back years.
“When it comes to Sarah Palin, this ‘news’ magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather ………………
Did Sarah refer to herself in the third person, or did her ghostwriter slip up here?
Slam Dunk! (whistles and applause) AKM
Exactly why some don’t take her seriously, posing in pigtails, like a 15 year-old, trying to look cheerleader girly sexy at the camera. We’re not fools. She does not seem to understand that she can’t do anything she wants without consequences. And, during her governorship to boot.
If she was a serious contender for a very serious job, then she needed to live up to the part. Yes, if the First Lady Michele Obama had posed like that in her tenure as legal counsel, while campaigning with her husband, or thereafter, I’ll bet Sarah would have had something to say. But, am certain that First Lady Michele wouldn’t pose in that fashion, she’s a mature common-sense lady who cares about keeping a wholesome image, for the sake of all women, and those in leadership.
Yes, Sarah could learn some valuable lessons from her.
Folks, Sarah can’t blame Katie Couric for the Newsweek photo. Sarah can’t blame Tina Fey for that photo either. Sarah can’t blame the AK bloggers for photoshopping her head on the body of Richard Simmons.
Buttercup, you can only blame one person for that photo and it is you. When the moth flies too close to the flame it is fatal. When you are so strongly attracted to the cameras, you live and die by the camera.
Palin is pissed because people call her Bible Spice?
Then how does it make it okay that she calls everyone that she doesn’t like in her book some kind of derogatory name.
She is very delusional. God help us all if she were ever to get any real power.
And.Thank you from the bottom of my heart and all of my brain cells for reading and deciphering this tome of lies for us! You are a very brave and courageous woman, AKM.
Kudos to you!
#87 Classof81
I am SO glad you mentioned that frikkin’ star flag of hers – it drives me crazy! She DOES move it around so it’s in just about every photo of her. Milking her son’s deployment and using to make her look so self-sacrificing infuriates me. “Oh, I have a son who deployed – aren’t I special and better than other people? Poor, poor me.” Grrrrr.
I have a son in the Army who deployed to Iraq, but I don’t have a star flag following me around the house – it’s ridiculous.
Wow, thank you, AKM!
“weird patriotic pinup girl” – of course, sex is the source of all her appeal to her delusional fans. No mystery there.
And this is just plain delicious:
“I think itâ��s the perfect image for the cover. Why? Because the title of the article is â��How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?â�� And behold, the problem. She has no boundaries, and no concept of how she is perceived by others, or why no governor should pose in short shorts, leaning on a flag in front of a blue star banner with a bumpit and makeup for a photo that makes her look like a cupcake.
When they find that picture of Barack Obama in a bathing suit leaning on a flag draped over a bar stool, they can feel free to publish it wherever they want. Because anyone who is mindless and unaware enough to pose for something like that should not be surprised that people think itâ��s a PROBLEM, and call it one on the cover of a magazine.”
Hey, maybe she’ll do a Betty Grable shot next, ya think? With the ghost of Reagan leering in the background?
http://snipurl.com/tarfe [www_google_com]
[When I saw the "Thought this might be interesting to Sara" caption on the photo linked to above, I thought someone was 'way ahead of me...but it was put up in March, and there's no "h" on the "Sarah"]
You forgot to mention she was wearing pantyhose with her shorts. I thought only showgirls did that. It was a stupid photograph for a runner’s mag, with all the makeup, flag, etc., but it is a perfect fit for the articles about her.
Tnx, Archivist1000 [#80] – I’ve subbed to your blog, watched the Frank Schaeffer clip from Rachel Maddow…
http://archivist1000.blogspot.com/2009/11/going-enabler-xtian-taliban-and-her.html
The point that Sarah’s not just a joke anymore, that she’s fomenting domestic terrorism, is the alarming aspect of her popularity with a demented minority.
If I see that bumper sticker anywhere locally, I’m getting out my can of spray paint. And maybe the tire iron as well.
I have to admit that I wouldn’t be happy about the Newsweek cover if they used a photo like that of me. Oh, wait. I would never pose for that kind of photo. And really? Sarah should be more upset about what it says rather than the use of the photo. She looks good, but the American flag doesn’t. I wonder whose hairbrained idea it was to drape the flag like that and then have her lean on it. The Veterans she is so fond of trotting out whenever she wants to make the rest of us seem un-American should speak up. They don’t take it lightly when people mistreat the flag.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Keith rip apart the book last night, and like everyone else, I was very disturbed when I watched Rachel. There is a lunatic fringe out there that is becoming more dangerous every day, and we need to pay better attention. I’m not sure what we can do to stop the morons who read the Bible and put their own bizarre spin on it (look up Psalm 109: 8). They constantly take everything out of context, thereby distorting it.
Now, I need to catch up with Chapter 2 and 3. I’m not sure I can do it in one sitting, but I’ve just had my vitamins and some orange juice. Now, I’ll need that strong cup of tea and some chocolate. AKM, I don’t know how you are managing to read that piece of garbage. Thanks, because I know I would likely have thrown it through the window by now. Not a good idea – it’s cold outside and we’re getting more rain later.
So $carah thinks Newsweek’s choice to publish that photo was ‘unfortunate’? I think the truth is that her decision to ever pose for a photo like that was the unfortunate thing! (for her).
Oh and one more thing. To me, this is the standout, flashing in neon quote from AKM’s thoughts on this latest Palin debacle:
“… and no concept of how she is perceived by others”
Bingo! Until the ex-GINOcerous can figure this little gem of an observation she will be forever living in her own black and white fantasy world replete with pesky haters and bloggers and bears. Oh my!
“The underlying question is this – Is Sarah Palin’s autobiography 100% accurate? Well, no because that’s the nature of memory – flawed and solipsistic.” (from HP article) Fair statement, but there is a difference between flawed memory and a lie. My doubt kicks in when Palin offers a totally different version of an incident in her book to the one that has been put on record previously. If the general public can find “mis-statements” in the book, the accuracy of the entire work becomes suspect; and Palin should have concentrated more on veracity than completing her hit list of complaints against people she seems to believe have treated her unfairly. The fact that the lies are documented and she doesn’t seem to think people will notice is mind boggling.
As someone rightly said, “A whine list of sour grapes”.
She’s obviously not a stickler for patriotic etiquette:
From the U.S. Flag Act:
“The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes.”