Roundtable: Palin’s Mama Grizzlies: Are they real? Is she real in 2012? (Video)
The British got caught up in the *First Black President* hype - right along with the UK press. It was a case of mistaken identity: They thought we had elected Denzel Washington as POTUS.
Because all Presidents, since WWI & WWII have been British boosters (Democrat & Republican) - Obama’s removal of Churchill’s bust was the wake-up call.
He shoulda never dissed the bulldog!!!!! It’s gonna get real ugly.
Reality is finally sinking in; they have no chioce but to take her seriously.
Reality is finally sinking in; they have no choice but to take her seriously.
"For nearly two years this man, together with his fellow Telegraph hack Toby Harnden, has totally belittled and trivialised Palin as an irrelevant airhead with quotes from the usual run of Republican “consultants” to buttress his disdain for The ’Cuda.
Spillius and Harnden, even though resident in the USA have never, to my knowledge, made any attempt to use actual shoeleather to research Palin or sought to arrange an interview. Instead they have been content to parrot talking points from the NYT and WaPo or dinner party put downs from the great and the good of the Beltway."
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"An article like this in the UK’s top selling broadsheet is important on two levels. Firstly, for the Brits, it allows a foreign audience to see Palin as a serious political figure rather than a one minute wonder out of a Jerry Springer show.
But it has a much deeper significance for the USA. Spillius, Harnden and Co. purvey gossip and rumour from the political players of DC and their hangers on. For Spillius to write something like this means that there has been a shift of the tectonic plates.
Washington has started to take Sarah Palin much more seriously – and it’s beginning to show…".
Why didn’t you link to The Daily Telegraph, rather than some useless wordy blog?
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