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| 2008-09-06 | |
| The astounding (even to me, after all these years!) smugness and mean-spiritedness of so many in the media engendered not just interest in but sympathy for Palin. It allowed Palin to speak not just to conservatives but to the many Americans who are repulsed by the media's prurient interest in and adolescent snickering about her family. It allowed the McCain-Palin ticket to become the populist standard-bearer against an Obama-Media ticket that has disdain for Middle America. By the end of the week, after Palin's tour de force in St. Paul, the liberal media were so befuddled that they were reduced to complaining that conservatives aren't being narrow-minded enough. Thus, Hanna Rosin--who has covered religion and politics for the Washington Post, and has also written for the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the New York Times--lamented in a piece for Slate: "So cavalier are conservatives about Sarah Palin's wreck of a home life that they make the rest of us look stuffy and slow-witted by comparison." I suppose it was ungenerous of conservatives, in our broad-mindedness and tolerance of human frailty, to have let Ms. Rosin down, just when she was counting on us to bring out the tar and feathers. But she gives us too much credit when she suggests we make the liberal media look stuffy and slow-witted. They do that all by themselves.
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #13 IF he would admit McCain-Feingold was a poor piece of legislation and he should have kept it simple, stupid, I'd open my checkbook. But he won't he has more brilliant ideas waiting. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2008-09-06 22:57 |
| #12 BBC (D) |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-09-06 20:52 |
| #11 D in these cases, not for Democrats, but Dipshits. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-09-06 20:52 |
| #10 Wish I could take credit for it, RJ...it came right from Kristol. But the (D) notation is a cool idea! |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-06 19:54 |
| #9 Ricky bin Ricardo, the Obama/Media ticket is brilliant. Going a step further bloggers should refrain from twisting the names of pundits and such and simply put the (D) after there name. You know. Chris Mathews (D) said this and Oprah Winfried (D) said that. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-06 19:19 |
| #8 I can stand it no longer. For months I have listened to commenters here trash and disrespect one of the great icons of America. Dammit, arugula is GOOD! |
| Posted by: Don Vito Ebbinter5860 2008-09-06 17:36 |
| #7 Well...we might have some proof that the leftist blogosphere is something of a "primitive logistical system" for the MSM. Michelle Malkin's readers have already picked up on the subject of the leftards' next suicide assault: they're going to claim she's a racist. Anti-black, oh, and by the way, anti-Eskimo, too...never mind Todd's Yup'ik heritage. Combined with the Obamessiah's (I s**t you not, folks) latest latest outreach to the Clintons, and you have a perfect recipe for cooked goose basted in a lovely desperation sauce. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-06 17:25 |
| #6 Soviet SOP would be to burn up forward units regardless of type until they were in such terrible shape, command had to withdraw them for refit and retraining before being sent back into battle. They did things this way becuase their primitive logistical system demanded it. It isn't practical or economical for them to replace men and materiel lost on a one to one basis; much better to replace whole units with newly trained newly outfitted fresh troops as a unit. |
| Posted by: badanov 2008-09-06 16:19 |
| #5 But sometimes, those Soviet shock armies would be annihilated in the process. History repeating? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2008-09-06 16:09 |
| #4 Exacly, Badanov. I'd originally wondered what the "distributed Obama campaign" (the actual BO organization, the leftist bloggers and MSM, per Chicagoboyz.net) was going to come up with as a breakthrough element. Here we are, three days later, and it's looking more & more like they ain't got nothin'. Obama's reduced to whining about Republican "attacks" and "bullying". |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-06 14:27 |
| #3 I compared the media attacks to the tactics of a WW2 Soviet shock army, when it's starting to look more and more like a desperate banzai charge As a practical matter Soviet shock armies were known for their high concentrations of artillery and engineer units, as well as their original compositions of independant rifle brigades and in one case naval infantry brigades. Soviet shock armies were used to grind down an enemy holding a static line and to create a break to be exploited by mobile forces. |
| Posted by: badanov 2008-09-06 13:35 |
| #2 Good article. I humbly suggest that Johnny Mac's message crew start referring to the "Obama-Media Ticket" in some upcoming ads. I guess this is as good a time as any to say I was wrong to panic when the initial media assault on Sarah appeared to yield an Obama lead that was slowly widening beyond the usual margins of error. Here's the latest polling data from the good folks at RealClearPolitics...the combined impact of Sarah's RNC speech and public revulsion at the media's conduct has totally wiped out the Obama bounce and turned it back into a neck-and-neck race. I compared the media attacks to the tactics of a WW2 Soviet shock army, when it's starting to look more and more like a desperate banzai charge. The Obamedia's stepped in it bigtime on this one, folks. If you haven't already done so (it's posted on its own thread today), go forth and read this most excellent article by the great Bill Whittle...make no mistake about it, the troops have heard the bugle and are pulling their muskets from the wall and heading into the encampments. I read somewhere that Big Mac now has $200 million at his disposal...the Messiah probably has more at this point, but the fact that McCain's coffers are rapidly filling has to have David Plouffe feeling a little like this guy. |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-09-06 13:09 |
| #1 Have you seen the cost of arugula??? |
| Posted by: Jefferson 2008-09-06 12:04 |