What Would a Maverick Do...? Quit!
It took the obstinate and abstinent Sarah Palin, "natch," to puncture the thick prophylactic of MJ media coverage. She and her spokesperson, Meg Stapleton, managed to characterize her resignation as a heroic act.
Palin lamented that the biggest problem facing our nation is apathy, and with that, she announced that she'd walk away from the final 18 months of a four-year term. Stapleton put a nice spin on that, saying that Palin can't make change within the current political system, so she's looking for other, unspecified ways to make change.
So the woman who said she'd bring change to America now complains that she can't change Alaska because people don't play nice. But what would a maverick do...?
Palin at her presser used a basketball analogy, saying that a point guard must break a full-court press by racing down court and then finding someone else to hand the ball off to. Stapleton, speaking later to an incredulous Anderson Cooper, repeated the analogy. When he failed to get it, Stapleton responded with a marvelous, booming and condescending laugh, arguing something about how Palin "passed the ball off, and said I'm going around it, and we all have the same common hoop, but I'm going around the block." Huh?
I guess what bugs me is the old issue we've dealt with around here too many times: Media "bias." Palin and Stapleton engaged in the most disingenuous game today, clumsily attempting to frame her resignation as a profile in courage and wisdom. The only people who will buy any of it are the diehard partisans. And those are the same persons who lament how any push-back from an Anderson Cooper represents reprehensible and insufferable ideology. For such persons, all nature will look like a conspiracy against them.
I'm delighted that someone pulled off being condescending to that pompous a-hole ("journalist" and game show host) Anderson Cooper.
Hey...condescension is easy. Making sense is hard.
Agree or disagree with her, Palin's resignation makes perfect sense, and she explained it in terms that even the most thick-headed liberal could understand. She's passing off the ball to someone in a better position to make a basket. What doesn't the esteemed AC get? The frivolous ethics complaints against her are costing her state and her personally, and her lieutenant governor will not draw that kind of nonsense. She's probably pretty sick of the unprecedented level of venom directed against her offspring, too.
Doesn't really take a brain surgeon to figure that out.
>>she explained it in terms that even the most thick-headed liberal could understand. She's passing off the ball to someone in a better position to make a basket.
Yep. And I have passed off the ball of medical technology to Johns Hopkins and the ball of computer innovation to Apple, because I'm too busy dealing with ethics complaints against me. Even a thick-headed person could see that I deserve some kind of award for being the Magic Johnson of the 21st century.
And Sarah's adviser Meg Stapleton defined basketball in clear terms when she said, "She passed the ball off, and said I'm going around it, and we all have the same common hoop, but I'm going around the block." Nope, can't get any more sensible than that. Why don't America's blind fools see the wisdom of the Palin way...?
Okay, Rob, if you want to start pulling inane quotes and trying to "make hay" with them, let's go into the Biden vault of gold. I love the fact that it isn't even a Palin quote, but you (and others) want to make a big freakin' federal case out of it. She did say something garbled, okay? And this is important because... ???? AC should have understood Palin in the first place--she was crystal clear, even if her spokesman stumbled.
In the meantime, the point of course is, you are not having to deal with ethics complaints against you, so your analogy isn't making any sense to me, thick-headed as I am.