The election is over, but quite clearly the Palin Derangement Syndrome suffered by many in the mainstream media isn't. This morning's CNN Reliable Sources was typical. Joining host Howard Kurtz to discuss Sarah Palin were Beth Fouhy, an Associated Press political reporter, Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, and Julie Mason, the Washington Examiner's White House correspondent. Mason opined: "I don't think she helped herself at all this past week. I think she actually probably made it worse." To Zurawik, the Alaska governor's recent interview with NBC's Matt Lauer "shows you how in a way, deviously clever Palin is in trying to repair her image." Then it was the AP reporter's time to take a few shots:
FOUHY: Well, I think what we learned is that she is extremely ambitious. I guess we already knew that, but she's as ambitious as ever despite the brutal campaign that she herself described that she went through. But she's also pretty unprepared.I was really surprised by the interviews that she did, because she didn't really come with an agenda other than to just put herself out there and say, hey, I'm still around and I like talking to you guys. She didn't clearly articulate what she plans to do next, she didn't focus on issues that she wants to stress as governor. And she also was given a pass on a bunch of things which I thought was very surprising about why she didn't appeal to women more.
I mean, the fact is polling showed that she was a real drag on the ticket. And she was never really confronted with that issue. Like, how could she really rehabilitate herself to go forward as a national figure given how badly overall she did as a candidate?
There are polls and then there are polls. Fouhy could have mentioned the exit poll cited by the Pew Research Center: "Yet those who cited Palin's selection as a factor in their vote -- 60% of all voters -- favored McCain by 56% to 43%." Or she could have noted the Rasmussen poll taken after the election that found: "Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the presidency. . ."
Even the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza wrote today of how Sarah Palin helped the GOP ticket:
For skittish conservatives looking for more evidence that McCain understood their needs and concerns, Palin did the trick. It's hard to imagine conservatives rallying to McCain -- even to the relatively limited extent that they did -- without Palin on the ticket. And without the base, McCain's loss could have been far worse.
On CNN, Reliable Sources aren't so reliable. Democratic partisans masquerading as objective reporters aren't satisfied merely to have helped put Obama in the White House. They now need to damage Sarah Palin's political future.
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she was a drag against
November 16, 2008 - 16:23 ET by TruthMongershe was a drag against winning the America-hating lib vote
what were we thinking?!?!?
Dominate education now
What were they thinking?
November 16, 2008 - 16:27 ET by Mike BatesPossibly they were thinking - or hoping, anyway - that folks weren't paying attention and now's the time to quickly rewrite history.
Is there any doubt....
November 16, 2008 - 16:30 ET by Indiana Joe... that the lies are continuing?
Sarah Palin was the only reason the race wasn't more lop-sided! Droves more conservatives would have stayed home if not for her. This is just more evidence of how much she worried the Obamedia.
They have to try to put a stake through her heart to make sure she doesn't haunt their nightmares for the next four years.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Hey IJ...Drive a stake in
November 16, 2008 - 16:41 ET by bigtimerHey IJ...Drive a stake in her heart indeed....
Good to see you...I've missed you!
Did you watch the Colts game?
I just caught the very end....wow that was a heart-breaker for the Texans with the pick-off at the end...made my day though...although I sorta' felt sorry for Sage...I did say sorta'....
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
»→ The drag
November 16, 2008 - 16:57 ET by Cool ArrowOnly drag I saw was Sarah Palin trying to drag John McCain across the finish line.
Redefining
November 16, 2008 - 16:55 ET by littlemissmuffinRedefining "Palin Derangement Syndrome:"
Plenty-o-liberals Darn Scared
"If we conservatives moved to those seven non-existent States, the government couldn’t find us and tax us to death!"
I hate to tell the Communist News Network...
November 16, 2008 - 16:37 ET by R D Helm...but had it not been for the presence of Sarah Palin on the republican ticket, I know of no less than ten conservatives who would have voted for Bab Barr instead of McCain.
I am one of them.
-Dave
Did this country just elect Obama/Biden, or was it Soros/Ayers?
Without Palin, I would have
November 16, 2008 - 16:40 ET by Free StinkerWithout Palin, I would have written in Fred Thompson
"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
»→ Right on RD
November 16, 2008 - 16:41 ET by Cool ArrowAnd I am no less than one of them.
The mere fact they can't
November 16, 2008 - 16:40 ET by MidAmericaThe mere fact they can't stop talking about her shows they are worried about 2012. ...and the 2010 off year elections when a resurgent conservative base energized by Sarah could wrest control of congress away from a struggling obama.
MA,
November 16, 2008 - 17:20 ET by Indiana JoeI got Sarah's campaign motto for 2012:
"I'm ba-aaack!"
;^)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Palin Cost McCain
November 16, 2008 - 16:43 ET by allanfI noticed that the people who claimed Governor Palin soured them on McCain, where the same ones who also said, this wasn't the same John McCain, he's become so much more like Bush.
Don't buy into left-wing pablum.
»→ Reliable Sources
November 16, 2008 - 16:52 ET by Cool ArrowI saw that this morning.
Still slammin' on Sarah rather than asking Joe Biden to elaborate on his observation that African American children in DC are inferior to the lily whites of Iowa.
Hey Wolfie! Are you ever going to get an interview with the Gaffer?
To Cool Arrow
November 16, 2008 - 16:58 ET by littlemissmuffinLove your signature line!
