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Why Are the Networks Covering Palin's Exit Speech?

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:15:41 PM EST
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I'm really surprised to hear my local news say they will bring us Sarah Palin's exit speech live. Why? Who cares? What does it have to do with Colorado?

She's leaving office with no announced plans to continue in politics. Why does this deserve live coverage?

Bye-bye Sarah. I won't be watching your speech.

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    Completely agree (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:23:08 PM EST
    No excuse for covering this at all.

    Especially if she is not going to use the old Nixon line -- "You won't Palin to kick around any more."

    Ugh (5.00 / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:24:11 PM EST
    Let me try that line again -

    "You won't have Palin to kick around any more."

    Did your local news run the Rickey Henderson speech? That was the big speech of the day.

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    My local public radio ran a snippet (none / 0) (#5)
    by oculus on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:25:29 PM EST
    of Rickey's induction speech.  The part where he sd. he wanted to be remembered for always playing hard.

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    please stay on topic (none / 0) (#13)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:35:49 PM EST
    and wait for an open thread. This one is not about sports. Thank you.

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    IF I have to listen to a speech, I'd rather (5.00 / 0) (#33)
    by scribe on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:06:16 PM EST
    it be Rickey's - he'll be a lot more coherent than Palin could ever hope to be.

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    that was my fault (none / 0) (#24)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:13:29 PM EST
    Sorry.

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    Alaska is the gatekeeper (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:34:02 PM EST
    of the continent. Did you know you can see Russia?

    She's going to do more for Alaska by quitting. She got that right. Wish the rest of us would be so lucky.

    Sarah Palin: a quitter who left to pursue personal fame and fortune.

    She would have had more of both if she'd (none / 0) (#12)
    by tigercourse on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:35:37 PM EST
    held on for another year.

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    MSM loves to cover train wrecks (none / 0) (#55)
    by Idearc on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 08:29:08 AM EST
    they will interrupt what ever they're covering of a high speed chase.

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    Palin Is Famous (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:43:53 PM EST
    And whether you like it or not, famous people at milestone events are newsworthy.

    That being said, I am certain that Palin's PR staff is working this event to the hilt.

    More fame = more $$$$ = more power, no matter how idiotic and regressive your values are.

    If you think... (none / 0) (#25)
    by KoolJeffrey on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:35:35 PM EST
    ...her PR staff is working this event to the hilt, at least one of them should have written a coherent speech for her. Can you imagine listening to this nitwit on a nightly basis on some cable show? That's about as far as she will get, unfortunately for her.

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    Yeah, Well (none / 0) (#26)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:44:12 PM EST
    I bet you thought Bush sounded like a moron as well. You are obviously not her target audience.

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    Bush had... (5.00 / 0) (#54)
    by KoolJeffrey on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 08:02:20 AM EST
    ...a very good crop of speech writers. He was light years ahead of this crackpot. So there.

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    Okay (5.00 / 0) (#27)
    by KoolJeffrey on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:45:31 PM EST
    I will admit it. I am fascinated by this yokel. She is a deranged, gun-totin' beauty queen run amok in the political goop that is our current "news" environment.

    The fact that she has the gall to pounce on the media, when she would be a nobody without it, is hilarious. I'm sorry. I can't get enough of her.

    My deepest fantasy is that somehow, someway she becomes the GOP nominee for president in 2012. It would be a Goldwateresque catastrophe for downticket Republicans trying to claw their way back to relevence.

    Watching her performance today reminds me that I need to pick up the latest edition of the Weekly World News. I didn't hear her trashing that fine publication, so it must be legit.

    Ah, Sarah Palin... (5.00 / 3) (#37)
    by Anne on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:32:24 PM EST
    I suspect the speech is being covered live because is just gives all those talking heads an actual reason to talk about her, to dissect what she says and how well or how poorly she says it, to delve into their vast archives to fact-check and most of all, to pick, pick, pick at her manner, her grammar and her fashion sense (does one wear peep-toe shoes to a resignation speech?), and to slide in a comment or two about her family.

    When I look around at what the GOP is trying to pass off as luminaries, all I see are increasingly dim bulbs and men who seem to have raised stepping on their d**ks to an art form.

    I'd feel better about that if it weren't for the fact that I don't see the Dems as showing themselves to be particularly shining lights of a new progressive age.

    It's all pretty depressing, so at this stage, the whole Sarah Palin thing just inspires me to say, "Yeah, yeah...whatever."

    "I'll be back." from Terminator (5.00 / 2) (#39)
    by Gerald USN Ret on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:52:26 PM EST
    Everyone knows she will be back.

