It appears the left wing media a.k.a. MSM is going into full time attack mode on Governor Palin. Lets start with Dowd a longtime feminista at the New York Times, she goes over the top:
when the two-year governor of an oversized igloo becomes commander in chief after the president-elect chokes on a pretzel on day one …
the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform heels that reveal a pink French-style pedicure, and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait. Putting away her breast pump, she points her rifle and informs him frostily that she has some expertise in Russia because it’s close to Alaska. “Back off, Commie dude,” she says. “I’m a much better shot than Cheney.”
I guess we are now seeing the second confirmed cases of Palin Derangement Syndrome.(Hat Tip: Malkin) Colmes claiming she is the grandmother of her fifth child may be the first case. It appears that demeaning Republican women is a cottage industry in media. Carlin attacked Barbara Bush by calling her a ‘Silver douche bag’. Senator Thompson’s wife was called a stripper by MSNBC. The instances of nastiness toward Nancy Reagan are too numerous to go into, and Senator Hutchinson was attacked by Al Franken who made sexual references regarding the Senator. The worst are the feminists who attack the women who do not agree with their anti-family, anti-male agenda.
If a woman is against killing her own offspring the people from NOW, Planned Parenthood, MSM, and left end of the blog-sphere will be coming for you. You will be dehumanized, mocked, and slandered because you have sold out. This is not tolerated by the sisterhood. The cult of tolerance finds conservatives, especially conservative women, intolerable.
In Malkin’s recent column, “The Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse” she says:
There’s something about outspoken conservative women that drives the Left mad. It’s a peculiar pathology I’ve reported on for more than 15 years, both as a witness and a target. Thus, the onset of Palin Derangement Syndrome in the media, Democrat circles, and the cesspools of the blogosphere came as no surprise. They just can’t help themselves.
Liberals hold a special animus for constituencies they deem traitors. Minorities who identify as social and economic conservatives have left the plantation and sold out their people. Women who put an “R” by their name have abandoned their ovaries and betrayed their gender.
This is spot on. For example there are is Sally Quin of newsweek:
My first reaction was shock. Then anger. John McCain chose a running mate simply because she is a woman and one who appealed to the Republican’s conservative evangelical base. Now, with news that Palin’s 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant, McCain’s pick may not even find support among “family values” voters.
Thanks Sally, us folks in the evangelical base just love being dismissed by important people like you. While we do not support Palin’s daughter for getting pregnant, we do support the reaction to the mistake. Keep the baby, get married, take responsibility. Your end of the political spectrum would instead advocate not ‘punishing Bristol’ and murdering the baby instead. Then comes your ‘Fathers Knows Best’ fifties vibe:
Evangelical women also will have to decide if they will vote against their conscience by voting to put the mother of young children in a job outside the home that will demand so much of her time and energy.
Would you even care to mention this if Palin where an abortion propent running on the Democrat ticket? Interesting how staying home even finds its way onto the radar screen when the woman in question does not share your world view.
Finally there comes the risible:
The calculation on the part of the McCain people is clear. Palin’s candidacy could draw some of the 18-million Hillary Clinton voters who are not happy she lost and who want to vote for a woman on a national ticket.
You mean McCain is playing politics, while campaigning for political office? This is unheard of! Imagine that a politician would pick a running mate in order to help himself get into office. That is unforgivable! Its almost as bad as a candidate of change picking the ultimate Washington insider in order to trowel on a layer of experience onto a ticket whose nominee has 150 days in the Senate.
Andrea Peyser, from the NY Post, has noted the avalanche of misogyny, the “why don’t you stay home” and responds:
When Joe Biden tragically lost his wife and infant daughter in a car wreck in 1972, not a single colleague, friend or competitor advised him to quit his newly won Senate seat to raise his two little surviving sons.
Biden is a guy, AND, more importantly he is not a conservative. Since he is not a traitor to the screaching sisterhood, he can keep his job. Peyser notes:
If Sarah Palin, tapped as John McCain’s running mate, were a man, it’s unlikely we’d even be having this conversation. (A man, or a Democrat.)
One of the beautiful things about being a leftist is you never have to say sorry. Hypocrites like these fail to see the irony of telling a woman in 21st century America that she needs to stay home in order to care for the kids.
