Last night, My Kid was watching “The Wizards of Waverly Place” on the Disney Channel (where the characters are drawn with such a broad brush one has to do a double-take just to register that the show is live action and not a cartoon). The main character and her friend had an encounter with the mean girl who ruled the local high school. Her mission every day was to say things to individual students to make them cry, just because she could. It gave her pleasure. It’s a type and I was reminded of Sarah Palin.
Then, also, this morning, I by myself, also, in fact, was cruisin’ the internet, and also, then I found, on my own studyin’ an article by a reporter who wrote about terrible racist things that Sarah Palin has said:
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-“racist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean”/