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Sarah Palin says she wants to help "clean up" the sorry state of journalism and won't "waste my time" with the likes of CBS news anchor Katie Couric if she runs for president in 2012.
In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Palin claimed some expertise in journalism and looked forward to "being more open than I already am" -- but only with reporters that understand the "cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported."
"I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism," she told the conservative commentator. "And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when and why of reporting."
Palin's performance in an interview with Couric during the 2008 presidential campaign was a low point for her as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Asked then what newspapers she read, she couldn't name a single publication.
On Fox Monday night, she didn't say what her journalism clean-up project would entail, other than ignoring Couric and any other reporter "who is so biased and will, no doubt, spin and gin up whatever it is that I have to say to create controversy. I swear to you, I will not waste my time with" such journalists. She often denounces the print and broadcast news business as the "lamestream media."
As for 2012, Palin, onetime governor of Alaska, has already been lumped in a "top tier" of potential Republican presidential hopefuls by the Washington Post. The others are former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- a 2008 candidate whom the Post sees a likely Palin rival for the votes of religious conservatives.
Watch the Palin interview:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11...r-other-biase/
This dumb b!tch needs to STFU and just say only anybody from Fox News can interview her.
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Actually Silcc69, if Sarah P wins the nomination for the Republican Party it will be a repeat of Christine's O'Donnell debacle for Republicans and hence an easy win for Obama. We should encourage her to run and win the nomination.
Her interviews are classics in stupidity and ignorance. They remind me of a senile member named dgs925. YouTube - Sarah Palin Holds Forth on Bush Doctrine, Pakistan
She's so dumb she thought Nicolas Sarkozy was going to waste his valuable time calling her ass. Doesn't she know it is an unwritten rule and a cardinal political sin for foreign leaders to get involved in the elections of other countries. Hilarious. :mrgreen:
YouTube - Palin pranked by fake Sarkozy! Hilarious! (Full Version) Sarah Palin Phone Prank Call Best Ever!
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Sarah Palin along with her entire family cannot possibly be taken serious about anything especially something like running for President of the USA. Please Sarah, understand your in over your head and will fuck everything up just like you have with your family. Keep looking over at Russia and watch for missiles coming. Phone them in.
Sarah Palin, as Naomi Klein has said, is essentially George Bush in drag.... And she definitely is.
We'd survive a Palin presidency. We survived, albeit barely, a Bush presidency. Although the president, one could argue, was Dick Cheney.
So, Sarah Palin would pick a strong, capable and fairly intelligent running mate. And that person would become the de facto president. (But as Gore Vidal has said: the U.S. is run by the National Security Council. Which is the Pentagon and the C.I.A.)
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Sarah Palin, as Naomi Klein has said, is essentially George Bush in drag.... And she definitely is.
We'd survive a Palin presidency. We survived, albeit barely, a Bush presidency. Although the president, one could argue, was Dick Cheney.
So, Sarah Palin would pick a strong, capable and fairly intelligent running mate. And that person would become the de facto president. (But as Gore Vidal has said: the U.S. is run by the National Security Council. Which is the Pentagon and the C.I.A.)
That's pushi it Ben Palin is actually kinda hot for a middle age white woman and Bristol the things I could do to her.
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Ben, you're really going to go to commentary by Joan Rivers? LOL, I'm no Sarah Palin fan (though she is hot as hell), but Joan Rivers is kinda bottom of the barrel when it comes to political thought.
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Ben, you're really going to go to commentary by Joan Rivers? LOL, I'm no Sarah Palin fan (though she is hot as hell), but Joan Rivers is kinda bottom of the barrel when it comes to political thought.
ha! ha! I guess -- ha! ha! ha!
And that's a given: Sarah Palin is hot.
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Ben, you're really going to go to commentary by Joan Rivers? LOL, I'm no Sarah Palin fan (though she is hot as hell), but Joan Rivers is kinda bottom of the barrel when it comes to political thought.
Why not? Just consulting one bottom feeder about another.
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hopes she takes her guns to the white house
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She couldnt even handle an interview with Katie Couric!!
All she can do is post on facebook and interview with the bitch Sean Hannity.I cant believe anyone takes her seriously.
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She's a narcissist...everything is about her and if anybody says anything vaguely intelligent(hence, above her realm of understanding), challenging or disagreeing with her is beyond the pale and a threat to America. When a Jewish Democratic congresswoman is shot in the head, she claims to be the victim of the week and a target of a blood libel. Christ, she is an arrogant moron!
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...and an ignorant moron. She complains her reputation is being "THRASHED" rather than trashed. And she's a lying morn. She complains that the left is misinterpreting her tea-party cry to "take up your arms," and grabs at the first thing that comes to her teensy, feeble, lying mind claiming it means "take up your vote." Yeah, right. Who ever says, "take up your vote?" WTF does that even mean? You can say "take up your markers and vote," or you can say "take up your pens and vote," or even "take up your computers and vote." "Take up your arms" means "take up your arms." Taken literally it is an invocation to violent action, though I presume Sarah never intended to be taken that way. She only endorses the phrase to enhance her persona as a gun toting revolutionary from the wilderness of the starkly stupid. She's not hot, she's to die for.
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To be fair, no politician says much of anything that isn't written for them. Never met her myself, but wouldn't want to either. Anyone who kills anything for sport is kinda nuts if you ask me....
But I think it's said best as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdFJ-hFFdI8
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hippifried
Why not? Just consulting one bottom feeder about another.
Moronic...just plain moronic. You and Ben , and others are so blinded by your hate for this woman, you make yourselves sound foolish, spiteful and frankly ignorant and worse than all that.... misogynistic.
So what is it....her politics? Is it that she won't back down from ignorant haters like you? Yet you all are the first ones to wail or cry racism when the opposition treats Obama unfairly, so besides all the rest of it...you're hypocrites as well. You have an issue with strong assertive conservative women? Surely anyone who compares Joan Rivers to Palin has some serious issues they need to deal with. LMAO
You may disagree vigorously with her world view, her domestic politics, and her vision...that's your right. But much of the criticism of her is deeper than political, and it says more about her detractors than it does her.
As is well documented, I disagree with Trish on nearly everything ( but there's always hope for some commonality) but she doesn't engage in this sophomoric , Letterman like Palin bashing . She's straight up in her political criticism of her.
