I admit it. My headline was a sarcastic slam on the Boston Herald. But, then again, for her latest Palin slamdance Margery Eagan deserves no less than all the opprobrium that can be visited upon her poor, hate-filled, blackened, grinch-like little heart.
In hers headlined "Unbearable Mama Grizzly clawing way to Oval Office," Eagan so revels in her hatred of Sarah Palin that one suspects that she was foaming at the mouth while writing the thing (or dictating it to her assistant, as the case may be). At the very least we end up with a spittle-specked pile of intemperance as spewed forth from her keyboard, for sure. One wonders if she ran out of her meds before she flipped on her computer?
Catch the childishness of this first paragraph:
Like a Nixonian Nanook of the North, Sarah Palin emerged from her igloo this week whining, griping, giving me an excuse to trash her again and you an excuse to call me unspeakable names in the comment section beneath this story online.
If this is her best, I'd suggest she give up "journalism" and take up writing rants for teenaged girl's MySpace pages for a living.
Eagan is ostensibly reporting on the YouTube video of the Palin interview by John Zieger. Of that interview Eagan says,
This time, sympathetic and conservative talk show host John Ziegler interviewed Nanook (I stole that from Ground Zero of Palin hatin’, MSNBC) for a documentary on the 2008 race. As of yesterday, the nine-minute clip on YouTube had nearly 750,000 hits, proving that mama “grizzly,” as she called herself, remains irresistible.
We just can’t get enough. She’s like Elvis come back from the dead!
I'd remind Eagan that Elvis really is dead. Just like her credibility.
Eagan claims that Palin's newest tactic is to "whine" that everyone is out to get her. Then Eagan goes on to prove that she is, indeed, out to get Palin. I can only say to Eagan that Palin isn't "whining" if it's true. Fortunately, no one with any credibility imagines that the press is innocently reporting the news where it concerns Sarah Palin. It is patently obvious that the Old Media is out to destroy her and she has a right to point it out.
Eagan mentions the Katie Couric interview, but it doesn't escape notice that Eagan pulled a favorite Old Media trick when referencing Couric. Notice above she called John Ziegler a "conservative"? Well here is how Eagan labels Couric:
Asked why she didn’t answer Katie Couric’s question...
So, John Ziegler is the "conservative" John Ziegler but good ol' Katie Couric is just Katie Couric? Why no label for the liberal Katie Couric?
Then Eagan indulged in the next favorite pass time of the nose-in-the-air, liberal elite: dissing small town America.
But can you blame her? Once you’ve been east of Juneau, it’s tough to go back to Wasilla.
Eagan obviously believes that it is a sort of hell on Earth to have to live in Wasilla or Juneau. I am sure that it is far worse to live in Wasilla, Alaska then crime ridden, blighted Boston, Massachusetts, eh?
Eagan really put her all into her hate piece. Unfortunately for her it all appears rather juvenile instead of witty. And people wonder why newspapers across the country are going belly up?
Now, originally I was thinking of naming my posting about the Herald piece "Insufferable Dizzy Mama Claws at Sarah's Orifice," but I was afraid that people would be too confused before they got an explanation of what I was going on about. But, anyway, you know what I mean now.
Still, what is most amazing to me is that it seems that I can write about an Old Media attack piece on Sarah Palin every single day, and every single day that same Old Media is whining that they really aren’t out to get Sarah Palin! It’s all rather like the old joke of the wife caught in bed with her husband’s best friend who tells her outraged hubby that she isn’t having an affair. When he points to the naked man next to her she says, “Are you going to believe ME for your lying eyes?”
That is what the Old Media is asking us. Are we going to believe them that they aren’t out to get Palin or our own lying eyes that plainly see that they are out to get her?
It’s getting so bad that I risk becoming an all Palin, all the time writer at this point!
Well, Old Media, as the band The Eagles once sang, you can’t hide your lyin’ eyes. But, I guess we can at least hand it to Eagan. She didn’t even try to hide anything like the rest of her ilk does.
Addendum
I found it amusing to here note another column that appeared the day before Eagan’s juvenile excuse for a column did. It was penned by Alaska columnist and radio host Dan Fagan… more properly called the “whining” Dan Fagan. I have to note that Eagan was pointing her vitriol-gnarled finger at Governor Palin and calling her a “whiner” because she had the gall to complain about the constant character assassination in which the Old Media is indulging. Eagan ridicules her for it as if it somehow diminishes her for the effort. Yet, here is her colleague of calumny doing exactly the same thing; whining that HE is being attacked by Palin’s fans.
