There can’t be much doubt that HBO’s Sarah Palin movie Game Change, which debuts March 10, gives the former governor the beatdown of a lifetime. Somewhere, the shade of Richard Nixon is cringing and saying, “Yikes. At least they credited me with basic intelligence.”
As played by Julianne Moore with an overly heavy midwestern accent and a dazed expression, Palin is seen being ignorant of what World War II was about and not understanding that the prime minister of Great Britain, not the queen, is the head of government.
Famously, Palin seemed lost for an answer when asked by Katie Couric to name a single newspaper she read (instead answering, as though this were possible, “all of them”). But even assuming she’s a rank illiterate — wouldn’t she have come across a few TV shows and movies that could have told her about the Allies and the Axis? Didn’t she see Hugh Grant playing the prime minister in Love, Actually? Could Palin have ever been elected grade-school hall monitor, much less governor of her state, if she were such a ninny?
Weekly Standard editor Fred Barnes is on record as saying he was “struck by how smart Palin was” when he and a boatload of other conservative pundits visited Alaska in 2007. Moreover, Palin has been a public figure for the better part of a decade now, and acquitted herself ably enough in her debate with Joe Biden, which led to no memorable gaffes. How did she pull that off if she’s such a mental midget?
According to Game Change, whose major source is apparently John McCain’s campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, she did it by borrowing some genius from…Steve Schmidt. Schmidt (played by an increasingly furious Woody Harrelson) is seen giving up on Palin’s ability to master policy details and deciding to simply supply her with 25 answers to the questions she’d be asked at the sole 2008 vice presidential debate. Reasoning that she was a great actress, he ordered her not to think but simply to memorize the answers. But could he really have predicted what questions were coming?
Even those who aren’t Palin fans may find Moore’s portrayal broad and harsh, though it allows her a few thrilling moments. The famous Republican convention speech in which Palin became an instant superstar (despite losing the services of her teleprompter) is treated with the awe it deserves, and a scene in which Palin is shown making a real connection with citizens afflicted with Down Syndrome shows off her magical personal touch.
The film is on shaky ground in ways other than its portrayal of Palin’s intelligence, however. HBO is a notably liberal outlet, and there is a bizarre subtext woven throughout in which Palin is seen as the unfortunate impediment to a nationwide agreement that Barack Obama in particular and liberalism in general are really nifty things. A Republican speechwriter (Sarah Paulson) who comes to despise Palin seems to be a fan of Hillary Clinton. John McCain (Ed Harris) is shown trying to rustle up support by reluctantly giving into his demons and going negative (as if Obama didn’t spend massively on attack ads!) and then withdrawing in revulsion as the people seem on the verge of forming a lynch mob. Harris’s McCain is portrayed as a basically decent guy who is willing to cut an ethical corner or two to win, but finally more or less concedes that Obama’s victory is fine.
If HBO were being completely honest, instead of giving a pass to Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton (none of whom is portrayed by actors in the film, though they are occasionally seen in news footage) and dramatizing every sordid anecdote about Palin, it would make a miniseries that tells the whole story of Game Change, the book by reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann that covered the 2008 campaign, not just Palin’s foibles (which take up only a few pages). In the book, Bill Clinton tells Ted Kennedy, “The only reason you’re endorsing him is because he’s black, let’s just be clear.” Obama is heard saying, “Why the f— am I going to Indiana?” and (in 2004) “There’s not much of difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage.” One of Hillary Clinton’s most senior advisers thinks, after one near-breakdown, “This woman shouldn’t be president.” Harry Reid says Obama has “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
Hillary is shown saying of Obama, “What an a–hole. Am I the only one who sees the arrogance?” She also says, of the Obama-McCain matchup, “I hate the choice that the country’s faced with. I think it is a terrible choice for our nation.” Later she is seen mentioning to aides that she’d heard Obama’s mother was a communist.
In the film, angry members of crowds at McCain rallies are heard yelling, “He’s a socialist!” and we are meant to think that irrational anger on the part of bitter (and probably racist) Republicans has been Obama’s principal problem ever since. But once you start down the road of mistaking name-calling and gossip for news, you can keep going indefinitely.
I’m fed up with all of these left-wing movies, or comedians, or politicians claiming that Palin was and is an idiot. Sure, what an idiot. That idiot managed to get herself elected governor to a large state, wrote a book that literally millions of people bought and read, gets tons of money for speaking engagements, and got many candidates elected in various states during the midterms in 2010. And still today people wonder if she’s going to run for president and hang on her every word when she comments on Obama. Yup, what a jerk, what a rube, what an idiot. I wish to hell I was an idiot like that.
I couldn’t agree more Liberty. The list of prominent democratic sleaze bag supporters that belittle Sarah Palin are the same types that supported JFK, his lower than bridge pilings brother to blow job Billy and sicko John Edwards. These are the same people that also walk hand in hand with the MSM deodorant covering up the smell and ignoring the cause.
Nothing more I would like to see than her run and rub their elitist noses in husky shit. She is the most well rounded down home candidate of any party in the last couple of decades and I think they know it. Run Sarah run, with hobnailed boots to step on their withered girly balls and Botoxed Pelosi kissers.
I think it’s easier just to view them as part of the Democrat party. They are the enemy.
They are like a sports referee that only hand out penalties to one team, because they are either fans of the other team or directly affiliated. If you look at the referee’s calls individually, they might be justified. But you miss the real issue, which is that they don’t give penalties for the same offences on the other team.
It doesn’t matter what this movie says about Palin. The real issue is that the corrupt filmmakers would never make a similar movie about a Democrat.
That’s a good comment. The real question in my mind is why the Left goes to so much trouble to show a woman who doesn’t matter in fact doesn’t matter; “…doth protest too much…” comes to mind. The Left in America hates and fears this woman out of all proportion to anything she’s ever said or done and one can only wonder what the big deal about this no big deal is. Insults against Palin outnumber actual criticisms of her as a policy-maker about 50 to 1.
JL nailed it…textbook example of the crime of omission…The left only targets the right…Naturally, the Oscar that Meryl Streep “won” was a reward for smearing Margaret Thatcher in the same manner.
Hollywood, the Media and the Democrat Party are one and the same….an unholy trinity…they defend, support and feed each other…always at the expense of conservatives, Christians and Republicans.
The Libscum who control 98% of the infotainment industry are still fairly well insulated from their actions, and that needs to change. If you have HBO, call your cable company and drop it. If you are in a public place (airports in particular) and they are bleating some Libscum *news* channel, complain and do so LOUDLY. Do not watch or read ABCNBECBSNYTWAPO or any of the Libscum outlets and for gods sake do not buy any of the Libscum magazines like Time, Newsweak, etc. This is a war and the Libscum footsoldiers who peddle this trash need to be put on notice that they have been recognized as biased, untrutsworthy partisans and will be treated as media paraiahs. Engage your friends in these conversations and make them aware. Stop watching the latest incident created and bloviated by the Libscum (Gabby Giffords, Palin, Rush, ad nauseum) and “wishing and hoping” someone would do something and do it yourself. Starve the beast and watch it squirm and squeal about how “unfair” it all is.
