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He Called Sarah Palin an "Idiot"?
Townhall.com ^ | December 14, 2010 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 12/14/2010 6:44:17 AM PST by Kaslin

EDITORS NOTE: THERE IS LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT THE COLUMN THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS. THANK YOU.

On CNN recently, Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network," "West Wing") called Sarah Palin an "idiot."

Let's see to whom that label applies.

Last week in the Huffington Post, Sorkin wrote a column attacking the ex-governor of Alaska and her TLC mini-series reality TV show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska."

Sorkin opened with a quote from Palin on the hypocrisy of meat-eaters who condemn hunting for food. He then proceeded with this response:

"You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go f--- ourselves now."

That non sequitur was the high point of Sorkin's column. (Also, as I noted in my last column on the Grammy Awards nominees for Record of the Year, while most people use expletives in private conversation or in a rare uncontrolled outburst, the Hollywood and art-world left uses expletives in public discourse and in writing as a matter of course.)

Sorkin was furious that the documentary showed Palin hunting and killing a caribou. Although she made it clear that she intended to eat the animal, according to Sorkin she had committed an act of murder and torture. To quote Sorkin:

"I don't relish the idea of torturing animals."

"I don't watch snuff films and you (Palin) make them."

"I've tried and tried and for the life of me, I can't make a distinction between what you (Palin) get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing."

"I get happy every time one of you faux-macho s---heads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face."

"That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain."

"Sarah Palin is deranged."

Sorkin admits that he eats meat and wears leather. So while he and almost any of us in the affluent West can eat healthfully without eating any meat, Sorkin chooses to have animals killed solely for his culinary pleasure. In other words, he is morally at peace with paying others to kill animals for what is in fact the "fun" of eating meat. But when Palin hunts and kills an animal for food, she is a murderer and torturer.

And while on the subject of torture, isn't there more torture in the way in which most animals are confined and killed in the slaughter mills of modern society than in the killing of an individual animal while it freely roams in the wild?

As for comparing Palin's TV show to a "snuff film," what kind of mind likens the murder of an innocent person on film to hunting a caribou? There is an answer: the Hollywood leftist mind.

Likewise, Sorkin's use of the word "murdered." Outside of his confused moral universe, humanity has always reserved that word "murder" exclusively to describe the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. It has never been used to describe the killing of an animal. By Sorkin's logic, his eating meat renders him a mass murderer.

No wonder, then, that Sorkin sees no difference between shooting a caribou and Vick's using dogs to kill one another in a sadistic sporting event.

I return to the question: Does Sorkin really not see a difference between hunting an animal for food, torturing an animal or murdering a human being -- especially given the fact that he pays people to kill animals for his joy in eating them?

If he sees no difference, then it is he --- not Palin --- who best fits the description of her he wrote in his column. The only other explanation would be that he so hates her that he will say anything, including turning moral standards upside down, in order to insult her.

Good people can differ on Palin's political positions or on whether she should run for president in the next election. But what has she ever said, written or done to justify Sorkin's hatred and cruelty? Indeed, what has she ever said or written that was as infantile or morally foolish as what Sorkin wrote about her?

Ironically, all Sorkin's column achieves is an elevation of Palin's status. If people can be judged by those who hate them, Palin must be more impressive than many people have realized.

So, how does one explain Sorkin's irrational hatred and morally twisted thinking?

As noted earlier, it is indicative of the Hollywood Leftist mindset. Members of Hollywood's left generally live in a left-wing cocoon. What strikes most people who live outside of that cocoon as irrational and immoral is often regarded as brilliant in that world. To the rest of us, comparing shooting a caribou to a snuff film, to murder and to torture is the ranting of an immature and morally confused mind. But among many of Sorkin's peers on the cultural left, Sorkin's column is not merely brilliant, it is f---ing brilliant.

On CNN recently, Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin ("The Social Network," "West Wing") called Sarah Palin an "idiot."

Let's see to whom that label applies.

Last week in the Huffington Post, Sorkin wrote a column attacking the ex-governor of Alaska and her TLC mini-series reality TV show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska."

