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The Pitbull in Lipstick is Back!
She’s “tired of hearin’ the talk talk talk” but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
By Joan Walsh Salon
Eric Hoffer didn’t live to see Tea Party Nation, but I always think of his most famous quote when I’m forced to deal with it: “”Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
I’m not sure the Tea Party cause is a great one, but it’s an influential one, and it degenerated into a racket lickety split, in less than a year. This weekend’s gathering in Nashville splintered both the Tennessee and the national Tea Party movement, as local go-getter Judson Phillips set up the once-anticipated “convention” as his own for-profit business. We’ll have a first-hand report from the racket that paid Sarah Palin more than $100,000 to speak Saturday night. But I can’t help weighing in.
Wow. This was the Palin we saw at the 2008 Republican convention, the snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick. I know journalists aren’t supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can’t help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.
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Posted by Bob Higgins on Feb 7 2010, Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest
Palin’s just reflecting her target audience, plenty of PO Americans who are turning to Sarah as some sort of savior from ‘big gubment.’
She has nothing to offer, except empty platitudes about cutting taxes, the government is too big, but the government needs to be bigger to fight the war of terror.
The 2012 Republican ticket of Palin and Betrayus will be a formidable one.
You make out that Palin done that speech for her own profit. Why leave out the rest of the story. You are just like some of the TV broadcasters by not telling the rest. Seems as if I remember you saying that about Fox. Why did you not state that she gave all the money back for the cause. You just wanted to beat on her for making the money w/o out the rest of the story. Come on now tell more, not just the things you say to wind us up
What do you have against Palin? Sounds like a little GREEN to me.
He must be an elitist,….all their rear ends are puckering when she speaks. Isn’tk it interesting she is the only person the left coast and left wing news media asks about how much they received for a speech? Clinton gets a million and a half to speak to an Arab country and critizises the former President.