MSM Uses Palin’s Own Children as Political Weapons Against Her
by John NolteIn their ongoing crusade to target and silence decent, everyday Americans as racists, some in the MSM love to use the term “dog-whistle” in order to ascribe racial motives to words like, say, “basketball.” Well, lately I’ve been hearing a dog-whistle of my own — a dog-whistle of the journ-o-list variety that tells me that in their relentless campaign to destroy Sarah Palin and undercut her as a serious political force, the MSM is preparing to up the ante when it comes to using the Governor’s own family and children as a political weapon against her.
First, a little background…
Why the Media Whips Up the Palin-Fury
Watching the MSM react to Governor Palin over the last few years has been an illuminating crash course in Alinsky 101. Like elite, elbow-patched community organizers, the media collectively targets, polarizes, demonizes and intentionally creates a perpetual storm of personal drama around the Governor in the hopes of exhausting even those of us who support her. I call it whipping up the Palin-Fury.
This is a common tactic from the Left, but one we usually see played out in the streets with the idea being to so toxify the atmosphere that decent people give up the fight and go home just to get away from the awfulness of it all. The last few months of ugly and relentless pro-union protests in Wisconsin — though a failure for the left — were a textbook example of this. However, when it comes to Governor Palin, what we’re seeing is this tactic practiced by almost every so-called “objective” news outlet in America.
Unfortunately, though an important part of it, this goes beyond reporting everything Levi Johnston says and does. A more visceral example is what we saw unfold in the wake of those awful January murders in Tucson. While the country wanted to come together to mourn for the victims and an attack on our democracy, the craven MSM saw an opportunity. I don’t know of any decent person who didn’t sit back in horror as they watched our media attempt to lay an awful crime at the feet of a mother of five who was probably minding her own business at home in Wasilla at the time. Worse still, after days of demanding Palin tell us when she stopped beating her wife, the MSM then collectively mauled her for daring to speak out.
Again, this is all part of a coordinated political psy-ops tactic to program everyday people to wince every time Palin dares pop her head out of the ground. And in the case of Tucson, the MSM reached down and pulled her out against her will. No matter what it is, her wardrobe, a tanning bed, joke tweets sent from an aide’s personal twitter account, a two-year-old video of a turkey, her family, perceived mistakes or mispronounced words, to undercut Palin’s seriousness, this is always what the media intentionally explodes into their ongoing Palin-Fury narrative. Moreover, on top of exhausting us, the bonus effect of this Leftist tactic is to drown out Palin’s ideas, policies, and criticisms of Obama — all of which are fair game for criticism but rarely rate serious consideration.
After all, one way to keep the Palin-Fury brewing is to never take her seriously. [ADDED: A perfect example that occurred just this week can be seen here.]
What we’re seeing at work here are the politics of personal destruction waged by the Left and their media allies in a way we haven’t since Clarence Thomas. However, unlike that reprehensible and racist campaign against another liberal apostate, the one against Palin has only intensified. For starters, she’s tougher and more resilient than any public figure in recent memory and secondly, her effect on the 2010 mid-term elections can’t be over-stated. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Palin did her best while the media did their worst. Unfortunately, and as is always the case with the media, there is no bottom when it comes to their behavior and the dog-whistles I’m hearing tell me they’re gearing up to create a Palin-Fury unlike anything we’ve seen so far — especially if the Governor should decide to run for president.
And it all begins with Andrew Sullivan.
A Vicious Campaign to Destroy a Family Disguised as an Eccentric Obsession
If the greatest trick the Devil ever played was in convincing us he didn’t exist, the greatest trick the MSM ever played was in convincing us that other than his “eccentric” Trig Trutherism, Andrew Sullivan is some sort of thoughtful, considered, erudite thinker. What this ploy allows the media to do is to mainstream Sullivan and keep him in the fold even as he heartlessly roots around Sarah Palin’s womb in an effort to investigate who Trig’s true birth mother is. But this is a con. Sullivan’s Daily Dish ambitions are much darker than advertised.
Andrew Sullivan
Personally, I don’t believe for a second Sullivan thinks anyone but Sarah Palin is Trig’s mother. This is not a dumb man we’re talking about here, just an uncommonly cruel one. For going on three years now, Sullivan has consciously used this silly conspiracy theory as a partisan stalking horse in an attempt to viciously pound away at a political foe’s family. Because a direct attack against a politician’s family simply wouldn’t work, Sullivan created Trig Trutherism as a toxin delivery device that attempts to turn — through the most malicious and sadistic kind of rumor-mongering — a very normal and attractive family into some sort of freak show.
Moreover, what Sullivan is practicing is a form of “critical theory,” where you intentionally and ruthlessly de-legitimize something with a relentless stream of questions. And so, effectively, what Sullivan is attempting is to delegitimize is an American family, to toxify them into a political negative.
This isn’t just bottom feeding and character assassination; it’s an outright act of evil.
Obviously, by laughing this evil off as an eccentric blip on sweet Uncle Sully’s otherwise mainstream radar, the MSM willfully legitimizes what he’s doing — because they love it. In this respect, even as the Daily Beast/Newsweek gives Sullivan a high-profile perch, they effectively wash their conscience of it all with a chuckle and a wrist-flick.
Sullivan Shifts Tactics to Weaponize Palin’s Own Children against Her
Once the Trig Trutherism string had pretty much played itself out, Sullivan very effectively turned the defense of his womb policing into something even more sinister. Here’s an example from Politico in November of 2009. Read the last sentence carefully:
In fact, my blog never stated anything about Palin’s pregnancy and took her at her word. That’s why she decided not to sue me. She had no basis for any kind of suit. I simply asked her and the campaign to provide easily available proof that she indeed was the biological mother of Trig after her bizarre and incredible stories about her pregnancy and labor. She has failed to produce any such evidence. And she clearly never will. If she hadn’t used the baby as a central political argument in favor of voting for her, I would not have cared.