Susan Reimer from the Baltimore Sun asks, “Why this woman?” Maybe because Hillary Clinton was a non-starter for the Republican party, Sue? Reimer huffs:
He seems to think that my girlfriends and I are so disappointed that an utterly qualified woman is not going to be president that we will jump at the chance to vote for an utterly unqualified woman for vice president.
Actually no Reimer, McCain thinks that Palin is a woman with more qualifications to run than Barak Obama. Palin is more conservative than McCain, this will fire up the Republican base. That she is a woman is a nice twist, because no one is thinking that a pedantic ideologue such as yourself is going to break ranks with the sisterhood, but independent woman might. In short, its not about you, Sue.
just an interesting thought, number of times obama has pulled the “race card” in the presidential campaign=0
number of times repubs have pulled the “gender card” in the past week since palin’s nomination=unable to count. but here’s the latest:
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/09/gop_women_call_palin_critics_sexist.html
dowd is critical of everyone and in that same manner, even obama. you need to get used to reading objective news sources. they will, from time to time, say something critical about someone you support.
but you are right, the msm can be particularly hard on the parents of teenage mothers and the girls themselves. let’s look at what the true blowhard doofus o’reilly say:
“On the pinhead front, 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. The sister of Britney says she is shocked. I bet.
Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl, who obviously have little control over her or even over Britney Spears. Look at the way she behaves.”
from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317577,00.html
not to mention limbaugh…
but as tucker writes, maybe repubs will learn to extend this new found compassion to those that are not republican, upper-middle class and, dare i say, white.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2008/09/03/tucked_0903.html
Given that the MSM and the Dems believe that the election of BHO is a slam dunk with the resulting belief that if they had any decency Bush would resign now and McCain would endorse the immediate election of the Annointed One by acclamation, why are the Dems freaking out about a gun-toting, pro-life female from the wilderness? You’d think they’d be delirious with joy at McCain’s stupidty.
But they aren’t, are they?
Many feminist and NOW (National Organization for Women) lost all credibility during the Clinton years.
They sat quiet, or even worse defended Clinton’s behavior as he and his cigar played with a girl not much older than his own daughter.
If Clinton had been a Republican NOW would have accused him of everything from sexual coercion to abuse of power, and they would have been correct; but because he was a Democrat that sat quiet, thus they have zero credibility to say a word (for or against) Palin
“You’d think they’d be delirious with joy at McCain’s stupidty.”
I’m pretty happy with his pick. It’s a cross between Harriet Miers and Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale. I like how the right now has to compromise everything the mccain campaign was about (which wasn’t a whole lot to begin with) to defend this lady.
I don’t think Obama is a shoe in by any means. It’s a close race. But let me ask you, hypothetically, if there was a videotape floating around of Barak Obama giving an address at a separatist faction’s convention, would you let that slide? You act like the Democrats ought to pack up and vote for McCain or else they’re all sexist pigs!
Do you remember how many times the “MSM” which supposedly loves Obama so much aired that Rev. Wright tape? You think that was a ploy to help him out? …and Obama wasn’t even there at the time!
You’re problem isn’t that the media is out to get you. It’s Mccain’s misjudgment and this Palin character with her laundry list of scandals that reads more and more like the lyrics to the 12 Days of Xmas every day!
“and facing down Vladimir Putin in an island in the Bering Strait” ironically, that’s exactly the situation she’d find herself in as leader of an independent Alaska. Ha! Long Live Georgia!
THIS JUST IN:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/05/alaska-gov-and-longshot-m_n_116974.html
Hahahahahaha!! hohohohohoho!!!!
this, plus the bridge to nowhere, I see a pattern of flip-flopping emerging!
for an angry liberal, I’m all smiles right now!
Chief, I think he did play the race card a few times – I’ll try to find you some links tonight
“But let me ask you, hypothetically, if there was a videotape floating around of Barak Obama giving an address at a separatist faction’s convention, would you let that slide?”
You seem to forget, Puffalump, that many of us on this NoVATownHall blog think NOVA is really YOVA — Yankee-Occumpied Virginia.
Obama (the “brand” as his campaign execs call it) has been brilliant with the race card.
He played it early and often, by talking about how his opponents would use it.
“Oh, yes, they will! They will SAY…that guy has a funny NAME!! They will SAY…”
And so on.
