Can You Write Like Palin?
25 11 2009We’ve been reading transcripts of her speeches, and her Tweets for months now. A few of us have even been reading the ultimate mind-sucking tome Going Rogue. It’s time to test yourself. Do you have the stuff? Can you write meandering, self-absorbed ponderings about local flora and fauna of Alaska? Can you take us down the carved out ribbon of highway in your mind and evaluate which particular country singer provides an appropriate sound track for your musings of the day? How about ripping people to shreds and praising the Lord in the same sentence?
What is the single worst sentence in Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue? According to Slate’s Going Rogue index, it comes on Page 102: “As the soles of my shoes hit the soft ground, I pushed past the tall cottonwood trees in a euphoric cadence, and meandered through willow branches that the moose munched on.” Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times didn’t have to read past the first paragraph for her nomination: “I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier.”
If you think you can write like Sarah Palin, Slate wants to hear from you. The goal is to write a sentence that could have come from the pages of Going Rogue. It must be one sentence only, in fewer than 150 words. Send your submission to writelikepalin(at)gmail(dot)com BY TODAY, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25. The best ones will be published later in the week.
Feeling free to share your submissions there, of course, in the comments down below. With great respect also for those who stand up and show up for our rights provided to us in that great First Amendment, which is freedom of speech.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Mother Nature wins again, as the best of the plentiful caribou and mighty moose are brought low by the ravishing wolves, without a thought for our God-given Alaskan Constitutional rights.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:48 PM
..and then God opened the door I was waitin’ for Him to do, and I thanked the troops and Todd for everything they have done for us real Americans then turned away from my children and walked right through that door, toward the light that shows me that the real hope is change, also, but that change is only what you make of it and my plan is to make hope and change for every good and real American. Also. Too.
ouch
November 25th, 2009 at 2:49 PM
the problem child…hilarious.
Irishgirl, You mean it’s NOT material for serious literary work? Go figure. LOL
November 25th, 2009 at 2:50 PM
g (that’s a short name!) @ 90 said a whole lotta things I agree with.
I’ll one-up ya with she WANTS to talk about Alaska because that’s the only thing she knows about! When she talks about Alaska she can sound reasonably intelligent (obviously enough to get elected governor). Also, when she has those non-Alaska questions, she is very uncomfortable and comes off looking bad when she is forced to talk off the cuff about stuff she doesn’t know anything about.
But instead of just saying “Well, I don’t really know the whole history of the relations between India and Pakistan (i.e., telling the truth) she ad libs this non-answer answer that is crafted just non-semantically enough to fool the rather more non-thinking people into thinking it actually demonstrates she knows something (whereas, if you actually took the time to take it apart, it quite clearly does the opposite).
I wrote this ages ago, but this MO is just exactly what she did in the talent portion of the Miss Alaska competition. In the flute playing, she starts off fine, when she knows where she is, but then the arrangement goes off into the bit she obviously did not practice, or memorize, or expect, which means she was NOT PREPARED!!! She faked her way through it, and I have to give her credit for that, rather than quitting, but it was painfully, painfully obvious she was lost, floundering, and just ‘makin’ things up’. I can accept that from a pageant contestant. I CANNOT accept that from a candidate for any high office in government, particularly our highest, the US President for crying out loud (If you haven’t seen the Bill O’Reilly interview, see it. She actually puts her executive experience right up there with – beyond, even – Barack Obama’s, and tries to chastise Bill for not being tough on Joe Biden – Bill’s comeback is simple, to the point, and factual, and she can’t counter it. Makes her look a trifle foolish)
So g, you nailed it in that last sentence – for her to win an election she HAS TO represent more of America than just Alaska, Alaskans, and people who like Alaskan ideals. Gretchen Carlson at Fox after her interview was asked by her colleagues what she found surprising about Palin, and Gretchen said something like “that not all women seem to relate to her”, then goes off about “but she’s a mother! She’s a working mother! Surely every single woman out there can relate to that!”. So ……. once again, I’m supposed to support her JUST BECAUSE she’s a woman and SO AM I? What narrow-minded thinking. In terms of education, I have more in common with President Obama than I do with her, and that is exactly (as g says) what she and her blind followers are missing.
