{"id":1105,"date":"2011-01-10T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:26:31","slug":"its-sarahs-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1105","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin’s Brave New World"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago while still feeling the sting of Obama’s “tax compromise” with the Republicans*, I made this comment over at Wonkette<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If only it were possible for someone, a persuasive speech-maker perhaps, someone with the type of communication and narrative skills that would propel him or her to high office, to explain to the American people over some kind mass communication device that they are being royally screwed by the Republicans who are clearly working in the best interest of billionaires and not those of millions of working people. Perhaps they could hire Sarah Palin to do the job<\/em>?<\/p>\n

My tongue was of course firmly planted in my cheek.\u00a0 No one on the left will ever come up with enough cash to equal Palin’s compensation as a right-wing demagogue.\u00a0\u00a0 But I wasn’t kidding about her communication skilz.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter that she makes up words and can’t string a sentence together.\u00a0 She’s like a bestselling author whose trashy tales are bought by millions of people who don’t normally read books.\u00a0 Obama might give “better” speeches, but more people read Dan Brown than Cormac McCarthy.<\/p>\n

The gunman may be a lone nut with no Tea Party affiliation, but he certainly has absorbed the messages put out by the lunatic-right\u00a0 —\u00a0 (1) we are being taken over by the forces of darkness (2) there are plans to change the currency and the only true currency is the gold standard (3) the government take over includes “Death Panels” (4) Obama is a foreign usurper, not a natural born citizen; thus the entire government has no legitimate claim.<\/p>\n

Not only have right wing politicians and pundits put these ideas into the air, they have also offered solutions, such as failed-Senate candidate Sharon Angle’s suggestion that “second amendment remedies” are a possibility if the ballot box doesn’t do the trick.\u00a0 Sarah Palin infamous “crosshairs” map “targeted” Congressional districts including Gifford’s.\u00a0 Palin’s spokesperson, Rebecca Mansour has stated that there was no connection to guns in the use of crosshairs, but to “surveyor’s maps,” an assertion that is not only absurd on its face, but contradicted by Palin’s own words to her followers, “Don’t retreat. Reload.”<\/p>\n

People have the right to put out these messages, but usually it was people on the fringe talking this craziness.\u00a0 These were not ideas endorsed by former major party candidates for the vice presidency\u00a0 The fact that a major television network on which political leaders often appear promotes these ideas as well,\u00a0 is also something we haven’t seen before.<\/p>\n

To pretend that this isn’t a change, is naive.\u00a0 To believe that this isn’t a deliberate attempt to mislead and frighten people is to bury one’s head in the sand.\u00a0 To think that putting all this in the air won’t lead a few of the more frightened and less rational to act violently is to deny reality and history. \u00a0This wasn’t the first event of its kind over the past year, simply the most dramatic.**<\/p>\n

Rallies will not restore sanity.\u00a0 If responsible leaders in the conservative movement had the courage to speak up, maybe they could help. The new Speaker of The House refuses to deal with the “birthers” in his own delegation, insisting he has no right to tell people what to think.\u00a0 So they will continue to say aloud that the President is a foreign usurper who stole his office, and so will television personalities on Fox News.\u00a0 Eventually, of course some lunatic who has listened and absorbed the message, will attempt a “second amendment remedy,” while Palin, Beck and all the birthers will deny that their words had any impact.<\/p>\n

Some people are proclaiming that the “smoking gun” of the crosshairs map, has finished Palin.\u00a0 They are wrong.\u00a0 She’s far from finished.\u00a0 TLC may have cancelled Palin’s reality show and the map has disappeared, but her supporters are now playing the victim card, accusing liberals and the “gotcha” media of viciously attacking her by linking her to Saturday’s events.\u00a0 Any rational debate on whether or not words are dangerous is now considered a left-wing attempt to malign a true American.\u00a0 Her Faceback supporters comment on the liberal haters who are trying to “politicize” a tragedy.\u00a0 The Wall Street Journal*** <\/em>has weighed in with an opinion piece in which the writer labels criticism of Palin “blood libel.”\u00a0 So the mere suggestion that Palin might want to rethink her rhetoric, is akin to medieval Christian villagers killing Jews who they accused of sacrificing Christian children?<\/p>\n

Palin was never going to have enough popular support to win a general election, but with Rupert Murdoch’s behind her, her power and influence will continue to grow.\u00a0 She is a raging fire, burning everything in her path.<\/p>\n

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\n*This was before the lame-duck Congress managed to get a lot of stuff done and it became apparent that the administration did in fact have a strategy, even if it involved skyrocketing the deficit.\u00a0 Why does Obama always make me feel like an abused spouse who gets flowers the day after a smack down?<\/p>\n

**Last August during the height of the anti-mosque rhetoric, a Moslem taxi driver was slashed by a drunken passenger.\u00a0 Other incidents happened in mosques throughout the country.\u00a0 Gifford’s office had previously had a window busted in.\u00a0 Other congressional representatives and senators have also received threats due to votes on “Obamacare.”<\/p>\n

***The Wall Street Journal<\/em> is now under the ownership of Rubert Murdoch who also owns the right-wing cable station Fox News which features her as a pundit.\u00a0 Murdoch also controls Harper Collins, her publisher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago while still feeling the sting of Obama’s “tax compromise” with the Republicans*, I made this comment over at Wonkette: If only it were possible for someone, a persuasive speech-maker perhaps, someone with the type of communication and narrative skills that would propel him or her to high office, to explain to … Continue reading Sarah Palin’s Brave New World<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,105],"tags":[275,273,270,274,240,271,272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}