As people famiiar with Jesse Griffin's blog may know, he's been hilariously tweeting his thoughts while watching Sarah Palin's Alaska over the past several weeks. This is his post today.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-tweets-of-spa-tonight.html
I have been attempting to decide all day whether I can make myself sit through Sarah Palin's lying piece of propaganda tonight, and the answer is that I cannot.
In fact I can barely bring myself to believe that they have the temerity to even broadcast it after what happened in Arizona yesterday.
And even if I were physically able at this point to "play hurt" and take one for the team, I don't believe I even should. Nor for that matter should anybody else.
The fact is that today Sarah Palin stopped being a joke.
Today she became something else entirely.
Though there may NEVER be a direct line drawn between the kind of hateful rhetoric that Palin spews on a daily basis and the actions of Jared Lee Loughner, the fact is that she is clearly complicit in the minds of millions of Americans. And in my opinion she deserves nothing less.
She brought this hateful rhetoric to the national stage during the 2008 campaign trail and has never looked back.
Sniper targets on maps, talk of revolution and taking our country back, "Don't retreat, instead reload," sexually charged attacks against her critics, the omnipresent use of violence on her reality show, with all of this Sarah Palin has created a brand that is all about punishment and destruction.
Today Arizonians are mourning the punishment and destruction doled out by a very disturbed young man.
Today a mother is mourning the loss of her precious child.
In my opinion it would be disrespectful of their pain to watch, and talk about, this transparent political advertisement from the woman who carelessly throws around the kind of rhetoric that might very well have inspired this young man to murder six people and wound twelve others.
Today we need to mourn, and tomorrow hopefully, we begin to heal.
If others feel capable of dealing with this vile woman today, then my hat is off to them. But for me today is about holding those I love close, and sending my thoughts out to those whose loved ones were torn away from them in such a violent manner.
One last thought that I will share about Sarah Palin.
Somebody asked me today if I thought she was finally finished.
My response, yes, she is finished. Take whatever cold comfort you can from that.
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