Palin-Smearing Baltimore Sun Columnist Whines Readers Being Mean to Her

publiusforum.com ^ | 09/06/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Susan Reimer, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, is shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that people took exception to her tactless bashing of Governor Sarah Palin in her September 1 column, "A woman -- but why this woman?" In fact, Reimer is so upset that people where exercised enough to drop her a note, give her a call, or write an email about her baseless smearing of Palin that she says in her September 5 column that she feels "frightened." Do you want some cheese and crackers to go with that whine, Reimer?

On Monday, I wrote a column criticizing the McCain campaign for what I saw as a cynical attempt to gather in unhappy women voters by naming Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin his vice presidential candidate and for exploiting the poignant story of her youngest child to appease the Republican Party's pro-life base... And then the storm began.

Reimer was shocked to find that her substance free, lie filled attack on John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin generated "More than 8,200 comments were posted to the column on The Baltimore Sun's Web site. I received more than 700 personal e-mails and about 50 phone calls."

Even worse for Reimer, her gutter scraping column was read by Rush Limbaugh and Brit Hume and was linked by Drudge as an example of the outrageous treatment that Palin has gotten at the hands of feminist media elites like Reimer. Oh, the humanity!

One would think that a columnist such as she would be thrilled to get so much attention. After all, isn't she ostensibly one who wants to see her opinion reach as many people as possible, people who just might per chance find themselves in agreement or -- fingers crossed -- actually persuaded by the power of her words?

Not so much, I guess...

Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...

[Mobile Vulgus]

Is the media really so stupid? Don't they realize they are making her more popular by the minute all the while as they are trying to destroy her?

[henkster]

She can dish it out but can’t take it. Media types should not live in glass houses.

Especially ugly ones like Reimer.

[Carling]

The “media” are people like you and me, only they are egomaniacs and don’t live in the real world with the rest of us.

Slowly but surely, this election is becoming a referendum on the media more than anything else.

[claymax]

If you look closely at Reimer’s picture (but not too close, you might gag) you will see that this article was written out of jealousy. Reaimer=hag, Palin=Beauty Queen

[FlingWingFlyer]

The BS really needs to keep Susie confined to the Home and Garden or Cooking sections of their rag. Obviously, she’s in over her head anywhere else.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

LOL! What a wimp! Ann Coulter used to get 1000-2000 comments on her columns in Yahoo EVERY week. (they disabled this feature) I don't think her hate mail can be weighed--and that's just the email! But our Annie says, "I wear their insults as a badge of honor."

She's brave facing real hate and real threats--but then, she has reason:

[Senator Goldwater]

This is the only way the Baltimore Sun ever gets read.

Crab wrap.

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[paudio]

Now, perhaps, just perhaps, she can start to imagine the impacts of what she and her colleagues have done to the Palins.

[grey_whiskers]

Already posted.

Cheers!

[padre35]

To me, the real story here is not the columnists whine, even though Sarah Palin never whined, it is the numbers of people who were animated enough to contact her in one form or another.

8,200 comments on her web page? Does the Baltimore Sun get that many comments on their entire server in a week?

I’d doubt it, unless they have a Sports Board.

This is becomming fun, AFAIK, there is no active campaign on FR to form a “comments” posse, those 8,200 comments and 50 phone calls are just Joe and JoAnne America letting their feelings be known to some obscure Baltimore Sun columnist.

The Palin Revolution grows stronger by the day.

[DoughtyOne]

If the leftist media isn’t careful, it could end it’s existence almost at once. US Magazine sure got an ear full.

The gig is up on leftist outlets who seek to destroy decent people, so they can install their soiled goods against the public will.