**UPDATED WITH VIDEO**
This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough broke the news that – are you sitting down? – the media are biased against Sarah Palin.
The comic potential for this revelation is nearly unlimited.
The Morning Joe Brew Crew provided some very interesting insight, however. Scarborough led Brzezinski into talking about the insider’s view of the main-stream media attitude toward Palin after her introduction as the Republican VP candidate:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Mika, you defended Sarah Palin when she first came out because you saw the press respond so negatively to her but you noticed over the past several months a really, really negative reaction to you defending Sarah Palin.So now we have an eyewitness account to the media’s attempt to smear Sarah Palin into oblivion.
[...]
BRZEZINSKI: I'm telling you that when she came out on the scene I was– thought it was refreshing. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was interesting. And I also saw a lot of people behind the scenes looking for ways to find a way to bring her down because of her ideology. And I was excited by her ideology because I thought, wow, a very interesting, forty-something, my generation, working woman with five kids on the national stage could really inject something into this conversation about things like abortion.
Color me surprised.
At any rate, what exactly was the attitude of the main-stream press?
BRZEZINSKI: What I hated was, what I saw happening behind the scenes, among my colleagues in the media, where there was this rabidness.Rabid, you say? Surely that can’t be the case– is there anyone to stand up for the media, perhaps a columnist at a well-known newspaper?
PEGGY NOONAN: Yes.Perhaps not. Noonan goes on to explain:
SCARBOROUGH: But before –
NOONAN: From the get-go.
SCARBOROUGH: Before they knew who she was.
NOONAN: Absolutely, they looked at her and they didn't like her– it was unjust.
NOONAN: Yeah, they– Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn't normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful.
There are things during this segment that come down rather hard on Palin – Noonan calls her “frazzled and over-responsive and– yammery,” for example. That is hardly as shocking, however, as an open admission from a member of the mainstream media that they were, in fact, “rabid” in their bias against Sarah Palin during the campaign.
One wonders which of the media members were especially rabid. The full transcript is below.
Morning Joe
06/12/2009
07:36:43 AM
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Okay. That's interesting, that was Sarah Palin just on the "Today" show with Matt.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Why does anybody try to defend the targeting of a 14-year-old girl?
BRZEZINSKI: With us now, columnist for the Wall Street Journal and author of Patriotic Grace, Peggy Noonan. Peggy?
SCARBOROUGH: Peggy, what would happen, Peggy, if – oh, I don't know –
BRZEZINSKI: And David Gregory still with us.
SCARBOROUGH: – A conservative talk show host made a joke about a Democratic national politician's 14-year-old daughter? I'm just curious.
PEGGY NOONAN: The reaction would not be positive in our great land, I think I can – fairly be said. I also think when you're doing live TV you do and say a number of goofy things every day and every night.
BRZEZINSKI: Letterman is not live.
NOONAN: And the –
SCARBOROUGH: Amen to that.
BRZEZINSKI: It's a taping.
NOONAN: And the people who are your stupid targets should sometimes not take the bait. Keep moving. You know what I mean? She should – Mrs. Palin shouldn't wind up in these arguments on morning TV. She should be out there making herself a successful, sober, serious governor of the state of Alaska during a difficult time.
SCARBOROUGH: Let’s talk about that for one second –
BRZEZINSKI: Very interesting.
SCARBOROUGH: No, we were just talking – not David but the rest of us were talking off air a couple breaks ago about how we were surprised. I thought Sarah Palin needed to go to Alaska, keep her head down, study up, make sure the next time she gave a national interview she wasn't rambling, she was very focused and very presidential. Boy, I sure didn't see that on this last swing east. She still seems to be rambling. She still seems to be falling back on maybe some little rhetorical tricks that got her elected in Alaska.
NOONAN: Study up and learn the name of the president of Pakistan and learn what's going on in Iran and all of that stuff can be done. Sometimes it just takes time to sit back and be thoughtful. Do you know what I mean? Not just know facts but be thoughtful. It would be good to see her attempting to be thoughtful person. No, she has seemed on this trip frazzled and over-responsive and – yammery.
