Tuesday I went onto Ryan Tubridy’s programme on RTE Radio 1 to talk about some Cold War ‘ostalgia’ as the kids in Eastern Europe call it these days, along with Constantin Gurdgiev, editor emeritus of Business & Finance, economist and superb dancer. He grew up in the Soviet Union. I grew up in the United States. We both watched, at the time, the ultimate 80s paranoid thriller, Red Dawn. His with a dubbed VO on a bootlegged tape. Mine with no translation. Constantin got in the line of the programme on that score: “I remember watching this and thinking, if we were to invade Colorado, we wouldn’t use Cubans”.
But before we got into that, we had to talk a bit about Sarah Palin.
Mike Higginbotham (seriously), emailed the show and myself immediately after. Now, to get the humour here, you have to know that before coming out for Obama, I was considered a Bush-loving right-winger who supported the Iraq War who used to work on Republican campaigns. (A rare bird indeed on the Shamrock Shore.) Guilty to the second and third counts of the indictment. But you really have to be on another planet — or just from Wasilla, Alaska — to think that things are going just fine.
Now, however…Mike writes:
“Ryan,
Would you please get a Conservative from the U.S. on your show at some point?
…Governor of Alaska for 2 minutes? I’ll grant you that she hasn’t spent as much time being a communist sympathizer like Barack Obama.
According to Delevan, you’re qualified to be President if you’ve been in the Senate. But, you’re not qualified if you’ve run a state, you’re not qualified if you’ve run a company (commercial fishing company), and you’re not qualified if you’ve held several elected state offices.
Off the ticket by 6 p.m.? What drugs is he snorting? These liberals know that they are in trouble, that’s why they are trying to minimize her and put her down…
Why would we want to get rid of her? Delevan’s the one, with all the other liberals, that wants to get rid of her.Listen to me Ryan, when I tell you that I have met many people that are really inspired by McCain’s pick. My liberal sister-in-law went to the local RNC (Rep. Nat. Committee) office and volunteered to help campaign for her. My conservative sister is going to do the same thing. These are two women on opposite ends of the political spectrum volunteering to campaign for Sarah Palin.
There’s no doubt the ‘fourth branch of government’, the liberal-run media, the Obama marketing department, is running scared. Richard Delevan sounds like he is a charter member.
Delavan[sic], do us a favor, will you? Stay in Ireland.
Mike Higginbotham
St. Louis, MO”
Mike’s email: mjhigg@sourcetroniks.com
So there you have it. Richard Delevan, alleged neocon crypto-fascist rightwinger. REVEALED! Actually a “charter member” of the “liberal-run media”. Huh.
Keep taking the tablets, my son. But rest assured, should President Palin assume power, I won’t be returning to the jurisdiction. My evolution-believin’, Jewish-blood-tainted, non-book-burnin’, climate-change-believin’, non-abstinence-sex-ed-supportin’, corruption-hatin’…LIBRUL ass wouldn’t be welcome in any case, one suspects.
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Damien Mulley // Sep 3, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Muhaha.
2 Dan Sullivan // Sep 4, 2008 at 11:58 am
What is it about books and libraries that the pseudo social conservatives like Palin hate so much? Is it that libraries lend books pretty much for free? Or the lack of control?
3 Dan Sullivan // Sep 7, 2008 at 10:59 am
Richard, it is always worth remembering that in Red Dawn it was the Greens taking power in Germany that caused all the problems.
If McCain was really all that gone on executive experience then that nice Mike Huckabee chap was governor of Arkansas for over a decade and his views on many social conservative issues overlap with those of Governor Palin. And Chuck Norris had endorsed him so he had the gun club folks too.
I’ve being wondering (as I do from time to time) if running Alaska is that demanding then who is doing it while Palin is criss-crossing the lower 48 campaigning to be VeeP? Hang on, it’s the Lt. Gov Sean Parnell! but he’s in a death march of a count for the republican primary for a congressional seat. If Alaska can be let on auto pilot for so long then is being Governor of the place really all that demanding?
4 Jon Ihle // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Surely Constantin knows Red Dawn was an allegory for Afghanistan, with the Wolverines as stand-ins for the mujahideen. Still, the Cubans were puzzling.
By the way: USA 1, Cuba 0. In Havana. Take that, commies.
5 Dan Sullivan // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Ah but Jon, in Red Dawn the Cubas were coming up from the south after Honduras and Nicaragua had gone commie and Mexico had fallen to the combined troops of those three Latin nations. They were air dropped into Colorado to assist in cutting the US in half while the Russian came across the Bering Straits and down through Alaska and Canada. The eighties, we had no job prospects and the threat of war was so real that this sort of near future history was quite compelling. I should probably say no more.
6 Tim // Sep 14, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Does “Liberal” mean the same thing in the US as Europe? Are Liberals right wing? Is John McCain a Liberal? Will the conservative GOP elect a Liberal President.
Republicans in the North of Ireland, now who are they going to be shouting for?
Interesting fan mail, btw.
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