I was at my gym not long ago and did not like that Fox News was on. I complained and haven’t seen it since. Talk about scum. I feel soild just watching it!
Obama, or whoever he is, is your Savior. I’ll bet the chances are good that you have a government job or no job at all. Do you even know what lies are? Do you even care?
♥!..It is time for a movie about Michelle and her race baiting days in college…her high paying jobs for doing nothing…etc..go after liberal women and their tremendous dark side..that wasn’t a pun…sorry..
…!!! Republicans/conservatives of all shades need to defend Palin.
She is one of the FEW peopl/conservatives/politicians included, that talk back to liberals. At least she has nerve to answer the liberal CHUTZPAH that has overtaken our country!!!…AND I don’t care if she makes millions from her actions…I APPRECIATE HER STANDING UP FOR AMERICA..!!!
Obama has taken this birth control thing and really run with it this week…American women can’t possibly believe they are being denied birth control as he claims.. so your insurance doesn’t cover it..you can get condoms or pills on your own for a few dollars…one month of pills equals about the cost of 2 pks of cigarettes, a trip to McDonalds.
American women need to stand on their own feet and realize this man panders to them only to get reelected…there really are more pressing issues than a social issue
!!!GO PALIN!..AT OUR HOME WE STAND WITH HER..
Come on. Let’s actually all cancel HBO on Monday. Imagine millions of patriotic cancels. The only reason that they pull this propaganda crap is because they don’t have to pay a price. Let’s start charging them on Monday. Cancel HBO at your cable or subscription service,tell them why you did it & then email HBO to let them know why. I couldn’t wait & did it today,IT FEELS WONDERFUL. Ed from Ca
outstanding!!!! I cancelled HBO some time ago…so I am personally missing out on the ecstacy of dissing HBO right now…but..it is “so much win” to read that others are saying “up yours”….it is quite liberating.
I want their financial reports citing all of the subscription cancels to reach Bill Mahers desk…requesting his feedback….would love to see that.
Be on guard, however, HBO will offer enticing free months etc to try and win you back…They want that $20 a month…even if they have to grease you will a couple of free ones…don’t fall for it…stand your ground…just say NO!
Well, people affiliated with Palin herself and the campaign are saying the move accurately portrays Palin.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/nicolle-wallace-game-change-film-true-enough-to?ref=fpb
That’s not the point. The point is that they would never make a negative portrait of a similar Democrat person, accurate or inaccurate.
If you are a Democrat, you can get away with murder. If you are Republican, every little tiny mistake will be pointed out and magnified a million times.
Troll Alert!
If HBO were being completely honest….? What part of this movie is honest exactly?
HBO is noted for its soft porn and solidly Democratic politics. They are also misogynistic, and not just in this sardonic portrayal of Palin, which is probably typically sadistic with respect to women. They did the same with their bizarre portrayal of Mildred Pierce. I wrote about their version of the James M. Cain novel here: http://clarespark.com/2011/04/27/james-m-cains-gorgon-gals-2/. Palin is just another Gorgon for them.
Is HBO misogynist or do they just feel free to demonize people they disagree with (e.g., Reagan)? Bill Maher has a show on HBO right?
The right allows these things to be as they are by not speaking out. Palin program is a prime example..
…Y”all need to try watching GCB on ABC….Christians in general should be in an uproar over this show!!!.
“GOOD CHRISTIAN BIOTCHES”.
I have NOT seen any Good Muslim Biotch shows, because these networks would probably be firebombed and Obama would need to step in and offer an apology..to the muslims..\
The Nixon thing is a complete throwaway line, because few ever had a beef with Nixon’s intelligence. Few really liked him, but they respected his intelligence. In some ways, Palin was the anti-Nixon. Popular and charismatic, but never convincing on policy matters.
One can come to understand how the game must be played in one’s own neck of the woods, play those cards well, and still not know much about foreign policy.
Obviously, Palin could have cited chapter and verse on how to deal with the oil companies and old boys in Alaska, and still had glaring holes in what she knew about foreign policy and international stuff.
It is also reasonable to point out that the scrutiny does not extend to Hilary and Obama, but they had been international players for a while. Palin brought a unique set of strengths and weaknesses. My beef with her is that she has not grown in a way I find compelling, but, obviously, many here like her schtick. She makes Mr Lucky feel lucky, but Art, not so much.
The underlying issue is that the right has split into groups that don’t work as well together as lefty groups do, not a shocking thing, when it is a sense of the community vs a sense of the individual. In five, ten, or twenty years, Palin’s time to be President might come, but right now, it is not happening. But I belabor the obvious.
This was a pretty unbiased comment from you, Dwight. Good for you.
Most of it was pretty accurate. I disagree about her development. See her white paper on energy. See her speech in Hong Kong. Witness her visits to Israel and India. She was extremely well-received. These foreign places seem to have higher regard for her than you do. They take her very seriously, indeed.
Hillary and Obama: “but they had been international players for a while”
Obama – no.
Hillary – yes but only because she was sleeping with the President. Or not.
Knowledge “about foreign policy and international stuff” and Joe Biden are rarely in the same room together.
I remember the Biden-Palin ‘debate’ and much of what Biden said about the Middle East was just plain wrong. And he was billed by the Democrats and the Establishment Media as Mr. Foreign Policy.
Dwight, you make some good points. I have two comments.
First, it’s a common error to confuse ignorance with stupidity. Palin clearly is not stupid, but one could argue that she was not well informed in certain areas, though I strongly doubt that she was the ignoramus depicted in the movie.
Second, you, like many, speak of “the right”. There is no such thing as *the* right, as a single, unified movement. Any group that combines Ayn-Rand-venerating libertarians, withevangelical Christians, with ultramontanist Catholics is hardly unified. In reality, there is the left, which is unified on their mission is to concentrate all power in the state and subject the state to themselves; and the anti-left. The anti-left is a coalition of many groups, which have many different philosophies and goals, but which share one principle: limiting the power of the state. So, of course there will be divisions in the anti-left coalition: there cannot help but be! However, I think that that is not an insurmountable problem, as long as we are clear-sighted about what our differences are, and what brings us together.
Good point, up to a point. But it reminds me that when people describe us as a center right country, they neglect to add that we are also, and have become more and more, a “government” country. What you can get in various election cycles is a center right government, but you never get anything that really makes the government smaller…and are not likely to. You get a government supporting center right talking points, instead of center-left talking points, a 1% increase here vs 5% increase there. It is what we are.
A left wing hit piece on a conservative? Really? It is deja vu all over again; the only thing that changes is the specific target, the caliber of the weapon, and who the exact person is that pulls the trigger. The themes are pretty much the same – stupid, evil, uncaring, Neanderthal conservatives taken down by righteous liberal big game hunter.
but people are stupid enough to be brainwashed into believing she’s the one who’s stupid.
Among those many stupid are such esteemed pundits as Charles Krauthammer, for one. He’s typical.
Charles Krauthammer? Stupid? More like pithy and to the point. I don’t get how you think he’s stupid. He can tear apart a liberal sound bite or a catchy talking point in a second.
