More Quote of the Day Honorable Mentions, Part 27

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Exploding Media Heads Edition...

CNN Money:

"Sales from [News Corp.]'s book publisher HarperCollins rose 25%, and operating profits almost tripled, due to strong sales that included Sarah Palin's Going Rogue."

Ed Morrissey:

"Palin’s book has sold over 2 million copies. I don’t think she’s scrounging for an extra $6300, although with Olbermann’s ratings falling as low as his 'journalistic' ethics, it wouldn’t surprise me if Olby starts scrounging sometime soon."

Kathleen McKinley:

"Robert Schlesinger at USNews.com wonders why Sarah Palin wouldn't jump on Rush Limbaugh for using the word 'retarded' as she did with Rahm Emanuel. Umm... maybe because Rush was using sarcasm to make fun of Emanuel? Maybe because he was ripping on the stupidity of Rahm Emanuel?"

Donald Douglas:

"Mainstream media outlets have sought to destroy the tea party movement from the beginning... I think maybe it has more to do with Sarah Palin being the keynote speaker and the fear she embodies in the liberals... The good news is that an organization that couldn't get an honorable mention on the nightly newscast last year is now having their every move scrutinized. Like they say in Hollywood, there is no such thing as bad publicity."

Jim Vicevich:

"In August WH chef Rahm Emanuel meets with Democrats. During that meeting Rahm drops the 'R' word... Ooops. Not surprisingly Sarah Palin, who has a child with Down Syndrom, pushed back... So now, who does the media blame? Why Sarah Palin of course. Disgusting."

Rush Limbaugh:

"I told the Drive-Bys what I was doing... 'I'm just quoting Rahm Emanuel.' I went on for a full hour. I told 'em what I was doing and still they fall for it and still they run their schtick. Here's Margaret Carlson last night on MSNBC, question: 'Can Palin really get away with not calling Limbaugh out now?'"

Glynnis MacNicol:

"So [Andrew Sullivan] didn’t pry into Edwards’ personal because Edwards was good looking and had a lovely spouse (even though rumors about Edwards sliminess were rampant for many years in the sort of political circles Sullivan moves in) but he did and still does dig into Palin’s because... yeah, the argument sort of falls apart."

Freedom's Lighthouse:

"MSNBC's David Shuster and Bill Dedman [tried] to make hay of... e-mails released that apparently show Sarah Palin's husband Todd Palin had a 'powerful influence' on her administration... Shuster called the e-mails... 'not good news for Palin supporters, because it's the kind of baggage that will weigh down Sarah Palin and raise a lot of questions should she want to run in 2012.'"

cooperscopy:

"No politician has ever received more negative coverage than Sarah Palin, but her tenacity and character has eventually gotten through the media filter, and the people are seeing her for who she is. They are increasingly sympathetic to her conservative common sense solutions. Barack Obama on the other hand has received the most positive media coverage of any candidate and president to this point... The mainstream media accomplished what they intended, and that was to put Barack Obama in the White House, but in so doing they have fatally damaged the progressive agenda, for years to come. All Democrats in congress are now vulnerable, and a new conservative movement is amassing."

Althouse:

"What I love about all this is the extreme contrast to the way Palin was mocked when she resigned as Governor of Alaska... Her political career was over. She was toast... Fox News is building a TV studio in her house in Wasilla. That's so not toast."

Recovering Liberal:

"The point of utter insanity by the left as regards Sarah Palin has been reached -- her Tea Party speech having put them, en-mass, over the top. Amongst the childish inanities on the radical left blog 'Kos' is an exposition of the forthcoming fascist regime headed by Palin (I kid you not)."

Noel Sheppard:

"It was a metaphysical certitude the liberal media would bash Sarah Palin's marvelous keynote speech to the National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Saturday, but what the Associated Press did is inexcusable. First, it attached to its Sunday piece a tremendously unflattering photo of the former Alaska governor. Then, it ripped her with the very first sentence..."

Gary P. Jackson:

"You see, the media is shocked, shocked to find that Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, actually gave her some advice! Actually offered his opinion on a thing or two. MSNBC, and others seem genuinely bewildered that someone would give their spouse advice! That a married couple would actually talk!"

Roger Kimball:

"Just today... a friend sent me a piece on Sarah Palin from the Huffing and Puffing Post, sometimes known as the Huffington Post. It’s by Stefan Sirucek, 'independent journalist and foreign correspondent,' and bears the arresting title 'EXCLUSIVE (Update): Palin’s Tea Party Crib Notes.' So what startling revelation does Stefan Sirucek, International Man of Mystery, impart? Why, that Sarah Palin, when she delivered her speech to the National Tea Party Conference last night had actually scribbled a few words on her left palm. Stop the presses! What a scandal. According to HufPo’s intrepid reporter, Palin’s notes to herself are ominous, ominous..."

Lachlan Markay:

"Palin reaches more Americans with a Facebook message (just under 1.3 million) than Keith Olbermann reaches during his 8 p.m. broadcast slot on MSNBC (roughly 1 million). Fox News now has plans to build a television studio in her home in Wasilla. Her recent book Going Rogue has spent 11 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list, and has netted her somewhere in the 8-figure range... She has gone from a political corpse to one of the most prolific and influential persons in the conservative movement in under a year. She has managed to do all of this in an atmosphere of extreme hostility from the mainstream press. Perhaps no American political figure is more despised by the nation's talking heads. This is a teaching moment for all conservatives..."

Brent Baker:

"Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement 'both have far less support in the country at large than a gullible Old Media seems to understand or suggest,' Time magazine senior political analyst Mark Halperin asserted on 'The Page' while colleague Joe Klein, on Time’s 'Swampland' blog, showed fear of the supposedly impotent coalition as he denigrated her Saturday night convention speech as 'anti-intellectual drivel,' scolding as 'anti-American' those dumb enough to like her..."

Vocal Minority:

"Sarah Palin’s speech and subsequent Q&A session was an hour in duration. The woman spoke several thousand words. Yet, sure enough, the mainstream media and lefty sites are buzzing with these two supposedly horrifying words: divine intervention. In fact, at the really unhinged lefty blogs... there are charges of Palin channeling Hitler and deifying herself. (She wants a theocracy, I tell you. She actually believes this G0d crap.)"

Lori Ziganto:

"A few months ago, Andrea Mitchell was spotted stalking Sarah Palin at a book signing, scornfully waving a copy of Newsweek magazine (apparently, it’s still in publication. Who knew?) It is obvious that Mitchell is totally obsessed with Sarah Palin, and her absolute FURY at Palin was abundantly evident in the look on her face... Today, Andrea Mitchell displayed her obsessive envy once again on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' show... Wow, Andrea. Some journalistic integrity you have there..."

Jennifer Rubin:

"Matthew Continetti, among others, aptly detailed in his book The Persection of Sarah Palin the media’s Sarah Palin hate-fest, which raged throughout the campaign. That campaign — the media’s, not Palin’s — included not a small amount of hyper-sexualized language and imagery. Her reappearance at the Tea Party Convention has set off a new round of such slobbery commentary. Andrew Sullivan, for one — who gained much notoriety for his his gynecological scavenger hunt during the campaign — has left off where he began with what should be, but no longer is, shockingly offensive droolery about the former governor and Republican vice presidential nominee."

Gov. Rick Perry:

"You can tell a lot about the effectiveness of a leader by the people they inspire. And you can tell a lot by the people they drive absolutely crazy. I doubt there is another public figure in our country who gives liberals a bigger case of the hives than [Sarah Palin]. At the very mention of her name, the liberals, the progressives, the media elites, they literally foam at the mouth."

- JP