Posted on 01/30/2015 4:23:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We know how the mainstream media piles on Sarah Palin. It’s the industry’s obsession when it’s not covering missing planes, New Jersey bridge closings, and binders full of women.
Now, we’re seeing a new attack on the former Alaska governor, and it’s coming from an unexpected source: conservative media.
Palin had it coming, to a degree. She made a speech in Iowa last week, and she fantastically flubbed a metaphor after an alleged teleprompter hiccup. It’s ugly on the ears: “The man can only ride you when your back is bent … so strengthen it! Then the man can’t ride you, America won’t get taken for a ride, because so much is at stake.”
Plus, her delivery focused too much on her own battles with the press and not enough about her party’s future.
Was it the first time a politician gave a speech that left a sour taste? Hardly. It happens all the time, even to a supposedly gifted orator like President Obama. Yet several large conservative outlets pounced on the moment as if to say, “See, she’s really the caricature our chums on the Left were telling us all along … now, go watch HBO’s ‘Game Change.’”
Kicking the Lady When She’s Down
Consider how TheBlaze.com focused on Palin’s gaffe both in a headline and via the story itself: “What Sarah Palin Did in Iowa Left Democrats Saying Two Words: ‘Thank You!’”
The story could have led with some Palin-approved red meat or a positive message before getting to the gaffe du jour. Instead, the author focused on the DNC’s glee:
What could Sarah Palin possible say that would leave Democrats saying, ‘Thank you’?
Quite a few things, it turns out.
The Daily Caller also pounced with the sort of click-bait headline meant to undermine Palin as a figure of consequence: “Sarah Palin Was Back In Iowa And She Said What?”
Sarah Palin should give all the campaign speeches she possibly can in her possible run for president.
First and foremost: She needs to keep trying out lots of new inspirational metaphors. It doesn’t matter how dumb they sound. The more the merrier.
Daily Caller writer Betsy Rothstein went further, tying the moment to Palin’s interview with Katie Couric during the 2008 presidential race.
Much like CNN’s Newt Gingrich, Palin likes to trash the media for what she perceives is the ‘lamestream media’ making her look like an idiot. But it’s hard to forget her interactions with the media, most poignantly her interview with Katie Couric, which quickly became an unforgettable SNL parody.
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York, an august member of the conservative media class, filed a report entitled, “As 2016 race begins, GOP faces its Palin problem.” The Examiner separately ran a piece describing how grassroots bloggers also are stepping off the Palin bandwagon.
The headline on a new National Review piece speaks volumes: “Sarah Palin Slips Into Self-Parody.”
Sarah Palin Deserves Better
Maybe there’s some truth to the commentary. Palin could be rusty from being out of direct political matters. Perhaps her fiery rhetoric does have a shelf life or needs to be modulated as the 2016 presidential race draws near. And her decision to quit as Alaska’s governor remains a key stumbling block for any major aspirations.
Still, her bond with Tea Party members is undeniable. She’s fought hard for GOP candidates over the past few years and is willing to counter-punch when attacked unfairly from the Left. Other GOP members often slink away and accept the faulty premise at work.
She also is known for her swift social media retorts. That matters at a time when a well-timed quip can go viral, and the GOP needs all the social media warriors it can snare.
Surely those measures, plus an understanding of how brutal mainstream reporters have been to her through the years, should earn her a bit more support among conservative outlets.
Should Palin run for the White House in 2016 we’ll see the most unfair, wildly imbalanced media coverage the annals of journalism. The media’s track record toward Palin makes that abundantly clear. It’s not every day major news outlets asks readers for help finding gotcha content, as The Washington Post and The New York Times did against Palin.
Nor does the Associated Press make it a habit of assigning 11 fact checkers to political biographers, as it did with Palin’s 2009 book, “Going Rogue.”
Yet the strongest body blows she’ll face in the months ahead could come from her own party.
Thanks for the ping/post; post; thread. OUTSTANDING.
HOORAY Sarah.
Her party? The gop wing of the uniparty? I’d argue it isn’t her party, and it sure as hell isn’t mine.
“Republicans always fight conservatives the hardest.”
Of course. They know who their enemies are.
