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Shannyn Moore in Palin’s Crosshairs.

[A similar piece is up on The Huffington Post. This one is just for Mudflatters]

Just when you thought you’d seen the back end of him, he returns; one of our favorite characters here at the Mudflats. I refer, of course, to Sarah Palin’s personal attorney, and the man in Alaska with the most dastardly sounding bad guy name ever: Thomas Van Flein. I put his last name in bold italics to remind you to pronounce it with a dastardly accent. I still don’t actually know what he looks like, but for our purposes in the past, we have imagined him in our mind’s eye as having a long, thin moustache which he twirls when hatching fiendish plots, or reflecting on the mischief he has caused. He’s also got a black cape, and a really sharp pair of knee-high boots.

As a matter of fact, after the third or fourth time we enjoyed a story starring Mister Van Flein, it occurred to me that I already posessed an archetypal image of his character in my head from childhood. He is Snidely Whiplash. Now, in all fairness to our villain, he’s really not the one calling the shots. His client, soon to be ex-governor Palin shows him the hoop, and pays him to jump. And as we know, she’s not really known for her wise and thoughtful handling of bad situations.

There is an old expression which says, “In a crisis, do nothing.” Wise words indeed, which means that the soon-to-be-ex-governor won’t likely heed them. She’s sort of adopted another philosophy. It’s more like, “In a crisis, be reactionary and threaten to sue someone for defamation in the hopes of intimidating the entire blogosphere and all national print and televised media into not talking about something.” I’m not an oddsmaker, but this strategy seems likely to become a crumpled up tin can on the refuse pile of epic failure.

There’s no doubt that the week has been a bad one for the governor. It started with an unflattering Vanity Fair article. This was followed by a CBS piece about some leaked emails in which she asked the McCain campaign to lie about Todd Palin’s 7-year membership in a secessionist party. McCain strategist Steve Schmidt said that Todd was a member, and it was a secessionist party and he wasn’t going to create an issue in the media if it didn’t exist already, nor would he lie for her. Remember that part, because it comes back later.

(more): http://www.themudflats.net/

By sloopskipper on Jul 5, 2009, 16:27 in Off Topic.

dwmte7 says on Jul 10, 2009, 09:49:

huh?

patriarch

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