No liberally-biased media, of course.
I guess the concern over violence against women from those on the left doesn’t happen when you’re a Palin.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8oeilxCsUU[/youtube]
The overwhelming sense of superiority some in the press feel toward the Palins simply clouds their better judgment. Costello would surely see the error of her ways if she were to read her disparate reactions to these two strikingly similar events, but, in the heat of the moment, she did not see Sarah Palin’s daughter as a women who had endured a physical assault; she saw her as a caricature worthy of mockery.
In an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday morning, Lewis joined a group of contrite Morning Joe hosts who conceded that they, too, initially covered the Palin “brawl” as a joke. “It did definitely have a humorous tone to it,” Brzezinski conceded. Lewis had shamed them into penitence.
“What happened to her is horrific, and I don’t think we should be joking about it,” Lewis said to the somber nods of his interlocutors.
Rothman runs through some clips of mainstream newscasters who found the Palin assault humorous and were shamefully derisive in covering the story.
Bristol Palin has now come out and expressed her side of what happened:
First, the media said Trig was not really my mom’s kid.
Then, they claimed my mom said “I can see Russia from my house.”
Recently, they said my parents are giving a divorce.
And now, they’re saying my family started a “drunken brawl.”
Most of the time, I let the lies pass. After all, the truth eventually comes out. But when people are selling “scoop,” photos, and false information… sometimes the truth just isn’t as profitable.
That’s why, after a month and a half of hearing rumors about myself and family, I’ve finally decided to comment about the situation. Instead of listening to all the people who weren’t there — people who claim they heard this from their cousin/brother/sister-in-law/step-daughter/long lost little brother – let me tell you what actually happened.
Read her story.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
@Tom:
That would be the liberal thug that went to a private party and started a fight for publicity. The left is the root of most problems.
@Rich Wheeler:
The left is just confused by a beautiful woman that is smart and articulate. The left has none. Just Paltrow.
@Ronald+J.+Ward:
Palin left office because her family were becoming targets and she could not take that. The left was successful in harassing the family and Palin herself with lawsuits and personal attacks. That’s the fact.
@This One:
Again, it’s you. And you must love losers; you keep electing them.
@rockybutte:
You forgot who the boorish people were; the liberals that crashed the party and started a fight. Typical liberal scub bag behavior, “the ends justifies the means” thugs.
@Wordsmith: Actually, I have no problem with those like This one appearing in full glory; it never hurts to demonstrate just how ignorant and vile the left actually is.
@Bill:
The host and owner of the house “crashed the party”? Huh?
http://www.adn.com/article/20141021/police-photos-audio-released-scene-party-brawl-involving-palins
@Bill:” Confused” That would be you Bill. Who were the liberal “boors with s.b. behavior” who “crashed the party?”
Sounds like an alcohol fueled brawl with no winners. Bet Mac sorry he missed it.
@RICH+WHEELER: Obviously you didn’t read the account of what happened, who started the fight. Of course not, because that would be missing the entire point of why the fight was started to begin with.
@Bill: There are 3 sides to every story, and fight. What we do know is fight started by people invited to the party. Most say host’s drunken employees and drunken Palin kids got into it—you know otherwise?
Democrat candidate for Governor of South Carolina, Vince Sheehan, says of Nikki Haley:
“We’re gonna escort the whore out the door.”
Nah, the Democrats aren’t waging a “war on women.”
@retire05, #56:
The only result a Google search comes up with for that attributed quote is your own post. Do you have another? Any gubernatorial candidate saying such a thing about a female opponent has just disqualified himself, in my opinion. There’s a standard that needs to be maintained.
@Greg:
I’m not your personal Google, Greggie.
As I pointed out, a Google search was unsuccessful.
@Greg: BOOM
How sad that left wing true believers are so quick to claim a conservative is claiming a falsehood because they are a) too lazy or b) too stupid to find the proof.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1smHJ9CgkmA
Sorry, RW, seems your BOOM machine shoots only blanks.
@RICH+WHEELER: I know this: that when the left wants to destroy an opponent, they will create chaos where there is none. Reference liberals going to Tea Party rallies with racist signs to stir up trouble or the Democrat in Denver breaking out his own windows in the campaign headquarters to blame it on Republicans. In this case, obviously a leftist stirred up trouble where there was none (much of a history of drunken brawls involving the Palins?) and, of course, the ravenous left grabbed it an stupidly ran with it. Obama has been such a failure that, for lack of any example of a success, the left is desperate for a story that will make them look better by comparison.
