Fact Check Fail: Think Progress Cherry-Picks Evidence for Anti-Palin
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
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
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…
Religion Blogger Shreds Newsweek's Take on 'Saint Sarah' Palin
"You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting." That's how the biblical prophet Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall that heralded the imminent demise of the Babylonian Empire. It could also sum up journalist Sarah Pulliam Bailey's take on Lisa Miller's "Saint Sarah" piece in Newsweek (emphases mine):Journalists have long been puzzled over Sarah Palin’s popularity. In November,…
Kathy Griffin: Puts Levi Johnston on TV as ‘Middle Finger’ to Pali
As left-wing comedian Kathy Griffin appeared on Friday’s Larry King Live on CNN, after the conversation turned to her "My Life on the D List" show’s trip to Wasilla, Alaska, featuring Levi Johnston, host King asked her about her "attraction" to Johnston, referring to talk of a relationship between the two which is rumored to just be a publicity stunt. The left-wing comedian asserted that "every…
Newsweek Takes Another Shot at Palin on Cover: 'Saint Sarah'; Palin Re
Not this again. There is obviously not enough going on in the world for Newsweek magazine this week because once again Sarah Palin is on the cover. Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee was also on the cover of Newsweek back in November 2009, in running shorts. This time she is featured as "Saint Sarah: What's Palin's appeal to conservative…
Liberal Website Starts Rumor Sarah Palin Has Gotten Breast Implants
UPDATE AT END OF POST: More outlets spread the rumor, Huffington Post runs a poll.The most recent symptom of Palin Derangement Syndrome has now been discovered in media members: speculating on whether or not the former Alaska governor has purchased breast implants.The rumor started Tuesday on the liberal website Wonkette in a posting entitled, "Did Sarah Palin Buy Herself a Couple of Luxury Items…
Time Features Facebook Group 'Plug The BP Oil Spill With Sarah Palin
Time magazine on Monday featured a new Facebook group wanting to plug the BP oil spill with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin."Disasters require out-of-the-box thinking, after all," began Time's Kayla Webley. She continued, "In a week's time, more than 100,000 people have given a virtual thumbs up to a Facebook group that suggests the Gulf oil leak ought to be plugged with none other than former…
After Ignoring Left's Attacks on Conservative Women, Newsweek Gets Ups
Sexism is a selective phenomenon for much of the media. It seems even satirical or light-hearted content, when produced by conservatives, has the amazing ability to acquire the label while even the most vitriolic and derogatory liberal writings can avoid it.RightWingNews, the popular conservative blog, surely knew it would garner some disdain from the left in publishing its 2010 edition of the "…
Limbaugh Wedding Vicodin, Reagan Only ‘Acted’ Like a President, Ma
I watch HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher so you don’t have to. The most-noteworthy vitriol from Friday night’s show that I tweeted last night -- seven quotes, in sequence, you can read in less than a minute: ♦ Bill Maher opening monologue joke about Rush Limbaugh’s wedding: “They say, instead of throwing rice, throw Vicodin.” ♦ Maher, interviewing Paul Begala, channeling Obama’s reaction to those…
Behar Blames Palin for Making Her Children Targets, ‘Passing That Ki
After having already used her appearance on Wednesday’s The View show on ABC to defend author Joe McGinniss’s claim that Sarah Palin was acting like a Nazi trying to intimidate him, Joy Behar again defended McGinniss on the same day’s Joy Behar Show on HLN, and suggested that Palin is responsible for making her children into targets for daring to let the public see her family – as most…
Behar Defends McGinniss's 'Nazi' Attack on Palin, Palinites Are 'Very
On Wednesday’s The View on ABC, co-host Joy Behar defended author Joe McGinniss’s decision to purchase a home right next door to Sarah Palin as he plans to write an unauthorized biography of her, and his recent comments on NBC's Today show comparing her criticism of him to the behavior of Nazi troopers of the Third Reich. Behar found no agreement from the other co-hosts, and faced stiff…
Chris Matthews: Palin Issued Anti-McGinniss 'Fatwa' on Her Facebook Pa
Calling your political opponents Nazis can get old after a while. That's why one needs to mix it up, perhaps by suggesting that they're akin to the radical Islamic clerics that inspire terrorism. Just ask MSNBC's Chris Matthews.During the "Political Sideshow" segment of his June 1 program, the "Hardball" host compared Sarah Palin's Facebook page posting about author Joe McGinniss renting the…
