Seriously, I can’t improve on it. It’s pretty much a complete list of all the talking points I hit when I was venting to my boyfriend last night about Teh Palin, except it’s way better written. Check it out.
What She Said.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Only fucking elitists know what “fungible” means anyway!
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin…responding to a question about how oil obtained from offshore drilling can be kept in the country instead of sold on the world market, with an answer CNN’s Wolf Blitzer characterized as “not exactly easy to understand:”*
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules,** where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”
(hat tip: Pandagon)
In other news, Governor Palin’s apparently good-humored response to the skewering of herself by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live was due to the fact that she watched the entire skit on “mute.” Wheee!
*Fucking liberal sexist media, they’d never expect Biden to answer that question!
**Dying to know what commodities are flagged by molecule.
Trying, oh Trying, Not to Obsess on Sarah Palin
Monday, September 15th, 2008
It’s hard, though. I think it’s because she’s a woman and it just makes my teeth hurt when a woman pops up on the national stage and acts like a power-hungry hypocritical dingbat. Now, that’s reverse sexism–so she’s a female Huckabee! Why don’t I cringe as miserably from his existence? Clearly I need to work on this.
“She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, ‘Sarah, how can you believe in creationism — your father’s a science teacher.’ And she said, ‘We don’t have to agree on everything.’ “I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”
OOOH, run that by me…again?
“And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”
Sarah Sarah Sarah! Read this!
“Christian urban legends” (CUL) is a term used by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) on their “Science, Scripture & Salvation” radio program for 1999-APR-17. They use it to refer to those urban legends which have a Christian theme. CULs are similar to ordinary urban legends:
1. the stories are unsubstantiated.
2. they do not come from authoritative sources.
3. they describe events that never happened.But they have one unique property: they tend to support some biblical passage or theme.
ICR is concerned that sincere, well-meaning Christians may use CULs to prove the accuracy of certain biblical passages and thus “win people to Christ.” The danger is that when the new Christian finds that the story was false, they might conclude that other information that they had received was also unreliable. This might destroy their new-found faith.
Sarah Sarah Sarah!
How Christian CULs are created:
Some are created by backward reasoning, as follows:
A conservative Christian then creates a fictional story that contains hard evidence that these events happened.
1 NASA scientists write a computer program that finds a time discontinuity.
2 Some remains from Noah’s Ark are found in Mount Ararat in Turkey.
3 Scientists drill a deep hole into the earth and hear people screaming in agony.
4 Fossilized human footprints are found which intersect dinosaur footprints.
It was so bad, I was almost hoping she’d suddenly start speaking in tongues. Anything to break up the cringefest. And yes, that would have been less embarrassing.
Friday, September 12th, 2008You know, people in other countries watch this shit and so do total misogynists. Then again, why worry about what people in other countries think about America’s choices for Supreme Leadership of our country? After eight years of Dubya, how could their opinion of our intelligence fall any further? And misogynists are quite capable of sneering at and grossly insulting the intelligence of women in general regardless of whether or not we shove corroborating evidence for their usually groundless beliefs on national TV. There, now I feel better. “Better” in the sense that I’ve convinced myself that there’s no real reason to feel “worse.” Well, not quite. There’s always that one little future terror…in the immortal words of Melissa McEwan of Shakesville: “Please, dear Cheesus, don’t let this person anywhere near Teh Button.”
I don’t need to strain myself for opinion bytes on Sarah Palin’s interview performance in the first of a series of three with ABC’s Charles Gibson; the rest of the media world has already done a thorough job for me. To wit:
Palin called the Russian incursion into Georgia last month “unprovoked,” a view at odds with that of U.S. officials who have reviewed events leading up to the military action.
Asked whether the United States would have to go to war with Russia if it invaded Georgia, and the tiny country was part of NATO, Palin said: “Perhaps so.”
Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.” The idea that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a view once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself.
(Okay, that one wasn’t from the interview. Just more salt rubbed into the wound while I was torturing myself reading the media coverage.)
In an on-location-in-Alaska interview that consumed 11 or 12 minutes of the Thursday edition of World News Tonight and continues later tonight on Nightline and again tomorrow on World News Tonight and 20/20, Palin recited her answers as if reading from a Teleprompter inside her head. The extensive coaching she has received could not save her from embarrassment in this exchange.
Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?
Palin: In what respect, Charlie?
Gibson: What do you interpret it to be?
Palin: His worldview?
Gibson: No, the Bush Doctrine, enunciated in September 2002, before the Iraq War.
Palin attempts to fake it for 25 seconds with a swirl of generalities before Gibson, showing all the gentleness of a remedial social studies teacher, interjects.
Gibson: The Bush Doctrine as I understand it is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense. That we have the right of a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
Of course Palin agrees with the Bush Doctrine, but she can’t come out and say so, having just admitted that she doesn’t know it by name.
I haven’t decided if I’m going to inflict parts 2 and 3 on myself yet. While I’m deciding, here’s a nice video of Assembly-of-Goddites speaking in tongues.
Ann and Nancy Wilson: Still Too Cool For Words
Monday, September 8th, 2008
In a statement posted today on the EW.com Web site, the Wilsons wrote:
“Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late ’70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”
::Hearting:: Jon
Thursday, September 4th, 2008::Hearting:: Gloria
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
I’ve always had a soft spot for Gloria Steinem. She is more of my grandmother’s generation than my mother’s, but when I was growing up surrounded by issues of Ms. Magazine, the cover pictures of Gloria reminded me so much of my mom–tall and slender with long, straight blonde hair and glasses–when I was really little, I thought that she was my mom. When I was older, I could almost hear my mother’s voice speaking her words, mercilessly shredding the idiocy that is the patriachy with a cool and incisive intellect. She has always been, to me, the face of the most admirable parts of my mother’s feminism.
With this op piece, she has refanned the flames of my nostalgic fondness into full-blown love. My favorite parts:
Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.
Yeah! You go, ladies!
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
Translation: PUMAs, suck my ass.
Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton’s candidacy stood for — and that Barack Obama’s still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
Now she is being praised by McCain’s campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax.
Heh.
McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.
I still think he tried and they said oh hell no!
Palin’s value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women’s wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves “abstinence-only” programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers’ millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn’t spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation
Lay it all OUT, Gloria!
So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, “women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership,” so he may be voting for Palin’s husband.
Heh #2.
Gloria Steinem is an author, feminist organizer and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center. She supported Hillary Clinton and is now supporting Barack Obama.
::hearting:: Gloria.
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