Media Myth Busted: 'Americans View Palin as More Sincere and Believable After Watching Speech'
Media outlet after media outlet panned Sarah Palin's video response to last Saturday's Tucson shootings with some going so far as claiming it ended any chance she might have of becoming president assuming that's even her goal.
Destroying this myth was a new poll published by Media Curves that actually found Americans seeing the former Alaska governor as more likeable, sincere, and believable after watching her speech:
Respondents were asked to rate Sarah Palin on a scale from 1-7 regarding likeability, believability and sincerity, with 1 representing “not at all strong in this attribute” and 7 representing “extremely strong in this attribute.”
With the exception of likeability among Democrats, Palin’s attribute ratings increased among all parties after viewing her speech. The most notable increase was her sincerity ratings, which increased from 2.62 to 2.69 among Democrats, from 5.25 to 5.45 among Republicans and from 3.68 to 3.85 among Independents.
The poll also found:
- An increase in the number of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents that see her as a positive figure in the United States after viewing the speech
- 40 percent of Democrats, 81 percent of Republicans, and 56 percent of Independents feeling the speech helped her image
- 37 percent of Democrats, 78 percent of Republicans, and 54 percent of Independents feeling the speech helped her potential run for president
That most certainly will come as a shock to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough who on Friday said Palin's response probably ended her political career.
CNN's Jack Cafferty made a similar observation on Thursday as did MSNBC's Chris Matthews.
Of course, these findings differing so much from media reports is not at all surprising as the press have been totally wrong about this event since the moment shots were fired.
(H/T Hot Air)
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Palin
Submitted by PrimalElements on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:35pm.
After it's all said and done she will be more presidential than Obama.
Correction She is more
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:13pm.
Correction She is more Presidential than Obama. People Palin's gonna run she has positioned herself nicely.
She may run
Submitted by ckc1227 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:58pm.
But she won't win.
She may not, but thats what
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 8:16pm.
She may not, but thats what they said about Reagan and Bush and look how they turned out. She is the best out there right now.
Jumping the gun...
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:44pm.
Should we declare His Majesty The Shahinshah PFL now and cancel all future elections?
Me, I just think that we should just, for the hell of it, hold the election, just in case you're wrong. Just in case. Hell, let's hold the primaries just for fun. Hell, let's see if she will even run....
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Sarah Palin
Submitted by redhawk on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 3:09pm.
News like the one from this poll is going to make the Bone heads of MSNBC ( Madcow, Schultz, Matthews, and the failed sportscaster Oledummberrmann) as well as those from ABC , CBS, and Krugman of the NY Slime go for Derangement syndrome cure at their local zoo!
She may not win.. bat then
Submitted by redhawk on Tue, 01/18/2011 - 3:10pm.
She may not win.. bat then Obama has already LOST!
It Won't Matter....
Submitted by GeneralAl on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:40pm.
It won't matter to the lamestream media. They never let the facts get in the way of their mission. In this case, destroy Palin!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
The order to destroy her is
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:45pm.
The order to destroy her is coming straight from the White House. It is instances like her speech that scare the living hell out of Obama and his ilk.
This is gonna drive Prissy Tingles right over the edge
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:42pm.
:-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
This is another shovel-ready
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:05pm.
This is another shovel-ready (to bury) project for the media.
And Chrissy will be the head gravedigger.
Any bets on whether he, or Keith, or Ed will mention it?
.
mb,
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:53pm.
I doubt it. They will just sit there and scowl at the camera.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Now that Herman Cain has
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:44pm.
Now that Herman Cain has formed his presidential exporatory committee how long before he becomes a target of the LSM? I figure he is going to get his name out there and fast.
ricktail,
Submitted by 26CX on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:53pm.
what's equally as interesting is how the LSM is going to be able to attack Cain without exposing themselves to charges of racism.
Attacking a black
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 7:46pm.
Attacking black Republicans, Libertarians or independents are OK. Attacking a liberal black like Clyburn is racist.
The Hermanator will be treated like all other black Americans...
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:07pm.
...who have dared to leave the democrat plantation.
As an escaped slave.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
How?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:10pm.
The LSM will use their tired template that they have used ad infinitum when attacking black conservatives. They'll trot out their professional race hucksters and have them repeat the "Uncle Tom" canard.
