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Sarah Palin = Lady Gaga??

November 19th, 2009 by Patrick

Does this look like the crowd at a Lady Gaga concert?

Does this look like the crowd at a Lady Gaga concert?

I can’t remember who the liberal media spinster was on Fox this morning.  Unfortunately I only caught a moment or two of the show, but the gist of it was that the media was being totally fair and balanced in it’s treatment of Sarah Palin.
The fact that this individual managed to read her lines without laughing out loud shows that Democrats are getting better and better at sounding sincere.
That must be why every day some other literary genius espouses on Huffington Post about what a fool Sarah Palin is, and God knows it must be true as so many Huffington Post bloggers say it is.
Today the former Governor of Alaska is being compared to Lady Gaga, that’s right apparently because both wear lipstick.  I’m not sure but in viewing the available photos of Susan Demis the author of the article in question, it appears that the young lady wears lipstick herself.
Honestly I was not bothered by the remarks of Demis about Palin’s lipstick and if she (Demis) thinks that it compares to Lady Gaga’s well I’m a guy who certainly does not know enough about lipstick to enter the arguement, and who really does not care.
Where I part company with Demis is that she is a Michigander who was according to her article at the book signing in Grand Rapids last night and says about former Governor Palin “”I couldn’t wait to get back to Michigan,” the former GOP vice presidential candidate announced outside Barnes & Noble. “Michigan is so much like Alaska with the huntin’ and fishin’ and the hockey moms. This is the heart of industry in America.”

That stereotypical mush would be condescending, except for the fact that Sarah Palin is quite the looker. So therefore, anything (former) Gov. Gorgeous utters automatically comes off as genuine and dare I say, genius.”

Later on in the article Demis grudgingly remarks that Palin’s starting her tour in Michigan is no accident, but rather than giving the former Governor her due for keeping her word (something very rare in today’s political world) Demis snidely remarks “The Mitten State stop was intended to be the ultimate kiss-off to the John McCain campaign, as Palin made clear in her score-settling, factually challenged memoir. There’s no doubt that the operation blew Michigan, culminating with its bumbling pullout five weeks before Election Day. That’s when the veep-to-be “went rogue,” striking back at the McCain meanies.”

I think that “factually challenged” refers to the fact that the 11 (that’s right eleven) reporters that the AP assigned to ‘fact check’ her book found that Sarah Palin and her daughter actually stayed in an expensive hotel at one time.   As for the ‘ultimate kiss-off to the John McCain campaign why it must be, why else would a politician due something just because she said she would.  Remember Demis lives in the world of Jennifer Granholm.

It is also apparent that no one has ever treated Susan Demis in a sexist manner, or she would probably not be so quick to dismiss the treatment of Palin with remarks like “Why conservatives comically insist that Sarah’s sex appeal isn’t, well, part of her appeal, is beyond me, but it seems to be a fascinating psychological blend of cynicism and repression. Sorry, but it’s not her impressive reign as mayor of the Iditarod capital of the world (population 6,700) that lured screaming fans to a half-empty mall on a rainy weeknight.” I’ve posted a picture of the ’screaming sex crazed fans above and wasn’t Sarah Palin also Governor of Alaska and a former Vice Presidential candidate?   Neither of those accomplishments normally call for particularly sexy women.

It is really impressive that Susan was so able to so quickly forget her days of working for the Battle Creek Enquirer and become oh so far removed from the crowds at the Mall (who from all indications were typically Michiganders).  Sarah Palin is unlike Susan and her ilk at Huffington Post as she seems to remember where she comes from.

I was unable to make it to the signing last night, but two of my daughters attended for me in order to get some books signed.  Neither was a huge Palin fan upon going, they just wanted to get the books for their father because even if they don’t agree with me, they respect my opinion.  I’ve even posted a picture from inside the mall, is it just me or is the crowd of people waiting for an autograph not really typical of a crowd waiting to see some sexy women?  Both of my daughters left the booksigning being very impressed with the person that Sarah Palin portrayed.   Apparently I raised them with open minds, for which I am very grateful, too bad that practice is not more common.

Update:

Michelle Malkin posted this story about the much more offensive picture of Sarah Palin in Newsweek, no doubt our friends at Huff Po would have thought this was appropriate also:

The more offensive Newsweek photo of Sarah Palin

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 17, 2009 06:54 PM

Everyone has commented on the cover photo of Sarah Palin that Newsweek editors used — a photo from a Runner’s World spread taken during the campaign.

Whatever the intentions of the left-wing Newsweek editors, I think Sarah looks fabulous.

The truly tasteless photo of Palin that no one is talking about is inside the magazine on p. 33, illustrating Christopher Hitchens’s broadside against Palin populism:

The dregs at MSNBC tried and failed to get away with faked photos of a sexualized Sarah Palin. Newsweek’s weasels found a way to evade responsibility for their rank sexism by using a photo of a real Palin doll in schoolgirl regalia.

Just another manifestation of Female Conservative Derangement Syndrome.

And no, it isn’t “playing the victim” to expose their bigotry.

It’s calling them out.

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