Posted on 07/05/2009 8:38:08 PM PDT by Starman417
Andrew Breitbart takes on the elitist media, specifically the three female "feminists" who have been on the trash Sarah bandwagon from the beginning, and he does it with gusto:
What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska's governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall.The assassination of Sarah Palin - by media.
For those who didn't pay attention, Mrs. Palin's unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political figure threatened the media's preordained presidency of Barack Obama.
In light of how the Obama machine took down Hillary Clinton, which unsettled many feminists who believed 2008 was their time, many who saw sexism at play - the destruction of an ascendant Republican female icon was an urgent imperative for the Democratic Party.
~~~Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey - Mr. Obama's Angels (featuring Joy Behar in the role of "Bosley") - used a potent mix of mockery, snobbery and vitriol to undermine Mrs. Palin's feminist bona fides.
They are what my wife calls "pad throwers," an allusion to the shower room scene in the Stephen King film "Carrie," in which the popular girls throw sanitary napkins and tampons at the film's namesake.
Simply put, they are bullies. And female bullies - "Mean Girls" as Miss Fey's film calls them - are the cruelest kind.
Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion "safe, legal and rare," female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.
But since Mrs. Palin, a mother of five including a boy who was known to have Down syndrome before he was born, is a potent symbol of the pro-life movement, which means the female Alaska governor can't have it.
Miss Dowd's attempted takedown of Mrs. Palin is less skillful surgery than it is name calling using fun noun and adjective pairings. Think "Mad Libs." And, that's exactly what Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey are. Once the ladies did their job, liberal men like Jon Stewart and David Letterman had the cover to join the hate campaign.
While Mrs. Palin is at ease with her gender, as well as her place in the workplace and at home, Misses Dowd, Couric and Fey convey a base insecurity in their feminine skin. Their rage is fueled by liberalism's false feminist dogma and they take it out on a woman who chose not to join their angry sorority.
The governor of Alaska's compelling narrative - athlete, beauty queen, wife, mother, hunter, successful politician - shows adherents of narrow leftist dogma that, perhaps, women really can have it all. Most importantly: freedom of thought.
In calling Alaska's governor "Caribou Barbie," Miss Dowd used beauty as a weapon to diminish Mrs. Palin's achievements. A man would be reprimanded for this, but Miss Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning pad thrower and is licensed for such vindictive pettiness.
"Caribou," of course, is a stab at Mrs. Palin's backwater, Red State ways, attacks on which an Upper Westside liberal snob can never get enough. Miss Dowd goes on to ridicule "Sarah's country-music melodramas." This is her barely veiled attempt to call Mrs. Palin "white trash." And this has been the loathsome subtext of all media criticism of the Palins. They even went after their children. Mercilessly.
And Mrs. Palin during the Letterman saga finally cried, "Enough!"
Exposed in the relentless Palin attacks is not just political bias, but unmitigated class bias.
I know the readers understand why I put feminists into quotations above because there is no way, no how, someone who is a real feminist would throw such insults at a female who is strong, independent, and successful. But the feminist movement has always been a leftist breeding ground, or has been as long as I've been alive. It's not women rights they cherish, but the liberal ideology.
But there are still a few sane feminists out there and I happened upon one recently. Violet at The Reclusive Leftist (h/t Brutally Honest). I know her and I would disagree on much, but on this subject it appears we agree...or agree on having no answer why they hate Sarah so:\
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Dowd, Couric and Fey are all easily disliked.
You can be a feminist only if you have some less-than-ideal physical attribute. You are then given free rein to hiss and claw at anyone without such defects and you will be praised for advancing women’s issues.
I’ve decided....when I meet someone who dislikes Sarah Palin I will merely smile, and ask them...”What are you afraid of?” And walk away.
It’s over for the old bags . Same ol same ol. As far as their male counterparts are concerned , they can play switch panties with their genetic female pals. It’s a new day .
> Dowd, Couric and Fey are all easily disliked.
Very true.
For example, I dislike Couric for no better reason than she gets paid squillions of dollars for being “perky” (whatever that means). As a result the Cost of Living goes up slightly for all of us.
And I dislike Dowd for being “mutton dressed as lamb” in every photo I’ve ever seen of her: therefore her writing must be terrible.
And I dislike Fey because she hasn’t got a real job but gets paid anyway for playing dress-up and make-believe.
See? Pretty easy to dislike all of them.
Best article I’ve read yet.