America needs its own Nigel Farage and maybe Sarah Palin can do the job......
I suppose that is why the left hates her so.
https://www.facebook.com/wayne.mazza.1/posts/748728475223352
Impressive list of Sarah Palin’s accomplishments as Gov.
This is a great thread and it really uplifted me, I was needing it too!
It could not be more right on!!
Very Impressive!
No one in recent political history has been the subject of such vile jabs. Strange that Hillary gets so easy a pass. I wanted rear-end a car the other day that had as its bumper sticker “Are You Ready For Hillary”
Good article KC_Lion!
Is that all she said? the conservatives had so much criticism, I really thought it was more.
She will always have my support and vote.
of course they’ll attack strongest the candidate they fear the most
Then there are a number of folks here who fear her...they are the group that will kill our Nation while blaming others for their lack of "principled" choices.
‘principled’ meaning we won’t vote for the progressive choice on the gop ticket
Correct!
But I also like to follow this advice.
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
-- John Quincy Adams
It also means allowing and Obama or Hillary running unopposed - while claiming the RNC/GOPe and other RINOs made you do it. Spin it how you will - the result is the same.
vote for the progressive democrat or progressive republican... either way you voted for a progressive.
want people to vote for GOP candidates? then make sure they’re at least republican first (progressivism is the polar opposite of republicanism)
There you have it - in a purely black and white world, we might as well just concede to the really radical leftists because we have lost the ability to make any discernment that may be there. I see a difference between someone who thinks abortion is OK, but who believes the States should handle it and the person who is rabidly for abortion and who will defy existing laws and the Constitution to force it.
There is a difference between he who has opinions that I hate, but who will not EO them into effect and the person who will utterly go the despot route to actively push the atrocities. No matter how you spin it, they are not the exact same deal.
if the law was followed, no amount of EOs would be enforceable on anyone outside of the executive branch. any such actions would be overreach by the executive and shutdown by the application of law from the other branches.
of course, that assumed the other branches weren’t in cahoots with the executive and wouldn’t allow him to do anything he pleases.
as for your ability to vote for nuanced progressives... grats. just don’t tell yourself you’re voting for a conservative or a republican. you voted for the progressive, regardless of party.
if that upsets you... then there may be hope for you. if it upsets you that others, such as myself, would never align with the enemy... then you’re actually a progressive and working as their agent to gather support in the destruction of the country.
“..Yet the strongest body blows she’ll face in the months ahead could come from her own party....”
The Uniparty must not be defied... she stuck it to them in Alaska, and they have long, vicious memories.
I think she has more guts than most men; she’ll say what she wants, regardless of what the weasels on both sides of the aisle want.
If she runs, I’ll support her. But she has to declare it first and follow through with it. I think if we are going to have the first woman POTUS, it should be her. She loves her Country, her people, her heritage, traditions, and all that this land of ours was meant to represent. THAT’s American, and that’s what we should always look for in a candidate.
The alternative is what we’ve been going through for the last six years, and has been as destructive and subversive as anything I’ve ever seen in my years on this planet.
If she chooses not to run, I’ll write in my choice if they try to foist a RINO on me, and take away my say in the matter.
Right now, it looks like they’re going to push Jeb on us, with Christie running interference for him taking out Conservatives in the debate. Fatboy doesn’t have a prayer in Hell of getting the nod, so they’ll use him to insult, jab, and smear the Conservatives in debates, while Jeb sits there being “the Good Guy” and lets it happen. Christie may get a VP nod for that.
Whoever goes up against the Uniparty better have a damned good game plan, and NOT be afraid to get in their face whenever a camera or microphone is pointed at them.
If Governor Palin decides to go whole-hog and run, when debate time comes, she needs to look across the stage and realize it’s not her own party members there - it’s Hillary, Obama, Pelosi, et al - standing there - albeit “lite”.
Folks can make an argument that Jeb, Christie, are not as bad as those other three - but continuing the slide that the Dems started, either faster or slower, is STILL sliding.
Same with Senator Cruz, Governor Walker if they decide to run. They need to know who the enemy is, and sometimes the enemy will have a R after its name as well as a D.
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