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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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 Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject: astonishing, unprofessional article on the CBC |
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I can't believe I'm forced to pay the salary of the totally unprofessional and naked anti-American person who wrote this.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html#socialcomments
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A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention
Last Updated: Friday, September 5, 2008 | 8:48 PM ET Comments214Recommend151
By Heather Mallick, special to CBC News
I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman. They're unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.
But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I'm a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.
Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn't even female really. She's a type, and she comes in male form too.
John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I'd had the wit to come up with it first. It's safer than "white trash" but I'll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.
Doyle's job includes watching a lot of reality television and he's well-versed in the backstory. White trash � not trailer trash, that's something different � is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American clich� of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.
'Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am'
Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pramface." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a fuckin' redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter?
I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don't the Palins? I'm not the one preaching homespun values but I'd destroy that ratboy before I'd let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin's e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am.
Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won't dwell on them.
I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn't have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo.
They were indistinguishable. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potato's in the Paddy Wagon?
Who delivered this line: "To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will." Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palin's shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?
The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that's the mystery of the hick vote. They'd be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What's the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.
Lie works for Palin
But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He's going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn't include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. So why cheer Palin when she claims otherwise?
Is it racism? I'm told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it. It is more likely the dearly held Republican notion that any American can become violently rich, as rich as those hedge funders in Greenwich, Conn., who buy $40-million mansions unseen and have their topiary shaped in the form of musical notes.
When Palin and Rudy Giuliani sneered at Obama's years of "community organizing" � they said it like "rectal fissure" � the audience ewww-ed with them. Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.
So I'm trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. It's the green light at the end of the dock. It's the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she won't because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.
American politics isn't short of smart women. Susan Eisenhower, Ike's granddaughter, who just endorsed Obama, made an extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention (and a terrific casual appearance on The Colbert Report as Palin was speaking). The Republican party has already consumed nearly all of its moderate "seed corn," she said aptly. Time to start again.
Eisenhower, a scholar and journalist, has a point. Or am I only saying that because she's part of the thoughtful demographic that I'm trying to reach here? Think, Heather, think like a Republican! The Skeptics, shall I call them, are my base, and I'll pander to them as ardently as the Republican patriarchs tease their white female marginals.
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Commentary on the article here:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/09/barbara-kay-stop-using-my-money-to-fund-hate-on-the-cbc.aspx
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/09/09/jonathan-kay-on-heather-mallick-another-week-another-disgrace-at-the-cbc.aspx
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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Wow. 
I'm disappointed in the CBC for publishing this. |
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flakfizer
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Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| And here I thought all hate came from the Right. |
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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Perhaps she's Ann Coulter's prodigy. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| and naked anti-American person who wrote this |
It's only anti-American if you conflate the identity of the Republican Party with the country itself, which of course, they would like you to do. I suppose it's an easy mistake to make given how loud and aggressive they can be.
The piece is tacky, without a doubt. But isn't anti-American.
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Heather Mallick used to be my editor and I love the woman. Tho I'm not so keen about her politics. |
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blaseblasphemener
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Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I thought Andrea Dworkin died? When did she start using a pen name? |
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Jandar
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Typical frozen brained Canukistan drivel. |
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yawarakaijin
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Jandar wrote: |
| Typical frozen brained Canukistan drivel. |
Take a look at the reactions to her drivel. She is being almost universally lambasted and condemned for that vomitous mass. |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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I'm an American, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading Heather Mallick's piece. Note that it was labeled: VIEWPOINT. If it were a news article, it would have violated every rule in the book. But it was a personal opinion, and I am all for people expressing their opinions articulately, even if I disagree with them.
I do mind if an opinion piece gets its facts right, and there was one statement that was off the mark. Mallick writes: "Husband Todd looks like a roughneck." He doesn't look like a roughneck; he is a roughneck. He works in the oil field.
Aside from that, it so happens that I agree wholeheartedly with everything Mallick says. I am not offended by it in the least. I am saddened, however, that the rest of the world is seeing the United States in this way. But I am comforted to know that people like Mallick are sophisticated enough to know that the conservative Republicans reflect only one portion of American society.
But most important, Mallick's piece was thoroughly amusing. She skewered the Republicans with humor, which is a perfectly legitimate use of this amusement; Americans do it all the time, and the best get paid quite royally.
And the fact is the Palin clan are hillbillies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Beverly_Hillbillies.jpg
Hmmmm, that gives me an idea. How do we pay off the trillions and trillions of dollars of debt the Republicans have gotten the U.S. into?
I've got it. Elect McPalin and turn the White House into a pay per view reality TV show. The rest of the world would be riveted.
Heck, we could even do an ESL version for Korea. They would die, errr, pay extra, to get the special Bristol channel. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| Take a look at the reactions to her drivel. She is being almost universally lambasted and condemned for that vomitous mass. |
Ummmm...how likely is it that any columnist who agreed with her would rush to the keyboard, type in 'Good job' and e-mail that to his boss for publication that day? It would make a might weak Op-Ed page to have a two-word column. |
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flakfizer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| Gatsby wrote: |
I am comforted to know that people like Mallick are sophisticated enough to know that the conservative Republicans reflect only one portion of American society.
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Huge generalizations are clear signs of sophistication. |
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Gollywog
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| Made sense to me. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| According to the responses to the article, the writer is a leftist anti-American. Assuming that is true, it's interesting that the first time she gets mentioned here on this site is when she attacks a conservative American. Methinks the posters joining in the outrage are not all that offended by her anti-Americanism but at her attack on conservatives. |
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blaseblasphemener
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:54 am Post subject: |
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| Jandar wrote: |
| Typical frozen brained Canukistan drivel. |
Quick: name 3 Canadian newspapers, magazines, TV programs, or networks.
Oh, you can't? Exactly. How the hell would you even know what we say, other than reading Dave's esl. 99.9% of Americans know f-all about Canada, or pretty much anything outside of their borders.
But please, enlighten me on how much you know about Canada. Ahhh, it's North of most of the U.S.? Congratulations. Now, name 3 provinces. I didn't think so. |
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