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Sarah Palin's Going Rogue!
| Quote: | | Sarah Palin has "written" a 400-page memoir titled Going Rogue: An American Life. HarperCollins will launch the book with a 1.5M hardcover initial press run, the same number as Ted Kennedy's posthumously released memoir. SRSLY. Palin "collaborated" on the manuscript with a woman named Lynn Vincent. |
Bet it sells like hotcakes. *sigh*
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Pre-Orders Send Palin's Book To #1
| Quote: | Pre-orders for Sarah Palin's coming memoir, Going Rogue, have sent the title rocketing overnight to #1 on the bestsellers lists of book merchants nationwide.
| Quote: | | Just two days after HarperCollins announced that Palin's "Going Rogue" had been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17, preorders Wednesday night for the former Alaska governor's memoir made it No. 1 on both Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. Among the books "Going Rogue" is outselling: Sen. Ted Kennedy's "True Compass," Mitch Albom's "Have a Little Faith" and Brown's "The Lost Symbol," his first novel since "The Da Vinci Code" and, perhaps until now, the year's most anticipated release. |
Palin got a reported $7M advance for the book. Meanwhile, she is finding few takers for her $100,000 speaking tour.
| Quote: | | After quitting as governor of Alaska in July, Palin signed with the top-notch Washington Speakers Bureau, which also reps George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger, LA Dodgers manager Joe Torre and magician David Blaine. Palin's bookers are said to be asking for $100,000 per speech, but an industry expert tells Page Six: "The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot." "Palin is so uninteresting to so many groups -- unless they are interested in moose hunting," said our insider. "What does she have to say? She can't even describe what she reads." |
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... surely, a Sign of the Impending Apocalypse....
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| By the sounds of it, we should really be referring to it as Lynn Vincent's book. |
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| Someone elsewhere reported that a certain wing-nut-daily, amongst other like-minded ventures, is advertising her book free for a new and a re-new-ing membership inducement -- cost to the reader zero dollars and forever wasted minutes. The big up-front sales to right-wing front groups is part of their SOP. |
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| Tehanu wrote: | | By the sounds of it, we should really be referring to it as Lynn Vincent's book. |
Andrew Sullivan:
| Quote: | Harper Collins' chief marketer, Jonathan Burnham, hired a fanatical homophobe, Lynn Vincent, to write Sarah Palin's book for her. Jonathan Burnham - wait for it - is an openly gay man.
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Politico quotes Burnham's author thus:
| Quote: | | "In decades past, men and women routinely brushed off fleeting thoughts of homosexual behavior. Now, though, gay activists have succeeded in planting a seed that says people not only can but should follow such thoughts with exploration and action," Vincent warned last year. |
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The Palin book, moreover, is clearly being styled as a work of polemic, appealing to the Christianist base, thereby fanning homophobia, and empowering those who would like nothing more than to push gay people back into the closet, out of marriage, out of the military, and out of the workplace. Burnham is now directly party to this effort. |
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Any truth to the rumour that the original title was a description of Palin's moose hunting place in the woods, "My Camp"?
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Advertisment: Levi Johnston now does it with protection
| Quote: | | Towleroad points out this new ad campaign featuring Levi Johnston, who is wisely not allowed to speak. Love the last line. |
clip @ link
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There's a really interesting comment on the page you linked to, Heph:
| Quote: | There is something pitiful about this guy becoming some gay icon when it used to be an open secret that he despises gays (he used a choice epithet instead). Why are people so eager to forget the homophobic slurs he posted on his MySpace page and all the other anti-gay stuff he told his buddies?
