Meet Michael Jefferies – he recently wrote an article about Sarah Palin in The Guardian. Here is a little more detail about Mr Jefferies and his contribution to the groves of academe….
Michael Jeffries is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. At Wellesley, Michael teaches courses on race and politics, hip-hop studies, the sociology of sport, and the cultural significance of Barack Obama. His published work includes research on hip-hop feminism (in Home Girls, Make Some Noise! (2007)), and racism and interracial dating (in The Du Bois Review (2006)).
As befits a man a man who has become the world’s greatest expert on hip hop feminism he is puzzled how an uneducated hayseed has managed to gain a following in the USA with no experience of public affairs.
As far as politics are concerned, before we anoint her the next Ronald Reagan, we might acknowledge that Palin holds no public office (although, when he was elected to the presidency, neither did Reagan). Palin shirked her responsibility to serve the people of Alaska who elected her governor, opting to resign and promote her autobiography instead.
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If this were the extent of the criticism, Palin might be treated like other politicians who entered the public sphere unprepared and demonstrated no command of the issues, which is to say, she would be irrelevant. But Palin’s critics can’t help themselves. Her biography, speaking gaffes, and family life continue to command people’s attention, and serve as fodder for tabloids and comedic parody.
Still this isn’t about Michael Jefferies, cultural guru and academic genius – it’s about his readers and their reactions in the posted comments. The overall tone is as much as can be expected – Palin is ignorant, vicious, evil, creationist, mad etc etc…standard WaPo/NYT stuff in their UK equivalent. Young Michael certainly knew how to light the blue touchpaper and retire…
However there is, now and then, the odd voice defending her. Each one of these few then provokes a tsunami of insults against the authors, quite astonishing in their viciousness and bile. Considering Guardianistas claim to be rational, caring, educated citizens, peace loving and driven by conscience the sheer degree of vehemence is quite unnerving.
But then one of the Palinistas steps beyond the mark by mentioning she has a black friend who is a big Palin supporter. Several Guardianistas call her a liar and fantasist so she replies thus
Go ahead and assume I am lying about my black friend I would give you the link to her Pro-Palin blog site, but she gets enough liberals sending her threats and insults…mostly accusing her of being a “traitor to her race.” Indeed, she worked all day, alongside Palin, at one of her booksigning stops…and…at the end of the day…was pelted with eggs by one of those “tolerant” and “open-minded” white Obama supporters.
Which provokes this rational, peace loving and carefully considered response from LukaKuzmich
Good. She deserved it. I hope it happens to her again. And again. And every time she sticks her stupid head up in support of a neonazi thug.
Are you getting the message yet , that the rest of the world despises your Hicksville Heroine, her message of hatred and war, and everything she stands for?
You want “freedom fries”?? Great, we’ll send you the boiling oil.
What is even more interesting is this well reasoned contribution gets approved by six other Guardian readers…..
Exit question #1…..do you think LukaKuzmich is a hip hop feminist?
Exit question #2……hey, Sarah…..Hicksville Heroine….shouldn’t you get that emblazoned on your jacket instead of Arctic Cat?
How funny. The commies are scared. Good. Be afraid, be very afraid. We aren’t backing down. This is our Sarah.
Bravo!!! Aged P!!! I was so excited to read your blog tonight that I sneaked over to the Guardian to “peek in” on the comments. Here’s what the last comment said:
“Oh, but this is simply marvelous.
The last time you clowns tried to affect an American election, the lot of you mailbombed an Ohio County for John Kerry and drove said county straight into the arms of the George Bush re-elect campaign.
What you people know about Sarah Palin’s career, and the makeup of the Republican Party, I could tell you in ten minutes if you’d but listen. But you won’t, since you’re all determined to go down with New Labour’s ship.
This woman is going to resurrect the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. She is going to make you lefties scream bloody murder and curl up in big foetal balls of frustration. That “40 year” epoch of Democratic, left wing domination you all were counting upon to turn the United States into some Eurotrash neosocialist Eutopia? That’s beginning to vanish, as Palin and the Republicans become stronger in the country, while Obama and his spendthrift, corrupt Democrats become weaker.
Obama was always an elitist, out of touch with the working classes of the country. He has the same disease that you all do: he thinks he can tell the people of our country how to live their lives for them. That’s what all socialists think. It’s a fatal conceit, and it’s one that Palin and other conservatives know will be his undoing.
Americans hate, truly hate, arrogant, know-it-all, busybody politicians who want to try to run their lives for them. FDR understood this, which is why the New Deal was about a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay and social insurance that you paid in to, not about the dole and welfare (which FDR despised-he knew that welfare destroyed initiative). Obama? He’s about welfare and giving money away to Democratic interest groups while the Wall Street looters who gave money to his campaign run the Treasury Department (don’t believe me? Ask how Goldman Sachs ended up running Treasury…).
And to top it all off, this neosocialist regime is trying to impose the NHS on a functionally bankrupt country that cannot afford it. Palin gets this, and people know that Palin gets this. Her poll numbers are shooting up because she is making sense to more and more registered voters.
Meantime, Obama’s head appears to be in the clouds while unemplyoment is at 10% (real unemployment is closer to 17%).
Please keep calling Palin ignorant and stupid. The more you do this, the stronger she gets. The Left never understands how out of touch it really is; you people never, ever gave a tinker’s damn about working people-all you wanted to do was rule over them and tax them to hell and gone so they could never, ever improve their lives and, God forbid, vote for the Tories (or the Republicans, in our case).
Palin gets this, too. So do the working people. They’re on to your scam
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
Of course you can quote…..also I am on Twitter as TheAgedP
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