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1. On the plane to meet Sen. John McCain for the first time, Palin (Julianne Moore) is so relaxed that top aide Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) marvels at her composure. She nods and replies, "It's God's plan." (Which, by definition, means it was God's plan for her to lose and have to slink back to Alaska in disgrace, after which she would resign her governorship for a short lived stint as a reality televison "star." Nice one God.)
2. Early in the campaign, Schmidt realizes that Palin is going to need a crash course in history and current events if she's to survive the national spotlight. At one point, he pauses in his tutorial and asks if she'd like to take a break. "No way!" Palin says, scribbling on a notepad like an enthusiastic freshman. "This is flippin' awesome!" (It's always exhilarating to finally learn things that you should have learned in elementary school, don'tcha think?)
3. Under pressure to master talking points from campaign press guru Nicole Wallace (Sarah Paulson), the governor finally cracks and has a meltdown over the phone. "I am not your puppet!" she shrieks. "You have ruined my reputation! I am ruined in Alaska." (Yeah like Nicole Wallace could have salvaged this lunatic's reputation in Alaska. We certainly did not need Wallace to tell us that our Governor was batshit crazy.)
4. During practice runs for her vice-presidential debate, Palin keeps referring to her opponent as Joe O'Biden rather than Joe Biden. "Oh, 'Biden,'" Palin says. "You did it again," an exasperated Schmidt says. Her prep team is so worried about the gaffe that they actually applaud when she gets Biden's name right. (Apparently there was a standing ovation when she tied her shoes without resorting to the manual.)
5. Toward the end of the campaign, Palin is depicted as a loose cannon, ignoring instructions from advisors and going off-message when the urge strikes her. Her swelling ego has also made her forget about her home state (where she would resign as governor the following year). Pulling McCain (Ed Harris) aside, she whispers conspiratorially: "We have to win this thing -- I so don't wanna go back to Alaska!" (Believe me lady, the feeling was mutual.)
Damn! I'm gonna need some more popcorn!
P.S. Here is another trailer, with more content, to further whet your appetite.
She is not "all there".... on any given day or moment.
ReplyDeleteuh oh! people are watching Game Change and
ReplyDeletefeeling sorry for palin
poor sarah...
I knew it
That's actually ok with me. People recognize more and more each day that she was the most unqualified, pathetic candidate in history. This will seal the deal.
DeleteSarah is a poser and loser.
That's OK for me too. People having pity on Sarah is probably something Sarah's ego can't tolerate. Pile it on!
DeleteThe main mission is being accomplished by Game Change, which is to portray her as someone totally incapable of governing.
Pity the pit bull, feel sorry for the momma grizzly, patronize her all day! Sarah and her bots are blind to the humiliation.
DeleteSarah is not a leader but a pathetic bag of bluff and bluster. And cruel.
Pity will turn to outrage.
As soon as I saw the new trailer, I immediately pulled out my invisible teacher's pen and checked the square on Sarah Palin's middle school evaluation form: Doesn't work or play well with others.
ReplyDeleteYeah! I said it....the "T" word. I'm a TEACHER, Sarah Palin, and You.Just.Failed! What good is having fame and fortune if you don't have the masses groveling at your feet. You are the living embodiment that money only makes you comfortable, but no where close to being happy.
I think that we're all gonna be disappointed in this movie.
ReplyDeleteThe peeps on Morning Joe got a screening of it last night, and they spent pretty much all of the past three hours talking about it.
They all said that it made them sympathetic toward Palin, and reminded them of what a star she was, and how she rose to the occasion so many times.
Julianne Moore and the director were both on, and they spent almost the entire time praising Palin.
In short, I think Joe summed it up with "she had her moments, but just think of what she was dealing with it. A son getting fired at in the army overseas, a pregnant teenager, she just had a baby...ANYONE would react the way she reacted." Then he proceeded to blame everything on the campaign workers for not prepping her properly.
I feel like what Joe is saying is what a lot of people will think, unfortunately. When I read Game Change, I distinctly remember thinking that I bet a lot of people will actually feel sympathetic toward Palin because of this. I felt the book had a real sympathetic tone, and it's clear that the movie does too.
