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A long time ago (well, two years ago) I felt sorry for Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. I thought their original marital plans were such an obvious sham, and wondered if at one point in the future this performed relationship would stop. When it did almost seconds after Obama won, I felt happy for them that the "arranged marriages," staged lives, exploitation and humilation could end. Ah, and then they decided to turn it into a payday. And when anyone pulls that stunt, I think they deserve everything they originally got.
But, on the topic of the insta-break up, let's get back to timing. Now, after two years of trading insults in front of America, you're suddenly back together right as signs show that Mama Grizzly is probably looking to run in 2012. "Oh, but wait before you suspect anything! Because Sarah and Tood don't even know we're engaged!!! They,too, will first learn of this through the pages of Us Weekly!!!" Now, even though I would not put something as declasse as informing your parents of your engagement through a tabloid past the Johnston/Palin clans, I don't buy it because this plan has Sarah and Todd's oily fingerprints all over it. That they would choose Us Weekly comes as no surprise because 1) what better way to reach their base, and 2) more importantly, IT'S A PAYCHECK!
I feel nostalgic for the days when tabloids covered politicians and politicans hated and feared that the paparazzi might be discovering something about their mistress, dead intern or gay escort. But now, we have the first major party candidate who actually chooses to communicate through the tabloids. Imagine the Clintons announcing Chelsea's wedding through an exclusive interview with the National Enquirer, or Barack Obama giving Star first rights to reveal his Gulf recovery plans. Even actors consider tabloids beneath their publicity; the only people eager to speak through them are D-list reality show stars and bankrupt former celebrities. Does Sarah Palin even realize that it might not be credible for a supposed statesperson to promote themselves the same way the cast of Jersey Shore does? Or does she realize it's bizarre, but still feels the money comes first?
I wish Sarah Palin would lose all the disingenuousness about "faith, "family" and "flag," and just say what three things really rule her world: money, money, and money. Multi-million dollar book deal here. And there. Speaking engagement for $100K apiece. Shopping spree the amount of a working class family's house--but still proclaim yourself the patron saint of working folk suppressed by elites (who are also multiomillionaries who shop at Saks, but they don't hunt and fish and drops their "gs," which makes shopping at Saks and being a multi-millionaire ok). And at said speaking engagement, say that America is a country where people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
You know, EVERYONE could pull themselves up by their bootstraps if they made one hundred thousand just for stepping up on a podium and reading off a piece of paper for thirty minutes. When you earn in a half hour what most people earn over 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 years, you lose the right to have judgments on those people's struggles.
I want 2012 to end more than her political career. I want it to end the gravy train.
But, on the topic of the insta-break up, let's get back to timing. Now, after two years of trading insults in front of America, you're suddenly back together right as signs show that Mama Grizzly is probably looking to run in 2012. "Oh, but wait before you suspect anything! Because Sarah and Tood don't even know we're engaged!!! They,too, will first learn of this through the pages of Us Weekly!!!" Now, even though I would not put something as declasse as informing your parents of your engagement through a tabloid past the Johnston/Palin clans, I don't buy it because this plan has Sarah and Todd's oily fingerprints all over it. That they would choose Us Weekly comes as no surprise because 1) what better way to reach their base, and 2) more importantly, IT'S A PAYCHECK!
I feel nostalgic for the days when tabloids covered politicians and politicans hated and feared that the paparazzi might be discovering something about their mistress, dead intern or gay escort. But now, we have the first major party candidate who actually chooses to communicate through the tabloids. Imagine the Clintons announcing Chelsea's wedding through an exclusive interview with the National Enquirer, or Barack Obama giving Star first rights to reveal his Gulf recovery plans. Even actors consider tabloids beneath their publicity; the only people eager to speak through them are D-list reality show stars and bankrupt former celebrities. Does Sarah Palin even realize that it might not be credible for a supposed statesperson to promote themselves the same way the cast of Jersey Shore does? Or does she realize it's bizarre, but still feels the money comes first?
I wish Sarah Palin would lose all the disingenuousness about "faith, "family" and "flag," and just say what three things really rule her world: money, money, and money. Multi-million dollar book deal here. And there. Speaking engagement for $100K apiece. Shopping spree the amount of a working class family's house--but still proclaim yourself the patron saint of working folk suppressed by elites (who are also multiomillionaries who shop at Saks, but they don't hunt and fish and drops their "gs," which makes shopping at Saks and being a multi-millionaire ok). And at said speaking engagement, say that America is a country where people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
You know, EVERYONE could pull themselves up by their bootstraps if they made one hundred thousand just for stepping up on a podium and reading off a piece of paper for thirty minutes. When you earn in a half hour what most people earn over 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 years, you lose the right to have judgments on those people's struggles.
I want 2012 to end more than her political career. I want it to end the gravy train.