Videos from Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin are being taken down as fast as they are coming up. Sarah Palin's church videos showing her in front of the congregation being prayed over have been removed from YouTube as well as Palin's swimsuit videos from the 1984 Miss Alaska contest. Palin is an issue on all sorts of cultural, political and social levels as well as one of controlling your image and information and how your entire life is up for exposure (ladies, think even down to the cellulite level).
Newsweek's article says she speaks gibberish when she gets off her talking points. Is she Dan Quayle in lipstick or Forest Gumping her way to the White House or like a filly standing on shaky legs until she grows into this challenge? Or like all of us, just trying to do our best wherever we may find ourselves, and knowing we are all imperfect? Or scared after she has leapt of the high diving board into the pool of big-time politics? But why, as women, do we reach for perfection?
Palin is the political iteration of Elle Woods, the character in the Legally Blonde movies, as Judith Warner muses in her NYTimes Domestic Disturbances blog post, Poor Sarah, and she writes, "You don’t have to be perennially pretty in pink — and ditsy and cutesy and kinda maybe stupid — to have an inner Elle Woods. Many women do. I think of Elle every time I dress up my insecurities in a nice suit. ... Chick lit — think of Bridget Jones, always fumbling, never quite who she should be — and in particular the newer subgenre of mom lit are filled with this kind of sentiment." The Imposter Syndrome, is what Warner terms it, something that is relevant to both sexes.
Tina Fey's SNL sketch last night was a take off of Palin's bumbling interview with Katie Couric. Warner gave a shout-out to comedian Sara Benincasa who does parodies of Palin so I had to go find that woman, who wonders when "the vapors" gave way to "panic attacks". Funny, she, so here you go:
Governor Sarah Palin Vlog #1
Mother would say: Fake it 'Till You Make It on this, I figure.
Joe Biden had a month to prepare for his convention speech, she had 2 days, and and by all accounts did a good job. She has been the lead speaker on the trail for McCain, I only assume because she does a good job. She speaks once, and the blogs do a million take offs, to where we see the take-offs more than the real event, creating its own revisionist reality. Biden has stuck his foot in his mouth repeatedly, "Hillary is more qualified than I am", "No coal in America, as Obama says Coal in America", "I am against the bailout-just as Obama applauds it", "when the stock market crashed, President Roosevelt got on TV and told Americans...." (oh really, FDR wasn't President in 1929, and there wasn't any TV, but heck, let's just make it up"). My point is, where are all the blogs on the guy who has run for President twice and garnered less than one percent of the vote? Who pokes fun at him? Being publicly assasinated, for doing nothing but trying to give back to society, is why no one wants to run for office. Wonder where our children are getting all of their ideas about how to act on the internet?
Posted by: anthony | September 28, 2008 at 07:28 AM
Joe Biden had a month to prepare for his convention speech, she had 2 days, and and by all accounts did a good job. She has been the lead speaker on the trail for McCain, I only assume because she does a good job. She speaks once, and the blogs do a million take offs, to where we see the take-offs more than the real event, creating its own revisionist reality. Biden has stuck his foot in his mouth repeatedly, "Hillary is more qualified than I am", "No coal in America, as Obama says Coal in America", "I am against the bailout-just as Obama applauds it", "when the stock market crashed, President Roosevelt got on TV and told Americans...." (oh really, FDR wasn't President in 1929, and there wasn't any TV, but heck, let's just make it up"). My point is, where are all the blogs on the guy who has run for President twice and garnered less than one percent of the vote? Who pokes fun at him? Being publicly assasinated, for doing nothing but trying to give back to society, is why no one wants to run for office. Wonder where our children are getting all of their ideas about how to act on the internet?
Posted by: anthony | September 28, 2008 at 07:58 AM
Interesting about The Impostor Syndrome. My new book is, "The Impostor Syndrome."
The Impostor Syndrome is the feeling that you are not as smart, talented, or skilled as people think you are. It's the feeling that you are a fake and have been getting away with something and are about to be found out. It affects 70% of adults and is especially prevalent in high achieving women.
If you're interested, you may download Chapter One at: http://www.johngraden.com/files/the_impostor_syndrome.php
You can also see me speak on the subject at: www.JohnGradenTV.com
Posted by: John Graden | September 29, 2008 at 05:28 AM
That video of the S. Palin imitator was spot on!
Posted by: Rhea | September 29, 2008 at 11:10 AM