America by Heart – Chapter 5, The Rise of the Mama Grizzlies, Part 2
When we last left our “author” she was knee deep, wading through the feminist swamp, trying to slog through while simultaneously engaging in painful contortions of ideology, history, and gender. This half of the chapter is no different. We’ve moved from Hillary Clinton and her bra-burnin’ ways to the earliest suffragettes, and the hard-ass workin’ pioneer chicks of the West.
Page 139
It surprises some people to hear that she considers herself a feminist.
She is also a “grateful beneficiary” of Title IX, the federal law that mandates equal opportunity in women’s sports in high school and college. (??? She is pro federal entitlement programs that cost money? Ohhhh, right. SHE benefited from it, so it’s OK. Kind of like the Joe Miller philosophy – against programs that help people as long as he already got his.)
Liberal feminists should ask themselves why women reject the term “feminist.” (Ummm, overwhelmed by conservative media pundits spouting crap and making people not want to use the word because it’s been distorted so repeatedly that people forget what it acutally means and treat it like something bad? Am I close?)
Page 140
SHE grew up where women did the same work as men. SHE was expected to work as hard as the boys. SHE played sports and went fishing and hunting. SHE had a completely perfect childhood where she was able to balance being girly and being strong and capable.
Feminism used to be pro-woman, now it’s anti-woman. It used to be about women being equal.
She went to Seneca Falls and read Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Declaration of Sentiments.
Because Stanton refers to “rights to which nature and nature’s God” entitle women, she is nothing like those rotton contemporary feminists who would never in a million years invoke nature and nature’s God. Feminists today (excepte her, I guess) just believe that men are opressors, women are victims, and unborn children are “personal choices.”
At some point feminism became all about making women “victims.”
In the new “feminist vision of America, women are perceived as constant victims of beatings by their husbands, date rape by their boyfriends, and self-induced starvation by society as a whole.” (Wow. Just, WOW…. I guess women are just a bunch of whiners now… domestic violence, rape, eating disorders. Waaaaaah! Why don’t victims of these things just buck up and work harder. Where’s their positive “can do” pioneer spirit? And she’s speaking as the ex-governor of the state with the highest levels of rape and incest and domestic violence, so hey… she oughtta know!)
The message today to women is that you can’t succeed unless you have a government handout.
Someone said that domestic violence increases on Superbowl Sunday. That sounded fishy to her because she has “extensive experience watching games” with her dad and Todd and Track.
Page 143
It turns out the football statistic was bogus, but feminists had already glommed on to it and then the Iranians used it, and images of battered women to tell the world that American women had it worse than Iranian women which isn’t true.
Those kind of lies “serve the big-government agenda of liberal feminists” and “the anti-woman agendas of tyrannical regimes everywhere.”
Page 144
Alaska is The Last Frontier, so she has a reverence for frontier women. Her family grew vegetables, chopped wood, and ate what they killed. (Just like all Americans…)
Page 145
She read Little House on the Prairie. She watched it on TV. And then there was the Hollywood epic How the West Was Won which gives you a good glimpse at the men and women at the forefront of the movement west.
(I, not having seen How the West Was Won, checked it out on Wikipedia to see what frontier women might have inspired the ex-half-gov and future presidential wannabe. Here is the first reference: “Linus is betrayed when he accompanies pretty Dora Hawkins into a cave to see a “varmint”. She stabs him in the back and pushes him into a deep hole.” Oh, dear. Then there’s a woman who drowns trying to cross a river on a raft. Then there’s a homesteader. Then there’s a dance hall girl.
I don’t know which one Sarah Palin is. I tend to think she’s the one who lured the guy into the cave and stabbed him and stuffed him in a deep hole. Spouse thinks she’s the dance hall girl. You can make up your own mind.
It’s also worthy of note that the movie stars Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and is directed by John Ford. So we’ve got the veteran of WWII trifecta from the chapter “Why They Serve” in there, in addition to the tough frontier women role models all in one movie!)
Women on the frontier and in Alaska were allowed to vote earlier than other places.
Page 146
The original suffragettes had views that many today would consider politically incorrect, and they had sensible shoes. (No naughty monkeys?)
There was a widow who started a newspaper dedicated to women’s rights called the Colorado Antelope. History has whitewashed her because she was pro-gun and she shot through a door at a guy who wouldn’t leave her alone. (No mention of her moving to California because she was “incensed by a California bill that would punish and regulate immoral women.” I guess if it’s free market capitalist immorality, that’s OK.)
Page 148
Then there was Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne who was the first female member of the Alaska Legislature. (She was a Democrat, by the way) She could have complained and considered herself a victim but she didn’t.
Page 149
Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne said, “I feel justly proud that these men all know I shall neither weep nor faint if they notify me that my presence is unwelcome.”
Sarah Palin said, “My hero(ine)!”
(Sarah would not weep or faint either. She’d just put out a Facebook post attacking their character and unleashing the unholy army of Palinbots to do her dirty work for her. But no weeping or fainting.)
Page 150
You would think from their reaction that liberal feminists think they’re the only ones who can use the word.
According to a 2009 Gallup poll more Americans are pro-life than pro-choice, which she attributes to the advent of ultrasound technology.
(Here’s a chart from that poll which shows that actually, the change in attitude towards a pro-life stance has come from conservatives and moderates, and that liberal views have remained the same. I just thought it was interesting.)
Page 151
“Liberal feminism tells American women that they can’t value life and call themselves women.” It’s no longer the case that women can only win “if her unborn child loses.”
Page 152
An entire page citation from Colleen Carroll Campbell about how young women today are pro-life, and that the lefty feminists are freaking out.
Page 153
Young women can still handle an unintended pregnancy and pursue a career, and get an education. Strangely, “feminists” seem to want to tell young girls that they can’t do all these things, and that they are not capable and strong and able to pursue their dreams. The “New Feminism” tells them yes they can!
The new feminism is “about compassion and letting these scared young women know that there will be some help there for them to raise their children in those less-than-ideal circumstances.” (Like…. what? Health care? Welfare? Neighbors helping neighbors? WIC? We’re waiting….)
(We’re still waiting… but that’s it. No solution. I guess because Bristol has a family who loves her and people to babysit, and a truck and a roof over her head, and a job, then ALL unwed teenage mothers will be juuuuust fine. Phew!)
Ah! And here is finally the answer. “God will never give you something you can’t handle.”
(Buck up little mama.)
Page 154
When she found out that Trig had Down Syndrome she thought there was no way she was “nurturing enough” to handle it. (So did we. Maybe it was the sack-o-potatoes thing) Or patient enough. But “God was whispering in my ear and saying Are you going to trust me? Are you going to walk the walk or just talk the talk?”
~Ripley in CT at the Rally to Restore Sanity &/or Fear in Washington, D.C.
She wants to let all those scared young pregnant unwed girls who are reading this pile of crap book know that “if you give this life a chance, your life truly will change for the better.”
Page 155
She is proud that Bristol chose (CHOSE) life. (She would like Bristol not to have had a choice, but let’s not dwell on that part)
God sees a way when we cannot, and he does not make mistakes. (But people do… so it’s God’s will that teenagers have unsafe sex?)
Page 156
The women’s movement used to be about respecting women by respecting their choices. Those were the good ol’ days. (HUH? Where’s that damn whiplash collar?)
