Posted on 06/10/2009 2:19:57 PM PDT by kristinn
Kathleen Parker, an obscure Washington Post syndicated columnist who made herself famous by attacking Republican Vice Presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin last fall, said that Palin 'invited' vicious sex jokes made this week by CBS Television Late Night host David Letterman. Parker also made degrading, sexist comments of her own about Palin.
Parker made the comment in an online chat this afternoon at WashingtonPost.com
:Re: Letterman: Listen, Letterman is a comedian. Comedians that don't go over the line are not funny. If you said she looks slutty, that's over the line. If I say it, it's over the line. Why wouldn't Letterman say it - have you been on a plane?
Kathleen Parker: I don't have a problem with raunchy humor, but time and place are everything. In a nightclub, fine. But Letterman is sort of an American institution. It just seems to me that when a woman is running for public office, we should avoid sexualizing her.
Okay, I censored myself before so I'll say it now. I also think it's out of line for a woman to sexualize her candidacy, which Palin did. Just ask Rich Lowry, who wrote that he had to sit up a little straighter when she winked during the vp debate. So, maybe when you play the flirt and invite males to see starbursts bouncing off the walls (Lowry again), then maybe you invite the sexual punchline. I'm wobbling here.
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Falls Church, Va.: I don't understand why this conversation continues. Don't. Give. Her. Any. More. Ink.
Kathleen Parker: As long as people are throwing money at her - and as long as the GOP treats her as a serious candidate - we're going to cover her.
Alas, I note that the poll featured on the front page of USA Today today doesn't mention Palin as a spokesperson for the GOP. She may be fading already.
I am told by people close to her that Palin and her family would love to turn back the clock to July 2008 . . . and just say "no" to John McCain. That may be the best indicator of her future political ambitions. OTOH, power is an addictive aphrodisiac.
"As long as people are throwing money at her"? It sounds like Parker is calling Palin a whore in so many words. Incredible.
So Parker is siding with Letterman and against somebody’s fourteen year old daughter? Letterman’s joke was tacky by any standard.
Just what if Letterman made a joke about Michelle being a “hoe”?
Sorry, but I won’t click the link and get any more traffic to her site. I’ve already emailed CBS and given them a piece of my mind.
Who was the "spokesman" for the Democrat Party in June of 1981? Was it Walter Mondale? Of course not! And yet Walter Mondale was the Democrat's Presidential nominee in 1984. How can that be?
Who was the Democrat "spokesman" in June of 1985? Was it Michael Dukakis, the Baby-Guv of Massachusetts? Dukakis was not even on the radar. And yet he was the Democrat nominee in 1988.
Was Bill Clinton on anybody's short list of anything in June of 1989? Sure he had given a nice speech at the DNC the year before, but he was soon forgotten. And was Bob Dole anybody's go-to guy for Republicans in June of 1993? Had anybody even heard of George W. Bush in June of 1997?
Not to belabor the point, but was anybody quoting John Kerry in June of 2001? For that matter, who thought much of the newly minted Junior Senator for Illinois in June of 2005?
The fact that Sarah Palin is not seen as the Voice of the Republican Party at this point is much more a factor in her favor than a factor against her for 2012.
What’s amazing is that she really is an obscure Washington Post columnist—not an easy status to achieve!
Just so we all remember, Gov. Palin was winking at her father, who was sitting in the audience.
It was perverts on the left who sexualized it and are still trying to preserve it as urban myth.
Has there been a Democrat female candidate in the last, oh, fifty years who hasn't sexualized her candidacy? What about the latest Supreme Court nominee?
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
She’s been irrelevant for months. Suddenly she writes an article about Sarah and we’re to notice her again? Seems to me she doesn’t have a career apart from Sarah. Or any use to anyone outside of that commentary. She should be ignored at this point.
Gov. Palin is making a terrible mistake. She is allowing herself to be over exposed. There is no up side to poisitve press two years out and all down sides to negative or even neutral press.
Stay in Alaska. Do a GREAT job as governor and when the country is in the toilet in 2012 she will be greeted as a hero.
If she keeps allowing herself to be over exposed and her name batted around weekly, in 2012 she will be seen as just another politician. She will lose that “new comer” “Outside the beltway” glow. Let GZingrich and others keep the spotlight in these out years and return when the time is right.
Now that photo was 0’s deliberate show of.....something....but I just can’t not for the life of me, figure out what.
I’ve heard about cunning runts. I think this might be.....oh never mind.
I don’t think Obama could’ve won without McCain’s help; Palin is like the siding on a farmer’s barn in Kansas at this point and Parker is one of the people sorting through the rubble where the twister ripped through just hours ago.
The true message from the conservative side before last November was that the voters didn’t really know what they were getting themselves into — now they do.
If they still haven’t learned then I guess it’s time to move to quieter pastures.
These vile, left-wing, Obama-loving blowhards only make Sarah Palin that much more attractive. In light of the Imus flap we can see a blatant double standard at work here.
I understood that she winked at her father, who was justifiably very proud of his daughter up there body-slamming Joe “the Gaffer” Biden at the debate.
I hope Todd runs over this Kathleen crone with his snow machine. What a low rent broad.
This. Is. Sick.
She has spent a grand total of 9 days in the lower 48 since Jan. 1, 2009. 3 of those days were for charity fundraising events, 2 more were for the Evansville right-to-life-dinner and the Down Syndrome event (also fundraising for them).
The media, however, has been focused on her every day of this year. What would you suggest she do, resign her governorship?
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