The authors of the book mentioned that they had a screening of it in Seattle with a mostly liberal crowd, and pretty much everyone raised their hands when he asked if they like more now and view Palin better after watching the movie.
The media will never get over their love affair with Palin. They single-handily keep her mystique up, and keep her relevant.
It is revolting.
I really wish everyone would read Frank Bailey's book on her. I know we don't like him here, but I think his book would reach those in the middle. By not outright bashing her in the beginning, by talking about the things he loved about her, but then by carefully, peeling back the layers and revealing that everything about Palin is bullshit...I think it's just really effective.
It was the most eye-opening of all of the books on Palin to me. Especially because it was so detailed, and you really get to see how she takes advantage of people, and why her fanatics are so pathetically fanatical. They're broken people, living vicariously through Palin.
I hope the response to the movie is not, as you say, sympathic toward Palin but if that is the case you would think she would be promoting Game Change, not bad mouthing it.
DeleteIt sickens me to think, once again, she will come out of this seen as being the victim.
People don't vote for "the victim". Who cares if the ding dongs on Morning Joe feel bad for her?
DeleteMeanwhile, it's hilarious that Palin has been shooting her mouth off that Game Change is "fiction" if it makes some people more sympathetic to her.
This guy saw “Game Change,” and he says “Game Change” was NOT as flattering to Palin as the “Morning Joe” crew, etc. said it was. I don’t know what the director is up to, but Julianne Moore has begun to show her true colors as a weak-minded, right-wing sympathizer.
Delete“H.B.O.’s Game Change: Palin Portrayal Not As Flattering As Authors Suggest”
http://www.ology.com/politics/hbos-game-change-palin-portrayal-not-flattering-authors-suggest/03052012
“On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday, MSNBC contributor and co-author of the groundbreaking book “Game Change,” Mark Heilemann, took issue with an ad released by Sarah Palin’s PAC which charges bias in the film version produced by HBO which is set to air this Saturday.
Palin has not yet seen the movie, claims Heilemann, and decried the substance of her PAC’s preemptive attack on the veracity of the movie.
"Rather than being a divisive thing, it's going to be something that is more uniting than most things like this about Sarah Palin because it show the entire story truthfully, the times when she struggled and the times when she excelled,"said Heilemann.
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to view an advance copy of the film “Game Change”and I found it thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining. It was superbly well acted, smartly written and the film’s editing encapsulates the longest campaign in memory into a digestible two hours.
That having been said, this film represents a flattering portrayal of Palin’s 2008 vice presidential bid in the same way that Jesus Christ was flattered over the course of his two-hour flagellation in “Passion of the Christ.”
Heilemann claims that focus groups who viewed the movie came out of it with a better impression of Palin than they had when they went in – I contend that this is due only to sympathy over how she was portrayed in the film (though I do not contend with the factual nature of the film version of the book Game Change). By the end of it, I felt a mix of sympathy for Palin and fear of her and what she represents for politics; precisely the intention of the film makers and “Game Change” authors.”
Julianne Moore's job is to promote the movie to the largest audience possible. That means she has to stay as neutral as she can. I don't think her comments reflect her political belief or her true feelings about Sarah Palin.
DeleteIf the movie is defined as a "hit piece," people will dismiss it without watching. It needs to be seen as "compelling."
HBO is savvy. They are giving out little clips here and there to draw people in. The clips seem devastating to Palin, they make her look like an uneducated lunatic, but at the same time, we are told she is might be a sympathetic character. Which is it? Tune in to find out...
Unfortunately, the MSM is usually sympathetic towards Palin. In general, they will not address stories that would be potentially damaging to her.
DeleteAs far as Joe Scarborough, he is a Republican and is better suited to be on Fox News than on MSNBC. I don't recall him ever saying anything negative about Palin. I don't watch Morning Joe because if I wanted to hear Republican spin, I would watch Fixed News. (Which I don't)
Julianne Moore was paid to act in and promote this film. Part of that is to attempt to draw as large an audience as possible. If you are familiar with her many films, not to mention her personal life, then you know that she is not a "weak-minded, right-wing sympathizer".
DeleteHer job was to become Sarah Palin, not to get on a soap box and criticize her during the movie's promotional push. The authors of Game Change (the book), Halperin and Heilleman, take the same approach - they tell the story more than they make judgements.