Page 156-157
Now she launches off in a tirade about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Margaret Sanger. (I was fortunate enough to meet writer Michelle Goldberg back in 2008 when she came to Alaska, and she’s written a fantastic take-down of the nonsense on these two pages for the Daily Beast HERE. Here’s a snippet, but do go read the whole thing.)
But reading Palin’s new book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag, it’s clear that in order to claim feminism as her own, she’s had to radically distort its history. In a chapter on feminism that’s sure to be widely discussed, she mischaracterizes the views of nearly every historical feminist she mentions.
Sometimes she does it to defame them, other times to make it seem as if they shared her ideology. As so often with Palin, it’s hard to tell whether ignorance or dishonesty is at work. Perhaps neither she nor her ghostwriter had time to read up on women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, presented here as a pious Christian conservative. But couldn’t one of them at least have perused her Wikipedia entry?
My favorite sourcing for Palin’s take on Margaret Sanger was the book Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, the husband of her ghost-writer. Awesome.
Page 158
People who shoot doctors and bomb abortion clinics give the whole don’t-murder-the-innocent-children crowd a bad name.
If those liberal feminazis want to tell conservative women they aren’t feminists or real women then “that’s their right, of course, and God bless ’em. But if they thought pit bulls with lipstick were tough, wait until they meet a mama grizzly.”
Well, now that we’ve learned all we never wanted to know about the “new feminism” it’s time for a brief intermission. Because…. it’s picture time! Yes, our next installment will describe for you the pictures included in the center of the book. That’s the part everyone looks at first in the bookstore anyway, right?
Next time – PICTURES!
Apparently she didn’t do a lot of research into Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who went on to write “The Women’s Bible” a look at the role of women in organized religion. In fact, she was dumped by some suffragists because she realized that the vote wasn’t going to matter much, because religion was the engine of female oppression.
Thanks again for the self-sacrificing coverage of this piece of crap book!!
Looking forward to the photos–are you sure that’s legal, AKM? Have you cleared this with Harper Collins? 🙂
I thought AKM said she’d describe, not print the actual px but perhaps there are very good substitutes. Of course, there is always fair use.
Positive thoughts to you AKM for this effort; you can quit with this trip thru sewage at any time; not one of us would blame you.
Page 155.
IMO Bristol chose to have unprotected sex.
Why she chose to have unprotected sex knowing that she might get pregnant may be a mystery.
A commenter recently said her pregnancy was to get an ‘escape baby’ but that apparently hasn’t worked, more than once, because she’s still in her mother’s thrall.
I have always thought it was to give her mother the ‘uff da’ fist. Or the big middle finger.
Page 146.
Did $he mention how the prostitutes built Fairbanks?
I mean immoral women were regulated by taxation when they got off the riverboat then became the founding mothers of Alaska.
I think the book is called Good Time Girls? It has a section on women coming to Fairbanks to work the gold miners. The names are familiar to Alaskans today.
I read it several years ago – and don’t have my copy handy –
Thanks a million! My Sister’s birthday is Jan 13th and I’ve been stumped as to what to buy. Got her Joe McGinness’s Alaska book for Christmas, amongst other things, since she loves Alaska history.
Just found this “Good Time Girls” at Amazon and it looks excellent! Ordered. Now I’ve just got to find a couple more presents to go with but at least this will be a hit.
Oh, wonderful! It’s a good read.
Sister can Google the names and find out how many of the current respectable and powerful families had foremothers who, um, built this state the old fashioned way.
The True Wild West at its finest!
It is time for you to stop reading and toss the book into the fire where it will at lease produce some good and heat your home. Let’s cleanse our brains of this drivel. There is no useful information to gleam from this work of fantasy. And please let us all encourage people to stop calling the Twitter Quitter governor. That’s not too much to ask. Sincerely.
Where did this woman gain her expertise about liberals, anyway?
Off the book topic here, does anyone know if Palin was involved with the anti-choice people who were persecuting the gynecologist in Palmer, this would be 20 years ago at least, who provided health services, including abortions, to low income women. I don’t recall the doctor’s name but she was well liked by her patients. This group of church people was trying to drive her out of business and I think it was about the same time Sarah was getting involved in Wasilla politics. It was a pretty nasty time as I recall. The religious wackos were infiltrating the local Republican party and churches were being built on just about every street corner in Wasilla. I lived outside of Wasilla for many years and kind of watched from a distance. I remember when all the representatives in the Valleys were Democrats, that’s how long ago I was there. 🙂 Anyway, I was just wondering how that doctor fared.
The Twit has no expertise about liberals, or anything else for that matter (except the almighty lie). Heck, she probably can’t spell it.
That doctor was actually forced out of business (Alaska medical license revoked) under the Palin administration.
I’m sorry that I don’t recall her name at the moment, but the end of it was in the last three or four years.
I had no idea that the harassment had gone on so long.
Thanks for the info. What a shame.
“feminist vision of America, women are perceived as constant victims of beatings by their husbands, date rape by their boyfriends, and self-induced starvation by society as a whole.”
Physical violence, rape, and DIETING all have the same weight in Sarah’s mind?
Single teen Moms just have to work hard enough and life and family will go swimmingly? (…Didn’t Sarah say earlier in the book that at least one of the baby Palins spend 3 hours every day at a friend’s house?)
‘People who shoot doctors and bomb abortion clinics give the whole don’t-murder-the-innocent-children crowd a bad name’? Oh, wait… I actually find this logical. O_O AKM, did that part sound reasoned? Holy frijoles.
I’ve noticed that she seems to spend an unusually large amount of time talking about violence against women, often in the oddest (and most inappropriate) context and almost always in an exaggerated fashion, as she did in this book. Now, if she were an advocate for women’s rights and promoting programs and legislation to help them , it would make sense. Certainly, there is enough domestic violence and abuse happening in Alaska to alarm anyone with a heart, but she never mentions it in connection with finding ways to reduce the occurrence.
However, she almost seems to have this strange obsession with it and a bizarre perspective on who should be blamed for it.
Kinda makes you go hmmm…
I’ve wondered if she was the object of violence or sexual abuse at some point in her life, with her propensity to accuse others so quickly of it – are there some behavioral patterns that victims exhibit to indicate what they have been through ??
I’ve wondered that too. She often gives the appearance of not liking being hugged or touched.
Didn’t we (sort of) have this discussion when The Great Fence of Palin went up? Wasn’t she complaining about (anticipating?) Joe McGuiness’ peeping in on her youngest daughter through the bedroom window and his oogling her in her ‘lawn-mowing’ attire? Seems to be an awfully unhealthy focus on the eeew-ick! possibilities from her, if you ask me.
Obsession? Projection? Simply: Palin-Brand Crazy?
Yeah, sure does make one go hmmm… beth.
Leenie, there are rumors in Wasilla that Sarah’s father abused her, even sexually abused her, so your observation and her rationalizations are consistent with that possibility.
That’s a really good point, leenie17. If she were such a victim, it could explain some of her willful re-imaginings and weird emphases. In such a family-centric book, (it sounds like) she mentions those who raised her very little, if at all. And when she talks about herself, she does so in an acceptably cliche way … like she can only talk about the generic masks she wears, not her real individuality.
Or, she’s just a narcissist. Maybe both, sadly.
I mean acceptable to her, of course. 🙂
Baby Palin spends 3 hours at a friends house. Really? He’s not going to a babysitter? Does she pay the “friend”. Is this framing to avoid sounding like a “feminist”.
