Posted on 09/18/2008 1:08:42 PM PDT by Caleb1411
IN POLITICS, cheap shots and invective are occupational hazards. But when have we seen anything to match the frenzy of rage and contempt set off by the nomination of Sarah Palin?
Virtually from the moment John McCain selected her, Palin has been under assault. There has been legitimate criticism, of course. But there has also been a gusher of slander, much of it — like the slur that she isn't the real mother of her infant son, Trig — despicable.
For someone who has been in the national spotlight for only three weeks, Palin has been the victim of an astonishing array of falsehoods. Voters have been told that she slashed funding in Alaska for special-needs children. That she tried to ban books from Wasilla's public library. That she was a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party. That she links Saddam Hussein to the attacks of 9/11. That she backed Pat Buchanan for president. That she doesn't want students taught about contraception. That she called the war in Iraq "a task from G-d." All untrue.
Hillary Clinton's supporters complain that coverage of her campaign was tainted by sexism, such as the Washington Post story that focused on her cleavage, or Mike Barnicle's description of her on MSNBC as "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court."
Obama too has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous comment — the Fox News segment that captioned a picture of his wife "Obama's Baby Mama," for example, and the infamous New Yorker cover showing the Obamas as terrorists in the Oval Office.
But the left's onslaught against Palin has been of a different order of magnitude.
"Ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread," columnist Cintra Wilson wrote in Salon. "She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty,
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Self-correction: Palin’s Approve/Disapprove numbers are 42%/46%
I was getting pretty fed up with politics. I kind of figured what was going to happen was going to happen. Then along came Sarah. She is amazing. That picture of Sarah with the baby says it all. As long as we can still grow people like this we will continue to survive.
As usual, the JWR has writers who express their points so very well. I sent the writer an appreciative email. Go Sarah!
“Obama too has suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous comment — the Fox News segment that captioned a picture of his wife “Obama’s Baby Mama,” for example, and the infamous New Yorker cover showing the Obamas as terrorists in the Oval Office”.
...that’s ALL the “suffering” that pathetic excuse for a human being has had to endure! AND those 2 little wusy ass “slings and arrows” were stretched out over a 6 month period.
John 15:18-25 (New Living Translation)
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.
The World’s Hatred
18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. 19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. 21 They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the One who sent me. 22 They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father. 25 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures[a]: ‘They hated me without cause.’
I want John to let Sarah be Sarah as she campaigns. She is the one who can really nail the Dems on this economic mess ala Fred and Fanny. She can defend small business and capitalism against the socialist pacifist. She can also call DNC propaganda a lie right out in the open. Now John needs to allow Sarah to campaign ALONE not with him. She can cover more territory and help the ticket up and down.
I pray this is correct. Go Sarah!
Disinviting Saracuda as a speaker to the Jewish protest of Iran seems like a great way for Jews to enamor themselves to what may soon be our vice president.
And yes the smears are working in Cudas favor at the expense of Jews.
Hooray! Go McPalin! Go Sarahcuda!
JoMa
Thanks for posting that bit of Scripture.
Gonna find out who's Commie or nice...
Sounds like a lot of hooey to me.
I hope you’re right about the lancing of the pus-filled boil, Jeff. Let’s hope it leads to a healing of our very, very sick and twisted MSM.
MM
>Virtually from the moment John McCain selected her, Palin has been under assault.<
the democrats and their media have destroyed the public images of republicans for decades.
It's happening naturally. The NYT might be actually bankrupt. Let them keep doing what they are doing as they are. Everybody quotes the NYT. If they are as insolvent as some banks, the people taking it over will be getting in at the direct null of their price. And basically sell off assets and fire employees.
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