Why Sarah’s Sex Life Matters
By Susie BrightOctober 2nd, 2008
A lot of people have said "I don't know if it's fair to look at Sarah Palin's sexuality the way people are — I just don't know if it's sexist or appropriate. Why can't we just treat her like a human being?" Okay, I'm going to tell you why it's appropriate for us to gloat and delve into every detail.
#1. Sexual politics is important. It matters.
#2. Palin has made priggery, prudery and sexual hypocrisy a centerpiece of her law enforcement and public policy directives, as both the mayor of the beautiful Wasilla, Alaska, and the governor of the state.
She ran on a sex-is-icky platform. People who lived in Wasilla remember when being mayor was almost considered a thankless job, like being the town plumber. ("Who wants to deal with all the bullshit down at the city dump and the electrical wiring?") And then Sarah came along, with her Pentecostal church program behind her, saying "I'm not going to talk about issues like whose dog is pooping on whose lawn. I'm going to talk about stopping abortion now." That's the kind of stuff she ran on, and she got a bunch of people who'd never voted before to march down from her little church and put her into office.
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And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits. It's like, "If you want to complain about being raped, sweetheart, well, you can just get out your checkbook." Because the city of Wasilla, no matter how much money they had in revenue from their oil, wasn't going to spend it on you. So Sarah has made sex a topic by her legislation and her lobbying and her speeches.
But here's the most controversial part, and it's just as rich as any other aspect of her candidacy: we finally have an image of a powerful, fertile, virile woman on the national stage. And it's a female image that's been almost entirely absent from America's pop culture. When you think of women who've been in the news, two kinds come to mind. One we'll call the Paris Hilton model — or Lindsay Lohan, or Britney Spears — this illiterate, anorexic, or drug-addicted pop tart. "She's so rich. Everybody wants to fuck her. She's so special." This, as many mothers wring their hands saying "This is the role model for our daughters? This is who they see as someone they should look up to?" It's been a travesty.
The other kind of strong woman on a national stage has been an older woman like Hillary Clinton. In some ways, you can say that's how sexism worked against her. Every time she got a little ballsy, a little rip-roaring — every time she showed her fierceness and her strength — she was bound to be called a Wellesley lesbian, that somehow she wasn't enough for Bill Clinton, that all those girls she went to college with she was secretly fucking. Now all of this has just been a big pile of right-wing baloney, but it's what happened to Hillary Clinton. She has never allowed herself, or been encouraged to show her sexual side, because it's been considered something that would get her in trouble — like there was no positive way to show it. She had to refrain from being a ball-buster for fear of being dyke-baited.
So here comes Sarah Palin, who apparently is not in menopause at all. She just had a baby a few months ago, so her heterosexuality is just bleeding out all over the place. She's just rolled out of bed! That's the impression we get from this woman. They can't get her on the dyke thing. She's up in Alaska, shooting guns and taking names! So she's gotten a pass on this. And she is irresistible!
We simply haven't had an overtly fecund, butch, straight-woman sex symbol in so long. She's like Annie Oakley with her six-shooters and her polar bears, her caribou dressing and her moose stew. She's got five kids hanging off of her, and you're like "Hells bells, that woman can fuck in the morning, go out for a long hike on the Arctic tundra, take down a polar bear or two, and be back in time to pass some new creationist legislation." She just kicks ass. I mean, she's just so — mmm. So like a powerful woman.
It's exciting, isn't it?
I think for every woman who's been appalled at her politics and the platform she's been running on — and this certainly includes me — well, there's this little part of me that's thinking "Oh, If only she was on my side. If only I could kidnap Sarah Palin and just lick her pussy for a few hours, I think we could just work this whole thing out." Do you know how many lesbians are discussing this? My friend Marga Gomez, who's a fantastic dyke comedian, has this line where she says "Sarah Palin? She's having my baby. And we've already named her Drill." If only we could move her political viewpoint around just a little.
I was talking to my good friend Christina the other night, and when I told her my kidnapping/cunnilingus fantasy about brainwashing Sarah Palin, she said "I don't think it'd really be that hard. I think she really does like us. I think she's ready for anything. She just wants to be a winner. That's all this girl cares about." When she was Sarah Barracuda on the high school basketball team, when she was in the beauty contest — you can just imagine how mad she was that she didn't win Miss Alaska and only won Miss Congeniality.
I don't think she's very congenial. She wants to win. And in Alaska, that meant siding with a certain kind of fundamentalist church. At first, it meant bucking the Republican establishment without leaving the Republican party entirely. It was the same thing with her church. If you go onto YouTube and look at that Wasilla Pentecostal church she belonged to — I mean, they make Ted Haggard look like a sober Lutheran Minister. And when she ran for governor, all of a sudden she stopped going there every Sunday, because it was just a little too wacky. You know, she had a private talk with them and said, "I really love you guys, but it's a little too theatrical for my political career."
What have we learned about Sarah Palin's sex life so far? The most important thing is that, like every other single person in Alaska, she seems to have had premarital sex. You can look at the elopement date, and then you look at when their first son, Track, was born less than 8 months later. All of her children seem to have had premarital sex — all the ones who've gone through puberty, at least. This is not unusual in America, and especially not in Alaska, where you have all these long, long months, a very narrow economy, and not the biggest educational system in the world. There's not a lot to do except fuck, drink, hunt, and fish. In fact, I don't really know how this Wasilla Pentecostal church really works with their abstinence program, because it goes against the Alaska way!
This kind of hurts me, because you know how I hate slut-baiting, but people at Bristol's high school say she got around, according to the National Enquirer. It's easy to imagine this, because when you see all the photos that are floating around MySpace, there's lots of supposed pictures of Bristol, her sister, and her cousins with gigantic tankards of Jack Daniels, tossing them back — jello shots, party, party, party. The kids have apparently been in a lot of hijinx.
I mean, on one level, I'm sympathetic to Sarah Palin having her life torn apart like this, because every other candidate has all kinds of skeletons in their closet, too. The kind of problems this family is dealing with aren't unusual for any American family. But we never found out what was going on with the Bushes, because they were from a ruling class elite that has a shroud of secrecy around their personal lives, and no one in those circles talks. You're never going to find out what they did at Walmart. You're never going to find out if they pulled their pants down and mooned somebody out a car window — because nobody talks among the crowd they've grown up with.
Sarah, on the other hand, in this working class/middle class community in Alaska? Everyone's got a story. There's no veneer of nobility or discretion. It's all up for grabs.
I know the GOP makes it their practice to select candidates — and this very much includes John McCain — not based on whether these people have intelligence or leadership qualities, or experience or character. They pick them the way a modeling agency picks a spokesmodel — they pick them like it's a casting call. Somebody like Richard Nixon would never be picked for a presidential nominee in a million years now, because he's not good television. Ronald Reagan changed everything. Now the GOP believes that government should be handled by professionals whose names you will never know. And they just want the little puppets on the outside to do the song and dance.
