Playing Palin in the movie
It shouldn’t be Julianne Moore who is slated to play Palin in the movie: It should be Mariska Hargitay: [Hat tip: commenter at Althouse.]
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Where did Sarah Palin go wrong?
I’ve written a lot about the media and its vagaries and biases. So I suppose at this point nothing should surprise me. And yet it does. I must still retain a smidgen of the respect I once held for reporters/journalists … Continue reading →
Palinhate: gossip as news
In the summer of 1978 I traveled to Europe. My first stop was London, a place I’d never visited before. I was surprised at some things I found there. One was that in July the weather was really nice—sunny and … Continue reading →
Birthers of a different kind
Andrew Sullivan used to be the leader of the pack of those obsessed with the question of whether Sarah Palin actually gave birth to her son Trig, and under what circumstances. But now there appear to be other contenders. I … Continue reading →
In Wisconsin, Palin takes on…
…both the GOP and Obama. And she does it like nobody else. Some dummy, right?
Continue reading →Palin and WTF
You know, I just don’t regard Sarah Palin’s WTF as a big f-ing deal. [NOTE: It may be time to recycle this post.]
Continue reading →Palin and the battle for feminism
Kay Hymowitz has written an excellent piece for City Journal explaining one of the linchpins of female rage at Palin from the left: she is seen as a traitor to feminism. Although this may seem paradoxical, since Palin is a … Continue reading →
My summing-up of Palin-hatred for today
I’ve noticed and noticed in the comments here and elsewhere that many people ascribe a lot of the hatred of Palin among women—especially liberal women—to envy. Palins beautiful, Palin’s got it all, her husband’s a hottie, and so forth. I … Continue reading →
Taranto writes the primer on Palinoia
I’ve probably written at least 100,000 words trying to explain Palin-hatred. The rest of the right side of the blogosphere has babbled on and on in the same attempt. But James Taranto explains it all, elegantly and succinctly, here. Absolutely … Continue reading →
Meet the new, kinder, gentler Andrew Sullivan
I don’t like to link to Sullivan, so I’ll link instead to Ann Althouse’s post about him, which alerted me to the following passage representing his new attempt to talk about his béªte noire Sarah Palin while taking the high … Continue reading →
Palin and the press
Ross Douthat thinks the Palin/press war is a cycle of violence. He appears to equate the perpetration of baseless attacks with defending oneself against them; they both keep that cycle going, don’t they? Best to turn the other cheek in … Continue reading →
Palin and the blood libel revisited
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach thinks that Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel” was both appropriate and justified. I said it was, from the start. I also have made it clear that I believe she knew full well what the … Continue reading →