The Media owes Sarah Palin a huge apology!

[Le Jacquelope]

Why the media should apologize

Roger SimonThu Sep 4, 1:15 AM ET

ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.

We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.

We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.

Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head Wednesday night (and several in the audience wish she had hit some reporters on the head instead) when she said: “I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”

But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:

First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.

Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).

Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: “Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. … Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints.”

Why go there? What trees does that plant?

Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.

Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a “cloud of rhetoric.”

Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.

Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.

Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.

Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)

The official theme of the convention’s third day was “prosperity,” but the unofficial theme was “the media are really, really awful.”

Even Mike Huckabee, who campaigned for president this year by saying “I am a conservative, but I am not mad at anybody,” discovered Wednesday night that he is mad at somebody.

“I’d like to thank the elite media for doing something,” Huckabee said, “that, quite frankly, I didn’t think could be done: unify the Republican party and all of America in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

And could that be the real point of the attacks on the media? To unify the Republican Party?

No, that is simply the cynical, media view.

Though as Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical I get, it’s just never enough to keep up.”

I couldn’t resist that. For which I am sorry.

 

[RawHumor]

Oh yeah, that article didn't miss the point at all.

 

[Bert Notorius]

I thank the media for their predictable response. Sarah is now the victim.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Oh yeah, that article didn't miss the point at all.

Oh, they got it perfectly.

Sarah Palin = "Do as I say do, not as I do."

 

[mangosteen]

Aren't the same people saying that Palin is being mistreated, the same people that said that Hillary was being a big, crybaby whiner when she felt as though she was being treated more tough by the media than Obama?

 

[garbage can]

He forgot to mention her husbands 22 year old DWI

Forgot to mention trying to pin the Downs syndrome baby on Bristol.

And, he forgot to mention any of her accomplishments.

Guess who's he voting for...

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Aren't the same people saying that Palin is being mistreated, the same people that said that Hillary was being a big, crybaby whiner when she felt as though she was being treated more tough by the media than Obama?

Can you imagine how she will cringe and whine about the bad words coming from North Korea or from Russia?

 

[Karen Kraft]

Oh yeah, that article didn't miss the point at all.

The entire thread misses the point, for godsakes!

As I said before, Obama is very smart man. Right away he wanted to stop the Baby-Gate crap but he doesn't control the media. The reason he wanted that subject to be avoided was obvious to me, many others here, to the Republicans, the leaders of the Democratic Party but not to the stupid fucking press. It's not just that Senator Obama is a decent man, which he is; it's because he could easily see what happened.

Two possible scenarios:

1. "Great. Congratulations to Gov. Palin; welcome to the race." Press: "In an effort to shore up his shaky base, Senator McCain picked a little known governor from Alaska as his running mate. We don't know much about her but we doubt that there really is much to tell. Yawn." Result: Obama's convention bump continues and he holds the headlines up to the meat of the Rep. convention.

2. "What? Who the fuck is THIS?" What a slut. Corrupt piece of trailer trash (no, nobody said that -- just a shorthand version of the past week). Result: This nobody suddenly becomes known world wide, commands nearly 40 million viewers to see her speak at the convention. Steals Obama's bump; rallies women to her side, opens old Hillary wounds that had only recently been bandaged. I have said it time and time again: WHEN THE PRESS BEATS UP ON SOMEBODY, MODERATE AMERICANS RUN TO THEIR DEFENSE, whether they deserve defending or not.

It would have been far wiser for the press to take the cue from Obama and to treat Palin for what she WAS: a nobody who did little for the ticket except stand around being a woman. That's just not enough to make anybody care what she had to say. The Obama campaign handled it perfectly. The zealous adoring press wanted to show how they could not "level the playing field" but "clear the playing field" of anyone who they saw as a threat to their guy.

Pretty dumb shit. I'm not sure, as none of us can truly be, but I suspect the past week of journalistic crapola not only revived McCain's boring campaign and yawning campaign energy, catapulted his nobody-running-mate into a political superstar. It took Obama nearly two years to become a name known to nearly every American. It took the press less than a week to bestow that currency to Palin. Dumb, very dumb.

 

[mark_j]

The entire thread misses the point, for godsakes!

As I said before, Obama is very smart man. Right away he wanted to stop the Baby-Gate crap but he doesn't control the media. The reason he wanted that subject to be avoided was obvious to me, many others here, to the Republicans, the leaders of the Democratic Party but not to the stupid fucking press. It's not just that Senator Obama is a decent man, which he is; it's because he could easily see what happened.