"Do you think she's pretty? Do you think she's cute? Great! Vote for her!" And they don't have any respect for her. When they start screaming about how she isn't shown enough deference by the media, I'm thinking "But you don't respect her. You think she's a useful idiot!" If she's really like Annie Oakley, she wouldn't put up with that. If she's really a tough woman who can stand up to a grizzly bear — can she stand up to the GOP?
That would impress me. If she's not going to do that, then she's totally under their thumb — under her husband's thumb, under the GOP's thumb. She's sold out for the money, like so many others, and she doesn't have the barracuda qualities of survival and dignity that we'd hope that she'd have.
We'll see.
I realize some other unbelievable surprise may be unleashed, but until then, all we can do is just turn the pages of the National Enquirer.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
FUCK YOU, SUSIE BRIGHT
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Why would you repeat stories about rape kits that are not true?
http://slate.msn.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/26/debunk-a-bunk.aspx
Where did you get the idea that mayors, or governors, “legislate”?
Why would you just make stuff up like “And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits?”
Seriously–can’t you find true things to complain about?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Your basing your opinion and commentary on flawed information. I guess hate is justified.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
“And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits.”
Got a reference for that? The previous allegations I’ve heard on this topic have been disproven.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
The Palin rape-kit myth has been thoroughly debunked.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
The ‘rape kit’ issue has been debunked. Even Slate has it. There may be reasons why one wouldn’t want Gov. Palin as vice-president, but shouldn’t we stick to the truth?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Sweet jabbering christ, woman, do you kiss your MOTHER with that mouth?
Stuff like your inane, factless, baseless smears against Palin make me want to vote for even more.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
You have some serious problems.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Think what you want about Palin, but about that “rape kit” thing, you’re dead wrong. She never cut funding for it, and it’s a complete lie. This has been debunked by Slate, among others:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/26/debunk-a-bunk.aspx
and here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1122849
This is a lie that’s been spreading through the Obama supporter community by people who are spreading HATE about Palin over a topic that’s just a plain LIE.
And I completely agree with what she says at the end of that first article:
“If you’re an Obama supporter who gets frustrated that people still believe he’s Muslim or won’t put his hand on his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance, you should understand the frustration that Palin supporters feel when this slime is taken at face value.”
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Get your facts right. I can’t believe how many leftists repeat this same thing about rape kits without even checking that it’s been debunked. Why not throw in the plastic turkey as well.
Leftists repeating falsehoods is always fine.
Rabid Right Wing Lunatics who point out actual facts are on a “smear campaign”.
Sheesh.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Seek professional help.
You’re not well.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
“This kind of hurts me, because you know how I hate slut-baiting, but people at Bristol’s high school say she got around, according to the National Enquirer. It’s easy to imagine this, because when you see all the photos that are floating around MySpace, there’s lots of supposed pictures of Bristol, her sister, and her cousins with gigantic tankards of Jack Daniels, tossing them back — jello shots, party, party, party. The kids have apparently been in a lot of hijinx. “
You may be fooling yourself, but you are not fooling readers. I don’t for a minute believe that you had the slightest heartburn over trashing a teenager’s sex life for political purposes. That paragraph had nothing to do with the supposed point of this piece. Just admit that you’re trying to help Obama win, and any tool that can be used to trash Sarah Palin is fair game. Or do you have other articles detailing the exploits of a teenaged Chelsea Clinton of which I am not aware?
Oh, regarding the thouroughly debunked rape kit allegation – it’s called “Google”, and people find it handy for looking stuff up. See if you can get someone to show you how it works.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits. It’s like, “If you want to complain about being raped, sweetheart, well, you can just get out your checkbook.” Because the city of Wasilla, no matter how much money they had in revenue from their oil, wasn’t going to spend it on you.
This statement is an outright lie, and you do yourself and your readers a disservice by repeating it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
You really need to click on your ad in the middle of this tripe and get some therapy.
Another example of why we need to defeat net neutrality.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
“a big lie repeated often enough becomes the truth” Goebells
the “rape kit” thing has been debunked. apparently you missed it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Your own bile is eating you alive.
What fun to watch!
But don’t be surprised to find that the majority of Americans find you and your degenerative and degrading opinions disgusting.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
You are an idiot.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I can’t remember the last time a “seasoned, professional journalist and author” used the phrase “my kidnapping/cunnilingus fantasy”. If I write a column about my Obama kidnapping fellatio fantasy, can I too be considered a professional? Can I? Huh? Please????
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Susie,
“I mean, on one level, I’m sympathetic to Sarah Palin having her life torn apart like this, because every other candidate has all kinds of skeletons in their closet, too.”
Liar. When were you ever sympathetic to anyone but your own miserable, fanatical, hate-filled self?
When?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Supposing you dont censor your comments, this will appear.
The Palin Rape-kit story is false, been debunked already numerous times. How uninformed is this 10zenmonkeys.com site to still be peddling this dimestore magazine smears? You should apologize to your readers and maybe tone down the crazy talk.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
You are basically disgusting.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I took a screenshot so if you censor this I will post the screenshot with date/time on my blog and email a few choice websites the screenshot in case others want to know you censor your comments to try to save face from a screw-up that any real blogger would admit, address, and fix.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
You are shameless. How often has this lie been debunked? Only in a few states are rape kits purchased, Illinois is one. Perhaps an Illinois state senator could look into this barbarism. I think Obama has lost my vote because of the lies and many character assassinations of his followers.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Not that you care, but that rape kit story is a blatant lie.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits.
No, she didn’t. That’s a ridiculous myth that’s been debunked in multiple places.
Even to the extent that the town had a policy of charging insurance companies for the kits, there’s not even a record of anyone actually being charged. And even to the extent that the policy existed, it’s certainly not something that Palin introduced, nor “cut funding for” the kits.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I generally vote on the side that has to lie the least to advance its points; on the rule that if you have to lie to make your rhetorical point, you’re probably on the wrong side of the issue.
Susie Bright has just confirmed my decision to vote for McCain/Palin…
Thanks, Susie. You’re a wonderful human being. Or something.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
You really should consider therapy. Just sayin’.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
As a self described feminist you are an idiot. I’m not normally into name calling but the entire article about Palin’s sexuality is stupid and laughable. You are
smearing the feminist movement by writing such sexist drivel.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
You do know, don’t you, that putting quotes around something doesn’t make it a quote? It does sometimes make it dishonest, though.
I think you have a lot of nerve using the word “zen” in the title of a blog like this.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Ms: Bright
Wow:
Such venom, such energy. What a vent. Feel better now?
