rssThere’s No Crying in Baseball
Friday, January 09, 2009 at 10:06 am
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I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden victory was the right to not listen to Sarah Palin. Watching it now, though, is jarring.
The through-line of the Palin iconography that materialized on the campaign trail like some kind of Michael Crichton virus was that Sarah Palin was tough. She toted guns! She could field dress a moose! “I believe [McCain] will follow Bin Laden whether it’s to the caves of Afghanistan or to the gates of hell,” said Mike Huckabee, “and… Sarah Palin will be right behind him, carrying a couple hockey sticks.” What, indeed, was the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
The Palin that shows up in the Ziegler interview, though, is … how to put this? A wimp.
Two months after losing the election, she’s still smarting and bitter and naming names. While I usually hate the “but what if X did this?” trope, imagine what the reaction would be if Sen. John Kerry, John Edwards or Al Gore sat for post-election interviews in which they griped about how mean and unfair the media was, and how it shouldn’t have gone after their personal lives. Heck, imagine if Sen. John McCain did that, calling Keith Olbermann “evil” (as Palin does). I’m not even getting to the hypocrisy of Palin kvetching post-facto about Saturday Night Live when she couldn’t sprint fast enough to New York to appear on the show.
Yes, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cried that one time in New Hampshire, but it’s equally hard to imagine her agreeing to do a name-calling interview about all the bad coverage she got. A decent politician would have grappled with the media on the spot, as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher frequently did, or just let the issue rest.
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Comment posted January 9, 2009 @ 9:26 am
she is not crying she made a point on how the media is in the tank for dem. everything she said is true the ones who are crying foul are the media trying to make lame excuses saying they did not . the media is just a talking point attack dog for the dem liberal media cbs abc cnn ect the same not news liberal crap the liberal news only has on way to go as most see it as one sidded crap there ratings are tanking the liberal news papers are all bankrupt wile fox is doing great
Comment posted January 9, 2009 @ 9:32 am
look at this days related post they are attack libr dogs
Comment posted January 9, 2009 @ 10:10 am
Palan (SarahSixPack.com) has a future in national politics, but whining about the media ain’t gonna help her. She’s still got a bully pulpit (that is, the media is still covering her), so she should be talking about substantive issues.
Comment posted January 9, 2009 @ 10:41 am
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Palin and her bid.
The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a 'Post Turtle'.”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'Post Turtle' was.
The old rancher said, “When you're driving down a country road you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'Post Turtle'.”
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. “You know she didn't get up there by herself, she don't belong up there, she don't know what to do while she's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dummy put her up there to begin with.”
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Comment posted January 9, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
So you're saying that Fox, a news network run by and for Republicans, which is run by GHW Bush' campaign manager, caught running GOP talking points lists as daily emphasis points, is actually an honest news broker? The drugs must be working. Fox News is designed to scare little old ladies and granpas into the old folks' home when they repeat the crazy lies they tell on the news, because only daffy but charming elderly people and mentally handicapped adults watch that network besides as a laugh. Look at their demographics-it's the scare gramma network. The other news networks are just slightly less Republican than the owners, managers, and editors. There is not much liberal media out there, at all.
My governor is a big sissy crybaby.
Comment posted January 17, 2009 @ 6:21 am
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