Sullivan: What Brits think of Palin
| September 7th, 2008Andrew Sullivan’s mad collapse continues. Today, he writes:
Here’s a fascinating glimpse into how the rest of the world is reacting to the Sarah Palin selection. It’s from a classic and peerless British weekly radio panel discussion show, called “Any Questions.”
Bea Campbell:
Let’s imagine that governor Palin was indeed a man. He wouldn’t be interesting. He’d be outrageous. She is outrageous, actually.
Andrew Sullivan, What The Brits Think Of Palin
Perhaps Sullivan has been too long away from the UK to remember who Bea Campbell is, or to grasp that she has been the subject of scorn and ridicule at least since her enthusiastic promulgation of the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic in cahoots with her partner, Judith Jones, who just happened to be the leader of Nottingham Social Services Team Four. It mightn’t have taken so long for Ms Campbell to settle into the slot reserved for harmless eccentrics if she had in fact been harmless – as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain she excused the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.
This is a little inadequate even as an informal polling method. From where I sit, in the UK, those Brits – MSM journos aside – paying any attention at all to the Republican VP nomination have taken to Palin in the same way people in the US have welcomed her.