Two Gentlemen of Wingnuttia

Who is Sarah? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her.

Ooo! Ooo! Palin fanboy squabble alert: Erick Erickson vs Dan Reihl. Erickson believes Palin might “harm herself unintentionally” by accepting a big fat speaker fee and appearing at the Tea Party Convention, an event that has pre-alienated the teabagger rank and file with its hefty price tag and insider power grabbishness:

Sarah Palin is certainly giving the National Tea Party Convention legitimacy. But at what cost? I am fearful this thing will blow up and harm her.

Reihl used to share Erickson’s concerns, but they’ve been assuaged by Palin’s new Fox gig, which Reihl believes will inoculate her from criticism because she’ll magically be able to straddle “keynote speaker” and “media observer” roles:

For all intents and purposes, she’s now a media figure and she can pop in and out of these things as she pleases…The influence factors behind politicians versus media figures are different things. Palin can continue to be a big cheerleader for the TP movement, but she’s also something of an observer, perhaps even more so than a direct actor, now.

So who loves Sarah more? Is it Erickson—the man who plied her with coffee mugs, conceived Operation Leper on her behalf and wants to protect her from self-harm? Or is it Reihl, the man who loves her also but respects her enough to perceive the eleventy-dimensional jujitsu she pulled off with the Fox gig?

Sadly, only a duel can fully settle the question.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 01/12/10 at 01:46 PM • Permalink

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Palin can continue to be a big cheerleader for the TP movement, but she’s also something of an observer, perhaps even more so than a direct actor, now.

Nice of Reheil to spell out Faux’s modus operandi so clearly.

Sadly, only a duel can fully settle the question.

But which weapon will they use? E.E. will favor plastic dog poo while Reheil will want to round up a bunch of “black youths” and use them to menace EE to death.

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 01/12/10 at 02:13 PM

Riehl says:

My concerns regarding Palin’s involvement have mostly gone away with the news that she has signed a deal with Fox. And I’m assuming she worked that into her calcualtion

Easy calculation. $100,000 from Tea Party speaking engagement + six-figure (at least) deal with FoxNews = lots of new snow machines + Media Elite Lifestyle.

Legions of devoted Sarahnoids will likely cheer her for her entrepreneurial spirit, while overlooking her not-so-common-folk drift into the gravitational clutches of Big GOP Money and Big GOP Media.

To my mind, the Fox gig is actually the bigger danger, since it promises more exposure for Palin (never a good thing) and a) removes the “private citizen” shield she’s been hiding behind, while b) putting paid to the whole “one-hockey-mom-with-a-Facebook-page” sham. Not sure how she’ll fare as a “legitimate” target of criticism.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 01/12/10 at 02:44 PM

I think you meant “calcualtion,” Strange. It’s this whole nother concept.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 01/12/10 at 02:48 PM

Legions of devoted Sarahnoids will likely cheer her for her entrepreneurial spirit, while overlooking her not-so-common-folk drift into the gravitational clutches of Big GOP Money and Big GOP Media.

And when she is pulled over for doing 110 in a school zone, melts the breathalzyer, takes a swing at the cop and refuses to explain the three high school football players tied up in her trunk the Palindrones will blame it all on the influence of the Socialist Entertainment Complex.

This is actually a huge gamble for Faux. When the deal falls apart she’ll cry to her fans and Faux’s ability to retaliate without riling up their viewers will be seriously limited.

Wheee!

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 01/12/10 at 02:52 PM

@HTP—You’re right. This will either ruin her, or FoxNews, but I’m not sure which.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 01/12/10 at 02:59 PM

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Agreed to have a battle;
For Tweedledum said Tweedledee
Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
Just then flew down a monstrous crow,
As black as a tar-barrel;
Which frightened both the heroes so,
They quite forgot their quarrel.

I guess that makes Obama the crow?

I recommend they use slapping fish.

Comment by Allan on 01/12/10 at 03:01 PM

Oh, come on. We all know that a duel between these two would consist of hyperventilating in the parking lot it was held in, a decision to postpone it for matters of health, and a hearty round of boasting from both of how they’d “shown” the other.

Comment by John Ball on 01/12/10 at 03:13 PM

John Ziegler would totally kick both their asses.

Comment by Tom65 on 01/12/10 at 03:20 PM

Well, one thing’s for sure: I’m keeping A Face in the Crowd on my syllabus!

Comment by Oblomova on 01/12/10 at 03:21 PM

Tom (and Ziegler) FTW!

Ziegler loved Sarah before loving Sarah was cool.

Plus Ziegler would bring a camera crew to record the smackdown.

Comment by Allan on 01/12/10 at 03:22 PM

Now they’re calling it “the TP movement”? Is there any synonym for this that isn’t embarrassing?

Comment by Steve M. on 01/12/10 at 04:09 PM

“Those racist shitheads” is more insulting than embarassing, to my mind.

Comment by John Ball on 01/12/10 at 04:23 PM

Now they’re calling it “the TP movement”? Is there any synonym for this that isn’t embarrassing?

I’d suggest “BM”, but it appears they have their heart set on TP

Comment by Tom65 on 01/12/10 at 04:27 PM

Some what OT: Walnuts takes full responsibility for nominating Snow Grifter.

NOT!

Comment by Hunger Tallest Palin on 01/12/10 at 04:55 PM

PS: Erick may be feeling jilted by Sarah, who declined to attend this year’s upcoming CPAC meeting:

Still, the CPAC snub, combined with the tea party commitment, were clearly intended to send a message, asserted Erick Erickson, founder of the influential conservative blog RedState.com, which is owned by a publishing firm that is co-sponsoring CPAC. “I get why she did it,” he said. “It is a purposeful decision on her part to try to claim a segment of the conservative movement as her own.”

Though he said it has caused some conservatives to question whether CPAC is losing relevance as new conservative activists affiliate more with the tea party movement than with establishment conservative and Republican groups, Erickson predicted that CPAC is “going to draw a lot more people and a wider range of both conservative voices and conservative age groups” than the Tea Party convention.

Yeah. Who wants those crappy grapes, anyway?

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 01/12/10 at 05:27 PM