Palin: a cynical face in the crowd

[BridgeTheGap]

"We're coming to a bigger model."


-- Dialogue from "A Face in

the Crowd" (1957)



Sometimes truth comes in strange and unexpected packages.

It took Joy Behar of the TV chat-fest "The View" to look John McCain in the eye and call him on his campaign-ad lies, and it took a classic, black-and-white movie made in 1957 to focus what I find so troubling about the storybook narrative being peddled about his running mate, Sarah Palin.

Although the Republican National Convention, which is when most of us "met" her, was less than a month ago, it's as if we've known Palin's official story forever. I think that's because it reflects the success stories we tell ourselves about our country:

Feisty mom and wife doesn't take any guff from moose or man … status quo and opposition are no match for her sass and spunk … she leaps fjord, glacier and piles of Washington bull and bunk in a single (pump-wearing) bound … her sprint to the White House started small -- PTA to mayor to governor (briefly) -- before she was plucked from relative obscurity to give that speech in St. Paul and … a star was born.

So what's wrong with that picture?

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080923/COLUMNISTS10/809230352/1054/OPINION

[patomime]

1. Great article - n/m

[FSogol]

2. Kick. n/t

[groovedaddy]

3. Amen. It's all a big F*!@n' scam! n.t

[Berry Cool]

4. That's Sarah Palin in a nutshell.

Moose-chop eatin', Sunday-go-to-meetin', just plain folks!