Seriously, Sarah? I am more irritated with you now than I was when you called Katie Couric perky on Oprah this week (and wasn't that the annoying pot calling the whistling kettle black?) and more irritated than I was when the interview with Katie Couric aired and you couldn't think of one book or magazine that you read on the regular. (Oh, I'm sorry - you chose not to disclose the titles of books and magazines and newspaper you devour, because Katie Couric was annoying you and treating you like an uneducated inuit.)
Maybe you should have just swallowed your ego and mentioned Newsweek. I mean, I'm not suggesting that the cover page would look different if you had, but could you try any harder to alienate the media? I know, I know, they are all evil, with their leftist agendas and loose morals. I understand. It's so difficult when the world won't give a feminist maverick a fighting chance, and harder still when that maverick has been ordered to stay on script.
However, calling this cover sexist is just absolutely ludacris. The majority of the visual aids which aired during the Oprah interview showed you sweating your buns off on an ellipitical. You've obviously worked hard to stay in shape, and it shows. You might have reason to really tackle an issue if the photo was heavily retouched or airbrushed, which (I'll be honest) I am assuming it was. But, I would also assume that the responsibility for that lies with the original publication, Runner's World. We can't have young woman thinking that toned thighs and an itty bitty waist are the only way to the top, now can we?
Oh, Sarah. What are we going to do with you? This cover is perfect, for you have become a part of pop culture, not a fighter for any serious political reform.
I remember sititng in in an uppity coffee shop soon after your veep nomination was announced, and smiling at all the Sarah button-wearers (upper-middle class, conservative housewives) in the middle of a conservation about what this meant for women. I had to ask them, I couldn't resisit, "Would you still wear the button if it is said Hillary?" (They told me they would not have worn the button if it said Hillary.) They were merely pro-lifers on baby highs. You won over the suburbs this way Sarah. It wasn't because of t & a, and certainly wasn't a result of q & a.
Yes, I am jealous that your book became a bestseller before it even hit the stands, but ultimately, I am just over your excuses for the way you are perceived, your accent, and your solid colored wardrobe.
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I think you really hit the nail on the head with the "pop culture" observation. That's really what Palin will go down in history as ... the hair, the glasses, the IMAGE.
Blah!
JUSTTTT KIDDING. but seriously, hot bod... did i miss the point?
I really want to know who wrote it, though, because you deserve mad props. I snorted while reading your comment, and may have slightly annoyed bank customers and employees alike.
Made. my. day!
I'm surprised you couldn't tell.
In fact, left-leaning MediaMatters has also condemned Newsweek for the pictures they chose to run with the article, claiming that the sexist overtones take away from the legitimacy of the article itself (last paragraph of the article I linked).
I love you,
do you still love me.
Can we just agree
to disagree?
Trav: I figured that was you or jm diaz, who is m.i.a. lately... so I was leaning toward you.
mjenks: Maybe she does have a point. And, maybe you just want to mention it because I am a cat killer and now you look at me differently. ;)
Besides, anything that allows me to link back to an old Latin lesson is a good thing.
Except for the cat.
Of course, I still love you. I won't hate on you for not liking Sarah if you won't hate on me cuz I do:)
It's a deal.
But she's a pill,
and her running mate
was over the hill.
(Was that flyting?! I am only trying to be funny, I swear. We are all entitled to our political opinions, and I respect YOU and YOURS. Much love, lady friend.)
Aside from that - the Sarah Palin comment is hilarious, and the Tina comment...well, I thought Tina said she was going to stay out of politics because she'd say something you wouldn't appreciate and then she goes and says something you wouldn't appreciate. Doggone her.
It doesn't surprise me that Sarah Palin has become a favorite of so many people in this country - all you have to do is travel as much as I have and you'd get a real clear picture of how many simple (and not in the Amish way) people populate our country. I am dumdfounded at some of the stuff I hear come out of their mouths. There are millions of sheep out there just blindly following the pretty "I talk as dumb as you do" sheep herder.
I am so glad the man I voted for won. And like PinkFlipFlops, as soon as she was announced as McAncient's running mate, I knew he had dug his own grave.
I just hope I have a chance to vote for Obama AGAIN. Wanna know why? I LURRRRV him!!
Oh, and I also love Chinese food.