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Obama Benefits in Having Palin as His Foil
New York Times ^ | 1/18/11 | Matt Bai

Posted on 01/18/2011 8:13:57 PM PST by Nachum

There was Sarah Palin again Monday, assuring Sean Hannity on Fox News that she was not going to be silenced, no matter what abuse might come her way. “Other people are facing much greater hardships and making greater sacrifices than I am in just engaging in debate,” said the woman who reportedly made $250,000 per episode of her recently concluded reality show.

She added, several times, “This isn’t about me.”

A lot of Republicans in Washington certainly wish that were the case. But as the new House majority begins its push this week to scale back the Obama agenda, it seems that the president now has, in Ms. Palin, something he badly needed after a punishing election season: the ideal political foil.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benefits; foil; freepressforpalin; obama; palin
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To: Nachum

I think the press who are an arm of the Democrat party did far more than the politicians.


41 posted on 01/18/2011 8:56:20 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Huntress

It is not the ridicule. It is the fact checking and embarassment it causes the faux President. If I had not posted this, another poster would not have given me this link...

http://newsflavor.com/politics/world-politics/white-house-insider-obama-celebrates-shortly-after-delivering-tucson-memorial-speech/


42 posted on 01/18/2011 9:01:30 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Huntress
I have to wonder, when was the last time the author of this piece visited flyover country? Or even ventured outside of Manhattan? Never?

Never would be my guess. Wine "drinkers" vs. beer "pounders." No bias there.

43 posted on 01/18/2011 9:05:26 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Eldon Tyrell
Oh, I used to work with a Harvard magna cum laude who was brilliant and conservative. I'm working with a Yaley PhD now who's a miserbobble Commie puke but otherwise a very nice guy. The former was a librul arts feller, the latter a Geologist (and a damn good one). The problem isn't liberal arts vs scientists or Ivy Leaguers versus human beings, it's the notion that somehow the IL antecedent confers a legitimacy that it does not.

However, "a bunch of us" applies to a very wide demographic and we do have other equally sterling sources for scientists and doctors. A little intellectual humility goes a long way. I'll try to take that advice myself...someday. ;-)

44 posted on 01/18/2011 9:07:40 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Nachum

Perhaps ridicule was not the right word with which to make my point. That is, if conservatives didn’t call these sources out for inaccuracy, bias, etc., would they get so much attention in the first place?


45 posted on 01/18/2011 9:19:02 PM PST by Huntress (Who the hell are you to tell me what's in my best interests?)
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To: Huntress
if conservatives didn’t call these sources out for inaccuracy, bias, etc., would they get so much attention in the first place?

It is an argument. I think that to ignore the constant lie and hope it will go away is how the country has gone so far down the tubes as it has though.

One of the reasons that conservatives have gained the house, and so many seats in the senate is because of our heightened state of awareness.

46 posted on 01/18/2011 9:25:52 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: ICCtheWay

47 posted on 01/18/2011 9:44:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
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To: Nachum

consider the source.


48 posted on 01/18/2011 10:18:47 PM PST by SeaWolf (Orwell must have foreseen the 21st Century US Congress when he wrote 1984)
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To: Billthedrill

It is not the source of their education that matters - it is the content of their work (or the emptiness of their heads).

There are just as many libtards from Michigan - or dare I list UNC? Or Bezerkely? Or Arizona - Or Colorado, or anywhere. (OK - except Texas and Oklahoma, and some similar schools). in fact - just writing this - the geography obviously jumps out. Wisconson - Libtard state - libtard school. etc. (Almost forgot Duke - remember a certain LAX case? ...)

You should not fall for the “class warfare in sheep’s clothing” that is this reflexive “IL put down”.

The degree only confers the energy you give it - so I’m just warning you off of the easy negative energy. I would bet the data is more geographic than “IL” related.


49 posted on 01/18/2011 11:49:28 PM PST by Eldon Tyrell
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To: Nachum

Obama has nightmares about Palin. He knows she can kick his butt in 2012 so he has the MSM run interference for him.

Can’t wait until the 2012 campaign! Sarah and we the people versus Obama and the corrupt MSM. Bring it on!


50 posted on 01/19/2011 1:37:34 AM PST by sarah palin rocks
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To: Cicero
"I'm Matt Bai, and I'm kind of dumb. But on the whole, I'm very pleased with myself."

Where have I seen that smiling smug?


51 posted on 01/19/2011 6:58:43 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: Nachum

They now have their new marching orders and renewed vigor.


52 posted on 01/19/2011 7:16:24 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: Secret Agent Man
For Obama and the liberal democrats, Palin IS Goldstein. The ref is Orwell’s “1984”.

Yep, they don't get a good rise with using the Bush bogeyman anymore.

53 posted on 01/19/2011 7:20:53 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Nachum
said the woman who reportedly made $250,000 per episode of her recently concluded reality show.

Given television is a liberal bastion, I wonder to what end the this out of context, snarky little comment was intended?

54 posted on 01/19/2011 7:21:48 AM PST by IamConservative (Liberlism - the surety of knowing that which cannot be proven by fact.)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Oh, my, I think you’ve got it! Even their ears are the same shape!


55 posted on 01/19/2011 8:55:19 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

There was in interesting article on NRO, that traced the liberal fear and need to control conservatives to an old article in Harper’s magazine, by Hofstadter in the late sixties. Hofstadter declared in the article that conservatives were evil and greedy and needed to be feared and controlled. Leftist academics have considered Hofstadter to be the definitive word on politics ever since and have been using this old article to mold the minds of a couple of generations of college students.

In other words, the left really believes in EVIL and they think we are it and that right is on the left, always, no matter what.


56 posted on 01/19/2011 9:16:46 AM PST by Eva
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
She made $1 million per episode.

That's not correct, is it? I thought the show cost Discovery $1M per episode, but that's not all pure profit to Sarah Palin -- $250k/episode after costs might actually be on the mark.

57 posted on 01/19/2011 9:21:29 AM PST by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: kevkrom

I’m not privy to their contract, but I’ve read the $1 million dollar figure at several news websites.


58 posted on 01/19/2011 9:31:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
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