There is something incredibly amusing in watching various individuals (and organizations) on the left whip themselves into paroxysms of anger and outrage at the mere mention of Sarah Palin’s name. If you want to bait your left-wing Hollywood friends, all you need do is say how much you admire and respect the former Alaska Governor.
The latest thing to get some lazy liberals all in a tizzy has been the actions not of this accomplished woman, but of her daughters. One columnist at the Washington Post couldn’t contain herself, writing paragraph upon paragraph expressing her upset that Bristol Palin advanced so far in Dancing With the Stars. And now we’ve got HRC defining a new standard of conduct for parents in the public eye whose teenage children act like, well, unruly teenagers.
Now, if I had a teen daughter and she used the word Mrs. Palin’s daughter did, I would take her aside and sternly explain to her why she shouldn’t use such language, reminding her that words can hurt and asking her how she would feel if someone attacked her with a similar slur. That’s probably how most good parents handle the situation. It’s certainly how my father did when I said things I shouldn’t have. In short, it is a matter between parent and child, not parent and the public.
We don’t know how Sarah and Todd Palin responded to their daughter’s language. Nor is it any of our concern.
But, the real question, one I’ve asked before, but which bears repetition: when do we see the various left-wing organizations currently in an uproar of this teenager’s teenage behavior telling other parents how to raise their children, particularly those parents who share their political beliefs.
It has to be hard to be a Palin kid nowadays.
It must seem like the whole world is waiting to find something wrong with you, and willing to snitch on you at the drop of a hat.
On a related note, once again, an aide to a Democrat congressman is caught up in child-sex scandal. Of course, from the examples of Gus Savage, Gerry Studds, Sam Adams, and Barbara Boxer — we know Democrats don’t consider the sexual abuse of children a big deal, so long as it’s a Democrat doing the diddling.
Is there any other parent in the United States who is expected (by some) to publicly apologize for their 16-year-old using the word “fag”?
Lefties, name one.
So the denizens of Liberalstan believe parents should be in control of their children? Really? So, any minute now, we should see all of Liberalstan’s good citizens demanding the repeal of any and all laws that deny parents the right to even know about, let alone consent to, their underage daughters’ abortions.
And the good citizens of Liberalstan will then demand the removal of sex ed programs and GLSEN from the public schools and leave it up to parents to teach their children at home about sex in general and homosexuality in particular. And after doing that the good citizens of Liberalstan will show their devotion to parental duties by unanimously supporting school vouchers so parents can take their children out of failing public schools and send them to any private school of their choice, even a parochial one.
Oh yes, we should be expecting the good citizens of Liberalstan, who demand that parents take responsibility for their children, to start doing these and other things right about now.
Waiting. Waiting. Waiting.
“this accomplished woman” couldn’t even stick it out and honor her commitment as Governor.
Paul Waldman at American Prospect nailed Palin to wall yesterday:
“Just a few years ago [Sarah Palin] was the mayor of a tiny town in Alaska, and today she’s one of the most famous people in America. Despite her modest talents, there are millions of people who believe, and tell her constantly, that she ought to be the most powerful person on planet Earth. She’s made millions of dollars in the last two years, for the easiest of things — giving some speeches, having ghost-writers pen a couple of books, doing appearances on Fox, letting cameras trail her around while she goes fishing. And yet she can barely open her mouth without going on and on about how terribly victimized she is, and how everyone has done her wrong.”
>>>Lefties, name one.
How about Barry and Michelle Obama?
But he’s the President. He’s held to a standard mere presidential candidates are not.
Um, Auntie, my, my, we do have a need to attack, don’t we? Why so bitter?
Wonder why it is you just can’t seem to manage to address the actual points of the posts to which you attach your comments (or the comments to which you respond)?
As to the Waldman quote, it could be about Obama. He’s made millions and become a celebrity entirely on the basis of his ability to give a speech and hawk a book. As to Palin’s accomplishments, why not check the record?
That charismatic woman pushed more reforms and took on more entrenched interests before John McCain tapped her as his running mate in 2008 than Obama had when he secured his party’s nomination for president.