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| Quote: | | Why are people so eager to forget the homophobic slurs he posted on his MySpace page |
Huh. Little known fact: the Gay people can be shockingly forgiving... one of our more pathetic vices. I can see how it might have been missed, what with this forgiving quality being overshadowed by our legendary vindictiveness. Whatever. Here's the crux of the biscuit with Levi:
| Quote: | | Among the biggest challenges for Bristol Palin's baby daddy has been adopting an attitude of "versatility" and becoming more tolerant of lifestyles different than his own, the 19-year-old single father says in the July issue of GQ, on sale June 23. The article mentions Levi's "mentor" — a large burly gentleman called Tank — working on reducing Levi's "homophobic outbursts." |
Yeah. Now, I'll be one of the very first people in line to intone "effort is not achievement." I will. Sometimes, however, effort really is an achievement. Mr. Johnston has been working on it. As far as I can see, he's met with a satisfactory level of success... so it's more than just effort. What's he said lately?
Is he a different person now? Part of me wants to say "Of course not." Still... there's a difference between a 19-year-old and an 18-year-old. The difference between a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old can be alarming. Probably he is different... I just don't know how different.
There would, of course, be something pitiful about Levi Johnston becoming some Gay icon... if he were any such thing. He's an endearingly pudgy, more than slightly cute, casual celebrity who has caught the attention of a notoriously fickle public. If he wishes to make money off of that attention, he'd best do it quickly. |
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| I appreciate your compassionate take on this, Feral. Let me ask you a question: what do these "outbursts" mentioned in the quote entail? Is it just words and glib remarks, or does the guy have anger issues? |
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The quote came from this article in GQ. It's a decent article.
I take that back. As articles go, It's right good.
Most people who say something like "I read that Levi's homophobic" appear to be referring to it, or a blog post about it. The article never says what those outbursts entail.
| Quote: | Tank is working to contain and reduce in frequency Levi’s homophobic outbursts, instituting a new philosophy of “versatility.”
“We versatile, we versatile,” Tank says in mantra fashion whenever he senses Levi tensing up around an unfamiliar social type. “Versatile” does not mean “tolerant.” Tank sees “versatile,” he told me when we were playing slots at a casino later, as a plain over which he must guide Levi on the young man’s journey from intolerance to tolerance. |
Whatever.
Perhaps Mr. Johnston is some sort of metaphorical icky creepy-crawly that someone found while turning over logs in the woods. I don't know... I don't know the guy and don't especially want to. He does scrub up pretty cute, but so do a thousand other fellows... most of them better. The thing is, Mr. Johnston is who he is, is from where he's from, was raised as he was raised... and then someone else turned over that log. It's not like he ever deliberately crawled out to disturb my picnic. The world just sort-of jumped on him for no reason at all. Now he's essentially unemployable, unless you can come up with some trade that can readily make allowances for paparazzi.
So now he finds himself shepherded on some "journey" through versatility to tolerance. I suspect it's a trifle uncomfortable. I wouldn't recommend it as a strategy for most people... it seems to be a little labor intensive, what with requiring two handlers and all. The results thus far have been entirely acceptable. On that score I'm more or less on-board with Bayard Rustin.
| Quote: | [T]he job of the gay community is not to deal with extremists who would castigate us or put us on an island and drop an H-bomb on us. The fact of the matter is that there is a small percentage of people in America who understand the true nature of the homosexual community. There is another small percentage who will never understand us. Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights movement to get prejudiced white people to love us. Our aim was to try to create the kind of America, legislatively, morally, and psychologically, such that even though some whites continued to hate us, they could not openly manifest that hate. That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment.
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I don't much care how homophobic he is (since I'm of the view that that's a fundamentally neurological condition) so long as he doesn't publicly manifest it. So far he's done a Jim-dandy job. Three points for Levi (with the inevitable extra credit for accidentally being cute).
Now... this "compassion" stuff. Ouch. I assume you're referring to my take on Mr. Johnston. He didn't ask for or seek the notoriety he obtained. What little there was to his life was completely trashed by it. He has nothing to do now but try to find some way forward. He's a whole lot like a lot of Gay 19-year-olds I've known. A whole lot.
