Brigitte Bardot calls Sarah Palin a 'disgrace to women'

The world is watching as Suddenly Sarah Palin winks her way through the coming weeks of the presidential election. But are they also laughing?

Not everyone around the rest of the world is as impressed by Palin as some of her supporters.

French film icon Brigitte Bardot has come forward to call Sarah Palin a "disgrace to women."

Referring to Palin's pitbull-with-lipstick crack, Bardot adds: "I know dogs well and I can assure you that no pitbull, no dog, nor any other animal is as dangerous as you are."

"By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe."

But that's just a French take on Palin.

How about the Brits?

Here's how one writer for the British newspaper, the Guardian, feels about Palin's "farcical" debate performance -- in an article complete with a photo of Palin in mid-wink.

"Early on, she made the astonishing announcement that she had no intentions of actually answering the queries put to her. "I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also," she said.

And so she preceded, with an almost surreal disregard for the subjects she was supposed to be discussing, to unleash fusillades of scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own pseudo-folksy authenticity."

To prove her point, Goldberg printed Palin's response to Joe Biden's comments on the middle class being shortchanged during the Bush administration:

Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced [sic] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education, and I'm glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? ... My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here's a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate.

To Palin's remarks --  "Being a mom, one very concerned about a son in the war, about a special needs child, about kids heading off to college, how are we going to pay those tuition bills?" -- Goldberg notes that none of Palin's children are college-bound:

"Her son is on the way to Iraq, and her pregnant 17-year-old daughter is engaged to be married to a high-school dropout. ... Palin is a woman who can't even tell the truth about the most quotidian and public details of her own life, never mind about matters of major public import. In her only vice-presidential debate, she was shallow, mendacious and phoney. What kind of maverick, after all, keeps harping on what a maverick she is? That her performance was considered anything but a farce doesn't show how high Palin has risen, but how low we all have sunk."

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Photo: Brigitte Bardot at an animal rights event in 2007. Credit:WireImage

Comments

[Lauren]

Palin is making a mockery of this process, plain and simple.
The McCain campaign has taken Obama's "humble roots, up by my boot-straps" Lincoln angle and reappropriated it with this woman in the most distorted and disingenious way.
Truly insulting to this country, and if it works, indicative of a major intellectual decline...

[Dennis - SoCal]

I feel sick. It's the same feeling I had 4 years ago before GWB got elected.

Recent past has shown that too many voters vote through fear and not logic. And, fear is what the Republican party plays on.

I hope and I pray that this time Americans will show the world that we're not a bunch of dupes.

[Georgia]

Yes, we need a diplomat to recover from these jingoistic, chauvinistic eight years.
Hillary, are you out there?......doggone it!!!!!

[caleb]

Palin is relying on the idiots who reelected George Bush to vote for her. Most of these people have no education and rely on slogans and opinions for deciding who to vote for. Trailor park trash and white collar slimebags are their forte.

[palin is no hilary]

and i wonder how she got elected governor at the first place?

[C.Praefke]

How could athe voters of this country turn their backs on a well versed and articulate woman such as Hilary Clinton and then justify a canditate such as Sarah Palin. Palin may be a very nice person, and a down to earth mom, but I personally would not want her ro run the country I am living in. I am a nice, mom-type person, but I know more about government than she seems to. God help America!

[Christina]

It's sad the way this has-been keeps trying to be relevant.

Note to caleb: "Trailor park trash and white collar slimebags" have just as much right to vote as you. God Bless America.

While you are commenting on the education of others perhaps you should invest a moment or 2 in spellcheck!

[Zip]

I have to agree that Palin is an embarassment -- to politicians if to no one else. Her scattered and hamhanded remarks are utterly graceless and devoid of content. Myself and some likeminded folks have decided to turn the word "palin" into a verb. Here are the definitions:

Palin (palining, palined):
1. verb. To flub or otherwise stumble in a response to simple, predictable questions in an interview; To give an off-topic and incoherent or syntactically suspect response to a simple, predictable question in an interview; to do likewise in any other human endeavor. E.g., "I don't think I'll get that job, I totally palined the interview."