You're the same parrots that will call for the right wing to cool the heated rhetoric when it hits too close to someone on your side of the aisle, but all bets are off when it comes to Sarah Palin. That's flat out hypocrisy. There are few if any deep thinking responses to Palin's political positions I've read on here. It's all grammar school level garbage. As Burbs has stated....I'm not the biggest most ardent Palin supporter either, but most, if not all of the criticism is cheap and gratuitous and makes you sound like you read The National Enquirer far more than the NY Times or Wall St. Journal. From the moment she stepped on stage as McCain introduced her, there has been a concerted effort not to take her down not on her politics, but on everything else. Ironically...I'm probably more disgusted by what's been done to her more than she herself is. She's far more optimistic than I'd be. My brother lives in the next town over from Wasilla and sees Todd Palin regularly. He tells me they're as decent a family as he's ever met. Not too unlike any family in any neighborhood in any town in the country, but of course if you don't like her politics, I suppose that gives you license to attack her and her family personally.
But in the end...it's a sport we play in this country. Blood Politics.....destroy the opposition at any cost, by any means....you'll just have to work a lot harder if you're going to tear this one down...she's got more balls than most men I know ! But in the end there's sort of a cosmic an ebb and flow to this sort of politics , and what goes around comes around.
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...and an ignorant moron. She complains her reputation is being "THRASHED" rather than trashed. And she's a lying morn. She complains that the left is misinterpreting her tea-party cry to "take up your arms," and grabs at the first thing that comes to her teensy, feeble, lying mind claiming it means "take up your vote." Yeah, right. Who ever says, "take up your vote?" WTF does that even mean? You can say "take up your markers and vote," or you can say "take up your pens and vote," or even "take up your computers and vote." "Take up your arms" means "take up your arms." Taken literally it is an invocation to violent action, though I presume Sarah never intended to be taken that way. She only endorses the phrase to enhance her persona as a gun toting revolutionary from the wilderness of the starkly stupid. She's not hot, she's to die for.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ande...comparing-rep/
Oops....I take back all those complimentary things I said about you Trish..LMAO...you're up to your old tricks.....weaving a narrative out of completely unrelated events to suit your political ajenda. It's political speech Trish not a call to arms for christ sakes !! Only a few "clingers" like you are still trying to make the connection...hey I must have missed that post where you broke ranks with your progressive ilk in an attempt to quell hate speech and took Rep Cohen to task for his vile rant in the wake of Obama's transparent call for civility. What's that?? You never made such a post? No....I didn't think so. Because in the end, you're not interested a cordial political discourse. Sadly you're a political hypocrite with a tin ear, just like the rest of them.... only smarter. Firey rhetoric only disturbs you when it's coming from Palin....case closed guilty as charged!!!!!!!!!!
When a guy says..."if they bring a knife, we'll bring a gun"....that's
hyperbole Trish....it's not to be taken literally, and it wasn't....so stop trying to make the case in reverse...it's intellectually dishonest and politically transparent to most of us.
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It is so hilarious how one Alaskan MILF can get progressives panties in such a bunch. I hope she runs in 2012 just so we can have the comedy relief watching you guys melt down.
http://arsenal.mojo4m.com/userdata/a...n_Sighting.jpg
http://images1.memegenerator.net/Ima...me=Sarah-Palin
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It's political speech Trish not a call to arms for christ sakes !!
There you go again...you really can't keep yourself from drawing a line from Sarah's intention to the attempted assassination in Tucson. I never claimed Palin was calling people to arms. I claim and she admits that she literally used the phrase "call to arms" but meant it as a metaphor. My contention is that literal calls for violence, even if they're intended as metaphors, increase the risk of political violence. My further contention is even if Palin didn't mean the phrase to be taken literally, she herself had no idea how she meant it to be taken. She so stupid, that when asked, all she could come up with is she meant it to be a call to "take up our votes." Take up our votes!!! What kind of English is that???
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Moronic...just plain moronic. You and Ben , and others are so blinded by your hate for this woman, you make yourselves sound foolish, spiteful and frankly ignorant and worse than all that.... misogynistic.
Jumpin' to more bizarre conclusions? I wouldn't expect anything else from you. Truth is that aside from a few feelings of ambivalence, I find her uninteresting.
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onmyknees
Moronic...just plain moronic. You and Ben , and others are so blinded by your hate for this woman, you make yourselves sound foolish, spiteful and frankly ignorant and worse than all that.... misogynistic.
So what is it....her politics? Is it that she won't back down from ignorant haters like you? Yet you all are the first ones to wail or cry racism when the opposition treats Obama unfairly, so besides all the rest of it...you're hypocrites as well. You have an issue with strong assertive conservative women? Surely anyone who compares Joan Rivers to Palin has some serious issues they need to deal with. LMAO
You may disagree vigorously with her world view, her domestic politics, and her vision...that's your right. But much of the criticism of her is deeper than political, and it says more about her detractors than it does her.
As is well documented, I disagree with Trish on nearly everything ( but there's always hope for some commonality) but she doesn't engage in this sophomoric , Letterman like Palin bashing . She's straight up in her political criticism of her.
You're the same parrots that will call for the right wing to cool the heated rhetoric when it hits too close to someone on your side of the aisle, but all bets are off when it comes to Sarah Palin. That's flat out hypocrisy. There are few if any deep thinking responses to Palin's political positions I've read on here. It's all grammar school level garbage. As Burbs has stated....I'm not the biggest most ardent Palin supporter either, but most, if not all of the criticism is cheap and gratuitous and makes you sound like you read The National Enquirer far more than the NY Times or Wall St. Journal. From the moment she stepped on stage as McCain introduced her, there has been a concerted effort not to take her down not on her politics, but on everything else. Ironically...I'm probably more disgusted by what's been done to her more than she herself is. She's far more optimistic than I'd be. My brother lives in the next town over from Wasilla and sees Todd Palin regularly. He tells me they're as decent a family as he's ever met. Not too unlike any family in any neighborhood in any town in the country, but of course if you don't like her politics, I suppose that gives you license to attack her and her family personally.
But in the end...it's a sport we play in this country. Blood Politics.....destroy the opposition at any cost, by any means....you'll just have to work a lot harder if you're going to tear this one down...she's got more balls than most men I know ! But in the end there's sort of a cosmic an ebb and flow to this sort of politics , and what goes around comes around.
