An amazingly intelligent and perceptive insight from Sarah Palin's marvellously mavericky and monotonously mendacious memoir, Going Rogue:"If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes." (italics mine for emphasis)So anything made of meat is intended for food? Babies are made of meat, so we can eat them now? Mmmmmmmm, so young, so tender--like veal, but much more accessible. Wait. What? Meat is only in animals? How's that? Because we eat animals, we don't eat people. But if we eat people then we can say they're made of meat, right? No? Hmmmmm, let me see if I can grasp what you're trying to say then; we eat animals because they're made of meat, but we don't eat humans because they aren't made of meat. Humans can't be made of meat, because if they were we'd eat them? Isn't that a case of petitio principii? You know, begging the question, assuming your conclusion as proof of your conclusion? No? I'm oversimplifying the situation? So, really there are other reasons we eat animals than just because they're made of meat, and we don't eat humans for reasons other than they aren't made of meat...Then why be so stupid as to say god wants us to eat animals because they're made of meat, you dolt? Oh, sorry. I answered my own question--you're stupid! So do us all a favor and go devour your meathead. Better yet, "EAT ME, you damned deleterious douchebag!"
Of course I'm putting words in her mouth, I mean, at least the ones I put there make more sense than the one's sent there from her own "brain", but seriously, could anyone see this "debate" going in any other direction with this boob? My problem isn't the meat eating part (although I do have a problem with her defining the central value of animals as being their role as food), it's the horribly bad logic passed off as good ol' down home earthy, folksy wisdom part. Apparently her book is not only full of falsehoods, it's also filled with really ignorant shit like her excerpted "wisdom" above. Like I really thought it would be filled with really smart, insightful shit! And people actually think she's someone to take seriously? I take her seriously only as an object of derision and mockery, but otherwise, she's a self-parody that keeps delivering the "goods" on herself.
Oh, and as far as I know the only animal actually made out of meat was the Spam lamb from this episode of M.A.S.H. Well, I think Spam is meat. My dad certainly thinks it is. Hell, who the fuck really knows what it is?! Hmmmm, kinda like Palin. She's the socio-political equivalent of SPAM!
And to be honest, I basically stole the idea for this shitty little post from this one over at Acephalus. He's a fan-fucking-tastic blogger, so go check him out.
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I like the fact that she named her daughter the British slang for "Tits" (Bristols from Rhyming slang Bristol City=Titty).
Laci: I love that British Rhyming slang. Maybe one day I'll actually be able to master it, if that's even possible. lol.
Will you ever open your blog to comments? I read it every day and sometimes I'm just dying to leave a response or two.
A tad _Modest Proposal_-ish, huh? But certainly on par with her unique brands of nuttery and buffoonery. She is a tit, I mean twit
she makes me ill and so does the media for talking about her and her fuckin stupid book, endlessly!! Enough already, and if she THINKS she could get the nomination, well lets just say... no I better not say anything, the whole idea of her as president leaves me speechless!!
This "book" of hers promises to be full of bizarre quotes.
By the way, there could be a major story in the works. I don't know if you read Andrew Sullivan, but check this out:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/11/to-our-readers.html
I can see the logic of Palin's eating baby meat statement Zirgar. I liken it to women. If God didn't want us ogling them why did he make them look so damn good?
On a side note Brother. Your site takes a long time to load. I don't know if it's your stat counter or the ads. I swore at it ten minutes last night and another three before getting loaded.
@Zirgar - I love how Palin's book is 400 plus pages but only 5 chapters.
I think that headline says it all. Even the Wall Street Journal gave her the bad review she deserved. A friend of mine asked, "Can any of her fans actually read?"
marvellously mavericky and monotonously mendacious memoir
That alone got me to read the rest of your post.
BTW, did you see where AP had 14 writers checking out to see whether there was any factual errors in her tome?
i am convinced that this little paragraph, just like her line in her speech about the only difference between hockey moms and pitbulls being lipstick, are just jokes she heard once and though she'd pass off as her own. she has no original thoughts. she just repeats shit she's heard, and she thinks it makes her sound smart. it ain't workin', you betcha.
Skye: If Palin has even heard of Jonathan Swift I'll become a Bible thumping Republican. lol
Sue: Easy, EASY!! She won't be president. I think she sees herself as someone who can tell people who to vote for and derive satisfaction form that activity alone. She wants to impact the nation but without having to see a tally of people didn't vote for her.
Jeff: Calling thembizarre quotes is being polite, I think. lol Thanks for the link. I'll check it out!
Truth: One could apply her "logic" to just about any situation and create a masterpiece of formal logic structure and syllogistic perfection. lol
I don't know why the site is loading up so slowly. Was it slow before this post? Let me know and I'll check into it.
Phuck: All 400 pages are double spaced with giant font.
Riot Kitty: Well, then obviously the WSJ has turned into one of them thar evil east coast media elite, makin'-things-up rags she detests. I mean, that's the only reason that paper could give her book a bad review, right?
G: I guess alliterative writing is a trademark of mine. lol. I'm glad it caused you to want to read more.