    That is why this progressive blog TL is covering her appearance, while at the same time complaining mightily about it.

    She is a actually a real "Star,"  good looking, feisty, personable, interesting, and quite a change from most of the politicians you have seen on the screen.

    As for her politics, well really, is anyone in Washington doing better than the nothing she is doing.  Our President, who mainly stated that he was a friend of Prof Gates this past week, or the Congress to whom our President has given the lead for Health Care.

    The Congress wants to spend more time looking down into the water that has already passed under the bridge.  At least the President hasn't joined them on that.

    I won't bother to look up this expression, but it serves my thought well:

    "Time's a wasting!"

    Hmmm (none / 0) (#40)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 10:07:46 PM EST
    Looks like she has your vote Gerald, no?

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    Not necessarily squeaky. (5.00 / 1) (#45)
    by Gerald USN Ret on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 11:03:41 PM EST
    All I was doing was stating that she is a "Star."  

    Now think on this.  She must have had a policy up in Alaska that got her elected a Mayor and then the Governor.  She was then abruptly thrust into the VP slot with little preparation, and the rest of the country smiled and laughed at her a lot, though her base loved her.

    But in 2012 and most certainly by 2016 she will most likely still have "Star" quality and that base, and to the rest of the country she will seem to have become a whole lot smarter and much better politician.

    Then I think that she won't be laughed at so much by anybody.

    Watch over your shoulder squeaky, she will be back.


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    No Doubt (5.00 / 0) (#50)
    by squeaky on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02:40:56 AM EST
    I am with you on this. I do believe Palin is a contender, as much as I am opposed to her political views, she definitely has star characteristics. IMO, she is not to be underestimated.

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    Slow news day (5.00 / 1) (#44)
    by Cream City on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 10:31:09 PM EST
    that's all.  So what?  There's so much silliness on teevee that this hardly is worth singling out as not worthy of coverage.  That describes most of what is spewed by so-called news shows and channels.

    If a blond girl had gone missing, it would have pre-empted Palin.  And probably anything by or about Obama, too.  But better they put on Palin than that they go on and on about Gates-gate.

    too funny (none / 0) (#46)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 11:52:56 PM EST
    "if a blond girl had gone missing", wish I thought of that. I didn't so I'll add to it: If they had found Natalee Holloway's body or gotten another confession from a nut who said they killed Jonbenet.

    And yes to other commenters above, I was questioning the decision of my local news station (not cable news)to cut away during the 5pm news to cover her speech live. The anchor sounded like she thought she was covering something really newsworthy, it was pathetic. Of course, the local news today was all about varied murders, nothing important (/sarcasm).

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    because people like her (5.00 / 1) (#52)
    by Nagita on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 06:18:01 AM EST
    According to CNN '40% of the public think she is a strong leader'.

    Even if you think she is fairly inconsequential there are a lot of people who truly would like to see her as vice-president. And 40% is a lot of market share.

    Why are they covering it? (5.00 / 1) (#60)
    by jbindc on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:20:40 AM EST
    Because if they didn't, then they would have to do, you know, real news, and actually act like journalists.  This way, they can say they're covering a national story, without actually holding the people in charge accountable for anything, because, as we all know, there isn't really anything else going on politically or of national importance right now.

    They carried it because (2.00 / 0) (#29)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:50:23 PM EST
    they expect her to run for Prez in 2012.

    and...

    A large number of people on a national basis are interested in her and support her, just as a large number of Democrats, especially the Left side of the party, continually attack her.

    Help me here (5.00 / 0) (#48)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 12:30:29 AM EST
    This is a woman who has quit the last two jobs she had, who barely speaks her native language, and is an intellectual desert.  As we have seen, she crumbles under pressure and resorts to stringing words together in meaningless sequences when asked even the most basic of questions.

    She was unable to name a magazine or newspaper that she read.  How #$%&ing hard is THAT?

    Please explain the attraction among those like yourself who find something there to admire.

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    heh (none / 0) (#59)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:12:51 AM EST
    Hmmmm... if quitting a job to be Pres is a show stopper Clinton would still be Governor of AR.

    As for your other claims, you probably think she said she could see Russia from her front porch, claimed her daughter's child as her own, banned library books and slandered blacks by talking about little black Sambo.

    You obviously think someone who thinks FDR when on TV to speak to the country is a better VP.

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    Weak Tea, PPJ (5.00 / 0) (#65)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:59:05 AM EST
    Aren't most candidates for the presidency already serving in some sort of elected capacity?  The only exceptions I can think of were the two-term governor of California (and the first person I got to vote against) Ronald Reagan, sitting VP Bush 41, and the loser Bob Dole.  At least Reagan finished the job.

