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Sarah Palin: The Media’s Un-acknowledged Shame
Cross Action News ^ | 7-5-09 | Rev Michael Bresciani

Posted on 07/05/2009 7:38:23 AM PDT by Victory111

The jokes of David Letterman and the article in Vanity Fair perhaps were the straw that broke the camels back but it is the total lack of fairness the media showed that is a scathing indictment against them. If the country had a media czar it would seem appropriate that at this point he or she would be offering a public apology to Palin and that very humbly. Perhaps the czar could hang his head in shame as the proxy for the entire band of media thugs who reveled in the indignities.

We have a media that thinks the story of the congressional race where the candidate has been known to dawn diapers in comedy skits is real news and the photo snaps of the President on the beach is titillation for the rest of us. Who are these heavily biased lug nuts and what have they done to the once respected field known as journalism?


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: gopimplosion; media; obama; palin; quitter; sarahbarraquitta
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To: GonzoGOP

Letterman’s so called apology was no apology at all. If you read his complete body language, he was completely insincere and unapologetic.


21 posted on 07/05/2009 8:44:58 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: SuziQ

I’d like to see her the head of a new third party called THE TEA PARTY, ready to take back America to its conservative roots and values.


22 posted on 07/05/2009 8:46:41 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman

I disagree with your second track of thought. It’s one thing to attack a public servant and their family. It’s totally a different thing to attack a private citizen. She has her finger on the trigger now and she should pull it starting with the Huffington Post and Huff writer Shannyn Moore.


23 posted on 07/05/2009 8:51:02 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: SuziQ
Even if she never runs for public office again, she'll be a strong voice for conservatism.

This is explicitly what she said. Her detractors make up all imagined straw man arguments to gain some credibility. They have none. If Sarah never runs for office again she will remain one of the strongest and most courageous voices for traditional American values in our nation. She is, however, a brilliant tactician, not to be counted out by the weird brained leftists among us.

24 posted on 07/05/2009 8:53:38 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (0 is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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To: Ev Reeman
There's no need for a third party. That's a sure fire means of DEFEAT for conservatives.

Why should Sarah have to re-invent the wheel? She can just rally conservative Republicans and like minded Independents and Democrats. It's been done before; it can be done again.

25 posted on 07/05/2009 8:54:49 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ev Reeman

Your reality maybe. Not mine. Go away!!!


26 posted on 07/05/2009 8:56:22 AM PDT by GoCards (Behind Sarah 100%)
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To: GonzoGOP

Isn’t it our fault? Some dim dem makes bogus and crazy accusations and we all agree that political damage has been done. Pure B.S. We need to start fighting back or at least ignoring the falderal.


27 posted on 07/05/2009 9:02:39 AM PDT by wewereright
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To: Victory111

Oh, baloney. The media has been just as scathing on many politicians on the left and right. Crying “unfair” only gets sympathy from that politician’s strong supporters. Everyone else just thinks they should stay out of politics if they can’t take it. Any president, for example, has to withstand much more scrutiny and scathing criticism than Palin has endured. She makes it very clear she isn’t anywhere near up to the national stage, or maybe even the state stage. Sure, the media is mean. Always have been and always will be. Get a thicker skin. I supported her in the beginning but she started looking like a train wreck long ago. The media will always pile on a train wreck.


28 posted on 07/05/2009 9:04:53 AM PDT by BobMV (Usurper in Chief)
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To: BobMV

Baloney. Palin has been attacked far more viciously, and from both the leftists and the moderates. 0bama, for one, couldn’t have stood up to what she’s endured.


29 posted on 07/05/2009 9:08:05 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: GonzoGOP
They slandered her family and drove Gov Palin from office. The libs won, and will continue to win until they pay some price for what they did. To date neither Vanity Fair or Huff Po or Letterman have paid any price for their lies. Yet they have badly damaged one of the top GOP candidates. Any rational evaluation says they have hit on a winning strategy and will continue to use it until something changes

Wrong assessment. Palin took off the gloves and is going to go bare knuckles for conservatism.

30 posted on 07/05/2009 9:18:24 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
Wrong assessment. Palin took off the gloves and is going to go bare knuckles for conservatism.