I deny this charge of "compassionate," however. Oh yes. That post was just dripping with snark. Joe Jervis kind-of scares me sometimes but the commenters on his blog freak me right out.
Puh-leeze. Levi Johnston is not a Gay icon of any flavor. He doesn't merit even a moment of the legendary Epic Vindictiveness that applies to certain other celebrities whose names I won't even type out. Piff. I can't even remember what half of them did to get on the "I hate you I hate you I hate you forever" list.
Nah. Not compassion. Something bordering on 'contempt' was on my mind.
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I won't hold you to the word "compassion", though it seems to me that even if you are being contemptuous (and with good reason), as you indicate in your previous post, there is a lot of generosity amid the snark. This line in particular is a thing of beauty:
| Quote: | | someone else turned over that log. It's not like he ever deliberately crawled out to disturb my picnic. The world just sort-of jumped on him for no reason at all. Now he's essentially unemployable, unless you can come up with some trade that can readily make allowances for paparazzi. |
The creepy crawly aspect of your metaphor isn't lost on me. |
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Attorney says Playgirl shoot next up for teenage father of Sarah Palin's grandson
| Quote: | ... Johnston's lawyer, Rex Butler, said Wednesday that a formal agreement has not been reached with the online magazine but adds it's a "foregone conclusion" it will happen.
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To get ready for his close-up, Johnston is training three hours a day, six nights a week at an Anchorage gym with a local body builder, Marvin Jones, a former Mr. Alaska competitor. |
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Is Sarah Palin looking for work?
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Levi Johnston: "If I really wanted to hurt [Sarah Palin] I could very easily. But I'm not gonna go that far."
| Quote: | In an interview with The Early Show, Levi Johnston says that Sarah Palin jokes about her "retarded" baby and says the Palin's constantly fought about getting a divorce.
Says Johnston: "If she's going to go out there and say things to me, about me, I'm going to leak some things on her. I mean that's just how it is...There are some things that I have that are huge...If I really wanted to hurt [Sarah Palin] I could very easily. But I'm not gonna go that far." |
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Palin: *gasp* Don't lissen ta him, *he's* gettin' nekkid fer money!
| Quote: | Says Palin:
| Quote: | | We have purposefully ignored the mean spirited, malicious and untrue attacks on our family. We, like many, are appalled at the inflammatory statements being made or implied. Trig is our 'blessed little angel' who knows it and is lovingly called that every day of his life...CBS should be ashamed for continually providing a forum to propagate lies. Consider the source of the most recent attention-getting lies — those who would sell their body for money reflect a desperate need for attention and are likely to say and do anything for even more attention. |
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*snort*
A politician... talking about a need for attention and a willingness to say or do anything for even more? Huh. Well, finally Palin has found something she can speak to from experience. I'm not sure whether or not it's strange that this bountiful experience seems to have somehow gotten garbled on it's way out of her mouth. I mean... it's not like I usually find that she talks sense. |
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Everyone's a weiner...
| Quote: | Meeting Johnston at the airport was Playgirl consultant and NYC nightlife promoter Daniel Nardicio, whose conquest of Levi was detailed this week in The Daily Beast:
| Quote: | | At first, Nardicio hoped the photographer Terry Richardson (who is known for his oversaturated eroticized pictures) might be available to do the Johnston pictorial, but the assignment went to photographer Greg Weiner instead. Nardicio is particularly pleased with the serendipitous pun. 'His name is actually Greg Weiner!' he beams. 'That’s the funny thing.' |
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More salacious details about the size of Levi's johnson @ the link...
