Posted on 05/28/2010 6:48:50 AM PDT by MaxCUA
Sarah Palins post-gubernatorial career has been shaped, and misshaped, by a media strategy heavy on knee-jerk combativeness, with a not insignificant dose of victims complex thrown in. Her ceaseless campaign against the perceived distortions of the mainstream media routinely crosses from defensiveness into confrontation, and even paranoia. Her recent defenses of Rand Paul and Nikki Haley two conservatives facing starkly different political challenges were remarkably similar boilerplate condemnations of gotcha politics and media corruption that managed to reduce the pairs trials to her own persecution.
Palins prickliness has received a good deal of media attention, which makes sense. The gossip medias laser-sighted focus on her every move not to mention its fixation on the details of her personal life, from Andrew Sullivans obstetrical obsession to Joe McGinnisss stalker journalism is inherently creepy and frequently unfair, and it warrants a firm response. Palins conservative following, from Facebook to Fox News, is constitutionally disposed to suspicion of the politico-journalistic complex, and helps beat the drum from her side. Likewise, when the press gets hit by a force whose social-media reach alone exceeds most newspaper circulations, it tends to take notice. etc...
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