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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
SARAH PALIN: WHITE HOUSE BUNNY
PRO-LIFERS, this one is for you. *SMACK*.
Here's the big difference between pro-life and pro-choice:
As someone who is pro-choice, I don't want to prevent anyone who is pro-life from making decisions about their own bodies. I want to protect their right to act in a manner befitting their convictions. This is the ideological freedom upon which America was founded.
Pro-lifers seek to prevent me from making my own decisions about my body. This makes pro-lifers, by their own tacit admission, incapable of making seasoned, moral adult decisions for themselves, and incapable of tolerating the decisions and convictions of other people that are different than theirs.
Critics (pro-lifers and feminists alike!) have been deriding me for using profanity, but personally, I think their trying to force a crucifix up the collective female fanny is rude, insulting, and an intense violation of our humanity.
Pro-life women, if you were on the verge of being raped (not to mention impregnated by rape or incest, and then criminalized for getting an abortion) -- the ones among you not brain-damaged from huffing feminine deodorant spray might use a few choice four-letter words yourselves.
Squeal all you like, just stay out my underpants. You're not my type.
Here's the text of my Sarah Palin article on Salon.com, which seems to be arousing the ire of backwater, atavistic, evangelical Christian Taliban zealots everywhere.
Pro-Lifers, if I've made any of you finally see the light, your next abortion is on me.
Love, Cintra
| Sarah Palin may be a lady, but she ain't no woman.
I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, "Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a 'sexy librarian' costume -- as a vice president? That's a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it."
Palin may have been a boost of political Viagra for the limp, bloodless GOP (and according to an ABC/Washington Post poll she has created a boost in McCain's standing among white women to a 53 over Obama's 41). But ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions -- their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership.
Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right. The throat she's so hot to cut is that of all American women.
I don't want Sarah Palin being the representative leader and custodian of my rights, my Constitution and my country any more than I want polygamist compound leader Warren Jeffs baby-sitting for my preteen goddaughters.
As a woman who does not believe what Palin believes, the thought of such an opportunistic anti-female in the White House -- in the Cheney chair, no less -- is akin to ideological brain rape. What this Republican blowup doll does with her own insides in accord with her own faith is her business. But, like the worst and most terrifying of religious extremists, she seems very comfortable with the idea of imposing her own views on everyone else.
I did not think that women being downgraded to second-class, three-holed chattel would be a pressing concern in my lifetime. I thought it was like polio, or witch burning -- an inhumane error that had already been corrected. But after eight years of Republican hegemony, and now the potential ascendance of this sheep in ewe's clothing, I am so mortally offended I feel like it is really time for women to be angry, hardcore and disgusted again. Not just with old white Christian patriarchs and their hopelessly calcified, religiously condoned misogyny, but also with the self-abnegating, submissive female Uncle Tommies whose ambitions and eagerness to please the powerful males of their tribe are so desperate that they would sell out their sovereignty over their own bodies. And yours too.
Republicans have -- in a P.T. Barnum, sucker-born-every-minute kind of way -- successfully framed themselves as the custodians of Christian ethics and conservative family values. This stance successfully masks their wholesale class war against the majority of their supporters, who continue to vote blatantly against their own economic interests in thrall to this deliberate emotional manipulation. It was the media critic Douglas Rushkoff who pointed out, several years ago, that Republican politicians were employing marketing techniques perfected by Clotaire Rapaille. Rapaille, broadly paraphrased, introduced a theory that approximately 80 percent of all decision making is done at the level of the limbic system -- our lowest, most colorless, reptilian emotional level. Republican strategies are consistent with a belief that the voting process, for most people, is full of feelings -- but devoid of reason.