Sarah Palin is providing answers for disenchanted Americans. If you like her, well, that's fine. If you think she'll serve your interests, well, you should support her.
I think she's a mere PR creation. But I think she's savvy. Her views are too far to the right for me... and too far to the right for the vast majority of Americans.
The problem with Palin and Bush and Obama and Clinton (Bill and Hillary) is, well, they're to the right of the vast majority of the population. (And we should remember that we don't elect leaders. We should cringe at that notion. We elect representatives.)
Most Americans, whether they're so-called liberal or conservative, are social democratic. They want universal health care, increased taxes on the rich and corporate sector. Cuts in military spending. This is what Americans want. But we don't live in a meaningful democratic society.
When Obama talks about how single-payer health care isn't politically possible, well, he means insurance companies and big pharma don't want it.
I like the likes of Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul. They are at opposite ends of the political spectrum. But they're principled and honest. They care about issues. I mean, there aren't many politicians who are principled and honest and have core values.
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onmyknees why on earth do you liek this political novelty? I dont think the republican party is even that interested in pushing this quitter to be a candidate in 2012. I mean WTF is she presidential candidate or a right wing celebrity? I don't think I have ever seen anything liek this and I wouldnt even count Ronald Reagan. Palin biggest moment was failure to as a VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate for John McCain. Now all of the sudden she is charging 100K a show, has her own reality show (HAD), her knocked up daughter is on dancing with the stars. (REALLY) But then again America has a tendecies to turn talented nobodies into somebodies.
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onmyknees why on earth do you liek this political novelty? I dont think the republican party is even that interested in pushing this quitter to be a candidate in 2012. I mean WTF is she presidential candidate or a right wing celebrity? I don't think I have ever seen anything liek this and I wouldnt even count Ronald Reagan. Palin biggest moment was failure to as a VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate for John McCain. Now all of the sudden she is charging 100K a show, has her own reality show (HAD), her knocked up daughter is on dancing with the stars. (REALLY) But then again America has a tendecies to turn talented nobodies into somebodies.
You ask why I like her??? Because libs like you don't ! It's nearly that simple. LOL She drives you liberals to absolute distraction and I enjoy that. Failure?? I think not. Other than possibly Obama, there isn't a politican that can fill a stadium or have people wait for hours in freezing tempatures just to get a book signed. You can poo-poo it all you like, but those are the facts.
I actually wish I was back in college because my thesis would be why she
engenders so much hate on your side. It's very instructive and I'll post a fascinating piece later . It's required reading for you haters...sort of a look into the mirror. If you're an honest person, I mean truly honest, and pay attention to politics, you must admit that from the moment she walked on stage in Minnesota the shit that's been heaped on her is unprecedented. I mean libs hate her so much they hate her entire family....even the little guy with downs syndrome and the family dog! There's something too that. If she was the buffoon ya'll love to say she is....you wouldn't give her the time of day...The fact of the matter is she was the driving force behind the 63 seat house turn over in November, and you all know that. Elections are about turn out and passion. Look............it's irrelevant what I think of her. Would I support her is she ran? Maybe...maybe not, but she is without question the most powerful political force in the country at the moment. Whatever you or I think of her....that's just simply the reality and the phenomenon is the more vitriol that the left heaps on her, the more the right embraces her.
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Who said I was liberal to begin with. I liked alot of Rob Paul was saying but he had a snowball chance at hell at going anywhere. And Fred Thompson was an ok candidate who took all day to make up his mind. Palin was simply used as a pawn against Obama. It didn't exactly work but she has used that momentum she gained to get a cult following. And that fact that you may or may not support is interesting to say the least.
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Who said I was liberal to begin with. I liked alot of Rob Paul was saying but he had a snowball chance at hell at going anywhere. And Fred Thompson was an ok candidate who took all day to make up his mind. Palin was simply used as a pawn against Obama. It didn't exactly work but she has used that momentum she gained to get a cult following. And that fact that you may or may not support is interesting to say the least.
ok ok I take it back...you may not be a lib...you're just a Palin hater. Is there a distinction ?? LOL
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You ask why I like her??? Because libs like you don't ! It's nearly that simple.
Wow! You're sure easy to manipulate.
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I have noticed that the vitriol put on women by both sides in politics is terrible. They often referred too as bitches, cunts dumb and comments are often made about having sex with them even raping them. But it is more than that, it's like when they do or say things that are contraversial the utter venom that the opposite side will indulge in is unreal. It almost becomes hysterical. I seriously think many men and women cannot cope with women in politics. I think it's brings in emotions of jealously, sexualisation of the woman, and sexism.
I am prepared to accept that some conservatives , really do bring this venom into it when talking about some lefty liberal female politicians. This venom is often spewed anonoymously where they can be brave as they know full well they could never get away with saying these things about a woman in real life. However I have never ,ever seen this amount of hate targetted at one woman ,sarah Palin in my life. It is also said anonoymously in the main.
Now as the thread is about Palin I will level my critcism at the left, but as I have already acknowledged the right can be just as bad .I think if the left had a sarah Palin, the right would also be just as bad but for different reasons.
The fact is,to the left, they believe a woman with conservative values ,her views on abortion in particular makes them so so angry. Because to them women can only be pro choice if they believe a woman had the right to kill life within her womb. They cannot choose to be against this and moreover campaign on being against it, and if they are against it even if it is for religious reasons as it is in Palin's case , they are a disgrace and a traitor to women. Palin also being attractive gets them into even more of a state.
You can see this also in another group (the left love putting people in groups, rather than treating them as individuals). Black conservatives. Take allen west, and the smears levelled against him in his campaign. He was called a house nigger, he was called a black nazi and completely false rumours were put out that he was friends with white nationalists, he was a gangster ,a pimp who had sex with prositutes in a basement at his house. His and his families private details were made public by the opposing campaign and he had a left wing lunatic make a blog full of hate, where he said he was going to skin him alive. Which the FBI had to take care of. But threats of violence only come from the right don't they. ..
The reason I think Palin gets all this hate,is because like west she challenges their core beliefs, I also think she is the most prominent republican out there with huge financial resources. It is a joke when the left say she isn't a threat. Of course she is, even if she doesn't run in 2012, she has massive power to influence the republican ticket in my opinion with her base of support. I think if the left had a Palin the likes of o'reilly ,rush, savage would be just as bad as the left are to Palin. all those anon right wing bloggers would be just as viscious.
