This was horrible.
Look at this picture–
The AP published an absolutely disgusting hit piece on Sarah Palin tonight after her talk at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
Here’s one quote:
“Let us not get bogged down in the small squabbles. Let us get caught up in the big ideas,” she said, though she offered few of her own.
Founding Bloggers has the story.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:05 am | #1
Well, she did refer to them as the LAMEstream media. Can’t expect them to take that lying down. So they start to lying….
February 7th, 2010 | 12:06 am | #2
Did you expect anything less? She told them where the bear messed in the woods and they jumped right in it.
Sarah knows what she is doing and she knew exactly what they would do and say.
The more they shill against her, the more she comes out ahead.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:06 am | #3
The AP,along with the other media is not a credible news source.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:10 am | #4
Oh pooh. They is who they is.
Breitbart’s got their number. I suspect the new media will….prevail.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:11 am | #5
They tried to come up with something but couldn’t do it. The worst thing they could come up with is “Indeed, some Republican observers…” said such and such. Can’t imagine who those observers might be. The AP just hopes it won’t have to cancel any articles Obama doesn’t like, as happened to Reuters the other day (so observers say).
February 7th, 2010 | 12:15 am | #6
Let them keep on attacking her. She would have faded into obscurity if they had left her alone after the election. BUT NO! They had to make sure they destroyed her, but their attempts have kept her very much alive. The is an old marketing saying that goes along the lines of bad press is better than no press at all.
I don’t think these a-holes realize that when they insult Palin, they are insulting 50-60% of the electorate.
I was too young at the time but I am told they did the same thing to Reagan. The media hates conservatives. I think one of the reasons is that if we had our way, the federal government would be a lot less important. State and local government would be the big deal to citizens where they live. The media likes big government, because the bigger the government, the bigger they are in covering it.
Keep going Sarah!
February 7th, 2010 | 12:15 am | #7
I’m not surprised. I take AP articles with a grain of salt.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:20 am | #8
Palin/Brown 2012——-Our Sarah and downtown Scottie Brown are going to kick Dem’s donkey butts!
February 7th, 2010 | 12:30 am | #9
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February 7th, 2010 | 12:44 am | #10
And they had to make sure that they used a still shot of her looking as worse as possible. The thing is that she did mentioned things she would do but they just try to ignore it and think that if they repeat it enough it will be the truth. Sadly, the non-thinking leftists do.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:52 am | #11
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February 7th, 2010 | 1:22 am | #12
This has become a Liestream Media requirement, remember the 2004 motto from ABC News? Posted on its own website.
“No Good news for Bush no bad news for Kerry” or something like that. That was the rule for them then.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:23 am | #13
Why does Sarah need answers, Obama is said to have them all. The things she said resonate with Republicans, many Independents and even moderate Democrats. If she received half the favorable coverage Obama has, people would know that her experience for the job is at least as much as his, and she is more in tune with the non-elites.
I would prefer a more experienced individual with Sarah’s views but, so far, no one has emerged. So go get ‘em Sarah and fill in your resume as you “give ‘em hell”.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:38 am | #14
The a** maggots from the Associated (with terrorists) Press crawled out of O’Dumbo’s a** long enough to write an article? Too bad 99% of everything they publish is lies. They must be in the running for the Dan ‘blather’ Rather media award.
February 7th, 2010 | 2:13 am | #15
This is truly ugly, predictable, regretful from Democrats pretending to be journalists.
Their pathetic political bigotry has enabled the worst, and debased some fine human beings.
However, Mr. Hoft, just wanted you to know, although I am so happy you appreciated Mrs. Palin’s speech, I was disappointed yet again by the former Governor.
Again, I like Mrs. Palin and her family, think of her as a positive. But, I grow weary with the fashion and the hype.
Mrs. Palin might be best at inspiring young American Women who are conservatives. Millions of Palin Fans who grow up someday, will lead to a better Nation. This would be great.
However, this speech was nothing new or exciting from Mrs. Palin. It was the same, practiced sound bite effort provided by Mrs. Palin pushing the new ‘conservative fashion’ she has adopted.
Who can forget, Mrs. Palin was a moderate reformer who embraced the McCain Maverick mantra – even provided problematic taxation in a populist manner on the Alaskan Oil Industry. The hype and image never matched the record.
