Friday, January 9, 2009
Kotz / Politics / Presidential Politics The Growing Victim Complex of Sarah Palin
Posted by Pete Kotz on Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:14 AM
Failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin just can't seem to embrace that new fangled concept known as self-reflection. In an upcoming conservative documentary called "How Obama Got Elected," Palin elaborates on her sense of victimhood, expanding from a previous position of sexism to include classism and exploitation!
Never mind that the media beats up on every presidential-level candidate. (John Kerry was practically emasculated.) And never mind that Palin did her best to give people the impression she was, well, kinda stupid. Through Palin's revisionism, she seems to be the target of a nefarious plot.
Palin believes Caroline Kennedy will get much easier play in her press for a New York Senate appointment, saying "that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be." (In case she didn't notice, all Senate candidates get less scrutiny than potential VPs. You didn't see anyone writing about Lamar Alexander's Macy's tab, did you?)
She also thinks Katie Couric and Tina Fey have been "capitalizing on" and "exploiting" her. And she claims the McCain campaign failed to let her bail in the middle of the legendary Couric interviews (see above), when she came off as your nice but rather dimwitted aunt.
While the victim card tends to play well in conservative circles, we're not seeing how this helps her build cred with the non-whiner segment of the electorate. The buck, it would seem, apparently doesn't stop anywhere near Alaska.
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This "documentary" is going to be perfect fodder for the comedic community. "He's He's an Arab." Obama wants to turn the White House into a pyramid. Put this interview into that file.
PLEASE are you calling a large portion of this country ignorant. That we were all fooled and missed our chance to elect this ridiculous woman. Well on the other hand we did have George for the last eight years.
GO HOME SARAH! The Republican contenders in 2012 will eat you for lunch.
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Yes, the media were absolutely BRUTAL to Obama as well, at time painting him merely as a saint rather than messiah.
When I first watched a clip of this upcoming documentary, I found it so ironic (and almost laughable if not so sad) the fact that "How Obama Got Elected" was displayed loudly at the bottom of the screen while Sarah Palin was talking....
She very well would have been our VP-elect at this very moment had she spoken softly and maybe even carried a big stick. But definitely if she had spoken softly; almost to the point of being inaudible.
Being from Canada, we watched the whole campaign as an outsider looking in. My goodness, you have to be blind to not see the one sidedness.
I liked all the candidates but I honestly started to hate watching the coverage. It is sad to see that most media stopped reporting the facts and promoting propaganda.
There ya go again Sarah! Always blamin' somebody else for your failures. Puttin' the people down for believin' the media like they aren't as smart as you to figure it out for themselves. Can't figure out that we know the fact is that just because someone is reporting something that you don’t want told, doesn’t make it untrue. Poor thing blinded by stupidity.
Throwin' the first stone and then whining when they get thrown back atcha. Poor lil' Sarah...always perplexed...can't figure out why...everyone pickin' on her. Poor TeamSarah where the world is unfair to their Queen and shaky house of cards...where the zealots claim we're just evil, mean & jealous haters...all because we dare question their poor victimized celebrity queen. Poor Sarah...runnin' on stage always lookin' for that spotlight there also.
Sarah NOW you claim that you read the NY Times. If we were to believe you then you would have ALREADY KNOWN that C.Kennedy has been scrutinized in the media for the past month now! Try reading for a change...and I don't mean a Starbucks coffee cup either. And while you're at it, try telling the truth.
