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Palin Overload
June 12, 2009 11:45 AM EDT — Teresa Roberts ...
So, if you haven’t heard about the Letterman/Palin squabble, you are well blessed. Here’s how it goes: Letterman makes some untoward remarks about the oldest Palin girl. Tasteless, yes. (See video below.) That’s his business. If you are seeing red on behalf of the Palins, let me ask you this: Do you have a clue about his demographic? Do you really want to censor comics? Then move to another country. In this one, we get to make jokes about what we want. First of all, the Palins are overreacting. Because in this climate, reacting at all was overreacting. Take a hint from the Carters, the Clintons, and the Bushes, when Amy, Chelsea, and The Twins were skewered nightly. IGNORE THE COMICS. It’s simple. Worse than the overreaction, is the outright LYING about what Letterman actually said. Or maybe they are that moronic. You only have two options here. But, no, the Palins see this as an opportunity for more publicity. How many appearances is Sarah getting from this? I’m not counting. This leaves Todd more time in the governor’s office, which he sorely needs. Apparently, so he can write notes to late night talk show hosts, accusing them of makinig rape jokes. This is heinous and nasty to say the least. And guess, what, CBS probably doesn’t care, because the demographic who watches Letterman finds him funny. The other people, the ones who think it’s okay for the Palins to lie to get attention, are just noisemakers. It’s like me complaining about the colors offered in next season’s snowmobile line. I’m not a buyer. It doesn’t matter what I think. In the end, the people who like free speech, and don’t hang on everything the Palins do as gospel, will be on the side of Letterman. The Palinistas will go to their graves talking about how awful that Letterman is (without ever hearing the actual jokes, or his defense, for the most part), and how children shouldn’t be the butt of jokes, blah blah blah. It’s comedy. I don’t laugh at everything I hear either, get over it. And all the while the Carters, Clintons, and Bushes will just be glad they were never as publicity hungry as one little, but always growing, family from Alaska.
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Palin Overload
Your hatchet-job on the Palins was clearly biased, not becoming of anyone. Is this what "New Christian Voices" means? Give me the 'ol fahioned kind, if you will.
Hatchet job on the Palins?
Wake up. Not quite a hatchet job. Just someone who's a Christian and speaking out - maybe just to show that all Christians do not buy the Palins, hook, line, and sinker.
If biased means I don't care for people who lie to get what they want, abuse their power, use their kids for airtime . . . then, yes, I'm biased.
Teresa Roberts Logan
www.LaughingRedhead.com
I completely disagree
Nope. Read my next blog. This is all about TV ratings.
I think, also, I need to write a column about women in politics (and other businesses as well).
I don't understand the hatred and venom directed at Sarah Palin.
Nor do I understand the hatred and venom spewed at Hillary Clinton.
Ms. Clinton - who was thrown under the bus by the Democratic Party (whom she had faithfully worked for, bled for, and held her marriage together for) - is an even better example of a woman who was hated from the first day her political career went mainstream.
And much of the hate directed for these women comes from - you guessed it! - other women (mostly, but not all, in the opposite political party).
I disagree with your assessment of the Letterman/Palin silliness. He is a misogynist who used her for some short-term gains at the end of the TV season... what a disappointment this guy has become.
Taylor
Glad you'll address women and politics, but . . .
. . . I hope you're not accusing me of venom and hatred.
I think barbed critiques are as strong as I get - and I think the Palins are being given a free pass from Christian culture because they are proud Christians. Does this mean we look the other way on everything they do? Geez. So I do feel I need to keep addressing it - rather than falling in with the Palinistas who defend every single thing she does, because, awwww, she's a woman, or goody, she's a Christian. Puh-lease.
Maybe, you're right, and you don't understand the attitudes expressed about the Palins. I DO understand where my attitude about the Palins comes from, and am working on communicating that more clearly each time they do something Palin-y.
I think the vibe you are getting re: the Palins is the major pushback to show that a lot of us do not think everything the Palins do is fine.
A lot of the pushback against Palin from women, especially, came when she (embarrassingly and ridiculously) tried to lay claim to the 18 million Hillary supporters - as if everyone with a uterus thinks alike. And it has grown from there. In addition, ire is raised in those 18 million women every time Hillary's path (college and activism) is compared to Sarah's (beauty pageants). Not saying it's pretty, but there it is.
She give us plenty to address.
And comedians lots of new material.
Teresa Roberts Logan
www.LaughingRedhead.com