Sarah Palin, in this light, makes so little sense that she makes perfect sense. She speciously represents a new power paradigm of the Nice Mommy: the opposite of Hillary (the Mean Mommy), the opposite of Oprah (black, and therefore foreign), the opposite of Martha Stewart (another Mean Mommy). In her support for women on women's issues, she has done everything but volunteer for her own circumcision. She tacitly promises a roll backward into old-fashioned sexual roles -- like Old Testament-style old. Her morality is fixed, predictable and inflexible. There are those who will find comfort in the fact that they will know exactly what can be expected from Palin: Free will subordinated to obedience of an airtight, evangelical interpretation of the demands of God, country and Republican men.
The choice of Palin represents what the Christian right is really saying to the women of America. The subtext: It's a Faustian bargain, girls. To elevate your sex to power and respectability, you must first give us the keys to your chastity belt.
It is unsurprising that the morally compromised fraternity of corruption-infested Republican robber barons and war profiteers came up with this stunt, but we must regard it in the same light as the rest of their treasonous, criminal behavior. We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.
It is a kind of eerie coincidence that Sarah Palin is being sprung on the public at the same time as the bimbo/frat-boy titty comedy "House Bunny," which features a poster of a beautiful young lady with Playmate-style bunny ears, big, stupid eyes and her mouth hanging open like someone just punched her.
Sarah Palin is the White House bunny -- the most nauseating novelty confection of the evangelical mind-set since Southern "chastity balls," wherein teen girls pledge abstinence from premarital sex by ceremonially faux-marrying their own fathers.
Sarah Palin is the sexual front of the culture war and the embodiment of the bold social engineering stance of the new authoritarianism that Republicans have been employing ever since they stole the election in 2000. As a result of conservative Republican policies, America has proved itself to be too rife with fraud, bureaucratic constipation, self-inflicted economic calamity, cronyism and incompetence to effect any positive movement anywhere at all, even at home.
But, the Republicans seem to be saying, at least we can offer you the hope of putting women back in their place.
Bristol Palin will no doubt be a fine example as a first teen, particularly now that her mother is inflicting an old-fashioned shotgun wedding on the hapless, horny, condomless youth who impregnated her.
The Republicans are, in effect, saying: We're not going to win this race on the basis of being the better candidates. Barack Obama is going to make you think. You don't like thinking. Here's an It Girl vice president who is easy on the eyes, you stodgy old white baby boomer. She's like a grown-up version of Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island." She embodies the raw conviction that everything the Republicans have ever done has been right. She'll make you feel better about yourself for voting for Bush. Twice.
Relax: The war is God's plan. (Or whatever.) Women, even if they are vice president, can always look pretty, worship their husbands in the fear of God and never, ever resist invasions from unwanted sperm.
Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.
She is dangerous. She is not just pro-life, she's anti-life. She is the suppression of human feeling and instinct. She is a slave to the compromises dictated by her own desire for power and control. Sarah Palin is untethered from her own needs and those of her family, which is in crisis, with a pregnant daughter, a son on the way to Iraq and a special-needs infant.
She should, however, be a galvanizing point for women everywhere. Not to support her candidacy but to rebel against the Republican Party and take back the respect and equality so hard-earned by the women's liberation movement in the 1970s.
We've been shanghaied. This is sick. We need to slap the face of our bad frat-boy date and walk home from this drive-in movie. Sarah Palin may put out to be popular, but the rest of America's women don't need to do the same.
If not, what the hell? John McCain should go the whole Hugh Hefner route and have eight V.P.s that all look exactly like Sarah Palin.
It's McCain's world, girls: You'd just live in it.
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You're insane.
Posted by: Para at September 10, 2008 5:18 PM
Cintra,
This is your doctor.
You forgot to take your meds, and your derangement is showing again.
Please stop comparing yourself to women of real achievement and morality. You cannot hope to compete, so try not to be so bitter.
Posted by: Cintra's Doctor at September 10, 2008 5:49 PM
Cintra,
I just wanted to thank you for additional votes you have given the McCain/Palin ticket.
Keep up the good work!
