The News columnist reviewsGoing Rogue today for “All Things Considered” on NPR.
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Is it me, or does the cover look pretty close to the movie poster for “40 Year Old Virgin?”
@ 10:09 am on November 19, 2009
I don’t know, maybe the Crunchy Con’s sensitive about Sarah’s jibe at Birkenstocks and granola. Whatever the case, his pique with her tax-cutting, deregulating, pro-business stance is hard to understand. (Palin is a Republican, after all, not a Democrat.) So, I re-read one of his old columns where he said “political conservatism at its finest” is marked by “intellectual depth, philosophical modesty and dispositional humility.” So, he should just admit it. The straight-talking, moose-hunting gal from the North Country simply isn’t Rod’s cup of (herbal) tea.
@ 10:20 am on November 19, 2009
And our other top story of the day: Martin Luther explains his disdain for the Roman Catholic Church.
@ 10:29 am on November 19, 2009
Wow Glenn maybe try and READ the post next time before you jump to conclusions and show your obvious bias (and what’s wrong with herbal tea?). He admits he was an “early Palin supporter…during the 2008 campaign.” His issues with her, which he clearly defines, are her economic views and her cultural pander: “I wouldn’t begrudge Palin a bit of it if her populism had any economic substance.” His issue with her tax-cutting, deregulating, pro-business stance is the fact that it hasn’t worked and it’s not the Holy Grail of Conservative policy. How can she talk about how Exxon exploited the people of Alaska and then say profit doesn’t beget greed.
I think, if she is your Conservative Party’s beacon, this line from his review speaks for itself:
“Palin spends seven pages dishing about her appearance on Saturday Night Live, but just over one page discussing her national security views.”
@ 10:42 am on November 19, 2009
Plus, Dreher didn’t even go into the fact that she completely makes up crap. Like her timeline is OFF. She complains about the Couric interview being the first, it was Hannity and a few others. And, how she had to make furtive phone calls to O’Reilly and Hannity. Ummm.. she had been on Hannity’s show two weeks prior top the Couric one so why would she need to make secret phone calls. And, the crap she says about Wallace shows how catty and that she suffers from delusions. No one else on the campaign or in Bush’s camp confirm any of the things she says about the woman. AND, will she just STOP the Poor Me routine. AWE, the big bad media asked you questions that you COULDN’T answer… As a woman, I find her a disgrace to all the women who have worked HARD to get where they are in spite of the obstacles in the way and the people trying to knock them down by not giving them raises or promotions, cutting their benefits or their hours, or harrassing them in the workplace. She signed up to be asked questions, like what is the Bush Doctrine? how is your location in Alaska national security experience? VALID questions; she couldn’t answer.
But, hey, she sure knows how to wink.
@ 10:50 am on November 19, 2009
@Glenn: I think what he took issue with isn’t her pro-business position per se; it’s how she simultaneously tries to be a “woman of the people” while supporting policies that are the exact opposite of populism. He’s asking for consistency. He’s also pointing out that the “straight talking” masks a complete failure to understand nuanced policy issues… if the hope of the Republican party is a woman whose biggest strength is coming up with snide one-liners, I think it’s in trouble, indeed.
@ 10:51 am on November 19, 2009
Rod Dreher, yet another self proclaimed “conservative” in the media who doesn’t like conservatives. I suggest Rod read this post from Trey Garrison, and anybody else who’s tired of the same old Palin bashing will get a kick out of it too.
@ 11:04 am on November 19, 2009
Every time I read anything Sarah Palin says, I feel like I’m reading a conservative chain email.
@ 11:11 am on November 19, 2009
I’m beginning to wonder whether pundits who claim to be so objectively sure about what is wrong with a candidate of their own party but who then are entirely unable to articulate, much less supply, the missing magical essence themselves aren’t in fact more like the child who must be tempted with endless successive offerings until the right one somehow thankfully appears. Which I guess is just a roundabout way of describing a reaction that’s basically emotional. Which may explain why Sarah Palin was Rod Dreher’s Megan Fox schoolboy crush last year until she wasn’t any more.
