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Palin: Our First WWE Politician

Pick an asshole, any asshole, and she'll rock the house

By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 22, 2009 10:44 AM CST
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(Newser) – Sarah Palin is America’s “first WWE politician,” barren of actual political ideas but on a crusade against “assholes,” Matt Taibbi writes. The governor-turned-author is “a cartoon combatant who inspires stadiums full of frustrated middle American followers who will cheer for her against whichever villain they trot out, be it Newsweek, Barack Obama, Katie Couric, Steve Schmidt, the Mad Russian, Randy Orton or whoever.”

“Palin,” Taibbi continues for True/Slant, “is a supremely gifted politician. She has staked out, as her own personal political turf, the entire landscape of incoherent white American resentment.” But if she’s the 2012 Republican nominee, it’ll kill the party for independent voters and pretty much everyone but the fringe, because “she is the perfect patsy for our system, designed as it is to channel popular anger in any direction but a useful one, and to keep the public tied up endlessly in pointless media melees over meaningless horseshit.”

Ready for her cage match?
Ready for her cage match?   (AP Photo)
No, Palin's not in there somewhere.
No, Palin's not in there somewhere.   (Wikimedia Commons)
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GreekChorus
Nov 25, 2009 1:06 AM CST
Actually, I think Jesse Ventura was the first WWE Politician.
cyclops
Nov 24, 2009 11:26 AM CST
No she is not GOD she is a true American who belives inGOD , morals, right to life and the country is going to the scrap heap and trying to do what's right. That's why you trash her and it will come back to bite you in the future A.H.,
cyclops
Nov 24, 2009 11:20 AM CST
You seem to know a lot about golden shoers do you do it in men's public bathroom?

 
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