… David Harsanyi of the Denver Post mentions a few things they have yet to vet.
There’s nothing wrong, for instance, with The Associated Press assigning a crack team of investigative journalists to sift through every word of Palin’s book, “Going Rogue” (HarperCollins, November 2009) for inaccuracies. You only wish similarly methodical muckraking was applied to President Barack Obama’s two self-aggrandizing tomes — or even the health care or cap and trade bills, for that matter.
The widely read blogger and purveyor of all truth, Andrew Sullivan, was impelled to blog 17 times on the subject of Palin on the same day Americans learned that the Obama administration awarded $6.7 billion in stimulus money to non-existent congressional districts — which did not merit a single mention. To see what is in front of one’s nose demands a constant struggle, I guess.
I guess. Sarah Palin’s book – like her life – is getting the full treatment. It started when she became the vice presidential nominee and hundreds of reporters from the lower 48 descended on her hometown of Wasilla and Alaska’s capital with shovels and axes to grind. The very liberals who hoist all this coverage on her turn around and lament her for it. Never mind the attention was enough to get a loon to try and burn down her church.
Newsweek must have a point. Palin is a populist dead end. “Just over half of Americans,” a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds, “have an unfavorable opinion” of Palin overall, “as many say they wouldn’t consider supporting her for president and more — six in 10 — see her as unqualified for the job.”
Similarly, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation recently found that 48 percent disapprove of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a woman busy writing policy that affects all of us. Does this not require a “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Nancy?” headline from the venerable magazine?
Maybe it would help if Pelosi looked like Palin, but most likely Pelosi would be in the White House right now if that were the case. The difference?
Today, though, there is little doubt the left is using her to create ugly stereotypes and attack limited-government types across the country.
Which is what it comes down to. Palin’s background – and her looks – make her dangerous because she could become an effective salesmen, something the right doesn’t have right now and probably won’t have as long as the media is allowed to defenestrate up-and-coming Republicans before they walk on stage.
Some things make me wish I was still in management at my former Associated Press paper. I would have loved calling up the state office and asking how many reporters they have uncovering health care and cap and trade – Threedonia probably has more.
They hate Sarah Palin because she’s an ordinary citizen; she’s one of us. she doesn’t have a Yale or Harvard pedigree, nor has she spent her time in the upper East Side, nor has she lived in Hyde Park, or in DC…What they do to Sarah is expressive of what they think of the rest of us.
And this is from a so-called elite that is monumentally illiterate, innumerate and utterly ignorant of history. They have their opinions only and they all agree with each other and that’s all they need.
In the end, I truly hope elitism will die… a very painful death.
I hope “elitism” changes definitions — back to the Founders (and Martin Luther King’s too) version — the content of ones character and not the color of one’s skin, height of their penthouse or last name on their business card.
Thanks,John,for mentioning Andrew Sullivan…I do need to buy some fruitcakes for Christmas
Amazing. Here is a woman who holds no public office, is not running for one, and yet gets the press version of a body cavity search. What is it about this woman that so terrifies the Left and their Renfields in the media?
Spot on,Kevin…the MSM is just about a bunch of libs jerking each other off.And now Newsweek photoshops Sarah Palin
If this liberal scum think that they hear a thunder on the right,they better get ready for some lightning come 2010
It struck me today, and I don’t know if this comparison has been mentioned before, but Sarah Palin is our Elliot Ness. After jumping through several hoops to get my two boys swine flue vaccines, I decided my doctor’s office reminded me of a speak-easy. I had to talk them into giving the vaccine to one, since he wasn’t considered high risk. This is a preview of what’s to come under the public option. Well-meaning and even not so well-meaning folk push for federal intervention under the pretense of “helping” people, and it ends being a corrupt, inefficient, abusive and wasteful disaster. Liberals who promoted gov’t expansion and over-regulation and left-leaning evangelicals pursuing one of many social gospel movements paved the way toward Prohibition. The same type of ideologues that support gov’t-run healthcare supported the Temperance movement. The “public option” is our modern day Prohibition. Curious that Chicago thugs exploited Prohibition for personal gain, and now Chicago thugs have infiltrated our federal gov’t. Whether she pursues public office or not, Palin is our Elliot Ness, and it’s time to gather some more “Untouchables.”
Feminists hate real women. The elitists despise real people. JS Lawlin commented “Here is a woman who holds no public office, is not running for one, and yet gets the press version of a body cavity search.” Don’t forget about Joe the Plumber’s cavity search – he got the treatment too. Private citizens are the enemy of Obama’s administration.
Rush is a regular recipient of this sort of treatment too. Remember Harry Reid asking Rush’s syndication partners to censor him from the senate floor? Then there’s the more recent example of the NFL piling on.
Sarah Palin’s snubbing by elitists is a battle in the larger culture war.
Well said, Widow. There is a cultural war going on. Not between us dumb hicks and intellectuals, as the press declares, but between elitists (most of them elite only in their own mind) and those of us who live in the real world. The elitists use the word “populism” in a tone of contempt to explain why we don’t prostrate ourselves at the very name of Obama; why we resist overt attempts to socialize our economy; why we “cling” to our guns and religion. What’s wrong with Kansas, the elitists say. I say there’s nothing wrong with Kansas, and I have a better name for populism – Common Sense.
“There is a cultural war going on. Not between us dumb hicks and intellectuals, as the press declares, but between elitists (most of them elite only in their own mind) and those of us who live in the real world.”
Excellent! I couldn’t have said it better myself, JS. The majority of people in the US will lead average lives, which some people might consider a pejorative. I do not. Being ‘average’ is no shame.
I’ve had a lot of discussions with my husband and friends about what makes a person a ‘hick’. Some people say it’s education and some people say it’s income. Others say it’s where one lives. Some people seem to narrow it down to consumer choices: shopping at WalMart, Target and watching NASCAR.
I still don’t know why some people have such contempt for other human beings. It really boils down to prejudices based on: locality, shopping, income and education. This is a bigotry that is perfectly acceptable in mainstream culture.
Well said JS and Widow (and everyone else for that matter). This is what makes the left sound so hollow when they champion “diversity”. They are quite happy to put you into a box – so they can sneer at you – if you shop at WalMart, watch NASCAR, hunt, go to church, or happen to be a strong, attractive woman who speaks her mind. (Among other sins).