Europe mocks 'half-baked Alaskan' Palin

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: CNN.COM

There's no doubt about it. The European media has given Sarah Palin a hard time.

Things started quite well, with the curiosity factor. To many Europeans there is something exotic about snowy Alaska. Viewers and readers were intrigued by the shots of the outdoorswoman with her eyes squinting fixed along a gun barrel, the thought of a vice president who had once been a beauty queen.

Columnists were approving that here, for once, was a politician in the higher reaches who probably actually knew the price of a loaf and a pint of milk. Women writers in particular responded warmly to her joke about the difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom --"Lipstick."

But soon the carping began, and it was not confined to what U.S. rightists like to dismiss as the "liberal media elite."

We were, the Irish Times warned, "just a heartbeat away from the biggest half-baked Alaskan nightmare." Britain's Financial Times said his selection of vice president raised serious questions about John McCain's judgment and added: "The Palin appointment is yet more proof of the way that abortion still dominates American politics."




Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/16/europe.palin.oakley/index.html

[Bobbieo]

1. Now, Joe the Plumber!!! His track record in Not Good!!

[dhpgetsit]

2. We had a family joke about baked Alaska

It started one night at the dinner table, probably after my mom had a busy day at work. My brother said "What's for dessert, Mom?" and she answered sarcastically "Baked Alaska!" We all laughed.

But seriously. Palin in the White House??? The idea is half-baked to say the least!

[Xipe Totec]

3. We went for the Alaskan smoked tart metaphor

smoked salmon tart, that is.

[Potomac Will]

4. Yes, but new European critique capitalism is more important

The emerging European critique of capitalism prompted by the current global economic crisis is news we can use to think outside the box as we confront the crisis here. In the U.S., the corporate media has paid too little attention to this startling development

I do not yet have the right to start a thread on the topic, but, meanwhie, I hope someone else posts all the latest on that topic. People permit the Right to socialize the debts of investment bankers while condemning health and old age social insurance because people are unable to escape the confines of right wing thought.

[primavera]

5. Welcome to DU, Will!

And thanks for your thoughtful post! :hi:

[depakid]

6. Australian have been brutal as well

It's almost as if the journos have been reading DU.