In addition, I think that it's well-proven that anyone who has the gall to criticize Sarah Palin finds him or herself attacked by some extremely unhinged people. Moore has children and I think she's wise to downplay any personal or political distaste she may have for Palin.
Hope the movie includes McCain and Schmidt reaction to the fake "Sarkozy" phone call.
ReplyDeleteThere had to be many curse words flying around that day.
That one phone call showed how DUMB and CLUELESS Sarah is.
The fact that she actually thought she was so important that the president of France would be calling her is hilarious! She's such a dumbass! God bless her soul!
DeleteFeel sorry for her? Never in a million years. The woman is an egomaniac and she got exactly what she wanted from the campaign...money. She never wanted to raise her children, do the job she was elected to do in Alaska, or even be a good wife. Sarah is, and always has been, all about Sarah. I am not watching this movie because I don't care how they portray her. I had my fill of her in the fall of 2008, when she nearly incited riots against candidate Obama because she wanted to win so badly. She will do anything to further herself. She is a disgusting human being.
ReplyDeleteIf in the years since the 2008 election she had shown some humility or admitted that she was in over her head, then yes, maybe I could be sympathetic towards her, but that didn't happen. She is incapable of having a "aha" moment, which really is a tragedy. So sad.
DeleteIt's the classic equation.
ReplyDeleteHuge ego + tiny intellect = trouble for anyone involved.
Remember, according to Sarah everything in the movie is false ...
ReplyDelete"In short, I think Joe summed it up with "she had her moments, but just think of what she was dealing with it. A son getting fired at in the army overseas, a pregnant teenager, she just had a baby...ANYONE would react the way she reacted.""
ReplyDeleteThen why did she accept the nomination! POOR, POOR judgement. McCain was an idiot for choosing her and Sarah was an idiot for accepting. And, of course, that is what America wants - a candidate we can feel sorry for.
I think the story about her son getting shot at is another Palin myth. We know the teenager was pregnant - how many times is the bigger question. As for her having a baby? Time will tell but I suspect that wheel is about to come off her bus
DeleteAll that stuff made her know less than a sixth grader about the government and the world?
DeleteSorry, but that quote is an insult to women who deal with that stuff and worse on a daily basis and still manage to stay cogent. Sarah Palin's "hysteria" was in place before she made the unbelievably horrible decision to accept the offer to run for VPOTUS.
Her followers and the right side of the media will try to spin this any way they can to make themselves and the GOP look like lesser fools. Moderates and liberals will not be surprised she comes off as insane. It won't change minds as much as it will polish the image each of us has. And it will seal the coffin lid on her ever being anywhere near a position of power in this country.
ReplyDeleteToo bad this question wasn't tossed at the Morning Joe people - "Do you think Sara Palin is qualified to be President of this country?"
O/T - she must be fuming - the LSM seems to have completely ignored the facebook rant - she will never know how lucky she is - the responses to her support of Limbaugh would have not been nice!
ReplyDeleteAlso too - Lisa M seems to be attempting to walk back her dismissal of women's rights in the recent senate vote
http://community.adn.com/?q=adn/node/160093
Lisa is pirouetting as fast as she can. Spinning, spinning, spinning.
DeleteA reporter on the street asked some Palin supporters what they thought of Palin awhile back. They all loved her (still). Asked if they would vote for her for Prez. They said "NO!" She was nice (limited knowledge) but not qualified for Prez.= I think the movie will confirm this opinion. And there were a lot of people who liked McCain (?) and they will really blame Palin for him losing the election.
ReplyDeleteHow can anyone think some who is as nasty and mean-spirited and full of venom as nice.
DeleteI have never talked to anyone who likes her. I think they interviewed teabaggers.
I wonder if she thinks it is God's will that her daughters keep presenting her with illegitimate grandkids that have to be hidden? That her daughters have NO TALENT, yet keep chasing the dream of celebrity? Watch out $carah, the will of God is about to turn on YOU.
ReplyDeleteGod obviously gave Tripp to Bristol so she could get a new chin, easy money, and a reality teevee show. What a blessing!
DeleteThe face reconstruction looks ridiculous.
