Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Sarah Palin verses the Mainstream Media

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by training, was the first to give the recent phenomena in American politics a name; he called it the “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” Krauthammer describes this affliction as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay — the very existence of George W. Bush.”


This disorder is not limited to President Bush, an earlier equally virulent strain affected many Republicans during the Clinton administration. The virus appears to be spreading beyond the White House and now you can see outbreaks in the media as well as politics. If you are at a cocktail party where the attendees have mixed political views, the mere mention of Dan Rather or Rush Limbaugh can send the host scrambling to pack away the breakables.


Move over boys; there is a new player in town. Meet Sarah Palin.


The Mainstream Media (MSM) has trouble hiding their personal preference for democrats in normal times and the unexpected selection of Governor Palin to be John McCain’s running mate has caused them to drop any pretense of impartiality. Need proof? Do a Google search for “hate Palin” and you get 8.6 MILLION sites.


In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin, Cathy Young observed:

Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher. Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.

On Salon.com last week, Cintra Wilson branded her a "Christian Stepford Wife" and a "Republican blow-up doll." Wendy Doniger, religion professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, added on the Washington Post blog, "Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman."

The same folks who would have branded as a Neanderthal anyone who suggested that Nancy Pelosi was a bad mother for trying to be a congresswoman while raising her 5 kids; firmly believes Palin should be headed back to Wasilla instead of to Washington.


Those who would have needed smelling salts if Barack Obama’s personal email had been hacked by the son of an elected Republican, instead demanded to know why she – like millions of other Americans -- had a private Yahoo account? What was she hiding?


While the MSM has ignored the sweetheart deal the Obamas got on their home from a convicted embezzler; they demand to know more about a tanning bed which was installed in the Governor’s mansion which Palin bought with her own money.


These same people think Michelle Obama – despite actively campaigning for her husband – is off limits, while attacking Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter and new born son is fair game. Apparently “Palin Derangement,” in addition to causing a total loss of reason and logic, also causes the moral compass to malfunction as well.


The saddest thing for the MSM, all of these wild eyed, frothing at the mouth attacks on what appears to be a perfectly nice lady you would love to have as next door neighbor are only making them look angry and, well, demented. Palin’s popularity has been going up while the MSM approval rating has slid below used car salesmen and trial lawyers. With the internet and cable news, the MSM has lost its monopoly on the news outlets and they don’t like it one bit and its desperation is starting to show.


This Sunday the Associated Press, after weeks of digging, found, at least in their minds, the smoking gun. While Palin didn’t have her political career launched in the living room of an admitted terrorist or be #2 in political cash received from Fanny Mae whose corruption is a major cause of the current financial mess or even have her spouse's salary tripled as soon as it was clear a senate seat was at hand, she did get....wait for it... a free facial! But it gets worse. The AP has irrefutable proof that Sarah Palin, while Mayor of Wasilla, also received a bouquet of flowers and some fresh salmon.


The AP’s paper trail consists of copies of “Thank You” notes Sarah sent to the people who had given her the personal gifts. What an awful woman.


If you want to have some fun, here are links to videos of some of the more outrageous attacks on Sarah Palin and some of her most eloquent defenses.


From the Mainstream Media

Why does Sarah Palin hate women? “ABC News

NBC Sarah Palin Fact Check (Clue: She's Lying)

MSNBC “Fact: Sarah Palin is Stupid”

CNN’s Jack Cafferty Tells Us How He Really Feels About Sarah Palin

Roland Martin of CNN Goes Off on Sarah Palin


From Hollywood

(Note we didn’t include a link to infamous Sandra Bernhard’s video where she wished Sarah Palin would be sexually assaulted by a gang of Blacks in Manhattan. After deleting out the vulgarities there was less than a handful of words left from her diatribe.)

Matt Damon Rips Sarah Palin

“The View” Gets Heated Over Sarah Palin

Stars Slamming SARAH PALIN: Politically Hollywood! (CNN)


Palin’s Defenders

There are still those that will point out the Mainstream Media’s hypocrisy

The Media Lies about Palin Fox News

The Extreme Liberal Bias of Journalism Today Dennis Prager

Fred Thompson Slams Media on Palin Attacks

Rush (Limbaugh’s) Comments on the Media Treatment of Gov. Palin


This week is the Vice Presidential Debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Any bets the MSM hasn’t already been searching their thesaurus for new ways to say “unqualified” and “stupid” without sounding too biased or sexist?

4 comments:

Daryl-Hunter said...

It is funny that those in the MSM are so apoplectic over Palin, until you consider what damage they do in the course of their irrational and partisan behavior.

David Rupert said...

I loved what she said about Other People's money -- and our addiction to OPM. Very true.

Here's a blog post talking about that.

She's the real deal. I dont care if she's not as suave as Obama/Biden. Where has suave got us?

David Rupert said...

Here's the OPM blog post

http://redletterbelievers.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-opm-addiction.html

Anonymous said...

Palin is clearly unqualified to be Vice President, not to mentioned a heartbeat away from becoming the leader of our country.