PDS Alert: Us Weekly and friends are at it again
Photoshop: David Lunde
Left-wing bloggers have unearthed a new, Deep Important Issue to wield against Sarah Palin:
The personal tanning bed she installed at the governor’s mansion in Alaska.
She bought the used tanning bed from a health club with her own money.
So, what is the point?
Oh, wait, there is none.
But it’s a great opportunity for Palin-haters to mock her looks again and for Obama cultist publisher Jann Wenner to use Us Weekly to bash Palin again:
Some of the nutroots haters seriously argue that Palin’s tanning bed is a sign of “elitism” akin to John Edwards’ $400 haircuts.
Here’s the TPM Muckraker blog clucking its tongue:
“The news of Palin’s luxurious purchase — beds can cost as much as $35,000 — presents a sharp contrast to the blue-collar persona she projects on the campaign trail.”
Can they be more out of touch? Tanning beds have long been derided as “white trash” and “redneck.”
The “elitist” thing to do would have been for Sarah to have hired a personal umbrella carrier to shield her from the sun.
Next up: Us Weekly and company investigate the Sarah Palin’s eyebrow waxing appointments, Todd Palin’s beard grooming preferences, and the children’s dental hygiene habits.
America must know the truth!
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Allahpundit points out the health benefits of tanning beds non-Alaskans have ignored. Having lived in Seattle for more than three years, I know exactly what light deprivation does!
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On a related note, Us Weekly has now gone to Amazon.com for help in boosting its sagging circulation after its Palin-bashing debacle. (Guess the five-free issue offer from the rag’s customer service department flopped.)
A reader sends the e-mail notice he received yesterday from Amazon.com.
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Seems to me the whole Tanning Bed deal should be filed under “No One Who Thinks For Themselves Cares”
We will ever get to the issues?????? Really, am waiting to hear how the ‘one’ is going to give me all the $$$$$ I want and let me not work for it!
Did someone once say “What a Fairy Tale”?
And I wish the best to you and your nightly dates with cable.
Good one, aj (#279).
No, you always say the same thing. I’m actually interested in what you mean. For example if someone is a socially conservative black person and against abortion, why would they vote for the abortion party? Because they are mad that someone called someone a libtard (for example, since you haven’t given me an example of what you mean)? “Those conservatives call Obama “Snobama” so I’m going to vote for more abortions, and junteeth in our school system.” Or what? I don’t see where issues that are part of someone’s core values trump whatever it is you mean.
No. I meant that the attitudes of many posters here — if they represent the voices of the conservative community — would of course alienate voters of color (and please note that “of color” doesn’t just mean black). In the year or so that I read this blog without posting, and the year following when I did begin to post, I’ve seen really disheartening things here about race. I’ve enumerated them here before, but let’s say that racial slurs — and defenses of those racial slurs, when I or another liberal has called them out — aren’t uncommon. Say what you want about liberal sites, but their hateful language about certain politicians (and be honest — there is hateful language about certain politicos here as well) doesn’t devolve into that sort of thing. Whether you believe it’s no big deal or not, for people of color, seeing (and in the real world, hearing) those words from conservatives has a pretty profound impact on ideas of how conservatives view race. So often here, people think it’s a matter of “handouts.” There are PLENTY of people of color who are socially and economically opposed to programs I, personally, think are needed. People who are all about personal accountability, who are unabashed capitalists, etc. Many of them vote Dem, because if you think the party already views you as lesser, you’re not all that interested in hearing more.
I’ve posted this before, so forgive me if you’ve seen it, but since you asked, I think this letter from Shannon Reeves (an African American, longtime Republican and former secretary of the California Republican Party) is, at the very least, interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/820110/posts
For the record, I heard this early on after Palin was selected, and I cannot imagine any woman — feminist or no, but particularly, one who now is so vocal about “sexist” attacks — giggling while this sort of thing went on. And btw, Lyda Green is an actual cancer survivor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AIDRGzUAw&feature=related
And again — you can find this from other sources with a simple search of Palin and Green’s names if you doubt this particular source.
I confess that I was not posting for a few months before the summer, but I have been on frequently since, so I’m wondering what you’re talking about. Judging by the fact that we have lost a handful of posters recently, I am curious about who defended anyone using a racial slur. Are they still posting? It disturbs me that you try to lump “many” of the people on this blog into a group of haters. You have some spirited debates with people, but it usually is about issues, although I have seen some personal remarks directed at you and vice versa.
