Today, the ban ends, not so much because Palin has done anything of value, but simply because I can't take it no more. So, here's my 2 cents on the last 1/2 year of Palinism.
This Woman Is Smarter Than The Average Polar Bear. - For all the proclamations that Palin is an airhead who couldn't chew gum and walk simultaneously, she sure has proven to be far wiser than most of us initially tabbed her to be. Think about this, she quits a job halfway in, and some folks think she's a hero. She endorses a losing Conservative candidate, virtually ensuring passage of Obamacare, and some folks think she has political heft. She repeats an internet urban legend about "death panels", and some folks think she has the power to influence legislation. She gets caked up writing a book and making speeches, and some folks still think she's "just like them". Amazing.
The MSM Is Evil. Unless You Need Them To Help Sell Your Books. - In an even more amazing sleight of hand, Palin is using and manipulating the very same mainstream media that she so angrily accused of bias to help peddle her books and ensure that several generations of future Palins will never have to put in an honest day's work. As much as these "elitists" might hate her very essence, reality is, she's such a trainwreck waiting to happen that you can't ignore her. When she ended up on Oprah, I knew that cows had truly jumped the moon.
How then, can she still continue to repeat this "The MSM is against me" nonsense with a straight face? If the MSM was truly against her, they would have simply ignored this book, much like they ignored Joe The Plumber's ghostwritten book of populist nonsense. So enough of the victim narrative, please.
She Has No Chance At Becoming President. - C'mon, as much as folks salivate over the prospect of her facing Obama in 2012, you and I know this will never happen. And the Dems won't have anything to do with it, the bloodbath she'll experience at the hands of fellow GOP'ers will be nauseating (but of course I'll watch every debate). Do you really think folks like Newt Gingrich, Dick Chaney (yeah, he's running, you heard it first), Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee will just allow her to prance in off the street and accept the GOP nomination without a fight? Of course not. In their own ways, these guys have paid their dues, and a person who couldn't make it 2 years as Governor of Alaaaaskaaaa will get no pity from them. They are playing nice now, not wanting to alienate the "base" by attacking her, but once she throws her hat in, all that nice crap is out the window.
She Will Never Run For President. - Palin is smart enough to know she'd take a beating 20 levels more brutal than anything she accuses the MSM and the McCain campaign of hitting her with last Fall. Lets not forget, Obama/Biden barely broke a sweat. The GOP, and Palin-herself inflicted all the damage.
She Is Lying Her A$$ Off. Because She Can. - Seriously, how come everytime Sarah Palin goes to explain why something went wrong, she's pointing the finger at others? McCain. Schmidt. Wallace. Couric. The MSM. Her handlers. The Atlantic. Phony "ethics investigators". Jim Zorn. Reality is, a good percentage of the stuff she alleges has been rebutted repeatedly by multiple sources, which means she probably isn't on the up and up. Of course, she doesn't care about fact checkers, because she isn't running for President. Get Money!
I Will Be Reading Her Book. - I no longer have the AB Goes To The Library tag, simply because most of the stuff I read isn't very timely and wouldn't likely be of interest to ya'll. But I will be obtaining a copy of "Going Rogue", because I too enjoy ghostwritten trainwrecks, and also because I've already pre-purchased several hundred copies (think about it) so I almost feel obligated. I don't promise a review, however. I read "Goodnight Moon" to my kids each night, but you don't see a review of that here, do you?
Levi Is An A-Hole. Period. - Guys like Levi Johnston make me glad that I only have sons. As much as folks want to blame Palin for stiff arming this moron, put yourself in her shoes. Sure, your daughter prolly should have kept it in her pants, but young girls make mistakes. Watching this d-bag carry on publicly and look for any way (including posing for something called "PlayGirl") to keep his name in the news just shows you what sorta character you're dealing with. I wouldn't want him around my grandchild either. At least Sarah and I can agree on that much.
Her Next Move?!? The Bank, Of Course. - In a display of just how media savvy and unintentionally brilliant this woman is, she surely won't announce any future plans other than "helping advance Conservative viewpoints" anytime soon. The more some morons think she will actually run (and could actually win) in 2012, the more she can command on the speaker's circuit, again making future generations of Palins richer and richer. I suspect that after the book tour winds down, she'll end up with a weekly
Get Money.
Question: Is Sarah Palin an undercover Rhodes scholar who is playing us all and laughing all the way to the bank, or is she as clueless as she seems, and only enabled by people even more cluelesser?!?
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Guys like Levi Johnston make me glad that I only have sons.
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SMH!
Yeah, like it ain't the sperm that gets the daughters pregnant.
Come on, AB.
@Ciara, I think AB meant that he is glad he doesn't have daughters who could bring someone like Levi home...