DeleteWas it God's will that Todd spend his spare time with Shailey Tripp? Was it God's will that Sarah didn't learn anything at all during her many years of college? Did God felt sorry for little Sarah so he introduced her to Glen Rice as a consolation prize?
DeleteOoo.. this is juicy. Keep giving us the highlights.
ReplyDeleteLove
Looks like they spared the Bristol actress the indignity of the gray bolster dress lol! Too bad though, as it was a thing of "beauty" lol!
ReplyDeleteI noticed that, too!
DeleteHell, let everyone feel sorry for her - she wasn't properly prepped, she was overwhelmed, she was out of her league. Whatever. The underlying theme will be that she she wasn't qualified, couldn't rise to the challenge, crumbled under the pressure. NOT what you want in someone one 72-year-old heart beat away from the nuclear codes!
ReplyDeleteShe will be shown in all her ignorant, clueless, and ambitious glory as she blew the opportunity of a lifetime because of her own character flaws and mental instability.
She was playing above her ability. There was no way to hide it. But the real point is that she had neither the self awareness nor the internal resources to deal with it.
She was a train wreck, and now we get to watch.
It's hard for stupid people to recognize their stupidity.
DeleteAnd it's hard to feel sorry for someone so vicious.
Deletesince sarah palin is trademarked
ReplyDeletewill she make any money off this movie?
The trademark has to do with products: The Sarah Palin action doll, the Sarah Palin lunch box. As a public figure, people can photograph her and report about her. And, she wasn't trademarked when she ran for VP.
DeleteIs it the kind of doll you have to inflate, and it comes with lube?
DeleteHowzabout...
Deletethe Sarah Palin(t) weight-loss plan:
be a loser like Sarah Palin(t).
or
the Sarah Palin(t) smoking cessation plan:
be a quitter like Sarah Palin(t).
I still have a hard time comprehending how a presidential campaign could have let themselves get in the position of only having five days to vet a vice-presidential candidate. They had months and months to vet candidates. It does not make sense. I still wonder if Steve Schmidt is somehow 'taking the fall' for the picking of Palin. There has been a lot of speculation on the blogs that the Palin pick was 'encouraged' by various right wing Republicans (Kristol and Paxson, etc.). I feel like we are still missing part of the story.
ReplyDeleteIt was a ploy. They didn't expect Obama to choose Biden, they thought he'd choose Hillary for VP. McCain and camp just chose Palin to get the women vote. She was just a ploy to appeal to women voters.
DeleteKristol had a raging hard on for Sarah Palin. I think it's as simple as that.
DeleteSarah named TriG PAXSON VAN Palin. In honor of Paxson and Greta, who shamelessly promoted her beyond her level of competence.
DeleteIt's indicative of how far the Republican Party has fallen since the Dwight Eisenhower days. Even the Barry Goldwater days.
DeleteAs far as competence I mean - they've been corrupt for a long time.
Hell, I know some ppl around here that still think the only thing Nixon did wrong was getting caught.
Sympathetic? She is a fraud! Joe McGinnis summed it up best: An utter utter fraud! HBO is just showing a very small peek of who the real Sarah Palin is. Everyone here at IM knows who and what she is prior to and after the events in this movie. Without listening to what comes out of her pie hole, her actions alone are more than enough proof to reveal she is of the lowest class of human one can degenerate to. She's nothing more than a lying opportunist, a vulture with big hair morally and intellectually retarded forever stuck in the 80's.
ReplyDeleteSarah needs a good smack upside the head with the admonition of "What the fuck is wrong with you? Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" And mind you, easy on the smack -you just might damage the pea.
There is a moment in "Game Change" when she's alone, and we see the hurt and sadness in her eyes when she realizes that people are finding her lacking. She's like a student who studied hard for the exam and failed anyway. The people love her. Alaska still loves her; that's why she's so urgent about the results of an Alaska poll on her popularity. Why are these media creatures being so cruel? Why is everyone picking on her expensive wardrobe? She didn't want the damn fancy clothes in the first place. Moore conveys these feelings with tenderness and subtlety. Her performance is not a barbed parody, but based on the actress' instinctive empathy with a character.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/03/the_greatest_actress_in_americ.html
She and anyone involved who knew she was in over hear head deserve to be tried for endangering this county. I don't care how "well intentioned" they claimed to be. It negates any sympathy I might have for her and her situation.
