Sunday Morning Sarahcuda Bites for April 18, 2010

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The Alinsky High School Glee Club: Big Hollwood's John Nolte on more gratuitous Palin-bashing by the Hollyweirdos:

“Glee” spent all of last season building up buzz and an audience, and as soon as they get one: POW!

Screw you, righties. We don’t like you and we think you’re stupid for liking Palin.

But it’s more than that. This stuff matters.

“Glee” is millions of dollars of sound and fury aimed squarely at your children. And as we can now see, the creators are all about getting between you and your kids with their political and social agendas. They know Palin is a growing political force and nothing’s off the table when it comes to marginalizing her – even at the expense of their own show’s entertainment value – even at the expense of audience share.

It’s just a joke, it’s just a joke. Lighten up!

Nice try, Alinskyite.

#1: These jokes always seem to fall one way.

#2. These jokes are everywhere in entertainment. In fact, there are so many Big Hollywood can barely keep up with them.

Like rust and the devil, the Alinskyite left never rests.

Welcome to the Party, Pal: FoxNews finally wakes up and smells the story, "Probe Into Palin Appearance Is Politically Motivated, Critics Say." Gee, ya think?

Fear and Loathing in the Pages of Newsweak: NewsBuster Tim Graham chronicles the latest propaganda push by the leftist glossy magazine:

The April 19 Newsweek cover that's shamelessly selling the "remarkable" tale of our economic recovery also promises a story on "Hate on the Right." In fact the word "HATE" takes up half a page, white letters on a black background, with the subhead "Antigovernment extremists are on the rise – and on the march."

Pictures illustrating the article strangely connect Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin with 1930's socialists. The caption read:

"Huey Long castigated the rich and Father Coughlin denounced Jews in the 1930s. Today, the microphones belong to Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin."

(Beck's previous impassioned rebuttal of the comparison to Coughlin is ignored.)

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This raises the question: if it's fair to somehow associate Beck and Palin with 1930s left-wing ranters, how did Newsweek treat the much more factual connection between Barack Obama and Weatherman bomber Bill Ayers, or Obama's membership for two decades in the church of Jeremiah Wright? Unsurprisingly, those connections were downplayed, and Obama was "disappointed" by being failed by these associates.

It was one year ago that Graham's boss at MRC, Brent Bozell, commented on "The Decline and Fall of Newsweek" in an op-ed for Real Clear Politics.

Bent Strawman: Sarah Palin, during her speech last night in Illinois poked fun at the media-generated fracus over the "diva demands" allegedly listed in the contract governing her speech at a California State University, Stanislaus. Gov. Palin thanked the organizers of the Five Points Washington event for furnishing a water bottle complete with a straw - "the bent kind, which I just read in the media that I supposedly insist upon."

The Market is Moose-ish on Palin:

At Intrade, the political futures market, is bullish, er... moose-ish on Sarah Palin's political prospects:

Is Palin positioning herself for a run at Obama's job in 2012? The lady herself has given no indication of her plans, but the Intrade market reflects a growing confidence she will announce a run for the top job.

The market currently shows a 58.8% chance Palin will run. This is up from the 55.0% probability given at the start of the month and well up from the 43.5% chance given at the start of February.

Will Sarah run? The market thinks she just might.

How reliable is the Intrade market? We tend to believe it is a much more reliable indicator than some of the know-nothing pretend pundits and Beltway insiders who have been saying lately that there's no way the governor will run.

- JP