Regardless, tonight we watched Mrs. Palin pushing the same fashion, including the unfair portrayal of the GOP, with hip talk about rebuilding the Party to return to it’s principles.
We have watched Mr. Hannity project the same fashion, which is a product of blowing by the winds which grew so reactionary after 2004, and debased our best interests in Washington. It was mostly hyperbolic nonsense, even this idea the GOP abandoned us.
GW, Reagan, etc., were outstanding. The Republican Party’s efforts in the Majority were far better than the popular fashion suggests. Just as we all are responsible for the Government in our Democracy, the cynical sideline expression grew quite juvenile after 2004, enabling the disastrous Democratic Party in 2006 and later for 2008.
And Mrs. Palin often has played to the fashion, even playing around with the vapid 3rd Party fantasies. Even during the last 2008 General Election, she and Mr. McCain bowed to much of this fashion, including a great deal of popular conceptions in regards to the GWOT – Iraq – including ‘waterboarding’.
I understand the need to defend a fine American in the face of the Democratic Partisan assualt, but I believe a true conservative remains objective and serious – including the reality of Mrs. Palin.
She has great potential, but so far, I find the fan fare far too overt. This evenings offering was the same let down.
I like the big hair, the dark tan, the smile, etc. She is attractive and a positive breath of fresh air in politics. But I don’t see any serious development in expression, message, etc.
Tonight’s speech was rather typical and lackluster. Great to challenge the Democratic Party folly, but for example, we all have heard the joke “how is that hope and change going for ya” many times from Mrs. Palin.
We see many still pushing a fashion, much like the FRED HEAD devotion. The best, like WFB, grew a movement on basis, facts, objectivity, reason, strength.
Tonight reminded me of a very bizarre gathering, that suggests some are taking advantage of an honest American protest movement known as the Tea Party Protests.
Mrs. Palin selling her speech at such a high rate, did not help matters. It is a show, pure celebrity peddling, for financial gain.
It is not really attractive or inspiring, and far from Presidential.
February 7th, 2010 | 2:33 am | #16
They have no shame … we’ll see them in November. Then we’ll see who’s got it right …
Meanwhile, hang tough Sarah. We love you, and I wish I had your courage and determination …
February 7th, 2010 | 3:06 am | #17
I was e-mailed the entire YouTubed clip not long after she’s finished speaking. What struck me after listening to Obama’s speech was the woman’s lack of ego. The almost total lack of pronouns made it so refreshing. Didn’t count the number of thank yous or the people she thanked – starting off with a member of the military. Yeah, AP her ideas are those of our Founding Fathers. News flash – Das Kapital and Mein Kampf aren’t original.
February 7th, 2010 | 3:16 am | #18
I was bothered also by the quotation marks around the words “God-given right” of freedom.
We can debate God if they’d like, but there’s no debating the right of freedom.
I posted about this too, and gave you and Founding Bloggers a hat tip for the lead to the AP story.
February 7th, 2010 | 3:20 am | #19
Gee….you don’t suppose that the part where Gov. Palin talked about returning America to being a God fearing country asking for Devine Intervention had anything to do with anything, do you?
Nah…AP is onboard with that agenda.
February 7th, 2010 | 3:30 am | #20
Sarah is “HOT” in that picture.
Thanks AP!
February 7th, 2010 | 3:31 am | #21
They (the Left, including AP and rest of the “MSM”) hate her, because they smell defeat by her capable hands.
February 7th, 2010 | 3:37 am | #22
Palin wasn’t campaigning for office. She wasn’t asked to come up with ideas or solutions. That’s not what the Tea Party organizers invited her to do. Tea Party voters will support candidates from any party who will work to reduce govt, reduce govt spending, reduce taxes and either have the track record to prove it or are new to politics yet have the knowledge and determination to do it. She said as much in her speech.
The AP, as well as some of the trolls posting comments here, don’t listen very well nor do they know how to review a speech that isn’t a campaign speech. (Which explains the rave reviews they give Obamao’s speeches as he’s in perpetual campaign mode.)
February 7th, 2010 | 4:38 am | #23
Associated Press = PINHEADS!
February 7th, 2010 | 6:14 am | #24
Ultimately, the left cannot prevail on a level playing field because so much of their agenda is predicated on illogical and non-Darwinian behaviors. Hence such transparently partisan propaganda. It would be hilarious if this pinhead pablum didn’t have traction among the more gullible.