DeleteEmpathy Schempathy. She didn't want any of it? She revelled in it, stoked the fires of racism and hatred, and does to this day.
DeleteIf $arah Palin didn’t want those fancy clothes, then why did she try so hard not to give them back? The RNC sent a lawyer after her in Alaska.
DeletePalin WANTED those clothes so bad she could taste them. She and her girls snatched and grabbed everything that wasn't nailed down and thought they were entitled to it (as proven by the many accounts of the green room gift grab). So, forgive me if I don't buy the "she didn't want the fancy clothes in the first place".
DeleteAnother great review of "Game Change" by Roger Ebert!
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/03/the_greatest_actress_in_americ.html
And for folks who think that Baldy will get too much sympathy....SO WHAT! I feel sorry for Baldy all the time...her mother and father knew that Baldy is "special"...but what they forgot to tell her was...is that she's more "special needs" than Trig!
Poor Trig...whichever one it is...is smarter than Baldy....so yeah...I can feel some sympathy towards the old crone!
The "Game Change" guys were on Charlie Rose last night! I came in on the last ten minutes so I missed the discussion about Baldy....I'm going to see if I can find the video on PBS website!
Here you go GinaM!
DeleteA discussion about HBO's 'Game Change'
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12206
Even if people do feel sorry for her - it will be because she is SO OBVIOUSLY an idiot and completely UNQUALIFIED for public office. That is the point I want people to get and it looks like if they watch this movie, they should. Unless they are a dyed in the wool Palin supporter of course!
DeleteAnonymousMar 6, 2012 08:55 AM
DeleteHere you go GinaM!
A discussion about HBO's 'Game Change'
THANK YOU!!! I am watching it now!
The Repubs chose a person for VP in 2008, who had to have grade school crash courses in government and civics. Shameful.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean Trig KOLVIG'S birth certificate?
ReplyDeleteAfter female voters returned the Senate seat to Murkowski, she regrets that she drove over the women of Alaska by voting for the Blunt amendment. Translation: The shit hit the fan, women are pissed, and now they are telling me what a traitor I am.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/lisa-murkowski-blunt-amendment_n_1323427.html
At the doctor's office yesterday I picked up a WEB MD magazine. It it was an article about Julianne Moore and how she works for Save The Children. A truly enlightened soul!
ReplyDeletehttp://women.webmd.com/features/save-the-children-julianne-moore-us-poverty-being-50-losing-mom
And?
DeleteWhat a cold person you are anon 9:01.
DeleteChampion turd polishers, the GOP. Wrap it in a flag, Stick a cross in it . It's still crap.
ReplyDeleteThe elusive task of placing Palin
ReplyDeletehttp://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/03/06/the-elusive-task-placing-palin/rpfC9KJ4D0Upqfh2TgU6WL/story.html
Julianne Moore gets inside Sarah Palin's skin for 'Game Change'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-moore-palin-20120306,0,2404192.story
Julianne Moore Discusses 'Game Change' On 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' (VIDEO)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/julianne-moore-game-change_n_1321959.html
That must have been one hell of a blow job she gave McCain, in order to become his VP pick.
ReplyDeleteProbably his first in a long time - his wife looks like an motorized ice cube
Deletelol.... I wouldn't be surprised.
DeleteAs much as I despise Sarah, that is a disgusting revolting comment. You are as bad as limp balls, when you assume she did that. I can't stand the woman but your comment makes you just like her.
Deleteuh, "limp balls"?
DeleteIf the shoe fits . . . . . !
DeleteThis racist Bitch deserves no respect or sympathy. Karma is a bitch or a Sarah !
DeleteOT Poor Bristol, what timing for her reality show. All she has is "single mom raising son in the wilderness of Alaska." Maybe there are some scenes about fixing up the house next door to her luxury house. Bristol has real competition-- Snooki:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/05/snooki-engagement-ring-pregnant_n_1322261.html
I am willing to bet that Snooki is receiving offers for her own reality show which would feature her pregnancy, her wedding and the little Jersey Boy or Girl. I can't wait for them to show Bristol's show to a test audience, like they did with the one she filmed with the Massey Brothers. There's a good idea for Bristol-- Bristol and Tripp go to the tanning salon.
