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Hating Sarah
Insight ^ | Sept. 3, '08 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 09/03/2008 12:56:08 PM PDT by T.L.Sink

Palin-hatred is an artifact of who she is rather than anything she's done. Joe Biden famously rose from the workng class to the Senate. Palin became governor of Alaska, but never left the working class - with her beehive hairdo and librarian glasses, with a husband who is a commercial fisherman and works on a North Shore oil field, and with her hobbies of hunting and fishing. If there's ever been an exemplar of rural America that, in Barack Obama's telling, "bitterly" clings to its guns and religion, it's Sarah Palin. It's her misfortune to be a pioneer with the wrong ideology. So much bile was directed at Clarence Thomas because he was the "wrong" kind of black. Pro-life, pro-gun and a down-the-line, if populist, conservative, Palin is a traitor to her gender and thus encounters the sort of fury always directed at apostates. A popular liberal talk-radio host calls her a "bimbo," a Washington Post columnist compares her to Caligula's horse, and the left-wing blogosphere goes on a demented jag about how her fifth son, Trig, is really the son of her 17-year old daughter, Bristol. The lunacy forced the Palins to issue a statement that Bristol is pregnant, setting off a feeding frenzy from the same press that went out of its way to protect the privacy of John Edwards.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; lowry; palin; palinattacks; palinfamily; propagandawingofdnc
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To: T.L.Sink

‘with her beehive hairdo and librarian glasses’

That’s no beehive hairdo, and her glasses make her look hot.


21 posted on 09/03/2008 2:15:17 PM PDT by yazoo
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To: T.L.Sink
a feeding frenzy from the same press that went out of its way to protect the privacy of John Edwards

And uses the same publications to slander Palin.

22 posted on 09/03/2008 3:53:34 PM PDT by GVnana (McCain-Palin '08)
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To: steveo
"Sarahphobes "

Haha! "Sarahphobia!" I love the ring of that.

23 posted on 09/03/2008 4:12:03 PM PDT by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: yazoo
"no beehive"

My wife agrees with you. She says it's called an "up-do".

24 posted on 09/03/2008 4:17:03 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Kevmo

I like your ditty. Please post it every chance you get (which is a lot!).


25 posted on 09/03/2008 4:22:40 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending that the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in a suspension.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I think it’s better than P Diddy’s ditty.


26 posted on 09/03/2008 4:34:01 PM PDT by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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To: marron
I never forget that the hatred these people feel toward Bush

I will never forget the way Biden tried to excoriate Justice Thomas during the confirmation hearings........

27 posted on 09/03/2008 4:39:07 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This Space for Rent)
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To: feedback doctor

I would like to see the O’s head photoshopped on that pic of Palin field dressing a moose!


28 posted on 09/03/2008 4:41:57 PM PDT by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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To: T.L.Sink

Why don’t they just rename her Hester Prynne and force her to wear a huge red A? I’m so tired of Christians being the ones accused of being judgemental — when such the opposite is true.


29 posted on 09/03/2008 4:51:45 PM PDT by BelleAl
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To: Kevmo

I like it! Its rhythm is coordinated with the lyrics, too.


30 posted on 09/03/2008 5:39:53 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: BelleAl

Good analogy. But remember, even Hester and the Rev. Arthur Dimsdale had their day of redemption! I think Sarah will too.


31 posted on 09/03/2008 5:50:12 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: steveo
Sarahphobes

Hooray! We have a new epithet to hurl at a lib: "You're Sarahphobic!"

32 posted on 09/03/2008 5:58:56 PM PDT by Vision Thing (obambi vs. McZilla)
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To: colorado tanker; ozzymandus

I hope so too and I think the liberal media may have overplayed their hand this time. This has been so blatantly obvious and unfair that some of the MSM are on the defensive already. I don’t know if you saw the program but the Sally Quinn Lowry referred to in the post was on O’Reilly tonight and was mild as a lamb.


33 posted on 09/03/2008 6:03:51 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: colorado tanker; ozzymandus

I hope so too and I think the liberal media may have overplayed their hand this time. This has been so blatantly obvious and unfair that some of the MSM are on the defensive already. I don’t know if you saw the program but the Sally Quinn Lowry referred to in the post was on O’Reilly tonight and was mild as a lamb.


34 posted on 09/03/2008 6:04:02 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink

Yeah, I saw it. Sally pretended to be a good ol’ girl, and O’reilly gave her a pass. Bill must be angling for an invite to one of her dinner parties.


35 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:15 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: colorado tanker
I think the attacks are now so over the top there will be a blowback.

Seeing it at home already.
Non-political wife and daughters haven't been this riled up since Mrs. John Kerry uttered those famous words
"Laura Bush was just a librarian"

36 posted on 09/03/2008 7:38:31 PM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: sport

I agree and I think the worst of the pack is now NBC. They’ve gone so far to the left that they don’t even bother pretending to be objective anymore.


37 posted on 09/03/2008 9:21:34 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: HP8753; T.L.Sink
Wow, Sarah hit it out of the park last night! The drive-by's who were portraying her as some kind of trailer-park rube look like idiots today.

I didn't see it on Fox, but I read today folks in the convention hall were turning and shaking fists at the NBC booth.

38 posted on 09/04/2008 10:16:50 AM PDT by colorado tanker ("I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: colorado tanker

She sure did - a home run with bases loaded! I was switching channels to see what the drive-bys were doing and MSNBC and CNN were disgraceful in their coverage. They didn’t even go through the pretense of being objective. I expected as much from Matthews and Olbermann but usually Blitzer and his panel of commentators al least go through the motions of impartial coverage. But they couldn’t help themselves and people like Campbell Brown and other commentators were blatantly offensive to the point of “in-your-face” editorializing. The good news is that Fox had a vastly greater number of viewers.


39 posted on 09/05/2008 2:33:19 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: T.L.Sink
The good news is that Fox had a vastly greater number of viewers.

Gee, and they wonder why that is happening.

Even Howard Wolfson had to say it was a darn near perfect speech.

They really think those of us who don't run in their circles are a bunch of dumb rubes.

40 posted on 09/05/2008 3:46:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker ("I just LOVE clinging to my guns and my religion!!!!" - Sarah Palin)
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