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 dont expect it, but its 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. Shes 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 its unleashed.
The Sportsman Channel is so bold to ask me along, she said, with bold coming out in a squawk. Im 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 shes acquired, if its 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 Palins 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)
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
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.
I heart this woman — God bless her.
sight unseen, prolly has a lisp too
I love Sarah Palin. Anyone badmouthing her in my house gets escorted to the door and 86’d for good. I am not kidding.
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.
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!
John Doyle
Gutfeld got that from Seinfeld. Women from Texas uptalk a lot.
There ya go, girls !
Line forms to the left !
Snark much? The author just doesn’t seem to be able to help himself.
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.
Is that Marilyn Manson without the pancake?
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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