Tucker on ABC: Palin 'Nixon Without the Policy Knowledge or the Experience'

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Sarah Palin hasn't had it as tough as Hillary Clinton and at her Friday announcement Palin “came across as petty and vindictive. Richard Nixon without the policy knowledge or the experience,” Washington, DC-based Atlanta Journal-Constitution political columnist Cynthia Tucker contended during the roundtable on Sunday's This Week on ABC. Both George Stephanopoulos and George Will pointed out, that after Nixon said “you won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore,” he came back and won the presidency twice.

Tucker, who oversaw the paper's editorial page from the early 1990s through last month and won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2007, charged: “If Sarah Palin thinks that she's had it tougher than anybody else, she's been more harshly criticized, I have for two words for her: Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was savaged for eight years.”

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Two of Tucker's comments on the Sunday, July 4 This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

The simple fact of the matter is if Sarah Palin thinks that she's had it tougher than anybody else, she's been more harshly criticized, I have for two words for her: Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton was savaged for eight years. There were even jokes about her daughter Chelsea, who was much younger then than Bristol Palin is now. It's not fair, it's not a good part of the political process, but that is the stage. You take a lot of criticism, and quite frankly, women take a lot of criticism. So if she isn't ready for that, then she doesn't need to be playing on the national stage. And if she thinks it's tough being Governor of Alaska, it would be a whole lot tougher being President of the United States....

The one thing that came across, I thought, was not only that she was smarting from all this criticism, but she came across as petty and vindictive. Richard Nixon without the policy knowledge or the experience. And I think that that comes across from her time and time again. And again, if you're not ready to put up with all that criticism and shrug it off, then you don't have any business on the national stage.

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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Deranged

Palin can do nothing short of dropping dead that would satisfy these venal critics.  The fight is on for 2012.

I'm beginning to

I'm beginning to doubt even her death would satisy them. I think they really want to destroy the Palin family. They have imbued Palin with everything they imagine they hate about conservatives and they have targeted her for their bloodlust.    

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Hate

Yes, the HATE for Palin and her family, even the Downs Syndrome little baby is astounding and indeed crosses the bounds of rationality. This is truely a vindictive, raw, naked, psychotic hate that has taken on a mob mentality. Now I understand how educated Germans could, under the influence of a self re-inforcing feedback, burn books and kill Jews and think they were doing a "noble" deed. My God, they are truely insane!!!

What a joke comment!

 As Klinton 4ever lowered the moral bar..Obama 4ever lowered the experience-leadership bar.

She is hated because she is a threat...she is a strident conservative...and the lib-media has anal poisoning from the strident secular socialist J. Carter Obama.

Never ever give a minute to being liked by the lib-media...go to the people directly and say your beliefs over and over and over...like Reagan...never give an inch to them or a minute of thought...their job is never to defend secular socialism but to attack, smear, distort and lie.  The good news is about 57 million voters already know that!

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

I wondered how long it

I wondered how long it would take for the old Nixon quote to be referenced.

I'm actually surprised it took until today.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

WHY ARE THE LIBERALS TROTTING OUT EVERYONE TO ATTACK HER?

We are supposed to believe that Sarah Palin is Unexperienced, Stupid, Incompetant, and has just ended her carear.

If any of the above were true . . . 

WHY ARE THE LIBERALS TROTTING OUT EVERYONE TO ATTACK HER?

 

Note to Bigtimer & Chachi - that question was rhetorical.  You know the answer too.

Lib Attacks

The lib opinion of Palin is explained by what psychologists call projection.

 

Stop Funding Leftist Propaganda - Boycott GE & Disney

or the outcome of group-think.

when the only sources of information you use to form your opinions are all liberal rags, and the only people with whom you associate are sufferers of bds/pds this is the drivel that spews forth from one's piehole.  and her paper is on its way to bankruptcy.

coincidence?

 

swing hard in case you hit it.

Free

And did you see stinky, corrupt CNN.com's latest headline? Maybe don't even go there... steam will shoot out of your ears. The gist: that even Republicans (doesn't even use the word "some", but makes it out like the move was bizarre to EVERYONE) are "curious" about her stepping down in AK.

