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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Did Julianne Moore do an amazing job of playing Sarah Palin in the movie Game Change? You be the judge.
I swear I still get the hairs standing up on the back of my neck watching Moore channel Palin.
Couldn't make it past the half way point, but God is Moore creepily accurate... Easier to listen to as well, also too. She brings the hatred and bitterness into focus way too clearly for comfort
Honestly, I felt that Moore missed the mark. Her Palin was subdued, careful and not at all charismatic. She just didn't capture the fire in the belly, particularly in the crowd scenes. I also felt that the mannerisms and speech were off; Tina Fey was much closer to the real thing. Having said that, I think it was more effective for Moore to not be a duplicate of Palin which would have raised her to a caricature.
Woody Harrelson's portray of Steve Schmidt was phenomenal. I FELT his frustration, anxiety and pain over the Palin debacle.
Tina Fey's Palin was/is awful! She doesn't look, sound, or act anything like Palin. I've seen about half a dozen women on the internet that did a much better job of impersonating Sarah Palin.
I've said the very same thing re Moore in comments elsewhere. Guess she can't help being ladylike and classy. $P is so hard-edged, feckless: a caterwauling fishwife. Tina Fey was closer to the real horror, in spite of playing it for laughs.
On the good side, no refrigerator was injured in the making of this film.
Skankerbelle, you know perfectly well Fey plays your mother/your boss, to perfection. NOBODY does it better. Just burns yer ass that so many are seeing her as the shrill, incurious, ignorant boob she is, doesn't it?
To each his own in the opinion deprtment. Moore is a great actress and lady. Can't knock the job she did. IMO I would have liked to see something more to the Palin we've come to know, a little more Charlize Theron in Monster would have completed the character assessment. Palin has the Moore sweet little lady side to her as well and not saying she is as far gone as Monster. A little more of that part of her reality would have been nice. May the next depiction of her really cover the Sarah and Todd with their bar stool, pimp, swinging sides.
OMG - Rush put Palin in the Graveyard! Too funny at his wording.
Rush Limbaugh: Desperate Obama Has Gone ‘Back To The Graveyard To Dig Sarah Palin Back Up’
As we all know, HBO (like every television channel eveeeeeeer) is secretly working for the Democratic Party. That’s why the second season of Game of Thrones will be entirely about the attempt to bring a public health insurance option to the kingdom of Westeros (SPOILER WARNING!). It’s also why they’ve joined forces with a desperate Barack Obama in dredging up the rotting horse corpse that is Sarah Palin attacks. That, at least, is the argument Rush Limbaugh put forth today.
And, you want to know the best part? My horse corpse metaphor really isn’t too far off from the colorful language he used.
Limbaugh was speaking about the video that Obama’s re-election campaign released that strangely seemed to imply that Palin was still relevant. Limbaugh proposed that this was part of a planned two-pronged attack in conjunction with the HBO film Game Change all designed to distract Americans from the real issues.
“They need a demon. They always need a demon. They must have a focus of evil. I suspect their new one is Sarah Palin. Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama — or a PAC, I forget which. I’m not sure. I’ve got the sound bite here and I’ll get to it before the program ends. Barack Obama is running a re-elect ad against Sarah Palin who is not running. So it’s time now for them to have a new demon. In this case, they’ve got to go back to the graveyard, dig Sarah Palin back up.”
I’m of two minds about this.
On one side, I agree that it’s ridiculous for Obama’s team to be talking about Palin. Both parties would be better off if that woman stayed back in 2008 alongside the song “I Kissed a Girl” and NBC’s attempt to reboot American Gladiators.
With that being said, Palin is still going on television and she is still making strange claims like Obama wanting to go back to Pre-Civil War Days and quotes like that do still cause wealthy liberals to throw money at Obama’s campaign by the handfull. So I understand why they did it.
Really, I don’t know what to think. The only thing I’m sure about is that a movie featuring Palin as an evil, zombified demon attacking people would be a thousand times better than Game Change.
I'm ambivalent as well that Obama's team even mentioned her. I thought his elegantly ignoring her all this time spoke volumes. She must be thrilled to have been featured, and all the more fired up by it. I'm afraid they elevated her in their attempt to use her...
I also wondered about a misstep , acknowledging her existence at all. But people have noted that when Obama seems to misstep he can turn out to be three steps ahead of everyone. In this case I wonder: was the small PAC acknowledgment calculated to throw her into a total tizzy, knowing GC has her on the rails?
She (expectedly) lacks the smug, self righteous, poorly hidden hostility that permeates every mis-articulated thought in SP's addled,racing, cob-web filled mind- but only because JM is probably a decent, unwarped person.
I agree with this, and said so the night it aired. Julianne Moore is fantastic, and there are times in the film she absolutely is channeling Sarah, particularly some of the facial expressions (they got the eye makeup down perfectly).
What is missing is that arrogance and that sassy, kinda fun (relative term, for lack of a better description) side. The true, juvenile, high school audacity that she has always relied on, by default. Sarah used to say everything with a smile and a chuckle, though a smile with an ugly edge underneath. Nowadays she is mostly humorless, of course, but back than she was so freaking full of herself! She could be sort of breezy, she came off as invincible, and that's what made her so appealing to so many, I think.
Then the hard work being asked of her and the true nature of her situation became clear to her, and she fell apart. That part Julianne got, no problem.
Just hard to play the kind of nasty, mean girl-ishness in which Sarah Palin excels. Julianne was more earnest, more sincere, and that is not the true Sarah Palin. It's like she was giving Sarah too much credit, and perhaps this is due to the fact that Julianne herself seems like a decent, kindly person.
Sarah Palin could have gone far, actually, had she a different personality and character - she has some talent and some attributes that should by rights point to success, this must be acknowledged. But the substance is simply not there, and instead something extremely negative and destructive stands in its place. In our world that has gotten her a lot of attention and a spot on FOX news, but nothing like what she had aspired to (being like Ronald Reagan, for ex - though I do not admire him; but he was sincerely positive, if wrong, on many things).
I thought the same thing while watching the Couric interview. Moore somewhat lacked the thinly veiled venom, smugness and indignation that was sooo apparent in having to answer Katie's "gotcha" questions. I still think she did an outstanding job portraying her otherwise.
I loved Julianne, she did the best she could; but she didn't get Sarah's slutty stewardess attitude right. She tried, especially shaking her shoulders during the drill, baby, drill part in the debate. She played it a little more solemn than dumb flirt.
This really brought it home to me… Palin isn’t totally stupid, but she slipped through life on her looks and getting others to do the actual work (mostly Todd). Around REAL political wonks, she’s an astonishing light-weight. That’s the term that was evading me… light-weight. And mean, also too.
Palin had also sought to give meatier policy speeches, in particular on energy policy and on policy for children with disabilities; she finally gave the latter speech Friday, but had wanted to deliver it much earlier.
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Meatier? On energy? On policy for children with disabilities? What has she done in either camp? According to her, raising a child with special needs with a huge helping family is a breeze. No challenges (excuse me, some challenges) and the world need's more (I don't object to more DS children, I want programs that provide assistance and progressive therapy to improve their quality of life.)
What an efffing bone-head, what a jerk to act as if she's credentialed in anything but providing for herself, walmart pajama's in every color and Diet Dr. Pepper. Burned mac and cheese for her rude and dull children.
Having worked in the Special Education field for many years, I was at first interested in what Sarah Palin could do for our special population. I have yet to see her become an advocate for special needs children. The only thing I have seen her do is advocate giving birth to them. Nothing about their life once they are born. I worked with medically fragile multi-impaired children. Believe me, these kids and their families need an incredible amount of support, both financial and emotional. By the time they are 10 or 12, these families are exhausted from carrying for them, and in financial straits from their copious medical bills. Where has "Sarah the Advocate" been? She could have used her celebrity in such a good way. She blew it in my opinion. I'm profoundly disappointed. TripleMoon
Palun is an entity who although catapulted to a prominent position uses her position and talent destructively relentlessly ti further exhalt herself by bashing others. She has done nothung for special needs except warm fuzzies and empty promises to parents. She terrorized same parents lying the POTUS intends to put disabled children to death , Health care reform is to withold medical treatment to special needs and she stands for their life!
Palin casts her self as a saint, knight in shining armor in fictional webs of lies she spins casting others like bogeyman in the dark. I call it psychodrama.
Sarah Palin is at the very LEAST supportive of only herself! She's a total fraud. That poor retarded child she pulled onto the scene as hers is the biggest lie out there. She carried him around as 'luggage' when on the campaign trail w/McCain w/o shoes or coats when it was cold! There was absolutely no love or care displayed by her for him. I cannot imagine what it is like to be involved w/this bitch and fraud, Sarah Palin, as a 'supposed' family member. There are so many lies out there about her - Track is not Toad's son - and on and on. She is a fucking fraud!
For years you [private citizens] have been working to make this country more welcoming for children of special needs. If elected, I promise you, you will have a friend and an advocate in the White House.
Well, she didn't win, so her promise is not unanswered. As a private citizen (with no title) she simply can't be bothered to become a national spokeswoman, advocate, philanthropist on Special Needs programs for Americans with Disabilities.
I did too. She did as good a job as she could but I think we all know and have seen too much of Sarah Palin and it would be a very hard part to play. Her voice and accent weren't close enough and at times it seemed like she was trying to hard to imitate the voice. I think Woody did an outstanding job because we don't have that imprinted Schmidt in our minds like we do with Sarah Palin. She really did go rogue halfway through the movie which scared the hell out of the campaign staff and I believe that this is the reason why so many of them came forward after to give their insights on what really went on behind the scenes. This was a much needed movie to show just how close this woman could be in a presidential situation. What I still find scary is that the 2008 McCain/Palin ticket got 48% of the voters on election day, even with all of her stupidity and ignorance that was clearly shown during and throughout the campaign. This dimwit needs to be taken out of politics completely and I'm very happy that people from the McCain/Palin camp came forward to give their insights.
I finally got to see the movie last night and I loved it, laughed at all the irony and cringed at the insanity. Yes, JM did overdo the accent, but she got it perfectly some of the times. As stated, because we all have probably watched little miss wacko more than the average person, we are really sensitive to it. I would imagine the average viewer thought she was dead on. The best part for me is to see Nicole and Steve being interviewed after the fact and continue to show grace and guilt for their part, which just further confirms what we saw. John McCain however is an idiot for continuing to stick by scarah's side. He truly is a sick little man. Ed Harris was directed to go soft and I would imagine Steve probably would not have been as helpful with the film if it was any other way. It is almost as if McCain has given Steve the permission to say McCain was sorry through Steve. McCain can let it be known he knew the selection was a mistake, but does not have to personally admit to it. What a lousy legacy he has left behind.
I thought the movie to be very, very good. They all did outstanding acting jobs...especially Woody.
