Sarah Palin & the Best Troll Cave on the Internet
Going Rogue, Palin's new book
To date I haven’t posted anything I’d consider political, so this will be a bit different than anything you’ve read on my site. Today’s post is about Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue.
Let me start by saying that I am about as far from a Palin supporter as you can get. I don’t hate the woman, but she is in no way qualfied to be either vice president or president of the United States.
In reading the book something very rapidly became clear. Sarah doesn’t accept responsibility for anything. Katie Couric was mean to her, and the interview was ‘taken out of context’. McCain’s staff caused each and every problem the campaign suffered. (In a whiny voice) It wasn’t her fault.
The prank call from the Canadian radio station? Yeah that was a staff member’s fault, not hers. Troopergate? That was the evil liberals trying to take her down.
Quitting her job as Governor and forsaking the oath she swore? Of course that wasn’t her fault. She had to deal with *gasps* lawsuits and ethics probes and it was hard. The last is my favorite and I’d love to see Palin talk to Bill Clinton about frivilous lawsuits.
The bottom line is that she took responsibility for nothing. Now don’t get me wrong, everyone makes mistakes and Palin was obviously new to the political scene. This book was her chance to own up and pave the way for the future.
Instead she comes out looking like a whiny victim, and the ugly reality is that no one likes a loser. Yet somehow she still has her diehard supporters. People like these tirelessly champion her, yet as you can see from the link not a single one can say why.
They can’t name a single one of her positions. They can’t say what she would do as president or vice president that might save the country. They can’t say why she’d do a good job. In the end they can’t really say anything except we love Sarah!
So, where am I going with all this? Well, when I first heard about the book I went to amazon after reading my pirated copy. I took a look at the reviews because I was curious to see what people thought of the book.
As you can imagine things were broken into two camps. Many of the reviews were five starred. They had nothing to say about the contents of the book, and basically consisted of We love Sarah and her book is GREAT!
The other camp were one star reviews by liberals who’d read the book. One of these reviews was particularly interesting, because it was posted by a man who’d lived in Alaska for 55 years and who gave a real assessment of Palin. Having actually lived in her state while she was governor it seemed like his opinion would carry some weight.
The conservatives came out of the woodwork to attack this man, and I jumped in to defend him. That’s where the title of this thread comes in.
If you’ve watched the clip of the Palin supporters earlier in this post you have some idea of their mindset and intellectual capability. They can’t carry on a rational debate. Instead they parrot soundbytes picked up on Fox news or from Glen Beck.
I subscribed to the conversation so that every time someone posted I’d get an email informing me. This allowed me to easily keep tabs on the review comments and for the past couple of weeks one of my recreational activities has been utterly destroying Palin supporters.
It’s been very amusing. They all lead with the same argument, which is how Obama is the antichrist/muslim/liberal/insert insult who is dooming our country to destruction. Then they move on to anyone else who’s ever said anything negative about Palin or even about Bush.
For 23 pages (so far) I used the sword of logic to crush their arguments. I point out that Obama’s failings do not make up for Palin’s. I explain the multitude of ways in which Bush damaged the United States during his two terms. But the most enjoyable thing was the challenge I posed over and over.
Why do you support Palin? Is it because she would fix the economy? Make abortion illegal? Deport all the evil muslims? After twenty three pages and hundreds of angry responses not a single person has successfully answered the question. They literally can’t tell me why they like her, beyond saying that she’s real.
Then they launch right back into attacking Obama. This is especially amusing because I don’t like Obama, and actually voted for Ron Paul. I don’t support him or his actions, which confused the hell out of the conservatives attacking me. They couldn’t wrap their mind around the fact that I didn’t support Obama.
Long after I’d agreed with them that he is doing a poor job they still fell back on attacking him as their only defense. They like Palin because Obama is evil.
I know most people look down on trolls, but I’m hoping in this instance you’ll forgive me. Sarah Palin’s book review is the best troll cave ever and I plan to live there for some time to come.
If you find yourself bored at work I encourage you to read the thread, and jump right on in if you enjoy trolling the Palin followers as much as I do.
Amazon is a big site and Palin is obsessed with how she is viewed. I have this little fantasy that she’ll actually see my posts, and that somewhere she is cursing my name.
I saw Oprah’s interview with Sarah Palin. I was so disgusted by her and Oprah’s gutless questions that I wrote a letter to Oprah, describing in detail my dissapointment in her. I’ve seen her do tough interviews, pick people apart and ask the “real” questions. Somehow the interview with Palin was different. She tiptoed around the issues that had very obviously been pre-approved for discussion.
Watching Palin talk is painful to me. I think she’s had a lot of coaching on what she could say, or rather should say. And in between her scripted B.S. her actual opinions spill out. She contradicts herself repeatedly throughout the interview with Oprah. On the topic of her daughter’s child and the “boy father” she quickly blurted out that he was just a porn star looking for attention and he never visits her grandchild. Yet five minutes later she’s inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner.
Obviously there are much much more important issues than this concerning Palin’s “whishy-washy” public speaking. This is a small example of her obvious ignorance and inexperience.
I completely agree that she sounds like a whiny child blaming everyone around her for all her issues….the problem is most people can’t see through it! It truly frightens me that she still has supporters.
I went and read the whole book review comment thread. Wow, people truly are scary. I found it extrememly entertaining…it’s like watching a car crash…I couldn’t take my eyes off the ignorance people were spewing!