Aw, That's Sad

Additionally, to no one's surprise, she is reportedly becoming a contributor for Fox News in some as-yet unspecified capacity. I mean, that's absolutely where she belongs, so good for her for realizing that. I'm sure it was a tough call between that and taking over Larry King's show. Which was also offered to her, probably. It's a good call until 2012 at least, when she will be elected president just before the coming apocalypse, of which her election will be a harbinger. I can't fucking wait.

VEGAN HELL

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has never made any bones, if you will, about her culinary preferences. She's a carnivore, a hunter and proud of both.

So it's not really a surprise that her book, "Going Rogue," published today, extols the virtues of eating meat.

"If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore," she wrote. "If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”

But the former Republican vice presidential candidate did not stop there.

“I love meat," she writes. "I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals -- right next to the mashed potatoes.”

He's Baaaack

The most incredible straight-face-keeper I have ever seen interviewed people in front of a Sarah Palin book signing, which produces an equally jaw-dropping effect as his previous interviews at the 9/12 rally. Enjoy, and join me in a toast to the death of reason!

To be fair, below are some snippets of protests published on Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic from people on the Left claiming that Democrats are being too hard on President Obama, equally devoid of fact and thoughtfulness and which, also, make far more claims about Obama's perceived character than his policies. But I guess "where someone's heart is" has always been a more important barometer for success than action in this country, anyways.

"Thank goodness people are starting to leave the left. Their abandonment of Obama is as unconscionable as the right's refusal to work with him. . . . This is about decency and working together to solve problems. . . . Obama is almost solitary in his desire and ability to tackle problems of epic proportion while realizing that we live in a very heterogeneous society. . . . The loud-mouths on the Left are becoming nearly as hysterical and vicious as those on the right. . . . I marvel (unhappily) on a daily basis on how myopic and stubborn many of those on the left have become in regards to President Obama. I wonder if any of these people have ever truly had to make hard decisions in their lives. Have they not ever had to weigh all consequences?. . . . These are real choices people, not a schoolyard fantasy, in which our guy, king of the geeks, is finally captain of the kickball team, and now he can pick us fellow geeks and play us all in sweet revenge against the jocks. He is not playing. He is leading. Not even one year in, I am willing to continue to trust his instinct, his grace, his patience and his measured hand. . . .These are the reasons I voted for him. Hope for a leader, not hope for "everything to be completely different from the previous guy regardless of the consequences", which is what I think many immature democrats are upset about. What a bunch of selfish babies. . . . The stuff coming out of "progressive" mouths is all too often on a par with Glenn Beck's abusive rants--both sides (right and left wingers) playing thousand-pound national football with the President as the ball--meaning, kick kick kick, until you bust his dick. This truly makes me sick."

Ugh, She's Back

It's unfortunately true, America's favorite hockey mom and most offensively ignorant political figure is back in the spotlight. That picture up there isn't even one of the many in-poor-taste photoshopped pictures of her either, but an authentically in-poor-taste picture she consented to. Every time Sarah Palin is in the spotlight, invariably offending intelligent and/or informed people who value truth all around the world, I am tempted to ignore her. The thought process behind this is that she makes me so upset with every world she drawls and I should thus not listen in the interest of keeping my blood pressure down, and that I would like to hope that maybe if everyone just ignores her she will go away. This last thought is incredibly naive, and unfortunately has been the primary response of Barack Obama to the growing chorus of hysterical white people speaking out illogically against him and in favor of people like Palin. People like these:

Now, I have been trying to wrap my mind around this swelling of faux-populist sentiment on the Far-Right for awhile now, and it just won't make sense. Certainly, there is reason for the American people to be upset right now. In the last couple of years we have seen empirically the failures of our politico-economic system, and many people in this country and throughout the world have experienced this rather painfully. However, these furious disciples of Sarah Palin and Glen Beck raging their concerns in tea-party protests and Fox News forums are fighting for the very system that is their oppressor. The majority of these people are a part of the very middle class that is being systematically demolished, and yet they rally for the return to the principles of that system, and those who support it. Sure, some of this may be racism, as has often been speculated. But bigotry can absolutely not be the only, or even the primary, driving force behind this supremely disorienting phenomena.

It seems clear that, while this is still a fringe movement, lacking the political power to do something truly terrible such as, say, electing Sarah Palin as President in 2012, it is significant enough to cause trouble for Barack Obama in the future, and Democratic Senators and Representatives in 2010. We have seen that the road of condescending willful ignorance is not the effective solution to this mindless rage-filled movement. The only solution that seems effective at this point is for politicians and anyone who comes into contact with these people to engage directly with them, armed with the truth, like that guy from the 9/12 rally that Magical Fuckers posted the video of here. Maybe then we could do something productive with all this rage and force Barack Obama to be the agent of change he promised to be but has proven unwilling to commit to.

Here is an interview, aired this week, Palin did with Barbara Walters:

Yeah, Newsweek should be more policy-oriented, and you should maybe just one time address an actual policy instead of simply spouting inflammatory talking points designed to elicit a certain response rather than contribute meaningfully to an improvement of our political system in any way. Ugh.