[Marxism] bimbo self on CBS

[Aaron Aarons]

The one objectionable thing David Thorstad did was use the word 'bimbo' to describe Palin in his Subject header:

>Subject: [Marxism] Palin reveals her bimbo self on CBS

But, in what Ms. de la Peña McCook actually quoted, he's praising one woman, Katie Couric, as "professional and informed and fair" in exposing another woman, Sarah Palin, as the right-wing nutcase that she is -- unless she's just a very good but cynical actress who thinks that coming across as a right-wing nutcase is a smart career move. If she's a "whore", a word I don't use (and David didn't use), it's only in the sense that all politicians are "whores". And if she were my mother I'd consider matricide.

Aside from the unfortunate choice of "bimbo" to describe a woman with looks but no brains, there's nothing anti-woman in what David wrote.

 - Aaron

>From: "Kathleen de la Peña McCook" <kmccook at tampabay.rr.com>
>Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:13:43 -0400
>Subject: [Marxism] bimbo self on CBS
>
>This is just the reason no woman should ever run for office. If she's
>not your mother she's a whore.
>
>
>On 25 Sep 2008 at 20:08, David Thorstad wrote:
>
>Katie Couric's interview of Sarah Palin Thursday on the CBS Evening News
>went beyond pathetic. Such a complete idiot Palin revealed herself to
>be--even without any questions about her borderline psychotic fundi pre-
>or is it post-millennialist beliefs--that one can only wonder, coming on
>the heels of McCain's stupid antics about being needed in Washington to
>help engineer a rescue of an economy he has admitted he doesn't
>understand very well, if there is a conspiracy by the ruling class to
>elect Obama. (That's coming from a committed anticonspiracist.) I'm no
>fan of Couric, but she was professional and informed and fair and easily
>showed what an airhead Palin is. It can only get worse since Couric says
>she's going to be following Palin next week. Of course, it's possible
>that much of the public is as dumb as Palin is and won't notice how
>truly embarrassing, uninformed, and scary she really is. Alaskans
>didn't. It was so astoundingly hideous that NBC played large portions of
>it. It brings to mind my dad's mantra: "If you put all the politicians
>in a gunnysack and shake it up, a shithead will come up on top every
>time." Palin is one big shithead. American politics has sunk lower than
>the gutter.
>    The interview is on YouTube and, in video and print form, on
>www.cbs.com (click on "news").
>==
> Kathleen de la Peña McCook
>http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/mccook/