Was the huge vogue for Going Rogue helped along by having SarahPAC purchase thousands of copies of the best seller? Campaign contributors' money and funds from right-wing publications were used to produce and promote the book by giving out free copies while she got royalty checks.
"Irregardless" as a Sarah fan might say, it did help her legally transmute PAC money into a royalty check and since she walked off the job and isn't running for another position of public trust, the conversion apparently wasn't illegal. For those of us still interested in why she quit the Governorship, perhaps the ability to pocket all that PAC cash and avoid going to jail for it might help us to understand.
Perhaps some will remember that before she donned the robes of roguery, it wasn't a particularly nice way to describe anyone. Certainly not as nice or as honorable as Maverick, the title she was forced to relinquish after threats from the descendants of the eponymous cattleman, but who can doubt that the robes fit?
Meanwhile, back at that rogues' paradise called Facebook, Sarah has been channeling the wolves she used to strafe from various aircraft and attempting to sink her teeth into the Obama administration by going after Rahm Emanuel for using the word "retarded" in an internal strategy session -- as though it had been directed at Down's syndrome children and the Special Olympics and not at the stupidity of a co-worker. No, Sarah, retarded is not like the "N word" and although you'd love it to be, and although Mr. Emanuel has already been put in the position of having to apologize to the Special Olympics organization, you haven't said much about the "witches" you've praised your beloved pastor for persecuting. There are no Witches, only innocent people who don't share your religion -- there are people whose cognitive skills fall behind the norm no matter what euphemism you prefer. There are people who are stupid and there are people who are inexcusably and viciously retarding the progress of our country toward Liberty and Justice for all.
Mooseolini strikes again!
ReplyDeleteAnother reminder why John McCain should be on every American's shit list for all eternity.
ReplyDeleteOh. Did my potty mouth offend anyone?
BTW, here in the Bahstin area, in addition to hearing the evah present "wicked pissah" to describe anything from a Broon to a metrosexual, another thing you'll hear the young'uns say when someone makes a stupid remark:
"Whaaaat ahhh you? ReTAAAAAAAdid?
Sarah wouldn't last a Paul Reveah minute heah.
She's calling for Emmanuel's firing - this from the woman who called our president a Muslim and a terrorist and spread horrible lies about death panels.
ReplyDeleteShe needs to get over herself - I use the word retarded all the time but never in the context of a special needs person.
The definition of the word retarded: "To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede."
Just because Sarah has a Down's Syndrome child does not mean she gets to dictate the behavior or speech of others.
Gee, what happened to all that first amendment bullshit?
Oh no, NASPP!
ReplyDeleteEarlier today, I pulled into my local 7-11 store to run an errand. Parked alongside my car was a cobalt blue Chevy Cobalt plastered with Sarah Palin signs on the rear bumper. The owner of that car, I learned in due course, was an old codger who walked with a cane. How incongruous. Or was it?
In Florida, we call these people "Que Tips" because when you follow them on a highway, all you see are the backs of their white heads. They hold up traffic and hold up lines at the checkout counter.
I prefer to call them "living cadavers" ... an oxymoron that describes our Congress, our government, and the state of our union.
They're not real people. They are grown in these green pods and take over the lives of humans while they sleep.
ReplyDeleteI thought of posting this, even wrote it up, then scratched it. I find it interesting that the best motha in the world only mentions her Down's Syndrome child when it's politically expedient. I wonder how much time she devotes to the DS Assn.
ReplyDeleteThe volatile Rahm should have been a little smarter. There's bound to be one or two people in that room who hated his guts and couldn't wait to leak it to the media. And since this occured in Aug., I question how sincere his apology was to Shriver since he waited till last week after the story broke to make it.
I have a couple of mentally challenged relatives, and while I can understand how their immediate family might feel, this is something one hears all the time. The only difference would be that those religious types would leave off the fucking part but keep the retarded part.
"leave off the fucking part but keep the retarded part."
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree, even though Sarah's outrage is as phony as everything else about her.
Having once come close to being removed from second grade for being retarded, I can sympathize, but the idea that undesirable thoughts and attitudes can be eliminated by banning words or substituting strained euphemisms, should have long ago been dismissed. Burqas don't keep men from having prurient thoughts, nor does banning the famous seven words and calling someone "special" or "Challenged" carries no less potential for ridicule and nastiness than coyly dishonest confections like "other-abled" which in itself is as insulting as telling blind people they probably have a great sense of smell.
But do we want to live in a world where we have to pretend that everyone is smart and all abilities are equal? It doesn't take a Holden Caulfield to find that phony.
political correctness
ReplyDeletestrikes again
chalk one up
to the bogus war
righteous indignation
or outright exploitation
forever gaming, conniving
scheming for advantage
yet truly being lower
than that which you
champion yes you are
retarded Sarah in the
truest sense of the word
its dictionary definition
forever slowing, impeding
the progress of mankind
may you someday attain
the semblance of humanity
that your unfortunate progeny
acquired on the day of his birth
From the memory hole: How to make a conservative wackadoodle title a best-seller. Seems someone forgot to tell Jerome Corsi and the rest of the Regnery writing crew that their books wouldn't have sold more than a dozen copies without the support--dare I say wingnut welfare?--of the vast right wing machine. The book clubs, the discounts, the "subscribe to National Review and get this book free" etc. It's a tightly oiled machine spreading the right wing message, catapulting titles like Unfit For Command and Going Rogue to the top of best seller list, when all that's really happening is conservative moneybags are buying these titles in bulk for the PR value. Like so much from the the right side of the political spectrum, it's phony, atroturf, smoke and mirrors, Kabuki theater.
ReplyDeleteI defer to the ARC on this issue. It's not as bad as the N word, and yes it is used a lot as a derogative term for people. Sort of like the f***** word for gays, which like the R word is used willy-nilly as an insult for people outside of the group it supposedly applies to.
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