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National Society of Newspaper Columnists Gives Palin 'Sitting Duck' Award
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Posted on 06/30/2009 3:57:29 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

National Society of Newspaper Columnists Gives Palin 'Sitting Duck' Award

By E&P Staff

Published: June 30, 2009 2:32 PM ET NEW YORK She may not have won the Vice Presidency, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did receive a consolation prize from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC): the Sitting Duck Award.

Palin, running mate of GOP nominee John McCain, was selected for the award at the NSNC's Annual Conference, held last weekend in Ventura, Calif. She was nominated for "showing it's hard to put your best foot forward when it's in your mouth," according to the NSNC Web site.The Sitting Duck Award is given annually to the person "to whom columnists have turned in the last 12 months, when he or she is desperate for a topic and has to meet a deadline." Impeached Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich finished as the runner-up in the voting.

Palin did not appear to accept the award.

E&P Staff (Samuel.Chamberlain@nielsen.com)


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KEYWORDS: liberalmedia; moonbats; pds; quack
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To: Bob

Guam, USVI, Puerto Rico, etc.


21 posted on 06/30/2009 4:12:58 PM PDT by drubyfive
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To: InvisibleChurch
The Sitting Duck Award is given annually to the person "to whom columnists have turned in the last 12 months, when he or she is desperate for a topic and has to meet a deadline.

This very award, which openly admits that columists write garbage out of desperation just to fill space, shows how lame and devoid of susbstance the media really is. Buying a newspaper is like paying to see a sports event where the umpires are deliberately slanting calls for a favored team. Who would pay to see such a game?

22 posted on 06/30/2009 4:13:21 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: InvisibleChurch
They pillory a Governor Palin of their own manufacture with their deciet and ignorance.

The only clue they have of who the real woman is scares the bejabbers out of them.

23 posted on 06/30/2009 4:13:41 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.)
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To: Bob

I’d like to see some examples of occasions when her foot was “in her mouth”. (I don’t seem to recall her saying that she had visited 57 states.)

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And I’m certain she never recommended using a breathalyzer for asthma! Was that to save health care costs, too? I can’t recall.


24 posted on 06/30/2009 4:13:41 PM PDT by JavaJumpy
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To: DaveyB
> Also demonstrating that it is difficult if not impossible for a journalist to see objectively while prostrate with their lips pressed against the feet of Obama.

...or indeed somewhere else, also four-letters, but beginning with the letter "a".

25 posted on 06/30/2009 4:14:22 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

What did she say to “put her foot in her mouth”?

I notice they didn’t list anything. Pricks.


26 posted on 06/30/2009 4:17:33 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (A woman will be the next President; I hope it's Palin instead of HRC.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
I don't understand the obsession with her. It is a bit frightening.
27 posted on 06/30/2009 4:17:46 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: InvisibleChurch
National Society of Newspaper Columnists Gives Palin 'Sitting Duck' Award

Their "award" says volumes about the newspaper columnists and little about Sarah Palin.

28 posted on 06/30/2009 4:17:46 PM PDT by RJL
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To: JavaJumpy
"I'd like to interrupt this important thread to inform you that I wish to be addressed as 'Senator', not 'ma'am'."


29 posted on 06/30/2009 4:18:16 PM PDT by spald
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To: InvisibleChurch

National Society of Newspaper Columnists
P.O. Box 411532
San Francisco, CA 94141
Phone: toll free (866) 440-NSNC (6762) / Fax: toll free (866) 635-5759
http://www.columnists.com/contactform.php


30 posted on 06/30/2009 4:19:39 PM PDT by oust the louse (This Country now has a smelly BO problem.....)
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To: Starboard
Buying a newspaper is like paying to see a sports event where the umpires are deliberately slanting calls for a favored team. Who would pay to see such a game?

Well said.

31 posted on 06/30/2009 4:20:05 PM PDT by RJL
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To: InvisibleChurch

If anyone still gets a dialy newspaper, STOP!

There is enough vitriol in this “award” to put these papers out of business forever.

Gov. Palin may not have been the strongest candidate ever for VP, but she fought the race well, spoke eloquently and represented the party honorably. There is no way she deserves the disrespect these morons CONTINUE to hurl her way.

They are all pathetic, and I do hope the jobs at these papers are all eliminated soon. These people do not deserve to earn their living, if this is how they operate.


32 posted on 06/30/2009 4:21:36 PM PDT by Joann37
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To: InvisibleChurch

They should give themselves an award for:

The communication entity that people with a brain pay no attention to anymore.”


33 posted on 06/30/2009 4:21:50 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: InvisibleChurch
For Sarah to receive a "Sitting Duck" award from these dodos is truly a feather in her cap.

Each member of this pathetic "National Society of Newspaper Communists....oops, Columnists" should be the one to get an award....for "Excellence in Quack Journalism".

Leni

34 posted on 06/30/2009 4:27:27 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Please Don't Tell Obama What Comes After a Trillion!)
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To: InvisibleChurch

http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/images/sambennett150.jpg

Samantha Bennett
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
President, National Society of Newspaper Columnists

http://www.columnists.com/contactform.php

National Society of Newspaper Columnists
P.O. Box 411532
San Francisco, CA 94141
Phone: toll free (866) 440-NSNC (6762) / Fax: toll free (866) 635-5759

Columnists.com

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists was founded in 1977 and exists to promote professionalism and camaraderie among North American newspaper columnists. Membership is open to general interest, humor, op-ed, online, or other newspaper columnists. Academics and student columnists also are eligible to join. The annual conference is NSNC’s primary event. The group also publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, maintains this website and advocates for columnists and free-press issues.


35 posted on 06/30/2009 4:28:07 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: carcraft
I wonder what kind of awards they give deaf, dumb and blind reporters who only read Braille with their left hand?

The Loping Mule, or the Choking Chicken.

36 posted on 06/30/2009 4:28:45 PM PDT by AH_LiveRight
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To: InvisibleChurch

These newspaper columnists just watched a left-wing neophyte get elected President, and they said nothing. What have they got to be smug about?


37 posted on 06/30/2009 4:29:48 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The Democrats have returned to their game of supporting totalitarian regimes. Now they're muslim.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

38 posted on 06/30/2009 4:39:06 PM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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To: AH_LiveRight
The columnist collective lips have been pucker on OBama’s *ss so long it is hard to tell his hole from their mouth...
39 posted on 06/30/2009 4:40:06 PM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: InvisibleChurch

It is amazing how the left and the MSM is so afraid of this woman.


40 posted on 06/30/2009 4:40:38 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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