President Palin’s First 100 Days

National Review ^ | 05/15/2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Servant of the Cross]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first 100 days of the Palin presidency, according to a consensus of media commentators, have proven a near disaster. Perhaps it was Palin’s scant two years’ experience in a major government position that has eroded her gravitas, or maybe it was her flirty reliance on looks and informal chit-chat. In any case, the press has had a field day, and it is hard to see how President Palin can ever recover from the Quayle/potatoe syndrome. Here is a roundup of this week’s pundit mockery.

LET THEM EAT MOOSE

“Ted Stevens may have gotten off,” wrote Bob Herbert in the New York Times, “but he taught our Sarah something first — like using $100-a-pound beef for her state dinners. And what’s this $50 mil for her inauguration gala? Since when do you fly in your favorite pizza-maker from across the country on our dime? Or send the presidential 747 for a spin over the Big Apple for a third-of-a-million-dollar joyride? (snip)

WASILLA CHIC

Also in the Times, Gail Collins weighed in on the already-tired yokelism of the new commander in chief. “What we’re getting is Wasilla chic. That’s what we’re getting. She arrives in the Oval Office, and first thing sends back Blair’s gift of the Churchill bust as if it’s a once-worn Penney’s outfit. Then she gives the Brits some unwatchable DVDs as a booby prize — as if she idled the old Yukon and ran into Target’s sale aisle. Did Sarah send Bristol into Wal-Mart back in Anchorage for that ‘engraved’ iPod for the queen? And what’s this don’t-bow-to-the-queen stuff, but curtsy for a Saudi sheik? Maybe that explains why she brags to Stephanopoulos about her ‘Muslim faith.’ So far, the best things going for her are Todd’s biceps.”

[Servant of the Cross]

VDH presents how the MSM would have covered these first 100 days if it occurred under Sarah Palin's watch.

[jessduntno]

LET THEM EAT MOOSE

Not what I was thinking they all want us to eat...

[lormand]

This is classic

[Paladin2]

"...flirty reliance..."

That winking drives me crazy

[Paladin2]

It’s all too true to be funny.

[Servant of the Cross]

You're right; it's not funny. But it rings true - just call 'em Pravda.

[FlashBack]

Nope, no media bias in this press-core!! I can see that would be just as it would have been written too...sickening!
Now of course...if she was President I don't forsee the same circumstances having had taken place in the first place.

[Bender2]

Re: WORSE THAN 'NUCULAR'
ABC’s Katie Couric summed up the general disappointment with the president’s communication skills. “I tried to warn the American people in that interview a few years back what they would get if they voted for her. Let’s face it: She’s a walking embarrassment. I mean just count ’em up: The mayor of Wasilla thinks Austrians speak some lingo called ‘Austrian.’ Then she tries her hand at Spanish and comes up with some concoction, ‘Cinco de Cuatro.’ Next thing she’ll walk into the window of the Oval Office and expect it to open — oops, she’s already done that. No wonder that when her Teleprompter stalls, she shuts her mouth until it catches up. I’m surprised she managed to get sworn in. And did she think that tasteless ‘Special Olympics’ slur was funny? Or making fun of octogenarian Nancy Reagan’s séances? No wonder Wanda Sykes feels at home.”

Classic, classic! I wish... I'd have written this!!!!

[blackie]

Killer satire!

[Paladin2]

There’s no news in Pravda and no truth in Investia. Or whatever.

[jiggyboy]

And all that attention to how she walks. Now I like checking out a chick’s caboose as much as the next guy does, but come on, she’s The President for crying out loud, let’s save that kind of commentary for Friday night at the local meat market.

[autumnraine]

Best article I’ve read in a long time. Exactly how it would have been written if Palin were President.

[Paladin2]

Well,

Todd has some REAL guns.

[filbert]

Nothing I have read has so clearly illustrated not only the vapidness of the rabidly leftist mainstream media, but also the buffoonish incompetence of Obama and his administration, as this article.

[Paladin2]

I found the article to be depressing as it was not really a surprise in any meaningful way. Perhaps I spend too much time on current political events.

[filbert]

I found the article to be depressing as it was not really a surprise in any meaningful way. Perhaps I spend too much time on current political events.

What's depressing is probably 75% of everybody in the U.S. won't be able to understand the satire, because they've never heard of Obama's many episodes of incompetence.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Excellent - reminds me of the idiots interviewed by one of the late night talk shows prior to the election. The interviewer asked all these folks on the street if they were going to vote?

Yes, for Obama.

Ok, do you support his pro-life statements? Yes, I'm pro-life, absolutely!

How do you feel about his choice of vice presendential nominee, Sarah Palin? Love her, he made a great choice.

Yeah, idiots voted this man into office.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Great article and not an exaggeration, at all. In fact, the MSM would probably have been even harsher in real life, than in Hanson's satire, if Palin had the same first 100 days as 0bama.

It really points out how biased the MSM is. Palin would have been labeled a liar and a complete idiot if she had done the same things 0bama has done.

[feralcat]

All the comedians who spent 8 years joking about Bush want us to believe that Obama is so perfect that they have nothing to make jokes about. This Hanson article reminds us of all those things the liberals would have bashed any Republican for.

[chiefqc]

I heard the other day that the mfg. of knee pads was rolling in money due to the sales to member and reporters for the news for servicing their slave master “The Empty Suit Figurehead TOTUS.