Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 8

This is the eighth in a series in which TX4P recommends some of the best writing which chronicles the liberation of Sarah Palin from the ball and chain of the Alaska governors office to her new role as a leading American conservative coalition builder.

We didn't think it would be possible for Stuart Schwartz to top his previous essay on Sarah Palin, but "Hating Sarah Palin - and Us" is another excellent piece of writing for the former newspaperman and current Liberty University faculty member at American Thinker:

Welcome to Mainstream Media World, where Sarah Palin is...us.

Call it Palin Envy, Palin Derangement Syndrome or even Palin Jealous. But the irrational hatred pouring from a thousand well-fed mouths, dripping from manicured fingers, from the talkers and squawkers of mainstream media, is fueled by the increasingly angry certainty that we -- and Gov. Sarah Palin -- simply don't know our place.

Witness rabid Palin-hater Kathleen Parker, the Washington Post and National Review columnist who has scored regular guest status on MSNBC for finding more than a hundred ways to say Palin is dumber than a chimpanzee... which, Parker opines, shows how much "deadwood" "Miss Alaska" has between her "low-brow" ears. After all, her "oogedy-boogedy" Christianity doesn't recognize the primacy of the primate in human affairs, putting her "Clearly Out of Her League" amongst cultured folks.

You don't need the brains of a chimpanzee to recognize the gulf between the world inhabited by Palin and that of Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal, National Review), and David Brooks (The New York Times and National Public Radio) to name a few of the leading conservative lights of Mainstream Media World. To them, Sarah Palin represents the average U.S. citizen, who inhabits the American version of Bizarro World, the alternate Earth of Superman comics that was pledged to hate beauty and love ugliness; Bizarro inhabitants could achieve nothing without help from their betters.

drillanwr blogs at Infidel's Paradise, where the motto is "Submission is not an option." That's where we found "Alaska’s Ethics Trolls and The Slime Trail They Leave Behind":

So, what you have waaaay up there in Alaska is a group of people (and if you are of conspiratorial mind … backed by those with power and money who have a vested interest in ‘taking out’ a strong, conservative, republican political woman holding the highest office in the nation’s largest state because they fear her potential) thinking they are either shooting fish in a barrel … or know full-well they are disgustingly using the courts and the legal system for their own purpose … and should be investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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I have decided her move was, yes, in her own best personal and political interest (i.e., removing the target) but also to preserve the governor’s office of the state that holds our largest and most promising source of oil/gas to the political party that is willing to drill for those resources, in addition to continued fishing rights for the fishing industry up there, and not allow it to be gained by the political party that is courted by fascist environmental groups that want NO drilling of fossil fuels on our own soil, or fishing in our own waters. Evidently Palin’s Lt.Gov. is on the same page as Palin on both these fronts and she feels she cannot only trust him, but wants him to establish himself as a comfortably experienced incumbent in the next election after finishing out her term -- hopefully without negative controversy. In doing so Palin has not only made a strong attempt to keep the Governor’s seat for the republicans who respect and understand Alaska’s natural resources, but has possibly saved thousands of jobs and the economy of Alaska and Alaskans.

And THAT really pisses-off those complaint trolls.

It’s the Saul Alinsky game being played here, and Sarah Palin seems to be standing taller and stronger against this beast...

Rev. Michael Bresciani has been a pastor, host of his own radio show and an author of two books and many articles appearing in periodicals from Guideposts to Catholic Digest. "Sarah Palin: The Media’s Unacknowledged Shame" is from Christian Voice magazine:

The stories about Sarah Palin are fair game but the twists and spins added to them are not and will never be. Move over homophobia - now there’s Paliphobia. Is the media so afraid of the potential of the Palin run in 2012 that they thought only a four year beating until the starting gun was fired could assure them they won’t get kicked out of the bed with the Obama administration?

After enduring the onslaught of newsmongers with insatiable hopes of dirt and sleaze directed both at her and her family, Palin’s resignation may be the only act that still has an ounce of dignity in it in the last two years. Republicans may not be too happy with her decision but her family came long before her career as a politician.

The jokes of David Letterman and the article in Vanity Fair perhaps were the straw that broke the camels back but it is the total lack of fairness the media showed that is a scathing indictment against them. If the country had a media czar it would seem appropriate that at this point he or she would be offering a public apology to Palin and that very humbly. Perhaps the czar could hang his head in shame as the proxy for the entire band of media thugs who reveled in the indignities.

We have a media that thinks the story of the congressional race where the candidate has been known to dawn diapers in comedy skits is real news and the photo snaps of the President on the beach is titillation for the rest of us. Who are these heavily biased lug nuts and what have they done to the once respected field known as journalism?

Heather Robinson is an independent journalist, and Jennifer Ginsberg is a writer and former actress/waitress and clinical social worker. They are both moms, and the two collaborated on "Sarah's Smackdown" for MomLogic.com:

As women and mothers, we should be particularly ashamed of ourselves. Women who have participated in this smear-fest have reinforced every nasty stereotype of female bitchiness and cattiness at its worst. Whatever your passionate opinions, whatever your disagreements with her views, this woman and her family were savaged in a manner that went beyond any reasonable standard. She is a public figure, but her husband and children are not.

We got ridiculing of Mrs. Palin's appearance, of her decades-old participation in a beauty pageant, and even of her children, which was especially cruel. Self-proclaimed "feminists" made a blood sport of hating and dehumanizing her. Any moms who jumped on the "bashing Sarah bandwagon" need to take pause and ask themselves how they would feel if they were in her shoes. Can you imagine being publicly ostracized for the way you look, for your opinions, or for your parenting choices? Can anyone say junior high school?

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Am I alone in feeling that ridicule of a disabled infant, and rape threats, represent a new low? How intensely cruel and hypocritical this behavior was, coming from "feminists" and "progressives" who probably don't realize how many conservatives they are helping to create, as anyone with a moral compass is likely to figure that, if that's how liberals argue, maybe I'll consider conservative ideas, thanks. No matter how strongly you disagree with Mrs. Palin, this type of behavior is simply inexcusable.

I shudder to think that the women who participated in these attacks are actually raising children.

Other posts in this series:

Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 1
Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 2
Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 3
Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 4
Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 5
Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 6
Commentaries on the Liberation of Sarah - Pt. 7

- JP