Piper Palin, Superstar
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 8:45 am
In the opening pages of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin tells an anecdote about the Alaska State Fair that took me aback. Here’s the story:
Ahead, on my right, I saw the Alaska Right to Life (RTL) booth, where a poster caught my eye, taking my breath away. It featured the sweetest baby girl swathed in pink, pretend angel wings fastened to her soft shoulders.
“That’s you, baby,” I whispered to Piper, as I have every year since she smiled for the picture as an infant. She popped another cloud of cotton candy into her mouth and looked nonchalant: Still the pro-life poster child at the State Fair. Ho-hum.
Well, I still thought it was a nice shot, as I did every time I saw it on its advertisements and fund-raiser tickets. It reminded me of the preciousness of life.
It also reminded me of how impatient I am with politics.
A staunch advocate of every child’s right to be born, I was pro-life enough for the grassroots RTL folks to adopt Piper as their poster child, but I wasn’t politically connected enough for the state GOP machine to allow the organization to endorse me in early campaigns.
Time and again, Palin uses her large family for political purposes, and then complains that they’re “off limits” when she decides they’re under attack. We’ve seen it with the use of her son Trig–Palin put him on national TV at the 2008 Republican National Convention, and has occasionally accused liberals of wanting to kill him. We’ve seen it with Bristol Palin, whose pregnancy became a national story, and with Track Palin, whose military service Palin has referred to again and again. But it seems like Piper Palin’s star turn for Alaska Right to Life was the first political deployment of a Palin family member.
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Comment posted November 18, 2009 @ 9:17 am
When most people say “I'm impatient with politics” they mean “it takes forever to get legislation passed.” or other complaints about policy outcomes.
When Palin says that, it's followed with a complaint about her own personal careerism “…I wasn’t politically connected enough for the state GOP machine to allow the organization to endorse me in early campaigns.”
That's some strong hubris — other candidates were endorsed, one assumes, just not Palin, and that's the GOP's fault.
Is there any page in the book where she isn't complaining about someone else hiding Palin's light under a bushel?
Comment posted November 18, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
Palin went to great lengths to discredit David Letterman for making remarks about this stupid woman's kids. She COULD have been gracious and accepted his first apology, which would have diffused the situation, but she chose to be recalcitrant and vindictive, which made her look even more ridiculous.
Now she's doing it again. It's sickening to see people using their own kids to support ridiculous ideas. I liken it to using them as shields in battle.
Comment posted December 5, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
Does Sarah Palin understand, at all, what she is doing to her children? The fact is that the media feeds on human flesh –it's on a constant, 24 hour cycle and needs a constant supply of personalities of photograph, film, and discuss. It really does not matter to them who feeds them–Brad Pett, John Gosselin, the Octomom or Piper Palin–they need to fill the time, the magazine page, the website.
By constantly shoving her children into the spotlight, Mrs. Palin is effectively making them fair game. When she learned that her eldest daughter was pregnant, she could have sent her back to Alaska and kept her out of the spotlight. She did the opposite; she thrust her vulnerable pregnant 17-year-old into the public eye, apparently without a second's hesitation about how it might affect her.
Fame is not good for children; it changes who they are. Sarah Palin should think about that.
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Sarah Palin has more character in her little finger than all the liberals in Washington and all the liberal press put together. Still trying to twish everything Sarah does into make her look bad. You twist Jesus Christ, so why not anyone else that is good and right. Liberals, you are running scared of Sarah! I am praying that God will give America another chance, and if He does, He is using Sarah Palin. I applaud her and her standing up for American people and all we have worked for. Vote the liberals out of Washington. Clean house. Then clean up our nation.
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Sarah Palin has more character in her little finger than all the liberals in Washington and all the liberal press put together. Still trying to twish everything Sarah does into make her look bad. You twist Jesus Christ, so why not anyone else that is good and right. Liberals, you are running scared of Sarah! I am praying that God will give America another chance, and if He does, He is using Sarah Palin. I applaud her and her standing up for American people and all we have worked for. Vote the liberals out of Washington. Clean house. Then clean up our nation.
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Sarah Palin has more character in her little finger than all the liberals in Washington and all the liberal press put together. Still trying to twish everything Sarah does into make her look bad. You twist Jesus Christ, so why not anyone else that is good and right. Liberals, you are running scared of Sarah! I am praying that God will give America another chance, and if He does, He is using Sarah Palin. I applaud her and her standing up for American people and all we have worked for. Vote the liberals out of Washington. Clean house. Then clean up our nation.
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Sarah Palin has more character in her little finger than all the liberals in Washington and all the liberal press put together. Still trying to twish everything Sarah does into make her look bad. You twist Jesus Christ, so why not anyone else that is good and right. Liberals, you are running scared of Sarah! I am praying that God will give America another chance, and if He does, He is using Sarah Palin. I applaud her and her standing up for American people and all we have worked for. Vote the liberals out of Washington. Clean house. Then clean up our nation.
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 8:40 am
Sarah Palin has more character in her little finger than all the liberals in Washington and all the liberal press put together. Still trying to twish everything Sarah does into make her look bad. You twist Jesus Christ, so why not anyone else that is good and right. Liberals, you are running scared of Sarah! I am praying that God will give America another chance, and if He does, He is using Sarah Palin. I applaud her and her standing up for American people and all we have worked for. Vote the liberals out of Washington. Clean house. Then clean up our nation.