Any of 'em, All of 'em!
ReplyDeleteI hope the movie covers the time that Sarah sashayed out to meet two men who were part of the campaign staff wearing only a towel. That action alone reveals so much of the "rill" Sarah. I don't have HBO or cable so will have to wait to see Game Change but eventually I'll watch it.
ReplyDeleteI have to admit, I went and got HBO added on to my Dish Network so I can watch Game Change this weekend. Better not storm and knock the satellite out!
ReplyDeleteI added HBO just for this movie, too.
DeleteIt'll probably be on multiple times. You can enjoy it over and over and over!
DeleteAs the movie has it, Palin the vice-presidential candidate is petulant, in over her head, and alienated from John McCain’s top brass, who believed Palin to be useful mostly as an actress. “It’s unfortunate that that’s demanded, because that’s not necessarily a skill you need to be a leader,” Moore says. “If we want people who are great leaders in our country, why is it that we also demand that they be good-looking and charismatic and seem like movie stars?”
ReplyDeleteMoore’s compassion for Palin might have something to do with all the time she spent with her—hours upon hours captive to YouTube versions of speeches and interviews, not to mention all of TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska, which she quite enjoyed. “The scenery was beautiful,” she tells me.
http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/julianne-moore-2012-3/
So, Julianne Moore liked $arah Palin’s hate speeches, her psycho interviews, and “$arah Palin’s Alaska?” The same show that saw it’s ratings plummet 40% after only one episode? Julianne Moore has now become $arah Palin. She has lost her mind.
DeleteOne thing's for sure: people will look at Julianne Moore, and at the 2008 Sarah Palin, and then gaze at Palin four years later, and note that, by some magic of time, she's aged 20 years. Sitting in a claustrophobic TV studio, with dried flowers and dead eyes, she has not even a glimmer of the dynamism of the Presidential campaign (for good or ill). She should feel flattered that such a pretty and dignified actress was chosen to play her. If they were filming her today, they'd cast Joan Rivers.
ReplyDeleteMovie sounds awesome !!!!!
ReplyDeleteI plan on enjoying the movie with a big bowl of popcorn and ingoring the fact that my hubby keeps saying all the movie will do is make folks feel sorry for Palin (not make them more aware of the truth or the Republican agenda to manipulate th epublic) - when I glare at him - he says 1) that is what all the reviews (he's read) say; 2) "they" plucked her out of Alaska and put her on the national stage when she wasn't ready (but I sputtered - SHE is an adult and could have said NO so she HAS to be at least 50% or more responsible); and 3) and now all this is being brought out in public and folks will feel like Palin is being embarrased by it and therefore feel sympathy for her.
He does not like Palin at all - and just dismisses her - he says I am wearing a tin foil hat when I get on my soap box about the lies, coverups, and the hate that she is promoting - BUT I always say I don't care about Palin - she is just the puppet being used - the more important issuse are the puppet masters - the higher ups in the republican party who wanted to win at any cost and have for decades and will continue for decades ahead to try and fool the public into voting for them so they can move ahead with their plan for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer (and therefore less educated, burned out, overwhelmed, desparate, etc. and thus more easily frightened and manipulated) and of course the hard right wing too who wants to dominate and control everyone in their bedrooms and covert us all to their religion.
I try to point out that the reason it is SOOOOOO important the whole truth come out about Palin (including who actually gave birth to Trig) - is NOT to destroy Palin (though that is a nice side bonus) - but to wake up the public to the underlying Republican agenda and manipulation by big money - and just how nasty and vile they really are that they would try to pull something like this (put someone that unqualified in the white house!).
Yet - every time we discuss it, he just keeps saying - why are you still obssessed with Palin she doesn't matter and proceeds to tell me it's the people who who picked her that matter.
***some days I just want to scream in frustration*** I don't know how many times I have to explain it - that it isn't PALIN it is the people who picked her (financed her, etc.) - we are SAYING the same thing, it is just he dimisses the whole Palin saga, and I chose to follow the saga and hope the truth is revealed because it will LEAD (hopefully) to the big money and right wing nut cases behind her.
Hubby really is a great guy and very intelligent - but since he has in his head I am just a conspiracy nut about this whole Palin thing, communication about it is like banging my head against the wall.
