Charles Pierce unloads on the barrel:
A friend bailed on the speech, making the very plausible case that Palin is simply another political celebrity freakshow, like Donald Trump. I can see the point there but, with Palin, and watching the hysterical reception her puerile screed received, there is something more serious going on. She is the living representation of the infantilization of American politics, a poisonous Grimm Sister telling toxic fairy tales to audiences drunk on fear, and hate and nonsense. She respects no standards but her own. She is in perpetual tantrum, railing against her betters, which is practically everyone, and volunteering for the job of avatar to the country’s reckless vandal of a political Id. It was the address of a malignant child delivered to an audience of malignant children.
Update from a reader:
My eyes actually bugged out when she said, “I do not like ‘Oh yes we can.'” Is it just me or was that a little bit of “sassy black woman” finger-snapping, head-swiveling, lip-pursing?
Another notes further:
Man, Sarah Palin even plagiarized that Dr. Seuss bullshit from an email meme that was popular three years ago.
Plus, there’s the irony that at the end of Green Eggs and Ham, the narrator does a total about-face and it turns out that he actually loves the very thing he’d just been railing against out of complete ignorance. Maybe Sarah never made it that far.
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