I find Martha Stewart’s recent assessment of Sarah Palin interesting. She describes Sarah Palin as “very boring” and “a dangerous person.” Additionally, Stewart says Palin is “so confused” and consequently, would be a real problem in government.
Personally, I agree with Stewart’s assessment, because Palin’s narrow ideology and understanding of the world, if materialized in the form of a majority in government, would be disastrous to our heterogeneous or multicultural society. Undoubtedly, she would impose far-reaching restrictive policies. Palin also shows imprudence and shortsightedness on energy and environmental issues. As a result, she’s the antithesis of progressivism, evolution, and change.
Sarah Palin has a Twitter account (maybe)—AKGovSarahPalin—and she is determined to create new energy for Alaskans: “Creating New Energy for Alaskans as governor of the 49th state!” Too bad energy can’t be created. However, this might not be Sarah Palin’s Twitter account, since impersonators are common on Twitter. More about Sarah Palin’s apparent Twitter debut can be found at Politics Daily and via akmuckraker.
Warning: Video might be disturbing for some viewers
I’m rarely very harsh, but Sarah Palin is an idiot. In fact, she’s a fruitcake. When I was very young, we use to kill our own chickens for food, and in the Peace Corps, we killed chickens for food, and I’m not a vegetarian, but the juxtaposition of Sarah Palin being interviewed against turkeys being slaughtered at what seems to be some type of industrial turkey farm with blood all over the place is too much (The turkey farm—Triple D—does advertise its birds as being free of antibiotics, and the farm notes that the USDA would consider Triple D a free range poultry farm). Around 1:50 in the video below, a turkey shakes violently, and shortly afterwards Sarah Palin called the event “fun.”
Certainly, it’s poor judgment on her part, or perhaps it was a calculated maneuver, since she may have decided to capitalize on the culture war. Nonetheless, the fact that she decided to continue with the interview in that spot in order to make some unimportant point that she is Joe America or whatever is unreasonable. Furthermore, she is throwing gas on the fire, since she has already been criticized for supporting aerial wolf hunting. From KARE, MN:
The governor was being interviewed by a local Television news station while the work of the Triple-D Farm and Hatchery continued.
That’s when Governor Palin found herself in a less than desirable spot for the interview.
Just minutes after pardoning one turkey, a farm worker [began] processing another turkey just a few feet behind her… plainly visible in the background of the video.
Governor Palin was told by the photographer what was going on behind her and allowed the interview to continue.
[M]any hunters found the practice unsportsmanlike, since it violates the “fair chase” ethic, and animal rights activists call it inhumane, since airborne gunmen rarely get a clean (i.e., relatively painless) kill. In response to concerns like these, Congress passed the Federal Airborne Hunting Act of 1972, which made it illegal for hunters to shoot animals from a plane or helicopter.
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