Posted by Blue Stockings | TBogg quoted this idiot Malkin post way back when (okay, it was May but it seems a long time ago):
Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin is taking on the Bush administration’s eco-pandering decision to put polar bears on the threatened species list. Via Reuters comes news that Alaska will file suit to block the move. With staunch, sane, principled conservatives like Gov. Palin and Sen. James Inhofe taking a stand, there’s hope–however dwindling–for the GOP yet.
Keep hope alive (The Malkin)
I am trying to separate my feelings about the Pure Evil expressed in this post from my feelings about Palin, who is probably merely a serviceable eco-villain.
Even Malkin's phrase "eco-pandering" is so deeply, deeply wrong. "Pandering" to the eco-system?
I can't deal. Here's TBogg:
What a weird sentiment, "keep hope alive", regarding the destruction of habitat, as if the greatest good is to continue to consume and destroy and degrade the planet. Where the destruction of polar bears or any other creature should be dictated by a "cost-benefit analysis".
You looks at Malkin's series of posts about the environment and have to wonder, does she really think that there is something wrong with organic cotton and that it will lead to abortion? What kind of person is so extreme in their thinking that they makes that kind of leap? (emphasis added)
The Malkin is, as all right-thinking people know, a moral vacuum. She and her right-wing counterparts are the enablers of the cynical manipulators of the far right, whose only real goal is to enable their corporate masters to maintain---and retain---power. Her job is to keep unsuspecting but undiscriminating conservatives on board. She likes doing it. She gets wealth, notoriety, a platform to spew forth her own belief in the rightness of letting the few (or even the many) suffer to protect the ones who belong to the club of "True Americans.".
This means, of course, that her judgment of others is deeply, deeply skewed. Given that she has hated John McCain for being too "moderate," but is psyched by his veep pick, that's practically all I needed to know about Sarah Palin.
Man. Just look at this picture.
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Posted by: Cernig | August 30, 2008 at 04:32 PM