Why is Palin cooking and cleaning the kitchen during all her interviews?

[ecstatic]

It just seems odd. SIT DOWN somewhere!

[csziggy]

1. Pretending to be a housewife n/t

[ecstatic]

7. She's in a full business suit. Who cooks in that?!

LOL

[unpossibles]

18. well, shit - she didn't pay for that suit

so what does she care?

lol

[salguine]

32. Didn't you ever watch "Green Acres"? Eddy Albert plowed the whole farm in a business suit,

perched on that greasy, rusty-ass old tractor.

[JHB]

72. And Eva Gabor cooked and cleaned in fashionable ensebles...

...some of which might have been from Neiman-Marcus.

[Sheltiemama]

95. That's what I noticed.

And now it'll smell like moose.

[lib_wit_it]

99. Governer June Cleaver? nt

[SoonerPride]

2. Crank makes you clean a lot.

Gotta keep busy.

[Kali]

21. ...

hey! I'm eating here!

[illuminaughty]

49. LOL. Where's that poster that was hinting there might

be some dirt on her coming out about how she sold meth in college?

[AlCzervik]

3. shoving cheese into sausages? is that considered cooking?

she used the same knife btw to cut the cheese (ya i said it) that she used on the sausage things and she didn't wash in between, nice cross contamination there Maverick.

[ecstatic]

10. good catch. Even a casual cook would know that

She's totally faking it!

[AlCzervik]

11. not that i'm a great cook myself but i also don't pretend i'm every woman.

i understand my limitations.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

48. That's what Dirty Harry

kept telling the police chief... "Ya gotta know your limitations."

[anneboleyn]

13. Ewwwww. Oh that is one of my pet peeves. Nasty, plus she has little kids

and food poisoning is not cool, at all.

[AlCzervik]

16. which leads me to think that she never cooks and does domestic things which is fine by

me btw but don't lie about it. Have a house cleaning person and a cook, good for you, you're employing someone but be honest.

[Ignis]

78. You think she believes in GERMS?

Science don't know!

[Aviation Pro]

4. She wants to be Rachel Ray or....

...she really is America's Little Tweaker. Also, check out that big bag of nothing, first fuckstick, what a fucking waste of a zygote.

[siligut]

5. Right in a suit and an updo, WTF.

I just thought the whole domestic scene was so staged. At least Trig seemed to be alive and not drugged out of his mind.

[jazzjunkysue]

9. I wanna see her in a bathrobe and slippers, no makeup, ponytail,

and a glass of jack daniels in one hand.

It's only a matter of time before someone gets her on a video phone drunk off her tight little ass.

[MadinMo]

80. Have you been peeking in my windows?

'cept I can't afford Jack --- Evan Williams is fairly acceptable, however.

[jazzjunkysue]

94. Uh-no-Tthat wwasn't me. Must have been someone else.

[jazzjunkysue]

6. Because she's out of her effing little fundie mind.

[PearliePoo2]

8. Makes her look all "folksie"

It's all contrived and photo-ops for a senate seat and then the leapfrog to POTUS 2012.
Believe me....this is all choreographed for one reason only. This narcisist isn't taking NO for an answer.

[firedupdem]

12. Exactly....she's doing the I am just a regular girl crap....sure ...

I cooked dinner in sweats and a tee shirt today dipshit!

[Medusa]

17. I take my work clothes off and always change before I get in the kitchen

but you'd be surprised by how many people will believe that shit.

[illuminaughty]

50. She's not going away quietly.

She will go kicking and screaming out of the limelight. Have a feeling in the end "this one" will be begging for any kind of publicity...negative or not.

[mamalone]

79. Bingo!

I suspect she hasn't heard "no" to many times in her life.... and it's obvious it isn't sitting too well with her.

[H2O Man]

14. For the same reason

that it is good to be baking an apple pie if a realtor is bringing potential buyers to look at you house.

[frickaline]

70. she wants to smell like cinnamon?

Sorry, couldn't resist that one.

[H2O Man]

73. No "Cinnamon Girl," she.

[frickaline]

74. isn't that the truth! /nt

[jenmito]

15. 'Cause she wants to show also she doesn't have a cook, too...

she's just your average Joe 6-Pack with lipstick and lip gloss and a perpetual baby prop. I forget-IS she or ISN'T she a feminist?