Politico challenges Sullivan on his Trig Trutherism, which is exactly what he wants. It allows him to pivot and sucker-punch Palin with the astonishingly obscene suggestion that she would use her own child — a Down Syndrome baby — as a political prop. As with his mission to freak-show Palin’s family, Sullivan can’t just come out and accuse Palin of this, but to do so from a defensive crouch allows him to get away with it.
Naturally, Politico didn’t challenge him. It’s all part of the game, all part of the Palin-Fury narrative.
Track, Willow, and Trig Palin
Just last week, Sullivan eagerly pounced again, only this time he turned the Wonkette scandal into a fresh opportunity. Read closely:
Whatever may be the truth behind all the Palin pregnancy stories, even if the zaniest theory is true, Sarah Palin is taking care of a child with Down Syndrome who deserves respect and privacy even if his own mother refuses to give them to him.
Did you catch the poison pellet? Very deftly, very matter-of-factly, very calmly, Sullivan launches his cruel assault against — not Palin the politician, but Palin the mother. His venomous accusation again is that Palin exploits her own child as a political prop and I would bet money that the whole point of his column was to write that single line, to once again plant that seed into the narrative.
Trig Trutherism isn’t Sullivan’s cause; it’s a hustle, a shield he developed to undermine Palin’s womanhood and motherhood — a base Obama can’t afford to lose even a percentage point of. In addition, don’t think the media doesn’t eat this all up. It all adds to that artificial soap opera of Palin-Fury they’re so determined to keep alive.
Sullivan’s Poison Spreads to the Mainstream
For some time now, Legal Insurrection has done a superb job documenting the Trig-as-prop meme. However, until recently, Sullivan’s venom had mostly been contained to the left-wing fever swamps. However, as you’ll see below, some mainstream outlets have heard Sullivan’s dog-whistle and are now using the Wonkette story as an excuse to attack the former Alaska Governor, her children, and her fitness as a mother in unprecedented ways.
If, however, you’ve been paying attention, this Trig-as-prop narrative is nothing more than the Left and their media allies engaging in the dark art of projection. They’re the ones using Palin’s children as political props. They’re the ones who document and amplify every move Bristol’s ex makes, they’re the ones who legitimized turning “Dancing with the Stars” into a political issue, they’re the ones who turned a 16 year-old acting like a 16 year-old into a national news story – and as you’ll see below, they’re the ones giving the stamp of approval to the worst kind of gossip-mongers and conspiracy theorists. A new mother holding her baby is only seen as some sort of unnatural act among leftists. Furthermore, if Palin wanted to “prop” any of her children for political advantage, wouldn’t it be the son who went off to war?
Here’s the New Yorker’s Amy Davidson, April 21:
My feeling is that a lot of Palin’s baffling behavior—getting on a plane without telling flight attendants she might be in labor, for example—can be explained, simply, by a matchless level of reckless narcissism. That is relevant, too, and why I am glad to know all of the points in the narrative. The timeline is dismaying, not because a fake pregnancy would Explain It All, but because I don’t want someone who thinks that her own small drama is worth disrupting (or even endangering) the lives of a plane load of people to be my President. (In a way, it is charitable of Sullivan to think that there ought to be a better explanation, beyond a careless tendency to smash things up, for her behavior.)
The New Yorker isn’t some crank publication, it’s the NEW YORKER. But now Sullivan’s womb-obsession has allowed the seeds of a monstrous narrative to be planted there that says Palin endangered the lives of everyone on a passenger plane.
Megan Daum in the LA Times, April 17:
Why don’t you point out that the cohort that bemoans the demise of the nuclear family and the debased, disaffected nature of popular culture is the same one that embraces a woman who exploits her daughter’s out-of-wedlock motherhood, communicates chiefly through Facebook and Twitter and puts herself on reality TV?
And here’s something Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times dropped into a column just the other day that was advertised as an examination of Palin’s sharp, thoughtful criticism of Obama’s Libya policy:
Perhaps peeved about yesterday’s news that Levi Johnston, the father of her grandson Tripp, is scheduled to release a tell-all book about her family, Palin took it out on Obama and his recent fundraising around the nation.
You starting to see how this works?
Unlike any other politician today, only Palin is forced to deal with watching her private family matters, her very own children, dragged into the political arena and weaponized as political bludgeons against her — even when it comes to discussing and debating serious issues such as Libya. Again, it’s an intentional political tactic meant to keep this Palin-Fury of exhausting personal drama swirling, meant to keep us from taking the MSM’s Public Enemy Number One seriously.
Even Alex Alvarez at Mediaite — a site that was righteous in their coverage of Wonkette’s attack on Trig — dropped this in the closing paragraph of a column:
Going after Palin for (arguably) using her son’s condition to her advantage is one thing, but the post wasn’t simply insulting to Palin.
Arguably? When I asked Mediaite’s editor, Colby Hall, about “going there” on Twitter, this was his response [Twitter shorthand cleaned up, original here]:
Putting kids in “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” is worth discussion and critique. If she runs for president, one can reasonably and fairly infer some political prop-dom.
Well, Governor, you can’t say you haven’t been warned.
An 800-Pound Gorilla Named Politico Steps into the Ring
One rancid-souled Daily Dish columnist and a few other mean-spirited media outlets does not exactly warrant sounding the alarm, but on Monday this high-profile feature piece written by Politico’s Ken Vogel made very clear that the whole of the mainstream media is apparently ready to climb aboard Sullivan’s wicked bandwagon.