Luckily I can come here regularly (several times a day) and breath a sigh of relief that the truth is still being sought after.
So I will enjoy the movie, not discuss it with Hubby (but give him a big hug for understanding and letting me keep my tin foil hat) and come here to read the updates.
Keep up the good work G.! the world needs more folks like you
Your hubby is working from a "top down" premise, and we are working from the "bottom up". And I do believe we can say the top down approach has not and is not working. But, the when you turn over the compost pile, you can't help but see the worms.
DeleteI think many people will watch this out of curiosity and be horrified at the sight.
Sounds like he's a great guy. And, you two have a good relationship. Now, enjoy the movie!
DeleteI saw Julianne Moore on Ellen yesterday. The clip they showed was Sarah greeting DS people and families in a crowd. Extremely sympathetic clip.
ReplyDeleteFrom most of the reviews I have read about the movie, the negatives outweigh the sympathetic parts.
Delete“H.B.O.’s Game Change: Palin Portrayal Not As Flattering As Authors Suggest”
http://www.ology.com/politics/hbos-game-change-palin-portrayal-not-flattering-authors-suggest/03052012
doubt it - any BJ would have done the trick. His name is not Rush.
ReplyDeleteHow psychotic. Palin cared more about her reputation in Alaska than getting FACTS right in preparation to be second in line to the most powerful job in the world. But then she turns around and says later that she SO doesn't want to go back to Alaska?! Holy bat cave. I really REALLY feel sorry now for the people of Alaska. Palin really was a waste of time as Governor! No wonder she QUIT the first chance she got!
ReplyDeleteIt seems that some in the media are saying they felt sorry for Palin after seeing the movie. That won't last long. With each new facebook rant, or hateful contribution on Fox News, she'll cause them to conclude that she's a Jekyll/Hyde. They'll soon wonder how this sweet Alaskan girl can be so angry and negative all the time? That negativity that comes from her own mouth and pen demonstrates what and who she truly is.
ReplyDeleteSoon the Palin-sympathizers will break free. It's like finding out their boyfriend/girlfriend has been hiding a past crime and the sympathizer desperately doesn't want to hear it. It takes time before they can admit they were foolishly smitten and accept the truth.
Of course the media sympathizes with her. I expect that from the media. These are the same media assholes who reported her every word, and Facebook rant, for almost three years, and chased her campaign bus around last year. This is the same media, that has tried to elevate her to the same level as the president. This is the same media, who has tried to fool the public into believing that she was qualified to be POTUS. This is the same media, that let her get away with dodging the press The media has been giving her a pass, and trying to sell her phony image for four years.
DeleteI agree Palin’s Jekyll/Hyde (but mostly Hyde) behavior will remind people of why she is so hated. Especially, when the presidential campaign really gets started. The “blood libel” video reminded enough people.
A reminder to anyone who has not yet written to HBO -- please send them an email with "Thank you for Game Change" or "I added HBO to get Game Change" in the Subject line. Then, of course, a brief nice comment inside. That will help to counteract some of the horrid emails that have been sent by the Sea of Pee.
ReplyDeleteHere's the link to sent a nice note to HBO:
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I think it's very revealing, as well as incredibly significant, that Sarah Palin cannot function normally (or normally for very long) without the presence of, or, shall we say "handling" by Todd Palin, or by the strange psychologically reassuring presence of at least one of her children as a "prop".
ReplyDeleteIn actuality - it's as if the dynamic is that she is the "perpetual child" and they are the "parents" to her, even Piper seems to have fulfilled this role. Without them, in the company of others - the ability to socially, cognitively, and emotionally function seems to be impaired.
I think this is where the word salad, emotional lability, overreaction to little slights, misinterpretations, and confusion she feels comes from, if they're not there, or can't take over for her - as she doesn't seem able to "filter" the world around her independently of them.
They ARE her filters - and why she can't be without them OR when she must actually engage in real time and not have Todd take over - such as in an interview (She has to be the one talking then)- the deficits are obvious. As Governor, during the rare times she had to engage in actual Q^ A's - she referred responses to her Commissioners or others.
