Posted on 07/26/2009 9:01:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
In a fiery speech that felt more like a partisan campaign rally than a formal transfer of power, outgoing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin reflected upon her administration's most significant achievements and shared her vision for the country's future. But the address was most notable for Palin's remarkably blunt swipes at her favorite nemesis: the media.
In her nearly 20-minute speech, which directly preceded incoming governor Sean Parnell's swearing in, Palin had only a few words to say about her successor, but she had plenty of advice for journalists.
"You represent what could and should be a respected, honest profession that could and should be a cornerstone of our democracy," she said. "Democracy depends on you, and that is why-that's why our troops are willing to die for you. So how about in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up."
Palin did not elaborate on her accusation, which in borrowing from her former running mate, John McCain, she described as "some straight talk," but the crowd on hand rewarded the line with its heartiest round of applause.
Her now several weeks old public feud with David Letterman over the late-night comedian's failed joke about one of her daughters was apparently still smarting, as she leaned forward into the microphone and added angrily, "One other thing for the media, our new governor has a very nice family, too, so leave his kids alone."
The heated tenor that Palin employed to lash out at the press and others who she said were "hell-bent on tearing down our nation," was the exclamation point on a dramatic turnaround in her relationship with the media, which had once been something close to symbiotic.
During her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and throughout her first year-and-a-half in office, Palin was widely considered a media darling in Alaska, where her fresh face and bold ideas signaled a dramatic departure from the wildly unpopular incumbent governor Frank Murkowski. After her term began, Palin persuaded no less than seven Alaska journalists to join her administration, most notably two veterans of Anchorage's dominant KTUU station, Meg Stapleton and later, Bill McAllister, to head her communications team.......
WAAAAAA Make the Bad Lady go away....WAAAAAA!
Congrats EEE, MN definately married up.
Pray for America and EEE & Jonny’s Marriage
“Palin had become so suspicious of the media that she rejected hundreds of requests by even friendly reporters to interview her,” Ronald Kessler wrote on Newsmax.com earlier this month. “Her press aides say that before considering interviews, she insists that they comb through reporters’ work, even if they write for a friendly, conservative publication.”
WHAT A GREAT ADVICE!!!! GOP LISTEN UP!!! Don’t listen to those who say, make friends with the media. Its the worst advice ever. Always comb thru he reporters work before doing any interviews. Its called researching your enemies before you enter the battle
It was a good speech. Wish she was the VP now. We could sure use her.
Just sounds like some good old straight talk to me. (Not the McLaim kind though.)
Everything about that CBS article seems contrived and whiny, some self-important, lightweight reporter twisting everything to make Palin look vindictive or out-of-control, and to pretend that CBS and the MSM are somehow a honest observers of the political scene. It failed on every count, and simply comes across as self-aggrandizing, whiny and irrelevant.
What a bunch of turds the media are.
Doesn’t sound angry to me either. Not even in the slightest. Great speech. Class act. I’m more impressed every time I hear her speak.
Obviously, what Palin said left a mark, as far as CBS is concerned.
I think they’re afraid of her. No, actually, I think they’re afraid of US, we who know who Sarah Palin really is, and LIKE who she is.
She’s REAL America. Not the effete elites who flit between the coasts and their expensive cocktail parties. She’s the kegger and barbecue party America, not the cocktail party America.
They’re afraid because they know that there are still more of us than they are of them. That’s why they are so desperate to try to destroy her. Not for who she is—another frail and imperfect human being—but for who she represents to them, the elite, who think themselves better than us in Flyover Country.
They know that the people in the working-class urban neighborhoods, whatever their skin color, are Palin people, not Obama people.
They know that she can connect with the inner-city family struggling to get by, because she never went to Harvard or Yale. She speaks that funny Alaska-talk, but you know what? All of us in Flyover country talk the same kind of talk—not Alaska talk, but Dakota talk, Missouri talk, Alabama talk—Just Plain Folks talk.
This isn’t about Sarah Palin. It’s about The Rest Of Us.
That’s why the Ivy League elites at CBS are afraid.
You got that right, brother.
Yes and maybe she could give BO a lesson on how to speak without reading from a teleprompter ...on second thought, I don't think he is intelligent enough so it would be a waste of time.
I found it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0u5mOXzCKA
That’s Part 1 of 2.
I myself haven’t listened to the entire speech, yet.
I think that is the reason for all the vitriol towards her from the left. They know that the balance of the population here are not Latte-sucking elitist snobs. They are hard-working truth-telling beer-drinking self-responsible patriots.
the first thing she do as president, is most likely to do away with the fancy parties and functions
Thanks so much. Going to it right now!
the first thing she do as president, is most likely to do away with the fancy parties and functions
I love the way they try to spin her speech as angry. She said everything in a good tone of voice, she merely spoke the truth. I loved the comments about the media. As for her “leaning angrily into the mic” and telling the media to lay off of the Lt.(now Governor)Gov’s kids, that was BS too. She didn’t say it angrily, she said it with force and everything she said had the ring of truth to it.
Yeah what BS...there was no anger in her words at all. Maybe there should have been but no matter what they do to her she "takes a licking and keeps right on on ticking"...:o)
This is what she meant when she said,"quit making stuff up!". I guess this guy didn't understand that.
Here’s Part 2 (in case you have as much trouble finding it as I did).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h-jgDRWbh8
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