-By Warner Todd Huston
What's the Old Media's latest nit-picking Palin apostasy? They claim she rolled her eyes at a nasty, negative constituent. Mean, rotten, evil Sarah the "eye roller" should be tarred and feathered over this, I guess.
Here's how The New York Times' The Caucus Blog is reporting it:
In a video that has been widely reported, Ms. Palin asks a woman standing next to a large “Worst Governor Ever” banner what she does for a living. The woman — Kathleen Gustafson, according to news media reports – responds that she’s a teacher. That leads to a response that prompted several outlets to comment that Ms. Palin rolled her eyes — or at least looked like she was rolling them.This supposed "eye rolling" occurs after the woman told the Governor that she was a teacher (about 1:10 into the video). Many of the left-media are claiming that Palin rolls her eyes and gives a "knowing glance" to her supporters as if to say, "oh, a teacher, now we know this constituent is a left-wing, loony."
But if you look at the video closely there is no "eye rolling." The Gov. does look at her supporters and does give a sort of shrug-like look, but one has to assume and read into what that all means because the Gov. does not actually say anything to inform anyone of what she was thinking at that moment. Nor does she make an obvious face to inform. A look and a slight grin does not adequately reveal her thinking. One has to read her mind to really know what she was thinking at that instant.
But then, the Old Media are experts at mind reading, right? They are also experts at creating the news instead of reporting on it. One has only to remember the "fake but accurate" news as reported by Dan Rather of G.W. Bush's AWOL. It never happened, of course, but Rather had all the fake documents to prove it regardless.
For that matter, we have the story of Palin's non existent book-banning in Wasilla and the thousands of Trig-truther stories that continue to be circulated by the Old Media to prove the BS that is treated like fact among these writers of fiction.
But, above all, this shows the pettiness of the Old Media. The fact that the Old Media is attacking Gov. Palin for "eye rolling" is evidence of this.
See JP's post below on Gov. Palin's reply to the Old Media on this issue.
-WTH
Warner Todd Huston is editor of Publius' Forum and a contributor to Texas for Sarah Palin as well as Big Government, Right Wing News, Red County and a number of other websites.
Where's the rest of the tape and why isn't Shannyn Moore releasing it? Is it possible that Sarah was well behaved. Is it possible she gave a compelling explanation as to why she resigned? Did she point out something about Ms. Moore's friends, er the ethics violations filers, that Ms. Moore didn't want us to see?
ReplyDeleteSomething smells and its not halibut. It took editing footage and using the Huffington Post as her platform to twist this into even being a story and two days later we're looking at slo mo footage to see if Sarah rolled her eyes because THAT's all they got?
This is why we blog. No more free shots. I want rhetorical snipers on every virtual rooftop. If it even looks like it wants to attack Sarah, shoot it (I mean write a hit piece about it. lol)
Hope your feeling better Josh. Actually I think Sarah will use this to her advantage. Everytime the media attacks her they simply put another sword into her hands for her to use against them.
ReplyDeleteFirst, it was the palm notes, which she effectively turned around on them. Now the eye roll. I guarantee in all future speeches and interviews she will use eye rolls, winks, raised eyebrows and other facial expressions to mock the main stream media to great effect and generate great rounds of laughter from her audiences.
The media just can't help themselves can they. Sometimes I wonder if she doesn't do some of this deliberately in order to "bait the media". Remember her facebook post about getting back to work baiting the hooks?