I'm serious: When I read a quote from Sarah Palin, my Brain Neurons go into a tailspin.

[The_Commonist]

14. And that's the whole point of her. Don't you get that?

Mission Accomplished!
Sending your Brain Neurons into a tailspin is exactly the purpose of this woman's existence in the mediasphere.

The powers that be are perfectly happy to throw tuppence in her direction, simply because it gets people like you and me to waste our time talking about what a dolt she is. It's a teeny-tiny investment for them, and it keeps us coming back, again and again and again and again, to laugh at her antics. But she serves a very specific purpose.

If we spend our time laughing at these clowns, it's time we are not spending organizing, protesting, thinking of and working on solutions to solve the problems caused by her paymasters. She is a distraction, and we keep getting distracted. It's fun to laugh her, it's entertainment that can be done in pajamas from the couch. (like me, right now)This way, we don't actually have to DO anything.

She DOESN'T exist to really even get anyone to agree with her. If that happens, it a bonus. She exists to get people to DISagree with her. Over and over and over again. On and on, every day. Say something stupid and watch us idiot "liberals" waste our time talking about her word salads. She's not trying to express anything, her job is to destroy brain neurons. Seriously, her paymasters are laughing at us all the way to the bank. Every. Single. Day.

She also represents a payday for people like Charles Pierce. Would he... and I certainly love his way of twisting words into beautiful rhetorical sculptures... Or Rachel or Jon or any of the other "liberal pundits" even have a job if it weren't for the likes of Palin? Would they have anything to talk about at all? If the Palins of the world didn't exist, what would they talk about?

I was going to spend the next couple of hours in my pajamas, on the internet, until it starts snowing later. But I've just changed my mind. I'm tired of being a sucker. I'm tired of watching good people like you be suckers. I'm going to go do something productive instead.

Cheers!