2. verb. To fabricate an untruth, that is easily verifiable as such (e.g. via the internet search tool Google), in response to a question for which one does not know the answer. E.g., "I asked him about the Bush Doctrine, and he palined it by talking about horticulture."

If you're interested, you can find more info on Facebook. Search for the group: Make Palin a Verb.

[Gordon G]

To those who are so quick to judge and belittle Gov. Palin - take a look at yourself. Usually those pointing fingers couldn't pass a lie detector test.

[Andrew - Australia]

This is getting very scary, I am shocked that she isn't in a mental institution. Somehow she is allowed to speak...and be taken seriously by her own party. Sarah Palin is so unintelligent it's unbelieveable...like a Hollywood script.

[Blanca Friedman]

Palin and the republican party as usual relying in those idiots that barely made it out of high school, The Joe sixpacks!!! I am so tired of their spins about Obama! I am terrified of the McCain Palin ticket. We will sink more and more! The world hates us as it is now! Another 4 years of the Bush policies? God help us! We will be doomed! Get out the vote!!! It is up to us to make this nighmare dissapear!
Obam/Biden

[Monica]

I think that Miss Bardot should stay with the animal rights people and let us Americans vote for who we want to in the good old USA. Also, the Britts....Gov. Palin is the one who we will vote in if the people want her...that is why we have the right to vote, and vote for who we want...so for the people who want to want to vote for a Muslim than that is your right also...just as mine is to vote for a McCain.

[Kimberly]

I concur. AMEN. Preach it aloud! Love this article...

[andy]

Like Palin and her backer always say, that president should be ordianary people. To me that is "dead" wrong. President, specially for United States, should be extra ordianary person, because he will have extra ordinary responsibility, extra ordianary power, look she/he can make peace or war. She/He will have extra ordinary challenges. So to be US president should be extra ordinary smart, wise. and has high level of education. High school graduate with very short experience is definitely not enough. PHD in law/economy/management/politic (& other social studies) and have record in politic or other public work is preferred.

[bru]

'a disgrace to women' really? such vitriol only relects negatively on Miss Bardot. How about some coverage from people who like and respect her, such as the president of NOW (a democrat) who thinks Ms. Palin is a feminist. Oh yeah LAT can't cover that - it only happened in your own backyard (HD center).

[Joe 6 Pack]

This Joe 6 Pack will never vote for such an idiot.... Palin GO HOME! btw, my 6 pack is of the hoppy ale $10 variety.....

[Martin]

Typical drivel from the vacuous far left. Nothing's as meaningless as the rantings of a washed up actress like Bridget Bardot. A French washed up actress at that. Where's the news in this? She probably wouldn't know what the real world was like for most people if it smacked her in the face.

[Mitchell Young]

Glad to see that Bardot is so respected here. If she is so wise, maybe you guys also agree with her views on immigration.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-et-bardot15apr15,0,2566617.story

Bardot has previously said France is being invaded by sheep-slaughtering Muslims and published a book attacking gays, immigrants and the unemployed, in which she also lamented the "Islamisation of France".

[Laurel]

To Gordon,

I'm curious, are you saying it's okay for Governor Palin to tell lies? Are you comfortable with Palin intentionally not answering questions posed to her during the VP debate? Do you feel that people running for the highest offices in our land should be just like every other imperfect American? Or do you think these people should be held to a higher standard?
Thank you.

[Chris]

Who cares about what Brigitte Bardot says?! Not only is she just an actress, she's French!!

[Craig R]

Sarah Palin asks: who?

[Diane]

Brigitte, stick with animal rights where you are more familiar with the traits of those of your own species (I'd guess Pomeranian)

[Eric D. Anderson]

And Bridget Bardot also attacks interracial relationships, Islam, immigration, and homosexuality. So I guess she's a fount of wisdom. Why are we trembling at what Europeans think? Americans need to get over their inferiority complex and visceral Europhilia.

[mtnthc]

Bardot and Europeans aside, if Palin demeanor isn't insulting to your intellect perhaps you have none. She is a moron and an embarrassment. Joe fu#cking six pack, insulting,...

[Irving]

Ms Bardot, I suppose posing nude in Playboy (at the age iof 40) is a universally-accepted compliment to women as human beings?