MSNBC leans forward... and falls on its face

Reason.TV exposes the hypocrisy of MSNBC
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Memo to MSNBC: Before you accuse her, better take a good look at yourself.

h/t: Weasel Zippers

- JP

Quote of the Day (January 22, 2011)

Did we not hear day and night that this symbolism is unacceptable?
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HotAirPundit:

"Why is Chris Matthews Displaying A Target and Crosshairs on the U.S. Capitol? ...After all we've been through the past two weeks and all the nonstop criticism of Sarah Palin for using crosshairs on a political map from this very person and his colleagues at MSNBC, Matthews tosses this out there."

- JP

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand Palin smears

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From lamestream leftist publications like Harper's to Haterade-powered gutter smear blogs, the left has been attacking Sarah Palin for two years now for allegedly "using" her children for political purposes.

Ahem:


- JP

In fit of hypocrisy, elitist left all 'wee-weed up' over 'refudiate' (Updated)

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The left is "All Wee Weed Up" over Sarah Palin's use of the word "refudiate."



"Refudiate" was not made up by Sarah Palin. It was listed in the Urban Dictionary at least as early as June 27:

Urban Dictionary: Refudiate
27 Jun 2010 ... Portmanteau of "refuse" and "repudiate" to make clear you mean "refuse" as in to refuse to accept; especially : to reject as unauthorized or ...
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Refudiate

"Wee-weed up," however, had not (to our knowledge) passed human lips until former half-Senator Barack Obama coined the phrase in August of 2009.

Update: Research, research, reasearch! Rich Crowther discovered an instance of the word in use in 1980.

- JP

Mitchell praised Clinton, disses Palin for making real money

Oh, the hypocrisy! Geoffrey Dickens at NewsBusters on liberal and Palin-challenged Andrea Mitchell's double standard:

NBC's Andrea Mitchell, on Thursday's Today show, delivered a snarky piece about Sarah Palin "making millions on books" and "highly paid speeches"going as far to portray the former Republican Alaskan governor as a diva who demands a Lear jet and "bendable straws" for her water bottles at appearances.

However Mitchell was singing a different tune back in 2001 when a former Democratic officeholder, in this case Bill Clinton, cashed in, as she hailed on the August 7, 2001 NBC Nightly News: "The self-declared 'Comeback Kid,' a hero to his new office neighbors in Harlem, now breaking a world record, signing the biggest non-fiction book deal in history, bigger than the Pope's. Bigger than Hillary Clinton's. Sources say as much as $12 million."

Fast forward to Thursday's Today show, and Mitchell painted Palin as a hypocrite for getting rid of her state-funded luxury jet back in Alaska, since she is now requesting a Lear jet for an appearance at the cash-strapped Cal State-Stanislaus University. However, as Mitchell herself pointed out, albeit at the end of the piece, Palin's speech at the campus is being paid by private funds and will, according to the university's president, raise money for the school.

Read Dickens' unabridged post here.

- JP

Feinstein wrote crib notes on her hand for '90 debate

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Liberals have been going all Alinsky on Sarah Palin for writing a few words on her hand for her speech last Saturday to the National Tea Party Convention and the Q&A session which followed it. Now it has been revealed that one of the left's most beloved "progressive" icons did the same thing for her 1990 gubernatorial debate against Pete Wilson. The major differences are that under the rules of the debate, the use of crib notes was against the rules, and Feinstein, unlike Palin, tride to hide what she had in, or rather on, her hand. In a Santa Barbara Independent op-ed, Jerry Roberts -- no fan of Gov. Palin by any means -- spilled the beans:

Veteran California political scribes recalled, however, that now-senior Senator Dianne Feinstein pulled the same stunt during a crucial debate when she unsuccessfully ran for governor against Pete Wilson. Back in October 1990, Feinstein and Wilson had their one-and-only debate of the campaign; nervous before the statewide televised event, DiFi scrawled three words — “growth, education, choice” on her palm in blue marker, to remind her of the policy themes she wanted to sound.

Her action technically violated a ground rule, on which the campaigns had agreed, against bringing notes to the podium. When reporters challenged her about it after the debate, Feinstein hid her hand behind her back, said, “I’m not going to show you,” and walked away.

Her bizarre reaction only fed the story for several days; an L.A. TV station showed blown-up pictures of her scrawled hand, and the Wilson campaign paid for a computer-enhanced picture that they circulated to the press corps. It was a superficial issue, but it helped the Republican candidate advance the notion that his Democratic rival — the first woman to win a major party nomination for governor — was too unknown to trust in the job. Whether or not the handwriting flap was a factor, Wilson beat Feinstein in November.

Jeff Boulier, commenting on a post at Althouse, provides what appears to be corroboration of Roberts' report:

"Article ID: Q0030360
Published on October 15, 1990, The Washington Times{PUBLICATION2}

No Headline

S=NEW STORY

Never mind the lips or hips; read her hand

First it was a Republican president from California who was getting advice from a San Francisco astrologer; now it's a Democratic candidate for governor from San Francisco who's into palm reading.

Dianne Feinstein was caught red-handed reading a palm - her own - during yesterday's televised debate with her GOP rival, Sen. Pete Wilson. Republicans claimed this was a violation of the [debate rules]"

Wednesday in a comment on the Left's attempt to gin up a scandal out of nothing, we asked what is obviously a rhetorical question:

"How many times have deranged leftists let their pettiness and blood lust to destroy Sarah Palin make them end up looking like the nasty fools they are?"

