Beware, Sarah Barracuda Might Call You a “Puppy-kicker”

 In a recent e-mail Sarah Palin called Politico reporters  “puppy-kicking,” “chain-smoking,” and “porn producers.”  The actual quote is:  “I suppose I could play their immature, unprofessional, waste-of-time game, too, by claiming these reporters and politicos are homophobe, child molesting, tax evading, anti-dentite, puppy-kicking, chain smoking porn producers…really, they are… I’ve seen it myself…but I’ll only give you the information off-the-record, on deep, deep background; attribute these ‘facts’ to an ‘anonymous source’ and I’ll give you more.”  http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/11/palin-calls-politico-reporters-puppy-kicking-porn-producers-for-relying-on-unnamed-sources-1.html; http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/01/sarah-palin-pounds-liberal-media-outlets-like-politico-for-using-anonymous-sources-to-attack-her.  In a live interview with Fox News, Palin called Republicans “elites,” suggested that people shouldn’t trash people “unfairly” and that journalists should report the “facts.” http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201010310029

The first thing you might be thinking about is Palin’s reaction to Michael Gross’s Vanity Fair article,  when she called him “impotent,” “limp,” and “gutless.”  http://www.mediaite.com/online/was-sarah-palin-gay-baiting-when-she-referred-to-vanity-fair-writer-as-impotent-and-limp.  Her complaint about Mr. Gross’s article, the Sound and the Fury, http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010, was that he relied upon anonymous sources.  In that case, as in her response to the Politico article, Palin does not deny the substance of the facts reported.  Instead she disparages the journalists, with a verbal assault.

Just yesterday I reported on the various names used by Palin to describe those she perceived to be her adversaries.   https://malialitman.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/sarah-palins-relationship-with-child-molesters.  She suggested CBS was a group of “corrupt bastards” and that Joe McGinnis and David Letterman were child molesters.  Funny thing is that Palin, with her vast array of “mean-spirited” names doesn’t choose to use the name “liar” when she attacks her enemies. 

Forget the facts of the report by Politico.  Forget the fact that Palin could sue for libel if the information reported was actually untrue.  Palin’s claim that she could be a contender in the 2012 Presidential Race, or that she is competent to be the President of the United States, has just been proved to be laughable.  By this type of repetitive name calling we realize that her response to adversity is to retort in a child-like way by calling her adversary a foul name.  Imagine a Presidential Debate.  She might call Barack Obama “scum.”  If we became the victim of another terrorist attack, her idea of an appropriate response might be to call Ahmadinejad an even worse name…like the ones she calls Todd.  

In the book Game Change we read about McCain aides making reference to Palin’s mental instability during the 2008 campaign.  Steve Schmidt personally appeared with Anderson Cooper and revealed the level of deceit and emotional imbalance that personifies Sarah Palin. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6078906n&tag=related;photovideo.  His report was totally consistent with Mr. Gross’ report in Vanity Fair when he explained that Palin’s temper “veered wildly.”  He said: it’s as if “something had snapped.” People visiting the house of Palin “witnessed her core meltdown.” http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/10/sarah-palin-201010.  Thank God the American people are able to see for themselves that the facts reported by Politico, Vanity Fair in their article “Me and Mrs. Palin”,  Michael Gross in “The Sound and the Fury”, Anderson Cooper, Steve Schmidt, Palingates, The Immoral Minority, Lorenzo Bennett in Trailblazer, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin in Game Change were all true.  Maybe now we have a little more insight into why the Half-Term Ex-Governor was given the name “Sarah Barracuda.”  I don’t think it had anything to do with her prowess on the basketball court.  A Barracuda has sharp-edged fang-like teeth, much like piranhas. They are voracious, opportunistic predators. Barracudas are scavengers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda.  When we tell our grandchildren about the political climate in the United States in 2008-2010 we will tell them about “Sarah Barracuda.”