    Wasn't GWB governor of Texas when he ran?  McCain a sitting senator?

    But the ironic line of her "speech" was that the press should respect the military by writing nicer things about HER.  Lemme see, do the military get to quit and go home when people attack them with stuff slightly more dangerous than newsprint and electrons?

    Good thing she never enlisted, isn't it?

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    As much as I hate to jump in (5.00 / 1) (#67)
    by jbindc on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 10:05:54 AM EST
    Obama and HRC were sitting senators - in fact Obama had only been on the job 2 years, and then took the next two years off to run a campaign, remember, and along with McCain, missed the most votes of any Senator.

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    Seems to have worked perfectly (3.00 / 2) (#72)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 04:54:46 PM EST
    Obama and HRC were sitting senators - in fact Obama had only been on the job 2 years, and then took the next two years off to run a campaign, remember, and along with McCain, missed the most votes of any Senator.

    And now he is able to do even more than a senator can do because he's the president, elected by a large margin in both popular and electoral votes, and qualified because he is a natural born citizen over 35 years of age.

    I see you're having a hard time dealing with that.

    Good.  Please post more WAAAHHHH!

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    well, the apology du jour does (none / 0) (#76)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 05:38:48 PM EST
    get boring....

    I see you're having a hard time dealing with that.

    Think he will be remembered as Carter or Hoover or both???

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    I haven't the slightest idea what you are (none / 0) (#74)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 05:33:52 PM EST
    writing about. And since you didn't provide a link I doubt you do.

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    Bubba promised to serve his complete term (none / 0) (#73)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 05:31:19 PM EST
    was elected Prez and Little Rock  was in his rear view mirror.

    I think Bush did the same...

    So not knowing historical facts is better than using poor grammar??

    But you can defend Biden all you want. It will keep you busy.

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    Not knowing that TV wasn't what FDR used (none / 0) (#82)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 08:46:45 PM EST
    is more than a gaffe... The word is dumb.

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    Did you understand the comment? (2.00 / 0) (#85)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 10:18:43 PM EST
    If so, why not worry over the meaning of the comment rather pick fly sh** out of the pepper????

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    Aww PPJ (none / 0) (#34)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:07:11 PM EST
    True Love...  how touching..

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    scared of her, eh?? (2.00 / 0) (#42)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 10:26:49 PM EST


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    Bring 'er On (5.00 / 0) (#51)
    by squeaky on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02:43:00 AM EST
    lol

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    success is getting what you want (none / 0) (#57)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:06:58 AM EST
    happiness is wanting what you will get!

    LOL

    Have a nice day!

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    Rightly or wrongly she's a big media (none / 0) (#1)
    by tigercourse on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:19:42 PM EST
    figure who did something pretty odd. Particularly on a Sunday, that's news.

    I am shocked and disappointed there (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by oculus on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:23:29 PM EST
    will be no live blog here.  (snk)

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    My favorite subject! (none / 0) (#9)
    by Jacob Freeze on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:32:04 PM EST
    I'm really surprised to hear my local news say they will bring us Sarah Palin's exit speech live. Why?

    Why?

    For the same reason that the whole progressive agenda is in the toilet, and that would be domination of public consciousness by right-wing corporate media.

    Until that thing is destroyed, nothing we write on the blogs will really matter.

    But it could get even worse in a hurry, with the internet reduced to just another version of cable TV, and...

    How many readers at TalkLeft have ever heard of Mignon Clyburn, or wondered why Obama wants to make her one of the most powerful women in the United States?

    this isn't an open thread (none / 0) (#11)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:34:58 PM EST
    please don't change the subject. We'll have an open thread later and you can discuss that there.

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    Maybe the networks are covering the (none / 0) (#14)
    by oculus on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:39:11 PM EST
    exit speech to (1) get more clips of my favorite Palin, i.e., Piper and/or (2) to give Levi something else to talk about on national TV.  

    So anyway (none / 0) (#16)
    by Fabian on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:49:16 PM EST
    what exactly am I missing by not watching television again?

    Oh, that's right - the commercials.  I really must remember to get that converter box and digital antenna one of these days.

    Jeralyn, why did ... (none / 0) (#17)
    by Robot Porter on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:49:18 PM EST
    you blog about it?

    i blogged about it for the reason (none / 0) (#19)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:58:43 PM EST
    I stated, that I was surprised my local news was cutting away from programming to cover it. I don't get it.

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    It was local, not national? (none / 0) (#20)
    by nycstray on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 07:05:15 PM EST
    I've been on cable (pbs) and then flipped over to 60minutes for the lion story. I'd be a bit curious if my news/programming got interrupted for her "goodbye", I can see it for her unexpected announcement she's quitting, but not for her last day. Just regular news is all it should get, imo.

