Conservative Catfight: Palin’s In The Middle, Mande’s On Top
So last week conservative columnist Kathleen Parker published in the Washington Post a pseudo-subversive op-ed exposing the reasons for all the “Obamacare” blowback. Regionalism and racism, Parker’s twin culprits, are what’s apparently driving all the “un-American” pandemonium going down at a town hall near you.
You see, Parker knows her subject matter well: She’s a southerner, y’all! And she’s just tellin’ it like it is, givin’ the world the scoop on the insular South.
(Full disclosure: The FITS girls … errr, Sic Willie … love them some Kathleen Parker. It’s not a sentiment I share. Incidentally, I’m also not big on “the South” in the singular sense of that phrase.)
Anyway, Ann Coulter picked up on the ick factor in Parker’s column, and penned a rebuttal in her own column.
The thing is that Coulter’s article is every bit as spurious as Parker’s. Where Parker’s op-ed was ultimately a stealthy attempt at fitting in by singling herself out as a post-regional southern belle, Coulter’s column is ultimately a chivalrous defense of her girl Sarah Palin on whom Parker blames the south’s racist renaissance …
The latest fake insider/whistleblower is Kathleen Parker, the Barry Lynn of the South. Fresh off her mainstream media tour as a Sarah Palin-hating “conservative,” Parker is now a self-proclaimed Southerner blaming opposition to Obama’s policies on the region’s reputed racism.
As she put it on Chris Matthews’ “Hardball”: “One word, Chris — one word. ‘Confederacy.’ I mean, you know, the South is very — I live there, OK? I want to make that clear, too, because I’m not bashing Southerners.”
No, she was certainly not bashing Southerners. This she made clear in her Washington Post column calling for the Republican Party to “drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie.”
How one gets from “we don’t want socialized medicine” to “we hate black people” was a tough equation. As my algebra teacher used to say: “Please show your work.”
To recap: Coulter’s ingratiating herself to Palin by blasting Parker, Palin’s ingratiating herself to racists, southerners, and Ann Coulter by blasting Obama, and Parker’s ingratiating herself to everyone else by blasting racists, southerners, and Sarah Palin.
A woman in the White House? No thanks …
Comments
By Fred on August 14th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Bump Parker. She is the Lindsay Graham of the medis.
By rick on August 14th, 2009 at 7:46 am
So a women need not aply for the presidency Mande?
By sunnyvaleboy on August 14th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Attention Birthers!…Y’all need to check if Ann Coulter was actually female at birth.
By Toyota Kawaski on August 14th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Dam Man-d that a boy Finally an article i like from you! Way to go DUDE
By Judy on August 14th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Sounds like there could be a rift in beauty, but Palin has Parker beat!
By Margaret on August 14th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Or perhaps there’s another way of looking at this: Perhaps Kathleen Parker is actually writing what she believes, based on her own observations. (A novel idea in this punditocracy, I know, but some folks are still striving for that!) Say what you will about Coulter and Palin, but I’ve been reading Parker for years, and she’s always been a “post-regional southern belle.” Even Coulter argues that Parker’s not a “real southerner,” having grown up in Florida… Who better to see the South objectively that one who’s “in it” but not totally “of it”? Kathleen Parker has never toed the party line (the Republican one OR the Southern one); she’s always been quite an independent thinker. As far as I can tell, she hasn’t changed her stripes; maybe it’s the Republican Party that has.
Nevertheless, an interesting, provocative piece, Mande!
By Myles Keogh on August 14th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Parker is a tool. She probably is longing to be back in the DC-NYC-Boston cocktail circuit with the rest of liberal friends in the Republican party.
By 1+1=3 on August 14th, 2009 at 11:18 am
is that jenny and maria?