In conclusion ,if she was no threat she would be ignored,and please don't say, she attracted all that crap after the shootings, and made it all about her.As soon as the story broke it was Palin Palin Palin by the lame stream media. Don't lie to yourself.She didn't respond at all for days,to the extent some in the left were criticising that.
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ok ok I take it back...you may not be a lib...you're just a Palin hater. Is there a distinction ?? LOL
I would'nt kick her out of the bed though. She is the hottest politician out there by far.
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I would'nt kick her out of the bed though. She is the hottest politician out there by far.
A swimsuit pic of Sarah Palin... circa 1984.
And Michelle Bachmann is pretty hot too.
And hopefully one day Lindsay Lohan will enter the political arena. She has made some political statements in the past. With regard to Sarah Palin she wrote, ""I get Sarah Palin's views against abortion, but i would much prefer to hear more about what she can do for our country rather than how her daughter is going to have a child no matter what."
And Lindsay Lohan, when she hits the 35 mark, will hopefully run for President. I mean, doesn't President Lohan sound good? ;)
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I have noticed that the vitriol put on women by both sides in politics is terrible. They often referred too as bitches, cunts dumb and comments are often made about having sex with them even raping them. But it is more than that, it's like when they do or say things that are contraversial the utter venom that the opposite side will indulge in is unreal. It almost becomes hysterical. I seriously think many men and women cannot cope with women in politics. I think it's brings in emotions of jealously, sexualisation of the woman, and sexism.
I am prepared to accept that some conservatives , really do bring this venom into it when talking about some lefty liberal female politicians. This venom is often spewed anonoymously where they can be brave as they know full well they could never get away with saying these things about a woman in real life. However I have never ,ever seen this amount of hate targetted at one woman ,sarah Palin in my life. It is also said anonoymously in the main.
Now as the thread is about Palin I will level my critcism at the left, but as I have already acknowledged the right can be just as bad .I think if the left had a sarah Palin, the right would also be just as bad but for different reasons.
The fact is,to the left, they believe a woman with conservative values ,her views on abortion in particular makes them so so angry. Because to them women can only be pro choice if they believe a woman had the right to kill life within her womb. They cannot choose to be against this and moreover campaign on being against it, and if they are against it even if it is for religious reasons as it is in Palin's case , they are a disgrace and a traitor to women. Palin also being attractive gets them into even more of a state.
You can see this also in another group (the left love putting people in groups, rather than treating them as individuals). Black conservatives. Take allen west, and the smears levelled against him in his campaign. He was called a house nigger, he was called a black nazi and completely false rumours were put out that he was friends with white nationalists, he was a gangster ,a pimp who had sex with prositutes in a basement at his house. His and his families private details were made public by the opposing campaign and he had a left wing lunatic make a blog full of hate, where he said he was going to skin him alive. Which the FBI had to take care of. But threats of violence only come from the right don't they. ..
The reason I think Palin gets all this hate,is because like west she challenges their core beliefs, I also think she is the most prominent republican out there with huge financial resources. It is a joke when the left say she isn't a threat. Of course she is, even if she doesn't run in 2012, she has massive power to influence the republican ticket in my opinion with her base of support. I think if the left had a Palin the likes of o'reilly ,rush, savage would be just as bad as the left are to Palin. all those anon right wing bloggers would be just as viscious.
In conclusion ,if she was no threat she would be ignored,and please don't say, she attracted all that crap after the shootings, and made it all about her.As soon as the story broke it was Palin Palin Palin by the lame stream media. Don't lie to yourself.She didn't respond at all for days,to the extent some in the left were criticising that.
Arnie...you're onto something, and your words are well thought out. I have been researching, reading and studying the nexus of all this hate directed Palin's way , and I think you're getting close. If you go back 2 1/2 years, the initial vitriol came from women on the left. What you and I might call those from the old left wing woman's movement. From comedians like Sarah Bernhard, to Gloria Steinum, and countless others, their criticism was withering and furious. Liberal men and columnists hesitated for fear of being labeled misogynistic by the liberal woman's movement, but soon took their cue from the those women and the bashing was in full swing. Liberal old guard feminists never stepped forward to defend Palin, rather they increased their rants. Why? She seemed to be a product of everything they had worked for ... Here is a very attractive, self assured, smart , confidant married, mother and career woman, and balanced both wonderfully who gave credit for climbing on the shoulders of the woman before her...but she is unlike them. She lived her values and was fearless in defending them to the point of giving birth to a child with downs syndrome. She was an anathema to everything they stood for. Gun control, unfettered abortion rights, big government social programs, the entrenched bureaucracy. She spoke of her faith, and her belief in god elequently and convincingly.
There was no contradiction in the way she lived her every day life, and the left knew it. She had to be discredited, but there was nothing there to discredit, so the politics of personal destruction was the only tool left in the tool box, and they used it, and continue to do so. I believe they don't necessarily see her as a threat to Obama, although some do..but her ability to raise money, awareness, and bring other conservative women to the forefront has to be stopped, although seemingly they have met thier match.
There is an incredibly informative and insightful article currently in the City Journal that just nails it. I will post the link tomorrow.
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I have noticed that the vitriol put on women by both sides in politics is terrible. They often referred too as bitches, cunts dumb and comments are often made about having sex with them even raping them. But it is more than that, it's like when they do or say things that are contraversial the utter venom that the opposite side will indulge in is unreal. It almost becomes hysterical. I seriously think many men and women cannot cope with women in politics. I think it's brings in emotions of jealously, sexualisation of the woman, and sexism.
I am prepared to accept that some conservatives , really do bring this venom into it when talking about some lefty liberal female politicians. This venom is often spewed anonoymously where they can be brave as they know full well they could never get away with saying these things about a woman in real life. However I have never ,ever seen this amount of hate targetted at one woman ,sarah Palin in my life. It is also said anonoymously in the main.
Now as the thread is about Palin I will level my critcism at the left, but as I have already acknowledged the right can be just as bad .I think if the left had a sarah Palin, the right would also be just as bad but for different reasons.