February 7th, 2010 | 6:14 am | #25
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February 7th, 2010 | 6:16 am | #26
Don’t you just love her
February 7th, 2010 | 6:53 am | #27
AP = (A)Socialist Press
So was it good? Didnt get a chance to watch, spent most the day digging out of 24″ of snow. Kinda felt like digging through the BullSh!t the media gives me everyday.
February 7th, 2010 | 7:08 am | #28
Sarah called for market driven health care reform (as opposed to a government takeover of the health care system) coupled with tort reform.
Those are some important ideas as far as I am concerned; but I guess that doesn’t count with the AP.
February 7th, 2010 | 7:19 am | #29
The MSM needs to bet put on notice. Sarah Palin is no longer a politician, she’s a United State’s citizen. Just as with Joe the Plumber, people aren’t going to give them carte blanche and let them attack her as they did when she was campaigning.
Sooner, than later they are going to have to start walking a fine line on their reporting. They’re no longer going to be able to hold Obama up in to the sunlight and offer him up as some form of Messiah. The one mistake that Obama and the MSM made in the past couple of years is….they make the American people out to be stupid. The second, they think that we can’t think for ourselves. But when the truth comes out, and slowly but surely it is, THEY need us much more than WE need them. And when it’s all said and done Sarah and those that think as she does will prevail.
February 7th, 2010 | 7:27 am | #30
I love it.!!!
Sarah scares them so much they piss their pants. It’s very encouraging.
February 7th, 2010 | 7:55 am | #31
The MSM is doing it’s best to emulate the propaganda style of Josef Goebbels.
It would do them well to remember what happened to Josef Goebbels for that will be their fate.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:00 am | #32
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”- Gandhi
Looks like we are already at phase 3.
November will bring phase 4.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:14 am | #33
“I would prefer a more experienced individual with Sarah’s views but,…”.
I’d prefer someone with a Hell of a lot more experience than the one currently residing on Pennsylvania Avenue. She meets that criteria admirably.
I’ve noticed several commenters here (NOT the one I quoted) that appear to be trolls trying to be subtle (by damning with faint praise) while NEVER even noticing the absolute disaster that is in charge at the moment.
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February 7th, 2010 | 8:16 am | #34
Palin wasn’t campaigning for office. She wasn’t asked to come up with ideas or solutions.
Fine, but she invited criticism when she said “let’s get caught up in the big ideas.” Only one post in 32 so far (BurmaShave, #28) has been able to find any ideas in her speech, and those are barely sketches, without the slightest detail.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:25 am | #35
Palin knocked Obama for not keeping a campaign pledge he never should have made, to put health care negotiations on C-Span. In a perfect world that would have been a great idea. But the criticism is really rich coming from someone who conducted a great deal of state business in secret with her husband. It’s extra rich given that she contractually forbade her convention hosts from disclosing how much she was to be paid for her speech.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:37 am | #36
AP’s problem is that NO ONE is buying their left-wing news and EVERYONE is buying Sarah Palin’s book.
From Rush Limbaugh to FoxNews, conservative media is THRIVING. From CBSNews to the NYTimes, liberal media is GOING BROKE.
It reminds me of Obama. It is as if the NYTimes said, “We would rather report the news correctly and go broke than report it falsely and make money…”
Obama: “I would rather be a good one-term President than a mediocre two -term president”.
Both statements, of course, are complete non-sequitors. If you report the truth you WILL make money (FoxNews) and if you are a good president, you WILL be re-elected.
It just exposes the bizarro-world way the left thinks.
P.S., Last example. They call themselves “Progressives” but there is nothing “progressive” about their political philosophy. It is just a rehash of Marxism that has failed terribly every time it has been tried.
My question is, do they actually BELIEVE what they are telling us or do they KNOW they are lying?
February 7th, 2010 | 8:39 am | #37
wow, the rebuttals here against Palin are exceptionally weak.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:39 am | #38
I hope that Sarah Palin does NOT run for office again. I believe she is far more powerful as the right’s version of Oprah than as a politician.
