Hot Button: Palinmania

Washington Times ^ | 11/16/2009 | Amanda Carpenter

[markomalley]

Republican 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's highly anticipated book tour kicks off Monday afternoon with the airing of her wide-ranging chat with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.

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Although the 418-page best-seller doesn't come out until Tuesday, the Associated Press already has obtained a copy and assigned 11 reporters to comb through it to publish a pre-emptive "fact check" that has outraged her supporters because several items in it relied more on analysis than black-and-white facts.

For example, one of the "fact check" items criticized Mrs. Palin for writing in the book that she was driven by "purpose" rather than "ambition." The AP, oddly, concluded the book proves otherwise because it "has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto, the requisite autobiography of the future candidate."

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Newsweek is also getting in the game, previewing its Nov. 23 cover, which quickly reignited the debate of sexism in the media.

Its editors chose a photo of Mrs. Palin taken for "Runner's World," showing her wearing athletic shorts that display the avid runner's toned legs. Although such a photo makes sense for a workout magazine, the connection isn't obvious with Newsweek's dismal, political headline: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She's bad news for the GOP -- and for everyone else, too."

Several photos taken for Runner's World show Mrs. Palin stretching in various poses, and they're available on its Web site, but Newsweek chose the one that shows off her legs the most.

Some conservative media watchers have compared the Newsweek cover to others published by Time that featured a conservative with an unflattering photograph and a negative headline. Time's 1995 cover of Rush Limbaugh puffing a cigar asked, "Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?" Its more recent cover with Glenn Beck sticking out his tongue ...

[PapaBear3625]

Rasmussen poll: 59% of GOP Voters Say Palin Shares Their Values

The anti-Sarah crowd can go pound sand.

[MrB]

I know a lib that gets all her “news” from Newsweak and claims to be informed. Of course, even the most cursory of questions about current events reveals her ignorance. But she is willfully so. Being really informed would challenge her worldview.

[MrB]

Sarah is like the Man she obviously follows - a divider (Luke 12:51).

And that’s NOT a bad thing.

Time for people to choose where their loyalties lie. (James 4:4)

[Mind-numbed Robot]

That is a very good thing in these dangerous times.

What we consider "over the top rhetoric" is standard fair for the left in their campaigns of personal destruction.

It makes me fear for her safety in these open to the public book signings.

[Tribune7]

Although such a photo makes sense for a workout magazine, the connection isn't obvious with Newsweek's dismal,

Betcha it sells better than the 0 covers :-)

[Night Hides Not]

Indeed. I’m waiting for Rush’s interview. And BOR has a three-part interview.

How many interviews will Sarah have on MSNBC?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

I can already imagine those two simpering fools consoling each other: Richard Wolff & Olberpuke.

Dittos for Maddow and her platonic lover Ana Marie Cox.

I am a bit surprised Sarah's not making a stop at Morning Joe. IIRC, Mika was sympathetic to Sarah during last year's election.

OTOH, Joe blew any chance this morning when he made that comment about Sarah not being in Howard Dean's league, intellectually.

[Past Your Eyes]

Being no fan of hosses or beer, Probly not. If I was to take up drinking beer again, it sure as hell wouldn’t be Buzzwizer.
Wouldn’t matter which Orca it was, not the least bit interested. I’d rather waste time.

[Billthedrill]

Although the 418-page best-seller doesn't come out until Tuesday, the Associated Press already has obtained a copy and assigned 11 reporters to comb through it to publish a pre-emptive "fact check" that has outraged her supporters because several items in it relied more on analysis than black-and-white facts.

No, what has "outraged" her supporters was that the AP decided to put an 11-man hit team on the job in the first place. Had they done so with "Dreams From My Father" we wouldn't be having this conversation. They didn't.

That they did not argues precisely the sort of media bias that tends to drive even the nominally disinterested into the camp of the target. Were Sarah a liberal the screams of "sexism" would be resounding to the stars as a result of this blatantly unequal treatment. That they are not argues the systemic moral and intellectual decline of feminism in general.

But this reaction on the part of the media - this violent, visceral, screaming hostility is a so far unexplored story in itself. They seem preoccupied in the psychoanalysis of Palin's supporters. Physician, diagnose thyself.