I am just curious. As Governor, Sarah Palin had to defend herself from over two dozen frivolous ethics complaints brought on by left-wing activists. All of these complaints were dismissed as being without merit, but the legal bills for defending herself were well over $500K and state law prevented her from having a legal defense fund. Furthermore, these frivolous complaints were distracting her from the people’s business.
Was there some alternative other than resigning available to her that would have enabled her to stave off bankruptcy and allowed her to devote full attention to her duties as governor? If there was, pray tell what it was.
How about Barry and Michelle Obama?
Barry and Michelle Obama can’t handle their children being scrutinized by anyone.
That figures. They are covering up the fact that they have incestuous sex with their daughters, just like they accused Todd Palin of doing.
What’s the matter, Obama Parrot? Can’t your Obama take the same kind of abuse he sent at Palin? Are you going to be so stupid as to claim that you can say Palin’s spouse is having sex with their children while screaming that to make the same statement about Obama is wrong?
As for the rest, I daresay the Palins are still laughing at the fact that they’re being called bad parents by the gay and lesbian community that dresses up toddlers as sex slaves and takes them to sex fairs to “show off” for masturbating naked adults, and claims the entire thing constitutes an “educational experience”.
Nope. Not in a million years, would you on the Left expect that of them!
Do you think I was born yesterday, AuntDog? Try again.
Did Auntie provide any examples of lefties instructing the Obamas on how to raise Malia and Sasha. And wasn’t that the point of the post?
Gay Inc has fallen very low, it’s true. It makes me want to cry. But then I remember, gay is just a word that got hijacked. This gay label we obsess about so much, isn’t anything at all. I suppose things went downhill when people tried to make a biological fact out of gayness and then built an entire movement on people not having a choice, instead being programmed by hormones. Victimology, frivolity, irresponsibility, and self-destruction all come from that one misguided foundation. The best I hope for is that people get bored thinking about gays and everyone is presumed bisexual on some level, so we can put the debate to rest. For good.
#8: “As Governor, Sarah Palin had to defend herself from over two dozen frivolous ethics complaints brought on by left-wing activists.”
V the K, it’s no surprise that the MSM ignored the coordinated, avalanche of frivolous attacks on Palin when she returned to Alaska, ensuring that the story would be that she simply blew off her duties as Governor to pursue fame and fortune (imbecilic lapdogs like Auntie Dogma need to be told what to think and repeat because they are incapable of absorbing the pesky details that reveal the truth).
But what’s worse, the MSM ignored an awful peripheral story–Palin’s closest aides were slapped with frivolous ethics complaints and similarly had to defend themselves by paying big legal bills out of their own pockets! The complaints focused on Palin’s aides assisting her while she was on the campaign trail for VP. Of course, Palin did not just drop her duties as Governor while she was campaigning and her aides from Alaska were with her to ensure that the state’s business was handled (they all had clearance to be with Palin on the campaign trail for this purpose). No alleged ethics violations were ever substantiated against Palin’s aides (a fact certainly never reported by the MSM), but we know that was never the purpose of the complaints. Several government employees that worked for Palin were targeted just as she was and had to pay thousands to defend themselves (on civil servant salaries).
The indisputable (and predictable) conclusion to be taken from these circumstances is that LIBERALS SUCK. They are contemptible, worthless villains, the sworn enemies of liberty, and the destroyers of all that is good in the world. About 15 years ago, I first heard Rush say one of his well-known axioms: “conservatives believe that liberals are wrong; liberals believe that conservatives are evil.” Today I find that naive and provincial. Liberals/progressives (or whatever Orwellian bullshit they’re calling themselves this week) are evil. They ARE the enemy. The Democrats have shown us that our liberty is inversely proportional to the power they wield in DC. They win, we lose. Period. Thus, there is no alternative but to fight, obstruct, ridicule, and marginalize everything they say, believe, and do without exception.
Liberals don’t think that Conservatives are Evil, they think that Conservatives are inferior.
The left hates Sarah Palin because they believe that “no commoner should dare talk to them in such a tone”. They believe in a hierarchy of humans, and they believe that they are ‘the enlightened ones’. They believe that their ‘superiorness’ entitles them to manipulate the lives of others (to domesticate the barbarians).