Sarah Palin
Posted by: Sarah Palin at September 10, 2008 7:19 PM
Congratulations. Your knee-jerk, hypoblic Anti-Palin rant has now gotten you noticed by National Review and other media.
Make the most of your fifteen minutes, as you clearly did this to whore your upcoming book.
By the way, Diablo Cody called. She wants her shtick back.
smewchies
Posted by: Jason R at September 10, 2008 7:29 PM
You are ten kinds of awesome, Cintra. Thanks for articulating the feelings I've had for the past several days in a better way than the "GAH! GAH! GAH!" response I've been unable to get out of my head.
Posted by: mharvey816 at September 10, 2008 9:11 PM
"Sarah",
I just wanted to thank you for the 18 million Hillary Clinton voters that you have guaranteed to support our campaign.
Congratulations on winning over the remaining 18, and enjoy your 15 minutes.
Barak
Hahaha, wow, now, I can see how much fun it can be to impersonate someone else. What is truly remarkable, however, is how someone lacked enough self-esteem to post four (lame) times. (Posting twice, and then getting your buttons pushed so badly you came back a couple of hours later.) Oh, and getting dissed by National Review is like being called a fag by Larry Craig.
Posted by: MP at September 11, 2008 12:42 AM
Cintra,
You frighten me. It's sad that someone could be filled with such hate and ignorance. It is also sad the for people like you, who belive the only important issue in the women's movement is abortion. Only a dimented mind like yours could look at a woman who has worked her way to being a Governor, pushing aside the establishment good ole' boys along the way and call her a Stepford Wife.
For the record, I don't agree with Palin on abortion. I'm in the "safe, legal, and rare" group. But you need to realize that people like Palin aren't concerned about what you do with your body. They are concerned about what you want to be able to do, at any time, to the live person inside your body. That baby that has no defense and has no say in the matter when you decide to up and kill it. You may not agree that that living thing in your body is a person, but people like Sarah Palin do. People like her are concerned with that body, not yours. Liberals always say they want to protect the little guy; the victims. In reality that is what the pro-lifers want to do.
The vast majority of the people in this country believe that abortion should be legal, but with restrictions. The fact is, abortion will always be legal in this country. The worst case scenario for you would be that Roe v. Wade is overturned and then the states will decide for themselves. In which case maybe one or two would ban it altogether, some would allow it with little or no restrictions, and most would fall somewhere in between.
So I ask you this Cyntra, who cares if Palin is against abortion in all circumstances? I'm sure you feel it should be legal up until the point in which the fetus graduates from high school, but even the possible ascention of Palin to the actual presidency is not going to lead to a country in which abortion is outlawed.
Get over it, and pick a different issue to get panties, or boxer shorts, in a wad over.
Posted by: Jeff at September 11, 2008 5:03 PM
God, you're good! Fun to read someone who knows how to encapsulate the insanity and bring the demonic Palin out front in a way that only morons can get upset about.
Posted by: Ann at September 11, 2008 6:08 PM
Jeff's wrong.
To start with, I agree with you about abortion. But I do see the other side, who believe that your body end where your fetus begins.
But it doesn't make any difference what any of us believe. The issue of abortion in this country was settled by Roe v. Wade. Abortion at will in the first trimester is a civil right, like moving from one state to another or attending the religious service of your choice.
More so, actually- parolees can be prohibited from moving, and human sacrifice is out even if it's at church. But nothing can stand in the way of a first trimester abortion.
Absent a Constitutional Amendment, that's the law. Criminalising of abortion isn't coming back any more than slavery or prohibition.
There's no mechanism to "overturn" Roe, no matter who is on the Supreme Court. No case will ever get to them. (Fuller explanation here.)
It's sad that there's a whole industry devoted to whipping up people on this subject. It's just a scare tactic to raise money an influence from and among the ignorant on both sides.
There may be lots to like or dislike about a candidate- but her position on abortion isn't relevant. It's like voting for or against someone because she plays pool or he likes Vermeer's pictures.