I can’t think of a more intelligent pundit that doesn’t seem to need the ego massage of certain, flashier conservatives. Maybe you don’t like him because he also expects conservatives to know what they’re talking about.
Tom T. Krauthammer proved to be completely wrong about Tea Party and Palin herself. And he has even admitted that.
He has told Palin to “…leave the room…” after she has created the now famous phrase “death panels”. And it was Palin who was right about that issue and Krauthammer who was wrong
So he is not such a sharp political observer as you are suggesting.
krauthammer defended ariel sharon’s then imminent disengagement atrocity and fiasco in gaza
Sharon tried to use good faith with Palestinians. An obvious lapse of judgement.
I agree with Mike. In addition, it was a highly popular move (a country-wide referendum passed with 65% favoring evacuation — Maariv showed 69%) save those Israelis who lived in Gaza (and my heart goes out to them for how they were treated afterwards by the state — but that is an internal Israeli matter). It was also thought that finally Egypt would take some of the pre-1967 responsibility for their land — but as we saw, Egypt didn’t touch it (due to the Palestinians living there) with a 10-foot pole. Nor did they breakdown the barriers and “invite their brothers in to Egypt to live as Egyptian Citizens” Ha! Gaza was a Muslim Brotherhood outpost from the point of view of Mubarak, and now even more so. I wonder how many more beautiful rich villas will be erected on Gaza’s bluffs overlooking the ocean (Gaza is a beautiful place in terms of its geography and climate).
Otherwise, Sharon was an exceedingly popular president on par with Reagan’s popularity in his prime. Sharon stopped a massive unprecedented bloodletting during an undeclared war that had begun in 2000 of Israelis by armed Palestinians (no little pebble-throwers those. Remember most wars with Israel last days or weeks. The population was not used to (nor would any one be) to the rate and type of indiscriminate deaths which were befalling them after Arafat quietly unleashed all his martyrs-to-be on Israel.
Sharon also obtained what under any circumstances was a big “prize” in return for (how many times have we heard this tired phrase) “taking painful steps towards Peace” (and evacuating Gaza was painful — close to 10,000 people taken from their homes; the rough equivalent in the USA: 1/2 a Million people forced to leave — that’s 1/4 the population of New Mexico or the entire population of Vermont). What did Sharon obtain from the leader of the USA at the time that was worth that pain? Namely G.W. Bush’s 2002 open and formal letter (an agreement among countries) for all practical purposes acknowledging Israel’s eventual annexation of the major so-called “settlements” (in actuality: outlying suburbs — as if Fairfax was a “settlement” of Washington DC).
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However we were treated to the shocking episode of the incoming President Obama and his Secretary of State saying they either “couldn’t find” this letter in some magical “official agreements only” cabinet (remember the initial mumblings about the letter not being found among the “official agreements pile” or words to that effect), or otherwise that they were simply not going to abide by this foreign policy promise made on paper in public by a previous president.
To not have continuity from one president to the next in the realm of foreign policy agreements, whether formal treaties or not, severely limits all future presidents in their ability to conduct foreign policy (one of the most important functions of the Presidency). Any foreign country will simply not believe that an agreement, if not “ratified by the US Congress as a formal treaty” between said country and the USA could, and likely may simply be ignored by whomever the next person is that inhabits the Presidency of the United States.
Let’s remember that the Presidency, or, more aptly the White House is a “rental” — checkout time, at the latest, is 8 years. So if presidents as human beings do not, while fulfilling the role of the US President, defer to foreign policy agreements of the president’s predecessor (and the predecessor before that), as was not done for the first time in modern history that I know of at least by our current president, then no country can afford to take a future president seriously in the long term.
If I were a foreign country today, I’d push for any agreement to be formerly ratified by the US Congress, treaty or not. Thanks to the actions of President Obama in ignoring Bush’s 2002 letter, future presidents have now been crippled… cut off at the knees.
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Lastly, I’m biased towards Sharon as I lived next-door (literally) to him in his nondescript apartment for a year when he was Agricultural Minister. I was friends with one of his sons, and we often played Sharon’s Fleetwood Mac albums in his apartment.
He’d come home from work carrying his bargain basement plain jacket over his shoulder and briefcase, looking like anyone else, except that, once you saw the man you were naturally in awe of him. He carried himself with a relaxed dignity despite his size and the first time I met him I gathered all my courage and walked up to him to introduce myself (age 12). He was exceedingly kind and gentle with this scrawny American kid in front of him. His one hand could have crushed me and yet he treated me with more respect than I deserved (with a certain bemused smile on his face at the fact that I would jump up and physically approach him so quickly, arm extended).
catch a liberal by the toe. doc krauthammer can do that? o wunnerful, wunnerful!
what makes doc krauthammer the stupid idiot that he is, is that he thinks sarah palin is stupid.
eeny meeny miny mo
catch a librul by the toe
if he hollers get a lawyer
before he tattles on diane sawyer
I wish PJM allowed an edit of comment. In my long comment above, I clearly must have left open an italics link — namely \ this would be italics and should be ended by this tag \ By forgetting to close on of my italics tags, or screwing up the syntax, I’m now inadvertently affected all comments which follow mine.
THIS IS A MESSAGE TO THE EDITOR — it is not for publication — I telling you to either not publish my note OR look for the “closing italics tags” and see where I made a mistake by (again) either forgetting one or typing the wrong syntax like transposing the order / and the i for example.
Just trying to be helpful. Sorry my comment has caused so much problems technically.
</i>I gotcha close tag right here, buddy.
Time-Warner, HBO, Warner Bros., CNN. the world’s largest media conglomerate…the death throes of the 1%, the last screaming, desperate wails of hate and rage from the Left’s last days. Bah.
Its a shame to see what Palin did to herself. I know, I know, she was lambasted and vilified without shame or limit by the enemies of freedom, both on the left and right. But those of us who have lived with the evil of the majority and their leftist worldview and have fought with it our entire lives always had their number right from the start. We were willing to give Palin the type of support and commitment that no politician since Ronald Reagan was able to muster. We were ready to fight with her for a truly explosive political revolution. But SHE WALKED AWAY! To this day, I cannot understand, or forgive, such a feckless move! Her time was now, right now, to defeat Hussein, the Marxists, and the RINOs, not next time or the time after that. If Hussein is re-elected, there will NEVER BE a next time! And SHE WALKED AWAY! We now see what sorts of fools we have to vote for in the primaries simply because they refused to give up. And SHE WALKED AWAY! Truly, what a shame!
You far too harsh on Palin. She was put in a no win situation by the backstabbers in the Republican Party, even by those whom she helped to win in 2010, like Nikki Healy or Rick Perry for example.
It was clear almost immediately after the 2010 election that the Republican clique was prepared to help Obama to win Presidency in order to destroy Palin in the case she would win the nomination.
We know today that at least some of the Bushes clan and certainly Romney and his minions were involved in that conspiracy.
In such a dramatic situation, Palin decided to commit rather a political suicide than risk Obama being reelected and she made a political scapegoat by the backstabbers in her own party.
Is that so difficult to grasp?
By the way; the rumours about her political death semm to be EXAGERATED.
On the other side, there was certainly too little support from the so called “conservatives” for her.
