From what I understand, political candidates themselves are fair game for the media, but largely out of some unspoken rule, politicians' families aren't thrown under the bus when the mud flinging starts.
HOWEVER, Palin is not a politician. She is a public figure with a correspondant's job on a major news network.
She has no personal privacy, and that unfortunately extends indirectly to her family.
Hell, in the US we have tons of public figures who are regularly ridiculed who are ONLY famous because a parental unit was a person of importance.
The entertainment industry doesn't pull any punches, nor does it observe boundaries. I swear, Palin is proof that retardation is genetic.
I really wonder who wrote the "Conservative Thesaurus"
I thought we stopped falling for that after Nixon's paranoia was exposed to the world. When does the Palin family deliver their 'you won't have us to beat up on anymore!' victimhood speech?"I laugh at retarded shit" actually means "I am threatened by something so I attack it."
Does anyone else remember the right saying "it's unpatriotic to attack the President during wartime"? I remember Fox News toting that line a lot. Funny how that went out the window as soon as a Dem steps foot into the White House.
Why is Sarah Palin the only woman who's feelings can be hurt? Why is she out of bounds? Why is attacking her percieved as people "attacking a threat"? Were all the Janet Reno skits (note how she took them for what they were - satire) done by SNL done because she was a huge threat or something? How many jokes has Family Guy done about Bill and Hillary Clinton? Where's the outrage over that?
All this stupidity about how she's not a political figure is nonsense. You can't claim that she's an innocent civilian and then talk about about she's a political threat at the same time. Ain't gonna fly.
Honestly, the amount of crying by Palin and the right over this is hilarious.
This is just how she wants people to look at her. If you hate her and bitch all she has to do is wait for people to see you talking about her.
Bet BG has turned a few voters away from obama becase of how you all make fun of everything but him.
making someone out to be a god is not something people want to see, as such you will see a closer race this time around(I still think obama is going to win)
obama is a big ass turn off when I read this forum. Not ot say I vote off what I read in here.
Being a liberal != being an Obama worshiper. This board is very liberal. But there are very few, if any, posts saying that Obama is great and wonderful and there are no problems. 99% of the political threads here devolve into Lief vs everyone or Egon debating with people.
I voted for Obama and I don't approve of a lot of the things he's done. I don't worship him. The people who do are the same types who have unquestioned support for Sarah Palin without being able to name any policies or bills that she supports. Don't act like there aren't crazies in every walk of life.
Obama is Chocolate jesus.
I watched this episode of Family Guy out of curiosity and it was really awful, unfunny, and tasteless. But the amount of butthurt it inspires in Sarah Palin is delightful. I'd feel bad for her if she wasn't such a horrible hypocrite.
Obama said he saved us from the second depression, not bad considering they only spent half the stimulus so far.
edit: Am I reading this right, the complaints were on her Facebook page and by her daughter. I had the impression from the thread she was on a speaking tour and always complaining bout the episode.
Except if I said that, it wouldn't have made sense in the context of supporting Obama? (Which btw, I don't give a shit about politics but good god Palin is a retard)
personally as a socialist I think we should set in place some sort of system to sterilize instances of mutation or chromosomal disorders so we can avoid this kind of nuisance and lack of productivity in society
I wonder what a good name for these government appointed medical panels would be...
SSS
Stupid Sarah Supporters.
And they can be called Ritardation camps.
GATTACA Panels! Shit would be so cash.
wat.
first of all if you are basing your political opinion based on what you read on an internet message board you're retarded and like Palin's retarded baby shouldn't be allowed to vote.
Secondly, I know very few regulars in political threads actually defend Obama himself as oppose to me attacking people for calling him a 'socialist' and a 'liberal' considering its a giant slap on the face to actual a socialist/liberal in this country.
How exactly does a sitting US president attention whore? all his speeches? you want less transparency then we already have? really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tarcoBFVAOA