Two possible scenarios:

1. "Great. Congratulations to Gov. Palin; welcome to the race." Press: "In an effort to shore up his shaky base, Senator McCain picked a little known governor from Alaska as his running mate. We don't know much about her but we doubt that there really is much to tell. Yawn." Result: Obama's convention bump continues and he holds the headlines up to the meat of the Rep. convention.

2. "What? Who the fuck is THIS?" What a slut. Corrupt piece of trailer trash (no, nobody said that -- just a shorthand version of the past week). Result: This nobody suddenly becomes known world wide, commands nearly 40 million viewers to see her speak at the convention. Steals Obama's bump; rallies women to her side, opens old Hillary wounds that had only recently been bandaged. I have said it time and time again: WHEN THE PRESS BEATS UP ON SOMEBODY, MODERATE AMERICANS RUN TO THEIR DEFENSE, whether they deserve defending or not.

It would have been far wiser for the press to take the cue from Obama and to treat Palin for what she WAS: a nobody who did little for the ticket except stand around being a woman. That's just not enough to make anybody care what she had to say. The Obama campaign handled it perfectly. The zealous adoring press wanted to show how they could not "level the playing field" but "clear the playing field" of anyone who they saw as a threat to their guy.

Pretty dumb shit. I'm not sure, as none of us can truly be, but I suspect the past week of journalistic crapola not only revived McCain's boring campaign and yawning campaign energy, catapulted his nobody-running-mate into a political superstar. It took Obama nearly two years to become a name known to nearly every American. It took the press less than a week to bestow that currency to Palin. Dumb, very dumb.

You know I was being a bit sardonic when I posted this http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=28546120&postcount=36 a few days ago... Looks like I wasn't that far off..

 

[AssEatta]

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The entire thread misses the point, for godsakes!

As I said before, Obama is very smart man. Right away he wanted to stop the Baby-Gate crap but he doesn't control the media. The reason he wanted that subject to be avoided was obvious to me, many others here, to the Republicans, the leaders of the Democratic Party but not to the stupid fucking press. It's not just that Senator Obama is a decent man, which he is; it's because he could easily see what happened.

Two possible scenarios:

1. "Great. Congratulations to Gov. Palin; welcome to the race." Press: "In an effort to shore up his shaky base, Senator McCain picked a little known governor from Alaska as his running mate. We don't know much about her but we doubt that there really is much to tell. Yawn." Result: Obama's convention bump continues and he holds the headlines up to the meat of the Rep. convention.

2. "What? Who the fuck is THIS?" What a slut. Corrupt piece of trailer trash (no, nobody said that -- just a shorthand version of the past week). Result: This nobody suddenly becomes known world wide, commands nearly 40 million viewers to see her speak at the convention. Steals Obama's bump; rallies women to her side, opens old Hillary wounds that had only recently been bandaged. I have said it time and time again: WHEN THE PRESS BEATS UP ON SOMEBODY, MODERATE AMERICANS RUN TO THEIR DEFENSE, whether they deserve defending or not.

It would have been far wiser for the press to take the cue from Obama and to treat Palin for what she WAS: a nobody who did little for the ticket except stand around being a woman. That's just not enough to make anybody care what she had to say. The Obama campaign handled it perfectly. The zealous adoring press wanted to show how they could not "level the playing field" but "clear the playing field" of anyone who they saw as a threat to their guy.

Pretty dumb shit. I'm not sure, as none of us can truly be, but I suspect the past week of journalistic crapola not only revived McCain's boring campaign and yawning campaign energy, catapulted his nobody-running-mate into a political superstar. It took Obama nearly two years to become a name known to nearly every American. It took the press less than a week to bestow that currency to Palin. Dumb, very dumb.

Someone make me hard.
I like the macNmans wife doin that hot stepford wives thing, I shot hot juicings twice.
Good point once again Karen Kraft but I would not be jacking to these passionate threads if they followed your lead.

 

[Karen Kraft]

You know I was being a bit sardonic when I posted this http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=28546120&postcount=36 a few days ago... Looks like I wasn't that far off..

In short, the press got "played."

Most likely not on purpose, but it's funny that they made a star out of somebody who could have been ignored and placed in the Dan Quayle bin.

Now, however, an item I just saw this evening says that Americans asked which two people in politics they would most like to meet, the answer was:

#1 - Barack Obama

#2 - Sarah Palin

Christ almighty.

