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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Palin: The Fumes Of Culture War Hell
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@RIVanessa http://bit.ly/72ETQA *urk* 12/9/2009 |
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Best analysis of the Sarah Palin phenomenon I've read http://bit.ly/72ETQA 12/8/2009 |
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Another instructive piece from Matt Taibbi on the #palin tour http://bit.ly/72ETQA #tcot #uspoli #p2 #ocra #tlot #pukeworthy 12/8/2009 |
[A] Seemingly Endless Parade of Meanies
Rising Hegemon —
Matt Taibbi has an interesting perspective on Sarah Palin and her bestseller.
Midday open thread
Daily Kos —
James Fallows, in a post entitled Manufactured Failure, hits the Washington press hard on how purely awful its coverage was of President Obama's trip to Asia, how uniformly negative it was compared with the actual reporting in China. Matt Taibbi deconstructs Sarah Palin: 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 ...
Palin: The Fumes Of Culture War Hell
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Matt Taibbi shares the Dish's desire to have politics be about arguments about solutions to emergent problems. He's not unaware that the culture war has helped prevent this, which is the core reason I supported Obama in 2007. But Taibbi sees Palin as a kind of anti-matter to Obama's matter. And he's dead on: ...
Matt Taibbi explains why the media won't stop talking Palin
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
http://trueslant.com/matttaibb...
In a bizarre way this is the most optimistic Taibbi piece I've ever read. He does an awesome job of explaining exactly what the fascination with the 'Cuda is.
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
Taibblog: 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.
The Political Carnival: 1,500 uninsured Arkansans line up for free health care clinic...Bill Clinton too chicken sh*t to attend
Alan Colmes' Liberaland: Colorado billboard paints Obama as a Muslim jihadist
The Reality-Based Community: Madison's Revenge
The Aristocrats: Sandy gets a peek at the Palin ...
JJ and More
John Deeth Blog —
... to them (or, more likely, awkwardly ignoring them), but fair play in primaries can save you headaches down the road. Of course, the IDP's history on that front is less than noble. The Register also reports "Obama Below 50% Approval," but a closer look shows 49-44 with 7 percent undecided. Basically that means the McCain voters disapprove. As for that seven percent, considering the alternative... Speaking of which, of the infinite takes on Palin this week, Matt Taibbi has one of the fresher ones: Listen to Rush any day of the week and you’ll ...
‘IQ OF A CELERY STALK?’ WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT ONE?
Right Wing Nut House —
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” - Voltaire. Matt Taibbi this morning: At the end of this decade what we call “politics” has devolved into a kind of ongoing, brainless soap opera about dueling cultural resentments and the really cool thing about it, if you’re a TV news producer or a talk radio host, is that you can build the next day’s news cycle meme around pretty much anything at all, no matter how irrelevant — like who’s wearing a flag lapel pin and who isn’t, who spent $150K worth of campaign funds on clothes and who didn’t, who wore a t-shirt calling someone a ...
Culture Wars
Suburban Guerrilla —
If you’re looking for something to read today, Taibbi has some good insights.
Bowing to the Hive Mentality
The Moderate Voice —
... There’s one person among the wretched, wriggling masses of the political blogosphere whom I clearly do not read often enough, and that’s Matt Taibbi. ( ...
Too little, too late
The Sideshow —
... I mostly try to avoid writing about Sarah Palin and any of the other just-plain-crazy that some individuals on the far right might be up to. The only thing that makes these subjects worthy of mention is not how empty or loony it is, but how the corporate media is in love with talking about all this emptiness and getting all a-tingle over her and them and it. So it makes sense that Matt Taibbi's article about Palin's book is really about the public "debate": The really beautiful thing about the culture war, from an entertainment standpoint, is that it is fundamentally ...
Will the circle be unbroken?
Balloon Juice —
It’s not every day that I say this, but I think Matt Taibbi and Nate Silver are both fundamentally wrong about Sarah Palin. Lady Starburst will not be the Republican nominee and she is not a “supremely gifted politician”, because she is not a politician at all anymore. She’s a huckster. She’s not about changing Washington or the Republican party or any grand cause other than herself. Her current book and the way it is being promoted is perfectly calculated to sell books and not all calculated to get herself elected president. ...
Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... 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 ‘f**k’ 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!)… “She is the country’s first WWE politician — a cartoon combatant who inspires stadiums full of frustrated middle ...
Sunday Late Night: Stop. The. Palinsanity*
Firedoglake —
... out, won’t you please? My first step is admitting I have a problem. Another is finding a supportive community that shares my shame. Let’s stop, together, shall we? Let’s exorcise her from our lives. Let’s leave her behind, together, all of us. We’ll all be better for it, and at least until the GOP signs a national suicide pact in 2012 by nominating her, so will America.
Join me, won’t you?
* Palinsanity h/t Matt Taibbi. Make this your last Sarah Palin click, I have!
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Coming Soon to a Country Near You?
Discourse.net —
... There's a lot that rings true in the broad-brush parts Matt Tabbi's latest screed although I take exception to the most vicious bits, like the line about Palin “having the brains of an innertube.” ...
Look on These Jerks, Ye Spite-y, and Despair
I Am TRex —
(Via Jezebel)
These are truly dark times for the conservative movement. It’s like Taibbi says:
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 ...
The Persecution Complex of Sarah Palin
The American Prospect Articles —
... the act can be taken too far. Which brings us to the brightest star in the GOP firmament, former Alaska governor and current public relations colossus Sarah Palin. More than anyone else in politics, Palin is tethered firmly to the ground by her constant accumulation of petty grievances. In this habit, you can see the quality her fans love most about her -- she's just like them! Ask her who she is, and she'll tell you whom she's mad at. As Rolling Stone 's Matt Taibbi recently noted , "Complaining about the assholes we interact with on a daily basis is the #1 eternal pastime ...
Mike Elk: My Grandmother Takes a Stand for Gay Marriage in Church Despite Being a Glenn Beck Follower
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As Matt Taibbi notes in his must-read piece "Sarah Palin - WWE Star," about the soap operatization of politics via cable news: ...
Mike Elk: My Grandmother Takes a Stand for Gay Marriage in Church Despite Loving Glenn Beck
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As Matt Taibbi notes in his must-read piece "Sarah Palin - WWE Star," about the soap operatization of politics via cable news: ...
Can we break the Right's chokehold on the
DownWithTyranny! —
... faces that fight the Ivy League liberal-elite stereotypes. Glenn Beck and his followers attack liberals as being out-of-touch Ivy League elitists, neglecting to mention that most prominent conservatives are also Ivy Leaguers. We respond by calling the other side "stupid" in cable news sound byte clips, and they respond back at us by calling us "elitists"; this quickly devolves into an endless series of glorified name calling. As Matt Taibbi notes in his must-read piece "Sarah Palin - WWE Star," about the soap operatization of politics via cable news: ...