In her role now, she can always speak the truth. If she becomes a politician, there will be great pressure to compromise her values.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:41 am | #39
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February 7th, 2010 | 8:46 am | #40
My question is, do they actually BELIEVE what they are telling us or do they KNOW they are lying?,/i>
That’s what I wonder in regards to both the hard left, and to you folks. CBS and the NY Times are not struggling financially because they’re liberal but because they’re old media. And the Washington Times recently had to cease publishing its print edition.
February 7th, 2010 | 8:47 am | #41
SOOOO, limited government, our God given right to freedom, and adherence to the Constitution are not “BIG” ideas to the lefty anti-Americans? These cretins in the so-called press haven’t insulted Mrs Palin…..they have come out in bold, blatant opposition to EVERYTHING the Founders stood for, EVERYTHING our brave vets have fought and given their lives for, and EVERYTHING any honest, actual American supports. The marxists in the propaganda-driven press are an obscenity. They are predictable as an obamster speech…..”Bush did it.” Sheesh.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:02 am | #42
bear, do you think limited government and what you see as adherence to the Constitution and the Founders’ idea of freedom will magically solve all our problems? How will they help us in Iraq? How will they help people losing their homes because they’ve lost their jobs? The country has problems that have only grown worse under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
Palin gave us her principles (and we already knew what they were). Perhaps those are the “big ideas” she alluded to. But they aren’t even plausible solutions until they’re fleshed out.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:06 am | #43
Such illumination from the witless, Lame Screed Media is to be expected….
February 7th, 2010 | 9:14 am | #44
This is why they attack her:
(Mild content warning)
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=16646
February 7th, 2010 | 9:22 am | #45
Sarah Palin will not run for POTUS. Her role will be Kingmaker and Rainmaker.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:25 am | #46
Wilson: “You Lie!”
Breitbart: “You Suck!”
To Palin: “You Rock!”
Brevity is the soul of wit.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:33 am | #47
Since the AP is nothing more than a group of partisan hacks, any additional Freedom of Speech protections and privileges they enjoy as “members of the press” should be extended to all.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:35 am | #48
Ken,
Are you really looking for “majical” solutions to problems, or are your rhetoricalanties a little too tight today?
Smaller federal government isn’t majic. Smaller government encompases reduced taxes, reduced regulation, reduced deficits.
If taxes are reduced, people spend MORE. If people spend MORE, the private sector hires MORE people. If it’s cheaper to do business, people do more business. If people do more business the government raises more revenue.
ThAT’S A BIG IDEA. It was an idea that was proofed, in a peer reviewed study, called the Regan Revolution.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:40 am | #49
It’s Sunday and I’m going to pray for smarter trolls. Is that too much to ask?
February 7th, 2010 | 9:48 am | #50
Ken, (It’s truly nice to have a troll back in here, where did you guys hide during the Scott Brown victory? Dosen’t hanging out at Huffpo get a little tedious?)
So, let me get this straight: Obama shouldn’t have to defend his C-SPAN reneg, because he shouldn’t have made it. BUT, if you notice this, then everything you have done, ever, is held up to the standard RahmObama can’t adhere to?
And while we’re on the topic, why do lefties always act like they can win an argument, if they can spot any contradiction, (real or imagined),to any current or historical Republican or conservative? It makes no sense to me. Lefties just can’t argue a point about their politicians/ideologies w/o trying to point out Bush, Regan, Eisenhower etc. did it too, did it worse etc.
-SOCIALISM, don’t let 100 years of failure stop you now.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:53 am | #51
KEN, free market capitalism works every time it is tried. This IS the magic bullet. No policy by either party other than getting goverment out of the way has worked. Unintended consequences of goverment policies just gum up the works.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:56 am | #52
I just got done reading the AP article a little while ago and laughed when I clicked over to this blog, because the article headline summed up exactly what went through my head after reading MSM’s piece of garbage they consider journalism. Awful hit piece is right! Have they no shame? No, no, none at all, but that’s O.K., because maybe we can do the same thing the left does, except in a positive way. We’ll keep the focus on her as a distraction, while we come up with our solutions that will counteract the America hating progressive agenda.
February 7th, 2010 | 10:31 am | #53
AP is a news media that you have to subsidize because it is so trashy and brain-dead.
February 7th, 2010 | 10:47 am | #54
Haaa… HuffPo’s running story of Sarah’s Tea Party address & her own version of BHO’s teleprompter.. check out her palm:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446255/posts
February 7th, 2010 | 11:13 am | #55
This guy says it all for me.
