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MSM Uses Palin’s Own Children as Political Weapons Against Her
Big Journalism ^ | May 2nd 2011 at 9:30 am | by John Nolte

Posted on 05/02/2011 2:09:32 PM PDT by curth

In their ongoing crusade to target and silence decent, everyday Americans as racists, some in the MSM love to use the term “dog-whistle” in order to ascribe racial motives to words like, say, “basketball.” Well, lately I’ve been hearing a dog-whistle of my own — a dog-whistle of the journ-o-list variety that tells me that in their relentless campaign to destroy Sarah Palin and undercut her as a serious political force, the MSM is preparing to up the ante when it comes to using the Governor’s own family and children as a political weapon against her.

First, a little background…

Why the Media Whips Up the Palin-Fury

Watching the MSM react to Governor Palin over the last few years has been an illuminating crash course in Alinsky 101. Like elite, elbow-patched community organizers, the media collectively targets, polarizes, demonizes and intentionally creates a perpetual storm of personal drama around the Governor in the hopes of exhausting even those of us who support her. I call it whipping up the Palin-Fury.

This is a common tactic from the Left, but one we usually see played out in the streets with the idea being to so toxify the atmosphere that decent people give up the fight and go home just to get away from the awfulness of it all. The last few months of ugly and relentless pro-union protests in Wisconsin — though a failure for the left — were a textbook example of this. However, when it comes to Governor Palin, what we’re seeing is this tactic practiced by almost every “objective” news outlet in America.

Unfortunately, though an important part of it, this goes beyond reporting everything Levi Johnston says and does. A more visceral example is what we saw unfold in the wake of those January murders in Tucson.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012; alinskytactics; children; corruption; democrats; dncmedia; enemedia; fascistmedia; giffords; journolist; liberalfascism; liberalmedia; liberals; mediabias; msm; palin; progressives

1 posted on 05/02/2011 2:09:35 PM PDT by curth
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To: curth

btt


2 posted on 05/02/2011 2:27:05 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: curth

Orwell called it the 2 min hate.


3 posted on 05/02/2011 2:37:12 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: Cacique
For the sake of that beautiful family, Sarah Palin has to get in there and fight, fight for all she's worth.

God's angels will help her when she needs it.

4 posted on 05/02/2011 2:49:26 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (We will fight for America and it starts here in Madison, WI. It starts here. It starts now.)
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