Today Show Tries to Set Up Sarah Palin for a Big Fail
On Tuesday's Today show, a couple of correspondents laid down the potential story line of a big defeat for Sarah Palin if the Republican Tea Party candidate she endorsed, Joe Miller, doesn't win his bid for the Senate seat in Alaska as NBC's Chuck Todd proclaimed: "Sarah Palin's political future is a little bit on the line" and added "this would be a big embarrassment," while NBC's Kristen Welker declared: "the race is also a referendum on Sarah Palin." Welker also featured a sound bite from a political analyst noting a Miller defeat would mean a "black eye" for the former Alaska Governor. Of course the question has to be asked, if Miller defeats write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski, will Todd and Welker go the other way and admit it was a huge win for Palin and the Tea Party?
During a preview of the key races on Election Day, Today co-anchor Matt Lauer asked political director Chuck Todd for his take on the Alaska Senate race, as seen in the following exchange:
MATT LAUER: Alaska it seemed, a couple of weeks ago-
CHUCK TODD: Yeah.
LAUER: -it seemed Joe Miller had this thing wrapped up. Now people are saying Lisa Murkowski has made a comeback. Is this a toss-up at this stage?
TODD: You know it's one of those, it's a toss-up because nobody is quite sure how this is gonna work out. Will people go in there and figure out how to write Murkowski's name? I'll tell ya Sarah Palin's political future is a little bit on the line. If Lisa Murkowski is able to show all these Republican men, "Hey I stood up to Sarah Palin and I took her on and I beat her. That's the way you do it," this would be a big embarrassment for Sarah Palin if she can't pull this one off.
Before the Todd segment, Welker predicted political jeopardy for Palin, in the following report that was aired on the November 2, Today show:
[7:05am]
MEREDITH VIEIRA: Alaska's three-way Senate race is one of the most watched in the country and that has a lot to do with someone who isn't even on the ballot, Sarah Palin. NBC's Kristen Welker is in Anchorage with more. Kristen, good morning to you.
[On screen headline: "Decision Day 2010, Is Today's Election A Referendum On Sarah Palin"]
KRISTEN WELKER: Good morning to you Meredith. Well, Sarah Palin has certainly inserted herself into this Senate race which has many wondering what the results could mean for her future. Alaska's Senate candidates making their final push. Joe Miller, the Republican Tea Party favorite is struggling against write-in candidate and incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski. If the Republican vote is split, that could help Democrat Scott McAdams. But the race is also a referendum on Sarah Palin. She's thrown her support behind Miller and helped him take the GOP nomination from Murkowski this summer. But now polls show Miller is faltering.
MICHAEL CAREY, POLITICAL ANALYST: If Murkowski wins, this will be a black eye for Sarah Palin.
WELKER: Political analysts say Palin's national reputation would be bruised by a loss in her homes state, where
CAREY: You have to remember, Sarah Palin beat Lisa Murkowski's father, that's how she became governor. So it may be rooted in original sins.
WELKER: Murkowski has brushed aside any personal politics with Palin.
LISA MURKOWSKI: I'm running against Joe Miller and Scott McAdams and that's my focus.
WELKER: Palin has ratcheted up her rhetoric in recent days. Lashing out at the local media for what she called unfair treatment of Miller.
SARAH PALIN: Those are corrupt bastards, Chris.
WELKER: Nationally Palin's been on the front line in leading the GOP attacks on President Obama.
PALIN: How's that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya?
WELKER: The Democrats have taken notice, with the DNC taking out internet ads Monday, urging Democratic voters "Don't Let Palin Win." All this as Palin ponders a run for 2012.
PALIN: If there's nobody else to do it, then of course I would believe that we should do this.
WELKER: Palin is now fired up about a Politico article that claimed GOP leaders are trying to, quote, "stop her from running in 2012 because they're afraid she would lose to President Obama." According to the conservative website, The Daily Caller, Palin called Politico reporters, "puppy kicking, chain smoking porn producers," for not naming their sources.
PALIN: If they would man up and if they would, you know make these claims against me, then I can debate them, I can talk about it. But when they're just - to me it's they're making stuff up again.
WELKER: Now in one of Palin's latest tweets, she calls today "Freedom Day." As for the race itself, if that write in option comes out on top or if the results are close, polling officials will have to count all of those write in ballots by hand, which means we might not know the winner here in Alaska for weeks. Meredith?
VIEIRA: Oh great. Kristen Welker, thank you very much.
—Geoffrey Dickens is the Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here
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Election not about OBAMA -- about Palin, says media
Submitted by Jack Bauer on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:07pm.
Hundreds of house seats and 37 Senate seats -- and it's NOT a referendum on Obama.
But one senate seat makes it referendum on Palin.
PERVERTS -- these drones are perverted.
All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
Actually, they're just liars
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:08pm.
Actually, they're just liars and propagandists.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
They are both: Perverted & sell it too as Good
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:47pm.
They need to be held into account. They teach bad things as good and good as bad. It is one thing to do bad, yet another to teach it as a good so they can FEEL self justified.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Unwatchable
Submitted by libBuster on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:29pm.
