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Palin makes Facebook account to like Palin Facebook posts

By Dan Brooks in Existential Dilemmas February 23, 2011 9 Comments

"Nice shot, Sarah." "Thanks, Sarah." "My neck hurts." "You shut your dead mouth!" Fin.

Hitting the Combat! trifecta of existential dilemmas, new media and Sarah Goddamn Palin, Sarah Goddamn Palin has apparently created a second Facebook account that she uses to Like posts from her main Facebook account. Props to Pete for the link. In addition to vociferously supporting Bristol’s appearances on Dancing With the Stars, “Lou Sarah” has the same email address that Palin uses for her Sarah Palin account, tipped her 14 friends to the appearance of Edge Fitness in a then-unaired episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, regularly comments “amen” to Sarah Palin Alpha’s Wall posts, and Likes the video “Sarah Palin’s Favorite Things.” Don’t try to untangle the subject-object relationship in that last one if you want to continue believing in the temporal self. This news story is A) obviously unimportant and B) relentlessly significant. The more you think about it, the more weird implications unfold.

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