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| Sara Palin is a very sad sign of the decline of America. She makes a far better Jerry Springer guest than a policy-maker. |
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"Homos For Palin" T-Shirt Gets Man Booted From Sarah Palin Book Signing
| Quote: | If you're one those mentally ill "Gays For Palin," you shouldn't broadcast your queerness at one of her appearances. At a Barnes & Nobles in a mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan:
| Quote: | | Bob Weinert, 56, a fencing salesman from Lansing, said he’d heard Rush Limbaugh say recently that Palin is “the most conservative candidate out there.” She represents, he said, “limited government and traditional values,” including “putting homos back in the closet.” “And putting Christmas in the stores,” added his wife, Rexanna, who said she felt she could trust the “down-to-earth” Palin. A few minutes later, a diffident young man wandered by with a handmade “Homos for Palin” t-shirt until he encountered a mall security guard. “You’ve got to zip it up or leave,” said the security guard and the young man, who said he was a college student but wouldn’t give his name, complied. |
I'd like to hope that the young man was just trying to rile Palin's supporters, which I'd endorse, but if so he should have refused to leave the mall just because of the word "homo" on his shirt. Here's an idea: If Palin does a book signing here in NYC, let's all show up and prance around with "Homos For Palin" shirts. Who's down? |
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Sarah Palin's Fans Are Revolting
| Quote: | | Fans of Sarah Palin staged a mini-revolt around her tour bus when they didn't get to meet her during a book signing as they'd been promised. Funny stuff. |
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Signorile: Palin's ties to the hate-mongers
| Quote: | Max Blumenthal came on the show last week and we discussed Sarah Palin's connections to some pretty extremist individuals (audio below.) Beyond some of the gay press (and of course the gay and progressive blogs), not much of the media is focused on Sarah Palin's intimate ties to white supremacists and homophobes as her media machine is rolling out across the country. These aren't people who are a few individuals removed. These are the people she has supported in Alaska; people she has turned to in crisis, like Robert Stacy McCain, who helped her deal with the rumors of her divorce; and Lynn Vincent, a virulently antigay evangelical Christian who ghostwrote her book. I've written about former Washington Times editor and Palin buddy Robert Stacy McCain in years past, in a column that keeps coming back. Max Blumental of The Daily Beast wrote about him a bit too, as well as about Vincent ( a close colleague of Stacy McCain's) in a recent column.
Max came on the show last week and we discussed these ties to Palin and how they're being ignored. In the attempt by some in the media to marginalize Palin by treating her as a celebrity with no substance, they're ignoring the hate she festers, the people she brings out and the characters to whom she's connected. Listen to my discussion with Max if you didn't hear it live last week. |
audio clips, and links, at above link
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You said it! 
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Rolling Stone political reporter, Matt Taibbi, has a couple of worthwhile Palin-related posts up on his blog:
Sarah Palin, WWE star
| Quote: | ... Sarah Palin is the Empress-Queen of the screaming-for-screaming’s sake generation. The people who dismiss her book Going Rogue as the petty, vindictive meanderings of a preening paranoiac with the IQ of a celery stalk completely miss the book’s significance, because in some ways it’s really a revolutionary and innovative piece of literature.
Palin — and there’s just no way to deny this — is a supremely gifted politician. She has staked out, as her own personal political turf, the entire landscape of incoherent white American resentment. In this area she leaves even Rush Limbaugh in the dust.
The reason for that is that poor Rush is an anachronism, in the sense that his whole schtick revolves around talking about real political issues. And real political issues are boring.
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Rush is no Einstein, but the man does research. It may be fallacious and completely dishonest research, but he does it all the same. His battlefield is world politics and most of the time the relevant action is taking place in Washington. As good as he is at what he does, he still has to travel to the action; he himself isn’t the action.
Sarah Palin’s battlefield, on the other hand, is whatever is happening five feet in front of her face. She is building a political career around the little interpersonal wars in the immediate airspace surrounding her sawdust-filled head. And in the process she connects with pissed-off, frightened, put-upon America on a plane that’s far more elemental than the mega-ditto schtick.
