Parker Brags: I Led Media Assassination Of Sarah Palin
In the promo fluff for its future flop, CNN calls Kathleen Parker a "conservative" commentator. So what's a "conservative" in CNN's book? Someone who, when accused of taking part in the media "assassination" of Sarah Palin, brags that she didn't merely take part—she "led it."
Supposed conservative Kathleen Parker made her bizarre boast on this evening's Parker Spitzer. It came in the course of her interview of John Ziegler, creator of the documentary "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.” While denying she had been "duped" by Obama, Parker admitted that during the campaign she "bought into the Obama moderation myth." Then came her "assassination" boast. Video after the jump.
Here's CNN's idea of a "conservative."
JOHN ZIEGLER: So you didn't buy into the Obama moderation myth?
KATHLEEN PARKER: I did.
ZIEGLER: You were duped by the media --
PARKER: I was one of those people who thought this is a guy who is talking about not a red, not a blue America, and who's going to bring the country together.
ZIEGLER: So you were duped.
PARKER: I was at that 2004 Democratic convention.
ZIEGER: Were you duped?
PARKER: No, I'm not going to say I was duped, I'm saying --
ZIEGLER: So you stand by that.
PARKER: Listen to you: I'm the interviewer here. [Nervous laughter] This is fun; this is fun. But I wrote critical things of him, and I still write critical things of him.
ZIEGLER: You endorsed him. You endorsed him before the election. And you took pride --
PARKER: I did not endorse. I did not endorse.
ZIEGLER: You took part in the targeting of Sarah Palin. You essentially took part in the assassination of Sarah Palin 1.0. That person is dead; she doesn't exist any more.
PARKER: No, no, no. Actually, I did not take part in it: I led it. Let's be clear. Let's get our facts straight.
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Hey, Parker -- Check six!
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 10:44pm.
To paraphrase Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens: "The reports of Sarah Palin's death are greatly exaggerated."
The media have certainly savaged her, but "assassinate?" She's more popular than ever.
~More popular
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 10:47pm.
The more people find out about her, the better they like her. Unlike Obama.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
Walking Dead
Submitted by philipjames on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:07pm.
Look, this comment by Kathleen Parker has just solidified her remaining life as being one of the walking dead. As Sarah Palin continues to build and solidify her position in the Conservative and Tea Party Movements and converts more Americans into a more favourable view of her, this hag, Kathleen, will shrivel up into the dried up old shrew she is now becoming.
Irrelevance. That has to be one of the worst things to happen to a narcissist like Kathleen. She can keep going to the circle butt kissing parties and such with dolt liberals and bs Republicans but she is toast, finished, kaput with the majority of America.
Ciao Kathtleen. Enjoy the rest home.
Walking Dead.
Parker Built her 15 Minutes of Fame on Palin
Submitted by libBuster on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 9:58am.
Yes, Kathleen Parker built a career on attacking Sarah Palin. Her attacks are responsibile for getting her the soon to be over "Parker-Spitzer" gig on CNN.
Some people will do anything for money.
Not a conservative
Submitted by KC Mulville on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:06pm.
Please ... someone ... ask Parker to define conservatism. I doubt she'll be able to answer coherently.
hhhmmmmm.....
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:07pm.
Would that be the same Sarah Palin who helped guide the Republican Party out of the wilderness and back into power? THAT Sarah Palin?
But really? Parker imagines she led the crusade against Palin? Talk about an overactive ego. No wonder she fell for obama. They are kindred spirits.
Has anyone seen Joe Scarborough and Parker in the same place at the same time? Just wonderin'.
And yet the conservative
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:42pm.
And yet the conservative Newsmax and the Conservative Chronicle still carry this fraud's blogs and columns, giving her and CNN a fig leaf for using the false ideological label. Don't News Max and the Conservative Chronicle know she is no longer - if she ever really was - a conservative? Are they that hard up for contributors?
NewsMax is Disappointing.
Submitted by Tenebrous on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:01am.
Christopher Ruddy even thinks Clinton is a great guy now. I really question NewsMax's credibility, and I think they might just be that hard up for contributors.
Visions and Principles blog
They might be hard up for
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:39am.
They might be hard up for contributors, but surely they can't think that Kathleen Parker is irreplaceable. Most every conservative I know would be better than her - just because they are actually conservatives. And it's not like she writes so beautifully or brings much prestige to their site. All I can figure is she must have pictures of them doing something pretty embarrassing...
I admit the only thing I know about Parker is this: She is ...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 3:22am.
supposed to be a Conservative. Does anybody know what Conservative positions she holds? I consider myself a Conservative and from the first time I heard Sarah Palin speak, I agreed with her, or I should say, she agreed with me. Nothing has changed since then. Parker hates Palin who is a solid Conservative. It makes no sense, unless you believe Parker is a fraud and calls herself a Conservative when she is actually a Liberal.
And how long......
Submitted by John WI on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:16pm.