I do not agree with everything the Good Governor stands for, but… I get the impression you never got over adolescence, that Governor Palin pushes your “I Must Rebel Against MOM” button and that you are afraid that if she does gets elected, she will pass legislation to make you sit up straight, wear a sweater and eat your vegtables.
You certainly have not done a discussion in detail of what she believes that would further the political discourse and improve people’s knowledge of this candidate’s positions on the issues. Instead we all get a “This Is How I Feel About HER!” emotion dump. Feels like something right out of junior high school.
Is it possible you could do something a little more productive than that? Is that asking too much?
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Whose dog and whose lawn.
I stopped reading there, so you’ll have to copy edit the rest yourself.
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
The rape kit lie is like Jason in those horror movies – no matter how many times it’s killed, it comes back to life. I’m amazed that anybody who is politically aware is still peddling that now, into October, but it speaks to the success of astroturfing propaganda campaigns.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The jealousy and envy is dripping off every single word. Here’s a woman who is the feminist model – strong, confident, self-actualized, achieved goals on her merits, working mother, and dammit all if she isn’t a Republican! I have yet to understand why the feminist women drooled over Hillary, who we only know because she married the right Arkansas hillbilly, and has absolutely zero accomplishments other than those achieved based on her married name. She is not a leader in the Senate, failed miserably at national healthcare, tells lies at an Olympic level, and has absolute disdain for the type of women that the feminist movement has been trying to recruit for decades. Hilarious.
And really, “…can she stand up to the GOP?” Do you even have the slightest idea of her political history? My god, if you were 1/10 as clever as you think you are, you would have done your research rather than spout nonsense in the echo chamber. You see, she had to beat the good ole boys network and beat a well-financed male GOP incumbent to become governor. And she got GOP cronies fined for corruption. And said no to Ted Stevens’ bridge to indictment. All these facts AND MORE are readily available for review on this crazy internets thingy.
Oh, and if the best you can do is forced cunnilingus, seriously, are you in 10th grade? That kidnap a straight chick and convert her to lesbianism is yet another fantasy of the patriarchy! You’ve been duped and you don’t even know it! Truly, sadly, glaringly, vapidly pathetic.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Susie, surely your nickname in college was “notso”…
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
“And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits. It’s like, “If you want to complain about being raped, sweetheart, well, you can just get out your checkbook.” “
This is false. Why should I read your stuff when either you are lying or don’t know what you are talking about?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
A couple of points
1) How do you honestly know what the people of Wasilla think? They elected her, maybe they liked her.
2) The “Paying for rape kits” has been debunked all over the place.
3) The Democrats don’t pick attractive candidates (Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards, Hillary , Barack)? C’mon?
4) She stood up to the GOP in Alaska, that’s why she has an 80% approval rating in the state.
5) She’s actually gotten things done and been extremely competent in office.
I Do understand the wanting to kidnap her and …
Overall, you are not very tolerant or diverse in your thoughts, Ms. Bright.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The rape-kit story is a smear and a lie. Obama is a muslim is a smear and a lie.
Rape-kit smear has been de-bunked over at Slate.com
You should know that. This is not new. You are being dishonest by peddling this.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
PS The nonsense about rape kits is a lie – it’s been debunked for weeks. Did I say pathetic earlier? Pathological may be closer to the truth.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
“I know the GOP makes it their practice to select candidates — and this very much includes John McCain — not based on whether these people have intelligence or leadership qualities, or experience or character.”
And Barack Obama has what, one of the above? Even by the standards of most libs, given that nobody to the right of Obama could possibly be intelligent, McCain has the other three. So what is your point, really? Just taking time for a little gratuitous, illogical dumping.
(Intelligence is the least important of these anyway, because it’s all about sex, all about sex, and the National Enquirer is a quotable source Right Susie?)
“And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits. It’s like, “If you want to complain about being raped, sweetheart, well, you can just get out your checkbook.”
And how many times does this horseshit have to be debunked before you Obots quit repeating it. Although Goebbels would approve of the tactic. You know, repeat a lie often enough ….
BTW speaking of character, have you smoked any good cigars lately?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
It’s a shame you’ve been a victim of sexual abuse. It must have been horrible. However, it does not qualify you (anymore than it does me) to speak crudely of others, regardless of your political fears.
Get help, because you don’t realize, apparentlly, how you come off and how that most certainly will continue to damage your public persona.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
This is not true: “And then Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits. “
It’s been debunked at several websites.
Sort of knocks the underpinnings from the whole article, huh ?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Mayor Palin cut funding for rape test kits.
A lie bebunked by Slate and others. Try dealing in the truth and you might understand things more clearly. But I doubt it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
You are so obviously deranged. It’s pathetic.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
“I’m not going to talk about issues like who’s dog is pooping on who’s lawn. I’m going to talk about stopping abortion now.”
So Susie, you got her on tape, huh? Good job!!
Really weird how the Reality Based folks don’t do research. Quotations in context are a foreign syntax.
According to wikipedia “the verb “google”, was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.” LexisNexis is good too.
Governor Palin addressed the Sex Scandal from Nowhere #92 See http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/26/debunk-a-bunk.aspx
Fabricate when you can’t fornicate.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
You are mistaken in this matter of the rape kits; you might want to look at the article at the Boston Herald regarding this and issue a correction.
” The day that truth and fairness died: Globe edit hits Palin, evidence be damned”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1122849
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Lady, you are one sick puppy.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Palin obsession is getting weird. That rape kit nonsense has been repeated and repeated and repeated then debunked and debunked and debunked.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
You’re wrong about the rape kit.
But you knew that.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Susie, I’ve always been a fan of your writing and admired your intellectual honesty but this particular essay has really disappointed me. I voted for Hillary in the primary and I plan to vote for Obama in November and I do not think that Gov. Palin is qualified to be President. (Unfortunately, I think the same thing about Sen Biden.) However, one must be honest about a candidate’s qualifications or lack thereof. To base your argument on things that have been clearly shown to be lies is to call into question your entire argument. That stuff about the rape kits has been shown to be a lie. This makes your argument against Palin to be as false as the arguments against Hillary. I think that if a political argument cannot be made based on truth then it should not be made because it only calls into question anything else that you might say. How can we object to distortions made by McCain supporters if we base our own case on falsehoods?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
You’re a liar and you know you’re a liar. Sarah Palin never cut funding for ‘rape kits’, even the AP has thoroughly debunked it.
Like a friend told me 20 years ago, nothing worse than a liar. But you and Obama are probably happy together.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
The Rape Kit smear has been debunked all over the internet.
Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/26/debunk-a-bunk.aspx
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Uh, are you stupid? The rape kit myth has been debunked many, many, many times.
