"Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation."
You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go fuck ourselves now.
The snotty quote was posted by Sarah Palin on (like all the great frontier women who've come before her) her Facebook page to respond to the criticism she knew and hoped would be coming after she hunted, killed and carved up a Caribou during a segment of her truly awful reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, broadcast on The-Now-Hilariously-Titled Learning Channel.
I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather, and PETA is not ever going to put me on the cover of their brochure and for these reasons Palin thinks it's hypocritical of me to find what she did heart-stoppingly disgusting. I don't think it is, and here's why.
Like 95% of the people I know, I don't have a visceral (look it up) problem eating meat or wearing a belt. But like absolutely everybody I know, I don't relish the idea of torturing animals. I don't enjoy the fact that they're dead and I certainly don't want to volunteer to be the one to kill them and if I were picked to be the one to kill them in some kind of Lottery-from-Hell, I wouldn't do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart.
I'm able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don't watch snuff films and you make them. You weren't killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals. I can make the distinction between the two of us but I've tried and tried and for the life of me, I can't make a distinction between what you get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing. I'm able to make the distinction with no pangs of hypocrisy even though I get happy every time one of you faux-macho shitheads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face.
So I don't think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl. (I'm in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God's country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.)
And you didn't just do it for fun and you didn't just do it for money. That was the first moose ever murdered for political gain. You knew there'd be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully. What a uniter you'd be -- bringing the right together with the far right.
(Let me be the first to say that I abused cocaine and was arrested for it in April 2001. I want to be the first to say it so that when Palin's Army of Arrogant Assholes, bereft of any reasonable rebuttal, write it all over the internet tomorrow they will at best be the second.)
I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.
Sorry Sarah but you breed hostility with every comment you make by only caring for your own self preservation. After all human nature is to act or react. You have mastered having most of the country react.
Being a user you abandoned the people of Alaska to adorn yourself by making money pretending to be a self imposed speaker, reality star and a political hopeful candidate. Note the word “hopeful”. Someone has to wonder if you were used to set up John McCain to not win because frankly dear you are not qualified to be even a play ground supervisor. It would be plausible you would trip a young child out of your own selfishness. Aaron Sorkin may have actually come up with the best description. Cruella.
To promote yourself in false descriptions including but not least an outdoor hunter concerns me that next you will be shaving sheep to make the thread so you can sew those boots together that you so desperately need. Another idea is you could support local proprietors and farmers by buying their goods. Oh.. wait.. then it would not be about you would it?
In as much as I would like to discourage you from responding to anything and go away I can’t. I will sit patiently because the one thing you are so damn good at is sabotaging yourself. You Betcha! (Wink)
Just call me Mom
I am no fan of Ms. Palin - in fact, I'm as far from Ms. Palin as can be imagined - yet, sadly, I find myself far from you, too. I cannot in good conscience associate myself with a person so willing to flaunt their ignorance of the wild and their ignorance of today's horrific agricultural practices, someone who wears their ignorance and callousness like a badge...
Just like Ms. Palin...
Perhaps the two of you find yourselves in very close company. Get cozy with her, because she is you, doing this for attention, callously ignoring the impacts.
I hunt. I fish. I raise my own eggs. I do these things, in part, because I recognize the evil perpetuated by a factory farming system that allows folks like you to happily believe that you really weren't responsible for lives or deaths. There is something in you that is missing, and I pity you for it, just as I pity Ms. Palin.
Her dad reached over, blocked her view, and reloaded the rifle while she was holding it.......tztztztztztztz...no no
She grabbed the second rifle, with the safety off, and placed her finger on the trigger while fumbling to get in to position.....bad girl
she shot up hill, against the skyline......a huge no no......all i know, there could have been a group of girl scouts behind that hill ,selling cookies.
ERGO.....they violated every gun safety known to man.
Since you do eat meat and use leather - I guess you have no place to stand in this discussion except to say that you don't like Sarah Palin or her family ... that much is understood!
She's a fake, a phony pioneer girl, someone who kills animals not for survival or nourishment but for political gain, branding, image, and possibly the fun off of killing another living creature. That was Sorkin's point, and he's right.
Just not you.
You wouldn't be able to feed your family on your own as you have no stomach for the hunt.
I myself will feast on bison, elk, and antelope - all shot and killed in my hometown - as well as some bacon from a 4H pig that was slaughtered by a 12 year-old after last summer's county fair. MMMMM.
Maybe you're the guy who gets the tofurkey... and some good blow