Most normal people cannot connect on an emotional level with Rush’s meanderings on how Harry Reid is buying off Mary Landrieu with pork in the health care bill. They can, however, connect with stories about how top McCain strategist and Karl Rove acolyte Steve Schmidt told poor Sarah to shut her pie-hole on election day, or how her supposed allies in the McCain campaign stabbed her in the back by leaking gossip about her to reporters, how Schmidt used the word “fuck” in front of her daughter, or even with the strange tales about Schmidt ordering Sarah to consult with a nutritionist to improve her campaign endurance when she herself knew she just needed to get out in the fresh air and run (If there’s one thing Sarah Palin knows, it’s herself!).
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Palin’s extraordinary ability to inspire major national controversies around these injustices done to her immediate person is going to guarantee her some kind of major role in American politics for the next dozen years. In this regard she is going to have a willing ally in her supposed keen enemy, the mainstream media, which likewise loves nothing more than a political narrative that has nothing to do with politics. It’ll be a virtually endless war over nonsense like this latest Newsweek cover, which hilariously is being seen as one or the other of a) a liberal media plot or b) a sexist assault on a prominent female politician by the male-dominated media world when in fact, as all of us in this dying print media business know, the magazine’s motive was grounded entirely in the nihilistic desperation to sell newsstand copies.
And Sarah Palin sells copies. She is the country’s first WWE politician — a cartoon combatant who inspires stadiums full of frustrated middle American followers who will cheer for her against whichever villain they trot out, be it Newsweek, Barack Obama, Katie Couric, Steve Schmidt, the Mad Russian, Randy Orton or whoever. Her followers will not know that she is the perfect patsy for our system, designed as it is to channel popular anger in any direction but a useful one, and to keep the public tied up endlessly in pointless media melees over meaningless nonsense (melees of the sort that develop organically around Palin everywhere she goes). Like George W. Bush, even Palin herself doesn’t know this, another reason she’s such a perfect political tool. |
and Yes, Sarah, There is a Media Conspiracy
| Quote: | ... I would, however, like to point out a few things, none of which really involve taking sides in this particular cat-fight. In no particular order:
1) The political media has always taken it upon itself to make decisions about who is and who is not qualified to be taken seriously as candidates for higher office. Without even talking about whether they do this more or less to Republicans or Democrats, I can testify that I witnessed this phenomenon over and over again in the primary battles within the Democratic Party. It has always been true that the press corps has drawn upon internalized professional biases, high-school-style groupthink and the urging of insider wonks to separate candidates into “serious” and “unserious” groups before the shots even start to be fired.
At the outset of the 2004 campaign, for instance, the herd knew without being told that Kerry and Lieberman got the first paragraphs in the debate wrap-ups and Howard Dean, Al Sharpton and Dennis Kucinich got the last paragraphs. The corps fought against Dean’s unexpectedly strong showing all the way through the early primaries and it was no surprise to anyone when they pile-drove him into total insanity before Iowa. The point I’m trying to make is that the media has a long and storied history of just taking the gloves off and whaling on a dude until he screams uncle (in Dean’s case, almost literally) when they make up their mind about someone, and this phenomenon is not restricted to fights between Democrats and Republicans.
2) When that does happen, when the press corps decides to abandon all restraint and go for the head shot, it usually tells us a lot more about the reporters’ bosses and what they’re thinking than it does about the reporters themselves. Your average political reporter is a spineless dweeb who went to all the best schools and made it to that privileged seat inside the campaign-trail ropeline by being keenly sensitive to the editorial wishes of his social and professional superiors.
When their bosses were for the war, they were for the war, and they battered any candidate who was “weak on foreign policy.” When the political winds shifted four years later and the consensus inside the Beltway suddenly was that Iraq had been a hideous mistake, the campaign-trail reporters mysteriously started sounding like Sixties peaceniks on the plane and they hammered Hillary for refusing to admit her error on the Iraq vote (none of these pundits had to admit their mistake on the same question, but whatever), clearing the way for Obama.
