Jedediah Bila: Media still afflicted with Palin-OCD

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Jedediah Bila slaps down a few of the more obsessive anti-Palin elements of the lamestream media in a Daily Caller op-ed, from which we're pleased to present a couple of excerpts:

Well folks, some in the media are still afflicted with Palin-OCD.

Bill Maher took a dig at Rand Paul during a monologue on the May 21 episode of “Real Time.” He couldn’t help but bring Sarah Palin into the mix by stating, “It’s as if Sarah Palin somehow made it through medical school.” Hey Bill, you know what joke would’ve been even funnier? One about a guy who made it through an Ivy League law school, yet thought it best to publicly criticize a sixteen-page law without having read it. So what if he’s the Attorney General, right?

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Keith Olbermann ranted on May 17 that Palin doesn’t have the guts to come on his “Countdown”: “Ms. Palin says she’ll do it, as long as it’s not on MSNBC and as long as it is on FOX. As long as it’s not me or Rachel, as long as it’s Hannity, and as long as she can edit out anything she doesn’t like.” Just a few days prior, Olbermann said this of Palin: “That woman is an idiot…that woman does not have the courage, personal or political, to appear on MSNBC, not without an army with her (and I mean that literally).” That’s right, Keith. I’m sure she’s shakin’ in her boots. And with all your charm and hospitality, why wouldn’t she jump at the chance to stop by and say hello? I have to admit that I think it would be hilarious if Palin took the gig. But only if she would read a monologue off one hand, hold a rifle in the other, and say you betcha enough times to make Olbermann’s elitist head spin. I wonder how many members of the “Countdown” staff would faint from the ratings.

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Bottom line: The media is still working overtime to try to paint Palin as the dumb, cowardly, woman-hating radical she’s not. Why? Because despite all their hard work thus far, she still connects with the masses, and it scares the crap out of them.

What in heaven’s name would the media elite do without Palin? Would they be forced to resort to something dreadful like analyzing the false promises and policy missteps of the current administration?

Read the full DC commentary here.

- JP