The fact is,to the left, they believe a woman with conservative values ,her views on abortion in particular makes them so so angry. Because to them women can only be pro choice if they believe a woman had the right to kill life within her womb. They cannot choose to be against this and moreover campaign on being against it, and if they are against it even if it is for religious reasons as it is in Palin's case , they are a disgrace and a traitor to women. Palin also being attractive gets them into even more of a state.
You can see this also in another group (the left love putting people in groups, rather than treating them as individuals). Black conservatives. Take allen west, and the smears levelled against him in his campaign. He was called a house nigger, he was called a black nazi and completely false rumours were put out that he was friends with white nationalists, he was a gangster ,a pimp who had sex with prositutes in a basement at his house. His and his families private details were made public by the opposing campaign and he had a left wing lunatic make a blog full of hate, where he said he was going to skin him alive. Which the FBI had to take care of. But threats of violence only come from the right don't they. ..
The reason I think Palin gets all this hate,is because like west she challenges their core beliefs, I also think she is the most prominent republican out there with huge financial resources. It is a joke when the left say she isn't a threat. Of course she is, even if she doesn't run in 2012, she has massive power to influence the republican ticket in my opinion with her base of support. I think if the left had a Palin the likes of o'reilly ,rush, savage would be just as bad as the left are to Palin. all those anon right wing bloggers would be just as viscious.
In conclusion ,if she was no threat she would be ignored,and please don't say, she attracted all that crap after the shootings, and made it all about her.As soon as the story broke it was Palin Palin Palin by the lame stream media. Don't lie to yourself.She didn't respond at all for days,to the extent some in the left were criticising that.
Most Americans, if you look at public opinion polls, whether they label themselves conservative or liberal, are social democratic.
And if you really believe that Sarah Palin will serve your specific interests, well, you should support her.
The Palin phenomenon seems like mere hero worship. (I don't get why anyone would rally behind a leader. I mean, one should shiver at the word leader. We don't elect leaders. We elect representatives. Their role or job is to serve the interests of their constituents. It's that simple. Politicians do the antithesis of this. We all know that big money corrupts politics.)
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Most Americans, if you look at public opinion polls, whether they label themselves conservative or liberal, are social democratic.
And if you really believe that Sarah Palin will serve your specific interests, well, you should support her.
The Palin phenomenon seems like mere hero worship. (I don't get why anyone would rally behind a leader. I mean, one should shiver at the word leader. We don't elect leaders. We elect representatives. Their role or job is to serve the interests of their constituents. It's that simple. Politicians do the antithesis of this. We all know that big money corrupts politics.)
To be honest, Palin probably wouldn't be my pick in 2012, but I do believe out of all the others who will probably run she is the best of the bunch.I believe if the darlings of the good old boy network and those who the mainstream media like , such as romney or pawlenty,huckerbee run Obama will easily beat them barring the economy getting very much worse, . . I see her as new ,fresh and I like members of the tea party are sick of the established political system in my own country. I also agree with her political bent and think she is actually a very nice person who's heart is in the right place.
I think she has some glaring weakness's, I think at times she ought to have risen above some of the criticism and not got into the gutter with them, if she is serious about a presidential run. I think she could have responded to it, and made her case without being as aggressive. She does have a strong hard core significant base of supporters who the republican party will have to acknowledge or they are doomed in 2012,they should not take tea party support for granted either. However, she has failed as of yet to appeal to the independents, which she must do if she is to beat Obama. I think she could beat Obama , I think she has the best chance out the ones who will probably run, but right now she would lose.
My comment really wasn't so much about her running for president or my support for her, but a general point about women in politics and what I see is the unfair treatment they get . This thread was started about Palin,which is why I discussed Palin and I see some of the very same attitudes that annoy me. I think the left should take a leaf out of bill hillary clintons and joe bidens book ,you can disagree with her ,you can disagree with everything she says, but they can remain respectful when she is mentioned. Why? because they know she is a political figure in her own right like them,an extremely impressive woman and they respect her.
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Here's one for ya Ben....and it's from "The Hollywood Reporter" hardly The Weekly Standard ! LOL
As we've been saying for some time now...It's the left who's obsessed with her. Looks like that sicko, Chris Matthews' warped obsession continues.
MSNBC's Sarah Palin Sickness
4:00 AM 1/26/2011 by Paul Bond
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This week's Hollywood Reporter magazine tallies how many times the left-leaning network discusses her (it's more than Fox) and how a reality star with sinking approval ratings is vital to its survival.
The following article appears in this week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter on newsstands Thursday.
Now that Keith Olbermann has left MSNBC, perhaps cable news can begin weaning itself from its addiction to Sarah Palin. Sure, it will be tough, even expensive — withdrawals usually are — but we all know that reporters themselves are aching for some Palin-free airtime, and audiences seem willing to give it a try as well, judging from her sudden drop in popularity polls.
From a high of 80 percent a little over two years ago, Palin's approval rating sits at just 38 percent. That pollsters routinely collect such data on a woman who doesn't hold office (unless you count being the star of a nonrenewed TLC reality show a perch) and isn’t running for anything other than her next private plane for an appearance speaks to the media’s dysfunctional obsession with her. After all, it’s been more than two years since she was Sen. John McCain's vice-presidential candidate. Hence calls from some prominent columnists to publicly declare their intention to ignore her, at least for a while.
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, in his Jan. 21 column, went so far as to propose a "Palin-free February" of news coverage after confessing he had written 42 columns about her since 2008. "Though it is embarrassing to admit this in public, I can no longer hide the truth. I have a Sarah Palin problem," Milbank wrote.
Admitting you have a problem and doing something about it, though, are two different things. The main problem in media? Profitabilty, especially for cable news. They just can't quit her. She drives ratings, and in an age of shrinking news staffs and foreign bureaus, she doesn't require much producer manpower save for a script with some plain old on-air commentary. You don't even have to pay for a stand-up shot in front of Congress anymore.
And the narrative and conflict is self-perpetuating. Palin is MSNBC's No. 1 target, and Fox News has become her chief protector. CNN does neither to the extent of its rivals, forever milk-toasting about under the guise of "balance," and it's probably no coincidence that its ratings are third among the three. All this talk about civility — especially in the wake of the Tuscon massacre — is boring in cable-news land. Consider CNN's John King, who apologized to his audience after a guest used the word "crosshairs" in an entirely benign context and was roundly criticized for political correctness run amok. Compare that to Olbermann, who in response to Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" call for more civil discourse, suspended his caustic "Worst Person" segment, only to quickly reverse course when audiences said they missed it.
