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Lurid Moonbat Fantasy #62: Sarah Palin to usher in "Rovian" police state!!!

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Posted by Mike 2008-09-23 09:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 She's comparing Sarah Palin to Evita????

Ok....well...she was a sports reporter, so I guess that's kinda/sorta close to being a radio actress, but exactly what rank did Todd Palin hold in the military again?

She's stuck in that "a woman can't attain power unless she marries into it or is born to it" BS. Stick to picking out earth tones for alpha males, sweetie. It's what you're best at.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-09-23 09:36|| 2008-09-23 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 These moonbats ought to switch from vegan diets to something else. It seems to be driving them crazy. Maybe it's the obsession with global warming.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-23 09:41|| 2008-09-23 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Recently, on Drudge, I think, was a report that vegetables shrunk your brain. Need we more evidence than this?

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-09-23 09:48|| 2008-09-23 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Al Gore's former fashion adviser
Strange profession ... I never put the word "fashion" and "Al Gore" together in a sentence before. Its not something obvious...

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-23 09:53|| 2008-09-23 09:53|| Front Page Top

#5 May I sell her a bridge in Brooklyn?
Pretty please!

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-23 09:55|| 2008-09-23 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 It says a lot about the left (and the Huffington post) that they don't tar and feather her and laugh her out of the public eye for such nonsense.

Naomi Wolf is watching the hardcore left control on the Feminist movement, and thus the "voice" of women being torn away and it is driving her insane.

I would really love to see a blogger or journalist ask these people about their articles a year from now.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-23 10:22|| 2008-09-23 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Think Naomi knew who Sarah Palin was a month ago?
I sometimes think we should enact this "Rovian Police State" just to make these people happy.

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-23 10:53|| 2008-09-23 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Wolf was born in San Francisco, California in 1962

In 2006, the Sunday Herald carried an interview in which Wolf claimed to have taken on the spirit of a 13-year-old boy and saw Jesus Christ.[2] The paper called her comments "more than a little disturbing," and Salon magazine called the confession "truly outlandish."

Camille Paglia derided Wolf as unable to perform "historical analysis," and called her education "completely removed from reality."

Likewise, Christina Hoff Sommers criticized Wolf for publishing the claim that 150,000 women were dying every year from anorexia.

Caryn James lambasted the book as a "sloppily researched polemic as dismissible as a hackneyed adventure film...Even by the standards of pop-cultural feminist studies, "The Beauty Myth" is a mess." After rejecting her thesis, the review leveled even harsher appraisal of her methodology and statistics, writing, "Ms. Wolf doesn't begin to prove her claims because her logic is so lame, her evidence so easily knocked down...Her statistics are shamefully secondhand and outdated."

The New York Times published a stinging review that characterized Wolf as a "frustratingly inept messenger: a sloppy thinker and incompetent writer. She tries in vain to pass off tired observations as radical apercus, subjective musings as generational truths, sappy suggestions as useful ideas."

The Library Journal excoriated the work, writing, "Overgeneralization abounds as she attempts to apply the microcosmic events of this mostly white, middle-class, liberal milieu to a whole generation....There is a desperate defensiveness in the tone of this book which diminishes the force of her argument."

Slate Magazine wrote, "Both her evidence and her reasoning are deeply flawed...Her gaps and imprecision give fodder to skeptics who think sexual harassment charges are often just a form of hysteria."

The Wall Street Journal wrote, "One is left with the unpleasant suspicion that Ms. Wolf wanted to get back into the spotlight and went rummaging in her basket of anecdotes until she found a juicy one to squeeze for publicity."[28] The Washington Post called for an end to "exaggerated victimhood as embodied by Wolf."[29] Author Camille Paglia described herself as "shocked" at the allegations and told the Guardian, "It really smacks of the Salem witch-hunts and all the accompanying hysteria. It really grates on me that Naomi Wolf for her entire life has been batting her eyes and bobbing her boobs in the face of men and made a profession out of courting male attention."

Wolf has spoken favorably about the dress required of women living in Muslim countries. She observed

The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women's appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one's husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling - toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.

According to a report by Michael Duffy in Time, Wolf was paid a monthly salary of $15,000 "in exchange for advice on everything from how to win the womens vote to shirt-and-tie combinations."

I read her Wikipedia page so you don't have to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf

Posted by Parabellum 2008-09-23 11:20|| 2008-09-23 11:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Naomi did have one brief moment of sanity, when she wrote "Fire with Fire" - wherein she pointed out that strict doctrinaire feminism was getting women nowhere... and if women were going to play seriously in the political world, we would have to let go of the man-bashing, the various 'loyalty tests' that the hard-line feminists were apt to apply to other women... and tolerate divergent views among us.

Seriously, I wonder what happened to 'that' Naomi Wolf. It's as if the woman who wrote an eminently sane and realistic book about women and serious political power had been kidnapped, heavily medicated and sent to a reeducation camp, where she was made to produce this kind of insane dribble.

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-09-23 11:40|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2008-09-23 11:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Another brilliant extreme-leftist plan by Rarel Koveski, chief campaign strategist to Obama.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/RarelKoveski.jpg

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-23 14:41|| 2008-09-23 14:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Gawd - sand my eyes out - I did a google image search on her.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-23 15:02|| 2008-09-23 15:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Her unhinged state was made very apparent during W's first term. She had a complete midlife crisis meltdown and wrote an article claiming that young women's preference for trimming of their nether regions represented some sort of repressive setback for the women's movement and that it was wrong that the sight of any naked female body in any state (read, her own) didn't excite modern young men into mad lust, followed by an embarrasing onscreen groping of a horrified David Horowitz on MSNBC a few weeks later.

She seemed to disappear for a while after that, I assumed she was in counseling. I see that I assumed wrong.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-23 15:06|| 2008-09-23 15:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Parebellum, are you a glutton for inanity or what?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-09-23 16:03|| 2008-09-23 16:03|| Front Page Top

#14 James Taranto, "Best of the Web":

What lies behind such fantasies? We suspect the answer is that for malcontented citizens of a free society, imagining that one is being persecuted is a means of self-affirmation, of styling oneself a hero. Like a nut in search of a squirrel, Wolf seeks validation in being preyed upon. She flatters herself that she is important enough for anyone to be interested in reading her mail. She even invokes the name of erstwhile Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky (though she misspells it).

Posted by Mike 2008-09-23 16:23|| 2008-09-23 16:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Compare wid FOXNEWS AM > AHMADINEJAD - THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IS NEARING COLLAPSE.

Moud is prob doing the "PRO-BUSH BUT MODERATE POTUS MCCAIN + JIMMY CARTER II POTUS OBAMA + ANGRY RUSSIA-CHINA, etc = NUCLEAR IRAN/ISLAMISM = OWG CALIPHATE" Post-Jan 2009 Math???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-23 21:15|| 2008-09-23 21:15|| Front Page Top

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