All Palin had to do was be persistent. She had the opportunity of a lifetime. The middle classes turned out in droves just to see her. Everything she did was a happening. So what if the GOP-e and the Marxocrats hated her. If she had simply put up a fight the rest of us would have cheerfully engaged in combat to take down the Rats and RINOs alongside her. She made a monumental error by not realizing that this time was different; conventional political wisdom went by the boards. Just look at how things have changed from day to day and how the remaining characters aren’t even the best of the bunch, they’re merely those who refused to give up. I’m supposed to believe the MSM BS that guys like Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich are players, who can’t get a hundred people to show up at any of their events, but Palin, who atrracted thousands, wasn’t electable? What utter BS! But Palin bought the line. Now she’ll never be able to garner the adoration and respect she had when she was a serious candidate. Now she’s just another bloviator outside the ring. And she could have been a contender. Truly, what a shame! Even worse, though, what a tragedy for this nation!
You simply do not understand Alaska law. It did not allow for state supported defense of accusations. All the Democrats had to do was file innumerable complaints, no matter how specious, and her family would have been bankrupt.
Unlike many states and the US Presidency, Alaska’s governor does not have the protection from spurious law suits while in office. She has to pay for her own defense, unlike in other states. The time needed answering these law fare, spared little time for actual duties and responsibilities of the governorship. In one conservative guesstimate Ms. Palin’s legal costs runs into $500,000.00 and up, which would have driven many into bankruptcy. Her yearly salary as a governor before taxation was only a fifth of that.
This is Obama’s hallmark while running for senator. He has many dirty henchmen/henchwomen working to run his opponents to ground by smearing and making false allegations against his opponents with the use of third parties – to make him look clean and above the fray. As a nominee and as a President, his dirty henchmen /henchwomen multiplied to include the Media. This is the tragedy of US, when the Media themselves are actively working to undermine your country’s freedom and liberty.
It saddened me to see how low Tom Hanks have sunk. By making Palin (an experienced Mayor and a State Governor) looked no better than a blithering high school Barbie idiot and moron, successfully define him instead as lacking in intelligence let alone objectivity, spiteful, and mean to boot.
I used to respect him when he played the character of Mr. Forest Gump. Now, I know how wrong that picture was. Mr. Gump has more intelligence, wisdom, good judgment, and character than the actor that played him – who severely lacking in all of those.
RE: palin ‘walking away’
Ever see the movie “Speed”?
Sarah shot the hostage.
“She walked away”, the cry heard over and over again. Idiots, lefties and paid moonbats tried to FINANCIALLY BANKRUPT a person and her family with frivolous ethics complaints just because she was a governor of a state. The frivolous eithics complaints were also costing the state in dollars and man hours, keeping any state business at a minimum. Surely, no one is dumb enough to let ego personally bankrupt a family of 7——–just for a title.
Alaska is different from other states as the Governor was PERSONALLY liable for their OWN DEFENSE COSTS.
You can thank obama’s corrupt team for pushing their followers for the negative activity.
I wouldn’t say that Palin is definitely a moron because she drew a blank at perky Katie’s question about what periodicals she read. I’d like to see more well-documented, recorded blunders before dismissing her as a mindless talking head.
Did she call Europe a “country?” Did she say Austrians speak “Austrian?” Did she say Hawaii is in Asia? Did she say that there are 57 states? Does she think we need more “Arabic translators” in Afghanistan so we can understand the natives? Does she believe we have an “intercontinental” railroad?
Does she think the Constitution was written “20 centuries ago?” Did she claim that Emma Lazarus raised funds to build the Statue of Liberty? Does she think Mexico was a nation before the US was even an idea? Did the American army liberate Auschwitz?
Does she celebrate “Cinco de Cuatro”, admire the Penn State “Nitally” Lions, and root for the White Sox (not a one of whom she can identify by name) while reminiscing about the good ol’ days at “Cominskey Field?” Does she commend navy “corpse-men” and give a shout-out to the many fallen heroes who are in her audience? Does she lament the 10,000 dead in a Kansas storm when the death toll is actually 12? Does she really think a payment can decrease by 3000%? If she has asthma, does she grab for her “breathalizer?”
Those are just a handful of idiocies I can pull off the top of my head.
But, of course, Sarah Palin did not utter them.
Marilena, she didn’t turn blank at Couric “perky” question. She turned angry after having endured six hours of her insolent, aggressive behaviour.
Appart from that it was Nicolle Wallace who convinced Palin to do this interview, arguing that Couric was Palin’s fan and that she needed a boost in her rating.
As it proved later, Couric (or rather Whouric) was a backstabber (so was Wallace and Smith) who was not only prepared by a team of Democratic strategists for that very interview but the entire interview was cut and only a tini doctored part was presented to the public.
Palin isn’t stupid, but she was stupid to think she was going to get a fair shake. Was this not her first interview? Of course these professional propagandists like Couric are going to drill you for hours and hours then splice it all together to make you look like an idiot. It could be done to anyone. Why do you think our current crop of Republicans look like such weaklings. Conservatives can’t seem to help themselves though. They truly believe they need these dolts; they walk into the fire willingly and then lament the inevitable. They’ve all got to stop trying to appeal to the state run media.
Journalists like Curic are not neutral. They are soldiers working for the liberal cause. The are like the Vietcong dressed as civilians. But they are NOT civilians. The are partisans dressed up as civilians.
Like the Vietcong, you can engage them. But you should do so knowing that they are the enemy and kill (figuratively) them where they stand.
Thanks for mentioning the Nicole Wallace connection. She and Smith are the to most responsible for the lies and misinformation about Sarah Palin coming from so-called Conservatives.
And, Wallace is on Sean Hannity’s nightly program posing as a Conservative pundit very often.
You say Sarah Palin did not utter them?
Well, then, who did?
Surely you don’t mean to say Barack Obama uttered them, do you?
He most certainly did. Every last one of them. And then we can get into the stupid stuff that Capt. Gaffe-tasatic, Joe Biden, said.
I see that Julianne Moore of Boogie Nights fame, a role Julianne played without acting, has been chosen to play the role of Sarah Palin? I’ve never seen Sarah Palin up close and personal, but she appears a bombshell in a pair of running shorts for a woman her age.
However, I did run into this Julianne Moore once in an airport and wouldn’t have known what she was about, were it not for the guy I was with pointing Julianne out. Whatever Julianne is famous for, it sure ain’t her striking looks. Couldn’t HBO have at least gotten some babe that looked the part of Ms. Palin?
I haven’t had HBO for at least 20 years. I don’t know this for a fact, but I have to assume demand for premium service isn’t what it used to be. I have received numerous offers from my cable company to receive HBO for free for a period of some months. The last offer is still buried under my morning company cup, unclaimed. I ignored the offer exclusively because of HBO’s Bill Maher association. Now I can add another reason to leave my free HBO unclaimed, using the nice envelope to prevent scratches on the end table.
One day, these executives of pay TV are going to wise up and realize a business model where you insult about 60 – 70% of your potential base for the sole reason of being edgy and hip with the Hollywood crowd, is a poor way to sustain or grow a business.
