"Refudiate the press corpse in all 57 states and the Austrian-speaking country of Europe" Edition...
Lori Ziganto at NewsReal Blog:
"It’s hard to have shame when you spend all your time on your knees as media lapdogs. The media was all too ready to promote anything at all to make that icky 'beauty queen' Sarah Palin look bad, like a bunch of jealous high school kids gossiping and spreading false rumors about the popular girl."Edisto Joe at The Edisto Joe Outlook:
"Sarah Palin and untold amounts of others warned about this and most of America agreed that we did not want Obamacare. Her call for the press corps to do their job on the appointment of Dr. Berwick is already seen as a right wing whack job to discredit and out the good doctor for the socialist he is... Obama and the liberal left forced this on the country, lying through their teeth all along the way... The program is socialist in nature and its roots run through the liberal Congress all the way to the Oval Office. Sarah Palin was right and no matter how Obama spins it, he is wrong."Dan Riehl at Riehl World View:
"Yes, who would think that the White House Press Secretary should be prepared to speak off the cuff on a pre-scheduled news show. Silly wabbits, that standard only holds true for people like Sarah Palin, when speaking with the likes of Katie Couric."Louis Jacobson at The St. Petersburg Times:
"In a... Facebook post, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted excerpts from a speech she gave in Norfolk, Va., primarily on national security. At one point, she said, 'We spend three times more on entitlements and debt service than we do on defense.' We decided to check her math... Add together mandatory programs and the net interest, divide by the amount spent on security programs, and the ratio is 2.93 — very close to the "three times more" that Palin cites... we think it's reasonable for Palin to describe all security programs as 'defense' and all mandatory programs as 'entitlements.' In all, then, we rate her comment True."Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters:
"Chris Matthews... called George W. Bush and Sarah Palin know-nothings... Maybe... EVERY MSNBC host should be required to publicly state which candidates they support in November so that those still foolish enough to watch this abomination will be cognizant of the biases at play."Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
"Consider it an admission against interests. Michelle Cottle gets ahead of the curve, at least on the Left, in acknowledging what has been painfully obvious for months as Sarah Palin raises money and endorses candidates around the country: she’s darned good at what she does. And one of the things she does is cut the media out of the loop, making them mainly irrelevant to her activism and base-building... Even Chris Matthews acknowledged that implicitly when he said that the media would try to destroy her. If Palin wasn’t successful, they wouldn’t need to make it a project."John Steigerwald at Just Watch The Game:
"Remember how much fun Saturday Night Live had making fun of something Sarah Palin didn’t say about Russia? I can’t decide if this nugget from Sheila Jackson Lee is worse than Joe Biden’s 'FDR went on TV' quote or not. I do know that if Sarah Palin had said something this stupid, it would have been all over the national news.Matthew Balan at NewsBusters:
"It was only a matter of time before CNN's Jack Cafferty returned to bashing Sarah Palin... Cafferty hypothesized that the Republican's popularity was a good omen for the Democratic Party... The commentator might be a bit premature in his celebration, as a recent poll from Public Policy Polling found that Palin and Obama would each gain 46% in a hypothetical 2012 match-up, with the President losing to both Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee."Stacy McCain at The Other McCain:
"Griffin, Dennis Zaki, Jeanne Devon — when it comes to sliming the Palins, the Atlantic Monthly has no discernible journalistic standards. Any 'source' is acceptable, so long as the source is anti-Palin."James Poniewozik at TIME's Tuned In blog:
"Palin's 'refudiate' comment -- a controversy, almost too picayune to recap, over whether she misspoke... or whether she was engaging in Shakespearean coinage -- is a perfect example of how heavily the press covers her, and how well they are rewarded for doing it. Of course, it's also an example of how well Palin cultivates the media's obsession with her. Her response to most controversies -- don't steer away from a storm when you can tack into it instead -- plays them for maximum heat and exposure. If her response had simply been, 'So I said it -- what's the big deal?' it would have been an opportunity missed. When she instead responded that her usage was an example of the living language going back to Shakespeare, it was guaranteed both to enflame her critics (She thinks she's Shakespeare!) and delight her fans (she beat those know-it-alls at their own game!)."Ian Lazaran at Conservatives 4 Palin:
"Obama's most memorable gaffes are actually insults of people who are different from him... Governor Palin rarely makes the Obama-style errors... No sensible person is offended that she said 'refudiate...' Unlike Obama's insults of special Olympians, white people, and rural Americans..."Hippocritico at Big Journalism:
"Ben Smith not only found this Tweet worth mentioning, but worth mentioning in a headline where he linked to a blogger who accused Palin of 'joining forces' with the 'anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade.' I am simply pointing this glaring hypocrisy and bad judgment out for the benefit of Mr. Smith and his editors who will hopefully soon wake up to the fact that this kind of 'reporting' makes them look horribly dishonest – like left-wing ideologues disguised as journalists who have chosen sides. That can’t be who they are… right?"McCain at Right Pundits:
"Yawn, the rest of us move on. But our liberal friends recent obsession with form over substance soon made itself known to all. They groaned. They laughed. They taunted... They did everything but refudiate her argument."Dan Riehl at Riehl World View:
"You may recall ABC's Charlie Gibson asking Sarah Palin about the Bush doctrine, all of which Gibson clearly didn't know. If he had, he would have understood that her puzzled reaction to the phrasing of his question, no better than a set-up, was perfectly understandable. As evidenced by his question, Gibson wrongly believed the entire Bush Doctrine was about preemptive war. Informed followers of related news knew much better than that. Consequently, that's two major television networks now with leading personalities and their respective staffs whose grasp of the news of the day amounts to little more than ignorance... They think they are actually doing research by scanning headlines in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Thanks to new media, especially blogs, America is discovering that the news is much more than that. And the news outlets of our major television networks have not kept up."Jenn Q. Public at NewsReal Blog:
"Sarah Palin is a tireless supporter of Israel... Pat Buchanan’s name is nearly synonymous with Nazi apologia... Anyone else having trouble seeing the similarity between Palin and Buchanan? There’s no comparison. Eleanor Clift is simply playing the Left’s Mad Libs-style smear game"- JP
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