Quote of the Day (February 3, 2011)

The left's addiction to Palin is really something to behold
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Clifton B at Another Black Conservative:

"So what does Milbank do on day one of his Palin Free Month? Talk endlessly about her on ABC News."

- JP

Dana Milbank: My dog wrote my homework

Trust him, he's just like a virgin on this
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Caught red-handed breaking his own moratorium and then being ridiculed for it, now Dana Milbank is claiming that he is not the author of the Post Partisan item about Sarah Palin which appeared under his byline February 1 in the Washington Post. According to Politico's Andy Barr:

Dana Milbank just shot over an e-mail letting us know it wasn’t him who posted – under his name – an item on the Post Partisan blog pointing out that he had "survived" the first day of his month-long Palin "moratorium."

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We asked Milbank for comment, and he wrote back: "Say it ain't so, Joe! I appreciate you bringing this to my attention. I didn’t know about the text on the Post-Partisan item with the ABC video, and I had our website fix that. So as far as the moratorium goes, fear not: I am still a virgin."

The old text has been crossed out on the site, and under the video is an update that reads: "The sentence as written above was posted by an editor, not Dana. So Dana's moratorium remains intact."

Now wait a minute. Dana Milbank, from the same Journolist community which claims that Sarah Palin doesn't write her own op-eds, now expects us to believe that he doesn't write all of his own material published by the Washington Post?

Our first inclination is to wonder just how sweet a writer's job can be when the writer doesn't even have to write his own stuff? Nice to know that the editors will write copy for their contributor and publish it under the writer's byline. Wish we could find editors like that to work for.

Our second thought is that this is a creative new twist on the old "My dog ate my homework" excuse. Except in this case, it's "My dog did my homework for me." That's an even more imaginative excuse than Rachel Maddow blaming Glenn Beck for her "lust" to push bad Palin news, even if it isn't really about Palin and it isn't really news. Dana, if you can sell this one, you're in the wrong business. That's the kind of salesmanship that could lift the housing market right out of the tank.

- JP

Barr: PalinLand calls Milbank's 'moratorium' a sham

Politico story mentions TX4P
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The fact that the Washington Post's Dana Milbank is something less than a man of his word hasn't escaped the notice of Politico's Andy Barr, who has apparently been following Milbank's failed moratorium and the response to it in the Palin blogging community:

Milbank highlighted his lack of commentary by posting on the paper’s website a link of his interview – rife with allusions to and jokes about the former Alaska governor.

Palin’s supporters weren’t happy.

“Milbank couldn't even get through the first day of his bogus boycott,” wrote a blogger for Texas for Palin, one of a network of Palin-defending sites that dinged the columnist. “This afternoon on the Post Partisan blog, Milbank wrote: ‘I survived Day One of my February Sarah Palin moratorium...’ Sorry, Skippy, but you weren't even going to mention her name, remember?”

PalinTV – a site set up by Palin supporters to show the governor’s comments in full without the media filter – also smacked Milbank with a sarcastic tweet. “Dana Milbank on ABC today talking for 5 minutes about how he's not talking about Palin,” it read.

Conservatives4Palin, the chief Palin defending vehicle online, has so far stayed off Milbank’s so-called moratorium, but has taken repeated shots at the columnist in recent weeks.

Milbank was bashed by the site after he wrote a column in the wake of the Tucson shooting arguing that even though the shooter was not influenced by Palin or Glenn Beck, they both were deserving of finger pointing after the incident...

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To his credit, Barr is the only mainstream media journalist to acknowledge that Milbank couldn't even make it through one day of his Super Sham WaPo moratorium without mentioning Gov. Palin.

- JP

Doh! Dana Milbank breaks own moratorium on day one

How about a nice cup of EPIC FAIL?
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When he declared that February would be a "Palin-free month" on January 21, Washington Post op-ed columnist Dana Milbank wrote:

"...I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin -- in print, online or on television -- for one month."

How's he doing so far? Not too good. Milbank couldn't even get through the first day of his bogus boycott. This afternoon on the Post Partisan blog, Milbank wrote:

"I survived Day One of my February Sarah Palin moratorium..."

Sorry, Skippy, but you weren't even going to mention her name, remember?

EPIC FAIL

- JP

Brokeback Boycott

They just can't quit her
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At Big Journalism, Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King comment on the "Palin Pledge" news blackout being organized at DNC house organ The Washington Post by leftist writer Dana Milbank:

Milbank’s call for a Palin boycott is reminiscent of behind the scenes coordination by members of Journolist. In this case however, Milbank and The Post are making viral a campaign that has been wished for by others in the media who hate Palin and do not want to see her become president of the United States.