"If we conservatives moved to those seven non-existent States, the government couldn’t find us and tax us to death!"
»→ Thanks, missmuffin
November 16, 2008 - 17:01 ET by Cool ArrowI'm rather proud of it.
alright, I'll admit it,
November 16, 2008 - 23:17 ET by choselife3xI'm baffled. What does it mean? 'Lydsexic'?
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
»→ Choselife
November 16, 2008 - 23:24 ET by Cool ArrowIt's how a DYSLEXIC would call for UNITY.
Surprise surprise surprise.
November 16, 2008 - 17:16 ET by cocodrieSurprise surprise surprise. The Communist News doesn't like Gov. Palin. Good tactic though - try to destroy her before she destroys them. I believe she's got 'em scared.
I am glad it's over
November 16, 2008 - 17:24 ET by SmokingGunShe can now go back and start fishing again with her family. miles away from all the trash the media decides to throw at her
The good times.: http://www.youtube.c...
Let's be honest...
November 16, 2008 - 17:39 ET by gregfaheyIt wasn't Palin...it was McCain that was the drag on the ticket.
Palin, in retrospect, should have been the Presidential candidate. McCain goes on:
SNL, Letterman, Leno
Palin goes on:
Gibson, Couric, Lauer, SNL, H&C
More importantly, McCain skips O'Reilly, Limbaugh, H&C but still goes on Leno, Letterman and SNL.
McCain infuriated me turning his back on conservative media. He wanted Palin to bring out the base but, kept her from speaking to it. He used her and now he's left her out to dry.
McCain was the drag on the ticket. Gun owners are only now waking up to the very real possibilty of their guns being taken from their homes. I contacted the McCain campaign endlessly and received not ONE response on this matter. He stood up at every freakin' rally and gave the SAME canned speech as the day before. Didn't have the testicular fortitude to warn American of what Obama and his admin had in mind for all of us. He instead DEFENDED Obama every chance he could. Palin never received the same defense.
McCain, you waged a nerf campaign. Now I am sure you're waiting to accept some "job" in the Obama admin in the spirit of "reaching across the aisle".
You're an idiot. The only positive out of all of this is that conservatism has been stoked by the bellows of your jowls. A blowhard and in truth, a sexist for using Palin as his disposable campaign button.
Don't let the door hit you too hard on the way out.
Amen. Now he can go back
November 16, 2008 - 19:36 ET by HockeyKidAmen. Now he can go back to being part of the press' favorite trio: The Three Traitors (McCain, Lugar, and Hagel), or as Laura Ingraham liked to call them (variously), McHagar, McLugel, or HaCaLugar (phonetically my favorite).
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Now if Palin had just stayed away
November 16, 2008 - 17:40 ET by katiejanethe good old liberal-friendly McCain could have lost the way the media wanted him to - by a landslide. THEY would have felt so much better about him.
And imagine - a politician who wants to remain in the public eye ? How dare she not slink back to Alaska the way they think she should?
I'm still trying to figure out
November 16, 2008 - 19:47 ET by IamTinmanI must be slow, I'm still trying to figure out what is so wrong with Sarah Palin being ambitious!
Weren't Barack, Biden, McCain, Hillary, and all the also rans ambitious? In fact isn't everyone who runs for political office ambitious?
I think what we really learned is just how dimwitted Beth Fouhy is!
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Thomas Jefferson
Obama the fraud.
November 16, 2008 - 20:21 ET by SmokingGunThe fraud (Obama) started his presidental run, right after he won his senate seat.... Don't talk to me about ambition you AP punk.
»→ Smoking Gun
November 16, 2008 - 20:27 ET by Cool ArrowI think Tinman was just observing that ambition is a good thing.
FouheY/phooey
November 16, 2008 - 21:05 ET by Nortothat's all I have to say.
Coalition of the Rational?
November 16, 2008 - 21:21 ET by Agrarian-DecentralistMr. Bates says, “Democratic partisans masquerading as objective reporters....now need to damage Sarah Palin's political future.”
It looks like those “Democratic partisans” may have some allies. Note that the Republican governors, meeting last week, chose not to elevate Palin to ANY leadership position. And note that Newt Gingrich, appearing on “Face the Nation,” threw some serious cold water on the notion that Palin is the GOP's standout up-and-comer:
http://thehill.com/l...
Reality check: She helped
November 16, 2008 - 21:30 ET by lotrReality check: She helped the ticket by energizing the conservative base. I'd be curious to know about RNC donations/volunteers pre- and post-Palin. The Left fears and despises her -- do they know how transparent they are?
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Should be called un-Reliable Sources
November 16, 2008 - 23:52 ET by Jonah JohansenWhat a total fraud Reliable Sources and every other main stream media gesture at self-examination.
It is as if Stalin appointed Beria to investigate possible human right abuses.
The roundtable discussion of Sarah Palin and the media was a new low, borderline Saturday Night Live material.
Geez........
November 17, 2008 - 04:57 ET by old croAre we talking about 2012 already? This was the longest 3 years I have been through politically, now you want to stretch it to four. Give it a break already. I didn't know sooooo many bought into "hope" and "change". IMHO It's way to early to worry about 2012. We can't even predict tommorow's wheather let alone what the political realities will be in four years. There's a presumptuous one elect to bash down, and new policies galore to fight coming down the pike.
Sorry about the rant....
November 17, 2008 - 05:02 ET by old croI must be getting old....