Posted by: staghounds at September 11, 2008 10:49 PM
Would Palin be a VP nominee if she were 10 years older and 40 pounds heavier? No? Then Cintra is right.
Posted by: JaneAZ at September 11, 2008 11:53 PM
You seem really angry, maybe you should get therapy!
Posted by: Michelle at September 12, 2008 5:32 PM
Cintra,
I am with you, way with you. I love your--in the words of Jeff--"dimented mind."
Posted by: Kt Crud at September 12, 2008 6:40 PM
Irresponsible.
P.S.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
--WS
Posted by: patiencediscipline at September 14, 2008 12:35 AM
Cintra,
I've seen smarmy and I've seen cheap. Now that I've seen what it looks like in your writing, I know that when I look up either word in the dictionary from here on out, I will find you there as the ultimate definition.
You apparently (as are other liberal socialistic sluts such as yourself) are envious that a sophisticated cultured woman with grace is walking on the other side of the "glass ceiling" you and your ilk have only managed to bounce off of. You'll never "get it". You're childish mind has too far to go to achieve that level of maturity - I suggest you go back to your sandbox and make castles of sand.
Posted by: Ric-N-Reno at September 14, 2008 8:36 PM
Hey, Ric - When attempting to demonstrate to Cintra your purported superior intelligence (although obviously that's a falsehood), it's not "You're childish mind", it's "Your".
Oh, and please explain to this New England blueblood what is so sophisticated, cultured or graceful about killing caribou for sport in 2008?
Posted by: Vlad Lennon at September 15, 2008 1:07 AM
Like anybody listens to these brainless twits spewing their anti-American dribble.
Posted by: Jebster at September 15, 2008 2:50 PM
I'm having a hard time seeing through the glass ceiling. All of the blood and fetal material from all of those abortions has covered it with a sticky red pool of plasma and body parts.
Somebody hand me a squeegee, let's clean up this mess.
Posted by: Wicked Wanda at September 15, 2008 3:05 PM
Wow. Cintra, your writing is soooo poetic and I just marvel at your wit and candor. Haha, yeah right. The only thing that I took away from reading your article was that you really don't have the intellectual capacity to discuss the issues, much less write anything purposeful. Instead, you spent a majority of that disgraceful piece of writing berating and name-calling Palin and pushing across your whacky Femi-Nazi agenda. It sounds to me like you are seething with jealousy. Are you angered at the fact that a REAL woman has actually made something of herself in this great country? Are you jealous that you will NEVER achieve anything close to what Palin has and will achieve? Does it bother you that she has gone from a relative unknown in the public's eyes to a VP candidate? Wait, wait. Maybe I am approaching this response all wrong. Why am I trying to have an intelligent, adult conversation with someone who vomits out psycho-babble in internet articles and books? Maybe I should just resort to childish name-calling, making baseless claims and spewing out hateful personal attacks? Yeah, I bet I will accomplish a lot more that way.
You are just like all the other socialist, left wing extremists in this country. Whenever you bozos lack a concrete argument on the issues you resort back to what you know...name calling and personal attacks. Well, I've got news for you...an overwhelming majority of the American people don't give a hell about you or your opinion. You are a worthless piece of dead skin on the foot of this great country. Your incessantly boring, vitriolic hate speeches and feminist blather are nothing more than a testament to the type of person you are and the worthless agenda you try to support. You are an insult to the REAL men and women of this country who have actually accomplished something with their lives instead of sitting around wallowing in their own pathetic self pity. If you think things are that bad here in America for women and you are that offended by Palin and what she stands for why don't you go live in an Islamic country or a third world country where women aren't empowered to do anything? Get a grip on reality. Of course, what is reality for you? Is it waking up everyday and realizing that you are an insolent person who can't find any happiness in her life? So, to combat this self-hatred you feel the need to go out an attack those people who have succeeded in life or those who threaten your womanhood? Give me a break. We don't need your type in this country.
