Chuck Todd: "I hope we don't hear from Sarah Palin about media bias anymore" since media hype her every Tweet, Facebook post
July 12, 2010 8:58 am ET
From the July 12 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:
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Besides, what else is she going to talk about... her policy proposals? Pffffft!
The folks on Morning Joe were taking bets as to whether the Simple One would run for president. Mika is convinced she will. I think her ego wants to, but her greed may stop her. Why take the cut in pay?
I think by the time the silly season runs around towards running for President again, she'll have stashed away a ton o' cash, and hence, won't be too worried about making any.
Also, once she wins the nom, and gets obliterated during the general, she can play the victim all that much more.
If she really wants to make a difference, why doesn't she, you know, actually DO something other than being a pundit. For example, Clinton got done being President, and he's doing good work around the world. Same for GHW Bush. Carter. And Reagan was doing some good stuff as well after he left office. W Bush, haven't seen him doing anything yet, but then again, he might some more time off after his terms in office.
Palin could run for Senator for Alaska. Or Congresswoman. Then instead of just commenting on how things are, she can actually put her money where her mouth is, and actually TRY to do something.
Personally, if I won the lottery, I might go back to school and get a Maters in something interesting or buy a hut on the beach and chill.
But then, I'm not an A type personality, and it's probably why I'll never be rich or powerful.
Reminds me a lot of President W. Bush. As in, during his campaigns, you were only allowed into the events if you signed an oath stating you were A. A republican, and B. Were going to vote for him. All of his questions (such as they were) were pre-screened to ensure that he only got adulatory comments and or questions during his campaign stops. And this was in 2004, when he wsa supposed to be the President for, well, the entire country. I was kept from a Bush campaign event in 04, simply, because I was a registered democrat. I didn't plan on going there to cause a disturbance, or anything like that. Bush was my President, he was running for re-election, and I wanted to hear what he had to say. I got a note back from the NC Republicans running the event, and they said, sorry, you can't come, you're a democrat.
In other words, Palin is "all dessert, no vegetables."
Not Palin's style. She won't put her money anywhere but in her own pocket.
Sarah Palin has gamed the system perfectly. She can provide "Palin manure" daily from the safety of the Fox Propaganda "news desk" or from her ridiculous "Facebook" postings. At speaking engagements, no cameras or recording devices. She is never confronted by a critical audience. And she is paid very, very well.
Running for office would merely expose her for the political charlatan she is. And she would have a LOT of 'splainin' to do about her embarrassing personal life.
I think it depends on how the upcoming Midterms turn out. A couple of the Teabagger candidates are trying to run their campaigns mostly within the Conservative Media Bubble. If they succeed, I really think Palintwit will try the same thing.
But yeah, I'm looking forward to this being less her Waterloo and more her Little Bighorn.
In a May 2010 tweet she swiftly deleted (though still available via Twitterspace), Palin wrote, "Gov.Jindal:to avoid ravished coast, build the berms.Ask forgiveness later;Feds are slow to act,local leadership&action can do more for coast". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ravished is an adjective that can refer to having been raped or violated, or to something as being extremely attractive or "transported in spirit or with some strong emotion". - Newsweek
And Palin is hardly ever attacked in the "liberal" media. Can you show us where this has happened, as in, attacked, as in, things made up about her that are not consistent with what is actually going on?
Because that's not their job. Of course we know it's different in the US media complex, so it has to be for either ratings or to look for that "gothcha" quote or moment.
It's not. It's a revealing moment as to the inadequacies of the candidate. For people to pick up this 'gotcha' thing and try running with it is beyond absurd. Even more so when you look at how the media has behaved as the administration's stenographers over the past near decade.
As noted: do show these widespread attacks on Simple Sarah by the so-called 'liberal' media. Let's start you off easy and get you to list give substantive attacks on her by the 'lamestream' news that aren't true or aren't different from crap being spewed about other politicians.
She only attacks the media except for the lying spin-merchants at Fox .She is dishonest to the max about it,never explains/clarifies/substantiates her outrageous positions in a real interview and considers no one but white right wing religious radicals as being "Real Americans".She had every opportunity to prove her substance/capability and she couldn't even answer a question on what she read or a Supreme court case she disagreed with.Couldn't any average citizen do that!?
Yet, you cast your Presidential vote (not VP as Sarah was) for a person who served a few years as a State Senator, then became a US Senator in January 2005 before beginning his presidential campaign in February 2007.
BTW, as you know, she was one of the most popular and effective Governors in history before the MSM got ahold of her. But, I'm sure you will blow this off as more right-wing propaganda and go back to reading and writing your Palin-hate posts to make you feel better about yourself.
Could it be you are confusing the backstabbing she received from her own campaign and from fellow Republicans ? She's unprepared,she's a Diva,she knows nothing,$175,000 spent on her wardrobe. Those were not the MSM that was Peggy Noonan and her campaign chief. lol
jpeagle21, try learning before you type. Your utter lack of research and reasoning demonstrates that you have nothing worthwhile to add to any discussion of any merit. You're too intellectually lazy (or ignorant) to do anything more than sit back in your chair and scream to the high heavens that 'poor Sarah Palin is always being picked on, just like all other conservatives, from a horrid liberal media'.
What a joke.
trading post town mayoral and 14 mos as governor of the biggest give back state in the union.She was popular for a while because of high oil prices resulting in more citizen payouts.That popularity didn't last long and she didn't stay long as governor did she?You blame everything on the media like she does when she did it to herself by not trying to learn anything.Facing adoring crowds of similarly narrow minded people and simply inciting anger IS NOT leadership!! Get a grip ..nothing I posted is about me feeling good.I feel really bad that ignorance is so in vogue with some of the electorate.I certainly don't hate MS Palin.I am just concerned where she and others like her would take this country which is already going backwards thanks to the rightwing radical"take back MY country" voices.We are losing technical position against most of the developed world and these people trash science in favor of religious zealotry to live in a world that just 5000 years old. Have Sarah explain how all that oil,coal and gas was formed from organic material that quickly.Oh sorry..the magic wand was waived and there it was ...just like Noah herded dinosaurs onto a boat!
The limp wristed attempts by the media to show their disdain for her, like this one, on reinforces how little regard the public has for mainstream media.
Keep on boo-hooing as America and Americans show their disdain for you.
Speaking truth to/about progressives with a shout out to samir shabazz, who for some reason seems to hate Saltines. What's that about?
There i fixed it.
The reality, of course, is that when push comes to shove on anything real, like taxes, or health care, or industrial organization, or unemployment insurance, or energy policy, or neo-conservative warmaking, or corporate accountability, or anything else that doesn't clearly and demonstrably involve the socially conservative, paleo wing of the Republican party, these guys will shill for their corporate paymasters every single time. And that bias is anything but liberal or progressive.
It's the path of least resistance to those coveted Nantucket cottages for these guys, which is their true raison d'etre.