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Sarah Palin has transcended politics, and not in a good way. First it was a sports radio show, and now it hits the sportspages of the daily papers.
Here in KC, sportswriter Jason Whitlock took Palin’s legacy one step further beyond politics. First, though, a little background to bring you up to speed.
Jason has been on a tear lately in going after Carl Peterson, the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs have had their troubles for quite a while, many of which Jason traces back not to the coach but to Peterson, who decides which players to sign, which to trade, and which to let go. Chiefs owner Clark Hunt is Peterson’s boss, and . . . well, let’s just let Jason tell you about it (emphasis added):
If you’ve ever fallen in love with a beautiful young woman and rationalized her obvious flaws by convincing yourself they’ll disappear as she matures, then you can understand how Clark Hunt views his Chiefs.
[snip]
I’ve never really believed the theory that the Hunt family only cares about attendance at Arrowhead Stadium when it comes to evaluating Carl Peterson’s performance. The Hunts want to win. They want to field a competitive team.
What I do believe now is that Clark Hunt allows attendance to cloud his evaluation of everything else Peterson does. Peterson is Sarah Palin. He only needs to bat his eyes, wink and repeat a stump speech about season-ticket sales to get Clark Hunt to forget the question was about postseason success.
And it’s not just the sportswriters in Kansas City. Philly sportswriter John Smallwood knocked Eagles coach Andy Reid last week for his poor explanation of the team’s poor performance:
I’m sticking with my assessment after Sunday’s loss, when Reid rolled out every coaching cliché in the book rather than explain what is going wrong with his foundering football team:
[mangled pile of bad clichés omitted]
That answer was right out of the Sarah Palin school of talking points, only Reid doesn’t have the charm to gloss over the fact that there was little substance in what he said.
Ouch.
Of course, Sarah’s not doing herself any favors with the sports media. Pandering to sports fans to win their votes is never a good idea.
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Great post, Peterr. Palin has become part of the lexicon – not in a good way.
Mwahahaha!
Here is hoping this sticks so we never have to endure another national election with Sarah Palin on the ticket.
Yow. the wink.
I hope Palin is shunned backstage on SNL. OTOH, they do appreciate good acting…
Wow, Peterr!
In the great tradition of adding “Gate” to scandals and pseudo-scandals of all flavors, Ni (Palin) will have her own category.
And when it becomes lexicon of sports talk… fini.
She is such a tool! I see Vice President Biden is attacking her today. He needs to continue to expose her every lie and then rebut it quickly and fiercely. Great strategy by the Obama-Biden camp.
The Digg is up!
I like this quote:
Someone I wouldn’t normally quote – or even read.
That is hilarious!
Then there’s this, from the RNC:
That’s quite a trio: Alaska’s First Dood, who apparent was up to his eyeballs in private personnel matters in Alaska; George “Macaca” Allen, famous for his welcoming attitude toward lifelong Virginians with deep natural tans; and Virgil Goode, who welcomed Keith Ellison into the House of Representatives with a screed against using the Koran instead of the Bible at his swearing in.
Yep, it’s quite a trio.
she didn’t do so hot with the hockey fans in philly, either;
HEY!!!the Barack & Hillary show is commin’ to my town on Monday!!! Walkin’ distance from where I work!!!! Now, if I could only get a ticket. How can I score a ticket to an Obama rally?
God willing Palin will not become vice-president. But it will be interesting just from a curiosity standpoint to see if she becomes a big star in her own right, as a politician, or just fade into memory shortly after the election. The public is fickle that way. She is bound to run for senator from Alaska, depending on what happens with Stevens. You now FOX would open the wallet wide to get her to do her own show, she is so rabidly popular with the far right.
Did he attack her? He was gracious towards her last night on Leno. Took a little swipe at J the P.
It’s hard to see how she can become any more of a laughingstock. Were that ever to happen, I think people would stop laughing so much. The thought of her a heartbeat away…… t’ain’t funny McGee, as my Mom used to say. Then again, mom used to call people “that one.” The Jesus freaks would love her.
I think that Palin has a future. I think she will be the Geraldine Ferraro of her generation.
Don’t blame the GOP, it’s all they have left, a collection of convicted criminal and disgraced politiciansI caan only imagine what Todd Palin would be able to pull off if McCain was elected then something happen to him and Palin taking over. What’s worse than Dick Cheney, an even dumber Dick Cheney.
I doubt she’ll just fade away. she an todd are very ambitious fucks. (wqhenever i say “Todd” i think of Jane Curtin and Mrs. Lubner. Taaaahhhhhd)
ick
Shorter Sarah:
Let them eat Freedom of Information requests.
Call the local Obama/Biden office . . . or better yet, drop by and ask what you can do to help the cause — then ask how to get tickets.
Dick Cheney is many things, but dumb is *not* one of them.