“Sure, there was some of the old school tea party rhetoric in there for flavor but, for a keynote address to a movement that at its inception was very radical, there was nothing radical about Sarah Palin’s speech. It was derivative circa 2004 neoconservatism as far as I could tell.”
“But the media now have their definition of what it means to be Tea Party. This convention gave them simplistic nativism, birtherism, media bashing, homophobia, and a heavy does of neoconservative foreign policy.”
“That is the image of tea partydom that Judson Phillips poured out to the eager media this weekend and is now percolating through the many channels of mass and new media.”
http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2010/02/07/the-begining-of-the-end-sarah-palin-hijacks-the-tea-party-movement/
February 7th, 2010 | 11:15 am | #56
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February 7th, 2010 | 11:24 am | #57
Sequoia, Obama should not have made that C-Span pledge, and he deserves criticism for it now. But Palin is the pot calling the kettle black, and when you knock him without knocking her for the same hypocrisy, so are you.
And while we’re on the topic, why do lefties always act like they can win an argument, if they can spot any contradiction, (real or imagined),to any current or historical Republican or conservative.
Win an argument? See above — I just criticized them both. But who was trying to win an argument by noting a contradiction last night? Hint: she wants to be president.
February 7th, 2010 | 11:34 am | #58
Obama Misplaying the “Birther” Card
At one level, Obama and his supporters have played the “Birther” issue brilliantly. By refusing to release his birth certificate and by equating a demand that Obama release his birth certificate with being a racist, Obama has created the single most toxic charge that can be leveled in current politics.
The Birther card is the new race card, trotted out under strained circumstances in an attempt to discredit political opponents.
We saw this tactic directed by prominent left-wing bloggers against Scott Brown based on demonstrably false factual premises. Brown never questioned whether Obama was born in Hawaii, never raised the issue, and never spoke about the issue, yet was accused of being a Birther.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/02/obama-misplaying-birther-card.html
February 7th, 2010 | 11:44 am | #59
Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 8:16 am | #34
Fine, but she invited criticism when she said “let’s get caught up in the big ideas.” Only one post in 32 so far (BurmaShave, #28) has been able to find any ideas in her speech, and those are barely sketches, without the slightest detail.
Talk about looking for something to criticize and ignoring the truth of what she said, which is a favorite practice of you and your ilk (i.e., Lefties making believe that they are moderates). The “they invited criticism” canard is laughable considering you grab onto anything to criticize when it’s a conservative making a speech then justify your criticism with biases and flawed “reasoning.”
She’s making a speech as a private citizen, not an elected official that needs to provide specifics for a bill they introduce or support. Or would you rather have someone like Obama, who provided some specific ideas and details during the ’08 campaign then ignored or changed many of those ideas and details after he took office when reality interceded? To me, you’re judging her, like much of the media continues to do, with much more scrutiny than any Democrat or even many other Republicans. I don’t completely understand this hatred for the woman, especially since she has no direct influence over your life since she’s not an elected official at the federal level, but it continues unabated by those that dislike her.
February 7th, 2010 | 11:48 am | #60
Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 8:46 am | #40
That’s what I wonder in regards to both the hard left, and to you folks. CBS and the NY Times are not struggling financially because they’re liberal but because they’re old media. And the Washington Times recently had to cease publishing its print edition.
You do realize that being liberal AND old media are not mutually exclusive reasons for the problems of media outlets like the NY Times, Boston Globe, etc. I think both are valid reasons for their substantial problems, especially in a country that leans moderate-to-right. Dailies like the NY Times, Boston Globe, etc., have always leaned left but the 2008 election certainly illustrated how biased the reporting of many mainstream media truly is. I don’t think we have ever seen more bias from those media outlets than we saw in ’08 when they were doing their very best to help Obama get elected.
February 7th, 2010 | 11:57 am | #61
Like the song goes, the freaks come out at night…especially after Sarah Palin does or says anything.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:02 pm | #62
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February 7th, 2010 | 12:15 pm | #63
Slappy, when a private citizen says we need to do such and such and then does no such thing, she’s open for criticism. And I criticize Obama for plenty of things. You guys are the kneejerk partisans, not me. And I dislike her so much because she is a political force and a malign one.