(Do you see the light?)
by brilliant i think it’s that he has not used it and been successful. that statement is true, name and patriotism are called into question. even if that quote were refering to race, i don’t recall a moment at the democratic convention when criticisms of him were attributed to racism. sexism seems to be a daily topic at the republican convention, and on the compaign trail. but maybe it should be corrected, obama=1, republicans=countless.
el jefe,
“just an interesting thought, number of times obama has pulled the “race card” in the presidential campaign=0″
That is bull. Obama even did it to Bill Clinton. The whole they don’t look like me on the dollar bill was one example, and it is not even the most egregious.
“dowd is critical of everyone and in that same manner, even obama.”
She specializes in Republicans. I read her whenever I am sleepy and need to get my blood pressure back up.
“you need to get used to reading objective news sources. they will, from time to time, say something critical about someone you support.”
You’re so cute when you wax naive. Let me explain something to you sir, there are NO ‘objective news sources’. Everyone brings their baggage to the table. What to report/What is newsworthy is the first subjective act in the process. Then comes the choice of facts and so forth. We all have a lens through which we peer at the world. Journalists also have lenses. Once upon a time they came from various walks of life, now they come from journalism schools, and they all are out to save the world and want to ‘talk truth to power’. The best one can do is pick up commentary from opposite sides of the political spectrum and read about the same event/topic. The truth can be found in the cross fire. As for those I support, you ought to read what I say about those I ’support’.
“Now most teens are pinheads in some ways. ”
Agreed. I have one, she is great, but some days, pow to the moon!
“But here the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl”
There is a point when you let them go, and all you can do is pray that they will do the right thing. Some blame does fall on you because you were not effective in teaching right from wrong, but that only goes so far. The little dears make their own decisions. What you do when presented with ‘good news’ also reflects on you.
NAIL ON THE HEAD!!! There is a gender war that seeks only to neuter America. Women are to be masculine, pant-suit wearing, and angry. Men are to be soft and in touch with their feminine side, and should never see a woman as what the Bible calls “a weaker vessel” (like fine china). Because Palin is devoted to her family, doesn’t kill babies, and is and feminine, the liberal left HATE her.
Has anyone in the Republican party or media attacked Obama’s or Biden’s families? I think not. This only exposes the below-the-belt way of the liberal left. If you are against Palin’s leadership, then grow up and say it while leaving everything personal alone!
jacob,
i would say clinton pulled the race card more often, not obama, mostly to do better in penn, kentucky, and a few other places. that jackson comment was a huge gaffe meant to undermine obama. but seriously, with respect to the pres campaign, i haven’t heard another one cited yet. even with the dollar bill comment, which is pretty thin, he has not complained that attacks on him were racially motivated. there has not been a single day without republicans complaing about gender bias.
i’ll admit objective was the wrong word, my former profs in college would be disappointed. ‘more objective’ would be more correct though. as with science, there is always some bias in the selection, but there is more accurate and no attempt at all to be accurate. multiple sources i would say is good. with multiple commentaries, i’m not sure two conflicting lies merge into truth. they are fun to read to get your blood boiling or to appreciate a good speech.
and dude, cute? save that talk for palin.
TJ: are you saying the media and the republicans have never attacked michelle obama? chelsea clinton? do you need citations?
i don’t hate palin, and she doesn’t seem like a weak vessel to me. and speaking of the Bible, doesn’t paul say women shouldn’t hold authority over men? why don’t biblical literalists have a problem with this?
el jefe,
Nowadays the bias is so bad that if becomes impossible to discern the true signal. Multiple sources helps.
as for …
“i’m not sure two conflicting lies merge into truth.”
According to our society’s theory regarding jurisprudence, a jury hearing an adversarial debate is most likely to arrive at the correct verdict. I apply this same approach to the news.
el jefe,
you stated he has not played the race card at all. now it is less than clinton, considering how far in the tank MSM is for ca we just agree that he has, whether he did more often than clinton is irrelevant.
jacob, you caught me. i am little lazy with my language after a couple of beers (and i really shouldn’t comment when watching football, even a dull game). the clinton’s pulled it, not obama. i can’t even think of when he did during the primaries. the clintons drove the wedge that will take some time to heal for them. i really think obama’s campaign does not want to make this an issue, cause he was given another opportunity recently: http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002944263
but again, i was focusing on the presidential campaign, the one against mccain (the guy who has stood up to bush since 2008), not the primaries. if i’m wrong, let me know.
