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Assemble an Apology Parade for Palin
Townhall.com ^ | August 12, 2020 | Tim Graham

Posted on 08/12/2020 9:30:49 AM PDT by Kaslin

An august group of feminists -- including America's most audacious abortion advocates -- joined Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, to form the "We Have Her Back" coalition and lobby the media for "anti-sexist" coverage of the Democratic vice presidential selection. The establishment media received a list of don'ts: Don't question her attractiveness, her ambition, her experience, her likability, her electability or her qualifications.

Kamala Harris can say thank you. But do Democrats really need to lobby fellow Democrats?

We can engage in a two-minute laugh when we think about John McCain's unveiling of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential nominee just before the 2008 Republican convention. The feminists of the press betrayed pretty much the whole list.

Then-Newsweek correspondent Eleanor Clift -- who long touted the idea of electing a Madame President -- spoke for thousands of American journalists and said, "If the media reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter in many places across newsrooms."

Within minutes, then-CNN reporter John Roberts suggested Palin might turn out to be a crummy mother: "There's also this issue that on April 18, she gave birth to a baby with Down syndrome. ... Children with Down syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of vice president, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?"

Then-ABC anchor Bill Weir piled on, asking one McCain campaign aide: "Adding to the brutality of a national campaign, the Palin family also has an infant with special needs. What leads you, the senator and the governor to believe that one won't affect the other in the next couple of months?"

Then-NBC anchor Amy Robach asked, "If Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids, or will she be shortchanging the country?"

Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn suggested mothers can't handle the demands of the vice presidency: "Her first priority has to be her children. When the phone rings at 3 in the morning and one of her children is really sick, what choice will she make?"

After Palin wowed the Republican convention crowd with her speech, CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin lashed out: "I thought, very smug, very sarcastic, very cutting. And you know what? The Republicans had been trying to portray her as a victim for the last couple days. Well, she's not going to be a victim anymore. She's going to be a target."

New York Times columnist David Carr echoed Eleanor Clift in underlining the media's sexist contempt: "Before Gov. Sarah Palin came flying in from the wilds of Alaska for the Republican convention in St. Paul, there was a lot of sniggering in media rooms and satellite trucks about her beauty queen looks and rustic hobbies, and the suggestion that she was better suited to be a calendar model for a local auto body shop than a holder of the second-highest office in the land."

This was just during the first few days of the McCain-Palin campaign. After feminist Katie Couric attempted to rip Palin to pieces in a September CBS interview, then-CNN commentator Jack Cafferty bombastically proclaimed: "If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72-year-old's heartbeat away from being president of the United States. And if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, it should."

Everyone who watches the left-wing media can see that you can be intensely sexist toward Sarah Palin and no one will ever apologize. To them, conservative blacks aren't really black; conservative Latinos aren't really Latino; and conservative women aren't really women.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corporatemedia; corruptmedia; eenmedia; enemymedia; mediabias; palin; sarahpalin

1 posted on 08/12/2020 9:30:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“...conservative women aren’t really women...”

But Rosie O’Donnell IS a woman???
Lori Lightfoot IS a woman???
Rachel Maddow IS a woman????


2 posted on 08/12/2020 9:40:13 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Kaslin

Because the issue, is NEVER the issue.

They just use “issues” as Trojan horses for the real thing...bringing in communism.


3 posted on 08/12/2020 9:45:54 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

True dat.


4 posted on 08/12/2020 9:51:30 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?w)
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To: Kaslin

Just call Kamel-Toe Harris the corrupt Political Whooore that she is.

Speak Truth to Power.

The lines have been drawn folks.
Time to choose your side.
Brother against Brother and all that . . .

It’s here.


5 posted on 08/12/2020 9:52:20 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: Kaslin

You gotta love “wehaveherback” which leads to “after so many others have.”


6 posted on 08/12/2020 10:00:35 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: JBW1949
Don't tell me you believe them when they claim that they are males?

Than perhaps you also believe Bruce Jenner who fathered 6 children, claims to be a woman now, and dates women. Since when does a women date other women? If she is a Lesbian. Bruce Jenner,or Caitlin like he calls himself is no woman. He is still a man, as he didn't cut it off.

Caitlyn Jenner On Her Transition: ‘I Didn’t Cut It Off, I Just Retired It’

Former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner announced huge news in regards to her penis.

Jenner admitted she never had it “cut off,” in a preview for Comedy Central’s “Roast Of Alec Baldwin” shared Thursday, according to a report published by Page 6

“I didn’t cut it off,” Jenner admitted as the audience laughed. “I just retired it.”

7 posted on 08/12/2020 10:06:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“...Don’t tell me you believe them when they claim that they are males?...”

Of course not!!!! I mentioned them because they are LIBERAL LESBIANS...

The comment that was made saying that conservative women aren’t really women was what brought that out...

I don’t give a sh*t what Jenner calls himself or even if he ever does whack it off, he’s still MALE.....


8 posted on 08/12/2020 11:38:19 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

Exactly, and nothing is going to change this.


9 posted on 08/12/2020 12:16:05 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

no not an apology parade.

Apologies mean nothing to these people.

GIVE IT BACK TWICE AS HARD.


10 posted on 08/12/2020 12:57:27 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Kaslin

Ted Cruz was right....”the MSM is just a PAC for the Democrat party!”


11 posted on 08/12/2020 1:05:13 PM PDT by high info voter
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To: Kaslin

Vvallery Jarret is a traitor who needs to be decently tried, fed, then hung.


12 posted on 08/12/2020 1:12:51 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Heartless Republican Gutter Rat)
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To: Kaslin

13 posted on 08/12/2020 1:17:21 PM PDT by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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To: Kaslin

Yep, that will happen. When monkeys fly out of Biden’s butt.


14 posted on 08/12/2020 1:42:26 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended! Fight the Return of Biden the Demented!)
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To: Kaslin
Don't question her [...] qualifications.

What the...???

15 posted on 08/12/2020 2:01:46 PM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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