Sarah Palin e-mails: First details emerge

[August]

Originally Posted by STEED

No one in there right mind can take her seriously and to honest she has some what become a media joke.

So in other words Liberal Mission Accomplished.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by August

So in other words Liberal Mission Accomplished.

I will take your word for it.

[August]

Originally Posted by STEED

I will take your word for it.

Well you ought to just like I take you Brits word on matters English.

[STEED]

[tater]

I wonder how many words were written about Palin's terrible Paul Revere gaffe vs Obama's terrible "I'm campaigning in 57 states" gaffe? Do you think only an order of magnitude more about Palin? 2 orders of magnitude? More?

It was pretty clear in the last election, the press spent far more time scrutinizing the credentials of (and digging up dirt on) the republican VP candidate than the democrat presidential one.

I think this actually backfires, though. All it does is show the press to be biased, and they are already distrusted.

I hope she doesn't run, frankly, though if she does, I bet she runs as an Independent (thus guaranteeing a 2d Obama term).

I wonder how many words were written about Palin's terrible Paul Revere gaffe vs Obama's terrible "I'm campaigning in 57 states" gaffe?

That would only be a valid comparison if Bama went on TV to insist there really are 57 states after the gaffe or if some moonbats had gone on wiki to change the map on the USA page

[longam]

Don't worry, she'll survive.

http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin

http://www.sarahpac.com/

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

That would only be a valid comparison if Bama went on TV to insist there really are 57 states after the gaffe or if some moonbats had gone on wiki to change the map on the USA page

And that settles that. Obama had campaigned in 47 states at that point. To make a slip of the tongue and say 57 states in that scenario is understandable. If anyone believes that a Harvard cum laude grad who taught constitutional law honestly thinks theres 57 states in the nation, then they're the....

To be so stupid as to not know what Paul Revere did...they teach about his midnight ride in grade school, for god's sake...and then to double down on your mistake by insisting you're right is sheer willful ignorance. She, and her followers, revel in that ignorance.

THAT'S why there's a Palin witch hunt. It's all about being the first to cover the next piece of stupidity to come out of her mouth.

And there's no comparison with Obama, or Dubya for that matter. Presidents don't release their private school documents. Bush's only came out because of a leak. Palin's emails as governor are public record.

[vienna]

There's an old Japanese proverb: "The nail that stands the highest, gets hit first and hardest." Palin is a very high standing nail and she has brought the scutiny on herself. I don't believe there is any more scutiny of her than there is of anyone else in her position. It is a little naive and self-serving for her supporters to insist she is being singled out unfairly for media attention. Prior posts have tried to draw comparisons between efforts to investigate Obama's past and Palin's. The inference (if not outright statement) is the "liberal-controlled" media goes soft on Obama and not on Palin. This is absurd if only for the fact there is a substantial "conservative-controlled" media that has and most likely still is delving into the background and actions of Obama, past, present, and, assuredly, future. If they had found anything of material import, we would have heard about it by now. Also, use a little logic and ask yourself if you were an owner or editor of a media outlet, would you bury a sure-fire, front page, attention getting (possibly Pulitzer) story because of political bias? Would you risk your journalistic reputation or employment? Would you want to be known as the person who passed on possibly the story of the decade (if the "dirt" was dirty enough)? Even if you subscribe to the "liberal-controlled" media paradigm, do you think Limbaugh, Hannity, et. al., would balk at the chance to be the one to bring Obama down? As may be possible with Palin's e-mails, perhaps no Obama secrets have come to light before because "there is no there, there".

There is, truthfully, a form of media bias that often goes unnoticed: the slant or spin. This is selective journalism at its most insidious. Rev. Jesse Jackson like to tell a fable about media reportage:

Jesse Jackson and the Pope decide to have a face-to-face meeting. They decide to meet in a row boat in the middle of a lake to be out of ear-shot of the media, who ring the shore. During the meeting, a strong wind blows the Pope's hat off his head and into the lake. Jesse climbs out of the boat, walks on the water, retrieves the Pope's hat and returns to the row boat. And what does the press report the next day? Does the headline read "Jesse Jackson Meets with Pope"? No. "Jesse Jackson Saves Pope's Hat"? No. "Jesse Jackson Walks on Water"? No. The headlines read "Jesse Jackson Can't Swim".

Think of that the next time you see or hear an eye-catching headline. Oh, and no I am most certainly not a Jesse Jackson supporter but I do appreciate his take on media.