Time for a Brick to the Head.

"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting. I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us." --Sarah Palin

Yesterday, a friend of mine sent me an email asking me to translate the latest word salad from Sarah Palin, a woman who could be America's next president (no.  I'm not saying she has a snowball's chance in winning.  But, if she wants to be a candidate, you kind of have to address her as such.  It's the honest thing to do, don't cha know.  Plus, it scares the ever-living shit out of people that someone so blatantly dim and incoherent could feel themselves qualified for a job that, as we've seen earlier this decade, requires a person to not be so blatantly dim and incoherent). 

Now, I've kind of puzzled over this puddle of narcissistic gibberish for a while now, and I still can't decide what the bloody hell this woman is attempting to say.  I'm sure that Communications degree (which is actually a Journalism degree) somehow makes her believe she's qualified to reinvent journalism.  However, Palin's definition of journalism seems to be little more than demanding that reporters print only one side of her story.  Yes.  It is censorship.  And, yes.  She's voicing her desire to abandon those tricky things like facts and truth about her so as to create a resource to propel her propaganda unto what she hopes are the oblivious masses who see news as entertainment.  It's an extension of her reality show, if nothing else, and Palin's definition of journalism sets the principle of objectivity on fire and reduces the much-valued aspect of honesty in unbiased communication into a pile of worthless ash.  After all, if she truly valued objectivity and honesty in journalism, she wouldn't be working for Fox News, or any other news outlet, while harboring desires to be a potential presidential candidate.   

Moreover, she's also trying to tip the playing field further by calling out her critics and preemptively labeling them as biased.  The sad thing is, this desperate tactic will work for some people in this country, and if she decides to run, they will go to the voting booth to cast a ballot solely out of pity for this poor, persecuted, malignant narcissist. 

More succinctly, Sarah Palin is actively seeking to be pity-fucked straight into the Oval Office.

Personally, and I know this will never happen, I'd like to see the mainstream media take Sarah Palin up on her offer and just flat-out ignore her.  When her people are reduced to begging for airtime and interviews, I hope those appeals are reported and quickly dismissed as nothing more than the pleas of a deranged and desperate human being who lacks the intellectual wherewithal to function as anything more than a vapid wannabe celebrity.

America, as a nation, should be far too civilized and educated to see Sarah Palin as anything other than an anti-intellectual fraud who speaks only in ridiculous soundbites and vilifies those who approach her seeking only honesty as opposed to the manipulative ramblings of a sociopath.  In other words, if a so-called journalist can't name one newspaper she reads, it's not a reflection of the person asking the question.  It's an indictment of the ignorance and paranoia of the person answering the question.  If such simple questions are too difficult for Palin to handle with honesty, well...  what does that say about her as a leader?    
     

Now, I'm not going to say that I won't write about this idiot anymore.  I don't really have much of a desire to do so, but I will on one of two conditions:  Either she does something incredibly brilliant or worthy of me saying "way to go.  Maybe I'm wrong about you."  Or, she does something so mind-numbingly stupid like belch out the highlighted utterance above that insults me to the point where I want to scream "shut the fuck up you yammering, waterheaded cow!"

-DP

I will say that I am secretly hoping she enters the presidential race for no other reason than the selfish desire to see the hilarious creativity that shows up on the bumper-stickers and campaign signs of her supporters.    

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