If the same division was made along racial lines, it might look something like Eugenic nonsense of the mid-20th century. Proponents of the Eugenics non-science included:
– Fabian SOCIALIST and playwright, George Bernard Shaw
– Obama’s Favorite Economist, John Maynard Keynes
– Birth control activist, Margaret Sanger (‘The Negro Program’)
– National SOCIALIST, Adolph Hitler
– International SOCIALIST, Joe Stalin (“Uncle Joe”)
What all of these folks forgot is, that in their “scientific search” to identify human traits that are ‘good’ and ‘bad’, they forgot that objective science doesn’t recognize the subjective concepts of ‘good’ and ‘bad’.
Good & Evil is in fact religious terminology. With respect to Barack Obama, the sense of entitlement to impose his own ‘good & evil’ on the rest of us, is a “Cult of Personality”. Make no mistake; Liberalism is a religion, and i demand an immediate separation of church and state!
The first amendment guarantees my right to choose my own ‘Good & Evil’.
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North Dallas Thirty, I clicked on your link and couldn’t believe what I read. Educational for toddlers to wear dog collars while seeing men masturbate in public?! All I can say is, “Yuck!”
Seane Anna,
As one peripherally still involved with D/s, I’ve condemned the FSF universally. What they (or you, or I) do in prwivate is none of anyone’s concern, But to be in public it is just wrong.That’s before even the thought of kids being there.
Of you go to Zombie’s blog you’ll see more of the worst.
##10/16: Seane-Anna and NDT,
I had seen the story before (via NDT), but since I hadn’t read it in some time, I clicked on the link as well (to keep my level of disgust with the gay Left sufficiently primed) and I can’t believe I forgot about the story’s UNBELIEVABLE sub-headline:
“Parents have mixed feelings about bringing their children to this year’s bondage fest”
Mixed feelings, huh? Well, glad to see those “parents” got past it. That headline just says it all, doesn’t it? SICK.
The last quote from one of Veronica and Zola’s dads (John Kruse) is also an eye-opener:
“Father of two, John Kruse said it is an educational experience for children. He said there were conservative parents against having kids at the event. Those are the same close-minded people who think we shouldn’t have children to begin with, he said.”
Yes, how closed-minded it would be for anyone to think that this man should not be entrusted to raise children.
of course, neither of the obama children ever derided one of their peers as a “faggot” on facebook, but why let that fact interfere with another completely unsubstantiated assertion of double-standards?
Chad, that’s not the point. The issue is when do left-wing groups instruct prominent liberals on their parental obligations. Surely, the children of Democrat politicians have behaved irresponsibly in the past (I can provide examples if you like). So, by the standard HRC applies today, surely such groups must have called on them for it.
The point here is that they’re holding Sarah Palin to a higher standard, demanding that she do something publicly that most parents do privately.
Of course if you had actually the post (to which you attach you comments) and considered my argument, you would know that.
i’m not really sure why you’re being so condescending, rude, and defensive, unless your aggression is a way to compensate for your lame argument.
look, the hrc is an lgbt advocacy organization, so it really come as a surprise that they would comment on willow palin’s use of the word faggot. and despite your assertion to the contrary, this isn’t an issue of generalized adolescent misbehavior–after all, the hrc never commented on jenna bush’s underage drunken escapades in dc. you don’t seriously believe that the hrc would be involved if willow had called her peer an “asshole” do you?
so unless you can show me that the hrc was silent when a democrat child called a peer (or anyone) a faggot, then your argument is silly.
Chad, if my argument were so lame, then you could easily counter by showing how it is the practice or left-wing organizations (indeed, any advocacy organizations) to call the prominent parents on unruly teenagers to account when said teens do (alas) as most teens do and say offensive things.
I offered you a challenge. Address the point of the post. Provide examples to show my argument is lame. I reminded you of that point because you’ve offered only red herrings.
You may well have a point if it’s the practice of left-wing organizations to criticize prominent parents of their political persuasion when their children make a slur offensive to their (the groups’) membership. That’s what I was asking in the post.
