I'm thrilled to see that... but at the same time, it makes me feel even more horrible and depressed to have it be out there so fucking blatantly and damningly and knowing it does no good. No one who needs to see those clips will ever see them, because it's the Daily Show.
Nope. All of a sudden now that we've got a female candidate on the Republican ticket, the media's supposed to "handle" her with kid gloves? I thought she was a gun-totin', mooseburger-eatin', HOCKEY MOM OF FIVE? Methinks she could handle it.
It just reeks of token-ism, and it makes me want to fucking drop-kick every one of those motherfuckers to the moon, Palin included.
my husband I were talking about the VP debate last night, and how Biden will have to watch himself. Repubs could say whatever they wanted about Hillary, but if Biden makes one snarky comment to Palin he'll be accused of sexism or beating up on the poor wittle woman.
On the one hand, they coddle her, protect her, and then the other they send her out as this rabid attack dog and express outrage when anyone questions her ability to be the VP with a four month old with special needs. It's like, DUDES, do you not get that you're sending a mixed message?
I ADORED my co-workers' response when they realized how young Trig was:
Cat: Crayon marks ALL OVER the White House walls. Gabs: Tricycle scuff marks on the wood flooring. Cat: They're just gonna mess that shit straight the hell up for the next Prez.
As my girl briary_flower also noted below, THIS. I don't feel sorry for you because guess what? That's your choice, but you feel it is YOUR RIGHT TO TAKE AWAY MY CHOICE.
And it just totally squicks me the fuck out that she kept her pregnancy hidden from her constituents AND her family for SEVEN MONTHS. Something feels off there.
I hadn't heard that (for my sanity, I'm avoiding reading about her as much as possible). That's really ridiculous. I just did the math...she'd be governor for, what, 6 months when she got pregnant? Nice.
Is this the lying sack of shit bit? I can't watch the clip you've linked to because I'm not in the U.S.
I find this situation to be incredible, and not a little surreal. It's like when George Bush is talking about poverty, or what comes immediately to mind after Gustav, Katrina. His eyes are always unfocused because the words that describe the issues have no meaning to him. Because to him the issues aren't real. He doesn't care about poor people. And like Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." So to hear these idiots at Fox, these right wing tools, try to talk about women like they care about women is a joke.
On a separate note, I can't fucking stand that she's waving around her child with Down Syndrome like she's such a fucking martyr for allowing him to live because she's against choice. The fact that people with Down Syndrome have a right to exist, and that eugenics is, you know, bad, is a different issue. I hate the fact that it's all going to be muddled up in the media.
It's the comparison between Repub talking heads now and then, basically revealing every bit of their hypocrisy.
So to hear these idiots at Fox, these right wing tools, try to talk about women like they care about women is a joke. THIS. Especially that tool O'Reilly, who I have been forced to watch a great deal of in these past three months because Grandma's a fan. I mean, a man who blames a victim for her rape and murder because she was drunk and wearing revealing clothing is someone I'm going to rely on for a good opinion on women? Or a female candidate? Sorry, NO FUCKING DICE.
On a separate note, I can't fucking stand that she's waving around her child with Down Syndrome like she's such a fucking martyr for allowing him to live because she's against choice. EXACTLY. My grandmother said something glowing about Palin and the kid, Trig, and I turned to her and was like, "Of course she'd have the baby. She wouldn't allow her daughters to abort a child even if they were raped or the victims of incest. Why would she abort a child simply because it has Downs?" My grandma is kind of like Bush in a way: whenever faced with evidence that doesn't fit into her very narrow worldview (for instance, the fact that I have black heritage on my father's side, which my mother pointed out after my grandmother used "colored" one too many fucking times), her eyes glaze over and she quickly changes the subject. Such was her response that day.
Seriously. I want to pet Jon. He's the funny Liberal to the Righteously Indignant Keith. I love them both, but sometimes I need to embrace the funny or I might just weep.
I mean, I've heard he's evil. Like the Anti-Christ or whatever, but God, he's just so doughy and shiny and wears that perpetual douchey grin I can't take him seriously. I want to pat him on the head and tell him it's all going to be okay. God loves even your dumb, douchey ass.
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-05 07:34 pm (UTC)It just reeks of token-ism, and it makes me want to fucking drop-kick every one of those motherfuckers to the moon, Palin included.
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-05 07:40 pm (UTC)On the one hand, they coddle her, protect her, and then the other they send her out as this rabid attack dog and express outrage when anyone questions her ability to be the VP with a four month old with special needs. It's like, DUDES, do you not get that you're sending a mixed message?
I ADORED my co-workers' response when they realized how young Trig was:
Cat: Crayon marks ALL OVER the White House walls.
Gabs: Tricycle scuff marks on the wood flooring.
Cat: They're just gonna mess that shit straight the hell up for the next Prez.
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Date: 2008-09-05 07:44 pm (UTC)Does she want a freaking cookie?
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Date: 2008-09-05 07:56 pm (UTC)And it just totally squicks me the fuck out that she kept her pregnancy hidden from her constituents AND her family for SEVEN MONTHS. Something feels off there.
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Date: 2008-09-05 08:03 pm (UTC)I just did the math...she'd be governor for, what, 6 months when she got pregnant? Nice.
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Date: 2008-09-04 09:37 pm (UTC)I find this situation to be incredible, and not a little surreal. It's like when George Bush is talking about poverty, or what comes immediately to mind after Gustav, Katrina. His eyes are always unfocused because the words that describe the issues have no meaning to him. Because to him the issues aren't real. He doesn't care about poor people. And like Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." So to hear these idiots at Fox, these right wing tools, try to talk about women like they care about women is a joke.
On a separate note, I can't fucking stand that she's waving around her child with Down Syndrome like she's such a fucking martyr for allowing him to live because she's against choice. The fact that people with Down Syndrome have a right to exist, and that eugenics is, you know, bad, is a different issue. I hate the fact that it's all going to be muddled up in the media.
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Date: 2008-09-05 07:49 pm (UTC)So to hear these idiots at Fox, these right wing tools, try to talk about women like they care about women is a joke.
THIS. Especially that tool O'Reilly, who I have been forced to watch a great deal of in these past three months because Grandma's a fan. I mean, a man who blames a victim for her rape and murder because she was drunk and wearing revealing clothing is someone I'm going to rely on for a good opinion on women? Or a female candidate? Sorry, NO FUCKING DICE.
On a separate note, I can't fucking stand that she's waving around her child with Down Syndrome like she's such a fucking martyr for allowing him to live because she's against choice.
EXACTLY. My grandmother said something glowing about Palin and the kid, Trig, and I turned to her and was like, "Of course she'd have the baby. She wouldn't allow her daughters to abort a child even if they were raped or the victims of incest. Why would she abort a child simply because it has Downs?" My grandma is kind of like Bush in a way: whenever faced with evidence that doesn't fit into her very narrow worldview (for instance, the fact that I have black heritage on my father's side, which my mother pointed out after my grandmother used "colored" one too many fucking times), her eyes glaze over and she quickly changes the subject. Such was her response that day.
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Date: 2008-09-04 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-05 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-05 01:49 am (UTC)no subject
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