Negative Stereotypes Women Perpetuate on Women: Palin Fights Back at HBO

C4P ^ | 3/10/2012 | Jasmine Velasco

[ak267]

This weekend, HBO will debut Game Change, a film supposedly depicting former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s experience as the Vice Presidential nominee during the 2008 campaign. Whitney recently wrote an article sourcing possible reasons for HBO’s investment into such fiction, and the demeaning portrayal of Palin.

Even though over half a dozen of Palin’s staff, past and present, have come to her defense, a new stream of articles–many by women–continues to scoff and dismiss not only the former Governor and her accomplishments, but also anyone who steps up to defend her and set the record straight. They seem loathe to write anything positive. The result: a stack of articles that smacks of cattiness, perpetuating negative stereotypes about a woman’s ability to govern.

[No!]

Too bad they wasted all this money on the bet Sarah would be running right now...

Seems like she beat them again. “Funny” how that keeps happening, isn’t it.

[Darren McCarty]

It's long been my experience that the most anti-women people I know are other women who are usually, but not always leftist. That and effeminate gay men like Andrew Sullivan.

Those people far outnumber the "he man women haters club."

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s weird how women look to the commie ‘RATS as their defenders after the way the ‘RATS viciously attacked Palin, Bachmann, Angle and Christine O’Donnell. I guess the ‘RATS think women are smart enough to vote but not smart enough to be elected. Unless of course, they suck up to the DNC white boys the way Pelosi does.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Dating yourself a bit there. I wonder how many FReepers, other than old fogies like me, got your reference?

[Stentor]

I always preferred Petey over Darla when I was a kid.

[Darren McCarty]

Born in the 70's actually. :)

I'm dating my FR usage/lurkage more, since I actually first saw that term on this site in some more contentious threads back in the day.

[Shery]

Don’t lay the blame for hating conservative women all on the Rats...as Coulter, Ingraham, Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, and a lot of others have also hit at Palin. They may not have called her vulgar names, but they ridiculed her. I will never listen to Ingraham, Coulter and the rest again. Talk about petty and catty! We have a lot on our side too! Thank heavens there are still a lot of good ones, but this seems to be a growing thing. I wonder, if Palin was asked to take the mantle at the convention, what these women would do? I’m sure they’d hit the air screaming that the Republicans had lost their minds. But, in my opinion, Palin is STILL the only true conservative that could turn America around because she has the instincts to know exactly what needs to be done, how to do it, and the guts to do it, even if it got the GOP’s panties in a knot.

[Stepan12]

Since I get HBO, I am watching this crap now.

[JaguarXKE]

Ditto. I used to be a paid subscriber to Ingraham’s show. No longer. I cancelled and had them unsubscribe from her mailing list.

[Truthfreesus]

Why give them the ratings to brag about?

[jonrick46]

It seems like a looksy into the activities of political journalists John Heillman and Mark Halperin would put a little balance into this Game Change hit piece of crap movie. It was Andrew Breitbart that exposed Mark Halperin post of a photoshopped picture of Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu with semen in her hair. Said to be a closet gay, one recalls Halperin's "Dickgate" comment on the Morning Joe which got him fired from MSNBC. For a more in depth look into Halperin, here is a great post by FRiend, DaveTesla:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366247/posts

As for John Heillman, a quick look into Wikipedia reveals the following: "Openly gay, Heilman is also the past president of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Local Officials Group and past co-chair of the International Network of Lesbian and Gay Officials." Need I say more. Everytime I find rabid hatred attacking Sarah Palin, I find the gay sector mixed up in it. Face it folks, gays in the media are working to destroy Sarah Palin.

Heillman and Halperin are a part of the Left's efforts to destroy a beautiful woman who has raised a family and became a success. Along with Sarah and the traditional family she represents, they are useful tools working to destroy America as well.

[Stepan12]

This excrement is culturally important. Furthermore, a lot of freepers watched and praised the antisemitic movie, "Act of Valor." They also paid for it and I am just paying for HBO in general -- not this particular movie.

How does the media know me by name (not my freeper moniker) knows I what I am watching? They don't yet have those "1984" tv screens that can see me.

[SuziQ]

All of this got me asking: why are women in the media loathe to present an accurate account of other women?

They're only loathe to present an accurate portrait of CONSERVATIVE women.

[SuziQ]

Heillman and Halperin are a part of the Left's efforts to destroy a beautiful woman who has raised a family and became a success.

They and their ilk consider Sarah Palin to be one of the 'breeders'.

[SueRae]

Jealous because she has (besides strength, indepedence,family, faith, values) a waistline.

[SaraJohnson]

Only women who know no better (are brainwashed in socialist schools) look to femi-nazis for leadership. They hate heterosexual women and men - they hate their families and their love.

[jdsteel]

Woah, woah, woah....antisemitic movie “Act of Valor”? You just lost ALL credibility. Yes, I saw the movie.

[Sirius Lee]

Woah, woah, woah....antisemitic movie “Act of Valor”?

Yeah, I'm not getting the connection either. Maybe he saw a cross on one of the tombstones in the funeral scene and he's all bent out of shape about it.