Posted by: JR at September 15, 2008 5:07 PM
Very nice and fun article,
but a few things
I don't think it's the "Republicans" that are the problem, nor the Democrats the solution. Recently I saw a picture of "Obama" plastered on the front page of a newspaper, and the way his mouth looked made him look like ventriloquist's dummy: two lines on the sides of the upper lip. I guess it's supposed to be the lower lip, but that was the impression I got. I won't even talk about chipmunk-faced McCain, but have you seen the movie "Freeway"? Reese Witherspoon was quite good in it. For some reason I thought of that. Hillary looked like some monstrous she-devil on another newspaper cover on the night she endorsed Obama. Seems you can learn a lot from just looking at the photos on the front page.
And I'm all for freedom of choice in general, but if we do legalize abortion, we should legalize killing in general for consistency's sake. Which I suppose wouldn't be such a bad thing, since people should take care of their own problems, rather than rely on some corrupt establishment to do it for them. Since the law isn't on the side of good people anyway.
I don't know much about Sarah Palin, but one thing I heard is she doesn't believe the current theory being pushed about global warming, which is interesting.
Democrats, Republicans, Republicans, Democrats. But then again maybe it's not the lesser of two evils, maybe it's the same evil. But maybe you know that already.
Posted by: Djosef at September 15, 2008 5:59 PM
you are a piece of shit
Posted by: mariannee at September 15, 2008 8:36 PM
Wow - where did these bottom-feeding chum-chomping gum-flappers come from? They better run before they get liberal cooties.
Cintra, I cannot imagine this Pentacostal Penthouse Pet in charge of the free world. As offensive as I find Palin's determination to put herself and her ilk in charge of my lady-bits (and I'd have a whole lot more respect for her position if it included some sane options for preventing unplanned pregnancies in the first place), it is but one component of a terrifyingly apocalyptic worldview, which involves flippantly threatening a country that is bristling with nukes and not particularly friendly with us - when she's not even in office yet! What does she care? The sooner the whole place blows up, the sooner Jesus will rapture her ass up to heaven.
And, of course she has to be 'hawt'. In the right-wing view, a woman's physical attractiveness is her raison d'être - poor old Kay Bailey Hutchinson; she never stood a chance. The right's ultimate insult to a liberal woman is to call her 'ugly'. Looking at the two of them up there, Sarah and Grampaw McDirt-Nap, is almost like looking at some rich doddering old coot with his gold-digger hoochie mama, who is going to piss off all of Grampaw's grown kids by making him change his will in her favor - right before his demise from an unfortunate snowmobile accident.
Sarah Palin is the perfect GOP neo-con wet dream. She embodies every aspect of the Dick Cheney neoconservative model - the ruthlessly impassive blood-lust and willingness to see pre-emptive striking as the first and best answer to any problem, and the craftiness to slyly poke volatile adversaries with a sharp stick, so as to encourge them to attack, thereby claiming that we ‘must defend ourselves’, the penchant for secrecy and the withholding of information on her part combined with utter disregard for privacy on the public’s part, the tendency to use the power of public office to intimidate and silence opposition and to destroy perceived ‘enemies’, meaning anyone who will threaten her ability to do whatever she wants, regardless of moral, ethical, or legal questions.
Yes, she’s all that and a bag of chips - but with an added bonus that even Cheney, in all his Straussian glory, lacks - that hard-core evangelical streak that neocons believe the ‘masses’ must have in order to keep from descending into chaos and anarchy, but which the true intellectuals who are in charge have no need for. She is a frothy, creamy sundae of Christian Soldier and Neocon Whip, with a lavish sprinkling of nuts on top. No cherry, though.
