Dana Loesch on Media Matters' Clothing Hypocrisy

Big Journalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch calls out Media Matters for engaging in "wardrobe hypocrisy":

Media Matters decides to throw another noodle at the wall and reverse its position on “class warfare” by defending the $2k dresses (to say nothing of the shoes and handbags) worn by the First Lady...

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Not only will the media not report on this, but propaganda sites like Media Matters defend it – yet they attacked Sarah Palin for slamming the wardrobe criticism and tried to justify it by saying that the other political candidates were subjected to the same level of scrutiny, which was a lie.

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Progressives on Twitter, led by a man who is so paranoid that he thought the Verizon worker at his house was James O’Keefe sent by Andrew Breitbart, are desperately trying to move the goal posts to mask their hypocritical actions in criticizing Palin over her clothing and defending Michelle Obama for hers.

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Just another day in Liberalica, a country quite different from the one most of us live in.

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 3, 2011)

Sound Bite For The Day
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Dana Loesch, at Big Journalism:

“It is a shame that the media won’t crowdsource White House visitor logs but will for Sarah Palin’s emails and GOP candidates’ private lives.”

- JP

Quote of the Day (August 26, 2011)

Disney's Double Standards
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Andrew Malcolm, at Top of the Ticket:

“Dana astutely wonders aloud what kind of warning verbal outlaw Kenny Mayne got for his twittered desire in June to wreak mechanical mayhem on a passing car, ramming it simply because it carried a Sarah Palin sticker.”

- JP

Dana Loesch: Frank Bailey Grinds An Axe with Palin Book

People worried about ethics aren’t silent for years and then suddenly try to cash in
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Big Journalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch interviewed disgruntled former Palin aide Frank Bailey (video here) and concludes:

I still question how one can be viewed as objective when your claims are easily disproved, when former associates allege that you are simply disgruntled, and your co-authors are known far-left bloggers who:

a) are married to and helped petition for Alaskans for Truth, the group which helped petition for ethical charges (repeatedly dismissed) and who are quite cozy with the elected official who brought the tossed charges in the beginning.

b) are tight with a known (Peter Rouse) top aide to President Obama, a figure that also reportedly conducted regular mind-meld calls with said co-authors.

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Loesch wonders why anyone would waste good money on Bailey's bogus book, when the propaganda on its pages has already been published and is available for free on the blogs of Alaska's Palin-deranged Democrat operatives. The simple answer is that leftists aren't exactly paragons of common sense. They are willing to spend no small sums of money to feed the habitual and mentally debilitating sickness that is PDS.

Poor Bailey had that deer in the headlights look on his face when Hannity challenged him in another recent interview. It's apparent to all who bother to look beneath the surface here that Morris and Devon are pulling his strings, while far away in the White House, Pete Rouse is pulling theirs.

- JP

Happy Mother's Day!

Because motherhood is political
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- JP

Loesch: Correcting the Right On 'Sarah Palin’s Alaska' Tax Breaks

It was the cheapest PSA that Alaska has ever produced
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Big Journalism Editor-in-Chief Dana Loesch weighs in on the Alaska Tax Credit nontroversy which is being manufactured by by the Vichy right against Gov. Palin:

Jim Geraghty started a brouhaha yesterday by criticizing how the makers of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” received $1.2 million in tax credits by filming in the state — and that Palin signed the 2008 law which made it possible. Because she’s now apparently omnipotent, able to see into the future and plan for it by signing into law a complex program with numerous in-house checks and balances. Geraghty questioned Palin’s conservative credentials.

… but it looks problematic for a crusader for small government to end up collecting a seven-figure paycheck from an endeavor that received a seven-figure subsidy, all set up by a program she signed into law.

What’s problematic is to define the tax credit in this issue as a “subsidy.”

Tax credits are offered as an incentive to do business in a particular area, city, or state as a way to attract business and commerce into said area. These tax credits are usually offered as a percentage of total money spent and the credits can be sold at a discount to businesses looking to alleviate their tax load. The exchange creates a cashflow that helps offset the costs of doing that particular business in that area; in this case filming in Alaska is very expensive. A net gain of dollars flows into those local communities and the credits establish a way for a particular locality to compete with other cities or states for business; over the long term it can they help establish a broader tax base by increasing the number of professionals drawn to the area.

The optimal situation is to have a tax code is low enough where regulations aren’t so restrictive so as to warrant the need for tax credits. That is the real debate. However, it is within every state and city’s right to make themselves more competitive by offering tax incentives to attract business and create a business community. Aren’t we, as conservatives, supporters of the 10th Amendment? You pay for things by increasing your tax base, not by increasing regulations or taxes.

It’s also important to note that this was a bipartisan piece of legislation she simply signed into law to spur commerce and diversify Alaska’s economy — not something Palin created to help herself as has been subtly suggested on other parts of the web.

