Barbara Walters: Sarah Palin 'Had A Glorious Ride with the Media'

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What media outlets are the ladies of "The View" watching? After Joy Behar the previous day spoke of an alleged media love affair with Sarah Palin, Barbara Walters echoed Joy’s charge on the September 11 edition. Responding to Joy Behar’s statement that a "Bush operative" wrote Palin’s speech, Elisabeth Hasselbeck noted the media’s double standard that they never inquired as to who wrote Obama’s speech. Barbara Walters then jumped in and exclaimed that Governor Palin has "had a glorious ride with the media."

As reported yesterday, Sarah Palin’s ride with the media has been anything but glorious. MRC’s Rich Noyes reported on the media’s rough, often unfair treatment of the Alaska governor. ABC, "The View’s" own network, ran a hit piece on Mrs. Palin. Elisabeth Hasselbeck swiftly responded "it was glorious when they attacked her daughter too."

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Barbara Walters dismissed such charges of anti-Palin bias stating "the easiest thing to do is to blame the media." Curiously, Joy Behar, after essentially accusing Palin of being a Bush mouthpiece, joined Elisabeth Hasselbeck in charging sexism in the media. Behar humorously ended the segment declaring "I want to be open minded." That certainly would be a first for Joy.

At the end of the first segment, after recounting where all of the co-hosts were on September 11, 2001, Barbara Walters, to an applauding audience, credited the Bush administration for keeping America safe for seven years now. Joy Behar passively replied "okay, we’ll give him credit."

Relevant portions of the transcript follow.

BARBARA WALTERS: And one more thing because we’re very critical, all of us, of different candidates. And the country is very critical of George Bush. And we keep hearing that we’re not prepared yet for terrorism. But whatever it is and however it happened, we’ve been, have not been attacked for seven years. So I think, I think maybe [applause] this is a day to give George Bush a little credit.

JOY BEHAR: Okay, we’ll give him credit.

[...]

BEHAR: Her speech at the Republican Convention was written by a George Bush operative.

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: And who was Barack Obama’s speech written by?

BEHAR: I think it was written by him. We all know he’s a great speech writer.

HASSELBECK: No, no. Everyone who makes a speech at the convention has someone-

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So you’re saying a George Bush operative wrote Barack Obama’s speech too?

BEHAR: No, no, no. All I’m saying is that- let me just finish my point. I’m just saying that so far we’ve heard her with points that have been basically written by other people. I want to see how she is in an ex temperanious mode.

HASSELBECK: You’re going to be blown away. Mark my words there. But I will say that in terms of people’s speech writing, it is interesting that people have come after her as a woman having someone write her speech when there have been men and men and men, and layers of men who-

WALTERS: Nobody is coming after her as a woman. Nobody is coming after her as a woman.

GOLDBERG: This is not about that woman.

HASSELBECK: They did it right after her speech.

GOLDBERG: Not at this table. That’s not what we’re doing at this table.

HASSELBECK: No, no. I’m saying that the media went after her right after the speech, one of the first things they said was-

WALTERS: The media! This woman has had such a glorious ride with the media.

HASSELBECK: It was glorious when they attacked her daughter too.

SHERRI SHEPHERD: They went after Hillary too.

[...]

WALTERS: It’s so easy, and maybe I feel this having done interviews with so many candidates. The easiest thing to do is to blame the media. It’s sexist, it’s that. You know, the woman had, the woman has captured the attention of this country and she does have a magnetic one to fill.

BEHAR: Yeah, but Barbara-

WALTERS: But, but, but, but what I’m saying is when you say the media and it’s sexist. I’m so tired of everything being sexist. You know what? It really isn’t.

[applause]

HASSELBECK: Wait a minute.

BEHAR: Wait, wait, wait.

HASSELBECK: We were all over the media and we were on Hillary Clinton-

BEHAR: Let me say it. Everybody said it was sexist against Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton got the, got the wrap and Sarah Palin is in the position now to get a pass because some of the things they are saying are sexist. Give her the- give it to her. Give her the pass because she is a woman. She is a hockey mom. She does hunt. She does a lot of stuff that I don’t relate to.

WALTERS: She’s being praised.

BEHAR: Fine, some people like that Barbara.

WALTERS: I just don’t want to give labels, it’s the fault of the media, or it’s sexism.

BEHAR: But we did it to Hillary. We can do it for Sarah.

WALTERS: That’s true and I’m not sure it was sexist with Hillary.

BEHAR: A lot of it was, a lot of it. A lot of it was. And maybe some of this is too. We have to be opened minded. I really want to be open minded.


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Liberal Fascist Journalistic Nazi Stormtroopers!

Baba wawa is a General in the Stormtroopers, what would you expect her to say.  Remember, deny, deny, deny deny.  Liberal Bias in the Media: What Liberal Bias????