Comment posted December 18, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
Let's dicuss Sarah Palin's character.
She was elected Mayor of Wasila, AL and promptly hired a city manager at taxpayer expense to do her job for her. She mired the town of 8,000 people in $20 million of debt because of her negiligence and incompetence. Then she quit midterm to get a plum position of the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission for a hefty salary. She leveraged this position into a run for lieutenent Governor.
When running for governor, she staunchly supported the famous “Bridge to Nowhere,” even wearing a Bridge to Nowhere t-shirt to show her support. Of course when this position became inconvenient, she backtracked on it.
As governor, she used the power of her office to run a two-year campaigner of harassment against her ex brother-in-law which included rifling his personnel files illegally. She fired the head of the Department of Public Safety for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law from his state trooper job.
She has relentlessly pimped out her children for political gain, including dragging her vulnerable teenage daughter into the white-hot media spotlight to highlight her anti-choice bona fides.
This is just a small sampling of Sarah Palin's narcissism and relentless pursuit of her own self-interest. God help this country if this shallow, self-centered narcissist ever gets the awesome power of the presidency in her hands.
Comment posted December 18, 2009 @ 2:19 pm
Your writing shows the emotional maturity of an eight-year-old.
Comment posted December 18, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
Let's dicuss Sarah Palin's character.
She was elected Mayor of Wasila, AL and promptly hired a city manager at taxpayer expense to do her job for her. She mired the town of 8,000 people in $20 million of debt because of her negiligence and incompetence. Then she quit midterm to get a plum position of the Alaska Oil and Gas Commission for a hefty salary. She leveraged this position into a run for lieutenent Governor.
When running for governor, she staunchly supported the famous “Bridge to Nowhere,” even wearing a Bridge to Nowhere t-shirt to show her support. Of course when this position became inconvenient, she backtracked on it.
As governor, she used the power of her office to run a two-year campaigner of harassment against her ex brother-in-law which included rifling his personnel files illegally. She fired the head of the Department of Public Safety for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law from his state trooper job.
She has relentlessly pimped out her children for political gain, including dragging her vulnerable teenage daughter into the white-hot media spotlight to highlight her anti-choice bona fides.
This is just a small sampling of Sarah Palin's narcissism and relentless pursuit of her own self-interest. God help this country if this shallow, self-centered narcissist ever gets the awesome power of the presidency in her hands.
Comment posted December 18, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Your writing shows the emotional maturity of an eight-year-old.
Comment posted June 15, 2010 @ 12:42 am
REmember when Obama told the story of his daughter asking him if he plugged the hole yet?
Same damn thing.
Comment posted June 28, 2010 @ 1:19 am
David Weigel… finally outed as a liberal dolt pretending to be honestly covering the right…. part of the cabal of left wing media with a strong bias against conservatives and Sarah Palin especially. now he is gone and forgotten.. we are laughing now that the Post has dumped him but I am sure he will pop up somewhere like Huffington Post or maybe even the White House… the place where all the washed up lefties end up.
Comment posted April 30, 2011 @ 8:53 pm
I do not think Palin has done any different than any other politician to get ahead, fund and make money, even as I disapprove of her on Glenn Beck—none of those guys have been prolife as I point out in my book “No Army Dodgers Here, Rush Elsewhere–by Ray Etrych”. A former Alaska TVanchorman 1984-90, covered life issues when no one else did. My book is now on kindle, all digitals.. Pro veteran (I’m a vet) and Pro life. I hope my friends in Alaska will support me just as the Pres and Gov Palin were helped with books helping their debts.
Comment posted April 30, 2011 @ 9:02 pm
I am a Vietnam veteran and have always been social conservative and as a TV anchorman in Alaska in the 80s gave coverage to prolifers when the rest of the media did not care. They thought I was crazy..yet, I like to think Palin was watching and admire her progress. Now, I have a book: ‘NO ARMYY DODGERS HERE, RUSH ELSEWHERE–REAL CORE PRINCIPLES AND THE WW2 INFANTRY– on kindle, nook..I hope my Alaska prolifers will support, as I know Alaska is number one in kindle. I also have TV exposure across the country that would help the prolife cause once this work got going..or would share proceeds with anyone on a contract to distribute this pro-Veteran work in bookstores. Thank you, Ray Etrych
Comment posted April 30, 2011 @ 9:02 pm
I am a Vietnam veteran and have always been social conservative and as a TV anchorman in Alaska in the 80s gave coverage to prolifers when the rest of the media did not care. They thought I was crazy..yet, I like to think Palin was watching and admire her progress. Now, I have a book: ‘NO ARMYY DODGERS HERE, RUSH ELSEWHERE–REAL CORE PRINCIPLES AND THE WW2 INFANTRY– on kindle, nook..I hope my Alaska prolifers will support, as I know Alaska is number one in kindle. I also have TV exposure across the country that would help the prolife cause once this work got going..or would share proceeds with anyone on a contract to distribute this pro-Veteran work in bookstores. Thank you, Ray Etrych
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