"Take Sarah Palin, add guests, some hatred, and mix. No other topic can replace her ... that would require actual reporting." — John Ziegler, documentary filmmaker
Olbermann first mentioned Palin on his show July 1, 2008, when his guest, conservative columnist William Kristol, recommended that McCain make her his vp choice. Since then, he talked about the former governor of Alaska in a total of 320 separate segments during his former MSNBC show, according to data compiled by LexisNexis. That's at least one story about Palin for every two episodes. The ex-governor who has become a lightning rod for left-wing criticism was such a frequent target of Olbermann's that the news of his Countdown show being canceled had one blogger joking: "It's Sarah Palin's fault. I'm sure she's behind this!"
But if the attention Olbermann gave to the diminutive and perky hockey mom from Wasilla sounds excessive, think again. LexisNexis indicates that MSNBC's Chris Matthews has reported on her during a whopping 420 segments of his Hardball show since she burst onto the scene as McCain's running mate two months after Kristol's Countdown appearance.
And MSNBC is no cable-news outlier. The hosts at CNN and Fox News are only slightly less obsessed with Palin, though the coverage at CNN attempts objectivity, and at Fox it is downright favorable — a given since most of its hosts lean right and Palin is employed there as an analyst. So basically, the 24-hour news cycle on any given week might go like this: Olbermann attacks Palin. Fox then attacks Olbermann for attacking Palin. Olbermann counterattacks by calling either Palin or Rupert Murdoch the "worst person in the world." And so on. You see, it never gets tired. Except it does: Primetime ratings for MSNBC, Fox News and CNN are all down.
Palin didn't respond to requests for an interview. Fox also declined comment, at least on the record, though several insiders there explained their theories as to why cable news is so focused on Palin.
"If MSNBC and CNN stopped talking about her so much, Fox would, too," one insider said. "Then she could behave like any other political analyst at Fox News and give her opinion about the issues."
Says another Fox insider: "Detractors are more obsessed with her than supporters are. And they can’t even explain why they hate her. Ask them about it, and they mumble something about her being stupid. But I'd hook her up to an intelligence test against Joe Biden any day."
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MSNBC vp primetime programming Bill Wolff maintains that his network covers Palin because she’s newsworthy. Period. End of story.
"She’s powerful and important, even if all you measure her by is her ability to raise money," he says. "She matters. Her blessing and her endorsement mean something.'
Wolff called it "nonsense" that MSNBC is driven by politics or even profits when it comes to how much airtime it devotes to Palin.
"MSNBC does not have a political agenda. The idea that we’re beholden to one side or the other is ridiculous," he says. "And if Sarah Palin is so good for business, why would we want to destroy her? We tell the truth. We hold up a mirror and say, 'This is what’s going on.' We’re not so crass to think that she’s good for business, therefore we'll talk about her."
Wolff is also executive producer of The Rachel Maddow Show, which ran 90 segments on Palin in 2009 and 99 in 2010, according to LexisNexis.
Wolff says the uptick isn't a trend but is based on the fact that Palin was more newsworthy last year than she was the year before (must be that reality show again).
"Sometimes we hear: 'Oh please don't cover her. We already know what she thinks,' " he says. "Some viewers say she's not an elected official so we should talk less about her."
Not happening. At Fox and MSNBC, every major program at those networks has been ratcheting up the Palin coverage, according to LexisNexis. In 2008, Olbermann mentioned her in 67 news segments, a year later it was 146 and a year after that 179. In 2009, Hardball ran 141 stories mentioning Palin and a year later it ran 184. Over at Fox, Hannity ran 94 stories mentioning Palin in 2009 and 145 the following year. The O'Reilly Factor ran 82 Palin stories in 2009 and 108 in 2010.
It appears that only a couple of hosts at CNN are actually trying to wean themselves off of Palin. Wolf Blitzer of The Situation Room talked about Palin 123 times in 2010, down from 157 times the year before, and the discussions of Palin at Anderson Cooper 360 dropped from 144 to 128 year-over-year.
CNN declined comment.
Despite the few exceptions, Pew Research Center says that Palin was by far the No. 1 newsmaker in 2010 (President Obama excluded, since Pew lumped him in with all mentions of his administration). On a percentage basis, cable news stories about Palin were as prevalent as were stories about the next two newsmakers on the list combined: Sen. Harry Reid and defeated Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell (who at times filled a similar punching-bag role to Palin's on MSNBC). MSNBC led the charge with the most Palin coverage, followed by Fox News, then CNN, according to Pew.
During the run-up to the 2010 elections — a topic that was second to the economy as the story covered most by the mainstream press that year — the biggest story line was the influence of Palin and the Tea Party.
"They accounted for more coverage than the role and impact of President Obama himself, even though many observers saw the election as a referendum on the president," Pew noted.
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So perhaps it’s time to dial down the coverage. Political pundit Gloria Borger, for example, penned an article recently at CNN.com that began, "OK, you’ve got Palin fatigue. Not to worry. So does much of the country." Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at the left-wing Media Matters for America, predicts that "2011 will be a watershed year. The coverage will change and she won’t be as good for business. We’ve reached a saturation point."
Even comedian and renowned Palin-hater Kathy Griffin has tired of hurling insults at the Momma Grizzly, and has vowed to attack her 16-year-old daughter, Willow, instead. "In 2011 I want to offend a new Palin," Griffin said.
But it won't be as easy for cable news to break its Sarah Palin habit.
The dirty little secret is that Palin has become the go-to topic that requires very little work and no boring background explanations for audiences, says John Ziegler, director and writer of the documentary film Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.
"She is already known by everyone, which is very rare in this era,” he said. "She creates beautiful pictures and she riles up the extreme partisans."
Plus, MSNBC and, to a lesser extent, CNN viewers are overwhelmingly partial to Democrats (73 percent of MSNBC viewers and 63 percent of CNN viewers voted for Obama, according to a Wilson Research Poll) and like all good TV, drama is necessary to keep it going. They crave a boogeyman to fill the void created when President George W. Bush left office, and she’s now the face of the opposition. Palin fits the bill nicely, given her presentability (just imagine seeing John Boehner’s face all the time on TV), malapropisms and endless stream of controversial tweets and Facebook posts. And when there wasn’t that to rely on, MSNBC, especially, turned focus onto daughter Bristol’s stint on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, as well as Sarah Palin’s reality TV series.