Sarah had the looks and superficial persona to win an election or appear "with it" (in very carefully prescripted venues - prescripted by Todd) - but Todd IS the one doing most of the work of whatever the task is at hand.
When she got new "handlers" - mental meltdown and chaos! Todd may have been in the room or around during this, but he was no longer in the driver's seat. From what I can see - Sarah Palin appears to have governed by Blackberry and e-mail - she couldn't have had time to govern in real time with the thousands and thousands of e-mails she did. Alaskans should be wondering - was Todd actually doing most of the e-mails or dictating them to her?
I also really believe there's a significant learning disability and/or neurological problem that is layered on top of the psycho stuff, challenged intellect, and lack of education.
Todd was most certainnly the Shadow Governor of Alaska, and now we know about his prostitution ring... That's some nasty chrony capitalism, Sarah.
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At the Sea of Pee, they keep saying that if she had said she hated Alaska, then she wouldn't be back there now. That's silly. She was not really saying that she "hated" Alaska itself, she was saying that she didn't want to go back to being just a governor. She loved the bright lights of the national stage and THAT is what she didn't want to leave.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, they say that there is no footage of her breaking down, therefore it didn't happen. Duh. Of course no one filmed it. Who among us has family or friends take photos when we cry? No, we cry in private. Then we put on a big smile and face the big world, just like she did. But, that does NOT mean that the collapse didn't happen.
I agree that the entire cynical GOP exercise of turning to the Palin option in '08 needs to be exposed, because it was a case of gross, reckless, and potentially dangerous incompetence by one of the major political parties in our democracy. They didn't do their homework, or they did and they still didn't care that she was completely unqualified. Either way, it was unforgivable.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I also believe that Sarah Palin, herself, needs to be 100%, permanently, politically neutralized - through this film and through other efforts to tell her whole story, down to every detail. I believe she is a danger to this country and I believe she, individually, possesses just a little too much charisma (and megalomania) for any of us to ever underestimate her ambition or her potential for power with a dumbed-down conservative public.
So, for me, it's about both pieces of this incredible tale. It's about those who helped her, and it's also very much about HER.
Very well said. I agree completely.
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DeleteVery well said. I agree completely.
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It certainly would be a sympathetic scene if the movie showed Sarah and Todd Palin juggling times so that they could personally engage in Trig's intervention therapy at a such a critical time in his development.
ReplyDeleteYep, it sure would invoke sympathy. But it NEVER happened on the campaign trail. And no one in the Palin/Heath clan or the McCain staff gave a damn.
Poor little kid, the smallest victim of McCain's stupidity.
The parents of Down Syndrome babies will see the glaring omission in the Palins' activities in "Game Change" (book and movie), but to the general public it is not apparent UNLESS it's point out to them.
This is a good observation. It's so true that McCain and his advisors didn't seem to mind that a small baby with compromised immune system would allow the Palins to be seen traveling with him all the time. Didn't it occur to them, including Cindy McCain, that parading Trig around and holding him up as a trophy on stage as a prop made them all look complicit in his exploitation?
DeleteLooking back on all of it now, it's apparent that a campaign trail is NOT a place for a child with special needs. Just this fact alone puts into question the kind of reasoning skills John McCain would have in a presidential capacity. Did it ever occur to them that Sarah never traveled without at least one of her children; and that she would have insisted in having them surround her at all times as a VP.
It's certain the Obamas, including the First Lady and her mother would have allowed this spectacle to have taken place during their campaign.
Oops, Anon. 11:06 here. Correction: I meant to write: "It's certain the Obamas, including the First Lady and her mother, would NEVER have allowed this spectacle to have taken place during their campaign".
DeleteEven if the movie puts Sarah in a positive light, she SAID it's all fiction, so how is she going to walk that back considering that she claimed she wouldn't waste her time watching it? Hmmm? Maybe like Romney claimed he didn't see any negative ads, but then said "the one I saw". LOL!
ReplyDeleteThanks for opening my eyes to these points. I hope you will post your thoughts other places too.
ReplyDeleteNow they know what Todd went through being her controller - when she throws a fit and goes rogue on him she shortly crashes and burns - after which she's amenable to controlling, for awhile. Or when Todd is away - look out - mental chaos, hungry children, pregnant unwed daughters, etc., etc.
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