SCARBOROUGH: Yammery? Is that actually a –
DAVID GREGORY: A couple things. Whatever the facts, you know, between Palin and Letterman, I don't think anybody out there who is a parent that is not going to look up and say, hey, you want to go to war with somebody who takes on one of your kids, go for it. You know, we're all going to defend our kids. From a comment from somebody who was just making a joke or somebody who has really got a bad intention. So I don't think anybody is going to hold her to the line on that. I do think, I mean the difficulty for her right now is how does she have some continuity and the momentum when she comes out of the election with as a national figure? How does she keep that going, while at the same time sort of sitting back, governing and trying to be part of the Republican renaissance. And that's not so easy right now because the Republican party is in a difficult place in terms of actually coming up with the ideas for the new political generation and opposition and I don't think that people regard her as being there yet. She's a charismatic figure. I don't think she's leading the renaissance at the moment in terms of the big ideas. You sort of saw this play out this week between her and Gingrich.
SCARBOROUGH: Mika, you defended Sarah Palin when she first came out because you saw the press respond so negatively to her but you noticed over the past several months a really, really negative reaction to you defending Sarah Palin.
BRZEZINSKI: Well, I've defended the concept of her especially when she came out.
SCARBOROUGH: The concept of her?! [laughing] This would be what some call back-tracking.
BRZEZINSKI: No, I will tell you – I'm not back-tracking.
SCARBOROUGH: The Concept of Sarah Palin, the shocking new book by Mika Brzezinski.
BRZEZINSKI: No, I'm not back tracking. I'm telling you that when she came out on the scene I was – thought it was refreshing. I thought it was exciting. I thought it was interesting. And I also saw a lot of people behind the scenes looking for ways to find a way to bring her down because of her ideology. And I was excited by her ideology because I thought, wow, a very interesting, forty-something, my generation, working woman with five kids on the national stage could really inject something into this conversation about things like abortion.
GREGORY: That is where you were, there’s no question, that’s not inconsistent, that’s definitely where you were.
BRZEZINSKI: That's where I was. She failed along the way, several steps along the way, so that's what I meant by the concept of her. It was exciting. What I hated was, what I saw happening behind the scenes, among my colleagues in the media, where there was this rabidness.
NOONAN: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: But before –
NOONAN: From the get-go.
SCARBOROUGH – before they knew who she was.
NOONAN: Absolutely, they looked at her and they didn't like her – it was unjust.
SCARBOROUGH: Why was that? And this isn't about Sarah Palin. This is about certain prejudices that a lot of us have in the media. What was it about Sarah Palin that caused so many really, really establishment media figures, powerful media figures, to chase after that sleazy internet story that greeted her at the Republican National Convention?
NOONAN: Oh, about the children?
SCARBOROUGH: About the children.
NOONAN: Yeah, they – Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn't normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful. But that was the beginning. I think the real problem for Palin became the Katie Couric interview and afterwards when she was out on the stump for two months, you know, doing stuff that wasn't substance but just palling around with terrorists and phrases like that. She was loving politics. She has a gift for politics.
BRZEZINSKI: Sure.
NOONAN: She is hungry for it – and she is really talented, but she portrayed in my view a lack of thoughtfulness that removed her from the possible pantheon of Presidents and Vice Presidents.
SCARBOROUGH: It's interesting.
NOONAN: What hurt her the most was what she did but her unveiling by the media from day one was horrible.
SCARBOROUGH: And let me say for the record her lack of thoughtfulness is what drew Willie and me to her from the beginning.
NOONAN: [laughing] She was your kind of girl!
WILLIE GEIST: And let me just say, Peggy, I really like the concept of you.
NOONAN: Thank you so much.
SCARBOROUGH: And, Mika, be do you remember – do you remember when Rahm Emanuel got me to say a word that I don't usually say? Rhymes with ‘luck.’ Right here on this show.
BRZEZINSKI: I do.
SCARBOROUGH: I would say it's a word I don't usually say.
GEIST: Are you blaming Rahm Emanuel for that?
BRZEZINSKI: What's your point?
SCARBOROUGH: No. I'm going to blame John Stewart this morning. David Gregory, thanks so much.