Out there in the left-wing fever swamps, you’ll find a small but dedicated group of discredited Palin-haters who have made a cottage industry out of Palin-hating, and in his 2600 word piece that premiered at very top of Politico’s front page, Vogel intentionally amplified and mainstream their ideas und upcoming tell-alls. This is Kitty Kelly stuff on steroids, but now these Palin-hating Kitty Kellys enjoy Politico’s stamp of credibility.
Once again, Palin’s record, policies, background and ideas are all fair game for criticism by anyone, but the theme of these upcoming tell-alls written by notorious Palin-obsessives (including the creep who moved in next door to the Palin family), is highly personal and aimed at a place we’ve always been told is off-limits: the family. A few examples:
This self-styled anti-Palin movement — whose members span the globe and are mostly but not exclusively liberals — has been behind some embarrassing revelations about the former Alaska governor, her family and allies. But some of their leading theories have been thoroughly discredited and earned them widespread criticism.
“Thoroughly discredited,” “embarrassing revelations about … the family,” and yet given the credibility of a major Politico profile. More from Vogel:
[Joe] McGinniss, who said his publisher wouldn’t let him do interviews, has compared the Palin family’s life to a soap opera and signaled that his book will focus on the mother of all Palin conspiracy theories: the long-simmering, though widely rejected, allegation that Palin’s daughter Bristol or someone else entirely is actually the mother of Palin’s youngest son, Trig.
Vogel again:
[Geoffrey] Dunn last week wrote a 2,700-word piece for Business Insider in which he questioned Palin’s account of Trig’s birth, asserted “Palin has never provided sufficient concrete evidence to put the conspiracy theories to bed” and acknowledged he “spent a considerable amount of time and resources trying to sort out the facts of Trig’s birth” while writing his book.
This is Andrew Sullivan’s malevolent dream come true. His freak-showing of an attractive, decent and obviously very close family has not only created a cottage industry but earned the attention of a major MSM outlet like Politico. And of course Vogel throws a nice shout-out to Levi Johnston’s upcoming book which — purely by coincidence, I’m sure — was announced the very same day this Politico story ran. So what’s Politico up to here? Let me count the ways:
1. Stirring up the Palin-Fury. Keep the exhausting personal drama swirling in order to undercut Palin as a serious candidate.
2. Piling on. I lost track but Vogel appears to be helping to pimp out as many as five anti-Palin books that apparently intend to attack her family.
3. Setting time-bombs. The only thing more effective than the Palin-Fury is including with it the promise that it will never, ever go away – unless of course Sarah Palin does. We now know that over the next year or so (over the 2012 campaign season), almost a half-dozen bombs of Palin-Fury will drop.
4. This is a warning to Palin to stay out of the race. Obviously if she’s not campaigning for president these attacks on her family will not make as much news.
5. This is also a warning to Palin supporters that nearly a half-dozen trip wires have already been set to derail any potential run for the presidency. Better we back “someone who can win,” right?
In other words, the MSM is telling Sarah Palin, “That’s a nice family you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.”
How the MSM Will Justify Using Children as Political Weapons
In his Politico piece, Ken Vogel lays down the cover fire for anyone else in the media eager to sacrifice Palin’s family on the altar of Barack Obama:
Today, most of the attention is focused on her personal life and that of her family, in part because Palin has been out of government since her 2009 resignation as governor and also because she and her family have embraced the trappings of celebrity, complete with frequent appearances on television — the family in a reality series and daughter Bristol’s appearance as a contestant on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”
Ahh, I see.
Gore & Co. enjoying a stroll on the celebrity Red Carpet
If I’m following Vogel’s reasoning here, because Palin did a perfectly innocent reality series/travelogue and her grown daughter chose to appear on “Dancing with the Stars,” that makes gossip, innuendo, relentless criticism of her family and the questioning of her motherhood all within bounds. Somebody help me out here, I’m a little confused, because I don’t remember anything close to this standard being dropped on Al Gore after he starred in a big Hollywood film and then started his own cable network. Furthermore, let’s not forget that like Bristol, Al Gore’s grown daughter embraced celebrity and has had some relationship problems of her own.
Finally, does anyone want to get me started about the MSM willfully ignoring the sleazy soap opera that was Mr. John Edwards while he was running for president? It was only after the National Enquirer did the MSM’s job for them and Edwards dropped out that the media could no longer ignore it.
Nevertheless, Vogel isn’t done. In a fit of cruelty only an Andrew Sullivan could appreciate, the Politico writer goes here:
The Palin fixation more closely parallels the tabloid rumors and scandals that dog controversial Hollywood personalities like Lindsay Lohan or Charlie Sheen than the ideologically motivated attacks on politicians, said Michael Kazin, a Georgetown history professor[.]
See what Vogel did there? He “some sayed” someone else in order to get away with comparing Palin’s loving, close-knit and very normal family to a couple of drug-addled, jailbird, narcissistic celebrity train wrecks.
Just when you think they’ve hit bottom.
Of course, some personal soap opera-issues spring up from time to time with every candidate through the media, but never anything like what we’re seeing with Palin. We’ve never seen the Left and their media allies weaponize children to delegitimize, defame, and attempt to define a politican before.
And we all know that the bottom line here is that on close examination, everyone’s family has all the trappings of a soap opera and even a opportunistic creep like Levi Johnston willing to peddle dirt. The choice of whether or not to explode all of this into the media narrative of a political figure’s life is up to the media, and in the case of Sarah Palin the media has chosen to do this.