Sorkin opened with a quote from Palin on the hypocrisy of meat-eaters who condemn hunting for food. He then proceeded with this response:

"You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go f--- ourselves now."

That non sequitur was the high point of Sorkin's column. (Also, as I noted in my last column on the Grammy Awards nominees for Record of the Year, while most people use expletives in private conversation or in a rare uncontrolled outburst, the Hollywood and art-world left uses expletives in public discourse and in writing as a matter of course.)

Sorkin was furious that the documentary showed Palin hunting and killing a caribou. Although she made it clear that she intended to eat the animal, according to Sorkin she had committed an act of murder and torture. To quote Sorkin:

"I don't relish the idea of torturing animals."

"I don't watch snuff films and you (Palin) make them."

"I've tried and tried and for the life of me, I can't make a distinction between what you (Palin) get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing."

"I get happy every time one of you faux-macho s---heads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face."

"That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain."

"Sarah Palin is deranged."

Sorkin admits that he eats meat and wears leather. So while he and almost any of us in the affluent West can eat healthfully without eating any meat, Sorkin chooses to have animals killed solely for his culinary pleasure. In other words, he is morally at peace with paying others to kill animals for what is in fact the "fun" of eating meat. But when Palin hunts and kills an animal for food, she is a murderer and torturer.

And while on the subject of torture, isn't there more torture in the way in which most animals are confined and killed in the slaughter mills of modern society than in the killing of an individual animal while it freely roams in the wild?

As for comparing Palin's TV show to a "snuff film," what kind of mind likens the murder of an innocent person on film to hunting a caribou? There is an answer: the Hollywood leftist mind.

Likewise, Sorkin's use of the word "murdered." Outside of his confused moral universe, humanity has always reserved that word "murder" exclusively to describe the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. It has never been used to describe the killing of an animal. By Sorkin's logic, his eating meat renders him a mass murderer.

No wonder, then, that Sorkin sees no difference between shooting a caribou and Vick's using dogs to kill one another in a sadistic sporting event.

I return to the question: Does Sorkin really not see a difference between hunting an animal for food, torturing an animal or murdering a human being -- especially given the fact that he pays people to kill animals for his joy in eating them?

If he sees no difference, then it is he --- not Palin --- who best fits the description of her he wrote in his column. The only other explanation would be that he so hates her that he will say anything, including turning moral standards upside down, in order to insult her.

Good people can differ on Palin's political positions or on whether she should run for president in the next election. But what has she ever said, written or done to justify Sorkin's hatred and cruelty? Indeed, what has she ever said or written that was as infantile or morally foolish as what Sorkin wrote about her?

Ironically, all Sorkin's column achieves is an elevation of Palin's status. If people can be judged by those who hate them, Palin must be more impressive than many people have realized.

So, how does one explain Sorkin's irrational hatred and morally twisted thinking?

As noted earlier, it is indicative of the Hollywood Leftist mindset. Members of Hollywood's left generally live in a left-wing cocoon. What strikes most people who live outside of that cocoon as irrational and immoral is often regarded as brilliant in that world. To the rest of us, comparing shooting a caribou to a snuff film, to murder and to torture is the ranting of an immature and morally confused mind. But among many of Sorkin's peers on the cultural left, Sorkin's column is not merely brilliant, it is f---ing brilliant.


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1 posted on 12/14/2010 6:44:19 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Everyone knows Sarah, not many know Aaron Sorkin...so who is the idiot?


Palin Hate


2 posted on 12/14/2010 6:49:03 AM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Kaslin
So, how does one explain Sorkin's irrational hatred and morally twisted thinking?

Liberalism?

3 posted on 12/14/2010 6:49:51 AM PST by fml
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To: Kaslin
In other words.....Do as I say, not as I do.

This idiot is too stupid to understand how he gets meat on his table.

Hey, maybe Santa brings it! What a maroon! (sic)

4 posted on 12/14/2010 6:50:23 AM PST by CAluvdubya (Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.)
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To: Kaslin

I’m sure that Sorkin would have no problem doing much worse to a human infant and then disposing of the little being in a medical waste bag.

