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The Savaging of Sarah Palin
The Huffington Post ^ | July 7, 2009 | Heather Robinson

Posted on 07/07/2009 10:17:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unbelievable that a left leaning feminist gets it, while many so called conservatives do not.

Even more unbelievable that the Huffpo allowed it to stay up.


41 posted on 07/07/2009 11:03:52 PM PDT by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: hoosiermama; 2ndDivisionVet; rodguy911; All

Well .. well ... well ...

I think maybe Arianna’s new injection of cash from
an investment group, to the tune of 2 figure millions
so she could expand dramatically as she’s doing, had
a little something to do with this atypical piece.

They just might have had the ‘come to Jesus’ meeting
with her, as their loot’s now at stake, that she must
expand her #’s and viewership. Bottom line, baby ...
bottom line.

It’s gonna be cute to see ditzy Arianna defend
more of what might be coming down the road...LOL.

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The author .. doesn’t appear to be a diehard lib:

Heather Robinson is a Senior Writer for the New York Daily News’ Big Town Big Dreams feature. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, Time Out New York, and The New York Sun. She blogs at www.politicalmavens.com, and at www.heatherrobinson.net, and is a contributor to Have I Got a Guy for You, an anthology of bad fix-ups, released last Apri


42 posted on 07/07/2009 11:04:48 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now that they think they’ve succeeded, and think she’s now irrelevant, they give their mea culpa. Which, to my mind, is as repulsive as their attacks, if not more so.


43 posted on 07/07/2009 11:07:27 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Something is very wrong here. The Huffington Post was a part of the “savaging of Sarah Palin” campaign that has been going on for months. They were as evil as anyone and ridiculed Sarah's retarded son. Why is this article now being posted? And why the quote “President Obama, to his credit, spoke out against it.” ? I didn't hear Obama speak out about it, it is his supporters who are behind this “politics of personal destruction” campaign to destroy Sarah Palin. This reminds me of O.J Simpson and his lawyers pledging to work day and night to find the real killers of Nicole.
44 posted on 07/07/2009 11:13:42 PM PDT by detective
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To: Earthdweller
Think of all the attacks on Palin since she was nominated to be VP by McCain.

Compare the number of times Republicans have defended her.

Add into the mix the number of times Steele and other Republican “leaders” have apologized to Democrats for one thing or another.

It's clear to me (and apparently to Governor Palin) that the Republican leadership does not, and will not, support or defend her.

Hell, they have a hard time supporting and defending the Constitution!!!

45 posted on 07/07/2009 11:15:26 PM PDT by airborne (Congratulations to the Stanley Cup Champions! PITTSBURGH PENGUINS RULE!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It appears that there might be a liberal or two in this country who have the ability to feel shame. I’d be embarrassed too if I had participated in their barbaric trashing of an American woman and her family. They are all Marxist piggies.


46 posted on 07/07/2009 11:17:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, she’s down & almost out, so now it’s okay to say maybe you went a bit far. Eff them.


47 posted on 07/07/2009 11:18:58 PM PDT by I_like_good_things_too (Check the "Yes" box next to survival)
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To: Abbeville Conservative; sleepwalker; Roses0508; feedback doctor; LibLieSlayer; ...

Palin PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

...

The left won't know what has hit them, once the backlash against their hate comes to fruition.

48 posted on 07/07/2009 11:23:21 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: americanophile
Don’t believe it. Magnanimity costs you nothing when you’ve destroyed your opponent.

Exactly! Straight out of the Alinsky playbook. NOW (after their target is destroyed), they make nice and take the higher moral ground. These people are still walking diseases, and if Sarah runs in 2012, they'll be right back to their same old tricks.

49 posted on 07/07/2009 11:26:54 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: SoCalPol

You are operating under the faulty assumption that GOP == Conservative. FRiend, I bought the lie for far too long, but I’ve come to learn that your boogieman doesn’t scare me anymore. A pox on both houses of the oligarchy. Here’s to hoping that Sarah ditches the very same GOP who stabbed her in the back.


50 posted on 07/07/2009 11:29:34 PM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: SoCalPol

If she runs in the primaries, but loses, I will write her in in 2012. She might run in 2016 or 2020... but I won’t vote for some RINO again in 2012.


