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November 16, 2009 By Fausta

VIDEO The Anchoress watched Sarah Palin on Oprah so I wouldn’t have to

The Anchoress writes about Sarah Palin on Oprah:

It was like watching two lightly muzzled Doberman Pinschers, behaving because they have to, but with an undergrowl that translates, roughly, into “if we’re ever alone together in the yard, you’re going down…”

Go read the rest.

William Jacobson’s advice for Andrew Sullivan and others who liveblogged it: Live Blogging Sarah — Get a Life People.

Watch CBS News Videos Online

Video clip via the HuffPo

UPDATE
RightPundits has the first part of the show,

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Filed Under: Republicans, Sarah Palin, TV Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Going Rogue, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey

August 2, 2009 By Fausta

Politico blames Palin for not getting a divorce?

Having denied -as well she should – a claim by a blog and a newspaper that she’s divorcing her husband, Jonathan Martin at Politico says it’s all her fault anyway:
Sarah Palin beats press to blog claim

By having her spokeswoman repeat the charges to rebut them in a public form, Palin effectively guaranteed coverage from the mainstream media that otherwise would not report claims attributed to unnamed sources on an anonymous blog.

James counters,

But that’s nonsense. Mainstream media sources — including Politico and including Martin (remember the way premature “John Edwards is quitting to be with his sick wife” rumors?) — report rumor and rely on anonymous sources all the time. The fact that people are talking about something is often in and of itself newsworthy. Especially when it’s about Sarah Palin.

Dan calls them Politico Pathetic:

If the Palin squad had not taken action, the news tonight would be the frenzy of reporters besieging the Palin camp to get a denial of a shocking claim. Boy, I’d bet they’d just love to get a no comment to that one. Or, the story would read, Palin denies disturbing reports sourced to Alaskan blog.

And People Wonder Why Sarah Palin Stepped Down

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Filed Under: politics, Sarah Palin Tagged With: Fausta's blog

July 9, 2009 By Fausta

Rules for Radical Conservatives?

My latest post, Rules for Radical Conservatives? is up at RightPundits. Please read it and leave a comment if you may.

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Filed Under: Republicans, RNC, Sarah Palin Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Rightpundits

July 3, 2009 By Fausta

Will Sarah Palin become the next Ross Perot?

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Palin to Quit as Alaska Governor, Won’t Seek Re-Election

Sarah Palin said Friday that she won’t run for a second term as governor of Alaska and will transfer her responsibilities to the state’s lieutenant governor.

Here is her statement:

“I am determined to take the right path for Alaska even though it is not the easiest path,” said Governor Palin after the announcement. “Once I decided not to run for re-election, I also felt that to embrace the conventional ‘Lame Duck’ status in this particular climate would just be another dose of ‘politics as usual,’ something I campaigned against and will always oppose. It is my duty to always protect our great state. With that in mind, my family and I determined that it is best to make a difference this summer, and I am willing to change things, so that this administration, with its positive agenda, its accomplishments, and its successful road to an incredible future, can continue without interruption and with great administrative and legislative success. I look forward to helping others – to fight for our state and our country, and campaign for those who believe in smaller government, free enterprise, strong national security, support for our troops, and energy independence.”

Look, I sure hope she has a huge ace up her sleeve because from here it sure looks like a Perot-like maneuver. In Jonah Goldberg’s words, “You’re blowing it”.

Her political career is not going to recover from this.

The Anchoress basically agrees.

Gateway Pundit has the video:

UPDATE
Instapundit mini-roundup.

Liberals never learn, do they? Doug has the back story on that.

Francis is heartbroken but takes no prisoners.

GM Roper ponders Palin derangement syndrome.

Ace:

It’s over. You can’t resign from a governorship and then run for higher office. Barring some strong reason, like needing treatment for cancer.

A contrarian view: No, Of Course Palin’s Political Career Isn’t Over

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Filed Under: Republicans, Sarah Palin Tagged With: Alaska, Fausta's blog

June 15, 2009 By Fausta

Alinsky’s children: CBS, TNR and Andrew Sullivan

Gateway Pundit posts, OUTRAGE!… CBS: “Meet Iran’s George W. Bush” (Ahmadinejad!)

The CBS’s article Meet Iran’s George W. Bush
New Republic: Can Anyone Beat Ahmadinejad In This Week’s Election?
, was a retread from an article in TNR:

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Lest we forget, Jim reminds us of two facts:
One:

CBS forgot the part about Bush liberating over 50,000,000 Muslims from two of the most violent regimes in history and bringing democracy to the Middle East.

And two:

For the record- The New York Times detailed the recount investigation paid for by a consortium of newspapers and admitted that BUSH WON in 2004.

Look it up yourself: the NYT actually said,

A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year’s presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.

