rssA Threat to Hockey Moms Everywhere
Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 6:11 pm
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who hasn’t been “America’s most popular governor” for a few months now, has drawn her first Democratic challenger for re-election.
Bob Poe, a former state commissioner and past president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., is the first to announce for the race. Republican Gov. Sarah Palin hasn’t said for sure whether she plans to run for re-election.
Poe, asked why he’s announcing so early, said it gives him time to get out and meet voters. He cited a comment in the Alaska Ear, which, reporting on rumors he would run, suggested the first thing that people would ask is, “Who’s Bob Poe?”
Palin is still popular, mind you: Her approval rating is 60 percent, and as much as 51 percent of Alaska wants her to win a second term. That’s just way, way down from approval ratings that once topped 80 percent.
At the least, Poe might spur Palin to spend more time governing and less time belly-aching about how the media mistreated her.
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Comment posted January 8, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
What the MSM tried to do to Palin was much more disturbing than “mistreatment”. It was more like how the press operates in authoritarian regimes. Here's about a dozen of the smears they tried:
http://24ahead.com/s/sarah-palin-smear
And, here's a recent post about Dave Weigel's lack of journalistic skills and about how you can't trust what David Weigel tells you:
http://24ahead.com/senator-david-vitter-mislead…
Why won't Weigel do something as simple as picking up the phone and calling Hawaii to try to get them to confirm his (published) assumptions? Is he afraid he won't get invited to the inaugural or something?
Comment posted January 10, 2009 @ 1:14 pm
What the media did to Sarah Palin was more like media rape.
Comment posted March 26, 2009 @ 11:05 pm
I personlay think media should respect women, for that matter any human being. 'Treat others as you would want others treat on to you'. As a mom we have to strive hard to impose good behaviour in our kids. I am part of bizymoms washington communcity. http://www.bizymoms.com/washington/index.php The large mom community would love to comment on this article.
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