GREGORY: See you Sunday. See you Sunday.
SCARBOROUGH: I can't wait. In Wilmington? If it’s Wilmington, and if it’s Sunday–
GEIST: If it's Sunday, we are there.
BRZEZINSKI: Thanks, David.
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STFU
June 12, 2009 - 16:36 ET by UtherpendWho are these talking heads to tell an elected governor how she should react to someone degrading her daughter on national television? And stating that she should basically shut up and take it till the next election, get clue. That was how the Republicans lost the last elections by becoming lap dogs and not standing up for what they believe in. Those days are over.
"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security."
That's actually...
June 12, 2009 - 16:48 ET by Mike Sargent...what David Gregory (of all people) was saying. If ya read the transcript, he basically says that nobody is going to blame her for going a-wire on someone who publicly attacks her kids. Who wouldn't have that reaction?
Still, it's very telling that Mika would talk openly about the behind-the-scenes scramble to dig up dirt on Governor Palin. She confirmed - in a live TV broadcast, no script - that so-called journalists, these people who get so cheesed when we challenge their credibility, were actually actively occupied with destroying Sarah Palin.
Mika Brzezinski confirmed that the mainstream press were actively seeking to influence a presidential election.
Guys, the reason this is important is not because of what she said. It's important because she said it at all. We already knew; but Brzezinski actually witnessed it, and now has confirmed it.
Hello, ammunition.
Mike ... more on Mika
June 12, 2009 - 18:12 ET by metaphorsbwithuActually, Mike, Mika had already spilled the beans a month ago:
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/05/mika-brzezinski-discusses-media-bias.html
Like we didn't know that within hours of Palin being named by McCain. The slime machine was already in overdrive.
I remember arguing with my liberal friends that their instant hatred of Gov. Palin was based on left-wing lies and smears (like the bogus "book ban" list) they were just too happy to believe.
Even after I proved to them they were wrong they continued to repeat them. That's what these people do.
metaphorsbwithu
Just reading the transcript
June 12, 2009 - 16:45 ET by KC MulvilleDavid Gregory, showing signs of humanity ... good to see. We'll take what humanity we can get at this point.
This episode was a conversation between people who weren't automatically against Palin (specifically) or conservatives in general. Scarborough's show occasionally has these green shoots coming through the pavement. We have to encourage this sort of thing.
I hope so...
June 12, 2009 - 16:56 ET by Mike Sargent...I'd love to see Gregory stop sandbagging conservatives at every turn. Russert at least had the decency to do it to both sides (mostly...).
I honestly think though, that if they packed up the entire Morning Joe Brew Crew and gave them the same time-slot on Fox, they'd have at least three times the ratings. It's a well-done show, is geared toward young people without excluding the upper age groups, has a clean, neat look (everything except the scads of papers strewn across the desk), they usually have a solid guest lineup, and they're flat-out entertaining.
Yes, it sometimes contains ridiculous liberal bias - NewsBusters has reams of documentation of that. But conservatives are not such horrible people as to deny them good ratings for occasional...philosophical foibles.
The MSNBC label drags them down...
Mike
June 12, 2009 - 20:37 ET by BlondeI agree with you that Joe's show is better than the insipid F&F...I used to watch it prior to the election, but afterward, it seemed to me that the MSNBC staff just interviewed each other. Boring.
What I really did like about the show, though, is that they take the time to thoroughly interview a guest, not just make little sound bites out of it. Perhaps it warrants another view on my part.
I'm not surprised about Mika. She's as liberal as they come, but she is, I believe, a "true" woman/child advocate, not just a NOW drone. While I am sure she's pro-abortion, her liberalism is nowhere near as knee-jerk on this topic as on many others. I've seen her defend Palin before, so perhaps she's growing. And her admission of the media bias was stunning.
Peggy Noonan is another story....she's become a RINO of the worst sort, who believes her wordsmithing makes her something special. Although she is still capable of turning a phrase, she's lost alot (IMO) by her stint with all of the liberals...trying to be all things to all people.
