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Baby Drama and 'Podunk' Image Means Spears = Palin
NewsBusters ^ | March 18, 2009 | Erin Brown

Posted on 03/18/2009 3:46:16 AM PDT by Zakeet

As if Sarah Palin hasn’t been torn apart enough by the media, try this one on for size: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the equivalent of Britney Spears.

That’s right. Pop culture writer Jed Gottlieb compared the former GOP Vice Presidential candidate to pop icon Britney Spears saying both women are manufactured stars with “baby drama” and a “podunk back story.”

Gottlieb’s article “Boston sees just a piece of Britney Spears” appeared in the Boston Herald on March 17, just one day after Spears’ sold out concert at the TD Banknorth Garden Entertainment Arena in Boston. While the article largely described Spears’ lackluster performance on stage in her comeback tour, Gottlieb just couldn’t resist a swipe at Palin to get the article rolling.

“Britney is not Madonna,” Gottlieb writes. “She just ain’t. Madonna is Hillary Clinton. She’s whip smart and survives, even thrives by adapting. And Lord knows she wants it more than anyone. Britney is Sarah Palin. Baby drama headlines. Podunk back story and a massive industry machine behind her. She’s a manufactured star aimed at the lowest common denominator.”

Sarah Palin was ripped to shreds by the media within days of her emergence on the national stage as former GOP presidential candidate John McCain’s running mate. The Culture and Media Institute documented and exposed the overwhelming negative coverage of Sarah Palin in a special report. The report found that during a two week period from September 29, 2008 to October 12, 2008, the network news shows ran a total of 37 negative stories, 30 neutral stories and only 2 positive stories. Not one network evening news show ran a positive story about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

The character assassination of Sarah Palin was so rampant, that Gottlieb’s assault on her character is just one more to add to the growing list of Palin-haters.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: britney; mediabias; msm; palin; palinattacks; pds; pms; sarahnoia; sarahpalin; waronsarah

I wonder why Libtards are so scared of our Moose-Shooter.

1 posted on 03/18/2009 3:46:17 AM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
No comparison, not even close, LOL!

Sarah has a brain and is WAY prettier!

H,,,...wait a minute...it occurs to me maybe I really can't judge unless someone posts pics of both of them in bikinis!

prisoner6

2 posted on 03/18/2009 3:51:36 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: Zakeet
I wonder why Libtards are so scared of our Moose-Shooter.

I dunno but they prolly ain't scared enough.

3 posted on 03/18/2009 3:52:38 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
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To: Zakeet
And I would respond that OCTO-MOM is a great example of a liberal-unsuccesful cosmetic enhancements (ALA Pelosi,Biden,Kerry) and a home someone else had to provide.
4 posted on 03/18/2009 3:56:22 AM PDT by Into the Vortex
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To: Zakeet
That’s right. Pop culture writer Jed Gottlieb compared the former GOP Vice Presidential candidate to pop icon Britney Spears saying both women are manufactured stars with “baby drama” and a “podunk back story.”

Hmmm...I seem to remember that Sarah Palin has actually won some big elections in Alaska and saved Saxby Chambliss' butt back in December.

5 posted on 03/18/2009 3:58:06 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Speaking of manufactured stars... Hpw about B. Hussein?

Little or no accomplishment, and he's President?!

The guy is a classic empty suit, who needs a teleprompter wherever he goes.

6 posted on 03/18/2009 4:04:44 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Zakeet
"I wonder why Libtards are so scared of our Moose-Shooter."

"They fear you because you're different. They hate you because you're free." Irony defined. May the divine hand of Providence guide and protect the Governor and her family in the days to come.
7 posted on 03/18/2009 4:06:58 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (Will Work for Ammo)
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a massive industry machine behind her

LOL. I wonder what "massive industry machine" is behind Palin. It must have been a pretty lame one, given the sickening bias of the massive media machine.

8 posted on 03/18/2009 4:25:31 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "In Alaska we eat therefore we hunt.")
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As it was with Reagan... the attacks by the press and the left only build her stature and persona amongst the American People... she is the real deal and GOD loves her and protects her... as HE does America herself! PRAISE GOD!

LLS

9 posted on 03/18/2009 4:27:58 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: Zakeet
I want to see Sarah take a week off and go visit England.

See the British Museum, tour Stonehenge and Stratford-on-Avon, go see the Royal Navy museum in Portsmouth, maybe tour Hadrian's wall and spend a day on the water in Oxbridge.

Then spend a long weekend talking to Baroness Thatcher, and let the paparazzi take your picture together.

These clowns back here will just s*** themselves! The thought that Sarah now knows what Maggie knows, will give them the cold, writhing horrors.

10 posted on 03/18/2009 4:54:00 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Zakeet

Sarah Palin-moose shooter
Britney Spears-beaver shooter


11 posted on 03/18/2009 5:02:18 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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The commies really fear her, don’t they. Good.


12 posted on 03/18/2009 5:14:16 AM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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Will somebody please file Gottlieb under “airhead” with other manufactured writers?


13 posted on 03/18/2009 5:20:09 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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