An American Lion

Is this a parody? I don’t know anything about parodies, so that’s why I’m asking:

This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life. There are so many fabrications and delusions in the book, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it - and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality she has previously provided - is a bewildering task. She is a deeply disturbed person which makes this work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read. And the fact that she is now the leader of the Republican party and a potential presidential candidate, makes this process of deconstruction an important civil responsibility. We take this seriously as we always have. We want to be fair to her, and to her family, and to the innocent people she has brought into the spotlight. And we are not reporters. We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.

Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin’s unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning - specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy -  we feel it’s vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.

There are only three of us.

And we have had the book for less than a day. We feel we owe it to you to get it right - or as right as we can - until we post or publish anything. As readers know, we also differ on some key issues and intend to air them and thrash this out until we are confident that whatever we publish is as fair as possible.

I guess from the somber tone and the overarching sense of entitlement here that we’re going to see a brilliant…something come out of this. It’s a political biography. Half of it deals with her life BEFORE she was picked to be the Vice Presidential candidate for the worst-run political campaign in fifty years. I hate to be the one to have to explain this to you, but there isn’t going to be anything in that book that isn’t a shady lie or a fudged account or a slanted anecdote. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is no threat whatsoever to any Republic, future or former. Leader of the Republican Party? What? She won’t even show up to half of their gatherings, let alone do what the leader of the Republican Party should be doing right now, and that’s fire Michael Steele and shush the right wing talk radio nuts. Ronald Reagan was once the leader of the Republican Party. You mean to tell me Sarah Palin is now holding down Reagan’s job? Oooooooo-kaaaaay. I can sort of see that. She’s out of politics. She’s doing this in order to have money to retire upon. She is not a factor in any future political equation whatsoever.

Can someone explain to me how certain bloggers are allowed to remain atop an ever-dwindling, out-of-new-ideas shit pile of nothing? Are people so lazy that they won’t go out and find new and better blogs to read? Whoever is running the Atlantic continues to amaze me. How could anyone still call Andrew Sullivan a capable writer and a competent analyst of what’s going on in this country? Calm down, sir. About 31% of America likes Sarah Palin. Get over it. Nothing you write about her is going to change the minds of anyone who reads your ridiculous blog.

And, brother, if there’s something I know about, it’s what a ridiculous blog looks like. Trust me. I think I still have at least a dozen of them going.