Rather amazing at how ignorant you come across.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Susie,
Good News: You got mentioned by InstaPundit
Bad News: Because you repeated the thoroughly-debunked rape kit smear.
Worse News: Your fantasy is creepy, and you exhibit some classic symptoms of R(PV)DS (Reality (Palin Variant) Derangement Syndrome.
Please put the keyboard down slowly and then call a qualified mental health professional…
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
you sick fuck.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
What’s it like to feel like such an expert and not have a grasp on reality or a single correct fact?
Next time you feel like pontificating on politics, assuming you don’t want to look like an ignorant asshole, go check your facts first.
Seriously.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
What a load of BS. Once again a lesbian with too much time on her hands that has no ability to accept an intelligent woman that is not in plaid and coming over for another potluck.
When will you get it right? The Fact checks on your assertions have all been blasted as BS and have been refuted publically by factcheck.com.
Sorry ladies but this is one carpet your not going to munch,… Try Rosie I hear she is available these days.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Palin ROCKS and you should crawl back under yours
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1122849
Perhaps matter to some and the above link shows it was not Palin requesting rape victims pay for the rape kit used in law enforcement.
Can’t we all agree to avoid smears???????
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Susie , not so “BRIGHT”.
This “FALSE RUMOR” was “DEBUNKED” a week ago.
You source must be the MSM, who got it wrong also.
“Fact Check” is a wonderful tool, you should try using it before making a fool of yourself.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
I think the rape kit scenario has been disproved. It was Alaskan State law after all, and not one single person in Wasilla was ever charged for the cost. Not one. Like most Liberal statements, it was a lie.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
this is one of the most idiotic blog posts i’ve ever seen. job well done.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Unbelievable surprize: the rape kit story has been debunked, repeatedly. So I wonder what else in the post is rumor rather than reality.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
The truth just isn’t important to you folks is it? You have the devine govern to lead us poor fools so anything you say and do in aid of that is right and proper.
“When they came for the Jews I said nothing because I was not a Jew … and when they came for me there was no one left to speak.” Pastor Neimoller.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
The “billing victims for rape kits” schtick is a smear. There is no evidence that the City of Wasilla did such a thing (cite). The entire premise of your piece is bogus, based on a lie.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Um… the rape kits thing has been thoroughly discredited. Before presuming to tell us what to think, please make some attempt to master the most basic facts around the topic.
Thanks!
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Wow! An all time low in vulgarity and base instincts.
You are one sick human being! You could benefit from meds.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Am I really the only one over from Instapundit to point out that the rape test-kit story has been repeatedly debunked? (Plus mind-reading immediately after. My motive-o-meter doesn’t work from a distance. Where can I get one like yours?)
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I should have also added this link.
http://townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/09/11/the_palin_rape_kit_myth
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Yes, the rape kit meme has been disproved over and over again, so it has to be wilful ignorance at best, blackhearted slander at worst that they keep bringing it up. Methinks the latter. Is there anybody more hatefilled than a Bush/Palin Deranged Leftist? Besides a head-sawing terrorist, I’ve yet to see it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Susie, you do realize, you are the one with the sex hangup, don’t you? This is a very bizaare, very telling post.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Satire: The Top Ten Rumors about Governor Palin
1. Diplomat asked Palin to fetch coffee. “She didn’t act like a Governor” he said.
2. Call to Wasilla library interrupted operations. “Palin talked for half an hour”, says librarian.
3. Palin’s children may not be citizens due to technicalities of Alaska Purchase.
4. Palin campaign operative asked for gun rack over VP Seal.
5. Sarah Palin did not inspire character Sarah Conner in the movie “The Terminator”. “She inspired the Terminator character”, reports screenwriter.
6. Secret sources report “Al-Qaeda will never surrender to a woman, may it please Allah”.
7. Palin was not vetted about future pregnancy. Federal law prevented asking.
8. Palin denies rumors of “virgin birth”, despite religious leanings.
9. “Killing moose is overflow hostility”, says psychiatrist.
10. When Bridge to Nowhere cancelled, 35 homeless denied shelter beneath.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm
ps., this is one JACKASS post.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Well, that’s interesting. Not one comment in support of or agreement with the original blog post. I can’t honestly say I’ve ever seen that before. I’ll just add that my personal impression is that the real reason you think it’s appropriate to discuss this at such length and with so little regard for the facts is that you are simply obsessed with sex. Nothing else really matters to you and you see everything through that lense. One man’s opinion.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
One might expect trash like this from a denizen of the pilonidal boil that is San Francisco. This is beyond previously mentioned “disgusting” – this pure, unadulterated, fucking garbage.
Get out your dictionary, slimeball, and look up pilonidal boil – you will see your name in the definition.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Susie, what a disgusting human being you are. Gag. Maybe you and Sandra Bernhard can get together and masturbate like serial killers over your fantasys of denigrating women who remind you of your mother.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
You are one twisted person.
So filled with hatred of a person you don’t even know that you would continue with lies which have long ago been proven false and invent some new lies as well.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
“I know the GOP makes it their practice to select candidates — and this very much includes John McCain — not based on whether these people have intelligence or leadership qualities, or experience or character. They pick them the way a modeling agency picks a spokesmodel — they pick them like it’s a casting call.”
You think Dick Cheney and George H.W. Bush are hot. To each her own, but to then imply that Sarah Palin is the one with serious sexual issues…!?
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Get your head out of a muffin and read the facts. Then take your vile self to another country and leave this one to people who really care about each other. If Obamalamdingdong wins you’ll be screaming when you lose more money to taxes and have to fend off truth death squads. You would be a great poster child for planned parenthood.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Thanks for this, Susie, and stay brave in the face of all the abuse you’re getting for telling the deeper truth.
Yes, the rape-kit thing is a grey area, but even if it was absolutely false, it would be still true.
There are multiple realities at work in each individual’s perceptions of the societal constructs that inform news texts, and the most empirical of those often fail to pass the filter of individual “otherness.”
As disempowered spectators at the slow roasting of “ideal truth”, counterweighted perceptions are equally valid, meaning that an attempt to charge rape victims for their kits certifies a neo-palpalism within the proscenium arch of political theatricality.
Put simply, Alaskan voters’ perceptions that Palin is the sort of person who WOULD charge for rape kits means that she actually did.
That should be enough reason for anyone not to vote for her.
Now, you right wing nutcases, go back and throw more filth in “reality” playground.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Final thought: I don’t know if anyone every took you seriously before – but no one ever will again. Your comments exposed you rather than Sarah Palin. Actually, I feel sorry for you and I’m sorry I made the nasty comment above.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
If the argument could be made that abortion would prevent more “women” like you from entering the world, you could probably even convince a conservative to make the exception.
