The Palin Equivalence Filter

fwiw, I found this amusing. (Again, I'm not a Sarah Palin fan nor detractor.
I'm taking each of these things on a case-by-case basis. In this case, I'm
on record<http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=app_2915120374#%21/johne.cook/posts/121044487966313>as
preferring Jon Stewart's approach.)

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/01/12/yeah-no/

> Yeah, No
>
> *Follow:*
>
> ** At this point it’s certain neither Sarah Palin nor any other politician
> or pundit is responsible for Jared Lee Loughner shooting Congresswoman
> Giffords or anyone else that he did.
>
> **Sarah Palin has a perfect right, both legally and morally, to protest
> those who are trying to directly tie her, her rhetoric, or the rhetoric of
> her political allies, to Loughner.
>
> * *Doing so by asserting that her and her pals getting pinked for their
> political messaging is *just like* the entire nation of the Jews enduring
> centuries of pogroms and persecution because of the enduring lie that they
> murdered babies for their religious ceremonies<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-palin-arizona-shooting-20110113,0,6446695.story>?
> Well, there are many ways to explain why this is idiotic, contemptible,
> morally egregious, conceptually denegrating and just plain wrong, but
> perhaps the best way to explain it is to send other a few other things
> through the Palin Equivalence Filter:
>
> Paper cut: AORTIC SPURTING
>
> Lumpy hotel pillow: SMALLPOX ENCRUSTED BLANKETS
>
> Flat soda: SCHISTSOMIASIS
>
> French fries with insufficient salt: THE POTATO FAMINE
>
> Bad table at a restaurant: STALIN STARVING THE UKRAINE
>
> Morning breath: MUSTARD GAS AT YPRES
>
> Having to fly coach: THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA
>
> Bad cell phone reception: LOCKED-IN SYNDROME
>
> “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” canceled: MANTLE-CRACKING ASTEROID
>
> Hangnail: THE VERY CRUCIFIXION ITSELF
>
> I hope this is sufficiently explanatory.
>
> Again: Palin *perfectly correct* to complain about those trying to blame
> her for Loughner’s actions. But of all the stupid, appalling, jackassed
> things Sarah Palin has ever said in the history of the time she’s inflicted
> herself on the consciousness of our great nation, this is, alas, merely the
> most recent.
>


Johne Cook
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