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Are you "white trash?"

Texan

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If you support Sarah Palin, this CBC columnist thinks you are. And that's really even not the worst of the insults in this column - she really seems like an evil, bitter person.

I took the liberty to edit her use of the f-word, because she spelled it out.

Don't forget to go to the link and click on the "Send your feedback" link at the bottom of the column.


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She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote...


VIEWPOINT
Heather Mallick
A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention
Last Updated: Friday, September 5, 2008 | 8:48 PM ET
By Heather Mallick, special to CBC News

I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.

So why do it?

It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she's a woman. They're unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.

But do they not know that women have been trained to resent other women and that they only learn to suppress this by constantly berating themselves and reading columns like this one? I'm a feminist who understands that women can nurse terrible and delicate woman hatred.

Palin was not a sure choice, not even for the stolidly Republican ladies branch of Citizens for a Tackier America. No, she isn't even female really. She's a type, and she comes in male form too.

John Doyle, the cleverest critic in Canada, comes right out and calls Palin an Alaska hillbilly. Damn his eyes, I wish I'd had the wit to come up with it first. It's safer than "white trash" but I'll pluck safety out of the nettle danger. Or something.

Doyle's job includes watching a lot of reality television and he's well-versed in the backstory. White trash — not trailer trash, that's something different — is rural, loud, proudly unlettered (like Bush himself), suspicious of the urban, frankly disbelieving of the foreign, and a fan of the American cliché of authenticity. The semiotics are pure Palin: a sturdy body, clothes that are clinging yet boxy and a voice that could peel the plastic seal off your new microwave.

'Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am'

Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade's woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pramface." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a f_ _ _in' redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter?

I know that I have an attachment to children that verges on the irrational, but why don't the Palins? I'm not the one preaching homespun values but I'd destroy that ratboy before I'd let him get within scenting range of my daughter again, and so would you. Palin's e-mails about the brother-in-law she tried to get fired as a state trooper are fizzing with rage and revenge. Turn your guns on Levi, ma'am.

Palin has it all, along with being vicious and profoundly dishonest. Just hours after her first convention speech, the Associated Press did a good fast listing of her untruths and I won't dwell on them.

I did promise to watch the entire convention so you wouldn't have to, but I discovered a neat trick. I switched between the convention and the 2003 folk music mockumentary A Mighty Wind on Bravo.

They were indistinguishable. Click on a nervous wreck with deeply strange hair doing a monologue on society today and where it all went wrong. Are you watching Christian belter Aaron Tippin singing Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly in the Xcel Centre in St. Paul or the actors from Spinal Tap remixing the 1966 version of Potato's in the Paddy Wagon?

Who delivered this line: "To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will." Was it Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family talking about Bristol Palin's shotgun wedding or was it a flashback to the Kingston Trio?

The conventioneers are nothing like the rich men who run the party, and that's the mystery of the hick vote. They'd be much better served by the Democrats. I know Thomas Frank answered this in What's the Matter with Kansas?; I know that red states vote Republican on social issues to give themselves the only self-esteem available to their broken, economically abused existence.

Lie works for Palin

But surely they know Barack Obama is not planning to finish off the ordinary hillbilly when he adjusts tax rates. He's going to raise taxes on the top 2% of Americans and that doesn't include anyone at the convention beyond the Bushes and McCains and random party management. So why cheer Palin when she claims otherwise?

Is it racism? I'm told that it is, although I find racism so appalling that I have difficulty identifying it. It is more likely the dearly held Republican notion that any American can become violently rich, as rich as those hedge funders in Greenwich, Conn., who buy $40-million mansions unseen and have their topiary shaped in the form of musical notes.

When Palin and Rudy Giuliani sneered at Obama's years of "community organizing" — they said it like "rectal fissure" — the audience ewww-ed with them. Republicans dream of a personal future that involves only household staff, not equals who need to be persuaded to vote.

So I'm trying to imagine the pain of realizing, as they all must at some point, that it is not going to happen for them. It's the green light at the end of the dock. It's the ship that never comes in, gals, as Palin would put it. But she won't because the lie works for her. It helps her scramble, without compassion, above all those other tense no-hoper ladies in the audience.

American politics isn't short of smart women. Susan Eisenhower, Ike's granddaughter, who just endorsed Obama, made an extraordinary speech at the Democratic convention (and a terrific casual appearance on The Colbert Report as Palin was speaking). The Republican party has already consumed nearly all of its moderate "seed corn," she said aptly. Time to start again.

Eisenhower, a scholar and journalist, has a point. Or am I only saying that because she's part of the thoughtful demographic that I'm trying to reach here? Think, Heather, think like a Republican! The Skeptics, shall I call them, are my base, and I'll pander to them as ardently as the Republican patriarchs tease their white female marginals.



http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/05/f-vp-mallick.html
 

Mrs.Greg

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:shock: Yanuck...your a leafs fan..... :cry2: :cry2: And here I was proud you were an Albertan. :wink:


Texan sweetie....Canadians{the really smart ones} KNOW CBC is full of politically biased crap.....just ask us.
 

Yanuck

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Mrs.Greg said:
:shock: Yanuck...your a leafs fan..... :cry2: :cry2: And here I was proud you were an Albertan. :wink:


Texan sweetie....Canadians{the really smart ones} KNOW CBC is full of politically biased crap.....just ask us.

I know Mrs. G, its a cross I have to bear... it could be worse...I could be an Oilers fan!!!!
 