Disgusting POS MSM. 

You're the next contestant on...
THE MESSIAH IS... LEFT !!

 

Shy

Thanks for the warning, but I looked it up anyway.

When I think of the MSM's reaction to Sarah Palin's announcement, I just laugh.

It's been a little over two days and they're still wetting their pants.  They know the Palin Tsunami is coming.  They saw it with Chamblis in Georgia, and the most they can hope to do is fool individual candidates into not asking for her help campaigning.

They sure have a lot of the RINOs fooled.

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

 Is the state of Jawja in

 Is the state of Jawja in that dire financial straits? Here they have let Tucker, along with Jimma and Cynthia McKinney out of the looney bin. Our local paper dropped her column several years ago when the readers got to complaiming about how ill informed she was.

By the way you dumb bitch. Chelsea was never attacked like they are attacking the Palins children.

Semper suprene nitens

Chelsea was never attacked

Chelsea was never attacked like they are attacking the Palins children. 

Damn Skippy, she wasn't!  They made a conscious and group decision to leave her alone.  

Regarding Tucker, apparently when you're too ignorant to write for a newspaper, the next step is to become a political pundit on TV.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

→ Pimping out

Unless you count the ultra-liberal David Shuster who said the Clintons were "pimping her out"

Obviously, Shuster had already been told who his candidate was and felt he was free to call Chelsea a whore.

Shuster learned otherwise, but since he wasn't Don Imus, he got to keep his job.

CA... Yep...he just has a

CA...

Yep...he just has a widdle slap on his limp wrist and off the air for a week of so.

...something like that.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Chelsea was never attacked

Chelsea was never attacked like they are attacking the Palins children. 

Damn Skippy, she wasn't!  They made a conscious and group decision to leave her alone.  

Tucker is  more proof of the Peter Principle.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Re Tucker

Thank God this woman seems to have left Atlanta. We are better off without her and perhaps the Atlanta newspaper can successfully rebuild without her moonbat influence.

Cynthia Tucker is the best

Cynthia Tucker is the best example of what is wrong with modern "journalists" as well as our country.

Palin is lacking experience?

"...Palin came across as petty and vindictive. Richard Nixon without the policy knowledge or the experience."

WHAT? This pathetic excuse for a "journalist" can say that and forget that our self-centered, socialist President Osama Bama started out as a "community organzier", then had less than 150 DAYS in the US Senate and braindeads around this country elected him POTUS? 

She claims Palin doesn't have the "experience"? It is mentality like this that makes me want to go screaming into the night!

Another prime example of left-coast, bleeding-heart, "do as I say, not as I do" MSM liberalism!  When will it ever end?

"Inferior people should not be employed!" - Firesign Theatre

what i find most ridiculous:

her only knowledge of nixon is from second-hand, liberally-biased sources.  it truly is sad what passes for journalism these days.

 

swing hard in case you hit it.

Get a clue Ms. Tucker

Ms. Tucker, you attacked her family. You savaged her children. You made fun of her husband.

Gov. Palin could take it. But, for her to watch you make snide comments about those she loved, that was below the belt.

Hillary Clinton did not have to deal with sexual jokes about her daughter and vicious attacks about her.

Based on what I have read, it sounds as if Gov. Palin resigned so she can take on your Tom Foolery. In fact, she is about to do the kicking back. You p*ss*d off the wrong hockey mom.

If Sarah Palin, the private citizen, starts to go after you in court, I know that there are a bunch of us who will donate to the cause.

Chelsea Clinton was

Chelsea Clinton was routinely mocked for being ugly. 

Hillary Clinton has had to put up with much more vicious attacks than Palin 

And which comedian made

And which comedian made jokes about Chelsea Clinton getting "knocked up"? I don't remember that at all...

Sadly, if Bill Clinton had kept it in his pants there would have been far fewer jokes about the Clintons.

Chelsea and Hillary

"Chelsea Clinton was routinely mocked for being ugly." 