"MSNBC will never find anything like Sarah Palin," Ziegler says. "It's much cheaper than real news. Just take Sarah Palin, add guests, some hatred, and mix. No other topic can replace her right now because that would require actual reporting."
MSNBC’S dependence on Palin was best displayed with the recent shootings in Tucson that left six people dead and Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded. MSNBC was crucial in driving the narrative that the killer was egged on by violent political rhetoric, particularly from Palin. Even after it was learned that the shooter was an atheist, flag-burning, Bush-hating, 9/11 Truther who enjoyed joking about abortion (not exactly the portrait of a Palin supporter), MSNBC still did not let up on that story line.
"When Sarah Palin puts targets on people’s districts ... when the vitriol and the rhetoric is so violent, we have to connect consequences to that," Matthews intoned on Hardball three days after the shooting.
"Why is it so difficult here for Sarah Palin to say what should be an easy thing, like, 'I regret my political imagery, that I had a potential to inspire violence,' " Olbermann said that day.
Indeed, four days after the shooting, the day Obama cautioned the nation to discuss the issue "with a good dose of humility rather than pointing fingers," MSNBC over the course of five hours mentioned Palin in connection with the massacre 166 times while mentioning the alleged killer, Jared Loughner, only 18 times.
Of particular concern to MSNBC hosts that day was Palin's video response to those in the media who had been insinuating that she had inspired Loughner’s killing spree.
"Instead of showing any leadership or taking any responsibility for her ugly rhetoric, or talking about the real victims, Palin used this opportunity this time to play the victim," Ed Schultz said on MSNBC’s The Ed Show that day. "Her game plan all along has been very simple — no apology, no toning it down, just attack."
Of course, the right maintains it’s Palin who is being unfairly attacked by progressive journalists at MSNBC, CNN and elsewhere in order to fulfill not only a business agenda but a political one, as well: the destruction of Sarah Palin. Naturally, Sean Hannity wasted no time getting Palin on his Fox show to defend herself some more. And so it goes.
Still, says Boehlert: "Imagine if the press didn’t pay attention to Palin. The right-wing response would be that they’re ignoring Palin in order to destroy her."
Conservative author Ann Coulter wrote that on four occasions, Olbermann complained that Palin was suspiciously quiet. "The next day, Palin posted a video response, and Keith immediately attacked her for 'the worst-timed political statement ever.' It's almost as if liberals would attack Palin whatever she did."
While the left and right hash out the "real" reasons for dragging Palin and her infamous electoral map with crosshairs on it into the Tucson discussion, the theory holds that bottom-line business prevailed. (And frankly, filling hours and days with fresh information on a big story without constant breaking news, real news, is challenging at best.)
"In the case of MSNBC, ideological bias and smart business are the same thing. The viewers want Palin-bashing, the network cheerfully supplies it," said John Pitney, professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College.
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So if the first step in quitting an addiction is admitting a problem, many in the media are on the right track. Politico wrote a year ago that "it’s a symbiotic affair — built on mutual dependency and mutual enabling,' and acknowledged that "clicks go up" when the website publishes Palin stories. "We know we’re part of the problem," the article stated.
More recently, The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert analyzed a segment of Morning Joe on MSNBC where co-host Mika Brzezinski acknowledges that she hates that they are compelled to talk about Palin.
"At what point do we just ignore?" she asked co-host Joe Scarborough.
"Clearly, Mika is experiencing what journo-psychologists call Palin-fatigue," Colbert said after playing the clip.
Said Colbert to the camera afterward: "Mika, you need to buck up. I know you think this story has no purpose other than keeping Sarah Palin’s name in the headlines for another news cycle. … I know you think Sarah Palin is at best a self-promoting ignoramus and at worst a shameless media troll. … I know that when you arrive at the office each day, you say a silent prayer that maybe, just maybe, Sarah Palin will at long last shut up for 10 f---ing minutes."
Whether Fox, CNN or MSNBC can successfully wean themselves off of Palin — or whether they even want to — remains to be seen, but momentum for such a scenario is clearly building among journalists in general. What happens to ratings, however, is another question.
Dana Milbank's column followed one from Ross Douthat in the New York Times five days earlier that made the case that the frenzy to tie Palin in with the Tucson shootings — an episode he called "a little bit obscene" — was the final straw.
Douthat began with this: "In every twisted, wretched, ruinous relationship, there are moments so grim, flare-ups so appalling, that they offer both parties a chance to step back, take inventory, and realize that it’s time — far past time, in fact — to go their separate ways. For the American media and Sarah Palin, that kind of a moment arrived last week."
From his lips to God's ears.
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Here's one for ya Ben, and some of the other Palin Haters ( and you know who you are !! LMAO)
Check this out...MSNBC is so hatefully obsessed with her, they fall for a fake story and report it as news...simply because Palin's name is involved. Can you believe these assholes? If it wasn't character assanation, it might be humorous !!
As I've said many times, there's more bullshit heaped on her than any politician in history. If the left isn't trying to tie her to violence, they're reporting fake stories. They're sick and getting sicker !!!!!!! What a joke they are on that network. One down and 4 to go !!!!!! LOL
The Internet’s finest satirists hooked a big fish in the media world last night. In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama’s Egypt policies. Her targets included Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Stephenson Billings at ChristWire.org. Only problem is Stephenson Billings is not a real person. He’s a fictional byproduct of a website that also warns readers that the Xbox Kinect is a terrorist training tool and the Japanese have created scary robot babies which “threaten humanity.”
The article that caught Maddow’s eye called for an “American-led invasion” into Egypt and begged former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to lead the war cry.
“The escalating crisis in Egypt could become a defining moment for Sarah Palin,” Billings wrote. “Governor Palin needs to speak out publicly and forcibly for an American-led invasion to protect our interests in North Africa.”
In the following clip (which MSNBC scrubbed from its website) Maddow falls for the article hook, line and sinker.
