Rogue Reaction

Here we go quoting things up again...

Jeffrey Trachtenberg:

"She does single out some who during the campaign offered support and encouragement, specifically Sen. Joe Lieberman, a close friend of McCain. Prior to a key debate in which the prep advice was becoming overwhelming, Lieberman urged her to 'Be yourself,' she writes. Sen. Lieberman then added: 'Don’t let these people try to change you. Don’t let them tell you what to say and how to think.'"

Lynn Vincent:

"As Sarah’s collaborative writer, I suddenly became a target (the left having running out of original ways to insult the former Alaska governor herself). Andrew Sullivan... crowned me a 'fanatical homophobe.' Others, to use Perez Hilton’s term, followed suit. Had Sullivan bothered to reach out for a reasoned dialogue, I might’ve shared with him that my sister Lori, an articulate, politically active lesbian on the progressive left, has had with me some pretty productive discussions on gay marriage. That for me, it’s about more than 'the Bible tells me so'; it’s about the collision of the First and Fourteenth Amendments."

Phil Weingart:

"I watched the full-court Press against Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and frankly, those pale before the assault on Sarah Palin. It’s just another slime piece in a year-long deluge of slime pieces, from two organizations — the Associated Press and the New York Times — that have, sadly, given themselves over to hurling slime for their political masters."

Mark Steyn:

"Over at Powerline, John Hinderaker and his vast team of researchers (17 Minneapolis-area Somali jihadists, 29 Acorn-accredited child-sex slaves, and 43 unemployed Columbia School of Journalism graduates) fact-check AP's fact-checkers."

John Hinderaker:

"It's funny how the press fact-checks some things but not others... Do you suppose the Associated Press will assign eleven reporters to fact-check John Kerry? No, I don't think so, either."

NoBamaNation:

"Here’s a question: Has anyone at the Associated Press Pravda ever bothered to fact-check a single Obama statement about how he’s 'created or saved' more than a million jobs with the implementation of his 'economic plan?'"

John Weidner:

"But what panic! I love it. I feel warm and tingly thinking about it. Can you imagine liberals even caring what Mit Romney writes? Or going into tizzies when that fellow Huckabor writes a book, if he does?"

Stromata:

"I hadn’t intended to buy Sarah Palin’s campaign memoir... Then I read the Associated Press’s 'fact check'... AP’s quasi-review suggests to me that Going Rogue is a carefully written, thoughtful book that is largely free from obvious foolishness. At least, a dozen hostile readers couldn’t find anything significant to criticize. That’s more than one can say about most writings of most politicians. And Amazon is offering it for just a bit more than the price of a mass market paperback. So I ordered a copy. I hope that the author is grateful to Calvin Woodward, Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine for my contribution to her royalties."

psburton:

"Despite blog posts and e-mails from those of us who make up the rank and file liberal base of the Democratic Party, the White House and congressional leadership continues to dismiss out of hand any possibility Sarah Palin could ever be the nominee or conservatives retake one or both chambers of congress in 2010. Cable pundits and mainstream media continue to ridicule Palin for ratings and those responsible for political tactics in the democratic party focus on races against establishment republicans and next year when establishment candidates lose in GOP primary races, I worry they will behave as they did this year. Gaining by the skin of your teeth, one congressional seat and suffering blow outs in two Governors contests should be a wakeup call, not reason to take a victory lap."

David Kopel:

"The cover of next week’s Newsweek... is one more example of the periodical’s positioning itself as the ideas journal for people who think that the New York Times’ in-house editorials are middle-of-road, but have too many big words. And of the magazine’s cultural disconnect from much of the United States... The Palin-hating media are less clever than they think, and end up inadvertently making her stronger."

Doug Powers:

"The only immediate 'bad news' is for Newsweek — and when they do gratuitiously negative pieces on a figure who is looked up to by a demographic that spends a fortune on books… not to mention magazines, Newsweek’s death spiral makes all the more sense. This is why the mainstream newspaper business is dying too — you simply can’t dismiss a huge slice of the news consuming public with your bias without ultimately suffering economically."

Don Surber:

"Conservatives know why Palin is still standing — and standing taller today than those who tried to bring her down. What does not kill you makes you stronger... The people hate the public policies coming out of Washington. They want a leader. The Internet helps. The Army of Davids may indeed be led by a Joan of Arc."

TrogloPundit:

"The top ten bombshells from Sarah Palin’s new book... 9. Todd is a cyborg from the future, waiting for the name Levi Johnston to appear in the phone book."

Dan Riehl:

"It's hard to not laugh at these nitwits who ran such a dismal campaign, then spent months blaming Palin from the shadows, having suddenly discovered self-righteous anger so they can start to pop off, again... These idiots can look forward to running races for drunken Ward bosses and county sheriffs if there's any justice in the world."

Rick Moore:

"If you want to know who the Democrats are really afraid of, just look at how they react to Palin."

- JP