This is the kind of nonsense story that makes NBC's Today Show almost unwatchable. Well that and celebrity groupie Ann Curry.
No wonder the ratings of the Today Show have been steadily declining.
All day long
Submitted by jdlybrand on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:57pm.
Many leftist pundits have meme'd that the Republicans have put Pelosi's face (with her 8% approval) on the Democrat party while the Dems do not have one. Well, what the flying f-word do they think they've tried to do with Palin for the past two years? Also add Rush, Beck, Hannity, and Bachman to the list. Plus the recent addition of Christine O'Donnell. Color me not surprised.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
That was my first thought
Submitted by z7e1r3o on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 5:50pm.
That was my first thought when I saw the article headline.
Somehow, this race will be a referendum on Palin if Miller loses, but somehow it's not a referendum on Obama if either Miller or Murkowski wins. Where's the sense in that?
And to your point looking at the big picture, hundreds of seats going to the GOP and it's not about Obama.
Insanity!
------
"The point of war isn't to die for your country....it's to make the enemy die for his."
Primary Election Day retread
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:10pm.
Primary Election Day retread storyline. Amazing how an entire "news" organization can't find anything new to report.
I'm just asking....but,
Submitted by Paul G on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:23pm.
Of course Miller should win. Of course, Angle should win..etc AndI know it 'seems impossible' that we might lose, almost a 'sure thing' that we will win the house., BUT, WHAT IF we don't do as well as we should? I know there's record turnout...record republicans going out to vote...BUT I DON"T TRUST THE DEMS!!!!! Voter fraud is RAMPANT!
Will there be an outcry from US (Reps and tea partyers?) or will it just be the LSM saying "We told you guys that the T-P was just a fad".....Just asking...
When it's over
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:26pm.
All we can do is wait for the Fat Lady to sing.
-Jon
What some call "Obituaries"...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:39pm.
...Liberals call "Voter Rolls"...
Sarah Palin a major media force.
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:25pm.
Sarah Palin will be the winner of the evening tonight which is why the little zero called a presser for tomorrow afternoon.Obama wishes he had the win-loss record that . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 4:44pm.
. . . Palin has right now.
As Palin herself stated, she's not about getting any old Republican in office; she's about getting conservatives in office.
If Miller loses his election after winning the GOP primary, how does that become Palin's big loss? The fact that Murkowski had to get her ass in gear and actually compete for the seat is proof of Palin's impact.
The MBM is turning Sarah
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:27pm.
The MBM is turning Sarah Palin into someone larger than life. She's not even holding elected office and the MBM cannot. Stop. Talking. About. Her.-
I wonder when they will figure out they are helping turn her into GOP nominee for 2012 ?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
I think you misjudge the
Submitted by Reaver on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 6:19pm.
I think you misjudge the liberals in the media, I believe that they think that after two years of attacks and ridicule Palin is now unelectable in a national election. They would view a Palin nomination as a gift and a guarantee of republican defeat. Of course they say the same thing about the tea party candidates…
Two months of campaigning means nothing?
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:42pm.
So the CURRENT president (no cap ever) has no races that put his word on the line?
Instead THE STORY is of a NON-office holder and her endorsement of someone from her homestate?
I must just be stooopid or an enemy of the state.
Nice to see the pussy in chief kind of say he shouldn't have used enemy in his verbiage, sorry, you liberals deemed him smarter than everyone, HE said it and HE MEANT IT.
With this reasoning then if
Submitted by ricklail on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:39pm.
With this reasoning then if Dingy Harry loses then it is Obama's butt on the line. That is so galactically stupid, moronic, ignorant, come on need some more.
Is it ever embarrassing if a
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:42pm.
Is it ever embarrassing if a candidate endorsed by The Jump Shooter in Chief loses?
She’s batting .792
Submitted by Injest on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 2:48pm.
If Lisa Murkowski is able to show all these Republican men, "Hey I stood up to Sarah Palin and I took her on and I beat her. That's the way you do it," this would be a big embarrassment for Sarah Palin if she can't pull this one off.
If Mice carried guns cats wouldn’t mess with them.
In the latest round, 7 out of 7 Palin endorsed candidates won their primaries. From the start of the primaries, Palin endorsed candidates won 42 lost 11, she’s batting .792, and that ain’t bad.
New Black Panther Seen At Polling Place
Submitted by im41 on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:03pm.
New Black Panther Seen At Polling Place
David and Goliath - the liberal spin
Submitted by JakeMo on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:23pm.
Liberal spin:
"Sure David could beat Goliath. That's no big deal. But I'll bet David can't beat TWO Goliaths at once if we tie his hands and blindfold him ... and we boo him incessantly."
Remind Me...
Submitted by Chris Of Rights on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:36pm.
Remind me...what were the libs saying about the chances of Miller and how it would affect Palin...during the primary?
You don't have to, actually. I remember perfectly well. Obviously, they do not.
Leading by example
Submitted by vote24 on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 4:19pm.
You don't always elect your leader, sometimes they just lead and become leaders. Palin 2012...Yes.
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