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Finally, Sarah Palin and I agree. We both want people to accept and celebrate every child, even those who appear different… and we want them to act right with regard to those children. When she was told by doctors during her pregnancy that her unborn child had Down syndrome, she wrote a letter to her family and friends from God’s perspective. She seems to have seen quite clearly that her son was not broken, he was made this way intentionally, and she clearly expresses the expectation that he will be celebrated for being exactly who he is. I think this...

The cast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” had quite a morning on Thursday. In an appearance to promote his new book, “The Quotable Rogue: The Ideals of Sarah Palin in Her Own Words,” The Daily Caller’s own Matt Lewis said that Palin was “arguably” the most significant woman of the 21st century. That statement caught the attention of show co-host Willie Geist, who asked Lewis to elaborate. But after panelist Mark Halperin called President Barack Obama a “dick,” a remark which he later apologized for, co-host Mika Brzezinski determined she would level the playing field and liken former Alaska Gov. Sarah...

URBANDALE, Iowa -- Some lunch-goers got a surprise when they turned around in line and saw former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in an Urbandale Panera on Tuesday. Todd and Sarah Palin are in Iowa for the premier of a documentary on Palin to first be shown in Pella Tuesday night. The couple stopped at the Panera Bread Store on 86th Street in Urbandale and were swarmed by lunch patrons, reported TheIowaRepublican.com.....

Don’t worry, liberal media bias is still just a right-wing myth. The Tom and Jerry Problem — Bill Keller/NYTIf the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting the newsworthy havoc of a Palin presidency, I’m pretty sure most journalists would recoil in horror from the idea. That is not — or not entirely — for the reasons Palin thinks: that journalists are liberal elitists, that they find the Tea Party fringe ridiculous or alarming or that they are infatuated...

Since her national debut in August 2008, the mainstream media has been determined to destroy Gov. Sarah Palin. Journalists flocked to Alaska to dig up dirt. They spun smears about book bans and rape kits. Some even indulged conspiracy theories about the birth of her son. They showed no interest in her outstanding record. They kept going after her long after the 2008 election, blaming her for the Tuscon shootings–and attacking her for defending herself. But now her assailants must face reality. After poring over thousands of emails from Palin’s term as governor, the mainstream media has been forced to...

If you're not laughing along with Sarah Palin's playing Gotcha! with the media, you're not paying attention. Sarah Barracuda is playing the press for suckers, and they hate it. But they can't they leave the story alone. Result: weeks of excited headline coverage, free publicity galore, right up her alley. The media mob are cutting their noses to spite their faces. I don't know if we have the sleaziest and most corrupt media in American history -- maybe in human history? -- but they all deserve a Pulitzer for Aggravated Mendacity. (That means "lying," if any of them are trying...

Search through Sarah Palin's emails for the major media outlets and report back with any of the dirt you might find in one of the nation's biggest witch hunt's to date. The media is asking for the public’s help in going through Sarah Palin’s emails, which are posted online. The Palin emails are contained within 24,000 pages, which is an overwhelming job to sift through, even with a large team of people. This tedious and mundane job of sorting through all the Palin emails is being outsourced, or as the Guardian UK calls it “crowd sourced.” Help wanted - please...

* She addresses 'unreal, sad and confusing' news of son's Down's Syndrome * Writes Trig 'may provide more challenges and more joy' than imagined * Writes that others would have wanted to abort, or send sympathy * Shows thoughtful, human side of controversial politician Sarah_Palin 'played God' in a deeply touching email she wrote two weeks before her fifth child, Trig, was born with Down's Syndrome, it was revealed today. The poignant message to family_and_friends, included in 25,000 pages of her private emails made public on Friday, may alter the way the former Governor of Alaska is viewed by the...

The trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin’s governorship of Alaska, released late on Friday, paints a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics. One can only assume that the Left-leaning editors who dispatched teams of reporters to remote Juneau, the Alaskan capital, to pore over the emails in the hope of digging up a scandal are now viewing the result as a rather poor return on their considerable investment. If anything, Mrs Palin seems likely to emerge from the scrutiny of the...

We wrote last night about the frenzy surrounding the State of Alaska's release of emails from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post turned the release into a major media event, enlisting their readers to help them comb through the approximately 13,000 documents, in hopes of finding nuggets that reflect badly on Palin. Today the hysteria kicked off in earnest in Juneau, when the state made paper copies of the emails available to reporters. Here, one group of reporters films another group of reporters hauling emails into a waiting vehicle: (IMAGE AT LINK)...