Moreover, if you listen closely, you’ll hear a dog whistle that says the media campaign to Alinsky a mother with her own children has only just begun.
What Can You Do?
1. See The Matrix.
2. Become activists, especially online.
3. Spread the word. Politely and publicly hold these outlets accountable via Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media.
4. Don’t allow the media to tell you how to vote.
5. Fight the power.
Email this to a friend | Print |
Share on Facebook
| Tweet this
| 
Follow Us on Twitter
Subscribe via RSS
Got a Tip?
151 Comments
In the words of the One the Left hates more then Sarah…
Matthew 12:34
34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Liberals tell you whom they fear most by whom they attack the hardest. That they loved McCain, and leave Huckaby and Romney alone, confirms their Rino status.
Didn't they attack Reagan just as hard? We all know how that turned out for the country.
Go get 'em, Sarah.
And the saddest part of all John is, it's working. Folks who had some faith in Sarah's abilities as a Gov
and a politician, now are eager to say she has no chance in HELL of winning.
The more that is repeated, the more it becomes true. The Left will always demonize the good ones we find
to run against them, we must accept that and do our best to educate the public on why it's happening and
how to go about countering it. With the scant attention most people pay to politics, that is one mighty tall
order.
.
At the risk of sounding like a Rush Limbaugh acolyte, why doesn't she just show the birth certificate? I'll tell you why she shouldn't, it keeps attention on her in an outrageously unfair manner, which you can be sure she loves. The Twitter Twit will get attention any way she can. Seriously though, nobody should dignify this B.S. about Trig by addressing it. It's as silly as that Kenyan anti-colonialist crap Newt squeezes between his teeth. to out crazy the rest of the current crop of nutjobs pretending (as he clearly is) to run for President to line their own pockets (kinda like Sarah).
Contemptible SCUM, not much else to say
Don't expect impartiality from the MSM. You would be better expecting kindness from vipers.
Sullivan – SCHUMCK. Levi Johnston -Schmuck. The MSM – STUPID, Ignorant, Dumba$$ SCHMUCKS.
Will they ever learn ??? Nope.
Well done article, Mr. Nolte.
One of the corollary problems with all the tiresome and predictable poo-flinging by our betters in the left wing media is that not even conservative pundits will support her on most days. A lie repeated often enough becomes part of the common political fabric, reduced to bumper sticker debating points by the media and the public at large. Try to have a political conversation with just about any liberal and you'll hear many of them in the first five minutes. Bush lied about WMD's, Mission Accomplished, Iraq was about oil, Cheney-Halliburton, Rumsfeld torture, global warming, you know the list. The get trotted out as if they're dispositive arguments and we're just supposed to cave in because they memorized a list of brilliant three word rejoinders. The O'Donnell/Condi Rice "interview" the other night was a good example, and O'Donnell walked away thinking he had just made Rice pudding, when nothing was further from the truth.
Our liberal politicians do the same thing every time they get in front of a camera. Fair share, working man, the rich, disenfranchised voters, stimulate, jobs jobs jobs. It turns my stomach sour just to listen to them while completely ignoring the issues at hand.
I'm sick of it.
Ahhh yes, good old soros' bucks doing his dirty work ala trashing Bush – the little freak will continue being an a** until the day he rots in hell. Andrew looks like he's taken a beatin!! And oh yea, those Clintoooons sure are a mighty fine family, yee haw! Dirt bag Billybob and lesbo Hitlary with their sad kid who doesn't know what the he** she wants or believes, other than standing tall for gays – jeez, now that's really something to reach for! Got get that 2% of the country – woo hoo! Now let's see, the tubby goracle and his equally tubby wife, at least she had the good sense to get out!! Oh yea, bambi the flamer and his own tubby wife, yea, I can see why they HAVE to go after Sarah! Jeez
I have two quotes — one from Jesus, talking to his desciples and to any Christian believer: "The world will hate you, because of Me." This inexplicable hatred of Sarah Palin is, I believe, on a base level NEVER seen before — it will even surpass Ronald Reagan. Why? Because the Left, unknowingly I believe, is on the side of evil. This is a clash between the forces of Good and the forces of evil. These Lefties have no idea that they're "useful idiots" of the powers of darkness. If you don't believe me, when you encounter someone on the Left saying they "hate" Sarah Palin, just calmly ask them why. You'll hear ridiculous reasons like "She's stupid". "So, you hate her because you see her as stupid? That doesn't explain the hate." "Give me an example of her stupidity." All you'll get is either "Uh…Uh.." or you'll get shouts — "I HATE HER!" This is the unexplainable and inexplicable 'good vs. evil' road we're about to travel on. I'm ready for it.
Down deep inside I bet Obama wishes he has Sarah Palin as his vice-president now. Bet he wishes he had asked her to run with him instead of "bite-my-tongue Joe!"
The other quote is from Rush Limbaugh: "The Left will ALWAYS tell you who they're most afraid of." Very profound.
John, Thank you so much for that article. I have never seen a political figure so viciously attacked. And I can remember back to Nixon. Even Nixon did not have his children attacked as Palin does. These despicable cockroaches, like Andrew Sullivan, have to have the light shined on them at every opportunity as you have done. Keep shining the light and run them back into their holes.
You are a traitor to the United States of America.
Wouldn't it be hysterical to have the D-BAGers (look up feminine hygiene to interpret acronym) blow their wads on trashing the Palins only to have Cain West waltz into the Oval Office via the "side entrance."
History will reward the Palins. History will destroy the D-BAGers and Fleebaggers.
Can you see it? I can. In 10 years, we will have another Baby Boom. And we will be calling a new wave of American men by their first name – Cain – or their middle name – West.