Fagan is the one that broke the initial story that caused Palin son-in-law-to-be, Levi Johnston, to quit the ASRC program in which he was enrolled.
In this follow up story in the Alaska Daily News, Fagan is whining that he got some mean emails after his attack on the Palin family.
This Fagan incident is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of the Old Media. On one hand they attack Sarah Palin for daring to point out how they are ravenously attacking her and yet, on the other, they whine when someone turns an attack upon them.
Total hypocrisy.
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What do you expect?
January 11, 2009 - 05:26 ET by well99Journalism is dead.At least as far as the old media.These shills have to act like the parasites they are.Any wonder why newspapers are going the way of the edsel.People have found out how worthless they are so they dont buy their tripe.They will go after Sarah because it is all they can cling to.It isnt like they are real journalist.
Anyone else wonder why?
January 11, 2009 - 05:27 ET by DragonsbreathWith all the news going on these days, why do they keep making hate articles and out right lies in these newspapers. They are getting as bad or worst than some of the left wing blogs. I guess it is to much to expect them to write on the wars going on over seas and in the cities. All the corrupt politicians both left and right. We know they can not question the One without being called racist.
One can hope this will just hurry along their demise as a so called newspaper because it is a shame when the globe and enquirer have more accurate news than they do.
“We Americans were d@mn tired of being thought of as dumb, by the rest of the world. So we went to
the polls in November and removed all doubt.”
"An excuse to TRASH HER
January 11, 2009 - 07:05 ET by Edhenry"An excuse to TRASH HER AGAIN" says is all. Personal vitriol, bolstered by co-dependent, weak, communist, baby killing editors.
"The best government can do is provide a lousy standard of living" Edhenry
Sarah and the Globe
January 11, 2009 - 07:24 ET by canuckThis woman continues to attack Sarah and will do so until the Globe closes. She obviously has a rather narrow spectrum from which she can view her own miserable existence. Likely a liberal arts graduate with few prospects for a real job. She is undoubtedly too ugly to be a high end hooker or even an occupant of a street corner, so what is left?
Good guess....the Globe and media whoredom. She can crank out these hate pieces and continue to receive a warm reception from her brain dead colleagues.
The People's Cube has just posted a great cartoon on liberal thinking and how it is formulated...check it out.
Who? The Brainless Baffoon
January 11, 2009 - 10:51 ET by kgWho? The Brainless Baffoon from Boston, Margery?
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
The Boston Globe is losing
January 11, 2009 - 10:58 ET by celatorThe Boston Globe is losing money and readership at a record pace. Just a matter of time before they fall into the Charles River and sink to the bottom. Never to be seen again. Must be President Bush's fault.
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
Eagan actually writes for
January 12, 2009 - 11:09 ET by hawverEagan actually writes for the Herald, not the Globe. The Herald tends to shade more conservative, so it's sad to see a second rate columnist like Eagan slinging muck at Palin like this.
Warner, your link goes to
January 11, 2009 - 09:05 ET by motherbeltWarner, your link goes to an empty page.
Fagan is the one that broke the initial story that caused Palin
son-in-law-to-be, Levi Johnston, to quit the ASRC program in which he
was enrolled.
I guess I missed that; what happened?
Your analysis of the hypocrisy is spot-on. And they don't even see it.
Eagan sounds like she's channeling MoDo.
Sorry...
January 11, 2009 - 09:09 ET by Warner Todd HustonSorry about that. The second link is fixed now. You can go check it out. Essentially, this Fagan guy got Levi thrown out of a job program because Levi didn't fully meet the requirements.
sorry Warner
January 11, 2009 - 09:36 ET by cocodrieLove is never having to say you're sorry.
They are worried
January 11, 2009 - 09:19 ET by Worriedbecause they know Hussein will fail before he is even out of the box. Going by the various comments I see around the web, there are many people regretting voting for the incoming Marxist. That is why Sarah is such a threat. The Old Media (I like that rather than MSM) have hyped up BHO so much there really isn't much more to hype about. All they have to do is trash Sarah. Hagan even makes note of how many hits the interview has received. Sounds like desperation to me.
Yeah...
January 11, 2009 - 09:23 ET by Warner Todd HustonThanks for liking the "Old Media" moniker better than MSM. I have been trying my best to get rid of the MSM name and replace it with Old Media.The main reason I want to do that is that it implies that WE aren't "mainstream." In truth, we Internet writers sure as heck ARE just as mainstream as the Old Media at this point.
