You know those times when you’re a kid and you’re at home by yourself and you create a game. And that game is so awesome in your own head, that you can’t wait to get home and play that game?
I just found a new game, and it’s called, “make fun of the commenters on ‘The Corner on National Review’”.
For those that don’t know, the National Review is kind of like our Huffington Post, except with a lot of bullshit. The Corner is a forum, where they discuss said bullshit in bullshitty tones. It’s pretty amazing.
Anyway, I can’t not let you in on the fun any longer. Welcome to my new game.
This comment is titled, “A reader from Memphis on the Palin Interview” (I nearly ejaculated there, and that’s just from the title). Note: Bold words theirs (bullshit), not bold words mine (not bullshit).
I thought she did just fine.
Ha! Sorry, go on.
She answered the questions with sincerity and poise, and had a good grasp of the issues presented.
Except that she didn’t answer with poise, remember. She said we would “perhaps” invade Russia if it started shit with Georgia again. That’s the opposite of poise. That’s shitting yourself on national television. She also had no idea about the Bush Doctrine, which is something I know, and I’m just a fucking blogger.
What everyone needs to always keep in mind is that Charlie has note cards and Sarah does not.
Right, note cards with questions. The answers are supposed to come from Palin’s head. It’s called an interview.
Doesn’t hurt, of course, that I agree with her almost completely.
No, it does hurt. It hurts my soul.
(the dropping of the “Pray that….” from the ‘quote’ was a particularly cheap-shot, I thought, but again it wasn’t Charlie who wrote the question, it was some Columbia j-schooler who wants to make it big with Disney. And she handled it just fine with “I’m not sure if that’s exactly what I said” (paraphrasing))
Let’s add “Pray that” to the quote, shall we: “Pray that our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Yea, I still think it’s fucked. And saying, “I’m not sure what I said,” isn’t handling it just fine. It’s realizing that you’ve been caught having a worldview that is REALLY FUCKING DANGEROUS.
What I did notice- and this has been a big selling point for me and many I know- is her “realness”.
Here’s where I have a problem. If you want a candidate who is real, vote for Obama, because everyone knows that black people like to keep it real. Seriously though, fucking shoot me.
Her way of talking, her cadence, her syntax, are real-American ways of communicating. Even down to that cute little accent she has. The shores of Lake Erie are populated almost entirely with folks who sound that same way, God love ‘em. Sometimes you “coasters” don’t ‘get’ that part.
I don’t know at which point we started electing presidents based on the “if they sound like people I know” issue, but something tells me it was a dark day in history.
She connects to middle-America not just in the guns-and-God way, but in the…. what’s the word….
Idiot? Simpleton? Iknowmoreabouttheworldthanherattude?
genuineness.
Oh, so you went that way.
She speaks in the way most people (especially those lacking a JD from some ivy-covered
structure) really talk. No parsing, no equivocation, but also not giving away the store.
I’ve covered this, but let me add that she kind of gave away the store (if I’m using this ridiculous expression the right way) when she kind of conceded that she’d go to war with Russia.
You must be doing something right when the best the “elites” can do is criticize grammar or proffer loaded questions.
Is that the best we’ve done? By the way, I made myself elite here. But something tells me there have been criticisms of her before that dealt with other issues. Ah yes, Trooper Gate, Bridge to Nowhere, zero fucking experience … I could go on, but I won’t.
The elitism and condescending attitude of the media is blaring through, and it doesn’t go unnoticed in the new media culture.
I’ll allow Charlie Gibson to be condescending when he realizes that the person he’s talking to, who just so happens to be running for vice president of the United State of America, doesn’t know anything about anything. That deserves a “are-you-fucking-kidding-me” tone.
When does Obama get asked these same questions ? Can he do it without umm’ing and err’ing, turning what should be a 30 second answer into a 3 minute snooze-fest ?
I love that Republicans prefer short, blurted out responses that require little thought over well thought out ones. It’s what makes them so cuddly.
She does need some new stump material, as many have said. I’d like to think she’s been a little preoccupied what with still running a state, not to mention sending her oldest child off to war. Once Track gets boots on the ground I trust she will become 100% more involved (does she know any other way ?) in the campaign, and will dazzle for weeks, months, and hopefully at least 16 years to come. Don’t let one small maybe/sorta not-stellar performance diminish your enthusiasm. It certainly hasn’t diminished mine.
It should have, reader from Memphis. Because now that the Palin train is stopping to talk to media outlets and doesn’t have a teleprompter running all the time, it’s going to crash and fucking burn. Seriously, when I know more about foreign policy than a candidate for the vice presidency, something is ridiculously wrong. I can’t wait to play this game when she’s interviewed by someone that actually asks her hard questions.
