This story is WAPO and the media trying to make their super, collossal, e-mail gaff - somehow - Palin's fault.
Sorry WAPO/NYT, the egg on your colletive faces will not dry anytime soon.
Posted on 06/14/2011 5:33:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It was probably not the intention of liberal investigative journalists to expose Sarah Palin as a figure far more sympathetic than her public image. Twenty-four thousand pages of e-mail voyeurism reveal a politician who has successfully hidden her virtues behind closed blinds.
As Alaska governor, Palin was kind to her staff, responsive to her constituents and protective of her state. She sought God’s guidance in difficult decisions, made time for her family and found media questions on the provenance of her youngest child to be “flippin’ unbelievable.” These revelations read more like a campaign commercial.
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Reading through some of the messages brought to mind the rising governor I met in Alaska in June 2007. Palin was a reformer who had opposed the corrupt Republican establishment of her state. She governed from the center-right. Her style was more practical than ideological. Over lunch at the governor’s mansion in Juneau, Palin was engaging, informal and earnest. The contemporaneous e-mails show that she was careful to avoid excessive partisanship — even willing, on occasion, to praise Barack Obama.
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Modern politics has become a vast Pavlovian experiment. New technologies and media outlets provide immediate positive and negative reinforcement. The blogs buzz, the ratings come in, the hits are counted. A public official who reads the press too closely finds a following in attacking it. Elements of the press find an audience in criticizing her relentlessly. Reflexes become conditioned. People salivate on cue.
In Palin vs. the press, neither side has acquitted itself particularly well. Palin became a less sympathetic figure than she once was. The media managed to undermine a low reputation. Their codependence exposes our political culture to ridicule. But it makes for good television.
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They see what they believe is "truth." You too must see their "truth" because "People salivate on cue."
They want her to be what they worked to make her, no threat to Obama and the Democratic Party's Progressive Agenda.
See if you can make "sense" out of this column. Gearson puts everyone on his analyst's couch.
His attempt to salvage the MSM is pathetic.
Michael Gerson pimping RomneyCARE
" Instead, the president chose the current complex, regulatory approach to reform,
precisely because it seemed less radical and disruptive than the other options.
It was patterned in part on health reforms in Massachusetts signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney,
a Republican, thereby applying at least a veneer of bipartisanship.
Well, that adds a big piece of the puzzle.
Thanks.
More importantly, I’ve got to wonder how she was transformed from what appears to be a sensible governor to what the became which is a extremely partisan and devoted to the socon right.
He "explains" that in his column but NO MORE of the piece can be added to the thread here.
LINKED at "Washington Post" above.
This comes from the paper that went begging for “volunteers” to dig through the emails in hope of finding some dirt.
FOAD, Compost. You’re the communist dinosaur media, and America is done with you.
bttt
Palin vs. the press??? How dishonest can you get with a headline? More like, The Press vs. Palin!
And then, "in this war, neither wins", who declared war? The corrupt press -- on Palin. And then, suddenly the press declares their is no winner in this effort. Translated, this means that their ugly, over-the-top effort to claw through Palin's e-mails and enlist the effort of their readers stained them even more and this is their attempt to blame Palin for their unmitigated muck raking.
How utterly pathetic and how utterly transparent is their effort to try and absolve themselves of their deep transgression.
Give unto us a break. The concern is with the "logical" (to liberals) and ineluctable extension to nanny-state "the federal government will decide what may and may not be served in school cafeterias" diktats.
If vigilance in lopping off liberalism's insidious tentacles is "hyperpartisanship," may Sarah's tribe increase hourly.
Gerson also worked at one point as a ghostwriter for Charles Colson.
In early 1999, Karl Rove recruited Gerson for the Bush campaign.
Gerson was named by Time as one of "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals In America" in the magazine's February 7, 2005 issue of the magazine, listing Gerson as the ninth most influential.
[edit] SpeechwriterGerson joined the Bush campaign before 2000 as a speechwriter and went on to head the White House speechwriting team.
"No one doubts that he did his job exceptionally well," wrote Ramesh Ponnuru in a 2007 article otherwise very critical of Gerson in National Review. According to Ponnuru, Bush's speechwriters had more prominence in the administration than their predecessors did under previous presidents because Bush's speeches did most of the work of defending the president's policies, since administration spokesmen and press conferences did not. On the other hand, he wrote, the speeches would announce new policies that were never implemented, making the speechwriting in some ways less influential than ever.
On June 14, 2006, it was announced that Gerson was leaving the White House to pursue other writing and policy work.[8] He was replaced as Bush's chief speechwriter by The Wall Street Journal chief editor William McGurn.
Bottom line; a POS!
For a private citizen, Sarah sure gets a lot of media attention. Imagine if she were running for president! I bet the sits back and laughs at these idiots. Truly PDS.
Sweet. The media did not make Sarah Palin. It can not destoy her, but they are crashing and burning in the attempt ... yet calling it a draw.
“In Palin vs. the press, neither side has acquitted itself particularly well.In Palin vs. the press, neither side has acquitted itself particularly well.
Translation: We couldn’t win so no one can...give us the ball, we are going home to pout.
She was "transformed" by the media starting the moment she was selected by John McCain. The original Journolist had a job to do, and they did it quite effectively.
It's always interesting to note how Democrats are Never extremely partisan. Only Republicans, according to the media, are extremely partisan.
Gerson thinks he’s losing his audience. He and others in the mainstream press are likely finding that their audience sees that the Palin bashing doesn’t agree with the facts.
Cincinatus’ Wife -=> See if you can make “sense” out of this column.
“We’re gettin’ our asses handed to us, so we’re gonna call a truce.”
Found it. Thanks.
Despite mainstream labels, it appears she morphed into what got her headlines, good or bad. While that’s a human condition, it’s really her problem. It takes steadfastness not to morph, but she did.
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