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Christian, Conservative, Patriot

 

Sheesh

Can Joy sound any more disappointed that there hasn't been another catastrophic attack on our country?

she's trained for

she's trained for performance - it took all she had to keep her head from exploding
wow - one day of credit in the last 8 years
clap clap clap
all is forgiven baba - please don't go overboard now

Journalism is the opium of the liberals

Think Thunderdome

They said Palin has gotten a pass on the sexism comments ?  I don't think it really matters to her.  Lets just wait and watch the VP debate a.k.a Thunderdome 2008.....a battle of the wits but ole' Biden will be unarmed.

it's been such a great ride, baba

she's only a mayor from a small town
noboby knows her
her family needs her more right now
mean to animals
pregnant teenage daughter - maybe the down's kid is actually hers too?
wants to burn books
teach creationism
abstinence only
wears flag bikini's while shoots guns
son is all messed up, had to join the army
what did i miss?

The Bridge

The Bridge

The Bridge

The Bridge 

Cheated on hubby

Out-of-date hairdo

Refuses to wear pantsuits

Picks on State Troopers

Slashed special needs budget

Stole stupid Heart song

Belongs to whacko church

Attended multiple colleges

Bad mother

Left Wasilla 20 mil in debt

Lied about Ebay jet

Doesn't give a crap about MSM's opinion

Parochial - never left the US

Seccessionist

»→ LOL SOL

Are you Plagiarizing Rosie O'Donnell or Channeling her? 

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WaWa and her wacky world

WaWa and her wacky world she lives in...

If this has been a glorious ride for Palin...keep 'er coming sweetheart...you don't know how much you and all your ilk that are terrified widdle wussies are aiding and abetting our side of the aisle with your so-called glorious ride...

I say...please, do not change a thing.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Barbara Walter's Glorious Ride for Sarah Palin

Mr. McCarthy, please let me explain something to you as you are gentlemen and I mean that in a complimentary way.

I will bet you are polite like most males on this site. You treat women with respect and honor them. You would never think of what I'm about to relate and that is why I post it here so readers and Newsbusters will understand.

I have exposed often enough what goes on in "liberal" households by using Bill Maher as an example.
I want people to review the attacks on Sarah Palin in their savagery. Harry Smith of CBS sexualizing the Gov. as a viagra for McCain to what Barbara Walters said today which is just bizarre until you understand the David Letterman cocktail party crowd and their real conversations and how they treat women really by what the women related is "normal" to them.

Mo Dowd related liberal males use her for sex, cheat on their wive with her and then dump her.

Lee Woodruff of Bob Woodruff of ABC wrote on HuffPo that the way to deal with peeping toms who are sexual stalkers just one move from violent rape, was to "hand them out Playboy and Penthouse".

Look at the infamous Clintons in how Bill brutalized women and yes he brutalized Hillary in cheating on her, humiliating her and it is why she was bouncing lamps off his head.

These women are taught like Jackie Kennedy to look the other way. Joanie Kennedy was driven nuts by Teddy.

This is their world Mr. McCarthy and is so foreign to you that you and most people can not comprehend such psychotic interaction which Barbara Walters deems a "glorious ride".

Barbara Walters was exposed by the Israeli media because she literally let herself be screwed by a top Israeli diplomat to get a story.

This is Barbara Walter's world. It is one where women are slapped around emotionally and literally. They are degraded, used as sperm dumps and told to accept it as the man is out either having a gay guy perform oral on him like Barack Obama does as his wife will not or is out raping some intern for the thrill of the conquerring another human.

Barbara Walters KNOWS every reporter who get themselves assigned to southeast Asia or vacations there for the pedophile activity. She knows which male or female bosses are doping up some intern or someones child and "initiating" them into the gay or sub sexual deviancy these elitists carry on with.

This is the liberal "normal". A bunch of sexual predators who honestly get off on this.............and yes Mr. McCarthy as you have noted by the bizarre statement of Barbara Walters she thinks a woman being abused, savaged, politically raped is "glorious", BECAUSE ALL OF THESE WOMEN PRAISING THIS IN SEXUAL INTERCOURSE GET OFF ON IT.

I realize most people are gagging now as this is just too much information in their minds are reeling in naughty poodle Barbara and the rest of these types, but this is what they do. Sex is a weapon and male and female interactions are not loving, caring or nuturing. They are instead an arena fight of BDSM.

Sound familiar of Frank Marshall Davis who was Obama's mentor?

You bet it does and why do you think the sexual predator Bill Clinton was was not a news story to the MSM? Because they are doing all those things and worse. Every one of these people has done it or stood silently by as the virgin was sacraficed.

These MSM liberals do not realize they are revealing so much as of late in their own sexual perversions, but honestly Barbara Walters, Kiran Chetry, Charlie Rose, Brian Williams all think this savaging of a woman is marvelous and that Gov. Palin must be lusting in it because that is what this group of sex demons gets off on.

I apologize for posting this here, but someone has to clear this up as I'm certain Rush Limbaugh knows all of this but will not delve into it as it is a open can which will unload on various Republicans as the media was so gleefully exposing the past year.

Barbara Walters though gets off on abuse as her statement reveals in she thinks Gov. Palin and all women would enjoy being savaged like this.

