Comments on: Sarah Palin and Three-Syllable Words

By: fakename2

fakename2 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:51:01 +0000

pt, who is behind the mobs now? Sarah Palin is stoking the fire,

By: eehard

eehard — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:04:28 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/user/sarahpalinchannel?blend=3&ob=4

By: fakename2

fakename2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:31:36 +0000

Oh please pt! “Civilized standards” and “terrorists” don’t belong in the same sentence. Ordinarily you would be praising the freedom of speech we enjoy in this country–or does that not apply when the subject is Sarah Palin? Osama Bin Laden would probably have Maureen Dowd beheaded. I think we can best set ourselves above terrorists by not torturing.

By: eehard

eehard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:34:06 +0000

PT, have you ever stopped to consider that Palin brought this on herself? I mean “determined and dedicated people inspired me to quit” is not a smart thing to say and expect not to get ridiculed.

I thought Dowd and Collins were hilarious. Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker were kind of brutal.

By: ptfan1

ptfan1 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:11:45 +0000

“That’s why I have viewed the reactions of conservatives over the last week with great glee.”

“We read Dowd just because she is snarky and we love it.”

It’s like stoning; the mentality of the outraged mob decides her fate. Throw more and laugh about it, is that political reality in the same nation that you charge should be held to a civilized higher standard than the terrorists who try to destroy us?

You know I heard the other day that leprosy is on the rise in America. It particularly infects conservatives. There is growing talk of shipping us all off to a colony so that the “pure” can remain uninfected.

Anyone can be snarky but it doesn’t make them correct, funny……..or particularly civil.

By: eehard

eehard — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:38:19 +0000

You have to keep in mind that people might not read Dowd if she wrote like Mary Anne Lindley. We read Dowd just because she is snarky and we love it.

By: fakename2

fakename2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:37:04 +0000

Interesting comment. I recently heard an interview on NPR with a writer named John Denby on his recent book “Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, It’s Ruining Our Conversation”. The book has an entire chapter on Dowd, who is more or less the queen of snark. That isn’t to say that I don’t take a guilty pleasure in some of Dowd’s columns, but I recognize that our true public conversations should not really use her as a model.
You’ll notice that in my post above, and as far as I can recall, in all my previous ones, you won’t find me commenting on Sarah’s appearance (okay, maybe the red shoes) or her family. I’m more concerned with her intellectual weightlessness, which may not be due to a lack of ability but to something like attention deficit disorder. Either way, she embodies and appeals to what I consider the lowest common denominator in our country. People who get their “knowledge” from pulpits and bumper stickers and slogans and buzzwords, who don’t think independently and have no grasp of nuance.
The problem with the snarks is that it moves people who might otherwise have begun to question Sarah’s fitness for office to defend her more passionately.

By: ptfan1

ptfan1 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:58:01 +0000

I am sad that people as gifted as Maureen Dowd can not control the venom and hatred that they write. But even sadder that it is reduced to the level of checkout line “tabloidism” that gifted people embrace as funny and fair for one side but bigoted and unfair for the other.

America pays the price and the Pols just keep on reveling in the public’s stupidity.

Now the funny part is that all of the PT Barnum publicity will make Sarah wealthier than all her detractors.

By: fakename2

fakename2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:02:36 +0000

You almost sound as if you feel sorry for her, and I think that’s a luxury you don’t get in politics–that is, to have people feel sorry for you. I of course, believe the ridicule heaped on Sarah is self-created. She doesn’t need prodding or goading to make a complete fool of herself.
That said, I don’t actually think Sarah is all bad. Mostly I just think she’s unsuited to govern.

By: ptfan1

ptfan1 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:29:52 +0000

She is like a water moccasin in the swamp creek for liberals, just wanna tease her because she is dangerous. Prod her with the stick or stone handy to make her strike at air. Tease and demean her and the kids and find a way to justify it. Nothing is out of bounds or off limits.

It’s sad that liberal”intellectualism” is so redneck.

“Hey Bubba….watch this”