It is not really news that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is not an animal lover — or, I should say, is not a live-animal lover. That’s especially true for animals that happen to stand in the way of producing more fossil fuels:
- Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor Palin
- Palin’s axis of evil animals: Beluga whales join polar bears and wolf cubs
- And who really cares about wolves or their cubs anyway?
But if the Washington Post, which has four stories on Palin and her new book, Going Rogue, today, can take the headline quote above and put it on their front page in big type, well, then it must be news:
As the Post‘s one-time motto put it, “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.”
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Rogues Palin and Beck and the rest have carved out a place for themselves in the hearts of some Republicans, but in the process, they are likely alienating others in that party. Palin’s death panels, Beck’s FEMA camps–these fabrications are just sick and paranoid. Hard to see how Republican strategists can tie these themes back into some coherent overall message.
It’s a catchy sound bite, indicative of how extreme Sarah Palin and her supporters are. It’s news because politics is personality driven.
We are entering the era of the celebri-pol. (Pol-ebrity? Celebri-tician?)
While Obama was chastised for being a politician with some celebrity, the GOP seems to banking on the fact that it can generate politics out of whole cloth WITH celebrities. Palin had a tiny shred of credibilty (which she promptly forfeited, seeing how cumbersome it was) of being a real, live, official elected by someone, somewhere. Beck and Limbaugh are pure media creations. They are not experts in their field, they are not “pundits” with some special background or experience. They are on TV (or radio) therefore, they are. And now they are considered to “lead” the Republican party?
Fascinating stuff, if it weren’t so nauseating.
Remember the Great Turkey Slaughter press conference ?
Governor Barracuda went to a turkey farm to *pardon* two turkeys.
Once this magnanimous feat was done, she told the reporters she had to go back home, to cook the 2 (other) turkeys she had just purchased…
Then she gave a whole press conference on a background of turkeys being slaughtered and blooded. Maybe that was a warning to her opponents.
No, she doesn’t get it.
Only in America can a dimwit who bounced around 6 colleges end up rich and famous. Since that was her dream all along, she hardly cares what people think of her.
She’ll be kept in action by wealthy far right lunatics for a while, but eventually she will embarrass even them and they’ll have to find someone else. It ain’t easy finding a “conservative” spokesman who doesn’t have a lot of hair on him, but they will eventually. If they can clean up people like Gingrich and DeLay, anything’s possible.
There is plenty of room for Sarah Palin–right next to the Octomom and Paris Hilton.