Dagger meet heart & soul (if the 3 missess had them, that is).
I like that question. How about this one too: What are you pretending not to know?
I love this one:
Obama - “whose entire campaign had all the substance and gravity of a Pepsi commercial”
The author has it exactly right. I remember girls like that when I was in high school - vile bullies. Sarah will prevail though, she is a very strong person.
Great article!
Breitbart was originally a big time liberal, who was also an honest man, and has been morphing into a muckracking libertarian.
Must be why their toilets are not stocked with paper goods.
LOL! Good one!
And all afflicted by what happens to liberal women when they age, their ugly insides starts to come out on their faces. I think they just can’t figure out why it hasn’t happened to Sarah so much? Conservative women are usually happy and aging takes longer when you smile.
if the best they can do is call her names... then all that expensive liberal media really wasn’t worth much. can’t they debate her on the content of what she says? (of course not)
it’s as if i’m watching some bad high school movie.
Sarah needs to call these people out for what they are. children. then... take them out behind the woodshed and beat some sense into them (i’d pay for that on payperview :)
I find it odd that the same “media” bimbos who ridicule Governor Palin because of her personal appearance are obsessed with the the personal appearances of Bammie and Michelle. There are recent articles out there stating that Bammie is taking Michelle to Moscow to teach the Russkis what “glamorous” is supposed to look like. Weird.
And did you see that sweater she was wearing? It looked like she pieced together 3 old sweaters she found at the Goodwill. And I love how the media keeps telling us that what we are seeing is called “glamor.” It’s an absolute laugh riot.
I get the feeling somewhere on the Upper West Side, Tina Fey high fived someone when she was ‘listed’ with Dowd and Couric. Wow...she finally ‘made it!!!’
Breitbart nailed this one. And I like the ‘pad throwing’ analogy. After all, liberal women are preoccupied with their ‘reproductive rights’ as their absolute mantra. How ironic a representation.
And I can post that. I’m a woman.
I disagree with the article's author -- the old Clinton-era phrase "safe, legal, and rare" was not in the 2008 DNC platform.
Now it's "The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of the ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to undermine that right."
It's much worse than "safe, legal, and rare". It opens the door to unlimited taxpayer funding of abortion -- and "oppose any and all efforts to undermine that right" will eventually take us to funding abortions without parental consent for 14-year olds in the government schools.
Ooops...one more thing. Joy(less) Behar as Bosley? David Doyle had better legs...
This thread needs to be merged with the ‘wife carrying race’ thread from Finland.
They DBM knows that they control perception and will do whatever they can to destroy Palin. The opening page for Yahoo today headlined Palin for an article stating several times that all the ethics claims against her were a big part of her stepping down. Never once did the article even allude to the FACT that she has been cleared in every single ethics claim. They know that the claims are enough to make her suspect. The DBM lives on lies.
“Once the ladies did their job, liberal men like Jon Stewart and David Letterman had the cover to join the hate campaign.”
Leaves the image of the videos of girls fighting each other O’reilly had been showing. Once Dowd and the others left Palin bloodied and bruised they sent the men in to finish her off.
Thank goodness Palin’s not going out like that. We need Palin and other real women to be in the mainstream.
Liz Trotta joined with Dowd on Sunday on Fox belittling Sarah Palin and praising Dowd for her hit piece.
You can see the snobby Trotta in action here:
http://conservativexpress.blogspot.com/2009/07/gop-palin-hater-liz-trotta-sarah-palin.html
homework
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“or agree on having no answer why they hate Sarah so”
Oh, come on, how simple can it be? Evil hates good, and the stronger good is, the greater the threat it presents to evil, the more evil hates it.
You don’t have to be Fellini to figure that one out.
Oh my, does she ever get it right!
The election and the Obama doctrine are evidence of a war of civilizations. One civilization is the urban power centers, the other is rural and suburban. The later loves children, values family, hard work and self sufficiency, and depend on the providence of God for their daily bread the former values anonymous hookups, happening night clubs, control of the unruly lower class and don't acknowledge god except to blaspheme. Obama is Chicago hip - Palin is backwoods folksy! Obama went to Columbia to learn to be a Marxist philosopher, Palin went to Moscow Idaho to learn how to make a living. Obama is hip hop while Sarah is country. The Urban power centers loathe rural culture and mock the south - they are too sophisticated to worship God and look with disdain on those do! Snobbery by any other could smell so foul!
LOL “Pad Throwers” is a great new adjective!
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