Call to ACTION! Ignore Sarah Palin week!!!

[hyphenate]

http://leftaction.com/action/ignore-sarah-palin-week-228-34


I know we all try to ignore her anyhow, but an organized action to do so sounds like overwhelming fun and tasteful!

"2/28-3/4 is "Ignore Palin Week!" Join us, and pledge to change the channel, flip the page, and... well, ignore her. Join now!"



Spread the word, and turn your back on the she-devil!! We need to send that cancerous growth back to Wasilla, AK!!

[tsuki]

1. Oh, I'm a charter member. Her voice is like nails on a chalkboard. nt

[breadandwine]

20. I worry that we are overconfident about her.

That Palin Hymn kind of freaked me out. It is utterly fact-free support and her supporters are fact-free supporters. They will support her and the song said she is going south to "hunt some skunk." Did they learn NOTHING about toning down these gun metaphors? I have a suspicion that a little while from now Palin and her supporters, brainwashed by her GOSH-DANG-TUDE, will be back in the saddle and she will be back barnstorming the country. People will forget the moment the heat is off and it will be back to her being the front runner for the GOP nomination. From there all she needs is some rigged election tricks and she will be in, with all the astroturfed hatred of Obama serving as an alibi for another stolen election.

If I am right about the danger, then she needs to be stopped. She has something other Republican nomination contenders have much less of: Rabid followers who will show up at the polls fanatically out of proportion with their numbers and people like that helped the GOP take over the House. It might well be better if the GOP nominated somebody lackluster who does not have the commitment of the rabid fanatics, so that they will be more likely to stay home.

I say stop her and keep the pressure on against her. Don't let people forget what a little monster she is.

These people are certifiable:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQwvkVlhCAU

They just saw the shooting and already they are back at it, talking about "shooting skunk" --- meaning killing Democrats. We always assume the right wing will listen to reason like us. Then we are shocked when they take over. We are always overconfident. People thought at one time that Ronald Reagan would never make it to the White House. Same with Nixon.

I think Palin is dangerous and she got a few days of bad publicity but if we do not actively fight against her and if we get the brainy idea in our head to ignore her, she will be back on top dishing out her fact-free reality to the fact-free voters. She should be actively opposed and stopped.

[tsuki]

23. There is a certain percentage of the populace, and 100% of the

media that hang on her every word. I just cannot watch her, but then I feel that way about 90% of so-called American journalists.

[Common Sense Party]

2. "We all try to ignore her anyhow"? I don't think so...

Especially when there are dozens of threads here about her or her family EVERY single day.

I'm all for ignoring her and the nonsense she spews. I doubt many of our fellow DU'ers will be able to restrain themselves.

[K8-EEE]

4. GUILTY!

I admit, she fascinates me, she's a perfect study in Narcissistic Personality Disorder! However I WILL take the pledge. I think I might start a little early too like, right now.....even the NPD is getting to be a bore.

[Common Sense Party]

7. I think you'll feel much better after a while.

If I want to watch Narcissistic Personality Disorder in action, I'll just watch my cats.

[greyl]

3. As one who usually unrecs Palin threads,

I'm not sure about this idea anymore. I'd love it if nobody paid attention to her, but it's a self-deception to think that my ignoring of her scores a point for progressivism.

Thought-invoking post from TPM here:

This is actually a real blind spot for liberals in general -- the idea that things that are crazy or tawdry or just outrageous are really best ignored. Don't give them more attention. You're just giving them what they want. Or maybe it's not so practical and utilitarian. Maybe, they say, it's just beneath us. Focus on the important stuff.

On so many levels this represents an alienation from the popular political culture which is not only troubling in itself but actually damages progressive and center-left politics in general no end. It's almost the fatal flaw. Democrats often console themselves that even when they don't win elections, usually their individual policies are more popular than those of Republicans. Too bad you can't elect a policy. It's true for instance that Health Care Reform -- which still has more opponents than supporters -- is pretty popular when you ask people about its individual components. But why is that? It's not random, because that pattern crops up again and again. It's another one of the examples where liberals -- or a certain strain of liberalism -- focuses way too much on the libretto of our political life and far too little on the score. It's like you're at a Wagner opera reading the libretto with your ear plugs in and think you've got the whole thing covered.

