Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi's Palin Rant

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In theory, I'd be about as willing to write blog posts about Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan or Nicole Ritchie as I would be to write about Sarah Palin. That is to say, in a normal world, I wouldn't. But Paris and the other celebutards have no affect on my life. They're less than periphery.

But Sarah Palin has the--thankfully, diminishing--possibility of affecting my life greatly, and in a very negative way. Her entire worldview--which I suppose you could call "The Palin Doctrine"--is the opposite of what I believe. What makes her scary to me, is that she's completely unqualified, and yet absolutely certain of herself. That scary combination was present in George W. Bush, and I think we can all agree, that didn't work out so well.

Fortunately, Palin is almost impossibly easy to criticize, easy to lampoon, and very entertaining to pick apart. But I've done that in this space already, and have been leery of beating it to death.

So, I was glad to find a fantastic article by a writer that is much more up to the job than I am. Matt Taibi writes for Rolling Stone magazine, but I confess that I became familiar with him from his appearances on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. He's an incredibly sharp, witty writer, and his take on Sarah Palin is devastating. Check it out.

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Mad Dog Palin

. . .Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be j**ked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation. . .

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