@ 11:19 am on November 19, 2009
“The Palin” is a test.
If you think she’s acutally qualified to hold any elective office:
It a fail.
Worse than that, you’re not even as smart as she is.
@ 12:36 pm on November 19, 2009
OK, so I’ll put Wick down as a “Yes” on wooing/hiring Rod Dreher and Glenn as a “Hell, No.”
I wonder if he’ll be cheaper than your past muse, Dave Levinthal?
@ 1:13 pm on November 19, 2009
I’m going to the book signing and ask her to write a message in it directly to Obama and then… sell it on eBay. That’s capitalism… you betcha!
@ 1:51 pm on November 19, 2009
@wordy
The correct answer to the question “what is the Bush doctrine” is “which one?”
The Couric interview was the first with MSM – the big three b’cast networks.
But this is one reason I lean Republican, I can be assured they will get a thorough vetting from the media. AP has 11 fact-checkers on her book, no-one has fact-checked either of Obama’s books, his time at Occidental and many other issues.
If Obama had been a Repub, we’d know who his dope dealer was, and how much coke he did, how he got through college, his thesis, why the credit-card controls were turned off on his campaign website, what his record was a state senator, and on and on and on.
Meanwhile, we know if Palin ordered her steak rare on any given night.
I’m not a big Palin fan, but the treatment she gets is a big eye-opener for anyone who questions their objectivity of a large swath of US Media.
@ 2:20 pm on November 19, 2009
Right, like Obama’s birth certificate hasn’t been thoroughly vetted and re-vetted. And his parents’ nationality and citizenship, his fist-bump with his wife (is that an anti-white thing?), his pastor’s sermons and even the people he plays basketball with at the office.
As for all the media attention the convention-game-show-winner from Alaska is getting: Could it be because she’s controversial, sparks debate, sells books, draws crowds, has a from-out-of-nowhere-backwoods-mama story and remains intensely popular among a segment of the public that feels it’s NOT catered to by the media, ergo, the media would like to cater to them as a potential audience?
Just wond’rin.
@ 3:40 pm on November 19, 2009
The Ideal candidate for the Republicans:
1. Mulatto – raised white and asian but turns black at about age 20 or so
2. Non-existing immediate family so no one can verify anything in their childhood
3. Muslim by upbringing but pretending to be Christian
4. Non disclosed academic records
5. Non disclosed birth record
6. Ties to political radicals
7. No business experience
8. Minimum political experience
9. Admitted illegal drug abuser
10. Mule face spouse
11. Attorney by trade so they can lie but act as though it is the truth
12. Unaware of US history
Can you imagine the field day that the MSM would have with such a candidate if only the Republicans can find one.
@ 3:49 pm on November 19, 2009
Watching the news reports about Palin’s book signing was a scary, scary viewing. The best quote was a lady who actually said “If the media would leave her alone, she could become President!”.
So…if everyone would just stop asking those silly questions, everything would be okay!
It’s depressing that someone of such little substance – and PLEASE don’t say “Obama has just as little”; do you really think that if you put the two of them in a room to have any kind of serious policy discussion that Mrs. Palin would last more than about 2 minutes – can get as far as she has, and have hoodwinked so many people. Hopefully more true conservatives will take a second or third look and come to their senses and realize there’s just nothing there, there.
@ 5:04 pm on November 19, 2009
pot/kettle/pot part deux
@ 5:56 pm on November 19, 2009
So…if everyone would just stop asking those silly questions, everything would be okay!
It worked for Obama.
@ 5:59 pm on November 19, 2009
ok, I’m going to sound like my grandfather… but here goes… if Barry Goldwater were here today, he’d probably slap her.
@ 7:24 pm on November 19, 2009
ok, I’m going to sound like my father…but here goes…if JFK were here today, he’d probably slap her on the a$$ and really like it.
@ 9:51 pm on November 19, 2009
@Dubious Brother:
Thanks for the laugh on a rainy Friday.
Palin is more Bill Clinton’s type, though (and you just know that he would do that deal in a heartbeat).
