Posted on 07/12/2009 6:56:57 AM PDT by skimbell
SARAH PALIN and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service. When Sharpton told the singer’s children it was their daddy’s adversaries, not their daddy, who were “strange,” he was channeling the pugnacious argument the Alaska governor had made the week before. There was nothing strange about her decision to quit in midterm, Palin told America. What’s strange — or “insane,” in her lingo — are the critics who dare question her erratic behavior on the national stage...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
See article about the man at:
Frank Rich: The Butcher of the Beltway
http://www.slate.com/id/2131911
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The role of lefty hero is essentially Rich's third act in journalism. In 1994, after 14 high-octane years as drama critic, Rich began to write what you might call cultural op-eds. In these, Rich would stroke his chin about Oprah Winfrey's Beloved or David Hare's The Blue Room—each cultural exemplum supposedly containing clues to desires of the polity. The theorizing had its limits—what, in the end, did Beloved tell us about society? (And Rich has unfortunately produced a crowd of imitators, including Dowd at the Times.) But Rich also had his share of triumphs. In 2003, after moving his column to the "Arts & Leisure" section, he was one of the first journalists to call Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ anti-Semitic. Played out in print and on TV, the Gibson-Rich feud both anticipated the cultural rift of the 2004 presidential election and was sensationally entertaining to boot. After Gibson expressed his desire to see the columnist killed along with his dog, Rich deadpanned, "I don't have a dog." --
His writing obviously provokes strong feelings!
The NYT is GOING to HAVE THEIR WAY with the deck chairs on the Titanic, and THAT’S FINAL!
The other contenders are being eliminated (or eliminating themselves), at a steady rate of about one every week or two.
BTW, I really am getting sick of Republicans having to meet a much higher standard than Democrats. A Democrat can do just about anything and get elected or re-elected.
Alcee Hastings is one of the few judges in American history to be impeached and convicted, and he was then elected to Congress. He was found by the Senate to have taken a large bribe in connection with sentencing someone. Now he is a bigwig on an intelligence committee.
I am not saying that we should put up with just anything from our Republican elected officials. But if the other side protects their elected officials, while we tear ours apart for any imperfection, we should not be surprised if we end up with very few people willing to get into the ring.
If you look at his source of information you will not be surprised with his writing.
from:
http://www.slate.com/id/2131911
“Rich harvests morsels from the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, the New Republic, Slate, newspapers, and cable-news channels (always with generous citations).”
She broke the GOP. Yep. The GOP that is ahead of the Dems on 8 of 10 polled issues. The broken GOP that is now ahead of Dems on the generic congressional ballot.
Yeah, she really screwed them up.
Hey Frank, hows that Balance Sheet looking? While she’s running you’ll be looking for another DNC mouthpiece to write for.
Pray for America and Gov Palin
“That overwhelming majority isn’t just the “base” of the Republican Party that liberals and conservatives alike tend to ghettoize as a rump backwater minority. It is the party, or pretty much what remains of it in the Barack Obama era.”
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Poll numbers are showing growing numbers of conservatives and shrinking numbers of liberals. Liberal hacks and apologists are going to miss the big story because they are looking at party but the people are looking for real and POSITIVE change.
100% correct, Bush ruined the GOP and may very well have killed it. A Bush GOP is not worth saving as it was barely indistinguishable from a Rat Democratic party.
What? Were you afraid that you'd missed out on the festivities during the just-concluded "Pile On Sarah Palin Week"?
I think we've now heard from just about Everyone Who's Everyone in the New York/D.C. hack glitterati community, and face it, Richie Rich: you were the last one to weigh in.
Even Pruneface Peggy Noonan beat you to it. Of course, she was just waiting to see what Kathleen Parker would write, so as to avoid any conflicting use of dismissive verbs and diminutive nouns. And she, of course was just following on the opening salvo led by Maureen Dowd, Doyenne of the Dirt Dishers, New York's premier purveyor of the kind of bon mots that get less bon with every mot.
But, face it: you missed out on the party Frankie Boy, and you desperate attempt to catch up to the festivities sounds like the guy who arrives at the party when all the good booze is gone and all but the most attention-starved guests have gone home.
“In truth, the commentators at ABC, NBC and CNN — often the same ones who judged Michelle Obama a drag on her husband — all tried to outdo each other in praise for Palin when she emerged at the Republican convention 10 months ago.”
I hope that more objective reporters point out that ahhh, Mr Rich, that wasn’t quite the case. He deserves to be crucfied for this lie.
Andrew Wilcow was right, instead of 2 political parties, we will end up with 4 political parties. The Dems will break into the Social Democratic party and Democratic Party. The pubies will break into the Conservative Party and Republican Party (really right wing democrats).
“That leaves the charisma-challenged Mitt Romney, precisely the kind of card-carrying Ivy League elitist Palinists loathe, no matter how hard he tries to cosmetically alter his history as a socially liberal fat-cat banker. Palin would crush him like a bug.”
Worth reading despite the delusional fabrication of the rest of the article just for that :).
LLS
Just when I thought Frank Rich couldn’t get any nuttier, he proves me wrong.
Aside from that, Rich lazily falls back on the trope that all on the Right are inherently racist, that somehow the "values of Alaska" are "white" values. Poor shmuck just doesn't get it: ask some of the Cambodians, Nigerians, Indians who have started successful businesses here about their "white" values Frankie
This whole "American experiment" - these "Alaska Values" - are not a "European" thing, a "White" thing, Frankie, they're a Freedom Thing, doofus.
“Most important, she stands for a genuine movement: a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances and awash in self-pity as the country hurtles into the 21st century and leaves it behind.”
With Cap&Trade, Guvmint Healtcare and multi-trillion dollar deficits, I say, go ahead and leave us real Americans behind. we want no part in the “New Obama America”
What I would give to be just half as intelligent as Rich thinks he is.
(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children) really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "Neo-con" taunts many fled the Party.)
The Nytimese aging hippies are tense.
Bring out the tried and true Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble tactics used against Goldwater (by the elites of both Parties.)
Goldwater is a racist purveyor of hate!
Palin is a crafty racist purveyor of the "deftly coded putdown" of blacks and of "ugly emotions".
She should stop complaining about this kind of criticism.
Hey! Late-night comics made jokes about the Clintons. The Clintons suffered. It's all even.
Hippie "logic."
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