Tag Archives: Sarah Palin

Hillary & the Pressure To Be a Cool Girl

By Robin Bates | Published: May 4, 2016

Understanding the popularity of Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” amongst young women helps explain the mixed feelings about Hillary Clinton. She’s not a “cool girl.” But this is actually good.

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Sarah Palin as Daisy Buchanan

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2016

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, speaking for moderate Republicans who are being driven from the party, sees himself as Jay Gatsby jilted by Daisy. Sarah Palin was once his Daisy and Donald Trump could be compared to Tom Buchanan.

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Hillary Will Be Cast as a Witch

By Robin Bates | Published: April 23, 2015

Prepare to see Hillary Clinton cast by the GOP in the role of the Wicked Witch of the West

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Sarah Palin as Dorothy

By Robin Bates | Published: February 12, 2015

Sarah Palin’s attraction in part lay in the way that she seemed to be a reincarnation of MGM’s Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.”

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Sarah (Malaprop) Palin vs. Obamacare

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2013

Sarah Palin’s attack on Obamacare sounds as though it were delivered by Mrs. Malaprop.

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Sam Spade Takes on Sarah Palin

By Robin Bates | Published: June 15, 2011

Something about Monday’s debate amongst Republicans vying for their party’s presidential nomination reminded me of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon.” They are all chasing after a legendary black bird that seems to be priceless but all too often turns out to be a lead simulacrum.

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Palin, Bachmann, and All about Eve

By Robin Bates | Published: June 3, 2011

The rivalry between Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann about who will be Tea Party queen reminds me of the 1950 Betty Davis film All about Eve. The parallels are so delicious that I have to share them with you.

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Palin, Mama Grizzlies, and the Wife of Bath

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2010

There was a lot of talk about Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” this past election season. The image, which conjures up mothers fiercely defending their threatened young, has never made logical sense to me as a rightwing symbol. After all, shouldn’t mothers be fighting fiercely for social safety net programs (which Sarah Palin attacks) and against […]

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Fences, Good Neighbors, and Immigration

By Robin Bates | Published: June 1, 2010

Will America’s most famous poem about fences give us any insight into the border problems we are currently experiencing with Mexico? Let’s take a look at it and find out. The poem I have in mind is, of course, Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall.” Here it is:

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