Mrs.Greg

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Yanuck said:
Mrs.Greg said:
:shock: Yanuck...your a leafs fan..... :cry2: :cry2: And here I was proud you were an Albertan. :wink:


Texan sweetie....Canadians{the really smart ones} KNOW CBC is full of politically biased crap.....just ask us.

I know Mrs. G, its a cross I have to bear... it could be worse...I could be an Oilers fan!!!!
Auuu....very true....still love ya then......lol
 

Mahoney-Pursley Ranch

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What a Bitch in every sense of the word. If you needed to edit out the profanity what does her use of the English language in journalism make her? Slutty trash that's what.
 

VanC

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Big Muddy rancher said:
BOO on Heather Mallick. :x :x :x :x

The CBC doesn't speak for REAL people. :roll:

We have many just like her in this country and, you're right, they don't speak for most people. Can't get much more out of touch with the real world than those types.
 
WOOOOOO. This woman is really threatened by Palin. I mean you can read that between EVERY line.

There ought to be a law against people like her getting recogonition
by writing for a newspaper or magazine.

What GOOD did this article do anyone except her. She got to vent
and let others read her OPINION while she got paid to do it.
This isn't journalism, this is TERRIBLE!
 

Broke Cowboy

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It's a cbc person. Which explains everything.

You should see what they do to their own country.

If one of them came to my door they be asked to leave at the toe of my boot.

A state run welfare system for people who cannot get honest work elsewhere.

If it had not been posted here I would never have seen it or heard of it.

No one - other than other cbc people reads, listens or watches anything on cbc - well known as the bane and shame of canada.

BC
 

burnt

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Well Heather Mallick could hardly be called balanced or representative of the people at any time but this piece was way over the top. In fact, so far over the top that most of the responses it generated were quite negative toward her opinion.

And when one takes into consideration the type of audience that the CBC pulls, that negative response from the readers shows the extremity of her views.

What is it about Sarah Palin that drives the lunatic left soooo crazy? I have never seen such pure hatred and venom poured out on someone by the extremist feminists.

I mean, they have taken terms like shrill and hysterical to a whole new level. Mallick's opinion was obviously purely hormonally driven.

I didn't think I could be surprised by anything the CBC could come up with anymore, but the sick person who wrote that piece proved me wrong. Some of the response to her rant actually called for a tightening of the editorial process at CBC - imagine that!!!!! As if . . . .
 

Mrs.Greg

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Shrill and hysterical is so true.It just blows my mind how the feminists HATE Palin,even though shes everything they claim to have fought for. I know I've said it before,it just needed saying again. It seems to be the number one point they have against her is her strength.

Shes proved a woman can be totally well rounded,be a wife,mother,polititian,soon to be gramma,hopefully soon to be VP.....maybe President someday,do it all well and still make family and God a priority. I don't know....can't really see too much wrong with the lady. Yet crap is made up to put her down....wierd. :???:
 

aplusmnt

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Mrs.Greg said:
Shrill and hysterical is so true.It just blows my mind how the feminists HATE Palin,even though shes everything they claim to have fought for. I know I've said it before,it just needed saying again. It seems to be the number one point they have against her is her strength.

Shes proved a woman can be totally well rounded,be a wife,mother,polititian,soon to be gramma,hopefully soon to be VP.....maybe President someday,do it all well and still make family and God a priority. I don't know....can't really see too much wrong with the lady. Yet crap is made up to put her down....wierd. :???:

She does not support abortion and is a conservative, Feminist is just another word for women far left Liberals. Otherwise the would embrace the positive accomplishments off all women.

Same principal in why they look down on Condoleezza rice as does the Black community. You can not be a woman or a black person that is conservative and please either of these groups. They are far left organizations and after this election people should see both for what they truly are!
 

kolanuraven

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Larrry said:
No response from oT, kola or fff. Wonder why?


Are you so dense NOT to remember that I already stated that I consider the woman the Alaska version of Southern white trash??


I'm not like Sandhusker and keep on & on & on & on & on..........................................about one topic!


Keep up......ck with ' the others', maybe they remember!
 

Larrry

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Are4 you so dense to not understand I was wondering your response to this article. The article, not Palin or are you to dense to understand that?
 

movin' on

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kolanuraven said:
I'm not like Sandhusker and keep on & on & on & on & on..........................................about one topic!

This statement is a little true and a little false. You do keep on and on and on and on...........however, when the going get's a little tough...........you change the topic!!!
 

Sandhusker

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kolanuraven said:
Larrry said:
No response from oT, kola or fff. Wonder why?


Are you so dense NOT to remember that I already stated that I consider the woman the Alaska version of Southern white trash??


I'm not like Sandhusker and keep on & on & on & on & on..........................................about one topic!


Keep up......ck with ' the others', maybe they remember!

You mean the topic that you keep dancing around? The one that puts you up a tree every time?
 

alice

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aplusmnt said:
She does not support abortion and is a conservative

Tell what she did support. She supported victims of rape to pay for their own forensic rape kit. That's right! Women who were raped had to pay for the forensic evidence to be collected. She was right proud about how much that saved her city.

Yo, you guys. If your wife, or mother, or sister, or daughter was raped, would you say, "Hey, that's right. Pay for it yourself!" Yeah, she's a real woman, a real human being, alright...:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

When you ask for that link, forget it. Look it up yourselves. :mad: :mad:

Alice
 
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