I recall one incidence on SNL in which she was mocked, but they were taken to task -- by Hillary -- and apoligized.  I don't recall any other public incidences.

"Hillary Clinton has had to put up with much more vicious attacks than Palin"

Such as...?

Good Examples As for

Good Examples

As for Hillary, you need look no further than comments from the Newsbusters community during the primaries.  Her Thighness was what she was called around here as I recall. 

Cac

So your equateing a blog forum with the msm?With tv personalities?Should we post what left wing blogs posted about all the kids of Sara?We can play that game.

→ Yes, well99

Chewcaca thinks a blog post is the same as a Letterman joke.

Cool, You're the ones that

Cool,

You're the ones that did all the crying over Andrew Sullivan's Trig 'blog posts'.

→I'm the ones?

Are you referring to his blog posts back in August or the many in-between?

Are you referring to words he presented, or words from posters to his blog?

Chewcaca, are you being deliberately ambiguous?

Right....because a blog

Right....because a blog post from some random guy/gal no one even knows is the same thing as a blog post by a prominent political journalist.

Are you deliberately obtuse, or is it a mental condition in addition to the liberalism you suffer from?

CA

I can believe it.People like him have to.The msm and the rest of the elitist TV pukes can be vile as they wish.If one poster says something as terrible as your not nice the Leftist going into a feeding frenzy.Your a racist or whatever for daring to make fun of The Democratic Party of the KKK.Dems are saints dont you know.

Uh no, I posted examples

Uh no,

I posted examples from Rush Limbaugh & John McCain.

I simply mentioned that you are all whining about how Palin is being treated poorly, yet you gave Clinton the same treatment you are now crying about.

On a side note, can you even show me one CONCRETE example of the Mainstream Media 'viciously' attacking Palin? 

oh my you do live under a

oh my

you do live under a rock

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts 

sorry, cac but I fail to equate 'your thighness' with a 'slutty

flight attendant' appearance...somehow they just don't quite seem the same.  And that is just one instance.  And, by the way, HRC doesn't wear pantsuits constantly for no reason.

Chelsea was seen drunk in England...no nasty digs by the msm - the Bush twins try to buy a beer with false id and are crucified. 

Oh yes, equal treatment for all.  I will not even put myself through a listing of CONCRETE examples of vicious msm attacks on Sarah Palin...and with this post, I am no longer 'feeding the trolls' - I do believe you delight in getting our responses to your falsehoods.  No more from CC ;-)

 

 

So people on an internet

So people on an internet community called Hillary "Her Thighness" while people from national TV and newspaper columns have called Palin everything from stupid to slutty and questioned her decision to have her less than perfect Down Syndrome child instead of aborting him and now they're even mocking him as well.  In the How Low Can They Go game, the Libs win.

Kat, Post those examples

Kat,

Post those examples from the MSM please.  Aside from Letterman & SNL, where are all these examples?

http://newsbusters.org whe

http://newsbusters.org

where you been?

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts 

Thank you

 
Thank you Bruce! That was easy. : )

Gary

I want my country back!

Gary

answer a fool according to his foolishness lest he be wise in his own conceit

answer not a fool according to his foolishness lest thou be like him

-------------------------Proverbs 

You need look no further

You need look no further than the site you are on, C. Scroll down to see an example from NBC calling her "erratic" to begin with and keep going...and these are stories with facts and video to back them up.

But Kat, She was erratic

But Kat,

She was erratic in her press conference, and rambling.

She does lack policy knowledge and now she definitely lacks experience.  

I asked for examples of attacks against Palin - not observations.

→ Chewy

In case you missed it, Maureen Dowd made one comment about Obama's ears and he went crying to her about it.  She's been pretty subdued towards him ever since.

Did you miss the latest attack on Palin from Mo Dowd?

Are you serious in your claim that you lack the ability to see attacks on Palin?

Is this going to be an addition to your litany?

Well, besides Letterman and SNL and Maureen Dowd.

hi Arrow

the wooky is just playing dumb it's a pathetic attempt to mislead (ie: he's lying scum)

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts 

Hey Bruce...