AKM’s summary of Chp 4 Page 123 related that Trig spends a few hours a day at a friend’s house. I think it’s framing to avoid sounding like a mom who uses day care.
Anyone heard from dreamgirl? Is her store up and running? I’m almost ready to make a trip to Chicago just to have a hot beverage and healthy snack!
Please take a look at my post on the Open Thread today. A man who had joint custody of his children has lost it (and now has only visitation rights) because he’s agnostic. I’ve become so shockproof that this didn’t shock me, but I am appalled.
Now, onto the latest installment of $owah’s drivelsome tripe: Some time ago (maybe the late 1970s), my little sister, who was a pre-med student at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania (she didn’t end up staying there, she instead holds a doctorate in Chiropractic), said something to the effect that she enjoyed her “girliness” too much to be a feminist.
I patiently explained that her foremothers (including our own mother and myself!) had done the work that had enabled her to get so far in life, and that if it hadn’t been for our work and sacrifices, there would have been no room for a “girl” at such a fine university; that we struggled so she didn’t have to. She was a little chagrined. I think $owah is four years younger than my sister.
One doesn’t need a degree in Women’s Studies to know the history of women in the US, but I thank the Goddess for all my predecessors and their bravery in the face of the patriarchy. Stupid women like PayMe’s faithful followers have no concept of herstory, and have no chance of learning it from this latest revisionist pamplet. I weep for every tree that was pulped for her sins.
Well said.
Night!
I don’t mean to be rude, but it makes for very hard reading.
If I was an editor…I would outlaw square brackets and things like this ***** and italics.
Irishgirl ~ Duly noted. In defense, a keyboard square bracket is a one-finger deal — a keyboard parenthesis is a two-finger deal. The latter then, also too, takes coordination. 😉 …see? beth.
Dear Beth – don’t take this as anything but what it is. I enjoy your posts, but I have to agree with Editor Irishgirl. I have a hard time reading your posts with all the extra symbols, italics, and caps. My eyes just get wigged out. I would enjoy being able to read your entire post to the end, sometimes I just have to give up halfway through. There you go – I am channeling the Twit who Quit.
Had I been editor…
P. 153 — The new feminism is “about compassion and letting these scared young women know that there will be some help there for them to raise their children in those less-than-ideal circumstances.”
would read:
P. 153 — The new feminism [of $arah Palin’s heart] is “about compassion ::according to a strict set of talibangelical rules:: and letting these scared young women know that there will be some ::–strictly controlled, ‘stringed’, and distributed–:: help there for them to raise their children in those less-than-ideal circumstances ::until the child is 6-months old…at the most. After that, the woman** is on her own because 18-months {from conception to 4-months post-birth} is plenty of time for her to find a job and contribute *to* society rather than leech *from* it::.” beth.
**Although $arah chooses to lump ALL “scared young women” and “their children” together, *I* choose to view each woman/young girl as an individual, because I know, for a FACT!, that each has specific circumstances unique to *her* situation and each has an *overall* situation equally as individual with which *she* must deal. [Understatement alert] Obviously, $arah and I differ on this point. b.
I think it’s time for a new metaphor, if metaphor is the word I want.
Cockroach with lipstick.
Yeah, Jeanne, you deserve some kind of award for reading this crap. I simply don’t have the constitutional fortitude you have.
It’s a handbook of stupidity.
Is fortitude in the Constitution? It has “fort” in it. Does it come under defense?
Come and get me mama grizzlies! I’m ready! I’m takin’ advantage of Second Amendment solutions, and, to paraphrase our author of “America by F*rt, ” don’t rethink, reload.”
If she wants to know how mama grizzlies have fared against Second Amendmenters, she can just ask all the grizzlies left in California. Oh, wait. They’re only found on flags, not.
Yep, “America by F*rt. Reflections on Family props, Faith in Guns, and Flags as a state wildlife sanctuary.”
flags, now. now, now, now
The woman is truly despicable.
Her first book was full of lies and half-truths that were primarily about her family history, which can be difficult to refute. This book, on the other hand, is full of complete fabrications, distortions and lies about people and events that are thoroughly documented in history. Her lies and distortions are easily proven.
There also seems to be less editing done on this one, both in terms of the quality of writing and in fact-checking. I wonder if the ghost writer and/or editor of this one is merely less competent, or if her ego has grown to such proportions that she will not allow anyone to change her words. Either way, she looks like a fool.
Her mania also seems to be ramping up exponentially, both in the anger and hate evident in her book and in the behavior at her appearances. She seems to be less and less able to control her own reactions to people and events, and her responses seem to be increasingly reactive and desperate. As the coverage of her continues to become more negative, even on her home channel of Fox, her frantic attempts to remain in the spotlight make it appear that she’s heading for a major implosion. I pity her family when that happens because no one will be safe from her wrath.
On the bright side, now that she’s vented…sorry, reflected…this steaming pile of why everyone but her has it wrong, surely she’s out of material for any future books. Not that she really had any for this one.
Or, perhaps next year, we will get the Sarah Palin Cookbook…Whine by Crackers.
I have a feeling plenty of wrath has been going on in her home for years. There’s too many grudges, verbal anger and spite expressed by her publicly to think otherwise.
“…in the behavior at her appearances…” When I first read that I thought you meant her reaction when she noticed her hair was so dirty and (in the CNN video) how badly her hair was pinned into that bun thing.
It seems to me, based on recent pictures and videos, she’s not taking care of herself or else not allowing handlers to touch her. That could also be a sign of impending implosion.
Sure hope I get to see her ‘splode into a million bits. The Second Big Bang. Oh, that didn’t happen! because it was billions of eons ago – God only formed the earth 6,000 years ago. Sheesh, how could I doubt it?
Do you bang your head on desk top repeatedly after reading each chapter.?
Thought you should see this…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-camp/leaked-original-unedited_b_792016.html
LOL… Funny stuff… Sarah Palins followers will probably think it was actually written by her and will now be blaming Joe McGuinness for going through her garbage…
Thanks! The “stuff I like” list is great.
What is even better are the responses from those who think it is real!
OMG! I didn’t bother reading the responses when I first saw the piece. It was so funny I just posted it here. How could anyone not know it was a joke? Totally clueless!
Thank you for this so much. I’m laughing so hard at the comments I’m snorting!!
That was wonderful……thank you…!
— Palin excoriates the “old feminism” for making women “victims.” If so, why does she always play the victim?
— Palin touts the “new feminists” as fearless, strong Mama Grizzlies in the mold of pioneer paragons. If so, why did she act like a frantic, fleeing mouse when a CNN reporter evaded her handlers at her recent book signing and….shock…horrors….actually asked her an innocuous question? Oh, wait! Pioneer paragons didn’t have to deal with the lamestream media back in the day……yawn.
Classic confused confabulation. A roaring mouse who pretends she’s a bear.
This video will explain everything you need to know about where Sarah Palin got the idea for her stupid biography books, her use of ghostwriters to tell her “real” story, and the Sarah Palin “reality” book tour… It’s all been done before… Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WtjFhEGrM&feature=related
hehehe! Great connection!
