With Sarah Palin's new book in the news, people are commenting on her. As with all people who thrust themselves into the limelight, some comments are flattering and some less so.
Palin's former running mate, John McCain, has recently stated that he has never seen such animosity towards a person as what he has seen towards Palin.
Really? More vicious than the joke McCain himself told about Chelsea Clinton?
More vicious than the following comment left by readers of this article?
Note that the comments has five stars after receiving eight votes.
By why stop there? How about declarations of treason?
Another five star rating after receiving multiple votes.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the recent news of an offensive photoshopped picture of First Lady Michelle Obama. The blatantly racist photo grafts the features of an ape onto Michelle Obama's face. In an article about that image the following comments were made:
Sadly, all of those hateful comments received five star ratings, too.
Vicious racism towards the Obama family isn't new. Back in January I gave examples of this behavior.
Of course, various declarations of treason aren't new either. I have written about those previously, too.
In an article about the use of Psalm 109:8 to threaten Obama, AOL ran a poll asking if it was offensive....and 51% believe it isn't offensive.
51% of people polled claiming that using a bible verse to threaten the President is not offensive. Wouldn't that count as pretty vicious?
How about these two comments from that same AOL article?
Yep. Two more five star ratings.
Speaking of the threatening prayer that 51% of AOL readers didn't find offensive, there were these two comments in an article about Obama's visit to Asia:
How about the following comment from an article about an SNL sketch which not only threatens Obama, but makes an overt threat to every Democrat:
That one has a five star rating after 80 votes. That seems kinda vicious. And 80 people agreed with it...which is really scary.
How about the following comment from this article which wasn't even a political or news site:
Would that count as vicious, Mr. McCain? Personally, I think racism is vicious. Maybe we differ on that. I think hating the President because of the color of his skin and/or because of his political affiliation is pretty vicious. I think racist attacks against the President's wife are pretty darn vicious. Far more so than teasing an ex-governor for being completely ineffective during her campaign for Vice President.
An example:
When the candidate for Vice President has no idea what the Bush Doctrine is and instead rambles semi-coherently about terrorists and freedom...yeah...someone is probably going to make fun of her.
Which is a very different thing than calling the First Lady an ape. Very different than praying for the death of the sitting President. Very different than calling for armed revolt against the President.
But McCain thinks that he has never seen anything as vicious as the treatment Sarah Palin has received. Not in all his years in politics.
Palin's former running mate, John McCain, has recently stated that he has never seen such animosity towards a person as what he has seen towards Palin.
“I’m entertained and sometimes a little angry when I see this constant, vicious attacks by people on the left,” McCain said of Palin during an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren.
“’I’ve never seen anything like it in all the years that I’ve been in politics,” McCain continued, “the viciousness and the personalization of the attacks on Sarah Palin.”
Really? More vicious than the joke McCain himself told about Chelsea Clinton?
More vicious than the following comment left by readers of this article?
Note that the comments has five stars after receiving eight votes.
By why stop there? How about declarations of treason?
Another five star rating after receiving multiple votes.
I'm sure most of you are familiar with the recent news of an offensive photoshopped picture of First Lady Michelle Obama. The blatantly racist photo grafts the features of an ape onto Michelle Obama's face. In an article about that image the following comments were made:
Sadly, all of those hateful comments received five star ratings, too.
Vicious racism towards the Obama family isn't new. Back in January I gave examples of this behavior.
Of course, various declarations of treason aren't new either. I have written about those previously, too.
In an article about the use of Psalm 109:8 to threaten Obama, AOL ran a poll asking if it was offensive....and 51% believe it isn't offensive.
51% of people polled claiming that using a bible verse to threaten the President is not offensive. Wouldn't that count as pretty vicious?
How about these two comments from that same AOL article?
Yep. Two more five star ratings.
Speaking of the threatening prayer that 51% of AOL readers didn't find offensive, there were these two comments in an article about Obama's visit to Asia:
How about the following comment from an article about an SNL sketch which not only threatens Obama, but makes an overt threat to every Democrat:
That one has a five star rating after 80 votes. That seems kinda vicious. And 80 people agreed with it...which is really scary.
How about the following comment from this article which wasn't even a political or news site:
Would that count as vicious, Mr. McCain? Personally, I think racism is vicious. Maybe we differ on that. I think hating the President because of the color of his skin and/or because of his political affiliation is pretty vicious. I think racist attacks against the President's wife are pretty darn vicious. Far more so than teasing an ex-governor for being completely ineffective during her campaign for Vice President.
An example:
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?
PALIN: His world view.
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
When the candidate for Vice President has no idea what the Bush Doctrine is and instead rambles semi-coherently about terrorists and freedom...yeah...someone is probably going to make fun of her.
Which is a very different thing than calling the First Lady an ape. Very different than praying for the death of the sitting President. Very different than calling for armed revolt against the President.
But McCain thinks that he has never seen anything as vicious as the treatment Sarah Palin has received. Not in all his years in politics.
1 comments:
While it's unfortunate to have to continually expend our energy in laying out, in the simplest of terms, so simple that even the least conscious among us should be able to discern; the ultimate futility of the fear based life people like McCain and Palin operate in and profit from. But, what else can we do but keep doing it?
nice job of doing that here.
kim g.
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