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Back in the old days, when we had to debunk Palin smears by hand or steam power, the process was tedious but thorough. These days, media smears are being debunked almost as fast as they can make them up.
Sooner or later - personally, I hope it's later - the media and the left are going to realize how much damage they've done themselves since August 29. They're going to remember the story of the boy who cried wolf. In their desperation to find anything that can be weaponized against Palin, they have cried wolf over and over again, trumpeting and overselling petty, meaningless, vaporous, gossamer crap and claiming that it's a serious criticism. It has all turned out to be insubstantial.
I suspect that eventually, they may find something that really does hit Palin square amidships. By the time they find it, however, I think that the public will have grown tired of and insensitive to the sound of the left bleating about Palin, and having finally found the talking point they were looking for all along, the left will find that it falls on deaf ears. The relentless stream of lies they're hurling at Palin, combined with readily-accessible debunkings, is or should be building a presumption in the minds of ordinary Americans that the critics are full of it. They may not be able to shake it if the media ever does get the goods on her.
Added: Geez, even Camille Paglia says that "[r]ight now, I don't believe much of what I read or hear about Palin in the media." She adds that the reaction to Palin's selection was a "hallucinatory hurricane in the leftist blogosphere, which unleashed a grotesquely lurid series of allegations, fantasies, half-truths and outright lies about Palin. What a tacky low in American politics...."
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My understanding of the
My understanding of the MSNBC situation is that NBC sees the poor ratings and the flood of angry email. Olberman and Mathews are being leashed. I think public reaction and dropping viewership is making a dent. Of course the trigger was the Hillary supporter's disgust with media coverage and vetting during the primaries. That major networks are in the tank for Obama rubbed many Democrats as a violation of journalism 101. THis isn't new to Republicans.
I've said this before. As Obama cries that Palin isn't vetted and that the GOP is trying to reinvent record and history brings up the nagging sore that Obama wasn't vetted nor was his autobiography. Beyond people like Joy from the View tonight claiming on CNN that Palin will set women back decades are the rumblings of the public. Joy says McCain is 100% for Bush's view and Palin more so....LOL. She questions the polls that say women have shifted to McCain. Her take is Palin's rise is because men think she is pretty and that the media has been easy on her. No wonder people are disgusted. Yep, Joy is angry Palin doesn't wear contacts. Larry King corrects her that McCain is FOR embryonic stem cell research. Frankly. I agree with Simon; I hope media keeps up the over the top stuff. When Colbert is no longer funny and mainstream has turned away, perhaps media will consider their approach to reporting and journalism. We are seeing new lows in both areas and the majority is beginnng to take notice.
The more media and cable air these people to the exclusion of sane centered commentators, ratings will drive them to reconsider.
said the exact same thing at donklephant; what sticks
I said the exact same thing yesterday at donklephant, that Obamaphiles were tossing anything that might stick and thus looking petty. I advised keeping mouths shut until they found something of legitimate substance.
The one thing that seems to have a little stick to it is the notion that Palin's anti-earmark zeal is newfound, that in the past the record suggests a see-no-evil approach to accepting federal dollars. And while that's not very surprising, it does cast suspicion on how genuine and longstanding her position on federal spending is.
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole
Exactamundo.
I've been thinking much the same thing for a while now. In the far-left and the MSM's lunatic rush to get Palin, they have made havoc of almost all their credibility, so that when legit issues with Palin come up, the messengers in the press will be either ignored or scoffed at.
"In the world you will find tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world."
John 16:33
flumuxed!
The word I keep thinking of is "flumuxed". The Obama campaign is flumuxed by the whole thing (and probably more than a little because of a deep sense of their campaign's "inevitability") The MSM is flumuxed, too. What surprises me is there's not a greater sense of self-awareness on the part of the Media.
Chris
PS I'm waiting for someone in Obama's campaign as the next volley in the "lipstick wars" to say to Gov. Palin "If you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen!.....what a minute, that didn't come out right"
re: heat...kitchen
See speech...
"She hasn?t been on the scene, you know, she?s got five kids and my hat goes off to anybody who?s looking after five. I?ve got two and they tire Michelle and me out!" --Barack Obama
Nasty backhanded "compliment," implying she has too much on her plate already.
Gonna have to disagree w/ya.
Gonna have to disagree w/ya. I don't think that the Left believes any of their stuff has been debunked. It's selective hearing & selective logic. The problem is that they're the loudest (I believe), so that's what undecideds are more likely to hear. :/
*Yes, really, Simon's wife. Envy or pity me. ;)