There's nothing funny about Sarah Palin or her influence on our democracy, but together we can use satire to make an impact and undermine her aura of authenticity and altruism.
Satire is an effective tool to take the conservative opposition's perceived strengths and use it against them, which is what we're doing here with Palin's movie. This is not a film, but our best chance to redirect the nonstop media attention she's getting with her bus tour and upcoming film.
It feels like every time Sarah Palin blinks she's written up in the news, and we don't intend to give her more media attention. We can't stop the presses from covering her every move, but we can help focus, undercut and change the Palin narrative.
Her film is likely coming to a theater near you, and we've all been carpet-bombed by the film's plot, importance and potential. Thank you news media, but you don't need to be a film critic or TV anchor to know the film misses the truth.
That's why we're giving everyone a chance to tell Sarah what's missing from her film. We're going to take the best submissions and put them to a vote. The winner receives a Sarah Palin collectable bobblehead doll.
Her movie isn't out yet, but there's plenty of ammunition when considering things the film's missing. Early reviews focus on the films omission of the Troopergate scandal, when Palin fired an aide who declined to retaliate against a state trooper who went through a bitter divorce with Palin's sister.
The film also fails to acknowledge or 'refudiate' the smorgasbord of liberal, independent and conservative criticisms of Palin, preferring instead to portray celebrities like Bill Maher, David Letterman and Matt Damon as political clairvoyants.
The film's flawed on its most basic Film Production 101 levels too. Even the New York Post, never to be misidentified as a liberal rag, panned the film because music was awful and the plot would contradict earlier scenes. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, certainly no fan of my work, was also disappointed a two-hour movie relied on so many quick cuts.
"I'd guess the average shot length has to be somewhere around three or four seconds," Morrissey wrote. "It reminded me of the cable-TV series Dream On, and not in a good way. Like the soundtrack, the overall effect is decidedly unpleasant."
Media pundits won't stop talking about Sarah Palin's move, bus tour and her potential to shake up the 2012 election. Let's grab the microphone, speak truth to power and tell everyone what's missing from Palin's movie.
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Should the Palin camp refrudiate the up coming HBO special?
Really, "we don't want to cover Sarah but everyday I wake up and have to write negative stuff since I am a hateful liberal loon who can can understand how the country is going broke.
Pointing out actual facts is not being sexist. It is sexist to ignore every single fault of hers solely because she is a woman.
Sarah Palin writes at an eighth-grade level in recently released emails, say writing analysts
BY Christine Roberts
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Tuesday, June 14th 2011, 11:40 AM
It turns out Palin's writing skills are still better than most educated Americans. Global Language Monitor gave Palin's emails a score of 8.2, which actually exceeds that of most chief executives.
"She's very concise. She gives clear orders. Her sentences and punctuations are logical," said Paul Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. "She has much more of a disciplined mind than she's given credit for."
John Katzman, CEO of another company, 2tor, gave Palin a score of 8.5. He said the potential presidential candidate's emails scored higher than his own, when based on the widely-used Flesch-Kincaid readability test.
But what do the scores actually mean?
Payack offered Abraham Lincoln's "Gettyburg Address" and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech as points of comparison. They earned scores of 9.1 and 8.8, respectively.
The all-points-bulletin attention that national media organizations gave to the release last week of official e-mails from Sarah Palin's tenure as Alaska's governor sure backfired.
Not only was Palin not discredited by the emails, but they exposed to the public a competent leader and a rather decent human being.
Imagine the disappointment of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and other outlets.
Understanding the value of diversity and the value of simplicity continues to be a development opportunity... Cultivating these characteristics will take awhile.
Regardless, it appears to me that the more educated progressives - the shepherds of the flock (like Obama or some of their comedians) are beginning to question whether or not the progressive mission was founded on reality.
That's *real* progress for us all.
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I would think, except for the small inconvenience that she does not see a constitutional right to abortion, this woman would be someone women every where would be proud of.
Name some women you look up to that have similar accomplishments please.