(And what do you think a black person would find more reprehensible, being called the "N" word or being called an Uncle Tom?)
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
rick, They are going to go after him early and often...
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:12pm.
...of that I am sure.
I think he will weather it pretty well, though, as Herman has a bit of a stubborn streak going on, and he is by far the smartest true conservative on our side.
I'm glad he's decided to run, and I so hope he wins.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I wish him well. It is going
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:49pm.
I wish him well. It is going to take a lot of $$$$. I am going to send him a little. Hopefully he has alot of rich friends that serve with him on the Godfather's Pizza board. It is going to take a grassroots effort on our part. I am going to send a leterr to the editor of how I see him.
rick, Herman has one of the best friends he could have
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 12:21am.
One who has not an inconsiderable listening audience.
Neal Boortz.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
From What I've Seen So Far Of The Man...
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 10:14pm.
I agree that Herman will do just fine managing the haters on the Left. He is a bootstraps up, self-made man who's stared down adversity in life and work and resoundingly beat the odds. Cancer didn't kill him, the Left sure won't.
Men like Herman Cain, Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, and Clarence Thomas are towering figures whose intellect and accomplishments should be the stuff of school books and role models for our children. These are men whose content of character should be the metrics others aspire.
Watch them go all Rendell
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:45pm.
This bit of news will have the Blood Libel Media gnashing their teeth.
Sorry, I forget who, here at NB, coined the term, but boy did that poster nail it.
Take a bow, if you will.
Lol I Iove liberal predictions
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:50pm.
Sort of like Biden guaranteeing the dems would keep both the house and senate.: ) Yea
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:49pm.
You gotta like your chances
shawn,
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 12:24am.
LOL - Biden couldn't predict a flood if he were standing on his roof up to his neck in water.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Can't Spell Republican without P A L I N
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:50pm.
And the new chairperson of the RNC would do well to keep that thought in mind.
The more the BLM bashes w/o cause, and of course, they can't help themselves, if she merely walks into a room it's some sort of evil cabal....the more credible Palin appears.
Win/Win for her, Lose/Lose for them, but they are so stupid and arrogant, they keep thinking if they keep it up, over, and over, because they are so brilliant and righteous, one of these days their smear tactics will work. One of these days....in 2111.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I like your slogan!
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:59pm.
I've thought since summer 08 that she is already more Presidential than BHO could ever dream of being.
Thanks, Phil
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:44pm.
It occured to me the other day.
Not that I necessarily think Palin should run in 2012, but she has single handedly done more to re-energize the Republican party than any other person since Reagan.
If the Republican power-elite can't get that through their pea brains, I can seriously see the Tea Party breaking off. I'd prefer that the Tea Party take over, but the Old Guard seem to be fighting Palin as hard as the liberals & the media. Alas....
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I can spell
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:10pm.
Conservative without them, but I do need C-A-I-N : )
I like that too. :-)
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 7:28pm.
I like that too. :-)
America continues to give
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:49pm.
America continues to give the haters on the left a bit more rope each day. It's just a matter of time now.
Barack_Must_Go.....
President Palin
Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:58pm.
It will take President Palin several months to undo the damage done to our nation by Kaptain KickAss, but rest assured, fellow patriots, this courageous woman will get the job done.
It will take much more than
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:25pm.
It will take much more than months and it will take the complicty of congress, both the House and Senate.
Timing is important*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 4:58pm.
Should have been paying attention. Just posted this on another thread.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/15/shields-asks-krauthammer-did-palin-unintentionally-make-story-about-h#comment-1416608
cajun, just read your other
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:17pm.
cajun, just read your other comment; I think you have nailed it. You should drag it over here.
They can't stand the fact that this "nobody" (she didn't go to the right schools, didn't study poli-sci or journalism, etc) dares to insert herself into the national dialogue.
They really do look down their noses at the rest of us.
PS...I sent you a PM....
It's all in the definition MB*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 8:57pm.
Liberals have been redefining our language since the 60's. Independance and accomplishments are demonized, entitlements and dependency is "compassion". Abortion is a "choice" not eugenics. Honesty and transparency is "vitriol". Faith and trust in the Constitution has become ignorance, bigoted and irrelevant. Demanding adherence to the Legislative process is called "gridlock". The Reps. are labeled the party of NO yet the democrats have been in power 44 of the last 56 years.
