Filmmaker rescues Sarah Palin from 'vile'

politico ^ | 6/5/11 | BEN SMITH

[Nachum]

The director of “The Undefeated,” a glowing new film about Sarah Palin, said he plans to release an “X-rated” version of the film to better convey “vile” comments about her from sources including celebrities and obscure Twitter users.

The documentary echoes Palin’s own appeal by leading with her victimhood and in a format – two hours of unmoderated hagiography — that’s aimed at thrilling the faithful, not engaging doubters. The film begins with a 15-minute montage of Palin foes using obscene language and insulting her disabled son. After that opening, the film includes the voices of no other Palin critics, and is composed largely of Palin friends, relatives, and supporters singing her praises to the camera and making the case that her Alaska record has been underplayed and misunderstood.

“I’m trying to get in back of this concept of why big organizations and why people think it’s acceptable to have this pathology with this woman,” said filmmaker Stephen Bannon of his decision to lead with “stuff that is so vile.”

And while the film has been portrayed as a strategic venture– the RealClearPolitics story in which it was announced described it as her “Secret Weapon” in presidential politics – its substance and timing were dictated by the filmmaker, who had not previously met her; the film features extended passages from her audiobook of “Going Rogue.”

[Pollster1]

Like most of her supporters, I’m not interested in her “victimhood”, and the left is hypocritical even in that respect only caring about victims who hate God, America, and freedom. Why belabor the obvious when no one really cares? What matters to me is that Sarah will be a great president, just as she was a great governor. Sarah has my vote, but it has nothing to do with the evil of those who support Obama and of those who say she should have killed her baby.

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>>I will bet by the time she announces, is running and in the midst of her campaign that JimRob zots you.<<

I have been very respectful of Mrs. Palin.

Some of her supporters have been less than kind, though.

[freedumb2003]

>>I will bet by the time she announces, is running and in the midst of her campaign that JimRob zots you.<<

I have been very respectful of Mrs. Palin.

Some of her supporters have been less than kind, though.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

>>I will bet by the time she announces, is running and in the midst of her campaign that JimRob zots you.<<

I have been very respectful of Mrs. Palin.

And you back that claim up by using the formal, "Mrs."

Of course if you were really trying to be respectful you could have said Governor Palin. It is that which the PDS sufferer avoids as a vampire avoids sunlight.

[freedumb2003]

>>And you back that claim up by using the formal, “Mrs.”<<

It is impossible to satisfy some people.

I think calling Mrs. Palin by her name is properly respectful. I don’t know her personally, so I do not use the familiar “Sarah” which is bandied about.

You may be correct about the use of “Governor” but I note that appalachian isn’t consistently used by some people. I stand by my polite use of her name.

Apparently PDS cuts both ways.

I defy anyone to find where I have said anything disrespectful of Mrs. Palin. Suggesting she may not win and may not be the proper candidate is not disrespectful. Also, teasing some of her supporters is ALSO not disrespectful to her.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

You may be correct about the use of “Governor” but I note that appalachian isn’t consistently used by some people.

Just for your continuing education, appalachian is about a mountain chain. The word you want is appellation. You are welcome.

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>>Just for your continuing education, appalachian is about a mountain chain. The word you want is appellation. You are welcome.<<

Ah, the beauty of spell-check.

Thank you.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The point is that political discourse is all but impossible with the Left. They are psychologically incapable of it, they don't want it, they prefer to shut it down, demonize it, make sure their own are afraid to listen or entertain any notions of independent thought. Anyone who dares to step out of line, they'll fall on them like a pack of dogs.

So, we shouldn't expect to convince or persuade them, we just have to defeat them.

To them politics is a blood sport, a no-holds-barred fight to the death. The issue is never the issue with them. Their goal is power, period. With power they don't have to reason with you. They simply dictate to you.

Yet, despite it all, we persist in being on our best behavior. We are always statesmen rather than win-at-all-costs politicians. They use our goodness against us. Saul Alinsky advises them in his Rules for Radicals to hold us to the highest possible standards while there should be no standards for them. That is how we end up on the short end quite often. We boot ours out for the slightest indiscretion while they defend and protect the likes of Barney Frank, Anthony Wiener, Bill Clinton, Harry Reed, Charles Rangel, and the myriad of other Scofflaws they support. In fact, they have us so cowed with the media and political correctness we don't even dare to be impolite.

That is the appeal of Palin. She won't be cowed no matter what they do. Once the public finds out what she stands for and what she has done the Left knows they are in trouble. They are as afraid of the message as they are of Sarah.

I am not advising that we become them. I just intend to point out the difference so that we stop being push-overs.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You may be correct about the use of “Governor” but I note that appellation isn’t consistently used by some people. I stand by my polite use of her name.

Just don't try that on Senator Boxer . .

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>>Just don’t try that on *Senator* Boxer .<<

LORDY NO!

Thanks :)

(actually I would LOVE to have mrs. boxer pull that on me in public. I would be more than happy to remind he that SHE works for ME).

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>>Yet, despite it all, we persist in being on our best behavior. We are always statesmen rather than win-at-all-costs politicians. <<

May I suggest sometimes we are a little less than that...

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

>>Just don’t try that on *Senator* Boxer .<<

LORDY NO!

Thanks :)

(actually I would LOVE to have mrs. boxer pull that on me in public. I would be more than happy to remind he that SHE works for ME).

See, that's my point. There's not much chance that I'll get the chance to rebuke Senator Boxer in person for her standing on ceremony in her dealings with a general in the US Army. And, IMHO, even less reason to expect that Sarah Palin would ever put on airs like that. So the only way to express my sense of that difference is, hopefully without being too stuffy about it, to model (and in this case to promote) the use of the respectful Governor when referring to Mrs. Palin.

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>>See, that’s my point. There’s not much chance that I’ll get the chance to rebuke Senator Boxer in person for her standing on ceremony in her dealings with a general in the US Army. And, IMHO, even less reason to expect that Sarah Palin would ever put on airs like that. So the only way to express my sense of that difference is, hopefully without being too stuffy about it, to model (and in this case to promote) the use of the respectful Governor when referring to Mrs. Palin.<<

You have convinced me. From here on out I will refer to Governor Palin as just that. “Mrs. Palin” felt a little stilted but I thought it was proper.

But babs pugilisitica will be “babs” to me — on FR and, (hopefully) in public :)

[Mind-numbed Robot]

May I suggest sometimes we are a little less than that...

Yes, you may and you are probably right. However, I am having a hard time thinking of an example. I would applaud an instance where we stuck it to them if I could remember one.