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Ben Shapiro discussed Hollywood's hate for Sarah Palin on the weekend edition of "Fox & Friends":
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She said the media became a key reason she decided not to finish out her term as governor and faults, in part, the McCain campaign for failing to vigorously defend her.The DC's Jonathan Strong talked with "Fox & Friends" about today's batch of JournoList emails:
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Palin said she sensed the vitriol coming from campaign reporters at the time.
“It was too obvious to me, my family, my administration and anyone else who knew me (and my record) that we were in a defenseless position the minute I gave my acceptance speech and the hordes of Obama’s opposition researchers-slash ‘reporters’ had descended upon Alaska,” Palin told The DC.
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“To not have had the McCain campaign staff defend my record was an insurmountable challenge, because once a bell is rung, it’s impossible to un-ring,” Palin said.
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“It didn’t help, either, that the hours and hours of interviews with the likes of Katie Couric resulted in a few minutes here and there of selected snippets of my annoyed answers. (I naively had not believed at the time of some of the badgering questions [for example, questioning my pro-life position] that the editing process would fulfill their biased purpose),” Palin said.
Palin says the feeding frenzy culture of the media galvanized her political opponents in Alaska. “The media incentivized political opponents to file false ethics charges and expensive, wasteful, frivolous lawsuits against me, my family and my staff, in an obvious attempt to destroy us,” Palin said.
When those lawsuits — which Palin said she won, but the media didn’t cover — caused legal costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, Palin had finally had it, she said.
"She came back at him [Arnold Schwarzenegger] full throttle on her Facebook page, pointing out in fact that California is in the tank largely because of eco-zealotry and these environmental regulations that are based on flawed science. It was like watching Terminator 4 or 5 or whatever it was. And you have The Governator trying to take on another Sarah -- Sarah Palin instead of Sarah Conner -- and failed miserably, I believe."At 5:55:
"You know what? I would have given Sarah Palin the Person of the Year Award She has more than anything over the past year to drive the Left and so many people crazy. And she certaily has kept the Huffington Post in business."- JP