Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

While the article I've posted here makes good use of misogynistic metaphors to critique Sarah Palin (and by good -- I don't mean "glad he did it" -- I mean, man oh man did this journalist show a proficiency in using sexist metaphors) -- it's got some interesting information in it. If what he, Charley James, is reporting is true, I am disturbed. But also feelin' pretty good about the possibility the media will do damage to the McCain campaign by reporting on Palin's race and gender bigotry. That was too kind. Let me try that again: the media will do damage to the McCain campaign by reporting on Palin's old-school George Wallace-Strom Thurmond pro-segregation style call 'em "nigger" while you knock up the young, vulnerable black women in your employ racism, and new-school unapologetic, send 'em back to Africa neo-nazi style racism.

There. That's much better:)

Here's the first section of the article (read all of it here):

“'So Sambo beat the bitch!'

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

'It was kind of disgusting,' Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the 'lower 48' about life near the North Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, 'But that’s just Alaska.'

Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, 'darkie musical' swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as 'Arctic Arabs' – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful 'mukluks' along with the totally unimaginative 'f**king Eskimo’s,' according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

Read the rest of the article here.