You are aware that the story of the “brawl” has blown over and now the story is left wing hypocrisy regarding violence against women, right?
@retire05, #61:
Thanks.
I think that might simply have been a case of a word, her, being misspoken. It could have been a Freudian slip, which sometimes reveals more than the speaker would like. Whatever it was, it probably isn’t going to help his own image much.
@Greg:
Greggie, no surprise you would try to make excuses for what is inexcusable behavior on the part of a Democrat. It would be interesting to know if Sheehan had used the “war on women” meme to fight against his opponent.
Make no mistake, there is a “war on women” going on, but it is being conducted by liberals who think women are nothing more than the sum of their reproductive parts.
@retire05, #64:
The difficulties republicans have with women and a number of other identifiable categories of voters isn’t just a PR problem. It has to do with their legislative voting records. People pay attention. The votes elected officials cast and the actions they take while in office add up into an overall impression.
According to this 2012 Pew study chart, there hasn’t been much change in the American public’s ideological balance for more than a decade. If republicans have lost voters, it isn’t because voters have become more liberal. It’s because the GOP has allowed itself to be pulled farther to the right, farther from the middle ground where most American voters feel comfortable. Most voters haven’t changed. The GOP has changed.
An independent party squarely in the middle ground could probably do very well.
@Greg:
Republicans tend to vote using their Christian beliefs as a guide line. Remember, the only Muslim that holds a elected federal office is a Democrat. But the left demeans Republicans because of those beliefs.
Wrong, the GOP has moved to the left, not right while the Democrats have become more and more Socialist in nature. Conservative voters understand there is not a dime’s worth of difference between a liberal Democrat and a liberal Republican. So the energy to GOTV for Republicans is not there.
@Greg: The GOP has not changed, unless it has moved more to the left due to public pressure. The move to the right is a perception, perpetrated by the left wing media. Keep in mind that for many, many people, what they see on NBC, ABC and CBS is ALL they see and this is definitely skewed left. Way left. Audio of the Zimmerman shooting was edited to make it sound racist; why? What purpose does racism where there is none serve? The CBS creation of “evidence” Bush avoided service in Vietnam; if he never did that, how does it serve the public to create such bogus “evidence”? Liberals admitting that they infiltrate Tea Party rallies to display racist signs and cause trouble; how does that promote a dialogue of more taxes or smaller government? Someone comes up behind a friend of the Palin’s and cold-cocks him to start a fight and the media characterizes it as a “Palin drunken brawl”; why?
It serves this purpose of demonizing conservatives and gratifying liberals. Pure and simple. If there is no racism, it must be created so that liberals can protect everyone from it. If Bush DID volunteer for service in Vietnam, how can Kerry be characterized as more worthy of the Presidency? If Tea Party rallies are peaceful, respectful and they clean up after themselves, how can their message be turned into a vile, racist anti-government rant? If the Palin’s, though conservative, go about their lives not insulting or harming anyone, how can they be vilified (certainly liberals cannot be expected to simply match ideologies and benefits)? The liberal media must transform the message into their message and it is widespread.
@retire05:
Utter nonsense. This isn’t something that would be difficult to prove. These people have voting records and party platforms. I can’t imagine the thickness of the bubble you inhabit to think the GOP where Ted Cruz is a viable candidate for the GOP nomination is more liberal than the GOP of Bob Dole or GHW Bush. Luckily we have data on the positions members of Congress take, so this doesn’t have to be a mystery.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/08/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-our-polarized-politics/
I’ve been alive and paying attention to American politics for long enough to have seen the GOP’s drift to the right with my own eyes. Many of today’s republican politicians make Ronald Reagan seem like a centrist.
@Tom:
I never said that Ted Cruz is more liberal than the GOP of Bob Dole or GHW Bush (noticing you used GWH, not GW). Bob Dole was a centrist, not a core conservative. So why do you want to attribute to me words I did not say? A nasty habit, that, Tom.
And Ted Cruz is the exception to the rule, not the norm. Cruz is even attacked by the left of center members of his own party, like Lindsay Graham and John McCain. I also disagree with the (Com)Post. The hard move to the left by Democrats makes it appear the Republicans have moved right. As a body politic, that is a wrong estimation. As to your link, it shows how each party votes in conjunction with their party, it does not show ideology although it does contain this little tidbit:
Any movement to the left by the Democrats can be accounted for by a decline in white representatives from the South and an increase in African-American and Latino representation.