To underestimate her is to underestimate the power of PNAC. She is Bush and Cheney 2000 rolled into one. After all, who would have thought before the Selection of 2000 that the PNAC nutballs whose views were considered so extreme during the Clinton administration that even mainstream Republicans shied away from them were preparing their organization for the day Republicans returned to power so that they could spin their neoconservatism ideas into official U.S. policy.
Just what do you think George W. was being fed during his pre-presidential 'education'?
Yes, Palin is a confection of neocon perfection - a Bush/Cheney/Coulter/Schlafly soufflé, all puffed up and covered in cascades of gooey fundie sauce, and ready to be shoved down your throats. Or perhaps you'd prefer Baked Alaska?
Bon appétit, you sad bastards.
Posted by: Alicia Morgan at September 16, 2008 2:39 AM
Well done, Cintra! You took the art of literary snarkiness to a new level with that one. But I'm surprised you held back. You should have taken your screed to the next level; you should have discussed Palin's pee-pee and poo-poo while you were at it.
While you were down there rooting around in the slime at the bottom of the piss bucket, that is.
Posted by: Stan at September 16, 2008 9:06 AM
Cintra, you brainless lemming, just one question. Who would you be stumping for (other than for your own overblown ego) if Obama's momma had aborted Obama?
Posted by: Bob in Cincinnati at September 16, 2008 9:28 AM
Bob, great point. That is the problem with these whackjobs...they are so focused on their agenda that they forget to stop and use their brains. How many great people would not be in this world if their mothers would have decided that they didn't want a kid and decided to have an abortion? We would wind up with all these nitwit, extreme libs running our country.
Oh and to Alicia, you sound like another one of the classic conspiracy theorists still in denial about the 2000 Election. Still bitter about that one are ya? Do you also think that Bush was working with the terrorists to help coordinate 9/11? Well that's typical of your type...instead of accepting the facts you sit around in a state of utter bitterness trying to find ways to rationalize your cause and disprove the past. Good luck with that.
And, "Pentacostal Penthouse Pet?" Hmmm....sounds to me like some more ineffectual name-calling from another jealous, Code-Pink, "woe is me," liberal, namby-pamby feminist. See I can do it too! The only exception is that my description actually fits the bill, whereas yours is a result of your clouded judgment from operating under the premise that your disposition is shared by the rest of the modern world. Well, this is not the case because there is such a small percentage of you delusional morons out there that no one gives a rat's ass about your feelings nor are any of us going to waste our time to listen to your mindless drivel. Do you really think that anyone in the federal government cares about your pointless agenda (other than the esteemed Speaker of the House)? What good does your cause bring to the world? I can promise you that even Obama has bigger fish to fry than worrying about the desire of you loony feminists and anarchists. I am sorry that you are offended by Palin's determination to be in charge your "lady-bits," but something tells me that this is hardly her motivation or master plan for her ultimate role as VP. Of course, there I go again trying to rationalize with someone who lives each day in another dimension where its "me against the world." Boohoo.
Posted by: JR at September 16, 2008 11:32 AM
Cintra,
I believe that a person's character is well-judged by the actions of their enemies. Based on the vicious morons above, I find you admirable as fuck.
If my daughter turns out remotely as intelligent, funny, eloquent, caustic and profane as you seem to be (as evidenced by your work), I will be a very proud father.
Posted by: firedmyass at September 16, 2008 5:19 PM
Sounds like a lot of "shooting the messenger". Cintra, I love you even more. Some of your haters need to spend some time reading the foreign press and see that a good portion of the rest of the world agrees with you. Of course, they will say that they don't care that the announcement of SP as VP was greeted with a mass chortle. America is special because it was blessed by God!
Posted by: Froggy at September 16, 2008 6:06 PM
Dear Cintra Wilson,
Bless you heart dear.
Your trashy little temper tantrum is quite unbecoming. The vicious sniping is exactly the same kind of attack unleased by childish abnoxious bullys in High School and abusive spouses.
