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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

What Do You Think About the Sarah Palin Movie Poster?

Posted by on Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:49 PM

Here, via Big Hollywood, is the poster for the Sarah Palin hagiography, Undefeated. Click to enlarge:

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1
"The Undefeated" is a movie with Rock Hudson.
Posted by Mr. J on June 14, 2011 at 1:57 PM
Bub 2
Reminiscent of Soviet propaganda posters.

http://davno.ru/img/posters/propaganda1/…
Posted by Bub on June 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Vince 3
She's an even bigger fraud than I thought!
Posted by Vince on June 14, 2011 at 2:01 PM
very bad homo 4
Wait, this is real?
Posted by very bad homo on June 14, 2011 at 2:03 PM
care bear 5
Way too much outer glow.
Posted by care bear on June 14, 2011 at 2:12 PM
Reverse Polarity 6
Needs more flags. And eagles.
Posted by Reverse Polarity on June 14, 2011 at 2:15 PM
7
@5, yeah it gives her a dead Jedi look.
Posted by sall on June 14, 2011 at 2:16 PM
8
Does she train in a cold barn for a big fight with Dolph Lundgren in Russia?
Posted by Reg on June 14, 2011 at 2:16 PM
9
invisible dual handjobs!
Posted by deepconcentration on June 14, 2011 at 2:21 PM
10
But one thing IS right: She truly is a Big Dipper.
Posted by LauraD on June 14, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Zebes 11
It looks like she's reeling back after being punched in the nose by the microphones. There were cartoony stars and everything.
Posted by Zebes http://www.badrap.org/rescue/index.html on June 14, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Max Solomon 12
2008 wasn't a defeat?
Posted by Max Solomon on June 14, 2011 at 2:28 PM
COMTE 13
It looks like it was designed by a ten year-old who forgot to take his Adderall...
Posted by COMTE http://www.chriscomte.com on June 14, 2011 at 2:31 PM
14
Is anyone else seeing fellatio here, or is it just me?
Posted by apollonia666 on June 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM
John M 15
That looks like a beautiful place that some asshole stuck an oil pipeline in.
Posted by John M on June 14, 2011 at 2:35 PM
STJA 16
It looks like she's banging Alaska, doggy-style.

"Look Todd! No hands!"
Posted by STJA on June 14, 2011 at 2:46 PM
seattlestew 17
It looks like a piece of pinko propaganda ... which is appropriate since she was half-term guvner of the most ironically red-yet-socialist-state in the nation (gotta get me that OIL MONEY). Not only does that state hand out annual checks totaling $1500-$2000 per person (depending on the price of oil - it's the "people's revenue share" - COMMIE MUCH?) and then she had the stones to hand out additional checks worth $1500 per person in 2008 as a "stipend" to offset the high cost of energy resultant from high energy prices. $3500 for eating, sleeping, pooping, breathing, LIVING. Redneck socialism for everyone, forever. President Palin 2012! The end.
Posted by seattlestew on June 14, 2011 at 2:47 PM
18
... but she lost. How is she undefeated?
Posted by uncreative on June 14, 2011 at 2:48 PM
blip 19
Graphically it looks like an old timey book cover that sat out in the sun for too long, and the image of Palin is reminiscent of the horribly misogynist "3 invisible dicks"-captioned pic of her that floated around the intertubes a while back. It's almost like they're inviting mockery.
Posted by blip on June 14, 2011 at 2:53 PM
seandr 20
@14: Just you.

The rest of us see her squirming away as a pair of giant microphone testicles tries to tea-bag her.
Posted by seandr on June 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM
21
Of all the people who have been completely trounced in recent elections, Sarah Palin is easily the most undefeatedest!
Posted by Irving on June 14, 2011 at 2:58 PM
care bear 22
@17 Actually, the additional amount she handed out was $1200.
Posted by care bear on June 14, 2011 at 3:12 PM
Red_Ruth 23
How come there isn't an option for "the microphone looks like a pair of giant balls"?
Posted by Red_Ruth on June 14, 2011 at 3:19 PM
ckjub 24
It makes her look like a paper person cut-out and crudely pasted over an idyllic American landscape.

Which is exactly what she is, but you wouldn't think they would want to emphasize that fact.
Posted by ckjub on June 14, 2011 at 3:23 PM
25
@12: Can't lose if you drop out of the race.
Posted by suddenlyorcas on June 14, 2011 at 3:31 PM
26
It's almost the same shot as used in "THREE INVISIBLE DICKS"

(google it)
Posted by SoSea Resident on June 14, 2011 at 3:32 PM
DeaconBlues 27
I had to vote for any mention of Firestorm, because he is my favorite, even though he is stupid and awful.
Posted by DeaconBlues http://radzillas.blogspot.com/ on June 14, 2011 at 3:44 PM
wisepunk 28
@ 26 dammit I was so close to saying the same thing...and rules 1 & 2, you just lost the game.

