Down on Sarah
I can no longer sit on my hands about Sarah Palin. I have long resisted the innumerable opportunities to make note of her failings. My goodness, it’s like running around the backcourt as a millions lobs fall in tantalizing slow motion. But there comes a time, ya know...
Palin declared her upset with a cartoon show called "Family Guy," which airs on Fox – her network. In a recent episode, a regular character brings home a girlfriend with Down’s syndrome who says her mother used to be governor of Alaska.
Well, Momma Palin called it "a kick in the teeth." Daughter Bristol – that paragon of teen single-motherhood virtue whose would-have-been-her husband is posing nude and trashing his would-have-been mother-in-law at every opportunity – was less polite.
It once was that Palin loved Fox – because Fox loved Palin – but she never took a good look past the cast of media fellators to see their awful truth. Now Palin seems to be shocked that a Fox television show could show such bad taste. Um, Miz P., Fox is all about bad taste. They put trash on the air to attract a trash audience. It’s the Symbiotic Trash Television Rag. That’s why they hired you. It was all about ratings, honey; not your, um, brilliance.
Some people suggest Palin is an enigma, but in truth, she’s remarkably simple. She spits and sputters because in silence she might have to face herself. It reminds one of the Douglas Adams character who observed that Earthlings feared that if they stopped talking they’d have to use their brains.
I don’t expect Palin to last long at Fox. She’s a quitter who lacks the intellect and character to find a satisfying role in today’s world. My colleague and pal Steve Pizzo hit the nail on the empty head when he offered, "If Palin got satire she'd have killed herself long ago."
Yep. Blessings on her, when she finds that silence.
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