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John Doyle: How Sarah Palin became my new bestie
The Globe and Mail ^ | January 10, 2014 | John Doyle

Posted on 01/10/2014 2:35:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

You can feel the charm when you watch her operate in person, that Sarah Palin. You don’t expect it, but it’s there – the awkward mix of pseudo-authenticity and charisma, the smooth way with a room full of reporters, the way she just carries on, regardless.

Me, I was taken aback. She’s practically my new bestie, now. Squeezed my hand, called me “honey,” even stopped to squeeze my shoulder on her way out and thank me. We had a wee chat and a laugh.

Palin was here Friday for an early breakfast event to promote her new series on a fairly obscure channel, The Sportsman Channel, a thing called Amazing America With Sarah Palin. Introduced by a network executive as “The First lady Of The Outdoors,” Palin took to the podium and gave it her best. The voice, the tone that goes up and down in odd squawks, is familiar, but it sure wakes you up in the morning when it’s unleashed.

“The Sportsman Channel is so bold to ask me along,” she said, with “bold” coming out in a squawk. “I’m gonna work to bust this network out!” she declared and even smiled as she heard a few titters. “You critics are gonna have a ball with me and this new show.”

Then she went into her self-deprecating mode: A demeanour she’s acquired, if it’s real at all, from her political experience, her up and-down-career as a pundit on Fox News and the critical blasting of her TLC reality series, Sarah Palin’s Alaska. “You know how much I love critics and the media,” said a grinning Palin. “So a room full of television critics, I can't beat this combination for pleasure.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: canada; gay; msm; palin; pds; sarahpalin; television
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1 posted on 01/10/2014 2:35:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 01/10/2014 2:41:24 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All I could think as I read this drivel was,what an ass the author was. Not one opportunity missed to throw a backhanded compliment. What a sleaze.


3 posted on 01/10/2014 2:43:30 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Liberty Valance

I heart this woman — God bless her.


4 posted on 01/10/2014 2:48:52 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Betcha Miss Doyle was the runt in that litter of pussies.


sight unseen, prolly has a lisp too

5 posted on 01/10/2014 2:54:23 PM PST by tomkat (is my curmudgeon showing ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love Sarah Palin. Anyone badmouthing her in my house gets escorted to the door and 86’d for good. I am not kidding.


6 posted on 01/10/2014 2:54:54 PM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon; windage and elevation.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He doesn’t expect charm? That’s because he gets his perception of Sarah Palin from MSNBC, SNL, and the Comedy Channel rather than the woman herself. They are so obsessed with their own caricature of Sarah.


7 posted on 01/10/2014 3:00:42 PM PST by informavoracious (Root for Obamacare and healthcare.gov failure!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What I got from this piece. The author discovered much to his surprise and chagrin, that he likes Sarah Palin, he really, really likes her. The writer is sophisticated enough to know how celebrities operate, he knew she was working her magic, but he fell for it anyway. I think this was a good contact for her, a good way to widen the circle of friends from foreign lands. Yes, Canada does count as foreign. Sarah was in her element!


8 posted on 01/10/2014 3:05:45 PM PST by lee martell
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The author's manner is overbearing.

Recently on The Five, Greg Gutfeld identified the dialect of certain delicate, male personalities in media -- he called it "uptalk". And there's a definition for it:

uptalk: noun - a manner of speaking in which declarative sentences are uttered with rising intonation at the end, as if they were questions.

9 posted on 01/10/2014 3:06:15 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: tomkat

John Doyle

10 posted on 01/10/2014 3:08:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Gene Eric

Gutfeld got that from Seinfeld. Women from Texas uptalk a lot.


11 posted on 01/10/2014 3:09:37 PM PST by Hugin
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Told ya !

             


There ya go, girls !
Line forms to the left !

12 posted on 01/10/2014 3:11:08 PM PST by tomkat (is my curmudgeon showing ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Snark much? The author just doesn’t seem to be able to help himself.


13 posted on 01/10/2014 3:12:31 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One of many things I like about Sarah Palin is something she has in common with many positive thinking theorists and good actors; except for when Sarah is upset about something in particular, Sarah usually appears to be having one of the best days of her life. She projects joyful jubilation! That is different than projecting the ‘joy’ of seeing a rival’s destruction, diminution or demise, very different indeed. I know nobody feels that joyfully jubilant 24/7, well nobody I know, however, many folks think being happy is usually a personal choice each person makes. People like her make me think about deciding to be happy whenever I can.


14 posted on 01/10/2014 3:15:16 PM PST by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that Marilyn Manson without the pancake?


15 posted on 01/10/2014 3:16:59 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Mastador1

You’re right. He had an opportunity to write a straightforward story but chose to sneer the whole way through. The media has their marching orders: the woman is utterly charming and genuine and she must be destroyed, every day, or else she might get elected and fix stuff.


16 posted on 01/10/2014 3:19:44 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Globe and Mail is Progressive, Lame-Stream Media in spades. It’s the Canadian version of the New York Slimes.

Sure, the author is snarky, but that’s just his usual manner. He is forced to admit that he found Sarah likeable, even though he hates everything she stands for.


17 posted on 01/10/2014 3:19:52 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Hugin

Actually, the term “uptalk” was coined by James Gorman in this NYT piece:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/magazine/on-language-like-uptalk.html

Linguists call this verbal feature the “High Rising Terminal”.


18 posted on 01/10/2014 3:26:48 PM PST by oblomov
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To: tomkat

You appear to be correct.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/john-doyle


19 posted on 01/10/2014 3:27:54 PM PST by BilLies ("Will none rid me of this lying bastard ?")
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To: lee martell
What I got from this piece. The author discovered much to his surprise and chagrin, that he likes Sarah Palin, he really, really likes her.

Um. Not quite. In the final couple of sentences, he comments on her charm, but says he knows it's just manipulation. Of course he would think that, because, I'm guessing, all of the people HE supports ARE master manipulators, so he assumes every politician, or former politician, is, as well.

20 posted on 01/10/2014 3:30:03 PM PST by SuziQ
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