|
" So Joe McGinnis (The Selling of the President; Fatal Vision; Going to Extremes) has moved next door to Sarah Palin ("You betcha!"; "In what respect, Charlie?"; "All of them."). And Palin's first, instinctive, most characteristic response has been to leeringly imply the author's temptation to pedophilia, to send hubby over to act (in McGinnis' words) "increasingly hostile," and then to complain as though she is being ill-used.
Note, as we still (somewhat exhaustedly) say, the irony: Palin, who shleps her children from coast to coast to display them to her slavering public like what's-his-name in The Dead Zone brandishing a toddler as a human shield, is suddenly protective of their privacy. Palin, who quit the only job she'd ever had that might have given her credibility as a national political figure, in order to dance the Tea Party hootchie-cootchie on saloon tables and trade association daises across the land (for money), is now bitching about her privacy. Palin, a good Christian woman whose religious tenets literally include the admonition to "love thy neighbor," sends hubby over to crack his knuckles menacingly.
All of this, plus radio frother Mark Levin announcing McGinnis's email address, prompting 5,000 of Sarah's Sheeple to swamp the author's account--it's all great/appalling theater, yes. But what's really striking is not the hypocrisy. People like Sarah Palin live in hypocrisy like a fish lives in water; it's the essential element of their survival, without which life itself is unimaginable.
No, the really noteworthy thing is (as we also exhaustedly say) the stupidity, stupid.
Anyone who has read a minimum number of spy novels or seen a basic survey course's syllabus of thrillers knows that you can do one of two things when you realize your office has been bugged, your transmissions are being monitored, or your computer has been hacked. You can tear out the bugs and cease the transmissions. This will, of course, inform your adversary that you're wise to his snooping, prompting him, presumably, to quit.
And that's how the Palins have responded--by suggesting that somehow they're being spied upon and revealing to the "spy" that they know what, supposedly, he is up to. It's the obvious, emotional, impulsive, and childish way to react, and it may have been too much to expect Palin, who like all cult figures alternates between preening grandiosity and indignant claims of victimization, to do otherwise.
more
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellis-weiner/the-stupidity-of-sarah-pa_b_594400.html>
|
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
>