I've read a lot about Palin and have followed her since she ran for 'quitter' gov of Alaska (I didn't vote for her - she was horrible in the debates against Halcro!). She truly is a fraud, liar and horribly devisive.
I didn't like it that Obama's campaign (or his PAC) gave Palin any credibility by including her words in a campaign ad. She is not worth wasting any time on even though her pre-civil war days reference was a perfect display of her vast ignorance.
Agree. Any teeny tiny recognition of SP and she grabs it with both hands and inflates it into "enemy" of the week. She is trying to build a relationship with Obama that does not exist in the real world.
Whenever there is not enough drama in her life, I think she purposely says or does something outrageous to pick a fight or play the victim. ANYTHING to get attention.
America will be over SP when she can dress up in SS garb and start goose-stepping down the main street in Wasilla and people will shrug and say "Half-Time Sarah must be off her meds again".
I agree in general that it is not a good idea to acknowledge her at all. I think the president should never, ever, acknowledge her.
On the other hand, ignoring Palin will not make her go away, and somehow she needs to be called out on her lies and stupidity. As long as it is a separate PAC using her (not acknowledging her in any way, but using her own narcissism and stupidity against her), it could be a net positive.
She now thinks she is this close to the president, and that he is watching her idiotic interviews and reading her brainless Facebook rants (he isn't, Sarah, he has a country to run), and that he fears her and, yes, wants her.
She is of course totally wrong, but her latest rant has a stalkerish quality to it that will only become more and more obvious the more people one step removed from the President point their fingers at her and laugh out loud, and the more the President himself continues to not think about her.
I think this could be what finally finishes her off in the public eye as she becomes increasingly and more obviously psychotically obsessed with the President and desperate for his attention. At some point, she will probably slip and scream in all caps on her facebook, that "Damn you, you Kenyan man candy, I will not be ignored."
On a practical note, the more articles about her that are illustrated with 2008 Palin pics as well as with more recent pics, the easier it will be for people to see her now as that kind of scary pervy mom of your best friend in high school, and not as a MILF.
me too G. - the ahirs were standing straight up on my neck and arms during Game Change scene when Sarah makes the speech just like they did on that first night at the convention - and every time they showed one of those "looks" my blood ran cold - Moore did a fantastic job of channeling Palin's essense (hopefully she can cleanse her mind, heart, and soul of any lasting ickyness - Moore has a good heart I'm sure she will recover fully from her emersion into the depths of Palin craziness)
I thought Woody was the most outstanding actor in this movie. "Game Change" will win awards - there is no doubt - all of the actors did a great job.
I think Palin could have been made to be more of the asshole she actually is. She's the most horrible woman in the United States. I love seeing that she is going down, down, down. It's about time!
Well, I was excited, too. The truth, however, is that the interview with Rose actually occurred sometime in late 2007. It was updated on youtube after her selection for VP nominee. Maybe that's where the confusion began.
Using the "one and only son" quote in the movie may raise eyebrows (although probably not enough) but I think the Charlie Rose show was taped in '07. Unless she did one than more interview with him. I really like Charlie Rose but there's no way I'm going to sit through listening to her to see what interview she said that in.
On the Hannity 'civil war' interview the other day, she did start to say that Track was her only son, but then she caught herself and said 'well, except for Trig' or something to that effect. Still very telling IMHO. A proud mother of a 'special gift from god' wouldn't make that kind of mistake. That poor child is truly an afterthought to her now. Trig, I hope you are well cared for and surrounded by those who love you! Where's his birth certificate, Sarah?
Sarah's lies about her retarded 'supposed' son need to be brought out and investigated thoroughly. More and more in the USA want this woman brought down for all the harm she has tried to bring to our country. She is looked at as 'nuts' in other countries and they cannot believe Americans would support a woman this evil, ignorant and nasty in spirit.
FBI, IRS and the Anchorage Police Department GET OUT THERE and investigate this fraud - and her horrible husband, Todd (prostitute ring).
Her quack doctor cbj should have her license burned.
Don't ask the APD to do anything. they are in the palins' asses. they are on record deliberately destroying Shailey Tripp's evidence. these crooked cops were sent there by the palins. toad palin sat up ho's for his clients.
she knows it's true, if it weren't the insufferable bitch would had sued by now. Nobody is suing Tripp.
I just listened to both Charlie Rose interviews, the first 10/12/2007, the second on 9/6/2008. The "one and only son" line is definitely in the first, not the second. Interesting exercise, though, listening to the longer 1st interview, which was Rose with Palin and Janet Napolitano. Napolitano runs CIRCLES around Palin, responding to questions intelligently, with specifics. Palin is less psychotic, more coherent, and less screechy than the basket case the world has seen more recently, but she still spits out nothing but ignorant platitudes. She deflects the first question on education entirely so that she can babble in ignorant platitudes about energy issues -- talking as if the country's energy woes, not to mention education woes, would be solved if only Alaska were allowed to develop its reserves. (Yeah. Right). Napolitano and Rose are both surficially respectful enough but you can tell they both think she's a total idiot. At one point Rose asks her, "Do you know what President Bush's energy policy is?" To which she replies in typical ignorant form: "oh yah, you hear about it on the news..." Rose engages Palin on a number of questions but seems to jump at the opportunity to turn back to Napolitano for an actual conversation.
All in all, a good and very reminder of how an emperor with no clothes attained a position of power by conning/bluffing/flirting her way to the top.
`the tone was set with Fox news who built a network on overt hate and racism.
palin mentally unstable as she is nevertheless realized the power of the media for after all her delusions reside in appearance and deceit.
its easy to get away while portraying a vile creature if you smile and are deemed attractive. its easy to get away with your vile words and lies when you have the support of hate talk radio and fox network 24 hours a day.
palin did change the climate of political discourse but she had lots of help along the way. non more so then john McCain a fraud himself who realizing he was facing his last gasp at the presidency (his charector should have denied him) petulantly choose palin the most unqualified person in his party to run a heartbeat away from the presidency a position he claimed to honer.
well the 15 minutes are up. unable to hide entirely though not without trying, palin demonstrated to everyone paying attention her severe flaws as a candidate and as a human being.
she will exist a bitter, anger aging woman bogged down in the filth of delusion she has created. locked away in alaska and carted out to read prearranged interviews that satisfy the geeks who share her delusions that she alone can deliver America to all its glory if only, if only... she would run!
If she had looked like today's RAM, aka the Female Penguin (from Batman Returns,) then she wouldn't get a second look and an enormous platform for which to speak. Maybe Orly Taitz territory, but nothing as mainstream and Fox News supported.
This Charlie Gibson interview IMO was the start of "The Stupid". I say stupid...because when the nutjob said her foreign experience was due to "Alaska'sproximity to Russia"...that was the beginning of her doing "the pivot".
And her dumbass bots and her still do that shit till this day! I call it..."The-Baldy-answer-that's-not-the-answer-to-the-question-pivot".
Baldy of course continued with that crazy Russia answer which we now know is typical Baldy! When Baldy had the Katie Couric interview after the Gibson one...Katie gave Baldy the chance to clean up her Russia answer...but instead of Baldy doing that...the fool goes on and tries to convince Katie and the public that the "seeing Russia from Alaska" is the QUESTION! Which of course it is not.
Baldy did the same thing with the Paul Revere thing....when she saw everybody laughing at her, the dummy goes on Chris Wallace's show and Chris gives her a chance to back off her stupid Paul Revere answer...but Baldy running true to form doubles down on The Stupid!
Schmidt is right....she hasn't LEARNED shit in the last four years!
I think that no one can really capture Baldy the way she is NOW...the woman is mentally unstable...Julianne was portraying Baldy before the descent into the madness of Baldy that we see today! I think Moore did a wonderful job and I trust she will receive the Emmy she so deserves!
So, IF she had adopted Trig shouldn't he be refered to as her "son"? Poor little guy never stood a chance in this screwed up family. All the kids are going to be so confused "Who is my Mommy? Where is Daddy? WHEN is my REAL birthday? When can I finally ditch the pacifier?"
I'm repeating information I posted a few minutes ago, because I can just hear the palinbots raging about lies being spread by immoral minority folks. The actual interview in which Palin referred to her only son took place in late 2007--pre Trig.
Track served two years active duty from 2007-2009. A lot of 2007 was basic training camp. He is currently discharged and is still under contract (inactive duty) until 2015.
Julianne Moore is generally an amazing actress, but I don't think she really inhabited this role. It still came off as "acted" to me. Part of this could just be my perception that she didn't look enough like Palin, either, despite the similar hair-style, clothes and make-up. I also agree the accent is over the top.
I haven't seen the full movie, though. There may be a lot more scenes in there that would give me a different opinion.
I thought Julianne was amazing. She was much prettier than Sarah but Sarah's looks have also gone downhill since the election. She had become hardened and more severe/serious in her demeanor and looks since 2008. If you look back at photos from the election, Sarah WAS prettier and not as severe looking. Julianne captured her crazy extremely well. I also think the make up on her eyes was amazing.
We have to remember we see Sarah as angry ugly and nasty because that is how she is now in almost all public appearances. But she did (does?) have a charming warm side of her. It wasn't just looks. And in the movie you watch Julianne change from that flirty warm country girl to a psychopath. I thought it was amazing.
I agree the accent wasn't quite right but she did get a lot of Sarah's facial expressions. The smirk she makes where her jaw struts our and her lips flatten, the cold shilly way she treated Levi and Nicole Wallace and so on.
The part of the movie that was so off to me was her relationship with Todd. Todd and the kids were not very realistic but I think they were trying to show a warm side of her so they weren't blasted by critics.
I hope both Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson win awards. They were both amazing to me. I also think this did help discredit Sarah even more. The problem though is she seems to get off on negative attention and she won't shut up. Just watch her in the next month. She is desperate to be relavent and in the news.
So, I burned a copy of Game Change and took it over to my Canadian friends' house as they have a large screen TV. My friends know more about American politics than most Americans and they were eager to see what I was raving about. They were mesmerized. And shocked. They were really impressed with Julianne Moore's portrayal of Palin. (I still say that, if she had not downplayed Sarah a bit, she would have wandered into Tina Fey territory. I believe her portrayal was pitch perfect.)
Canadians have some asshats for politicians but nothing like our Sarah. They cannot understand how she was put up for such an important position out of nowhere. And they hope it never happens in Canada.
BTW, they love Barack Obama and think he's doing a great job.
Now for something deliciously entertaining...Ann Coulter, that defender of Sarah Palin, has just dissed her in this video clip (on the conservative website: The Daily Caller):
"Coulter on Palin, brokered convention: "GOP has ‘a problem with con men and charlatans’"
I saw that. Whoa. Never would have thought Coulter would join the so-called "Moderate" side in what looks to be shaping up as a civil war in the Republican Party. Ironically, Coulter is one of the people most responsible for cultivating the nasty rightwing side. Is she getting frightened of the monster she helped create?