I do not have a problem with any woman in power. I have a problem when a woman is obviously being used as a token and posing for progressive women when she is supporting a party that has voted against the Violence Against Women Bill. She is a member of a party that voted against Universal Rights for Women on an international scale. She is with a party that seeks to take away a woman’s right to choose. Palin is with a party that continues to use hateful bigotry as a way to mobilize their base. Yes, the race card has been played, by Obama’s opponents. (Osama versus Obama, He’s a secret Muslim, He’s uppity (simply because he’s educated unlike McCain and Palin), and the list goes on). It is effective because many people whether we openly admit it or not are looking for a reason to not vote for the black guy.
El jefe, please don’t mention the Bible to these church members, you need to speak with real Christians to have a Biblical discussion.
“…a party that has voted against the Violence Against Women Bill.”
Huh?
National Research Center for Women & Families
el jefe,
Are you claiming that Obama wasn’t playing the race card when he said he didn’t look like the presidents pictured on money? As Robert Shapiro once said, that’d playing the race card “from the bottom of the deck”.
I understand why the feminists disagree with some of Sarah Palin’s views, like abortion, and I understand their disappointment at loosing Hillary as the first female President, or Vice President. But, now they have a real chance to elect the first ever female Vice President. A woman who exemplifies so many amazing qualities, including her successes and 85% approval rating as Alaska’s governor, mother of five, and the whole nine yards. In addition to breaking the glass ceiling, Palin can finally bring about tremendous reforms for women.
As International abuses keep coming to light regarding women’s rights, including everything from burkas, to white slavery, to honor killings, you would certainly think that women would be tripping over themselves to elevate one of their own to such a high position. What a shame the feminists are so petty that they can’t see the big picture, set aside their conflicting grievances, and make a couple of concessions, in order to progress in such a big way.
I’m pretty sure Gov Palin wears the scorn of NOW as a badge of courage.
Gina
Voting for a woman simply because she is a woman doesn’t speak well for your integrity, and the same goes for blacks voting for Obama just because he is black.
A man can do as much for women as a woman can. And for you to say
“…they can’t see the big picture, set aside their conflicting grievances and MAKE A COUPLE OF CONCESSIONS. in order to progress in such a big way.” (big way?) shows you to be a person of rather flexible convictions.
We should trip over ourselves to elevate one of their (women) own to such a high position? – Pretty soon somebody will demand sainthood for Sarah Palin, the PERFECT FEMALE. Right!
I don’t think Governor Palin is looking to be canonized Lovisa, just elected.
This is just one more thing that sets her apart from the Democratic ticket…
Lovisa, I agree voting for a woman just because she is a woman is stupid, but I don’t think Gina is saying that.
BTW, nobody is perfect, but some are more perfect than others – so get used to it:)
Cathymac,
don’t bother trying to explain the obvious. It requires a level of honesty on the part of the recpient. You won’t find that in this instance.
jacob really dislikes me, doesn’t he?
dans –
I don’t think Sarah Palin herself is looking to be canonized, but it seems that in some circles it has already happened. She does not give the impression of being a “here I am – lucky you!” type, rather she comes through as true “can do” type. I rather admire her for her for her ackomplishments.
That, however, doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with her. and I DO NOT want her to become vice president.
Lovisa,
“I don’t think Sarah Palin herself is looking to be canonized, but it seems that in some circles it has already happened. ”
I believe you are confusing her supporters with Obama’s. Why is it that the left is so quick to accuse others of that which they are guilty of themselves ?
Dan,
The left is inherently a pack of narcissistic navel gazers. Care to bet what really bothers the left is that Palin actually did change things where ever she governed, where as His One-ness only talks about it. ‘I am the one you have been waiting for!’, is all to true. I have been waiting for something like this. It is the same expectation of someone in CA waiting for a earth quake of 9 on the Richter scale.
Idol worshipping is taking over – each party has its own messiah.
Wonder who Lou forget-his-last-name will come up with when he has the Independents on his show? A lesser messiah. A satyr maybe.
Cathymac
It’s hard to admit that there might be others more perfect me (sorry, that should be “I” in perfect English). I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong. – My only fault is my modesty!
