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Post by kitkat on Nov 19, 2009 12:01:23 GMT -5
Palin won both the lottery and the Ms MILF USA beauty pageant (defacto). No wonder she's always smiling! Cripes, Todd retired at 45, they are multimillionaires overnight (no need to misappropriate construction labor & materials for their next home!), she gets to admire herself on the covers of national mags (and in the eyes of long lines of adoring fans) for another year or two or maybe three...what not to love for a former Ms Alaska contest also-ran? (Where is the women who beat her in 1984? A: Maryline Blackburn last was in the media spotlight in the DL Hughley show in oct '08--thanks to her association with Sarah Palin... ;D ) Palin obviously learned a lot from fish she has caught over the years....(fish being one of the most famously opportunistic of creatures and all that...) Ya know, just because this whole Palin affair reads like the script from Idiocracy II, doesn't mean that she didn't...well..WIN--in the end. ...lollers
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Post by john on Nov 19, 2009 12:15:20 GMT -5
You know, I love the movie Idiocracy.
That fact that it's prophetic is sad, though.
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Post by kitkat on Nov 19, 2009 14:11:52 GMT -5
But ya hafta wonder about Palin's attraction to people. It defies logic of course. But i have a theory (probably not original) that goes like this:
The media presents (creates/exploits?) alternatives to create 'teams' to create conflict to create viewership to create fans which create sales. This is media's way of making bank. So what teams do we have?
One is the dems/libs, once the underdogs, now the "establishment", the "official" team.
Two is the repubs, the "official opposition". Both team dem and team repub are elected establishment teams.
So who personifies the "outsider" team now? The "anti-gov't-like-we-had-for-years-that-got-us-into-this-mess" team? IOW, who has the "change" banner now that Obama and the dems have turned as politically stodgy & gray as a Nixon whitehouse??
Since the corp media would NEVER allow any real left figure to gain attention (except as an object of sport, like Nader), they reliably focus on a rightist alternative, which is:
Palin. (and Beck & Huckabee and Rush etc) Cause the media says so, that's why--they *choose* who gets their airtime and thus exposure. They create the alternative and there is just one choice, per usual. And the millions of dimbulbs in this country that derive virtually all of their political options from exactly and solely the mass media corp machine--which is busy shilling for "Palin the Outsider" personality/team/fanbase like there was no tomorrow--go exactly where they are directed to go.
Basically, don't like what the establishment gov't has been up to for the last 30 years? Well, here's your new change agent. One choice. That's it. You really can't blame the dumasses...most are not even aware enough to realize that there are alternatives,even alternatives that might actually match their class interests, rather than oppose those same interests. They just don't know any better. It is a case of ignorant outrage at ongoing gov't corruption that has been cynically shown just one release valve-- and that happens to be the far right one. The reason for this is pretty simple too, I think--the right, including the far right, always has lotsa cash (like most sociopaths, they thrive under capitalism)--to buy networks, finance media ventures etc---the far left is a bunch of penniless shifters in comparo, they have no "Murdoch's" and never will--cause egalitarians do *not* thrive under capitalism.
So you get a never ending line of right wing outsiders in juxtaposition to a center-right gov't, exactly as though the left side of the political spectrum just doesn't exist. Palin is just the latest iteration in a long line. This rightist misdirection/co-option of populist rage (which is more than justified in and of itself IMO) has developed into a mature artform in our political culture. It's all that's left.
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Post by john on Nov 19, 2009 14:18:33 GMT -5
I think it's simpler than that. The country is becoming dumb. The news, just like everything else, has been turned into a pre-chewed glop of contentless paste. Easily digestible and passed. The TV is essentially a straw. I think the slow death of the print media supports this.
People are pack mammals. As they grow dumber, they tend to gravitate towards other idiots. Someone has to be the lead moron.
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Post by jimschmidt on Nov 19, 2009 18:09:37 GMT -5
Well it is true that stupid people are an actual constituency group.
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Post by ty454 on Nov 19, 2009 20:46:10 GMT -5
I think it's simpler than that. The country is becoming dumb. The news, just like everything else, has been turned into a pre-chewed glop of contentless paste. Easily digestible and passed. The TV is essentially a straw. I think the slow death of the print media supports this. People are pack mammals. As they grow dumber, they tend to gravitate towards other idiots. Someone has to be the lead moron. This is why mammals are a failing species. You don't see reptiles herding around. Except for birds, and you know what happened to their nonavialan brethren...
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Post by john on Nov 19, 2009 23:29:26 GMT -5
This is why mammals are a failing species. You don't see reptiles herding around. That's because they get sick of each other molting all over the place and the tail envy is almost suffocating.
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Post by baldheadeddork on Nov 20, 2009 0:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by jimschmidt on Nov 20, 2009 13:14:57 GMT -5
Snerk.
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Post by rocky4948 on Nov 20, 2009 13:24:48 GMT -5
To add to the MILF comment, do people really entertain the idea that it would be cool to jerk off to thoughts of a President? I thought I heard on FOX that we all do that about Obama. Don't surprise me at all. Palin or Obama to fantasize about, who you pickin Jimmy
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Post by jimschmidt on Nov 20, 2009 15:05:54 GMT -5
I thought I heard on FOX that we all do that about Obama. Don't surprise me at all. Palin or Obama to fantasize about, who you pickin Jimmy Not even a contest. Palin is as icky as snail trail.
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Post by bigbadboom on Nov 20, 2009 15:08:40 GMT -5
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Post by rocky4948 on Nov 20, 2009 15:11:25 GMT -5
Don't surprise me at all. Palin or Obama to fantasize about, who you pickin Jimmy Not even a contest. Palin is as icky as snail trail. Well you don't waver on this subject I'll give that to you.
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Post by will on Nov 20, 2009 16:11:07 GMT -5
Not even a contest. Palin is as icky as snail trail. Well you don't waver on this subject I'll give that to you. There's no reason to waver. Palin is revolting in all ways.
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Post by trash on Nov 20, 2009 16:15:03 GMT -5
Triple. The dummy. Loved the face she made. Hilarius.
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