[lib_wit_it]

100. Depends. She views herself as a Snickers bar. Sometimes she

feels like a nutjob, sometimes she don't.

(And, since I'm new here and have been attacked by a couple of DUers misinterpreting a post of two of mine as a freeper attack, let me clarify that in my example, above, the "feel like a nut" times would be, *to her so-called mind* when she does consider herself a feminist.)

[neomonkey]

19. Like the good cannibal she is, cooking and cleaning the remains

of Todd's enemies.
Such a devoted wife and mother.

[Raschel]

36. OMG - What was that movie where Kathleen Turner played the Mad Mom? That's her - that's Palin!!

[illuminaughty]

51. Serial Mom! n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

20. I think you mean Cookin' and Cleanin'

[Ilsa]

22. I bet Matt turned down that fish casserole after seeing how unhygienic

she is. I heard him admit to being pretty fussy about things -- "neat-nik", had never had a corn dog, etc -- without saying he was a fussy.

I can't cook and carry on a conversation. If I talk, I tend to forget ingredients. I certainly wouldn't do it in high heels and a suit. Sorry, but I don't consider this to be a mastery of multi-tasking.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. "had never had a corn dog"

how in the hell do you make it through your life never having had a corn dog?

[Ilsa]

76. I guess his mom made his school lunch. Really, I figured everyone

in the US has had one unless they come from a vegetarian family.

But that's what he said once when a "carnival" was parked outside Studio 1A and they were sampling carnival food. He didn't eat one in front of the camera then, either.

[TheKentuckian]

23. Because she's a living prop

and everything she does is phony and for show.

[marzipanni]

26. She is the poster girl for the GOP

She is the perfect disguise. She is a powerful icon. How does one address a walking, talking, living, breathing lie? In substance her persona is completely impotent, delivering the PR message designed by her corporatist puppet masters. She is an animated programed Potemkin village for a party that promotes a foreign policy based upon brutal force, inequity, racism, and class warfare.

[spindrifter]

24. Hey, it's good to diversify--never know when

you'll need to star in a cooking show.

[IndianaGreen]

25. Why is she over dressed?

Does anyone wear that kind of clothes while making chili?

[zulchzulu]

28. Nieman Marcus has special new line of stain-free Mom Wear...

[zulchzulu]

27. Imagine the pre-production meeting before the video shoot

Greta: OK, Sarah... do you have a living room or an office we can put some fake lawyer book background and an American flag and set up the set?

Sarah: Oh nope! I wanna have my interview in the kitchen where I'll chop vegetables and put on hand lotion and stuff. I wanna look like a hockey mom and make it look like I can multi-task. I'll answer questions like the gal I am and chop onions to make me cry when we talk about Ronald Reagan.

Greta: Wow. OK. So...

Piper: Mom is making some moose and cheese stuff.

Sarah: I'm going to make a cheeseboard and talk about... oh yunno... nuclear war and stuff (laughs)

[bushisanidiot]

68. hehe!!

that gave me a good chuckle.

[BrotherBuzz]

29. Julia Child always wore an apron. Even when....

she was 'well in her cups', she still wore the apron.

[AlCzervik]

31. and Julia could wield a meat cleaver like no one else!

i loved her and i actually got to meet her once at a fundraider when my Uncle Freddie was running for office in Brookline ma. He won btw.

[BrotherBuzz]

42. We all loved Julia

My parents started a Gourmet club back in the late sixties, just about the time Julia was becoming an institution. One couple that joined the club were the Cousins. Dorothy Cousins was Julia's sister who was not only a dead ringer for looks, she was just as tall.

I never met Julia in real life, but I did walk past her house in Cambridge. My BIL was giving me the nickel tour that also included a walk-by of the famous law office of "Dewey, Cheetham & Howe", just off the square.

Mother-in-law did meet Julia at Radcliffe, in the restroom! She told me the story more than once, and always smiles when she did. She was freshening up at a sink when a daunting figure stepped up to the next sink. She glanced over, then looked up, then up some more. Julia was a speaker at the event, and mom recognized her, but she didn't realize how big she was in real life. Yes, Julia could wield a meat cleaver like no one else!