I don’t know what happened to my earlier post but “How the West Was Won” was one of my favorite kid movies. It was shown for a few years at the first Cinerama theater in Hollywood and I got to see it a few times at specially priced kiddie matinees. I think I was around 10 when it came out. The one thing I recalled about the movie is the main character Lily, played by Debbie Reynolds. She is the only one who is present from beginning to end. Lily is nothing that Sarah likes. She set off in the world to find her way, was not quick to marry the first guy who asked and never had kids. She was a very independent woman who made her own way and never played a victim card. She made her life on her own terms and was an influence on this little girl and her friends. I remember we all wanted to grow up to be like Lily. Strong, smart and not dependent.
I’m really surprised Scarah is using this movie in her book. It’s got nothing she stands for. I was looking up Lily and found this quote.
“Mike King: Why did you bring those bodies here?
Jethro Stuart: They’re railroaders. I thought somebody in the
railroad might be interested.
Mike King: Im the railroad and Im not interested!”
I bet Mike King would be voting R these days. Sarah you are no Lily!
Sweet Jesus. I’ve read it twice now and I am speechless.
Here’s some more fodder for your cannon… This is from Jonathan Turley at George Washington University…
http://jonathanturley.org/2010/12/04/so-help-her-god/
Just more stuff to pile on the trash fire…. keep up the sojourn until the nausea takes it’s toll and you gotta come out…
if sarah can believe in the myth of her own self-projected existence, she can believe any, as far as i’m convinced.
She just never stops lying, does she? Liberal women are told this; liberal women are told that. Strange. I’ve known hundreds, thousands of liberal women during my long life, and I’ve never heard any of them being “told” the crap that Sarah claims chapter after chapter. And if they ever were “told” any such nonsense, they’d laugh in the tellers face.
Jim-
Spoken like a REAL TEXAN – not a Rethug Phil Gramm, Cornyn, DeLay LIAR TEXAN.
BTW, I’m a native Dallasite, multigenerational Texan.
I’m having a hard time even reading your summaries. Can’t imagine how you’re reading the book. I come pretty close to despising this woman. Only Dick Cheney otherwise belongs in that category. Words basically fail me.
Holy sh*t! That is some delusional thinking. Scary.
A couple of things…
1) P. 143 — Since the advent of the googles, *no* self-respecting woman [librul-feminist or otherwise] has believed the “Super Bowl Sunday” crap; as snopes calls it, “a noble lie”. [ http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp ] Sadly, it’s just the type of internet rumour that folks like $arahbots keep alive by exhorting others to “send it to everyone you know. The mainstream media won’t discuss this, but it has to get out. Forward it to everyone in your address book”. Dollars to donuts, *no* librul-feminist “gloms’ on to it — bot-feminists, however…
2) I was unaware a 1962 movie –filmed in Technicolor, though it is– is a good source of historical information about the settling of “the West.” I guess it must be, though, because $arah cites it. {Chuckle — I do note also, too, the movie opens with the narrator intoning: “This land has a name today, and is marked on maps. But, the names and the marks and the maps all had to be won, won from nature and from primitive man.” I love the “primitive man” part. [
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056085/ ]} I think I’ll watch the DVD tonight of “Lord of the Rings” for an historical perspective of Middle Earth.
3) Any ‘argument’ framing the two opposing sides as “pro-life” v. “pro-choice” fails automatically, in my book. [Likewise, use of the term “anti-abortion” (insinuating the opposition is “pro-abortion”) fails automatically for me.] One can be “pro- choice” *and* “pro-life” — as a matter of fact, I’ve not met one single person who is “anti-life” [or “pro-abortion”]. Ever! To couch any ‘argument’ in terms inherently impossible to ‘switch’ from “pro” to “anti” or vice versa, [because in doing so, they end up unequal and mean two *totally* different things], fails.
4) The brush with which $arah paints “other” (those who do not ‘think’ exactly as she does) is as perjorative and as wide as she is ignorant.
5) “$arah’s” screeds? Wow! Just Wow! beth.
Thanks! Point #2 gave me a good laugh, especially your comment about historical Middle Earth…as far as Middle Earth today, it’s ok for a visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
And I totally agree with your assessment of the terms “pro” and “anti”….how DOES the extreme conservative movement always appropriate the ‘talking points’ in their favor?
lol about middle earth! i dig tolkien references (blush).
I agree with all your points. Sarah doesn’t know what actual research is, confuses fiction with fact, and subscribes to an inaccurate black-and-white argument on an issue with a lot of shades of gray. Given her totally irresponsible actions just prior to the birth of her youngest, I’m still wondering if she was cold and calculating enough to hope that Trig would die on the trip back to Alaska, so she could claim credit for being pro-life while not having to deal with the consequences, and get sympathy to boot. Now I wonder how much time she actually spends with him, and how much of his time is spent with others. It does not seem she has spent much time actually parenting her three oldest children. She does seems to spend a lot of time with Piper, but as a mean girl creating a mini-me to hang out with, not as a parent, as she recently showed us on her “reality” show.
Right on – one is either “pro-choise” or “anti-choice” – leave the word life out of the mix, particularly if you think like the Snowbilly Grifter – ditch ’em upon birth.
Sarah has no idea what kind of discrimination women faced before the Womens Movement. Less than fifty years ago, my local community newspaper listed women as Mrs. Todd Palin instead of Sarah Palin. We were identified by our husband’s name and had no identity in our own right. Less than thirty years ago, I accompanied my husband to business functions where I was still identified in that same way. I took a black Sharpie pen, crossing out his name (my sole identification) and substituting my own. Men just laughed; women were shocked. When I went to college, women were required to wear skirts, even on the coldest day. When the temperature fell below zero, I wore slacks under my skirt, but at least I had my skirt on. Few women held positions of authority. If the boss made sexual advances and a woman resisted, she was fired without cause. Women were ashamed to press rape charges in court. (It still is problematic, and we all know about Sarah making victims pay for their own rape kit).
The problem with the way Sarah views things that God has personally taken a hand in running her life. It’s that expression about God not giving her something she could not handle. Be extension, then God is managing the lives of many poor who cannot afford health care or even the extra mouths to feed. It is God who is in charge of making jobs available or opening doors just wide enough for an unqualified political candidate to win an election. There are many other people raising disabled children who do not put them on parade and public display, but who chose, instead, to provide therapy and give them every chance in life. Instead of revisiting that tired “I chose life, you don’t have that choice” meme, it would be uplifting for Sarah to describe how she works with her disabled son, how unconditional love plays a role in his therapy. Instead, we are informed that he spends a few hours a day looking at farm animals.
Sarah’s book has the same functions as her TV series, her over-paid speeches and everything else in her life, to define Sarah as the All American Woman. The book is her dreamed of biography. The TV series is the film loop that will be shown when she runs for office. She could be raising 19 kids and counting (another TLC program) and that still would not make her any more qualified to be President of the United States. She can hurl her mean girl barbs at people she doesn’t like, and she remains unqualified, uneducated and uninformed.
nice post MaeLewis.
Agreed.
“God will not give you something you can’t handle.”
What a load of steaming crap–mental hospitals are filled with people given “something” they can’t handle.
Exactly. And what about the teen suicide that is going on….
You know what cracks me up about that “I chose life” BS?
Bristol and/or $arah knew, early into the pregnancy, that the fetus had TRI-G, the chromosome disorder called Down Syndrome.
They could have chosen, very easily, to not carry the fetus to term – who would have known?
I chose to get pregnant with my first child at age 35 – I did not know she had problems that would mean she is a special needs person. I don’t remember being tested for DS, and I don’t think there was any testing that could be done for her particular complications.