First, I think it’s wrong to equate this blog with DK, DU, etc. I don’t agree with everyone on this blog and we do have some very outspoken people here, but I haven’t seen the vitriole and hate that I’ve read at those sites. Michelle has recently posted many of these dreadful comments, not directed at politicians, but at their children.
I have referred to a woman as a b*tch before. So what. Because she had cancer and was lucky enough to survive (thank goodness), she can’t be a “b”? I don’t know the woman. I’ve seen her interviewed once. That’s being a little overly sensitive. AFter the comments I’ve read about Palin, that word is nothing. And by the way, I haven’t heard Palin complaining or whining about it. I believe she’s tough and can handle it.
Let me state off the bat that you’ve never been one of these people. But yes — some of them do still post here. I don’t care if someone gets angry enough to post something “personal” about me. But when certain repeat posters focus solely on race…well, yes. I find that problematic.
Honestly — and I’m being impartial here — I have seen comments as hateful here as anywhere. But again — I do not see comments about race on liberal blogs. Otherwise, though, politics make people passionate. And people get as fired up here in their comments — and just as ugly, sometimes — as people do on Kos, or HuffPo or any liberal site. I just think it’s harder to see sometimes when you agree with that person’s political opinion.
Show me some of your claims on race posts that are disturbing and haven’t been countered….
I’m here daily and your way off target nyk…. but like all the other kos parotting you do if you say it enough you may actually believe it to be true.
we aren’t buyin it.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
No…this is a lie.
The sex education that she was taught in the school she went to DID NOT contain abstinence classes.
Therefore, by YOUR theory, the sex ed classes she took FAILED.
Had they included abstinence stressed sex education, maybe there would have been a different outcome.
But considering ALL my children were conceived while using a contraceptive, I am tellin you right now, they DO NOT always work.
But go ahead and maintain that lie you tell yourself, that abstinence is a bad thing to tell children and to try to get them to follow.
If you have a daughter, I hope you practice what you preach and tell her it is just fine to go around shtupping anyone they want. After all…it is a normal urge that should not be controlled like animals.
Me? I will continue to teach my children that abstinence is THE ONLY WAY to keep from getting pregnant or catching a disease. Also, if they cannot care for a child, they should not be doing what creates them.
GOVERNOR Palin’s daughter apparently is going to care for her child along with her soon-to-be husband.
And maybe you should check the statistics on marriages of people who get married at 18 and see just how many of them are still going strong at each decade mark. You will be surprised.
Teaching that life is sacred and precious, and that you should respect your body and demand that others respect it as well should NEVER be laughed at or diminished. to mock it shows that the person doing so has absolutely no moral fibres in their body.
She also is not sending hordes of lawyers threatening lawsuits to those that slander and libel her, nor is she trying to get the Justice Department to threaten and bully them into acting like normal humans instead of the scum-sucking gutter trash they all have been.
I think focusing on race when it is relevant to certain issues is fine. However, if someone is only focusing on your race and gets into the personal realm regarding that, I don’t agree. Like I said, I have not seen racial slurs on this blog, although some have been brought to my attention. The people in question in those incidents are no longer a part of this blog. Michelle would not let that stand. She has recently posted some links to old stories regarding the absolutely disgusting treatment of people like Condi Rice and Michael Steele by the left. I realize you don’t agree with them on politics, but I challenge you to find something recently said by a Republican/Conservative that is as racially bigoted as what was said about them, simply because they are not liberals or Democrats.
I would agree that, to some extent, that happens on both sides, not just here.
I call the women on The View the big “C” word and think they deserve it…. potato potatoe
Kind of makes you wonder who can’t stand the heat in the kitchen?
With all due respect — no, I’m not. You just don’t care enough to notice (and I already know you’re white. I find that point irrelevant). I’m not parroting anything. I’m talking solely about my experience here. And I’m not exaggerating.
Us Weekly is doing anything it can to maximize its subscriber base in order to claim maximum ad rates. Dont fall for it.
I promise to point this out the next time it happens (and it will). Gotta run, but hope to talk soon.
I hope no one does use a racial slur here, but if it happens, I’ll be waiting to slam them, as many others here will.
There may be some that refer to that taxing BLACK HOLE Obama with a racial slur.. but I am down with slamming them.. yo yo yo
No, you’re lying, like I said show me.
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
More lies.
What does this have to do with the price of arugala? lol.
for the record, I’m Tanned.
well , maybe more sunburned today.
