Mr. Heffernen's other beliefs.
Posted on 05/01/2010 12:43:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tim Heffernen meditates on the question that's irrelevant for anything but drawing in traffic and blog comments: whether Sarah Palin will run for president. He doubts it, and his first reason is the best:
"For starters, the tactics Palin is using at this moment only work for the person whom she actually is at this moment. She is not running for anything, is not holding an office, is not speaking for any specific group. So she can hide from the press, ignore questions, or remain silent, and tell her version of the story without fear of it being challenged. And since, undeniably, she's a newsworthy person, whenever she's in X town speaking before Y people about Z miracle child/anger/patriotism/hunting skill, that gets reported, while what she, in fact, says (and whether it is remotely true) does not. That's a luxury that will end the moment any potential candidacy begins. It's easy, and not incorrect, to accuse the mainstream press of giving Palin an easy time these days, as Sullivan does. But the press is never more bloodthirsty, more investigative, more prone to go for the throat than when its prey is a presidential wannabe. Reporters may act like obedient pups now; in 2012, they'll be a pack of Cujos."
This is a subject that's irritated me and inspired blog posts like this in the past. But I think things have changed to the benefit of Palin.
One of the least-commented-on Palin facts of the week was her news conference outside the Knoxville, Tenn., courthouse where the man who hacked her e-mail was being tried. That's right: a news conference. The kind of thing she had not done since losing the 2008 election, the kind of thing she has skipped at every political speech in 2010.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
This person thinks Palin isn’t challenged in the press?
More liberal projection. Mr. Heffernen is describing Obama to a T. The humor is that he doesn't even see it. What a maroon.
Unless you have an Arab surname.
She owes this Bozo nothing!
OMG liberals are delusional....
the only ‘reason’ the press has given Sarah an ‘easy time’ since removing herself as governor is that, as a private citizen, she can counter sue, sue for liberal, and file frivolous lawsuits against those attacking her
if you want to see someone that the media has fawned over like a teenage boy over a super model... just look at 0bama. they won’t dare ask any questions, correct him on anything, or point out how blatantly anti-American his statements are
So she can hide from the press, ignore questions, or remain silent, and tell her version of the story without fear of it being challenged.
Evidently David Weigel thinks The Zero is prissy enough to use feminine pronouns when discussing him/her.
sue for liberal
She doesn't owe them anything. She should just do what she does. Say what she wants to say, and say it to the people she wants to say it to, and let the media dorks have their usual conniptions. No one cares what they think; I don't read what they think except out of a morbid curiousity and that just so I can mock it.
(The immediate populist approval of her notes-on-her-hand moment was a surprise even to me.)
Why? She wrote four things on her hand and spoke articulately and well for forty five minutes. We have a president who can't do that. I can't do that. Most preachers can't do that, and most politicians can't.
“This person thinks Palin isn’t challenged in the press?”
Unbelievable isn’t it? What the heck is wrong with someone like this? Are they just trying to create a new lie? Did they somehow talk themselves into this idea? Are they just stupid??
Disgusting.
libel... sorry
But the press is never more bloodthirsty, more investigative, more prone to go for the throat than when its prey is a presidential wannabe. Reporters may act like obedient pups now; in 2012, they’ll be a pack of Cujos.”
What a truly laughable and ludicrous statement. So we are to believe that the most investigated and attacked politican in recent times still has a whole plethora of undiscovered secrets just waiting to be discovered by the LSM. LOL! The current reporting class couldn’t manage a piss up in a brewery if their life depended on it. Journalism doesn’t exist let alone the investigative variety. If they honestly tried the latter with Gov Palin their faces would be redder that a baboon’s ass.
Mr. Heffernen's other beliefs.
Hefferman is worried about Sarah and not worried that the Marxist controls the press?
Sarah owes the nothing to the press in this country. She already works for the only news organization that’s news worthy.
LOL.
Yep! She also believes in “we the people” unlike the appalling press. The UK press ain’t great but they will ferociously attack the party in power and it’s leader when they deserve it.
Palin is such an unconventional politician that even her supporters don’t know what she’s going to do next. But it’s funny watching her torment her tormentors.
Someone thinks Sarah Palin cannot hold up to the press in a Presidential election campaign ... ;-)
Palin will make heads explode when she gives her first press conference as a candidate has she answers every gotcha question that have been dreaming of asking her.
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