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going rouge!
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| gonna part ways with publius on this one (maybe) |
| posted by: horsebeater |
15:18 2.19.10 |
i have a hard time believing that the family guy is doing anything in a tasteful way, but assuming what publius says is correct, the problem here is that they're really doing this on two levels.
on one level, they get to show sarah palin's downs syndrome kid and get knumbknuts to say "dude ... family guy was totally making fun of sarah palin!" and on the other level they get to hide behind how they made the character sympathetic and have people make the argument publius makes above.
i was completely convinced i was right on this one, and then...
... i thought about dave chappelle. chappelle was making stuff that deep down had a good message, but also was stuff that racists happened to find hilarious, so chappelle stopped making it. and i thought chappelle should have ignored the racists and kept doing it.
so maybe i just think seth macfarlane is a douche.
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| from her lips to sarah palin's vagina.... |
| posted by: publius |
14:01 2.19.10 |
the voice actor from the family guy who played the woman with down syndrome (who happens to be a woman with down syndrome) says:
"I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.'
In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
quite...because in order to have a sense of humor you need a modicum of intelligence...palin clearly has neither (and please, let's not mistake generic mean-spirited republican smugness for a sense of humor...because it ain't).
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/family-guy-voice-actor-says-palin-does-not-have-a-sense-of-humor/
(shout out to the youngest person to emerge from publius's mother's vagina for the link) |
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| hmmm... |
| posted by: publius |
09:21 2.17.10 |
so sarah palin is gosh-darned angry with the family guy for its portrayal of a person with down-syndrome being directly linked to her...she claims the show is mocking her son trig...
on a first-glance, superficial reading of the "issue" as presented, i could perhaps agree with her. making fun of trig because he has down syndrome (and happens to be palin's son) should be out of bounds.
but who is it who's reinforcing the stereortype here? i haven't seen the whole family guy episode so i could be wrong, but from the clip i heard on the radio this morning it sounded to me like the character with down syndrome is a pretty sympathetic teenage girl dealing with the idiot son character on the show (when idiot son askes her what her parents do, she responds that her mother used to be the governor or alaska.) sounded to me like that portrayal is exactly the sort of thing sarah palin would be for..."special needs" child grows up to be an independent adult who gently chastises "normal needs" people for their own prejudices. as far as i know there are no scenes with this character acting "retarded" in any stereotypical or mocking way. she does speak with a voice demonstrably characteristic of someone with down syndrome but surely that alone can't qualify as "mocking" (as i said, i realize this is the family guy, and that there very well may be part of this episode that blow my entire argument away, but...)
according the palin: "Bristol was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother, Trig (and/or others with special needs), in an episode yesterday."
personally, i don't see the mocking of trig or kids with special needs. i do see a mocking of the sickening piety on the subject which infantilizes children with down syndrome while claiming to stand up for them. i do see a blatant mocking of sarah palin, and i see her walking right into the "trap" set up by the family guy writers.
sadly, i also see most people (especially her supporters) taking it at her version of face value and being shocked, shocked and outraged! that family guy would dare to insult the best, most innocent, most perfect children among us...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/17/palin-slams-fox%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98family-guy%e2%80%99-2/?fbid=HnUIy4rpePb
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| What was it again... |
| posted by: camdolphin |
15:19 2.8.10 |
Oh yeah, energy, budget and tax - that's it. That's the ticket.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/02/sarah_palins_hand_palm_politic.html
And thank you to Spacehippie - I heard that joke a while ago, but concern for my everlasting soul stayed my hand. Not anymore.
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| Hah! |
| posted by: spacehippie |
12:41 2.5.10 |
Thank you, camdolphin. I have not laughed harder - and felt that dirty for doing so - in a long time.
I'm going to hell (and you're all coming with me)... |
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| What's the difference |
| posted by: camdolphin |
16:18 2.4.10 |
between Sarah Palin's mouth and her vagina?
Only one retarded thing came out of her vagina. |
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| sarah palin is retarded |
| posted by: publius |
11:53 2.4.10 |
| there. i said it. now i feel much better. |
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| well since you put it that way... |
| posted by: publius |
11:09 12.20.09 |
everyone's favorite alaskan tweeting on why climate change is a load of malarkey...
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"Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature," Palin tweeted.
"Earth saw clmate chnge4 ions;will cont 2 c chnges.R duty2responsbly devlop resorces4humankind/not pollute&destroy;but cant alter naturl chng," the former Republican vice presidential nominee wrote.
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did bristol get a hold of her mom's twitter account? and it's interesting to find out that we have had climate change for "ions".
this woman really is the gift that keeps on giving... |
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| priceless... |
| posted by: simplicissimus |
17:32 11.18.09 |
did you know sarah palin was for the bailout?
no she wasn't.
here's her quote at the time supporting it ... does that change your mind about whether she was for the bailout?
no.
http://wonkette.com/412288/youtube-to-be-flooded-with-thousands-of-hilarious-videos-like-this-during-palin-book-tour
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i *get* palin's appeal. by hapring on the "liberal elites who look down on you" and "evil bureaucrats who think they know better" she validates the sneaking suspicion of a slice of america (rural, under-educated, fundamentalist) that this country is not the country they group up in.
and, of course, it isn't. some ways that's a bad thing, and in some ways it's a good thing. but the time when small town life was simple and safe, and you could make an honest, decent living without ever leaving town, is increasingly gone. and so when palin talks about "real america" or "hard working folks" or "common sense" she's telling these folks that she's one of them. and of course that makes them love her (which is something very similar to the national bouts of obama and reagan love).
but the more this goes on, the more obvious it is that palin isn't using this connection in order to further any actual agenda. beyond adding to her star power. and that's why the dems love to watch this so much -- it's train that's running out of track. she doesn't have a grand plan. she doesn't even seem to know much about policy. and she'll either win the 2012 nomination and get beaten very, very badly or she'll lose the 2012 nomination and she'll take millions of people with her right out of the party.
i know a lot of conservatives are under the delusion that dems fear sarah palin. i hope that's been dispelled. we love her. she's jerry browne in 1992, jesse jackson in 1988, ted kennedy in 1980 -- but she's not going to fall in line if she fails ... no sir, because that's the last thing a sarah palin would do. |
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| posted by: publius |
16:56 11.6.09 |
| http://orbooks.com/ |
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| no press... |
| posted by: publius |
09:27 11.6.09 |
no cameras, no laptops, no cell phones, no recording devices of any kind...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/06/palin-to-keep-low-profile-on-wisconsin-trip/
how much you want to be there is youtube video of this event within 1/2 hour of it ending... |
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