Than why argue????
There have been numerous examples of you coarsening the debate and then hiding behind race to get away with it. Anybody, like GK, whose style I DO NOT prefer, who calls you on it, is labeled a racist by YOU. Let’s be clear, I think you’re uninformed about both Sarah Palin, politics, and life in general and many people, including myself, have called you on your stereotyping of conservatives. When you make the kind of statements that you do you’re as classless as you accuse other posters of being.
This statement is a copout. If you don’t have any proof about particular military voting patterns then stop bloviating about it. As I said on another thread, donation patterns do not indicate voting preference.
On a personal note (yes, this is anecdotal), I have lived in different parts of the country as a military spouse. I’ve met many military members, enlisted and commissioned, that are termed Republican but also see themselves in various models as moderate, independent, and conservative and they would never vote for Obummer because of his liberal record. Now, if a Dem has some conservative leanings, they will certainly examine them closely.
You, like many liberals, also tend to think of the military as a group that doesn’t think for itself. Believe me, they do. Some very fine military members that I’ve had as friends for years have grown disgusted with Pres. Bush because of some of the choices he’s made. Until you actually get out there and mingle with military members (if that isn’t beneath you?), then studying them like insects and citing all the studies in the world won’t make them more real as a voting group.
Yet another copout response to an honest question. Blacks embrace Dems because they pander to them. They say all the right things to the black community. The Republicans say, “take care of yourselves” and “stop living in the past” and that somehow is racist. If you’re basing black voting patterns on comments on this board, you’re reaching.
BTW, have you ever been discriminated against? As a black woman? Do you have any real life experience to back up your narrow-minded view of other Americans? When I lived in Alabama I was fired from a job by my supervisor, a black office manager. She didn’t particularly like that I was a military spouse. She never gave a reason, but I knew. She was also quite rude to my fellow white coworkers.
I find it interesting that you see me as “puritanical.” I’ll go one step further…. you’re “militant.” You’re very into your own views and don’t think that you’ll ever change them. At one time, I supported abortion until I discovered what partial birth abortion is. I changed my mind after that. Hardly puritanical… I don’t defend people or practices that are just plain evil. Can you say the same?
Religious nuts are militant puritanicals, but religious nuts did found this country, and as such, I think we owe them some “props” as our founding fathers..
This is pathetic.
Used to live in the very small town of North Pole Alaska, can say from experience that a tanning bed was a nice thing to have on those long months when the sun barely camre up over the horizon. These libs remind me of the noobs that would show up from Hawaii in the summer and walk around asking why did we need so much coal its not that cold around here.
Now, Rob, while I agree with you to a certain “extent”, a lot our founders were “deists” as well. I hope you’re not implying that I’m a “religious nut” ’cause that is certainly not the case. I guess, perhaps, that I’m a “deist” then. I do agree with a lot of Christian principles but don’t necessarily identify with any particular church.
I’ve struggled with religion and my ties to it and what it meant to me my entire life. My husband and I “may” join a church at some point when we have a baby.
emjem24 said:
I am rough around the edges but I don’t know any other way to do it sometimes. Perhaps if I had fine tuned debating skill I’d be really good.
Sorry. I thought you were one of the people that want to enforce their anti-abortion views and anti-gay views on the rest of the country.
I don’t like abortion or gay issues, but don’t want religous people making decisons for the rest.
(shhhh, but my wife and I are trying to have a baby too… )
Navywife:
Thank you for your part in the debate with nyk. I think what nyk mistakes as “racism” is people joking around about PCisms and the hypersensitivity in the black community. I do think that nyk either willfully misinterprets what people say on here or just ignores reality.
What really makes me ponder is nyk’s insistence on lying and misrepresenting conservativism and the ideas that surround it. I wonder if she is so confident about her position, then why lie about the opposition? Has she grown up believing the lies or does she just think that we all live in some time warp where nothing changes and people don’t change their minds?
She reminds me too much of a lot of liberals that I grew up with or met during college. They were either too in love with themselves to accept the viewpoint of others or that their ideology is the only acceptable point of view.
Either way…. if she appreciates MM so much she would stop maligning it so much. Makes you wonder what she actually gets out of MM besides crying racism!, and generally preaching the love of liberalism.
I’m not buying it…. good on you for trying to understand.
You’re female. I’m sorry I sometimes forget there’s dignified women on the board. I should really be a little more tempered.
