Trouble In The K.Lo Cognitive Dissonance Corner?
When we last left the Corner Krewe, Sarah Palin was awesome and liberals who questioned her qualifications other than PR fer the base, her fact-challenged hypocrisies and her RNC-financed silk boxers for her man candy were godless heathen meanies.
That was then.
For all of the high-minded discussion of marriage policy on these pages and elsewhere, to me it looks very late. That train left a while ago. Even Corner readers, who will discuss choosing life vs. abortion, with endless passion, do not get so worked up about marriage. Which is why all I have to say is, "poor girl."
That was Lisa Schiffren, to whom K.Lo replies:
High-minded discussions can’t just be high-minded discussions. They need to be the bread and butter of our churches and schools and family lives. We’re not perfect, so our lives will never be perfect. But the train hasn’t left the station until we all decide marriage is not something we value.
…I wish the name Bristol Palin never appeared in any political commentary, but here we are….Let the girl live in peace with her child.
And, please, no Greta cameras this time.
Agree on no more cameras.
There’s an easy way to help that along: do not schedule media appearances for the child. Unless someone was forcing her to sit there for a teevee interview long after her mother’s run at the Veepstakes had ended to milk yet another 15-minutes of fame and more name recognition out of Faux News?
But there’s more on the relevant moral conundrum. Again from K.Lo, quoting from the lesser Mutt Lange-management period of Heart:
How about: From where I sit, it’s a bloody shame that we don’t expect more of teenagers? Just happening to hook up is not cool. It suggests a lack of respect for oneself and one’s … hookee. Being a single mother isn’t a glamorous endeavor, but neither is randomly hooking up and hoping you remembered to take your pill at the same time today as every other day, or to have Plan B handy in case the condom breaks or otherwise fails. So glamorous.
I know that Heart (of Barracuda fame) wants nothing to do with Sarah Palin, but…what about love? (The next line works too: Don’t you want someone to care about you?)
I get the feeling that K.Lo didn’t find Almost Famous the least bit amusing. You knew it was only a matter of time before the purity patrol turned on the Palin family, didn’t you?
I just didn’t think it would happen until they inked a reality show deal that put them opposite the Kardashians or Gossip Girl or something.
PS — How about those ‘Eers?
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Morning, Christy,
Chilly here in the Hudson Valley.
The purity patrol, oh, hahaha. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Speaking of hypocrites: W’s chosen successor, dimwitted, foppish Texas Governor Rick Perry, has joined the club: He’s going to turn down $555 million in Stimulus money.
There you have it: Yet another sick-puppy Republican governor, cutting off much-needed unemployment benefits for his own people, just so he can play up to the Club for Growth godzillionaire crowd.