For what it's worth, I'm trying not to write about Sarah Palin, but the article in the Guardian about Palin's attempt to have a photo-op with Margaret Thatcher tickled my funny bone.
A firestorm on the US right has erupted after the Guardian reported that Sarah Palin will be denied a meeting with Lady Thatcher on the grounds that it would be "belittling" for her to meet the darling of the Tea Party movement.
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host, devoted the opening section of his radio show to denouncing the "preposterous" Guardian report, as Palin supporters accused Thatcher's circle of disgracing the former prime minister.
The US conservative right reacted furiously after the Guardian reported that Thatcher's aides had decided it would be inappropriate for her to meet Palin, who is planning to visit London next month en route to Sudan.
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One Thatcher ally told the Guardian: "Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."
I don't know about the rest of my fellow Americans, but I take the aide's remark as a personal affront. My favorite radio talk show host was right there with me in high dudgeon. You ain't seen nuthin' yet, until you've see Rush in firestorm mode, which he's in nearly every day. What a wonder that Rush so often finds an issue, or two, or three to set him on fire.
Lady Thatcher will be busy on July 4th attending the unveiling of a statue of Ronald Reagan in front of the US Embassy on the 100th anniversary of his birth. My question: Will Palin crash the event?
Thanks to Doug for the link.
I believe Lady Thatcher in her later years has taken to considering it belittling to meet just about anyone, so Sarah should perhaps not take it as quite such an affront.
ReplyDeletewv - insani (describes them both methinks)
The insani meet. What a story!
ReplyDeleteI had understood that Lady Thatcher is suffering from the later stages of Alzheimer's. (I'll leave it to others to figure out what God meant by having both her and President Reagan suffer the same fate.) If so, having her at the unveiling of the statue is about as meaningfuf and dignified as having her meet with Sarah Palin. Meaning, not at all.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, in the FYI department, Lady Thatcher's staff is officially denying the Guardian's report. Officially denying being the polite way of saying that either the Guardian or its source was lying.
kishnevi, I'd heard that Lady Thatcher was ill.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update on the denial by Lady Thatcher's staff. As to who is lying, I'll let the Guardian and the Lady's staff work that out.
This picture cracks me up. She SO looks like she should be leading a Gay Pride Parade, w/ "Dykes on Bikes"! LOL
ReplyDeleteMaybe the ingrown butt-hair that kept Rush out of Vietnam still plays him up and warps his gentle good nature. I have always believed it was the pain of it that turned him to oxycodone.
ReplyDeleteIs that Sarah Palin or Sarah, formerly Duchess of York in the picture? Seems they look alike and neither is altogether media-shy. Bikers yet!
"Dykes on Bikes"!
ReplyDeleteJCF, ha, ha, ha. Your comment cracks me up.
Tom Foolery, with helmet and goggles, I see a certain resemblance between the two Sarah's.
What wit in the comments today.
The 100th anniversary of Reagan's birth would fall on February 6, not July 4. I know this because he and I, unfortunately, share the same birthday. (Month and day, NOT year!)
ReplyDeleteI'm with Maggie Teeth on this one; I'd consider it belittling to meet Sarah Palin. Terrifying, if it was in a dark alley.
ReplyDeleteBooCat, maybe Reagan liked to think he was born on the 4th of July. I don't know why the Guardian said such a thing. I believe you, of course, and I believe you did not celebrate the centenary of your birth this year.
ReplyDeleteTerrifying, if it was in a dark alley.
Mark, you are sooo bad.
Some questions that have occured to me:
ReplyDeleteIf Lady Thatcher is indeed suffering from Alzheimer's, isn't it possible that she and those around her could be marshalling all her resources to deal with the 7/4 event? In which case, who needs to see or be seen with Palin?
Why take offense at something we probably all have said (SP is nuts), and why take offense if Thatcher's aides have in fact decided that the Lady is not to be used as a step stone?
Like her or not, Thatcher was PM of England for 11 years. Palin is, at the moment, just a celebrity. She is not in office, and when she was, she bailed out of her job. She is a public figure who has said countless ignorant, cruel, and inflammatory things into microphones, and whose behavior does seem to be consistently self-serving. There really IS quite a difference in the stature of these two women, and the Brits are - for better and for worse - very stature-conscious. I might not have used the word "belittling", but in a way, I do think its use could be seen as somewhat accurate, at least from a British point of view.
Laurel, why would Margaret Thatcher or her staff seriously consider a meeting with Sarah Palin? She's a vice-presidential candidate who lost. They generally have little standing in the pecking order. Palin seems to have an exalted idea of her own importance.
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