Had I known, I don’t know that I would have chosen to carry her to term. It has been a long hard row for her to hoe. She has met a lot of challenges and succeeded, she is a wonderful person and I am very proud of her and her hard work.
My point is, the “I chose life” trope is bull$hit.
It’s all bull because in this day and age you choose to get pregnant if you don’t use birth control.
If you do use contraceptives, you know it has certain failure rates. If it fails and you become pregnant, you make choices based on your values and circumstances.
And we all know the ones who scream the loudest about too much government in our lives are the same ones who want to interfere the most with women’s bodies.
Because we are still only so much chattel and we still make only 79 cents for the dollar a man makes for the same exact work.
I think today I hate $arah Palin even more than before.
Thank you….I remember, as well…
SUPERIOR, ML. Thank you.
So she learned all about western and pioneer history from reading children’s fiction and watching movies?
That does explain a lot, doesn’t it.
Denigrating Stanton, Sanger and Anthony? Inexplicable! Once again, Sarah, you are not a bear. I think she’s starting to get delusional about her metaphor.
“Coined” – not cointed. Sorry.
I suspect just thinking about $arah made the word “c—” float into your head, hence “cointed.” Freudian slips aren’t always senseless…
I remember so well the days when my employer hired men for me to train into my job and paid them double my salary. When I complained to my employer, he said I know it doesn’t seem fair, but you’re a woman and that’s just the way it is. Yes, that’s the way it was and that’s when I became a full fledged feminist and damn proud of it. I cointed my own definition of feminist as: Any person, male or female, who believes in raising the status of women to full equality for all. Obviously, Sister Sarah would have failed the test – big time.
Gryphen made a good point on his blog: If you went to Wasilla and asked passersby where the “arrogant, backstabbing bitch” lived they would ALL point to Palin’s house.
That is so True!!
per page 140:
SHE grew up not understanding that her father wished she had been a son, and THAT made ALL the difference. Thanks for the mean girl, Chuck.
the seed of Chucky writ large.
Gah! Gaaak! Must stop!
Do you think Sarah imagines herself some sort of white bread Oprah? Soon she can name her favorite things (sort of like Oprah’s book club, only probably less bookish, hah!), to go along with her favorite people (politicians! beauty pageant victims!) favorite places, and favorite hackneyed cliches she’s so proud to call ideas. Then her bots can rush right out (the sound of whirring scooters) and buy them, with some sort of revenue channel for La Palin of course.
Let’s hope she retires to her tacky compound to count her money, tweet her little attacks, post her bogus facebook rants, and broadcast her Fox ramblings… and soon. I think she’ll retire once that face goes, and I recognize the softening chin line where that sag threatens to head south. It won’t be long now, because the surgical procedures will take her out of action for too long, and when she tushes them it won’t turn out well. Vanity will do her in, if she doesn’t melt down in a shrieking hissing mess before.
“rushes” not “tushes” although that’s a scary thought
Yes, it only takes a bucket of water (a small dose of reality) to have a witch like her ‘melt down in a shrieking hissing mess.’ and the sooner the better.
What she is saying in this book is so convoluted and contradicting. I can visualize the tangled web she is weaving becoming so constricting that eventually nothing will be able to come out of her mouth but “gaahhh.”
I don’t think so Oprah gives freely, palin gives nothing
lol @ the sound of whirring scooters.
Such a waste of good paper.
I really appreciate this service. Again, this book (and it’s presumed author) backs my premise that Darwin’s principles do not apply to humanity in the modern age.
What Sarah seems to missing is that there were a bunch of women with different views throughout our history. I am sure there were Sarah’s in the day with less rights. What is the point that she is trying to make on feminism? Does she feel a need to redefine it and erase the fact that some progressive thinkers as well as like minded women like her are apart of our history? She doesn’t realize that some didn’t like immigrants etc.?
There were women in different states that were pretty (progressive) for their time and others that were divided. Feminism was not just a political movement, so I am not sure what she is trying to say. Maybe her argument should be that certain states had similar views like her. Or due to the times “1800s” there would be many factors that would lend to what women believed during those eras.
To exclude people from her view of she deems wrong with feminism goes well with her skewed thoughts on “real America.” I don’t think that Ms. Sarah means to say that only real Americans should become her new feminist goup. I don’t care if she has a little group, just backoff of the women who did not think exactly like you. Some of us have no concept of of what women in the 1800s went through, beside what history has written. People have disagreed in our past, so is she trying to claim that we should buy her moonshine today? There is room for SP’S ideas and the women that follow her, she perhaps needs to spend a little more time reading about feminism and talking to the scholars who have spent much time understanding the concept before smacking down one set of ideas.
Isn’t it possible that religion was a factor and numerous other factors may have played into what women thought? Or is this about (CEDAW)? “Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.” There are some impacts of the law that are said to be counterproductive to some, wouldn’t it be more constructive to have this debate?
Tell me where she gets her money to keep speaking and I will show you which legislation she is against. She is a glorified lobbyist (want to be President) self-appointed let’s add.
alas, more jimmy stewart, just as i feared. i will have to burn some sage and be sure to tune into It’s a Wonderful Life to calm any bad vibes she has sent into the universe by exploiting his memory.
this line is oft repeated by the tweetster herself – i thought it was off the cuff and surely too stupid for her book (note to self: nothing is too stupid for her “books”:) :
“Young women can still handle an unintended pregnancy and pursue a career, and get an education. Strangely, “feminists” seem to want to tell young girls that they can’t do all these things, and that they are not capable and strong and able to pursue their dreams. The “New Feminism” tells them yes they can!”
there are some permutations on this, like she usually throws in marriage along with school, career, baby ALL AT ONCE (doesn’t career come after school, usually?). as i have said before, it is the rare woman who could take this on in one fell swoop; neither she nor bristol have done so all at once, but that’s never stopped them for dreaming big for all the rest of us. to women who have done this – i applaud you and hope that they made the right decisions for you, and not decisions being forced on you. but for most of us, one thing at a time is even a challenge if you are to give it your all. my worry is that such generally bad advice will be welcomed by her idealistic teenage fans and their mothers who find themselves aghast when their babies are having a baby. just look at these girls who idolize sarah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma0v_ScxaFg&feature=player_embedded
my guess is that with literacy levels what they are today, most won’t read it, but that doesn’t mean they won’t hear the message like i have from snippets of interviews, and from the “example” her own daughter is setting.
if this is the new feminism, i am a retro-hipster feminist.
Nobody in line reading, again. The bookstores are thrilled because they’re sellin’ books to people who would never otherwise come in.
The jacket is beautiful–paid for by all those fans coming though. There’s something else she could take from her fans–it appears all of them know how to wash their hair.
at least it’s some job security for book sellers. i guess (desperate for a silver lining to this waste of trees).
lol about hair and hygiene!
Well, I look forward to the pictures. I just hope that one of them doesn’t force me to look her in the eye!
I retain my merry-go-round seat, AKM! I couldn’t be more enthralled with this gibberish. It gets me up mornings and I’m sure keeps you up nights! Thanks for your analysis so far.
“She who must not be named”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/opinion/04blow.html?_r=1&hp
I fit into his analysis and am going to try to ignore the nasty thing from Wasilla. After all, she feeds off our disgust and gets rich in the process. I’m more guilty than most in that I take total pleasure in watching her self destruct–but the problem is she is not getting weaker, she’s getting richer and more powerful. I must stop feeding the beast.
he left out an important part of all this I would urge folks to think about quite seriously…
It’s easy to make fun of the folks who hold her up as , well, whatever it is they hold her up as, but there are some very real problems in this country that progressives are falling down on the job over .
