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Thomas Veil
Feb 23, 2009, 05:04 PM
I do wish the media would just stop reporting on Sarah Palin until she has something worth hearing.

Here's yet another (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/23/palin-media-was-on-a-search-and-destroy-mission/) one of her self-pitying interviews:

In an interview taped last month for conservative John Zeigler's new film "Media Malpractice," Palin said it is "very frightening, I think, what the media was able to get away with, this go-around.”

"’We are going to seek and we are going to destroy this candidacy of Sarah Palin’s because of what it is that she represents,’" the former vice presidential candidate described as the attitude members of the press adopted.

The movie, available on DVD for the first time Monday, chronicles press coverage of both Democratic primary campaign and the general election, and concludes the media was clearly biased in favor of Barack Obama.

“This is for the sake of our democracy that there is fairness in this other branch of government, if you will, called the media,” Palin also says in the interview filmed in January. “It is foreign to me the way some in the mainstream media are thinking.”How quickly we forget the adulation she got after her Republican convention acceptance speech. How fast we forget that she briefly all but one-upped then-candidate Obama as the darling of the media.

Of course, that was before she opened her mouth without a script. If she's serious about wanting her political career to go somewhere, recognizing that she comes across as a disconnected airhead would be a great first step.

It wasn't a plot to destroy her "because of what she represents" (and exactly what was that again??); it was a candidate in over her head, self-destructing.

That's why I say she's on the "Poor Me Tour". Seems like every interview she's given since losing has said, in one way or other, "It wasn't my fault. Everybody's picking on me!"

I won't even comment on the idea of yet another movie that claims the media have a liberal bias. :rolleyes: It's hardly the media's fault that Obama came across as magnetic and intelligent, and John McCain had all the excitement of a box of used Q-Tips.



MacNut
Feb 23, 2009, 05:23 PM
I do wish the media would just stop reporting on Sarah Palin until she has something worth hearing.So why are you reporting it?:confused: She will only go away if people stop listening to her.

mactastic
Feb 23, 2009, 05:28 PM
Yeah, I'd have to agree... for a person who praises personal responsibility as much as she does, you'd think she wouldn't spend so much of her time blaming others for her problems.

And of course conservatives will convince themselves that Palin really was given a raw deal by the media -- all evidence to the contrary be damned. I mean, I'm sure no one remembers when she was the media darling, the "hockey mom" who shot moose by day and slashed budgets by night.

It was just that the media insisted on airing her least flattering side -- the unscripted kind. It wasn't her vacuous debate performance where she insisted that she would decide what questions she gave answers to, or her little "ethics problem" at all. It was the relentless attacks by the liberal media that did it. Certainly no fault of her own.

pooky
Feb 23, 2009, 05:50 PM
John Ziegler is a true ideological nut job. He used to have a radio show on a local station (before he was fired for being too crazy for talk radio - yes, you read that right); I would occasionally listen to him when my ipod had died.

The man is so blinded by his ideology, it's like he is unable to imagine anyone thinking differently. He doesn't listen, he doesn't rationalize, he doesn't argue, he's just right. Anyone who thinks differently is either mentally challenged or lacking in a completely knowledge of the facts; there is no room for a difference of opinion in his world. If we all were reasonably intelligent and in possession of the same information he is privy to, we would all share his opinions, because they are the only logical and correct opinions to be had.

benflick
Feb 23, 2009, 05:53 PM
...It was just that the media insisted on airing her least flattering side -- the unscripted kind...

As with every election there ever was.

mactastic
Feb 23, 2009, 06:02 PM
John Ziegler is a true ideological nut job.
Ah, of course. The perfect person to go running to when you want to scream "media bias" is a completely biased media person. :rolleyes:

Thomas Veil
Feb 23, 2009, 07:31 PM
John Ziegler is a true ideological nut job.You know, I'd never even heard of him until I read this particular news story. So I decided to consult Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ziegler_(talk_show_host)). I thought this was particularly interesting:

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has criticized the polling methods employed on Ziegler's behalf in making the argument presented in the documentary.[53] Ziegler was interviewed by Silver on November 18, 2008, about this matter. (see partial transcript)[54] The polling firm Zogby International initially issued a statement defending its work.[55] After receiving more criticism, however, John Zogby, the polling firm's founder, stated that "I believe there was value in the poll we did. I also believe it was not our finest hour. This slipped through the cracks. It came out critical only of Obama voters".[56] Ziegler responded to this by saying "I’m outraged. I find this amazing. There was nothing wrong with the original poll. I’m the exact same person I was last week. The left-wing blogosphere basically demanded this."[56] Carl Bialik of The Wall Street Journal "The Numbers Guy" blog and Mark Blumenthal of Pollster.com called the poll "misleading".[57][58] The WSJ blog quoted Zogby as stating that he was on a book tour when the contract was reached and the survey was conducted, and he would not have approved the poll in the form that it took.[57]And here is the interview in question (http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/interview-with-john-ziegler-on-zogby.html) which Nate Silver conducted. WARNING: Not work safe.

And oh yeah, the guy definitely comes across as a nut job.

obeygiant
Feb 23, 2009, 09:02 PM
So why are you reporting it?:confused: She will only go away if people stop listening to her.

Well the microscopes are out in regards to the democratic agenda in the media. Along with the soon to be quagmire -- Guantanamo Bay shut down, and stimulus package, the american left needs a bell to ring as a diversion.

:)

NT1440
Feb 23, 2009, 09:12 PM
Well the microscopes are out in regards to the democratic agenda in the media. Along with the soon to be quagmire -- Guantanamo Bay shut down, and stimulus package, the american left needs a bell to ring as a diversion.

:)

Yup, everyone is looking at Palin instead whats going on with the country:rolleyes:

She only gets attention as a side show once in a while because shes merely a laughable joke. A complete joke.

mactastic
Feb 24, 2009, 12:04 PM
Well the microscopes are out in regards to the democratic agenda in the media. Along with the soon to be quagmire -- Guantanamo Bay shut down, and stimulus package, the american left needs a bell to ring as a diversion.

:)
It's absolutely AMAZING the level of cynicism regarding government you (and many others) have developed since January 20th.... :p