Every once in a while, I don't regret checking in on HuffPo.
Today, they briefly had this item on their front page about another fine piece of journalism by the new media.
Chase Whitestead and Erick Stroll of "New Left Media" set out to determine just what was it about Sarah Palin that impelled her supporters to stand in massive lines for hours for the chance to meet her at book signings.
They interviewed several of her supporters who were waiting in line at a Borders bookstore in Columbus, Ohio. These fans expressed very strong support for Palin, but it was mostly couched in vague generalities about her being "real" and "strong" and "fair."
Video below the jump.
A few choice quotes to wet your whistle.
I must admit, these are even more disturbing than the obscenely ignorant utterances of the teabaggers from their video about the 9-12 protest in D.C. that I brought to your attention.
When You're right, you don't have to compromise. Compromise is for people that are wrong.
Q) What are some particular issues of Sarah's that you would like to see her bring to office?
A) Oh Gee...help me out here, guys!
Q) What's some of the spending you'd like to see cut?
A) All of it.
The producers of the video have posted this on their YouTube page:
no politician has emerged on the national stage as undefined and unqualified as Sarah Palin, and her public persona--which is anti-intellectual by definition--discourages substance. Instead, we get winking. One could hardly imagine her giving a complex speech about race in America, or speaking eloquently about our country's relations with Islam. Not just because she couldn't write such a speech (Obama has speech-writers, of course) but because she wouldn't--such necessarily academic discussion is antithetical to the persona she's created for herself and that her supporters have come to love.
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