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Eleanor Clift: Palin Reignites The Culture War
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Posted on 10/03/2008 2:07:25 PM PDT by Chet 99

Sarah Palin strode onto the stage, cheeky from the start. "Can I call you Joe?" The normally voluble Joe Biden seemed restrained by comparison as Palin made her play for the working-class, Joe Sixpack voters that have been his bread and butter as a politician. She's short on facts, but she has command of phrases ("We're mavericks!") and she strings them together with good effect. Biden looked on with a mixture of awe and horror as she did her every-woman show, winking at the camera, celebrating hockey moms and giving a shout-out to her brother's third-grade class.

She succeeded in quieting calls from worried Republicans that she should get off the ticket, that she had become an embarrassment after interviews with CBS anchor Katie Couric revealed her shallow grasp of national issues. Polls taken immediately after the debate showed Palin did little to improve her standing as someone ready to be president, but she is expert at tapping into the attitudes and resentments of small town America—even if when you listen to what she says, it's mostly gibberish when it comes to actual plans and policies.

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KEYWORDS: 2008; culturewars; eleanorclift; palin; pds; sarahnoia; vpdebate
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1 posted on 10/03/2008 2:07:25 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

Let’s hope so, Elly. Oh, and ya might wanna take cover.


2 posted on 10/03/2008 2:09:04 PM PDT by gundog (John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.)
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To: Chet 99

Ms. Clift, you are a bitter witch.


3 posted on 10/03/2008 2:09:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
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To: All

Ordinarily, I would put a “Barf Alert”, but I think saying Eleanor Clift was the author of this piece was sufficient warning.


4 posted on 10/03/2008 2:09:17 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99
even if when you listen to what she Obama says, it's mostly gibberish when it comes to actual plans and policies.

Fixed it.

5 posted on 10/03/2008 2:11:21 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Chet 99

“Whatever else Palin does in this race, she has ignited the culture war”

Chalk one up for Sarah.


6 posted on 10/03/2008 2:11:23 PM PDT by noob4palin (That's Governor Palin to you.)
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To: Chet 99
Did that revolting old skink mention who ignited it? If I had a dog that looked like her....
7 posted on 10/03/2008 2:11:29 PM PDT by VR-21 (If it's a vision of the future you want Winston........)
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To: Chet 99

Eleanor Clift always reminded me of the Instant Martians on the Bugs Bunny Show.


8 posted on 10/03/2008 2:11:38 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Chet 99

The left tries to deny that they are even fighting a culture war. Much like the biggest lie ever told, when Satan said “I don’t exist”.

Meanwhile, they are shoving filth in our faces and in our children’s faces, denigrating our values, and turning our children against America & traditional values.


9 posted on 10/03/2008 2:12:07 PM PDT by MrB (0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
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To: Chet 99

It’s just that Eleanor prefers to listen to “uh...huh...uh...er....I....uh....”


10 posted on 10/03/2008 2:13:47 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Chet 99
"she is expert at tapping into the attitudes and resentments of small town America"

Yeah, those bitter clingers really like this goofy know nothing....


11 posted on 10/03/2008 2:14:27 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bushonomics: Privatize Gains, Socialize Losses......."PAULSON'S THEFT")
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To: Chet 99
Obama almost lost the primaries when Hillary Clinton discovered his elitism and turned herself into a beer-chugging Rosie the Riveter. The cultural arsenal is about all McCain has left against Obama, and Levin predicted the last weeks of the campaign could look like the last months of the primaries with McCain highlighting Obama's elitism.

Ms. Clift speaks as if reigniting the culture war is a bad thing.....I was just thinking the other day the culture war was totally lost. Who would think the crabby elitist Ms. Clift would make my day!

12 posted on 10/03/2008 2:14:38 PM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: Chet 99
I'm convinced Eleanore Clift sleeps with a rag doll she calls DNC.  She is so far in the bag for them, that she can't see daylight.  Objectivity is not a word in Eleanore's lexicon.



13 posted on 10/03/2008 2:14:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac president... Obama the strychnine president...)
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To: Chet 99

“It’s mostly gibberish”

Add Eleanor Clift to:

1. EJ Dionne
2. K Parker
3. That twit on MSNBC
4. Chris Matthews
5. K. Olbermann
6. Jack Cafferty
7. Campbell Brown
8. Mo Dowd
9. Feel free to add your own selections.


14 posted on 10/03/2008 2:15:38 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: VR-21
Why insult perfectly nice critters like skinks?

Skank, mate, skank.

;^)

15 posted on 10/03/2008 2:16:12 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: Chet 99
even if when you listen to what she says, it's mostly gibberish when it comes to actual plans and policies.