I will start using Old Media
January 11, 2009 - 09:39 ET by cocodrieI will start using Old Media instead, it sounds more accurate.
Thanks
January 11, 2009 - 09:41 ET by Warner Todd HustonI feel it is more accurate, too.
I like it better too. How
January 11, 2009 - 10:54 ET by celatorI like it better too. How about Old, Decrepite, Lying, Misleading, Bigoted Media?
Naw. Too many words. Old Media is better.
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
New acronym
January 11, 2009 - 12:24 ET by doug1950Old Tired Assed Media Elites= OTAME
→ OTAY
January 11, 2009 - 12:29 ET by Cool ArrowOld tired assed Yellow journalists
Here a kook, there a kook
January 11, 2009 - 09:46 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsI was always fond of the term 'Kook Stream Media'. Possibly because I coined it.
LOL
D
Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.
I am completely baffled again Mr. Huston.
January 11, 2009 - 09:31 ET by JWFShe lost. Why not let it go. This level of vicious hatred is completely mystifying.
The only other kind of open hatred I can see that is comparable is from Islamists. They do not hate us because of what we have done or am doing or where we have been. They hate us because we do not submit. They hate us because we are not muslims. They hate us because we breathe.
This is fire breathing open hostility that is only a step away from actual action. WHY? I don't get it. Bias, ok, you want to skew things your way. Open hatred? I find it absolutely confounding.
Sincerely,
a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.
I'll tell you what...
January 11, 2009 - 09:42 ET by Warner Todd HustonI'll tell you what they sure rally people to her side with their constant barrage against her.
She Didn't Lose
January 11, 2009 - 18:39 ET by Nortoshe was dragged under by the top of a doomed to fail ticket! Give us a Palin or DeMint at the top and watch out.
McCain will never reinvent himself for me as much as he might try.
Palin bashing
January 11, 2009 - 09:43 ET by bknownstThe reason all the liberals like ms. Eagan will continue to bash Gov. Palin is she makes all of the commies the left have to oppose her in the next presidential election look like the crimminal losers they are.
To quote Mark Twain: "If you haven't read a newspaper you are uninformed but if you have read a newspaper you are misinformed"
This line needs correction:
January 11, 2009 - 11:09 ET by kgThis line needs correction: "Next up, Tina Fey, who “exploited” Palin’s family"
"Next up, Tina Fey, LIKE US, who “exploited” Palin’s family..."
Now it is accurate.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
→ Buyers remorse
January 11, 2009 - 09:56 ET by Cool ArrowIf they concentrate really hard on attacking a VP candidate who lost, perhaps that helps convince themselves they really didn't do so bad with their choice.
They're setting themselves up for all their excuses later on.
And...
January 11, 2009 - 10:01 ET by Warner Todd HustonAnd, as if on cure, Here is Obama saying he'll have to scale back his campaign promises because of the bad economy. Will the far left just lay down and take this reversal without a whimper?
→ Popcorn ready?
January 11, 2009 - 10:17 ET by Cool ArrowIf they start bashing my President for doing his job, I'll be the first to point out their racial prejudice.
It is "our job" to protect this President from the historically racist lefties.
Right now they're looking at each other in amazement with the same question on their lips. "Why didn't somebody mention he's black"
Sure...why not
January 11, 2009 - 11:27 ET by StarAZI read today (in a paper paper) that he went to Ben's Chili Bowl on the U Street corridor (still not totally rebuilt from the 1968 riots) and asked, "Where the food at?" to everyone's delight. Can we expect more hilarious ebonics? Is he laughing at or with? I guess the African-American community has to decide.
Shades of John (Can Ah git
January 11, 2009 - 17:24 ET by motherbeltShades of John (Can Ah git me a huttin license?) Kerry.
But no one will diss The Obama.
Because Kerry was a phony, you know, and Obama really IS "one of the homeys" as much as he is an elitist snob.
All things to all people.
CA
January 11, 2009 - 10:11 ET by pocomocoAs regards the Old Media, there will be no “later
on” for them.
The nice thing is that...
January 11, 2009 - 11:00 ET by wnaegele...Palin will be here in '12, and a lot of the old media won't.
LOL--the above is true
January 11, 2009 - 11:23 ET by StarAZI always think that when some idiot offers me $3 to write an article--I will still be standing and you won't.