Outlaw abortion except in the case of rape, incest and Suzie Bright.
Yup, works for me.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
The oddest thing about liberals is there blindness to there own juvenile behavior? They want unearned respect and power but see no wrong in the petty act of scraping off a republican bumper sticker on there way to yet another “sit in a circle, plot the over through of the infidels, group hug! We need grown up leadership, not the middle school antics of the newly pubescent.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
The piece of rubbish that wrote this is in San Francisco, right? Can we get a restraining order to keep her there? These types of people and their moronic and hateful thought patterns are why I think we should seriously consider sawing off at least Northern California. A great portion of the toxic mortgages were taken out there by irresponsible greedy people, so we can solve two problems at once.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I for one would like to see you lick her pussy.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
WOW! You are an incredibly hateful, partisan and vile human .. er .. I guess .. being. Please, when McCain / Palin win in November, leave the USA for some other country that enjoys such garbage. We certainly don’t need such hatred.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I bought one of Usay and Uday Hussein’s plastic grinders on E-bay for a song. Care to drop by for a plunge? Looking forward to the splatter! And your muffled screams.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
What a Demo-bitch. Eat it and die. Whore
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
So why you repeat the false rape kit smear?
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Susie Bright for president! What this country needs is all sex everywhere all the time. Oh wait … forget that, we want change.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
And the American left wonders why it keeps losing elections…
With supporters like this, how can they NOT help but scare of you know, NORMAL people…
They can’t figure out that crap like this alienates the hell out of people…
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Redmond Barry said:
“Yes, the rape-kit thing is a grey area, but even if it was absolutely false, it would be still true.”
See, someone can believe in two contradictory things at the same time.
Doesn’t make it rational.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I realize Obama supporters are a little slower than the rest of us, but this has been debunked so often that even you must know this story is false. Spend your phony outrage on something else.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Rape kit= urban legend. Debunked ages ago. Try and keep up, would you?
And Redmond Barry- you’re a pathetic postmodern twat. Go shave your neckbeard.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Like a poster said earlier, every singe one of these commenters thinks you’re an angry, hateful, vile human being (term used loosely here) and I must say, I sure have to agree. You MUST come from San FranFreakShow. Please do the rest of decent American a favor and stay there…
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
>>>Yes, the rape-kit thing is a grey area, but even if it was absolutely false, it would be still true.
Lies are truth, truth are lies. Spoken like a true Stalinist.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I lost 10 points from my IQ by reading this drivel.
Sick little monkey twat, aren’t you ????
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
To read this post is to witness a mind crawling through the gutter and reveling in the depravity. More and more, liberals try to outdo each other in print, on camera, and in everyday conversation with this type of trendy, transgressive drivel. Besides my substantive differences with the liberal vision for the country, it’s this repulsive mindset that convinces me I could never be like them. I don’t want to crawl in the gutter with these people. I don’t want to hang with them and be “cool.” I don’t want to see the fun in evil thinking, see good as bad, see decency as naivete, see all through a cynic’s eye.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
What a stupid article. You are truly an ignorant human being.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Ok, so I am still not sure of the veracity of the “rape kits” story.
Everyone seems to be hedging their opinion on this one.
Can someone please tell me if the “rape kits” story is true or not? I would really like a straight answer on this one.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
This article would make Paris Hilton proud.
What a talent! I’ve got to dig out my Brittany Spears records now!
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Our dearest Susan makes a very clear case why abortions sometimes are a necessary evil. If only her mom would have decided to have an abortion, I’d pay for it.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Dear Sara not-so-bright,
I’m from Alaska – you speak from ignorance – you repeat lies – why?
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Uh, folks, Raymond Barry’s entire comment, including “Yes, the rape-kit thing is a grey area, but even if it was absolutely false, it would be still true” was a parody of the “truther” double-think. Some parodies are so spot-on, alas, as to be almost indistinguishable from the original.
Ms. Bright, however is not a parody, but a sad example of how the Left has lost its collective mind. The made-up quotes, the deliberate repetition of known falsehoods, the entirely non-masked rape fantasy, and the “slut-baiting” exploitation of girls as young as THIRTEEN: “…pictures of Bristol, her sister, and her cousins with gigantic tankards of Jack Daniels…” are not rational attempts to persuade undecided voters. Instead the primary purpose of this petulant, immature gossip is to dehumanize Palin, christians, republicans, heterosexuals… basically anyone not in Susie Bright’s in-group.
What ever happened to that old-fashioned concept of the “loyal opposition”? All that Ms. Bright and her ilk know is opposition, and that as vicious, mean-spirited, and dishonest as can they can make it.
Sad. How very sad.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Ms. Bright,
You are a bigoted pig. Truly disgusting. Crawl back under the sewer manhole you crawled out of.
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Wahahaha! I’d love to see the dailykos retards open up their boards and stop having them censored by their brownshirt toadies. They’d get some honest feedback and snap out of their circle jerk mentality (maybe).
Beeeeeee-aaaaaw! Beeeeee-aaaaaw!
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Susie Bright, now in contention for the title of Ms. Crazytown along with Andrew Sullivan and his Trig Trooferism.
Susie, really, you ought to just stick with physical masturbation. It feels good and only you get to know what you are thinking as you do it. This public mental masturbation just let’s everyone know what a loon you really are.
And btw, the creationist legislation bullcrap is, of course, bullcrap.
Jeez…you are so _yesterday_ in your smears. How sad.
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
The comments are hysterical: all these people who are dumb enough to be take this thing *seriously*. For heaven’s sake, get some perspective.
You know who Suzie Bright is, right? The humorist-sex columnist? have you even *read* anything else she’s written? It’s all over the net. If you don’t like dirty humor, don’t read Suzie Bright. She has a *really clear and well known* brand.
You look ridiculous when you critique her as if she’s some kind of Washington pundit just because she’s hopping on the enormous “Palin is hot” bandwagon that’s been rolling for weeks. ( Oh, and if you think this essay is outrageous — run out and find some Margaret Cho. She’ll chap your pubes for you, all right.) You’re like people walking straight past the flashing red neon sign into a sex shop and then claiming to be shocked! shocked! by all the dildos.
Oh, and if you’re reading the political blogs at all — half of male heterosexual American has been blabbing about Sarah Palin MILF “she’s so hot, I’d do her” for weeks — so Suzie’s jokey Palin sex fantasy is apparently shared by millions and millions of redblooded American men. So much for “ooh, icky, you’re so sick and twisted.”
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 am
As a religious Jew, I can only say I am ashamed and embarrassed by your crude, untrue, and misleading remarks about Sarah Palin. I would tell you that you should be ashamed of yourself, but I doubt that you are capable of shame, or worse that anything you say or do, no matter how unprincipled and unscrupulous, could shame you.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 am
Has anyone noticed the correlation between ‘aesthetically challenged’ female columnists and vitriolic abuse directed at Sarah Palin?