Also, did somebody use the fucking magic wand tool when designing this? I sense a lot of magic wand bullshit in this design.
Posted by wisepunk on June 14, 2011 at 3:46 PM
29
Call me an ignorant commie European but the stylized big dipper on an blue background I only know as the flag of the hardline communist Irish Liberation Army (INLA) an dissident republican terrorist group in northern Ireland.
Not really sure that's the symbolism she wants to be going for.
Posted by dutchie on June 14, 2011 at 4:27 PM
30
Meglomaniac much?
Posted by moretent on June 14, 2011 at 4:40 PM
31
1) The background is tilted to the right. Nice.

2) The big dipper and giant star are a little hammer-and-sickle-esque, no? That has to be an inside joke.

3) The literal fire in the belly is kind of amusing, but makes her look pregnant. Maybe that's intentional too.

Posted by also on June 14, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Reverse Polarity 32
(Confidential to dutchie@29: that is also the flag of the state of Alaska, where she was briefly governor for a half term before she quit. To be fair, when I Googled the INLA flag, it is remarkably similar to the Alaska flag.)
Posted by Reverse Polarity on June 14, 2011 at 4:44 PM
33
@ 32 i already assumed something like that...
Posted by dutchie on June 14, 2011 at 5:04 PM
Purocuyu 34
did anybody else automatically rotate the microphone 180 degrees? My mind tells me that microphone could be even more phallic with a little help.
Posted by Purocuyu http://littlevictorygarden.tumblr.com on June 14, 2011 at 6:00 PM
St. Beretta 35
reminds me of Dianetics somehow.
Posted by St. Beretta on June 14, 2011 at 6:05 PM
36
The flags are her giant distended labia from giving birth to here daughter as she gave birth to the prop-baby.
Posted by Chicago Fan on June 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM
37
You know, although I disagree with Sarah Palin on just about everything, I do feel some solidarity with her when the jibes against her take on a misogynist edge. (I feel the same way about Hillary Clinton.)

Before you all get your defensive hackles up, I'm not saying any commenter here is a misogynist person. I am saying your comment is a misogynist comment if it combines (a) scorn with (b) sexualization. Neither element is necessarily misgynist on its own, understand, but when combined they definitely produce a certain "ick" factor.

I'm sure no one means any harm. Please just be a little more thoughtful next time the temptation arises.
Posted by Portlander on June 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM
38
Stop promoting Sarah Palin.
Posted by vamos on June 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM
39
@37
Palin uses her womanhood and her motherhood and her highly-fuckable for a certain demographic looks as political ammunition. What you're perceiving as misogyny is just people who disagree with her fighting against her on the terms she herself has set.
Posted by Chicago Fan on June 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM
40
The background actually looks more like the European Union flag than the American flag.
Posted by Le Palin on June 14, 2011 at 11:46 PM
TreGibbs 41
It's true - she's undefeated.... because she quit !
Posted by TreGibbs on June 14, 2011 at 11:58 PM
42
Satan's number one hoe bag?
Posted by Pocket Panda on June 15, 2011 at 12:05 AM
43
I think she might be in a toboggan.
Posted by maschu on June 15, 2011 at 6:00 AM
44
@2, she could see soviet propaganda posters from her house.

Um, didn't she actually get defeated in the presidential election?
Posted by Root on June 15, 2011 at 8:41 AM
Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings http://www.reddit.com/r/spaceclop on June 15, 2011 at 10:45 AM
blip 46
@39 I agree that she uses her motherhood for political purposes (to put a finer point on it, she uses her children as political props), and her attractiveness is also an asset for her (as it is for any not-ugly politician, or human for that matter). But this is not the same thing as Palin using her sexuality in graphic and vulgar terms to advance her political career, in the same manner as people use to degrade her. Surely you are smart enough to understand the distinction there.
Posted by blip on June 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM
gregok 47
There are 9 separate graphic ideas in this poster. Count'em - NINE!
1- Mountain (alaska! inspirational peak!)
2- Star (Lone Star? Star of bethlehem?)
3- Prairie (Real Murka)
4- Pipeline (Drill Baby Drill!)
5- Stars (more stars!)
6- Portrait from below (I'm someone to look up to, I'm powerful, I'm gazing into the distance because I have 'vision')7- Explosion (Fire in my belly, and subtly militaristic)
8- Flags (I'm patriotic! and subtly militaristic)
9- The title (Declarative, absolutist, and subtly militaristic)

Thats Graphic Design FAIL
Posted by gregok on June 15, 2011 at 8:08 PM

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