Posted on 07/22/2010 5:28:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Media Bias: Ever wonder why 2008 VP candidate Sarah Palin was so ridiculed before much was known about her? Turns out liberal journalists engaged in a coordinated smear campaign to aid the Democratic ticket.
When we talked with Alaska's then-governor in the summer of 2008 about plans to develop her state's energy resources, she came across like most other Alaskans we've met — frank, down-to-earth, colloquial, but more than technocratically knowledgeable about the energy field.
The issue then for Gov. Palin was how to balance the development of Alaska's bountiful resources with its near-pristine environment. She also wrestled with how to create a healthy business climate in a state with a history of political corruption involving oil companies.
We detected a sense of duty as Palin spoke of bringing natural gas to the Lower 48, and we were impressed with the way she spoke authoritatively about Alaska's polar bear population and compassionately about the well-being of native Alaskans. We also interviewed longtime nonpolitical Alaskan bureaucrats who raved about working with the governor and praised her executive ability.
Sound like the Sarah Palin you read about when she was chosen as John McCain's running mate that fall? Hardly.
Suddenly Palin became a backwoods Christian fundamentalist hillbilly with five kids who couldn't possibly be who she said she was. Her intelligence was attacked, her accomplishments belittled, her verbal slips ridiculed, her family's privacy invaded and her clean record smeared with accusations of corruption, all of which proved false.
Now it's clear what was really going on. On Thursday, the Daily Caller published exchanges from a private forum called JournoList that showed how 400 top mainstream reporters and their activist buddies conspired in an attack against Palin the minute she entered the presidential race.
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You keep mistaking not wanting her to be president with hating her. Nothing the libtards say has any bearing on that.
That said, this article is very true. The MSM offered nothing but ridicule and derision towards her.
You know I used to wonder how Germany fell for Hitler and understood that Goebbels had a lot to do with it but even Hitler did not have a whole cabal in the beginning!
>> JournoList that showed how 400 top mainstream reporters and their activist buddies conspired in an attack against Palin.
Does this list really exist, or is just a small contingency of dirtbags?
We already suspected it. This just made it official.
I voted for Palin in 2008. Since then, I’ve cooled on her, because of her continued loyalty to McCain, and her unclear policy toward illegal-immigration. Yeah, I know, you can’t have it all. But, it’s early yet, and I still think it may be possible.
Yah, it’s bad. One guy here at FR tried to argue that it doesn’t matter whether Palin is a good candidate or not because Saturday night live did a skit. Such sheep.
that this came out shows it’s unraveling
The “hater” thing wasn’t directed at you. You know who I’m targeting...
Sarah is really the only one for me in 2012 other than maybe thune or christie.
The problem with Senators Thune & DeMint and Governor Christie is the “who?” factor. No one besides political junkies have ever heard of them...
These so called journalists/reporters remind me of the mean girls clubs that are operating in grade schools all across the country.
Did they hope that Sarah or one of her children who they so gleefully attacked would commit suicide like that young girl in Massachusetts.
If they had any shame at all they would be begging for forgiveness for their evil ways.
But like the girls in MA they will simply insist that the attacks on Sarah were all her own fault.
They forget that Governor Palin can find the biggest elk in the forest to take home for dinner the same way their mothers can spot the heftiest wallet at a Shriner convention or truck stop parking lot.
But that's true of half the candidates every four years. Plus they have a couple years to do stuff to garner publicity and build name recognition.
The behaviour of the participants does reflect very poorly on their upbringing.
Most likely, they were the product of red diaper doper parents.
Obama-the Journolist’s candidate. I just hope we never let these commies select another president for us again.
Stuff like this really makes me believe (worry) that this country is heading into civil war mode.
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