Posted on 11/15/2010 9:33:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The premiere of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on cable television this week felt more like a formality than a new career direction. In any meaningful sense, Ms. Palin has starred in her own reality show since she left the governor’s office last year, functioning more as a cultural symbol than as a politician and earning a Hollywood-size fortune in the process.
What made all this possible, when you think back to Ms. Palin’s debut as a national figure in 2008, wasn’t actually her recognizable identity as a scourge of liberal government and values, but rather her lack of a political identity altogether. Ms. Palin expertly allowed herself to be shaped by the demands of the marketplace, and in this way she became the best example yet of a new phenomenon in our politics — what we might think of as the crowd-sourced candidate.
Ms. Palin, you will recall, exploded into the national consciousness as a relatively inexperienced and unformed politician, a small-town mayor who had served fewer than two years as Alaska’s governor. Her chief message, up to that point, had been about reform and good government.
Yes, she was a cultural conservative, but her principal critique of her own party’s establishment, which she leveled in successfully running against the incumbent Republican governor, Frank H. Murkowski, in 2006 was that it had become mired in cronyism and corruption....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Compared to Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco?
Sick stuff.
The contrast is remarkable.
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Don't worry Matt, Sarah won't kick your little Libtard a$$, although she should you little twit.
Sarah Palin is running for President. She’s smarter than your average presidential candidate and even getting people to pay her to star in her own campaign commercials under the guise of a television show. I like this newfound fundraising technique.
The guy offers no real evidence to support his thesis.
MY problem with the NYT is their snotty remark about her so-called lack of experience, e.g., “”Ms. Palin, you will recall, exploded into the national consciousness as a relatively inexperienced and unformed politician, a small-town mayor who had served fewer than two years as Alaska’s governor.”
My question to NYT, in reply to the above screed, would be: And the imposter now in the White House had HOW MUCH actual experience as a Senator? And had actually made critical decisions, and had voted something other than “present” HOW MANY times?!! You’d better hope Obummer and Palin never meet in a head-to-head contest! She’ll mop up the floor with him!
“Ms. Palin, after all, is said to be earning about $250,000 per episode of her new show, in which she hunts and hikes her way through the Alaskan frontier. Taking down the Republican machine could never have paid so well.”
I’m sorry, but what has she been doing for the last year...Matt? Answer, she has been taking down the Republican machine...state by state!
Right! Palin picked up her political philosophy by taking a poll of disaffected voters or by cobbling together ideas gathered on the streets. That’s why everyone agrees with her. All this guy needs to do is replay her speech from the convention or the earlier one when she was introduced as VP candidate to disprove his point. He could also have listened to any number of speeches she gave as governor or he could have read pieces she wrote as editorials before McCain chose her.
If this article reflects the level of scholarship needed to get published in the NYT, it proves they need a real editor that requires that thought be involved before submitting a piece.
The NYT readers don’t expect evidence.
I remember when McCain was searching for a candiate and we were mentioning names; a few freepers insisted on Sarah. Unfortunately, I don’t remember who they were.
If not for the NYTimes free circulations, hotel business, around the campus bookstores, starbuckeroos, the Slimers would have readership approaching null.
Their advertising which pays the bills is slim, also. Someone must be keeping them in business to serve their agenda.
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