As for the fact checkers, I thought it was only 11. Doesn't matter. From what I understand the AP has over 4000 fact finders so whether it's 11 or 14 that number is but a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the total. It's not like they reallocated a huge resource to cover Palin, although I'm sure she believes that they did. lol
Nonnie: Youmean, you think she's like a deranged parrot? That assessment works for me. On a sad note, I think it also works for her followers, but in a different way. lol
Z,
I have been abstaining from commenting on Palin's supposed autobiography, but more and more I am thinking about buying it for laughs. If nothing else, it would be good bathrom material, right along with my Doonesbury collection.
The woman is stoopit, beyond stoopit, ignoramus in fact.
I, too, thought of Swift's "Modest Proposal" and the idea of eating the young to stave off starvation.
Poietes: Here's my plan: since I only see my girlfriend onw eekends, I'm gonna go to my bookstore, grab a copy of Going Rogue and read there in the store. It's supposed to rain all day tomorrow so I might do it then. That way I can read formyself what kind of shit she's shovelling without adding any of my money to her coffers.
I doubt that Palin would understand that Swift wasn't saying the English should literally eat the Irish to stave off starvation so much as relying upon their horror at the proposition; if you felt disgust you were trapped into having to admit that you were disgusted because the Irish are human beings, people don't eat other people, therefore you have no right to keep treating them as subhuman. Irony like that is lost on boobs like her. She'd just condemn him outright for cannibalism without the subtley of thought to find or even understand his deeper meaning.
I don't know why I felt I had to say all of that. lol
It's always been a slow load on my computer Zirgar. I have trouble loading Wordpress blogs also.
I keep my spyware settings as high as they can go because I've had a few attempts to hijack my computer. Maybe it's me.
Truth: Sorry. I don't know what could be causing it, but your explanation fits since the page seems to open up pretty quickly for me. Still, I'll try to keep an eye out for any problems. Thanks!
True, it may be a drop in the bucket, but from what I read about similar political tomes (Biden and Obama's were used as an example in the article), using one or two (or none for the aforementioned examples) seems to be the norm.
G: I guess when all you've done is complain from day one how the media elite/journalists screwed you, like Plain has, then you're setting yourself up for more scrutiny. Also, while all politicians lie and say stupid things, she has made herself a real paragon of ignorance and misrepresentation and supposed high moral virtues, so that doesn't help one's cause in being taken seriously or as someone who's words are and toughts are considered true and genuine. Personally, I'd love for her to just sail off into the sunset, so we'd be done with her.
Z,
I used to try to teach Swift's satire in my composition classes until I realized that some people were taking him seriously...kind of like the Palin mindset.
I like your idea of reading it in the bookstore. I hadn't thought of that, and I wouldn't be wasting my non-existent money on it. Will have to do that soon.
Poietes: A Modest Proposal is one of my two or three favorite pieces of writing n the English language. Swfit is brilliant. Palin and her ilk would take it literally and miss the point entirely in a headlong rush to be the first and loudest to condemn it.
I tried Atlas Rogued the other day, but it made me ill. I'm still traumtaized by just touching so much studity.
Palin makes me ashamed to be a carnivore.
Golden meme, BTW, ZIRGAR!
Matt: Me too. I no longer hunt, but I still love meat. I just don't think any animal should be defined simply for its capacity as a food. I think that cheapens everything when we are so brazen as to think like that, apprently like Palin does.
And thank you! Palin just lends herself quite easily to things like this. lol
I think that one poster on here is onto something when she said she thought that Palin just repeats shit she believes will make her sound smarter. And you know, that might work on some dumbasses out there. For the rest of us though, honestly it scares the shit right out of me, because I cannot comprehend how it was, she managed to get into an office as high as governor being that fucking stupid.
Was this a case of she won with three votes and five people cast ballots and they were all dain bramaged? I don't get it. I don't even understand how someone that fuctarded could get elected to a city council position. PTA maybe, but ? Actual office that conveys authorit-eye?
And her taking the place of the reich Reverend Pat Robertson as King Maker? Or perhaps James Dobson? I mean those men are actually dangerous because they hold true power not just through money {which both are loaded} but also through religious followers and powerful, old and stable political connections to the Capital Hill. The Weenie from Wasilla cannot compete with that. She doesn't have a fraction of the education or political savvy of either Robertson or Dobson. Ick--I don't mean to sing their praises its just, the lesser of catastrophic evils I suppose. As a woman also, I can never forgive that cunt for selling all other women down the river with her pro-life bullshit and her abstinence only bullshit. I mean anyone with a vagina, should be smart enough to know that two things give a woman power in this country. Absolute control over her own body, and absolute knowledge about how her body and her fertility works. Without one or the other, we are just walking incubators waiting to happen. Any woman who tries to do that to me, in the name of Jesus or any other idiot cause is only going to receive my ire and my contempt as a result of such betrayal to me, and the generations after me.
Fuck Palin. She is living proof that the sun will shine on even a dogs ass, if the stars align thusly.
Seeign Eye Chick: Palin is a talking points parrot, nothing more, nothing less. And I can see her being elected in podunk Alaska because she was able to charm and wink her way into office because she was able to go out and meet everyone and impress upon them her "charm" and "charisma"--like a used car salesman. And if you can sell yourself, people will buy whatever you're selling. She worked her angles on the fairly homogenized Wasilla populace and it got her into office. And she basically did the same thing by running for governor, by being likable. Now, whether she really is likable is another story, but she was able to convince Alaska of her likeability; we sure know she can't convince people of her competence.
As for her betraying women, amen. I feel your nausea.
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