Gotta love Charles Pierce's take on Newsweek's Palin article! [View All]

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/36409/slacker-friday

You have to scroll down a ways.

"THIS may be the most singularly credulous piece of national reporting I've ever read. I believe that this author regularly comes home having purchased a bag of magic beans. I sincerely believe she could be mugged through the mail. I am in awe of this piece of work, if only for the almost limitless vista of simple common sense that it chooses to ignore in its plucky search for a coherent narrative. This is not journalism. This is Plan 9 From Outer Space.


"Let us all open our hymnals and turn to page 1. Sarah Palin is a self-evident twit. This is obvious in almost every single public pronouncement that she's made since 2008. She has not gotten smarter, more politically deft, or, if most polls are to be believed, more popular generally in the two years since that happened. She knows virtually nothing about any major issue; witness her performance in the wake of the presidential address on the crisis of the Gulf, in which her complete lack of knowledge about any aspect of what she was talking about gobsmacked, of all people, Bill O'Reilly, whose gob is not easy to smack, not that somebody shouldn't have tried years ago. And this was concerning an issue on which John McCain assured the nation that Palin knew more than anyone else in public life.

"And, if you're trying to make the case that Palin's appeal to a fringe group of American Protestantism represents a sea-change in "feminism," you might at least remark upon the fact that an awful lot of the women to whom Palin is a role model seem to be upper middle-class white people with disposable income and a lot of time on their hands—like the woman from Colorado Springs "with four grown daughters" who has the time and money to travel "a thousand miles" to hear Palin try to get from a subject to a predicate without turning an ankle. Must be nice."

If you haven't read the Newsweek article, it's here:

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/11/saint-sarah.html