Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Media / Politics / Woods Tea Party Lapdogs in MSM Give Sarah Palin Free Ride in Nashville
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:04 AM
You betcha! But what happened when Sarah Palin spoke at the tea party convention the night after the Obama birther Joseph Farah spoke? The dreaded MSM, bane of conservatives' existence, gave Palin a free ride.
Bottom line: The birther movement embarrasses most conservatives. Yet even when they invite a birther nut to speak at their conference, the press still won't ask tough questions. Instead, journalists politely look away.It didn't used to work that way. There's been a long media tradition of holding politicians accountable for their public associations, especially when they appear at conventions that feature fringe rhetoric from controversial speakers. Reporting on who politicians agree to share a stage with has always been considered not only fair game, but genuinely newsworthy.
It's just that in this instance, the press gave Palin a complete and unobstructed free ride, a free ride Al Gore never would have been afforded.
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Mr. Woods, you never told us exactly what is so nutty about insisting that the president release all of his records, such as college transcripts, medical history, and yes, long form birth certificate. All of Obamalamadingdong's predecessors have given full disclosure, but not him.
Mr. Woods has a scholarly treasure trove of adjectives for things he disagrees with, but when it comes to intellectual debate, he is truly impoverished. I guess The Scene is as high as you go. Heh.
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After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we've been subjected to, has there been anyone else who has combined all of the fetid qualities -- the proud ignorance, the sadistic viciousness, the shameless hypocrisy, the arrogant laziness, the congenital dishonesty, the unctuous sanctimony, the bilious resentment, and whichever others I'm forgetting for the moment -- that this morals-free harridan so relentlessly displays? (Not to mention that atonal bray with which she communicates it all.)
Talk amongst yourselves.
SLANSKY
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"What if"?? The "What if" game has already been played. In 2006 over 1,000 progressive liberals gathered for the very first YearlyKos (now known as Netroots Nation). How many media covered this "growing political movement"? Well good luck combing the memory hole for national media coverage. I can't find a thing.
Last year, the 3rd year of Netroots Nation, drew 3,000 attendees. Former President Bill Clinton spoke, as did DNC Chair Howard Dean and a host of sitting congress critters, governors, etc.
3,000 people and how many press registered? According to the Netroots Nation website, 250.
So what have we learned, children? 600 nutballs in white wigs and tri-corner hats can gather at Opryland Hotel and the national news media comes out at a ratio of 1 press person for every 3 conference attendees. 3,000 progressive liberals show up for their event and it's a ratio of 1 press person for every 12.
The right wing rules the media's world. That's just a fact.
"would the media rough up Gore and demand that he answer for his association with this nutjob?"
Ha!
Gore IS a nutbjob himself.
And the MSM has been giving him a free ride his whole life.
Slansky, that's some of the finest invective I've sampled since Blazing Saddles. You just left out bushwhacker, hornswoggler and Methodist.
So, Joe Carmen -- George Bush voluntarily produced his arrest record from his DUI, his papers from the Texas Air National Guard, his GPA from Yale?
Bottom line: Obama was born to an American citizen on American soil. Even if he were born someplace else, his mother was an American citizen. That means HE is an AMERICAN CITIZEN TOO.
I agree that the media should be drawing more attention to the yahoo birthers in the Tea Party movement. That said, it's one thing to acknowledge them as the poison that they are, but you shouldn't debate with them for the same reason you shouldn't debate with Holocaust deniers: to do so makes it look like there are two sides to the issue when in fact there is only one side. So when they show up in online forums like this, just ignore them and eventually they will go away.
What if ...
http://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/2010/02/object-lesson-in-white-privilege-what.html