Unlike Barry O. who is as clear as the desert sky when talking about his plans for "Change". /sarc

16 posted on 10/03/2008 2:16:18 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: padre35

Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker


17 posted on 10/03/2008 2:16:24 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
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To: Uncle Miltie


"Remember to take your Metamucil, or you may end up like me."
18 posted on 10/03/2008 2:16:38 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let's get serious - there is only one choice - McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: Chet 99
Polls taken immediately after the debate showed Palin did little to improve her standing as someone ready to be president,

once again bogus polls and Ms Clift, this wonderful Alaskan woman has more on the ball to be president than the pretender Obama himself, whose only experience is Chicago, Daley-Machine, slimeball, ACORN politics.

19 posted on 10/03/2008 2:16:57 PM PDT by Vaquero
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To: Chet 99

In Clift’s magical fuzzy world...

Muslims causing pressure for change in U.S. businesses and local communities. Not indicative of a culture war.

Sarah Palin participating in a political debate. Serious evidence of a culture war.


20 posted on 10/03/2008 2:17:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac president... Obama the strychnine president...)
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To: Tax-chick

Noonan later redeemed herself, and K Parker is that women.

IMO, her column stating that Gov Palin should withdraw was so vapid that she does not deserve to have her full name used.


21 posted on 10/03/2008 2:18:12 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Chet 99
Eleanore Clift ! Life is all down-hill from now, sweetie.

Look what you have to look forward to.

You will be the next Helen Thomas, poor girl!


22 posted on 10/03/2008 2:19:10 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Chet 99

HAHAHAH! Everybody is stupid... Stupid... stupid stupid...
Anyone who is a conservative is stupid.. You ever notice how they do that?
They tried their damndest to make everyone think Sarah was slow or not bright. Then all of a sudden POW! Ah she did better than expected... Bless her heart blah blah blah... even people on FOX were saying BS like that.
I think Barbara Walters, Oprah and Joy Behart are not that smart.


23 posted on 10/03/2008 2:19:14 PM PDT by DOGHEAD
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To: padre35

Add Charlie Gibson as well, his edit of the Gov Palin interview was almost criminal IMO.


24 posted on 10/03/2008 2:19:45 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Chet 99
"She succeeded in quieting calls from worried Republicans wishful Democrats that she should get off the ticket, "
25 posted on 10/03/2008 2:20:52 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Chet 99

“Gitlin came back hard, saying we should be embarrassed that we don’t know more languages, and that there is a difference between being an elite, which Obama is and has earned by virtue of his intellect and accomplishments, and being an elitist, which he is not.”

Obama is the most imperious, nose-in-the-air poser ever to make it onto the national political scene. He is definitely an elitist snob with little reason to be so. And his ‘intellect’ is nothing to be impressed with. Who knows what his academic ‘accomplishments’ are as he is about the only nominee on record about whom almost nothing is known. Grades, SATs, LSAT? Affirmative action admittance to Harvard Law?

But back to the intellect. He is one of the inarticulate candidates ever without his teleprompter. He becomes muddled and confused without it, or when questions come up he had no memorized answer for. He’s a poser, and Eleanor Clift and all her coharts can’t put out enough meaningless words to change that fact.


26 posted on 10/03/2008 2:23:21 PM PDT by Will88
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To: padre35

Noonan later said words that meant, “OMG, I got caught being honest in public!” Take my word for it; I speak fluent Female. There wasn’t a woman on the convention live thread who feel for that “apology.”


27 posted on 10/03/2008 2:23:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
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To: Will88

I’m still waiting for someone to provide evidence - like grades, SAT scores, patents, etc. - of Obama’s alleged intelligence. And what foreign languages does he speak?


28 posted on 10/03/2008 2:25:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
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To: Chet 99
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29 posted on 10/03/2008 2:28:00 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (http://www.theobamafile.com/))
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To: padre35
Clift, a pure leftist pig for over 20 years, fits in fine with your list.
Fortunately, no one other then the leftist faithful ever hear her.
I had forgotten all about her. Is she anywhere other then on
The National Peoples Radio?
I guess she still has that tingly feeling over that Clinton pervert.

I thought she was a “has been”.

30 posted on 10/03/2008 2:30:40 PM PDT by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: Tax-chick

Hmm...can’t argue with that:

1. EJ Dionne
2. Campbell Brown
3. Chris Matthews
4. K Olbermann
5. Jack Cafferty
6. Gloria Steinem
7. K Parker
8. That twit on MSNBC
9. Peggy Noonan

I think I missed one, but that is a good start, these alleged “Journalists/Reporters” all have said or written simply terrible things about Sarah Palin.

Oh yeah, Alan Colmes and his websites speculation that flying back to AK to have Trig may have contributed to his Down Syndrome Condition.

