Sarah Barracuda Strikes Back
Governor Sarah Palin is making her case. From the
interview she granted to John Ziegler, which will be a key part of his forthcoming documentary film, to
calling out ADN for pursuing the nutroots conspiracy theory concerning her son Trig, the former vice presidential candidate is getting her side of the story out. In several ways she is using the media against itself.
Gov. Palin is speaking through the same media which labored for so long to define her down, using it now to define herself in her own terms. She has, after all, a journalism degree, and the governor has learned much from the media's treatment of her since she stepped onto the national stage. With a number of requests for interviews and appearances in hand, Sarah Palin is responding to those which she can use to her best advantage. The latest media outlet which the governor has chosen to speak through is Esquire Magazine. In a "What I've Learned"
interview to be published in Esquire's March edition, she has dropped some quotes which will be picked up by news networks, websites and magazines to maximize the impact.
CNN, for example, a venue for much of the criticism against her, has included several of her quotes from the Esquire interview in its Political Ticker segment. The money quote from the Esquire interview:
"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me....I'll tell you, yesterday the Anchorage Daily News, they called again to ask — double-, triple-, quadruple-check — who is Trig's real mom. And I said, Come on, are you kidding me? We're gonna answer this? Do you not believe me or my doctor? And they said, No, it's been quite cryptic the way that my son's birth has been discussed. And I thought, Okay, more indication of continued problems in the world of journalism."
Here's another quote, one clearly intended to begin reassuring urban dwellers that she wasn't being critical of them when she visited small towns on the campaign trail and praised rural and small town values:
"I would think we all tear up during the national anthem at the beginning of a baseball game, don't we? That's an a likeness between Alaskans and New Yorkers."
Governor Palin seems to be taking a page out of Ronald Reagan's book. He let the liberal elites mock him as a clueless rube and ever so clearly used their underestimation of him to his own advantage.
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Clever girl" indeed.
- JP
http://govpalin4prez.blogspot.com/2009/01/barracuda-strikes-back.html
Good to see you around Josh!
Seems the liberal pukes will never understand what the heartland sees in candidates like Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson.
What I see is that they aren't afraid to point out the liberal pukes for exactly what they are!