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Why Does the Media Love to Pick On Palin?
Fox News ^ | November 30, 2010 | John R. Lott Jr.

Posted on 11/30/2010 3:22:43 PM PST by JohnRLott

The media just loves to hate Sarah Palin. And, if polls are to be believed, the constant media bombardment has hurt her standing among many independents.

Unfortunately, over the last couple of weeks, even conservative media pundits such as Mona Charen, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Joe Scarborough and Matt Labash see these attacks and warn that she can’t win the presidency. They even buy into the attacks on her judgment, intelligence, and competence. But what these conservatives don’t appreciate is that Palin is being attacked because she is smart and effective, not because she is dumb.

For just how far off base her coverage by the media has been, consider the reaction when Sarah Palin, a Fox News contributor and former Alaska governor, last Wednesday accidentally referred to North Korea as an ally. It was an obvious slip of the tongue and she corrected the trivial gaffe immediately in her very next sentence. The local, national, and even international news coverage was massive, making the trivial error front-page news. A Google news search finds 834 separate news stories run just that day alone.

This is just the surface of the attacks. . . . .

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To: roses of sharon
Because she is not highly educated.

All those writers are her age and still paying off their student loans.

41 posted on 11/30/2010 4:41:15 PM PST by glorgau
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To: rickomatic
“This is just the surface of the attacks.” Their favorite, of course, is to laugh at her for saying that she can see Russia from her house. She said it to make a point that Russian land, is indeed, only THREE miles from Alaskan land. (Diomede islands)

This is a great example of what the left and the elitists are trying to do. That is, to tell a lie or innuendo enough times, and even her supporters start to believe it.
Sara Palin NEVER said that. It was Tina Fey in a Saturday Night Live parody of Palin. Yet, even you, who I imagine is a good conservative, believes it. Be careful, very careful. Their lies are poison.


She did tease about it on her TLC show "Sarah Palin's Alaska." Liberals HATE Conservative humor because the only kind they know is mean-spirited and full of vitriol. They react to ridicule and teasing and sarcasm and satire with a blast of anger and hatred.

As Elbert Hubbard said: “If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”

Sarah Palin 'takes it' because she doesn't allow the meanness to affect who she is. And she knows it's "their" problem, so she doesn't make it hers.
42 posted on 11/30/2010 4:41:55 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (I am a US Citizen, A Patriot, A TEA Partier, An Oath Keeper, A Voter!)
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To: combat_boots
"The ‘look over there’ approach."

LOL! Watch the birdie.

43 posted on 11/30/2010 4:42:15 PM PST by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: JohnRLott

Fear.


44 posted on 11/30/2010 4:46:24 PM PST by mulligan
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To: JohnRLott

Well, at least with some of these people, it’s like asking...why do alcoholics drink? Why do drug addicts use? Why does Keith Olbermann behave like a douche? Answer: they’re compelled to.


45 posted on 11/30/2010 4:46:45 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: Don't Make Me Get My Cluebat.)
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To: rickomatic

“Yet, even you, who I imagine is a good conservative, believes it. Be careful, very careful. Their lies are poison.”

It is not poison to me. I have not been in the USSA in the past seven years, and if I were there, I would not be watching Sat. Night Live.
I am merely commenting on the stupidity of whats left of America.
IIRC, Sarah did respond to the so called joke.


46 posted on 11/30/2010 4:52:24 PM PST by AlexW
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To: AlexW
Their favorite, of course, is to laugh at her for saying that she can see Russia from her house.

She said it to make a point that Russian land, is indeed, only THREE miles from Alaskan land. (Diomede islands)

She didn't say it, Tina Fey said it. What Sarah said was, "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

47 posted on 11/30/2010 4:57:22 PM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: JohnRLott

Same as picking on Bush, it’s the self-assurance that borders on smugness.


48 posted on 11/30/2010 5:06:12 PM PST by flowerplough (Pennsylvania today - New New Jersey meets North West Virginia. Or maybe we're North Alabama.)
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To: JohnRLott

>> Mona Charen, Peggy Noonan, George Will, Joe Scarborough and Matt Labash

Some would rather be led by a smooth talking, diabolical scumbag than a folksy, average minded peach that speaks common sense and wholesome values.

Those #ers can go pound sand.


49 posted on 11/30/2010 5:06:48 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: JohnRLott
They fear and smear her because, to put it simply, she is not Illuminati. They can't buy her or control her. What they've dredged up out of her closet is totally weak. If she gets in, they won't be able to blackmail her.

And, most importantly, when they block President Palin from helping the average American, she will go on TV and "tattle" and name the names. They would have no way to shut her up when she speaks the simple and almost childlike Truth directly to the People.

50 posted on 11/30/2010 5:11:42 PM PST by sklar
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To: JohnRLott
They fear and smear her because, to put it simply, she is not Illuminati. They can't buy her or control her. What they've dredged up out of her closet is totally weak. If she gets in, they won't be able to blackmail her.

And, most importantly, when they block President Palin from helping the average American, she will go on TV and "tattle" and name the names. They would have no way to shut her up when she speaks the simple and almost childlike Truth directly to the People.

51 posted on 11/30/2010 5:13:01 PM PST by sklar
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To: JohnRLott

all good points, but I will add to distract from the fact that Obama sucks.


52 posted on 11/30/2010 5:39:08 PM PST by Mozilla
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To: JohnRLott

I can’t even formulate words to describe a media that will ignore all of the things that are going on right now in favor of standing guard at Willow Palin’s facebook page.


53 posted on 11/30/2010 6:46:11 PM PST by redk
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To: redk

They hate her because she represents the heart and soul of what America truly IS, and FEAR that we are resonating with her-!


54 posted on 11/30/2010 7:57:40 PM PST by imjimbo (The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
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To: Sarah Barracuda
What amazes me is that this thread went 19 posts before anyone picked up the dip-stick writer's reference to Mona Charen, Peggy Noonan, Joe Scarborough, Matt Labash and George Will as "conservatives."

Man, this jumped out at me right off the bat.

Today's addled "journalists" manage to screw up their articles before they even get into the meat and potatoes.

Leni

55 posted on 12/01/2010 7:56:40 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: sklar

we just can’t have a presidential candidate that speaks the truth! how would the dems store up enough slime to slander such an upstanding citizen and steal the election!

GO PALIN!


56 posted on 12/01/2010 1:41:32 PM PST by wendee76
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To: AlexW

Sarah never said she could see Russia from her house. She said you could see Russia from ALASKA, and she’s right.


57 posted on 12/02/2010 8:33:45 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: JohnRLott

I suppose the media answer to that question is “why not?”


58 posted on 12/02/2010 8:35:10 AM PST by dforest
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To: JohnRLott

Good article. Thanks for posting. ‘Pod.


59 posted on 12/02/2010 8:47:19 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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