You know the old song: “Oh Lord, it’s hard to be humble, when you’re perfect in eveeerry waaay….”
…..but I’m doing the best that I can.
Nacissistic navel gazers. Oh the visions in my inner eye…
“Idol worshipping is taking over – each party has its own messiah.”
Sorry, but I can’t agree with this. If you believe this, then you have a very dim view of those around you.
Maybe if you spent less time around Democrats, your outlook would improve ?
Some Reps worship Sarah – some Dems worship Barack.
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Me, I’m like the Muslim, Mohammed Ali, THE GREATEST!
On your knees you non-believers. Lovisa rocks!
Lovisa rules!
It’s about time…
Let me preface this by saying that I am a 43 year old mother of two. My elder son was diagnosed with autism about 14 months ago. Thanks to the “No Child Left Behind Act” http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020108.html and a whole bunch of my own personal advocacy on his behalf, he is currently in a good school with an individual education plan. (Republicans do have a social conscience despite what you read in the media or on CNN). I started my own business 8 years ago as an independent contractor while pregnant with my second child. And I can honestly say that because of the women who fought for access to an education and the right to vote long before me, I have wage parity with my male counterparts. In fact, I earn more than the majority of the men in my brokerage.
I find the veiled criticism of Governor Palin’s home life by bringing the topic to the stage to be discriminatory. Such comments and questions about whether there is time for her to be a parent if she accepts office have never been asked of Senator Obama. It’s the classic double standard and it is coming from the party who claims birth of the feminist movement. It is deeply disturbing.
Did I ever suffer from gender discrimination? Absolutely. After receiving my bachelor’s degree in college, I had to go to work as a file clerk in an office near the division where I wished to work in order to break the ceiling (to be considered for another position) because the organization had a policy of hiring from within. Unlike some of the men that were hired in my work group fresh out of college, I wasn’t given that opportunity until I had proven myself a dedicated and intelligent employee in the secretarial pool across the hall for several months. I chose to table my opinion about working beneath my education level, and did the smart thing to effect change from within. Ultimately, with the same resume plus months of experience in the department next door, I was granted the interview I had sought previously but wasn’t previously granted. With a strong interview and the character reference and testimonial about my work ethic from the clerical supervisor, I made the cut and was offered the position.
Even after I was hired to my new position, I found that some of the greatest resistance and sexism came from the older women in my office. They would gossip about my hair being too long, my skirts being too short, the fact that I was single in a small town, all superficial inappropriate things and nothing to do with my job performance. I was a threat in a skirt. They never spoke about the males who were hired at the same time that I was in this same catty manner. I have lived through it. It wasn’t fun. But I do believe that in many cases it is better now than in years past, but clearly it isn’t over.
The early years in my career were in the public sector and my talents were ultimately recognized and rewarded with increases in my job classification to a level 3 supervising appraiser before transitioning into a private sector position. For 5 years, I remained a threat in a skirt to a certain segment of the older (lifer public employees) who held the high positions in my office.
While looking for the blog “Women against Biden” and I found this site. I can’t believe that in such a sexist and spiteful maneuver Hillary Clinton was spurned and passed over Biden- the man cheated in college as his protege Ted Kennedy also did. How can one tout an ivy league education when one admittedly cheated to get his diploma? Interesting.
I found Chelsea Clinton’s words about her mother at the convention moving. This decision against one of the top female role models in the nation demonstrates the Obama camp’s poor decision making and sexist way his campaign shut her out. She was too threatening. Although Biden was vocally critical of Obama during the primaries, “The presidency is not something that lends itself to on the job training.”He now apparently has changed his tune providing he is on the ticket to train Obama. They chose a less threatening running mate because Hillary Clinton knew too much for their topsy turvy ticket. Instead of a dream team, this is now the sleep team.
As for Palin, I find her story inspirational and compelling. Obama has less executive experience and he is running for President. Governor Palin is the true feminist icon. Her political identity is her own. No man carved the path for her. She’s not married to the establishment literally or figuratively. Palin is the genuine article, a self-made natural leader.
This is an electric and history making election, no matter what your political beliefs are. It’s about time that there was a woman on the ticket for national office. 24 years since Geraldine Ferraro is too long to wait.