@ 9:52 am on November 20, 2009
She believes the Earth is 4,000 years old and that’s all you need to know about her as regards her intellectual capacity. She’s welcome to take a shot at whatever it is she’s taking a shot at. I don’t begrudge the lady her career and, after all, it’s the liberal Palin haters who seem to be working overtime to maintain her relevance. She’ll never be president, not in a million years.
@ 10:31 am on November 20, 2009
@Daniel – “She believes the Earth is 4,000 years old” and you honestly believe that?
One good point though about books, who would put a paragraph like this in there autobiography?
“The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.”
@ 11:13 am on November 20, 2009
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23 comments
Is it me, or does the cover look pretty close to the movie poster for “40 Year Old Virgin?”
I don’t know, maybe the Crunchy Con’s sensitive about Sarah’s jibe at Birkenstocks and granola. Whatever the case, his pique with her tax-cutting, deregulating, pro-business stance is hard to understand. (Palin is a Republican, after all, not a Democrat.) So, I re-read one of his old columns where he said “political conservatism at its finest” is marked by “intellectual depth, philosophical modesty and dispositional humility.” So, he should just admit it. The straight-talking, moose-hunting gal from the North Country simply isn’t Rod’s cup of (herbal) tea.
And our other top story of the day: Martin Luther explains his disdain for the Roman Catholic Church.
Wow Glenn maybe try and READ the post next time before you jump to conclusions and show your obvious bias (and what’s wrong with herbal tea?). He admits he was an “early Palin supporter…during the 2008 campaign.” His issues with her, which he clearly defines, are her economic views and her cultural pander: “I wouldn’t begrudge Palin a bit of it if her populism had any economic substance.” His issue with her tax-cutting, deregulating, pro-business stance is the fact that it hasn’t worked and it’s not the Holy Grail of Conservative policy. How can she talk about how Exxon exploited the people of Alaska and then say profit doesn’t beget greed.
I think, if she is your Conservative Party’s beacon, this line from his review speaks for itself:
“Palin spends seven pages dishing about her appearance on Saturday Night Live, but just over one page discussing her national security views.”
Plus, Dreher didn’t even go into the fact that she completely makes up crap. Like her timeline is OFF. She complains about the Couric interview being the first, it was Hannity and a few others. And, how she had to make furtive phone calls to O’Reilly and Hannity. Ummm.. she had been on Hannity’s show two weeks prior top the Couric one so why would she need to make secret phone calls. And, the crap she says about Wallace shows how catty and that she suffers from delusions. No one else on the campaign or in Bush’s camp confirm any of the things she says about the woman. AND, will she just STOP the Poor Me routine. AWE, the big bad media asked you questions that you COULDN’T answer… As a woman, I find her a disgrace to all the women who have worked HARD to get where they are in spite of the obstacles in the way and the people trying to knock them down by not giving them raises or promotions, cutting their benefits or their hours, or harrassing them in the workplace. She signed up to be asked questions, like what is the Bush Doctrine? how is your location in Alaska national security experience? VALID questions; she couldn’t answer.
But, hey, she sure knows how to wink.
@Glenn: I think what he took issue with isn’t her pro-business position per se; it’s how she simultaneously tries to be a “woman of the people” while supporting policies that are the exact opposite of populism. He’s asking for consistency. He’s also pointing out that the “straight talking” masks a complete failure to understand nuanced policy issues… if the hope of the Republican party is a woman whose biggest strength is coming up with snide one-liners, I think it’s in trouble, indeed.
Rod Dreher, yet another self proclaimed “conservative” in the media who doesn’t like conservatives. I suggest Rod read this post from Trey Garrison, and anybody else who’s tired of the same old Palin bashing will get a kick out of it too.
Every time I read anything Sarah Palin says, I feel like I’m reading a conservative chain email.
I’m beginning to wonder whether pundits who claim to be so objectively sure about what is wrong with a candidate of their own party but who then are entirely unable to articulate, much less supply, the missing magical essence themselves aren’t in fact more like the child who must be tempted with endless successive offerings until the right one somehow thankfully appears. Which I guess is just a roundabout way of describing a reaction that’s basically emotional. Which may explain why Sarah Palin was Rod Dreher’s Megan Fox schoolboy crush last year until she wasn’t any more.
