27 May 2010 No one wants to look at you or your daughter.

27 May 2010 No one wants to look at you or your daughter.


From “The Plum Line, Greg Sargent Washington Post

“Posted at 10:25 AM ET, 05/27/2010

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/

Maybe Palin doesn't mind being 'stalked' by McGinniss

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Sarah Palin is not genuinely all that upset about journalist Joe McGinniss moving in next door to "stalk" her. I'd say it's likely she sees a clear upside: It gives her grist for exactly the narrative she's trying to spin.

Here, via Ben Smith, is Palin's latest response to McGinniss: She's built a fence between their two houses, and either she or her allies in the media are aggressively publicizing it:



I'm not going to apologize for what McGinniss is doing -- it's unorthodox, to say the least -- but come on now. This plays into exactly the storyline she's been spinning to the Palin Nation hordes for months: Persecuted, aggrieved, real American mom just tryin' to protect her kids from pointy-headed, elitist lamestream media peeping Toms.

Anyone who plays along with her aggrievement is delusional or a chump.”



Working from the protection of Face book, surrounded by thousands of deluded followers, Palin, the resignator, has leveled yet another claim that someone is stalking her daughter for perverse reasons. This is essentially the same charge she aimed at David Letterman, who launched a tasteless and unfunny joke at the Palin family. Somehow, the decision by an author researching a book on Palin to move next door to the Palin home is immediately about having illegal and immoral designs on the Palin children.

The charge is based upon the pretense that the rented property allows the author to see a daughter’s bedroom window, a garden, and a swimming hole. These supposed vantage points were apparently of no concern during the three years when the property was a half-way house, an Oxford House; home to recovering drug addicts released from prison.

http://www.themudflats.net/2010/05/27/sarah-palin-takes-up-fencing/

I would suspect that at some time during those three years one or more of the occupants felt inclined to ogle the Palin children. Pedophilia is not restricted in distribution to populations of comedians, authors, or others who anger Palin by word or deed.

I disapprove of involving candidates’ children in political affairs, advertising, and campaigns. The press has usually gone along with requests by presidential candidates to lay off their kids. The Kennedy kids were good press and were treated kindly. LBJ’s daughters took some heat that should really have been directed at the war. Nixon’s daughter, Ford’s offspring, Carter’s daughter, Reagan’s children, and Clinton’s daughter all were allowed the relative freedom to avoid being dragged into the political battles. They showed up in weddings, in public feuds with their parents if adults with their own lives, and on vacations when the whole family gathered. Other than in 1960 they were not campaign prop material.

Palin chose to change that. When nominated for VP she dragged her entire litter onto the stage to demonstrate he motherhood. Her children instantly became campaign props through no fault of their own and by no design of the working press. It is difficult to ignore a pregnant, unmarried daughter’s presence, apparent proof of Palin’s opposition to sex-ed and birth control education; and impossible to ignore the “fiancé” who had no desire to marry anyone or become a father until shoved into a suit and then onto the stage.. It was difficult to ignore the infant that was trotted out to demonstrate her anti-abortion position or the daughter paraded on stage to hold the infant when the daughter should have been in school – a demonstration, one guesses, of Palin’s appreciation for education and literacy.

Gloria actually visited Palin’s FB page this morning. It consisted of rants, accusations, lies, distortions, paranoid and narcissist statements. In fact, if one factors out the lies, distortions, paranoia and narcissism; it is not unlike thousands of other FB pages; including the material I post in this blog. The scary difference is the number of sycophants, worshipers, true-believers, and camp followers, fully deluded, equally paranoid, equally lacking in intellect, and willing to support her blindly who post in support of every rabid utterance she puts up. I have not a single sycophant, no true-believers, and am sure that anyone who reads what I write is at least familiar with the English language and willing to call me on any misuse of it I might commit. They should.

But no one is allowed to correct the resignator. Like every other homecoming queen, her word is law and all the people who can’t stand not being in the clique are ready to instantly roll over, belly-up, for her approval. So it is that comments leveled at her are ignored, because everyone must love her; and redirected to her children in order that the true-believers can see them and utter the necessary agreement.

She’s worried about pedophiles seeing her daughter? Simply prevented, keep her out of the public eye, send her to school. I wonder why the appropriate agency responsible for child welfare and protection in Alaska has not questioned why the Palin daughters miss so much school. That might be worth investigating. In the time since she was elected governor of Alaska she has demonstrated so much integrity and morality to her children. Charging the state of Alaska for inappropriate travel and hotels, misuse of power, using a private account to conduct state business, bilking the GOP out of clothing for the family, and, of course, repeated attempts to incite violence, spreading lies about other candidates, and quitting her job when it got to be too much bother. She’s such an excellent role model as a mother and woman.

She’s getting old and she’s not aging well. The Tammy Baker makeup doesn’t help, the hair replacement/overlay can’t be concealed, and the beauty pageant winking and simpering is enough to cause functional impotence when combined with the rest of the physical totality. She can’t help aging. But she needs to look into a mirror that can’t lie. She is far from the “fairest in the land,” and getting more distant with every passing day. Hot? Not at all. But leave her out in the sun for long and the makeup will melt off in layers. That’s what she’s afraid of someone seeing, that’s why the new fence went up, Pedophilia? Hardly, more like necrophilia.