And again, if you attribute the problems of left-leaning media outfits in part to their liberalism, then to be consistent, and not just a kneejerk partisan, you have to say that one reason the Washington Times folded they’re print edition is is that they’re arch-conservative.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:20 pm | #64
Chisum,
It’s sad but true. Obama has given ample reason for thoughtful people to wonder what he’s hiding since he’s made a priority of keeping his records locked up, and since parts of his known past are unsavory, and since there are grounds to believe that at some point(s) in the past he held citizenship from other countries, and since the stripped-down COLB posted at his campaign website had to be pulled and replaced with a better effort.
Then, anybody who speculates accordingly and asks for the evidence that he meets the minimal qualifications is met with the magic, all-purpose race card that is pulled out whenever this horrible president is treated with less than fawning devotion. Added to it is the sneering charge that it’s insane to keep asking questions that have never been satisfactorily answered.
It’s a little like the scenario with Vince Foster (et al.) under Clinton: There’s a list of odd particulars that don’t add up to the official line, yet the “smart set,” including now most establishment Republicans, has pronounced it crazy to keep asking questions—without ever answering the questions.
Echoes of “the science is settled.”
February 7th, 2010 | 12:22 pm | #65
Chisum, Brown was not accused of being a birther. It was pointed out, however, that in 2008 he had questioned whether Obama was born in wedlock.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:46 pm | #66
Chisum, Brown was not accused of being a birther. It was pointed out, however, that in 2008 he had questioned whether Obama was born in wedlock.
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Ken, you have presented me with a conundrum.
Who to believe, you or Professor Jacobson?
Hmm, what to do…what to do?
February 7th, 2010 | 12:46 pm | #67
She is the whipping post for the liberal media. She has galvanized them. They don’t have George Bush to kick around as much, so they’ve gone to her. If she can withstand the jihad the liberal media has declared against her, so much the better for Conservatism. Rush and Glenn are subject to it as well. What I can’t fathom is the misogyny on the part of the liberal media. It started even farther back than Hillary. I remember the mistreatment of Geraldine Ferraro. When a woman is a serious contender the liberal media is out to prove otherwise. The Feminist Movement is full of hypocrites. That’s a movement that is in disarray. Meanwhile, Sara is the face of Middle America–the great “flyover” part of the U.S.A.. We should all be very grateful for such a brave representative of us. She is a Joan of Arc to me.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:51 pm | #68
Mrs. Palin selling her speech at such a high rate, did not help matters. It is a show, pure celebrity peddling, for financial gain.
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brooklyn, Sarah Palin did not sell the speech. She was a major attraction for those who share the Tea Party philosophy of states’ rights, smaller government, more individual responsibility, and morality.
The speech money has been plowed back into the movement. People who think that having any money at all to cover the necessary expenses of such a gathering are being overly critical.
If you want to criticize political expenditures, paybacks, and cronyism, just look to Obama and his fraudulently funded campaign.
We’re on a roll and hacks who want to parrot MSM criticisms can visit HuffPo.
February 7th, 2010 | 12:59 pm | #69
Chisum, if someone called Brown a birther, please quote him. But don’t pretend he was representative of the Left in general unless you have a bunch more quotes.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:03 pm | #70
Here you go, cupcake.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/01/coakley-supporters-fabricate-birther.html
Btw, why don’t you go troll somewhere else.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:05 pm | #71
Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:15 pm | #63
Slappy, when a private citizen says we need to do such and such and then does no such thing, she’s open for criticism. And I criticize Obama for plenty of things. You guys are the kneejerk partisans, not me. And I dislike her so much because she is a political force and a malign one.
First of all, I’m no “kneejerk partisan,” but nice try at projection. Second, you are going to find something to criticize her for, no matter what, as evidenced by you taking one small excerpt from her speech and basing your main criticism on it. Third, as for your criticisms of Obama, could you please provide a few that are on the level of the ones you’re tossing out against Palin? Lastly, you “dislike her so much because she is a political force and a malign one”? In addition to many conservatives, many moderates (you know, those like you claim to be) feel the same way about Obama. What are your thoughts on that?
Ken
February 7th, 2010 | 12:15 pm | #63
And again, if you attribute the problems of left-leaning media outfits in part to their liberalism, then to be consistent, and not just a kneejerk partisan, you have to say that one reason the Washington Times folded they’re print edition is is that they’re arch-conservative.
