Posted on 10/01/2008 11:59:28 AM PDT by presidio9
Sour grapes...she is a Romney supporter.
Here’s an email I just sent off to Kathleen Parker.
Dear Kathleen:
The vicious and threatening email you’ve received palls in comparison to that which Sarah Palin has been forced to endure, simply for the honor of being chosen McCain’s Veep. That certainly does not excuse its coming your way! Vile is vile and always outside of legitimate political or any other type discourse.
But now you know it’s out there. Hatred and vitriol beyond comprehension has been the norm at web sites like Daily KOS and Huffington. It’s sad that it has shown a bit of its ugliness in conservative circles. But conservatives are much better at self-policing same. Liberals encourage it, snicker at it, laugh out loud at it. It’s disgusting.
Palin has been the brunt of far worse than you have experienced. You’ve called people out for your mean-spirited treatment. How about doing the same for Gov Palin?
Sincerely,
A CONSERVATIVE RESPONDS ...
“The picture is this: Anyone who dares express an opinion that runs counter to the party line will be silenced. That doesn’t sound American to me, but Stalin would approve.”
How grotesquely unfair of you!
Consider the fact that you have a soapbox read by millions. People writing you emails do not. They are at a distinct disadvantage.
You wrote something that was IMMEDIATELY used by the liberal media and the Obama campaign itself as “proof”
that Palin was unqualified etc. It offended, annoyed and outraged many who think that Palin is getting smeared
and unfairly treated. It was like watching a rape and criticizing the victim for wearing the wrong clothes.
(You may not agree with that categorization, but that’s how many people see it; you attacked a fine woman while she was down due to
very unfair media treatment.)
Nowhere in your unfair column did you mention how CBS News spliced up the Palin interview to make her look worse.
Nowhere in your unfair column did you mention the pervasive and massive liberal media bias and specific actions to hurt her and to
favor Obama. These factors are real. You could have dissected the unfair NYTimes article. instead, you ‘piled on’ and did
it unfairly to Gov Palin.
Given all that, and given the fact that the ‘silent majority’ is increasingly voiceless, you get some over-the-top
email. I am sorry some people get so mad that they say threatening and dumb things. But we all get it; I’ve been called far
worse on internet forums. Michael Moore says it out loud and he gets to sit next to an ex-President. That’s a real problem,
validating his hate.
So, please grow up and realize that your words have been used to help elect a far more dangerous
and unqualified candidate than Gov Palin, and that is Barack Hussein Obama. Remember him?
“Everyone’s to blame, by the way.”
Not really. But I guess that must include you, for calling people ‘stalinists’ for having the temerity to pop off to you
about your opinion. That’s as ‘over the top’ as what people were telling you. phew!
Your column was dumb for the basic reason that you didn’t seem to grasp that McCain couldn’t replace Palin. People telling
you that is not a serious attempt to stifle your right to write, but to correct the record.
I would urge you to consider this:
1. Instapundit’s info on the in-the-tank Obamedia:
“Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.” I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.
2. The many attempts by BHO’s campaign to silence critics. Why are you whining about your mailbag when
Obama has assembled DAs to intimidate speech in Missouri? Where are your priorities!?!?
...and much, much worse.
LLS
I’m just sorry I didn’t send Parker a nasty e-mail last year when she declared Hillary “well qualified to be president.”
opps... musta mis-read that.
And I agree... that kind of vile is best left for the leftists.
This b!tch is dead to me... I will never again give her the time of day... she is a begala from this day forward.
LLS
Publicity?
What’s her email addy?
Laura Ingraham said this morning that she might have to do an intervention with Kathleen. They are good friends.
“I’m a poor persecuted Idiot” Alert.
I’ve been direct-sending data files P2P over phone lines since the winter of 1983.
“I don’t know why Kathleen would do this. She is a lovely and smart person.”
Compared to who?
I hear Eva Braun was a lovely person also, but she had lousy taste in men.
She knew what she was doing. She was jumping in Sarah's spotlight. Good for her! Now she can get herself a book deal: "How to Lose Friends and Influence an Election."
I have met her and corresponded with her. She is a peach with a great family, that’s who.
Well, if true, a very sad event.
Anything is possible.
I remain very, very disappointed in Kathleen Parker.
Maybe she can get John McCain to go on Katie Couric with her and tell people to stop picking on her?
When a writer decides it’s all about them, it’s over.
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