Hating Sarah Palin: Leftist “projection” at work again
Posted on September 21, 2008
From Taranto
The left-liberal Webzine Salon has become something of a clearinghouse for rage against Alaska’s governor. The latest contribution, from one Anne Lamott, actually uses the H word:
I sat outside a 7-Eleven and had a sacramental Dove chocolate bar. Jeez: Here we are again. A man and a woman whose values we loathe and despise–lying, rageful and incompetent, so dangerous to children and old people, to innocent people in every part of the world–are being worshiped, exalted by the media, in a position to take a swing at all that is loveliest about this earth and what’s left of our precious freedoms.
When I got home from church, I drank a bunch of water to metabolize the Dove bar and called my Jesuit friend, who I know hates these people, too. I asked, “Don’t you think God finds these smug egomaniacs morally repellent? Recoils from their smugness as from hot flame?” And he said, “Absolutely. They are everything He or She hates in a Christian.”
I have been in a better mood ever since, and have decided not to even say this woman’s name anymore, because she fills me with such existential doubt, such a sense of impending doom and disbelief, that only the Germans could possibly have words for it.
What’s hilarious about this is that, except for the obligatory “or She,” Lamott and her unnamed interlocutor fit exactly the stereotype people on the left typically hold of conservatives, and religious conservatives in particular: smug yet insecure, dogmatic and intolerant and filled with hate and rage. Even Lamott’s descriptions of Palin more aptly describe Lamott in the act of describing Palin!
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Iowahawk can only marvel as life imitates parody.
Liberals especialy the gren eco-freaks oppose palin is becuase she opposes their radical ideas
Do you take care of your home?
Do You Take care of Your Car?
Does a Captain take care of his Ship?
Does a Pilot Take care of his plane?
Why is it that there is a problem when people want to take care of the planet that we all ride on.
Oh no, lets sit in a FILTHY the nest.
Anne Lamott is a complete and total idiot. Always has been…I should know… I grew up with her. This quote is an Anne classic:
“…the Dove bar and called my Jesuit friend, who I know hates these people, too. I asked, “Don’t you think God finds these smug egomaniacs morally repellent? Recoils from their smugness as from hot flame?” And he said, “Absolutely. They are everything He or She hates in a Christian.”
So typical of the old I’m-hipper-than-thou Anne to claim that a Jesuit priest “hates” people he disagrees with and that god [he or she...oh brother...] would also agree.
Anne is a drunk, and a lousy mother…she doesn’t know anything about anything…..except being really, really selfish.