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    The networks know (none / 0) (#18)
    by The Last Whimzy on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 06:54:39 PM EST
    People can't help but rubberneck a crash site.

    Free Speech? (none / 0) (#21)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 07:22:01 PM EST
    Free speech was a theme of her farewell speech at a crowded picnic in Fairbanks, as the outgoing governor scolded "some seemingly hell bent on tearing down our nation" and warned Americans to "be wary of accepting government largess. It doesn't come free."

    [snip]

    And she told television cameras: "How about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin' things up?"

    link

    How about (5.00 / 0) (#66)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 10:04:09 AM EST
    ...in honor of the military who endure attacks from people a lot more dangerous than the press and who aren't allowed to quit and go after money-making opportunities, you finish your enlistment?

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    Please don't sully our opinions w/facts. (none / 0) (#22)
    by oculus on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 07:26:05 PM EST
    That being sd., that last line is a pretty good riff on Nixon's first exit speech.

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    Well, with the throwing in (5.00 / 0) (#23)
    by brodie on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 07:45:14 PM EST
    the towel and taking a sore-loser cheap shot at the media on the way out the door, I do wonder whether she has ex-Nixon aide Roger Ailes consulting her.

    Hey, it didn't work out too badly for poor victimized Dick either.  He got some sympathy from one somewhat over-the-top network documentary -- ABC's "The Political Obituary of Richard Nixon" -- and that was apparently all the encouragement he needed to, fairly quickly actually, get back in the arena.

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    More (none / 0) (#32)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:06:05 PM EST
    She also warned against "anti-hunting, anti-Second Amendment circuses from Hollywood" that use "delicate, tiny celebrity starlets" to push their cause.

    "Hollywood needs to know -- we eat, therefore, we hunt," Palin told a cheering crowd.

    cnn

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    While I have probs with the (none / 0) (#41)
    by nycstray on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 10:13:53 PM EST
    "delicate, tiny celebrity starlets"

    phrasing . . .

    I have no problem with properly hunting for food. Beats the heck outta eating factory farmed meats, imo. Her food "hunting" is actually an admirable trait*, imo. If she personally kills an animal, she puts it in her freezer. I wish more folks would fish, hunt, grow, etc.

    * I haven't spent a lot of time researching her eating habits, going by what's easily out there. This is aside from her political attitude towards the wolf hunting/etc in Alaska.

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    I missed it (none / 0) (#28)
    by Repack Rider on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 08:49:36 PM EST
    But I don't miss missing it.

    I look forward to the slow-motion Palin implosion, a six-month train wreck.  This is not a woman who is built for pressure.

    We know that she will be supported by the best ghost writers money can buy, but she can't be protected all the time, and she has a Twitter habit that is bound to produce unintentional humor.

    I have a guilty pleasure.  Sometimes I go to the site whose initials are FR and use the search term "Palin."  They love her there, and their delusions about her competence are off the chart.

    the palin circus (none / 0) (#30)
    by pluege on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:04:53 PM EST
    Why Are the Networks Covering Palin's Exit Speech?

    because palin is a freak show and our infotainment networks love nothing like a good freak show. (Nothing else important to cover anyway.)

    Stay Tuned (none / 0) (#31)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:05:04 PM EST
    Next stop Raygun Predisental Library Aug 8 in CA.

    I hear she'll be appearing as (none / 0) (#58)
    by Peter G on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:08:03 AM EST
    the opening act for Sick of Sarah, an all-woman indy band from Minneapolis.

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    Hilarious (none / 0) (#70)
    by squeaky on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 01:24:37 PM EST
    Really funny.

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    they do what sells (none / 0) (#35)
    by diogenes on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:13:55 PM EST
    The networks cover what sells (which is why Fox didn't cover the 4th Obama press conference infomercial).  If no one watched Palin, they wouldn't cover her any more.
    As unnewsworthy as you think she is, you gotta admit that she is more newsworthy than Michael Jackson, who got lots more coverage.

    Probably because she is a freak circus. (none / 0) (#36)
    by inclusiveheart on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:29:24 PM EST
    Seriously, Palin is turning out to be the political equivalent of Anna Nicole Smith.  She "sells" as it were.  Rubber necking, train wrecks, whatever, it is political "infotainment" and they are going to cover her because she is unpredictable and screwy.

    And Not To Be Underestimated (5.00 / 0) (#38)
    by squeaky on Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 09:33:42 PM EST
    Our very own ppj, a portal to the echochamber from wingnuttia, seems to have the warm and fuzzies for her, if that is any indication of where she is going. Of course he has a really bad track record of picking winners..  

