Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Only in this way, IMO, can they effectively correct what they have done. In the process, they will have enhanced their status as unbiased news purveyors.
Greta called her a pig on her show, several times, it was satisfying. Such name calling!
As Henry VIII said about fourth wife Anne of Cleves, ‘she is nothing fair and have evil smells about her’. One can apply that quote to this liberal journalist.
My, my, my. The lefties have their panties in a twist over the Palin debate, don’t they?
Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Mark Steyn should file a hate speech complaint agianst Malik
, with the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
She would be censored and fined.
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Heather Mallick
A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention
Last Updated: Friday, September 5, 2008 | 8:48 PM ET
By Heather Mallick, special to CBC News
I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America’s name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. They’re unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.
But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I’m a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.
Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn’t even female really. She’s a type, and she comes in male form too.
John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I’d had the wit to come up with it first. It’s safer than “white trash” but I’ll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.
Doyle’s job includes watching a lot of reality television and he’s well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that’s something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.
‘Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am’
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don’t the Palins? I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin’s e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma’am.
Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won’t dwell on them.
I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn’t have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo.
They were indistinguishable. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon?
Who delivered this line: “To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.” Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palin’s shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?
The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that’s the mystery of the hick vote. They’d be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What’s the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.
Lie works for Palin
But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He’s going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn’t include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. So why cheer Palin when she claims otherwise?
Is it racism? I’m told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it. It is more likely the dearly held Republican notion that any American can become violently rich, as rich as those hedge funders in Greenwich, Conn., who buy $40-million mansions unseen and have their topiary shaped in the form of musical notes.
When Palin and Rudy Giuliani sneered at Obama’s years of “community organizing” — they said it like “rectal fissure” — the audience ewww-ed with them. Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.
So I’m trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. It’s the green light at the end of the dock. It’s the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she won’t because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.
American politics isn’t short of smart women. Susan Eisenhower, Ike’s granddaughter, who just endorsed Obama, made an extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention (and a terrific casual appearance on The Colbert Report as Palin was speaking). The Republican party has already consumed nearly all of its moderate “seed corn,” she said aptly. Time to start again.
Eisenhower, a scholar and journalist, has a point. Or am I only saying that because she’s part of the thoughtful demographic that I’m trying to reach here? Think, Heather, think like a Republican! The Skeptics, shall I call them, are my base, and I’ll pander to them as ardently as the Republican patriarchs tease their white female marginals.
This Week
Mad Men is scaring me (AMC on Sunday nights). What has Matthew Weiner, a writer from The Sopranos, created, a period soap opera about reality and façade or a horror series on a localized war between men and women? Was Episode 6 of Season 2 a costume drama about the Madonna/whore complex or the operatic rendition of one simple thing, human cruelty?
Or maybe I’m seeing too much into it and it’s just a sexed-up version of the Republican convention.
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[Heather Mallick is obviously a bona fide psychopathic nutter, posing as a journalist.]
This CBC apology is far too little, far too late.Not only do they lack class, but the CBC is idiotic. Mallick should be looking for a new job.They just lost millions of readers and watchers.Oh I forgot, they are government subsidized and do not have to worry about competition. ( See what socialism does to the media?)
I wonder if Ms Mallick would consider it free speech if I called her a trashy, trollopy, semi-literate little __________.
You, and she, may use your imagination to fill in the blank.
You mean we're not?
They wouldn’t be attacking Sara this badly if Obama was really ahead in the polls. Judging by their attacks McCain must be up by at least double digits nation wide.
The Canadian moonbat media is not voting in our election.
Who really gives a flying fig what some left-wing Canadian media types have to say, whether it’s an election year here or not?
I have friend connections to Canada, so I harbor no ill will against the folks on the other side of the longest undefended border in the world.
That having been said, exactly what irrepressible narcissistic impulse has mastered the assorted braying jackasses from Canada, Britain, and other points outside the 50 states (57 if you learned math like Barack did) to drive them to pontificating about OUR candidates? And doing so in such a haughty, superior fashion?
It would never occur to me to waste my time lambasting the multitude of nondescript femboys who have revolved in and out of the Canadian houses of government.
Note to Canadian female reporters: Instead of showing your bona fides as a jerk, learn from Palin. You really don’t have to be butch to be an effective woman in your field.
What the plodding pundits outside the US don’t understand is that Sarah Palin is authentically American in her life story and her values. She is not European. She does not seek the approval of the illuminati that fancies itself world class in its pretensions.
For that reason these human bullhorns simply are incapable of understanding her. They mistakenly believe that they are better than her, but, to recall an old Randy Newman song, “they’re wrong.”
They really ought to stop trying to curry favor with their komrades to the south, unless of course they are shooting for a gig with one of the shrinking US news organs.
I will not speculate on the particular organ that is shrinking.
She’ll lift your spirits just watching her.
Why don’t we get to see more of her, Senator McCain?
http://www.johnmccain.com/palin.htm
She couldn’t even give a Great Dane a boner.
That’s ugly.
Who is Sarah Palin? Seriously I have not seen her since the Katie Couric interview. Has anyone else???
why even watch the network if you KNOW theres going to be bs?
ill stick to FOX and let newsbusters do what they have to do
