Pardon Us While We Try Not to Lose Our Lunch
Sarah Palin, the leading emblem of the return of the American No Nothing movement (you can learn more about its original flowering here) gave us not one but two reasons to cringe this week: Word that she'll be having a book written in her name about "values" and the news that she's shopping some kind of show about her life and times, which will no doubt fit nicely into the idiot culture. Good god, won't this lady just go away and leave us alone?
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The trouble is that anything you say about her just incites her fans. The best thing to do is ignore.
You're right of course. But it's so very hard to keep from reacting to such collosal idiocy, especially when one encounters this creature everywhere one looks these days.
What amazes me is that people continue to give her a microphone. Perhaps it's the train-wreck phenomenon: since the producers know it's going to crash, they relish making it crash all the more dramatically. Maybe they enable her because they expect her to fail.
It reminds me of nothing so much as "bread and circuses while Rome burns." Ignoring it really is the best thing to do, but in a way it's symptomatic, or emblematic, or so much else that's gone wrong in our media culture.
She's a train wreck, all right.
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