Thank you MB for even bothering to read my posts. Appreciate that there is another poster at NB who is educated and intelligent enough to understand my gibberish...;-)
cajun2---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:58pm.
If what you post is gibberish, then the world needs, and would be a lot happier with, a hell of a lot more gibberish in it !! MDLuckily Mathew*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 10:07pm.
There are a number of NB members highly qualified translators of gibberish....;-)
Didn't Scarborough say
Submitted by Reaver on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:05pm.
Didn’t Scarborough say he wanted people to rub it in his face if he was wrong about Palin’s speech?
Well, that IS what you do with a puppy who POOPS on the rug!
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:11pm.
Here, Joey, here Joey!
Sarah Never Learned ....
Submitted by BW222 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:16pm.
Sarah Palin never learned to lie there like a whipped puppy while the left in general and the media in particular attack her. After all, that tactic was co successful for Bush43. Sarc.
Yet the Bushies on FNC attack her for fighting back. Apparently they learned nothing from the Bush presidency.
The next President must be a man/woman of courage. Sarah Palin is made of steel
Who needs help with being informed?
Submitted by KC Mulville on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:17pm.
They said that Sarah Palin wasn't "informed" because (they claimed) she didn't follow the media. Well, with results like this, why should she? Looks like she knows more about what's going on than they do.
I recall they tried to argue that Dubya was uninformed because he didn't follow the media. That always struck me as hilarious. The President receives the PDB every morning, and he gets reports from all over the world, not to mention constant analysis from some of the top experts in the world. The president is the most-informed person on earth, it's just not through the media. He famously said that if he wanted to know what Condi Rice was thinking, he didn't need a newspaper to find out; he could just shout down the hall, and she'd be in his office within seconds.
The media demands the right to decide what everyone else should think, and they demand the right to control all information. No. The last thing we want is to allow the Jack Caffertys and the Joe Scarboroughs and the Katie Courics to control anything, never mind important national information.
The content is good, but only if it's heard / understood
Submitted by neutron on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 7:30pm.
KC Mulville posted (about "W") "The President receives the PDB every morning, ... reports from all over the world, ... constant analysis from ... top experts... The president is the most-informed person on earth, it's just not through the media."
Are we sure duhOne attends the daily PDB? Maybe he sends Rahmes and Axelrude to the PDB so he won't to have to miss tea and cookies with Weggie Love. After all, he left Billy Clinton to run a President's Press Conference on weigty matters while he went to have cookies at a Holiday Party with Moochelle.
I would think that if The President is "the most-informed person on earth" then he might have been informed that his coat was cross-buttoned and many other goofs.
U-S-A U-S-A
Submitted by Metsie62 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:41pm.
I hope America elects Sarah Palin president just to screw the media elite
Court
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:45pm.
Hope Mark Levin is on his way to the court house.
But, But, But
Submitted by JustAl on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 5:45pm.
How could her popularity increase when she didn't even give away free "T" shirts???
Remember,.....
Submitted by BBallleaper on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:25pm.
Every time a RINO wins a nomination,...it's a VICTORY for the DemonRats; Every time a RINO wins an election,...it's a VICTORY for the DemonRats! Stop RINOS! Stop DemonRats!
NPR
Submitted by JoeBob on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:39pm.
This is news to Robert Siegel, E. J. Dionne, and David Brooks. Friday's All Things Considered "Week in Politics" review had this insightful analysis (Bolds mine):
"SIEGEL: Speaking of that, it appears at this moment, that President Obama is more popular than he was a week ago, and that Sarah Palin, less so. Do you think there will be lasting consequences for those two political figures, David?
Mr. BROOKS: Well, I think for Sarah Palin there will be. Sarah Palin, to her credit, she was falsely blamed by a lot of people for what happened, for at least contributing. So I understand her point of view. To react as she did was so tonally off from where the country was - a country that wanted to come together and wanted that sense of leadership.
She does not have a political strategy. She has a media strategy. And the way conservatives develop their media strategy is to offend liberals. And what she does is she continually picks phrases and things that will offend a lot of people in the country. And this is the way she rallies conservatives to her side. And it works as a media strategy. As a political strategy, I think even a lot of conservatives say we may sort of like her, but she's not ready to be president and I'm afraid she showed that again this week.
