“This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things!” She Shrieked, then Went Back to Cleaning Her Guns.
Oh, you know, I don’t think the roll-out of Goin’ Rogue: An American Lie is actually going so well. With regards to the Killer from Wasilla, the culture may actually have finally discovered its collective gag reflex, thank god. High profile Republicans are hitting the airwaves in droves to denounce her, and it looks like Rush Limbaugh’s early optimism about her book and 2012 prospects may prove to have been a tad, uh, premature.
The chart above is from a CBS poll that went up yesterday and I think that in time these numbers will be seen as Missy Sarah’s high water mark. Now, this actually gives me a little hope for the American people, that some of the information people are taking in through their eyes and ears may in fact be reaching their brains.
See, this has always been my impression of Miss Hillbilly Snow Queen 1994, that beyond her surface attributes of physical shapeliness and facial prettiness, there’s something genuinely horrible and repulsive about her, something that is to the mind like a screaming ultrasonic whistle is to a dog’s ears. It just takes longer to kick in for some people than others.
In this regard, she really is George Bush in drag. The more people find out about her, the less they like her. And this is good, because I was beginning to worry that every time she opens her mouth, the entire nation gets a little dumber, and that by the time we arrive at part four of her five-part interview with Barbara Walters, people in parts of South Carolina and Idaho will be collapsing to the floor in whatever part of Wal-Mart they’re standing in, blue-faced and gasping because they’ve forgotten what comes after “EXHALE”.
But really, the book is just atrocious. The excerpts I’ve read are just half-baked ravings from the overtaxed brain of a not-too-bright sociopath. It reads exactly like the sound of a bad liar droning on and on about why she’s three hours late for work again. I said, he said, she said, then I thought he said what she thought, and darn it, Nobody Knows How Hard I Work, etc.
At this rate, her chances of taking the White House in 2012 are pretty damn remote, thank Bast, because with all the hype it looked for a minute there like she was actually going to get away with it, that all the straight old white assholes who run the media and everything were going to get so lost in thoughts of bending her over that bear-skin sofa in her office that they’d actually hand her the keys to the country. And just poor Andy Sullivan would be left standing there like the kid in Time Bandits screaming, “Mum! Dad! Don’t touch it! It’s EVIL!”
Whew.
9 Responses to ““This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things!” She Shrieked, then Went Back to Cleaning Her Guns.”
By Sharonlee on Nov 18, 2009 10:30 am |
Glad you read it so I don’t have to. Thanks for your excellent insight.
By empressmitzi on Nov 18, 2009 11:43 am |
Nice to have you back! I kept this blog in my aggregator all this time and was finally rewarded…
By SadieSue on Nov 18, 2009 12:35 pm |
LOVE the Time Bandits reference - & it sums up Sarah Palin perfectly. I am ever hopeful that before too long she will become merely a bad memory & will retreat to somewhere we won’t have to hear about or from her again.
By TRex on Nov 18, 2009 12:54 pm |
You can probably forget that last bit, Sadie Sue. Palin is addicted to press now like a tweaker is addicted to meth. As long as there is breath in that body, you can expect her to be clawing everyone out of the way to get to the camera. She’s with us to stay, but hopefully will never actually wield any kind of real and substantive power in the world.
By SadieSue on Nov 18, 2009 1:07 pm |
TRex said
Yeah, well. Rationally I know she’s not going away but hope keeps springing etc etc. And just the thought of her wielding any power at all was enough to make me stop breathing for a moment. Damn.
Continuing on with the subject - a friend just sent me a link to this review, which is rantariffic:
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/11/17/going-rogue/
By TRex on Nov 18, 2009 1:45 pm |
Oh, the gin and tacos review is AMAZING.
“In short, the book provides ample proof that Sarah Palin’s version of her own life is like the Turkish government’s version of the Armenian Genocide – and approximately as trustworthy. Going Rogue is an irritatingly vernacular, fantastical, and cloying autobiography of a malignant narcissist, every bit as thunderingly stupid throughout as the person behind it. In what world is it either necessary or desirable to spend $9 and four hours to figure that much out about Sarah Palin?”
Wow.
By SadieSue on Nov 18, 2009 2:01 pm |
So glad you enjoyed it, TRex!
By forex robot on Nov 19, 2009 1:42 am |
Amazing as always
By Poopyman on Nov 19, 2009 2:23 pm |
Regarding that pie chart: Fully 1 in 6 of those polled hadn’t heard enough. WTF? After a run for Vice Prez and all of the followup press?
I don’t know whether to be appalled or envious.