The Nation: Palin as the Church Lady

[marmar]

Palin as the Church Lady
posted by Leslie Savan on 11/20/2009 @ 4:40pm


You gotta give Sarah Palin's book tour credit for one thing: It's really putting the passive-aggressive instincts of the religious right on public display.

And not just because she spends much of her 432-page book blaming campaign media flacks and hairdressers, bless their cinder-black hearts, for the McCain/Palin ticket's loss in 2008. Here's Sarahcuda talking up Going Rogue for the Christian Broadcasting Network this week, reproving her critics by saying, "These are probably some lonely people, some shallow people who want to take a shot like that, and we need to pray for these people."

The former (for half a term) governor of Alaska sounds a bit like the Saturday Night Live Church Lady, who pretended to be generous and devout but was always on the verge of boiling over with resentment, even barely contained violence, for anyone whose demeanor she considered insufficiently pious. (What would Dana Carvey's character have said about Palin's too-tight skirts and stiletto-heeled red pumps, I wonder?)

On the Sean Hannity show that aired the same day, Hannity asked Palin about David Letterman: Would she "have anything to do with him? Because you're a Christian. You want to, you want to forgive people." ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/499337/palin_as_the_church_lady

[ChicagoSuz219]

1. I wish I was on a plane...

...so I could grab the barf bag! Hannity's comment makes me want to toss my cookies...

[Frances]

2. I don't remember forgiveness ever being high

on the to-do list of Protestant fundamentalists

[SpiralHawk]

3. Well isn't that special?

"Could it be Satan in drag?" - Church Lady

[SpiralHawk]

4. Dismay, confusion, and projection of the so-called 'Christian' Right

From the article -

"Now, in their dismay and confusion over having supported Bush--one of the first governors, by the way, to declare an annual state "Jesus Day"--evangelicals are left with a terrible anger. And they desperately don't want to turn that anger inward...

"...Instead, some of them want to smite Obama because they can't admit that Bush led them, lemming-like, into a betrayal of Protestantism's founding belief. Debt, trade, and the work ethic were all central to the disputes that launched the Reformation, after all."

[SpiralHawk]

5. The unrecommenders do not want you to see this thread

Because the truth hurts. As usual.

[glitch]

6. SNL should do a skit with Tina Fey and Dana Carvey in character each trying to out church lady

each other.

[LWolf]

7. .

:rofl:

The church lady is my all time favorite character from SNL.

[glitch]

8. My all time favorite SNL character would have to be Nathan Thurm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98MNisZJyFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY

But I do love the church lady!

[Cha]

9. "Because you say you're a Christian".. "you feel

you better or they'll know you're just a fucking hypocrite".