There is a rant coming on, but I’ll spare you. Save it for later. Just suffice it to say I am getting tired of her insulting me in her backhanded way – I live in a city so that’s not ‘real America’, I didn’t come out to her book signing, so I am not a ‘patriot’. I’ve got a masters degree so I am spineless and elitist. Etc., etc.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Trisha, I loved it. I haven’t laughed so much in one night. I knew this thread was going to be fun.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Ok, am putting on jammies and hopin’ I don’t dream of those things that jump out of trees and sprout into humans with boils beside their ears and strange hairpieces, spouting goobledygook.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:09 PM
103 terpsichore Says:
November 25th, 2009 at 2:50 PM
…..Gretchen said something like “that not all women seem to relate to her”, then goes off about “but she’s a mother! She’s a working mother! Surely every single woman out there can relate to that!”. So ……. once again, I’m supposed to support her JUST BECAUSE she’s a woman and SO AM I?
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This statement is one where as a single woman, I HAVE to say “she’s a mother? who gives a sh:t? when will she start acting like a mom? and she works? doing what? is lying work? because she seems like a very practiced liar….”
The problem is we see through her act:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/palins-problem-with-women.html
It’s very simple why women don’t like her as much as men. Women saw through Sarah Palin and we saw through her quickly. Men are literal and are more likely to say what they mean and mean what they say. Women are more nuanced and better able to persuade and manipulate others with their words. So it’s quite natural for us to be able to look below the surface of another woman’s words and grasp the intentions behind them.
Sarah Palin is the peppy cheerleader in high school all the boys thought was so sweet but the girls knew was really a vicious shrew. She’s the new girl in the office who wears tight shirts and three-inch heels, is super-friendly to her male superiors, ignores the other women, and gets promoted sooner than her more capable and hard working peers. She’s the outgoing PTA mom all of the other women are scared to cross because they will find themselves put on the worst committees. Only a woman knows how to give another woman a sweet smile and at the same time cut her down to size with an artfully crafted “compliment” ….
After her convention speech that so many pundits raved about, I talked to a few of my Republican girlfriends and they all disliked her immediately, telling me things like, “she’s mean”, “who does she think she is putting Obama down like that” and “I just don’t like her”. ….The one who switched her vote to Obama did so solely because of Sarah Palin. It wasn’t really the attack lines the McCain camp gave her to deliver that had turned my friends off. It was the relish with which she delivered them.
The Republican women I know who love Palin are a great deal like her–simplistic thinkers who are always feeling victimized themselves. ….if the McCain camp had spent more than a weekend checking Palin out, a woman on his staff (my money would be on Nicole Wallace) would have figured out what kind of person she was and none of us would know her name right now.
And let’s face it: the straight men are also bedazzled by the beauty. Men are led first and foremost by an organ a little cruder than the brain….
November 25th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
nswfm CA, you have beautifically articulated exactly what I have thought of Mrs. Palin’s FEMALE fan base from day one: only the sad, uneducated, victim, “popular girl wannabees” think she is the bee’s knees. Just look and listen to her fans. Women who are smart, articulate, educated, confidant, and savvy can identify her as the slightly skanky female type who uses winks, high heels and snark to stay on top of the pile. (Raise hands, those who can name that girl from high school!!)
Next look at her MALE fans…the Viagra crowd and the “losers” for whatever reason – those guys that you never wanted as a Physics lab partner- as well as the “not too smart” rednecks that were scary b/c they were such pigs.
Shame on McCain’s lackys for not doing homework before unleashing this horrible example of “women in politics” on the rest of us smart and accomplished women!!!
