The Quitters: A happy, unemployed couple.
Sarah Palin brought it all to the Oprah show today: tousled hair, demure appearance, girly laugh, apparent crush on Levi Johnston. If you all want to know if Sarah will be running for president in 2012, the answer is, tragically, a loud, nasally YES. If you need more info. than that, read on. . . . .
Yes, I forced myself to watch the Sarah interview today on Oprah. (I never watch Oprah, because I hardly ever watch TV, so this was something I had to schedule). I took notes. The following is from my notes. Now about that running for president thing: she didn’t outright say she would run, but she is worse at faux-denials than just about anyone I can think of. Even worse than Hillary was. The idea of running for President obviously made her giddy and it was hard for her not to beam and act coy at the same time, so she did both. A very conflicted, but revealing, performance. Yes, she will run for president. Of course she will. And as a liberal American, that delights me, because she will fail miserably and bring down the Republican party with her.
“God and Todd”
Palin revealed that her marriage is very strong. She said it twice, so it must be true. She said that her and Todd have such crazy schedules, with him on the North Slope all the time. Except Todd isn’t on the North Slope anymore Sarah. Didn’t he tell you? He quit his job over a month ago. He is now staying home with the kids. Who did you think that guy was that answered the phone at 2:00 pm. when you called home to complain about something? Todd quit his job in September.
“Todd Palin, the husband of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, quit his job with U.K. oil giant BP PLC, effective Sept. 18, the Associated Press reported Monday. Megan Stapleton, Sarah Palin’s personal spokeswoman, explained that Todd Palin left the North Slope oil fields to spend more time with his family.”
It’s weird he didn’t tell his own wife this bit of information. She thinks he still works on the “North Slope”. Or, maybe Sarah was lying to Oprah to present herself as the wife of a really successful guy who she rarely speaks to cuz he’s so darn busy workin’.
Whew, I took way too many notes . . . .
Sarah does not like Katie Couric, the main news anchor at CBS. Now, Katie Couric is a professional and she has my respect. She has been a journalist for about 30 years, so it’s unclear to me why she offended Sarah Palin so much with all her questions. Maybe Sarah doesn’t know what interviews are — lots of questions. And such probing questions like what do you read? Man, what a softball question. But that question so offended our thin-skinned Sarah that she was fuming with rage and unable to answer, so she just said, “I read everything they put in front of me.” Everything. Playgirl, Playboy, Hustler, Big Bazookas, you name it. “I read it all.” Wow. If I was to think she might become Commander in Chief some day and she gets that easily offended…. we could be in a nuclear war in a split second escalation of an exchange like, “President Palin, did you read the communique we sent on our nuclear facilities here in Iran?” Palin: “Of course I read it! What do you think I am, a Neanderthal Alaskan who lives in a cave with no communication with the outside world? Just for offending me, buddy, you’re gettin’ nuked! NUKE IRAN NOW! That’ll teach ‘em to annoy and insult ME!”
But Palin said she does not like drama. Here’s where some real weirdness came in.
Oprah asked Sarah if she would invite Levi Johnston, father of the “beautiful” and plump baby Bristol had, (Trick?) to Thanksgiving dinner. Sarah blushed and said he’s now “Ricky Hollywood” and does “porn” and he’s just a teenager so his handlers are givin’ him some real bad advice. (Well, I guess like McCain’s handlers gave her bad advice, telling her to start eating food again, instead of news anchors.) Of course, strutting around in a swimsuit on a stage while men leered at her during a Miss Alaska pageant was just fine, not porny at all.
Then the invite came, “Sure, tell Levi that he’s welcome to come to Aunt Katie’s Washington home for Thanksgiving.” What?? Did she mean Aunt Sarah? Who is Aunt Katie? That was a paraphrase, but not by much. She seems to have invited Levi to her “Washington home.” Hmmmmm. I detected a potentially lascivious invitation for possibly more than gruesomely-slaughtered Alaskan turkey . . . . will anyone else be there, Sarah, or just you and Levi? (And maybe Katie Couric? Will there be a three-way?)
And why does Palin have a home in Washington? Is it some type of gym, or a love nest?
Some other gems she dropped and more of my impressions:
Sarah cannot function without sweat. It’s her sanity.
She thinks all critics of her are “haters”. She let that slip right away.
She told Oprah she thought the only controversy about her was a “D” in some class in college 22 years ago. Oprah responded, “Reeeaaaaalllly.”
She hates to shop for clothes.
She has cute but quite chunky children that she appears to like. I guess they don’t ask her questions. Pistol or whatever her name is, is pretty cute in a snowmobile suit.
The McCain campaign told her very little except to “stay on script” which confused her, as she never saw a script.
She needs to jog a lot and they would not let her jog.
Katie Couric badgered her, and asked her about 12 times what she thought of abortion. Sarah said, “I told her I was pro-life right away!”
During those Couric interviews, which lasted several days, maybe weeks . . . there were 1, 2, 3, 4 and “maybe five” sessions with the vile Couric, resulting in those terrible outtakes that became what America saw of Palin. It was more like the “gag reel” than the real interview, according to Sarah.
In summary: Sarah Palin is not a truthful person. After listening to this endless interview — which by the way, showed that Oprah asked much more probing questions than Katie Couric — it’s easy to see why Sarah Palin comes off as a bitch. She is a bitch. But it’s a carefully controlled bitchiness. When she gets it 100% under control — watch out. Then it won’t matter if she spends all day looking at Levi in Playgirl, America will loooooove her.
As for her quitting being governor: Oprah asked her, why not just stay on? Sarah’s answer was as convoluted and stupid as ever. This is a direct quote: “It didn’t make sense for anyone to think I wouldn’t quit.” She’s still following the “mavericky” script in her head. She said something about you don’t need a title to run America. Yeah, that’s called a coup and being a dictator, or something similar.
After a few questions on whether she would run for president, she blurted out things like, “It’s not on my radar screen.” And, her Dad told her that she’s not really quitting being governor, “She’s reloading.“ uh-oh.
“I’m concentrating on 2010,” chirped Sarah. Why would she do that? No GOP candidate seriously wants her to campaign for them.
If I were Oprah, I would have asked her, why all the talks to adoring crowds where you won’t let in recording devices? That’s rather weird.
Sarah Palin is a very simple person: a thin-skinned, right wing extremist quitter, who lies. I don’t think she is a racist, but she might be. (All that talk of Obama “pal-ing around with terrorists” during the campaign was revolting). God, or whoever, help us if she ever gets elected to anything ever again. She can turn on the charm, but lurking just under the surface and occasionally peeking out is a mean, petty, mostly ignorant ball of nastiness. And I say that as a feminist and a woman who really, really wants to see a woman president in my lifetime. But dear god, not this one.
There is more, but you can find the clips somewhere. It didn’t seem to convince Oprah, and it sure didn’t convince me, that Sarah wants anything but ultimate power. Why?
She wants to make abortion illegal, in order to force women who have found out they have horribly deformed fetuses that they must give birth to these monstrosities and support them for the rest of their lives. She’s very much against abortion, very much a person who talks to God, etc.
If she is the GOP candidate, and she turns on the charm, there may be a one in a million chance she will get elected. That is way too close for comfort for me.
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