“While Harvard-educated Barack Obama is constantly touted as our first president of Mensa-like intellect”
Road apples. If he breaks 110 (before add-on “minority points”) I’ll eat my hat.
In Oct of 2007, Newsweek wrote a very favorable piece on Gov. Palin. Once she became the VP nominee, Newsweek slammed her the first chance they had (along with everyone else)
The media never viewed McCain as a threat to Obama in the 2008 election, so there was never a need to go crazy negative on John McCain.
Once Palin was named to the ticket in August ‘08, the media saw a huge threat to Obama winning the election.
THE FIRST AND FOREMOST REASON the media hyperventilates and has to dump on Palin at every turn is that she is the greatest competition to Obama for the Oval Office. It happened in the 2008 election, and they will continue on the offensive because Palin hasn’t ruled out a 2012 run.
The media will rest easy on Palin if she ever announced that she won’t run in 2012 or loses in the primary.
Until that happens, the media will continue the 24x7 onslaught.
And they are quite savvy, for instance, setting up John McCain as opposition, using the narcissism of Barack Obama as a front, manipulating, through economic fear, taxpayer money into the pockets of selected Wall Street players, confiscating citizen freedom through mandatory healthcare acquiesence, accommodating desperate illegal invaders into the US to be voters, and funding a contrived threat of anthropogenic disaster; all to herd the potentially independent and creative masses into serfdom.
It really does reek of the Dark Ages, and apparently the majority of US adults are complicit. I guess through laziness.
How obvious is it?
It could have been all different. Were we that stupid or just lazy?
Johnny Suntrade
This is SOP. The media claims that Bill Clinton had an IQ of - what? - 160 or something? I remember the press braying that Jimmy Carter was the most brilliant president ever.
On the other hand, Ronald Reagan was as an amiable dunce, George HW Bush was the malleable WASP, GWB II, a not so amiable dunce.
It goes on and on. Dan Quayle, by all accounts a bright enough guy, was portrayed as an idiot while Al Gore - someone once described the absence of any intelligent life in his eyes as being like “looking into p*sholes in a snow bank” - receives accolade after accolade.
Of all potential candidates to the Presidency the unborn’s most resolute ally is Sarah Palin.
fyi
What it revels to me is the behavior of the media towards any candidate the GOP fields for the 2012 Presidential election, be it Palin or any other strong, conservative individual that is well liked by the base.
The media will totally savage them by any and all means at their disposal. But, that isn’t exactly news to most of us that follow the media’s irrational bias.
I was watching a Hannity show last night and some lefty in the crowd stated it like Palin was a Dummie and no one corrected him.
It is the left who are dummies for not knowing that you can see Russia from Alaska.
Can you see Russia from Alaska?
The geographically challenged liberals are a bad joke.