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The Undefeated was more like the unattended

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Sarah Palin documentary goes to DVD after mediocre box office returns

An opening weekend on limited release saw The Undefeated bring in $63,000 from 10 screens. But despite showing on 14 cinemas the following weekend of 22-24 July, box office takings slumped 60% to just $24,664.

It turns out that The Undefeated was more like the unattended.

According to boxofficemojo.com – which dubbed The Undefeated “deflated” – in 10 days the film grossed just over $100,000 from 13,000 ticket sales and estimated that average audience size was just 15 customers per screening during its second weekend in theatres.

[...] For Palin fans, Walmart will also sell an exclusive “special edition” DVD with additional content.

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NY Post review of the ironically named Palin movie, “The Undefeated”

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Kyle Smith of the NY Post:

If you’re hopeful (or worried) that this movie is the secret trigger for a Palin relaunch, don’t be. Even if you fixed the blaring soundtrack and took out all the symbols of the cataclysmic evil opposing Palin (barking dogs, disaster footage, a closeup of Rosie O’Donnell), you’d still be left with a hopeless sputtering jumble.

The busted logic and narrative chop of “The Undefeated” don’t suggest the phrase, “spirited new defense of Palin.” They say, “cyclone landed here.”

[...] Similarly, as we learn about Alaska’s Survivalist Socialism — all the precious fuel in the ground belongs to the state; oil companies can only lease drilling rights — Palin is portrayed both as a free marketer and an antagonist of same who took on Big Oil by working with the Democrats to raise oil taxes.

In one scene, we’re told she didn’t care about polls; in the next, she’s bragging about her approval rating (88%). She says she doesn’t put much stock in such surveys — yet “I figured my administration must be doing something right.” So does her recent approval rating of 28% tell her that she must be doing something wrong?

Maybe it was this (I’m sure) honest review which got him UNINVITED to the critics’ screening in New York. Smith says, “Of course I will be mercilessly mocking this decision if it is not rescinded.”

Via Politico

The rightwing’s rage over Thatcher’s rejection of Sarah Palin

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“What [Limbaugh] doesn’t understand is that Palin’s nutsiness is not a partisan matter in Britain, or anywhere else in the world. It is an obvious truth marveled at by all. Palin’s emergence as a serious figure in American politics has made the country a laughing stock across the world. The idea that a stateswoman like Thatcher, in advanced dementia, would be used by such a crackpot is simply unseemly.” — Andrew Sullivan

GUARDIAN, June 9, 2011: The ally who criticised Palin said the Thatcher circle would not change their minds despite the backlash. “Margaret will not be meeting Sarah Palin. If necessary we will make sure that Margaret has an off day when Palin is in London.”

FLASHBACK, SEP/2010:

VANITY FAIR: Early in the 2008 campaign, when John McCain’s aides discovered that Alaska-size gaps existed in Palin’s general knowledge (among those previously unreported: she had no idea who Margaret Thatcher was), they from time to time would give her some books to read in hopes of improving the candidate’s learning curve. On one such occasion, Palin accepted the books, set them aside, and for the next 25 minutes was held rapt by one of her three BlackBerrys.

Eventually, an aide asked, “What are you working on?”

“I’m reading these great e-mails,” she said, “from the prayer warriors.”

Hopefully the world can see the difference between most Americans and the teaparty / Palin fans. She really is an embarrassment for our country.  And we can all thank Senator John McCain for that.

Half-term governor Sarah “Blood Libel” Palin©®™ hits the road!

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Charles Johnson has an image of Palin’s tour bus, emblazoned with the message:  ‘Join the Fundamental Restoration of America!’  Johnson notes in comments that the phrase appears in quotes, and seems to have originated with Glenn Beck.

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As David Kurtz points out, it’s not Palin herself that’s scary — what’s truly frightening for our country is the media’s frenzied reaction to Anything Palin.

Watch:

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Wonkette finds that Newsmax (image below) is hoping for a jello-wrestling match between Palin and Bachmann. Hawt!

They could be the 2012 version of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan.

God help us.

Sarah Palin will be remembered for what she deserves to be remembered for…

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Let’s stop here and go back for a moment to the convention speech—the alchemic moment of excitement and fantasy when Sarah Palin became the star of national politics. Listening to it today, you can practically hear her shift registers, the state figure morphing into a national one, the old Palin becoming the new. She touches on the pipeline, the corruption, how she broke the oil companies’ “monopoly on power” and ended a “culture of self-dealing.” But all of that is overshadowed by the full-throated assault on Barack Obama, rooted in deep cultural resentment, that became the campaign’s ethos and remains Palin’s identity. What resonate are her charges that Obama wanted to “forfeit” the war in Iraq and that he condescended to “working people” with talk of “how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns.”