51 posted on 07/07/2009 11:31:31 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: Razz Barry
"This country started downhill when dueling was outlawed."

I agree, if society does not have a means to enforce civility we get people who behave like James Carville and .Lanny Davis:


52 posted on 07/07/2009 11:35:20 PM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I note that the article completely undoes all the insight it may have contained in the last sentence.

I read the last sentence as a sarcastic comment on how her haters see her.

53 posted on 07/07/2009 11:35:49 PM PDT by SolidWood (Sarah Palin: "Only dead fish go with the flow!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article below shows how serious they are about destroying Sarah. We must never forget that.

I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU=


54 posted on 07/07/2009 11:39:11 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (The Taxman-Malarky Bill Is War On America!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s a very nice well written commentary.

What are the responses looking like on HufPo?


55 posted on 07/07/2009 11:46:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (_Resident of the United States and Kenya's favorite son, Baraaaack Hussein Obamaaaa...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

i just cruised past a liberal feminist site (www.reclusiveleftist.com) where a post on the 4th of july was devoted to trying to figure out why feminists have such a rabid hatred for palin. the lady in charge over there seems genuinely confused as to why feminists are attacking another woman who is strong, accomplished, smart, and holds a position of power. many of the comments are in the same vein. why trash this woman and repeat lies that have been proven false or could be with a bit of research? why the vitriol? many of the commenters would not vote for palin due to political ideology, but they are giving her the benefit of the doubt and researching the facts. they are even poking some holes in oblabo over there. i find this interesting and share your opinion that some on the left are starting to wake up and smell the marxism, sexism, racism and anti-americanism.


56 posted on 07/07/2009 11:47:30 PM PDT by madamemayhem (there are only two places in the world: over here and over there.)
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To: DoughtyOne

A few pro-Sarah now, the rest the usual DU/Huff/Kos/MoveOn/Olbermann type haters saying that she brought it on herself, she deserves all that and more, etc.. Her bringing Trig to term has them seeing red more than anything, IMO. Peel the skin off a Lefty and you’ll find a Nazi ... which shouldn’t be so surprising, really: Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers Party.
It’s a long-running fallacy that Hitler and his thugs were “right-wing”, they were socialists who wanted party control of the means of production and society and the mass killing of “useless eaters” and enemies of the state. Mr. Obama and today’s left are following their blueprint to a tee!


57 posted on 07/07/2009 11:53:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ~H.L. Mencken)
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To: Razz Barry
"This country started downhill when dueling was outlawed."

This would be a very effective tool in improving public discourse.


58 posted on 07/07/2009 11:54:31 PM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
during the campaign of 1828, newspapers favorable to the National Republican Party falsely accused Democrat Andrew Jackson of having beaten up another man to steal his wife

This wording implies the "evil Republicans" attacked an "innocent Democrat." The truth is not nearly so simple.

The modern Republican Party has little or no connection to the "National Republican Party." It was rather a precursor of the Whig Party, which completely disintegrated in the years leading up to our big national shindig starting in 1861. While many Whigs, such as Lincoln, joined the Republican Party, it is in no real sense a descendant of the Whig Party.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the party nomenclature, the Democrats were known as no such thing in 1828. To the extent they had a party label, they were generally called Democrat-Republicans, viewing themselves as the heirs of the Jeffersonian Republican party more than anything else. There is a direct line of descent from the 1828 Democrat-Republican party to today's Democrat Party.

In actual fact, there were no real parties in today's sense in 1828. There were only pro-Jackson and anti-Jackson factions.

Finally, while Jackson may not have beaten up a man to steal his wife, he arguably did steal another man's wife, and he personally beat up and killed a good many men, and not necessarily during war. Making remarks about Rachel Jackson was an excellent way to wind up dead.

59 posted on 07/07/2009 11:55:31 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles, reality wins all the wars)
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"It’s a long-running fallacy that Hitler and his thugs were “right-wing”, they were socialists who wanted party control of the means of production and society and the mass killing of “useless eaters” and enemies of the state. Mr. Obama and today’s left are following their blueprint to a tee!"

Yes, including the marxist idea of infiltration of both parties in order to place a huge central dictating government over all the masses.

60 posted on 07/07/2009 11:59:07 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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