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Sarah Palin, The Movie

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the multiplex, the epic hagiography of Sarah Palin's life is about to be vomited on the screen. At least in one theater in Iowa.

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the multiplex, the epic hagiography of Sarah Palin's life is about to be vomited on the screen. At least in one theater in Iowa.

(And, believe me, Iowa doesn't deserve that. It's actually a nice place, Iowa, and unless you've eaten sweet corn in late July in Iowa, you haven't really eaten sweet corn. Here's a little secret: you put butter and salt on your corn because your corn isn't any good.)

This news--about Palin, not sweet corn--is courtesy of Real Clear Politics. The epic is to be called Undefeated, but it's unclear why that title was chosen. I suppose those who know about these things far better than I thought Quitter would set the wrong tone or something. I allude to the fact that she bailed on her responsibility as an elected official in Alaska because that will be the main "theme" of the film.

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However, Undefeated paints Palin's sudden departure from office as an abdication, which should give you a pretty fair assessment of her view of power. The reason it focuses on that particularly controversial part of Palin's life, rather than another from the myriad of them, is damage repair; a prelude to a Presidential run.

How Long, Oh Lord, How Long?

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According to the movie's producer/director Stephen K. Bannon, "This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment." Bannon financed the entire project himself for about $1 million; the super rich have to do something with all that money now that we've given them tax cut after tax cut, so why not make a film and create a bunch of short-term jobs without any benefits at all?

Worse yet, Scott Conroy, who broke the story, describes the film as teeming with religious metaphors and unmistakable allusions to Palin as a Joan of Arc figure. Nothing new there if you've studied Palin; she has a martyr complex as subtle as the Grand Canyon.

And, while it's bad enough we, as a society, are letting our children watch us opiate our minds with the likes of Real Housewives of ... and whatever manifestation of The Lucy Show is currently popular, do we really need another example of stunningly stupid trash in order to make sure our children grow up as thoughtless and uncaring as us?

But that isn't the question I started out to ask in this piece and it's probably rhetorical. I already know what the discredited left will say in answer to my question. They'll tell me that it's a publicity stunt. That Palin is far too stupid to get elected. That is, after all, why they are the "discredited" left. They are the discredited left, as stunningly stupid as the extreme right.

I am curious, however, what the rest of you think. Is this movie just another one of Palin's egoistic publicity stunts? Or does it portend something much more dark and dangerous for our country?

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