.......has Parker been around on the beltway?
Palin shows up 6 weeks before the 08` election, and has been on a roll since.
She's out making a difference, while Parker sits on her ass next to Spitzer.....with low ratings.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Outside of news-junkies,
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:23pm.
Outside of news-junkies, Parker is an unknown. A non-person.
Er - let's face it - about
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:40pm.
Er - let's face it - about 95% of the people in the media discussed here are known only to "news junkies". If we only discussed those who were well-known - especially on CNN - we'd be talking about - well - nobody. :)
That's very true. Oh crap!
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:46pm.
That's very true.
Oh crap! Does that make all of us inside the beltway people too?
I live in New Mexico, which
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:59pm.
I live in New Mexico, which the last time I checked, is about as far away - literally and figuratively - from the Beltway as one can get. However, I think we may be considered "news junkies" - which might not get us into the really cool crowd at high school. :)
I would not say she led it
Submitted by shawn. on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:27pm.
The damage was not truly done till the Couric and Gibson interviews.Please don't mention that useless tramp....
Submitted by jdripper on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:56pm.
Unless you post her ratings. That whore (it is OK to call women whores the National Organization for Women said we can) has lower ratings then the test pattern.
Jack
I still would love to see
Submitted by Tjexcite on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 11:59pm.
I still would love to see John Ziegler as press secretary of a Palin Administration. Not that it would happen but I would love to see it.
Where has he been lately?
Submitted by Blonde on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 12:55am.
I miss Zeigler....remember that video last year where he cleaned the clock of that Frog Mouth MSNBC'er? (The one who was fired, I can't even remember his name, was suspended for the pimp comment re: Chelsea).
Great idea, that was.
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Who's Kathleen Parker again?
Submitted by Phryj1 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 12:18am.
Some alleged conservative who I never heard of until she was chosen as the "counterpoint" to the Progressive/Liberal/Democrat/high-priced callgirl enthusiast Spitzer. I'm sure almost nobody else on here had heard of her either. And she's conservative the way Joe Scarborough is conservative, in that they both kiss liberal butt at every opportunity and happily play strawman conservative for liberal guests.
And bragging about leading the charge to trash Palin which sank McCain's campaign and put Obama in the White House? Yeah, like any self respecting conservative would brag about that! As shawn mentioned, it was the Couric and Gibson interviews that sank her. Strangely, Obama was never subjected to any interviews that put him under the same microscope that Palin was put under. Again, only a dyed in the wool left-wing journalist would brag about playing a part in that.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Actually, I believe NB first
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:44am.
Actually, I believe NB first covered her nasty comments about Sarah Palin back during the 2008 GOP convention. At least, that's the first time I became aware of her.
But Palin is doing better than ever
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 12:18am.
while Parker is, well, doing a talk show with Client Number 9. She's despised by the right and barely tolerated by the Left, who think of her as one their pet conservatives. Kathleen, your fawning coverage of Obama and your dishonest trashing of Sarah Palin were your undoing. You need to head back South, which in your case is Orlando or something. Because you're such a southerner.
Heh.
Submitted by Tenebrous on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:04am.
Or maybe Miami?
Visions and Principles blog
She says she's conservative, so it must be true
Submitted by JakeMo on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:39am.
As a staunch liberal, I would just like to say that Barack Obama is a left-wing extremist that is trying to destroy the free market in order to transform America into a socialist utopia.
And you can trust me about this because, as I said, I am a staunch liberal.
Has the brilliant Parker's
Submitted by Van Halen on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:49am.
Has the brilliant Parker's show been cancelled yet? I don't think that they've had a moneymaking week since they started.
She is a talking 'dead person'. Doesn't she know no one ...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 3:14am.
except friends, family and NewsBusters employees (because it's their job) watch her stupid show? Speaking for myself, I have never watched it, nor do I have an iota of a desire to watch it.
NewsBusters is a Conservative web site. Parker calls ...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 3:32am.
herself a Conservative, yet I have noticed no one who comments on this site seems to like her. The opposite holds true for Sarah Palin. Liberals love to call Fox News 'Faux News', which is a lie. Conservatives should call Parker a 'Faux' Conservative, which is the truth. Rush said it today. Conservatives get mad when Liberals lie about them and Liberals get mad when Conservatives tell the truth about them. Funny how that works out.
Parker
Submitted by Richard B. on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 6:42am.
I will be nice and not call her what she really is. I would never hire her as an assisination. Sarah Palin has survived and thrived on the assasination attempts by the liberals. She out foxes them because she always has notes written on her hand. She commit a supposedly gaffe intentionally and then lets the liberals run with it and then she shows them they are really stupid.
Parker?
Submitted by okiehawk44 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 7:28am.
Since they began airing Parker-Spitzer I've tried to watch a portion of a show here and there because I like knowing what is being said whether I might support it or not but I have to say that Parker seems to be there in name only. Not in conservative name only -- just sits and waits for Spitzer to finish talking and then adds some tiny little unimportant nothing of a comment and looks nervous doing even that. The only time I've seen Parker become somewhat animated is when Palin is the subject. I think this might be an obsession not just a subject of passing interest for Parker.
