{"id":868,"date":"2011-06-01T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-06-02T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T21:11:18","slug":"sarah-palin-rolling-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin: Rolling Blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/palinbikerbroad\/palinbikerbroad.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/palinbikerbroad\/palinbikerbroad550w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Normally, lately, I&#8217;ve avoided doing cartoons about the current crop of GOP politicians because I think people like Sarah Palin are a distraction and a sideshow, and because I think the Democratic Party is the more serious threat to the Left in this country, and thus far more deserving of a good skewering. Still, when Sarah Palin kicked off her Making Up My Mind Whether Or Not To Run For President Tour by barging in on the annual Memorial Day <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/3vc56c9\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rolling Thunder&#8221; right-wing biker gang<\/a> convention in DC, it was an opportunity I just couldn&#8217;t pass up.<\/p>\n<p>Palin&#8217;s appearance at Rolling Blunder&#8230; uh, Rolling Thunder&#8230; was comical if anything; here was this squeaky-clean ex-beauty queen showing up in a brand-new leather jacket and a brand-new helmet and brand-new sunglasses and expecting us to believe she was a real &#8220;biker mama&#8221;. That day, she rivaled Jesse Jackson in her abilities as a media-attention-sucking cosmic vortex. Born to be wild? Born to be mild, more like.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;14 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/palinbikerbroad\/palinbikerbroad.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a><\/strong> 720kb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, lately, I&#8217;ve avoided doing cartoons about the current crop of GOP politicians because I think people like Sarah Palin are a distraction and a sideshow, and because I think the Democratic Party is the more serious threat to the Left in this country, and thus far more deserving of a good skewering. Still, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,8],"tags":[191,341],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-media","category-right-wingnuts","tag-palin","tag-rolling-thunder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}