Posted on 06/12/2011 5:32:08 PM PDT by Hojczyk
What does he think of Barack Obama? "The question is can he run on his record in 2012 and the answer is no, because it's abysmal. He took a trillion dollars and where it went, nobody knows. He dismantled health care, he weakened America around the world, he sold out the state of Israel. All he's got to run on is being a Democrat So who would he prefer as president? He replies that he is "not current" with the Republican contenders until I mention Sarah Palin. "I am crazy about her," he answers immediately. "Would she make a good candidate for president? I don't know but she seems to have succeeded at everything she put her hand to."
Mamet compares Palin to a late friend in Cabot, Vt., where he owns a "little cabin in the woods ... I like to hunt. I like to fish. Cross-country ski. It's in the middle of absolute nowhere. A dirt-track road, a 200-year-old post-and-beam house. Gorgeous." His friend, he continues, was "a hardworking guy, a man of honor who was looking out for the town's interests. I thought of him when I saw Sarah Palin. She started with the PTA and then became the mayor and then governor [of Alaska]. I thought, well, OK. That's someone who knows how to work."
Why, if he so loves small-town America and its values, does he live in the liberal enclave of Los Angeles? "There is a lot of work. My wife works there," he says and then he mentions his daughters. "They are very, very beautiful. It once occurred to me: being able to write is like being the pretty girl at the party. You can't be diffident about it because that's a lie but it's nothing to be arrogant about."
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright loves Sarah Palin; that tells me that more than just Tea Partiers love Sarah. The Ladies on The View, Katie Couric and Rachel Madcow will love to report this news; I’m sure.
Great post, a very interesting article.
LOL, Mamet is making their heads explode.
I’m loving it!
The Unit is excellent. This was one show that I never consistently watched, because we were always watching something else. But I would catch up with it during re-runs.
There was a story arc, spoiler alert maybe so stop reading if you need to. I didn’t really get the whole story, but Mamet’s real-life wife Rebecca Pigeon played the wife of the unit’s commander and she had gone rogue, so to speak.
She was just evil, she was selling The Unit down the river, but all the while she had the wives of the guys totally fooled.
Ohmygoodness, she was EVIL. And she was GREAT!
I am going, eventually, to get this entire series on DVD and just watch it all, so I can watch her again.
She was SO BAD and you could NOT take your eyes off her.
The best evil villainess since the great Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate.
Also, rarely mentionaed but also great “The Spanish Prisoner”. A nice Mamet piece without all the f-bombs.
It is great to have Mr. Mamet on our side.
And if Ms. Pigeon is with us also...well, we can only hope!
I just finished Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation. Excellent book, easy to read, counldn’t put it done.
We need more like this guy if we want to save the country.
DNC Dave on MTP went a bit ballistic when this came up today on his pathetic show.
She gets the coffee, the Cadillac and the steak knives.
I know exactly what you mean. I feel the same way. Must be nice. Good for him.
Post of the week (so far...)!
thanks for posting that...interesting.
Also interesting was one of the last comments about our banking system. Chris Dodd should be in jail...along with Barney Frank.
Other comments were interesting as well - more conservative support than I would have expected.
Mamet’s “The Edge” is one of my favorite movies.
Even Alec Baldwin doesn’t ruin it!
WOW love you tag line. Can I put that on my fb page?
Thanks.
“The Edge” is now in my netflix instant queue.
I believe at the beginning of this week or end of last week, Rush mentioned in passing that he had just finished interviewing him for the next Limbaugh Letter.
Good luck! I hope you do get the face to face with him.
“The first time I met Tennessee Williams,” he recalls, “he showed up at a party in Chicago with two beautiful young boys who were obviously rough trade. He looked at them and then he looked at me and he said, ‘Expensive habit.’”
“I wonder what might have happened if he had picked up John Maynard Keynes instead of Friedman.”
Both remarks by the author weren’t linked in the article but there actually is a relationship in a strange way...
http://www.keynesatharvard.org/book/Sugar_Keynes.html
Thanks, great post.
He’s quite the apostate, and one of the most difficult for them to challenge. I predict they’ll simply ignore him as if he was never their Adonis.
Heh...
But! But! I thought only STOOOPID people could like Palin!
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