Basically, the green-eyed monster is running rampant.
What do I know about Sarah Palin’s sex life? Only that I can imagine it’s *lot* busier than that of her “feminist” critics.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 am
Dear Doug Jones:
You got me cold, pal. But you gotta admit, I don’t do bad with the po-mo stuff, especially for an old fart who dropped out of high school at 14.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 am
geez…. you are a twit, aren’t you?
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 am
Gee, I don’t suppose all this trolling is the result of Little Green Footballs sending the attack monkeys your way.
I think everything you’ve said here is dead on.
The rape kit reports turned out to be a false positive, but, really, how can them what supports every pathological lie that the McTheuselah campaign projectile vomits out of the anterior end of their collective gastro-intestinal tract make any claims of expertise regarding “fact checking” or offer any meaningful criticism of an honest correspondent who relied on news stories that turned out to have been false?
Hell, they generally rely on news stories they probably suspect are false to begin with. (Assuming cognition is actually functioning, of course.)
It’s sort of like these idjits screaming about media bias when Faux Nooz — their unfair and unbalanced gaggle of dunderheads — is openly and blatantly biased but it never seems to upset them in the least.
Sorry, Susie, that you were subjected to the juvenalia that passes for “scathing witticism” by the retard right. But that’s the game: smear and sneer and then claim false aghastness at some Karl Rove story like, well, how Gwen Ifill was obviously bigoted and prejudiced because she wrote a book on black politicians. (Gee: if she’s have written a book about women politicians, don’t you suppose that they’d have been screaming the opposite defense?)
And, finally, it’s really unfair to criticize you on your statements regarding matters sexual by them what never had none.
If it were left up to me and I weren’t being polite and all, I’d suggest that Sarah Palin pack up her “polly-wanna-cracker” act, and take her hillbilly rugrats and her newborn mongoloid baby back to Alaska.
We already have enough Barbie dolls who speak a limited number of phrases when you pull their strings down here in the lower 48. Thanks.
But that wouldn’t be polite to say. Especially in the presence of so many easily offended and ever-so-reasonable Feeblublicans. I mean, it might offend their delicate, virginal sensibilities.
Like that Little Green Footballs jackass.
And then them’uns, whut never got no good sexin’, can go back to telling everybody else what to do behind them closed doors. (And shippin’ their pregnant teenage daughters out of town and fixin’ up them shotgun weddin’s.)
Just like always.
Look: Sarah Palin is to women’s issues what Clarence Thomas is to civil rights. The GOP never did understand “equal rights” but they surely DID get “tokenism.”
Right on, Susie.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
“…seasoned, professional journalists and authors” ? Bwahahahaha!
Oh you were joking!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 am
[...] As you’d expect CBS/CNN polling, for example, seems to feel Biden won. The left-O-Shpere is busy crowing Biden won, too. Yet, CBS has called every debate since Reagan for the Democrat, so I’m not sure there’s credibility in the claim. And the leftie blogs never had any to start with. Hell, they’re still focusing on things like Sarah Palin’s sex life. [...]
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 am
Have to say, reading the comments I haven’t laughed so hard in quite awhile. Give it a rest guys, she was jerking your chain and you all fell for it.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 am
By the way, it’s “***whose*** dog is pooping on ***whose*** lawn”, you illiterate jackass!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:07 am
Susie Bright will always be a challenging over-the-top writer. That’s why I love her. Agree, disagree, she’s always thoughtful even when saying the most outlandish things (a lot like Swift in that way).
About the rape kit story. It seems all of the “debunking” has been done by conservatives (3 by my count). The non-partisan factcheck.org (a web site that conservatives LOVED to cite when they ran a peice about all the lies going around about Palin’s pregnancy) said of the rape kit story, ” Unlike some claims about Palin, this one has some merit, though Palin’s precise role is unclear.” (http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_sarah_palin_make_rape_victims_pay.html) It’s not true Palin sat at her desk and told her police chief to start charging for rape kits while laughing manically. What IS true, however, is that shortly after taking office, Palin fired the longtime Police Chief (for fishy reasons, look it up) and replaced him with someone who changed police policy regarding who should pay for rape kits and who was quoted in the local paper as saying that the law requiring public funding of them “will require the city and communities to come up with more funds to cover the costs of the forensic exams.” I don’t know whether or not Palin agreed with her Chief at the time (she now says she doesn’t, but there is no record of her disagreeing with him when the policy was in effect, and she signed off on budgets which did not provide funds for rape kits). In any case, making crime victims pay does square with the conservative mantra of limiting funding for governmental activities wherever possible, something which she has endorsed if not actually practiced as mayor. What’s most important to me is that when Palin was Mayor her hand-picked Police Chief (chosen because she felt that she “needed people with new energy and a new vision”) publicly said he believed that rape victims should foot the bill to gather evidence to apprehend their assailant. This, to me, says a lot about her judgment. And as many people have pointed out elsewhere the rationalization that her Police Chief was only trying to get insurance companies to pay the bill is not much of a defense. Can you imagine being raped and then having to fight with your insurance company to pay for the forensic exam? Or, assuming they actually agree to pay for it, the humiliation of having to make a co-pay so the police can catch the rapist?
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:37 am
haha you’re getting burned!
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
Everyone. This is the face and soul of the Dem party.
Do what they say or they well smear and lie about you.
Talking about making Stalin proud!
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 am
Bwahahahahaha!
You bleat about others staying out of your bedroom and want to poke your nose into theirs?
You believe made up stories on the internet like the one about the rape kit – a whopper that had bullshit written all over it even before it was debunked a hundred times over – like it’s the truth?
Are you telling us you’re stupid as, Susie Bright?
Do the phrases “cognitive dissonance” and “unhinged” mean anything to you?
I’m reading this from Australia. It’s Americans like you Susie, and the sort of diaorrhea you’ve dribbled here, who give America a bad name.
Get help. Seriously.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 am
“Has anyone noticed the correlation between ‘aesthetically challenged’ female columnists and vitriolic abuse directed at Sarah Palin?”
I sure have. I’m old enough to remember when the early feminazis put forward GLORIA STEINEM (!!!!) as their sex symbol! Ms. Steinem was supposed to ameliorate the image of feminist as ‘angry ugly woman’. That strategy failed. Even a casual glance told the truth: Steinem was a bitter hag. And it wasn’t her features that were especially ugly, it was her complete rejection of her femininity that made her ugly. I can only imagine what this Zen monkey person has made herself look like. Ugh.
