Sarah Palin
MSNBC's Donny Deutsch Disparages Sarah Palin's 'Mama Grizzlies' Video
July 8th, 2010 4:43 PM
Donny Deutsch was a lonely man on Thursday's "Morning Joe." The only panelist to decry Sarah Palin's inspiring new video designed to galvanize conservative women for the midterm elections, the MSNBC contributor puzzled even his liberal colleagues."I actually think it's insulting to a lot of women," thundered Deutsch. "I'm going to tell you why. It's the same reason why every time they do '100…
Sarah Palin: 'You Don't Wanna Mess With Conservative Women
July 8th, 2010 11:57 AM
In a new video out today, Sarah Palin sent a warning message to big-government liberals: "You thought pitbulls were tough? Well, you don't wanna mess with the Mama Grizzlies!" The video, which celebrates conservative women's activism, was released this morning by Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC. "It seems like it's kind of a mom awakening in the last year and a half," says Palin…
ABC's Jeremy Hubbard Hints at Conspiracy: Did Palins 'Get to' Levi Joh
July 7th, 2010 3:09 PM
World News Now co-host Jeremy Hubbard on Wednesday didn't accept the explanation that Levi Johnston has simply decided to apologize for his bad mouthing of the Palin family. The ABC anchor hinted at darker reasons: "You know, I'm a cynic. Did the Palins get to him, do you think?" [Audio available here.] (H/T to Creative Minority) Discussing Johnston's public apology in People magazine, Hubbard…
Newsweek: Sexist Treatment of Republican Women is Sarah Palin's Fault
July 3rd, 2010 2:00 PM
Newsweek on Saturday did an astonishingly poor job of exploring why Republican women are suddenly being attacked for their beauty even suggesting it's all the former governor of Alaska's fault."There seems to be an insistent, increasingly excitable focus on the supposed hotness of Republican women in the public eye, like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Michelle Malkin, and Nikki Haley-not to…
Today Show Marks One Year Anniversary of Palin's Decision to 'Cash In
July 2nd, 2010 10:55 AM
To mark the one year anniversary of Sarah Palin stepping down from her duties as governor of Alaska, NBC's Norah O'Donnell, on Friday's Today show, recounted for viewers what the former vice presidential candidate is doing, namely "cashing in." Accompanied by a "cha-ching" sound effect O'Donnell ran down Palin's various TV and book deals. And while O'Donnell also noted Palin has been very…
The Trouble with Career Politicians
July 1st, 2010 4:23 PM
Politics was once an honored profession of high calling by men of strong principles and courage whose interest in being elected to these positions of public trust was to serve the country and make sure their generation left a better world to the next one.They were, for the most part, men of faith, men of integrity, commitment, practicality and common sense who viewed high political office as a…
Olbermann: Palin a 'Phony,' 'Idiot
June 29th, 2010 4:17 PM
Name-calling isn't just for 6-year-olds anymore. Keith Olbermann proved once again that Sarah Palin is the media's favorite conservative to hate, mock and condemn when he called Palin an "idiot" who endorses "stupidity instead of intelligence." Olbermann named "Sister Sarah" his "Worst Person in the World" on "Countdown" June 28 after Palin mistakenly said Ronald Reagan's alma mater was "…
Chris Matthews: 'Is Sarah Palin The Most Important Republican In The C
June 27th, 2010 4:22 PM
A truly extraordinary thing happened on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show": the host asked his panel if former Alaska governor Sarah is the most important Republican in the country right now.What made this even more surprising was how his guests -- CNN's Gloria Borger, Politico's John Harris, the BBC's Katty Kay, and former "CBS Evening News" host Dan Rather -- seemed to feel she was.Most…
No Palin Setback Too Small for Couric Who Skips How Palin 'Acted in Go
June 24th, 2010 8:17 PM
Demonstrating that no setback for Sarah Palin which can be portrayed as a rebuke is too insignificant or relevant for Katie Couric, she made time on Thursday's CBS Evening News to inform her viewers about a disputable technical violation of arcane law:One little word will cost Sarah Palin a small fortune. Today, state investigators in Alaska said a legal defense fund she set up while she was…
WaPo 'On Gardening' Feature Blasts Sarah Palin's Wooden Fence
June 24th, 2010 5:40 PM
It seems no section of the newspaper is free of bias and/or political cheap shots.Take today's Local Living section of the Washington Post, whose "on gardening" feature writer Adrian Higgins blasted "Sarah Palin's... wrong to the landscape"* in the form of the 14-foot-tall wooden fence she erected between her Wasilla, Alaska, property and an adjacent lot rented by author Joe McGinniss:Do bad…
Fact Check Fail: Think Progress Cherry-Picks Evidence for Anti-Palin
June 21st, 2010 6:14 PM
Usually when you see something on the Center for American Progress' Think Progress blog, you ignore it (or at best take it with a grain of salt) because you know its fundamental objective is to score some inane point against conservatives or the Republican Party. But a June 21 post by Tanya Somanader, categorized as "Radical Right-Wing Agenda" was too hard to let go. In her post, "Fact Checking…
Washington Post’s King: Divorced Conservatives (and Sarah Palin) Can
June 19th, 2010 9:55 AM
The Washington Post’s Colbert I. King is a regular TV commentator, a Pulitzer prize winner and the deputy editor of the paper’s influential editorial page. But the column he churned out for this morning’s paper is one of the laziest ad hominem attacks on conservatives I’ve ever seen.Dressed up as a Father’s Day column, King argues that Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh should not…
Kathy Griffin Cracks About Wasilla & Crystal Meth, Fights w/ Mom Who L
June 16th, 2010 5:31 AM
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s The View on ABC to promote her My Life on the D List show on Bravo! -- left-wing comedian Kathy Griffin took a shot at Sarah Palin by recalling her visit to Wasilla, Alaska – where Palin was once mayor – and by mocking the town by linking it to crystal meth: "I wanted to, you know, see what it's really like because when Sarah Palin was telling us that she should…