Posted on 11/11/2008 3:48:55 PM PST by bimboeruption
A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael Barone said journalists trashed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republicans' vice presidential nominee, because "she did not abort her Down syndrome baby."
Barone said in an e-mail that he "was attempting to be humorous and ... went over the line."
Barone was speaking at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, to the 121st annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, which calls itself the nation’s oldest higher-education association.
“The liberal media attacked Sarah Palin because she did not abort her Down syndrome baby," Barone said, according to accounts by attendees. "They wanted her to kill that child. ... I'm talking about my media colleagues with whom I've worked for 35 years.”
Barone, a popular speaker on the paid lecture circuit, is a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and principal coauthor of “The Almanac of American Politics."
About 500 people were in the room, and some walked out.
Barone did not dispute the accounts of his remarks. Asked about the comments, Barone said in an e-mail that he "was attempting to be humorous and, as many in public do, went over the line."
"Sorry for that," Barone said. "I was trying to focus on press hostility to Palin. I agree with [Washington Post media reporter and CNN 'Reliable Sources' host] Howard Kurtz that the press was much more interested in tracking down negative information on Palin than Obama."
Palin’s youngest child, her son Trig, was born in April. Televised shots of him during her convention speech helped endear her to conservatives. During the campaign, she said she would use the vice presidency to help families with special-needs children.
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Nonsense.
If Gov Palin had stood against the Big Zero THIS year, she could have won.
McCain garnered little enthusiasm from anyone before Gov Palin entered the race. McCain was getting pretty pathetic crowds. The wrong person was the lead candidate.
Now that's pure Reagan.
Nonsense.
If Gov Palin had stood against the Big Zero THIS year, she could have won.
McCain garnered little enthusiasm from anyone before Gov Palin entered the race. McCain was getting pretty pathetic crowds. The wrong person was the lead candidate.
Right! A Christian who loves the Lord and shows it.
Imagine that.
How could you put Sarah in the same category as those losers: Dole, McCain and Mondale?Ford-Dole —> Dole-Kemp ... LOSERS.
Yeah, what's with that?
How could you put Sarah in the same category as those losers: Dole, McCain and Mondale?Ford-Dole —> Dole-Kemp ... LOSERS.
Sarah Palin was not a good candidate.
She doesn’t have the knowledge or experience necessary to be president.
The attacks on her were low, unfair, disgusting.
But that doesn’t change the basic facts that she’s not one of the GOP’s leading lights.
Screw these Libs. Their Chairwoman of the SC Dem Party said that “her only qualification for Office was that she hasn’t had an Abortion”
Don’t ever back down from these Libs, they all sit to pee.
I'm surprised you have to ask...the difference is that before they are born, conservatives don't call them "Fetuses."
So, you tell me.
No.
What is wrong with the Republican Party is that people like you keep attacking the best candidates we can have every time, and we end up with crap candidates like John McCain, who will not put up the fight, needed to win,
“We should not nominate the #2 from the last election’s losing ticket. That doesn’t scream “Walter Mondale” to you?”
Maybe you'd better read some American history.
Even as recently as 1968, Nixon lost to JFK in 1960, came back, and blew the Dims out of the water in 1968.
I don't think being second on the ticket is an indicator that the candidate will lose.
Most people look at the candidates ideas, history and character -- which makes Sarah a winner.
Eleanor is the Washington Generals of talk shows.
May all who call themselves Christian who voted for Obama get buyer's remorse immediately, and repent of that vote before it's too late for them.
It won't be Obama sitting on that Throne on Judgment Day. God always knew, but now we know (at least amongst ourselves), who stayed faithful to Him, who compromised Him, and who chose another to be their Messiah over Him.
Nixon, loses to JFK in 1960.
Nixon 1968, wins in a landslide.
We all will admit, the truth hurts.
I got you one better....I moved across the country!
Does anyone on this board seriously think that abortions will be illegal in the United States again?
Liberal abort more babies than they actually have.
Going by the hysterical rants from the liberal MSM, most of them would have aborted that Down’s syndrome baby, rather than have it.
In their eyes, Gov Palin committed an unforgivable crime by having that baby.
That's even more reason for conservatives to strongly back her.
I am so sick of hearing this elitist line of crap, I could scream.
One doesn't have to be a graduate of some ivy league college, a lawyer, a member of the good-old-boys-club or CO to be president.
Just common sense and the ability to read.
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