Republicans and snakes speak with forked tongues, but I think snakes may have a sense of shame. Sarah Palin doesn’t, that much is certain. Palin published numerous articles on her website pooh poohing mask wearing — and then she got COVID-19, maybe to her surprise, certainly to no one else’s, and now she’s Ms. Public Health personified. New Civil Rights Movement:
The articles, written by “Staff,” have titles like “Looking Back: A Year Ago, Disgraced Doctor Anthony Fauci Told Us That We ‘Shouldn’t Be Walking Around With Masks’,” “Reporter Asks Cruz To Wear Mask At Presser — Demolishes Him With 8 Words: ‘You’re Welcome To Step Away If You’d Like’,” “CDC Makes Infuriating Announcement — Claim It’s ‘Too Early To Project When We Can Lose Our Masks’,” “Noem Savagely Lambasts Use Of Double Masks In Epic Rant — ‘That’s Not What America’s About’,” and “Dr. Anthony Fauci Makes Ridiculous Revelation — Masks Can Come Off When ‘The Level Of Virus Is So Low, It’s Not A Threat At All’.”
Now Palin’s stance is that mask wearing is cool.
“Through it all, I view wearing that cumbersome mask indoors in a crowd as not only allowing the newfound luxury of being incognito, but trust it’s better than doing nothing to slow the spread,” Palin says. “And history will show we Masked Singer visitors were masked before being masked was cool.”
Being masked was always cool, it was also sane and geared to health safety. How anti-masking got to be political dogma has always been beyond me. The ongoing tragedy of this is that Trump, Giuliani, Guilfoyle and now Palin have gotten the coronavirus, but they’ve recovered nicely because they have access to top medical care. There are hundreds of thousands of people without that benefit who are now dead, some of them because they listened to the likes of Palin.
Palin says. “And history will show we Masked Singer visitors were masked before being masked was cool.”
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On that point, last week’s episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” featured a “roast” of three of the winners of the “Miss Congeniality” award from previous seasons: Heidi N Closet, Nina West and Valentina. After mentioning Valentina’s participation, Ru then offered a comedic apology to Valentina for her insistence on wearing a mask during her season. For those not in the know, Valentina placed in the Bottom Two one week against Nina Brown and the pair were forced in a “Lip Sync for Your Life” competition. The week’s main challenge was to do a TV pilot and the “Runway Look” was “Club Kid Couture” (each contestant had to create a look that evoked the “Club Kid” scene of the early 90s) with the contestants being judged largely in tandem based on the TV pilot. Valentina’s “club” look featured a mask and, when the lip sync started, Valentina started performing with the mask on. Someone could be heard questioning if Valentina was going to do the lip sync with the mask on and after about 30 seconds or so, Ru stopped the lip sync and very pointedly reminded Valentina that Ru needed to see Valentina’s lips doing the lip sync (mainly because, after being questioned, Valentina said she would prefer to keep the mask). Valentina later confessed she really hadn’t prepared for the lip sync and while she’d tried to learn the lyrics, she basically kind of had a mental block and couldn’t really remember the lyrics to do the lip sync.
Ironically, when it came time for the roast, none of the participating queens poked fun of Valentina’s appearance on the stage without a mask (which I personally thought would’ve made for a really good ad-lib as the contestants wouldn’t have known how Valentina looked for the roast before appearing on stage).
Typical. But why should I care anything about Chirpy? I couldn’t warm up to her if she was cremated.
Sarah who?