Chachi got shut down on the "investigation... again!) and is simply moving the goal posts. Just trollin' along, that's all. ; )

Gary

I want my country back!

and obama

without his prompter was?????????  Side by side Sahah is much more coherent, cogent, knowledgeable than the puppet

now the MSM went into attack mode with Sarah but cover mode with B-HO

further game playing with you is useless as you merely play a disingenuous sophormoric childs games here kinda like "you can't prove the sky is blue"

 

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts 

"now the MSM went into

"now the MSM went into attack mode with Sarah but cover mode with B-HO"

Because in the world of American politics, Black trumps Female. 

Kat

check Clarence Thomas and Condi.

If you're not a lib you can't really be black or female

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” -- Chief Justice John Roberts 

My bad, botg

"check Clarence Thomas and Condi. If you're not a lib you can't really be black or female"

You're right, botg...my bad.  Black conservatives are Uncle Toms and female conservatives are just dumb.  I keep forgetting that part!  *slapping self in forehead*

"She does lack policy

"She does lack policy knowledge and now she definitely lacks experience"

Did her experience just vanish into thin air once she announced she was resigning, or will she still have it until the end of her last day?

From Cacciato: "She does

From Cacciato: "She does lack policy knowledge and now she definitely lacks experience."

Just her dumb luck she went the way of being governor of a large state instead of being a community organizer.

/sarcasm off

Oh yeah, the Clintons had

Oh yeah, the Clintons had it worse than Gov Palin (rolling eyes).  Got anymore fiction for us? Such as Pres Bambi is the most qualified President ever?

The Obama Administration: THE most fiscally irresponsible Administration EVER

 Chelsea Clinton was

 Chelsea Clinton was routinely mocked for being ugly. 

I'm throwing the BS flag on that!

One person, I think it was Limbaugh, made a nasty comment about her looks, and the sky fell. Everyone agreed that was below the belt. (I agreed) 

Then the media decided that Chelsea was off limits forever, and they made it stick.They ignored her completely.  It was as if the Clintons had no child, until they needed her for the family photo-op after Lewinsky.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows.  -Bart Simpson

 

Let's get specific Cacciato.

Let's get specific Cacciato, Who, When, and where was Chelsea "routinely mocked"?

Hillary has been in the public eye for over 15 years with a track record of making faux pas after faux pas, and one silly statement after another. Remember her  "I'm not some Tammy Wynette standing by my man" after which she did exactly that and her carpetbagging to New York because she couldn't get elected dogcatcher in Arkansas. She earned much of the negative press unlike Sarah Palin who has had the most vile things said about her and her children by people like Tucker who have an ideological axe to grind and no ethical standards to worry about.

Go play in the Huffpo sandbox Cacciato and quit annoying the grownups! 

 

So Palin doesn't have

So Palin doesn't have "policy knowledge or experience" according to Tucker.

Uh...Barack Hussein Obama, anyone?

These are all good signs

Herd panic! All morning, talking heads are speculating as to why, when and what Sarah is "up to". All one has to do is carefully read the transcript of her resignation announcement to know its Game ON. The fact they are ALL running to anything the remotely resembles a microphone to give their opinions is proof she scares the hell out of the liberals, MSM and Rinos. She is the Real Deal, they are not! With her, what you see is what you get. With them, NOT. Their "conventional wisdom" has NOT proven to be very trustworthy. Sarah got thrown under the bus by the media and the McCain crew along with her children, her husband, the citizens of Alaska and anyone that supported her. She has stripped all the things that were emcumbering her from responding the way she knows how. The mantle of Governor was weighing her down, holding her back from taking down the Courics, John Smiths and other liberal pundits who hide behind the cloak of respectibily of being in the "media".  I say stand by and observe, listen to what starts coming down the pike. They all keep saying she is stupid, uninformed, undisciplined, etc. I think she knows exactly what she is doing right now. Huckberry, Newt, and the rest of the old guard are all sitting around having cocktails at the country club discussing and saying a lot of things and doing nothing. I for one am looking forward to the future. It is a new game, new rules, no holds barred, full contact event. Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!