Wait…I meant to write:
That was a critical omission.
GK isn’t a racist. I may call him an idiot sometimes, but he NEVER resorts to racial namecalling. EVER. EVER.
You are the QUEEN (and king) bloviator on any and EVERYthing relating to the military. I just wanted to hear your amazing insights, since you always bring it up — shoehorning it in, whenever there’s an opportunity (and even when there isn’t).
Goldwater Knight said:
GK:
I’m not trying to harangue you. I get what you’re doing but I just avoid tangling with the pious, black sisterhood of mj and nyk about race. It’s hard to separate those who see themselves as “victims” from the actual reality.
People using out-and-out racist terms (”n*gger, rag head, wetback”) is not “joking around about PCisms.” Subverting political correctness — and I want you to understand this, but I doubt you will — has nothing to do with calling people the worst thing you can BASED SOLELY ON THEIR RACE. Telling people to (and I quote) “Go back to Africa” (what year is it?) — I’m sure that’s funny to people like you. To most people I know (many of whom, for the record, are NOT people of color…but includes others who are), it isn’t. And if you think that’s just “funny” — well that makes perfect sense in light of everything you’ve ever written.
Again — I read this and
realizedremembered you have no idea what you’re talking about. “Black sisterhood?” Really? Did you just watch “Waiting to Exhale”? Is that your point of reference? It has zero to do with anything real. You rely on stereotypes, and it’s the closest you’ve probably ever gotten to real life.And for the record, if you think I’M militant (a punk-rock bred, indie rock band loving, suburbia-escaping girl) black girl, you are in for a sad awakening when you meet a REAL black militant.
I don’t think you even know what racism is. You bring out racism every time you imagine a “wrong” or some slight or criticism toward you or someone of “color.”
I find that I’m criticized the most by liberals for bringing up my military spouseness because they identify that as some kind of irrelevance, even on issues such as oh, the military or the presidential race. I bring it up when it’s pertinent or to somebody I talk to regularly. That would not be you, because frankly, with your every action, you demonstrate that you don’t get the military.
I think, if anything, I confront your ignorance on many issues, including the military. I speak out on certain issues that affect me directly such as military spouse discrimination, which exists, or other military-related issues that are important to me and that I talk a lot about, not just on this blog, but on military spouse groups sites, and in the community.
I notice that you and mj seem to be the queens of blackness, ills, and wrongs. You bloviate about your militant liberalism an awful lot. Yet you
“bloviate” on stuff that you either don’t want to research or learn for yourself because you neither have the interest or time. So, you rely on a biased media to fill in the gaps.
I talk about what I know. You talk about what you think you know and add in some lies and mischaracterization. That’s the difference.
I have never used any of the racial epithets that you have mentioned and neither do most of the posters on here. I referred to one incident of some black councilman in Atlanta (?) taking offense to the term “black hole.” This is what I’m talking about.
The whole “go back to Africa” comment is something that you’re generalizing. I think one of my commentaries I’ve made is that if black people really have it so “rough” and don’t think that they can contribute anything positive to their own communities, how ’bout going to Africa (say the PeaceCorps) and doing some good there. I’ll take it further and say that poverty in this country, including in urban areas, is nothing like what exists in Africa and something that black Americans need to keep in perspective.
Your rant is rather immature and one-sided. I do not take delight in racial epithets. I’ve been on the other side of black racism where it was implied that I was too stupid to get “black people.”
I think our country is ruled by political correctness that is deliberately raised by people like you, nyk, in every incidence that slightly implies something “racist.” We’re so sensitive as a society that we don’t have any kind of honest dialogue about race because that would challenge the victimization my name is nyk meme a little too much.
People like me? You know nothing about me except what you’ve got summed up in that little, militant liberal head of yours.
There’s never anything “slight” about the criticisms of people of color here that I’ve mentioned. Again — I know it’s beyond your grasp, but racial slurs? Kinda not subtle for most people…I realize that you need overstated, rude, primitive, dirty words to understand bad from good, but for the rest of us, a simple “raghead” or “wetback” suffices.
I should add that your attempt to state that I think GK is a racist was a perfect example of how much you don’t understand the most basic principle of this (and pretty much everything to which you apply your diminutive intellect). GK is a jerk sometimes; he’s never a racist moron. YOU don’t know what racism is. But you are willing to cheapen the definition by pretending you do.
