OK…Get ready. I am about to diminish myself.
In an appearance on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, Sarah Palin (there, that did it) had an unusual response to a joke about Mitt Romney that included a reference to her. The joke was made by John Kerry in his speech to the Democratic National Convention. And it wasn’t even a very good joke:
Kerry: Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he’s only seen Russia by watching “Rocky IV.”
Palin was asked about these remarks by Cavuto and immediately presumed that the whole thing was about her. But it’s her response that is raising eyebrows for the astonishing blindness to her own manufactured media hype.
Palin: I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name. How does he even know my name? I mean aren’t these guys supposed to be these big-wig elites who don’t waste their time on the little people like me?
WTFFFFF? Palin is surprised that someone should know her name after running for vice-president, making herself a spectacle with idiotic remarks about Marxist Democrats, conducting bus tours (and book signings) across the country, hosting in two unintentionally hilarious reality shows on cable TV, and appearing regularly on Fox News as part of her million dollar contract. After all of that she still has some bizarre impression of herself as a little person. Little, perhaps, in mental acuity. But the notion that another politician might happen to recall something about her, and her laughable and undeserved celebrity, may be an indication of acute cerebral atrophy.
Recent reports speculate that Palin is having trouble with negotiations over her contract renewal with Fox News. Incidents like this are not going to help her much. Fox is unlikely to place much value in a pundit who believes that her own notoriety is not only miniscule, but reflects poorly on those who have heard of her. If that’s what they are looking for they could get Orly Taitz for a lot less money.
Palin is, however, right about one thing. The mention of her name certainly is diminishing, and I should probably do it less often. But sometimes the urge is just too compelling, and the humor just too much fun. Don’t ever change, Sarah.
It occurs to me that Palin may have been telegraphing her own insecurity over being, in almost every sense, a little person. Having realized that, deep down, from the first, her sub-conscious let it out.
it’s really hard to believe someone so stupid could exist inside the political arena.. She’s like Anna Nichole only without any of the interesting stuff..
Hmm, lets see.