The tone for all this behavior is always set somewhere way up the corporate totem pole, and it always reflects some dreary combination of simple business considerations (i.e. what’s the best story and sells the most ads) and internalized political calculus (i.e. who is a “legitimate” candidate and who is an “insurgent” or a “second-tier” hopeful). It’s not that the reporters are making this judgment themselves, it’s that they have to listen to what the apparatus Up There is saying all day long — not just their bosses but the think-tank talking heads they interview for comments, the party insiders who buy them beers at night, the pollsters and so on.
And when all these people start getting in their ears about this or that guy doesn’t have “winnability,” or doesn’t have enough money to run, or has negatives that are insurmountable, all that thinking inevitably bleeds into the coverage. It’s not that the reporters are “biased.” They just don’t have the stones, for the most part, to ignore all the verbal and non-verbal cues they get from authority figures about who is “legitimate” and who isn’t.
Once the signal comes down that this or that politician doesn’t have the backing of anyone who matters, that’s when the knives really come out. When a politician has powerful allies and powerful friends, you won’t see reporters brazenly kicking him in the crotch the way they did to Dean and they’re doing now to Sarah Palin. The only time they do this is when they know there won’t be consequences, meaning when the politician’s only supporters are non-entities (read: voters), as in the case of Ron Paul or Kucinich. Like America in general, the press corps never attacks any enemy that can fight back. |
Lots more, at both links...
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Sarah Pailin has Advice for Canadians: "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit."
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| bagkitty wrote: | | Sarah Pailin has Advice for Canadians: "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit." |
Fuck her and the horse she rode in on.
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| TS. wrote: | | bagkitty wrote: | | Sarah Pailin has Advice for Canadians: "Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit." |
Fuck her and the horse she rode in on. |
You don't make horse fucking jokes like the above in Saskatchewan. |
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That's just transference* on the part of Cartman....since everyone knows Alberta is the province with the errr..."fetish". 
*Don't know if "transference" is the correct term (I'm not up to speed on my pop psychology).
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| Quote: | *Don't know if "transference" is the correct term (I'm not up to speed on my pop psychology).
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I believe the idea you're thinking of is called "projection", in which you imagine that a quality you possess is actually possessed by someone else. "Transference" is when you transfer the feelings that you have for one person to another person(most famously in the Freudian idea that the patient transfers his feelings about his or her father to the analyst).
At least, that's my understanding, gleaned mostly through popular presentations of the subject and a few of Freud's lighter explications of his ideas.
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Thanks VOTD. 
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Palin's "bus tour" is a farce
| Quote: | ... In related news, DailyKos reports that Palin has reportedly been tooling around in a private aircraft owned by The Samaritan's Purse, an organization run by the son of Billy Graham:
| Quote: | | In her book tour, Palin claims that she's just like the rest of us, riding her tour bus from town to town. BULLSHIT. Samaritan's Purse is flying Sarah around in one of its aircraft. She lands near her next book rally, gets on the bus, and rides into town on the bus. Palin is flying around in a Beechcraft/King Air 300tail number N262SP (multi-engine, 11 passengers). The SP does not stand for Sarah Palin -- the plane is owned by Samaritans Purse. This means that donations to SP are being used to haul Palin's carcass around. Wonder what the donors think of that? Hmmm. Does this violate Samaritan's Purses 501c(3) status? And -- get this -- I tried to check the flight activity for this airplane (N262SP) at Flightaware.com. The flight activity for this plane is blocked by the owner. Guess he doesn't want anyone to know where he is flying. |
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Sarah Palin: Obama Birth Certificate Question Legit Because of Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Her Son Trig
| Quote: | Sarah Palin spoke to conservative radio host Rusty Humphries yesterday and said that she agrees with those with concerns over Obama's birth certificate. Said Palin:
| Quote: | | I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue [if I ran for election], because I think that members of the electorate still want answers...I think it's a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records — all of that is fair game. The McCain-Palin campaign didn't do a good enough job in that area. |
She also legitimized the debate by offering the comparison that she had to produce a birth certificate to prove her son Trig was really hers. Palin later "clarified" her views on Facebook:
| Quote: | | Voters have every right to ask candidates for information if they so choose. I’ve pointed out that it was seemingly fair game during the 2008 election for many on the left to badger my doctor and lawyer for proof that Trig is in fact my child. Conspiracy-minded reporters and voters had a right to ask... which they have repeatedly. But at no point – not during the campaign, and not during recent interviews – have I asked the president to produce his birth certificate or suggested that he was not born in the United States. |
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Sarah Palin pelted with tomatoes
Unfortunately, the tool who threw 'em had bad aim...
