It’s sometimes difficult to escape the impression that most journalists are … ah … I’m trying to avoid Rahm Emanuel’s favorite epithet … er … kinda slow. A case in point is Bonnie Erbe, who posted the following at U.S. News & World Report:
I ask you, dear readers, is this the end of Sarah Palin’s presidential quest … The so-called true believers (in God and in Sarah Palin) will find excuses to overlook her note-making, but mainstreamers and independents will be very hard to win over at this point.
Erbe thinks Palin had a ”rough week” because of the palm reading incident, Levi Johnston’s nude magazine cover and an ABC survey of 1,000 ”adults” bored enough to answer the phone and say they didn’t like Palin. Hmm … Let’s take stock of this bad week:
It started with a Tea Party speech that not only dominated the news for several days, but also allowed the networks that carried it live to double the viewership of their competitors. It ended with a GENUINE poll of actual voters released by Gallup, which showed the following:
The poll asked Republicans and Republican-leaning independents to name, without prompting, whom they would most like to see as the party’s 2012 presidential candidate … Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are most frequently mentioned, by 14% and 11%, respectively.
This, mind you, is a woman who holds no public office, whose public statements are made mostly via Facebook, yet who somehow thrives in the face of relentless attacks. In fact, she had such a “rough week” that the Dean of Wshington’s press corps wrote this paean:
Her lengthy Saturday night keynote address to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville and her debut on the Sunday morning talk show circuit with Fox News’ Chris Wallace showed off a public figure at the top of her game — a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself, even with notes on her palm.
But Erbe thinks she may not recover from Levi’s photo shoot? What an effing … No … I’ll be good. Erbe, like so many MSM journalists, is just not very bright. Even if she stopped sneering long enough to take an honest look at the Palin phenomenon, she would never get it.
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You’re obsessed with Palin. You’ll be stalking her next. More to the point of this blog, what about the questions I posed about what Obama’s healthcare reform will mean for ordinary insured and uninsured Americans, and your hospital’s charity care program.
Posted 12 Feb 2010 at 4:41 am ¶You’re obsessed with Palin.
Probably more accurate to say that I’m obsessed with the MSM’s obsession with her and the over-the-top vilification to which she has been subjected.
The Sarahphobia that characterizes the Palin coverage is really unprecedented. It goes far beyond the bounds of mere collective neurosis.
Posted 12 Feb 2010 at 5:18 am ¶She won’t get the nomination in 2012. The Republican conservatives are not happy with her because she is campaigning for Sen. McCain in March. She also endorsed Rand Paul of Kentucky (son of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas) and the Tea Party members are not happy about it. Both McCain and Paul are not conservative. Is Palin has become another Rino’s?
Posted 12 Feb 2010 at 7:00 am ¶She’s dumber than a bag of hammers. Let it go.
Posted 12 Feb 2010 at 4:00 pm ¶Just curious, Matt. How can a person “dumber than a bag of hammers” be elected mayor of her home town and later governor of Alaska?
Mrs Palin worked in the past as a TV reporter and now works for Fox News as a TV and radio pundit. How did she get those jobs if she’s so stupid? You might argue that her current job results from her being well known, but that wouldn’t apply to her earlier reporting jobs when she was totally unknown.
Just because Tina Fey became famous portraying Sarah Palin as an idiot doesn’t mean Mrs Palin is an idiot.
Posted 14 Feb 2010 at 4:27 pm ¶Post a Comment