CAIN WEST. "Winning The Future"? *U*K THAT!!
CAIN WEST….COMMANDING THE FUTURE!!!!!!!
I don't worry about it much since she hasn't even said she will run. She doesn't seem to worry about it much since she and her family have enjoyed enormous success since she left the Gov.'s job.
McCain/Palin didn't lose because of Palin. It lost because the Republican party was stupid enough to let the opposition press pick their candidate for them and it won't happen again. Obama was easily beatable had someone actually tried but McCain decided he would rather lose with honor or some crap
.
The main reason I do not worry about the attacks like Trig trutherism against Sarah Palin or the insults against her family is that when those assaults are launched the attacker is usually the one who ends up bearing the brunt of a withering backlash from everyday Americans.
People like the Palins as evidenced by her ratings on her show and her daughter on DWTS.
Getting personal against the Palin family is political suicide. It is very offensive and it make those who dare to try it radioactive.
Look at all the media outlets that have launched attacks against her. They have all lost their viewers and ratings or readers. It get's them nowhere. It changes no one's mind.
A good example would be the ugliness of the Wisconsin protests at the state house. An election followed soon after for State Supreme Court and the liberal lost huge.
If she runs and she pick a good strong VP like Herman Cain or Allen West then her biggest problem will be guys like Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow or Brian Williams strapping on explosive vests and rushing her at the podium.
Their collective tantrums will only hurt the Democrats.
This story would have been interesting — two years ago.
Palin is a non-factor and the left, the right and the media could not care less about her. WItness:
*According to Intrade, she has a 1.5% chance of being the Republican VP nominee in 2012; a 5.3% chance of being the Presidential nominee and a 1.8% chance of being elected president. http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contr...
"Is Sarah Palin Over?
As her presidential poll numbers shrink, her Fox ratings and her media profile are waning." http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/01/is-sarah-palin...
"Between February and April, according to an analysis for NEWSWEEK by General Sentiment, a company that tracks and measures online content, posts involving Palin fell 38.3 percent, to 235,032, over the past 30 days. Social-media mentions dropped in lockstep, down 32 percent over the same period, to 135,421. And the value of all that “free” media dropped roughly by half during this period, from $63 million to $33 million."
Media’s Spotlight Shines Less Brightly on Palin http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/...
Palin carries no political weight. Only a few dead enders, like John Nolte, haven't figured out that she is irrelevant. She jumped the shark after the Giffords shooting. She will never be taken seriously again.
Hey, didn't this exact story run last week on Big Urinalism? Is Breitbart A) that hard up for content or B) that in the tank for Palin? Maybe a little of both?
Who would make a better VP candidate in Sarah Palin's run for the White House, Herman Cain or Allen West?
I can't vote in the US, but I would go with Palin/Cain 2012.
You just popped into tell us how irrelevant she is, Riiight like all the other trolls who will too.
Fear.
Palin's young. She has plenty of time to run for President. I'd say 2012 is jumping the gun. If Obama wins another term (dear Lord, just typing that triggered my acid reflux), she'll take it in 2016. If not, she'll be hard to beat in 2020. In the meantime, she'll maintain a high public profile c/o the frothing Journolistas.
This is a woman who grows more attractive with every battle-scar.
X.
Thanks John – Brilliant Article….
Yeah, because Cain was such a great pizza chain magnate. Godfathers dropped further behind the leading chains every year. He never found a way to make Godfathers a leader, or even competitive. Is that what you want for America? To see it getting smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror of China? Oh, and he was chairman of the St. Louis Federal Reserve. I thought you Tea Partiers hated the Federal Reserve?
Great article.
Great photos of political props.
Which one of those Gore boys drove the Prius 120 mph and got arrested?
Exactly what did she have to do with the Giffords shooting? Because she used a political term "in the crosshairs" while speaking about something that had nothing to do with the shooting? That's a political term in existence for years and she wasn't the only one who used it at that time. The Daily Kos had an actual drawing of Giffords herself "in the crosshairs" several days BEFORE the shooting and didn't take it down till after the shooting. There was also a poster at the Kos who remarked about the drawing, saying that Giffords was no longer his Congresswoman, that she was dead to him, dead, dead…This person's onscreen name bore common interests to that of the actual shooter. We found out that the shooter resented Giffords for snubbing him during one of her whistle stop gatherings. So why don't you stop buying into what the Loony Left puts out Alinsky-style in order to destroy the opposition unless, of course, that is also your MO. For once, do a little research before you open your mouth.
Whatever. So the media ignoring her is part of our strategy? And her single digit performance on Intrade? Don't you think Republicans would bid her up if she were competitive, or have you lost your faith in markets?
I'd beg you to nominate her, but I know we would never be that lucky.
"The New Yorker isn't some crank publication, it's the NEW YORKER." (clearly stated in feverish tones)
John Nolte, if you think for one minute that most Americans pay that rag the same homage as you apparently do, you're quite mistaken. I think I've seen about a half-dozen of them in all my years. Perhaps that is because
I DON'T LIVE IN NEW YORK AND DON'T GIVE MUCH OF A $H!T ABOUT WHAT THE OBVIOUS MAJORITY OFNEW YORKERS THINK, SINCE THAT LOUD, OBNOXIOUS MAJORITY IS APPARENTLY A GOOD LITTLE COMMIE CELL.
Come on. Those Naughty Monkeys are not going to look hot with Palin's medical support hose in 2020. And you've got Kristi Noem in the wings, who's 15% younger and 35% less crazy. Palin had her fling with fame. She's cashing in and soon she'll be forgotten.