If you read the comments under the article, almost all are bashing Coulter and diving down into their method of attacking a woman's looks rather than the substance of her remarks. When she attacked Obama and the left and defended Palin she was their hero. Now...not so much. She will suffer the wrath of the angry GOP mob that she helped create.
I didn't feel that way, but I think it would be nearly impossible to play someone we have all gotten to see way too much of.
Moore didn't capture either the harsh, brittleness of Palin, nor the smarmy, flirtatious, faux-folksy side to her.
My overall feeling about the show was that they actually did not want to do a hatchet job, therefore they held way back Instead, they showed everyone in as flattering a light as they could and it was still devastating.
I want to see the "Game Change" that was written by liberal or neutral writers and see the unvarnished truth, babygate and all.
Someone is going to do another movie someday that will cover here whole life. She's got to be really scared that all the Gates will be in there.
Babygate, HouseGate, TrooperGate, DairyGate, ShaileyGate, and probably a dozen we in the lower 48 don't know about.
I also personally think that there's something that happened in her childhood that was very unsavory to do with abuse. That's the deepest of all the dark secrets and will probably not come out, but it seems likely given her constant rhetoric as a victim
I have not read yet what others have mentioned, but the only real difference I noticed between these two would be -- §P has NO TOP LIP -- whereas Moore has a very beautiful, FULL-lipped mouth.
She (Moore) also has a much nicer, softer speaking voice!!
As you stated -- the rest of her performance is so close -- it is actually a little 'spooky' LOL
The only comparison that we have is with Tina Fey. Tina played Sarah for laughs, exaggerating her voice. Of course the funniest moment was when Fey (as Palin) responded to Couric's question using Palin's actual works. Word Salad!
Julianne Moore did not play her role for laughs. She was trying to give an accurate impression of Sarah Palin. I think she held back when she yelled at people and when she delivered her speeches. Sarah's voice is much more shrill, and unlike Moore, Sarah cannot control her voice. Moore used a deeper register and control; she said that shad had a voice coach. Palin has never had a voice coach, and when she gets emotional, she speeds up, mispronounces words and gets increasingly shrill. There are times when Palin voice is "Nails on the Blackboard." Moore's portrayal was more restrained.
Sarah Palin also has a "tell" when she speaks. In a poker game, a player's "tell," unusual gestures like glancing down, give away their hand. When people lie, unconsciously they shake their heads or look down. Sarah's voice rises sharply when she doesn't know what she's talking about. She also has this "cute little girl voice" when she makes things up. An example would be Sarah's actual interview with Couric when Sarah was trying to claim some foreign policy experience with Alaska's proximity to Russia. "When Putin rears his head, where does he go? (Hand gestures) Alaska air space..."
I think that you are correct about the "tells" I noticed the same ones. That being said I think Ms. Moore almost captured Sarah's persona, almost. But then I suppose it would be very difficult for a sane person like Ms Moore to play a batshitcrazy person like Sarah.
PS Mercede is prettier than Beefalo and always will be.
Sarah Palin’s Debate Challenge to President Obama Falls on Deaf Ears
Sarah Palin is getting all wee-wee’d up – again – and she is calling out the President. A recent Obama ad ruffled her scruff and she wrote a lengthy diatribe on her number one political messaging site – her Facebook. It included this flippant call-out to the President of the United States…
This kind of bravado is becoming the way of communicating by Republican celeb-politicians as we saw in recent months with the bawdy audacity of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as she stuck her finger in the face of President Obama as he arrived on Air Force One in Arizona. It is disrespectful, without a shred of class and internationally embarrassing. Fortunately, when Ed Schultz asked his guest tonight, Stephanie Cutter of Obama for America what the Obama camp thought about this invite by Palin, she replied…
“To be honest Ed we didn’t even know about this until you told us. I appreciate her wanting to debate the President but I think he has a couple of other things on his plate. **I will call my good friend Steve Schmidt and see whether he thinks it is a good idea**. I did enjoy Game Change so thank you for informing me of that request”.
What a great response by Stephanie Cutter! Both deft and devastating. These are the moments when I remember that President Obama has a great team and I know they will work tirelessly for his re-election.
Palin was wooing a number of well-connected Washington conservative thinkers. In a stroke of luck, Palin did not have to go to the capital to meet these members of “the permanent political establishment”; they came to Alaska.
Shortly after taking office, Palin received two memos from Paulette Simpson, the Alaska Federation of Republican Women leader, noting that two prominent conservative magazines—The Weekly Standard, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, and National Review, founded by William F. Buckley, Jr.—were planning luxury cruises to Alaska in the summer of 2007, which would make stops in Juneau. Writers and editors from these publications had been enlisted to deliver lectures to politically minded vacationers. “The Governor was more than happy to meet these guys,” Joe Balash, a special staff assistant to Palin, recalled.
They still act like this woman just emerged from nowhere; out of thin air; a fortuitous happenstance on the part of a few lucky conservatives innocently cruising through Alaska. Other trips were made to Alaska and Palin got herself up and high-tailed it each time to Juneau in order to entertain at the Governor’s Mansion that she seldom visited. According to – Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, one adoring visitor in this cadre recalled Palin in high heels,
“They’re looking far-right politics, female, and then attractive. And one of the things that all of the Republican political pundits who came through the governor’s mansion were —- it was funny to interview them. They were just smitten by her. They described her wearing high heels and saying, “Hi, I’m Sarah,” and introducing herself charmingly [...]walking around this big Victorian house with rough Alaska floors, she was “striking,” he said. “She has that aura that Clinton, Reagan, and Jack Kennedy had—magnetism that comes through much more strongly when you’re in the same room. . And they talked, almost to a man, how gorgeous she was. They called her a “honey.” Bill Kristol called her “my heartthrob.” I mean, they sounded like guys with schoolboy crushes, practically.
BARF! Just BARF! And it isn't jealousy, sorry Bristol/Brooklyn/Ram whomever. I just think she is such an ugly person and I did not think that during 2008 election. It is how she snarls and claws at everyone. You NEVER hear anything positive come out of her mouth. It is nauseating and classless - the way she talks about our President. Really it is very unAmerican. She is awful - I bet they don't find her attractive now, although if she winked at them again, they might. Men can be such fools.
That made me want to barf too! Sarah Palin is a fraud and more and more Americans are finding it out and it's about damned time.
So, so glad the HBO special came out "Game Change". Millions have seen it and millions more will continue to. The books about her are increasing in sales again and that is outstanding too!!! Read two of them - Joe McGinniss and Geoffrey Dunn are the authors. Both are well written, researched, have proof sources and are accurate even though she denied (of course, of course!) they were!
The most revealing line in the whole book/movie is not in these clips but came out during her first prepping sessions, when she was being coached on things like WWI and WWII. The line was about how "flippin' fantastic" the lessons were. Like she had never heard the info before and was unaware that everyone else had learned it in JUNIOR HIGH. She was completely unaware of her deficits, and until these sessions I don't think she felt the need to hide them. But after the Gibson and Couric interviews she suddenly did feel the need to hide them, and it was the beginning of the end for her. The line showed me how truly profound her ignorance is and told me that something happened to her in her youth that left her emotionally and intellectually stuck at a junior high level. She's incapable of moving beyond that without some serious therapy.
I totally agree that her ignorance was on full display. Was she a student that was able to flirt her way into good grades? We know s he smoked bones with her professor at college - one of 'em....all of 'em.
This is evidence that Palin had been approached with the idea of being VP way before the five days before the GOP Convention where she marched into our realities in her red naughty-monkey heels. There were even mock-up campaign ads created as far back as mid-2007 posted at Brickley’s site as well.
This was reckless and irresponsible and I am hard-pressed to accept the contrite and apologetic change of heart by those advisers who were complicit in propelling her onto the national political stage. They put us all at great risk as they now openly admit that the portrayal of this foolish, emotional and woefully ignorant woman in the movie Game Change accurately reflects who she is – and her Facebook throw-down to debate the President of the United States is further evidence of this sad delusional worldview and how she sees herself in it.
Thank God that we have some in the McCain campaign that came out and disclosed what a mess the campaign actually was w/Palin being on board. We are so fortunate that they disclosed the negative and fraud of Sarah Palin. Even though John McCain won't say so - there are too many others within the campaign that have reinforced the information. Palin is a fucking fraud - liar - unethical - horrible mother and wife - screwed around on her husband as he did her - has not led by example to her children - she used them vs loving and supporting them - brought her oldest daughter forward to the nation as pregnant and unwed and on and on and on. Sarah Palin is in NO way an example for women, or her daughters to follow. She is a sad, sad excuse for a human being! She's a horrible American too! She needs to be put in jail for treason - along w/her husband who is nothing more than a bully, with a small dick, that ran a prostitute ring in Alaska. Can you imagine having them as parents? God forbid!
That article shows the lack of judgement McCain showed by picking her anyway. People can rail against his staff, but ultimately, the blame falls squarely on his shoulders.
The fact that his wife and daughter keep defending him disgusts me beyond words. I'm embarrassed FOR them.
The potential damage to our country would have been catastrophic.
I've said it before, I'll say it forever - anyone who is not willfully ignorant can't look at the Gibson, Couric interviews and the VP debate and still claim Palin was qualified for the job. She was a dismal failure!
"I can see Russia from my house".....are you fucking serious? Imagine this woman at the UN representing America. Heads of State and diplomats would be squirming in their seats to avoid laughing out loud and collapsing in tears at her (proud) stupidity.
No one this willingly moronic should have been allowed to be nominated VP. It was a travesty. McCain's campaign was already sinking and Palin was the nail in the coffin - everyone in their right mind knows this. Even if they refuse to admit it.
"All of them, Katie!" will forever be Sarah Palin's tagline. I agree with Woody Harrelson's Steve Schmidt "Name one fucking paper!" Here Sarah, I'll give you a leg up - The New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times. Here's some other publications for you to memorise: Newsweek, The Economist, Times magazine.
She could have said Anchorage Daily News for goodness sakes!! That alone would have been fine!! But she couldn't.....not because of nerves....she's done TONS of interviews before this.....and if it was nerves then that undercuts her own argument of having more experience than Obama......she couldn't answer a single question of what she read to keep up to date because the only thing Sarah Palin reads is People Magazine and Us Weekly.
She's a moron. A vindictive one too and pissed off as hell that people have caught on to that fact - there's no two ways about it.
I just wish they had shown at the end how they had to physically stop her from giving that concession screech (i.e how they had to turn off the power to the podium and the microphone...)
Ms. Moore did an terrific job. She got all that a human could do to mimic Sarah, except for the scratchy, grating quality of her voice that kills people's eardrums.
For any serious candidate to just "shut down" while being questioned is way beyond the pale.
No one aspiring to even the US House of Reps should be that disfunctional or ignorant.