She blithers on about personal choices and relationships with god and family and getting government out of the way and with that she she finds resonance in the hearts and minds of people in this country who have no real true choices :
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/09/21/1443725/inspectors-hit-kentucky-mines.html
read some of the comments…
think about people who must either choose working in the mines or leaving their homes…
they see this as government interference because it’s all they have…
they have been trained to hate unions by the very companies who offer them substandard working conditions
they are at war with the failure of an all cash economy to address life outside urban areas…
and they are grasping at the crumbs big business throws them in the form of crappy unsafe unsustainable damage to them, their land, and the future…
this HAS to change…
“I owe my soul to the company store.”
You hit the nail on the head, Alaska Pi.
If you haven’t already seen it, please look for Deep Down on your local PBS affiliate (it may be up on their website; I haven’t checked).
This is a great film that deserves a wide viewership.
AP, you are so right. SWWNBN is a distraction from discussion of the real, every day problems that this country is facing. Huge unemployment due to our jobs being outsourced, the failure of the legal and financial system to protect our private property rights (the mortgage scam leading now to the foreclosure mess), and our health care being controlled by for profit entities that only the healthy can afford.
Sarah’s ramblings are a distraction from the real things that need to be worked on.
My question is how do we get back to paying attention to the “real issues” and not this moose poo that falls out of her mouth?
i received Ken Follett’s new blockbuster ‘Fall of Giants’. the first chapter begins with a boy’s first day in a Welsh mine.
my own dad went to work in a coal mine when he was a young man; little more than a boy himself, he was a life long trade unionist.
too bad some of the descendants of these same kinds of men who fought so hard for safe working conditions and reasonable pay and benefits have been persuaded to voted against their own best interests.
The annoying “perky one”.
Her railing against women is supportive to women how? And I still think she is describing her own mother. Weird how she never talks about her mother… at all. Ever. Not in any sort of way.
Oh, and 😀
Hmmm you have a very good point there. Does anyone have any intel on her mother and their relationship? I think that info would be quite telling.
I know that she calls her “Sal.” And you can see from that hideous TV show that the kids call Todd, “Todd.” Don’t know what that’s all about but…
I’d call my parents by their first names too if they’d saddled me with a first name like the Palin kids have.
good point there Ripley. you are right. the mother is a cipher isn’t she?
Maybe her mom just doesn’t support all this stuff and wants to be left out. I sure as heck would. I wouldn’t want to be nationally known as Sarah’s Mother.
And sometimes daughters turn out quite differently than they are raised. Just look at my sister. There. You see?
Sarah’s mother is extremely proud of her daughter, and basking in her daughter’s celebrity. As weird as it sounds, since I think her daughter is a train wreck, I’m happy for her mother being happy.
I don’t know what the family life was like while she was growing up, though. It may have been quite different.
Interesting point; it never occurred to me before.
I do think it’s important that she says her parents are teachers but her mother was in administration, not education. She was the school secretary.
Upon further review,since this….uh… book was written by the dumb for the hopelessly dumber,I can see where the level of writing drops as attention spans wane. Ms Sarah should be careful what she wishes for; My best guess would be that Nature or Nature’s God would probably frown on grown humans shooting defenseless animals from helicopters,as a form of birth control. I imagine that much like “abstinence only” sex education works all the time, if used as prescribed, it would be cheaper to teach bears and wolves not to eat baby mooses. And about as effective.
lol! but then they would want free handouts of food, and we are back to square one femmi-nazi socialism all over again. or something like that. her world view (the sarah doctrine, if you will) is about as complex as a game of chutes and ladders.
How come she decries liberal feminists who get to decide who is a “real woman,” but it’s okay for her to decide who is a “real American”?
hmm, good question, but since you seem to have to check rationality and disbelief at the mouth of the many caves (i vote cave woman, too!) she dwells in, we don’t get to ask her it.
Good point. The funny thing is, I don’t recall liberal feminists making that decision. My recollection is that they thought “real women” should have options.
Personally, I don’t think she gets to decide who is either.
i haven’t even begun reading yet, but oh please god, tell me that’s not jimmy stewart and that she doesn’t dishonor the poor dear man’s name yet one more time.please, oh please… ok, here goes!
Yep, that is Jimmy Stewart in “How the West Was Won”. I loved that movie as a kid. It was the first feature shot in Cinerama and was shown for a few years at the same theater in Hollywood. I got to see it several times. I’ve seen it on tv but because it was shot to be shown on three movie screen it looks kind of funny shown flat. The Wiki says it has been restored on BluRay.
In any case, I always think of the Debbie Reynolds character as a great example of a woman who always took what life handed her and made lemonade out of it. She didn’t says yes to the first guy who asked her to marry, although she eventually did. She had several careers and was a successful businesswoman. She also was not afraid to fail and pick herself up. She never had kids but at the end of the movie she’s an old woman who moves to AZ to be with her nephews family. I don’t think she’d qualify as Scarah feminist.
If I recall the Civil War section of the movie also portrayed just how bloody that was was. I used to hide my innocent eyes as it was to much to watch. But I got the message about how awful war was. There is also a great buffalo stampede scene where the railroad guys try to get rid of Indians.
I’m surprised that Sarah would use such a liberal point of view movie to try and make her points. But then again I don’t think those who wrote her book have really seen much of this lost classic. They are much more enthralled with the romantic idea of how the settlers lived and refuse to acknowledge the social cooperation that was need to succeed as the nation moved west.
thanks for your comments! will have to check it out as i love film.
sarah and her people have no problem with rewriting history, even if it’s a blatant lie.
How the West Was Won is TERRIFIC. Dunno if Debbie Reynolds won an Oscar for it, but she DESERVED one – it also had Carole Baker, Karl Malden, George Peppard and other BIG STARS of the day – it was a huge movie when I was a kid.
Dear whatzername-
Oh, pffft !
The ultimate goal of feminism is humanism , hon.
Yup, it is…
It’s the view that opportunity and acceptance be accorded to all peoples, that dignity and parity for all are the best ultimate goal of human society.
It acknowledges unnecessary suffering and the waste of potential of peoples who are marginalized by false barriers and uninspected attitudes- to themselves and to society.
Am thinking you may need to go back and chop some more firewood and all, dear, because you missed a fair amount of lessons to be gained there, what with wasting your time mooning over romantic movies of the wild west and all…
I’m sure your silly lil feel-goody “God will never give you something you can’t handle.” resonates with Andrea Yates and am equally sure it was a real uplifting thingy for Mr Harris and Mr Klebold and the families and friends of all those their meltdown took with them… you betcha.
How’s about you take a side trip to rural Alaska this week , dear…
” “Many children, mothers and grandmothers are crying today as we speak at this meeting,” said Kathleen Peters-Zurdy, executive director of the Tanana tribal government.
Six people took their lives in her Interior region in the last six weeks or so, she said.
Speakers blamed the deaths on long-recognized factors such as family violence, heavy drinking, rapid social change and historical trauma.