Doug

Spot on!!

I really do love

I really do love this!

The more the Left attack her, the more they confirm that she is a threat to their Marxist ways.

It is laughable to hear Dems and the Drive-Bys coming out and breathlessly tell Palin that she's killing her political aspirations! If your enemy is destroy themselves, why would you offer constructive criticism? You'd simply let them destroy themselves.

I actually hope the Left keeps coming out against her, they're making the point better than anybody that she is indeed a potent threat to them.

I'll also predict, the more they attack her, the stronger she'll get! These constant attacks on Palin also inadvertently show how weak Obama really is. Those Styro-foam pillars come to mind...what great symbolism for everything Obama ;-)

WoW, and all this from a woman who has devoted herself to smear,

hate and complete & utter bitterness @ the Atlanta Journal & Constipation.

In a race to ugly it's Dowd in the lead... wait wait Cynthia Mckinney...no no no it's tucker making a run for it... tucker's coming on strong....

Holy jumped up crap! 

Holy jumped up crap!  You'd think the last person to bring up experience for president it would be an obami supporter.

That's alright lady, you're seeing the result of not having any experience at any job much less president is bringing you.  Good.  Lap it up.  obami is the last of his kind in the presidency, but then again, you know that don't you? And good riddence.

WGAF. . .

WGAF what this woman or any other alleged analyst says.  With Sarah Palin, we have something that defies every way that politics has been done for centuries.  She's ruined her chances for a presidential run?  Says who and based on what? 

None of the old ways of politics apply to her.  And if all she does is travel the lower 48 and raise hell and money, then so be it.  If she wants to run for president in '12, then so be it.  If she wants to step out of the public light for awhile to be a mom and grandmother, then so be it.  We have no idea what her plans are, and I think that's okay.   

I agree gottafang - the woman is one of the sharpest pencils in

the box.  I'll back her whatever decision she makes!

Everyone should remember how Ronald Reagan was ridiculed.  I do believe we have our new RR and he's a she!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security Secretary as a Right Wing Radical Extremist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

CC... One thing I know

CC...

One thing I know she could about out-do any of the dems on is raising $$$ and organizing all over this country, the likes of which ACORN would have a hard time keeping up with...and do it legally...unlike them.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

LINK or slink, Cyn...

Hillary Clinton was savaged for eight years.”

Come on Just one link per year, come on ...

There were even jokes about her daughter Chelsea, who was much younger then than Bristol Palin is now

Heres another chance , Cyn.....Maybe this will help, key words: RAPE, letterman, knocked -up, baby,..

You and your ilk take yourself sooo seriously.

What the libs say is

What the libs say is absolutley true, but only if they substitute Bazs name for Palins, then they may actually know what the hell they are talking about. I am not amazed anymore that the Libs would cheer to see the country drowning in a cess pool,  rather than support any person  that can throw the country a life jacket.

 Richard Nixon without the

 Richard Nixon without the policy knowledge or the experience.

   They better hope she's not like Richard Nixon.  The press hated him but he won re-election to a second term in a landslide.

  Politics is like a teeter-totter, one side goes up and one side goes down.  When you are at the top there is only one way to go.  So even though Sarah has problems the Republican side is being elevated by the descending democrats.

  Obama has failed.  It would take two presidential terms of doing the correct thing to staighten out all the messes he has created and so far doing the correct thing is not his strong suit.

Comrade Tucker doesn't even

Comrade Tucker doesn't even know anyone who voted for Nixon, so what makes her such an expert?

If Palin is so inconsequential, then why are they spending so much time talking about her?

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

Re community organizer

I object to calling our President a 'community organizer'. It should be 'failed community organizer.'

Petty and vindictive? Did

Petty and vindictive? Did you happen to watch a clip of your rant, Cynthia?

Sarah is not stupid

 
I truly believe she has something up her sleeve. Let the media and bloggers jump the shark then come out with the reason why she's stepping down. She has put up with horrible treatment of her and her family. Something big is coming, I just feel it.

