Hitchens' unrequited love for Sarah Palin
Okay, not really, but it's gotta mean something that Chris Hitchens calls her a tease in his Newsweek article:
and then graduates to explicitly calling her a cock-tease on Slate:
The Palin problem, then, might be that she cynically incites a crowdthat she has no real intention of pleasing. If she were ever to getherself to the nation's capital, the teabaggers would be just as muchon the outside as they are now, and would simply have been theinstruments that helped get her elected.
and then graduates to explicitly calling her a cock-tease on Slate:
At least Richard Nixon had the ill fortune to look like what he was: ahaunted scoundrel and repressed psychopath. Whereas the usefulness ofSarah Palin to the right-wing party managers is that she combines acertain knowingness with a feigned innocence and a still-palpable blushof sex. But she should take care to read her Alexander Pope: That bloomwill soon enough fade, and it will fade really quickly if she uses itto prostitute herself to the Nixonites on one day and then tocock-tease the rabble on the next.I don't usually think of Hitchens as one of those entitled MRA gasbags who looks at women as holders of the pussy, though I should have seen it coming when he said women aren't funny because they don't have to be funny because, well, they're the holders of the pussy. But it's not looking good here.



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