"Palin attacks media over 'very scary' reporting". What a headline. This from MSNBC following the release of an excerpt of a documentary featuring Sarah Palin.As they attempt to use journalistic word manipulation to make Palin sound foolish once again, they all but confirm her accusations. What Palin calls "very scary" is the fact that the reports from anonymous bloggers were taken as fact. As MSNBC did throughout 2008, they continue to spin Palin's words in a direction that suits their standpoint. MSNBC makes Fox News actually look "fair and balanced".
Perhaps she wasn't ready for the job. But, she was never given the proper platform or line of questioning that would allow voters to understand her views as well as her leadership abilities. When an individual is immediately put on the defense, it is near impossible for them to appear steady and confident.
Barack Obama fielded issue-based questions. Palin would've been required to study the encyclopedia, A to Z, to properly answer the questions directed at her during the campaign. Even more notable, Palin was a vice presidential candidate. She was asked the most difficult questions of Obama, John McCain and certainly, Joe Biden.
Palin was absolutely not prepared to take on the role as vice presidential candidate. Arguably, no one could've been prepared to cope with the shoddy reporting and backlash she experienced throughout 2008. Her abilities continued to be in question as the media persecuted her to the detriment of her candidacy.
The hope that Palin would return to Alaska and keep a low profile for a few years is obviously not a reality. She will unlikely be able to turn her image around with continued coverage from the very unfair and unbalanced mainstream media.
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Poor me.
If Palin had done what you said in a previous blog and gone quietly home things would have been fine. But no - she has to dredge things up again. And cry about unfair treatment.
She had her chance with interviews. In fact, she turned down staff assistance to help her prepare for her interviews. She never answered a question with anything of substance other than to say the same things over and over again. I'm sure Obama could have told interviewers which newspapers he reads because he actually reads newspapers.
Obama and every other candidate had to deal with bloggers and the internet e-mail rumor mill. His best buddy is a terrorist, he is a racist and works with Jeremiah Wright, he isn't really a citizen, some nefarious group paid for his college. The list goes on. Palin wasn't unique but she had trouble dealing with it and still does. Not my idea of a presidential-type person. She disgusts me and should disgust all women.
sorry - there is no msnbc article...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28573074/
Above is the link to the article I read. It says that it has "expired" now, but the proof is there and the article existed.
Maybe they realized it was bad journalism and nabbed it before some pesky blogger ripped on it :-(
Opinions are one thing, but if I state something as fact, believe me-I've looked into it. It may look like I write haphazardly, but these little entries actually take me a while because I do my best to make certain I'm on the up and up.
I just love this:
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PALIN: And, Charlie, you’re in Alaska. We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia. They are our next door neighbors.We need to have a good relationship with them. They’re very, very important to us and they are our next door neighbor.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks (re: invasion of Georgia), does the proximity of the state give you?
PALIN: They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing in Georgia?
PALIN: Well, I’m giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relation with all of these countries, especially Russia.
Or this:
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"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards.
Sorry to add all these comments but you started up on Palin again!
That I did. Fair is fair. Take your best shot!
She was not ready for the onslaught of media criticism. You'll get no argument from me that she didn't handle it well. But, you've got to admit-they crucified her every chance they got.
If she can't take what the media dishes out she certainly can't take being president. And then she cries and asks for more! I just don't get her.
By the way, I wasn't questioning the msnbc article, I just wanted to read the darn thing.
KFI's John Ziegler is not a journalist—he is an entertainer. Or maybe it's better to say that he is part of a peculiar, modern, and very popular type of news industry, one that manages to enjoy the authority and influence of journalism without the stodgy constraints of fairness, objectivity, and responsibility that make trying to tell the truth such a drag for everyone involved. It is a frightening industry, though not for any of the simple reasons most critics give.
I thought that was strange that someone would think I made up an article. I honestly don't know why they expired the article. It may have had something libelous in it. It's rare for a news source to do that.
Yes, I wish she would lay low for a while here. I do believe the media went out of their way to make her look silly, but she was not yet prepared for the heat. Once they noticed her achilles’ heel, they exploited it to no end.
I disagree. He's a journalist and so am I. I have a portfolio, but this blog is not "fit" for it.
This too is a form of entertainment. Journalist can be both depending on the outlet.
howobamagotelected.com is not hard-hitting journalism, but he's done some work in the past that has earned him respect in the field.
http://www.johnziegler.com/biography.asp
What qualifies someone as a journalist? Education, writing background, experience? What?
Interesting question, without an answer. In my training as a journalist, we've been asked this question by instructors. There is no true answer. Anyone who writes for an audience can qualify as a journalist. Anyone who writes with facts, integrity and training is a good journalist.
Just my opinion.
It seems like nearly two weeks have gone by with nothing on the airwaves or in print about our Alaskan princess. What a relief. I think I'll start a ticker tally that adds up each consecutive day we don't hear from or about her.
Amen. I hope she does keep out of the spotlight.
I don't dislike her, but she definitely needs to lie low for a bit.
We can agree on something!
Here's a quote from Michael Goldfarb, the McCain campaign's deputy communications director:
"The reporters who produced those quotes weren’t making them up. It was a disgrace to the campaign and John McCain, and I think the people who did that are going to pay a real steep price in the long run, because the media ate it up, the media loved it. Once you’ve lost the campaign, who holds responsibility for [publicly airing their grievances with Palin] and who escapes with their credibility intact won’t be decided by The New York Times. Conservatives are not pleased by this."
Another interesting quote behind the one above from Goldfarb, which he apparently supported:
"In an interview with CNN today, one McCain adviser anonymously called Palin “a diva” and said “she is playing for her own future” political prospects.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” the advisor told CNN. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”"
Here's a quote from Michael Goldfarb, the McCain campaign's deputy communications director:
"The reporters who produced those quotes weren’t making them up. It was a disgrace to the campaign and John McCain, and I think the people who did that are going to pay a real steep price in the long run, because the media ate it up, the media loved it. Once you’ve lost the campaign, who holds responsibility for [publicly airing their grievances with Palin] and who escapes with their credibility intact won’t be decided by The New York Times. Conservatives are not pleased by this."
Another interesting quote behind the one above from Goldfarb, which he apparently supported:
"In an interview with CNN today, one McCain adviser anonymously called Palin “a diva” and said “she is playing for her own future” political prospects.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” the advisor told CNN. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”"
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: When House Republicans planned their annual winter retreat, they extended an invitation to Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, hoping the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee would give a morale-building speech to the more than 130 Republican members of Congress gathered this weekend in Hot Springs, Va.
Retreat organizers tell ABC News that Palin politely declined, giving a perfectly understandable reason. According to the Congressional Institute, which hosted the conference, Palin said she simply could not make it to the retreat because pressing state business made it impossible for her to leave Alaska this weekend.
So where is Palin this weekend? She's in Washington, D.C., attending the super-elite Alfalfa Dinner.
"She lied to us," said a Republican at the retreat.
Asked why Palin told the Republicans she could not leave Alaska this weekend, Palin spokesman Bill McAllister offered this non-responsive answer:
"My understanding is that the governor has not scheduled any partisan events on her current trip to D.C.," McAllister told ABC News.
The House Republicans seemed to do just fine without Palin. Their list of speakers included Republican stars Michael Steele, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Newt Gingrich.
Asked about Palin's no-show, House Republican leader John Boehner shrugged.
"Whatever," Boehner said.
She really is a dumbass, pissing off her party like that!
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