Blow-viation: Stop Writing About Palin Because She Likes It Too Much

The media doesn’t understand: they’re irrelevant. No one cares.
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At Big Journalism, Dana Loesch comments on the latest Blow-viating by liberal NY Times columnist Charles Blow:

It’s like watching the Little Engine That Could, the way Charles Blow slowly comes to the realization that all the negativity that progressives have been heaping upon Sarah Palin is actually – GASP – helping her.

Why?

Because they came on too strong and too wrong. They attacked her pregnancy, her baby, her children, thereby repulsing mothers who went off to join the tea party, such was their disgust at the sexist double-standard. They printed thousands of words on her every word, followed her on her book tour, stalked her speaking appearances, her teenage daughter’s Facebook page, all the while bearing the audacity to say that she runs the risk of “overexposure.”

Blow is blinded by hubris in that he believes he and other progressive media are what is keeping Palin alive in politics and pop-culture. If ever you needed another reminder as to how far the finger of mainstream media is from the pulse of the people, this is it.

"She was a vice presidential nominee. But she lost. She was the governor of Alaska. But she quit. Now she’s just a political personality — part cheerleader, part bomb-thrower — being kept afloat in part by the hackles of her enemies and the people who admire her resilience in the face of them."

(Don’t forget: Obama also quit the senate to campaign. Bad for Palin, fine for Obama.)

Palin may be a polarizing figure, but she’s more than just a “political personality.” Every other media outlet in existence has to choke out the acknowledgement that Palin is a kingmaker: she has a winning record in endorsements, besting the likes of Karl Rove&Co., and came out on top November 2nd. She’s able to raise funds for candidates like few can, and... no one on the left can match her starpower and few on the right are able.

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- JP

NewsBusters: Ultraliberal NY Times columnist defends Gov. Palin

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Surprise! New York Times überliberal columnist Charles Blow actually came to Sarah Palin's defense after the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate was the target of death wish attacks by two New Hampshire Democrats. NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard reports:

In case you missed it, on Tuesday Keith Halloran, a Democrat candidate for the New Hampshire House, posted in a Facebook thread about the plane crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, "Just wish Sarah and Levy [sic] were on board."

New Hampshire State Representative Timothy Horrigan replied Wednesday, "Well a dead Palin wd [sic] be even more dangerous than a live one ... she is all about her myth & if she was dead she cldn' t [sic] commit any more gaffes."

Rather surprisingly, Blow took issue with this Saturday:

Then there's the Democratic state representative, Timothy Horrigan, from New Hampshire. After Ted Stevens, the former Alaska senator, was killed in a plane crash this week, Keith David Halloran, a New Hampshire Democrat, posted this message on his Facebook page: "Just wish Sarah and Levy were on board," clearly referring to Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston.

To that, Horrigan responded: "Well a dead Palin wd be even more dangerous than a live one ... she is all about her myth & if she was dead she cldn't commit any more gaffes."

Seriously guys? I'm the first to say that I want to keep Palin as close to Russia and as far away from Washington as humanly possible, but debating the merits of her demise in a plane crash is heinous. Horrigan has since resigned.

In reality, Blow was being surprisingly bipartisan in this column mocking the behavior of both Republicans and Democrats...

Noel Sheppard's full NewsBusters op-ed is here.

- JP