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    If I underestimated loons - (none / 0) (#61)
    by inclusiveheart on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:22:05 AM EST
    I wouldn't bother to participate on political websites.  Just about every single person in the GOP leadership these days is a loon - didn't make them any less effective in bringing this country to its knees or without tons of public support on some of the looniest moves they made - including but not limited to invading Iraq.

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    MSM (none / 0) (#47)
    by osage on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 12:04:41 AM EST
    Today's national media is yesterday's National Enquirer.  This is what happens when NEWS is a profit center instead of the Fourth Estate.  Thank you Ronald Reagan.

    "Ronald Reagan"??? (none / 0) (#53)
    by diogenes on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 07:35:15 AM EST
    The only "nonprofit" news channel here is NPR; unlike the BBC worldwide, however, NPR has a reputation for political bias.

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    I didn't watch it either (none / 0) (#49)
    by Mikeb302000 on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 01:20:45 AM EST
    I read a little bit about it this morning but decided not to click on the video, mainly I just don't have the time.

    I liked here "grizzly bear guarding the cubs" remark and all that nonsense she said about guns.  "We eat therefore we hunt."  That's pretty funny.

    As others have pointed (none / 0) (#56)
    by eric on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 08:59:04 AM EST
    out, she is famous and there are even some people that like her.  However, what really gets her this coverage is the fact that for most of us, this is seen as a train-wreck.  We just can't turn away because it is so, so, terrible.

    I too confess to utter bafflment... (none / 0) (#64)
    by mcl on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 09:46:34 AM EST
    Who cares about this witless ex-beauty queen?
    Why would anyone have the slightest interest in anything she says?
    Maybe it's the silly season, maybe the depths of the summer offer a dearth of news...but c'mon!  Aren't there any two-headed snakes to report on? Hasn't a heifer given birth to a mutant white calf somewhere?

    A witless ex-beauty queen who captures (none / 0) (#68)
    by MyLeftMind on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 10:50:36 AM EST
    the attention of millions of right wing Americans and inspires them to "vote their values," which translates to voting for people who make them feel good. Those voters get fooled over and over because the Republican Party only has to pretend to represent them, not follow through with policies and behavior that reflect those values.

    Sarah Palin is dangerous because regardless of her abilities, she embodies the Republican Party's quintessential modus operandi that depends on a massive public delusion: "Look, we're just regular folks like you, we'll look out for you because we're good folks, godly folks. Trust us."

    She's got a whole year to practice her act, and her handlers will make sure she doesn't repeat the mistakes she made last year. They'll trot her out with a well stated sound bite every time the Democrats screw up, and by 2010 the right wing will see her as a strong representative for middle America, and even Indies and moderate Dems will cut her some slack and view her as a good choice for second in line VP. All they have to do is pair her up with a middle aged white man (not another old guy, but some 40+ year old ex-military family man) and they'll have a team that gives the economy-laden, Wall St/bank loving, tax and spend Obama a run for his (our) money.

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    And if the GOP does do a ticket (5.00 / 0) (#69)
    by Cream City on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 11:00:52 AM EST
    that you describe, with a good candidate at the top, it could be dangerous.  It could bring back to the polls those voters who opted out entirely in 2008, when turnout actually declined.  Everything the GOP does now has to be seen as trying to get those voters back to the polls.  Ditto the Dems in trying to get those first-time voters back again, too -- and in that light, Obama's presser comments that seem politically unwise in terms of promoting a health care bill actually may have been his usual politically astute appeal to them that brung him.

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    And Palin's record (5.00 / 1) (#71)
    by jondee on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 04:37:44 PM EST
    and qualifications make he a less viable candidate than that travesty we just finished with, how exactly?

    Never underestimate the stupidity of the folks who keep all those televangelists rich and on-the-air every Sunday; the folks who thought (and no one could tell 'em different), I-raq attacked us on 9/11.

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    speaking of looking out for us (2.00 / 0) (#75)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 05:36:40 PM EST
    Where is that wealth Obama was going to spread around?

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    jim you are off topic (5.00 / 0) (#90)
    by Jeralyn on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 12:33:59 AM EST
    stop it. Use an open thread if you want to choose a topic other than the one in the thread.

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    I'll just extrapolate (5.00 / 0) (#91)
    by jondee on Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 05:18:29 PM EST
    from the little boys room scrawlings I've seen at your website: it's cuz Obama was willing to say anything to get elected in order to eventually establish Sharia law here.

    That about right, Jim?

    Brilliant thesis, btw.

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