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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Perfect illustration! Great article! Fun, optimistic, insightful. Well done!
I went to the Palin as dominatrix image myself after reading the Seattle Times (serious, investigative) article in Sunday's paper about how Palin, during her first year of mayor of Wasilla, required all her "subjects" to submit letters of resignation as part of a loyalty test. The 6' 2" chief of police, who had supported her but nonetheless feared for his job, was fired, after some body language indicated he wasn't thrilled with her requirement that he submit weekly Happy reports in addition to all the other reports he had to submit. (You can read the article here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html)
Then, during the George Stephanoplous interview with Obama last Sunday morning, they showed a clip of Limbaugh's gaspingly rave reaction to Palin's convention speech (I think he literally said he didn't want the speech or the night to end!), and I thought, wow, these guys (not only guys, I'm sure...) are really aroused by the combination of toughness and sexuality this woman exudes. No problem in the bedroom, of course! Each to their own! But when it comes to politics, well, not all of us are into that kind of pleasure. :-)
I disagree with Kamiya that that kind of personal energy couldn't sustain a party's enthusiasm for a whole election, but I do agree that the Palin/McCain is not going to be elected. If she had enough political experience to go WITH the dominatrix persona, it could be...but she doesn't.
Thanks again for a good read!
I've not even read the article yet but feel compelled to express my dissatisfaction with the graphic. I come to Salon for content, not for snark. But reducing the criticism to the simple sex-based roles, you make moot any legitimate critique in the piece and give a simple reply point to those who advocate her candidacy.
No, any criticism is not sexist. Criticizing her for her mismanagement of her position as governor and mayor is not sexist. Criticizing her extreme position on abortion is not sexist. Even looking into her past to see if she had an affair is not sexist.
This is sexist.
Truly, you have lost your minds.
After month, after month, after month of having to listen to Joan Walsh whine, and moan, about how ANY criticism of Hillary was sexism -- and watching her jump on the Rev. Wright-bashing and the Obama is an elitist nonsense -- now, at a pivotal time in the election, with the appearance of the "Trojan Moose," WHAT do we get from Salon?
THIS????
First of all, Joan Walsh, you would have NEVER done this to Hillary, and while I despise Sarah Palin with every cell of my being, your publishing this is utter and total hypocrisy.
If this sort of sexist crap had been published about Hillary, we'd have been treated to one of Joan's lengthy, pained pro-Hillary diatribes, and probably one of those pained expression videos to go along with it, condemning the offending sexists in no uncertain terms.
As for Gary -- I expect a lot more than this from you based on your past writing, but this is an embarrassment. The way you've written it, it sure sounds like YOU are the one with the sicko masochistic fantasies about Palin, and you know what...that's pathetic. So you, and what, a couple of million Joe Nascars, are all having Sarah Palin wet dreams? What does that say about you?
This article is going to be linked to, and pointed to, as an example of how perverted, disgusting, and sexist the liberal media is.
What are you going to say on Hardball, Joan, when they show that Palin dominatrix graphic and ask you why you published this?
How are you going to defend it, Joan? After all your bashing of Obama for legitimate political arguments that you wrote off as sexism. Here, you have straight out, unequivocal sexism, and it's perpetrated by YOUR magazine.
Just pathetic...utterly and truly pathetic.
I just can't believe that THIS is Salon's big effort to help get Obama elected. I've been waiting to see if Salon was going to do anything to elevate the discourse, or contribute to the situation.
And I can see that it's hopeless. You've all joined the Palin Bandwagon, just like your fellow slavering idiots in the media, and this is what we're going to get until the election. It was all Hillary all the time for almost a year -- then we had what, the 2 weeks around the Dem convention when you actually covered Obama -- and now, it's going to be All Palin All the Time, right?
Why don't you just freakin stick up the McCain/Palin banner ads on every page of Salon, and write your checks to the RNC and call it a day, Salon, because you couldn't have done a better job of turning OFF possible voters from the progressive, liberal view than putting this total piece of crap article, and Kamiya's ridiculous Photoshop wetdream, up there.
I am truly, officially, and utterly embarrassed to be a Salon subscriber.
If you thought that anything Salon was going to say or do in the next few weeks would make a difference, you've pretty much guaranteed that anyone from the right or the center will disregard Salon as a site that is NOT for serious thinking or writing -- just nonsense and sexist smut.
THANKS A LOT -- FOR A BIG FAT FREAKING NOTHING, SALON...
Come on, already! I didn't support Clinton and I certainly don't support Palin. But it offends me that both candidates have to be sexualized just to appeal to the overgrown-frat-boy mentality of some.
This year, we will find out whether or not a candidate of color can win the White House. But we already know that a woman can't run without being reduced to this nonsense! What a disappointment. (And my sense of humor is perfectly intact, lest anybody tell me I should get one.)
Get some credibility and lose the sensationalism. It's insulting.
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