Canadian journalist compares Palin to porn actress and white trash

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The sad part about this is the Canadians have a better idea of what's going on than many Americans.

Hear, hear.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

This still does not answer the question of why we should care about what a Canadian journalist thinks about Sarah Palin..

He was mean to her. And she's so cute, you just wanna fuc...I mean hug her!

[SpiritAlight 1]

The sad part about this is the Canadians have a better idea of what's going on than many Americans.

Hear, hear.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This still does not answer the question of why we should care about what a Canadian journalist thinks about Sarah Palin..

He was mean to her. And she's so cute, you just wanna fuc...I mean hug her!

I think I prefer the Russian psycho guy - who sounds like he would like nothing better than to drive his todger nuts deep into Russia's nuclear arsenal.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Like we need to even be concerned about a pissant country like Canada anyway.

I do agree that Palin is a MILF and a soon to be GILF.

[rebeccajo 14]

It's on op-ed piece. Don't get too excited about it.

Besides, I don't see the harm in pointing out that women ARE going to be overly-critical of another woman. It's what we do.

[Emancipation 2]

Like we need to even be concerned about a pissant country like Canada anyway.

how enlightened of you to say...

[pedroh 21]

a 'pissant' country whose dollar is worth more than ours..

[metta 0]

OK its vitriolic to say the least. But why does anyone care what a columnist in Canada writes about political candidates in the US?

I don't see it as coming from a Canadian journalist but from a a liberal feminist journalist who for all her education (M.A. Eng. Lit)is so filled with hate and bile. She sounds a more unrestrained version of Maureen Dowd.

here is an opinion that very truly reflects mine.

Something About Sarah

Jay Nordlinger

Earlier this morning, I wrote that the attacks on Governor Palin — particularly the breaking into her e-mail — were making me sick. (Here.) One reader wrote, "I, too, have been feeling a physical revulsion over the Left's determination to destroy Sarah Palin, by any means necessary." That reader spoke for many.

One of them said, "What would be the general media reaction if Obama's e-mail were hacked and disseminated? It would be a lot stronger." That, too, is a common sentiment.

In my earlier post, I wondered whether Palin would be permanently stigmatized and caricatured — à la Bork, Quayle, and Thomas. Or would she escape the noose, like Reagan? Many readers thought she would — given her communication skills, and given the multiplicity of media now: We have websites, talk radio, etc.

Yes, but there were plenty of outlets in the 1980s and '90s. And no one's communication skills are better than Bork's or Thomas's. Quayle isn't bad, either — you don't rise that high in politics without knowing how to communicate.

Other readers said that Palin was finished, done: "I see that the polls have dramatically switched in Obama's favor within just one week. I guess that the Borking — the destruction — of this governor is complete." Another reader said, "I thought Sarah Palin would be a superstar. Now, she'll be nothing more than a national joke. The Republicans haven't fought back. The MSM has won."

Then there is continuing amazement over the sheer hatred that Palin has aroused: "I am almost 60 and come from Massachusetts. In all my years, I have never seen anything like this, and don't want to see it ever again. I have a friend who is both feminist and left-leaning. I asked her why they hate Palin so much. She said, 'Because she's had it all: family, career. And she did it without a man like Bill Clinton helping her. She did it on her own.'"

I have said it before: Hillary Clinton's husband was president of the United States. Sarah Palin's works the night shift in an oil field. Who is the feminist hero? Bien sûr.

I myself have a tale to relate. An episode left me kind of shaken, honestly. Last week, I was talking to a friend of mine — a very warm and humane woman. We've been friends for years. I had been away, and we hadn't talked politics — but then, we never do. We never had. She's a liberal, of course — virtually everyone here in NYC is. And I never, ever bring up politics (with pretty much anyone — not worth the trouble) (and, of course, I do it professionally).

But she said to me, out of the blue, "What do you think of Sarah Palin?" And while I was drawing breath to answer, she said, "I hate her."

That kind of took my breath away — because this friend of mine is no hater. But she said it with firm, horrible conviction. She said it with true emotion in her eyes. Frankly, I was too taken aback to reply, other than to say, "Well, my feeling is the exact opposite."

I can see how you might disagree with Governor Palin — she's a conservative, after all. I can see how you might find her unprepared even for the vice-presidency. But hate? Hate a woman who rose from a modest background to be governor of her state? Who is obviously a warm, civic-minded, talented mother of five?

Hate?

It must be abortion, religion, and culture. If she were pro-choice, went to a mainline church (only on Christmas and Easter), and didn't hunt, she'd be okay. At least less attacked. But then, she wouldn't be herself, would she?

I consider myself a very patriotic person, and I have been teased or damned all my life for my pro-American views — particularly in academic settings. But, I'm sorry, this is, in many ways, a sick country.

09/18 01:28 PM

Edited September 19, 2008 by metta

[Emancipation 2]

a 'pissant' country whose dollar is worth more than ours..

not any more my friend.. she's down to 0.93 USD as of yesterday.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Well... an MA in English Literature doesn't automatically make someone a nice person. All English Literature is good for is for reading books and figuring what's going on in the narrative.

But again if I'm not really surprised (or bothered) by this - consider that not only have we had months and months of dubious op-ed articles on pretty much everyone running in this election (some good, some utterly abominable). And don't forget, for example, that there were people on here who reviled Hillary Clinton as a communist long before she ever announced that she was running for the President.

Now Barack Obama - has been saddled with "the most left wing senator ever", just as John Kerry was in '04, and just as Hillary Clinton would have been if she'd won the nomination.

Edited September 19, 2008 by Paul Daniels

[pedroh 21]

a 'pissant' country whose dollar is worth more than ours..

not any more my friend.. she's down to 0.93 USD as of yesterday.

anyway I'd move there..

Edited September 19, 2008 by pedroh

[Peikko 1,575]

It seems clear from all these articles that the 'left' really genuinely hate Ms Palin (myself of course included) due to a mixture of jealousy (all women are jealous because she looks cute/sexy has a family and a career) and mysogeny (if you are a man, you hate Palin simply because she is a woman). I mean, we really couldn't find her a bizarre and foolhardy choice because of her lack of political substance and that she is prepared to stand and lie about her record, such as it is, with the continual rehash of the VP acceptance speach (thanks but no thanks my #######!) not to mention her affiliation to the evangelical christian movement and all the horrors that entails (I would have been equally disappointed had it been Huckabee).

[IAMX 3,055]

It seems clear from all these articles that the 'left' really genuinely hate Ms Palin (myself of course included) due to a mixture of jealousy (all women are jealous because she looks cute/sexy has a family and a career) and mysogeny (if you are a man, you hate Palin simply because she is a woman). I mean, we really couldn't find her a bizarre and foolhardy choice because of her lack of political substance and that she is prepared to stand and lie about her record, such as it is, with the continual rehash of the VP acceptance speach (thanks but no thanks my #######!) not to mention her affiliation to the evangelical christian movement and all the horrors that entails (I would have been equally disappointed had it been Huckabee).

Yeah, people are just women hating. Damn liberals trying to keep women down. It can't possibly do anything with it being one of the worst VP picks in my lifetime.

[metta 0]

OK its vitriolic to say the least. But why does anyone care what a columnist in Canada writes about political candidates in the US?

Well, I care because all the lefties of the world including guys like Andrew Sullivan, Gordon Brown, even Nigerian rebel group and Hamas have been declaring their endorsements for Barry and as if they consider themselves to be part of the voting constituencies of these United States of America.

No wonder Barack in his unguarded moments count

instead of 50