When Reagan was president, he and fellow Republicans were labeled as "mean spirited" by the same dregs of the media now harassing Palin. Democrats and the media can get away with this stuff because good people do nothing. That's how we'll lose our freedoms, as well.
Too bad you don't take the time to read. Notice I did not claim Palin had anything to do with the Giffords shooting. I specifically wrote: "She jumped the shark after the Giffords shooting."
After the Giffords shooting, Palin released a video response that was intended to look presidential and was widely panned. From that point forward, her poll numbers have cratered. In my opinion, she failed the screen test to be America's next president. Compared with Obama, who she attempted to upstage, she looked small, petty and narcissistic. (That's right — Narcissistic next to Obama! Ouch)
MSM attacks Palin………
proving yet again how insignificant Palin is in American politics. Why's she's so dumb and unimportant they must launch attacks at her, her family, her baby every day just to prove how meaningless her existence is to them.
They need to look up the word meaningless. It don't mean what they think it means.
And in another place He said:
You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?
Matthew 23:33
It's become more apparent by the day, that just as some of the intricacies of our political system, economic system and education system have run their courses: So has the notion of journalism by 'mainstream' providers.
There was a point in time in which journalists simply presented facts and left it to the reader to determine his own opinion on what those facts meant.
Those days are long gone. Simple facts have gone the way of reasonable public education, individuality, personal responsibility and accountability and self reliance.
All thanks to Progressives.
Hope and change. LOL. Good one, Obie.
To the corrupt all things are corrupt.
How could you (poor being) think any different.
To such mindset as you, nothing is clean or pure or good.
except perhaps your own bed and those who lie in it
Yea, probably a little of both.
But then, the MSM kinda runs into the same thing: you know, running positive stories over and over for Obama.
Guess all of 'journalism' is feeling the crunch right now.
<rolls eyes>
Wow……..You must be exhausted from writing dozens of posts telling everyone every chance you get just how insignificant and unimportant Sarah is. impressive stats though. How long did it take you to google all your supportive proof that she's nobody, nothing, totally unconsequential in politics.
Take a load off. Sit a spell and put your feet up……you must be worn ragged racing around the Bigs telling everyone there's nothin to see in Palin. Noooooo influence on anything ever, lolololol.
Sarah will always be a target. She's a well spoken, good looking, smart woman but alas a neophyte when it comes to swimming with the media sharks. They take little nips while swarming around her. I believe a full attack will inevitably happen if she decides to run and I also believe she should wait. Too much blood under that political bridge.
There is a role for her, but first we have to clean "OUR" house and Capitol Hill of all the varmints.
What really has happened to the media. Seriously.
Even when Clintion was president, there was still a critical aspect to things. His motives, plans and appearances were challenged.
Under Bush, the media was relentless. Constant challenges.
But now, nothing. No challenges whasoever.
Challenging the standing government used to be a mainstay of journalism. Skepticism. Criticality. And questioning. All in an effort to ensure that the government was on the up and up.
Now? None of it.
We even see science going the same route (climate change). Science used to be about an effort to develop a theory…and then try and prove it wrong. Now, a theory of climate change is developed and anyone who disagrees is called crazy.
I know you see it. I know you undestand what I mean.
Attacking defenseless children is the tactic of a desperate man. The hatred from the left is truly poisonous. If left on checked it will lead to Gulags and re-education camps.
Hey cornpone,
shhhhhhh…..don't let them in on the secret. put anyone else on a ticket the GOP wants. If any ticket has her name on it, I'm voting for it. I'm sick of the GOP and don't give a rat's rear who they think should run. If her names anywhere, I'm voting Palin just because she pizzes the left and the media off so much.
Those who the gods destroy they first make crazy.
Money talks and Soros's money has spoken very loud and clear to the MSM. Since 97% of the MSM media has no morals or scruples, they just babble what is presented to them in their daily scripts.
I would love to know how much was deposited in their offshore bank accounts as gratuity for being such pigs.
But, I thought only folks on wall st. or in the GOP were greedy.
"He never found a way to make Godfathers a leader, or even competitive………….Is that what you want for America?"
"After completing his master's degree, Cain left the Department of the Navy and began working for Coca-Cola as a business analyst. In 1977, he joined Pillsbury where he rose to the position of vice president by the early 1980s. He left his executive post to work for Burger King – a Pillsbury subsidiary at the time – managing 400 stores in the Philadelphia area. Under Cain's leadership, his region went from the least profitable for Burger King to the most profitable in three years. This prompted Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, another of their then-subsidiaries. Within 14 months, Cain had returned Godfather's to profitability. In 1988, Cain and a group of investors bought Godfather's from Pillsbury. Cain continued as CEO until 1996, when he resigned to become CEO of the National Restaurant Association"
Yep. That's what I want for America.
You forgot banks and oil companies.
You clearly have underestimated the viciousness and blind tenacity of her greatest PR asset: The haters on your side of the aisle.
Palin tweets the weather and she's in the news-cycle for a week. I am willing to book odds that, not only will Palin not be forgotten in 2016, but she'll be an even more viable Presidential candidate than she is now.
X.
Ouch:
58% of American voters would not even consider voting for Palin. As in NEVER.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=159...
She is mathematically unelectable. If you think it gives me pleasure to bear this news, you would be right.
Well, you know, the MSM deals in facts and reality, which have a well-known liberal bias.
Your suggestion is a very wise one. I was thinking the very same same ticket. Nice job! I would go one step further and suggest it will not matter which one leads the ticket. They will win. By the way, nice job on electing conservatives in your country. Prosperity will be on the rise!
Well, for that matter, why doesn't your messiah, Odumbo show his birth certificate? He did? That piece of photo shopped green paper? How about any of his other records?
