" I think that there's been a huge backlash against the media..." 

"U-turn" or running for cover.

Limited Disclosure:  I used to belong to the Sierra Club untill they went crazier. Worse of all, I was bribed by Exxon with free New Orleans Saints glasses with fill ups in the 70's.

I watched this with stunned belief and thought to myself..."self...what is her motivation to do a 180?" 

The only plausable answer I came up with was the annointed One contacted some select media 'friends' and said 'hey your guys and gals comments are causing backlash and this backlash is effecting me.  Need I say more when I can't get Hillary to even show up and help a brother out! I have a new strategy for you, I need you to apologize for your comments made lately.  My internal poll numbers indicate I may lose the woman vote if we don't do something quick.  Thank you, The One.'

I fully believe that The One is behind all of this.  His words of "offlimits" sounds good for the cameras but he has connections to stop this. He could clearly pick up the phone to his media donors and say 'hey knock this stuff off!' your hurting me.  If you don't I will return your donation. However that hasn't happened as of yet and the slurs continue, basicaly unabated. 

Since he hasn't picked up the phone to at least one of his donors (US Weekly editor for one) and stop the smears, he rightfully needs to accept the backlash that is begining to be brought against him.  This smear campaign gives one great insight to his decision making capabilities.  For one he has no control over people around him and lacks proactive recognition of a problem.  He has allowed this smear campaign to continue to a point where the backlash is starting to effect him and will cause a major stain to remain even if the smears stop.  Thus to me he can't handle Iran, Russia or any other problem because he lacks proactive forward thinking and problem solving skills.

Thus I think Quinn's apology falls well short and is not genuine and sincere, rather I view it more as someone executing her marching orders and sounding like a imature child who says sarcasticly 'whoops my hand was in the mud pit and I have mud on my hands, sorry I flung so much mud and the mess it caused on your new carpet!' 

Quinn, you may be able to clean up the mud, but the stain will remain honey!

"I need to know as a citizen, is she going to put her country first or her family first?" 

First, the notion of 'family or country first' is such complete hogwash and a made-up term authored by the liberal media. When McCain talks about 'country first' he's not talking about country above family --- that's just the media deliberately taking the words out of context to suit their political agenda which is to make Republicans look stupid and hypocritical. McCain was talking about putting America and Americans first not going to a foreign country, speaking before a stadium of foreigners and trash-talking your own country like Obummer did. As usual, the media whether deliberately or by accident got the 'country first' message wrong and are trying to use it against Palin and yes Quinn is correct ----- it's backfiring. No elected POTUS that I know of ever put himself above family with the exception of Bill Clinton and even then, you had practically every liberal in the media defending  or apologizing for what he did. I didn't hear them pontificating about 'family or country first' when Clinton was in office.

"I need to know as a citizen, is she going to put her country first or her family first?"

With Sally Quinn and her crowd, if Hillary puts her “country first” [for the sake of her having [raw] power, and assuring abortions by the millions] that’s good, and as for her family, well we’ll throw that over to the village [the wenches for Bill, and the rest of the village to raise Chelsea].  But Sarah Palin had better watch out for her family, if she is thinking of putting her “country first.”

Of course this is repulsively hypocritical; but there is a certain [extremely perverse] logic here, whereby Sally Quinn and such like acknowledge the importance of one’s family if one is conservative, and the unimportance of one’s family if one is liberal.

Or another way of putting it:

Families of conservatives == very important
Families of liberals == very unimportant
The affairs of the nation == somewhere in the middle

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

This a comment I wrote after Quinn made her initial statement about Palin. To some extent, I feel it still applies:

A note to Sally Quinn.

You are confirming a statement that appears regularly on this NewsBusters web site: “There’s no sense in being stupid unless you can prove it.” And prove it you do - in spades.

Well, Sally, let me remind you of  some other women who would most probably fall into your category of not being fit to be commander-in-chief of their country.

How about Israel’s Golda Meir who waged and won a war against Egypt?

India’s Indira Gandhi who conducted and won a war against Pakistan?

And Britain’s Margaret Thatcher who led and won a war against the Falklands?

All were married and had children.

It is obvious that women’s history is not one of your strong points. I suggest, therefore, that you stay home, bake some cookies for Ben, and  take a remedial class in Fact Checking 101. In the meantime – just shut up!

a Administrator to run the village of Wasilla and she has the same @ the Govr's office plus a chief of staff...

Sally Quinn just found out what its like to touch the new third rail of American politics.  I liked it better when she had both hands on the rail and lightning bolts were shooting out of her head.  After this big shock, the media will be far more careful and far less blatant in their attacks on Palin.  This makes them much more dangerous.   Meanwhile, the Teflon Messiah goes doodling along, completely untouched by the media.  Except for all the slobber, that is.

Don't ever forget 9-11 because you can bet the terrorists won't.