I was in Borders yesterday afternoon and her book was displayed front and center as you walked through the door. For some reason, I can't make myself care one way or another about her. Your article today is the largest amount of information I've read about her since the time she was nominated. Last year was a busy year with moving twice and numerous other things so I didn't pay much attention to the election other than voting. I think you are right that she will keep herself in the public spotlight one way or another. She acts like somebody who likes the attention.
It's not that Palin is smarter than we thought, it's that most of the people who are fans of her are stupider than we thought.
When I read about Shaniya Davis, I thought to myself: If it wasnt for people like Sarah Palin, this wouldnt have never have happened.
She is dangerous and must be stopped before this sort of thing happens again.
Right? (rolls eyes)
Personally, I dont give her 1/10 the importance those on the left do and I dont understand why. (I do, but jus sayin) She has the meteoric rise and legislative inexperience of Barack Obama and the Gaffes of Joe Biden. If she was a minority, she'd be perfect.
I'm not going to defend Palin, she seems to be pretty good at it if given half a chance and really who cares? I personally dont. She cant make laws, she cant put me in jail or raise my taxes. She cannot impose her will on me in any way. I instead will concentrate on those who are trying to do those very things on a daily basis.
I agree with about 40% of what AB has said here and 100% of this fact: She isint relevant.
So go ahead, take those bars down from in front of your windows. Palin, the real threat, cant get you anymore.
Whew!
@Big K:
"It's not that Palin is smarter than we thought, it's that most of the people who are fans of her are stupider than we thought." LOLOLOL.
@AB:
Why are you bashing Levi so badly? I'm certainly not a fan but dude is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame just like Ms. Sarah. You've said in prior comments that you can't hate on her just 'cause she's making bank. So why you hatin' on Levi??
The Palin's definitely raked his name through the mud and are doing their best to keep him from spending time or having joint custody with his son. So, don't hate the young man for doing what he think he needs to do (even if that includes the ungodly mess we call Playgirl).
And if she does run for Prez in 2012 it'll be a third party campaign because the GOP good ole boys will eat her alive. Ms. Sarah was fine for VP...ain't no way they'll let her front the party.
I agree about Levi Johnston, although I think he's more dumb than an asshole. He's got a baby with Bristol, they're broken up, and he keeps getting on TV bashing her mom and dad. He's aired all kinds of scandalous ish that he has no business airing. How is he supposed to maintain a relationship with the Palins so they don't have to fight every time he sees his child?
I have two daughters, and I aint mad at Levi. Sarah let a teenage boy live in her house with her daughter, but she didn't think old girl would get pregnant? umm ok. She is a narcissitic trainwreck plain and simple. You betcha! wink!
Sorry, but I tend to believe an attention-seeking grown assed woman more than I do an attention-seeking 19 year old.
Call me crazy, but a lot of the "dirt" he's airing just seems trivial, unprovable, and silly. Palin is right in this regard.
@AB,
"Call me crazy, but a lot of the "dirt" he's airing just seems trivial, unprovable, and silly. Palin is right in this regard."
Just like all the "dirt" Palin is airing, right? Yeah.
@ I.L.L./Rory/CiCi
I can't believe I'm defending Miss Sarah, but c'mon, how exactly has she lied on him? If nothing else, this seems like the rare instance in which she's actually taken the high road. Meanwhile, this ingrate can't stay off TV talking sideways about his baby mama's family.
Politricks aside, if this guy was your cousin, you'd probably wanna thump him upside the head.
Believe me, I am the last person to stand up for Miss Sarah's honor, but she's right on this one. That guy's a jackass who is giving no thought to how all these shenanigans are going to effect his relationship with his kid.
He has no high school diploma, and other than being Bristol's babbydaddy no real prospects. She is the adult. I fault her more than I fault him.
Just like Miss Sarah didn't give a thought to how running for vp was gonna affect her fam.
I don't think she's dumb but I wouldn't ask her to assist in a constitutional debate either. I think she took an opportunity to get her hustle on (thanks McCain) and ran with it. Really don't like the woman but she took the one (and only) chance to get $$$$ and capitalized.
Ok AB,
I actually meant the "dirt" she's throwing about everyone else, including the people who GAVE her the national platform that she has now. She is constantly talking greasy about them, when her silly ass claims are easily disproved.
BUT...timing is important. Levi has been saying for a while now that she has been keeping him from the baby, basically right after the baby was born. He only just now starting a media blitz with that information. If SHE hadn't tossed him aside once he'd served his purpose, then HE probably woouldn't be all over the place right now.