I say let HBO rot and good riddance when it folds.
Tex; I also cancelled my subscription to Time Warner for the same reason,,, there are other cable companies out there. HBO was cancelled years ago for much the same reasons, for me it was the constant repetition of the same 5 or 6 outdated movies over and over again, and of course, Bill Maher. Time Warner and HBO must think every one is stupid enough to pay those outrageous monthly fees to watch that crap.
Politics aside, they’ve put out some great original series, Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon not the least of them.
The mafia makes great pizza too.
I saw her up close and personal as well. I was not the least bit impressed. In fact, I thought she was in dire need of a shower – perhaps the epitomy of a dirty girl. She sure looked the coke whore type in real life. Yuk.
She’s also doing these agenda driven movies and said she will vote for Obama, again.
I just cancelled HBO. Not so much for this movie, but their obvious agenda and most of the movies are 20+ years old, anyway.
This seems to be a revenge piece by Schmidt for Palin’s portrayal of him in “Going Rouge” as incompetent and unethical. No-one reading that book would consider hiring Schmidt to run a campaign for dogcatcher.
Note that of all the umpty-odd GOP candidates, Schmidt’s phone did not ring once.
“Go ahead, John. Suspending the campaign will make make you a LEADER!!”
Going Rogue. What you mentioned was the title of a smear job that pretended to be a spoof of Palin’s book.
Believe me this stuff works. One sister used to blather on constantly about Halliburton and Dick Cheney. The other one said of Barack’s spending, well Bush spent, too. These people are brainwashed and there is no hope for them.
And they both think Palin is an idiot. So propaganda works and its alive and well in progressive and Democrat circles.
As Rush tells us, you know who they fear by who they attack. And the attack has been relentless since Palin came on the scene. But, the dark always hates the light, doesn’t it?
“Dark always hates the light” From that they would create a soundbite and label you racist
And their supporters would believe it as fact. See what we’re up against?
Julianne Moore who herself looks like Palin’s caricature plays in the revolting caricature of a political documentary made by caricatures of humans from Hollywood.
However, the tragedy doesn’t lie in the fact that the Sovietwoodian DEGENERATES concocted that slime. The real tragedy lies in the fact that the so called “conservatives” don’t have enough courage or awareness to defend the woman who has twice pulled their party from the political grave and then have found enough boldness and enthusiasm to keep stabbing her repeteadly in the back to prevent her political resurection.
Right on Bogdan right on. The problem with most conservatives today is they don’t have the courage of their own convictions, the balls to not only stand up but shout out their positions. This whole zipper level cow fart crowd needs a severe kick in their self righteous heads.
Most Republicans are soiling themselves in the corner hoping they aren’t next.
It’s a shame Palin isn’t as smart as Obama,[snark]. A lot has changed since Nixon, namely the left is even more twisted than 35 years ago. Ask yourself just how stupid they can be to judge intelligence only by a failed politics, and while supporting an idiot-boy in the WH. Everybody who disagrees with them is stupid, something teribly wrong there I would say.
Lefty Merrill Streep portraying Maggie Thatcher. Lefty Julianne Moore portraying Sarah Palin. I won’t pay a dime to see either.
I hope they keep thinking she’s an idiot. She’ll outfox ‘em & beat ‘em at every turn, as she has so far, rising to the top of popular culture – best-selling author, TV & media personality, widely-admired political figure, public speaker. Underestimate Sarah Palin at your own peril.
And of course, the left will call her every disgusting, vile, repulsive name in the book, then turn around and crucify Rush for much less.
This is just the beginning.
If Obama loses the election this year, the Far Left will go batshit crazy. The OMG We’re All Gonna Die Syndrome of the Bush years will look tame.
If Obama loses and the Democrats ALSO lose the Senate ….
I am looking forward to them losing and, if they go berserk, pushing back twice as hard. A full investigation of fast and furious. Indictments and jail for the heads of the different cabinet heads who were involved. Maybe including Obama.
Agree wholeheartedly. Prosecute, and we need to go after a Republican president that does not prosecute until he does. If corrupt people in the previous administration are not prosecuted, corrupt people in our own administration will feel they have license!
It’s entertaining to see how the Left, as well as some on the Right are still hung up on Palin. It tells me that she is still a major threat and must be denigrated at every opportunity. Most of us realize she was thrust into an impossibly tough position when McCain chose to have her be his running mate. McCain may be old, but he’s also an old politician and knows something about how to get elected, as he’s proven here in AZ time after time.
For some reason, he got sidetracked though and personally blew his chances at being President. He had the knowledge, experience, fortitude to be a good one, but lost his fire somewhere in the process. His approval numbers were not all that good though, until he brought Palin on board. She was a breath of fresh air, inspiring, down to earth, one of us and connected with millions of us. In retrospect, she was ill prepared for the no holds barred campaign. She would fare much better now, but has too much baggage that could be used against her by the Liberals.
It’s a shame that she is derided as being such a lightweight, just because she is such a common sense, down to earth person. And those Republicans and Conservatives that belittle her, are not only out of touch with the rest of us, but they lose a bit of their shine in my eyes. She will not go away and still has much to contribute to the Conservative cause.
how do people who are already batshit crazy go batshit crazy? It would be like batshit crazy squared- dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA
– heads such as Dowd and Moore haven’t aged well and the latter doesn’t have Palin’s figure.
We can’t really blame Julianne Moore. Her filmography suggests she’ll be whatever you want her to be, and as naked as you want her to be, from porn star to incestuous mother, if the price is right. We need to return to a time where actors occupy the same social strata as prostitutes; a necessary evil, but nobody to be taken seriously.
The cognitive dissonance that I have encountered over the Rush incident has baffled me, and I consider myself quite the misanthrope. I’ve literally showed people video of Bill Maher’s comments and had them say it was o.k. because Palin, Malkin, etc are celebrities, or in some cases because what these lefty misogynists were saying was actually true, so it didn’t matter.
Speaking of Malkin, she was on Howie Carr a couple days ago and said, “If I had a dollar for everytime I’d been called a slut by someone in the professional media, I could go to an Obama fundraiser.”
The real provable idiot of the 08 election was and is Joe Biden. Biden is a certified idiot and has proven it numerous times but because he has the D at the end of his name he is untouchable. People who go on and on about Sarah Palin being stupid will then stand up and defend a man who has no idea of what he is doing. To add to insult is the fact that Biden sat in the US Senate for almost thirty years making our laws etc. He is a total fraud and a notorious liar. He was caught plagiarizing and that was swept under the rug. He claimed in the election that he rubbed elbows with the common people of Wilmington at a diner which no longer existed etc etc. There is no doubt the democrats chose Biden in order to make Obama look smart and a man who believes that there are fifty-seven states in the US and that Austrian is a European language needs someone to take the heat off of his own stupidity. Democrats believe that the ability to bull shit is a sign of profound erudition since they are a political group that lives in the manure pile.
By making this sh*t movie, Julianne Moore has officially outed herself politically. Bad career choice.
Huh? She’ll probably get an Emmy for it. How could be a bad career choice to be a lefty myrmidon in a lefty industry? If conservatives stuck by their principles when it came to entertainment, none of us would watch anything.