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Wasilla Gays Ask Levi Johnston Out on a Drag Queen Date
| Quote: | In response to Levi Johnston's statement to Joy Behar that he's "never seen a gay guy in Wasila," the town's gays have extended an invite to the Playgirl pin-up:
| Quote: | Perhaps you don't think you've seen us because you don't know what we look like: We look like Alaskans. Really.
Did you expect us to shop at the Wasilla Fred Meyer looking like Adam Lambert at the AMA's? Did you expect us to kiss in line at Home Depot? We have strong survival instincts and know better than to look, act, or talk queeny in a town like this. You might not know we're gay, but I'm sure you've seen us.
We live here and shop here and work here. We even have a Mat-Su LGBT Community Center in Palmer and hosted Wasilla's first drag show fundraiser at the Best Western on Lake Lucille. We have all kinds of jobs, including work you probably don't think of as gay. We raise children and run dogs, gather round the bonfire, barbeque in the summer and shoot off fireworks in the winter. Some of us go to church, but not the anti-gay churches. We keep a low profile because of people like this Wasilla pastor who says we're the anti-christ... and the people who like Sarah.
We do appreciate the way you keep reminding everyone that she's a liar. She tried to use you, to control you, but you stood up for yourself and forged a different path. Good for you. Hopefully, the rest of the country will see through her lies and choose a different path as well.
If you ever want to meet the local gays, come join us for drag queening down at the ... well, we'd better meet in Anchorage at Mad Myrna's, we don't want any trouble from the local yahoos. You're not a gay icon in Alaska, but you're sure to get a warm welcome at Myrna's.
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Tehanu
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Lordie. Sarah Palin is coming to Hamilton for $200,000. As a fundraiser for two hospitals.
Great. I look forward to hearing what ignorant crap she'll spew about Canadian health care while they scramble to come up with her speaker's fee.
| Quote: | Sarah Palin who shook up the 2008 U.S. election when she was picked to be the vice-presidential candidate by John McCain, is to attend a fundraiser for two Hamilton hospitals on April 15.
... Palin will speak at a fundraiser for the Juravinski Cancer Centre and St. Peter's Hospital. Organizers hope to sell 1,000 tickets at $200 a plate, but raise more via photos with her.
Reports say Palin makes $200,000 a speech, which [organizer Gabe] Macaluso says is "around the ballpark." |
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Wait, what?
1000 tickets at $200 a plate, that's $200,000 not counting expenses of which there are plenty. Palin takes $200,000 of that for standing in front of the crowd saying stupid things. How much then is supposedly left for the hospital? Sounds like they've got a good chance of taking a loss on the deal.
All that and they have to live down a situation that's kind of like inviting Pope Rat to give a talk at Planned Parenthood. |
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Dimitrios Makropoulos
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Was The Star taken over by The Onion?
Certainly someone has sold out to somebody.
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| Rufus Polson wrote: | Wait, what?
1000 tickets at $200 a plate, that's $200,000 not counting expenses of which there are plenty. Palin takes $200,000 of that for standing in front of the crowd saying stupid things. How much then is supposedly left for the hospital? Sounds like they've got a good chance of taking a loss on the deal.
All that and they have to live down a situation that's kind of like inviting Pope Rat to give a talk at Planned Parenthood. |
That's what I was thinking. That just does not make sense.