And GE…Government Enterprise or Government Electric and GM……Government Motors.
Well pumpkin, that would mean something……if she was a candidate.
In fact, I'll bet you a steak dinner tens of millions of voters won't vote for a whole bunch of folks who aren't candidates.
…..it's a world gone mad.
The point is Fudgpacker the woman has done nothing to deserve the 24/7 attacks on her and her family. If your God Otraitor had 1/100th the scrutiny and attacks she has he would melt down into a ranting blithering idiot. I don't care about her poll numbers. What I care about is how the so called MSM can just crucify anyone they don't agree with. What does that do for our Democracy when people are Afraid to even voice an opinion? That is Marxism and packers like you just love it, Don't you?
Well, let's face it, if she's not a candidate or at least a potential candidate, she's a big nothing burger. The poll adds to the mountains of evidence showing she is not viable, which brings us back to my initial contention: Palin is a non-factor, which is why the media has stopped caring and why Nolte's long-winded blog post misses the mark. The media are not out to get Palin. That was so 2009. The media has lost interest.
in the tank for Palin?
Better then you and your job behind the Glory Hole LOL.
The haters on our side only rile up the far right. And even they are getting tired of Palin's perpetual victimhood. America elects positive, optimistic presidents. It doesn't elect people who whine constantly about their treatment by the press or liberal society.
Notice that between 1988 and 1996, the time during which he was chairman and CEO of Godfathers, there are no accomplishments listed. He closed some failing stores. Then, no innovation. Always following the leaders. Always falling further behind. Chains like Papa Johns came from nothing to dwarf Godfathers. He was a big self-promoter but a terrible leader and innovator. If Cain were not part of the buyout team, he would have been sent packing earlier.
I'm in no position to condemn someone to Hell, or to presume I know who is condemned.
I think in Matthew 12:34, Jesus is teaching us where the root of our problem lies. It's all coming from what's in us.
In the multitude of source quotes, and examples that John Nolte gives in this article, it becomes apparent why so many of the, quoted, progressive media types spew such vile loathing at Sarah Palin. It is in their hearts, (mind), and they can't help it.
I can't ever let this get confused with the fact that each and everyone of us needs redemption. I believe that opportunity is available to us all 24/7.
And I need that Redemption as bad as any snarky, hate spewing, Trig mocking Leftist. Just not for the same reasons.
Celebrating Some Very Special Mothers. Just to keep it simple, the left in our country has NO CLASS!
http://www.cwfa.org/content.asp?id=20232
"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."George Washington
Mrs. Palin will look better at 63 than Hillary Clinton does now.
Being a hate filled liberal ages you.
It's pretty obvious, you just don't like him because he's black.
I feel that normal people will see this for what it is. A mean spritied attack on a decent family woman. The only ones that will agree with the attacks are the already hyper left who hate her to begin with. More and more stories that smear the Palins, the more center left- centrist democrats the left will lose. They don't want to be part of a smear machine.
Dunno. I'm a libertarian-minded, pro-choice, pro-drug-legalizing center-right type, and I can honestly say than any time anybody, left or right, starts hammering someone by proxy through their kids, it riles me up.
X.
Sullivan epitomizes the modern Nazi SS Brownshirt whose job it is is to dehumanize and torment people so otherwise normal people are taught to hate and despise them.
You are a useful idiot that is no better than a virus on humanity.
You try to make loving people hate and become violent.
So enlightened as to turn the stomach of any Buddhist monk let alone fair minded individuals.
I spit in your face!
Show us your birth certificate. Otherwise, we'll just spread the innuendo that you're the illegitimate offspring of Hillary Clinton and Pee-Wee Herman.
Palin is a non-factor
Mmmkay. You'd better check the back door. I certainly don't think she is running but anyone with the base she's built is most definitely a factor.
If she weren't a factor to the election, you lefties wouldn't still become so apoplectic at the mere mention of her name and you wouldn't be wasting a Saturday posting irrelevant links for us. Would you?
This guy Sullivan should have his knees broken with a bat.
Hey Sullivan….Try to pull this crap with a wife or daughter of a fellow socialist, made man, Arab sheik, union goon, or anyone else beside the one group of people you know won't fight back as hard. You are a wimp and a pussy.
I voted for Sarah Palin in 2008, and will vote for her in 2012, if Romney is on the ticket I will write her in as President.
Andrew Sullivan is a sleazebag.
And you just know if Palin hadn't brought her family, particularly Trig, with her on the campaign trail, the rabid attack dogs on the left would have gone after her with claims that she's a bad mother, she's out of touch with the middle class because she can afford child care, and all other manner of BS. The left has no decency or shame. Not to mention their rampant hypocrisy because, as the photos show, Clinton and Obama trotted their kids out on the campaign trail. As did Al Gore, who is evidently allowed to enjoy his life as a celebrity outside politics, while Palin's family gets attacked for same.
Leftists are scum.
It's the difference between Democrats and Communists. There used to be one.
Connect the dots…lalalalala…
Fear.
I still want to know how many people Andrew Sullivan infected with HIV, given his "bareback" preference, and (reportedly) prolific promiscuity.
Try to follow along. If I write Palin is irrelevant and leave it at that, I get 200 rightards saying "Prove it." So, I prove it up front. That leaves me with 100 rightards asking why I go to the trouble of substantiating my argument if, indeed, Palin is irrelevant.
The bottom line is, I made my case. And not one of you have come up with an argument that can counter the facts I brought to the table.
By the way, what the heck did Bristol Palin do to her face? Eeeee. I suppose next she will be a spokesperson for bad surgery choices.