For years, feminists been foaming at the mouth over the fact that fewer women are beautiful than not (a fact that feminine women have always been able to successfully cope with, even if not personally beautiful). Sarah Palin threatens the feminazis no end. Personally, I take Sarah’s success as the revenge of the beautiful! I feel vindicated. Thank you, thank you, thank you Ms. Palin.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
A dirty sense of humour, Bemused?
Stop. You’re cracking me up.
A loony lefty with any sense of humour is an impossibility.
October 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
14 1/2 minutes have ticked away, you have 30 seconds left.
LOL, another nobody on the digital bathroom stall.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 am
Bemused: “You know who Suzie Bright is, right? The humorist-sex columnist? have you even *read* anything else she’s written? It’s all over the net.”
Ok, but does she write anything that’s funny? I believe that humor is determined by the listener, how many listeners does she have?
Obviously only one here.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:12 am
Your ONLY redeeming quality as a homo sapien is your willingness to endure the comments you have so far received without moderation or editing. However, I use the term homo sapien because you lack any semblance of humanity.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
This is hilarious! What happens when a communcator who addresses a nich audience hits the mainstream, carried to the nth degree.
Only one comment would be worth printing on real paper; that made by Bemused.
The only other thing needed is explication of how a “policy of charging the victims insurance companies or the rape kits” got transubstantiated into “cutting funding for rape kits”. Many of us see little difference. Others think that difference invalidates Susie’s point about Palin’s religious, Dominionist driven, anti-sexual policy agenda completely.
It’s a little like Palin’s asking the Librarian if she would remove books from the Library, if she were instructed to do so, at a guidance meeting for Wasilla city department heads. The Librian said “No way, no how” (That’s an example of how quotation marks are often used to signify a characterization of a frame of mind, as opposed to a signifying a quote of written or spoken words) and Palin fired her (rescinded after one day, due to public protest) from her position.
So Palin did not actually remove any books from the library. She only attempted to assert her right to do so and to fire a department head who would resist her intent to do so. She’s obviously ready to replace Dick Cheney.
If any one, right or left, thinks that the left does not deserve public floggings, and even flayings, for its carelessness with words and definitions in these situations, I have a bone to pick with them.
Such carelessness is inexcusable, and those who think and write about policy and culture should be working much harder than we are to demand that the populist hoi-poloi on both wings who perpetuate it stop their BS and learn to think and express their thoughts with clarity and rigor. Susie?
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
I’ve been a life long democrat. With all the attacks against Palin for non-issues I have decided there must be something about here that will do the country good.
McCain and Palin have my vote.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Bright’s few defenders in this thread are snide, smug and revel in mockery. Anyone who doesn’t think like them is a hick, a rube, an ignoramus, a knuckle dragger. The left thinks it occupies the moral and intellectual summit. It looks down on all below. The failure of leftwing programs all over the world for over a century, up to and including the failure of the leftwing push to lend to the subprime borrowers much in the news today (for which they risibly deny responsibility), never seems to dissuade them of their superiority. They are impervious to criticism.
The levers of power have never been fully in their hands in the United States, even under Roosevelt or Clinton. God help us if that “Change” comes on Nov 4th.
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
According to the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, May 23, 2000, on the occasion of the sexual assault bill protecting victims of sexual assault from being billed for tests to collect evidence of the crime, one local police chief said the new law will further burden taxpayers.
The law makes it illegal for any law enforcement agency to bill victims or victims insurance companies for the costs of examinations that take place to collect evidence of a sexual assault or determine if a sexual assault did occur.
“Wasilla Police Chief Charlie Fannon does not agree with the new legislation, saying the law will require the city and communities to come up with more funds to cover the costs of the forensic exams.
“In the past weve charged the cost of exams to the victims insurance company when possible. I just dont want to see any more burden put on the taxpayer, Fannon said.”
That’s pretty plain, folks. Wasilla PD was charging. And the law put a stop to that practice. But was Sarah palin responsible for Charlie Fannon?
According to a report here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsheriff/sarah-palin-instituted-ra_b_125833.html
“under Sarah Palin’s administration, Wasilla cut funds that had previously paid for the medical exams and began charging victims or their health insurers the $500 to $1200 fees.”
That article further claims that : “Palin, as mayor, fired police chief Irl Stambaugh and replaced him with Charlie Fannon, who with Palin’s knowledge, slashed the budget for the exams and began charging the city’s victims of sexual assault. The city budget documents demonstrate Palin read and signed off on the new budget. A year later, alarmed Alaska lawmakers passed legislation outlawing the practice.”
here is another good URL for your consideration:
https://pol.moveon.org/donate/pp.html?id=14176-8704771-rZ7bglx&t=4
Not to mention this from SLATE
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/09/10/palin_rape/
Despite the opinion expressed at the personal blog of Rachael Larimore, who is Slate’s copy chief, and blogs at
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/09/24/one-nasty-palin-rumor-debunked.aspx
the net result of the “controversy” hinges on this:
Sarah Palin fired one police chief, and replaced him with one who took funding for this out of the budget, which Sarah Palin exercised line by line review and control over.
That police chief objected to a state law passed soon after which in effect required it municipalities to pay for this.
The police chief said that the city would bill victims insurance companies, if they had insurance. He also said he would like them to get cmpensated through applying for “victims compensation” if the cost was not covered by insureance.
Apart from niggling over points of language and definition, it is clear that the Sarah Palin administration did change Wasilla city policy to end the practice of paying for for tests to collect evidence of the crime, that Sarah Palin approved that change of policy when she approved the budget after a line by line review, and that her police chief protested the state llaw which made Wasilla’s new practice illegal.
Folks can quarrel with the shorthand that Susie used to describe that, but in essence she pretty well nails the effect and intent of Palin’s actions.
BTW, Alaska has the highest rape incidence in the US, and most of the women are native, quite possibly with out health insurance and unfamiliar with “victim compensaton” application and other administrative and judicial procedures.
It sure is fun to have such a nice, compact laboratory in which to watch the rightist noise machine demonstrate its methods and passions. Sweeeet!
Hope Susie is getting a kick out of it.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I, for one, think that this article is very well-written, and hilarious. I was on the floor laughing (regardless of how true the statements were).
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
You are a sad and ignorant woman.
October 4th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Yes, the rape-kit thing is a grey area, but even if it was absolutely false, it would be still true.
Classic double-speak.
Hey, you know what other state charges rape victims for kits? Illinois! The Messiah’s home turf. Wonder if he had anything to do with that?
October 4th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Wow. This Susie chick got wrecked. lol.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
You must hang around the clubs with Sandra Bernhard. 2 pigs in a pod!
October 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Aren’t you the least bit curious what it would be like to not hate people who aren’t like you?
I mean, think about it, seriously. You’re as unhinged and as un-thinking as someone from Alabama in the 1950′s who says, “Segregation now, segregation forever!” I guess that makes you a bigot, I suppose. Would you even be able to reflect on it deeply enough to see the similarity?
