Outgoing NY Times Editor Says “Journalists Would Recoil In Horror” If Palin Ran For President…

Weasel Zippers ^ | June 19, 2011

[2ndDivisionVet]

Don’t worry, liberal media bias is still just a right-wing myth.

The Tom and Jerry Problem — Bill Keller/NYT

If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting the newsworthy havoc of a Palin presidency, I’m pretty sure most journalists would recoil in horror from the idea.

That is not — or not entirely — for the reasons Palin thinks: that journalists are liberal elitists, that they find the Tea Party fringe ridiculous or alarming or that they are infatuated with the cerebral black liberal in the White House. There’s a grain of truth and a loaf of myth in each of those. But I think it’s more visceral than that. It has to do with a profound and mutual lack of respect that is not quite like any I recall between a candidate (or pretend candidate) and the press.

The evidence of Palin’s scorn for what she calls the lamestream media is abundant, but I was struck by the gratuitous quality of one remark she tossed off during that Rolling Thunder rally in Washington the Sunday before Memorial Day. When an NPR reporter asked what had brought her to the event, she replied, “It is our vets who we owe our freedom — not the politician, not the reporter — it is our vets, so that’s why we’re here.”

There is, I suppose, a gracious way to translate her comments. She might have meant to convey something along the lines of: “I’m sincerely humbled by the sacrifice our veterans have made to defend the freedoms I enjoy in my capacity as a politician and Fox News media pundit.” But I think we all know she meant nothing of the kind.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Surprise!

[Jeff Head]

But of course they would.

RUN SARAH, RUN!

"Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix. We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America." Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin is shaking the Democratic leftist-liberal house to its very foundation.

She, her family, their faith, their values, and their story (particularly of choosing life for their young son and then so obviously being blessed with love for that son and he for them) represent the absolute refutation of all the tired old liberal mantras and victimology and a culture of death that they malignantly use to mentally, psychologically, and financially enslave whole classes of people.

From women's rights, to family values, to gun rights, to abortion, to energy policy, to taxation, to envrionmentalism, to fundamental governing principal, to U.S. soveriegnty and independence, and on and on...Sarah Palin is a wrecking ball to the leftist, liberal, socialist house of cards.

? ...and the leftists, DNC, liberals, MSM, and RINOs all know it, and that's why they rant and rave on and on about her and will do anything to keep her out of this race.

[A CA Guy]

Since Obama was elected they have been very OUT OF THE CLOSET about what is really on their mind.

[Paladin2]

Journalistas maybe....

[ROCKLOBSTER]

He says this like it’s a bad thing. We love seeing them recoil in horror.

[Paladin2]

"Journalists" ---> "Progressives" ----> Marxists.

It's all the same.

[Paladin2]

It’s really the NY Community Organizer SEIU Times.

[NoLibZone]

A VERY good sign just how strong of a conservative Sarah is.

The left has no serious issue with the current GOP candidates.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Memo to NYT editor: Deal with it.

[rawcatslyentist]

Just wait till she appoints Michael Savage as Press Sec.

They could sell that PPV!

[FightforFreedomCA]

cerebral black liberal

ha! cerebral?!? The man who can't order ice cream without his teleprompter?

[OrangeHoof]

It sounds like his rationale is “she hated us first so it’s okay to hate her back.” That’s incredibly childish and unprofessional.

[Islander2]

How about the arrogance of this idiotic statement by the writer...”There is, I suppose, a gracious way to translate her comments.”

As if we the considered under washed and under learned cannot understand exactly what Sarah said and meant. For the elitists in Urinalism who don’t understand middle America, we say “We like her just the way she talks and acts, thank you”.

[Ronin]

Bingo!

[muir_redwoods]

Journalists and lawyers; scribes and pharisees

[SkyDancer]

Of course they would - they didn’t invent her like they did Obama.

[giotto]

I think that what liberals hate most about Sarah is that she chose not to abort her Downs Syndrome child. You have to remember that abortion is the most holy sacrament of liberalism. How many of the so-called journalists who foam at the mouth at the mere thought of Palin are either the mother or father of a child who was aborted? I would bet that the percentage is very high.

[Free in Texas]

“Outgoing NY Times Editor Says “Journalists Would Recoil In Horror” If Palin Ran For President…”

They’d really crap in their lattes when she was elected. And I hope to God to see that day.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Journalists and reporters want the respect and esteem that the fourth estate has traditional had, but they don’t want to actually take on the responsibility of the fourth estate.

Palin just calls them on their hypocrisy.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Journalists and reporters want the respect and esteem that the fourth estate has traditionally had, but they don’t want to actually take on the responsibility of the fourth estate.

Palin just calls them on their hypocrisy.