Mangling everything in its path, Typhoon Sarah blows in to Asia
What the hell is she talking about? Is she speaking English?
Robert Fisk: Mangling everything in its path, Typhoon Sarah blows in to Asia
Grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre, unbelievable. Sarah Palin was all of that in Hong Kong yesterday. And more. Dressed in a cutesy virgin-white blouse and black skirt with the infamous bee-hive hairdo, she was a blessing to every predicting spectator.
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It was Sarah’s trip to Asia and her first appearance since her resignation as Alaska’s top Mum. In her state capital, she told us, you could see a moose in the middle of the city. It was not a common sight in Hong Kong. Why, in Alaska, where 20,000 square miles of the state was glacial and with only two humans per square mile, “it seems to me that God just chucked this bucketful of resources there”. It was then we realised that whoever wrote the Palin sermon for her, they had – mercilessly – allowed some of the real Sarah to show through. Even husband Todd got a mention. He had flown with her into Hong Kong. And – here was a reference to the Alaska fish and caviar consumed in this “beautiful”, “magnificent” and “libertarian” part of China – “some of the fruits of our labour, mine and Todd’s, ended up on tables here”. The caviar at the Hyatt, it should be added, comes from Iran.
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What on earth was happening? Had Sarah just looked up from her podium and seen China? Addressing what was surely the neo-conservative wing of the Republican party, she could not “turn a blind eye” to Chinese policies that created “uncertainty”, which supported “questionable regimes” and “made a lot of people nervous”. America wasn’t going to impose its values on other countries, but America was going to have to “ramp up” its defence spending.
Then family again. “I have a husband,” she said. “I think I could have used a wife. He’s awesome.” This really floored the Chinese. Poor Todd.
September 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Good Lord!
Sage Reply:
September 25th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
LOL…..that’s kind of what I was thinking. It’s a word salad. Take a bunch of words, toss them around and hope they make a complete sentence.
September 27th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Sage, I couldn’t wade through what that obvious biased writer wrote. He writes like he’s forgotten to take his ADD meds. But I have to ask you two things.
First, doesn’t it bother you the way he starts of describing her clothes? “Cutesy” “Virgin White”. Does anyone suggest that Obama, or any other man, wears “Virgin” white shirts? And “cutsey” shirt? What the hell is up with that? How about his description of her hair? Besides the fact that he was wrong (it wasn’t in a beehive), where the hell does he get off commenting about the woman’s hair. Doesn’t his preoccupation with and judgments on her looks bother you, as a woman? I think we women need to stand together and tell these assholes to knock it off.
Second, you ask “what the hell is she saying.” Perhaps if you were truly interested in what she said, you should read a news report that tells you. You seem to be blaming HER for the poor job HE does of telling you what she said.
Do you think for one moment this guy was going to write anything but a negative article?
Sage Reply:
September 27th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
I’ve listened to her before and I usually end of wondering just what the hell she’s talking about. I don’t think it was intended by the author or myself to be unbiased. We just don’t like her. :-)
As for his comments…yeah, I guess it does bother me as a woman, just not as much as she bothers me as a woman.