Posted on 07/22/2010 5:28:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Media Bias: Ever wonder why 2008 VP candidate Sarah Palin was so ridiculed before much was known about her? Turns out liberal journalists engaged in a coordinated smear campaign to aid the Democratic ticket.
When we talked with Alaska's then-governor in the summer of 2008 about plans to develop her state's energy resources, she came across like most other Alaskans we've met — frank, down-to-earth, colloquial, but more than technocratically knowledgeable about the energy field.
The issue then for Gov. Palin was how to balance the development of Alaska's bountiful resources with its near-pristine environment. She also wrestled with how to create a healthy business climate in a state with a history of political corruption involving oil companies.
We detected a sense of duty as Palin spoke of bringing natural gas to the Lower 48, and we were impressed with the way she spoke authoritatively about Alaska's polar bear population and compassionately about the well-being of native Alaskans. We also interviewed longtime nonpolitical Alaskan bureaucrats who raved about working with the governor and praised her executive ability.
Sound like the Sarah Palin you read about when she was chosen as John McCain's running mate that fall? Hardly.
Suddenly Palin became a backwoods Christian fundamentalist hillbilly with five kids who couldn't possibly be who she said she was. Her intelligence was attacked, her accomplishments belittled, her verbal slips ridiculed, her family's privacy invaded and her clean record smeared with accusations of corruption, all of which proved false.
Now it's clear what was really going on. On Thursday, the Daily Caller published exchanges from a private forum called JournoList that showed how 400 top mainstream reporters and their activist buddies conspired in an attack against Palin the minute she entered the presidential race.
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Well deserved marketing opportunity I guess...
Thune comes across to me as perfect for 2012. Clean cut, common sense, level headed, and experienced.
As for sarah, at the end of the day she is me, rebel, middle class, gun owning, reagan loving, patriotic, independent american. I don’t need her to be einstein.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
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I don’t know why people are shocked by this. I knew the media was in the tank for Obama since Jan 2008. I knew they would lie, cheat, steal, whatever necessary to make sure Obama won. I don’t know what started it, maybe they had a deal with Obama and his people that if they supported him they would get something back in return, I dont know, but from day 1 the media has been in the tank for this guy. No matter what he does wrong, the media will always protect him til their dying day
Behavior that in any other profession would get you fired seems to be par for the course in “journalism”. And yet they smear the bloggers as being “unprofessional”.
“Nominally competitors, these supposedly impartial media mavens colluded in a way that would put airline or insurance officials in the dock for anti-competitive practices.”
And why exactly don’t the same antitrust laws apply to these hacks?
To hear grown supposedly educated people decide to call two other men racists out of nothing more than spite is so sickening to me.
Everything these cretins did is unforgivable. Not a single one of them has any redeeming quality, NOT A ONE.
The woman hoping to watch Rush die?
It’s chilling and I fear for our children. What have these people wrought on our society.
The First Amendment, I presume.
The more people attack her the stronger she becomes.
BTW, this article proves Rush was WRONG! One of his memes for years has been that the SRM’s consistent support for the left is a result of similar thinking and the DC echo chamber, not an actual conspiracy.
Turns out it was an actual conspiracy!
The media: Even MORE corrupt than Rush thought!!!
Sarah is really smart too. Look at home she is overcoming the caricature created about her. The way I look at it, she had all those kids and governor responsibilities, the oil company negotiations and all, how much more could she absorb? So she wasn’t reading the NYT. I think she is great, and if she runs she will win. The media is still trying to perpetuate the lies about her, but she is scooting around the country and winning hearts and minds.
I had commented at the time that I had never seen such a concerted effort to malign a person as was done to Sarah.
I have no doubt this was directed by the campaign and eventually the white house but it is scary that so many "journalists" of "stature" would have jumped at the chance to turn America into the USSR or China and subvert the process.
Has this been covered by nbc, cbs, abc, msnbc, cnn, nyt, wapo, time, newsweak, et al?
Is anyone going to lose their jobs?/sarc
Not really as he has said there is a DNC fax list. He just got the communication medium wrong.
More likely they’ll win awards.
/no joke, not kidding
Probably.
These people are not reporters. They are sick pukes.
I’m 50 years old. When Reagan ran - the same virulent strain of leftist propaganda rose up from the sewers but had yet to go out and like Bill Ayres in education get the credentials to find a position of power from which to harm someone. I remember comics that showed Nancy Reagan performing sex acts with Mel Torme for God’s sake, on the same page you read a red sludgemonkey decrying a fabulous injustice that was entirely cooked up in some CCCP field office. These people are collectively the manchurian candidate, once upon a time they were formed into what they are and now they’ve mentored and infected more weak minded dirtworkers. It’s an ongoing catastrophe, but we have our forebearance as a people to blame. When these same people get the combination caliphate/collective farm they imagine they desire, it will be too late, it will be time to get the oven or the headchop. What a bunch of traitorous and useless buttmunches.
But I will say that my opinion of the intelligence and education of those I see in my travels reading the The Grey Whore (she ain't no lady) and other trash is that the reader is stoopid, clooless or most likely both.
There is one solution to going around the MSM’s bias, read her book.
Didn’t Katie Couric get an award for her professionalism in the Palin interview? Wonder who was behind that?
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