Nice to see you recognize how creepy this is. Sad to see Quill & Quire once again hurl stupid, juvenile insults at Sara Palin. You can’t just disagree with her politics; no, because she dares to be an outspoken woman and someone with a conservative political bent, she must be insulted and belittled, to whit: “Even allowing for the fact that Palin is a kind of real-life Chauncey Gardner – if Chauncey Gardner were not just dim and naive, but also corrupt, cynical, spiteful, self-aggrandizing, vain, and mendacious”?

And what’s “faux-populist” about her “take” on the matter? She actually IS a small-town, straight-shooting (literally) Mom who, oh yeah, happened to have been elected governor of the largest state in the Union.

I read Quill & Quire for news about the publishing industry: specifically, the Canadian publishing industry. Keep your adolescent political commentary (literally: your ability to discuss politics appears to be arrested at about a 10th-grade level, probably on a par with your understanding of the issues involved in the ongoing struggle between personal liberty and the overweening power of the state) to your after-work happy hour with your colleagues, all of whom no doubt share your unthinking prejudice against women (well, anyone, really) who do not think exactly as you and all your friends think. You’re the Good People, those of a conservative or libertarian bent are the Bad People. It’s a comforting, simplistic view of the world: but then, perpetual adolescents who resort to name-calling against those who disagree with them without addressing their arguments are incapable of anything more, aren’t they?

Or, to put it all much more succinctly: Jeez, Quill & Quire, grow up and quit obsessing over Sarah Palin. I’m sure she never spares you a second thought.

Why call Q&Q’s political commentary 10th grade, just because you disagree with their political bent. A bit of pot calling the kettle black, I’d say. Aren’t you a “perpetual adolescent” who is resorting to name-calling? And by the way, anyone who thinks that Ms. Palin stands for feminist values needs to do a bit of research to broaden their own simplistic views.

Actually she’s more like a “real, live” Golda Meir than a “real live” Chauncey Gardner. As for “real, live” behaviour, why is Joe McGinniss “eminent, noble, high-minded, and unquestionable author” mimicking the trope of a predatory pederast?

Charles, your shut-in-esque ramble berates one allegedly simple take on the world with another equally simple one. Nicely done!

Charles Ferguson says: “quit obsessing over Sarah Palin. I’m sure she never spares you a second thought”

I wasn’t aware that she had any kind of thoughts at all. Isn’t that why she has to scribble incoherent notes on the back of her hands before interviews?

People make fun of her because she’s a dangerous, ignorant, bellicose half-wit who has power, not because of her place on the political spectrum, per se.

Author Joe McGinniss ought to read “Snakes In Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work”, by industrial psychologist Paul Babiak, Ph.D. and psychopathy expert Dr Robert D. Hare. It will make his book easier to write.
:-D
Lovin The Lord Jesus Christ and those who love him too,
Coronella Keiper, in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Farmlands.

i dunno, seems pretty creepy of McGinniss, and uncomfortably close to the line between legal and illegal behaviour.
it’s sad when late in a career people do something stupid. reminds me of helen thomas.