Politics can never be separated from policy, unless you're in a political science class or getting a Phd in health care economics. The two are inextricably combined. And any attempt to pry them apart in a deep way is not only hopeless but also deeply wrongheaded.

And there's another point.

With Sarah Palin and pretty much everyone else, we're not trying to pump her up or pull her down or really do anything else with her. That's a second order kind of thinking I don't think is really ever proper for us to get involved in. (To give one funny and ironic example I'm pretty sure our Eric Kleefeld was the first person to pick out Palin's use of the term "death panels" in a Facebook post back in during the Summer of Hate and much of the subsequent furor ricocheted off that original post.) TPM has its news section and its opinion pieces, most of which are here in what we now call the editor's blog. We're very big on chronicling folly, outrageousness, pretention and ignorance. Which makes Palin a regular topic. Just what effect that has on her on anything else is really above our collective pay grade. You just try to get the facts right and call it like you see it -- honest with yourself and honest with your readers. And focusing on anything else is a distraction and its own kind of dishonesty.

www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/01/the_deal_with_palin.php#more?ref=fpblg

[K8-EEE]

5. Well yeah and the other thing is that she's on the downswing anyway

I really think with her show done (and not picked up) and people growing tired of her persecution complex, she will find it harder to get attention than when she first made the transition from Governor to Quitter.

[saras]

9. Not that simple

The problem with watching her is that, if you agree with her, you end up hating her enemies more.

If you disagree with her, you end up hating her more.

But in no case do you end up a wiser, kinder, more compassionate person.

She wins either way.

[greyl]

11. I was talking about on discussion boards.

I don't watch her; or at least I don't make efforts to, and those who agree with her would never agree to ignore her.

edit: Plus, isn't this concerted effort to ignore her a form of paying attention to her that she could feasibly use to claim victimhood again? ;)

[hyphenate]

16. Well, it's only a week

so it's not going to cause a whole lot of hoopla, but just enough to make our presence known.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. Who?

[Fly by night]

17. +1

[Rockholm]

19. +2

[saras]

8. Can we have a year, please?

[underseasurveyor]

10. That would assume

That I pay any attention to her in the first place.

[pa28]

12. She's a human cul-de-sac.

Whenever I encounter her name in a news article or opinion piece I stop reading. Nothing useful or informative can follow.

[katanalori]

13. I recommend THIS article...........

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/20/937568/-Josh-Marshall-scores-perfectly-on-liberalsPalin

Here is a snippet - the entire piece is a valid counter to the calls to "ignore her."

"That is exactly why we should be paying attention to her. Last week illustrated that when we go on the offensive, for a change, she will be caught tripping all over herself and suffer. We don't know yet if Palin will recover, but if she does, we aren't going to beat her by "ignoring her" and sticking our heads in the sand like a bunch of dumb ass ostriches. She will be in the field, hustling. We'll be standing around saying "they're no way she can win" and then before you know it liberals will be standing around calling the average voter stupid and talking about moving to Canada."

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. +1

[NuttyFluffers]

14. well, practice does make perfect... it's worth a go.

:evilgrin:

[cleanhippie]

15. Why only a week? How about forever?

If we stop giving her attention, she will fade into obscurity.

[jberryhill]

21. Wouldn't that be a call to "inaction"?

[Blue Owl]

22. Please look away

from the hideous spectacle

[Curmudgeoness]

24. Sarah who? nt

[Initech]

25. Kind of hard to ignore someone who's impossible to ignore to begin with.

[Motown_Johnny]

26. Kicking

[ElboRuum]

27. Sarah Palin... Sarah Palin... doesn't ring any bells... n/t

[Mojeoux]

28. Wow, I wish I had seen this while there was still time to Reccomend this.

What a wonderful idea!!