No, you don’t have to say that. Your hypothesis illustrates flawed (and biased) logic. The problems faced by a niche newspaper like the Washington Times are not necessarily due to political ideology. The Washington Times is a newspaper geared toward conservatives, while the NY Times and other large dailies are geared toward the whole public, regardless of political ideology. The New York Times is losing conservatives because of not just the liberal bias on the editorial page, but in their regular news reporting, which turns off conservatives and many moderates. Certainly, the whole newspaper industry is hurting due to changing consumer habits and the proliferation of free online news. But the degree of problems are certainly more severe among the big mainstream publications like the NY Times, which have an organizational structure built upon having circulation rates 10-15 times that of the Washington Times. Perhaps you would see that if you weren’t trying so hard to provide support for your flawed argument.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:08 pm | #72
Chisum, everything there is about just what I said, whether Obama was born in wedlock, not about where he was born.
Slappy, I’ll get to what you wrote a little later.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:12 pm | #73
Please by all means let the MSM continue to bully this woman. Haven’t they learned yet? The more they bully Sarah Palin the more popular she becomes. She delivered an excellent speech at the Tea Party Conference and if the MSM were to be honest she was more presidential then President Obama has been in his most recent appearances including his SOTU. The MSM continues to criticize her but what they fail to understand is we are on to their LACK of criticism of President Obama. The truth be told? Intelligent people have begun to see the double standard the MSM represents and quite frankly they are sick of it. In fact I will go so far to say they are helping the tea party movement.After awhile the crowd always turns on the bully and I believe the American people have begun to turn on MSM.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:27 pm | #74
Ken #69
“Now, we find out that similar to the fringe birthers movement, he’s raised questions about President Barack Obama’s birth.” DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz said.
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In addition,
“Ask them, ‘Do you believe Barack Obama [is a] citizen of the United States?’” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
The Democrats are going to try to connect the birther controversy with conservative candidates in an attempt to discredit one or both.
February 7th, 2010 | 1:34 pm | #75
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Cassandra @ 12:20 pm #64
re: [Echoes of “the science is settled.”]
ingenious!! thumbsup
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February 7th, 2010 | 2:19 pm | #76
Arguing with idiots . . . request for new trolls.
February 7th, 2010 | 3:47 pm | #77
Liz Sidoti, who wrote the piece, is generally a disgruntled human. The gal’s just plain unhappy and spiteful. I am seriously surprised whe is smiling on her press pass.
February 7th, 2010 | 5:14 pm | #78
brooklyn
February 7th, 2010 | 2:13 am | #15
Aaaaaannd, we have a winner (whiner?)!!!
CONCERN TROLL OF THE DAY.
Thank you so much for that. It was quite well done; with only a few slipups in your presentation.
A bit wordy, but still a solid 9.0 for execution and an 8.5 just for showing up.
February 7th, 2010 | 6:00 pm | #79
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brooklyn @ 2:13 am #15
perhaps the GOP could run a perfected oratorical robot that tells
US everything we want to hear in a tone we want to hear it..
oh wait, the Dems done did that already..
and to everyone’s dismay, it didn’t work..
albeit she’s imperfect, fact is, Sarah is real..
and that is what we love about her above
all else.. she doesn’t come off as a phony..
just to make a point.. Sarah is like scotch, as it is said to be an acquired
taste.. in Sarah we find a taste of what America truly stands for vs the
rest of the drunk on themselves beer slugging politicians..
(disclaimer: as a youth i drank, couldn’t
stand scotch, loved my beer though.. :-)
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February 7th, 2010 | 6:23 pm | #80
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Ken,
i know it’s your job to distract..
not only by making false accusations, but personally chastising us for not living up to your great expectations.. all of which is a means for you to get us to focus on your tree/s of discontent vs us keeping our eye on the relevant tree/s being discussed..
guess what..
your unsubstantiated accusations & opinions
are trees of irrelevancy in my forest..
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February 7th, 2010 | 6:24 pm | #81
She gave no ideas? I watched her Chris Wallace interview and she had several, starting with she wasn’t their leader. Also she believed it should be a ground up campaign to get new people and new core ideas up to national politics. Neither one of these concepts puts her in a position where she should have to “come up with ideas of her own.” Anyone who has ever listened to her knows what her belief system entails. The left is stupid and blind, by choice.
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