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CBC writer Heather Mallick makes a particularly uncharitable assault on Sarah Palin.

Full Text Part 1
A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention
Heather Mallick
CBC.ca
September 5, 2008
I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.

So why do it?

It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman. They're unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.

But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I'm a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.

Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn't even female really. She's a type, and she comes in male form too.

John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I'd had the wit to come up with it first. It's safer than "white trash" but I'll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.

Doyle's job includes watching a lot of reality television and he's well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that's something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.

Part II
'Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am'

Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pramface." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a fuckin' redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter?

I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don't the Palins? I'm not the one preaching homespun values but I'd destroy that ratboy before I'd let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin's e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am.

Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won't dwell on them.

I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn't have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo.

They were indistinguishable. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potato's in the Paddy Wagon?

Who delivered this line: "To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will." Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palin's shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?

The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that's the mystery of the hick vote. They'd be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What's the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.

for Part III visit http://www.heathermallick.ca/cbc.ca-c...

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youngian67 (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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Is that the poshest man in Canada?
Even the queen doesn't speak like that.

Anyway Fox News staff are biggest bunch of cocks to grace the airways.

Erivah (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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Wow that woman is angry.........

Erivah (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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I commented before I watched the full video. This reporter is speaking out of her ass. Canada's most right wing party is more left wing than the democrats (the left wing organization of the US). How is this "disturbing to the citizens of Canada"?

Did it actually shock *anyone* up here? lol

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haha For all the whining they did about these comments when they were first said, the Republicans eventually started repeating many of the exact same points (especially about Levi) when Palin resigned as governor a few months back.

meroclovis (3 months ago) Show Hide

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Fox News is anti Canadian

integral (3 months ago) Show Hide

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God damn! Fox is such as bad joke of a "news" organization.

chadsexinton (3 months ago) Show Hide

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FOX = FAIL.

TEAMCANADA1 (5 months ago) Show Hide

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Fox should just realize that Canadians aren't as gullible as Americans and when we call someone out, usually it's for good reason. Sarah Palin doesn't know anything about anything and many Americans are voting for her to become something of influence...oh brother

San47di (5 months ago) Show Hide

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Now aren't you pleased to know that all Americans are NOT gullible backwards and stupid? LOL President Obama is doing exactly what we've elected him to do; Promote peace (his speech in the MidEast yesterday), lead us thru this economic crisis, bring respect and integrity back to our leadership, promote education, etc... Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in centuries, and we are exstremely Proud of him!

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the only thing better would b if some crazy person helped the palin family have a big tragic group accident that took care of all of them

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