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Boobgate was never about breasts
Texas for Sarah Palin ^ | June 12, 2010 at 9:45 AM CDT | Josh Painter

Posted on 06/12/2010 7:52:06 AM PDT by Josh Painter

The big news this weekend is that Sarah Palin, in her appearance on Greta Van Susteren's "On The Record" program Friday night, put an end to "Boobgate" -- the flap driven by the false rumors that she had undergone breast enhancement surgery. These rumors had bubbled up from the blogosphere into the mass media. But most everyone is missing the point. "Boobgate" was never about breasts. It was simply a diversion, one of the oldest tricks in the political playbook.

The real news last week was that Sarah Palin, via Facebook and a couple of appearances on cable television, had backed President Obama into a corner over the Gulf Oil Disaster. First, she pointed out that the administration is culpable for its own part in the tragedy playing off the southeastern Gulf coast because the Interior Department granted BP an exemption from a detailed environmental impact analysis. Three reviews by Interior's MMS fatefully concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely. So for all the president's demonization of BP, it was his own administration that served as enablers for the giant oil company's malfeasance. Not to excuse BP in an any manner. It cut costs and corners to the point where it was literally playing with fire, and the consequences speak for themselves.

Gov. Palin did an excellent job of explaining how, as governor of Alaska, her administration had to ride herd on BP and hold its feet to the fire to force it to drill responsibly. In doing so, she drew a clear contrast between her effective stewardship of our energy resources and Obama's reckless and dangerous failure to manage resources responsibly in the Gulf, as it matched BP short cut for short cut. She was demonstrating not only her effective record as a manager, but her considerable knowledge on energy matters. She was proving yet again that she is no lightweight, but rather a serious and proven leader who had valuable executive experience where it counts.

Further, she pointed out that the president had let two months go by without even lifting a finger to talk to BP's CEO Tony Hayward, talking about kicking backside is just talk unless you call someone to the carpet to confront him. Obama's lame excuse that Hayward would tell him what he wanted to hear anyway rang hollow, even to the president's vest pocket media. So now he was put in the position of being forced to publicly stage a meeting with Hayward after Sarah Palin had criticized him for failing to do so at a much earlier point in the disaster. There was no way to save face. What could those charged with protecting the president's public image do?

A diversion was clearly called for. Knowing the rabid appetite of the leftosphere, infotainment sites and mass media for juicy morsels about Gov. Palin, the silly rumor that she had acquired breast implants was fed to the pack, and the more they devoured it, the more raw meat was produced to keep the feeding frenzy going. All of a sudden there was nothing else being talked about by the nutroots left but a woman's bust. It is important to remember here that Obama had been drawing heavy criticism over his ineffective handling of the Gulf disaster from some sources on the left -- including Salon, Rolling Stone, and others -- that had traditionally been among his staunchest defenders. Their voices of protest against the very man they had previously elevated to godhood were all but drowned out in the tsunami of trivia regarding Sarah Palin's chest.

This is how Spillgate was morphed into Boobgate, at least for a short time. By the time Gov. Palin went on Greta Van Susteren's program to take the hot air out of the rumor balloon, it was well past the Friday deadline for grafting legs onto news stories. Boobgate had served its purpose. It got a lot of people to take their eyes off of the ball for the better part of a week. More importantly, is dampened the momentum of the negative fallout from Obama's incompetence. It was the tourniquet which slowed the rate of bleeding of the president's image through the week long enough for his triage team to catch a weekend break to cook up another red herring to continue to divert attention away from the complicity and incompetence of Barack H. Obama.

So as Boobgate fades from the national train of thought, it turns out that the only actual "boobs" involved were the rubes who fell for the scam. Diversion may be one of the oldest political tricks in the book, but it works like a charm nearly every time.

- JP


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; boobgate; gulfoildisaster; mediabias; palin; sarahpalin
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To: Josh Painter

She could have also said:

I think the only Boobs we should be talking about are those sitting on the sidelines, commenting on a situation that calls for immediate local, state, and national attention.


21 posted on 06/12/2010 8:12:49 AM PDT by patriotspride
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To: Sacajaweau

Bob Beckel.


22 posted on 06/12/2010 8:14:36 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Sometimes you have to go to dark places to get to the light....)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Me thinks Bob is a stalker...