@Greg:
Then you must be a newbe. Because the left has drifted farther into the realm of Socialism, it only appears the right has moved right. It is a mirage. Not true. Republicans have been drifting more to the center, and as long as they do, they will continue to lose elections. Why vote for Liberal Lite if it is a liberal you want?
@retire05: I heard” escort her out the door” —-it would have been escort THE whore out the door–he didn’t say that. Common sense
How stupid is this.lol
BOOM is the sound of you going off— again
@RICH+WHEELER:
It seems De Nile is not just a river in Egypt. Sad that you cannot even believe your own ears, or is it jus that you can manage to excuse any untoward remark if it comes from a Democrat?
And of course, everyone knows the audience was laughing because Sheehan said “her” not “whore.” The word “her” is soooo funny.
@Bill: Bill You are a true believer of the right wing message.
Cops say that multiple Palins were heavily intoxicated they were asked to leave by the property owner they arrived in a stretched limo like the limo liberals you righties see always sailing about
Bristol was wearing 300$ sunglasses. At night was she on meth ????
WE WANT MORE PSLIN POSTS !!!!
At least one per week
Please
Even Sarah is now saying she was embarrassed
Why was Bristol wearing shades at night ???
@John: You seem to know they were $300 shades — why don’t you answer yourself?
@RICH+WHEELER:
You are damn straight (well, so to speak). An economic environment without oppressive governmental interference, a government which pursues its Constitutional mandates (rather than ignoring those and reinventing the nation into the image of socialist Europe) and opportunities for each and every American or legal immigrant to achieve their dreams and goals.
Answer this question: Do you want the government to take a more active role in controlling your personal life? If you answered “Yes”, then would you feel this way if the president were George W Bush? If you answered “No”, then you are incapable of determining the direction of movement of Republicans from left to right or right to left because you are so completely biased to the left. Or perhaps psychopatic, or both. Probably both.
As if those on the right were truly advocates of keeping the government out of the most private aspects of people’s lives… These are the same people who want to force women confronted with unwanted and unplanned pregnancies to give birth, correct? And who would eliminate confidentiality between women and their doctors in order to achieve that end?
Nobody on the right seemed to have much trouble with provisions of the Patriot Act, or with the proclamations coming out of the White House that curtailed Constitutionally guaranteed rights and protections, until Bush’s successor walked in the door. I recall that you could mention Unitary Executive Theory and point out that it was now in practice and on steroids in the Bush White House, and get nothing but blank looks.
@Greg: Hey — if some woman wants to murder her baby and can get the go-ahead from the father — then fine go for it – at THIER expense and the abortion announcements need to be listed in the local paper — Keep your filthy murdering infanticide committing THIEVING hands out of my pockets!
Really dam pathetic that you liberal sh–t for brains have to rely on baby murdering whores and their ‘skipping up the rigging’ a$$hole fornicators for a voter base.
@Greg:
Incorrect. As usual. The right want nothing to do with abortions, including funding them, which is currently being done via Planned Parenthood. No, have all the abortions you want, just don’t ask me to pay for your irresponsibility and/or lack of respect for life.
Wrong again, and it wasn’t just leftists who were instructed to automatically oppose whatever Bush did. Many conservatives did (not me, though) on the grounds that it was intrusive. However, it wasn’t until Obama got a hold of it that it became a program to monitor EVERYONE and that, coupled with how he has used the IRS as a left wing political weapon, is what is most worrisome. Oh, you didn’t mention how Democrat objection to the Patriot Act ceased after Obama began renewing and broadening it. Remember, this is what set Snowden off on his treacherous spree.
@Budvarakbar, #82:
Anger, insults, and vulgarity seem to be the normal response when a rational rebuttal is lacking.
By the way, we’re not actually talking about what I want or what I approve of. We’re talking about each person’s fundamental right to make their own decisions about their own body, in accordance with their own beliefs and the dictates of their own conscience. Whether or not I approve or you approve is beside the point.
The Palins aren’t the only ones. Look what happens to blacks who break ranks with the dems and their ilk. Naturally, these folks aren’t racist because they support the dems.
http://abc7chicago.com/news/church-of-pastor-corey-brooks-burglarized-after-threats/365651/
@Bill:
Technically, Palin is a successful conservative feminist. Her political backing is gold to a republican candidate, and that both irks and creates fear in the hearts of “femiNazis” and trolls. (as this thread has established by the Alinsky style “war on conservative women” degradation by the FA troll brigade, some of whom are panting in misogynistic lust after the Palin women.