Perhaps Joe's bookers will do more to diversify his guest list (to exclude Chrissy, Shuster, Andrea Mitchell, etc.). I do enjoy the total lack of "fluff" (other than Willy Geist's News You Can't Use....Willy is the true gem of that show)....and the extended length of the guest spots. Time will tell, I suppose.
I hope he fails, too.
The thorough interviews are
June 12, 2009 - 21:42 ET by Mike SargentThe thorough interviews are probably what makes it so enjoyable. I think it has the group teasing schtick of the View, without the constant cannonade of stupidity; plus actual working knowledge of how politics works. They still manage to ask dumb questions sometimes, but at least they're starting off in the right direction.
It may surprise you to know that, while she's not very vocal about it, Mika claims to be pro-life. I've no idea what that means, because I have yet to hear her explain that.
I do agree that Noonan considers herself a moderating voice of reason. I've no idea what reason that is, as her arguments lack the punch of logic on multiple occasions.
Mitchell usually shows up on the show only when Korea launches a missile of some sort. I've been watching Morning Joe fairly consistently for a few months now, and I haven't seen Shuster or Chrissie yet *smirk*
tired of liberal
June 12, 2009 - 23:40 ET by stunnedtired of liberal lies
NOONAN: Yeah, they – Palin from the moment she came out, people looked at her kids and sort of went after the kids. It was vicious. It was offensive. It made me use in a column a word I wouldn't normally use, rhymes with witch, talking about the people in the media who had just decided to gun for these kids. I mean, it was just awful. But that was the beginning.
Now they are making jokes about her 14 being a victim of statutory rape. There is no level they are not willing to stoop to destroy conservative.
Don't be fooled by Noonan
June 14, 2009 - 10:52 ET by GalvanicWhile Noonan attacks Letterman for making statutory-rape jokes about Palin's 14 year-old daughter, she is no supporter of Palin. In fact, after the campaign, she assessed that Palin brought the Republican ticket down -- despite polls that indicate the oppositie.
Note her advice for Palin: Yes, these attacks on your family are vicious, but do not respond with statements and TV appearances. Sit back and be "thoughtful" (whatever that means).
Noonan has lost her conservative creds. She's a Beltway-insider.
Noonan
June 14, 2009 - 12:42 ET by doug1950Could not agree more! Noonan is a country club / cocktail party circuit Repub and her little smile and condescending attitude gets up my behind about a foot and half. Her smugness only adds to her often verbal rebuke of real conservatives. She sees herself of so superior and above all the rough and tumble politics of today. She always, even when working for RR, has been very impressed with herself but she has been living on the halo effect of that relationship ever since. She is the equivalent of Dick Cavat only on the GOP roster.
wow, wonder what they said
June 12, 2009 - 17:05 ET by kangaroowow, wonder what they said to brzezinski in the add break, but loose lips, I think she admitted a major eye opener to the Dem viewers, if they even understood what she was saying or even gave a rats if they did
Face-to-face with Todd Palin?
June 12, 2009 - 17:10 ET by metaphorsbwithuI think all of these reporters and pundits should sit face to face (a la the Charles Gibson/Katie Couric Palin "interviews") with Todd Palin and ask him what the big deal is with the media/entertainment industry taking cheap shots at his wife, baby son Trig, and two girls.
Maybe Mr. Letterman should fly over to Alaska and do one of his *knock* *knock* "Hi! I'm Dave Letterman." routines at the Palin home.
metaphorsbwithu
Methinks that the Palin
June 12, 2009 - 17:16 ET by Mike SargentMethinks that the Palin women - any of them, mind you - might possibly view that as a threat.
I don't think that would end well, for any 62-year-old man...who knows - maybe they're also kung fu experts.
Either way, I'd really REALLY hate to meet an angry Todd Palin. I have great regard for my self-defense prowess. But that guy is simply tougher than nails. Ya hear the one where he won a snow machine race with a broken arm?
Yeah. He did. WON the race, from what I hear. Jeeze.
→ Maybe Sargent
June 12, 2009 - 17:20 ET by Cool ArrowMaybe Letterman practices his kung-fu in a closet.
The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden
zing!
