Posted on 02/24/2009 6:53:25 AM PST by curth
During the Monday 12PM EST hour of MSNBC news coverage, anchor Norah ODonnell interviewed conservative film maker John Ziegler, creator of Media Malpractice, a documentary on media bias against Sarah Palin, and denied any such bias: "Well, let me ask you, you called the treatment of Sarah Palin and her family a, quote, 'media assassination, one of the greatest public injustices of our time.' Is that a little strong? Are you and her a little thin-skinned?"
Ziegler responded by pointing out ODonnells own anti-Palin bias: "The evidence is overwhelming. It's continuing today. I mean, just a few weeks ago, Norah, you incorrectly stated on the air Sarah Palin called Barack Obama a terrorist during the campaign." NewsBusters reported on ODonnells January 29 smear of Palin.
ODonnell criticized part of Zieglers documentary: "Let me ask you, in your documentary you cite examples of media bias by Saturday Night Live, that that's media bias. Aren't those comedians?...How's that media bias?" Ziegler explained: "Poll after poll shows that more people get their news from comedy shows because the line between entertainment and news, as this network has shown time and time again, has virtually evaporated...MSNBC used to be a news organization, now it's an advocacy organization, and SNL is actually thought to be a news organization."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Who controlled Sarah’s media moves? It WAS NOT Sarah. It was McCain and McCain’s handlers who determined the sequence of media outlets as to who would interview Sarah.
By the way Sarah said (I can’t remember where or when) that she had to sneak away from her handlers with her cell phone in Pittsburgh to call Rush Limbaugh.
Folks, I have harped on this for several months. McCain might not have won (because of the financial meltdown) but one of the most egregious errors in the campaign was not to introduce Sarah to America through the Rush Limbaugh program.
Did you hear the actual interview when Rush conducted it in October? You could tell he sympathized with her and loved her conservative spunk. By the way, Rush has an audience of 20m.
Sarah Palin, anyone?
And I wish Sarah would have gone on with Jay Leno. Whoever thought that was a bad idea should be exiled to St. Helena and live forever where Napoleon did on bread and water.
Tell sanctimonious Nora (member of the East Coast elite) that it should be: “Are you and she a little thin-skinned?”
Comparing Tina Fey with Will Rogers is like comparing ‘Wrong way’ Corrigan with US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger.
Sarah didn't yet run for Presidency. She would not be the first failed VP candidate to return successfully.
Maybe it should be BSNBC.
Oblermann is still going after Bush.
it’s all about Nora and all these other crazy assed spoiled rotten self absorbed women who cherish the right to kill their babies in the womb
that need trumps anything
and Sarah Palin stands in the way of that....a woman who knows the TRUTH and will fight them
God bless her if for nothing but that alone....a strong woman with a national following to protect our babies
what has happened to our women?
how did they get like this...so...guided by evil?
Interesting question. The only one I could find (with an admittedly quick search) in the “modern” (post-1836) era of party politics was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ran unsuccessfully with James Cox on the Democrat ticket in 1920.
Though not failed VP candidates, you have also comeback kids like Nixon or Reagan.
Nothing. She’s just parroting what the writers script. Of course she has a bit more exposure.
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