Correction:
thanks. i’ve already volunteered and done some stuff and i have training for more stuff on sunday. i found out just before i had to leave work and called but didn’t have time to go through a directory maze. i’ll ask at training sunday. even if i can’t get in maybe i’ll just go hang out.
Except for the “pro American parts” of the country, Palin is destined to become a political metaphor for unprepared. Of course, if she becomes more strident over the next 2 weeks, Palin may lay claim to Joe McCarthy’s title
as America’s most reckless pol.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) today announced that Todd Palin, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband, will be the Honorary
RaceRacist Official at the Tums Quikpak 500 NASCAR race in Martinsville, VA on Sunday, October 19. Former Virginia Gov. George Allen and U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode will join Todd Palin at the race to meet with voters and NASCAR drivers.Sorry just one little correction.
Some Sarah Palin jokes I thought up:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..jokes.html
…easy as shooting wolves from an airplane.
So far I’ve noticed baseball media folks and football folks using Palin as a cliche. I’m looking for a NASCAR story, but so far no luck. Perhaps on Sunday . . .
batshit crazy bachman on matthews show
For you in Michigan, Matt Millen is Sarah Palin with breasts.
Tums!
hahahahaha
uh, strike that, reverse it.
Today. To paraphrase, Joe is sick and TIRED, TIRED, TIRED of her questioning the patriotism of Barack and by extension, him.
Todd is in play. Talk about lack of patriotism.
In addition to leading once Obama and Biden are elected, this pressure against the right must not wane.
Bachmann makes me wanna throw something.
Just don’t yell unkind things about McCain/Palin if you go to that Obama rally!
You know John McCain says that happens all the time at Obama rallies. It’s just never been picked up by the media.
If you did, it would be most likely in a sexual cliche kind of way. I doubt you will find any NASCAR commentator speaking poorly of Sarah Palin in any way.
McCain said that we are all Georgian’s now and the new line is that we are anti-American now.
OMG I just saw the Rep Bachman piece on Hardball. Wow. This is has gone very, very far. The Republicans have succeeded in bringing back racism and McCarthyism.
Ooooh be very scared of the liberals who are anti-american!!
I hope all the independent voters watching this are thinking what I am thinking…”WTF is she talking about?”
sarah will become an icon, she will be in the;
“do you want to know how dumb erick was?
he was SO dumb, sarah palin taught HIM vocalbulary”
bing
Absolutely. I’m serious. I come here when I wanna say unkind things about Taaahhhhhhhd and his wife. Besides, I don’t wanna hurt anybody’s feelings.
If I do go I would expect it to be a very positive event. Never been to one.
And hey, who the fuck is Palin saying she likes to go to the pro-America places in the country??!!! Because I know that in her view where I grew up (Shithole, NJ) is not among them so fuck her!!! Piss me off.
we all knew this would happen a long time ago, we only hoped the movement against bush was stong enough to overcome the brutal campaign we knew republicans would run
it seems like obama is just such a man
McCain is the leader of his party and he needs to give a speech and stand up to this type of hatred. (yeah right) He stopped comparing Obama to terrorist in his campaign just to give himself cover.
Have you tried his website?
McCain is not a honorable man.
yeah.
Great post Peterr. But you might need to mention that the Kansas City Chiefs are a professional football. With their record in recent years, many people may not be aware of that fact.
What a piece of work she is. Who’s running against her so I can send some money?
That is a professional football TEAM. Really.
past election day, I suspect that somebody up there will launch an impeachment campaign….
Me too. I’m pondering getting a “Make My Day: Call Me UnAmerican” t-shirt.
Hi folks. Check out this link from Mudflats:
Sarah Palin: Fiscal Conservative?
I’ve enjoyed checking out Mudflats’ posts since first encountering it several weeks ago. My impression is that there are a lot of Alaskans who are pushing back hard against the Palin pony show. I’m also hoping that when Sarah-cuda has to finally come home, she’ll be looking at an Impeach Palin effort from some of those Alaskans.
“Hey Sarah! I can see the end of your political career even out here on Okinawa!” (I plagarized this one, but it’s in the top-ten political barbs from this season, at least to me;-)
Dave in Okinawa
OT: Really scary blond on NOW. Can’t have a “Pres. Obama…that name.” Atheist mother: that scares me. Mulsin father: That should scare everybody.
Im beginning to feel like Kathleen Parker: this is shocking;)
It’s really unfortunate that Sarah insists on Palin’ around with intolerant psychos.
Palin has stated she has nothing to lose in this election.
But we, the American people have something to lose.
Perhaps if there was some sort of ante up for her?
Like wads of her own money, or give up the Governership if she loses that will aid in making her and her campaign more competitive.
She needs something on the line because she hasn’t to date showed any ounce of credibility for what she bids for.