"crucify"? You mean like when Katie Couric asked her what newspapers she reads? Poor mistreated Sarah Palin. Has that blunder made her less likely to voice an opinion? She tweets venom 24/7. I agree that people's children (those who aren't adult public figures) should be off limits. But politics ain't beanbag. If the half-term governor can't stand the stings, she shouldn't hit the hive.
I'd just like to say….
I SECOND THAT MOST WONDERFUL SENTIMENT!
Does it bother anyone else that Sarah Palin does not speak in complete sentences? She literally does not speak proper English.
what do you find is the most attractive aspect of progressivism?
"lalalalala… "?
You are such a silly little girl!
LOL!
You are so witty little girl…we are all so impressed with your broad intellect……
"Well, you know, the MSM deals in facts and reality, "
Nuff said…
LOL!
Baa Baa Baad
Sir, I believe it is not very difficult to understand why you have seen "about a half-dozen" New Yorkers in all your years. You entirely missed the point of John's comments. Not the first time that has happened, perhaps?
I'm torn. Our love of the Constitution and liberty. Our All-American ability to see the beauty in diversity. Our sense of fairness. Our dedication to the least among us. Our commitment to science and education.
Then again, it is also the ideology of the well hung and humble.
You can see why it's hard to pick one aspect.
what do you find is the most attractive aspect of progressivism?
Sarah Palin is sacrificing herself and her family for the greater good, the ending of liberalism in America. She is truly a hero of the people and most of us appreciate her. The Lame Stream Media is just that, Lame/ They viciously attack that which they fear. When Sarah succeeds it will prove wrong all their beliefs and rants and raves of the past 50 years. it will prove their hero's have feet of sand. How terrible for them to live life so terrified of truth, justice and honesty and so cowardly of them to so resist all efforts to educate them, hey are surely the worst of the worst. Thank you Mrs. Palin we can never repay you no matter how hard we try.
I too prefer a "clean and articulate" anti-American socialist traitor thug, hell bent on the destruction of the republic over her any day.
I suspect the real smart ones like you will help the GOP and the MSM nominate a viable candidate like a McCain or Dole, and lead us all to victory.
Being serious now…..A positive rep of 167? Derived from under 200 posts mostly rated negative?
I bet your picture on Match.com is of a model 20 years your jr.
I love you guys. No integrity, honor, honesty, or shame. The more you hack 'n troll, the more you reveal yourself the virus on humanity you are.
there needs to be a list of the left that attack the Palin children. List needs to have reporters names, city they are based out of and what network they are with. Paybacks are a bitch..a little surveillance on them might change their tunes.
Time to turn the tables on them. Show up at their homes at all hours of day or night, wagging microphones and cameras at them and asking "When did YOU promise to quit raping your neighbor's children? Oh, you haven't? Why not? Got something to hide?" and on and on…
Is there a category in the DSM-IV for uterine obsessive disorder? If so, I bet there's a picture of Sullivan as an exemplar.
What??? Really??? This from a guy totally in the tank for President Obama who hasnt run as much as a lemonade stand? A guy that has every single thing paid for and handed to him by other people? Oh I know…"President of Harvard Law Review", but didnt publish one paper. Dude your double standards are mind boggling. How can you compare someone like Cain or even Palin to The One is a stretch by any means if you want to honest.
PS, I agree…if you dont like or disagree with either West or Cain….Racist
Just 41% in Alaska Would Vote for Palin for President .According to Rasmussen poll.Oops,even Alaskan have realized that she's a dumb b**ch. http://goo.gl/u8APG
LOL.
Good one, pro! Good one.
When was the last time you saw an MSM offering that was critical of Obama? Gas is higher than ever (during the campaign, Obama blamed the higher gas prices on Bush and the administration, but somehow, magically now that Obie is the Pres…he has no control?>>>LOL), unemployment is back to 9% (we keep hearing that jobs are being added, yet unemployment is rising? very reality based, indeed), the economy is growing at less than 2% (taxpayers has spent almost 3 trillion bucks on 'stimuli', with almost no growth to show for it)…..and not one critical word.
Lotta facts and reality there, pro. Lotta fact and reality.
I didn't post for awhile and for some reason my rating went up. Not sure how that works. But in either case you never really addressed my argument that Palin doesn't use complete sentences. Do you agree with that or not?
Wow! What class! I love it when you Pailin haters talk. Speaks volumes about who you are.
Wow! I think you should really pounce on that one. If you can't find something more substantial to complain about….like something that actually matters, perhaps how we get out of the mess this country is in, then maybe you should rethink talking at all.
You don't think someone who wants to be president should be able to speak English? That doesn't matter? How do you think the world will view us when our president can't speak a proper English sentence?
Wow! I think you should really pounce on that one. If you can't find something more substantial to complain about….like something that actually matters
You forget….that is your opinion. So you think speaking perfect English is more important than having the ability to solve problems or being able to address the issues that are actually important to the future of our nation?
No, you're presenting a false choice. It's even an official logical fallacy called false dichotomy. Look it up sometime.
What I'm saying is that speaking well is very important. Not least importantly because it's a good indicator of overall intelligence.
If I were a conservative I would say forget this lady who can't speak English, I want to nominate someone who is articulate. There are plenty of articulate and intelligent Republicans who could run. Palin is not one of them.
Great! You don't have to vote for her. That was not my point. We have a president who is very articulate, unfortunately that has not helped him solve the problems he was elected to solve. I do understand your issue. In a perfect world we would get the perfect candidate. It was not a perfect world the last time I looked. I think there are much more important issues to be concerned about. Perhaps, viable answers to pressing issues.
You must be logged in to post a comment.