That didn’t carry her to Washington, but it did reshape the contours of American politics. Today, there aren’t many Republicans of the type Palin was in Alaska; but nearly every Republican seeking the White House strives to evoke the more grievance-driven themes of her convention speech. Regardless of whether she runs too, her influence will be more broadly and deeply felt than anyone else’s. But it’s hard to believe that her party, or her country, or even Palin herself, is better off for that.

The Tragedy of Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin is having a squirmish with The Daily Caller

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Our Lady of Perpetual Butthurt:

TPMDC: Sarah Palin launched a lengthy attack on The Daily Caller via Facebook on Wednesday in which she slammed the conservative-leaning news organization for not featuring her quotes prominently enough.

The publication, helmed by Tucker Carlson, quoted from a nearly 650-word statement she issued to them in response to an article on legislation she signed as governor of Alaska providing tax credits to production companies who film in Alaska. It also reprinted the entire statement on the next page of the article. This was not good enough, however, for Palin, who said that her statement was “buried.”

Has there ever been another half-term governor, failed VP candidate who is more “me me me“? And why are conservatives so afraid of her?

The Snowbilly is definitely in her “Fat Elvis” final days of narcotic confusion

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Dubya Tee Eff, indeed, Sarah:

What did Palin think of Barack Obama’s popular centrist State of the Union speech? It’s impossible to tell, based on the words falling so loosely from her lips, but she did prove she also doesn’t know how to say the old Internet term “WTF,” which is pronounced “What the Fuck?” (She just spoke the letters, which is a blood libel against Fuck.) Oh yeah, we’ve got the video!

And yeah, the Snowbilly is definitely in her “Fat Elvis” final days of narcotic confusion.

WTF, John McCain?! Seriously. Thanks again.

[Media Matters via Wonkette]

Sarah Palin takes us for a ride

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Here’s an excerpt from The New Yorker‘s Nancy Franklin’s reaction to watching the first segment of TLC’s “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

“…I know that some Americans think Palin is stupid, but I never realized that she thinks we’re stupid.

The first episode involves a couple of fun family outings. But before we leave the house let’s set outside a spell, shall we? Palin likes to do “a lot of my writing and researching, especially on a beautiful day . . . on our cement slab, where I get to take in the beauty of the lake.” The scene, it turns out, is really just an excuse to bring up a subject that infuriates her: the writer Joe McGinniss, who is working on an unauthorized biography of Palin, has naughtily rented the house next door. Palin’s husband, Todd, ambles onscreen and explains that “our summer has kind of been taken away from us” by this. Palin adds proudly that Todd and his buddies have put up a fourteen-foot-high fence—a fence that handily doubles as policy. “I thought that was a good example, what we just did. Others could look at it and say, ‘Oh, this is what we need to do to secure our nation’s border,’ ” she says.

The first excursion is to the Big River Lake area for fishing and bear-watching, with Todd, their nine-year-old daughter, Piper, and a niece. “I’m really hoping that Piper . . . will have that treat of seeing a mama grizzly,” Palin says. Nature, it seems, exists to provide her with a chance to use one of her signature terms. Only brown bears show up, but it turns out that they have something to teach us, too. Palin says, “I love watching these mama bears. They’ve got a nature, yeah, that humankind can learn from. She’s trying to show her cubs nobody’s going to do it for ya, you get out there and do it yourself, guys.” That sounds great, except that in this case the mother bear is doing all the fishing while her cubs splash around on a nearby rock, ignoring her. When a bear growls, Palin says, “You hear that? That is a growl.” And then, “Wow.” And then “Wow” again. And then “Wow” again. When they arrive back home, Palin attempts to poison Piper’s little mind with her mean-girl attitude. “See, we one-upped him, Piper,” she says of McGinniss. “We had a good day. And he’s stuck in his house.” (Actually, the camera finds him sitting outside on his porch, reading a book.)”

From Mush! Sarah Palin takes us for a ride. | Nancy Franklin

I’m with Nancy Franklin: I “flippin’” hope Palin just stays “out there bein’ free!” Forever. And, as I’ve said before, if you watch the trailer — THAT VOICE! shout/bleating “How come we can’t ever just be satisfied with tranquility?!!” is very funny. It’s as if the word “tranquility” has a completely opposite meaning to the one we’ve understood up to this very moment in time.