By dirtbogger on August 14th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Nothing is wrong with being southern and I will not apologize for it. The Confederacy was correct in exercizing its right to suceed, I am not saying slavery was right but it could have been ended without war. Slaves could have been bought and freed by the government laws could have been passed making slave owners pay a wage, grant land and homestead in exchange for work and many other ways. The war caused a social rift that still exist even till today. When the slave owners had to free the slaves they had to force the slaves into homelessness or face prosecution. I know how we are taught in school and by TV and everything that we have to respect Lincon but, I don’t, F___ him, may he rot in hell for he set this country on a pathway to tyrony. He stated if he could preserve the union with out freeing a single slave he would do it but that is not taught in school. The reason he had a civil war was to collapse the economy of the south, because the north could not compete. BTW the Rothchild family supported both sides of the American Civil War and many other wars as well you could call them war profiteers or death pedalers, but its true! One more thing there were also white slaves to but you dont hear much about that for they were called Indentured Servents whom many were kidnapped and sent here against their will!
By old bike dude on August 14th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Mr Dirt, lexipro my man.
Oh and btw Coulter is transgendered. She’s really a gay man. hint…adams apple.
By Toyota Kawaski on August 14th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Old bike Dude just like a lot of Yall transgender
By dirtbogger on August 14th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
OBD
Lexipro working for you?
OH Btw, you must like them shemales of the transpetered nature.
By Mincing Words on August 14th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Mande, this is ranking up there with one of your least-supported posts. What portion of Coulter’s column that you quoted is spurious? Which part is “not genuine” or “false”? That Parker is calling opposition to Obama racism? That Parker is speaking as an authority on the South because she is from Florida? That Parker wrote of striking a stake in the heart of the Confederacy? Which of these are you saying is false? And where in the world did Coulter’s alleged defense of Palin come in? I read the column, and I did not take away a defense of Palin. Instead, I took away that the Left, with the help of someone in the “know,” (Kathleen Parker), is quick to explain away opposition to ObamaCare as racism, despite the fact that the entire world was keenly aware of Obama’s race, and yet he managed to get himself elected.
Really, I am disappointed. There are many, many Coulter columns that are dripping with sarcasm and venom. This one actually makes good sense, and it is fairly tame. You could have a point, but you fail to back it up. Even a little.
By James the Foot Soldier on August 14th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
dirtbag states the following: “The Confederacy was correct in exercizing its right to suceed…”
lmao……no really…..this is as good as it gets…..(other than the freckle pictures)…..
whew…..I was spellbound as I tried to read the post…(pun intended).
If only Lee wouldn’t have gone down the “path to tyrony” and had the courage to face Sherman the entire nation could be united as a confederacy of dumbasses.
By calhoun fawls on August 15th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Palin is one hot mamma. No doubt about it. Presidential? HMMMM….maybe Marcia Cross is more Presidential when it comes to hot mamas…I dunno.
By BIN News Editorial Staff on August 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Mandee,
Our offer to help you get a job on the wait staff at Cagney’s is still open. You could start busing tables and work your way up to bartender.
That would get sic(k) willie’s attention.
Or, you could try to pass the bar exam again. Have you tried again?
Just wondering.
BIN News Editorial Staff
P.S. During today’s meeting of our Editorial Staff, out Funding Editor mentioned that she was not surprised to learn that you prefer being “on top.” We are not sure what she was thinking.
By Mike on August 15th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Wow, you wrote a column with which I almost agreed (you might consider changing careers right now…).
On Parker- agreed. It’s very hip to Dixie-bash in the circles where Parker orbits, yet she tries (vainly, I think) to maintain some semblence of “Southern-ness,” if only to bolster the “post-regional” cred she so obviously seeks.
My only small beef is your Coulter angle. I don’t see where any of her points were spurious, even if she is kissing up to the far-right base by making them. Coulter’s never claimed any ground as a moderate…
By dirtbogger on August 17th, 2009 at 9:26 am
James, we would have remained a rebublic if the south would have won, but that was not my point. My point was there should have never been a war, but the bankers wanted a war to profit from. They did not care who won. Dont let your ethnic pride get in the way of comman sense next time. I stand by my post 100%. Personally I belive the north, south and all races have a comman enomy that has pit them against one another through media and political orginizations. More and more people reconize this, point; Glenn Beck is wigging out over white supremisist militas as being potential terrorist but the truth is the militas are mixed race and religion who want there constitutional republic back. The government is obviously in panac mode because the militas are growing more rapidly than in the past and there is a bill in congress to audit the Fed. Most of these people are people who recently woke up and relize that there was no change with King “O” and that he is just a puppet,the war machine never missed a lick from Bush to Obama.