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Screw the economics, I just want to know how this decision was made in the face of irony so monumental. Did somebody suggest it as a joke, and somebody else (who lives under a rock and has no clue who Palin is) didn't get the joke and went ahead and booked her? Is Dimitrios right (welcome, by the way!  ) and somebody got bought out? Will Ron Paul be coming to speak at a rally in support of socialist government? |
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Tehanu
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Welcome Dimitrios!
I think that's a thought ... maybe someone hacked the Torstar website?
I want to know who will cover the costs if they do lose money on the deal (and yes, simple math shows the chances are good). They say they're going to sell opportunities to have your picture taken with her **shudder** but really, how many pics at how much each? |
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Dimitrios Makropoulos
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| Quote: | Backlash boots Palin from hospital fundraising
HAMILTON, Ont. - Sarah Palin has been given the boot as a celebrity fundraiser for hospitals in Hamilton, Ont., but she will come to town raise money for a local children’s charity instead.
Palin has brought the American health care debate to Canada and it is causing a storm of controversy as concerned hospital supporters have protested her appearance to raise money for two local institutions in April.
The former vice-presidential candidate was supposed to speak at a fund-raising event for the Juravinski Cancer Centre and St. Peter’s Hospital in Hamilton. But a backlash of negative publicity cancelled those plans.
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Fortunately for children’s’ groups in Hamilton, local business leaders were able to re-direct the Palin appearance so that the Charity of Hope group would be the beneficiary of the event, said Sam Mercanti, chairman of the charity and CEO of Automotive Canada.
“It’s official - she’s going to come here and the monies raised will go towards the Charity of Hope,” Mercanti said.
The Charity of Hope raises funds for local kids on behalf of school boards, YMCAs, youth groups and other institutions that benefit children.
“My opinion is if she’s going to come to Hamilton and speak here, why not have her? You have to park the politics when it comes to helping people,” Mercanti said.
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Oh dear! Where can one get rotten tomatoes at this time of year?
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Bristol Sues Levi For Custody
| Quote: | Sarah Palin's whore daughter is suing her baby daddy for custody of their bastard son. And the Palins didn't want anybody to know about it.
| Quote: | A Dec. 23 order from Judge Kari C. Kristiansen denied Palin's motion to close the proceedings and opened the case file to public access, while an order issued the same day by Presiding Judge Sharon Gleason denied Palin's request to use John and Jane Doe in place of Johnston's and her own real names. On Nov. 4, Palin filed for sole custody of Tripp Johnston-Palin, the former couple's son, who celebrates his first birthday today. Kristiansen initially issued temporary orders limiting access to the case file and allowing the parties to file under pseudonyms. Johnston wasn't playing along, however. In an opposition to Palin's motion for a gag order, Johnston's attorney, Rex Butler, said: "Simply put, this matter is public in nature, the courts are not refuges for the scions of the elite to obtain private dispensation of their legal matters because the public at large has an interest in the proceedings."
There's another factor in the mix, of course: Palin's mother, former governor Sarah Palin, with whom Johnston has repeatedly locked horns in the press, and from whom he claims to fear retaliation. "I do not feel protected against Sarah Palin in a closed proceeding," Johnston said in an affidavit accompanying Butler's filings. "I hope that if it is open she will stay out of it. ... I think a public case might go a long way in reducing Sarah Palin's instinct to attack and allow the real parties in this litigation, Bristol and I, to work things out a lot more peacefully than we could if there is any more meddling from Sarah Palin." |
You know this is the Rogue One's doing, retaliating against Levi for those horrible, totally true, things he's said about her. |
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| I don't like Sarah Palin, and I don't like that her daughter is doing the abstinence-only preaching circuit, but I also don't like the characterization of her in that quote. Ick! |
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Hephaestion
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Yeah, I thought that too... what's wrong with whores?! (Or "bastards", for that matter?)
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