What if she recieved a credible death threat to her and/or her family? I would resign too! Don't know though, time will tell... JMHO.

Gary

I want my country back!

If Palin is Nixon minus the

If Palin is Nixon minus the experience and knowledge, then obama is carter minus just about everything necessary to be president.

If Palin is Nixon minus the

If Palin is Nixon minus the experience and knowledge, then obama is
carter minus just about everything necessary to be president.

LOL...good one!

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

What a circular firing

What a circular firing squad. Will, the elitist 'republican' who hasn't had anything positive to say about 'his' party in years and lives in fear of losing his spot on this show, Tucker, who was obviously the model for Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon and who's expression always looks like she has been stuck in the middle of a a world record constipation cycle, the Vanity Fairy assasin who wasn't once questioned about his smear piece, and a turncoat republican insider, all hosted by a Clinton supporter.

The only way this group could be more elitist would be to have Cokie Roberts and the combover king at the table as well.

 

 

Hillary maligned?

The second biggest crook ever to live in the White House behind the current resident.

Tucker Talking Chit Mon....

Weeeell Comrade Tucker.........if Palin had been
elected, no matter what she would have done with her so called "no
policy knowledge or experience", certainly would not have the same
devastation on our economy and freedoms as the bozo we have now....who
by the way has no policy knowledge or experience. 

 

 

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder - Michael Savage

 

 

Crikeys! Like I said on my

Crikeys! Like I said on my very first post about Rush, the libs don't know when to quit, they give these Conservs/Repubs that have more knowledge in a single hair, than all the libs put together, a platform to come back and defend themselves or not, doesn't matter, the MSM twits have given them free airtime, and so far it has empowered them, much to their dismay, lets just keep calling them different names it is sure to work this time, that is their freaking problem, didn't work the first time give it up dumb ass. talk about stupid m**(&&*f%^^&&*s. If the libs had half a brain and that's being generous, they would lift the dems up that they have, who are blantley mongrels, shine the light on them and show why they are worthy, but no, so they are left wide open for the right to kick em where it hurts in the future.

20 thousand people show up

20 thousand people show up to see Sarah, 20 people show up to see Joe Biden.

Oh no, say it ain't so....

Sarah Palin NOT under FBI investigation, agency spokesman says.

Oh, the horror. How will poor Cacciato get through the night knowing this?

Hang in there, Cacciato, there's still a bit of mystery surrounding Michael Jackson's death. Maybe your favorite bloggers of fiction can find a way to blame Sarah Palin. She just has to be responsible....it's the only possible explanation, lol.

Buh bye, loser.

"...can find a way to blame Sarah Palin"

Nah, MJ died because of global warming, and Bush dontcha know. ; )

Gary

I want my country back!

Palin is no Nixon

Nothing Sarah Palin has been saying the last three days suggests to me that she's going off to pout in private, as Nixon did.  She's made it clear that she's just begun to fight.  So the comparison to Nixon does not apply.

Tucker: "The one thing that came across, I thought, was not only that she was smarting from all this criticism, but she came across as petty and vindictive."

In the study of psychology there's a word for that.  Projection.  It means you see your own flaws in others whether they are there or not. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

I saw Tucker...listened for

I saw Tucker...listened for a few minutes....clicked it, like I usually do when this woman opens her mouth...about anything.

She's been over-rated since the Clintoon years with her endless blathering, along with the news-rag she works for.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

The WORST comments regarding Sarah Palin that I have ever

heard came today (July 5) from someone I would have never expected.

FoxNews contributor Liz Trotta used these words to describe Gov. Palin: 

She has given them (media) a lot of raw meat. The woman is inarticulate, undereducated….. I think a lot of this criticism is well-deserved.

Here is the link to the YouTube video. CAUTION: If you have high blood pressure or a heart condition, please have someone nearby when you view this video. Someone who can assist you in the event you have a heart attack or are disabled while listening to Trotta spew vitriol and other abusive language at Sarah Palin.