The Post’s campaign against Palin even has a logo...

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Milbank’s editor Marisa Katz... said the anti-Palin Twitter campaign was “not an endorsement” by The Post. However, the campaign bears no disclaimer and The Post provides a direct link and anti-Palin message for forwarding via Twitter.

Katz said the Twitter campaign is part of The Post’s efforts to engage its readers in two-way communication.

Without a disclaimer though, the effort has the appearance of an anti-Palin campaign organized by The Washington Post.

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Our take: Is the hysterical left getting sick of its own smear campaign against Gov. Palin? Since hate poisons the soul, are these vile slanderers and libelers feeling the toxic effects of their own venom? Are they heeding the advice of Peter of the New Testament?:

"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind." - 1 Peter 2:1

Sadly, that's not very likely. The first Book of Peter is a letter to other believers who were suffering persecution throughout the ancient Roman empire from one who knew suffering and persecution first hand. Peter had been beaten and imprisoned for preaching the Word of God, and his life had been threatened. Yet he was able to endure this torment without becoming bitter or losing hope in Jesus and faith in God. Peter's message to the early Christians was that they, too, could endure persecution without losing their souls if they refused to become like their tormentors. The only way to do this, Peter told them, was to follow their Savior's example.

No, what the leftists are doing here is simply trying to cover their backsides. A few on the left having been warning their comrades for quite some time now that these venal attacks on Sarah Palin were going to backfire, and some of their scribes are finally starting to get the message. Their little moratorium is just a test. They realize that although they have thrown their worst against her, she's still standing. Sure, she's down in their bogus polls, but she's far from being taken out. They really believed that they had a magic bullet made in Tuscon that would finally destroy her this time, but she's still standing.

So now they're going to try a little experiment. They're going to dial back the hate for a month, conveniently, the shortest month of the year. They're going to try to see if she will go away if they stop talking about her, as some of their number have predicted will be the result. They don't have much hope that it will work, however, so the test will only last for four weeks and two days. After that, they will abandon Plan B and go back into 24/7 attack mode. Also, there are a considerable number of them who won't turn off the spigot marked "hate," even for just a month, because they can't help themselves. They are so addicted to "the politics of personal destruction" that they can't stop themselves from sticking the needle in their arms for another dose of hate-smack. Like some hapless character in one of their Hollyweird propaganda films -- call this one "Brokeback Boycott" -- they just can't quit her.

Update: A deliciously ironic possiblilty comes to mind:

What if sometime during the media left's boycott, Gov. Palin were to announce the formation of an exploratory committee to consider a presidential candidacy? Not an announcement that she would actually run, mind you, just the formation of the committee.

"Exploratory, draft or 'testing the waters' committees are formed solely for the purpose of determining the feasibility of an individual’s candidacy for office. The activities of exploratory committees may include polling, travel, and telephone calls to determine whether the individual should become a candidate."

These committees are common practice as a preliminary step before an actual presidential campaign is announced. It is, however, major news when one of them is formed, and these clowns would have to break their "boycott pledge" circus act to report it.

Heh, heh, heh...

- JP

Dana Milbank should try to pull his head out

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Washington Post lefty Journolister Dana Milbank, noting Sarah Palin's Facebook question regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange:

"Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?" she asked in a Facebook posting. Nothing like a drone attack on European capitals to repair U.S. diplomacy.

Uh, Dana, she clearly wrote "urgency" -- not "weapons." Reading is fundamental and much easier accomplished when one doesn't have his head planted firmly in his backside.

- JP

Don Surber on The arrogance of Sarah Palin's critics

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As we reported here the left and its media puppets have again made fools out of themselves mocking Gov. Palin when she was right all the time. Arrogance + Ignorance = Hubris. Don Surber observes:

Royal Dutch Shell has oil rigs in the North Sea.

And 20% of the land in the Netherlands is below sea level, protected by dikes. Unless you live in New Orleans, you try to make sure your dikes are maintained.

In a Fox News interview, Sarah Palin alluded to this turn down of the Dutch offer.

From Tod Robberson of the Dallas Morning News: Bill O’Reilly “asks her how she would stop the leak. After a bit of hesitation, she blurts out: ‘The Dutch and the Norwegian. They are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.’ Hmmm, I do seem to remember that childhood story.”

Once again, a critic of Palin does not realize the joke is on him.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post fell into the same well of ignorance.

We went through this drill with Reagan.

Surber has the links and more in his Charleston Daily Mail column.

- JP