I think Palin jumped the shark BIG TIME when she couldn't name ONE other supreme court decision while being interviewed
Her 11 year old mentality really comes out when she says eagerly, "I'll try to find some and bring'em to ya".
On one hand it's so pathetic that you have to almost feel sorry for the poor thing. On the other hand she would viciously SNAP at someone for daring to call that a profoundly ignorant moment.
Given her supposedly pro-life stance - her inability to name Roe v Wade as the Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with probably led to some jaws dropping in the McCain camp. So much for pro-life cred. REAL cred that is, not just slogans and hand gestures. That should have been the point they pulled her out.
She's a friggin' fraud and has been for years and years. Check her idiotic ways in Alaska - to begin in Wasilla. We are ashamed of her and so wish she had no connection to Alaska!
I thought Julianne Moore was fantastic. She nailed Palin's personality. She may not have perfected Palin's accent but Palin's accent changed based on what crowd she was performing in front of.
I would've liked to have seen Palin's "I'm so cute, pretty and sexy" flirtatiousness but there were hints with the winks and occasional flattering remarks to Steve Schmidt and McCain. Woody Harrelson was also, too, phenomenal. Great movie that I wish every American could see.
I'm confused. I watched "Game Change" last night and I got the impression that the Palin family is very close and loving. At least it was implied in the movie.
However, everything I've seen here seems to show that she's not the loving mother and wife that she wants everyone to believe.
Seems like there would have been signs during the campaign that it was all for show.
And look at Sarah Palin as a 'mother' - her kids had nothing but problems as is reflected in Alaska. In trouble w/the law - fires - booze - drugs - school busses, pregnancies as teenagers, et al. Her family is and has been a fucking mess!
I'm confused. I watched "Game Change" last night and I got the impression that the Palin family is very close and loving.
You've heard of thick as thieves. It is that kind of closeness. The movie did not want to distract from the main point, our corrupt and sick political system that needs fixing. She scared some pros into telling some truth in hopes people will open their eyes up to her games and other similar cons. It wasn't the time for the criticism to say the family was attacked. Many, many public figures live different lives then is put out by their public persona. There is nothing new with that. Years later you may hear that so and so was going through hell and it wasn't all peaches and cream after all. People who have false idols want to believe in the fantasy and no matter what they will not let go of the lies. Even after it becomes abundantly clear they were deceived.
The photos of Sarah and Todd leaving the museum make it absolute that she did not have a bun in the oven. She shows up days later and has a watermelon or two and couldn't look more maternal. Rational, sane people would want to know what that was about, they would be asking more questions. Others want to believe in some kind of myth. She is like a Mary, some kind of virgin experience popped Trig in there so she could help other disable children.
Next she may only have Track to make her the greatest military expert. Bristol is dating some lug of a gangster family kid. Willow is a nothing and Piper alerts people to her using, abusing children. She is running out of props. She will drag anyone of them out again but it is more difficult to pull off now. Stay tuned, just don't fall for the lies.
I don't know, but I loved the line, after finding out Bristol, her teenage daughter, was pregnant, Sarah says "How the flip did that happen?" Ummm, doesn't sound like a close knit, happy family- as a mom, isn't it her job to "educate" her teenage kids about "sex" (blush), abstinance, and methods of preventing pregnancy (any of em all of em)?
O/T -- but not really. Did any one else notice that the account today on MSNBC of how the Saudis (some were overt supporters of Al Qaeda) were spirited around and out of the country in the days following 9/11?
New information on what really went on then is now coming out.
This story may eventually lead to Lowell "Bud" Paxson whose jet spirited Saudis out of Las Vegas during the time US airspace was otherwise closed.
Yes, the same "Bud" Paxson who had the goods on McCain (via his employee Vicki Iseman, thus influencing McCain's VP choice), and for whom, some of us feel, little Tri-g Paxson Van Palin was named.
It would be nice to catch up with McCain before he croaks. He has been soooo dirty too long. Too good at cover up. Palin is probably one of his lesser crimes but horrendous enough.
This guy has had some fascinating stories. http://www.madcowprod.com/911archive.htm
Exactly, Paxson forced McCain to accept Palin as a Candidate. Vicki Iseman was too close to McCain as advised by his campaign. I would call it BLACKMAIL.
During the concession speech, I remember that she looked 'emotional', as though she had been or was about to cry tears of frustration: I do believe that she thought she was about to move on up to the big leagues with McCain. She did not want to go back to small town USA, although that is the only place a bully like her can flourish. M f/MD
I've never seen it on the internet, but I remember when our local news stations showed her bent over and bawling her eyes out. She went into the arms of her father.
'I am also, I am also, of course, very thankful to governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I've ever seen ... one of the best campaigners I have ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength ... her husband Todd and their five beautiful children ... for their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign.
We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican party and our country.'
Pause at 7:00 mark and you will see Sarah will her eyes brimming with tears:
Her cause and service to get everyone pumped up on speed? That works because it destroys the brain. Much easier to control a bunch of skanky fools. The state of Alaska with all it's beauty and fine people has MASSIVELY HUGE ABUSE PROBLEMS. The dark side of Ak will abuse children, women, men and all that gets them off. They use drugs like it was milk and cookies.
"Service to Alaska"! Give me a fucking break. She is ill regarded in Alaska and is going down as 'Alaska's worst gov". Obviously, you who wrote the above commentary don't have a friggin' clue what you are talking about. Do your home work for Christ's sake!
I found it ironic during Palin's VP debate prep on the podium in Arizona, the camera pans from the left several times and Wasilla's warrior within constantly appears over her left shoulder. It's on the tree trunk. Don't know if this is a subliminal message on HBO's part. This is the "Oh Biden" scene on John McCains compound. More fuel for Bill Maher.
Yeah, right Sarah Palin. "this kid is going to helping to secure his country". And "are you doing as much also?"
You start out LYING to the world on camera about Track, to make YOU look better.
Sure Sarah, you forced him into joining because it fits your agenda, keeps him out of trouble and out of jail.
Just another one of your 1000's of lies about your kids, about Tawd and his mistresses, about how you have a "servant's heart" $arah, maybe YOU believe that somehow, but not many of the rest of us buy that crap.
I haven't read the comments, I thought "Game Change" was very well done. It's a movie played by actors, it's an interpretation of the 2008 McCain/Palin campaign. I read the book, and was amazed at what went on behind the scenes and what unfolded in the media. Julianne Moore wasn't doing SNL or some parody, she wasn't doing what we now affectionately call Baldy, they're the same creatures at different stages of depravity and hubris.
Julianne Moore, for the duration of the movie, became the 2008 boxed wine vintage Sarah Palin, who was pretending to be a viable candidate. Was it exactly the same? Hell No! Julianne Moore had to dumb down, sit for two hours in make up, then immerse herself in the Character. Did it ever cross anyone's mind that McCain was being played by the same actor as Al Bundy? Woody Harrelson as the dumb bartender in Cheers?
I loved the movie for what it was, I've watched it three times and I still get chills. I think Julianne Moore got the mannerisms, tics, pettiness, fragility and speech patterns perfect.
If they do a 2012 vintage of the cheap boxed wine known as Baldy, I'm sure it'll take more work, but Moore can play that version just as believably.
I'm glad Julianne is not Say ree. Julianne as an actress is secretly looking for meaning. Say ree? Not so much. Say, Julianne is a better Say ree than Say ree herself. "issa"...(what'zatmean? who cares...dudn't matter...)
I know, right? I had a hard time, sometimes, remembering which clip was the Snowbilly.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't make it past the half way point, but God is Moore creepily accurate... Easier to listen to as well, also too. She brings the hatred and bitterness into focus way too clearly for comfort
ReplyDeleteShe really did nail her! She really deserves an Emmy for this performance.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I felt that Moore missed the mark. Her Palin was subdued, careful and not at all charismatic. She just didn't capture the fire in the belly, particularly in the crowd scenes. I also felt that the mannerisms and speech were off; Tina Fey was much closer to the real thing. Having said that, I think it was more effective for Moore to not be a duplicate of Palin which would have raised her to a caricature.
ReplyDeleteWoody Harrelson's portray of Steve Schmidt was phenomenal. I FELT his frustration, anxiety and pain over the Palin debacle.
Tina Fey's Palin was/is awful! She doesn't look, sound, or act anything like Palin. I've seen about half a dozen women on the internet that did a much better job of impersonating Sarah Palin.
DeleteI've said the very same thing re Moore in comments elsewhere. Guess she can't help being ladylike and classy. $P is so hard-edged, feckless: a caterwauling fishwife. Tina Fey was closer to the real horror, in spite of playing it for laughs.
DeleteOn the good side, no refrigerator was injured in the making of this film.
Skankerbelle, you know perfectly well Fey plays your mother/your boss, to perfection. NOBODY does it better. Just burns yer ass that so many are seeing her as the shrill, incurious, ignorant boob she is, doesn't it?
DeleteAnd speaking of boobs.....oh, fuggedaboutit.
To each his own in the opinion deprtment. Moore is a great actress and lady. Can't knock the job she did. IMO I would have liked to see something more to the Palin we've come to know, a little more Charlize Theron in Monster would have completed the character assessment. Palin has the Moore sweet little lady side to her as well and not saying she is as far gone as Monster. A little more of that part of her reality would have been nice. May the next depiction of her really cover the Sarah and Todd with their bar stool, pimp, swinging sides.
DeleteAnd sniffin' snow from the tops of oil drume, you betcha!
DeleteOMG - Rush put Palin in the Graveyard! Too funny at his wording.
ReplyDeleteRush Limbaugh: Desperate Obama Has Gone ‘Back To The Graveyard To Dig Sarah Palin Back Up’
As we all know, HBO (like every television channel eveeeeeeer) is secretly working for the Democratic Party. That’s why the second season of Game of Thrones will be entirely about the attempt to bring a public health insurance option to the kingdom of Westeros (SPOILER WARNING!). It’s also why they’ve joined forces with a desperate Barack Obama in dredging up the rotting horse corpse that is Sarah Palin attacks. That, at least, is the argument Rush Limbaugh put forth today.
And, you want to know the best part? My horse corpse metaphor really isn’t too far off from the colorful language he used.
Limbaugh was speaking about the video that Obama’s re-election campaign released that strangely seemed to imply that Palin was still relevant. Limbaugh proposed that this was part of a planned two-pronged attack in conjunction with the HBO film Game Change all designed to distract Americans from the real issues.
“They need a demon. They always need a demon. They must have a focus of evil. I suspect their new one is Sarah Palin. Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama — or a PAC, I forget which. I’m not sure. I’ve got the sound bite here and I’ll get to it before the program ends. Barack Obama is running a re-elect ad against Sarah Palin who is not running. So it’s time now for them to have a new demon. In this case, they’ve got to go back to the graveyard, dig Sarah Palin back up.”