“We need to declare war” to stop the domestic violence, alcoholism, drug abuse and suicides, said James Sipary Sr”
http://www.thetundradrums.com/article/1048report_state_suicide-prevention_grants_to
You had a chance to change the odds in favor of those Alaskans- women , men, and children -who are fighting for their lives… yup, you did…
But like every other time you needed to step up to the plate you derailed off into your fantasy world …
all we got out of you was your personal vendetta against Mr Wooten and the cold shoulder about DV and everything else which touches anyone else…
Pffft!!!!!!
Pffftttttttttt!!!!
very well said, and i pffftftftttffttftftftttt in sarah’s general direction (hat tip to monty python’s the holy grail, except it wasn’t a pfft) in solidarity with you! sane, reasonable, compassionate, and responsible people of the world unite!
My guess is that her ‘history’ lessons were learned in those tracts crazy people give out on street corners. There’s no other way to explain it.
Or should I say?
Palins hstry Lrnd on strt crnr. Ths why shes such an idiot. End Tweet.
Did you see Jon Stewart’s tweet of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address? It made sense even when tweeted!
“Young women can still handle an unintended pregnancy and pursue a career, and get an education. Strangely, “feminists” seem to want to tell young girls that they can’t do all these things, and that they are not capable and strong and able to pursue their dreams. The “New Feminism” tells them yes they can!”
There seems to be no question in her mind that young men can handle an unintended pregnancy and still get an education. That It is perfectly alright for a young man to assume that he can have children and still have a sucessful career. “The new Feminism” What the He## is that?
OMG!!! Did we not have all of these discussions decades ago????
My head is about to explode.
She does not seem to know that only a few decades ago a woman could not get a credit card, could not open a bank account, could not manage money that belonged to her without the signature of a male relative. She does not seem to know that a few decades ago, girls could not wear pants to school, women could not wear pants to work, and women were asked in job interviews what their reproductive plans were.
I remember these things, and I am only a few years older than the Quitter. I had a doctor refuse to give me birth control advise because I was not married at the time.
Yes, we can handle these things. An unintended pregnancy is easier to handle if you do not have to take your father to the hospital to sign for you. Pursuing a career is easier now that women are allowed to take maternity leave and leave to take care of sick children. A career is easier now that the only opportunities available to women are not limited to the secretarial pool, despite advanced degrees.
She is able to pursue her career because of the many women that came before her, and she refuses to acknowledge them. Shame on her.
Thank you, fishingmamma. I have also benefitted from the feminists that came before me, that thought women should be able to pursue any career for which they were mentally and physically suited, that there should be a level playing field, and that there should be equal pay for equal work. Those women also thought women should have control over their own reproductive health, their own finances, and their own destiny. They thought women should be able to leave abusive situations, and stand up on their own with their heads held high. Those feminists certainly did not believe women were or should become cowering victims. They were realists, however, and recognized that there were barriers to safety and success for some women. While I have not been negatively impacted by it, I have seen others who were, and the effects were sometimes minor, sometimes devastating.
Palin has never earned or retained a job for any length of time in “good ‘ol boys” territory, nor has she worked with battered women, unaccompanied youth, or victims of rape or incest. The fake “history” she spews is not based on fact, nor personal experience, and her ignorance, given her national platform, stands to do a great deal of harm to those in need and those trying to help them.
I’d suggest she try speaking only about those things about which she is knowledgable, but since I can’t think of any areas in which she has displayed any expertise, she just needs to keep her mouth shut.
I tried to disconnect my brain and read this. It didn’t help.
Poor AKM, I hope you can clean out your brain after you’ve all all this crap.
in time for the holidays, at least!
She’s gonna need a big shovel.
I’m struck by the fact that a lot of her rhetoric dates back to the ’90s which is when I started reading a lot of left-wing media criticism. It must have something to do with when Jonah’s wife started becoming indoctrinated and she was unable to load newer stories due to her limited brain capacity!
lol! i am getting flashbacks to the 90’s in the rhetoric, also, too, and i was only in high school and college then. in h.s. home room we would watch channel 1, with a young and handsome anderson cooper (he actually still looks the same; vampire?) i can safely say i was more informed then than sarah is now.
If there are unsold copies of her book, after a period of time, the bookstore will fairly quickly need to return the copies to the publisher in order to get credit and to make room for new, better-selling titles. I’m guessing (I worked in a bookstore) that stores ordered hefty numbers of this book simply based on the sales of Going Rogue.
Sometimes the publishers don’t want the actual physical books back, but they require the stores to give away or donate the extra books if they’ve issued a return credit. If they want it back, though (and I think H/C does require the physical return of hardcover books) there is the possibility for a kiss-of-death scenario, which is the one in which thousands of copies of this awful book have to be picked, packed, and shipped by bookstore employees across the land.
It’s a huge PIA, and generally means that if a next title by an author is upcoming, that initial buys are WAY down. I’m hoping the publisher was too ambitious and will need to quickly reevaluate plans for a second run.
Too bad even famous, prolific authors don’t have a PAC to scoop up thousands of copies of their less successful titles. Is this a propaganda machine, or what?
HA! Barack Obama’s book is now #20 on Amazon’s bestseller list (all categories blended) to SP’s #24! Shrub’s book is #1, but that’s not really surprising. The NYT list is losing its cache in the face of more timely lists, like the raw sales of Amazon or the really great category lists of Indie Next, among others.
Go buy a copy or two of Obama’s book for christmas gifts. Give it as a gift to your school library. Send it to a school in Rural Alaska, in Sarah’s name. Let’s boost his book to 1st place, since all of the proceeds are donated to children of fallen warriors.
great idea! i’m going to check with my local library, or better yet, the one in the predominantly african-american and hispanic city i grew up in. did i mention i love fake america, and this fake american website?
GainneK,
I think you are terrific as I read your posts. This website is eversomuchfun.
I live 30 miles north of Nashville, in rural REAL AMERICA, where everybody is unemployed, uninsured and the “youngz:” love their hydrocodones and the meth.
GREAT IDEA!
Excellent idea!
I think sending Obama’s book in rural Alaska (or any rural schools in a red state for that matter) is an excellent idea. I have already bought one book and sent it to my nieces in France, they are French-African (mom is French and dad is from Liberia) and are the same age of Sasha and Malia and I hope they will like the book as much as I do.
got mine too. great idea.
Her book will eventually wind up at http://www.bookdepot.com, a big liquidator of HarperCollins.
She sure does not have a lot of tolerance for people that think differently. She will have to overcome this if she wants to run for President. I would sit and break bread with her. She just needs to understand that women do not all think alike. That is not a bad thing. Different thinking has been the vehicle for the change we see!!!
They’ll just have her PAC buy more copies. Somewhere I read they’d already bought 5,000.
it’s all just pie in the sky and badmouth the liberals for her isn’t it? she is really sickening. when making a choice between ignorance and dishonesty, i say start with the former and finish with the latter, and the meaner the better. death panels for instance. you could give sowah the benefit of the doubt with the first tweet or whatever; maybe she really thought that was in the bill. quite possibly rabid rightwingers were whispering in her ear that it was. but then she was corrected. and corrected. and corrected. and still she goes around talking about death panels. she is a demagogue. a really sickening person. so slightly off topic, but i just watched lawrence o’donell and discovered that her daughter didn’t win dwts fairly. any word from the palins about that?