Probably?
The statue’s already been engraved.
Something we need to keep in mind about these celebrity endorsements of Obama and other Leftists, is that they have already made enough money off of our appreciation for their talents to not have to worry about being boycotted.
They can believe politically whatever they choose (including Communism, see Sean Penn) and not have to suffer any major financial consequences. Look at Tom Hanks, Barbara Streisand, George Clooney, I could go on and on. None of them needs to make another dollar for the rest of their lives. They will live well regardless, let alone the fact that all those Leftists movie-goers will continue to patronize them and their flicks.
Lets not waste time jabbering about them. Let’s concentrate on getting Obama defeated in November instead.
Mis stating facts or irrational phrases are pretty common on campaign trails. Candidates on on the road 24/7, sleeping in Bus, on plane, uncomfortable hotel beds, eating fried sticks of butter to please the local voters. I am surprised they can utter logic at all.
It is the overall structure of a campaign and its strategy that reflect intelligence or lack thereof. The bottom line is senator McCain did not Vet his Vice president properly, or prepare her for the onslaught. Campaigns are just like War, with disinformation and spinning heads trying to convince the voter 2+2=5, and former Governor Palin stepped into a minefield she was not prepared for.
Sarah Palin will always have her supporters, always have her detractors..she is a polarizing figure like Hillary Clinton and that will never change. She is shrewd in political calculations, which will piss off 50% of the GOP while the other 50% cheers her on. She will never be president, but obviously decides her own fate. This is more than can be said for most of the GOP hopefuls.
Looking forward to seeing this movie.
When you say McCain didn’t vet Palin do you mean he didn’t pick someone that the media and liberals couldn’t hate so well?, because I don’t understand what you or anyone who says that means by it. What skeletons fell from her closet, and did she scurry back into a hole after the election?
I remember vividly what happened:
First, McCain made his announcement of Palin as running mate, which surprised a lot of people on both the Left and the Right.
The initial reaction was puzzlement, combined with a feeling that this was a “Hail Mary” pass on the part of McCain. But the Left wasn’t attacking Palin at all at that point–they didn’t even know much about her.
Then, a couple of days later, as the convention was about to begin, the Palin family announced that Bristol Palin was pregnant out of wedlock. And the roof fell in.
The Left now had EXACTLY the kind of issue they love: Social conservative hypocrite! Social conservative mom has unwed mom as daughter! And that’s when the piling on really began with a flourish.
That was even before Palin got officially nominated for VP at the convention, and long before the Couric interview.
Because you are responsible for your kin? You mean like Billy Carter?
Oh, you mean children? Like the treatment the Bush girls got after the Clinton kid was off-limits?
There are two sets of rules. Duly noted.
Governor Palin was vetted by one of the best, AB Culverhouse.
Why the Press Claims, Falsely, that Sarah Palin Wasn’t Vetted: Because Unlike You, They Don’t Read Beldar, So They Got Surprised by the Pick. And They Don’t Like Being Surprised.
http://patterico.com/2008/09/03/why-the-press-claims-falsely-that-sarah-palin-wasnt-vetted-because-unlike-you-they-dont-read-beldar-so-they-got-surprised-by-the-pick-and-they-dont-like-being-surprised/
People need to do their homework. In that regard, also read:
Vetting HBO: The ‘Game Change’ Rap Sheet (Updated)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/08/game-change-evidence-rests
The leftards must really be afraid of Palin, judging by how damn hard they are working to bring her down
she would make a hot President, tho. Imagine a president who looks good in a bikini.
If HBO wasn’t such a bunch of left wing idiots they could have make a better movie called “Game Change.” They could have just used the part about John Edwards.
More Palin Derangement Syndrome for us to ponder. It’s probably meant to distract already harried Democrats from having to contemplate a likely democalypse this year. Deep down dems know they have a problem with Obama. What better way to distract your average dem from this nightmare than to trash a perfectly decent person who isn’t even running for president against their precious Barack.
I read a comment by Ed Harris who plays McCain about the movie. He said that he would not watch it because it was unfair to Palin whom he thought was an honest decent woman. I was surprised to hear that from a committed liberal. HBO, has been canceled in my home and anyone that is associated with this movie joins my long list of “No Watch Assholes”.
inspector rudy is a blithering lying idiot
McCain said he wouldnt watch Ed Harris playing McCain
ed harris said nothing about the movie !
This sci-fi movie has more reality than Game Change
They really fear her. I have never seen such a relentless attack on any candidate. Game Change is not sympathetic to Sarah Palin. It is intended to trivialize her. They know just bashing her (ala Andrew Sullivan) is counter productive. Now the message is she was just a mom from Alaska out of her depth. How patronizing.
Those Virginia Slims magazine ads come to mind: You’ve come a long way baby…not.
I just do not get why they want to destroy her. She isn’t even running and they are still after her. And Breitbart has the lies of Game Change laid out.
the current democratic party needs a significant percentage of the population to be in a constant fog– sarah palin is the knife that cuts through this fog and, as a result, must be caricatured into an image that is the complete opposite of reality
it is apparent the left’s greatest threat is someone who unabashedly and instinctively articulates the ethos of self-reliance and limited government without the need of a teleprompter; someone of this caliber can wipe away decades of internal rot from american liberalism under the right circumstances
They most likely believed she would be in the running presently, and it was ginned up for that cause. Bunch of disgusting cowards.
Tom Hanks is a disgusting coward. Playing heroes on television means dick.
“(Palin) acquitted herself ably enough in her debate with Joe Biden, which led to no memorable gaffes.”
INCORRECT!!!!
There was indeed a major gaffe in Palin’s debate with Biden… and it was committed by noted Constitutional expert Joe Biden.
Biden confused Article 1 of the Constitution with article 2:
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IFILL: Vice President Cheney’s interpretation of the vice presidency?
BIDEN: Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that’s the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that.
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Constitutional scholars can debate whether or not the responsibilities of the Vice President are defined in Article 1 (where it says the Veep breaks ties in the Senate) OR Article 2 (where it talks about Veep succession)…
But one thing everyone with a pulse can agree upon is that Article 1 of the Constitution is about the Legislative and NOT the executive branch.
Thank God Sarah Palin didn’t make this mistake. Someone might have actually called her on it.
You know 2/3 of this came anonymously from Schmidt and Wallace, whereas Schueneman and Beigun, actually defended her openly, Culvahouse the former
White House counsel, vetted her on real issues, the use of nuclear weapons
if necessary, Her attorney during the Troopergate scam, Van Flein, contradict
Schmidt’s allegations, and let’s be blunt, the only who seemed like a drooling
half catatonic fool was McCain,
Steve Schmidt needs to blame someone for the loss, and he’s been blaming Palin since forever. He’ll never work again as a Republican.
You’re right, and I’m surprised Schmidt has been able to milk the cow for free this long.
Scott McClellan Jr. They’ll drag Steve Schmidt out every four years for a time as a solid “Republican”, but in the end, Schmidt will be persona non grata everywhere he goes.
He better enjoy his 15 minutes.