I’m of two minds about this.
On one side, I agree that it’s ridiculous for Obama’s team to be talking about Palin. Both parties would be better off if that woman stayed back in 2008 alongside the song “I Kissed a Girl” and NBC’s attempt to reboot American Gladiators.
With that being said, Palin is still going on television and she is still making strange claims like Obama wanting to go back to Pre-Civil War Days and quotes like that do still cause wealthy liberals to throw money at Obama’s campaign by the handfull. So I understand why they did it.
Really, I don’t know what to think. The only thing I’m sure about is that a movie featuring Palin as an evil, zombified demon attacking people would be a thousand times better than Game Change.
And I liked Game Change!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/rush-limbaugh-desperate-obama-has-gone-back-to-the-graveyard-to-dig-sarah-palin-back-up/
I'm ambivalent as well that Obama's team even mentioned her. I thought his elegantly ignoring her all this time spoke volumes. She must be thrilled to have been featured, and all the more fired up by it. I'm afraid they elevated her in their attempt to use her...
DeleteI also wondered about a misstep , acknowledging her existence at all. But people have noted that when Obama seems to misstep he can turn out to be three steps ahead of everyone. In this case I wonder: was the small PAC acknowledgment calculated to throw her into a total tizzy, knowing GC has her on the rails?
DeleteShe did a great job, but...
ReplyDeleteShe (expectedly) lacks the smug, self righteous, poorly hidden hostility that permeates every mis-articulated thought in SP's addled,racing, cob-web filled mind- but only because JM is probably a decent, unwarped person.
I agree with this, and said so the night it aired. Julianne Moore is fantastic, and there are times in the film she absolutely is channeling Sarah, particularly some of the facial expressions (they got the eye makeup down perfectly).
DeleteWhat is missing is that arrogance and that sassy, kinda fun (relative term, for lack of a better description) side. The true, juvenile, high school audacity that she has always relied on, by default. Sarah used to say everything with a smile and a chuckle, though a smile with an ugly edge underneath. Nowadays she is mostly humorless, of course, but back than she was so freaking full of herself! She could be sort of breezy, she came off as invincible, and that's what made her so appealing to so many, I think.
Then the hard work being asked of her and the true nature of her situation became clear to her, and she fell apart. That part Julianne got, no problem.
Just hard to play the kind of nasty, mean girl-ishness in which Sarah Palin excels. Julianne was more earnest, more sincere, and that is not the true Sarah Palin. It's like she was giving Sarah too much credit, and perhaps this is due to the fact that Julianne herself seems like a decent, kindly person.
Sarah Palin could have gone far, actually, had she a different personality and character - she has some talent and some attributes that should by rights point to success, this must be acknowledged. But the substance is simply not there, and instead something extremely negative and destructive stands in its place. In our world that has gotten her a lot of attention and a spot on FOX news, but nothing like what she had aspired to (being like Ronald Reagan, for ex - though I do not admire him; but he was sincerely positive, if wrong, on many things).
I thought the same thing while watching the Couric interview. Moore somewhat lacked the thinly veiled venom, smugness and indignation that was sooo apparent in having to answer Katie's "gotcha" questions. I still think she did an outstanding job portraying her otherwise.
DeleteLove your comment. Because we think the same re Moore and $P, mebbe?
DeleteI loved Julianne, she did the best she could; but she didn't get Sarah's slutty stewardess attitude right. She tried, especially shaking her shoulders during the drill, baby, drill part in the debate. She played it a little more solemn than dumb flirt.
ReplyDeleteI agree -- it was almost great, but she missed the gutteral, deep and nasty force behind her words.
DeleteThis really brought it home to me… Palin isn’t totally stupid, but she slipped through life on her looks and getting others to do the actual work (mostly Todd).
ReplyDeleteAround REAL political wonks, she’s an astonishing light-weight. That’s the term that was evading me… light-weight. And mean, also too.
IQ = 83. I think Palin's pretty stupid.
DeletePalin had also sought to give meatier policy speeches, in particular on energy policy and on policy for children with disabilities; she finally gave the latter speech Friday, but had wanted to deliver it much earlier.
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Meatier? On energy? On policy for children with disabilities? What has she done in either camp? According to her, raising a child with special needs with a huge helping family is a breeze. No challenges (excuse me, some challenges) and the world need's more (I don't object to more DS children, I want programs that provide assistance and progressive therapy to improve their quality of life.)
What an efffing bone-head, what a jerk to act as if she's credentialed in anything but providing for herself, walmart pajama's in every color and Diet Dr. Pepper. Burned mac and cheese for her rude and dull children.
Having worked in the Special Education field for many years, I was at first interested in what Sarah Palin could do for our special population. I have yet to see her become an advocate for special needs children. The only thing I have seen her do is advocate giving birth to them. Nothing about their life once they are born. I worked with medically fragile multi-impaired children. Believe me, these kids and their families need an incredible amount of support, both financial and emotional. By the time they are 10 or 12, these families are exhausted from carrying for them, and in financial straits from their copious medical bills. Where has "Sarah the Advocate" been? She could have used her celebrity in such a good way. She blew it in my opinion. I'm profoundly disappointed.
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Palun is an entity who although catapulted to a prominent position uses her position and talent destructively relentlessly ti further exhalt herself by bashing others. She has done nothung for special needs except warm fuzzies and empty promises to parents. She terrorized same parents lying the POTUS intends to put disabled children to death , Health care reform is to withold medical treatment to special needs and she stands for their life!
DeletePalin casts her self as a saint, knight in shining armor in fictional webs of lies she spins casting others like bogeyman in the dark. I call it psychodrama.
TripleMoon: $he gave awhoppimg $ 1,000 from her PAC, isn't that enough?
DeleteSarah Palin is at the very LEAST supportive of only herself! She's a total fraud. That poor retarded child she pulled onto the scene as hers is the biggest lie out there. She carried him around as 'luggage' when on the campaign trail w/McCain w/o shoes or coats when it was cold! There was absolutely no love or care displayed by her for him. I cannot imagine what it is like to be involved w/this bitch and fraud, Sarah Palin, as a 'supposed' family member. There are so many lies out there about her - Track is not Toad's son - and on and on. She is a fucking fraud!
DeleteFor years you [private citizens] have been working to make this country more welcoming for children of special needs. If elected, I promise you, you will have a friend and an advocate in the White House.
ReplyDeleteWell, she didn't win, so her promise is not unanswered. As a private citizen (with no title) she simply can't be bothered to become a national spokeswoman, advocate, philanthropist on Special Needs programs for Americans with Disabilities.
And, too, we've seen what a donor she and Toad are NOT via their income tax returns. They are the most UNchristian people in Alaska!!!!
DeleteAccording to her, a title isn't needed to get involved and make a difference.
DeleteOf course, what she didn't say aloud at the same time was that money and plenty of it would be required for her help in any way.
I thought Moore went overboard on the accent. She sounded like Fargo. I couldn't get past that.
ReplyDeleteAgreed...
DeleteAfter 10 minutes, I forgot I was watching a movie. I really thought Moore did a fabulous job and her performance calibrated.
DeleteI did too. She did as good a job as she could but I think we all know and have seen too much of Sarah Palin and it would be a very hard part to play. Her voice and accent weren't close enough and at times it seemed like she was trying to hard to imitate the voice. I think Woody did an outstanding job because we don't have that imprinted Schmidt in our minds like we do with Sarah Palin.
DeleteShe really did go rogue halfway through the movie which scared the hell out of the campaign staff and I believe that this is the reason why so many of them came forward after to give their insights on what really went on behind the scenes. This was a much needed movie to show just how close this woman could be in a presidential situation. What I still find scary is that the 2008 McCain/Palin ticket got 48% of the voters on election day, even with all of her stupidity and ignorance that was clearly shown during and throughout the campaign. This dimwit needs to be taken out of politics completely and I'm very happy that people from the McCain/Palin camp came forward to give their insights.
I finally got to see the movie last night and I loved it, laughed at all the irony and cringed at the insanity. Yes, JM did overdo the accent, but she got it perfectly some of the times. As stated, because we all have probably watched little miss wacko more than the average person, we are really sensitive to it. I would imagine the average viewer thought she was dead on. The best part for me is to see Nicole and Steve being interviewed after the fact and continue to show grace and guilt for their part, which just further confirms what we saw. John McCain however is an idiot for continuing to stick by scarah's side. He truly is a sick little man. Ed Harris was directed to go soft and I would imagine Steve probably would not have been as helpful with the film if it was any other way. It is almost as if McCain has given Steve the permission to say McCain was sorry through Steve. McCain can let it be known he knew the selection was a mistake, but does not have to personally admit to it. What a lousy legacy he has left behind.
DeleteYes, I think Woody didn't have to worry about imitating Steve S because we didn't know him, so he could act on the emotions, etc.
DeleteThe Undefeated should have actually been named, Liar Liar.
ReplyDeleteSarah lies as she breaths.
I thought the movie to be very, very good. They all did outstanding acting jobs...especially Woody.
ReplyDeleteI've read a lot about Palin and have followed her since she ran for 'quitter' gov of Alaska (I didn't vote for her - she was horrible in the debates against Halcro!). She truly is a fraud, liar and horribly devisive.
I didn't like it that Obama's campaign (or his PAC) gave Palin any credibility by including her words in a campaign ad. She is not worth wasting any time on even though her pre-civil war days reference was a perfect display of her vast ignorance.
ReplyDeleteAgree. Any teeny tiny recognition of SP and she grabs it with both hands and inflates it into "enemy" of the week. She is trying to build a relationship with Obama that does not exist in the real world.
DeleteWhenever there is not enough drama in her life, I think she purposely says or does something outrageous to pick a fight or play the victim. ANYTHING to get attention.
America will be over SP when she can dress up in SS garb and start goose-stepping down the main street in Wasilla and people will shrug and say "Half-Time Sarah must be off her meds again".
I think it's good that the PAC calls out racism.
DeleteI agree in general that it is not a good idea to acknowledge her at all. I think the president should never, ever, acknowledge her.
DeleteOn the other hand, ignoring Palin will not make her go away, and somehow she needs to be called out on her lies and stupidity. As long as it is a separate PAC using her (not acknowledging her in any way, but using her own narcissism and stupidity against her), it could be a net positive.
She now thinks she is this close to the president, and that he is watching her idiotic interviews and reading her brainless Facebook rants (he isn't, Sarah, he has a country to run), and that he fears her and, yes, wants her.
She is of course totally wrong, but her latest rant has a stalkerish quality to it that will only become more and more obvious the more people one step removed from the President point their fingers at her and laugh out loud, and the more the President himself continues to not think about her.
I think this could be what finally finishes her off in the public eye as she becomes increasingly and more obviously psychotically obsessed with the President and desperate for his attention. At some point, she will probably slip and scream in all caps on her facebook, that "Damn you, you Kenyan man candy, I will not be ignored."