But Sarah Palin’s ENDORSED Gov. Jan Brewer has actually activated the real Palins “Death Panels”. As I understand, AZ scrapped $5mil in funds to save, while losing $15mil in Federal Funds for Medicare, just to save a morsel.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/#40500423
Arizona refuses to grant a young woman a lung transplant
An father of teen children died because he could not pay for a bone marrow transplant. There is no word to describe what my country has become.
Pro-life indeed! ….and how is it that the anti-choice group can capture the pro-life flag. I am pro-life and pro-choice at the same time….that’s because I don’t want babies aborted, but I believe the mother has a right to her life too. And whatever she decides is between her and her God or conscience. It’s a difficult issue, definitely shades of gray.
And it is crazy that the same people who don’t want abortions believe that health care is a privilege and not a ‘right to life’ !!!!!
As far as Sarah and her ilk are concerned—-let’s let those children with ‘pre-existing’ conditions, already born, already conscious of wanting to live, lose their right to life because of being born into families who are not wealthy or are not elected officials.
20 years ago I went thru the horror of having an insurance company tell me that they would not pay for my (then) 7 year old daughter’s liver transplant…and this was 3 weeks after they had told me it was covered, no problem ! It’s a feeling of anger, hopelessness, and desperation, all wrapped up in that sinking feeling as a roller coaster plummets downward… wishing you can wake up from the nightmare you are in , yet knowing that this is reality…. then you leave work and go home to face your wife and daughter… All because of some faceless actuary in the insurance company, maximizing the company profit by deciding who lives and who dies…. the fortunate outcome was the doctors had blood drawn at the hospital, rather than the lab the insurance comapny had switched us to ( to save $40 difference in price) and the transplant was cancelled, her prednizone reduced due to the bad lab results and she’s kicking around at age 27… I broke down and cried with relief at work when they called with the news…. We were lucky.. others aren’t… no parent should have to struggle with insurance issues when their child is sick…Single Payer for children and the elderly…but even that’s not a sure thing inSaraj’s Alaska , it it? how many elderly died under her watch, before the Fed’s stepped in ?
I really wish more people knew about the Medicare scandal in Alaska under Palin’s watch. She really ought to be too ashamed to say anything at all about health care in America, let alone make up lies about ‘death panels’!
A couple of weeks ago, on another KO segment there were (I believe 98 people) on the Arizona Death Panel lists, Keith showed a couple of guys with their families, young guys. They will likely die quicker than people on their Death Row who have appeals with the 9th Circuit Court. Meanwhile these people have committed NO CRIMES, other than having disabilities. And they won’t have any appeals.
What is America coming to???????
Bristol didn’t win on DWTS. Jennifer Grey did. Kyle Massie took second place and Bristol was third. So – I’m not sure what all that means. Is there some news that she cheated to get to the finals? None of us who watched would be surprised at that.
the person to take sarah down is- sarah.
I do believe the Snowbilly Grifter will be taken down by the good ole whyte boyz of the Rethuggery Obstructionist Party of Teabagging Fewls – they actually want the job. Snowbilly Grifter cannot run a campaign from Twitter and FB. Rovian minions are already hard at work.
i am almost speechless at this crap she spews.
our little idiot sarah has only little ideas and and little thoughts.
she has no understanding of the most basic american history or world history. she has no respect for the human experience that is not her own.
she is working hard, trying to build persona around her that is nothing more than a lie. she is a first class fake. more and more people are finding out the secret that we have always known, sarah is a fake and a fool.
so, my mudflat friends , let’s raise a glass of our best mudflat wine to the little idiot that has given us so may giggles via her well known form of communication – twitter and Facebook.
Jeez Louise. I can’t believe that it just keeps getting worse! Dang, the woman has a gift for sure. I honestly have not read something so poorly written since a friend showed me some papers written by a 7th grade English class. They were first drafts, flow of thought, just get it on paper. Of course, they were horrid. So is this.
I am not a violent person, but if I ever meet this woman, I am going to snatch her bald-headed. Maybe. Or, just wither her with a teacher-look that I perfected over the years.
reading the reviews at amazon, two teachers mentioned 6th grade level writing and a third reviewer opined that it was about 4th grade level.
Most of my sixth graders–the “at risk” kids at the school–wrote better than this. True, they would never have written anything this long, but their word use was better, their vocabularies stronger, and their ability to reason logically was better developed. I had some kids who wrote much worse than this, but they were mostly non-native speakers. The others mostly just refused to write at all.
You’d find kids in low socio economic areas that weren’t nearly this good, but they also wouldn’t be working at grade level.
The book is marked down to $12.99 on Amazon, where it’s currently rated at three stars out of five. The reviews are running evenly (32 to 32) between one-star (lowesr rating) and five-star, with a handful of reviews in between. So, as always, Mrs. Palin’s greatest strength seems to be her ability to polarize and divide people.
The first 5-star review trots out the same tired tea-party talking points about the “liberal elites” and the mainstream media, and the reviewer theorizes that the 1-star reviews were actually written by people who had not read the book. That’s echoed by the second 5-star review: “Negative reviews are all liberal haters that havn’t (sic) read the book.”
Most of the reviews have a lot of comments – I haven’t read those yet, but I am going to settle in and peruse them!
nah Jimzmum you have to snatch her head bald then wither her. i got withered by Mr. Buchanon back when i was in the 7th grade. we were singing in a concert for VIP muckity mucks and Mr. Buchanon told me me to look at him. nobody else. him. so of course my wandering right eye soon caught the sparkle of a thousand sparkling diamonds, rubies and pearls. i forgot the lyrics and that’s when i got withered. and withered good! since then, whenever i get distracted by the sight of first class bling, i think of Dear Mr. Buchanon and the feel of his large hands around my tiny neck as he slowly squeezed the life out of me after the concert….gaaack.
Dontcha just LOVE the power of The Look???
I use it every day with my elementary students. We discuss the class rules in great detail at the beginning of the year and, if they’re being naughty, all I have to do now is give them The Look and they straighten right out, without me saying a word. I’ve even had a few adults tell me that The Look scared them!
I wonder, though, if it would actually work on the Quitter Queen. I suspect that it requires that the look-ee have a conscience and enough self-awareness to know that they’re doing something wrong. She clearly has no conscience and she NEVER does anything wrong, so…
You know – quite awhile ago I was fearful of flying first class to Seattle, because it was rumored Palin and Toad were going to be on the flight. My fear was based on the fact they would probably be in first class w/me and I could invision myself sitting in close proximity to them and having the opportunity to verbally tell them what I thought of them. I was was saved from allowing my anger to rise to the surface (even back then) because they were not on board the flight.
No wonder she now has so much security around her!
I will not buy it in a box
I will not buy it from a fox..
I would not buy it here or there-
I will not buy it anywhere!
Too painful for words.
Barf, this nutcase just never stops delivering the garbage!
I will not buy the book. I will not even pick it up when it is in the free box at Powell’s Used bookstore. I will not read this book because you, AKM, have done so for me. Thank you for doing so. I will, however, look forward to the pictures.
I may be able to use it to stabilize a seriously wobbly table – but only if it is the right size and if it is free.
Personally, AKM, I don’t even think we should be wasting your precious time in reviewing Palin’s crud!
Thank you lady for doing the down and dirty. I Could never bring myself to read this tripe. I have a hard time wrapping my head around any of this. One would hope that what happens in Wasilla stays in Wasilla. But the turds keep showing down stream and that is a problem.
I think i was careful enough and did not use the articulate language that i would had we spoke on the street.