You talk WAY beyond what you know. I realize the sphere of what you know is soooo small (as to be invisible even under an electron microscope) that it’s hard to contain your conversations to it. So, I don’t fault you.
OMG. Yet another overreaction. I don’t base my opinions on a group of people on a dopey film about black chicks who can’t find/keep love. Plus, your estimation of my viewing habits is highly overrated. I’m more of a sci-fi, old black and white film gal myself.
Pot meet kettle. Do you know anything about people or real life yourself? Do you even know what you’re talking about? About anything?
You’re a twit, nyk. That’s it. You may have a college education but it really doesn’t recommend anything about you. What do you know of “real life” except what you confront in your own inner sphere?
I’ve had more honest, enlightening coversations with 8th graders than I’ve had with you. You’re more concerned with being the “cool,” “hip” chick on the cutting edge of her alternative 20’s but can’t seem to string together a phrase devoid of emotion, irationalism, or racism assessment.
I could really care less about your music tastes. What does music even have to do with this discussion? Oh, that’s right…NOTHING.
I said militant liberal, not militant black panther. Do you understand word usage and context? Or do you just read whatever you want into comments by those you like psychoanalyze in 5 seconds?
Wow, overstate much? Ummmm, criticism= racism? Okay. Yet, the minority who make slurs represents the whole of this blog? Man, you paid way too much for that college education with that kind of rationale.
I take the racist part back about GK and just say he likes to toy with you. You see him as a jerk, well, then, it takes a jerk to know one I guess. OMG, the queen of “racism” lecturing about how I “pretend” to know what racism is. So, I guess, the only people who experience racism are those who don’t have white skin? Uh huh.
I don’t fault you for being an ignorant liberal who can’t see the perspectives of other people unless they’re contained within your “tiny” world. Liberal projection maybe?
So what was the point in your whole diatribe? To call me a racist and a small-minded bigot because I don’t abide by PCism’s when they prevent actual dialogue? Did you want to convince me some more that you’re incapable of deep thought unless it intensifies “white guilt?” It’s nice to see that the liberals have indoctrinated you well and haven’t given you an independent thought except to heap insults on those nasty conservatives.
I fear for the future of our country when I have to see blathering pieces of nonsense like yourself lecture me about life. Go enjoy that cultural slice of life known as New York with its crime and noise. I’ll take my “suburban backwater” here in Virginia.
Um…only if they, “like,” are as easy to decipher as you. And most people who can tie their own shoes are not.
Good night.
Well thank the goddess for nyk. I am converted. If it wasn’t for such knowledgeable, well informed, intelligent well read individuals like that, I might just have lived out the rest of my life accepting responsibility for my own actions, working for everything I have or will get, raising my own children in a loving home, and remained straight with a belief in God that brought me peace of mind.
nyk and all that rational debate carried out by him and the rest of them has shown me the light.
I can’t wait to get out there and work for the true messiah, the one I have always waited for, to get him into the Oval Office where I never have to think for myself again, never have to provide for my children or myself ever again, where I can now worship at the altar of ME and Liberalism for ever.
Thank you. You have convinced me and I am sure others here as well. Your work is done. You can now take your crusade elsewhere for there are so many more like I was out there that are starved for your intellectual input. I can’t wait until i can start blaming everyone else. Maybe I will start tonight. Woo hoo!
I could care less what Nyk’s race is, she’s nuts regardless of her race.
What bothers me most about this whole rant is that she is accusing posters on this site of using vile racial terminology. I have been reading the comments on this site for over a year and have NEVER seen those words used. Where is she getting that? To be accused of using horrible racial epithets really disturbs me and give us all a black eye. Wait…nyk, I didn’t mean to say black eye. Gives us all a bad reputation. I know MM does not tolerate hate language and would have banned anyone who used it. NYK is totally delusional.
I spent an hour reading the whole exchange from Nyk and other posters here. Not once, not one time, did Nyk bring up the fact that among “people of color” (gag me–this is another liberal made up PC expression)there are such terrible racial slurs expressed (listen to ANY Hip-Hop rap song for proof). I don’t see her criticizing them for the kind of hate-filled, woman demoralizing, racial slurs I hear “people of color” using everyday. Give me a major break! She is trying so hard to impress us with her intellectuallizing, she sure doesn’t criticize her “brothers and sisters” for freely tossing around the “N” word. I can’t stand her constant drumming on about how racist this country is. AND, another thing, if former military people (like me)want to put in our two cents about military things–we earned our right to do so.