On a practical note, the more articles about her that are illustrated with 2008 Palin pics as well as with more recent pics, the easier it will be for people to see her now as that kind of scary pervy mom of your best friend in high school, and not as a MILF.
Moore did a great job, she was the real 'dill'.
ReplyDeleteNow Caribou Barbie wants to debate the President LMAO!!!!!
$arah dear, he doesn't give a $hit about you, YOU ARE A NOBODY, A QUITTER!
me too G. - the ahirs were standing straight up on my neck and arms during Game Change scene when Sarah makes the speech just like they did on that first night at the convention - and every time they showed one of those "looks" my blood ran cold - Moore did a fantastic job of channeling Palin's essense (hopefully she can cleanse her mind, heart, and soul of any lasting ickyness - Moore has a good heart I'm sure she will recover fully from her emersion into the depths of Palin craziness)
ReplyDeleteI thought Woody was the most outstanding actor in this movie. "Game Change" will win awards - there is no doubt - all of the actors did a great job.
DeleteI think Palin could have been made to be more of the asshole she actually is. She's the most horrible woman in the United States. I love seeing that she is going down, down, down. It's about time!
Did palin say "my one and only son"? so, who gave birth to trig?
ReplyDeleteAnd I love that they used it in the movie!
DeleteBut it was October 15, 2007 on Charlie Rose...before she "had" Trig.
DeleteShe said that in Fall 2007 before Trig was born.
DeleteWell, I was excited, too. The truth, however, is that the interview with Rose actually occurred sometime in late 2007. It was updated on youtube after her selection for VP nominee. Maybe that's where the confusion began.
DeleteUsing the "one and only son" quote in the movie may raise eyebrows (although probably not enough) but I think the Charlie Rose show was taped in '07. Unless she did one than more interview with him. I really like Charlie Rose but there's no way I'm going to sit through listening to her to see what interview she said that in.
DeleteI thought the same thing so I looked it up. She said the "one and only son" before Trig was born. I think the date was Nov 2007.
DeleteYes she did. We noticed then too.
DeleteThat interview Palin did with Charlie Rose, where she called Track her one and only son, was done in SEPTEMBER 2008. NOT in 2007.
DeleteStrange terminology for someone who is pregnant and might possibly be having another son, though.
DeleteOn the Hannity 'civil war' interview the other day, she did start to say that Track was her only son, but then she caught herself and said 'well, except for Trig' or something to that effect. Still very telling IMHO. A proud mother of a 'special gift from god' wouldn't make that kind of mistake. That poor child is truly an afterthought to her now. Trig, I hope you are well cared for and surrounded by those who love you! Where's his birth certificate, Sarah?
DeleteGawd damn it tolls, the interview happened 9/11&12/08. We have to check even the smallest lies when it comes to trifling repugbaggers.
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Sarah's lies about her retarded 'supposed' son need to be brought out and investigated thoroughly. More and more in the USA want this woman brought down for all the harm she has tried to bring to our country. She is looked at as 'nuts' in other countries and they cannot believe Americans would support a woman this evil, ignorant and nasty in spirit.
DeleteFBI, IRS and the Anchorage Police Department GET OUT THERE and investigate this fraud - and her horrible husband, Todd (prostitute ring).
Her quack doctor cbj should have her license burned.
DeleteDon't ask the APD to do anything. they are in the palins' asses. they are on record deliberately destroying Shailey Tripp's evidence. these crooked cops were sent there by the palins. toad palin sat up ho's for his clients.
she knows it's true, if it weren't the insufferable bitch would had sued by now. Nobody is suing Tripp.
I just listened to both Charlie Rose interviews, the first 10/12/2007, the second on 9/6/2008. The "one and only son" line is definitely in the first, not the second.
DeleteInteresting exercise, though, listening to the longer 1st interview, which was Rose with Palin and Janet Napolitano. Napolitano runs CIRCLES around Palin, responding to questions intelligently, with specifics. Palin is less psychotic, more coherent, and less screechy than the basket case the world has seen more recently, but she still spits out nothing but ignorant platitudes. She deflects the first question on education entirely so that she can babble in ignorant platitudes about energy issues -- talking as if the country's energy woes, not to mention education woes, would be solved if only Alaska were allowed to develop its reserves. (Yeah. Right).
Napolitano and Rose are both surficially respectful enough but you can tell they both think she's a total idiot. At one point Rose asks her, "Do you know what President Bush's energy policy is?" To which she replies in typical ignorant form: "oh yah, you hear about it on the news..." Rose engages Palin on a number of questions but seems to jump at the opportunity to turn back to Napolitano for an actual conversation.
All in all, a good and very reminder of how an emperor with no clothes attained a position of power by conning/bluffing/flirting her way to the top.
She wasn't slutty enough.
ReplyDelete`the tone was set with Fox news who built a network on overt hate and racism.
ReplyDeletepalin mentally unstable as she is nevertheless realized the power of the media for after all her delusions reside in appearance and deceit.
its easy to get away while portraying a vile creature if you smile and are deemed attractive.
its easy to get away with your vile words and lies when you have the support of hate talk radio and fox network 24 hours a day.
palin did change the climate of political discourse but she had lots of help along the way.
non more so then john McCain a fraud himself who realizing he was facing his last gasp at the presidency (his charector should have denied him) petulantly choose palin the most unqualified person in his party to run a heartbeat away from the presidency a position he claimed to honer.
well the 15 minutes are up.
unable to hide entirely though not without trying, palin demonstrated to everyone paying attention her severe flaws as a candidate and as a human being.
she will exist a bitter, anger aging woman bogged down in the filth of delusion she has created.
locked away in alaska and carted out to read prearranged interviews that satisfy the geeks who share her delusions that she alone can deliver America to all its glory if only, if only... she would run!
If she had looked like today's RAM, aka the Female Penguin (from Batman Returns,) then she wouldn't get a second look and an enormous platform for which to speak. Maybe Orly Taitz territory, but nothing as mainstream and Fox News supported.
DeleteThis Charlie Gibson interview IMO was the start of "The Stupid". I say stupid...because when the nutjob said her foreign experience was due to "Alaska'sproximity to Russia"...that was the beginning of her doing "the pivot".
ReplyDeleteAnd her dumbass bots and her still do that shit till this day! I call it..."The-Baldy-answer-that's-not-the-answer-to-the-question-pivot".
Baldy of course continued with that crazy Russia answer which we now know is typical Baldy! When Baldy had the Katie Couric interview after the Gibson one...Katie gave Baldy the chance to clean up her Russia answer...but instead of Baldy doing that...the fool goes on and tries to convince Katie and the public that the "seeing Russia from Alaska" is the QUESTION! Which of course it is not.
Baldy did the same thing with the Paul Revere thing....when she saw everybody laughing at her, the dummy goes on Chris Wallace's show and Chris gives her a chance to back off her stupid Paul Revere answer...but Baldy running true to form doubles down on The Stupid!
Schmidt is right....she hasn't LEARNED shit in the last four years!
I think that no one can really capture Baldy the way she is NOW...the woman is mentally unstable...Julianne was portraying Baldy before the descent into the madness of Baldy that we see today! I think Moore did a wonderful job and I trust she will receive the Emmy she so deserves!
I think Sally Fields would do her justice. After all she played a good Sybil.
DeleteSally Fields looks about the right age, too...
Delete(65 but well preserved vs Palin plastic surgerying her appearence to 15 years older than she really is)
So, IF she had adopted Trig shouldn't he be refered to as her "son"? Poor little guy never stood a chance in this screwed up family. All the kids are going to be so confused "Who is my Mommy? Where is Daddy? WHEN is my REAL birthday? When can I finally ditch the pacifier?"
ReplyDeleteI'm repeating information I posted a few minutes ago, because I can just hear the palinbots raging about lies being spread by immoral minority folks. The actual interview in which Palin referred to her only son took place in late 2007--pre Trig.
DeleteSo track went into the armed forces in 2007? I thought he went there on 9/11/2008.
DeleteThat interview took polace in Sep of 2008.
DeleteIt was October 2007.
Deletehttp://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/8736
Track served two years active duty from 2007-2009. A lot of 2007 was basic training camp. He is currently discharged and is still under contract (inactive duty) until 2015.
DeleteJulianne Moore is generally an amazing actress, but I don't think she really inhabited this role. It still came off as "acted" to me. Part of this could just be my perception that she didn't look enough like Palin, either, despite the similar hair-style, clothes and make-up. I also agree the accent is over the top.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the full movie, though. There may be a lot more scenes in there that would give me a different opinion.
You really shouldn't comment if you haven't seen it. That may not be what you want to hear but it's true. It's an amazing performance in toto.
DeleteExcuse me? I am commenting on the video comparison that Gryphen posted and invited us to give our opinion about.
DeleteTake the time to watch the movie at the Vimeo link above...
DeleteI thought Julianne was amazing. She was much prettier than Sarah but Sarah's looks have also gone downhill since the election. She had become hardened and more severe/serious in her demeanor and looks since 2008. If you look back at photos from the election, Sarah WAS prettier and not as severe looking. Julianne captured her crazy extremely well. I also think the make up on her eyes was amazing.
ReplyDeleteWe have to remember we see Sarah as angry ugly and nasty because that is how she is now in almost all public appearances. But she did (does?) have a charming warm side of her. It wasn't just looks. And in the movie you watch Julianne change from that flirty warm country girl to a psychopath. I thought it was amazing.
I agree the accent wasn't quite right but she did get a lot of Sarah's facial expressions. The smirk she makes where her jaw struts our and her lips flatten, the cold shilly way she treated Levi and Nicole Wallace and so on.
The part of the movie that was so off to me was her relationship with Todd. Todd and the kids were not very realistic but I think they were trying to show a warm side of her so they weren't blasted by critics.
I hope both Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson win awards. They were both amazing to me. I also think this did help discredit Sarah even more. The problem though is she seems to get off on negative attention and she won't shut up. Just watch her in the next month. She is desperate to be relavent and in the news.
So, I burned a copy of Game Change and took it over to my Canadian friends' house as they have a large screen TV. My friends know more about American politics than most Americans and they were eager to see what I was raving about. They were mesmerized. And shocked. They were really impressed with Julianne Moore's portrayal of Palin. (I still say that, if she had not downplayed Sarah a bit, she would have wandered into Tina Fey territory. I believe her portrayal was pitch perfect.)
ReplyDeleteCanadians have some asshats for politicians but nothing like our Sarah. They cannot understand how she was put up for such an important position out of nowhere. And they hope it never happens in Canada.
BTW, they love Barack Obama and think he's doing a great job.
Excellent work by Moore.