23 posted on 06/12/2010 8:17:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: 70th Division
Wouldn’t you love Todd to come out and say, “Nope, they are real. I personally checked them my self this morning.”

To quote a Seinfeld episode, "They're real, and they're spectacular".

24 posted on 06/12/2010 8:19:37 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Bob Beckel.

bet he has a pair of man boobs. (shudder)

25 posted on 06/12/2010 8:22:04 AM PDT by tioga (Remember in November.)
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To: Josh Painter

This is more important to leftists than the oil spill disaster. They exist for the sole purpose of destroying their political opposition and all innocents by any means possible. Even mother Gaia takes a back seat to that.


26 posted on 06/12/2010 8:22:28 AM PDT by Soothesayer (We are completely ******!)
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To: FrankR

. . . or maybe Rahm the ballerina . . . just sayin’. :)


27 posted on 06/12/2010 8:22:57 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: tioga

lol...


28 posted on 06/12/2010 8:23:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Sometimes you have to go to dark places to get to the light....)
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To: mad_as_he$$

If I owned a magazine, I’d put Sarah on the cover and entitle it “Spectular”...


29 posted on 06/12/2010 8:24:14 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: FrankR

Obama has a you know what ?


30 posted on 06/12/2010 8:24:16 AM PDT by blueheron2 (Donate to Sarahpac)
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To: NCBraveheart

“They’re real and they are spectacular” ~ Seinfeld


31 posted on 06/12/2010 8:24:40 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (The Obama Doctrine in 6 words - Embolden Enemies, Abandon Allies, WEAKEN AMERICA.)
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To: Josh Painter

I think we should check to see if Obama has been neutered. That is definitely more important right now that Sarah’s body parts.


32 posted on 06/12/2010 8:25:50 AM PDT by gramho12 (Our forefathers gave up everything for our freedom; what have we done?)
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To: Josh Painter

I can only wonder the indignation if you substituted “Sarah Palin” with “Hillary Clinton”.

Random thoughts on a warm Saturday morning...


33 posted on 06/12/2010 8:31:03 AM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Bob Beckel.

The very same fat Democratic operative who once wrote a check to a prostitute?

Maybe he signed the check "Anonymous".

34 posted on 06/12/2010 8:34:10 AM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: Popman

LOL


35 posted on 06/12/2010 8:39:23 AM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: Josh Painter

Running the entire political debate from a Facebook page.
You can see why they hate her.
Envy is a powerful thing.


36 posted on 06/12/2010 8:45:32 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Josh Painter

As if Sarah needs enhancement..............


37 posted on 06/12/2010 8:47:16 AM PDT by Concho
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To: Popman

Obama had a penile implant you can the scar line on his neck

Really...I thought that scar was his circumcision.


38 posted on 06/12/2010 8:58:27 AM PDT by PoloSec (Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
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To: Lorianne
Running the entire political debate from a Facebook page.

I absolutely love what Sarah does from Facebook. There was a good article the other day that said "and from the far north a huntress tweets" and went on to explain how she makes Obama jump when she posts... They thought they destroyed her but instead she has become hugely powerful.

39 posted on 06/12/2010 9:02:41 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Lorianne

Here is the article and the comment I was talking about:

We came at last to the Jindal plan, the sole attempt on record by any government official to do anything at all to halt the encroaching oil slicks. Bobby Jindal wanted to build a series of berms along the Louisiana coast. He needed federal backing for this, since the plan was a big-ticket item, with some estimates reaching $360 million. So how did the administration of President Trillion-Dollar Deficit respond? Not at all, you’ll be shocked to hear. The governor heard nothing from the feds for weeks as oil began to saturate the coastal wetlands. Then, far to the north, Sarah the Huntress raised her fearsome fingers to tweet a message south: Gov.Jindal: to avoid ravished coast, build the berms. Ask forgiveness later;Feds are slow to act, local leadership&action can do more for coast.

Only then did the administration at last break its silence to order British Petroleum to pay for five berms. Why this could not have happened a month ago is anybody’s guess, as is the question as to why they did not agree to the sixteen berms that Jindal says are necessary.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/obama_fails_the_test_of_office.html


40 posted on 06/12/2010 9:15:17 AM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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