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The Internet’s finest satirists hooked a big fish in the media world last night. In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama’s Egypt policies. Her targets included Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Stephenson Billings at ChristWire.org. Only problem is Stephenson Billings is not a real person. He’s a fictional byproduct of a website that also warns readers that the Xbox Kinect is a terrorist training tool and the Japanese have created scary robot babies which “threaten humanity.”
The article that caught Maddow’s eye called for an “American-led invasion” into Egypt and begged former Alaska governor Sarah Palin to lead the war cry.
“The escalating crisis in Egypt could become a defining moment for Sarah Palin,” Billings wrote. “Governor Palin needs to speak out publicly and forcibly for an American-led invasion to protect our interests in North Africa.”
In the following clip (which MSNBC scrubbed from its website) Maddow falls for the article hook, line and sinker.
YouTube - Christwire on Rachel Maddow HD
Wow! Some really damning stuff there. Rachel spent less than a minute quoting the site and laughing about it. Didn't hear her mention Billings' name and she pointed out that those were not Palin's words. It took Ms. Maddow all of an hour or so to tweet that she had been had and call Christwire brilliant satirists.
Btw, KO may have moved on, but it looks like MSNBC has a bright new star on the horizon - none other than Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. Cenk is a bigger bomb thrower than Olbermann ever was.
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Sarah Palin considers herself another Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher was and is an intellectual. Mrs. Thatcher truly believed in free markets. She believed in Friedrich Hayek. She had a utopian vision. She thought that if you could let free markets reign then you'd have a perfect world, as it were.
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Wow! Some really damning stuff there. Rachel spent less than a minute quoting the site and laughing about it. Didn't hear her mention Billings' name and she pointed out that those were not Palin's words. It took Ms. Maddow all of an hour or so to tweet that she had been had and call Christwire brilliant satirists.
Btw, KO may have moved on, but it looks like MSNBC has a bright new star on the horizon - none other than Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. Cenk is a bigger bomb thrower than Olbermann ever was.
http://www.theyoungturks.com/
She got sucked in....scammed. Period ..She and the other sycofants over there can't help themselves. Have you seen Matthews lately? He's completely unglued . It's fucking hilarious !!!!!! It's like comedy central over there !
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[QUOTE=Cuchulain;872476]Wow! Some really damning stuff there. Rachel spent less than a minute quoting the site and laughing about it. Didn't hear her mention Billings' name and she pointed out that those were not Palin's words. It took Ms. Maddow all of an hour or so to tweet that she had been had and call Christwire brilliant satirists.
Btw, KO may have moved on, but it looks like MSNBC has a bright new star on the horizon - none other than Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. Cenk is a bigger bomb thrower than Olbermann ever was.
Looks like The Young Turk didn't get the memo from Maddow, Matthews, Sargent Shultz, Brokow and the rest of the gang over there. He's new....He'll learn fast ...you WILL NOT chide Obama.........EVER !!!!!!!!
Egypt: Cenk Chides Obama For Not Being Like . . . Reagan!
By Mark Finkelstein | February 02, 2011 | 20:59
It was 16 degrees warmer in my upstate New York town this morning than it was in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. If any further portent of the apocalypse is necessary, consider that on his MSNBC show this evening, Cenk Uygur compared Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan . . . and clearly came down on the side of Ronaldus Maximus.
The subject was Egypt. Uygur played the clip of Reagan's immortal "tear down this wall," and contrasted it with Obama's wan words on the need for "orderly transition" in Egypt.
View video after the jump.
Watch the video, be amused by Uygur's unmistakable upbraiding of Obama, and above all recall Reagan and remember what a real leader looked like.
CENK UYGUR: When Pres. Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in November of 2009, he said it was premature, since it was at the beginning of his work as a leader. Well, now is his chance. Mr. President, this crisis in Egypt is your opportunity to earn your Nobel Peace Prize. Barack Obama already had a sense of history when he was running for office. During his campaign, candidate Obama spoke looking towards the Brandenburg Gate, where JFK told Nikita Khrushchev we are all Berliners, and where Ronald Reagan famously challenged the Soviets. [Cut to clip.]
RONALD REAGAN: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
UYGUR: Will Pres. Obama have his "Mr. Mubarak, tear down this regime" moment? Last night he said this. [Cut to clip.]
BARACK OBAMA: Now, it is not the role of any other country to determine Egypt's leaders. Only the Egyptian people can do that. What is clear, and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak, is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.
UYGUR: Now, he's definitely pressuring Mubarak to leave. But does talk of "orderly transitions" reverberate throughout history? I'm not sure.
Ouch! Pres. Obama, you've been dissed. One of your normally dependable cheerleaders has compared you with Ronald Reagan, and found you weak and wanting.
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Busy News Day. Hypocrites everywhere...Here's the latest one for ya Ben...Think we can call it Obsession yet ???????? LMAO
Media Washington Post Columnist Breaks His Palin Vow On Day One of Sarah-Palin-Free Month
Back on January 21st of this year (11 days ago), Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank made a pledge to not mention former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin for an entire month. His hope was for a “Palin free February” and he also wished that others would join him. Milbank made no secret of his intentions or motives, he wanted Sarah Palin out of the spotlight forever:
“I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin — in print, online or on television — for one month. Furthermore, I call on others in the news media to join me in this pledge of a Palin-free February. With enough support, I believe we may even be able to extend the moratorium beyond one month, but we are up against a powerful compulsion, and we must take this struggle day by day.”
He went on to say;
“if we treat her a little less like a major political figure and a little more like Ann Coulter — a calculating individual who says shocking things to attract media attention — it won’t matter”
Pardon me? Look in the mirror Mr. Milbank or at the title of your last book, “Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America.” One could easily say that calling for a month-long media blackout of a major political figure is… the work of ”a calculating individual who says shocking things to attract media attention.” Very few in the media have lined up to sign the pledge or wear the Palin-free Promise Rings being pitched by Dana Milbank. He wrapped up the column with this final, clarifying paragraph;
“And so I pledge to you: Sarah Palin’s name will not cross my lips — or my keyboard — for the entire month of February. Who’s with me?”
Yesterday, February 1, 2011, at 3:45pm, as the rest of the world was watching for the highly anticipated statement from Egypt’s President Mubarak, Milbank posted online the following;
Note to Mr. Milbank, putting Sarah Palin in your headline and starting the column by using her name clearly violates your pledge. You almost made it 16 hours. FAIL.