ReplyDeleteNow for something deliciously entertaining...Ann Coulter, that defender of Sarah Palin, has just dissed her in this video clip (on the conservative website: The Daily Caller):
"Coulter on Palin, brokered convention:
"GOP has ‘a problem with con men and charlatans’"
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/coulter-on-palin-brokered-convention-gop-has-a-problem-with-con-men-and-charlatans/#ixzz1p6UfYXjC
I saw that. Whoa. Never would have thought Coulter would join the so-called "Moderate" side in what looks to be shaping up as a civil war in the Republican Party. Ironically, Coulter is one of the people most responsible for cultivating the nasty rightwing side. Is she getting frightened of the monster she helped create?
DeleteIf you read the comments under the article, almost all are bashing Coulter and diving down into their method of attacking a woman's looks rather than the substance of her remarks. When she attacked Obama and the left and defended Palin she was their hero. Now...not so much. She will suffer the wrath of the angry GOP mob that she helped create.
DeleteNo, the conservative market is much too lucrative no matter how much she alienates normal, regular U.S. Citizens.
DeleteThe only contrite conservative we've ever seen is Steve Schmidt. And still, shame on him. And Frank Bailey.
I didn't feel that way, but I think it would be nearly impossible to play someone we have all gotten to see way too much of.
ReplyDeleteMoore didn't capture either the harsh, brittleness of Palin, nor the smarmy, flirtatious, faux-folksy side to her.
My overall feeling about the show was that they actually did not want to do a hatchet job, therefore they held way back Instead, they showed everyone in as flattering a light as they could and it was still devastating.
I want to see the "Game Change" that was written by liberal or neutral writers and see the unvarnished truth, babygate and all.
Someone is going to do another movie someday that will cover here whole life. She's got to be really scared that all the Gates will be in there.
DeleteBabygate, HouseGate, TrooperGate, DairyGate, ShaileyGate, and probably a dozen we in the lower 48 don't know about.
I also personally think that there's something that happened in her childhood that was very unsavory to do with abuse. That's the deepest of all the dark secrets and will probably not come out, but it seems likely given her constant rhetoric as a victim
Truth has a funny way of revealing itself Sarah.
I have not read yet what others have mentioned, but the only real difference I noticed between these two would be -- §P has NO TOP LIP -- whereas Moore has a very beautiful, FULL-lipped mouth.
ReplyDeleteShe (Moore) also has a much nicer, softer speaking voice!!
As you stated -- the rest of her performance is so close -- it is actually a little 'spooky' LOL
The only comparison that we have is with Tina Fey. Tina played Sarah for laughs, exaggerating her voice. Of course the funniest moment was when Fey (as Palin) responded to Couric's question using Palin's actual works. Word Salad!
ReplyDeleteJulianne Moore did not play her role for laughs. She was trying to give an accurate impression of Sarah Palin. I think she held back when she yelled at people and when she delivered her speeches. Sarah's voice is much more shrill, and unlike Moore, Sarah cannot control her voice. Moore used a deeper register and control; she said that shad had a voice coach. Palin has never had a voice coach, and when she gets emotional, she speeds up, mispronounces words and gets increasingly shrill. There are times when Palin voice is "Nails on the Blackboard." Moore's portrayal was more restrained.
Sarah Palin also has a "tell" when she speaks. In a poker game, a player's "tell," unusual gestures like glancing down, give away their hand. When people lie, unconsciously they shake their heads or look down. Sarah's voice rises sharply when she doesn't know what she's talking about. She also has this "cute little girl voice" when she makes things up. An example would be Sarah's actual interview with Couric when Sarah was trying to claim some foreign policy experience with Alaska's proximity to Russia. "When Putin rears his head, where does he go? (Hand gestures) Alaska air space..."
I think that you are correct about the "tells" I noticed the same ones.
DeleteThat being said I think Ms. Moore almost captured Sarah's persona, almost. But then I suppose it would be very difficult for a sane person like Ms Moore to play a batshitcrazy person like Sarah.
PS Mercede is prettier than Beefalo and always will be.
Signed Little Rabbit
Muuuuuuuch prettier!
DeleteSarah Palin’s Debate Challenge to President Obama Falls on Deaf Ears
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is getting all wee-wee’d up – again – and she is calling out the President. A recent Obama ad ruffled her scruff and she wrote a lengthy diatribe on her number one political messaging site – her Facebook. It included this flippant call-out to the President of the United States…
This kind of bravado is becoming the way of communicating by Republican celeb-politicians as we saw in recent months with the bawdy audacity of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as she stuck her finger in the face of President Obama as he arrived on Air Force One in Arizona. It is disrespectful, without a shred of class and internationally embarrassing. Fortunately, when Ed Schultz asked his guest tonight, Stephanie Cutter of Obama for America what the Obama camp thought about this invite by Palin, she replied…
“To be honest Ed we didn’t even know about this until you told us. I appreciate her wanting to debate the President but I think he has a couple of other things on his plate. **I will call my good friend Steve Schmidt and see whether he thinks it is a good idea**. I did enjoy Game Change so thank you for informing me of that request”.
http://www.politicususa.com/palin-challenge-obama-deaf/
LOL! She just got smacked!
What a great response by Stephanie Cutter! Both deft and devastating. These are the moments when I remember that President Obama has a great team and I know they will work tirelessly for his re-election.
DeletePalin was wooing a number of well-connected Washington conservative thinkers. In a stroke of luck, Palin did not have to go to the capital to meet these members of “the permanent political establishment”; they came to Alaska.
ReplyDeleteShortly after taking office, Palin received two memos from Paulette Simpson, the Alaska Federation of Republican Women leader, noting that two prominent conservative magazines—The Weekly Standard, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, and National Review, founded by William F. Buckley, Jr.—were planning luxury cruises to Alaska in the summer of 2007, which would make stops in Juneau. Writers and editors from these publications had been enlisted to deliver lectures to politically minded vacationers. “The Governor was more than happy to meet these guys,” Joe Balash, a special staff assistant to Palin, recalled.
They still act like this woman just emerged from nowhere; out of thin air; a fortuitous happenstance on the part of a few lucky conservatives innocently cruising through Alaska. Other trips were made to Alaska and Palin got herself up and high-tailed it each time to Juneau in order to entertain at the Governor’s Mansion that she seldom visited. According to – Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, one adoring visitor in this cadre recalled Palin in high heels,
“They’re looking far-right politics, female, and then attractive. And one of the things that all of the Republican political pundits who came through the governor’s mansion were —- it was funny to interview them. They were just smitten by her. They described her wearing high heels and saying, “Hi, I’m Sarah,” and introducing herself charmingly [...]walking around this big Victorian house with rough Alaska floors, she was “striking,” he said. “She has that aura that Clinton, Reagan, and Jack Kennedy had—magnetism that comes through much more strongly when you’re in the same room. . And they talked, almost to a man, how gorgeous she was. They called her a “honey.” Bill Kristol called her “my heartthrob.” I mean, they sounded like guys with schoolboy crushes, practically.
http://www.politicususa.com/palin-challenge-obama-deaf/
BARF! Just BARF! And it isn't jealousy, sorry Bristol/Brooklyn/Ram whomever. I just think she is such an ugly person and I did not think that during 2008 election. It is how she snarls and claws at everyone. You NEVER hear anything positive come out of her mouth. It is nauseating and classless - the way she talks about our President. Really it is very unAmerican. She is awful - I bet they don't find her attractive now, although if she winked at them again, they might. Men can be such fools.
DeleteThat made me want to barf too! Sarah Palin is a fraud and more and more Americans are finding it out and it's about damned time.
DeleteSo, so glad the HBO special came out "Game Change". Millions have seen it and millions more will continue to. The books about her are increasing in sales again and that is outstanding too!!! Read two of them - Joe McGinniss and Geoffrey Dunn are the authors. Both are well written, researched, have proof sources and are accurate even though she denied (of course, of course!) they were!
One of my favorite scenes in the movie. Woody really knocks it out of the park!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKv8hjMMxo8&feature=player_embedded
The most revealing line in the whole book/movie is not in these clips but came out during her first prepping sessions, when she was being coached on things like WWI and WWII. The line was about how "flippin' fantastic" the lessons were. Like she had never heard the info before and was unaware that everyone else had learned it in JUNIOR HIGH. She was completely unaware of her deficits, and until these sessions I don't think she felt the need to hide them. But after the Gibson and Couric interviews she suddenly did feel the need to hide them, and it was the beginning of the end for her. The line showed me how truly profound her ignorance is and told me that something happened to her in her youth that left her emotionally and intellectually stuck at a junior high level. She's incapable of moving beyond that without some serious therapy.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree that her ignorance was on full display. Was she a student that was able to flirt her way into good grades? We know s he smoked bones with her professor at college - one of 'em....all of 'em.
DeleteThis is evidence that Palin had been approached with the idea of being VP way before the five days before the GOP Convention where she marched into our realities in her red naughty-monkey heels. There were even mock-up campaign ads created as far back as mid-2007 posted at Brickley’s site as well.
ReplyDeleteThis was reckless and irresponsible and I am hard-pressed to accept the contrite and apologetic change of heart by those advisers who were complicit in propelling her onto the national political stage. They put us all at great risk as they now openly admit that the portrayal of this foolish, emotional and woefully ignorant woman in the movie Game Change accurately reflects who she is – and her Facebook throw-down to debate the President of the United States is further evidence of this sad delusional worldview and how she sees herself in it.
http://www.politicususa.com/palin-challenge-obama-deaf/
Thank God that we have some in the McCain campaign that came out and disclosed what a mess the campaign actually was w/Palin being on board. We are so fortunate that they disclosed the negative and fraud of Sarah Palin. Even though John McCain won't say so - there are too many others within the campaign that have reinforced the information. Palin is a fucking fraud - liar - unethical - horrible mother and wife - screwed around on her husband as he did her - has not led by example to her children - she used them vs loving and supporting them - brought her oldest daughter forward to the nation as pregnant and unwed and on and on and on. Sarah Palin is in NO way an example for women, or her daughters to follow. She is a sad, sad excuse for a human being! She's a horrible American too! She needs to be put in jail for treason - along w/her husband who is nothing more than a bully, with a small dick, that ran a prostitute ring in Alaska. Can you imagine having them as parents? God forbid!
DeleteThat article shows the lack of judgement McCain showed by picking her anyway. People can rail against his staff, but ultimately, the blame falls squarely on his shoulders.
DeleteThe fact that his wife and daughter keep defending him disgusts me beyond words. I'm embarrassed FOR them.
The potential damage to our country would have been catastrophic.
I've said it before, I'll say it forever - anyone who is not willfully ignorant can't look at the Gibson, Couric interviews and the VP debate and still claim Palin was qualified for the job. She was a dismal failure!
ReplyDelete"I can see Russia from my house".....are you fucking serious? Imagine this woman at the UN representing America. Heads of State and diplomats would be squirming in their seats to avoid laughing out loud and collapsing in tears at her (proud) stupidity.
