Washington Post Organizes News Boycott of Sarah Palin; Starts Twitter Campaign Against GOP Star

Big Journalism ^ | 1/22/11 | Kristinn Taylor; Andrea Shea King

[Lakeshark]

The Washington Post is engaging in online political activism by encouraging its readers to boycott news coverage of Sarah Palin.

The Post has picked up the call initiated this morning by Post columnist Dana Milbank, adding a Twitter link on the column page. The link generates a message to be sent from a Twitter member’s page that reads, “I’m making February a Palin-free month. Will you join me?”

The Post added the Twitter link to Milbank’s column this afternoon, several hours after running and pulling a Washington Post online poll about boycotting Sarah Palin news coverage. The poll initially accompanied The Post’s Milbank op-ed but was pulled within hours of publication at WashingtonPost.com.

[Moorings]

The Washington Post?? What does that look like?

[freekitty]

What’s new? Sarah should just go on like Bush did.

[GoCards]

I say we send Dana an email everyday saying Go Sarah. Bombard him.

[InternetTuffGuy]

LOL! In order to not think about Sarah Palin, aren’t they thinking about her?

“Hey, I don’t want to imaging a charging mama grizzly in the room. Do not imaging a charging mama grizzly in the room. Ready....set...and....now! Don’t imaging it.”

[Travis McGee]

This week Chris Matthews called for the assasination of all conservative Congressmen.

[goat granny]

I’ll bet Palin is happy about that, no more lies printed about her and the 12 readers the paper has can boycott it..

[InternetTuffGuy]

“imagine” oy!

[MestaMachine]

Tweets for twits. You can’t make this stuff up!

[Wpin]

So, the question is...if the WP blacklists Governor Palin from their news stories...will anyone notice?

[Clyde5445]

I doubt it last that long. Maybe an hour at the most.

[Huaynero]

Howsabouts a Dana Milbank Free Forever? Perhaps spread the joy and include Gene Robinson. They both can go edit HOA newsletters.
Genuine journalists such as Krauthammer and Will should cease their affiliation with the post.

[cripplecreek]

The Washington Post is engaging in online political activism by encouraging its readers to boycott news coverage of Sarah Palin.

LOL This is a little like asking crack addicts to boycott crack dealers.

[Cheerio]

All of these liberal state run media outlets would make Joseph Goebles so proud. The Kenyan is smiling all the way to becoming the new world DICTATOR with the help of our liberal run media.


MAKING CONSERVATISIM ILLEGAL IS THE NEW THEME OF 2012.

[pnh102]

This will probably go off about as well as when all those D-List celebs were trying to raise funds for AIDS research.

[word_warrior_bob]

A “Palin Free” month, huh?

This is dangerous hate speech.

What if a left wing nut wants to help make the USA “Palin Free”, if a journalist from a major newspaper thinks “Palin Free” is a good idea than this Palin woman must be dangerous.

As Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would say, this is a “code word”. Instead of saying Kill Sarah Palin, they say let’s make in “Palin Free”.

I think we start needing to lock up these purveryors of violent rhetoric, I’ll be the judge, this one’s guilty, NEXT!

[Dallas59]

They should run stories about Obammy-Giffords 24/7.

[Castigar]

a NEWSpaper wants to boycott NEWS?

Yeah...

They lost credibility for me long ago but this realoly should do it for the rest of the public.

Sarah should go on a BLITZKRIEG! Oh... sorry...too offensive!

[circlecity]

Isn’t this the kind of stuff that used to happen to the prettiest, most popular girl in class, back in High School?

[pnh102]

I doubt it last that long. Maybe an hour at the most.

Rush challenged MSNBS to go a week without mentioning his name. I think they failed within an hour as well.

[Lakeshark]

So, the question is...if the WP blacklists Governor Palin from their news stories...will anyone notice?

The libs will go stark raving mad without their anti-Palin stories, I mean, what would get them out of bed in the morning? More people are going to notice when the Post can't help themselves, that the addiction was too hard to beat........