Sarah Palin a racist?

armchair_warrior

Sam Tanenhaus' New Yorker review of Sarah Palin's book, as well as another book about the former governor, contains this nugget:

Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.” Perhaps not. But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to [Scott] Conroy and [Shushannah] Walshe [authors of 'Sarah From Alaska']. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.” [Italics Mine]

Why--and readers should weigh in--has this gotten absolutely no media attention?

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-plank/palin-question-the-day

modsquad

Why? Because it is uncorroborated. Any responsible reporter looks for a second source. Something you might consider before you preach to the choir.

carnivore

modsquad wrote: Why? Because it is uncorroborated. Any responsible reporter looks for a second source. Something you might consider before you preach to the choir.

You should let Fox "News" know about this. :twisted:

modsquad

Carnivore wrote: [quote=modsquad]Why? Because it is uncorroborated. Any responsible reporter looks for a second source. Something you might consider before you preach to the choir.

You should let Fox "News" know about this. :twisted:
And Dan Rather.

armchair_warrior

modsquad wrote: Why? Because it is uncorroborated. Any responsible reporter looks for a second source. Something you might consider before you preach to the choir.

lol Like i care , i hate both sides, but the left thinks i'm on the right and the right thinks i'm on the left. I get that accusation all the time. I'm not stuck on dogma like most people. I do what the situation requires. world isn't just black and white. but sadly most people vote down the party lines. and automatically go with what ever the left or right is spewing.


any ammo to shoot both parties.

jeffrey

By the way, activity in this thread has brought Google ads for Sarah Palin's new book to our ads sidebar. -------------------------------------------------------->

Get yours, just in time for the holidays!

:P

whynot_31

and, appropriately, it's even Free! ...just like the brochures handed out by the crazy people in the subway

jeffrey

Seriously though...if anyone is going to buy it I'd highly recommend refreshing this page until the ad appears and clicking through to buy it from there.

It'd kick some dough to the site and act kind of like a karma balance thing, offsetting one's red-state footprint.

domino

Wait a minute - Sarah Palin can write?!?!?!

idlewild

I think the only kind of "ism"you're going to see is religious. One thing about Bush's picks, a literal rainbow of monotheists. I don't think there was an atheist to be found. This is what the GOP, at least IMO, will be looking for and pushing for office. This is pretty ironic only because I know a lot of conservatives who don't believe in any Almighty. And once the practice of Holy Rollers Only Need Apply kicks in, the Dems will hop on the band wagon as well.

witch-king

Palin is the product of the cultural milieu that gave rise to Oprah, the memoir of personal redemption, and Paris Hilton. She is a celebrity. However, unlike many who have pursued contemporary celebrity in the USA, who would be content with becoming serial reality-TV contestant-participants, or becoming a TV talk show host, or turning a beauty pageant appearance into a moral crusade, Palin decided she could be vice-president, or a near-president, and perhaps a future president. She bases her belief in being "the one" on two contradictory claims: she is absolutely rogue (she won't be managed, handled, spun, or packaged, all evidence to the contrary -- such as her ghostwritten book) and absolutely ordinary (hockey mom, protege of Reagan and God, and echt American patriot). Americans whose perceptual schema are trained to notice only the razzle dazzle of special effects and not the cranky machinery upon which these effects depend, are not disturbed by the apparent performative disjuncture between Palin's claims and the reality that contradicts them.

Palin is performance art par excellence, not the type that appears in video installations at the Guggenheim, but the type that turns up on US right wing talk radio and its televised component, Rupert Murdoch's FoxSpace. In European terms ("old Europe", that is), she probably can be characterized as a mixture of political poujadisme and the stage presence of la Cicciolina; she is a blend of Le Pen and Jean Cauvin with a defiant up-do that rises in triumph over a stately pair of Manolo Blahniks. Palin has appeared before in history, in the guise of Cola di Rienzo, Savonarola, Robespierre, Father Coughlin, George Wallace, and Pat Buchanan.

boygabriel

that was awesome.

eggcream

And yet President Obama and co. are losing major seats and the left is running scared. Thousands of people are losing their jobs daily, 1.9 trillion increase in debt, the US is in danger of losing our triple A credit rating, terrorists are being read their Miranda rights etc etc and ya'll can't get past Sarah Palin, Rush, Beck and Fox News. Pathetic. Please keep it up though, people are starting to realize who they really voted for.

carnivore

They didn't vote for this loser:

http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489

Reading notes scribbled on HER HAND like some kid cheating on a test? Pathetic! And right after she made fun of the President for using a teleprompter.

boygabriel

eggcream wrote: 1.9 trillion increase in debt,.

Republicans actually aren't allowed to comment on debt.

Unless they were cryogenically frozen from 2000-2008.

If that applies to you, then let me know.

eggcream

Carnivore wrote: They didn't vote for this loser:

http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489

Reading notes scribbled on HER HAND like some kid cheating on a test? Pathetic! And right after she made fun of the President for using a teleprompter.

No comparison. Sarah doesn't need a teleprompter like President Obama. A few notes on her hand as reminders compared to using a teleprompter word for word ( even then he screws up) is laughable. .

eggcream

Boygabriel wrote: [quote=eggcream]1.9 trillion increase in debt,.

Republicans actually aren't allowed to comment on debt.

Unless they were cryogenically frozen from 2000-2008.