I can see no genuine reason for Parker to be on that show and I can see no reason with or without Parker that the show should continue. It has extremely low ratings and doesn't appear to be able to attract an audience with its constant menu of the same old recycled guests and banter. "Nothing to see here, keep moving" seems to be their format.
Good Lord these people are
Submitted by Thoreau on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 7:55am.
Good Lord these people are completely sick and demented.
The Kat-Spit show is still
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 8:38am.
The Kat-Spit show is still on?
Saw a very deceptive promo for CNN yesterday where they claimed both implicitly and explicitly they were the only true objective news source as opposed to FNC and MSNBC which they labeled Republican and Democrat respectedly.
If Parker led the assassination of Palin,
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 8:51am.
then she's as big a failure at that as she is at political commentary. After all, who could be proud of "Kat Spit" only managing to garner a third of Olbermann's headcount numbers?
Bwaaaaahahahahahhaha!!
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Show me one.
Submitted by Texndoc on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 10:12am.
She's written a column critical of her Obama? BS. For every eight or ten of her Palin columns she might have mentioned him in passing once.
She isn't the only one Peggy
Submitted by Semus on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 10:33am.
She isn't the only one Peggy Noonan is another one and Noonan has more cred's than Parker, I can't stand either one of them anymore. Actually there were other conservative pundits that trashed Palin directly or indirectly. Perhaps they didn't realize that anything negative they'd say about Palin or McCain at that time would be trumpeted from the highest hill tops by the hard left. Maybe they didn't understand they're supporting a man when they don't denounce him and instead point out some percieved short comings of his opponent.
By this omission they supported a man whose associates include terrorist, both homegrown and abroad, and just about every kind of anti-American group imaginable. (Maybe that was just a coincidence) However this couldn't or at least shouldn't have anything to do with what kind of person our President is after all McCain said "It's not about that".
All anyone had to do is listen closely to him. The wolves are salivating in the shadows.
The way I look at it, whenever a so-called Conservative ...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 12:22pm.
or a Liberal criticizes Sarah Palin, they are also criticizing me, since I agree wholeheartedly with what Sarah Palin has to say. How can Parker call herself a Conservative? What Conservative principles does she advocate?
Well, she...
Submitted by falcon on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 4:13pm.
...umm...
And then, she...
...uhhh...
I got nothin'. Instead of a "Point/Counterpoint" -type show, what CNN has is more of a "point/point" show (and the points are on the top of their heads). Nothing like turning your echo chamber into a wind tunnel, too.
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Actually I see it more of a
Submitted by Beukeboom on Sun, 11/14/2010 - 2:08pm.
Actually I see it more of a host-sidekick sort of show with Spit as Johnny Carson and Kat as Ed McMahon (but without the humor, spontaneity, creativity, et al). Maybe in a desperate attempt to boost ratings, Spit will put on a turban and try out old Karnac routines.
Counterweight
Submitted by boomercon on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 11:18am.
The local bird cage liner, Houston Chronicle, uses Parker as their "conservative" counterweight to such liberal screechers as Chester Pitts, and such chicken little's as Karl Krugman. And that shows that the "Houston Barnacle" really doesn't get it at all, or, like CNN, they're doing the usual liberal trick of stacking the deck, and leaving the reader (watcher) with no choice but to select the "lesser of two evils", and yet still be unhappy.
She means the very
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 1:08pm.
She means the very ineffective media assassination of Sarah....
"Swallow-Spitzer"
Submitted by bigdaddy on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 2:13pm.
Would be a more appropriate name for this show.
Comparison
Submitted by cestes on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 3:04pm.
I'm not comparing Sarah Palin to Jesus, but there is a similarity in the treatment of both people by the elites, upper crust know it alls, aristocrats of the day. The ruling class can't compete so they must destroy the personality. They absolutely must marginalize and discredit the person and the message. Just saying it's kinda the same situation.
Great aim, there, Kathleen
Submitted by falcon on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 4:09pm.
If she "led" the media "assassination" of Sarah Palin, she'd better get a new scope for her gun. She missed the target badly and wound up helping to shoot the LSM in the foot.
I have no further use for the leftist, establishment media. GTFO, alphabets!
“I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership, that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose.” – Ronald Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Conservative??
Submitted by JanineC on Fri, 11/12/2010 - 4:26pm.
Parker is as conservative as my left-loving, former hippy brother who moved to Canada! What a joke!
This is just...
Submitted by Irene Flick on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 5:17pm.
...sexism, straight up.
Why is it not okay to be racist anymore, but it is okay to be sexist? If Sarah Palin had the key body part Parker is also missing, we wouldn't have to listen to all these ridiculous comments about Sarah's qualifications.
There is no place for sexism in the 21st century.