Palin is a C__t Shocker

More faux outrage from McCain/Palin supporters. Hillbuzz has a clutcher:

"What would the media do if someone wore tee shirts that said, “Obama is a BLANK”. Fill in the blank any way you want, but we bet there would be riots. Calling Palin a “c***”…and no one bats an eye."

Because, of course, calling somone a c__t is every bit as offensive as calling them an arab terrorist who will bring in sharia law and sell out America. Same thing. And no-one would ever make an offensive t-shirt about Obama. No siree...


I can't decide whether this next one is meant to be offensive, or just surreal...
How about this McCain/Palin supporter carrying a toy monkey wearing an Obama sticker? (See the video at Crooks & Liars)...


But wait, you say... the "C" word is purely sexist, and only used to demean women, right? Right.



HT to my beloved Anorak for the original link. As they always say, Sarah Palin is hard not to like. But sheesh, hold back on the 1950s outrage, please...

What do you think? Send in your pics!



Edited to add in case you missed these...

Campaign Humour

Here's a McCain supporter who hilariously doesn't want Obama supporters to park in his lot...



"For political reasons, he's just throwing a little humour into the presidential race":

"I don't expect to go after anyone with a baseball bat. I would grin at them and laugh and ask if they could read English".

Given the US's rich tradition of racial segregation, that seems a little strange to me. But hey, I guess it's just comedy.

Then there's these:


See, here's what I don't get. You can say these images are a joke - that they are not meant to be taken seriously. But if they are a joke, the joke is "Obama looks like an arab terrorist". Am I meant to laugh at that?

Now, take as an alternative some "progressive liberal" humour. Is the message here that Sarah Palin will give you VD? Or that she'll fire ping-pong balls from her vagina to get votes? Or is it more subtle?

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For me, comedy works when it's not laughing at someone... It's laughing at attitudes, expectations, mores, ourselves... It's not about inciting hatred and mistrust and fear and ignorance. But them I'm a godless liberal, so what would I know?

Palin Ankle Sexism Outrage!!!

Hold onto your hats, dear readers, for I am about to show you an image of such horrific sexism that mandates a complete shutdown of AP, Reuters and every other liberal news agency. Ready? Here goes...


ZOMG! O Noes!!!!111one!eleventyone!!1!!one!

Yup, this AP image of Palin (possibly with Cindy McCain) and others like it from Reuters are sending the right-wing blogosphere into a frenzy of impotent rage.

Newsbusters call it "indecent":

"Would women's groups tolerate these kinds of pictures if this was a Democrat candidate?"

My new conserva-buddy The Bride of Rove clutches her pearls to her chest and has to have her stays loosened:

" I have lost all respect for these organizations... You can take your cameras and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine."

Meanwhile the starter of this meme Ace of Spades seems to be a little confused over what he's meant to be complaining about:

"I wouldn't mind shots of her very finely crafted calves, except for the obvious intent to demean her as a mere sex object."

So there we have it. Pictures of Sarah Palin's ankles are an outrage; designed to send men into a sexual frenzy; to demean the Govenatrix's quest for ultimate power; to bring down Western Civilization in an orgy of unfettered rutting. Like animals. Bestial. Venal. Some day a real rain is going to come and wash all this scum off the sidewalks...

Of course, no conservative would ever be so outrageously sexist. Oh no siree.

I mean, it's not as if Rich Lowry at the NRO would say something as mindbendingly stupidly sexist as this, is it?

"I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America."

I'd mention Rush Limbaugh, Dick Morris, Sean Hannity, or any other number of conservative talking heads... But we all know that they're sexist jerks already, huh?

Camille Paglia is right when she says Sarah Palin isn't as dumb as she looks. But it's not Palin's brains that are the problem... Or her ankles either.