Sarah Palin: The Moose Had it Coming (Video)
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.”
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