About one-third the way through Sarah Palin’s informative memoir, I’ve learned not only about her, but her husband Todd as well.
For you libs who prefer to bash Sarah’s book rather than actually read it, Todd is part Yupik Eskimo and worked on the icy shores of northern Alaska since childhood, where he learned to be self-sufficient and self-reliant. By the time he moved with his family to Wasilla, he had been one of the only teens in town to have earned enough to purchase his own car. After he and Sarah were married, he was so dedicated earning income for his family, he spent days away from Sarah and young Track and Bristol to work in the oil fields, and even missed Willow’s birth because of it.
In short, Todd Palin is in no way a “bum,” and was never destined to be.
Why do I bring this all up? Because last week (the 20th) the ignorant, hateful, and intolerant liberal “comedian” Joy Behar had on as guest the ignorant, hateful, and intolerant liberal “comedian” George Lopez. An agreeing Behar played clips from Lopez’s most recent HBO special, which included such gems as …
There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe me. She’s got all the signs. She works and her husband don’t.
To add insult to injury, Lopez and Behar discussed Mr. Palin’s role as a stay-at-home dad.
LOPEZ: I mean, the concept of Todd Palin being a stay-at-home dad-listen Joy, when I was a kid, those guys were called bums.
BEHAR: Uh-huh. They’re still called bums.
I’m confused. For decades the left has worked incessantly to completely redefine the roles of men and women in the home and in the workplace. Isn’t that what libs wanted: for women to unabashedly take on traditional male roles and vice versa? That why was Sarah Palin slammed by the left during the ’08 campaign for “shafting her children” because she chose to work the tough long hours of political office?
Easy: Because only liberal women are to be praised for “doing it all.” Conservative women, on the other, are not “real women” according to many self-proclaimed feminists, so when they break the so-called glass ceiling, it doesn’t count.
And so it seems to be with Todd Palin. If a liberal/Democrat man played stay-at-home dad so the wife could have her career, he would most likely be make Time Magazine’s Man of the Year. But when a conservative/Republican does it, he’s a bum.
This is what passes for tolerant, civil, open-minded conversation for the left. But remember, it’s the Rush Limbaugh’s and Glenn Beck’s of the world who are poisoning the airwaves and TV.
Isn’t it easy to be a liberal? No equally applied set of rules, no principles, no decency. Just your own lies to spew inside the comfortable little bubble, dutifully echoed by other liberals until the lies are repeated often enough that they become truth.
“We put too much faith in conventional wisdom; Insist on the truth or you will never be free.”
Colleen Raezler at NewsBusters caught this excuse for a talk show and noted that Mr. Palin was described in the Washington Post—hardly a right-wing publication—very much like he is in his wife’s memoir:Funny that even the liberal Washington Post admitted that Todd Palin was anything but a bum in a hit piece on him last year.
… But Todd Palin, 44, the ruggedly handsome four-time winner of the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, was already an Alaska star before his wife’s election in 2006. Along with his family duties, he held two jobs, working occasional 85-hour weeks as an oil production operator for BP and, for a month each summer, as a commercial salmon fisherman in Bristol Bay.
Lopez didn’t simply insult the Palins’ division of labor, but opened fire on her looks and other situations regarding her family after Behar asked him, “What other signs are there that Palin is Latino?”
“She has a child and a grandchild the same age, and the tell-tale sign is she needs to get her roots done,” Lopez replied.
Speaking of employment, the other day Rasmussen released a report regarding our ever-increasing unemployment rate: Of those Americans jobless and looking, 15% are Democrats, yet only 9.9% are Republican. (Those with no major party affiliation make up 15.6%.)
Eowyn, who blogs at Giovanni’s World, asks:
Anyone interested in providing an explanation for why more Democrats and Independents than Republicans are unemployed? Is it because Republicans are more likely to be self-employed businessmen/women?
That could be, but I think these statistics make perfect sense. I’d bet that in general more Dems are unemployed than Republicans, given the behavior and expectations of each (not every single person of course, but generally): Republicans don’t look for handouts from big government. They don’t care who’s president. They just work. Period.
Dems on the other hand have an ingrained entitlement mentality. They and the party they support have been weaned on “the government owes me.” Look at all the footage from Obamaniacs during and after the ‘08 campaign—they were just waiting for Obama to become president in order to hold their hand out and for nanny gov’t to give them something they didn’t earn—pay for their house, their food, their health care, etc.. Not long ago in Detroit thousands of poor people (mostly minorities) stood on line waiting to get, as one local news interviewee called it, “Obama money.” Why work?
Think I’m generalizing? Think there are an equal number of Dems and Reps on the welfare rolls? Doubt it. You’d never see someone like Todd Palin going on welfare. But I’m sure the unfunny George Lopez and Joy Behar wouldn’t dare insult anyone taking welfare or waiting on line for “Obama money,” as long as they were good little Democrat-voters. (You know, real bums).
And now The Democrat leadership is punishing hard work and initiative through taxation and demonization of the evil “rich” who by means of the unfair capitalist system have stolen from the unemployed what’s rightfully theirs.
Sorry, call me mean-spirited but I’m calling it as I see it: Democrats being unemployed at a higher percentage than Republicans is no accident.
So let George Lopez deflect the actual problems plaguing Hispanics—high unemployment among males and sexual activity so rampant that teenage girls are making their mothers grandmothers at a relatively young age—by projecting it onto Sarah and Todd Palin. Let his left-leaning audience laugh, and let like-minded liberals like Joy Behar give him a forum to spew his hatred against two of the most decent and hard-working people currently in the public eye.
Because the truth is, George Lopez and Joy Behar, America is better off with folks like Sarah and Todd Palin than with either of you.
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