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Christ almighty.

He was number six, after all four of the golden retrievers that play Air Bud in the movies.

 

[mark_j]

In short, the press got "played."

Absolutely....

Most likely not on purpose, but it's funny that they made a star out of somebody who could have been ignored and placed in the Dan Quayle bin.

I wouldn't be too sure about this not being on purpose...It could have been a brilliant move or a lucky mistake.. Either way the amount of free press they got out of it was fabulous.. I do think Palin was picked because of her party politics, her appeal to the pro-life conservatives, and, crass as it may sound, because she is a woman... Now the fact that she handled herself well in light of all the media hoopla made it even better.

Note: I did not watch all of her speech so this is in no way a commentary on whether I agree with her politics.. one speech dost not a candidate make..

Now, however, an item I just saw this evening says that Americans asked which two people in politics they would most like to meet, the answer was:

#1 - Barack Obama

#2 - Sarah Palin

Christ almighty.

Obama, in my view, has played himself out to be Mr. Everyman. Before a couple of days ago I don't think anyone short of locals in Alaska had any idea who Sarah Palin is..

Of course as always, your mileage may vary...

 

[Obama_Sucks]

Obama and his dirty tactics.

 

[Ham Murabi]

Can you imagine how she will cringe and whine about the bad words coming from North Korea or from Russia?

I think she's tougher than that. I can see Obama cringing or whining, but mostly I can see him agreeing with North Korea and Russia that the U.S. has been very, very bad.

 

[_Misty_]

The entire thread misses the point, for godsakes!

As I said before, Obama is very smart man. Right away he wanted to stop the Baby-Gate crap but he doesn't control the media. The reason he wanted that subject to be avoided was obvious to me, many others here, to the Republicans, the leaders of the Democratic Party but not to the stupid fucking press. It's not just that Senator Obama is a decent man, which he is; it's because he could easily see what happened.

Two possible scenarios:

1. "Great. Congratulations to Gov. Palin; welcome to the race." Press: "In an effort to shore up his shaky base, Senator McCain picked a little known governor from Alaska as his running mate. We don't know much about her but we doubt that there really is much to tell. Yawn." Result: Obama's convention bump continues and he holds the headlines up to the meat of the Rep. convention.

2. "What? Who the fuck is THIS?" What a slut. Corrupt piece of trailer trash (no, nobody said that -- just a shorthand version of the past week). Result: This nobody suddenly becomes known world wide, commands nearly 40 million viewers to see her speak at the convention. Steals Obama's bump; rallies women to her side, opens old Hillary wounds that had only recently been bandaged. I have said it time and time again: WHEN THE PRESS BEATS UP ON SOMEBODY, MODERATE AMERICANS RUN TO THEIR DEFENSE, whether they deserve defending or not.

It would have been far wiser for the press to take the cue from Obama and to treat Palin for what she WAS: a nobody who did little for the ticket except stand around being a woman. That's just not enough to make anybody care what she had to say. The Obama campaign handled it perfectly. The zealous adoring press wanted to show how they could not "level the playing field" but "clear the playing field" of anyone who they saw as a threat to their guy.

Pretty dumb shit. I'm not sure, as none of us can truly be, but I suspect the past week of journalistic crapola not only revived McCain's boring campaign and yawning campaign energy, catapulted his nobody-running-mate into a political superstar. It took Obama nearly two years to become a name known to nearly every American. It took the press less than a week to bestow that currency to Palin. Dumb, very dumb.

Are you advocating that the press should be biased in support of one camp or the other? It seems you are implying that the press should slant their coverage to forward the campaigns of their chosen candidate. Is that what you meant to say or am I reading too much into your reply?

 

[Le Jacquelope]

The entire thread misses the point, for godsakes!

As I said before, Obama is very smart man. Right away he wanted to stop the Baby-Gate crap but he doesn't control the media.

Do you realize how many years the Republican Party has been waging war against single moms and unwed pregnancies, and now they want to be cut a break from their own morality plays?

 

[Bert Notorius]

Do you realize how many years the Republican Party has been waging war against single moms and unwed pregnancies, and now they want to be cut a break from their own morality plays?

I can't wait for the media circus around that wedding.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

I can't wait for the media circus around that wedding.

I can't wait to see what the people think about the things her boyfriend has said... such as "I don't want no derned kids!!!11!!" etc.

Oh, but as you've implied, when it's a Republican woman and her Republican friends, they're off limits... unlike Democrat families...