As Obama urged unity, Palin brought division

The Washington Post ^ | January 13, 2011 | Dan Balz

[ElayneJ]

They’re making her sound presidential when they say things like this. Still, I doubt they can stop themselves.

[rintense]

Yep. It really is.

[Lancey Howard]

Dan Balz, Washington Piss.
Consider the source.

[Dahoser]

Tsk, tsk, Dan. You left out how Obama performed a miracle of healing and Sarah did not.

[bassmaner]

Oh, for God's sake, just declare Sarah and her family 'enemies of the people' and prosecute her under Article 58. Send them to Kolyma already ... since she can see Russia from her house, she'll feel right at home.

These leftist bastards are disgusting.

[rockvillem]

More lib talking points...tell me that there is not a new JournoList out there where these slimeball reporters and columnists are coordinating their hit pieces.

Amen! The degree of overlap/coordination/consistency among the various stories/punditry about the Arizona tragedy has been remarkable. The "dangerous rhetoric" meme was pre-loaded and ready to fire the instant this happened. Didn't matter that the facts didn't support the meme. It's all about making Obama look good and attacking his opponents, particularly ones that have some measure of popularity like Palin, Limbaugh, etc.

[blackdog]

Actually, Palin should have turned the other cheek. "There they go again" goes a long way.

Empty cans make the most noise.

In a corporate environment this type of attacking is commonplace. Responding to posturing activity with indifference brings respect when the dust settles. Once settled, people will stand behind the one who works hard and is ethical.

[Lazamataz]

CHRONOLOGY OF ANY EVENT:

1) Negative Event Occurs.
2) Immediately blame Sarah Palin.
3) Events unfold showing Sarah Palin not at fault, or even involved.
4) Blame Sarah Palin harder.
5) IF SARAH PALIN DOES NOT RESPOND: Declare her out-of-touch and non-Presidential.
6) IF SARAH PALIN RESPONDS MILDLY: Declare her wishy-washy and incapable of leadership.
7) IF SARAH PALIN RESPONDS FORCEFULLY: Declare her too provocative and incindiary.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.”

-— George Orwell 1984

[ABQHispConservative]

I think there is. However, I do not think it involves them discussing things. They just get an email every day telling them what to think and say. Most of the articles so far seem eerily similar. Besides, they are not reporters or journalists, but propaganda.

[GeronL]

There is definitely a new Journolist out there somewhere...

[RichInOC]

Mr. Balz:

Lick mine.

[IamConservative]

Palin’s rebuttal could only be viewed as divisive if you were hurling the invectives; that is a party to the libel.

[upsdriver]

If Palin decides to run for president, we need to work damn hard to get her elected. That will be the sweetest revenge.

[skeeter]

His use of that little girl to encourage us to honor public service made me ill.

If he'da left it at the tribute to the deceased & injured I woulda been fine. But he had to twist it into something political.

[kcvl]

Dan Balz:

Oct 15, 2010 ... “Eliminating waste in the budget would do very little to bring down the size of the deficit".

[papertyger]

For all their posturing, could it be possible the media really doesn’t understand if or when we actually did get violent, it would be against them?

The treasonous democrats who win elective office are strictly a function of their constituency’s misinformation, and that fault lies squarely at the feet of the press.

[andy58-in-nh]

I believe the Walking Man is out there, but I’m guessing his name isn’t Flagg. He offers you comfort and a home, a respite from all of your Earthly concerns. The only thing he asks for in return is your loyalty... oh: and something else. Nothing much, really. Many people aren’t using it these days, anyway.

[meadsjn]

The problem is that the 10% or 15% of the population who are communists want the other 85% or 90% of the population to capitulate to them, to offer up their lives, liberties, and property to these leftist cretins.

Simply by pushing such inhuman, evil demands, these communists forfeit their right to live in a free society.

[El Cid]

[Jesus]: Luke 12:51-53
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

There are somethings you can't unite with, and there are some things you must separate from.
Dividing one selves from those who use human suffering as a vehicle to promote their politics is commendable. Those that turn a memorial and remembrance of the dead and suffering into a political rally, aren't really the kind of folks to embrace in union.