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Sarah Palin As Role Model

Jackie, the young woman from this MSDNC video, has written up her experience at Sarah Palin's book signing for "Going Rogue" on her blog.

When is the last time you can recall the liberal media asking a young female fan of any liberal female political figure a question about policy? Don't they always cite the politician as simply a role model? I can't recall them taking the conversation much beyond that level.

It really troubles me that what they are actually saying here is, obviously Sarah Palin is no role model for a young woman, or shouldn't be in their biased view. Don't think these people aren't seriously twisted up by their politics, folks. They most certainly are.

Where on earth do I begin? This all started as me, a young 17 year old American going to see a woman I admire and turned into this crazy event hah I’ll start at the very beginning.

ACORN: About That Journalistic Integrity Thing

Sad, but too bad, LA Times. Now, if it had been a conservative source, how many additional confirmations do you think they would have wanted? My guess is at least one solid one. Oh, but progressive Commie types? We know they never lie because they care so much!

Yeah, ... right.

In September, L.A. Times columnist James Rainey wrote a column in which he uncritically quoted ACORN worker Lavelle Stewart suggesting that she had turned Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe out of her office:

Media Got The Memo On Sarah Palin's Book

This relatively pathetic MSNBC video from a Palin book signing makes it obvious that the media got their talking points from the Democrats. And they're working them for all they're worth. Where's the policy, Sarah???

Give me a break. If conservatives talk policy, they say you have no vision. We lay out a general vision, well, where's the policy at? The MSNBC idiot even has to keep going back to her note cards to keep refreshing herself, that's how canned and uninteresting are the fan interactions they provide. She's lucky some bitter clinger's wife didn't just rap her on the snout.

To the extent a policy book is written by a candidate, or potential candidate, which we have no idea Palin is, or will become at some point, are written the year before an election. These media hacks can't all be this dumb. Surely it's just a hit by design. And as far as why she may have embraced the bail-out, as McCain did? Well, doh! That question is as dumb as the rest.

Tune in to MSDNC below. Nothing is more clear than that.

Sarah Palin Audio: Get A Life!

Audio from Mark Levin's interview with Sarah Palin. A very short clip of the Get a life quote below. Full interview here.

Updated: Andy Sullivan: Our Own Little Joseph Conrad

Update: More fun amid the madness via Ed Driscoll with additional links.

Good Lord, this is priceless. The Dish has gone silent. Shhhhhh.... Andy, the blogosphere's own little Joseph Conrad, steams along, deep into his own little heart of darkness to discover.... Dare we say it? "The horror! The horror!" 

Oh man. 'e's funally flipped 'is frickin' lid, mates. Wudnt'ya say?

ha ha ha What a freaking lunatic!!

Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin's unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning - specifically her fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy - we feel it's vital that we grapple with this new data as fairly and as rigorously as possible. That takes time to get right. And it is so complicated we simply cannot focus on anything else.

Politico Defends Palin And Co-author Lynn Vincent

I sure hope Ben Smith doesn't lose his job over this one. ha! Actually, Ben has seemed to be a decent guy and straight shooter as far as the limited extent to which I've dealt with him behind the scenes. Good to see him step up here. He even gave Stacy McCain a link in an update to his piece at link above.

Blumenthal writes that the collaboration offers "the clearest window into her far-right politics." But -- having done my own profile of Vincent using many of the same data points a couple of months ago -- this seems both off target and missing something pretty basic about the version of Evangelical conservatism to which both Vincent and Palin belong.

The pastor of the San Diego megachurch Vincent attends (with Carrie Prejean, natch) is black. She's also spent most of the last few years on a pair of inspirational books about, basically, racial reconciliation in the friendship between a rich white art dealer and a homeless black drifter, the first of them a Times bestseller. More broadly, she hails from a (large) stream of Evangelicalism that puts racial reconciliation very high on the agenda.

Vincent is -- like Palin -- well to the right, as Blumenthal notes, on abortion; but the race card (in both cases) seems out of place.

Palin Responds To Newsweek Cover

Had this in email. Apparently it's from her Facebook page:

"The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist, and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The media will do anything to draw attention - even if out of context."

-Sarah Palin

Deranged MSM Syndrome?

lol Could lead to face freezing. Go for the pic, stay for the article. Whatever works for you.

Somehow, somewhere along the way we must have fallen through some trap door into an alternate Evil-Spock-With-A-Beard universe because there is no way that any rational human being can possibly, really believe what our politicians and their shuffling, head bobbing Igor media are telling us. Not only that, for the life of me I can’t begin to imagine that they believe it themselves, but they seem quite sincere.

Sarah Palin: McCain Bottled Me Up, Couric Sux!

Okay, she didn't put it quite that way. But would anyone disagree about Katie? ha!

(AP)  The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family.

In Palin's "Going Rogue," Palin confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain. The vice presidential candidate confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night, but was denied the chance and says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.

Palin also writes harshly of CBS anchor Katie Couric, whom she describes as "badgering" and biased. Palin's series of interviews with Couric were widely regarded as disastrous, leaving the impression of an ill-informed candidate who was unsuited for the job.

Hey, It's Time For An Obagasm!

These people, including Marc Ambinder, are such a joke, they give whistling past the graveyard a bad name. Desperate for any ray of sunshine and hope in a currently failing administration, we're supposed to believe Obama actually accomplished something, making the history books for it, by . . . giving a speech.

Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they'll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won't do it justice. Yes, I'm having a Chris Matthews-chill-running-up-my-leg moment, but sometimes, the man, the moment and the words come together and meet the challenge.

It's simply embarrassing. But the fact is, this is all they've got. And it's the same thing we saw day after day on the campaign trail. So what? His stimulus package was a dismal failure, his health care bail will likely crash into the Senate and burn, and his popularity ratings are beginning to sag while his policy ratings suck.

However, man, he gave a heck of a speech. How awesome is that?

Weak, folks ... very, very weak. Ambinder should be ashamed to call himself a professional at this point. He reads more like a school girl with a crush.