Aaron Sorkin is known for his work as a wordsmith, and his latest attack on Sarah Palin keeps with his tradition of clever and cutting remarks.
Sorkin, who authored the acclaimed screenplay for recent box office hit ‘The Social Network,’ took to The Huffington Post to air his grievances about Palin’s recent defense of her on-camera slaughter of a caribou on the most recent episode of ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska.’
On Sunday, prior to the airing of the highly-promoted show, Palin tweeted, “Unless you’ve never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation of tonight’s episode,” to which Sorkin replied in a lengthy tirade entitled ‘In Her Defense, I’m Sure the Moose Had it Coming.’
Sorkin, a self-proclaimed omnivore, balked at Palin’s blanket assertion that no one who has used or eaten animal products has a right to critique the virtually-pornographic nature in which Palin’s hunting adventure was portrayed.
“You weren’t killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion,” he wrote. “You were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals.”
Sorkin went on to criticize the former governor’s motivation behind the segment, calling the animal “the first moose ever murdered for political gain.”
“You knew there’d be a protest from PETA and you knew that would be an opportunity to hate on some people, you witless bully.”
After successfully shooting the caribou, Palin said, “I feel a lot better now,” and proceeded to pose for cheerful pictures with her kill. Of Palin’s unnerving nonchalance, Sorkin wrote, “Like 95% of the people I know, I don’t have a visceral (look it up) problem eating meat or wearing a belt. But like absolutely everybody I know, I don’t relish the idea of torturing animals. I don’t enjoy the fact that they’re dead and I certainly don’t want to volunteer to be the one to kill them and if I were picked to be the one to kill them in some kind of Lottery-from-Hell, I wouldn’t do a little dance of joy while I was slicing the animal apart.”
‘The West Wing’ creator also addressed one of the main criticisms of ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ — that the show is not at all representative of Palin’s own experience in the state as she often appears in awe of or learning the things she is supposed to be introducing audiences to. After calling her a “phony pioneer girl,” Sorkin said, “I’m in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God’s country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.”
Sorkin went as far as to disclose his 2001 arrest for cocaine possession in his rant, noting his assumption that it would be brought to light by Palin’s people in response to his criticism.
Sorkin’s final thoughts on the ordeal? “I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.”
Kathy Griffin hosted the VH1 Divas salute to the troops this weekend, but her “jokes” about Bristol Palin being “fat” fell flat.
“She’s the only contestant in the history of the show to actually gain weight,” Griffin said in reference to Bristol’s trip to the finals on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Even after the troops’ loud booing, Griffin continued the attack.
“No, come on, come on. She gained like 30 pounds a week, I swear to God, it was fantastic,” Griffin said. “She’s like the white Precious.”
(Actress Gabourey Sidibe played the role of “Precious,” a 350-pound black woman in the hit Lee Daniels film which was released last year.)
But Palin, 20, isn’t letting 50-year-old Griffin’s digs bring her down.
“The audience’s reaction to this ‘comedian’ spoke volumes, and the decent people I know would probably have booed her, too,” Palin told Pop Tarts in an exclusive statement. “I hope people didn’t have to pay money to hear her negativity and criticisms.”
The annual VH1 show, which was taped at San Diego’s Miramar Marine base and presented by the USO, also featured a slew of young performers such as Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and Paramore.
According to PopEater’s Rob Shuter, VH1 producers considered editing out the awkward dialogue and response, recorded Friday night, but given the attention it generated, decided to leave it in Sunday’s television broadcast.
The National Enquirer is reporting that the former Alaska governor recently flipped out after learning that her 16-year-old daughter Willow was not only having sex, but feared she might be pregnant by her 18-year-old boyfriend.
Sarah Palin‘s daughter, Willow Palin, got herself in a fight on Facebook last night all because some guy said he thought her mom’s new reality show was shit. In the fight she dropped a bunch of homophobic slurs.
Some kid named Tre said he thought the show, which premiered on Sunday night, was “failing so hard right now” and then a few other people said it was awful too. Willow, who is 16-years-old, didn’t take too kindly to this and wrote back saying…
“Haha your so gay. I have no idea who you are, But what I’ve seen pictures of, your disgusting … My sister had a kid and is still hot. Tre stfu. Your such a f**got.”
More people started to comment and hen Bristol Palin jumped in and said the kid is “running his mouth to talk shit” and that he’ll “be as successful as my baby daddy, And actually I do work my ass off. I’ve been a single mom for the last two years.”
You can check out the screenshot after the jump below, it’s like being back in high school all over again. I really hate when people use homophobic slurs so they can get their point across, it disgusts me. But then again this is the Palin family so I shouldn’t be surprised.
In a taped ceremony of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday, PBS chopped recipient Tina Fey‘s remarks regarding Sarah Palin.
Now an executive producer of the broadcast tells the Washington Post the move had nothing to do with politics. “It was not a political decision,” Peter Kaminsky says. “We had zero problems with anything she said.”
Kaminsky says the 90-minute show ran almost 20 minutes over time. “We took a lot out. We snipped from everyone.”
