Sarah Palin... Just Like A Storyteller For Kids... Only in America...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Maher about Sarah Palin

 

 

 

Sneering at Sarah Palin

Thursday, September 04, 2008

By Bill O'Reilly

 

 

Leading up to the speech, there has been an enormous amount of derision directed at Sarah Palin, far more than you might expect, even in this hyper-partisan age. Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal editorialized that the progressive left in America fears Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich said the same thing on "The Factor" Tuesday night.

 

Basically, the conservative theory is this: If Gov. Palin is successful, she will bring back traditional principles and reignite the social causes conservatives believe in. That, of course, angers the left, which wants to basically wipe out conservative beliefs. They fear a resurgence of traditional tenets. They fear what Gov. Palin could represent. So the attacks on Palin are almost unprecedented, especially in the entertainment industry.

 

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DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, "THE LATE SHOW": Sarah Palin is an avid hunter, an avid hunter. A vice president who likes guns. Well, what could go wrong there? Listen to this. It turns out that she and her entire family once had a chair-throwing brawl on "Jerry Springer."

 

JAY LENO, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": Gov. Palin announced over the weekend that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant. Oh boy, you thought John Edwards was in trouble before.

 

BILL MAHER, HOST, "REAL TIME": I, John McCain, am the only one standing between the bloodthirsty Al Qaedas and you. But if I die, this stewardess can handle it. 

 

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Palin: wrong woman, wrong message

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

By Gloria Steinem
September 4, 2008

 

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She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.

So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act.

Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

 

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Sarah Palin... Just Like A Storyteller For Kids... only in America...

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,416981,00.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,7541303.story?track=ntothtml