I am still shaking my head at her meteoric rise to fame. How can so many people get sucked in by her foolishness. But I think her success was hapless; she just wondered into it. She just happened to be in the right place at the right time when the right is searching for that next great something, and they are willing to believe whatever comes out of her mouth. But at some point, they will grow tired of her and move on.
And as OneChele said, I ain't mad at her. Not one bit. She saw an opportunity and she took it.
No, she's not smarter than we thought. She is a complete and total idiot who has a business manager/agent and a publicist who are helping her make as much bank as she possibly can. It's called SHOW BUSINESS. Dumb people get rich all the time.
@Big K:
"It's not that Palin is smarter than we thought, it's that most of the people who are fans of her are stupider than we thought."
Co-sign LOL.
She's average.
I mean as much as we clown people like Condi or even Clarence Thomas, these people are still worth their salt and more or less qualified for their positions.
I personally think that G.W. Bush was somewhere under the curve, but he did have enough wherewithal to surround himself with qualified people.
This chick heah tho...
She's beneath Bush simply because she doesn't even have the political capital that Bush did. As many flubs as Bush made, at least he had enough going for him that got him re-elected--whatever that is. But this chick heah--nah, she's not an undercover Rhodes' scholar, her fame is more an indictment of our society that supports bullshit like hers. There's nothing novel about it. Take the love affair we have with the averageness of hiphop--that's more society than it is the actual hip hop.
Moreover, as the constant refrain you had in this post, it's about "get money" and in a capitalist and consumerist society, you do whatchu gotta do.
@ Daedalus:
C'mon man---can't you ever make a point without dredging up some straw man that most people around here don't even buy into in the first place? Who around here is gullible enough to fall for Palin's brand of cheap rhetoric as long as it's in "minority" dressing?
And before you say Obama----come on. Really? Are you really going to compare the two? The experience thing is perhaps at least somewhat arguable, but everything else? Come on.
@ AB:
"I read "Goodnight Moon" to my kids each night"
Aw. ;}
Average Brother:
(And I am attempting to avoid the assumption that your blog is focused upon the Black Community's permanent interests when I ask you this question)
I have a question for you:
WHY is there such a lust amongst Black people to go after (apparently) threatening conservative/Republican figures like Sarah Palin.......all the while so many of our communities are smoldering despite the fact that there are no "Sarah Palin-types" in charge of the places where our people living in our highest concentrations? In fact people who Blacks have popularly elected control all of these institutions already and STILL we grieve.
The short question that I have for you AverageBro is "Do you see a threat to our community's PERMANENT INTERESTS when African-Americans use their POLITICAL ADVOCACY that once was used to obtain our basic freedoms yet now it is used as a full player in the game of 'ideological football' that Malcolm X told us about more than 45 years ago?"
More than limiting our participation in and support of the popular party and ideology to the extent that IT advances our community in measurable ways - we have now dressed in the full uniforms of one of these said teams and work to preemptively thwart both its ownership of a team and a star recruit who just released a book and is preparing to go to training camp.
WHAT about the cost that have been rendered to us after having departed from our prior focus upon the core plot of land that we initially entered the fray to advance our cause? The enemy team has been purged and yet our future success remains in question.
Isn't a "Sellout" by any other name still inclined to put their prime focus on an entity that is not of their own?"
[quote]I mean as much as we clown people like Condi or even Clarence Thomas, these people are still worth their salt and more or less qualified for their positions.[/quote]
Uppity Negro:
Do you notice that Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive-Fundamentalist Racism Chasers (my more functionally descriptive label for "Black Progressives) always seem to "Look past LOCAL DEMOCRATS" that are in power over their community and yet fail them as they seek to "Keep The NATIONAL REPUBLICANS on trial"?
Seriously as we look at the places which have the highest concentrations of Black people - WHEN was the last time the COMPETENCY of any of the Democrats and/or Black Elected officials was PUT ON TRIAL?
Here are now 10,000 or 16,000 Black Elected officials (depending on how you count them) WHY is it that the bulk of the criticism is placed upon TWO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T EVEN IN ELECTED positions?
The Black community is infested with IDEOLOGICAL BIGOTRY to our own detriment.
We are all probably clueless for paying this twit too much attention.
Wow, the comments here were much less vile than I expected.
Can I lol a bit at vlatte for being up on the supermarket checkout lane details involving Palin?
lolol!
@ Spool
Can you fault a latte for leisurely reading at the check out line? If it's not Angelina vs. Jennifer than it's Sexy Sarah vs. Dimwit Levi. Frankly, I enjoy the latter.
While I'm a fan of neither Ms. Sarah or Levi I still tend to feel more sorry for him. He does have a son in all of this mess. And you can't fault him for speaking out.
