Palin comes to Canada, resonates with local idiots

Sarah Palin, my sworn nemesis, recently visited the city of my birth to give a paid speech to throngs of adoring morons willing to pay $150-200 to bask in the glory of her ignorance.

Calgary is the galactic central core of Canadian conservatism, so it shouldn’t be too surprising that many residents would be fans of a woman who opposes “dangerous” ideals like universal health care. Speaking of which, Palin remarked during her talk that she was taken into Canada for health care during her childhood. She called that fact “ironic,” but I’m surprised she didn’t call it “confusing.” After all, according to Palin, Canadian-style health care is nothing but rationing and death panels. How the hell did she make it out alive?

The Globe and Mail profiled one fan in particular in their coverage of this event, someone named Stephanie Hansen; her story is especially disturbing. Hansen is an 18-year-old who visited the event wearing a pin with Palin’s face on it. She called the talk “enlightening,” despite admitting that she isn’t very knowledgeable about Palin’s politics. She explained “I admire how she can have a family and still be able to work as much as she does and everything she does.” It’s easy Stephanie; she doesn’t waste her time thinking.

Of the 1 200 who attended, about half gave Palin a standing ovation. For what, I’m not entirely sure, although I would guess it had something to do with her affirming their own misguided beliefs.

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Palin confused again: forgot conservatives hate political correctness

It’s hard being Sarah Palin. Although she generally represents what social conservatives love: she’s an abortion hating married woman with folksy mannerisms, she has that problematic sticking point of a child with Down’s syndrome. And as we all know, American social conservatives love wallowing in ignorant hate for the disabled and disadvantaged.

Palin still hasn’t quite figured out how to walk the line between pleasing political-correctness hating conservatives and loving her son. Palin recently called on Obama to fire his chief of staff for using what she regards as the “crude and demeaning” term retard, but has refrained from giving a clear reaction to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh using the same word. Limbaugh has railed against those calling for a rebuke of the chief of staff, stating “our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards.”

What I find especially amusing about this story is that it so clearly represents the cognitive dissonance required of social conservatives to maintain positions of vitriolic hate for the disadvantaged of the world when faced with the realities of life. Palin is a conservative who has had to face the question “what if your kid was disabled?” Now imagine Palin and her ilk faced with similar situations in which the term “disabled” is replaced with “poor,” “gay,” “pregnant and endangered by it,” “registered as a sex offender,” “being held without charges,” or “a third striker.”

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The 2000s in American Politics: Rise of the Conservative Talking Point

To conclude my look back at the soul crushing 2000s, I will now review American politics for the decade.

I call this the decade of the conservative talking point. Through the use of the talking point, Republicans and conservatives managed to entirely dominate American political discourse this decade, and as a result, rendered reality woefully irrelevant. The ability for conservatives to control the media, as they so overwhelmingly did, allowed them to carry out the most heinous acts and behave at best indifferently, and at worst callously, toward many of the very people who elected them. The decade of the conservative talking point was the decade in which reason, truth, and reality ceased to matter; these things were replaced by emotion, lies, and distortion within the popular consciousness of the American people.

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Shameful Human of the Week: Sarah Palin

It should come as no surprise that Sarah Palin would eventually be named a Shameful Human of the Week, after all, I’ve already declared my hatred for her. Honestly, my irritation runs so deep that I wouldn’t mind making her Shameful Human every week and I could probably find new justification every single time. Now might as well be the time, with Palin peddling her monster-selling new book, Going Rogue, making numerous media appearances, and generally raising the ire of every sane person with a television.

Palin is the embodiment of everything wrong with American conservatism today. She attacks the media because, as softball as the media has become, they still occasionally deal with pesky facts that get in the way of listing off ludicrous talking points about “socialism.” She’s upheld as an ideal woman, who to conservatives is apparently attractive, dumb, child bearing, and entirely incompetent. She’s a woman who opposes her right to choose what to do with her own body. She confounds all issues in order to further her agenda, which generally means tricking people into supporting issues which actually hurt them (like getting the poor to oppose health care). She wears Bumpits. The list goes on.

The idea that Palin may be involved in the 2012 Presidential election is a frightening thought, although imagining her trying to debate Obama is something I would like to see.

I Hate Sarah Palin

I wrote this article several weeks ago. It’s barely relevant now, but it does express my true hatred for Sarah Palin.

For the past eight years, Republicans working through their attack machine of conservative talk-radio hosts, Fox News, 527 groups, and Republican talking-head TV panelists have been able to control political discourse. They find the right talking points, hammer on them incessantly, and eventually the election is warped into John Kerry’s supposedly poor performance on a Swiftboat in Vietnam. In the United States, a politician who tries to take some sort high ground, who tries to avoid personal attacks, is a politician who loses.
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