Amy Holmes: 'Media Needs to Go to Rehab With Weiner and Get Over Obsession With Palin'
Amy Holmes of America's Radio News Network made a fabulous observation Sunday concerning the New York Times and the Washington Post asking readers to go through Sarah Palin's email messages to assist them in finding dirt on the former governor.
Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Holmes marvelously concluded, "The media it seemed to me it was like they were putting out an 'America’s Most Wanted' tipline to try to find something to try to nail Sarah Palin...I think the media needs to go to rehab with Anthony Weiner and get over their obsession with this woman" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: But because so many journalists went to Alaska - CNN sent somebody, MSNBC sent Mike Isikoff - they almost were invested in having to do stories to justify the initial expense.
AMY HOLMES, AMERICA’S RADIO NEWS NETWORK: Right, I think that's true. Someone described it as if they were, you know, trying to record the moon landing with all of this. It's just totally ridiculous. I think it was as disgraceful as it was ludicrous. And no, the media does not do this to other politicians like President Obama with this feeding frenzy and sending everybody everywhere to try to get the media try to get the public involved.
DANA MILBANK, WASHINGTON POST: If he released private emails, I’d even go into the office for that.
HOLMES: These were not private emails. This was a FOIA request for government emails.
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Right, these were state government…
HOLMES: Right. This is absurd. She’s not even…
KURTZ: But why disgraceful?
HOLMES: …she's not an elected politician. She is not sitting in office. She hasn't even yet, if she's going to, thrown her hat into the ring to run for President of the United States or the United States Senate from Arizona.
KURTZ: Why was this a disgraceful exercise by the media?
HOLMES: The media it seemed to me it was like they were putting out an "America’s Most Wanted" tipline to try to find something to try to nail Sarah Palin. All we found out from this is that she wanted a tanning bed. This is ridiculous, and I think the media needs to go to rehab with Anthony Weiner and get over their obsession with this woman.
KURTZ: Alright, you've got your marching orders. Find a clinic for yourselves.
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But why, Amy
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:10pm.
Amy, it's HIS addiction. Are you afraid Weiner can't beat it on his own?
Bad choice of words. Funny,
Submitted by ThatDude on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 5:52pm.
Bad choice of words. Funny, but I now need mind bleach.
→ I missed it
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:12pm.
While the NYT was busy making note of Sarah Palin being attuned to the "Transformers" movie shoot, they made no mention of the death threats she received among those emails.
BTW, I'm just a Texan, and we don't know anything about creating jobs, but isn't it the Governor's job to make sure a visiting Movie set, dumping money into the State's economy, is happy?
Yup But They Haven't Caught On In The Liberal US Parts
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:36pm.
They made the movie two decades ago “Mystic Pizza” here in the northeast but nobody made sure that Mystic Pizza restaurant had a good pizza recipe. These sorts of details get overlooked all the time by states that are run by Governors who are bad managers.
Palin being on top of her job is just another element of Palin Derangement Syndrome. She makes the other Governors like Romney look so much worse. If they made Alaska Pizza on her watch it would have been Chicago Deep dish made with moose cheese and not New York Street Vendor Pizza.
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Submitted by serfer62 on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:13pm.
Mitts would really like to have this publicity, but then he'd have to pay for it.
What about Chris Wallace?
Submitted by jdripper on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 2:51pm.
What Chris Wallace did on Fox News Sunday was despicable. At the very end of the show he read an email from someone identifying themselves as a SSG in Marines in regards to the Paul Revere story. This story has been covered many times by this site and I know as an historian her take on it was true.
Yet he reads an email unchallenged that says ( I am paraphrasing)Sarah Palin does not understand history and she was wrong in her facts. He goes on to say (actual quotation) "she was a coward for not admitting this (she was wrong)"
Why does FOX especially Chris Wallace get a free ride?
Jack
Why Does Chris Wallace Get A Pass
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:35pm.
I also saw his little stunt this moring and he knew as well that he was lying as Mikr Wallace did when he lied for CBS about Pol Pot slaughtering millions of people in the late 1970's.
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Submitted by Chaitealover on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 7:04pm.
Wallace read 4 emails about Palin, 2 positive and 2 negative. He commented on none of them. The statement "she was a coward for not admitting she was wrong" was not from Wallace, but was part of the email about her knowledge of history.
WTF?
Submitted by jdripper on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 9:21pm.
Did you read what I wrote? I said he read the Email. I even put editorial remarks into my post to make sure the reader knew what I was talking about in the future I will put flashing neon signs, and Morse code so that you will understand fully what I write Chai. I thought I had done everything possible so that no one could write a reply as silly as yours. I guess I was mistaken. Nice to know that the left reads this and defends any attacks on Saran Palin with a vengeance minus a total lack of knowledge.
Jack
I think Chaite's point
Submitted by Chris Norman on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 11:25pm.
I think Chaitea's point stands. Even though you sarcastically acknowledge that you knew it wasn't Wallace's words, but an e-mail, you attack Wallace just because he didn't defend Palin from the attack on her. Like Chaitea wrote, Wallace didn't comment on any of the e-mails, pro-Palin or con. This is how it should be. It's not his job to either defend or attack Palin in a "letters to the editor" section of the show.
Thank you, Chris
Submitted by Chaitealover on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 12:22am.
When Jack wrote "actual quote" after stating a paraphrase of the email, it reads like he was quoting Wallace rather than the letter writer, especially as the message of his comment was to call Wallace [not the email writer] a liar, and ask why Fox, and especially Wallace, gets a pass. Why would I think his criticism was about anyone other than Wallace?
Jack, why do you find it necessary to be rude? People here don't need bells and whistles to understand comments, just clear writing.
→ Amy's good intentions
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 3:22pm.
I don't think it's yet time for the Press to lay off Weiner. They got a late start, hoping against hope that it would go away, as though they were a "little bit pregnant".
The MSM hasn't gone nearly far enough in exposing the hypocrisy of Swamp Thang Nancy, nor the blind eye Wassername?-Schultz turned to the situation for too long.
Palin Derangement continues, the MSM now admits to being her personal Paparazzi. Nice of Amy to notice, but I'm getting a kick out of that buffoonery also.
What does she expect the MSM to report on? Obama's failures?
get them to watch the
Submitted by 4rcane on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 6:44pm.
get them to watch the undefeated movie, the perfect rehab