Posted on 01/15/2010 9:49:37 AM PST by steve-b
There are many reasons why America has often proved a crucible for cults of personality: its trust in the gospel of individualism; its worship of personal success; its size, which requires inspirational figures to transcend regional differences; its faith in glamour, self-invention and the Elect. Whatever fraudulences Sarah Palin may encompass, her cult of personality is bona fide: the personification of an entire value system, she is an ideology incarnate, and Going Rogue is her manifesto.
That said, calling Palin's belief system an ideology suggests a coherence it often lacks. This is partly because her political attitudes are largely defined by animus: opposed to most things that governments actually do, she resents half the nation she aspired to lead, and is deeply suspicious of politicians (excepting herself, of course)....
Judging by Going Rogue and Sarah From Alaska, a far more objective (if ultimately sympathetic) account written by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, embedded reporters in the Palin campaign for CBS and Fox News, whatever else Palin may tolerate, dissent isn't among them. (She even finds time at the end of Going Rogue to accuse Conroy and Walshe themselves of stalking her family; they claim she tried to intimidate them into leaving the state capital, Juneau.)...
Palin doubtless also feels that she's on solid factual ground with Going Rogue, but it has been dismissed by senior McCain staffers as "total fiction". Conroy and Walshe provide evidence to refute several of her more self-serving accounts, while fact-checking websites have totted up the book's misrepresentations, omissions and inaccuracies, which are legion. The word "fiction" doesn't quite capture Going Rogue's disturbing mix of fantasy and propaganda, however: it is less a novel than the creation myth of a demagogue....
(Excerpt) Read more at newstatesman.com ...
Ah yes, a steve-b douchebag barf alert.
“Ah yes, a steve-b douchebag barf alert”
My first thought when I saw the poster. He must spend a lot of time searching liberal sites to find articles on Palin.
Hey steve-b, get a life man...
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