The tactic is called "Leveling." An attack is unleased by someone who feels inferior to their victim. In this case, the target is Sara Palin. The tactic is the primary tool employed when a person feels they have lost control.
It is easy to identify this kind of Control Freak. The words are more telling about the emotional instability of the author than anything concerning Palin.
Posted by: Above blueblood trash at September 16, 2008 11:56 PM
From the above description of 'Leveling": Uh yuh, point proven. All of the attacks on Cintra in this comment section ooze inferiority, not to mention emotional instability, including your silly attempt to form words into actual sentences.
I can tell you what's telling about Palin's mental health: that fuckin' tanning table. Did you know that it was possibly being used to treat depression? It's true, it's true, I read it in National Review Online so it has to be true!
Posted by: Palin Already Jumped the Shark at September 17, 2008 12:57 AM
Cintra--
WOW - I'm not sure what's more surreal - the Palin choice itself with all of the neocon manipulation in play - or the thread of several of the comments in this column.
Great job - give 'em hell!
Posted by: Bob at September 17, 2008 1:30 PM
firedmyass...You must be one heck of a father if you aspire for your daughter to be like Cintra Wilson. Someone should call child services on you. And apparently you are one of those libtards still stuck on stupid because you obviously have a very warped perception of reality and the meaning of the words intelligent, funny and eloquent.
You people are the one with the inferiority complex...as if the world owes your type something special because of your socialist, elitist beliefs and agenda. Why doesn't the rest of America feel this way? I suppose it might be because the rest of us have gotten up off our lazy duffs and done something with our lives instead of sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves. It's called the American spirit. Instead you socialist twits sit around expecting the government and the rest of America to cater to your needs and provide you with that which you can't provide for yourself. Lotta good the socialist movement has done for the rest of the world...
And Froggy...So you mean to tell me that the foreign press shares the same viewpoints as all you radical extremists? You must be kidding me? They may see eye to eye with you on issues such as abortion and the nomination of Sarah Palin, but you must be lying to yourself if you think they are supportive of the radical feminist agenda you aim to promote. Surely their minds aren't that warped?
Palin Jumped the Shark...Good one about the tanning bed! See my previous posts about lacking the ability to offer a concrete argument against Palin. Again, when you can't think of anything good to make your point and discuss the issues you turn to making pathetic, irrelevant personal attacks. Use your brain.
Can nobody on here provide a good argument against Palin other than the fact that you are so angered by her being the VP nominee that you have to resort to irrelevant and pithy personal attacks? Are you seriously that jealous of her? Or is that she threatens your existence and your cause? It just fills you with hate because you know there is nothing you can do about it. And you also know that you are the ones who are inferior to Palin and the rest of civilized society.
Can no one clarify their position or answer any of the questions? I can only assume that your defense of Cintra and your inability to refute my strong remarks means that you are the delusional socialists/feminists that I describe. Someone tell me otherwise if you can...
Posted by: JR at September 17, 2008 4:12 PM
This is probably the best response to all of this controversy:
http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html
or you can go here to view it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4-TZspqlOs
Thanks Cintra
Posted by: Wager 4 Truth at September 17, 2008 8:00 PM
What I really really want to know: what did the RNC promise Levi Johnston to get him to at least SAY he would marry Bristol? Was it money? A job? A new mullet? Or did they threaten his family?
Posted by: Doug at September 18, 2008 2:34 AM
Dear Cintra,
I read your book A Massive Swelling a while ago, and I couldn't put it down. I'm so glad you keep up this blog, and must say that I wholeheartedly agree with you on almost every point you make, especially on Palin. I think it's sad that some few others who read your blog feel compelled to write hateful messages, calling you "elitist" and talk about making pathetic, irrelevant personal attacks ... please understand that this only occurs because your work is alive, dynamic, and important. If everyone agreed on it, it would be dead, a classic, old news. That it sparks controversy is all the more to your credit.
Bravo, Ms. Wilson, you've hit the nail on the head. Please keep writing, and we shall keep reading.