But the Iranian election means is it’s time to slander, so Andrew Sullivan was over at The Atlantic saying that Ahmadinejad is Karl Rove. The link takes you to Stacy’s post; if you want to check out Sillivan’s post you go there. Sullivan never misses a chance to indulge his Sarah Palin fixation, while at it,

Ahmadinejad’s bag of tricks is eerily like that of Karl Rove – the constant use of fear, the exploitation of religion, the demonization of liberals, the deployment of Potemkin symbolism like Sarah Palin.

What is even more bizarre is Sullivan’s recurrent and perverse focus on Palin’s children, in which he constantly indulges in his posts, about which Althouse comments,

And why should the governor of a state be called an “attention-starved celebreality star”? Is it because you don’t respect her as a politician? You might call everyone with the nerve to run for President/Vice President an attention-starved celebreality star, but the fact is you don’t. Apparently, it’s because she’s got kids who do things that you think we can sit back and view as objects of idle amusement. If anyone is to be a politician — in your nasty little world — their kids better toe the line and stay perfectly prim and healthy and smart (or hide).

But back to Sullivan’s first post: Iran is a Red State:

Think of this regime as Cheney and Rove in a police state setting, and you see what’s been going on. (Of course, Rove and Cheney live within a democratic system utterly unlike Iran, and there’s no evidence they would violate democratic norms as Khamenei just did. But their demagoguery, abuse of the state, dedication to conflict abroad, co-optation of the armed forces, and manipulation of rural and religious voters all have parallels in Red State Iran.)

So what Sullivan’s saying, in his heightened consciousness and loftier intellect which given the chance he probably will humbly acknowledge, is that he would have you believe that voters in red state America don’t vote out of their own free will since Karl and Dick manipulate them any which way, through the deployment of Czarist shams like Sarah Palin and her children. From there to taking the leap and equating George Bush = Ahmadinejad is simply putting the icing on the metaphorical cake, or am I missing something here?

What these statements and false analogies in CBS, TNR, Sullivan and others have in common is Alinsky’s rules:

“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

“One of the criteria for picking the target is the target’s vulnerability … the other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract.”

Targeting, personalization, polarization, and personification: The plight of the Iranians is just another opportunity.

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Filed Under: elections, Iran, Karl Rove, propaganda, Sarah Palin Tagged With: Andrew Sullivan, CBS, Fausta's blog, TNR

June 13, 2009 By Fausta

“Awkward” Palin? Judge for yourself

Gateway Pundit has the link to the Yahoo headline: Awkward Palin interview.

Here’s the interview (via Ace):

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Who’s the awkward one?

In related news, David Letterman is having an Imus moment

New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, a Republican, is calling on the CEO of CBS to fire David Letterman for crude comments he made about Sarah Palin and her daughter.

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Filed Under: John McCain, Today Show, TV Tagged With: David Letterman, Fausta's blog, Matt Lauer, NBC

June 12, 2009 By Fausta

NOW adds Letterman to their Media Hall of Shame

And not a moment too soon:
Letterman “Jokes” About Palin’s Daughter
Offender: David Letterman on “Late Show with David Letterman”

The sexualization of girls and women in the media is reaching new lows these days — it is exploitative and has a negative effect on how all women and girls are perceived and how they view themselves. Letterman also joked about what he called Palin’s “slutty flight attendant look” — yet another example of how the media love to focus on a woman politician’s appearance, especially as it relates to her sexual appeal to men. Someone of Letterman’s stature, who appears on what used to be known as “the Tiffany Network” (CBS), should be above wallowing in the juvenile, sexist mud that other comedians and broadcasters seem to prefer.

Hadn’t heard CBS referred to as “the Tiffany Network”, but at last they did the right thing.

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Filed Under: entertainment, politics, Sarah Palin, TV Tagged With: David Letterman, Fausta's blog

June 11, 2009 By Fausta

Video: Vile Letterman, “these people are upset”

Referring to Sarah and Todd Palin as “these people,” Letterman digs in and repeats the jokes,

David Letterman responds to flap over Sarah Palin jokes

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news and we made some jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughter [Bristol]… and now they’re upset with me…” Letterman says on tonight’s show. “These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make jokes about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl…. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No.” Saying he hopes he’s “cleared part of this up,” Letterman extended an invitation to Palin to come on the show as a guest.

Then he asked,

“would I do anything advocate or contribute to underage sexual abuse or misconduct? Absolutely not, not in a thousand years!”

But is he all for “advocating or contributing” to the sexual abuse of women over the age of eighteen.

So here we have it: Letterman believes himself justified in his “jokes”, because the jokes are about a different Palin teenager.

As I was asking yesterday, what is it with these impotent jerks and Palin’s children?

And, by the way,
CBS Altered Letterman Transcript, Not New York Times

UPDATE
This is American Sharia, *ssh*les.

1 more update,
Scott turns the tables on Letterman.

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Filed Under: entertainment, politics, Sarah Palin, TV Tagged With: David Letterman, Fausta's blog

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