Disagree if you must, but this stuff is just puerile (and not even amusing).
October 5th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Thanks for pushing me off the fence. I can’t take any more of these vile personal attacks. I will now vote Republican. You need psychotherapy.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Gosh, Susie, don’t do what Margaret Cho did when she was abused by the wingnuts & released every single email address. That would be . . just rewards.
Well, will all of you wingnuts promise to consider suicide when Obama wins?
Great article, Susie. Keep up the good work.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Great piece, as evinced by the Rightwing robot freakout response — exactly how you can tell you’ve hit the nail on the head. It was about “head” right? ;-)
Meanwhile, more back-up for the factual story about Palin charging rape victims:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperinsheriff/sarah-palin-instituted-ra_b_125833.html
October 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Wow! A convention of morans, knuckle draggers and idjits. Who is guarding the porta-potty?
Seriously, the sad thing is that these nominal conservatives and their children and grandchildren will suffer no more than the rest of America now that their party has betrayed its principles over the last eight years. There ought to be a special tax levied on Republicans; they do so much damage to our country and to our children and grandchildren.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I believe all the above comments were written by the same person. Either that, or their pastor sicked them all on you at the same time.
Rock on, Susie!
October 6th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Troopergate Heads to High Court
Share October 04, 2008 1:44 PM
Justin Rood Reports:
The Alaska Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Republican state lawmakers looking to block their legislature’s investigation into Sarah Palin and “Troopergate,” the Associated Press reported.
A Superior Court judge threw out their suit Thursday, along with a suit filed by the state attorney general which sought to dismiss subpoenas against several Palin aides and administration officials. It is not clear if that attorney general will try to join the appeal, according to the AP.
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the appeal next Wednesday, the wire service reported
October 6th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Wow, SCORE!! Look at all the frothing-at-the-mouth, righty-wingnut comments!
Keep up the good work, Suzie — as long as they’re here spitting their bile at you, they’re not out trolling the airport men’s rooms or trying to make time with underage Congressional pages.
Of course, it’s probably just one or two of them, “Freeping” you as they call it. How pathetic, righties… if you can’t find anyone who actually agrees with you, create thirty sock puppets to make it look like your view is something other than fringe right-wing-nuttery.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Ree:
Illinois does not charge victims for rape kits. Please check your facts.
Thanks.
In other news, I don’t actually agree with this article. Please stop making sexist attacks on Palin and focus on the issues. She’s spewing enough anti-woman crap there that you should never have to come back to this kind of thing.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
[...] in the icy snowscapes of Alaska, you’re not alone. Everyone is fantasizing about her. Both Susie Bright and Margaret Cho want to go down on her. Hustler’s making an x-rated film about her. Palin [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Good article. But I think Palin is more of an anal type. You can kind of see it in her face. If you do kidnap her, I definitely suggest that you start with some analingus, then some dildos, and after a while she’ll be begging for your fist. I guarantee it. Shoot some video for us when it happens.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
way to go, susie. i don’t agree with everything you’ve said here, but unlike most of the conservatives who’ve shown up to denounce you, i defend your right to your opinion. the right is always happy to denounce the left as utterly lacking in human decency. and then they fantasize about being censored:
“I took a screenshot so if you censor this I will post the screenshot with date/time on my blog and email a few choice websites the screenshot in case others want to know you censor your comments to try to save face from a screw-up that any real blogger would admit, address, and fix.”
but i think the most interesting part is the way they ignore reality. i visited the slate article that they claim debunks the rape kit myth. however, it doesn’t. it asserts that billing insurance companies is different from billing the victim, ignoring the fact that 20% of alaskans have no insurance. jim pivonka makes a similar point above, pointing out that the incidence of rape in alaska is highest with poorer, native women.
and this is not splitting hairs, someone should find out what the truth is. in the meantime, i think it is fair to say that palin’s executive experience is not worth much if she is not responsible for knowing what her city and state did while she was at the helm. you can’t have it both ways.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You may have gotten the rape kit thing wrong, but most of what you say is absolutely right on! Fuck the stupid conservative shitheads for not being able to take a joke!
October 25th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Susie – it never takes much to upset the conservative hayseeds. Forget them whining about getting the “rape kit” bit wrong — 2 days ago, they were setting the internet on fire because they thought a Black man carved a backwards “B” into a white girl’s face.
I concur fully with what you said. I’m adding you to my “Blog parents” list, since your appearances in On Our Backs many years ago was a life-changer.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:31 am
# Bruce Said:
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Get your facts right. I can’t believe how many leftists repeat this same thing about rape kits without even checking that it’s been debunked. Why not throw in the plastic turkey as well.
Leftists repeating falsehoods is always fine.
Rabid Right Wing Lunatics who point out actual facts are on a “smear campaign”.
Sheesh.
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Bruce, I hope you realize that this kind of ignorant smearing happens on both sides of the political spectrum. However, what you don’t realize, and this is where the irony lies, is that the right-wing has elevated smear and related bullshit to a fine art.
The right-wing has only itself to complain about when their tactics are used against their own flock. Deal with it and shut the fuck up already.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Hahaha. This is awesome. I love seeing Palin supporters foam at the mouth and break into epilleptic fits. You may have one fact wrong, so what? Each and everyone of these people who are in favor of Palin probably believe every single lie the McCain team pulls out of their ass.
No sane person would vote for McCain/Palin. Seriously.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:47 am
ha! raep! gonzo!
October 29th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Suzy,
I don’t know exactly how you manage it, but somehow you make sex and sexuality boring. Rather like those tedious people on the HBO freak shows who like to blather about how fulfilled they are because they’ll fuck anything that moves, as long as it flogs them first.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:18 am
So many commenters here say the rape kit story has “been debunked all over the place.” If Palin would talk to the media like any normal political candidate instead of dodging them and acting like she has something to hide, maybe rumors like this wouldn’t circulate for so long.
Why people respect this woman makes no sense to me. (Why can’t she answer even a simple question honestly? If she doesn’t read newspapers, just say so.) My theory is that it’s all about Jesus and abortion. Any politician willing to proclaim they love Jesus and are against abortion will have rabid, uncritical support from one group of the electorate.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
The most recent round of debunking has been debunking the idea that the rape kit story was debunked, actually.
See a link roundup here.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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December 14th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Have you heard the recent comments, especially during the BW interview “Republicans are impotent…limp, etc”
What’s that about ?
June 9th, 2011 at 4:19 am
Its a shame that Ms Sarah Palin gave a contorted version of history yesterday to explain her way out of a gaffe she made last week on the midnight ride of American revolutionary patriot Paul Revere in 1775.