Posted on 01/13/2009 9:39:52 AM PST by davek70
(CNN) — Sarah Palin fired a new salvo in her war on the media, unloading in a new interview on her home state paper and “bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie.”
The Alaska governor, who has granted a steady stream of interviews since Election Day, also told an Esquire reporter that she wishes she had told McCain campaign advisors she’d be “callin’ some of the shots.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
CNN’s headline is a slur against Sarah. Makes her seem like a thin skinned conspiracy kook.
Meanwhile Hillary got a pass on her “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” claim.
Do you really want to government instructing corporate CEOs on how to spend their advertising money, or giving investment advice on 401ks to people?
“Yes, WE already know this stuff, mostly because we like Sarah Palin and read blogs about Sarah Palin and so on. Most Americans don’t follow events like Freepers do. So, by doing these interviews and (hopefully) having them picked up by the MSM, there’s hope that perhaps there are some ‘normal’ people who might be learning something positive about Palin that they never knew before. We’re not the target audience for these interviews.”
Yes, but what do the “normal” people outside the base think about this? That she is a fighter?? That she is a whiner? That is what is so frustrating. I want her to call out the media, but not at the expense of alienating people outside the base. Not that CNN is any gauge of the average voter, but just read the comments over there, 99% trashing of her...
It all depends on what side of the aisle you hang your coat.
But now, if they had pictures...
This is how we won the Revolution, and every war that we won we won because good persons took chances without and beyond what most would have seen as their proper authority.
It's why a "General" is called a General, and the Revolution was full of Generals. Because they have *general* authority. And why a ship's captain (pre-radio days) was an independent operator -- calling shots that could well involve the whole nation in the ramifications.
Responsibility! Not the limits of the mob. Not some lukewarm degeneration of the concept of agency. Not some waiting for a Carter-esque micro-manager to detail in volumes upon volumes of detail regulations. Not some lackey of a candidate following the exact scripting of PR men. The old US coinage motto "Mind Your Business", meant exactly those words of Palin's "Call Your Own Shots".
I'll let Sarah be Sarah and let the chips fall where they may.
wow-—palin can’t win...if she doesn’t defend herself, she’s weak...if she does, she’s a whiner and a petty person...
Yes, but it appears that this guy is being covered by conservative or religious media and is being seen by an audience that is seeking out this type of information. Sarah Palin is everywhere — cable news, broadcast news, magazines — she’s given countless interviews. Honestly, I see or hear more about Sarah Palin these days than Paris Hilton.
Welcome to FR. We can attack the media.
You weren’t here in 2004. Ever hear of a thing called Rathergate? Forged documents aired on the SeeBS Evening News for a solid week as genuine articles? Except they kerned to the exact spacing of a default MS Word document.
The defenders held up the fax as a “real” thing because “the signatures match”. You can paste a real signature into a photocopy.
There was no handsigned hand typed document. It only ever existed in the electronic realm.
Dan Rather was fired. He lost the nightly anchor he’d held.
You REALLY believe that he was the only dishonest journalist feeding the public daily misinformation?
The American media establishment is more biased than Pravda during the height of the Cold War. Except the Soviet people were at least smart enough to know that there was no truth in Pravda. Americans still poo poo the notion of media bias.
They are waking up. It is NOT a losing game.
i’m sorry but can you give me a specific example of where she “whined” about how the media was treating her? what exactly did she say?
Paging Jack Bogdanski...
Saul Alinsky said in Rules For Radicals that you must identify a threat, polarize it, and most importantly humanize it (give it a face and a name).
So you don't go after “The Media”, you pick a live person and go after them tooth and nail. This is why everything from hurricanes to the lack of sunspots was Bush's Fault.
She should pick a target, maybe Kieth Olberman or the CEO of MSNBC, and personalize her attacks. This works for the left and it's a model they'll easily assimilate.
Sarah, here’s a bit of advice, worth about as much as you’ll pay for it:
Stop with the interviews. Forget allowing the media to portray how you feel about the media. That’s a no-win fool’s game.
Bypass the media and establish yourself as the voice of patriotism and conservative values.
Do what Ronald Reagan did. He went out and spoke directly to the people about conservative principles. He gave speeches to every Rotary club, Lions club, every civic organization he could find, long before he was ever elected governor. He took the message to the people—the message he crafted himself, without advisors or handlers or spinners. He was genuine and he connected.
That’s what you need to do, Gov. Palin. Speak directly to the people. You’re a sitting governor now, so you can’t really criss-cross the country giving speeches. But in this day and age, you don’t have to.
Start releasing regular (at least monthly) YouTube clips of small, focused speeches, addressing the big issues to the problems America faces today; speak passionately about the conservative answer to these problems. Also, start a regular weekly podcast where you comment on national and international affairs, preferably in a dialogue with another conservative.
This way, you get your ideas out there with no media filter. You show Americans the strength of your values, the sharpness of your wit, and the passion of your heart. You can be the voice of the next conservative revolution, but only if you get out of the box in which the media and the comedians and the bloggers are trying to confine you.
I'm not talking about the government...except with the pensions of state employees, but every governer has the right to review their states investment practices.
I'm talking about "citizen" Sarah Palin using her now bully pulpit to right the wrongs which were perpetrated on her and all right of center citizens by an unaccountable leftist media running wild.
It's time to make them more accountable for their pet leftists running loose. They don't think they can be hurt, but they can...right where it hurts the most, their very livelihood and ability to find a job and pay wages.
Thank God Sarah has the balls to call a spade a spade.
We can only hope the RNC will let her wear the pants.
To all you weak-kneed media sympathizers, how would you like to have to answer questions about whether, or not your child is really not somebody elses?
Let’s just let Sarah be Sarah. She doesn’t have to be anyone’s punching bag.
She rightly reviews the whole inanity of the Trig “who is your real mommy routine” that is still alive.
I’m glad she is speaking out. She still was more qualified for the White House than the community organizer from Chicago and the moron from Delaware.
If you want to see a whole different view of reality, check out the comments following the article. These deranged folks don’t even realize the spin they swallowed.
And notice, everyone has something to say about Palin, but no one mentions what an idiot Joe Biden is.
This is how half the electorate thinks. And it is scary. There isn’t even a common definition of goodness and what is right or wrong anymore.
Sarah does not need to listen to anyone but herself. The media will always hate her and minimize her, because she is so successful at everything.
Every day she performs a real job.
While today we have one of the Arkansas Grifters being slobbered over as the next SoS.
She accused the media of gotcha journalism just because Katie Couric asked what publications she read. She continually referred to the “media elite” and complained that she was mocked by the media. I do not have an example of what exactly she said, her overall tone when speaking of the meda is whiny. When she complained about the CBS interview — the first installment went poorly so she was going on about why didn’t the McCain people cancel the next two interviews with Katie Couric, she appears whiny and playing the victim. I would think that if the first interview with Couric went poorly, most people would bust their butts to prepare for the next one, not want to cancel.
Normally, I'd agree with this, but in this case you can. You can select them by company and the first on the list is MSNBC, and NBC by association.
They've already admitted their bias, it just takes a "leader" to muster the forces to attack en-mass. Also, hitting the money is the fastest and most effective way. Stockholders are never silent when the stock price drops precipitously in relation to others in the industry. CEO's lose their jobs over less.
For whatever reason, she’s making the same mistake, in a way, as Bush did—she didn’t protect herself before going into the fight against these evil creeps. Then, when they went after her, she didn’t call them on their BS then and there, and now after it’s all over, she’s saying something about it.
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