The tales of woe and of her destruction came hot and heavy after she left her post as Governor of Alaska due to the frivilious lawsuits sent her way by lunatic liberals. But as David Carr illustrates (with his snarky liberal digs included), Sarah Palin did everything but fade away:
When Sarah Palin made her debut as the host of “Real American Stories” on Fox News on Thursday night, she described several triumphs of regular people over insurmountable odds, but she missed an obvious one: her own.
After her failed bid for the vice presidency, she was more or less told to head back to Alaska to serve out her term as governor — a kind of metaphorical kitchen.
Instead, she quit her day job and proceeded to become a one-woman national media empire, with the ratings and lucre to show for it.
With its tales of uplift and pluck, “Real American Stories” trades in the kind of easy sentimentality that provokes eye rolls among those of us who work in media while quickening the pulse and patriotic ardor of almost everyone else. At the beginning of the show, Ms. Palin promised that it would “reaffirm our pioneering spirit and unmatched generosity, here and around the world.”
And so it did, with two million people tuning in.
~~~Her appeal doesn’t stop at the red states. When Ms. Palin stopped by to chat with Oprah Winfrey — not exactly friendly territory — the show achieved its biggest ratings in two years.
Ms. Palin didn’t go on the show to run for president as much as to become the next Oprah. And it seems to be working.
~~~“America is exceptional! It’s not her politicians that make her so; it’s her everyday people and the values Americans hold so dear,” she said on her Facebook page, which, by the way, has 1.5 million fans.
I’ve snipped much of the smug prose from the liberal writer but if your up to it you really should read the whole thing, just to get a feel for why Sarah is so popular. It’s writers like this, and talking heads like Matthews, and politicians like Reid, who force vast swaths of this country to turn to someone real and honest like Palin.
In the end I have to agree with Matthew Continetti here:
Critics will criticize. Democrats will attack. But Palin may have found her niche as the cult figure who mobilizes conservatives and conservative-leaning independents to the barricades. And as she’s said, she doesn’t need an office to progress this movement.
And mobilize she has done.
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🙂 Way to go Sarah we love you.
SARAH’S MOVES HAVE BEEN BRILLIANT.THE OVER-RATED OBAMA’S NOT SO…..
Poor old Nixon missed out on a trick there. After quitting the presidency he should have started a chat show. Kerr-ching $$$
niche as the cult figure
?WTH?
since when did a person who mobilizes conservatives and conservative-leaning independents to the barricades become a “cult” person.
I guess that Reagan, Bush, Ike or any leader of a polictal group were nothing but “cult” figures for thier supporters.
UNSEEN no wonder you choose your name[ unseen]because your comment was very inappropriate,what do you know about the difrence between cult and appreciation of a real true person showing her intelligencein real words,
ILOVEBEE,
I know Palin is not a “cult leader”. I also know that the term “cult figure” is an off-hand attack on Palin used by her distractors to try to make her support seem less/wrong. And if Palin is a “cult figure” then every politcal leader of this nation is/was a “cult figure”. How that is inapproriate is beyond me.
Words mean things. And the word “cult” has a particular meaning. A meaning that has nothing to do with Palin’s popularity.
I wonder how many times this media sophisticate rolled his eyes at Obama’s healthcare sob-sisters, rows of white-coated doctors, and little boys who make commercials for him and stand by his side while he signs the bill. 🙄
I’m guessing zero. No wait – I’ll grant that he may be sophisticated enough to recognize BS no matter where he sees it. But I doubt he ever writes about it unless it is being done by a political enemy of his patrons. 😉
UNSEEN hi yes i see what you you mean now,sorry if i was jumping on the cult name,i took it on the wrong side,thank’s for explaining more,bye 🙄
A small thing maybe, but why did he write “Ms. Palin”? She is married. What happened to “Mrs.”? Is there something about current writing standards I don’t know?
“Ms.” is generally considered a proper form of address for any adult female, regardless of marital status. It’s simply the female equivalent of “Mr.”
Oh. OK. Thanks.
>>“Ms.” is generally considered a proper form of address for any adult female, regardless of marital status.>>
Not necessarily. My guess is that Sarah would prefer Mrs. Ms. is more of a liberal feminist type nomenclature. It came out of the 60s when the feminist movement got into full swing, and some women seemed to think it was derogatory to indicate a woman’s marital status, when such an indication was not used for males. To each his own, but I think Sarah Palin is independent enough not to worry about that particular concern. I have a feeling she might be proud of being “Mrs. Palin”…
Though I must yield the point that it _is_ considered a proper form of address… especially if a woman has not declared a preference. In other words – if you don’t know if the woman is married, or if she has a preference – it’s proper and “safe”.
Thank God for Sarah!
I voted for her once.
And by God I’ll do it again.
Those sneering Beltway boys and girls can go piss up a rope. Yeah, the chicks too! 8)
Sarah Palin is an idiot…
Oh, and I’m a conservative, a real conservative. Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave and Ike would be disgusted!
Ike was not a conservative. He was a Moderate.
Reagan was a Conservative as was Barry Goldwater. Mrs. Palin made the mistake of running on a ticket with a left of center Republican, was assailed by idiots like you as well as other idiots in the Media for her ability to call things as they are and not as she believes the idiots want to hear.
She resigned her Office as Governor to spare the Taxpayers of Alaska the expense of frivolous and mean spirited litigation that proved to be unfounded. If intelligent, independent and strong spirited women offend you, you are again playing the fool.