Well
there she is above; Sarah Palin. And who does she remind you
of?
Have a look at the other photo and even though she is a
lot older, Mary Whitehouse both in looks and opinions, is a good
contender.
In Britain people will remember Mary Whitehouse as the first president of the National Viewers and Listeners Association which stood for Christian Values and started a Clean Up TV Campaign; they took private prosecutions against Gay News and the director of a play at the National Theatre, Romans in Britain.
She
also brought an injunction against ITV when they planned to show a
documentary about Andy Warhol which stopped its initial showing; when
it was shown a few weeks later the publicity guaranteed huge viewing
figures; in fact everything she campaigned against benefited from the
publicity.
When
she took the director of The Romans in Britain to court she
hadn't even seen the play. The play, written by Howard Brenton, drew
a direct parallel between the Roman in invasion in Celtic Britain in
54BC and the contemporary British presence in the so called Northern
Ireland.
In the play, directed by Michael Bogdanov, there is a
brief rape scene which was, obviously, simulated and it was said that
an erect penis was seen from the audience and this was supposedly
seen by Mrs Whitehouse's solicitor from the back row – some penis!
Anyway without going too far into it the prosecution told her they
couldn't prosecute any further; both sides claimed a victory but Mrs
Whitehouse had to pay costs.
When Mrs Thatcher came to power
in 1979 Mary Whitehouse had found a more suitable ally but Thatcher's
market economy policy wasn't helpful to her values.
Even
though she never stood for any political party she was a darling of
the right but I think, in the long run, harmless. She did a lot to
stop kiddy porn but how is that going? The very people who
supported her, the Catholic Church for one, didn't exactly set a good
example.
I don't think Sarah Palin is harmless; she is being
followed by the same kind of people who followed Mary Whitehouse but
Sarah Palin has political aspirations.
We have seen her being
interviewed and it's quite obvious that she is ill-informed; she had
a terrible interview with Katy Couric showing how ignorant she was
about the political world in general and Congress and the Supreme
Court in particular.
She had made a few speeches as Governor
of Alaska and always refers to herself as the momma grizzly and she
used the same speeches when John McCain nominated her as his running
mate for President (of the USA) two years ago and she excites a
certain kind of audience; she excites a certain kind of emotion that
is very dangerous.
She doesn't like what is happening here,
doesn't like Obama's policies and thinks he should have worked
wonders and shit miracles like some kind of political
magician.
America, two years ago, was in the worst state it
had ever been since the depression; the whole banking system almost
collapsed. The people that were privy to the actual crisis were
calling home and telling their loved ones to get around to the bank
and draw as much cash from the ATMs as they could as they were sure
it was all over; this has been stated in some of the 'behind the
scenes' books that have been published since the crisis.
It
took a good few years to get the country into that state and she, and
her fellow Republicans and TEA party members, are opportunists who,
to further their own political ambitions, are willing to do or say
anything to get power. They are saying that the Obama administration
should have cleared up the mess by now when they know it would be
impossible to go any faster.
Sarah Palin's daughter is a
contestant on Dancing with the Stars and, by all accounts
as I haven't seen it, is not very good; but she is getting voted for
by the public and is winning against people who can really dance. And
this is because the people who are voting for her don't care whether
she can dance or not as long as she wins.
That's what it will
be like if momma grizzly stands for President!
I heard
yesterday that the voting on Dancing with the Stars is all
down to one man but if that is a rumour or not true it is obvious
that the TEA party are voting for the daughter; Sarah Palin has been
seen in the audience at the show she is also the star of her own
reality show and it's quite obvious that she plans to run for
president and this is the way she is doing it.
At the moment
that would make it a lot easier for Barack Obama to win a second term
but this is a country that voted into power George W Bush and Ronald
Reagan!!!! So be warned.
We often ask how a country could vote
such a silly looking man into power as Hitler. He had no ideas and no
solutions - said so in his speeches - and just gave patriotic sound
bites and when he got in; well you know about that.
Hi Chris, I understand where you are coming from,with concerns about Sarah Palin, but remember what a previous President said about fooling some of the people some of the time. Truth will eventually out, sometimes one has to burn one's fingers before the penny drops. But it will. Sometimes the electorate is not as dumb as it seems to media commentators.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget what HL Mencken said: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting piece in the UK news a few days ago. The spin doctor who ran Cameron's election campaign also ran Obama's too.
ReplyDeleteDo you think we are all getting "snowed"?
Yes I do; in America it always seems to be the taller of the two presidential contenders who gets elected; they always have hair and an attractive image. Those things seem to count more than their policies and when they get in other people take over.
ReplyDeleteKeith Joseph's influence with Thatcher, Cheney and Rove and his mob with Bush, the poison dwarf with Hitler and so on.