“The Palin” is a test.
If you think she’s acutally qualified to hold any elective office:
It a fail.
Worse than that, you’re not even as smart as she is.
OK, so I’ll put Wick down as a “Yes” on wooing/hiring Rod Dreher and Glenn as a “Hell, No.”
I wonder if he’ll be cheaper than your past muse, Dave Levinthal?
I’m going to the book signing and ask her to write a message in it directly to Obama and then… sell it on eBay. That’s capitalism… you betcha!
@wordy
The correct answer to the question “what is the Bush doctrine” is “which one?”
The Couric interview was the first with MSM – the big three b’cast networks.
But this is one reason I lean Republican, I can be assured they will get a thorough vetting from the media. AP has 11 fact-checkers on her book, no-one has fact-checked either of Obama’s books, his time at Occidental and many other issues.
If Obama had been a Repub, we’d know who his dope dealer was, and how much coke he did, how he got through college, his thesis, why the credit-card controls were turned off on his campaign website, what his record was a state senator, and on and on and on.
Meanwhile, we know if Palin ordered her steak rare on any given night.
I’m not a big Palin fan, but the treatment she gets is a big eye-opener for anyone who questions their objectivity of a large swath of US Media.
Right, like Obama’s birth certificate hasn’t been thoroughly vetted and re-vetted. And his parents’ nationality and citizenship, his fist-bump with his wife (is that an anti-white thing?), his pastor’s sermons and even the people he plays basketball with at the office.
As for all the media attention the convention-game-show-winner from Alaska is getting: Could it be because she’s controversial, sparks debate, sells books, draws crowds, has a from-out-of-nowhere-backwoods-mama story and remains intensely popular among a segment of the public that feels it’s NOT catered to by the media, ergo, the media would like to cater to them as a potential audience?
Just wond’rin.
The Ideal candidate for the Republicans:
1. Mulatto – raised white and asian but turns black at about age 20 or so
2. Non-existing immediate family so no one can verify anything in their childhood
3. Muslim by upbringing but pretending to be Christian
4. Non disclosed academic records
5. Non disclosed birth record
6. Ties to political radicals
7. No business experience
8. Minimum political experience
9. Admitted illegal drug abuser
10. Mule face spouse
11. Attorney by trade so they can lie but act as though it is the truth
12. Unaware of US history
Can you imagine the field day that the MSM would have with such a candidate if only the Republicans can find one.
Watching the news reports about Palin’s book signing was a scary, scary viewing. The best quote was a lady who actually said “If the media would leave her alone, she could become President!”.
So…if everyone would just stop asking those silly questions, everything would be okay!
It’s depressing that someone of such little substance – and PLEASE don’t say “Obama has just as little”; do you really think that if you put the two of them in a room to have any kind of serious policy discussion that Mrs. Palin would last more than about 2 minutes – can get as far as she has, and have hoodwinked so many people. Hopefully more true conservatives will take a second or third look and come to their senses and realize there’s just nothing there, there.
pot/kettle/pot part deux
So…if everyone would just stop asking those silly questions, everything would be okay!
It worked for Obama.
ok, I’m going to sound like my grandfather… but here goes… if Barry Goldwater were here today, he’d probably slap her.
ok, I’m going to sound like my father…but here goes…if JFK were here today, he’d probably slap her on the a$$ and really like it.
@Dubious Brother:
Thanks for the laugh on a rainy Friday.
Palin is more Bill Clinton’s type, though (and you just know that he would do that deal in a heartbeat).
She believes the Earth is 4,000 years old and that’s all you need to know about her as regards her intellectual capacity. She’s welcome to take a shot at whatever it is she’s taking a shot at. I don’t begrudge the lady her career and, after all, it’s the liberal Palin haters who seem to be working overtime to maintain her relevance. She’ll never be president, not in a million years.
@Daniel – “She believes the Earth is 4,000 years old” and you honestly believe that?
One good point though about books, who would put a paragraph like this in there autobiography?
“The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.”