Gotta love Charles Pierce's take on Newsweek's Palin article!

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.thenation.com/blog/36409/slacker-friday

You have to scroll down a ways.

"THIS may be the most singularly credulous piece of national reporting I've ever read. I believe that this author regularly comes home having purchased a bag of magic beans. I sincerely believe she could be mugged through the mail. I am in awe of this piece of work, if only for the almost limitless vista of simple common sense that it chooses to ignore in its plucky search for a coherent narrative. This is not journalism. This is Plan 9 From Outer Space.


"Let us all open our hymnals and turn to page 1. Sarah Palin is a self-evident twit. This is obvious in almost every single public pronouncement that she's made since 2008. She has not gotten smarter, more politically deft, or, if most polls are to be believed, more popular generally in the two years since that happened. She knows virtually nothing about any major issue; witness her performance in the wake of the presidential address on the crisis of the Gulf, in which her complete lack of knowledge about any aspect of what she was talking about gobsmacked, of all people, Bill O'Reilly, whose gob is not easy to smack, not that somebody shouldn't have tried years ago. And this was concerning an issue on which John McCain assured the nation that Palin knew more than anyone else in public life.

"And, if you're trying to make the case that Palin's appeal to a fringe group of American Protestantism represents a sea-change in "feminism," you might at least remark upon the fact that an awful lot of the women to whom Palin is a role model seem to be upper middle-class white people with disposable income and a lot of time on their hands—like the woman from Colorado Springs "with four grown daughters" who has the time and money to travel "a thousand miles" to hear Palin try to get from a subject to a predicate without turning an ankle. Must be nice."

If you haven't read the Newsweek article, it's here:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/11/saint-sarah.html

[FiveGoodMen]

1. The was fun!

:rofl:

[rocktivity]

2. The top link goes to an article about James Carville speaking at an AK Dem dinner!

:scared:
rocktivity

[Pathwalker]

4. And the bottom link goes to the Sarah article -eek!

n/t

[The Magistrate]

8. Written By the 'religion editor', Ma'am

Which is a kind way of saying 'written by someone very special'....

[Pathwalker]

9. Thanks, Sir. New link works, and it's great.

A pleasure to read. :hi:

[crim son]

13. And I, stupidly, misunderstood and read the entire

Sarah article waiting to find the criticism. Eeek is right! Also barf.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Thanks. I fixed it, I think.

[wryter2000]

3. I love me some Charlie Pierce

His book, Idiot America, is out in paperback now. Fun read.

[Scuba]

5. Watching O'Reilly put her on the spot was priceless.

[Andy823]

10. I agree.

I watched on Countdown I and I couldn't believe my own eyes and ears! Now if those on Fox news start to ask her "real" questions, and the keep on trying to get a "REAL" answer, her days are numbered. Honestly I think more people have opened their eyes and now see just how insane this woman really is. Now she may keep her "base" of morons, but any republican with half a brain will be voting for someone else "IF" she dose decide to run in 2012, which I really don't think she will. She is in this for one thing, the money, and even some of the teabaggers are turning on her because they can even see it!

We will know when her days are up when Beck decides to out do Bill O and he too takes her on!:evilgrin:

[monmouth]

7. I just posted "Has anyone ever seen Palin in church?" Let's see

how that is received...LOL.

[Andy823]

11. Well of course

She goes to the church of the "all mighty dollar" and worships at the halter of the "greenback" and laughs all the way to the bank knowing that the old saying "a sucker is born every minute" is true, and she has found the vast majority of those "suckers", and she thanks her god, GREED, every single day for what he has blessed her with, gullible people who are making her rich! :evilgrin:

[jmowreader]

12. Quite a few people have, actually

She's a regular at Wasilla Christian Center, which is apparently the farthest-right church in Alaska. Palin's problem isn't a question of the sincerity of her beliefs--it's the beliefs themselves. "Batshit crazy" doesn't begin to describe them, starting with her stance on abortion: Ceaucescu was farther to the left on abortion than Palin is. I honestly think if Palin would have been told, "you have to abort this child or you will die," she would have died. Forget the "heartwrenching decision" she supposedly made when she found out Trig was going to have Down Syndrome; that kid was GOING to be born.

[monmouth]

14. Ah yes, I forgot about that church in Alaska. Thanks..n/t

[tanyev]

15. For the record, I would like to say that I am a middle-class white woman

with some disposable income and I think Sarah Palin is a twit of the highest order.

[lunatica]

16. Sorry. I got bored with it and didn't finish

Feminist indeed. That's just crap. As soon as she loses the next Presidential election she's gone. The media forgets losers quickly.