Whenever these vermin call you an “idiot”, you can be sure that you are doing to something right.


5 posted on 12/14/2010 6:50:46 AM PST by Soothesayer ("The vile person shall be no more called liberal" Isaiah 32:5-8)
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To: Kaslin

Thank you for posting this

Thank you for posting this.


6 posted on 12/14/2010 6:51:05 AM PST by 101voodoo
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To: Kaslin
"You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go f--- ourselves now."

Sounds like a plan, Aaron.

7 posted on 12/14/2010 6:52:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Kaslin
ineluctable

8 posted on 12/14/2010 6:52:29 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (DEFCON I ALERT: The federal cancer has metastasized. All personnel report to their battle stations.)
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To: Kaslin

is he mentally insane? i dont mean that as a joke, he sounds like he has some real mental problems.

he has no issue with someone shooting someone in the face but is worried about an animal...

the left is really becoming unhinged....this is not going to end well..they are ready to blow a gasket like the left always does and that usually means the murdering of a lot of innocent people.


9 posted on 12/14/2010 6:53:21 AM PST by Irishguy
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To: Kaslin

This behavior on the part of lib commentators with PDS is observed very far into the process of continuing to communicate their marxist mythology while their head is actually exploding.


10 posted on 12/14/2010 6:53:34 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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To: fml
The only other explanation would be that he so hates her that he will say anything, including turning moral standards upside down, in order to insult her.

That's all there is to it. Hollywood left are entirely juvenile in their thinking.

11 posted on 12/14/2010 6:53:34 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: Kaslin
while most people use expletives in private conversation or in a rare uncontrolled outburst, the Hollywood and art-world left uses expletives in public discourse and in writing as a matter of course
Because they all see themselves as stars in a Tarantino movie?
12 posted on 12/14/2010 6:53:51 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Kaslin

I’m voting for Sarah, simply because the entertainment value of liberal heads exploding is too good to pass up.


13 posted on 12/14/2010 6:54:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Welcome to the Gator Nation Will Muschamp)
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To: Kaslin

(I’ve tried and tried and for the life of me, I can’t make a distinction between what you (Palin) get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing.”)

Strange. I was not aware the Vick ate the dogs that he killed. Most have missed that at the trial.


14 posted on 12/14/2010 6:54:48 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA
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To: Kaslin

I am trying to think of the last Republican that the Dems did NOT call idiot, stupid or the like. Per the Dems, Ronald Reagan was an “amiable dunce.” Gerald Ford, Presidents Bush, Sarah Palin, all amazingly successful, in and out of politics, defeating Democrats at every turn, and yet “stupid.” I guess maybe Richard Nixon was the last GOPer not to be called stupid, but only because they could call him a crook.

If all the Republicans are stupid, what does that say about the Democrats who lost to them?


15 posted on 12/14/2010 6:55:07 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t know Michael Vick liked to eat dogs.

Is that the secret to his playing ability?


16 posted on 12/14/2010 6:55:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Kaslin

Sorkin’s last TV show, “Studio 60” was a disaster, Palin’s Alaska is TLC’s biggest hit ever.


17 posted on 12/14/2010 6:55:36 AM PST by AU72
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To: Kaslin
As for comparing Palin's TV show to a "snuff film," what kind of mind likens the murder of an innocent person on film to hunting a caribou? There is an answer: the Hollywood leftist mind.
If only we had an actual main stream media that would ask questions like this. If only.
18 posted on 12/14/2010 6:55:46 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Kaslin

“THERE IS LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT THE COLUMN THAT MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS. “

Funny, I found the whole thing offensive.


19 posted on 12/14/2010 6:57:21 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: FrankR

When we are taxed into poverty, can’t find jobs, prices go through the roof, and the economy tanks...in other words, when the Liberals get hungry, they will think different.
Bambi will start to look pretty darn tasty.


20 posted on 12/14/2010 6:57:26 AM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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