Posts Tagged ‘sarah palin’
Back home, a page from the Sarah Palin playbook
Remember back when Sarah Palin was baiting David Letterman over his stupid joke? (I know. I wish I didn’t either.) Remember the best part of that, when the pro-Palin people started slinging rape accusations around? And then mounted a shame-on-you media campaign against Letterman’s advertisers? Turns out the liberals might be a little better at [...]
One Republican's take on Sarah Palin's weirdest line
I asked a Republican friend about the Sarah Palin resignation speech, which has left everyone going, “Huh?” There are a lot of single lines that make you scratch your head–then there’s the overall thing–but one in particular stood out as a Republican friend and I discussed the speech. She pointed out the line, “The world [...]
Top 10 Sad Things the Palin-Letterman Controversy Says about America
I had a nice little list going, centered on the most outrageous element of all: a form letter for anti-Letterman protestors–egged on, in spirit at the very least, by Sarah Palin and the exeuctive produer of Sarah Palin Radio (“Governor Palin’s own ‘friendly’ media,” according to the site). The sample letter accuses Letterman’s advertisers of [...]
From Rwanda’s female-dominated parliament to Alaska’s hockey mom…
It’s a long trip, perhaps. Here’s an interesting piece from Salon, not for its politics, but for its insightful consideration of the way the gender dominates how Americans talk about Sarah Palin. It begs, from both sides of the aisle, careful consideration about how we are manipulated by language and narrative in an election season: [...]
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