November 25th, 2009 at 3:53 PM
What, ME divorce Todd? Dang, have you experienced and seen the sweat-drenched, sun-swept muscles rippling and ripping through his shirt, gleaming in the midnight sun, as he reaches over to grasp the child of my bossom, to hold and nurture as only a man can. Have you SEEN Todd?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
As Todd and I sit up here in Alaska, him wanting to help me progress our great country as so many of you real Americans sit on your porches and do too, looking up into the sky which is only part of God’s country and we think to ourselves “There must be a better way for loyal Aryans, oops real Americans to show the world that we are a force to say Bullcrap! when we hear of our liberties being stomped on and killed like a mighty moose from the Great Frontier would do!” and therefore we reflect on the mysterious aurora that shines light on the wilds of Alaska and gives us hope even if you don’t live up here in Alaska because the hope is here whether you can see it or not and we will learn from God that the beauty of the waving Fireweed is only one of his gifts and that we will prevail when the pitch forks are delivered.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Todd is a creep. Believe me, I’ve heard stuff from reliable women that he is a first class creep. Nothing worth looking at there – he’s an Iron Dog race cheater, too as per more reliable sources.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Also worked in the canneries, King Cove, Valdez, Chignik, where the beautiful waters filled with the species, the salmon, intersect with the commerce that really makes what is Alaska beautiful to understand for the outside world. Oil, too.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:18 PM
“Pukeworthy” comes to mind.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
My platform in 2012 will have many planks as planks must be sturdy for progressin’ a country which —it’s all about the right to life and cuttin’ taxes –those taxes which bear down on businesses which should shore up the economy by reining in spending–that’s my main plank, a very strong plank there except for supporting the troops —really a plank of sturdiness because the troops are the greatest plank there for keepin’ our country safe — not just for allowin’ a plain hockey Mom breathing crystalline Alaskan air with a heartful love for family and –yeah, it’s all about sturdy planks on my platform there –taking back our country one plank at a time kinda like God gave the Jews Israel one acre at a time.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Once upon a Thanksgiving eve, after I pardoned the turkeys, except not the one’s being slaughtered behind me on the camera I wasn’t comprehending, I thought about Alaska, and America, and apple pie, and pumpkin too, also, and me and my role in the leadership of America, with or without an actual title, because I don’t really need one to be real leader, that I would choose one open door or another, but I don’t know which one will open and which one will shut and neither do you, and if I did, I wouldn’t tell you anyway, that the troops should have a happy Thanksgiving, but not those bloggers in pajamas, because I am pro-life and pro-God and pro-real-Amerika, and also because I am good, and real Amerika is good, but it’s not found in Seattle or California but where real Amerikans line up for me and my book that I am thankful for the money and attention it’s given me and blue-eyed Todd (Has anyone seen him?) and our babies and their babies, except Levi, who will inherit the earth as the sleek and gifted and Republicans were intended to have dominion over for drilling oil and shooting wolves, and I may not use the actual number of words you ask me, because I have a message that should not be constrained by rules—that’s why I’m ROGUE.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Irishgirl, I am so… busted! Fortunately, I have in-house counsel in case Van Flea comes sniffin’ around, catching me droppin’ those final consonants in a manner that ill befits a scholarship-grubbin’, work-study-workin’ graduate of the University of Snootypants.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:37 PM
eventhough jesus Mitiplied fishes we all know that man did come from fishes
if he had we would certainly come from sharks to swin down on liberals
and make then taste good we need fish that taste good not fish with
liberal good taste.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:52 PM
When dear Track was a toddler and I was a budding Hockey Mom I knew in my mother bear’s heart which is very tough unless crockpot-ed by the way, that I was going to rule America because Alaska is the real America and it starts here with the Rapture Grounds gathering so I knew I was destined and ordained to be the leader and to tell the jaded world that Alaska is beautiful and I feel the wondrous strength and drink up the clear cold water coming from glaciers which meander through the ranges of Alaskan majestic mountains and it all goes to my gutteral bear heart as I rear up and take charge but not like a bear charging a person, but taking charge of America before more wolves are saved and because I need to save the down syndrome children in the country so they may vote for me later because they know not what they do.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:57 PM
I’m done – someone else please go to Crazy Woman land and come back with a story.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Oh my gosh, you all are fantastic! I love them all. Thanks for the great laughs..perfect companion for my glass of wine and Thanksgiving baking.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I’m so thankful for all your insightful remarks, great links, great laughs, and a for making this such a wonderful place to blow off some steam when Ms. Jibber-Jabber spout off.
I received my Thanksgiving letter from the President so I sent it to all my Evangelical family members! I hope they read it, it was beautiful.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:05 PM
MarthaUYS
My cousin in Texas always told me that he had that ‘look.’ Not surprised; she’s always better at that stuff than I. (divorced and broken engagement)
This thread is a hoot! You guys are GOOD!