[1Hippiechick]

58. I was blown away by the revelation that she worked for the CIA, or in some undercover position. n/t

[BlueMTexpat]

89. It was actually the OSS, forerunner of the CIA.

She worked in the Far East, which is where she met her husband, Paul, the love of her life.

There were actually quite a few women of that era who worked for the OSS and all were quite amazing. Check out "Sisterhood of Spies" by Elizabeth McIntosh for starters. McIntosh was one of them. http://www.amazon.com/Sisterhood-Spies-Elizabeth-Mcinto...

One of the women described in the book is actually a family friend who is now in her (still!) very active 80s.

[BlueMTexpat]

91. Sorry about the surfeit of actuallys ...

it's happening. I've caught Palinitis.

[1Hippiechick]

92. Actually, I didn't notice that at all. My husband points out to me that I actually overuse the word

'actually' all the time, but I've never noticed it, actually.

So, if YOU'VE got Palinitis, I guess I do, too!

[illuminaughty]

52. You got to meet her?

Loved her too. Our front porch is lined with five of her rose bushes. Last roses just bloomed.
She actually got to pick out and approve the rose that was named after her.

[illuminaughty]

53. Sorry, dupe posted. n/t

[Stellabella]

30. It's code for the dominionists.

She's still in the kitchen, barefoot and ... well, you know.

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[bridgit]

34. We seen that at the bar, hubby said now she thinks she's Rachel Ray

[awoke_in_2003]

38. I use to think Rachel Ray was annoying...

since Palin came on the scene, Rachel don't seem as bad.

[Eryemil]

35. Because she's a woman. Doh.

*ducks*

[Hieronymus]

39. Same reason she always has that kid around his waist.

[book_worm]

40. And the media goes along with this charade. Why are they trying to build her up?

[Beausoir]

41. I don't know any moms with kids who actually get to sit down during dinner prep.

You don't have kids, do you.

What a stupid waste of your time...obsessing over some woman in Alaska who cooks dinner for her family.

Don't you have anything better to occupy your time?

[book_worm]

43. but the question is why are they interviewing her while she is cooking?

it's obvious that it's a ploy to make her seem folksy or typical. But if she is going to do an interview, do an interview with them sitting down some place talking. But your other point is correct, why are we (and the media) spending so much time on Palin?

[Tutonic]

44. Husband Todd is domineering. Always looming in the background.

She's Pinocchio. He's Gapeto.

[rvablue]

45. Uhh...sorry, but cutting up pieces of bulk cheese and putting them on Moose dogs that have

been in the freezer since last winter is not cooking.

She is such a fucking hack....you think she could have at least cut up a head of lettuce to continue this sham!

[truthisfreedom]

46. Sounds like a recipie for plump kids.

I'm just sayin.'

[chatnoir]

65. Ugh, reading that first sentence, I think I'm going to heave!

I didn't see the segment but that is nasty sounding.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

47. All of her interviews?

Okay... you mean the recent ones...

My guess... She wants to make all of us - yes, you and me, not her base, begin to believe she really is married to Joe Sixpack and she really is a
hockey mom and she really does care about my kids and that she sort of kind of can do something besides say the dumbest shit on the planet and if you went to her house she would wipe off the counter and make you some hot chocolate and tell you that Jesus loves you and John McCain was not the best choice for the top of the ticket and that you will want to vote for her in 2012 because Obama is a serial killer. You betcha! wink!

[Indi Guy]

54. Look closely - you can see the camera catch her futuristic "Kitchen Cabinet" in the background...

[MilesColtrane]

55. She has to prove that she can bring home the moose bacon, and fry it up in a pan.

[1Hippiechick]

59. YouTube just for you - I LOVED Melinda Doolittle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUBSaWnms4

[Waiting For Everyman]

56. She wants to be the next Martha Stewart???

I was kidding but that would be a smarter move for her, actually. She doesn't have the mental firepower to go any further in politics. But I could see her going for the money a tv show like that would bring, and being a kingmaker.

Sort of a fundie cross between Martha and the View?

