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Just Like a "Lifetime" Movie!

How women viewers of the TV channel relate to Palin

By Kurt Soller | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Sep 3, 2008 | Updated: 1:25  p.m. ET Sep 3, 2008

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  • Posted By: apikores @ 10/10/2008 5:00:53 PM

    Did Newsweek's copy editors seriously let the word "impactful" through? Wow.

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/03/2008 2:30:21 PM

    Lifetime movies have the mom saving the child, not throwing them under the wheels of the GOP desecration machine. Ms. Palin knew her daughter would be sacrificed, and she did it anyway. She knew this hockey kid did not want to marry her daughter, and she did it anyway. Sarah Palin is anti-choice, pro-abstinence, anti sex-ed, religiously fundamentalist, a creationist, about is unfriendly to feminism on all levels.

    She's taking a beer-guzzling cussing teen to the convention and slapping a tie on him, she's gearing up for her next librarian firing, and getting ready to duck questions about firing her sister ex-beau. How. About. The. Economy.

    Lifetime? Are you kidding me?

    • Posted By: soulchild74 @ 10/08/2008 10:44:55 PM

      hey Lifetime does a great public service. It keeps washed up TV stars from the 70s & 80s from having to get real jobs!

  • Posted By: Yes! We ALL Can @ 09/06/2008 8:10:15 PM

    IN ADDITION TO THE TWO SCANDALS SARAH PALIN IS CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN - THE OTHER SHOE MAY DROP ON PALIN THIS WEEK!!!!

    "The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy. Following our John Edwards' exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign's vetting process. Despite the McCain camp's attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum."

  • Posted By: debim @ 09/06/2008 4:31:58 PM

    What kind of a mother is Palin to place herself in a position where the press is relentless, knowing what she knew about her daughter? If you ask me, she was warned about what she was getting into and Palin chose to run, so now, she is angry that the press is in her business? What did she expect? As far as I and many other females that I have spoken to in the last week, we feel that she put her own ambitions ahead of what was best for her family and daughter , who now needs her mom more than ever. As a child's health professional, I would say that Sarah Palin is out for Sarah Palin!!! She is a selfish, self-rightious, self-centered woman. And frankly, I don't need her pointing her finger and telling us all what to do!! Down with the religious right conservative movement. All they have done is spew hatred and prejudice. We wouldn't expect them to vote for Obama anyway!!

  • Posted By: ktenny @ 09/04/2008 5:55:09 AM

    Palin's daughter is not being 'sacrificed'! Bristol Palin made her own choices. I am proud of candidate Palin for being so forthright about her family. I repect her conservativism--I am still in awe of the women and her GUTSY, yet down to earth, 'just one of the folks' attitude. It seems to really BE her heart--that she is just one of us, the American people. Praise God for someone like that in the White House to go to bat for us and conservative values!! I will continue to pray for her and her family, also!

    • Posted By: Ritamar22 @ 09/06/2008 2:43:27 PM

      fanatics are selling this family as the typical American family. What?
      How many families like tjis do you know.
      For sure they exist, but Typical. Give me a breake.

    • Posted By: summer4077 @ 09/04/2008 9:07:23 AM

      Conservative "values" are what is driving this country into the ground. You're probably one of the holdouts that still think Bush is a good president.

  • Posted By: Dee from Arizona @ 09/03/2008 11:47:24 PM

    I am very proud to have women who is facing and has faced the same problems and daily challenges which most of tyhe women in the US faces on a daily bases. I respect her conservative approach to life and the courage to stand by these convictions when they become more than just words, but life.

    I will continue to pray for her.

  • Posted By: woohoo @ 09/03/2008 2:28:29 PM

    whoever thought sexism (or racism) didn't exist in this country has gotten a huge awakening with this election cycle.

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/03/2008 2:18:39 PM

    This just in: Hurricane of delicious irony slams Republican National Convention, flooding the streets of Minneapolis-St. Paul with rivers of savage hypocrisy as levees of evangelical denial and sexual confusion overflow into the streets, leaving stunned party members scrambling in vain for shaky moral high ground.
    Meanwhile, clever looters smash windows of opportunity and steal valuable quips about underage sex and teen pregnancy, as everyone gets a very unsettling if not downright weird taste of warped pro-gun anti-choice elk-kabob conservative Alaskan family values. YouTube at 11.

    Yes, the rumors are true. The cosmic votes have all been tallied, and I do believe we can now say, with some measure of happy certainty, that God appears to be just as sick-to-death of the Republican Party as the rest of us.

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/03/notes090308.DTL

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