Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
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Bill Kristol, like always, standing up for Palin.
Posted on 06/30/2009 9:42:45 AM PDT by Al B.
Lefty journalist Todd Purdum has a hit piece in the new Vanity Fair on Sarah Palin. You don’t have to be a big Palin fan to recognize the article is full of dubious claims, and is dependent on self-serving stories provided on background by some of the people who ran the McCain campaign into the ground.
Here’s a highlight of Purdum’s reporting: “More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--’a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy’--and thought it fit her perfectly.”
Is there any real chance that "several" Alaskans independently told Purdum that they had consulted the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? I don’t believe it for a moment. I’ve (for better or worse) moved in pretty well-educated circles in my life, and I’ve gone decades without “several” people telling me they had consulted the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Meanwhile, on the day Purdum’s piece hit the web (today), a journalist who had expressed suspicions in the past that elements of the McCain campaign had undercut Palin suddenly got a friendly e-mail from top McCain-Palin campaign strategist Steve Schmidt. This journalist hadn’t heard from Schmidt in months. Perhaps Steve was nervous someone would finger him for the Purdum piece. One reason people might do so is this passage in Purdum’s article: “All the while, Palin was coping not only with the crazed life of any national candidate on the road but also with the young children traveling with her. Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression? (Palin’s youngest son was less than six months old.)” In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin’s mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt.
Palin PING!
Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.
...
Bill Kristol, like always, standing up for Palin.
I think Kristol has had enough. He’s naming names. Very interesting.
the demholes are terrified of her, otherwise they’d ignore her
Well, we know who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Malignant, at that), and it ain’t Sarah.
Oldest trick in the book. Accuse the opposition of your own sins.
That's much more accurate.
Good for Kristol. Sarah still rocks, she’s still our best candidate.
Well, we know who has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Malignant, at that), and it ain’t Sarah.
Oldest trick in the book. Accuse the opposition of your own sins.
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The mere mention of her name ...rattles their cage. What a lovely sight to behold. We need to mention our support for her as often as possible...ROTFLMAO!
These people make me sick.
Palin will be President someday.
Schmidt. The same guy who says religion is killing the GOP and that Republicans should accept gay marriage.
Why am I not surprised that such a Vichy Republican as Schmidt is one of the gutless, cowardly beta males anonymously attacking Gov. Palin?
- JP
Schmidt. The same guy who says religion is killing the GOP and that Republicans should accept gay marriage.
Why am I not surprised that such a Vichy Republican as Schmidt is one of the gutless, cowardly beta males anonymously attacking Gov. Palin?
- JP
bttt
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Purdum has to have an absolute visceral hatred of Palin to believe he could make such an over the top claim and not be called on it. His hatred has clouded any common sense he may have otherwise possessed.
These people really do have a derangement syndrome wrt Palin. It's not just a joke, it's a real mental illness.
Where is the Kristol ping list? This was hard to find.
Probably describes Todd Purham to a tee.
And the hit pieces continue on Sarah ... They won’t leave her alone and you don’t have to have a degree from Harvard to figure out why. The clock is ticking and Sarah is the biggest threat to the Donkey Party’s stranglehold on power. The only way to “keep it going” is the Chicago thug political way — clear the playing field and control the media. The general public, unlike people on this forum, are grossly ill-informed when it comes to the media and what they are told and read as “news.” Have you noticed all of the “feel-good” and “things are improving” stories lately being broadcast and written? Unemployment is over 10%!!!!! Things are not improving but the sheeple will believe it.
Purdum.
Well, pretty much every politician has that, especially if you run for higher office. Is the writer trying to say that Obama doesn’t have a high self-regard? Or McCain, or Bush or Clinton, or whoever. If you get to that level, you think you’re hot s***. It’s the same as being a top level pro-athlete or rock star. They really get the cream of the crop at Vanity Fair. Politicians have big egos. Those at the Presidential level have really big egos. I never knew that until today.
It’s not like she went overseas and held some look at me event in the Tiergarten, or ran some huge infomercial on natl tv before the election, or decided to give her convention speech in open air stadium in the round so she could soak in the adulation, spent more money to put herself on TV than anyone in history etc...
And the post-partum depression? Ugh. Next they’ll tell us she was hooked on midol or had hot flashes. They’ll start blaming the time of the month.
Schmidt didn’t have any problems when she took his campaign from nowhere and actually gave it a lead in an election it had no business winning. Then the economy fell apart and Schmidt’s own guy McCain pulled his suspension fiasco and supported the bailout after spending the whole campaign talking about spending, and he wants to blame her.
Dunno on the Kristol ping list. I added ‘Kristol’ to the keyword list for this article.
It’s time for conservative Republicans running for office to stop giving the MSM lipservice..and start running AGAINST the media..
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