Oooh! Low blow!
Rather apt, I must say. ;-)
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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No idea. To this day, I have yet to see the Couric interview.
Oooh! Low blow!
Rather apt, I must say. ;-)
“Has this been covered by nbc, cbs, abc, msnbc, cnn, nyt, wapo, time, newsweak, et al?”
How much you wanna bet their news staff and reporters are on the list of 400?
This revelation, though not really new to most of us, will only further rally evangelicals and, believe it or not, moderate, independent women to Palin. By and large, I think most people are fair. And when most people realize this was a planned attack and they were used as dupes by the media, it will severely swing momentum.
Its ‘journalistic’ (and I use that term very loosely) collusion. These emails completely open up a HUGE lawsuit with charges of collusion and slander against every single one of them.
This is actually a "hugh" and "series" matter.. To be truthful it is as we here at FR have always known but now in the open. If there were only some way to get it out far and wide, 24/7, day in day out.
This is an insidious and far reaching corruption of a free press and our form of government.
bfl
They all get the same talking points. Conspiracy.
I agree and I love your doggies.
Palin / West ‘12
Scary thing is that this encompasses all of the msm, they were all in on it. It is really getting scary now.
I agree.
Each and every one of the journalists on that list, and the media corporations they are associated with are enemies of this country and everything it stands for. They are corrupt liars, propagandists, and anything they have to say from this day forward is suspect at best.
And they have a leader. That degree of synchronization isn’t just happen stance.
The media’s been in the tank since Nixon.
True but this time around it was worse then I had ever seen..they will protect Obama til their dying day, and even after that. They have to protect him, they were the ONLY reason why he won, if he fails, then they will be to blame, so no matter what, they will defend him til their last breath. If the media did their actual JOB, Obama’s approval rating would be in the 20 percent range
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