Posted on 06/19/2011 5:10:59 PM PDT by 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.
The media’s trashed Palin on a daily basis, but she takes a modest little shot at the press and they — well, they trash some more.
The media’s trashed Palin on a daily basis, but she takes a modest little shot at the press and they — well, they trash some more.
Well, DUH, Sarah Palin meant exactly what she said! If we dependended on reporters to protect our freedoms we’d all be wearing brownshirts already, clicking our heels, and shooting out arms in ‘Heil Obama’ fashion!
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind what she meant!
this makes Sarah the only choice!!!
Well at least about 93% of them would.
I’ve been recoiling in horror for years over what liberals have done and what they think is right. Literally horrifying. We simply can not live in the same space much longer. This can not end well.
Fornicate all journalists, I have little use for them. They have their Constitutional role and have failed miserably.
The clown’s whole swan song can be seen on Drudge. He’s a p**sy like most NYT and WaPo elitists thinking they are smarter than the rest of us peons. I suspect he got $h1tc@nned because of the ridiculously poor performance of the birdcage rag he works for. They fail to realize that the public doesn’t buy a newspaper for socialist talking points.
The guy is an absolute moron crying because somebody is picking on his poor paper. He’s the only one that has the right to pick on somebody. STFUNYT!
The clown’s whole swan song can be seen on Drudge. He’s a p**sy like most NYT and WaPo elitists thinking they are smarter than the rest of us peons. I suspect he got $h1tc@nned because of the ridiculously poor performance of the birdcage rag he works for. They fail to realize that the public doesn’t buy a newspaper for socialist talking points.
The guy is an absolute moron crying because somebody is picking on his poor paper. He’s the only one that has the right to pick on somebody. STFUNYT!
Couldn’t ask for more of a ringing endorsement.
Couldn’t ask for more of a ringing endorsement.
reason enough to run
Sweeeeet!
Yeh it's a literary allusion to the poem The Military Warrior by Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, Sergeant, USMC
Sarah Palin is more comfortable with intellectual references than elite journOlists, who knew?
“The evidence of Palin’s scorn for what she calls the lamestream media is abundant,...”
Hey, Keller — don’t forget the scorn a lot of us out here in “flyover land” (i.e. not Manhattan) feel for you.
Sounds like the NYT just endorsed Sarah as our strongest conservative!
The marxist media fears a true, conservative patriot - i.e. Sarah Palin!
And, like everything else, not true. They were after her the second she was announced as VP candidate. They are not happy she will not allow them to write the narrative.
Wait a minute, but she’s only predicted to get 10% of the vote .... why would journalists be worried?
:snickers:
They are SO afraid — I almost feel sorry for them.
RECOIL! RECOIL!
You nailed this one...
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