@Ditto: That is no mere assumption; that is liberal policy. Feminists cannot celebrate just any woman that reaches a position of prominent influence; they have to be liberal women. All others are sluts, c&nts, whores, and trailer trash and, if necessary, the left will invent whatever is required to “prove” it so.
@Bill:
A perfectly accurate and clear illustration of LIBERAL PROJECTION. That is all they have when ya scrape away some of the layers of their putrid BS!
@Budvarakbar: When I look at the intelligence, class and accomplishments of Condi Rice I’m all in.
Mac gave S.P. a shot and she more than ran with it. She knows how to fire up the base. But other than that??
No gravitas.
@Rich+Wheeler:
Gravitas the olde liberal BS word the ‘RAT’s MSM came up with to try to denigrate actual maturity, experience, and “AMERICAN” (Non Communist) credentials!
And Obama’s “gravitas” index? — less than zero!
As for the hildabeast — she has “gravitas” all right! Gravity has caught up to her a$$!
@Rich+Wheeler:
Sarah Palin was more representative of the “everyday” woman than any of the harpies in the Democratic Party. She comes from middle class (her father was a teacher), married a middle class man who was also a union member, and they both worked hard for what they earned. But that was the problem; SP WAS representative of millions of women all across the nation so the Democrats and their liberal hatchet men had to go after her.
If the things said about SP, and her family, had been said about a Democrat woman, the talking heads would have been up in arms. Instead, we get vile comments about Bristol Palin while the press pretty much ignores that Hunter Biden was mustered out of the Navy (after special consideration given to him to join the Navy in the first place due to his being Joe’s son) because he’s a coke head.
I’m not particularly a fan of SP, but face it; the “war on women” was clearly exhibited by the left when it came to her.
@retire05, #91:
According to a poll conducted in 2012, women voters preferred Hillary Clinton over Sarah Palin as a presidential candidate by a 2 to 1 margin. Palin would doom to failure any presidential ticket she became part of. I still can’t quite believe John McCain got stuck with her.
@Greg:
News flash, Greggie. It’s 2014.
@Greg:
Meaningless. You can generally either find or even sponsor a poll to give whatever results you desire depending on the wording of the question and the sampling criteria used. The poll you point to was sponsored by “SheZoom.com” a short-lived, self-claimed women’s issue website that isn’t even still in existence. The actual wording of the questions asked were not provided and besides that, as this poll happened in 2012 it is no longer valid.
Word and Ditto Thank you for your studied and informative responses to my query.
Greg,Ditto.05 re Sarah Palin
IMO Mac’s S.P. choice was a Hail Mary pass in a desperate attempt to win the votes of Hillary Dems that had been dealt a surprising defeat by BHO in 08 Dem. Primary. No chance. As a BHO precinct captain, making calls during Ca. primary, I had been assured by Hillary Dems. they would hold Party line in the PREZ. election no matter what.
She did fire up the base and raise money. For the election I’d say she was net neutral—losing many undecided indie voters. Mac was destined to lose no matter who he picked
HRC has always polled much higher than S.P. That hasn’t changed.
@Ditto, #94:
That’s entirely true, I admit. Blum & Weprin isn’t a well-know source of polling data. I don’t have any idea how good or bad their methodology might be.
@Rich+Wheeler, #95:
She undoubtedly fired up people who were already inclined to vote republican, but I’m not sure how many undecided voters she won over. She likely pushed some the other way. If the GOP has a Tea Party problem—which is premise I imagine most here would totally reject—Palin symbolizes it.
@Rich+Wheeler:
Why did you support BHO, and yet you don’t support Hillary? Because BHO is even more Socialist than Hillary is?
@retire05: I’ve mentioned at least 3 times why I don’t support HRC. Considering the way you shadow my comments, how’d you miss it?
Webb for Prez.
Greg As mentioned, I believe choice of Palin hurt Mac with Indies. Agree Palin/T.P. have no chance on the big screen.
@Rich+Wheeler:
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Don’t flatter yourself, RW. I have never been into arrogant left wing Socialists, especially one that dishonors the uniform he once wore, and there is no indication I ever will be.
@retire05: You are a sad old lady with the same repetitive boorish insults.