People who subscribe to HBO are essentially donating to Obama’s camaign fund…
This is the essence. Write it down. There will be a pop quiz tomorrow.
If it’s Julianne Moore acting like a moose in a gunsight, then surely it’s Sarah Palin on the other end.
You know, Palin’s answer about newspapers (that she read “all of them”) is actually correct for anyone living outside of NYC or the Beltway.
Except for a local paper, in rural areas, one reads stories via RSS, Google news, or links from Drudge/blogs.family members.
No one has yet to pick up this point to show that the “MSM” is sooo out of date on how they find out about news.
Unable to deal with Sarah Palin as she actually exists, the left resorts to manufacturing a straw man caricature of her.
A political platform that is founded upon continuously lying to the American people about fundamental truths cannot and will not succeed.
redState is reporting that Sarah Palin’s TelePrompTer broke last night, scrolling “significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech.”
Politico’s Jonathan Martin disputes the report. “Perhaps there were moments where it scrolled slightly past her exact point in the speech,” Martin writes. “But I was sitting in the press section next to the stage, within easy eyeshot of the Teleprompter. I frequently looked up at the machine, and there was no serious malfunction. A top convention planner confirms this morning that there were no major problems.””
I haven’t watched the movie, nor do I intend to, but I have read the book. It’s interesting that some 2/3 (or maybe even 3/4) of the book deals with the Democratic side, especially the primaries. To me it was very obvious that while they had plenty of sources that had worked in the Obama, Clinton, and Edwards campaigns, almost the only source they had (or used) from the McCain-Palin side was Steve Schmidt.
What’s interesting is that a true movie (or mini-series) version of the book would not be that flattering to Obama, who’s shown in the book to be a very passive “leader”, that is, he essentially waits for suggestions from his inner circle until someone says something that he likes. But he seldom – or never – seems to take the initiative himself. One example is this scene, from early in the book: in the Senate, Obama is asked to see Harry Reid in his office. Obama jokes with his aides in a what-have-I-done-wrong-now way before going. What Harry Reid essentially tells him is, since Obama clearly didn’t like being a senator, he might try running for president.
The book is not fair to Sarah Palin (again, since the major or only source on her was Schmidt), but neither did it seem to be as damning as the film apparently is (but again, I haven’t seen it). The least flattering portrayal of all is of John Edwards, who comes across as a sort of psychopath.
Beyond the obvious venal turf-snot at Palin, spewed by aparatchik Steve Schmidt, no one has mentioned a couple obvious reasons what the ‘head of straw’ depiction of the Governor doesn’t wash: she minored in poli sci.
And then her emails as Governor have been anal-examined for dirt by major media. If she’s a dunce, where is the dirt in these relatively private thousands of documents? Here, absence of evidence is evidence of absence to support any such charge.
Finally, the offspring of not one but TWO teachers would be an empty headed banality? I’ve had such a girl friend (her closest sister had the model beauty), and both were as bright or more stellar than me.
So on multiple s*** detector grounds, I’m calling BS on Schmidt. (As I have before.)
Think of how pathetic you have to be to want to watch this. “Hey, let’s watch HBO and luagh at how stupid Sarah Palin is”. heheheh. Yeah. Ok.
“When you say McCain didn’t vet Palin do you mean he didn’t pick someone that the media and liberals couldn’t hate so well?, because I don’t understand what you or anyone who says that means by it”
I said McCain didn’t vet Palin PROPERLY, and did not prepare her for the onslaught. It is self explanatory and results, interviews and statements bear it out. She was tossed into National Politics way before she was ready and did not have the support system in place to assist her. She was forced to learn on the job which in national politics is horrendous manner to learn the ropes.
Sarah Palin still has trouble articulating her thoughts, which will come in time and with effort. She needs to spend more time in open debate and less time sequestered.
So, apparently in your world only the establishment types need apply?
And can you even give an example of her inarticulation? The Katie Couric interview? Got it. Let’s just put that on her tombstone. Whenever I talk to other non-liberals about Palin it is never a clear reason if they do not support her as to why. It is the typical, “you know she said she can see Russia from her house?”. Yeah, and that settles it doesn’t it? Or it’s the half-polite condescension that they think she is “not very intelligent”. HOW? Because she comes across as a normal person, who loves her country, is a conservative, and has done very well in those capacities? Or is it because the prevailing idiocy of leftist winds tell us that anyone with a twang is a dope, anyone who enjoys hunting is uncultured, and anyone who doesn’t believe man has a common-ancestor with a sponge is uneducated?
It is always possible to play the arrogant shill and downplay someone else for their lack of “growth” or “articulation” when no real reason can suffice, and I believe that has been the copout for many non-liberals. And it is true that it very well could have been the case, but for the lack of examples of her cluelessness, lack of articulation, or whatever unwitnessed superficial defect I will err against biasing Sarah Palin.
She didn’t say that she saw Russia from her house – that was a manufactured joke on her. She said there were parts of Alaska where one could see Russia.
Conservatives can give HBO the “beatdown of a lifetime”….just cancel your subscripton to HBO….and redirect those dollars to a worthy charity…I chose Wounded Warriors Project…
Keep giving HBO your money if you wish….just don’t complain that they are using it against you, by producing trash like Game Change…and donating money to democrats….that is who they are.
I trust Sarah Palin to act in an honorable and appropriate manner wherever she finds herself. I’ve watched her and know other people personally who know her. She’s the real deal; anyone who doubts that only needs to look at Trig to see she’s not a “normal” politician. She is truly a decent person in a way contemptible imposters like the Clintons, Gore, the Obamas, Axelrod, Emanual, etc., can’t even imagine.
As for the leftist scum, I could not despise them more. Lie? Hell, they’ve been doing that so consistently for so long they probably couldn’t tell the truth if they wanted to. I wouldn’t take the NYT/WAPO/LAT/ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/CNN at face value for anything. If they told me the sun was going to rise in the east tomorrow morning I’d make it a point to get up and look. Nothing they say has any effect on me except to increase my contempt for them.
Moreover, I’m done with politely ignoring leftist lies. People who spout that garbage around me get called on it. I can recall with great pleasure the shock of some smug liberals when they got called “socialist thieves who rob their betters at government gunpoint so as to be charitable with someone else’s money.” Andrew Breitbart, wherever you are, your torch hasn’t been extinguished. There are a lot of us out here who remember what you did and will take the fight HARD to the enemy. Sarah Palin is one of them but she’s got lots of company.
ABO 2012!
Your rabid defense of the loony Right causes me to fear for America’s future. Your lack of facts and knowledge is staggering. Go to school and learn something prior to shooting off your mouth. Please.
Your comment makes absolutely no sense as a reply to the above. Take your own advice and STFU if you have no constructive criticism to offer. Please.
Your rabid ad hominem attack on someone clearly expounding a personal opinion that largely agrees with that of the majority of other commenters here is “staggeringly” bereft of any “facts” or “knowledge” itself. Go pound sand, concern troll.
It’s no surprise that Moore overdid the accent, it’s her calling card as an actress. From her dreadful turn in “The Big Lebowski” (what WAS that voice?) to her overwrought Boston dialect on “30 Rock,” Ms. Moore butchers accents like they were sides of beef. One of the most overrated (and frankly, boring) actresses of our time.
