Jane Fonda on Sarah Palin

She is a dummy- she is uniformed. She is being used by conservative males to put a pretty face on the regressive, paleolithic culture of angry white Republican men.

Palin is a clueless woman. Forty years ago Palin would have been posing high on a Viet Cong tank not knowing the communists were using her for propaganda purposes- and to grab a quick peek up her skirt.

Now I have to go- they are filming my yoga video and the lighting has to be just dark enough so my varicose veins don't pop thru my leotard.Hey at least I am not pushing sixties retreads for Time Life music like my brother Peter- I hate it when he shows up on my set humming Steppenwolf, and making a "vroom vroom" noise and gripping the Director's chair like handlebars.

Dick Cavett Responds to "Going Rogue"

It is a very deplorable, very deplorable, state of affairs, when a book by Sarah Palin is given as much time in the news, as health care. C'est merde, as Satre might well have said that a dunce can command the national stage when I - Dick Cavett- am reduced to writing a blog for the Times and selling DVDs of my fifty year old show on the Shopping network. ($4.95 gets you the episode where Katherine Hepburn and I play Twister while reciting Robert Frost!)

I strain my Midwestern turned Yale graduate brain so much that I fear the creaking of grey matter slowing oozing through my ancient ears. How is it possible? How is it possible, as Emerson no doubt would have wondered looking up from his quill, that Cavett is old and finished: Am I such a joke that "dogs do bark at me on the street" (Richard III, Shakespeare), while Palin is like a Woolworth inspired Venus rising from the dark, damp streets of middle America.

I had my own show once where I played the sage to the high and sundry, the infamous, and famous, the artist and the cabby, the fruit and the veg table, the giraffe and the lion, the penis and the vagina, the moth and the flame.....

Well, at least the Times pays me a small stipend so I don't have to use my toaster for my electric shock therapy anymore.

Mail

We, the members of the Alaskan Peoples Alliance in Opposition to Palin (APAOP), take issue you with your blog. Sarah Palin is really dumb; she may worship Satan; she probably killed a 94 year old village elder in 1971 riding her tricycle during the Wasilla Pioneer Day Parade (press clippings report a Susan Palmer, no doubt doctored); and the gas pipeline was not her idea, but was thought of by Barack Obama and Joseph Kennedy iii, after "chilling" together in the Village Vanguard in 1983 after some really good "toasties". (see Joseph Kennedy, "My Life, My Family, Famous Carwrecks and Other HiJinks")

Ann A. Ahole, Spontaneous Group c/o The White House.

The midtown animal shelter would like to take the oppertunity to report that Joy Behar is fine. Ms Behar was bought to us with a can of dole mixed fruit stuck on her face. No doubt Ms. Behar was foraging with the other cats when the can become lodged on her snout. We think it is miracle that she was not hit by a car as the fruit can obstructed her eyes. We hope people will remember that recycling will save other catty animals from injury by keeping dirty cans away from them.

Midtown Animal Shelter, New York, New York

http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/12/02/why-women-are-or-are-not-reading-sarah-palin/

The Christian Science Monitor prints alot of insults aimed at Sarah Palin from the usual educated nothings.

One such example : Eilene Zimmerman, who has written, among other things, articles about how we should drink toilet water (after purification thank God) to preserve the water supply.

Palin is simply "not smart".

Eilene is smart, though. Read the following bit of writing that Eilene wrote for a review of the book "Exposure":

"Like a bullet shot from a gun, Exposure takes off and keeps moving to the end".

Wow. What a subtle analogy. Not trite. Brillant. Not obvious. Educated.

It was certainly nice of the Conde Nast people to give washed up hack Joe McGinniss a living. Conde Nast is so anti-Sarah, they use all of their magazines to go after her. They were so nice to Joe, they even published his drivel on the cover of Portfolio, right before it went under. Joe thinks Sarah is a dummy for not letting Exxon/Mobil build the Alaska pipeline. Well, Sarah didn't want the big oil majors to control both the production and distribution of this fuel. Boy Sarah is so stupid, she didn't want to give the major oil companies even more leverage over Alaska politics.

Anyway, Joe McGinniss is so washed up you have to go back to the early 90's to even get a negative review of his body of work. At that time, he wrote a book about Ted Kennedy, which some critics felt stole from other books.

Now Joe is writing for The Daily Beast- controlled by Barry Diller, and edited by Tina Brown. Joe is aghast that Sarah is taking a plane from Rochester New York to Washington State. She is too fresh. Thats unfair. Joe fondly remembers when he too used to have a publisher that sent him on planes to book signings. Now poor Joe has to get into the door by promising to write negative Sarah pieces. He probably has to share a bus now with senior citzens going to the local casino- hoping it stops close by his editor's office.

In much the same vein, the Huffington Post has an article about Sarah Palin "quitting" a charity race early. Wow. Are these people digging at the bottom of the smear pile? Could you imagine Arianna Huffington in a race with Sarah Palin. Arianna Huffington would probably throw up her arugula and brie if she had to open her limo's door by herself.

Lisa Belkin dismisses Sarah Palin as a "cheerleader" while "educated, ambitious women" are "student council presidents" in today's New York Times Magazine section. Ms. Belkin writes and blogs about motherhood and the "intersection" of parenting with work. She went to Princeton. Can you imagine that Belkin, who quit the Times because they wouldn't let her work from home, and writes about it like this act makes her Joan of Arc, has the nerve to call a former Governor a "cheerleader". Sarah Palin never worked- yes, she just spent hours on a fishing boat in the cold with her husband, while Belkin was probably at Princeton writing about how the menstrual cycle is the result of Republican experiments with antibotics in farm animals. Belkin was a big booster of the idea to make Caroline Kennedy a New York Senator- because poor Caroline had to give up her career to be a mother, and never got the chance to follow the grand Kennedy tradition of driving into the sound while representing the public. Belkin envies Sarah Palin her looks- because as a proto "student council president", poor Lisa had to rely on her smarts at school. Caroline Kennedy whose public utterances were astounding for their clarity and power ("You Know") is a a real woman- not a doll. Palin who got the major oil companies to pay taxes based on their profits, not by production, in Alaska, is a Ditz. But Belkin, who has the intellectual reach of a flashlight in a locked closet, opines for the paper of record.