I don’t twitter. But if I did, the first thing I’d twit would be just that. Future ex-Governor Sarah doesn’t seem to know when to just shut up. We’ve all touched on this before. Knowing when to keep quiet is an essential communication skill. It mark’s maturity. It’s smart.
Just under a year ago Sarah Palin was launched into all of our lives. John McCain proffered her as the Darling of the Republican Party. Smart. Witty. Progressive. Hard-working. Dedicated. A small part of the population embraced her straight away. It only took a bare few weeks for the rest of us to realize we were watching the birth of a train wreck.
When Sarah Palin, at a public rally, called for John Q. Public to get behind McCain and the Republican Party, claiming Barack Obama to be anti_American and that he palled around with terrorists, we have on video the ignorant response of ‘kill him’ coming from the crowd. A normal person would have taken a mental step back and reworded her next sentence to quell the building hostility. Sarah Palin instead lowered her head, smirked, then raised her head and loudly repeated her unsubstantiated, racist cries, deliberately fuelling a dangerous fire.
When Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin questions she could not immediately answer, (hard questions like ‘what newspapers do you read?’) a mature person would have just named any paper, made a quick blonde joke out of not being able to recall a title off the top and let the subject naturally change. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, dismissed the question as unfair, then ridiculed, belittled and besmirched Ms. Couric for months after, accusing her of conducting unethical journalistic practices, and sabotaging her campaign. To this day, almost a year and a hundred other reporters later, Ms.Couric continues to be the lead target in Sarah Palin’s war on the media.
When Andre McCleod lodged the first ethics complaint against the Alaska governor, instead of just giving her the documents requested – documents which, according to statements made by the Governor herself would completely exonerate her office of any wrong-doing – and letting the complaint run it’s course, Sarah Palin hemmed and hawed, demanding one continuation after another making various public statements discrediting the former employee. Another politician would have bent over backwards to handle the affair as quickly and quietly as possible.
I could write twelve more pages of examples without stopping to think and still have stacks more in the bin, but for the moment I’ve had enough. Her Facebook letter explaining her actions on Friday last has made front page news here in Australia and it sickens me that the only version going to print is her own personal fairy-tale, not the actual events as they occurred or any version even close to the truth.
Shannyn Moore, an Alaskan blogger, radio talk-show host and frequent guest on television news shows like MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, is the governor’s newest stepping stone on her path to the White House using the strategy of who do I need to make wrong to make me look right. Through her top-gun solicitor, Mr. Something Van Flein, Sarah Palin made the erroneous claim that Ms. Moore, over the weekend, on a televised news program and in her personal blog presented local speculation as to the reasons behind the Governor’s recent resignation as ‘fact’. She’s sicked her over-paid, under-informed legal team on Ms. Moore in an effort to silence the political journo. (Click on any blog link to the right for full details.)
Shannyn Moore, along with dozens of other citizens both in Alaska and the lower 48, spent much of the 24 hours following Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement talking with each other in a quest to make sense of what appears to be the weirdest move of Palin’s political career. Rumours flew in every direction. Alaskan bloggers email boxes were packed with inquiries. Servers crashed over at The Mudflats from the sudden and intense amount of traffic. Everyone outside Alaska assumed that anyone inside Alaska would have a better persepctive and a clue.
The problem the legal team of Palin Hollers & I Jump is going to have, though, is really rather fatal to rising star attorneys. Their call to cease and desist is based upon an erroneous claim that, well, to be blunt… is erroneous. And they’re making these preliminary accusations at the top of their lungs so there won’t be any wiggle room for do-overs or claims of misunderstanding.
Oops.
Shannyn Moore has written and video-taped proof positive (along with many thousands of eye-witnesses) that she never claimed her report of local rumours and conjecture was anything but – a report on local rumours and conjecture. Oh and she added her own personal opinion. Which, by the way, was clearly prefaced with “and this is my opinion…”
So it would seem the same First Amendment Right which has allowed Sarah Palin to entertain us all with her unique brand of truth-twisting nonsensical gibberish about her life and how the greatest nation on the planet should operate… is not extended by the Palin Party to Shannyn Moore because… why again? Oh yes I remember. Shannyn didn’t embrace her Governor’s latest public display of mega-amentia.
Were a twitterer, Sarah’d be getting this from me right about now -
Sarah Palin: Shut The Fuck Up
To comment on this post please scroll back to the above title SP: STFU and click the word comments just beneath - Thanks, OzMud
July 6, 2009 at 11:53 pm
I, too, am infuriated by the way the media simply prints Palin’s self-assessment and lies as facts. One that drove me nuts yesterday was “Palin isn’t comfortable playing the victim.” I wanted to scream. Pay attention people! She’s either playing the victim, or stabbing someone in the back after smiling in their face.
July 7, 2009 at 7:49 am
Sarah thought she could pull wool over the eyes of enough people so that she and McCain could end up in the White House. She under-estimated her skills. They worked fine in Wasilla and in greater Alaska, but not at the national level. Once she began giving interviews, the jig was up where most women were concerned. Personally, I objected to her out-right lies and hypocrisy, and reasoned she was willing to do anything to win the election, She thought that billing herself as Christian, focused on family values, and a fiscal conservative would cancel out how mean and vindictive she really is.
Shortly after she appeared on the national scene, I began researching her political history which led me to AKM, Shannyn Moore, Gryphen, Celtic Diva, and other Alaskan progressive web sites. I wanted to know what the people on the ground thought of Palin, and what I discovered led me to believe she’d be a cancer on America should she wind up in the WH.
She is extremely disappointed that the majority of Americans refused to be hoodwinked and vote for her last November. The really unbelievable thing is that she thinks she still has a shot at being POTUS. Palin has a record of quitting public office. She quit the Wasilla City Council, the job of mayor in Wasilla, the petroleum board membership, and now governor.
Many of her supporters are searching for any reason to excuse her resigning the office of governor. They and Sarah Palin eserve each other because both play the blame game. Someone else is always the cause of their failure.
I will never like the idea of either Palin or McCain being POTUS because, as an African American, I cannot erase from my memory the hatred and divisiveness they stirred up during the presidential campaign. I will also never forget how their actions have brought forth new fissures in this society, causing people to die as a result of their evil words and inability to recognize that people are equal.
July 7, 2009 at 7:52 am
You voiced whats been bothering me! Not enough exposure of the REAL PALIN.Her dark side (very dark side)is hidden from most of the world.It never fails to amaze me when someone expresses disbelief about her real character.I wish they would start to get it.