June 12, 2009 - 20:16 ET by delmargood one! Although I don't like getting my laughs at David Carridine's expense.
→ Got me all wrong
June 12, 2009 - 20:21 ET by Cool ArrowMy best Letterman explanation is that I was speaking of a gay martial arts movie set in a venue a thousand miles away.
The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden
Letterman's theater of the absurd ...
June 12, 2009 - 17:33 ET by metaphorsbwithuYes, I sure did hear those Todd Palin stories during the campaign, but not on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, OR ABC.
Wouldn't any of those confrontations be simply great theater though? I'd know I'd pay $100 to watch Bristol Palin kick Dave in the shin. :-D
metaphorsbwithu
I'd pay $200
June 12, 2009 - 17:37 ET by Kat Outta the BagTo watch her kick him somewhere higher up.
LOL!
June 12, 2009 - 18:15 ET by RukusNow that's funny! I don't care who you are!
Gary
Gettin' along is so much easier than buttin' heads. - My Dad
And funner too! - Me
He's Yellow...
June 12, 2009 - 20:36 ET by bigtimermet...
If Todd and David ever met face to face, as soon as Todd lifted his hand to scratch his head and say boo at the same time, David would piss his pants...he's be shaking in his shoes all the while....as he went wee wee wee all the way home.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Hatred against Palin by the liberal media?
June 12, 2009 - 17:18 ET by Kat Outta the BagI'm shocked! Shocked, I tell ya!
Next thing you know
June 12, 2009 - 17:33 ET by allanf.. there will be gambling at Rick's Cafe.
Peggy Noonan was one of those who piled on Palin during the campaign. If I'm not mistaken it was over issues of style not substance.
Noonan
June 13, 2009 - 13:02 ET by NevadamanAgreed. I remember reading her opinon piece in the Wall Street Journal before the election regarding Sarah. She was sounding just as elitist as any of the MSM. Now, though, that the One is in the White House, Ms Noonan can afford to feel sorry for Gov. Palin. Not that Sarah needs or wants Peggy's sympathy. She'll take care of herself and her family just fine, thanks.
A cardboard cut-out character
June 13, 2009 - 15:49 ET by needle“She was sounding just as elitist as any of the MSM.”
During last year’s campaign Peggy Noonan, anxious not imperil her acceptability at Eastside cocktail parties, revealed herself as an elitist, carping over the way Sarah Palin pronounced certain words, as if what Sarah Palin was saying was essentially irrelevant!
What matters is the stance one takes when the chips are down, not some armchair musing on abstractions. Peggy Noonan is more like a cardboard cut-out character than a real conservative commentator; for a real conservative commentator I refer you to Ann Coulter.
When I see Peggy Noonan's column nowadays, I turn the page immediately. I have more important things for my time.
Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.
totally off topic, but I
June 12, 2009 - 17:30 ET by kangaroototally off topic, but I read the oz papers about this time cause it morning there about now, and found this article, had a look around the american sites and couldn't find it, I find oz prints some stories first before we get them here strange but true,
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25629414-5005961,00.html
about obama giving zimbabwe 73 mil in aid
PS but george senior jumping out of plane for his birthday is all over the news,
Half a brain
June 12, 2009 - 17:29 ET by LegionOfDorknessThats what the 4 of these clowns (Brezinski, Scarborough, Gregory and Noonan) have between them. And thats only because I credit Joe Scarborough with 4/10ths of one.
This is funny
June 12, 2009 - 17:29 ET by Cool ArrowChris Wallace just referred to Letterman as "TV's 'so-called' funny man"
The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden
CA
June 12, 2009 - 17:46 ET by well99I saw that and agree with his assessment.Also Kudos to Miki who has spoke out against various clowns knocking Sara Palin.
On Noonan....aren't you
June 12, 2009 - 18:29 ET by bigtimerOn Noonan....aren't you just precious when it suits the purpose.
Can't help it here folks....they don't come any phonier.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
→ I know bt
June 12, 2009 - 18:36 ET by Cool ArrowOnce upon a time, she penned the words, spoken by Ronald Reagan:
These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the
champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
Now she's a liberal apologist. That's sad.
