choco Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 the only news here is another idealistic, yet unrealistic, politician is either ramping up for embarrassment or becoming wiser and getting outta dodge. you can't be as stupid as this broad and not end up like she has. open mouth, insert foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 from the National Review online: Monday, July 06, 2009 Laugh or Cry? [Victor Davis Hanson] Much has been said about Maureen “I wanted to weave the idea into my column” Dowd’s latest take-down of Sarah Palin (“Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.”) Her hit-piece is a self-parody. Instead, of seriously critiquing the wisdom or folly of Palin’s controversial decision to step down from the governorship, we get child-like sentences on spec like this: On the shore of Lake Lucille, with wild fowl honking and the First Dude smiling, with Piper in the foreground and their Piper Cub in the background, the woman who took the Republican Party by storm only 10 months ago gave an incoherent, breathless and prickly stream of consciousness to a small group in her Wasilla yard. In one shot, here is the caricatured snooty put-down of rural life (“wild fowl honking”), middle-class bourgeoisie culture and aspiration (“Piper in the foreground and their Piper Cub in the background”), and nowhereville in Middle America (“her Wasilla yard”). And, of course, we know that Palin is crazy, because Dowd has gone to fellow D.C. insider and Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum’s recent 10,000-word invective. So Dowd draws on the wisdom (at least this time with quotation marks and a cited source) of Purdum to the effect that: “Several told me, independently of one another,” Purdum writes, “that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — ‘a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’ — and thought it fit her perfectly.” Yes, Palin must be crazy, you see because “several” of those in Dowd's wild-fowl honking Alaska (who, of course, must remained unnamed) had taken out of their denim backpockets their good ol’ Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and, lo and behold, apparently reported on tape to Todd Purdum (“and independently of one another,” no less!) that they were struck that clinical “narcissistic personality disorder” “fit her perfectly.” The problem with all this nonsense is that it tells us far more about Purdum and Dowd than about Palin. And whether Palin is wise or silly, down-to-earth or naïve, an aberration or with a future career, seasoned or immature, etc. is lost because she excites a certain irrational impulse, an uncontrolled hysteria really, in the liberal and self-described sophisticated that precludes them from empirical analysis. I am sure that syndrome is in the Manual as well. Just ask those in Georgetown to whip out their handy copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 from the National Review online: The problem with all this nonsense is that it tells us far more about Purdum and Dowd than about Palin. And whether Palin is wise or silly, down-to-earth or naïve, an aberration or with a future career, seasoned or immature, etc. is lost because she excites a certain irrational impulse, an uncontrolled hysteria really, in the liberal and self-described sophisticated that precludes them from empirical analysis. I am sure that syndrome is in the Manual as well. Just ask those in Georgetown to whip out their handy copy. I expected more from the Ghost of W.F. Buckley. It isn't an irrational impulse at all. Rather it's a very rational reaction to someone with a 75 I.Q. running for high public office that outrages intelligent people. I'd have been shocked if people didn't react that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 The real NONSENSE is the point of my recent new thread "I still hate you Sarah Palin". It's a great read. Really. You'll really, really like it. Oh, boy - it's all about you... and you... and a few others... heh heh heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mz. Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 The real NONSENSE is the point of my recent new thread "I still hate you Sarah Palin". It's a great read. Really. You'll really, really like it. Oh, boy - it's all about you... and you... and a few others... heh heh heh. Cal translation: "Now that you've proven me a moron in this thread, can I point you towards a cherry-picked vitriolic liberal piece I cut and pasted in another thread?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 mz the pussy translation: "Cal wants me to read a great article, but I never read articles, I just personally attack, and I will comment on the article without reading it, while I cut the ends off of of my socks so I can lick my own toes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aloysius Posted July 28, 2009 Report Share Posted July 28, 2009 The beginning of her farewell speech reads like a passage from Sometimes a Great Notion. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some literary sleuth found some too similar not to play the plagiarism card passages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 [quote name='Aloysius' post='87480' date='Jul 28 2009, 06:20 In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some literary sleuth found some too similar not to play the plagiarism card passages. See if you can find the guy who pointed out the "similarities" in Obama and Ayers' writing styles. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 [quote name='Aloysius' post='87480' date='Jul 28 2009, 06:20 In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some literary sleuth found some too similar not to play the plagiarism card passages. See if you can find the guy who pointed out the "similarities" in Obama and Ayers' writing styles. WSS ************ Gee, I could have bet ten bucks mz the pussy and Heck would have Thanked Steve for this one... how about it, Al? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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