The specific “snips” Fey’s speech incurred are apt to raise eyebrows, though. Read on.
Tina Fey thanked Sarah Palin for her own comedic success, referencing a recurring, dead-on impression on ‘Saturday Night Live‘ during the 2008 election.
“I would be a liar and an idiot if I didn’t thank Sarah Palin for helping get me here tonight,” Fey said. “My partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me.”
Then she forged ahead to more brazenly anti-Palin territory: “Politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women … unless you’re a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years — whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know, actually, I take it back. The whole thing’s a disaster.”
Those remarks were trimmed significantly, leaving PBS viewers with a tamer, less potentially offensive bit from Fey: “I’m so proud to represent American humor, I am proud to be an American, and I am proud to make my home in the ‘not real’ America. And I am most proud that during trying times, like an orange [terror] alert, a bad economy or a contentious election that we as a nation retain our sense of humor.”
Tina Fey is the third woman to win the Mark Twain Prize since its inception 12 years ago; at 40, she is also the youngest honoree.
Those of you who tuned in to David Letterman‘s show last night got a special treat: Tina Fey doing her Sarah Palinimpression for the first time since 2009.
Fey sat down with Letterman on “The Late Show” and talked briefly about the midterm elections, leading Letterman to ask Fey about her famed impression of Palin.
After admitting that she didn’t quite remember how to do the impression (and that she “doesn’t look like her”), Fey started talking about Palin’s “mama grizzlies” and slowly transformed into the former Alaskan governor.
Aside from her impression, Fey also poked fun at Fox News for referring to Palin as “Governor Palin” when she appears on the network.
“That’s like calling me ‘Dairy Queen Employee,’” Fey joked. “I was once, but I quit!”
Tina is so delightfully funny — and her impression of Sarah Palin, spot on!
Bill Maher dropped the N-word during an interview Larry King‘s show Tuesday, the same day he picked up his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Nobody Noticed.
The “Real Time With Bill Maher” host, who’d thanked George W. Bush, Sarah Palin and the pope for his star earlier in the day, said he couldn’t wait to see the GOP debates before the 2012 presidential election.
“How are they going to out fire-breathe each other? I mean where this rhetoric has gone to at this point? It’s only 2010. And we’re having Newt Gingrich, as we were talking about before, calling [the president] an anti-colonial Luo tribesman. Luo tribesman,” Maher said.
“That’s the new Kenyan, Larry. And Kenyan, of course, was code for [the N-word]. But that’s where they are. They can’t say it out loud. But that’s where this whole campaign is going to be.”
According to the CNN transcript, King did not react specifically to Maher’s choice of words.
There is one thing that Sarah Palin hates, and it’s being made to look like a fool by a 20-year-old Alaskan lothario named Levi Johnston.
“Sarah is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore,” said a Palin insider. “It was bad enough that this kid everyone thinks is stupid has already caused Sarah and her family great shame, telling everyone her secrets. Now, she fears he is going to do it all over again. Who knows what family business sweet Bristol told him when they briefly got back together.”
And it looks like Sarah’s fears are about to become a reality. Sources close to Levi tell me his people are already shopping around a “His Side of the Story”-type interview where Levi is quite happy to pose shirtless and reveal the latest secret plans of his almost-mother-in-law for the bargain asking price of $20,000.
We know Levi’s committed to paying child support for little Tripp, but can’t he find a more honorable way to do it?
“He is like a bad penny that just won’t go away,” one friend of the family revealed. “And with his son Tripp being so young, he is going to be in her family’s life for many years to come, however that boy needs to be careful. Mama Grizzly has had enough. My advice to him would be the next time you see Sarah run because she wants to kick his ass!”
Sorry Levi, but you kind of deserve it.
source: Palin Friend: Sarah Wants to Kick Levi Johnston’s A** [popeater]
Bristol Palin has confirmed the official breakup of her re-engagement with Levi Johnston.
The young couple graced the cover of Us Weekly less than three weeks ago, proclaiming their happy news; now Sarah Palin’s daughter, 19, told People, “It’s over. I broke up with him.”
Palin says the relationship started heading south the very day the Us Weekly cover story hit shelves — Johnston, who has a 19-month-old son with Bristol, broke news to her that very evening that he may have fathered a child with a young girl. The former girlfriend denied this, but Bristol was finished.
“There’s been no remorse. The final straw was him flying to Hollywood for what he told me was to see some hunting show but come to find out it was that music video mocking my family. He’s just obsessed with the limelight and I got played.”
Reportedly, Palin was emotional in the telephone interview, speaking “through tears about feeling heartbroken, humiliated and trapped – while Johnston acted cool.” Bristol also says she’s only seen Levi once in the last three weeks.
Sarah Palin, who has often sparred with Levi in the press and famously did not condone his re-engagement to her daughter, told the mag,
“I wish for Bristol to be able to move forward in life with her same forgiving, gracious, optimistic spirit, but from henceforth she’ll know to trust but verify. Bristol is strong, she is independent, and she knows what is right for her son.”
