John Wayne called: He wants his movie title back

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

H/t to Lawrence O'Donnell who used this caption before I could post about it. Real Clear Politics reported yesterday that the former halfling governor of Alaska, the Quitta from Wasilla, actually has the gall to release a vanity movie about herself in June entitled "The Undefeated." As a John Wayne fan, I am offended. RealClearPolitics – Palin's Secret Weapon: New Film to Premiere in June:

Palin Rife with religious metaphor and unmistakable allusions to Palin as a Joan of Arc-like figure, "The Undefeated" echoes Palin's "Going Rogue" in its tidy division of the world between the heroes who are on her side and the villains who seek to thwart her at every turn.

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[The film] dramatizes the theme of Palin's persecution at the hands of her enemies in the media and both political parties, a notion the former governor has long embraced.

I hate to break it to you, but Joan of Arc suffered from delusions. Oh sure, she allegedly led the French army to some victories in the Hundred Years' War, but she was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake — all before she was 19 years old. No divine intervention to save her there. Just how far does the Alaska Disasta want to take this "Onward Christian Soldiers" analogy?

The movie is made by conservative mythmaker/filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon. He insisted upon taking complete control and financing it himself — to the tune of $1 million.

Bannon screened a rough cut privately for Sarah and Todd Palin last Wednesday in Arizona, where Alaska's most famous couple has been rumored to have purchased a new home. Oh dear God, it's true.

[I]t premieres in Iowa next month, the film is poised to serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign — an unconventional reintroduction to the nation that she and her political team have spent months eagerly anticipating, even as Beltway Republicans have largely concluded that she won't run.

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Bannon intends to premiere the film in Iowa late next month before expanding the release to New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. After the initial rollout in the four early voting states, the filmmaker will eventually release it to somewhere between 50 and 100 markets nationwide.

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Bannon, a former naval officer and ex-Goldman Sachs banker, sees his documentary as the first step in Palin's effort to rebuild her image in the eyes of voters who may have soured on her[.]

"This film is a call to action for a campaign like 1976: Reagan vs. the establishment," Bannon told RealClearPolitics.

Or more historically analogous, Triumph of the Will. Yeah, I said it; somebody had to. Bannon is Palin's Leni Riefenstahl. Another reason to hate the banksters of Wall Street.

Bannon originally titled his film "Take a Stand," which was the campaign slogan for Palin's 2006 gubernatorial run when she defeated incumbent Republican Frank Murkowski in the primary before cruising in the general election to become Alaska's youngest — and first female — chief executive. But in order to give it a more triumphant punch, the filmmaker changed the title to "The Undefeated."

I hate to break it to you, but McCain-Palin were soundly defeated in the biggest Democratic landslide since LBJ beat Goldwater in 1964. And then she up and quit.

These people really do live in an alternate reality.

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4 thoughts on “John Wayne called: He wants his movie title back”

  1. Last I heard, Sarah Palin was spending this year getting educated – hired tutors, foreign policy experts, started reading newspapers, American history textbooks — so she could make a political comeback. Her lack of knowledge and reputation as an ignoramus short-circuted her possible political career. So she was endeavoring to fix that obvious shortfall.

    I guess she gave up on that.

    She also tried TV. Made a bunch of money, but an unfortunate dynamic occured: initial high ratings were followed by a steady drop…and polling revealed the worst disaster of all: the more people saw of her, the less they liked her.

    So she had to give up that strategy.

    So this new move is brilliant: re-energize the Christian Right. Nobody else is doing it, and enough time has passed that many forget why the movement leaders, who previously entered the political mainstream and tried big things, got sullied and lost their way (more tax cuts to millionaires is not exactly reminiscent of Jesus telling people to help the poor and weak). But movement politics does not rely on intellectual coherence or intellectual consistency. No, it’s all emotion and psycholical positioning, so it’s a really, really, really scary incipient movement from my point of view.

    Palin will go around to historical sights and tout “One Nation Under God” and “The Fundamental Restoration of America”. She will promote a Texas style version of American history (you know, delete out Thomas Jefferson and other inconvenient thinkers), and push the idea that the Founding Fathers were Christian, and everybody else should be Christian too.

    It’s brilliant. Republicans cannot campaign on Ryan’s plan. That’s a disaster for everybody: people over 65 don’t want to see their kids fall through the cracks, people approaching 55 are VERY worried about falling through the cracks, young demographic wants to be free of the pernicious tyranny of the private insurance market. So the Ryan plan, which appears to be all the Republicans have, is a total loser and everybody knows it. Boehener or Cantor don’t have any good ideas to increase jobs, McConnell is back in his underground slimy toad hole out of sight, and nobody in the party is doing anything constructive to get America back to work …so they got nothing. NY Dist 26 just revealed many who voted Republican already have buyer’s remorse. SO, Rebrand the campaign as a Christian Revival, and WOOLA, they now have something to run on and energize the tropps with. It’s brilliant politicking. And very scary.

    It’s scary because there is a long history of this type of politics in American history. Historian Richard Hofstadter’s classic essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” discussed numerous manifestations of what now is commonly called the politics of ignorance, whereby the conversation is always cast as a battle against some type of enemy plotting to destroy the American way of life. You don’t need intellectual coherence for this argument , you just need to gin up an enemy: McCarthy, Goldwater, John Birch, Beck, Tea Party, etc, etc, too many examples to list them all. And now we add Palin.

    This is a really, really scary proposition.

  3. I agree…my fondest wish though, would be just like Megan McCain’s….to see her in the grocery store and give her a piece of my mind. Lord knows she got the short end of the stick when “minds” were given out.What a self absorbed, ignorant,insecure wacko.Don’t let that vile woman give you a migraine.She is SO not worth it:)

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