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- JP

Dana Loesch: Surveyor Symbols vs. Crosshairs (Updated)

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but
fail to notice the beam in your own eye?" - Matt. 7-3
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Leftists are in denial over Rebecca Mansour's explanation that the symbols used on the now infamous SarahPAC map were surveyor's symbols, not crosshairs, an "inconvenient truth" which does not fit their false narrative of trying to blame Gov. Palin for the Tuscon shootings.

At Big Journalism, Dana Loesch offers a quick course in Map Symbols 101:

These are surveyor's symbols:

And compare:

These are crosshairs:

And a bullseye:

The sort used in the DLC [Democratic Leadership Council] map:

The Freepers were all over it in March.

I think a lot of people owe Sarah Palin an apology.

You can read Dana's Big Journalism posts here.

And by repetition, regarding leftists' claims that Gov. Palin "scrubbed" the map -- Wrong, it's still on her facebook page:

We never removed this Facebook post: http://is.gd/kokfD The "Take Back the 20" website is no longer relevant now that the election is over.

Allow us to spell it out for hysterical "progressives" -- The "Take Back The 20" website was created specifically for the midterm elections. After election day, SarahPAC saw no need to continue to incur the expense of maintaining the site, especially with the post announcing the "20" effort still up on Facebook for archival purposes.

Of course, those leftists who aren't condemning Gov. Palin for "scrubbing" the map are condemning her for not removing it from Facebook, claiming that she is "insensitive" for leaving it there. With the hate-deranged left, Sarah Palin is villified, no matter what she does or doesn't do.

Update: The U.S. Geological Survey, on "Provisional-Edition" maps, uses the same symbol employed by SarahPAC to mark "Principal points." See here and here. That's why it is referred to as a "surveyor's symbol."

- JP

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

Dana Loesch: Left Goes Texas-Cheerleader-Mom on Bristol in DWTS

They finally hit that level of no-shame desperation
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Dana Loesch, who danced competitively as a young girl growing up, recalls "those hair-sprayed school days" in a Big Journalism opinion piece. Loesch writes that the flashback was triggered when she learned that Bristol Palin had received death threats for making it to the finals on “Dancing with the Stars”:

Dude, I thought. They finally hit that level of no-shame desperation. The left has gone all Texas cheerleader mom on Bristol Palin.

Sally Quinn rah-rah’s this outrage and her latest column reads more like dictation from a stage mom running down the Palins on behalf of liberalism.

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I can’t tell you how much this cracks me up. There’s this story occurring right now in my hometown about massive questions surrounding voter fraud – and how the political dynasty here bucked the city board of elections to hire its security firm to police the polls in a city where dead people turn up all like “Thriller” on election day – but NO. The tea party must be cheating on a television reality show about dancing!

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A dude shot his television because she advanced to the finals. Because she’s getting death threats (two things which Quinn conveniently left out of her column. I guess that’s commonplace in the competitions she watches.) I want Bristol Palin to win because the left is so demonstrably bigoted, so prejudiced, so hateful, they’ve attacked this girl and said she faked her pregnancy, they’ve attacked her for being a teenage mother, for being a teenage mother who kept her baby, for running down every single choice she’s made in the public spotlight – and not in the spotlight by her choice, mind you. The left bears such a hatred for her mother that they’ve been gunning for Bristol Palin long before she was cast on “Dancing with the Stars,” and long before Sally Quinn turned a more light-hearted Annie Wilkes on her in a column. Progressives have been holding “Vote Against Bristol” parties. I hope the right goes shamelessly ACORN on DWTS voting. Apparently, it matters more to the left than actual for-real voting.

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- JP

Dana Loesch: Sarah Palin and the rise of the Feminist Right

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In a Washington Examinber op-ed, Dana Loesch makes the case that conservative women are on the rise because the the feminist left has failed:

Popularly defined feminism is no longer about liberating women from the patriarchy but about beholding them to a political party whose policies clearly affect women negatively.

This past month, liberal feminists made more hay made over Palin's "mama grizzlies" talk than the matter of the Food and Drug Administration jerking Avastin off the market. Avastin is a drug used to treat late-stage breast cancer and has been shown to extend the life of some breast cancer patients by five months, but was deemed "cost-prohibitive" by the government.

Emily's List cared enough about women to make a video criticizing Palin, but apparently not enough about breast cancer patients to make a video criticizing the FDA's move.

Liberal feminists made more hay about Palin's chest than I saw them make over the nine women who were recently stoned to death in the Middle East. Those same liberal feminists were also silent when Alle Bautsch was beaten in the street for being a conservative woman.

Liberal feminists talk of choice, but refuse to take the liberated, independent responsibility for their choices and instead press Uncle Sam to subsidize their abortions and birth control.

Loesch has more to say, and you can read it in her full opinion piece here.

- JP