Posted by: Rutteger Griswold at September 18, 2008 9:57 AM
Dear Cintra,
As someone who genuinely admired your early plays, but who long ago stopped reading your commentary, I have to say I'm particularly disappointed with the crude, ad hominen, and vicious manner in which you've attacked Sarah Palin.
Because I no longer read you or read Salon, I wouldn't have seen this article, except that it was noted in The National Review and by Victor Davis Hanson, and I'm obliged to monitor what conservatives write. I was taken aback by the lack of thought that went into your essay. I know you are capable of much better than this. And I note with disappointment the likelihood that this narcissistic and ill-timed article is an effort, mainly, to promote your latest book.
Please, Cintra, we have bigger issues to address in this country than your book sales.
I know you are aware that many of us liberals aren't interested in a cultural "dogfight," and we don't like the way Palin's been villified by extremists. We don't want you to help continue the culture wars, which is exactly what your article does. Many of us are interested in the Democratic Party returning to the saner part of its roots - civil rights legislation, the economy, multilateralist foreign policy, strong public education, and environmental protection. To do that, we can't consistently offend people we are trying to convince, right?
I'm not supporting Palin, but there is a point at which:
1) the ad hominem attacks cannot be defended (and your article here is that point)
2) we recognize that this is (doh) not the way to reach out to the other side, and
3) we acknowledge that we have much bigger issues right now than abortion.
Please, Cintra, put a lid on it until after the election. You've already excited the ire of the right, and this at a time when the Palin phenomenon was dimming.
May I direct you to one book and one online article. The first is George Lakoff's "The Political Mind" and the other is "The politics of Schadenfreude" on
http://culture11.com/node/32248?page_view=1
I note with some regret that it is likely you are not open to considering that someone who is generally politically aligned with you finds your tactics and hysterical ranting to be... fantastically counterproductive.
Please. Think this one through. Those of us working on the Obama campaign don't deserve to have our efforts tanked by hate-filled essays such are yours.
Take care, Cintra. And take a deep breath.
Posted by: name withheld at September 18, 2008 3:36 PM
If McCain/Palin win, sign me up for the culture war.
Posted by: Andy Brown at September 23, 2008 12:20 AM
Keep up the good work Cintra. You're pissing off all the right bipeds.
Posted by: DUDACKATTACK!!! at October 21, 2008 12:28 PM
Ms. Wilson,
I am a pro-choice registered democrat, and one that usually finds you fabulous: sharp and chic and able to keep emotion reasonably in check. But hey: You are as hysterical here as some of your critics; you've gone shrill and insulting (and we already have one Coulter on the scene).
If someone thinks abortion is the taking of an innocent life, or murder, then that person will logically disagree with the act and/or wish to prevent others from doing it. I'm sure it's got nothing to do with getting into your underpants, though you're hot.
And so on: You can't seriously think all the folks who disagree with you about Palin (or abortion rights for that matter) are "backwater, atavistic, evangelical Christian Taliban zealots." Or do you, after you have a chance to calm down? You seem to equate staying out of people's choices as necessarily "moral" for the purposes of your off-putting rant, and I don't see it.
Pro-choice people may have the right idea, in my opinion, but that doesn't necessarily put them on the moral high ground. It's a matter of practicality, expediency, fairness as much as it is protection, if not more. The "only way under the circumstances" doesn't necessarily translate to a morally superior stance. And you're preaching and pushing ideas as much as the next opinionated church goer.
Posted by: Jenn at October 23, 2008 3:41 PM
However did I miss this?
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Even if you never see this post, thank you.
Post election gloating is inappropriate and I'll abstain; but thank you.
She scares the crap out of me, the Palin, and like any great villian, I'm sure I haven't heard the last of her...
Posted by: Rev. Mittens at December 14, 2008 11:36 PM
CONTRIBUTE TO THE CULTURAL DOGFIGHT