I so admire Eve Ensler. She is outraged and outspoken, and takes those emotions and turns them into art. Recently she used her words on The Huffington Post to express her feelings about Sarah Palin saying:
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Needless to say, Ensler’s piece has inspired a slew of comments from those who agree and disagree. (Side note, as a Huffington Post contributor, I must say anonymous reader comments always amuse me. I love it when “brave” people hide behind mysterious screen names and rip apart writers).
For the full Ensler on Palin rant, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/drill-drill-drill_b_124829.html
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Eve, she is totally right on! Let’s just all work hard to make sure that our not so liberated sisters wake up and smell the rat that Palin is.
right on eve! sar palin is anti-woman- she will set back everything we have fought for over the last 30 years
Many people, as we well know, speak out of their asses. Eve Ensler, on the other hand, speaks out of her vagina. When it comes to empowering women or giving young girls options, Sarah Palin is a much better role model than most women in the spotlight, including Ms.. Ensler. It never ceases to amaze me how people like her can care so passionately about polar bears or other creatures or causes and yet seemingly not care for the lives of defenseless human babies who are aborted every year, the overwhelming majority NOT conceived via rape or incest. I believe the figure in have heard is about 40 million abortions in the past 25 years or so. The hypocrisy is astounding — I guess fetuses and infants in the womb don’t qualify for Ms. Ensler as an “endangered species”.
As for Ms. Palin, a self-made woman who possesses strong family core values and the pioneer spirit which made this country great, she must be discredited and ridiculed, because God forbid, a God fearing woman from humble circumstances who puts family first and her constituents ahead of special interests must not be allowed to succeed. After all, she isn’t Ivy League educated, she’s a hockey mom for gosh sakes, she not vegan, and she’s silly enough to send her son off to fight for this country, helping protect the right of free speech for pompous windbags, elitists and two-faced feminists (who can’t celebrate the accomplishments and potential success of a woman politician, unless she’s “our kind” of woman) to regurgitate their bile and vindictiveness. Sarah Palin has more integrity in her little finger than Nancy Pelosi has in her entire phony body, and is a breath of fresh air in the sordid, corrupt arena of American politics which for too long has benefitted special interests as opposed to the people.
And aside to to Ms. Ensler: So you have never even seen or touched a polar bear. Well, should you ever be in close enough proximity to touch one, it would probably rip your face off with one swipe of it claws and then devour you. As Shakespeare put it, “Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished”! Should you ever find yourself in that position, however, you better hope that Sarah Palin is close by with her rifle to save your faux feminist ass.
Phil, STFU, you are a pathetic, right-wing whacko, and soon you and your ilk will go the way of the dinosaur. Sarah Palin is Stalin in a skirt.