If that applies to you, then let me know.

So your answer is to blame Bush. Shocking. President Obamas been around too long to keep blaming Bush. Double digit unemployment, debt our grandkids will be paying off....., Hoax and Change

""President Obama estimates in the next five years we'll have $5 trillion worth of deficits. That is up 35 percent from what the president projected just 12 months ago," said CNN Political Analyst David Gergen. "This thing is spinning out of control."

boygabriel

Only a Republican could simultaneously complain about unemployment AND govt spending.

Reaganomics ladies and gentlemen!

carnivore

eggcream wrote: [quote=Boygabriel][quote=eggcream]1.9 trillion increase in debt,.

Republicans actually aren't allowed to comment on debt.

Unless they were cryogenically frozen from 2000-2008.

If that applies to you, then let me know.

So your answer is to blame Bush. Shocking. President Obama's been around too long to keep blaming Bush. Double digit unemployment, debt our grandkids will be paying off....., Hoax and Change

""President Obama estimates in the next five years we'll have $5 trillion worth of deficits. That is up 35 percent from what the president projected just 12 months ago," said CNN Political Analyst David Gergen. "This thing is spinning out of control."

Hilarious. Like someone in 1930 complaining that FDR hadn't fixed the depression yet. Except the opposition actually let FDR get legislation passed instead of filibustering every single thing that comes before Congress.

carnivore

eggcream wrote: [quote=Carnivore]They didn't vote for this loser:

http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489

Reading notes scribbled on HER HAND like some kid cheating on a test? Pathetic! And right after she made fun of the President for using a teleprompter.

No comparison. Sarah doesn't need a teleprompter like President Obama. A few notes on her hand as reminders compared to using a teleprompter word for word ( even then he screws up) is laughable. .

No comparison indeed. He may use a teleprompter for a speech (who doesn't?) but he seemed to do just fine against the Republican caucus last week without one (or perhaps you'd prefer to forget how thoroughly he demolished the Republicans in that debate). Palin wasn't giving a speech, she was using crib notes in a one on one interview. Pathetic.

witch-king

Carnivore wrote: They didn't vote for this loser:

http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489

Reading notes scribbled on HER HAND like some kid cheating on a test? Pathetic! And right after she made fun of the President for using a teleprompter.

Seeing this brings back memories of 5th grade. Maybe she was president in 5th grade

carnivore

eggcream

Carnivore wrote: [quote=eggcream][quote=Carnivore]They didn't vote for this loser:

http://www.politicususa.com/node/7489

Reading notes scribbled on HER HAND like some kid cheating on a test? Pathetic! And right after she made fun of the President for using a teleprompter.

No comparison. Sarah doesn't need a teleprompter like President Obama. A few notes on her hand as reminders compared to using a teleprompter word for word ( even then he screws up) is laughable. .

No comparison indeed. He may use a teleprompter for a speech (who doesn't?) but he seemed to do just fine against the Republican caucus last week without one (or perhaps you'd prefer to forget how thoroughly he demolished the Republicans in that debate). Palin wasn't giving a speech, she was using crib notes in a one on one interview. Pathetic.

A couple reminders on the palm is common. Jealous President Obama can't fit his whole speech on his hand. At least Sarah knows how many States there are in the US. President Obama's uh uh uh did so uh well when he said kids w/asthma need a breathalyzer er inhalator. Guess the old teleprompter died on him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc&feature=related

Here is President Obama giving a speech with his middle-class task force.



Oh, and let's not forget the 6th grade classroom.

boygabriel

this is what we're debating huh?

carnivore

Again, for a speech, all politicians use teleprompters. He doesn't use them for a conversation. And he doesn't write shit on his hands like a fucking retard.

witch-king

A handprompter is just a teleprompter that has gone rogue.

eggcream

Carnivore wrote: Again, for a speech, all politicians use teleprompters. He doesn't use them for a conversation. And he doesn't write shit on his hands like a fucking retard.

Sure, and there really are 57 states. He brought one with him to a fucking classroom. Face it, he's a fake and a moron.

eggcream

Boygabriel wrote: this is what we're debating huh?

I don't know, ask the WH spokesman Gibbs.

carnivore

eggcream wrote: [quote=Carnivore]Again, for a speech, all politicians use teleprompters. He doesn't use them for a conversation. And he doesn't write shit on his hands like a fucking retard.

Sure, and there really are 57 states. He brought one with him to a fucking classroom. Face it, he's a fake and a moron.
Really pathetic that you have to reach back that far to find him mis-speaking about anything. Bush or Palin can't speak for 30 minutes without making a similar slip.

If he's a moron, then what are the Republican Senators, that he thoroughly trounced in debate last week, teleprompter-free?


The fact is, he's one of the brightest Presidents we've had in decades, with possible competition from Clinton. But that's classic Rove playbook- don't attack people's weaknesses, attack their strengths. If you repeat it enough times, people might believe it.

boygabriel

eggcream wrote: [quote=Boygabriel]this is what we're debating huh?

I don't know, ask the WH spokesman Gibbs.

That was actually a passing joke. If you need help distinguishing, let me know.

hamilton

Carnivore wrote: Again, for a speech, all politicians use teleprompters. He doesn't use them for a conversation. And he doesn't write shit on his hands like a fucking retard.

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Hey, wait a minute, George Bush NEVER wrote anything on his hand.