November 25th, 2009 at 5:07 PM
and what Trisha said.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Is Fire-weed one word or two? Don’t want to go over my word count, you betcha.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
nswfm CA, hmm, wrote a reply that supported your 3:09 pm.Unfortunately, went to moderation due to mentioning a drug that causes old guys to perform like..well…… due to a drug NOT a problem with healthcare reform…only saying….
November 25th, 2009 at 5:26 PM
As the sulfur-filled odor of gunfire crept into my nostrils like wispy tendrils of smoky resonance, I paused to pontificate upon myself the existential significance of my leadership in this haphazard, wayward, and malevolent world we call home and, as the colossal mass of tangled moose met the ground like a God-given, prophetic bounty, I quietly nodded in recognition that this indeed was a sign of higher calling, a neon road marker tracing my righteous path toward the day I will stand in front of my people with Mr. Beck, Todd, and God at my side as the president of this big, wild great nation and lead them to victory.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:43 PM
OK, here’s the scary thing: it gets easier each time. You find yourself going into your own little world, just knowing in your mother or father bear’s heart that the masses want to hear every little babble out of your lipsticked mouth.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
See what I mean? My last post doesn’t even make sense – father bears don’t wear lipstick. I’m seriously considering watching Mary Poppins or the Wizard of Oz to get Sarah Salad Speak out of my head.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Sorry, I misread my reference, it is Edward George Bulwer-Lytten, NOT Edward Eugene.
While I’m at it, the reference is from Paul Clifford (1830) and reads
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents–except at occasional interval, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that strggled against the darkness.”
November 25th, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Prisonernumbersix, you are a scholar and a gentleman.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:02 PM
“And it’s gotta be about job CREATION, too ……. and it’s gotta be about JOB creation, too …… heck, those gotcha McCain folks sure wanted me to remember some hard phrases, but you betcha, sometimes I just had to wonder why the liberal media and all those ungodly folks in other parts of this great land of ours, other than the sacred Homeland of Real America, really wanted to know about crazy things like “facts” and “figures” when all they had to do was look into their hearts, their God-Created Christian Republican Hearts, and know that a loving God with all his guttereal instincts, wouldn’t want a socialist as President, because you know there’s nothin’ in the Bible about a socialist being President, just like my BFF Carrie told me that God doesn’t have a problem with breast implants also, too, since that’s not in the Bible either. God Bless.”
November 25th, 2009 at 6:02 PM
One more:
As I stepped off the campaign bus into a scintillating burst of flashing lights and the adulating screams of my grateful fans, I took a breath from deep inside my Alaskan roots to feel the frigid air where the North Star shines brightest and the virgin snow not touched by acid rain still brushes the tenderly amiable cheeks of family and friends who were giving radiantly strength as I did the Lord’s work which was so far from Wasilla.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Trisha #93 – Triple Crown! $arah Palin, Bulwer-Lytton, and Barbara Cartland. Brilliant!
Bonus points for keepin’ God in it, and America too, also.
“It was a dark and stormy star spangled night. My red money pumps drove their spikes deep, deep into the soft ground. As the earth moaned, I breathed in Autumn’s bouquet as my chest heaved upward with euphoric pleasure. Splashes of America’s last rugged frontier falling behind me, around me, below me. With willows and cottonwood securing our path, his mouth covered mine as I cried out………God Bless America. “
November 25th, 2009 at 6:18 PM
btw, if “money pumps” wasn’t a deliberate typo, it should be. “Money” is the right word for the whole sordid saga.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Foreign policy is where $P really shines. The original quote from her GVS interview on the bus:
“PALIN: Well, that’s — and that’s the nature of superpowers, too, is that saber rattling, and is that — that — that seeking of even more power. The world is so volatile right now, especially when we talk about the nuclear arms, though — the world is so volatile that we cannot afford to hesitate to at least attempt to bring these leaders together and get them to understand again we have a common enemy. Pakistan, India, America, we have a common enemy, and it is the terrorists.
