The other way of looking at it is that any GOP candidate, after winning the primaries, will be subject to the same treatment. Palin's already been "vetted", and the media have pretty much shot all of their ammo -- when campaigning begins and the public sees that's she's not the caricature they've been told she is, what then?
Interesting theory! Not sure I can agree just yet. It's too far in advance of 2012. But time will tell.
In any case, even if the MSM do try to bash other candidates with the same intensity, I simply can't believe the "treatment" will work so well against an exceptionally smooth and personable rhetorician like that snake, Gov. Huckabee, or against a very successful and likeable two-term governor like Gov. Daniels or Gov. Barbour.
Palin's already been "vetted", and the media have pretty much shot all of their ammo
Your statement would have carried a lot more weight a week ago, before Sarah's "North Korea" slip of the tongue. I might even have been persuaded by you back them. But if Gov. Palin keeps giving the MSM this sort of "ammo," then I don't see how she could ever recover.
when campaigning begins and the public sees that's she's not the caricature they've been told she is, what then?
If she hires a voice coach and learns to soften her screeching oral delivery, and if she seriously bones up on the great world issues of our time -- the way Reagan did for years when writing his hundreds of commentaries -- then she probably will have a chance.
Otherwise, I find it strains credibility to imagine she can break the template already set in stone by the MSM, specifically the media's "narrative" of a petulant two-year governor who left the field of battle, thereafter earning millions as an author and TV celebrity.
The sissified MSM water-boys on FR, and in the GOP...insist that her voice is now a “problem”.
So let’s look to Romney, Tim, Huck, etc......because anyone who hasn’t actually used their voice (to battle the left) to any extent, in the last two years, certainly will not need a voice coach.
Trashing a good conservative woman’s accent and colloquialisms. Sounds like the bigoted liberals I have heard calling her a snowbilly.
And strange how none of these “problems” arose BEFORE she was chosen in 08. The AK media, AK Dems, oil companies, never complained that she could not be serious and sober.
As a matter of fact, when she was picked there were articles from her local media stating they were surprised because she was the first Gov to sit for editorial board meetings without her aids and lawyers with her.
I don’t recall Charlie Rose complaining about her voice or answers when being interviewed numerous times before 08. Or any Oil companies or other State Gov running out of a meeting with their hair on fire saying she was an incompetent or complaining to the press about her voice. Does anyone think McCain would have picked her (after his staff vetted her for months) if these “problems” were out there in her State in her poll numbers in her local press??
None of these things were a problem before the national MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia smear machine got a hold of her.
Propaganda is a powerful thing, and some are more susceptible than others.
And FR is no exception.