Slog - Comments on The Manufactured Martyrdom of Sarah Palin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali First the McCain campaign alerts its vast media email list to this report in The Wall Street Journal: Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women, a reversal of Mr. Obama's eight-point lead last month. It's no surprise, then, that Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. My sources report... Copyright 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:05:52 -0800 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:29:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Original Andrew Will they be allowed to remove their burqas for interviews?

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133690 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:17:08 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew
And I know irony is dead, but the fact that out of the four candidates for president and vice president respectively, by far the worst candidate on women's issues is a woman just takes the campaign to a whole new level of Teh Crazy.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133700 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:21:37 -0800 Comment by Shawn Palin and McCain for the CHINO Ticket 08!!

CHINO! CHINO! CHINO!

]]> Shawn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133708 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133708 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:23:38 -0800 Comment by kinaidos A likely narrative: she sold that jet plane and was shuttled around on big-oil's ticket. The Obama camp needs to do more to paint both McCain and Palin as pawns of big-oil. What do oil companies have to gain: big profits - reducing costs by shifting drilling to lower cost fields. What do consumers have to gain: very little becuase big oil profits show that price has very little to do with cost.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133710 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:24:31 -0800 Comment by Julie in Chicago Uh, of freakin' course the Democrats sent 30 people to Alaska to search for dirt on Palin. She is a train wreck. The safe bet is that they're going to find something delicious, and I can't wait.

And, of course it doesn't have anything to do with sexism. If there was a male VP who had barely been vetted and had so much potential for some sort of fuck-up in his past, the Democrats would damn well have sent a mini-army to wherever he was from as well.

]]> Julie in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133711 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133711 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:25:06 -0800 Comment by Ava Maria Palin has been smeared - there is almost a daily dose of mis information - her pregancy, voting records, non existant book list, budgets, age of the slain moose, index of hubby's sexual vigor, and hers, and her daughters and her parents ... her voice, her dress, her hair, her pumps, who might fuck her, who has fucked her

America is entranced - only Liz has had it so bad when she took Eddie from Debbie

A lot of it sounds like recycled kicking Hillary shit

]]> Ava Maria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133717 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133717 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:25:57 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Ava Maria @ 6,

The sad thing is that the true shit about that wolf/reindeer/grammar murderer is even more appalling.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133733 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:29:44 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me @7

Possibly. But the left has been crying wolf for over a week now. You know what happens to people who cry wolf don't you?

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133749 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:36:36 -0800 Comment by Ziggity We need some stained glass St. Sarah pictures out there.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133750 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133750 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:36:44 -0800 Comment by tomasyalba Susan McCaw! Local cellphone skeletor Craig McCaw's wife! She raised a quarter-mil for Bush and he made her ambassador to Austria. And Della Newman's the realtor wife of the dead developer of Northgate and Alderwood malls. A real brain trust.

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133770 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133770 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:52:39 -0800 Comment by Ronan I just heard about the tree-dwellers in Berkeley coming down today. Does anyone else realize there have been people living in trees longer than Sarah Palin has been a governor?

]]> Ronan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133785 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:02:45 -0800 Comment by I_Kid_You_Not @8: Yeah, they find actual wolves, don't they?

]]> I_Kid_You_Not http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133786 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133786 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:03:15 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me @12

Yeah... And that wolf eats the sheep. No one believes a liar... even when he is telling the truth.

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133821 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:20:53 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Townsend version (The Shepherd's Boy and The Wolf)

"A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep"; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.

Moral

There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth."

Looks to me like the Republicans are about to lacerate and destroy the Democrats...

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133827 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133827 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:24:47 -0800 Comment by COMTE @8:

Yeah, Palin starts salivating, calls in the chopper, and loads her 30-06...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133836 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:26:53 -0800 Comment by COMTE @14:

If that were truly the case, nobody would have believed anything that came out of a Republican's mouth for, oh, the last 25 years or so...

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133842 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:29:17 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 Stop! Talking! About! Her! Now!

She is not running, McCain is. You are only feeding the martyrdom.

She doesn't have enough of a record to attack. Troopergate, Bridge to Nowhere, YAWN ... These are a waste of energy and will get you nowhere.

Attacking her is like feeding a troll. Don't do it.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133905 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133905 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:57:14 -0800 Comment by permafrost Everyone knows we should stop talking about Palin, since she isn't the candidate anyway, and it's only hurting Obama. But nobody can stop. Democrats simply cannot stop talking about her.

]]> permafrost http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133914 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133914 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:00:03 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Um... I think Obama just called Palin a "pig"...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_Lipstick_on_a_pig.html

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133931 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133931 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:07:03 -0800 Comment by Greg Sure, and an old fish.

Sarah "Fish Story" Palin

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133953 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:20:08 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me The smells like old fish line should go miles with women voters. (Obama used to choose his words so carefully...)

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1133981 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:31:26 -0800 Comment by Emma Seems sort of similar to emails you got from the Hillary Clinton campaign? Isn't that kind of lazy reporting?

]]> Emma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134053 2008 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:13:34 -0800 Comment by mydquinn OUCH!

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/_palin_family_shockers_what_sarahs_really_hiding/celebrity/65407

]]> mydquinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134298 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134298 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:03:40 -0800 Comment by Jacque Denise Yap well i guess that the election is getting warmer now as the presidential candidates have their strongest VP candidates. this early i saw in pollclash that Joe Biden has now been officially introduced as Barack Obama's Vice Presidential selection.well you can see the video in http://pollclash.com/?id=166

]]> Jacque Denise Yap http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134394 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:10 -0800 Comment by Jacque Denise Yap Any person who comes to this country and was born in this country and reaps the reward for doing so better be ready to fight for the freedom that OUR FOREFATHERS Fought and died for, and moron who does not believe had better get a clue before it is too late, I hate war everyone hates war BUT it is a terrible fact of life and has always been so since the beginning of man.
i just saw their TV ads in pollclash and its getting warmer this time. well you can see the TV ads in http://pollclash.com

]]> Jacque Denise Yap http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_manufactured_martyrdom_of_sarah_pali#c1134400 2008 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:29:09 -0800