Saturday, July 4, 2009

Whither Sarah?

I have to say I'm grateful that Sarah Palin has somewhat abated the psychotic media obsession with a dead neurotic surgery addict. She has the media and the bloggers back to doing what we all do best: speculating. So why is she doing this? It's nearly impossible to tell from her tangled and mangled speech, which of course makes her verbal mulch the the perfect medium for hydroponic conjecture.

David Wallechinsky seems to think Fox has made her an offer she can't refuse and we'll be seeing her in their little shop of horrors before long. He offers no evidence to interfere with belief, but it's filling and very satisfying, like comfort food, so I'll go along with it.

Max Blumenthal has what I think is a more credible scenario, based around the theory that an Alaska construction company, the same one that built the huge sports complex in Wasilla ( putting the town into serious debt) built her house as an inducement to get that job and future jobs after she became Governor. Todd and she have had personal and financial ties to the company of long standing.

Blumenthal also speculates about the effect a recent Salon article might have had on her decision. Revelations about her attempts to kill the stories about Husband Todd's affiliation with that Alaska secessionist group and provide false cover stories, may be about to blow up on her. Who knows, but of course the delicious irony, considering her attempts to portray Barak Obama as a "terrorist" who hates America, makes the idea hard to resist.

There are so many possibilities to delight the palate that I may be sorry if and when we ever figure out why! In a way I would love to see her as the next Republican presidential candidate, since she's so amazingly unqualified, but to be disgraced as a hypocrite and possible felon would satisfy my taste for justice perfectly. The worst outcome, in my opinion, would be to have her take her place on the Fox News Chorus, where hypocrisy, incompetence, dishonesty, lack of intelligence, irrational hostility and incipient dementia are prime qualifications . She could be as big a threat to our country as she would be in the White House, and of course there are no term limits on Fox.

7 comments:

  1. Well, geez, Fogg!! I'm having a rotten enough 4th of July with out now experiencing mind trauma, as result of your post, over the thought of SP at Fox. Oh the damage that would be wrought by her presence there. It would give her - & Fox - a spooky kind of legitimacy of their own making. Seriously scary stuff. Another news anchor with no qualifications but a public forum from which to spew nonsense.

    My mind is seriously reeling from your blogging fireworks.

    Happy 4th, darn it!

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  2. I'm shocked - shocked I say, to hear you call it July 4th instead of Independence Day. Seems you liberals are waging a war on Independence Day. Wait until I tell Fox!!

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  3. Ha!!!!!

    Thanks for making me smile today, Fogg.

    Merry 4th to you!

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  4. Palin manages always to do what she does best: Turn her liabilities into political assets and project her own failings onto her critics … her very own signature trademark for avoiding responsibility.

    With more time on her hands, perhaps she will join Coulter and Malkin and … together … The Three Weird Sisters be:

    Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
    To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
    A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
    Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
    ?”

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  5. Double Double, Fox and trouble
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
    Liver of blaspheming Jew;
    Gall of goat, and slips of yew
    Boil her up with Ann and Michelle
    watch them sliver down to hell
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Let the hell-hounds boil and
    bubble.

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  6. The rambling quality of Sarah Palin's remarks yesterday, and the minuscule crowd assembled to hear her lead to the almost inescapable conclusion that this was a hurried decision. That seems to me to argue against the Fox News option, or anything else where her resignation could easily have been planned out in advance.

    The fact that this announcement took place on one of the slowest news days of the year, when most people are not paying much attention to the news, leads me to suspect that, whatever motivated her, it wasn't a good thing.

    We'll just have to wait and see, but I can't help suspecting that there's more to come, and it won't be pretty. Funny, yes. Pretty, no.

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  7. This has been a Sarah Palin Special Report. We now return you to our regular programming: Michael Jackson.

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