Sarah Palin: The Liberals' Nightmare

FrontPage magazine has interviewed John Ziegler, the former talk radio host who directed Blocking 'The Path to 9/11’. His new documentary film is Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted.

Here are the excerpts where Sarah Palin was discussed:

FP: What threat did Palin pose to the Obama campaign and why did the media treat her so viciously?

Ziegler: Obviously the only time McCain took a real lead was after Palin's convention speech. She represented the worst nightmare for liberals because she had been able to reach national prominence without already having been discredited by the news media.

The media lost their ability to decide for America whether she was acceptable or not. She had been able to go over their heads and that proved that the initial attempt to destroy her had backfired. This is part of the reason the media needed to bring out the big guns to destroy her. Again, the examples are too plentiful to get into here, but it was more a death by a thousand cuts, most of which were illegitimate with the public's belief in one myth making it easier for them to believe the next one. You have to watch the film to see it for yourself.

FP: Why was the feminist Left so silent in witnessing the media treating a woman so badly?

Ziegler: It seems pretty obvious that it was because she was obviously very pro-life and someone who actually lived that belief. But I think it went further than that. I think the fact that she was a very successful career woman, with five children, who still clearly loves her husband, who kills her own food and who looks amazing doing all of it, is a very threatening package for a lot of women. Unfortunately, Sarah Palin makes a lot of women feel badly about themselves.

FP: What has been the reception to this film? Has the media recognized its arguments, let alone existence?

Ziegler: The answer to that is complex. The reaction of audiences has been amazing. We often get standing ovations when it is screened and the e-mail I get from people who have purchased the DVD is overwhelmingly positive. As for the media, I have been on The View and The Today Show among many other shows, so it is hard to say they have ignored the film, but some elements (particularly the written press) of the media have pretty much done so -- at least so far. Interestingly there has not been even ONE allegation of me getting a fact wrong or even of a distortion. The best one liberal critic could come up with was basically that I didn’t have video of Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson mapping out their plan to get Palin. I figured that pretty much meant I had nailed it.

Read the full interview here. You can order your own copy of Media Malpractice on DVD here.

- JP