Matt Taibbi, writing at True/Slant, has a must-read analysis of the mainstream media Village culture, as it pertains to Sarah Palin. Or, more specifically, how groupthink by Beltway journalists regarding when to promote a politician and when to aim for their head has coalesced behind further marginalizing Palin and by extension her Teabag supporters.
While Taibbi […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sarah Palin'
Taibbi on the Marginalizing of the Republican Base
November 24th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: Sarah Palin · The Media
The Palin Way: Making Things Up
August 11th, 2009 · Comments Off
This hardly counts as news, at least not to anyone who paid attention to Sarah Palin’s antics as Governor of Alaska and even less so for those of us who watched her as John McCain’s running mate, but Sarah Palin has a remarkable tendency to just make shit up. Palin posted a much-touted statement on […]
Tags: Health Care · Sarah Palin
17 Year Old vs Sarah Palin
August 5th, 2009 · Comments Off
William Nelligan has something to say to Sarah Palin about her brand of divisive politics. Nelligan is seventeen and he’s penned Alaska’s former governor an open letter on YouthRadio.org (cross posted on Huffington Post). While Nelligan isn’t offering a brand new slate of charges against Palin’s unique style of self-righteous willful ignorance, he writes with […]
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McCain Campaign: Not Getting Women or Palin
August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
Today’s Washington Post piece by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson on the McCain campaigns machinations regarding their vice presidential pick really confirms what many Democrats and political observers thought: the McCain campaign had zero understanding or respect for how women make their decisions of who to vote for. Balz and Johnson report that the McCain […]
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Rewind
July 30th, 2009 · Comments Off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6urw_PWHYk
Posting this for no reason other than Sarah Palin is no longer Governor of Alaska and someone (cough Bill Kristol cough) might get the idea that she should seek higher office.
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More on Palin
July 4th, 2009 · Comments Off
AKMuckraker, one of my favorite Alaska bloggers, has a pretty thorough and definitive post on the reactions and thought processes behind Sarah Palin’s bizarre resignation yesterday. The post got so much traffic it temporarily brought down her site and now is only posted on Huffington Post in full, so I’m linking to it there. This […]
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Blind Squirrel / Nut
May 7th, 2009 · Comments Off
Depending on the day, I think Gail Collins’ opinion columns are either a step above or a step below Maureen Dowd’s level of vapidity. For some reason Collins made the decision that rather than writing serious columns befitting her former role as an editorial writer, she thinks trying to out-Dowd Maureen is a worthy use […]
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Her Uppance May Come
April 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off
Via Todd Beeton, there’s a nice follow-up twist on the calls from some Alaska Republicans for Senator Mark Begich to resign so Ted Stevens can have a special election. Congressman Don Young thinks the seat is Begich’s to keep and there’s no recourse for him to be removed now. But Young suggests that his long-time […]
Tags: Elections · Republicans · Sarah Palin
Rebuilding the Party Fail
December 1st, 2008 · Comments Off
I know Sarah Palin is many Republicans idea of the future — what sort of future I dare not hazard (though the answer lies later in this paragraph) — but I’m not so sure that hawking year-old biographies of Sarah Palin is the path to victory the Rebuild the Party crowd had in mind. But […]
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Deep Thought
November 7th, 2008 · Comments Off
Has Sarah Palin donated her $150,000+ of RNC and Republican donor paid campaign clothes to charity yet?
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