Nice to think about
January 11, 2009 - 11:40 ET by general companyBut the Dems will just add them to the Gov in an expansion of PBS
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
The other day I heard an
January 11, 2009 - 11:46 ET by RR GOPThe other day I heard an ABC news bite on a radio station concerning the Palin-Ziegler interview. She referred to "Katie Couric" and "Charles Gibson" but she read "conservative John Ziegler".
I keep trying to imagine the types who even buy and read these papers. The multitude of Libs (you know, those who want to think of themselves as open-minded, non-racist, thinking 'outside the box' types) I can understand, but do they alone float these rags?
I can only imagine that many are the elderly who are always looking for the government to give them more, and 50-60 something 'independents' who think along the same lines and don't want to be bothered with computers, the internet and looking up stuff for themselves because all that stuff is 'for kids'.
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
I have read a few--
January 11, 2009 - 12:54 ET by misterbillI have read a few--explanations about -"why PDS". I still do not understand them. The pursuit of the events in the governor's family and associates seems to be a vengeful effort against her success in being selected to run as Veep and her top-notch acceptance by millions of people.
Here is my own evaluation. Sarah Palin is resented by a number of women because she was so readily accepted by so many voters. Women--not men--say a pretty face is all she brought to the table. Sheeesh, talk about jealous, teen age reactions. One of my favorite conservative journalists went into "rip her to pieces" mode. She explained "why" in her column, but it was unconvincing, especially when one checked the resume' of the other party's candidate.
The female vote that went to Obama if I remember correctly was 56%. I do not have sufficient data to say whether that was because of Obama's incredibly sexy, (God spare me), looks or jealousy for Palin.
P.S. Warner--I like "Old Media" much better than MSM.
If the trend continues, only local newspapers will survive. That is because we all like to read about our high school sports and local voting issues. The "Old Media" will have an even nicer ring to it when it is gone! The media seems to be staffed with Opinion columnists, rather than journalists.
I come to the web to find the truth.. Thanks to you and your peers and, among others, good old Newsbusters.
yep
January 12, 2009 - 01:50 ET by baseballmavenBaseballmaven
You hit the nail on the head--it IS all opinion now--or what might be called "feature" writing. Since the news in newspapers isn't "new"--being almost a day old once it's distributed--they have tried to save the newspaper business by doing 'in depth feature reporting'-only, it's not reporting, it is, as you say, opinion, and needs to be identified as such.
FEAR FEAR FEAR
January 11, 2009 - 14:17 ET by rammingspeedWhen libs go this hate filled ballistic it's because they fear the person they're trashing. Fear as in Sarah Palin is enormously popular (second most admired woman in US, behind Hillary Clinton), a sure fire fund raiser for the GOP, and a supremely likable person. You can't be likable and not be a liberal - it is against the law, as we all know.
As the gottcha interviews done by the leftist MSM fade and Sarah Palin stays on the front page, gathering more and more support, we can read more of the stupid-yet-highly amusing musings of people like Margery Eagen.
Boston Globe?
January 11, 2009 - 14:40 ET by GoodieNever heard of Eagan, the Boston Globe is for sale, the dirty rag has been bleeding red ink for years. Interesting enough, however the Globe could certainly write about the 3 stooges from Mass. Kerry, Kennedy and Frank. (Lurch, Swimmer and The Banking Queen.
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All the MSM does is repeat itself.
January 12, 2009 - 01:29 ET by jarrett.edwardsI am so tired of reading the MSM, there seems to be only two type of stories, Obama is the best thing to ever happen, and Palin is stupid. And, they wonder why their readers are running to the web!
It's amazing
January 12, 2009 - 01:46 ET by baseballmavenBaseballmaven
I have come to the conclusion that these leftist men and women "of the people" are just inveterate snobs--these coastal snobs cannot believe that anyone who lives outside of the left coast, NY, or Boston has a brain--oh, they will make an exception for Chicago--it gets honorary coastal status, but they have NO use for the rest of the country, especially any place that is considered "rural."
The part that I find so upsetting is that the public actually continues to watch/read the crud that vomits from the mouths of these idiots.
Good job pointing out that "This Fagan incident is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of the Old
Media. On one hand they attack Sarah Palin for daring to point out how
they are ravenously attacking her and yet, on the other, they whine
when someone turns an attack upon them." Not so dissimilar from the tactics used by Hamas these days--do something then accuse the other side of doing it.