Why can’t we forge an alliance there, a military alliance even, to finally get rid of those terrorists in Pakistan that are threatening and have — and have attacked Mumbai and some of the areas in India? Why can’t we get these folks together and forge that relationship that’s so necessary? It’s such a volatile world where parts of our world could be literally be blown up with these nuclear arms. We cannot afford to hesitate at all in at least attempting to bring these leaders together.”
My submission, from the dept. of People Who Live in Glass Houses:
Levi is so volatile right now, especially when we talk about the nuclear arms, though — Levi is so volatile that we cannot afford to hesitate to at least attempt to bring him together with Bristol and get him to understand again we have a common enemy, and it is the media terrorists, so why can’t we forge an alliance there, a military alliance even, to finally get rid of those media terrorists goin’ up there in Alaska that are threatening and have — and have attacked me, also why can’t we get these folks together and forge that relationship that’s so necessary, because we cannot afford to hesitate at all in at least attempting to bring these young people together.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:22 PM
AARRGGHH!!! They’re ALL soo Good !!!….. and I had to wrire engineering instructions today , and so had to be as clear and concise as “She who shall not be Named” cannot be…
…but knowing as I do, that those who would mock and talk about my children in ways that are not appropriate, even with the First Amendment rights that I would defend even for THEM to use, as would all REAL Americans , although they would filter my message thru the Liberal Media when I try to reach out to all of those who love this country as I do, that when I pray to God to allow me to forgive them, knowing that He will give them their come-uppance in due time, also supporting our troops while they are defending our great country,…….
.. oh RATs!… I left out Obama and William Ayers,,, oh well…..
November 25th, 2009 at 6:25 PM
nswfm at #103 – you nailed it: Mean Girl Flirt
“Sarah Palin is the peppy cheerleader in high school all the boys thought was so sweet but the girls knew was really a vicious shrew. She’s the new girl in the office who wears tight shirts and three-inch heels, is super-friendly to her male superiors, ignores the other women, and gets promoted sooner than her more capable and hard working peers.”
November 25th, 2009 at 7:32 PM
This is my entry in the Sarah Palin sentence contest-
While the true symbol of Alaska freedom and strength, the great glowing Northern Lights pulsing across the pristine night of this great continent, Alaska where freedom and patriots grow behind each tall tree as emblems of the good life, but rugged life we live, I am sipping my Diet Dr. Pepper and snuggling up in my Wal-Mart pajamas and warm Arctic coat that the farfel lady complained about, and we showed her how frivolous her charges were and we Alaskans know, it flows in our blood because our life is a hard life and we just don’t go with the flow like a dead fish, but stand up for our beliefs and refuse to sit down and shut up and if we die we die and Todd, Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig, I think I got them all were voting on whether I needed to resign and each said yes and there was one Hell yes, and I will have to tell you about that sometime but know as a private citizen I have a higher calling but Alaska is first and foremost rest assured.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:21 PM
OK – one more… [Gads, this cr^p is addictive ~ no wonder she's always at it.]
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To MudsFlat President/CEO:
As we always do after partaking of His Glorious Bounty witnessing the waxing daylight of another glorious afternoon instilling me with awestruck ebullition of the expansiveness of Alaska that we have a burden to share, too, with all real Americans, we sat at the computer and performed the thrice-daily “Palin” page-search and when we pulled up the MudsFlat Blog to see what Akayem had there of me, my eagle-sharp journalistic eye captured the sight of my blue-colored size-2 slacks with exultant flames pouring from their sides and I thought: “How joyously Akayem’s icon captures my true inner spirit!!!! — a Hockey Mom conservative from Wasilla on-the-go progressing our citizens and blazing a trail for others to follow as fast as a NASCAR racer races, and my blazing Glory-praising, also, our Troops, God, and Nation!!!!”; convivialityness and thanking you, Akayem, for Alaskanating good, faithfully, and honestly, me, S’arah, in the awaiting world.
With Faith and Reagan, too,
Your Friend,
Governor Sarah Palin
—DISCLAIMER: the above was NOT written by EX-Governor Palin. (Just wanted to make that clear…in case Van (What’s His Name, lawyer) is browsing the site and wanted to get all picky in regards: truthiness. b.)—
Happy Turkey Day, y’all! beth.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:12 PM
It was a clear and crisp autumn day here in the great state of Alaska when I was sitting at my kitchen table and then saw on my laptop that my great and beautiful Christian friend and also beauty pageant contestant Carrie Prejean had sent to me an email with 8 video links.