Many of you know these males and females from high school days. They were the ones who would get the good girl doped or drunk and have the football jocks screw a lesson into her to humiliate her.

What you are seeing is this group now sitting in million dollar podiums utilizing the same juvenile tactics. Just picture that glowing beaming head of Harry Smith on CBS thinking he is being cute in degrading Gov. Palin, but this is how he deals with all women in life in degrading them by sex.

It isn't funny or glorious to any normal human. It is why I sincerely hope that the more people observe this and yes start posting on it bringing things to mind they have seen that these political rapists will be so exposed and castigated that that entire clique is flushed out of the corporate, government and media system.

Thank you for your time and God bless.

 

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agtG......

I never thought of the MSM this way, but, you give me pause to wonder...........

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So you’re saying a George Bush operative wrote Barack Obama’s speech too?

LOL.  How does Elisabeth Hasselbeck deal with such idiocy? It's like a bad "Abbott & Costello" routine.  Yeah, Whoopi, Elisabeth is suggesting that someone from Bush's team wrote Obama's speech and snuck it into the Prompter for His Highness to read.  And this lady is a multi-millionaire and on tv every day!  This is prima facie evidence that ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE, can make it here in America.

Subsitute the word

"This woman has had such a glorious ride with the media."

If you substitute the word "despite" for "with", I would agree.

I'm really excited about voting for McCain-Palin. I feel like I'm casting a vote for my daughter's future on many levels!!!

Well it looks like Barbara and Whoopie are drinking the kool-aid

mixed up and served by Joy. So far it looks like Elisabeth is sticking to her bottled water.

Whoopie is drinking some other stuff too, I think.

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

glorious tunnel vision

The far left has a SERIOUS tunnel vision problem.  Not only can they not see the forest through the trees, they can't see the rest of America through their hypocritical view of America.

Here's what we see Walters.  Your "media" is ripping apart a female candidate based upon absolute straw men, and sexism.  Your party is self destructing and causing more people than ever to abandon your party.  By and large most people love this country, and over 60% of us call ourselves, conservative or moderately conservative.  The _only_ reason Bush's rating is low is because he:

1) Does not defend his positions very well.  I think McCain is a much better defender of himself in this regard and will not let the media push him around.  (Nor will Palin, one of the reasons the media elites hate her)

2) Did some VERY VERY liberal things, that regardless of you STILL have BDS.

 

Palin has accomplished great things, while Obama has continued to make empty promises that the world owes you a living.

Sarah Palin "Had a glorious

Sarah Palin "Had a glorious ride with the media"Brought to you by the same mind-set that says McCain was, "well treated" as a POW. 

Baba Wawa, you have had a

Baba Wawa, you have had a glroius ride with the Media and are now on the deline of your carrier. Your own book and by your own admition, you are a slut with low moral values. How many of your peers have slept with someone to get their media job? How many in your many in your industry are there because they are married to, a child of or where a fomer press secritary of some famous Democrat or well known person, and would not have the media job they have now otherwise? I could give you names to make it easier,, but what would be the fun in that.

I wouldn't want to go to that amusement park...

.. if this is what you get with a pass.

BEHAR: ... Give her the pass because she is a woman...  

WALTERS: ...This woman has had such a glorious ride ...

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

This upcoming ABC Palin interview

I wonder just how far they'll twist and contort because it's not IF it's HOW MUCH.

There will be trap questions, crappy edits, you name it. And you can guarantee that there will be an "open mic" from the moment she enters the room or even building.

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

To the MSM, the leftwing

To the MSM, the leftwing blogs, and Hollywood:

PLEASE! PLEASE!  PLEASE! Continue your attacks of VP nominee Sarah Palin.

 It will be Christmas time in September and October for the Republican party.  

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the gift that keeps on giving.

TV Fiction Example

I can only wish that BlaBla Wawa and the other stooges, Hater Behar and Hoopty Goldbrick, get the same "glorious" media coverage in the future.

Even from the TV you can smell the desperation and flop sweat from these three. 

Head Buried in Diaper

This is the second day in a row that the lib media/DNC have made this charge.  Every time I immediately see in my minds eye the cover to US Weekly.  Now if that's Barbara's view of a "glorious ride with the media" then I say, pull your head out of your diaper!

Governor Palin has "had a

Governor Palin has "had a glorious ride with the media."

Governor Palin has "had a glorious ride” on a rail would be more like it.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Look I like Elisabeth

Look I like Elisabeth Hasselbeck, she is one good looking woman but she is too nice. I would do a pay-for-view with Ann Coulter. She would go through these light weights like crap through a goose. 

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

 

Palin has had a glorious ride with the media????

What???   Are we LIVING on the same planet.   I'm serious.  HOW do you DEAL with people like this.   They are brain damaged.   You can't show them the truth. You can't argue with them.  Indeed it is a waste of time to argue with them.   Alphabet networks cannot be making money on these shows.   Someone Somewhere is funding a losing money show in order to get this idiocy out there knowing that they DO influence some american women.    It is sad and frustrating.