Provide one example, just one, of a left-of-center group criticizing a prominent Democratic when his child misbehaves. I’m saying it’s not the practice of groups to do as much. And that HRC is just doing this to show how PC they are.
Until you provide an example, you’ll just be offering empty criticisms while defending HRC for styling itself a gay advocacy organization but in reality being little more than a group eager to to show its liberal bona fides by attacking an approved target of liberal vitriol.
“Zombie’s blog”? Sorry, The _Livewire, I don’t know the reference.
here you go
Warning, Zombie’s site is not safe for work, or anyone with blood pressure issues.
Thanks for the link to Zombie, The_Livewire. There was a lot of stuff there, but I went to the Folsom Street Fair link as that was the subject of NDT’s comment, and all I can say is “Yuck!”, again. It was 10 times worse than I could’ve imagined. That was the kind of stuff that the fathers of those twins thought was educational? My God, who thought those men were fit to raise children?
But there was one enlightening thing on the FSF story, and that was Zombie’s comment on the willingness of fair vendors to mock every religion but Islam. It’s easy, Zombie wrote, to mock those who you don’t fear. And since Christianity seemed to come in for the most mockery, that makes it clear that that faith poses very little threat to gays or anyone else. Standing up to Christianity is easy when you know that Christians won’t put out a kill-the-infidel fatwa on you. The same can’t be said for Muslims. So, we won’t be seeing any Mohammed dildos for sale at the FSF anytime soon, will we?
Welcome to the Folsom Street Fair. Naked men, public sex, anti-religious bigotry and dhimmitude. You can get more “educational” than that.
At #24, “can” in the last line should be “can’t”, if you hadn’t figured that out. Sorry for the goof.
I don’t agree with you on the left’s reaction to Palin’s kids.
I don’t blame them at ALL for going ballistic over the behavior of these kids.
Is the media biased on this kind of stuff? Yep.
But I don’t really care in this instance, to be honest.
I guess it’s my deep dislike for kids who aren’t brought up correctly that wins out on this issue.
what ever happened to ” sticks and stones can break my bones but names can never hurt me.”
So you condemn AL Gore III’s drug use, or the kid who hacked into SP’s yahoo account? Glad to see your record of those condemnations, Bobbie.
And ‘raised right’? Guess what, she’s being a normal teenager. I hear worse from my friends’ kids, and mocking of the ‘that’s so gay’ comercials to boot.
Heaven forbid that she act a normal teen. It’s just more Sinister attempts to find a Chink in SP’s armour or to call a spade a Spade. The left continues to Nip at her heels, and show what Berks they are.
Yes, I do condemn those other things.
No, she’s not being a normal teenager.
Normal teenagers don’t say stuff like that knowing the whole world is watching. They have a sense that what they’re doing is wrong and will do it with their group of friends and have some boundaries around it.
This was so natural to this kid she had no shame at all about displaying it online knowing how scrutinized her family is.
This behavior leads me to believe that kind of talk IS normal in her family and even though I still like Sarah Palin, the more I see of her kids the less I like her.
No, it’s just your irrational bigotry and hatred.
No one seriously believes that you would state that a teenager making a posting of this nature online proves that their parents are complete incompetents if it weren’t Sarah Palin’s child.
You are a bigot, Bobbie, and you’re just rationalizing your hatred towards Sarah Palin. People have realized by now that you simply aren’t capable of making an intelligent assessment towards her.
Perhaps it’s because you weren’t brought up correctly. Were your parents bigots and hatemongers as well?
No offence Bobbie, but have you seen Facebook/Myspace, etc? Compared to what kids normally post, that’s quite tame.
If you want to bait your left-wing Hollywood friends, all you need do is say how much you admire and respect the former Alaska Governor.
You’re sunk if their response is “what for?”
Apollo, if you’re so prophetic as your name suggests, then surely you know the past as well as the future and you can find multiple posts on this blog detailing Mrs. Palin’s many accomplishments. She had a greater reforming record in her short time as Governor of Alaska than Barack Obama did in his entire legislature career–in both the Illinois and United States Senate.