Bringing Book Burning to America

Here is a Time Magazine article on Sarah Palin. What I find "a-Palin" is that she wants to ban books. I get visions of NAZIs dancing around fires as "Jewish" books are heaved into the flames. Palin isn't a NAZI, but she is a religious nut who wants to ban books that she finds unpalatable to her conservative religious beliefs:

... Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.

Here is the real attitude of Republican insiders to Sarah Palin. These comments were captured off camera when the "talking heads" thought they were off mike:

Here's the transcript to help you following along to what is said:

Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman. (cut away)

Peggy Noonan: Yeah.

Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --

PN: It's over.

MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PN: Saw Kay this morning.

CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --

MM: They're all bummed out.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --

CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.

MM: I totally agree.

PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.

MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.

CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

MM: Yeah.

Here is Brad DeLong berating Peggy Noonan for writing one thing for mass consumption while -- as the above shows -- privately holding a completely different opinion as evidenced in this Wall Street Journal article:

Declarations - WSJ.com: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy. She could become a transformative political presence. So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick. And it's going to be brutal. It's already getting there.

There are only two questions. 1. Can she take it? Will she be rattled? Can she sail through high seas? Can she roll with most punches and deliver some jabs herself? 2. And while she's taking it, rolling with it and sailing through, can she put herself forward convincingly as serious enough, grounded enough, weighty enough that the American people can imagine her as vice president of the United States? I suppose every candidate for vice president faces these questions to some degree, but because Palin is new, unknown, and a woman, it's all much more so.

It is exactly this example of the cynical manipulation of mass opinion by the pundit class -- the running dogs of the real elite in America -- that shows how corrupt politics truly are. You can buy opinion makers like Republicans Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphey to say one thing to sway the public while these very same pundits privately hold a completely different view. And this pundit class isn't the least bit embarrassed that they sell their skills to the rich in order for the rich to ride roughshod over the working population. These pundits are no better than the overseers of the old South who beat the slaves on behalf of their white masters to ensure that the money rolled in from the cotton crop. Think about it. These pundits are selling out the future of their country to people they despise just so they can earn money from the filthy rich. These people in effect are selling their mothers and their children in order to line their own pockets. They have no morals. They are perverts. And these are the very people put on national media -- in this case NBC -- and touted as "knowledgeable sources" whose job it is to shape opinion to ensure that the rich can quietly pull the strings that ensure that taxes on the rich (i.e corporations and the top 0.1% of the population) are reduced while taxes on the working majority (the bottom 90+%) are raised and raised again, all the while the pundits play along in the game of waving the flag and uttering patriotic words while knowing -- cynically knowing -- that they are selling the people of America off to the highest bidder.

And... here is Randi Rhodes on her radio show laying out the details of how Palin -- the supposed "reformer", the "outsider" fighting the "old boy network", the anti-pork barrel heroine -- in fact brought in the pork big time for her little down of Wasilla:

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If you liked the above. Here are three more installments of Randi Rhodes detailing exactly why Sarah Palin is incompetent for the position of Vice President of the United States:

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