{"id":3314,"date":"2009-07-10T08:37:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2009-07-10T08:39:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T12:39:05","slug":"a-spoiled-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/10\/a-spoiled-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"a spoiled celebrity…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ll admit that I’m not particularly interested in what makes Sarah Palin tick. All I really care about is that she show up on Entertainment Tonight<\/strong><\/font> rather that The Nightly News<\/strong><\/font>. But my daughter sent me this article from The Alaska Dispatch<\/strong><\/font>, and it turned out to be the best thing I’ve read about her. If you have any interest in the what and why of Sarah Palin, it’s worth the read – humorous, factual, but mostly ‘dead-on’… <\/div>\n
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\t\t \t\tPalin: How she gained control and then lost it\t<\/strong><\/a>
Alaska Dispatch<\/strong>
By Donald Craig Mitchell
09 July 2009<\/div>\n

"the first sitting governor in United States history to walk away"<\/em><\/p>\n

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It has been almost a week since Sarah Palin rocked the news cycle by announcing her intention to quit her job as Governor of Alaska. Since then, pundits from Karl Rove on the right to Mark Shields on the left have offered diverse answers to the two questions that every Alaskan has been asking every other Alaskan: Is Sarah Palin really the Whack Job that Tina Fey made her out to be? If she’s not, then What Could the Woman Have been Thinking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[snip]<\/p>\n

After watching the Friday news conference, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson said that he thought Sarah "seemed more like a spoiled celebrity than a serious public official."<\/p>\n

What Gerson got wrong is that Sarah is a spoiled celebrity. But it’s not entirely her fault that she’s spoiled. Because the media attention that has swirled around Alaska’s governor-girl for the past ten months has altered the brain chemistry of a narcissistic personality that somewhere way back along the line was damaged decades previous.<\/p>\n

An Australian friend of mine has theorized that Sarah’s odd behavior suggests that she has been afflicted since childhood with Reactive Attachment Disorder, a rare psychological condition that is described in volume four of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders. Many of the symptoms do seem to fit: superficially engaging and charming, lacks cause and effect thinking, inappropriately demanding, engages in lying, lacks a conscience, has poor impulse control, has abnormal speech patterns, etc. But I am not a psychiatrist. So I don’t know if that’s Sarah’s problem.<\/p>\n

What I do know is that in 2002 when she began her statewide political career, Sarah Palin already was a legend in her own mind whose it’s-all-about-me sense of entitlement already was pathological… <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll admit that I’m not particularly interested in what makes Sarah Palin tick. All I really care about is that she show up on Entertainment Tonight rather that The Nightly News. But my daughter sent me this article from The Alaska Dispatch, and it turned out to be the best thing I’ve read about her. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}