Mr. DIONNE: She faces a basic choice: Does she want to be a presidential candidate or does she want to occupy a niche market? And I think that her response to this was someone who wants to occupy a niche market. Conservatives react just as David said they do. It was such an enormous missed opportunity for her because it's worth remembering that the whole issue of the sort of gun sights on Sarah Palin's website really got into play because Gabrielle Giffords herself mentioned them in a March interview.
And she could have, without ever admitting any guilt for anything - and I don't think anybody was directly accusing her - but she could have said, look, this bothered Giffords. I understand that. Of course I didn't mean it in any of the ways other people might have said I did. But I pulled them down from my website.
The fact she pulled them down from her website suggests that she understood this at some level. She should've just said it. And I think she would've been so much better off."
The more I listen to the media on this, the closer I get to a knee-jerk lever-pulling reaction if Sarah decides to run. Anybody that gets this kind of junk from such from such a collection of knee-biting, ankle-kicking collection of jerks can't be bad.
Improving an old adage
Submitted by neutron on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 7:47pm.
Re: Robert Siegel, E. J. Dionne, and David Brooks: Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't even teach join the (choose one)
You forgot one: The DBM,
Submitted by talkradio55 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 10:00pm.
You forgot one:
The DBM, the drive-by media.
This is big news
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 6:55pm.
I have always felt that the more folks who actually listen to her, the more fans she would get.
Weather you support her or not, you have to respect Palin's moxie.
Leftists don't get it!
Submitted by Emil on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 7:56pm.
I believe the more the LIB/DEMs rant against Palin the more populat she becomes. In the current political climate where the Dems have become so toxic among many Americans, when they hammer Sarah, it bolsters the peoples feelings that she must be a positive force. The Dems have come to represent many things Americans are unhappy about. The more Dems try to destroy Sarah, the more popular she becomes. As Obiwan said to Vader. "strike me down and I will become more powerful then you can imagine", or words to that effect!
Ignore her. Maybe she'll go away.
Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 9:49pm.
Indeed. Leftists constantly show that they don't really get politics. If they simply shut up and ignored Palin, she'd probably go away. After all, to not be talked about in politics is death in politics.
I can see a situation where, IF she decides to run, people vote for her for no other reason than to "flip the bird" to the establishment and the media (due largely to the fact that the Left will not shut up about how evil Palin allegedly is). Sound crazy? Maybe. But then, twice in my lifetime, we have had presidents elected because of their SMILES...
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
I have this nagging
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:45am.
I have this nagging reoccurring thought; maybe the LSM wants us to make Palin the candidate and she has some really big skeletons in her closet? Perhaps I need to remove my tin foil hat.
I want someone at NB to shove
Submitted by countryfirst on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 11:14pm.
I want someone at NB to shove this in charkes krathhammer face, on fox ,he trashed the speech, and sarah,I am so done with him and rove, they are afraid of sarah, so they will do everything possible to try and destroy her, however she is not christine o'donnell, they do not realize who they are dealing with.
please if anyone on this blog can get this to charles, I want him to apologise to sarah
Which was the real reason the media wanted to trash her.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 11:32pm.
All the left-wing talking heads and celebrities that went after her response -that she wouldn't have even made if they hadn't IMMEDIATELY POINTED THEIR FINGERS AT HER IN THE FIRST PLACE- were basically trying to tell everybody what they should be thinking about Palin's statement. They were afraid that people would view Palin in a more positive light, and didn't want to risk Americans starting to take her side in the whole "Let's blame Sarah Palin" game. Thankfully, the left's tactics seem to have backfired. No doubt, a few Palin hating leftists will ratchet up their rhetoric as a result, and will probably even start bashing any Americans who support her as well.
You know what would be absolutely hilarious? If, in the end, it turns out that the left's relentless thrashing of Palin ends up putting her in the White House in 2012. I would love to see that!
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
I wonder?
Submitted by Cyborg 0427 on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 10:46am.
What have I missed? The liberal media has stopped at nothing to demonize Palin and I wonder why. What is so good about her that that I haven't noticed? I have to wonder about this because the more they hate her the more I have to wonder why liberals feel so threatened by her. I have thought she would be best suited to chair the RNC, but I never considered voting for her as president. maybe I should rethink this.