Posted on 01/26/2011 8:25:26 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
So the celebrated DC wit and Washington Post columist Dana Milbank is boycotting Sarah Palin for the month of February, and encouraging everyone else to do the same. Here’s the case he makes. Well, it’s certainly true that there is a media obsession with Palin. It’s worth noting, though, that this is most pronounced on the Left. The Democrats want Palin (or Rush Limbaugh or Michelle Bachmann) to be the head of the Republican Party because they think that makes the party less palatable.
Certainly, Palin enjoys publicity. But she has been on the receiving end of some extremely nasty stuff, particularly Andrew Sullivan’s lunatic ravings about her son Trig’s parentage and, most recently, the blame laid at her door for the Tucson atrocity.
I’ve argued here before that Palin, for all her qualities, has made some serious mistakes and at this stage remains a flawed candidate for national office. That means she should not be obsessively covered by the media as if she were president. After all, she might well never run for the White House. At the same time, she has a significant following and a real contribution to make to her party and to the country. She deserves to be listened to.
So, rather than sneering fascination or a haughty boycott, how about a middle way in which what she does and what she says is reported on and analysed on its merits?
To this end, Telegraph Blogs has declared February “Sarah Palin Month”. Our US correspondents will cover the former Alaska governor throughout February in the fashion she deserves – and, moreover, other bloggers will make sure that ..........
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Crazy, crazy stuff, LOL.
HA! She will say or do something just to make them explode.
February is black history month. If they take that away and make it Sarah Palin month, won’t that be racist?
Correct. We should wait for White History Month, or Successful Female Month, or Smart and Hot Female Politician Month, or......
Perhaps she should call their bluff by offering them an interview. Then we’d see if they are BS or not. She has a light programme for Feb so far so she may not be in the news that much anyway.
I refuse to cede a month exclusively to anyone.
I was listening to a black man debate Jeff Sessions (Roe v Wade) on Hannity’s radio show yesterday and I swear, Sessions was NOT ALLOWED to use Martin Luther King to make his point. NO ONE OWNS Martin Luther King’s ideas (or the month of February).
yeah the left is going to go cold turkey on gov Palin.
they can not afford to give Palin an entire month to make her case without their negative spin. If they do she wins,.
I propose we make February “Sarah Palin Month” on FR and include her photo on EVERY ARTICLE.
Why did you pick the shortest month of the year?
February 11th is Sarah’s B Day. I started off with a couple big bills for SarahPac.com
LOL! What the poor sots over at WaPo don’t seem to realize is... the blogosphere can undo anything they do.
SARAH 2012!
Such as wake up in the morning and drink coffee...truth is, if the LSM stopped obsessing about Sarah Palin, they might actually have to, God forbid, pay attention to what Zero is doing.
I do hope someone does this in a fair way and really listens to what she says instead of he sneering left way of calling her names and making people believe she is something that she is not.They may just be surrpised to find that she is not at all stupid and that the whole reason the left attacks her constantly is their fear.
But then, the lame-stream media isn't the only game in town.
I think they're off licking their wounds.
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