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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The mean girl analogy is spot on. And those of us with teen-aged daughters who are close to that mean girl mentality, saw it in Palin the night of her so called feisty speech at the RNC, and saw it in her puffed up responses to “Charlie” Gibson.
And Talbot has brought us further into the loop.
I felt bullied as I watched her on my TV delivering her snarky debut speech. Thank god I didn’t confront her in the school cafeteria; I’m certain she’d have tipped my tray, leaving my lunch spewed on the floor. For sure I’d make her Burn Book like so many of the "guys" she used to hang with.
But popular girls, especially when they’re the mean girls, are hard to turn down. They are seductive. Everyone wants to be close to them; girls and boys.
And like powerful junior high cliques, the Republicans feed Sarah Palin, egg her on, pandering to her sex, trying to convince us that this mean girl is a powerful woman who deserves to be a presidential running-mate, and possibly, the President of the United States of America.
I think this is some kind of nasty set up from the wanna’ be popular boy who’s running for President.
If this site leads with one more Palin story, I'm canceling my subscription.
I can't stand the woman either. But I don't need to keep reading these pseudo-obsessive pieces every gosh darn day. I realize Salon spent a lot of dough sending David Talbot to Alaska.
But it doesn't have to publish every darn thing he unearths.
Just.let.it.go.please.
Don't you think it's about time we found real down to earth canidates to run for public office? Enough of the rich getting richer? Enough abuse of fossil fuels that hurt the environment? Wouldn't it be nice to have free electricity to everyone, hydrogen run vehicles? Too bad big money rolls around the world, rolling over the middle class, now poor class folks like myself. Was it Ole Jefferson that stated to over turn government every 2000 yrs? I guess he didn't know about technology, otherwise the declaration would've been written on a palm..Think about who your voting for, Think of all the people that need a change. If you see a need-fill it. As for the greedy mongrels out there taking advantage of folks, i say ship them to Iraq..
Mean is too nice because this broad is POISON!!!
Please stop her, all you handsome YANKEES
She gives USA a bad name. Oh GOD please
make sure she goes away FAR, FAR, AWAY.
I hate her because she takes WOMEN 300 years or so
back in time. What a stupid fool. If she was a woman
of color she would be in jail, and yet we have to hear how full of AMERICAN family values her family is... HAHAHA her family needs rehab.
Do you AMERICANS even realize what the world thinks of this
piece of work?
SARAH PALIN You are a hippo-republican-cryt thang GO AWAY NOW!!!!!!
I disagree with anyone who says "enough" about negative Palin articles in Salon. The more background on her nefarious past to pass along to voters, the better.
It all needs to come out. This woman scares the bejesus out of me. I have absolutely no respect now for John McCain for his selection of her. No amount of spin, snake oil, pr, hyperbole, or palin smiles will persuade me otherwise.
McCain's cheap political trick, during a critical time in our country, has tarnished his hero image. I pray to God that the American public resists being seduced by his ambitious, opportunistic VP choice.
Several months ago I was strongly for Obama. Then I started to see flaws in his candidacy - experience, ultra liberal approach, etc.. I was greatly surprised by McCain choice for VP but not well informed about Palin. While I still lean towards Obama/Biden, I have noticed (again) a notable bias in TV and print media coverage of the two tickets. It has become increasingly obvious that this coverage is very biased against Palin (and to a lesser extent McCain). I'm not talking the facts, but more the way the facts are presented - the nuances of communication if you will. Freedom of the press is one of the foundation stones of our democracy. Increasingly that particular foundation stone seems to have its own agenda. I never thought that I would agree with the ultra right on anything but I do see a lot of truth in their charge of media bias. Please Mr. Talbot, leave your persdonal feelings and bias out of your reporting. You are rapidly becoming a real "spin doctor" and demeaning your entire profession.
Assuming your character assassination of Sarah Palin has any shred of truth to it whatsoever, then what you're basically saying is that Governor Palin is a female version of your all-time hero, the infamously ruthless Robert Kennedy. In other words, Palin is (in this sense) the spitting image of another of your heros, Hillary Clinton, who you would never dare refer to as a "mean girl", you sexist hypocrite. Thus the only real problem you have with Palin, which by the way you'll never admit to, is that she's not a Democrat. That's basically what all this comes down to. Because if she were a lefty like you, you'd be defending her up and down like nobody's business. As it happens, you libs don't deserve to have someone of her quality on your side of the political spectrum. I can only wish that Governor Palin proves to be half as tough and "mean" as you make her out to be. I hope this lovely baracuda ruthlessly kicks hell out of every stupid Democrat butt she encounters between now and 2016, starting with that clown Biden. I say long live America's Margaret Thatcher, God bless her. . . the real honest to goodness change that we've been waiting for . . . Sar-ah! Sar-ah! Sar-ah! Go get 'em, baby! We love you!
News to me -- politicians are ambitious, those left in their wake have nasty things to say about them and friends who become political liabilities are left in the dust or repudiated.
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Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
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