The gang at "Fox News Watch" had some very interesting things to say about how media members who absolutely despise former Alaska governor Sarah Palin just can't get enough of her "One Nation" bus tour. The best line came from liberal commentator Kirsten Powers who said of the former vice presidential candidatee, "It’s actually kind of refreshing to see somebody who just says screw you to these people who treat her like garbage" (video follows with transcript and commentary): (VIDEO AT LINK) JON SCOTT, HOST: Sarah Palin going on the record there with Greta Van Susteren. The Palin family is...

When did the media become a bunch of girly men? The latest dispatch from Sarah Palin’s Magical Mystery Tour reveals that our tough media are a bunch of pansies who get the vapors when a bus goes ten miles over the speed limit. Politico recently reported that Sarah Palin’s bus is “a rolling menace.” The evidence? Palin’s bus went 52 mph in a 35 mph zone. That’s, um, 17 mph over the limit. Also, they “flew right past a flashing sign informing them they were going 45 mph in a 35 mph zone.” They also ran a couple red lights...

If a maybe-candidate for president does not issue an “official schedule” to the news media as she tours around in something that closely resembles a campaign bus, did the tour really happen? You betcha it did — as evidenced by the all-terrain coverage that, true to precedent, trailed Sarah Palin wherever she motored last week. But how dare she disregard the media like that? That was a subtext of so much of the press grumbling that followed Ms. Palin and her family as they zigzagged through a Northeast itinerary of “biker caravanning” (at a veterans’ motorcycle rally), historic sightseeing (Gettysburg,...

A book some years ago called The Dance of Anger was an exploration of dysfunctional intimate relationships. The so-called "mainstream" media ought to read it, with Sarah Palin in mind. It's comical to watch them stalk Palin and then blame her for it all. CNN's John King recently staked out the Gettysburg battlefield at night and complained that Palin wasn't there. MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell noted that a Palin appearance in a biker event proved she was "once again showing that she sure knows how to seize the political spotlight." Irony of ironies, Mitchell, of course, chose to shine that spotlight...

“The Boys on the Bus” exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news in 1972. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus — and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. We’ve come a long way, baby. Amid frenzied speculation over her potential presidential campaign plans, former GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin launched an all-American road trip with her family this Memorial Day weekend. Establishment media types didn’t get reserved seats or advance notice of her itinerary. Palin rubbed the Washington...

Sarah Palin draws crowds with her hide-and-seek bus tour. Michele Bachmann says Palin’s plans won’t dissuade her from her likely presidential bid. Iowa GOP activists travel to New Jersey to implore Gov. Chris Christie to run, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry weighs a campaign. The Republican presidential field is far less settled than it seemed just a week ago, and it shows few signs of jelling soon. With campaigning off to a slow start in early-voting states, half a dozen potential candidates are mulling whether to jump in. So keen is the interest, among journalists at least, that two news...

Of all the complaints about Sarah Palin and her bus tour, this one’s easily the strangest. CBS reports that the media has begun to grumble that Palin’s decision to keep them out of the loop on the tour’s stops have created a dangerous working environment for reporters: Since Palin and her team won’t share where the potential candidate is headed, reporters and producers have little choice but to simply stay close to Palin’s bus. This has resulted in scenes of the Palin bus tooling down the highway followed by a caravan of 10 or 15 vehicles – including a massive...

Some of the best, though not last, words about Sarah Palin come from Joshua Green of the Atlantic Monthly magazine, trying to square the circle between Palin I — the prenomination, wildly popular centrist reformer — and the polarizing, divisive, culture-war icon that is Palin II. As governor of Alaska, she was the very antithesis of the boneheaded ditz of our snottier pundits — a shrewd, canny, focused and very effective state executive. “The Alaskan Palin fought corruption within her own party, attacked the nexus of government and big business, avoided polarizing feuds and cut successful bipartisan deals,” Ross Douthat...

In the mainstream media, New York Times writer, Mark Halperin opines about the picture of the late Osama bin Laden, "The White House has stumbled by violating one of Washington’s iron rules: When something becomes famous inside the Beltway for not being released, the pressure from the media to release it becomes unrelenting." There is a corollary to that rule that inside the beltway reporters do not teach readers. If something is famous outside the Beltway for not being released the mainstream media will hunker down with the politico-celebrities they rub elbows with and depend on, so there will be...

The White House correspondents' dinner is known for being a glitzy, over-the-top affair, and Saturday's event lived up to its reputation. Starstruck reporters schmoozed with celebrities; the president made jokes at the expense of a red-faced and huffy Donald Trump; bloggers continued to Tweet madly, unimpeded by their black-tie attire, pausing only to gawk at the likes of Bristol Palin and Paul Rudd. Sponsored by the White House Correspondents' Association with a little help from the lobbyists next door, the stated goal of the event is to raise funds for awards and scholarships (of which I was a recipient) and...