Archive for the ‘Sarah Palin’ Category

I didn’t get the chance to watch Sarah Palin’s speech at the Tea Party Convention.  But apparently she was in a take no prisoner mood.  Here are some of the just in stories.

Palin Calls Obama Budget ‘Immoral’
New York Times
Palin told the national ”tea party” convention Saturday that America’s national debt, which is held largely by other nations, ”makes us less free” and ‘’should tick us off.”

Palin to Obama: ‘Stop lecturing, start listening’
Former Alaska governor slams president’s handling of economy, security
MSNBC
The former Republican vice presidential candidate told people attending the convention that it’s time America had a commander in chief, not a professor at a lectern.

Palin says Obama policies to be short-lived
Associated Press via Yahoo!
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sarah Palin is predicting a good year for conservative candidates for public office, saying the policies of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress will be short-lived.

I honestly haven’t decided if I could support Sarah Palin for President.  But I want her around for a long time.  Just because she drives the left and the media (redundant, I know) absolutely bonkers.

We told you it was an orchestrated smear campaign:

WaPo Ratchets Up Attacks on Republican Bob McDonnell; Six Articles in Four Days
Scott Whitlock, NewsBusters
The Washington Post on Wednesday increased its frenzied attack on Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, featuring two stories in the paper’s Metro section, an op-ed and a cartoon. Including opinion pieces, the Post has delivered six articles in four days on the Republican’s 1989 master’s thesis about families and government policy.
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Here are the articles (so far). It’s important to note that the headlines are more inflammatory than the actual articles.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Front Page Story:  ‘89 Thesis A Different Side of McDonnell

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Governor’s Race Erupts Over McDonnell’s Past Views

Bob McDonnell, Culture Warrior
An editioral demanding McDonnell respond, ignoring the 90 minute media conference call less than 24 hours prior.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

McDonnell Tries to Salvage Women’s Votes

Thesis Issue Builds, McDonnell Tries to Move On

The Macaca Thesis, Editorial

This is a pattern for the Washington Post.  They did it to George Allen in 2006.  They did it to Sarah Palin in 2008.

Of course, once they’ve destroyed the Republican, they’ll apologize.  Sort of.

Sunday, November 5, 2006
Balance and Bias on the Political Beat, Deborah Howell
The macaca coverage went on too long, and a profile of Allen was relentlessly negative without balancing coverage of what made him a popular governor and senator.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage, Deborah Howell
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.

Will they get away with it this time?  That depends on you and me.

SWAC Girl has an excellent summary today:  Examiner and others begin “macaca watch” on WaPost
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Washington Post to look into past writings from Creigh Deeds or to do an indepth study of his voting record. And don’t wait for them to demand accountability from Barack Obama who refuses to release his college thesis from Columbia University or his academic records from Occidental College, Columbia University or Harvard Law School.

WaPo Opens Jihad Against McDonnell
Christian Toto, Human Events
Can the Post serve as a political kingmaker again for the Old Dominion State? Or will a feisty alternative media rise up to stop any attempts to turn a college assignment into a campaign killer? And if so, why didn’t the paper pull out all the stops regarding another candidate’s past?

Is the Washington Post trying to ‘Macaca’ Bob McDonnell?
Michael Barone, The Washington Examiner
The obvious agenda here is to raise the specter that if McDonnell is elected, all women in Virginia will be fired from their jobs and forced to stay home knitting or driving car pool. We’ll see how much longer the Post can keep this story on the front page.

Left-Leaning Washington Post Goes After Bob McDonnell
84 Rules
I remember a junior Senator from Illinois who admitted to smoking pot and snorting cocaine, broke bread with admitted domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, sat in a church pew for 20 years listening to the racial, bigoted, anti-semetic and anti-American hatred of Rev. Wright and admitted that his goal was to redistribute wealth, or as he put it, “spread the wealth.” What I don’t remember is the Washington Post or any other leftist news outlet ever bothering to cover these stories.

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That’s one take on these numbers:

Poll: Obama less popular than Palin in Virginia
Newport News Conservative Examiner

When asked if Obama’s campaigning for Deeds for governor would help or hurt, only 14 percent of likely voters said it would make them more likely to vote for Deeds…Other the other hand, when asked if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigning for Republican Bob McDonnell would help or hurt, 26 percent said it would make them more likely to vote for McDonnell…

Things that make you go “hmmmmm….”