Sarah Palin gloated Tuesday that she had once turned down a cameo on HBO’s “True Blood,” the vampire drama that recently angered Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) by airing an episode that featured a fictional, blood-soaked GOP fundraiser.
“The brilliant minds of ‘True Blood’ were brazen enough to ask me to do a cameo on their show, apparently so they could insult a conservative woman in person instead of just all conservative women in general,” Palin told Breitbart. “Their offer wasn’t presented in any negative way, perhaps to benefit from a surprise factor after the guest appearance. I turned them down anyway.”
She then invoked the left’s “war on women” narrative, accusing the network of “misogynist attacks on women” it disagrees with. In the episode that aired Sunday, one vampire character who crashed a fictional gala in Cruz’s honor referred to herself as a “Republi-c*nt” after she got dressed to go undercover as a Texas Republican at the event.
The creator of “True Blood” has drawn inspiration before from at least one female GOPer. Alan Ball credited one-time presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) with inspiring the storyline for the show’s fifth season, which centers around a power struggle between secular vampires and religious extremists.
She’s just chronically incoherent:
“Their offer wasn’t presented in any negative way, perhaps to benefit from a surprise factor after the guest appearance. I turned them down anyway.”
What? The “I turned them down anyway” is the only thing that makes sense.
True Blood is hardly misogynist. The strongest characters on the show are female. The phrase ‘misogynist attacks on women it disagrees with’ is really a stupid thing to say. Attacking a woman you disagree with doesn’t make you misogynist. Otherwise, everyone on the right attacking Hillary Clinton is misogynist. Ok, well, in their case it is probably correct.
I can’t believe she would turn down any paying gig. Particularly one where she doesn’t actually have to work.
i’m sure having to learn lines had something to do with it.
I suspect they did not offer the part-term Alaska Vampire enough money.