The only reason Clarence Thomas is on the Court is because he is black - Joe Biden
so she thinks more
June 12, 2009 - 21:25 ET by TruthMongerso she thinks more "thoughtful" people belong in the "pantheon" of the vice presidency than Gov. Palin...LIKE JOE "D*CK-PERMANTENTLY-IN-MOUTH" BIDEN...?!?!?
give us a fracken break, miss piggy - maybe you could try COPPING OUT A LITTLE MORE THOUGHTFULLY from now on - its what the pantheon of national journalism requires ya know
Palin/Prejean 2012
bt, Yeah, I picked up
June 12, 2009 - 18:47 ET by Chris Normanbt,
Yeah, I picked up on Noonan's magnaminous "defense" of Palin's children and her "sage" advise to Palin to be "thoughtful". This woman, who I used to admire, has become full of herself and so eager to appeal to her east coast clique, that she's become unbearably pompous to stomach. She needs a coconut cream pie right in the face.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
She thinks we all have
June 12, 2009 - 18:56 ET by bigtimerShe thinks we all have short memories in the real world.
Makes me ill...I remember well her thoughts/remarks about Palin from the get-go.
I'm no big Palin fan politically speaking as others know, but I tell you what, when the msm goes after her children like they have I will defend her everytime, let alone the phonies like Noonan who never met 'her' approval to begin with.
Sarah Palin was a breath of fresh air after RINO McC and his pathetic Obama butt-kissing, throw everybody under the bus campaign...let alone how boring he was, etc etc.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
bt, I'm not a Paliniac
June 12, 2009 - 19:22 ET by Chris Normanbt,
I'm not a Paliniac myself, but the more they attack her, the more I want her to succeed. Why do we allow the left to cartoonize Republicans - especially the women office holders, like Palin, Katherine Harris, et al? All it takes is some liberal smart ass to make a mean statement about the person, then their helpers in the media pick up on it, disingenuously asking "Is so-and-so really a blank?" - and they're all off to the destruction
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
That's all the evil
June 12, 2009 - 19:26 ET by bigtimerThat's all the evil leftists know to do...destroy what they fear if they can.
Despicable.
Devils at work all the time.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
I have to agree with you.
June 12, 2009 - 23:58 ET by CamelopardalisI have to agree with you. I'm also not a Palin fan, but the overwhelming of attacks, especially since the end of the election, has made me dislike her a lot less. I kind of hope she proves the liberal sharks wrong. I am also glad that Mika, despite liberal leanings, had at least enough insight to notice what seems to me like the obvious: the left is really afraid of Palin.
Not a Paliniac either
June 13, 2009 - 13:18 ET by Kat Outta the BagI'm still kind of neutral on Palin politically, but when someone is constantly and unfairly treated like she is by the MSM, wrong is wrong and it's downright disgusting the way they're being towards her.
So Noonan thinks Palin
June 12, 2009 - 19:00 ET by Radical1979So Noonan thinks Palin shouldn't respond to attacks on her children? One of the things I admire about Palin is her ability to stand up for herself, something Obama doesn't do for his country.
Who will Noonan stick it to next?
June 12, 2009 - 19:51 ET by snaggletoothieSorry, Noonan, I used to love you but you have snuck up on too many conservatives and stabbed them in the back. Any one who does not worship Obama should just assume Peggy is going to stab them in the back when least expected. Do not ever make the mistake of trusting her.
st... Liz Cheney comes to
June 12, 2009 - 19:55 ET by bigtimerst...
Liz Cheney comes to mind.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Agreed and Noonan needs to
June 13, 2009 - 11:53 ET by gmaniac1Agreed and Noonan needs to crawl back under her rock for a while. She'll come back to the Republicans when we retake all forms of government. So give it a couple of years.
When the people fear the government it's called tyranny, when the government fears the people it's called liberty!
fingerprints
June 13, 2009 - 00:52 ET by vote24If you follow MSM SOP, the obvious conclusion is an absolute fear of the success of Sarah Palin. And it really appears to be a childlike fear, like fear of having to clean your room, or facing reality over good intentions.
Hmmm…
June 13, 2009 - 01:42 ET by maggieqpublicHmmm… thoughtful.
