I don't understand it. I just don't. This post isn't like all my others. It isn't written so I can laugh at myself. I really worry, I am too old and out of it to understand the Sarah Palin Syndrome.
I pride myself in being young at heart and with it. I even want to campaign for the legalization of weed. But I don't understand what is tapping into the emotions of so many people when they hear or read the words 'Sarah Palin'.
Oh, I know all about the political polarization. The wars between Progressives and Conservatives. I follow them closely and love the philosophical battlefield skirmishes. I'm learning lots of stuff and constantly adjusting my moral compass.
But just how does Sara tap so quickly into so many emotional psyches?
My world is not getting as emotionally excited about Muslim extremists in our Mosques. (My world being "at least 60% of the Progressives AND 60% of the Conservatives). My world isn't even getting that quickly excited about God... Christmas, Religion in the Schools, all the well-established fight venues about God Issues are not making it. The God Fights are interesting, but not Sarah Palin interesting.
Sarah has it! Just what? I don't know. My wife loves her. Identifies with her. Doesn't want to read her book or know about her politics. She just loves her. My neice and nephew (thirty somethings) hate her. I don't dare bring her name up. I love them and would be on their shit list in about one moment if I did.
And Me? Sara really interests me as a phenominon. She's having an effect. I can't stand not being able to analyze how why it happens and come up with a nice simple answer. And I am very good at that. Analyzing stuff. All my answers please me no end...until I change them.
I think Sally is young and beautiful and I love to look at her and listen to her talk (not for what she says, just for her voice-just like I like to hear that actress' voice in Fargo and the phychiatrist lady's on the Sopranos).
But she generates no lust in me. I can't even think about what it would be like to have her. And that is a real Huh??? for me. My doctor Fruehan thinks I even have sexual thoughts about chickens and other small animals. (SMALL animals...performance anxiety fear! Too much Cialis and not enough Action??)
And I find nothing she says politically new and provactive. Same ole, same ole.
Well, maybe I can't help trying to make myself laugh while writing this. But I really don't understand how I can vicariously tap into having an immediate and strong emotion reaction for and immediate and strong emotion reaction against Sarah Palin so I can understand my world.
Share a release with me. Comment on why you hate or love Sara Pee.
1 comment:
In her new book "Going Rogue" Palin asserts that she was eager and willing to go on SNL just prior to the election, where of course she appeared (once again) to be the butt of the joke. Recent e-mails from the McCain camp point out that this is in fact an egregious lie (as is the majority of the new book). In truth, Palin never wanted to go on the show and she was told quite directly: if you don't want to, don't do it. The entire gestalt of Sarah Palin has been to pass the blame on everyone else since the very beginning of her national celebrity indoctrination. It makes one wonder, in the world of Sarah Palin, what exactly is she ever held responsible or accountable for? This is the real reason people hate her and see her for what she is. And oh yes, it is hate. People hate politicians and they hate unintelligent, petty and completely incompetent ones even more.
She also states in her book that people seemed to be confusing the things Tina Fey (whose brilliant impersonation of Palin won her an Emmy) was saying on SNL with things that Palin was actually saying. The joke here is of course Fey was mostly just repeating words that came directly out of Sarah Palin's own mouth. The most impressive thing about Fey's impersonation was she actually never had to make anything up - she just had to nail an accent (which she did perfectly).
Whenever I see a picture of Sarah Palin or read her name in a blurb, I usually just think of that line from Annie Hall, written and delivered by the great Woody Allen:
"Right. Well, I have to - I have to go now, Duane, because I, I'm due back on the planet Earth."
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