No matter how this election turns out, those people and others are the Media’s “Filthy Dozen”.


31 posted on 10/03/2008 2:30:52 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Chet 99

If Eleanor was so smart she wouldn’t be a democrat..


32 posted on 10/03/2008 2:31:24 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: padre35

10. Charlie Gibson
11. Eleanor Clift


33 posted on 10/03/2008 2:31:48 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: SAJ
"Why insult perfectly nice critters like skinks?"

I stand corrected and contrite. In my defense, I can only say that if you knew any of my family you'd understand my aversion to reptiles.

34 posted on 10/03/2008 2:32:38 PM PDT by VR-21 (If it's a vision of the future you want Winston........)
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To: AlexW

How are things in Slovakia, AlexW? I’ve always enjoyed your news from abroad!


35 posted on 10/03/2008 2:33:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
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To: AlexW

She is a fixture on that PBS Sunday Morning Show, Pat B is on it as well as Tony Blankley sometimes.

I can picture the host, but have forgotten his name.


36 posted on 10/03/2008 2:33:29 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: padre35

That Mika-something on Fox News should be included. She’s the “blonde” who had a meltdown when John McCain mentioned that she’s an Obama supporter.


37 posted on 10/03/2008 2:34:33 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
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To: Tax-chick

Mika Brezinski is on M(essiah)SBC’s Mornin Joe.

She did melt down, but I haven’t seen her go out of her way to just issue slanders or use the editing room to enforce their Bias.


38 posted on 10/03/2008 2:37:04 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: AlexW

I’ve known Eleanor since the late seventies and I’ve never known her to be right on anything. A lifetime of being constantly wrong makes you very bitter.


39 posted on 10/03/2008 2:39:38 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Chet 99

Libs love the term ‘Culture War.’

Let’s see.....we had an American Culture....liberals/socialists/communists decided they didn’t like it and attacked.

Is it a war or is it just a constant attack from the left?


40 posted on 10/03/2008 2:40:31 PM PDT by relictele
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To: padre35

Oh, okay. I just saw the video on a link through NewsBusters or something, and didn’t catch which cable network it was. And it’s true that she doesn’t seem to have an independent outlet to express her bias, just the usual :-).


41 posted on 10/03/2008 2:40:45 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("I always expect the worst from the RATS and they always deliver." ~ rrrod)
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To: Candor7
2008 revision:


42 posted on 10/03/2008 2:40:46 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The Word of God is powerful. That's why so many people are afraid to read it.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“I’m convinced Eleanore Clift sleeps with a rag doll she calls DNC.”

Not a rag doll, it runs on batteries.


43 posted on 10/03/2008 2:41:32 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
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To: Hacklehead

Ah, that accounts for those strange faces on the talking head shows she participates in.

Seriously, this is one wigged out woman.


44 posted on 10/03/2008 2:43:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain, the Ipecac president... Obama the strychnine president...)
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To: Chet 99
Eleanor Clift sure has a lot of nerve. The story goes that as a younger junior reporter, she set up an interview with Bill Clinton, only to be met with the future presidents penis staring her in the face.

She did her liberal duty.Bill never forgot her and she always got access.

And joked often about it privately over the years before her marriage to her now deceased husband

Now she throws sticks at Sarah Palin?

Interesting how Sarah's goodness offends liberals who live the muddy water life, accusing others of obscene things they have thought , said or done themselves in the shadows of their lives.

45 posted on 10/03/2008 2:48:09 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (http://www.theobamafile.com/))
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To: Chet 99
She succeeded in quieting calls from worried Republicans that she should get off the ticket, that she had become an embarrassment after interviews with CBS anchor Katie Couric revealed her shallow grasp of national issues.

I must have missed those calls....

46 posted on 10/03/2008 2:49:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Candor7

Source?


47 posted on 10/03/2008 2:52:21 PM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: noob4palin
but she is expert at tapping into the attitudes and resentments of small town America

Those bitter people hanging on to their religion and guns...

48 posted on 10/03/2008 3:02:19 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Chet 99

i’m still waiting for someone to show me exactly what joe biden has accomplished in 35yrs in the Senate? Plagiarizing, voting against the Alaska Pipeline, having his womans bill declared unconstitiutional, losing 2 Pres. bids, gaffing every single day. Really, what has this man done of consequence in 35yrs?


49 posted on 10/03/2008 3:05:48 PM PDT by sappy
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To: Chet 99
All these old 60’s rejects for the 60’s need to give it up and just fade away.

What the hell use is an over the hill broad like Elenore Clift notes good for.

50 posted on 10/03/2008 3:13:19 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (The Difference Between Palin and Obama is Common Sense, She's GOT IT, He DOESN'T)
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