Posted on 05/02/2011 2:09:32 PM PDT by curth
In their ongoing crusade to target and silence decent, everyday Americans as racists, some in the MSM love to use the term dog-whistle in order to ascribe racial motives to words like, say, basketball. Well, lately Ive been hearing a dog-whistle of my own a dog-whistle of the journ-o-list variety that tells me that in their relentless campaign to destroy Sarah Palin and undercut her as a serious political force, the MSM is preparing to up the ante when it comes to using the Governors own family and children as a political weapon against her.
First, a little background
Why the Media Whips Up the Palin-Fury
Watching the MSM react to Governor Palin over the last few years has been an illuminating crash course in Alinsky 101. Like elite, elbow-patched community organizers, the media collectively targets, polarizes, demonizes and intentionally creates a perpetual storm of personal drama around the Governor in the hopes of exhausting even those of us who support her. I call it whipping up the Palin-Fury.
This is a common tactic from the Left, but one we usually see played out in the streets with the idea being to so toxify the atmosphere that decent people give up the fight and go home just to get away from the awfulness of it all. The last few months of ugly and relentless pro-union protests in Wisconsin though a failure for the left were a textbook example of this. However, when it comes to Governor Palin, what were seeing is this tactic practiced by almost every objective news outlet in America.
Unfortunately, though an important part of it, this goes beyond reporting everything Levi Johnston says and does. A more visceral example is what we saw unfold in the wake of those January murders in Tucson.
(Excerpt) Read more at bigjournalism.com ...
btt
Orwell called it the 2 min hate.
God's angels will help her when she needs it.
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