Posted on 11/16/2008 1:22:22 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
The election is over, but quite clearly the Palin Derangement Syndrome suffered by many in the mainstream media isn't. This morning's CNN Reliable Sources was typical. Joining host Howard Kurtz to discuss Sarah Palin were Beth Fouhy, an Associated Press political reporter, Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, and Julie Mason, the Washington Examiner's White House correspondent. Mason opined: "I don't think she helped herself at all this past week. I think she actually probably made it worse." To Zurawik, the Alaska governor's recent interview with NBC's Matt Lauer "shows you how in a way, deviously clever Palin is in trying to repair her image." Then it was the AP reporter's time to take a few shots:
FOUHY: Well, I think what we learned is that she is extremely ambitious. I guess we already knew that, but she's as ambitious as ever despite the brutal campaign that she herself described that she went through. But she's also pretty unprepared.
I was really surprised by the interviews that she did, because she didn't really come with an agenda other than to just put herself out there and say, hey, I'm still around and I like talking to you guys. She didn't clearly articulate what she plans to do next, she didn't focus on issues that she wants to stress as governor. And she also was given a pass on a bunch of things which I thought was very surprising about why she didn't appeal to women more.
I mean, the fact is polling showed that she was a real drag on the ticket. And she was never really confronted with that issue. Like, how could she really rehabilitate herself to go forward as a national figure given how badly overall she did as a candidate?
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CNN makes up their own reality and reports that. Listening to this poo is just self-punishment. We need to fight back and hard for all our conservatives and our ideals. Don’t let the wimps define us.
Pure sexism right there.
The MSM didn’t make her..and they can’t break her. She will end up being the most viable candidate in waiting..cause she can rally the conservative base.
I believe it is Sarah Palin that will have the last laugh.
Jack Kemp? Who knew?
Had McCain picked Pawlenty or Romney (the media favorites) instead of Sarah Palin he would have lost by 20 million votes.
Goes to show you just how “reliable” CNN’s “sources” really are. No wonder no one watches their crap anymore. Those people are braindead.
Sarah was the only thing that made McPain palatable but it still wasn’t enough to swallow McPain.
McCain would have gotten thrashed without Palin on the ticket. Palin was not a net vote loser for McCain. Not at all.
Twaddle.
Jack Kemp
yeah...they got their info from an insider over at pMSNBC.
The election may be over but the Palin Derangement Syndrome and it’s accompanying fear live on.
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I think you’re right!
Why are we not open to the possibility that she was a drag on the ticket? True - she got crowds out and did excite the base - and there are probably 1000 people on this site who will say they wouldn’t have voted for the ticket if she wasn’t on it, but in general, I was disappointed with how the McCain campaigned used her and disappointed with how she performed in interviews.
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