Julianne Moore stole Tina Fey’s act, and owes Tina a percentage of her net.
The problem with the Left is that they are making money off of Americans and the world, by supplying “us” with “this”.
And the more money they make, the more evil they can do. It’s like finding a way to make war self funding. They can do even more of it later on. They make war on Sarah Palin. They make even more money from making a movie about their war with Sarah Palin. And they use that money, from Hollywood and the world, to nuke us about everything from social equality to social justice to political nationalization of companies like Government Motors: GM. It’s not enough for American customers to leave HBO. They must be starved of funding, if the back of the LEft is to be broken. But how, when their funding comes from the international community? America made GitMo because it was off the American shore, and thus more or less invulnerable to American law. What makes anyone else think that the Left didn’t do their own basing using similar ideas?
Have you taken notice – ‘HBO’ is code for ‘Hussein Barack Obama’? Nah, HBO really means
‘Hideous Bovine Orifice’.
I just saw the movie. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I expected all my stereotypes about Palin to be confirmed. I actually came away with the newfound respect for Palin is a person and as a fighter. For all of the complaining about the movie I have to say that for at least one liberal, the movie helped me gain a new respect for Sarah Palin as a person.
It’s too bad it took an HBO propaganda campaign that is apparently a misrepresentation of a book to disabuse you of your knee jer…uh…stereotypes of Sarah Palin.
Too bad you can’t be gracious when a person willing admits he may not have given a person a fair shake and allowed himself to get wrapped up in the propaganda machine that passes for a political system in this country. How many conservatives can honestly say they have not allowed the republican spin machine to influence their perceptions. Oh I forgot, only liberals do that. The conservatives lot is so much more advanced.
So, why not read the book? No, not that book. The one that she wrote in her own words – where she actually tells her own story (Going Rogue)?
You might find yourself doubly surprised.
Consider this a challenge.
And you don’t need to buy it – just get it from a library or read over a cup of coffee in your local bookstore cafe.
I’ll consider accepting your challenge. I’ll even read both books. To bad there is not a way for us to correspond once I have read them. I doubt my feelings about her political stance and my belief that she was not ready to take on the challenge of the race will change. I am open to seeing what she has to say and how she perceives she was unfairly treated.
As a side note, how many conservative do think bothered to ready one of Obama’s books? It dawns on me that I have been asked to do something many conservatives may not have and or are not willing to do themselves.
It’s all part of a strategy to cover up Schmidt’s incompetence;
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74094.html
It is shameful, the way the Left distorts stories & uses drama to demean the right.
More actors to boycott.
And this guy, Davis Guggenheim, allegedly a documentary maker, on the recent promotional thing he did on Obama.
Apparently it’s pure love for his subject
I watched Sarah Palin debate Joe Biden.
She didn’t put forward one idea that she hadn’t memorized out of a fixed set of canned talking-points that her GOP handlers had given her. Even worse, the talking-point she chose often had little to do with the question she had been asked.
I do NOT think Palin is stupid.
But she is terribly uninformed and insular about the rest of the world beyond Alaska. That might be OK in a different time. But in a time when we’re facing Islamist terrorism, threats from Iran and North Korea, etc., you actually have to know what you’re talking about when you’re asked questions about the world situation.
Palin connects with the GOP base for the same reason that Gingrich, with his disingenuous attacks on the news media, connects with the GOP base: They play to the GOP base’s perceived sense of being under siege by a hostile liberal culture. But that’s no way to run the Executive Branch.
I haven’t seen the HBO movie, so that I will not comment on.
“So, apparently in your world only the establishment types need apply?
And can you even give an example of her inarticulation?”
As usual people react instead of thoughtful discussion. Sarah Palin could be a Senator, or Congresswomen, no doubt. But she is too polarizing a Figure to ever be President, the same as Hillary Clinton or Rick Santorum. They are very strong WITHIN their own base but will never capture the swing vote required to win a Presidency.
This is just hard politics, it has NOTHING to do with the individual herself. It is how she is received and interpreted by registered and likely voters and there is no amount of massaging numbers or anyone feels about her personally that will change it.
As afar as her in-articulation;
Last week Sarah Palin commented President Obama wanting a “Pre Civil war America”
If you understand what her point is, please illustrate it for the rest of America.
And instead of Whining until the cows come home, why doesn’t anyone produce a film regarding John Edwards..?? if anything he was far more dangerous to the Nation than Sarah Palin…yet most people have no idea what transpired during that election cycle.
Everyone here whines about the terrible left and Hollywood….while within this website are incredible authors, screen writers, and money to produce a high quality vehicle presenting John Edwards and DNC in all their glory to the nation, or on any other subject that fits.
And if you can’t, that is fine but fer heaven’s sake stop the whining then.
I believe this movie defines Tom Hanks more as a small little mean man. Ironic for a movie to shed more light on the reprehensible character of the man behind the scene, instead of the most obvious target.
The Democrats knowingly put up for election someone that they knew hated this country and white people, despised Capitalism and admired political thugs of the worst sort. They and the MSM helped try and ruin this country which Obama has nearly done in the last 3 years. It has been the Democrat Party which like sonderkommando help shovel this country to economic ruin. Obama has been a small part of this, always remember how these political and opportunistic thugs voted, they voted 100% for financial disaster and ObamaCare. “We have to vote for it first before we can see what is in it, ” said Speaker Pelosi and the did, they voted on the largest money bills in the worlds history without reading. They voted for Socialist medicine and ruined one of the wonder’s of the world for communist ideology; no more Democrats, never again!
An obvious hatchet job & a krap movie. Nuff said…
That’s probably because Nixon’s critics were more well educated, and more intelligent, than today’s leftists.
The intentional dumbing down of America has been working very well. We are producing poorly educated people who are not only ignorant of basic facts, they are ignorant of basic thinking skills.
Such people are easily led by demagogues, and that, of course, is the goal.
I confidently predict that many Americans will see this movie, and assume it is a factual portrayal of events. They will believe this fervently and beyond all possibility of correction.
Just like many are absolutely convinced that Sarah Palin thinks she can see Russia from her house, many will quote sound bites from this movie as if they actually happened.
Jud Suss was also based on a real historical figure. And based on a book, if Wikipedia is more than a little right, whose film adaptation was as faithful as Palin’s advisers.
Funny to see how afraid of strong, independent woman all these sissies are.
No big surprise though. Heck, the Girlie-Man-In-Chief said he found Lady Gaga intimidating. Girlie-men are always intimidated by the mannish girl.
The Game Change creators were on CSPAN recently talking about how completely fair and honest and non-partisan their portrayal was, probably trying to head off the backlash against it. The left seems to be completely unhinged about Palin. Personally I dont see Palin as presidential material, too devisive, kind of like Santorum, but she is hardly as dumb as the left constantly makes out. In fact I have noticed that for somebody who is supposed to be so dumb, she seems awfully good at effectively framing the issues, and driving the agenda for both sides.
She’d better get used to it if she plans to pursue a politically oriented career as an outspoken conservative woman.