And he doesn't look bad photographed in black and white either. A little duct tape over his mouth and he'd be quite acceptable in dim lighting. Just kidding. :-)
less vile? That's only because I haven't posted yet. In all seriousness though, there isn't a whole lot to say. Palin's most recent accomplishment is endorsing a candidate in new york's 23rd congressional district and the district subsequently going democrat for the first time in over a century. Hell, was she even asked to campaign in Virginia or New Jersey? She's pretty much irrelevant and her numbers speak for themselves. Right now she's no different from balloon boy's parents or jon and kate
[quote]I agree about Levi Johnston, although I think he's more dumb than an asshole. He's got a baby with Bristol, they're broken up, and he keeps getting on TV bashing her mom and dad.[/quote]
Antonio:
Do you notice when it comes to IGNORANT elements in Hip Hop the blame is put upon the MUSIC COMPANIES and the "White Record Executives" that green light it but fail to allow "Common" on the air?
Yet you appear to be focusing on Levi but not the venues that are having them on......and their AGENDA for doing so.
Why the misalignment?
[quote]She just happened to be in the right place at the right time when the right is searching for that next great something, and they are willing to believe whatever comes out of her mouth. But at some point, they will grow tired of her and move on.[/quote]
Stunning analysis.
"Yes we can" move on.
[quote]Palin's most recent accomplishment is endorsing a candidate in new york's 23rd congressional district and the district subsequently going democrat for the first time in over a century. Hell, was she even asked to campaign in Virginia or New Jersey? She's pretty much irrelevant and her numbers speak for themselves.[/quote]
Derek:
I had been disturbed to notice how on the one hand "Entertainment Tonight" had creeped into the "Political News" domain and how the nightly news has creeped into the entertainment domain. Sadly it is clear that it is the VIEWING AUDIENCE that has hastened this per their appetite.
Thus I struggle to see how you and others are focusing more about the REPRESENTATIVE of the "NY 23rd District"; a place that you don't live - yet trying to get people to focus upon the happenings in their own district is quite a chore.
My conclusion is that for too many people and especially Black people - POLITICS is no longer about focused "Political Activism". Instead it has become about personalities and the "Team Sport" milieu.
Even if your own permanent interests have not been addressed - one must 'Not allow the other team to gain any ground'.
The stunning fact that one group of voters in New Jersey had been frustrated about the incumbent governor and thus he lost their support because of the results he rendered. In another group of voters - they still supported him to the tune of 90% because they did not want the other team to gain despite their economic interests having been undercut.
Many of them voted "NO" by staying home rather than voting for the other team.
I almost bought the book as well, sir. I had to stop myself from doing so.
And anytime the spirit moves you to write about sports, we'll free up another guest-spot for ya on ETSF. No worries, my brotha.
@ Constructive:
"Thus I struggle to see how you and others are focusing more about the REPRESENTATIVE of the "NY 23rd District"; a place that you don't live..."
You're looking at it backwards.
What a lot of people resent is the meddling from outsiders into their district's affairs. Especially when the meddling in question is of such a raw, ideological nature. These people are trying to play Whack-A-Mole with politicians they don't like all over the country, and it's an ugly sight.
@Marbles:
It's how both parties work, all the time. You think this is the first time a Representative has parachuted into a New York district and tried to take over?
Must have never heard of this one chick called Hillary, I guess...
Hillary won, Hoffman lost. Regardless of whether both were carpetbaggers, one of them definitely fucked up.
@ constructive feedback
Of course politics is a team sport. why do you think political parties exist in the first place? As social clubs for old white men?
@ Spool:
I was never entirely on board with the whole carpetbagging thing.
Okay, honest truth. I was pretty damned uncomfortable about it. But hey---I was 18 and about to vote for the first time in my life. Why spoil a good party with one's own nagging insecurities? (snicker)
Anyway, that's not really the same thing that just happened up in the good old Adirondack Region. Though if you want to counter that what Hillary pulled was worse, well----I won't really be able to argue back with a straight face. XP
@ Derek:
That's exactly why I've become weary of even having political parties in the first place. George Washington didn't think we should have them. I've come to think he was right.
[quote]Of course politics is a team sport. why do you think political parties exist in the first place? As social clubs for old white men?[/quote]
Indeed the "American Political Domain" is a "team sport".
My challenge is that people have convinced our people that success in that particular domain will compensate for the Black Establishment's failure to build up the structure in the "Black Community Cultural Consciousness Domain".
Thus my argument is that it is insane for someone to put the "team sport" head of this community domain and then look past the fact that they ALREADY have an entire band of favorable people running their community and instead of calling them into account they'd rather work to make sure the "team" expands more in other areas. The hope is that with the national take over....the promised benefits from the "LOCAL TAKE OVER" will finally come through.
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