Needless to say, I was shocked at the intensity of Trotta's attack on Sarah Palin. Prior to this, I was a fan of Liz Trotta, and looked forward each Sunday to her regular comments about the bias and stupidity in the liberal media. Now my formerly high opinion of her has dropped significantly.

 

 

RF... It didn't shock

RF...

It didn't shock me...and I didn't take it as vitriol...other than the undereducated elitism.

Not all here disagree with some of her points...well, I may be the only one today...then again so be it....the pile on from others if you dare say different about Palin is not pleasant at times.

Your opinion of me may lessen too....I know you have missed some of my posts on this subject over time past, matters not...like I said, I know I'm in the minority on NBs, doesn't mean I don't have opinions of my own, and have had about Palin from way back when, before most knew her name.

I'll stick up for her and her family from the vitriol the msm has done regarding her kids...which has been beneath contempt, but she's not my cup of tea politically, she has played the both sides of the aisle McC game too much for me in the past...when she came on the scene..it was a much needed breath of fresh air to McC campaign...but some people forget some things she supported, Cap and Trade and the Illegal immigration amnesty BS...which are huge for me...

I hear Rush, Levin, Hannity and others always ignore this....which amazes me...and the interviews or words were after the campaign too...not just during.

Michele Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn and Liz Cheney are more my way of thinking politically speaking.

Just my two cents.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

bt - I admire all three of the women you mentioned and our

country would benefit from any one of them serving in a higher office.  I often call the two currently in office just to say thanks.  You know the problem I have with calling my elected officials...it is NEVER to say thanks ;-)

Re:  Sarah Palin...I like her energy policies and let's hope she plans to be a spokesperson for drilling here and drilling now.  I do not think she will run for higher office unless as senator in AK.  No one should put their family through what hers has had to endure.  I wish her well in the future.  Personally, I'd say the heck with the lower 48 and stay up there and do the best she can for herself, her family and the state of Alaska. 

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security Secretary as a Right Wing Radical Extremist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

I hope the best for the

I hope the best for the family too CC...what the msm, the vultures they are, do to people is beyond comprehension at times...I despise them...then again, if you're gonna put yourself out there and your family, you cannot expect anything different...especially if you have a 'R' after your name.

Time will tell what happens....simple as that.

Btw...as a real quick add-on here, speaking of oil, I certainly will never forget her call for Ted Stevens to step down either...talk about make me see fire...I've watched that man fight like heck for close to twenty years I have watched the Senate almost get ANWR a done deal, lost by one vote in '05...finally after over thirty years of he and AK. being screwed royal by the likes of Carter and others like McC on the 'R' side of the aisle along with the other RINOs and the greenies that give big $$$ to halt that...Murkowski too...let alone logging in AK. I lived there for nine years, have family and friends still there...I could tell you stories about what has been done to that state since they joined the Union that they were promised and still not given...let alone the forests/timber destroyed from beetle kill instead of nipping it in the bud...same here in the lower 48 now...has been for years...and I won't even get into the ocean.fishing limits and the fisheries.

How's that Cap and Trade working for ya folks...cuz it's coming.

(Sorry I'm in a rush with this last rambling here...hope you understood.)

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

bt What has always puzzled me was why on earth she even

accepted when there were family 'issues' just waiting to be pounced on.  It appears she was doing quite well right where she was and had bi-partisan support.  Guess she never realized just how vicious liberals can be!

If only the media had done 1/10th the investigation into 'the one's' background!!!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security Secretary as a Right Wing Radical Extremist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

→ Cape Con

Trust me.

If there were a "Larry Sinclair" in Sarah's past, they would have shouted it from the rooftops.

Instead, they found a reeeal scandal.  Can you believe she wore a jacket with a logo on it?

Shocking!!

G.L.O.R.I.A

Gorgeous Ladies Of Republican Ideas in America.

I'm going with Liz Cheney because she's just about as quick with her wit as her dad.

I don't yet count out Palin.  I remember hearing Ronald Reagan's three minute blurbs every morning on my way to school back in the early '70's.  How much he learned in the years between being Gov and election to Pres, I don't know.

