Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press

PoliticsDaily ^ | 07/08/09 | Carl M. Cannon

[winoneforthegipper]

The mainstream media is undergoing its demise, drip by drip, day by day, and its practitioners, which include most of my friends in life, are under considerable pressure. In my opinion, however, these pressures do not excuse the treatment accorded Sarah Palin. On the contrary, to me the entire Sarah saga revealed that it wasn't only the traditional media's business model that is broken. Our journalism model is busted, too.

[winoneforthegipper]

Wow, has the tide turned? Decency returning? May God guide this flow!

[Republic]

This was quite an article...I just posted at the end of it...cannot believe some of the crap people believe.

[GOP Poet]

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[militanttoby]

Good article, and 53% of Americans now agree. Must be many independents in that number.

Take that: Ruth Marcus, Maureen Dowd, Kathleen Parker, Eugene Robinson and ALL the rest. No one listens, and you just making Palin stronger. Worse, you are a blight to fair and objective journalism, and even if your pieces are opinion pieces, they are so full of jealousy and malice, its reprehensible.

[wastedyears]

Exodus - Piranha (apt for how Sarah is with the media and detractors)

Slicing jaws a way of life
Brought up to waste mankind
Loki’s pets his little children
Deadly every time

Trapped in swamps by gates of hell

Don’t ever: let them out
For if you do and they escape
You’ll fight a bloody bout

Piranha kill in a pack - you’ll run
Piranha start to attack - you’ll done
If you think you can beat - deadly school
If you think you can live - vou’re a fool

Gates of hell are old and cracked
They tumble and they fall
Out rush a bloody wall of death
To kill anything at all
Their sole mission is to kill
Strip your bones and flesh
Rip out your eyes tear off your face
An agonizing death

Piranha kill in a pack - you’ll run
Piranha start to attack - you’re done
If you think you can beat - deadly school
If you think you can live - you’re a foo

[winoneforthegipper]

If you are buried in your fox hole, shell dust oozing from your nostrils, a soldier can do on of two things, fight for fresh air or bury their head further in the dust, reacting to the fear of dying.

Amazing it is, even on this board, how many foxhole bolo’s fill the trenches.

[freekitty]

There was also a story about Ginsburg, the SC Court Justice saying she was a product of affirmative action. That is a utter bald faced lie. When I lived in CA in the early 90’s, a Mexican friend of mine encouraged me to get a woman’s business loan from the government. I thought okay; why not? I was denied and the reason given to my friend (they didn’t have the balls to tell me directly)I swear, was I am married to a white man. This is a true story.

So take your bs crap and shovel it someone else Ginsburg. I know what affirmative action is and what it isn’t.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

“The reason is what happened when the battle over Sarah Palin came to a head on Oct. 2, 2008, in St. Louis, Mo. That night, the press showed its colors – and they were Democratic blue. That was the night that Palin cleaned Joe Biden’s clock in their only debate, and nobody in the media could even see it, let alone report it. That was the night that the dual blinders of ideology and elitism prevented us being honest brokers.”
I haven't seen any honesty or integrity from the media during the last 4 decades, but the preposterous treatment that Republicans have received, and the protections they have afforded DemonRATs is the very essence of why this nation is on the brink of destruction.
Much like the famous quote of ferret face “Kerry”, “seared into my memory”, the bold faced lies of DemonRAT politicians are ignored and covered up time and time again while Republicans are relentlessly hounded out of office for trumped up allegations. Journalists lost any shred of credibility long ago, but they've earned a special place in hell for their efforts.

[reefdiver]

What I am saying is that we simply didn’t hold Joe Biden to the same standard as Sarah Palin, and for me, the real loser in this sordid tale is my chosen profession.

How about the Country? Where on the list of losers, does the reporter list His Country? AS always the reporter is more important. I recall CNNs Shaw, as not talking to His country as his so called credentials might have been questioned.

[Montanabound]

In the first paragraph, the author calls her speech “rambling”, straight from the journalists’ talking points.

[YHAOS]

[Speaking of Washington, DC, and a lot of other places]

"Its official circles never accept any one gladly. There is always a certain unexpressed sentiment that a new arrival is appropriating the power that should rightfully belong to them. He is always regarded as in the nature of a usurper."

. . . . . Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography, 1929

What the Palin incident has reminded us (again) is that the “Beltway mentality” is not confined to just one political party, or one geographical locale (besides DC, think NY, Hollywood, Chicago, etc), or one profession (besides politicians, think media pukes, academia pukes, celebrities who love to schmooze with DC power brokers and lobbyists, and that whole swirling galaxy orbiting around the power center of DC). Or, that thus it has always been, though perhaps a little more genteel at times as with Coolidge, who is quoted above, and at other times no better than now, as with J Q Adams or Jackson).

Nor can we entirely believe that “The Press” was ever as pure as Cannon would have us believe it was. Though we must hope it’s had better days than now.

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

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