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Sarah Palin has a Twitter-Tantrum at AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka

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Palin is USUALLY having a tantrum on Twitter:

Trumka went to Anchorage, Alaska — Palin’s political backyard — to deliver a speech in which he is expected to criticize Palin’s language, which he says could incite violence from her supporters.

“And down in Tyler, Texas, she’s talking about — and I quote — ‘union thugs.’ What? Her husband’s a union man. Is she calling him a thug? Sarah Palin ought to know what union men and women are,” Trumka will say. “That’s poisonous. There’s history behind that rhetoric. That’s how bosses and politicians in decades past justified the terrorizing of workers, the murdering of organizers.”

Palin responded on her widely-followed Twitter account, saying:

Know our hardworking union friends (esp from my days as an IBEW sister, Todd IBEW & USW brother) aren’t sheep, they’ll ask: Trumka’s motive?
 
Think Trumka’s frustrations r w/Obama, not me (high unemplymnt, deals w/Obama&his subsequent broken promises)so understandable Rich’s ticked

AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale quickly fired back, saying that she undermined her message by resigning as governor last year.

“Basically, she’s having a temper tantrum, putting her hands over her ears and yelling ‘la la la la la, I can’t hear you,’ ” Vale said. “Because if she had actually read the speech the motivation and message are crystal clear. She left working families in Alaska behind when she tried to trade up to Fox News and the Tea Party. We understand that she wants to keep up her faux populism and image as caring about ordinary people but her actions, policies and candidates she supports speak way louder than her tweets.”

IBEW “sister” my ass.

Jon Stewart Points Out the Hypocrisy of Sarah Palin’s Dr. Laura Defense

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brooklynmutt:

Michel Martin’s Perfectly Awesome Rebuke Of Dr Laura’s Racism

“You know, does any serious person, anybody who claims to be a serious person, still credit this argument? Have we not gotten away from the notion that all African Americans are responsible for what any African American does? This is a standard not applied to any other group in this society except, perhaps, Muslims. Are white people, random white people, called to account for what the cast of the Jersey Shore does? Are white people saying, ‘Well, their kids can get over-tan, drink too much, and act ridiculous because of the cast of Jersey Shore?’

“In what other area in life is she taking direction from black comics on HBO? So, the notion that they are dictating the culture and that they set the cultural terms, for particularly a conservative is so ridiculous that it is striking to me that a person making that argument is not laughed out of the room.”

Michel Martin (NPR) on Dr. Laura’s point that some African American (“comics on HBO”) use the n-word, so why can’t a white person?

(CNN’s Reliable Sources)

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“Why Sarah Palin feels she needs to join in [on] Dr. Laura’s personal meltdown is beyond me.”

“Why Sarah Palin feels she needs to join in [on] Dr. Laura’s personal meltdown is beyond me.”

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Black Republicans: Palin ‘no longer fit to lead’

nullSarah Palin’s passionate and repeated defense of talk show host Dr. Laura shows the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate is “no longer fit to lead,” prominent black conservatives say.

The Daily Beast’s John Avlon interviewed black leaders in the Republican Party and conservative movement and found few willing to back Palin’s defense of Laura Schlessinger, who announced this week she would be ending her long-running radio show after using the “n-word” 11 times during a debate with a caller.

Michel Faulkner, a Republican challenging House Rep. Charlie Rangel in this fall’s election, told Avlon: “Why Sarah Palin feels she needs to join in to Dr. Laura’s personal meltdown is beyond me. She’s sounding like she just likes to hear her own voice—and the voice that she has is no longer credible. It says that a leading voice among conservatives has joined the ranks of the entertainers—trying to shock us each day with more and more outlandish commentary. And at that moment that person is no longer fit to lead.”

It’s too bad that it took the Schlessinger Debacle, as it will one day be called, to snap Faulkner out of the hypnotic trance he’s apparently been suffering under since about July 2008.  It had to be some kind of altered condition if he didn’t realize BEFORE NOW that Palin “likes to hear  her own voice” and that she wasn’t “credible” with a majority of non-comatose adults… or that yes! she does try to “shock us every day.” And ever since she quit being Alaska’s governor and started Tweetin’ and Facebookin’ and campin’ with Kate Gosselin, every sentient being on this planet should have recognized that Sarah Palin is an “entertainer” who expects to get rich.

Mr. Faulkner will never be accused of being perceptive or insightful.

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Jon Stewart Points Out the Hypocrisy of Sarah Palin’s Dr. Laura Defense | Aug 25

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