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‘Snowbilly Grifter’? And Incest Jokes?

Posted on | April 21, 2011 | 26 Comments

Decent Americans recoil in shock at the latest eruption of Palin Derangment Syndrome in which Wonkette’s Jack Steuf wrote:

Today is the day we come together to celebrate the snowbilly grifter’s magical journey from Texas to Alaska to deliver to the America the great gentleman scholar Trig Palin. Is Palin his true mother? Or was Bristol? (And why is it that nobody questions who the father is? Because, either way, Todd definitely did it.)

As I say, I’ve met Todd Palin, and I’d love to see one of these clowns say some crap like that to his face.

UPDATE: Dana Loesch reports that advertisers are dropping Wonkette. Remarkably, in reporting that Steuf has been put on probation, Wonkette publisher Ken Layne attempts to justify the smears on the Palins, prompting Da Tech Guy to observe:

The first rule of civility for the left is this, any statement no matter how vile or misogynistic that is directed against the Palin family is OK.

Frankly, I’ve never seen anything like it. Not in all the years of Bush Derangement Syndrome did the Left unload as much concentrated hate as they’ve piled onto Sarah Palin since August 2008.

UPDATE II: There were many other things I’d intended to blog about this morning, but Ken Layne’s reaction is just so astonishing that I feel the need to extend this post. William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection quotes Layne:

I wouldn’t parade my children around in the media. What kind of mother does that?  . . . Trig is cool with us. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a grave danger to America.

And it is Palin’s “grave danger” that, in Layne’s demented mind, justifies the no-holds-barred anti-Palin attacks.

Let me address this from a couple of different angles. I have been known, from time to time, to make intemperate or ill-advised remarks, including jokes of questionable taste. When I loathe somebody, I don’t bother to disguise my loathing, and so I would be a hypocrite if I posed as having been a model of civility toward, inter alia, Meghan McCain.

However, Meghan has thrust herself into the public eye, tried to make herself a spokesperson for conservatism, and generally cashed in on her inherited importance, so she bought her own ticket to this dance, you see. I sure as hell don’t need a 20-something bubblehead lecturing me about political philosophy, so Meghan “Don’t You Know Who I Am?” McCain has arguably invited whatever insults I’ve thrown her way (which have been numerous, and ROTFLMAO funny, I might add).

So that’s one political child who has been “paraded around in the media.” What about Chelsea Clinton? I’ve met Chelsea, who is absolutely charming in person. Is there anyone who would deny that Chelsea was, in some sense, used as a campaign prop by her parents over the years? Indeed, aren’t there many observers who have depicted Bill and Hillary’s marriage as more a political partnership than an actual marriage?

There was a time, circa 2005-07, when Republicans demonized Hillary Clinton almost as thoroughly as Democrats now demonize Sarah Palin. But if any conservative commentator dragged Chelsea through the mud the way liberals have done with the Trig-Truther stuff, I must have missed it.

And something else: By the time I started covering Hillary’s campaign in March 2008, she was already fighting for her political survival and I found myself – despite my every partisan or ideological instinct — admiring her feisty determination. When she got to Shepherdstown, W.Va., in early May, the press corps was more or less demanding that Hillary quit the race. It was painful to see Chelsea have to stand next to her mother at that press conference while reporters peppered Hillary with variations of the same question: “Why don’t you quit, loser?”

Because you see, Hillary had the temerity oppose the anointing of Obama and, just as Ken Layne says of Sarah Palin, that made Hillary a “grave danger to America” in the eyes of the Obamaphiliac press.

Liberals think we’re stupid, but we’re not too stupid to see what they’re doing or to understand why they’re doing it.

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  • Ran

    “…and I’d love to see one of these clowns say some crap like that to his face.” Hell, sell tickets. Hold one for me, front row. Thanks!

    Ran

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=588368258 Lisa Graas

    I’m a hillbilly, but I have no idea what a ‘grifter’ is. Leftist code on such things just goes right over my head.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    You know, if we were the evil right wing bastards they make us out to be, one of us would publish Stoofie’s home address and phone number. That would be a shame…

  • Joe

    I never agreed with everything Andrew Sullivan said, but I used to like the guy. But beyond his abandonment of conservatism, his hypocrisy and double standards for Republicans vs. Democrats, the Palin Derangement Syndrome that he spearheaded ended that. The term misogynist gets tossed around way too often, but it is revealing how many of these critics really hate Palin as a woman.

    I have no problem if you disagree with her politics. Hell, it is perfectly okay to say she lacks sufficient experience for higher office (look at all the trouble we are in with Obama as an executive)–but the attacks on Palin are way beyond that.

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  • Anonymous

    Last paragraph: The Left’s PDS is far more frenzied than its’ BDS was precisely because (rightly or wrongly in each case), they viewed Bush as a stooge and Palin as a legitimate political/policy threat. The difference in the Left’s response to each reflects the differences in effectiveness between the Bushies “compromise at any price” ethic (always and ever loses to the Left) and Palin’s “take no cr*p” ethic (the only way to deal with the degenerates).