So looking forward to seeing these video links I opened them and upon seeing the contents realized that my friend in Jesus and God Carrie had sent to me videos that showed to me the way forward for our young girls attempting to live lives of abstinence until marriage.
I shared these videos with Carrie’s friend who also is my daughter Bristol and we agreed that truly Carrie’s videos teach a new lesson to those young girls who are remaining abstinent until their sacred marriage vows are met.
Also too as well I took this opportunity and this glorious fall day that God had bestowed upon us to share with Bristol, as she is now a woman having produced the blessed grandson Tripp, the contents of the secret shoebox under my bed. The box whose contents she will learn to use with Carrie’s videos as a tutorial, the box whose contents insure that women can be happy and abstinent and actually can be more content than with having a man in the picture.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:54 PM
AKPetMom – that hurts! It’s so wrong but it’s so right, too.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:37 PM
@ 130 benlomond2
You didn’t leave out a thing! You wrote a wicked good rendition of Palin’s scrambled eggs elocution!
November 25th, 2009 at 10:53 PM
As I was out running by my house at Lake Lucille, with a Blackberry in each hand and spare heels for the Manolos because you can never be too prepared when you’re a hockey mom governor from a proud rugged state that reflects our true American spirit and founding principles of never being too far from good shopping value even in this great remote natural wonderland of ours, where the hum of box store traffic salutes our private enterprise system in the late evening shadow of alpenglowy tingly peaks, and I forgot really what the point of all this was except to keep on going like the Energizer Bunny, a real American hero that we can all look up to for just chugging away and setting an example of grit and determination and endless media presence that really we could all aspire to, who would make Ronald Reagan proud.
November 26th, 2009 at 6:44 AM
Martha @ 126, last night we drove about five hours to our daughter’s home for Thanksgiving. I was explaining to Himself about Palin-speak, and that is what we did for most of the drive. Pathetic, it gets so easy. Himself, being a sick-making show-off just had to Palinize Twain’s “Grandfather’s Old Ram”, and that did it! Interstate 70 has never been more fun!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:03 AM
I just reread them. You are all hilarious!
November 26th, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Mrs. Biscuitbarrel, I must say I am honored that you mentioned my humble comment. I am an admiring follower of you on several blogs.
The thing about Palin and sexism – I found it amazingly sexist that she assumed that her campaign interview with Couric would be about a “working mom [speaking] to another working mom. It was supposed to be a little bit more lighthearted.”
She’s a candidate for national office. Couric is network news anchor. Who, other than someone making stereotypical assumptions about womens’ roles, would assume that the interview would be about what it’s like to be a working mom, instead of her qualifications to be the potential leader of the free world?
First, what did she think the office she was running for was all about? And second, why didn’t she think Katie would be just as serious about interviewing her than a male anchor?
Now, apparently, she wants to “interview” Katie because “I want to know if she understands yet what we have to contribute up there in the state of Alaska.”
She’s learning her journalism ethics from her pal John Ziegler, who’s all about putting someone on the spot and exposing what he believes are their flaws. Plus – who the hell cares whether Katie understands what Alaska has to contribute? Katie wanted to know what Sarah had to contribute to the country, not Alaska, per se.
And as far as Alaska’s contribution goes – I’m sure it’s quite valuable indeed, but Sarah seems to think SHE is what Alaska has to contribute. I’m sure you all disagree!
November 27th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Gee, thank you, g. I enjoy your posts very much!
I completely agree with your gem above: How in the WORLD could $P possibly have thought that she and Katie Couric would get together and laff it up lightheartedly about being workin’ moms, on camera, given Couric’s job and Palin’s campaign? And as many, many folks have been commenting lately, all $P knows is Alaska, and that’s not enough!
It disturbs me the way that $P tosses around the word “sexism”: she’s all for it if it works to her favor, but otherwise not. And don’t get me started about JZ!
November 27th, 2009 at 5:51 PM
And really, the part of Alaska she knows and adheres to is but a fraction of the whole. She knows how to court her fraction–er faction.