Cool... Love your acronym

Cool...

Love your acronym above.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

I am just glad Cynthia Tucker moved to D.C.

Because it eeps her the hell out of Georgia.

The best part is, our other infamous Cythia is currently riding a bench in an Isreali jail cell.

:-)

-Dave

"Obama's health care 'reform' plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof." - Herman Cain

→ What a hoot RD

Maybe Ms. McKinney was trying to smuggle in prayer rugs to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

She wasn't listening when Joe Biden made the statement the "we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon"

Good thing Biden and McKinney didn't copulate.

I guess that wouldn't happen because Biden says black kids are stupid.  Obama must think so too.  He chose Biden didn't he?

I miss James Burke's "Connections"

And once again, folks, it's 'more of the same' - we have a

MAJOR CRISIS brewing in Congress with the Cap & Trade Bill and everyone is talking about Sarah Palin.  If it isn't Michael Jackson or Mark Sanford, now it's Sarah Palin!

The administration and its state-run msm want us to be focused on anything other than the DISASTER they are in the midst of planning for AMERICA!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security Secretary as a Right Wing Radical Extremist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

→ Cape Con

 I've heard about Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin, but who is this "Michael Jackson" of whom you speak?

Liberal Psychos

Found video on YouTube, "On ABC, Fantasy Land-Leftist Cynthia Tucker: Palin Is Nixon W/Out Policy Knowledge Or Experience", here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alf6zq41lNQ 

 

 

 

 

Tucker = Beavis without the intelligence or wit

Ms. Tucker is right that Hillary was savaged for eight years. By her enemies. Not by the press, which is supposed to be neutral. The difference here is that it is Tucker and her ilk who are now doing the savaging. So Tucker is as good as admitting that she is an enemy of Sarah Palin--a partisan, and in no way neutral or objective.

I saw somewhat of the same

I saw somewhat of the same situation here happen with John King this morning on CNN with Donna Brazille (sp) as a talking head, they were talking about Sanford stepping down, Rollins and Bennett said he should, and of course she agreed....King asked her "Well to be fair here Donna, did you the same when it came to Pres. Clinton" she replied, "well, it wasn't my place to."

I'm paraphrasing here...but it is sooo typical with the left....is it not?

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Edward R. Murrow...

"...she came across as petty and vindictive..." 

Could say the same about contemporary main stream media and TV news commentators...kind of like Edward R. Murrow without the objectivity and professional integrity.

 

"Allies to Land at Normandy Tomorrow!"  New York Times headline; June 5, 1944  (h/t M. Malkin)

Cacciato...

But Chelsea Clinton was (and still is) ugly.

I asked for examples of attacks against the Clintons - not observations."

Speaking of ugly...

This is the first time I've seen a pic of Cynthia Tucker.  She looks like Michael Jackson will look three months from now.

Today's Fashion Moment

What is it with lib women's eyebrows? First Pelosi, then Michelle O, now Cynthia, with those eyebrows halfway up to their hairlines, like they're in a state of perpetual shock. I've got nothing against Botox, but use it wisely, ladies.

oz... Lol...you cannot

oz...

Lol...you cannot use the word 'wisely' when it comes to any leftist.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Re fashion

I don't think this is the Pelosi effect, this one looks like she just shaved off the old ones and drew on some new ones higher up. You can see a shadow where the old ones used to be.

Tucker

This dishonest bigot should be told if Hillary Clinton were to get the treatment she deserved she would be in prison, along with her husband.

Cynthia on Palin

Having read Cynthia in the AJC, I can honestly say that she would fall over her tongue to help a woman, as long as she (Palin) wasn't white. Never a more racist writer has been had than Cynthia. As one would say " Never confuse notariety with fame". She falls in the same category as Jimmy Carter. Being from the south, I'm used to all the time-worn phrases that are type-cast for the south.

Libs = quarterwits, i.e., 1/2 of a 1/2 wit

GLH

Tucker is a well-known

Tucker is a well-known lunatic holding on by her fingernails to her sanity. Whatever this nut writes, just know that the opposite is true.