[Skittles]

57. same reason why bush clears brush at the ranch

[Norrin Radd]

60. Lady MacBeth

[ailsagirl]

81. OUT, DAMNED SPOT!!!!!!!!!

[cooolandrew]

61. It's intentional to reinforce she's just an average mom. Totally harmless and wouldn't drum up a >

frazy of hate for her opponent in order to win an election. Convincing isn't it.

[NatBurner]

62. am i the only one that noticed the 3 inch heels on the 7 yr old?

wtf is that about?

is that normal?

[Honeycombe8]

63. It's a gimmick. That's what she's all about. Perception is reality. She's a she-bush,

like KO said.

Bush and his dad were no more Texans than the Kennedy clan. They pretended to be. Palin is of the same ilk.

[youthere]

64. She's hoping to get the nod to be the next Food Network star.

[tallahasseedem]

66. Because it's akin to porn for the right.

They love a woman doing "what she is supposed to."

[genna]

85. Eww...A woman in an apron is porn for the right! Ugh

[bushisanidiot]

67. She already admitted she doesn't cook. she even told us to ask her kids cuz they know.

now she's pretending to be someone else.. I guess the repuke masses want her to be June Cleaver so she's trying her hand at that. Only problem is, June Cleaver didn't work outside the home.. so I guess that means Sarah will have to resign as "governor". It's not like she was doing actual work there anyway.

[hamsterjill]

69. Very rigid!

She looked very rigid and very out of place, to me, in the kitchen setting.

I watched portions of the Greta interview, and Palin was having a very hard time trying to answer questions AND try to stuff sausage, etc. Someone who was comfortable in the kitchen and used to doing what she was pretending to do, wouldn't be so stiff and unnatural.

Come on, Sarah, who ya tryin' to fool here?

[JHB]

71. Because she didn't hire someone to plant brush for her to clear.

Didn't expect to need to do "clear brush" photo ops just yet.

[Beacool]

75. Actually, that was great looking kitchen

and now I'm curious to try moose meat. I've eaten venison, ostrich, alligator, frog legs, escargot, turtle and buffalo, but not moose. Anyone here ever tried it?

[shaniqua6392]

77. Because she is just like us!!

Yeah. Right.

[Lorentz]

82. The folksy "guy/gal I want to have a beer with" persona for President isn't going to fly anymore.

I have hopes that the Obama Admin. will make people come to their senses and realize that the President should be someone who ISN'T an everyman. The reality TV philosophy that permeated the Bush Admin. is over -- the McCain campaign made sure to kill it.

[anonymous171]

83. Well, she's just your regular hockey mom doncha' know

[JuniperLea]

84. She's no June Cleaver!

[Dappleganger]

86. It's sexist...

she complains about sexism from the MSM then does an interview from the damn kitchen?

Look, you can't have it both ways! Joe the Biden doesn't need to an interview with him under the hood of a car for us to be convinced he can 'relate' to us (of course he is just too cool, anyway).

[nomaco-10]

87. Because she's a hack that needs props. n/t

[rvablue]

88. Brush clearing. Cooking moose dogs. The hyprocrisy of the media

simply boggles the mind.

Why are Republicans allowed to engage in this theater and get away with it.

What if Hillary had done an interview in her kitchen while whipping up a batch of burgers for Bill and Chelsea?

What is Barack had done an interview while playing basketball with his daughters.

They would have been ridiculed for days. But the media enables these displays by republicans.

[LynnTheDem]

90. Gotta appease the big strong burly he-mens of the Republic Party,

show she's still the little woman housefrau.

[AtomicKitten]

93. It's folksy, doncha know? You betcha!

[npincus]

96. because TODD is the MAN of the house

he wears the pants, brings home the bacon, works hard for his money.

[olegramps]

97. Every thing about her is superficial.

Its all posturing and pretension. Her coquettish mannerisms are those of a prick teasing slut. Her phony morality reminds me of the minister's daughter that was screwing every kid in town.

[Myrina]

98. ... in a June Cleaver suit, no less ...

... while the family all look like they just rolled out of bed.

[AgadorSparticus]

101. funny isn't it? she is such a hypocrite. on the one hand, when asked if there was sexism on the

campaign trail, she said yes. They would ask her about her makeup, etc. but they didn't do that with the men. Yet, here she is all June Cleaverish. Yeaaaaa, that twit is a work of art...

[begin_within]

102. because....... she's........ a............

maverick