Haters gonna hate...
(And yeah, I saw the image URL. It just kind of drives the point home that...haters gonna hate.)
Posted on 09/10/2011 2:13:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mere months after the release of the Sarah Palin hagio-documentary he Undefeated, British provocateur Nick Broomfield (Kurt & Courtney) arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival with a counterscreed, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! The doc premiered Friday and it looks like it may leave Mama-Grizzly-hating liberals sorely unsatisfied: Let's take a look at Broomfield's "revelations" and see which, if any, of his punches actually land.
• Broomfield’s drive to Wasilla through the icy Alaskan wilderness is punctuated by a soundtrack so ludicrous — ominous violins, shrill piano notes — that you’d think he was on the hunt for the Abominable Snowman. Once he arrives, Palin’s local fans turn out to be warm and endearing, not a bunch of raging hicks. Point: Palin!
• Broomfield successfully tracks down Mercede Johnston, the candid sister of Palin's former son-in-law-to-be, Levi. Mercede recounts her brother’s harrowing memories of his traumatic, manipulative appearance onstage with the Palins at the Republican National Convention: “He said it was crazy. And they made him…" — here comes the bombshell! — "…shave." Point: Palin!
• Broomfield searches for a Palin classmate to interview, going as far back as her elementary school — and he finally finds one now living in Egypt. The determined director sets forth! He collects a few nice shots of dusty Alexandria, with the call to prayer warbling in the background, giving geographic proof that his dogged pursuit of the truth knows no borders. Oh: the classmate there has nothing interesting to say. Point: Palin! (Frequent Flier Miles: Broomfield!)
• Levi Johnston’s agent, Tank, refuses a $500 offer for an interview with Levi because “The last interview we did, we got $20,000." However, Tank goes on to explain, unprompted, that Johnston also doesn't want to talk because “a lot’s changed in the Palin house, personal stuff. Drug use. Boyfriends and girlfriends of Sarah and Todd coming 'round…" The rumors are new, and not exactly hard facts, but hey, at least Broomfield got him to say something. Point: Broomfield!
• Broomfield wants to show what a superficial individual Palin is, so he includes a sequence about her alleged plastic surgery and Bump-it hairdo. Ah, sexist and inconsequential! Point: Palin!
• Broomfield attempts to highlight the suffering Palin caused others by introducing scandal after scandal, then cutting to a shot of its victims trashing Palin. The result: Regardless of the viability of their grievances, her enemies just look like spurned brats. Point: Palin!
• To try to paint a compelling portrait of Palin’s two-faced, evil nature, Broomfield regurgitates just about every blog post from the last three years, throws in clips of the Katie Couric interview (which at this point would put even Rachel Maddow to sleep), and digs into the revelation that Palin wasn’t actually nicknamed “Barracuda” because of her intensity on the high school basketball court, but rather because she liked the Heart song of the same name. Point: Palin!
• Broomfield finally gets his big Roger & Me chance to question his target at a small Oklahoma Tea Party convention. Standing up among all the moony-eyed Palin lovers, he blurts out a question so idiotic, so dated, so irrelevant that we just wanted to slap our foreheads: "IS YOUR POLITICAL CAREER OVER?" Palin sends the crowd into a cheering frenzy when she responds by deploying one of the most confident disses in recent memory. You almost want to cheer right along with them. Point: Palin!
Final score: Palin 7, Broomfield 1
New York Magazine confirms Broomfield hit piece is both stupid and inconsequential.
Gonna stay over here on a Palin thread was on a Perry thread made one comment about Perry not all the negative. I have shotgun holes in me now.
” made one comment about Perry not all the negative. I have shotgun holes in me now.”
Maybe so,but you can smile about it.
The author awarded Broomfield a point on this score, but ignored the above, which says that Levi will say anything for money. Point Palin ! not Broomfield !!
An absurd lie! How does she think that is point: Bloomfield?
Palin sends the crowd into a cheering frenzy when she responds by deploying one of the most confident disses in recent memory. You almost want to cheer right along with them. Point: Palin!
It would have been nice to know what that was.
The Palinhaters are like Charlie Brown and the football. Bless their hearts.
Maybe so,but you can smile about it.
Doggone It!! I can You Betcha!!
he includes a sequence about her alleged plastic surgery”
She doesn’t have that plastic surgery look...so...if she has had some done, she went to a good doc and one that is far better than those that work on celebs. When you see a celeb, your first thought is usually, “wow. i know why they call it PLASTIC surgery!”
As best I can tell, she simply asked the crowd if they thought her career was over, and ‘the crowd went wild’. Iow, they roared their approval of Palin, making Broomfield’s question sound retarded.
Even a liberal reviewer can see how silly this movie is. The director is a typical snooty British Communist, who looks down his nose at ALL real Americans.
A shoe-in to win the “Best Documentary” Oscar.....
Haters gonna hate...
(And yeah, I saw the image URL. It just kind of drives the point home that...haters gonna hate.)
""The last interview we did, we got $20,000." The author awarded Broomfield a point on this score, but ignored the above, which says that Levi will say anything for money. Point Palin ! not Broomfield !!Absolutely. I caught that too.
Palin 8
D*ckhead 0
I saw footage of that, it was hilarious.
Sarah smiled patronizingly at the lump, swept her arm in a revelatory gesture, and sweetly said, "Why don't you ask all of these fine people?" The TEA Party crowd went bananas, of course. It was pandemonium, and Mr. Lumpy was shamed into silence.
LMAO!!!! Zingggg!!!
8^D
“I have shotgun holes in me now.”
I hear that rock salt hurts. :)
“Look at the source.”
Exactly. Anything associated with a 100XX ZIP code that has the slightest positive thing to say about Palin is amazing.
Now if it were in the “Village Voice” I’d have to beleive the end times were near.
Sticks and Stones no big deal but rock salt burns. Oh well it is election season we must eat our own, then go beat the enemy with the last person standing. Oh the humanity!! Oh the fun!!
You betcha!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.