From your words to Gov. Palin's ears. That would be the best case situation. The other is that she just goes on a book tour and tries to pay off her massive legal bills. The dems are going to keep up the lawfare attacks and try to keep her so far in debt she can't make a run for POTUS in 2012. If she does turn and fight she needs to make a quick strike and take out somebody on the other side, like Letterman or the twit at HufPo that said she was under investigation. Again to my original post their need to be consequences for attacking our people. If not then we have already lost.
31 posted on 07/05/2009 9:24:19 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP
From your words to Gov. Palin's ears. That would be the best case situation. The other is that she just goes on a book tour and tries to pay off her massive legal bills. The dems are going to keep up the lawfare attacks and try to keep her so far in debt she can't make a run for POTUS in 2012. If she does turn and fight she needs to make a quick strike and take out somebody on the other side, like Letterman or the twit at HufPo that said she was under investigation. Again to my original post their need to be consequences for attacking our people. If not then we have already lost.

I think her strategy is not going to "attack" or "take out" people. I think it's going to remind the public that sane, decent people don't bully others and call people names. When a bully like Letterman acts like a bully, you call him out on it. There's no need to get vengeance or retribution. But standing up to those who would bully you and your loved ones strikes a chord in everyone who has ever been pushed around.

If she were to continue to be the governor of Alaska, the host of a radio talk show, or a dog catcher in Wasilla the left will still attack her because shes' dangerous. She's not ambition, but the cause and the cause is conservatism.

32 posted on 07/05/2009 9:31:51 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Victory111

Fox News Sunday:

Juan Williams talking about Sarah Palin with ‘no experience’ as I compared her to Obama with NO EXPERIENCE. Juan is an IDIOT!

Governor of Alaska vs. Community Organizer

No bias in the media, remember?!

How many months was Obama in the Senate before he started running for President? How many votes did he cast (not including ‘Present’)?

No double standards in the media, remember?!


33 posted on 07/05/2009 9:35:53 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Jeff Head

I think we need to explain to Republicans how to defeat bullies. You don’t ignore them, you don’t let them run wild without fighting back. You get in their face and you challenge them.

Bully is another word for COWARD. They aren’t going to be around long if you kick their *ss! Once they start something, we finish it! They are nothing but nasty, vile COWARDS!


34 posted on 07/05/2009 9:41:03 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: SuziQ

Yes but it seems to me there are too many RINOs in the Republican Party today, too many who would sell conservatism down the river for more power and more money. Before anything like you suggest can happen, we must eliminate all the RINOs from the party.


35 posted on 07/05/2009 9:41:20 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: SuziQ

Yes but it seems to me there are too many RINOs in the Republican Party today, too many who would sell conservatism down the river for more power and more money. Before anything like you suggest can happen, we must eliminate all the RINOs from the party.


36 posted on 07/05/2009 9:41:33 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: kcvl

That is what I have been saying all this time. You get in the libtards face and you stay there and you use coherence of thought and ideas to defeat theirs (a simple task for any true conservative). Look to folks like Rush Limbaugh and William F. Buckley to show the way. That is how you defeat liberal radicalism and extremism.


37 posted on 07/05/2009 9:46:22 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman
We're never going to eliminate all RINOS from the party, and we shouldn't. There will always be Republicans who feel more strongly about one issue than the other, but as a whole, the Republican Party needs to be the party of smaller government, lower taxes, and support for the unborn, traditional marriage and families. Some don't like the fact that Republicans get into the moral issues, but if we don't, who will? We don't have to vote for Republican candidates who don't support the moral issues, but we shouldn't trash them.

The Democrats have grown because, other than with their national candidates, they don't require political purity to be in the Party, and as a result, don't discount the votes of folks who might only marginally support them; in fact they work hard to get those votes.

Instead of trashing those who don't accept every facet of conservatism, why not encourage them, and ask for their votes every time? If we continue to diss folks, we can just accept a permanent minority status. Now some may think that would be just fine, because that means we're not compromising, but it wouldn't matter anyway, because we wouldn't be in any position to offer a compromise, anyway. We'd just be continually marginalized and on the outside looking in.

38 posted on 07/05/2009 10:23:32 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

I respect your opinion but isn’t this kind of triangulation of trying to please everybody and anybody the same thing that has lost us elections especially recent ones?


39 posted on 07/05/2009 10:44:41 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Ev Reeman
I didn't say anything about trying to please everyone. I simply think that writing off segments of the population, either because they haven't voted for Republicans in the past, or because they'd don't agree with Republican principles 100%, is a stupid strategy.

There may be some folks who don't agree with everything, but might be willing to entertain the notion of voting for Republicans. But if all they see is angry, nasty conservatives decrying everyone but the pure, they'll either go elsewhere with their votes, or they won't vote at all. Neither of those choices will help Republicans or conservatives. We don't have to change our stances on the issues, just the way we present ourselves when arguing those issues.

As my Mama always said, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

40 posted on 07/05/2009 1:40:47 PM PDT by SuziQ
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