If you joked that a publishing house was cashing in on 'Palinmania' by releasing a supermarket mag entitled "Sarah Palin: Faith, Family, Freedom", you'd laugh. Trouble is, Imagine That Publishing ain't kidding.I haven't seen this thing in Walmart yet. But I can only imagine it's there... maybe nestled next to the slow cooker recipe mags and the 'random-celebrity-only-has-weeks-to-live' pot boilers at the check-out? Man, just knowing this thing exists makes me depressed.
Really, am I the only person in America who objects to the media presenting people like Palin as paragons of patriotism, religious devotion and moral rectitude? In old-timey days, they called them cads instead and they were not be trusted or talked about in polite company. But now they're stuck up on pedestals like plaster saints for us mere mortals to worship and aspire to.
Why do we fall for it? Why do we who live regular, humble lives of honest toil tug our forelocks to 'cads' like Palin who live entire lives desperately lying and cheating their way to the top of whatever worldly heap denotes success to them? 'Faith, Family, Freedom'? Don't make me laugh.
According to The Washington Post:
"[The magazine] contains Palin's homage to the Rev. Billy Graham, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. It lays out "Where Sarah Palin stands on the big issues" and offers a selection of "The Wit & Wisdom of Sarah."
I'll leave you to ponder the "The Wit & Wisdom of Sarah"... How big a font did they have to use to fill up a page with that?
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