Does that mean Palin should get a grip on her yammery upper Midwest trailer park speech cadence?
But I would never say anything about her children.
WTF?
June 13, 2009 - 10:36 ET by Mike76"BRZEZINSKI: Well, I've defended the concept of her especially when she came out." The "concept of her?" Sarah Palin isn't a "concept," she's a human being and the governor of Alaska. Boy, leave it to these "pundits" to try to reduce a actual person to a meanlingless abstraction.
well...
June 13, 2009 - 13:39 ET by Mike SargentThat's just Mika being Mika.
Sometimes, she doesn't quite know how to put into words the fast-flowing gas traveling through her ears *smirk*
I think she's smart, really - I just think she says dumb stuff sometimes...happens to everyone.
jessieH What
June 13, 2009 - 10:46 ET by jessieHjessieH What makes these pinheads think they can tell a governor how to act? What are their qualifications? The people claiming to defend Palin are the ones that tried to chastise her. Their comments are worthless.......
That picture of Mika on NB's
June 14, 2009 - 07:29 ET by Roger the ShrubberThat picture of Mika on NB's front page made this shrubber think to himself "I knew I saw that face before!"
Letterman is a deranged slob
June 14, 2009 - 11:29 ET by Reaganite Republican- and his stale schtick's about as funny as a train wreck. I say give Todd Palin five minutes alone with this creep- maybe then he'd get the hard education in moral clarity that he so severely lacks.
If Sarah Palin is SO silly and irrelevant, why the obsession? Clearly the Left noted her appeal, and are out to eliminate the threat- it’s not like it’s not obvious.
And she’s been highly successful in life while ignoring the left-wing feminist model… this helps to explain the extra dose of venom in the attacks.
Go get em, Sarah- and don’t mind the press, nobody will be listening to them anymore after the pending Obamamania implosion-
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com
Palin is not a member of the
June 14, 2009 - 15:44 ET by nadadhimmiPalin is not a member of the Oligarchy. Left or right, there is an understanding that THEY are the ruling class. This explains how people like Noonan can not be to upset with the left's attacks. It's all good cop, bad cop playtime. Noonan, et al, know it's basically for show to fool the rubes. That's us folks. Palin isn't in the club and they hate her and fear her because of it. If she is president, they loose their shared power. May they rot in hell as they betray our country and Constitution.
Absolutely!
June 14, 2009 - 16:04 ET by doug1950They all go to the same dinners, cocktail parties, their children all go to the private schools together, etc. etc. Truth be known there isn't a Ritz cracker worth of difference between all of them up there. All of them should be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail in the middle of the night. I believe it was Jefferson that said there should be a Revolution about every 20 years just to keep things cleaned up.
Hatred of Palin
June 22, 2009 - 00:28 ET by rapkillerDAVID LETTERMAN'S HATE, ETC. !
David Letterman's hate is as old as some ancient Hebrew prophets.
Speaking of anti-Semitism, it's Jerry Falwell and other fundy leaders who've gleefully predicted that in the future EVERY nation will be against Israel (an international first?) and that TWO-THIRDS of all Jews will be killed, right?
Wrong! It's the ancient Hebrew prophet Zechariah who predicted all this in the 13th and 14th chapters of his book! The last prophet, Malachi, explains the reason for this future Holocaust that'll outdo even Hitler's by stating that "Judah hath dealt treacherously" and "the Lord will cut off the man that doeth this" and asks "Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?"
Haven't evangelicals generally been the best friends of Israel and persons perceived to be Jewish? Then please explain the recent filthy, hate-filled, back-stabbing tirades by David Letterman (and Sandra Bernhard and Kathy Griffin) against a leading evangelical named Sarah Palin, and explain why most Jewish leaders have seemingly condoned Palin's continuing "crucifixion"!
While David, Sandra, and Kathy are tragically turning comedy into tragedy, they are also helping to speed up and fulfill the Final Holocaust a la Zechariah and Malachi, thus helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(For even more stunning information, visit MSN and type in "Separation of Raunch and State" and "Bible Verses Obama Avoids.")