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    “Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I blame Sully for his relentless efforts to legitimize the Trig-Truther meme. And he absolutely didn’t care where that crap was coming from — “Audrey,” “Gryphen,” it didn’t matter — so long as it supported his obsessive anti-Palinism, he’d link it as if it were legit. And every slimy anti-Palin troll on the planet figured that out, so they poured it on in hope of getting some of that Daily Dish traffic.

    What is amazing is how Sully has never acknowledged the exposure of “Gryphen” as Jesse Griffin, a porn-and-masturbation-promoting preschool teacher, nor acknowledged that the fabrication of the Palin divorce rumor exposed Griffin as a liar. Sully just carries on as if none of that ever happened, and no one on the Left will call him out for it.

  • http://anti-republicanculture.com Howard Towt

    Ever wonder why the word “persecution” is never attached to PDS?

    http://www.anti-republicanculture.com/2011/02/persecution-of-sarah-palin-how-will-it.html

  • Dave C

    The remarkable duality that the typical person with Palin Derangement Syndrome displays:

    First, SP is a conwoman of the highest order, pulling of the live birth bait and switch with her daughter and Trig..

    But then… She’s a dunce.

    And should you point that out to them.. Well.. Shut up! That’s why!

  • Anonymous

    Same reaction they had to Bush and Reagan, who were simultaneously evil geniuses running the world and abject fools….

    Cognitive dissonance, thy name is Leftard.

  • http://twitter.com/DeanLogic Dean Logan

    Seriously, cause we all know that Webster Hubbell is really Chelsea’s real father and we never drug Bill through the mud about that.

  • Sysadmn

    Dave C – it seems every conspiracy theory requires that you believe the conspirators are capable of intricate planning beforehand, near flawless execution during, and absolute secrecy afterwards. The exceptions become the few sparse discrepancies that everyone knows “prove” the conspiracy exists. The less there is to find, the greater the “proof”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=588368258 Lisa Graas

    Letter to Sarah Palin. http://lisagraas.com/2011/04/21/letter-to-sarah-palin/

    And…I wish you all a blessed Easter Triduum.

  • Anonymous

    What? I thought Vince Foster was Chelsea’s real father, which is why the CIA assassinated Foster and then dumped the body in Fort Marcy Park to make it look like an accident.

    Also: MENA AIRPORT!

    The point being, of course, that such stuff was way off in the disreputable kook fringe, which no serious mainstream media would acknowledge, back in the day. Now, fast-forward 15 years: Popular liberal blogs are telling Trig-Truther jokes for fun and profit, and justifying these vile smears on the grounds that Sarah Palin is an existential threat to America?

    If it weren’t for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.

  • Anonymous

    Also, Dave:

    A. George W. Bush stole two elections and orchestrated a clever conspiracy to justify the invasion of Iraq on behalf of Halliburton, the Mossad and the Military-Industrial Complex; and
    B. George W. Bush was a dimwit who couldn’t tie his own shoes.

    So there is a precedent to such “logic.”

  • Anonymous

    Liberal/progressive: “Standards? We ain’t got no standards. We don’t need no standards! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ standards!”

  • FenelonSpoke

    Leftists always say Palin parades her children, but they don’t give
    any criteria for what “parading” ones children actually and how that differs from any Democrat (I can’t call them “Democratic”) having his or her children with them during some political events. It’s a ridiculous comment and of course, the mean spirited man at Wonkette would never accuse Obama
    of parading his children. I tend to agree with a commentator on another site.
    The man who made this comment is dead inside, but doesn’t realize it. Here’s hoping he has a resurrection experience.

  • http://2011.ak4mc.us/ McGehee

    Lord knows I never found out whether Jimmy Carter had any kids — let alone a pre-teen daughter named Amy. I mean, I suspect he did, but there’s ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF because he and Rosalynn never “paraded” their kids.

  • Liz

    Never mind Chelsea Clinton. Why is it okay for the Obamas to parade Sasha and Malia around?

    Michelle Obama, in her quest to end other peoples’ obesity, used her child’s alleged weight problem as a tool to further her agenda. Does anyone else remember Obama using his daughter’s disappointing grade on a science test to look like a devoted dad and set himself up as an example of how to chide your children to better grades?

    If Palin had nannies and hid her Down’s Syndrome son, she would be excoriated as a bad mother. Since she keeps her family close, she’s, uh, excoriated as a bad mother. This is about telling her to shut up and get into the kitchen. Nothing she can or will do, short of evaporating into thin air, will satisfy her critics.

  • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

    They post has finally been yanked, as it was “rude” and they “apologize for the poor comedic judgment.”

    Must suck when the majority of their revenue stream bails on them for an attempt at typical lefty blogwhoring.

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