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'Dimwitted' and In Need of a 'Chaperone': Palin Has Press at Point of Panic
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/13/2008 6:11:18 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

"I’ve gotten the scary feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U.S., but that it might actually prevail." -- Bob Herbert, NYT, 9-13-08

Bob Herbert's item in today's New York Times, She's Not Ready, is not so much political analysis as a howl of MSM shock and outrage. No-o-o-o-o!, Herbert seems to cry. I can't believe this is happening to us! Meanwhile, with condescension worthy of Charlie Gibson, ABC's David Wright suggests that Palin has been in need of a "chaperone" on the campaign trail.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bobherbert; davidwright; demmeltdown; dempanic; demsgoingape; feminism; hatinpalin; liberalmedia; mccainpalin; mediameltdown; msmdrivebys; palin; pds; propagandawingofdnc; sarahnoia; sarahpalin
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To: ridesthemiles
She will be in Carson City, Nevada’s capital this afternoon. I live within 40 miles of there, but cannot be there. I think the crowd she will draw will be stupendous.

I'm sure the NYTimes or ABC won't show pictures of those HUGE CROWDS wherever Sarah appears, like they do for Obama.

41 posted on 09/13/2008 6:36:29 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
McLaim/Palin needs to STOP treating Gibson-esque reporters as if they were honest observers.. and LAY TRAPS FOR THEM.. instead of danceing around the traps set for themselves..

The answer to the "Bush Doctrine question" is "Bush has a doctrine?" what doctrine, explain yourself.. Questions with too large a scope are traps.. Forcing them to be specific will make them nutz.. unless you re-define the question FOR THEM.. and then answer it.. at your pace.. Interupting you is very agressive.. and should be ATTACKED as an attack.. Bipartisanship is appeasement..

Interviews by the enemy is a WAR.. with battles..

42 posted on 09/13/2008 6:38:02 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
No they won't. They will do everything they can to change the election dynamic. Its the way they are.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

43 posted on 09/13/2008 6:38:55 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: netmilsmom

Liberals are deranged; it’s as simple as that.


44 posted on 09/13/2008 6:39:54 AM PDT by comps4spice
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To: netmilsmom
I've had the Friends on all morning and it's main focus is the hurricane. However, they did have one segment with two Dems discussing Sarah...Julie Roginsky claimed that once women really get to know Sarah Palin and see what she stands for, which is the exact opposite of what most women stand for (said with a look of disgust on her face), they will be behind Barry and Biden.
45 posted on 09/13/2008 6:40:03 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Isn’t it amazing how often you can actually agree with the leftists? That is of course as long as they don’t specify about whom they are talking.


46 posted on 09/13/2008 6:41:01 AM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: goldstategop
There is real SEXISM going on against Palin by LIBERALS, who brought the word, SEXISM, into our vocabulary.
47 posted on 09/13/2008 6:41:08 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Stand firm folks.....


48 posted on 09/13/2008 6:42:09 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: Always Right
"When Palin gives a good answer, the media says she is well coached."

The Misogynist Left keeps pounding sand.

49 posted on 09/13/2008 6:42:46 AM PDT by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: UCANSEE2

Put quotes around your search (”democrat panic”) and it’s 382 hits on Google. That’s the cream of the crop in those 382 though!


50 posted on 09/13/2008 6:43:14 AM PDT by Textide
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To: netmilsmom

When Obama says there are 57 states, he is simply a progressive thinker.
When Obama says he can see dead vets at Memorial Day, it only enhances his holiness.


51 posted on 09/13/2008 6:43:39 AM PDT by mel
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I read George Will’s column this morning which clarified the FOUR Bush Doctrines. Charlie Gibson had it wrong! Sorry, don’t know how to connect Will’s column to post. Shirley


52 posted on 09/13/2008 6:43:44 AM PDT by LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I about felt sick when someone commenting on her interview(interogation).

They said she didn’t know what she was doing and couldn’t answer. They said she wasn’t tough and came off as very weak. What? SHe didn’t stutter like OBAMA. she gave answers. To an interviewer was trying to get her to say something in a gotcha. She did well in a tough interview with an unfriendly person.

You barry have their admiration and get glowing articles written about you.

The media loves you no matter what. You don’t even answer a full question.
It sounded like she did to me at least completed a thought. Unlike you Barry.

So You are not fit or anywhere near qualified to be the President. Your not even ready to answer a tough question about your background. Bout yuor associations.

Not one quesition that will be demanded of Sarah Palin. You are coming across as not only a newbie chump but a really wimpy person.

You have to be a tougher person to be the POTUS and Commander in Chief.

If you want to command America’s best then try and act like you can take some heat.
Your going to have to man up and rise to the occasion.

Mrs. Palin has set a very high bar with her actions and words.
If a VP canidate is rattling you you will get rolled by every enemy of the USA.
If it was reversed people would be savaging Mrs. Palin as too weak and timid to be VP.

GUT CHECK, Barry! Can you be as stong and tough as a Conservative WOMAN?


53 posted on 09/13/2008 6:44:33 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: puroresu

They will never realize that if the dumbest ten percent of rural America were to move to Washington the level of good judgement and common sense would improve in both areas.


54 posted on 09/13/2008 6:44:47 AM PDT by RipSawyer (What's black and white and red all over? Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: goldstategop

They will try, but wen they say the things they have about Sarah, the public even pays closer attention to see this “stupid bimbo” the press has been lampooning so much and so loudly.

Then when an unusual amount of the public tunes in to see for themselves, they see how likable she truly is and also how grossly wrong the things the press has been saying about her are.

The public approval ratings of the press is now down to family members and pets. (about 8%) No wonder.


55 posted on 09/13/2008 6:46:16 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Sara Palin; The Orca in a bay of Democrat Belugas!)
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To: Textide

The NYT’s is now coming out and calling the American People “Dimwits” to their face!!!!!

I dont’ even want these guys to go now because they just keep making themselves look stupid and are alienating the American People.


56 posted on 09/13/2008 6:47:01 AM PDT by Alvin Poon
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To: WorkingClassFilth
"Then I take another sip of coffee and realize what a hell this man must already be in (and is headed for)and I’m glad I live here 2,000 miles away (not that MN is paradise either).

Buck up, Minnesota's the next best thing to Alaska. Unless it's the Rockies out here.

57 posted on 09/13/2008 6:47:16 AM PDT by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"... ABC's David Wright suggests that Palin has been in need of a "chaperone" on the campaign trail."

Wright does not get it! It is not that Sarah Palin needs a "chaperone" ... it is that everybody wants to be Sarah's "chaperone"!

They want and need to be near and absorb her radiant cleansing conservatism!

It is finally fun to watch a campaign speech!

58 posted on 09/13/2008 6:51:35 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: mel
"When Obama says there are 57 states, he is simply a progressive thinker. When Obama says he can see dead vets at Memorial Day, it only enhances his holiness."

When Obama says the Greenburg Kansas Tornado killed 10,000 people, it shows he's compassionate.

59 posted on 09/13/2008 6:54:14 AM PDT by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Democrats and their running dog lackeys, the media, are cutting their own heads off right in front of us...

I knew they were blinded by their ideology, but this melt down is unprecedented and widespread!

This fool is whining about Palin’s inexperience, but she has more than his PRESIDENTIAL candidate has. What a moron! Especially when any normal person can see she did very well in the Gibson interview.

I hope they keep this up until election day....Obama and the Democrats will be brutally beaten at the poles.


60 posted on 09/13/2008 6:55:12 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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