Don't Let Alaska Hit You on the Way Out

"How about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up?"
--Sarah Palin, from her farewell address as governor of Alaska

Here, in a nutshell, we have a statement that says everything about Mrs. Palin while actually, as is her habit, saying nothing at all. We have her patented victim-playing, her straw-man argument against the virtually non-existent "liberal media", and of course, that wingnut favorite: nonsensical exploitation of "the American soldier" to make a point that has nothing to do with them.

I will never forgive you, John McCain, for raising this fucking idiot to national prominence. She is without question the most ignorant person that has ever been thrust onto the national stage outside of Joe the Plumber (thanks for that one, too, Johnny).

She doesn't speak, she just strings conservative buzzwords together. It's the 21st century version of newspeak. In George Orwell's 1984, the purpose of "newspeak" was to divorce language from the brain, so that it was nothing more than pavlovian "duckspeak" spewing out of your mouth without thinking. Sarah Palin is a practiced duckspeaker, and her worshippers are more than willing to share and pass on the duckspeak like so many baby birds clamoring for vomit.

Sarah Palin, you deserve to be run out of the country on a rail, but people seem to enjoy the Palin Trainwreck, so enjoy your ride. You might rack up some book sales, but the one thing you'll never have from any serious political thinker in this country is respect, merely the blind obedience of the most gullible slice of the American pie.