Mad Dog Palin "It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag"-Matt Taibbi hits one out ofthepark

[kath]

It's not available online yet, but I HIGHLY recommend that everyone read this article in the current issue of Rollling Stone (Issue 1062, Oct. 2, 2008). Available at a newsstand, library, or bookstore near you...

Mad Dog Palin: The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is it's what her candidacy says about America.
By Matt Taibbi

excerpts:
"... Here's the thing about Americans. You can send their kids off by the thousands to get their balls blown off in foreign lands for no reason at all, saddle them with billions in debt year after congressional year while they spend their winters cheerfully watching game shows and football, pull the rug out from under their mortgages, and leave them living off their credit cards and their Wal-Mart salaries while you move their jobs to China and Bangalore.

And none of that matters, so long as you remember a few months before Election Day to offer them a two-bit caricature culled from some cutting-room-floor episode of Rosanne as part of your presidential ticket. And if she's a good enough likeness of a loudmouthed Middle American archetype, as Sarah Palin is, John Q. Public will drop his giant-size bag of Doritos in gratitude, wipe the Sizzlin Picante dust from his lips and rush to the booth to vote for her. Not because it makes sense, or because it has a chance of improving his life or anyone else's, but simply because it appeals to the low-humming narcissism that substitutes for his personality, because the image on TV reminds him of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriestm most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest the common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV - and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation."

THese paragraphs are from the beginning of the article. Taibbi's just getting warmed up here.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Too restrained.

:rofl:

[liberalmuse]

2. Looks like I'm buying the new issue of Rolling Stone.

:popcorn:

[TygrBright]

3. whooooo!! "Gonna buy five copies for mah mother!" n/t

[Sequoia]

15. Isn't that a fun song !!

Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show as I recall.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Someone typed the whole thing in.. lemme find the link. Here it is

http://www.marijuanaradio.com/forum/showthread.php?s=9db6576289650b0fea97c57dde78fe8a&p=9561#post9561

[kath]

12. Wow, that took some serious typing, since it's a pretty long article. Thanks for the link.

[wildeyed]

27. Hi five to Pot Jedi Knight

That was a lot of typing!

[Number23]

35. I really want to read the piece....

but there is no way in HELL I'm going to a web site called "Marijuana Radio"

[LaPera]

5. Just wait till her breast start making appearances.

[Number23]

34. ???

Just wait till her breast start making appearances.

Does it tell lies and shoot moose too??

[AtomicKitten]

6. I heart Matt Taibbi.

:loveya:

[arKansasJHawk]

14. Also do I heart him

I think he's one of the fiercest, finest writers we've got.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

7. Off to the News Stand for a copy

[firedupdem]

8. Damn! Not holding back at all huh? Love it! n/t

[RagAss]

9. This is a Prayer for America !!!!!

[LSparkle]

10. We don't want our presidents to be better than us anymore ...

That would force some of us to face our own personal
shortcomings. I'm sure there are plenty of C students
who have been THRILLED to be able to point to Dumbya
for the past 8 years and say, "hey, even the preznit
didn't get all As."

Ironic that BombBomb McSame should use "COUNTRY FIRST"
as his slogan, since these people are apparently willing
to see our country go down the tubes just for the sake
of not having to feel "inferior."

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Will be buying a co py of this tomorrow...for posterity..and emailing the article to everyone.

[central scrutinizer]

13. Fear and Loathing - this guy is channeling Hunter S. Thompson

Rolling Stone has the best political coverage. Loosely related: I may have to go watch "Almost Famous" again tonight.

[Bosso 63]

16. I think I have a new hero.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

17. That is the single best piece of political writing I've read this year

Unbelievably savage and frighteningly truthful.

[demgrrrll]

18. Beyond Brilliant Unbelievably good.

[Overseas]

19. K&R for sheer brilliance. Love his scathing writing !! //nt

[mtnsnake]

20. Awesome! Its just what we all know, but oh how beautifully stated it is here. Thank you for posting!

:thumbsup:

[Inspired]

21. Marry me, Matt?

Oops...I guess I already am married. Damn!

[spelldmilk]

22. Dayum! I think I have a new crush. When is issue release?

[spelldmilk]

24. oops! just saw it up there. hehe…

[kath]

25. I got my copy in the mail today. It sounds like it's already available at newsstands/bookstores.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. Read the entire article from the link at post #4 - very powerful stuff

It reads like an anthem of what America in all its nakedness should be but isn't anymore. This guy doesn't hold back.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

26. Hope Bill Maher books him

Taibbi is always spot on, a nice complement to Maher.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!!

[saltpoint]

28. It's too damn subtle for me.

I wish the author would have just come right out and told us how he felt instead of all the chamber-of-commerce chatter.

[milkyway]

29. "Only 21st-centrury Americans can pass through a metal detector six times in an hour and still think

they’re at a party."

One of the great lines of all time!

Especially pertinent after reading Naomi Wolf's post at Huff Post.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7147037

[kath]

31. Awww, ya beat me to it! I was making up a list of Quotable Quotes from the article, and

that was first on my list.

Well, here are some more:

"The candidate sauntered to the lectern with the assurance of a sleepwalker – And immediately launched into a symphony of snorting and sneering remarks, taking time out in between the superior invective to present herself as just a humble gal with a beefcake husband and a brood of healthy, combat-ready spawn who just happened to be innocent targets of a communist and probably also homosexual media conspiracy. She appeared to be completely without shame and utterly full of shit, awing a room full of hardened reporters with her sickly sweet line about the high-school-flame-turned-hubby who “Five children later” is “Still my guy.” It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag."



"She’s a puffed-up dimwit with primitive religious beliefs who had to be educated as to the fact that the constitution did not exactly envision government executives firing librarians. Judging from the importance progressive critics seem to attach to these revelations, you’d think that these were actually negatives in modern American politics. But Americans like politicians who hate books and see the face of Jesus in every tree stump. They like them stupid and mean and ignorant of the rules. Which is why Palin has only seemed to grow in popularity as more and more of these revelations have come out."
(well - this past week, it looks like that last line may no longer be true...<fingers crossed> )

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

33. I made the same linkage, milkyway

Evita Mooselini is the ultimate wet-dream creation of KKKarl. Dumb as a brick, dumber even that the Chimp, a thought that boggles the mind into the realms of science fiction or Lovecraftian horror. I am not sure which. Crazier than a shithouse rat and itching to light the fuse on nuclear holocaust so her Rambo Jeebus will come back to slaughter the masses, rupture the "righteous" up to Hebbin (c) and sentence everyone else to hellish peonage.

Unfortunately for them, the neocons haven't worked this out real well. Evita's nukular holocaust will reduce the neocons to exactly the same gray and crispy dust as we surplus and unnecessary eaters. Paraguay or Saudi Arabia ain't gonna save them.

And after Moosey gets her way, there will be nothing of us for the Vulcans to make contact with. Terminally screwn, we are, if the Repukes steal this election.

[K Gardner]

30. I'll be picking this issue up at the airport next week for cross-country reading !

[joop]

32. I'm'a buying that one tomorrow

wooooo! Thanks for sharing and I can't wait to see the full read!

[kath]

36. kick

[Stand and Fight]

37. Kick!

This should serve as a swift kick in the ass for anyone who thought Palin is to be taken lightly because she's a little dim.