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2010-02-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by gorb 2010-02-12 02:18|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 Oh, and I'd like to see you take similarly aggressive aim on any others you might deem (in a Fair and Balanced manner, of course) to be hypocritical as well.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-12 02:29|| 2010-02-12 02:29|| Front Page Top

#2 She's really gotten into their heads! Kind of fun to watch the squirming.

Oh, and Sarah had the good sense to endorse Rick Perry instead of 'truther' Debra Medina!

A drunk Ann Richards once told a constituent who was complaining about a nursing home scandal that it wasn't her job to investigate that 'stuff'; Dateline or 20/20 was supposed to do it.

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-02-12 03:21|| 2010-02-12 03:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Roland Martin should stick to bass fishing.

/fake ignorance off

Posted by no mo uro 2010-02-12 05:44|| 2010-02-12 05:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Ann Richards was a drunk, corrupt, and worst of all a socialist. Sarah Palin is a human being and an authentic American.

Ann Richards, Mr Roland, was the one who was fake-folksy, along with other fake-folksy people like Molly Ivins, Garrison Keillor, and Michael Moore. All of them have the non-coastal patter and accent down, but, bedazzled by fame, sold their values for acceptance by the cultural elite, and became Hollywood-NYC Washington-Boston-LA-San Francisco where it counts - on the inside. Once you've done that, any claims to folksy authenticity are void. Speaking in a regional accent does not give you a pass for becoming a collectivist and a cultural Marxist, and those of us "bitter clingers" who ARE real Americans (and lose the sneer quotes, boy) can see through that in a heartbeat.

Getting the accent down but missing the philosophy and outlook of real middle America is what's phony, Mr Roland. The fact that you have asserted otherwise means that you're either dishonest or stupid.

Whatever her faults, Sarah Palin is closer to the heartland where it matters than Ann Richards could ever have hoped to have been.

Posted by no mo uro 2010-02-12 06:03|| 2010-02-12 06:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Have to admit the accuracy of the comment about Palin makes Liberals squirm with her connect. She DOES connect, there is no doubt about that. And its grass roots and real.

Its kind of nice to see this clown, Roland Martin, praise a woman, Ann Richards who was a drunk ( really? ) and a Lefty drone ( oxymoron) . That was her name, huh ? Some local woman politician ( Texas governor...never heard of her) ? I dont doubt that she was. Lefty and local, I mean.

"Listening to the Spirit within" is the sort of book thingy they have a whole shelf full of at the discount used Jesus in Outer Space bookstore on Hwy 92. Right alongside Heal your Cancer with New Age Crystal Therapy.

Palin is going to run for President in 2012. And Obama will disappear just like Kerry did. Remember Kerry saluting and reporting for duty on that big screen at the Convention? And Edwards ( the beast with two backs), the best man for the democratic job...the Doinks sure know how to pick 'em.

But listen to your spirit within....

And CNN says it all.

Posted by Pointsquad 2010-02-12 07:01|| 2010-02-12 07:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Why haven't I cottoned to Palin?

I believe Martin answerd his own question with his.... question.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-12 07:19|| 2010-02-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#7 The Democraps are very quick to blast others for a lack of perfection while forgiving total failure on their own side. Is Palin perfect? No. Is she better than any Democrat in DC? By far.

Posted by AlanC 2010-02-12 08:16|| 2010-02-12 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 the Doinks sure know how to pick 'em.

The Republican party doesn't do so well in that department either. Re: McCain

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-12 08:40|| 2010-02-12 08:40|| Front Page Top

#9 I come from a long line of bovofecundians. I can smell bullshit like this a mile away.

This is one of those "Molly Ivins" type Texans, who wrap themselves in "being Texan" without really getting the essence of it, and who look down their high society noses at the riggers, cowboys, plant workers and salary workers who are the real deal, and their elitist condescension, contempt and hatred drips from everything they do.

People like Roland Martin should be horse whipped. Or worse yet (for them), they should be forced to make an honest living, working a real job.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-12 09:36|| 2010-02-12 09:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Ivins, Keillor et al. put on the common man shtick, but in reality they're just vulgarians.

Posted by lex 2010-02-12 09:45|| 2010-02-12 09:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Either you criticize everyone who uses a word that you consider a slur, or you come across as a crass politician who is afraid to offend your chief booster.

After Don Imus made his infamous nappy headed ho comments. Martin repeatedly called for his head. He also recently wrote an article titled Time for President Obama to go gangsta on the GOP. Theres nothing quite like someone being hypocritical about hypocrisy.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-02-12 10:00|| 2010-02-12 10:00|| Front Page Top

#12 Palin should cut the hypocrisy

Conjures a picture of her chasing the author with an ax.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-02-12 10:42|| 2010-02-12 10:42|| Front Page Top

#13 grom, nah, Sarah doesn't chase with an axe. She just adjusts the windage.

Posted by AlanC 2010-02-12 10:54|| 2010-02-12 10:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Familiar with menudo, this Tripe is unfit for consumption.

Points for being able to weave so many scare words together..putting it at about a 7th grade spring semester level. Logic and critical thinking exercise puts the other side of the coin as, to use the tricks of this base level of opinion forming homework, is, "Though I am unconvinced and know better than you, I do acknowledge she is a powerful existance." which is a 'juvinile' or 'sophomoric' approach to making an arguement.

And to be as ironic as whoever this is, is, that with the statement about how Mrs. Palin basks in the glory of the media when it is that media which is manufacturing first level gut responses to the word Palin using all the obvious old tricks of the trade...I 'rank' this article below Mr. Baldwin's article the other day based purely on the fact Mr. Baldwin formed his own opinion. This writer is purely chickenscratch unable to make the cut for a Mad Libs article. The sad truth is that people like Mr. Martin, if I could be so bold, are supposed experts in the education of literature and continually brandish the sword of words like a mule carefully humps a bushel of warm bison piss.

But keep on doing what'cha doin' y'all 'cuz itsa fective yalz itsa formin my 'pinion anstuff(snort and cough, spit).

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-02-12 12:08|| 2010-02-12 12:08|| Front Page Top

#15 when less than half of a partisan constituancy supports a possible candidate, its not Populism. You can rename the GOP all you want, but their still the GOP as is Sarah.

Posted by 746 2010-02-12 14:11|| 2010-02-12 14:11|| Front Page Top

#16 AlanC, the man said "cut".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-02-12 14:12|| 2010-02-12 14:12|| Front Page Top

#17

The Republican party doesn't do so well in that department either. Re: McCain

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-12 08:40

Arguably, a case could be made that the MSM picked McCain for us. They certainly had undue influence.

I am wondering when a sufficient mass of people are going to realize that the media have been willing accomplices in our destruction.

I do not believe that the country can be saved by peaceful means alone.

Posted by Grereque de Medici4234 2010-02-12 14:20|| 2010-02-12 14:20|| Front Page Top

#18 actually Debra Medina is not a truther -- some of her supporters might be, but she has never went on record w/that nonsense.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-02-12 16:36|| 2010-02-12 16:36|| Front Page Top

#19 BH6 - her comments to Beck this week can only be construed (IMHO) as, if not an actual troofer, then as pandering to troofer conspiracists. We don't need that "I think we have not been told all the truth" crap

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-12 17:05|| 2010-02-12 17:05|| Front Page Top

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