No one this willingly moronic should have been allowed to be nominated VP. It was a travesty. McCain's campaign was already sinking and Palin was the nail in the coffin - everyone in their right mind knows this. Even if they refuse to admit it.
"All of them, Katie!" will forever be Sarah Palin's tagline. I agree with Woody Harrelson's Steve Schmidt "Name one fucking paper!" Here Sarah, I'll give you a leg up - The New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, LA Times. Here's some other publications for you to memorise: Newsweek, The Economist, Times magazine.
She could have said Anchorage Daily News for goodness sakes!! That alone would have been fine!! But she couldn't.....not because of nerves....she's done TONS of interviews before this.....and if it was nerves then that undercuts her own argument of having more experience than Obama......she couldn't answer a single question of what she read to keep up to date because the only thing Sarah Palin reads is People Magazine and Us Weekly.
She's a moron. A vindictive one too and pissed off as hell that people have caught on to that fact - there's no two ways about it.
I have to look at the people around her to tell if it is Sarah or Julianne. McCain, the families, and the advisors look different. She doesn't.
ReplyDeleteI just wish they had shown at the end how they had to physically stop her from giving that concession screech (i.e how they had to turn off the power to the podium and the microphone...)
ReplyDeleteMs. Moore did an terrific job. She got all that a human could do to mimic Sarah, except for the scratchy, grating quality of her voice that kills people's eardrums.
ReplyDeleteFor any serious candidate to just "shut down" while being questioned is way beyond the pale.
ReplyDeleteNo one aspiring to even the US House of Reps should be that disfunctional or ignorant.
I think Palin jumped the shark BIG TIME when she couldn't name ONE other supreme court decision while being interviewed
Her 11 year old mentality really comes out when she says eagerly, "I'll try to find some and bring'em to ya".
On one hand it's so pathetic that you have to almost feel sorry for the poor thing. On the other
hand she would viciously SNAP at someone for daring to call that a profoundly ignorant moment.
http://gawker.com/5054523/worst-of-sarah-palins-katie-couric-interview-so-far
Given her supposedly pro-life stance - her inability to name Roe v Wade as the Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with probably led to some jaws dropping in the McCain camp. So much for pro-life cred. REAL cred that is, not just slogans and hand gestures. That should have been the point they pulled her out.
DeleteShe's a friggin' fraud and has been for years and years. Check her idiotic ways in Alaska - to begin in Wasilla. We are ashamed of her and so wish she had no connection to Alaska!
DeleteI thought Julianne Moore was fantastic. She nailed Palin's personality. She may not have perfected Palin's accent but Palin's accent changed based on what crowd she was performing in front of.
ReplyDeleteI would've liked to have seen Palin's "I'm so cute, pretty and sexy" flirtatiousness but there were hints with the winks and occasional flattering remarks to Steve Schmidt and McCain. Woody Harrelson was also, too, phenomenal. Great movie that I wish every American could see.
I'm confused. I watched "Game Change" last night and I got the impression that the Palin family is very close and loving. At least it was implied in the movie.
ReplyDeleteHowever, everything I've seen here seems to show that she's not the loving mother and wife that she wants everyone to believe.
Seems like there would have been signs during the campaign that it was all for show.
Anyone know?
For a good view of the Palin "family dynamics," go to Amazon and read Shailey Tripp's book: BOYS WILL BE BOYS
DeleteIn Shailey's book, you find out that Todd was having sex with Shailey during the 2008 campaign.
DeleteIn loving families husbands don't visit prostitutes for sex.
DeleteNot "close and loving".
DeleteA. Palin's treatment of Trig on the campaign trail.
B. Palin's parading her daughter Bristol onto the campaign stage.
C. Shailey Tripp.
And look at Sarah Palin as a 'mother' - her kids had nothing but problems as is reflected in Alaska. In trouble w/the law - fires - booze - drugs - school busses, pregnancies as teenagers, et al. Her family is and has been a fucking mess!
Deleteummm breaking and entering, homophobic outbursts, can't keep their panties on......
DeleteI'm confused. I watched "Game Change" last night and I got the impression that the Palin family is very close and loving.
DeleteYou've heard of thick as thieves. It is that kind of closeness. The movie did not want to distract from the main point, our corrupt and sick political system that needs fixing. She scared some pros into telling some truth in hopes people will open their eyes up to her games and other similar cons. It wasn't the time for the criticism to say the family was attacked. Many, many public figures live different lives then is put out by their public persona. There is nothing new with that. Years later you may hear that so and so was going through hell and it wasn't all peaches and cream after all. People who have false idols want to believe in the fantasy and no matter what they will not let go of the lies. Even after it becomes abundantly clear they were deceived.
The photos of Sarah and Todd leaving the museum make it absolute that she did not have a bun in the oven. She shows up days later and has a watermelon or two and couldn't look more maternal. Rational, sane people would want to know what that was about, they would be asking more questions. Others want to believe in some kind of myth. She is like a Mary, some kind of virgin experience popped Trig in there so she could help other disable children.
Next she may only have Track to make her the greatest military expert. Bristol is dating some lug of a gangster family kid. Willow is a nothing and Piper alerts people to her using, abusing children.
She is running out of props. She will drag anyone of them out again but it is more difficult to pull off now. Stay tuned, just don't fall for the lies.
I don't know, but I loved the line, after finding out Bristol, her teenage daughter, was pregnant, Sarah says "How the flip did that happen?"
DeleteUmmm, doesn't sound like a close knit, happy family- as a mom, isn't it her job to "educate" her teenage kids about "sex" (blush), abstinance, and methods of preventing pregnancy (any of em all of em)?
O/T -- but not really. Did any one else notice that the account today on MSNBC of how the Saudis (some were overt supporters of Al Qaeda) were spirited around and out of the country in the days following 9/11?
ReplyDeleteNew information on what really went on then is now coming out.
This story may eventually lead to Lowell "Bud" Paxson whose jet spirited Saudis out of Las Vegas during the time US airspace was otherwise closed.
Yes, the same "Bud" Paxson who had the goods on McCain (via his employee Vicki Iseman, thus influencing McCain's VP choice), and for whom, some of us feel, little Tri-g Paxson Van Palin was named.
It would be nice to catch up with McCain before he croaks. He has been soooo dirty too long. Too good at cover up. Palin is probably one of his lesser crimes but horrendous enough.
DeleteThis guy has had some fascinating stories.
http://www.madcowprod.com/911archive.htm
Exactly, Paxson forced McCain to accept Palin as a Candidate. Vicki Iseman was too close to
DeleteMcCain as advised by his campaign. I would call it BLACKMAIL.
I believe that Geoffrey Dunn's book outlines how Our Sarah openly wept long and hard when she realized that they had lost.
ReplyDeleteThis happened sometime at the concession speech, but I've never seen a video link to this sad occasion.
Anyone got a URL for that?
The weepy bitch! Who gives a shit about her?
DeleteLOL
DeleteThat bitch is crying cuz she is going back to Alaska.
How come there aint no Palin yard signs in Alaska?
I want a poll to see how I'm doing in Alaska...
During the concession speech, I remember that she looked 'emotional', as though she had been or was about to cry tears of frustration: I do believe that she thought she was about to move on up to the big leagues with McCain. She did not want to go back to small town USA, although that is the only place a bully like her can flourish.
DeleteM f/MD
I've never seen it on the internet, but I remember when our local news stations showed her bent over and bawling her eyes out. She went into the arms of her father.
Delete'I am also, I am also, of course, very thankful to governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I've ever seen ... one of the best campaigners I have ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength ... her husband Todd and their five beautiful children ... for their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign.
ReplyDeleteWe can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican party and our country.'
Pause at 7:00 mark and you will see Sarah will her eyes brimming with tears:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcBt2a0LUyQ
Transcript:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/05/john-mccain-concession-speech
Her cause and service to get everyone pumped up on speed? That works because it destroys the brain. Much easier to control a bunch of skanky fools. The state of Alaska with all it's beauty and fine people has MASSIVELY HUGE ABUSE PROBLEMS. The dark side of Ak will abuse children, women, men and all that gets them off. They use drugs like it was milk and cookies.
DeleteHere's a 2 minute video of the McCain concession speech which shows Palin being booed when McCain praises her. Interesting.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa7tNng3MiQ&feature=related
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ReplyDelete"Service to Alaska"! Give me a fucking break. She is ill regarded in Alaska and is going down as 'Alaska's worst gov". Obviously, you who wrote the above commentary don't have a friggin' clue what you are talking about. Do your home work for Christ's sake!
ReplyDeleteI found it ironic during Palin's VP debate prep on the podium in Arizona, the camera pans from the left several times and Wasilla's warrior within constantly appears over her left shoulder. It's on the tree trunk. Don't know if this is a subliminal message on HBO's part. This is the "Oh Biden" scene on John McCains compound. More fuel for Bill Maher.
ReplyDeleteSumbitch!!! Just seen it. Is that what I think it is?? Oh lord! I can't tell the difference between the two ha ha ha. Nice spot!
DeleteYeah, right Sarah Palin. "this kid is going to helping to secure his country". And "are you doing as much also?"
ReplyDeleteYou start out LYING to the world on camera about Track, to make YOU look better.
Sure Sarah, you forced him into joining because it fits your agenda, keeps him out of trouble and out of jail.
Just another one of your 1000's of lies about your kids, about Tawd and his mistresses, about how you have a "servant's heart" $arah, maybe YOU believe that somehow, but not many of the rest of us buy that crap.
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ReplyDeleteI haven't read the comments, I thought "Game Change" was very well done. It's a movie played by actors, it's an interpretation of the 2008 McCain/Palin campaign. I read the book, and was amazed at what went on behind the scenes and what unfolded in the media.
ReplyDeleteJulianne Moore wasn't doing SNL or some parody, she wasn't doing what we now affectionately call Baldy, they're the same creatures at different stages of depravity and hubris.
Julianne Moore, for the duration of the movie, became the 2008 boxed wine vintage Sarah Palin, who was pretending to be a viable candidate. Was it exactly the same? Hell No! Julianne Moore had to dumb down, sit for two hours in make up, then immerse herself in the Character.
Did it ever cross anyone's mind that McCain was being played by the same actor as Al Bundy?
Woody Harrelson as the dumb bartender in Cheers?
I loved the movie for what it was, I've watched it three times and I still get chills. I think Julianne Moore got the mannerisms, tics, pettiness, fragility and speech patterns perfect.
If they do a 2012 vintage of the cheap boxed wine known as Baldy, I'm sure it'll take more work, but Moore can play that version just as believably.
I'm glad Julianne is not Say ree. Julianne as an actress is secretly looking for meaning. Say ree? Not so much. Say, Julianne is a better Say ree than Say ree herself. "issa"...(what'zatmean? who cares...dudn't matter...)
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