Leftists never bother to check facts because they don't care one whit about the truth. For them, it's all about smearing Gov. Palin. When the mud they throw at her is proven to be distortion, exaggeration or just downright lies, they simply grab another handful and fling it. But the naked hypocrisy of the Left has once again been exposed for all the world to see. It will eventually be the magic bullet with which they do themselves in for good.

- JP

Convicted felon calls Sarah Palin "dangerous"

Martha Stewart, who was convicted of four felony counts and served five months in a federal prison camp, said Friday that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is "a dangerous person," and "anyone like that in government is a real problem."

NewsBusters.com Associate Editor Noel Sheppard reports that the cookin' ex-con told HLN that former Governor Palin "very boring" and "confused":

Ironically, when asked if she has seen any of Palin's recent interviews, Stewart replied without recognizing the hypocrisy, "I wouldn't watch her if you paid me."

Heh.

- JP

Purging Moderates: Liberal Hypocrisy in Action

The drumbeat from liberal Democrats and their media attack dogs that the "Sarah Pain wing" of the GOP wants to drive moderates out of the party has been nonstop since liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava was unmasked as a Democrat Party fellow traveller up in New York State.

But according to the Associated Press, the leftists are guilty of the same thing they are accusing conservatives of doing:

Get on the health overhaul bandwagon, or don’t count on our help in your re-election.

That’s the hardball message liberal groups are hurling at moderate Democratic senators in a battle that is dividing their party. Their demands: Support a bill that offers optional government-run health coverage and oppose Republican attempts to derail the legislation.

At RedState.com, bk finds it verrrry interestink, as an Artie Johnson character used to be notorious for saying, that the story was kept under wraps until after the election.

Podnah, there ain't no bigger hypocrite in the world than a Libocrat.

- JP

Who didn't see THIS coming?

It is in the nature of the Leftist, when engaged in political debate, to fall back on irrational argument once he or she has exhausted the rational. So weak is the power of the rational liberal argument that it doesn't require much time to elapse before this fallback occurs.

Case in point: the debate over health care. After former Governor Sarah Palin posted a series of well-stated and flawlessly-documented arguments against ObamaCare, leftists found themselves defeated by her in the arena of ideas. Unable to accept this turn of events, the leftists went through their usual stage of denial, and then came back with an irrational argument. Palin's arguments were made so well that the Left can't accept that they are indeed hers.

We knew this would happen. Leftists are, among other things, predictable. Our friend Bill at Governor Palin 2012 was one of those who posted about it:

"Of course, it's only a matter of time before someone claims that she isn't writing those notes because she isn't smart enough to do so."

Someone already has. The unhinged smear site Gawker has been bashing Governor Palin for the better part of a year. One of the nasty web site's more deranged bloggers, who goes by the handle of "The Cajun Boy" posted this just hours prior to Bill's warning:

"...the note is obviously meticulously researched and footnoted, appears to be entirely grammatically correct (It even contains semicolons!), presents rather cogent arguments in a reasoned attempt to persuade, and on the whole is written articulately."

That's Leftist denial at work. The liberal mind simply cannot break free of the memes it has absorbed from all of those Democrat talking points to understand what is rather simple logic. Sarah Palin writes well because she has a Journalism degree. What she writes is grammatically correct because college English is one of the basic requirements for any college degree. The basics of English grammar are, of course, learned well before one gets to the college level. But in college, and even for journalism majors, there are required courses one must pass which make one perform research and list sources. We know these things because we have journalism degrees of our own. Even those pursuing the BA must take courses in science and write well-documented research reports and term papers.

Sarah Palin is the daughter of two school teachers, yet liberals still can't accept that she can use grammar and punctuation when she writes. Unable to handle the rational, the leftist mind retreats into irrationality. It begins to invent explanations that fit its memes. In The Cajun Boy's case, the process must go something like this:

"Obviously Sarah's school teacher parents cared not one whit about how well she was mastering her school lessons and let her slide. She was just a dumb jock, and the school let her slide also. That degree from The University of Idaho isn't worth the paper it is written on. They hand them out to anyone who asks. She must have paid someone to write her term papers for her..."

And the ramblings of the irrational mind continue until satisfied that it has made up a sufficient number of unproven explanations to justify the meme. The meme is that Sarah Palin is stupid. Liberals will never stop believing so, and in the face of rational argument to the contrary, they will deny, ignore and change the subject as needed.

As an aside, we visited The Cajun Boy's personal blog, where one of the many words he uses to describe himself is "scholar." TCB doesn't elaborate on what level of education he attained, but he does list his occupation as "conductor of the times square to grand central shuttle train." Yeah, we're sure they require college degrees for that job. That's a direct quote by the way. The use of all lowercase letters may be trendy in Leftist World, but in school, where you have to pass courses, show your work and stuff, "Times Square" rates a couple of uppercase letters, as does any other famous landmark. We're pretty sure "Grand Central" does also, even if you omit the "Station." Yet this is from the snarky hypocrite who commented that the punctuation and grammar used in Sarah Palin's Facebook posts were proper, therefore she could not used them.

We would be willing to bet some real money that The Cajun Boy who found a new home in New York City has not taken many courses in logic. Behold this gem of reasoning:

"Now, let's just stop there because it doesn't even really take a careful examination of the entire note to deduce that it simply could not have been written by Sarah Palin, which leads one to pretty much dismiss all of the points it attempts to make."

So in the leftist mind, an argument becomes invalid if it the assumption is made that it may have been written, or at least partially written, by a person or persons other than the credited author. Don't anyone tell the professors for whom we toiled as research assistants in grad school. And don't tell President Obama's speech writers.

This is the kind of silliness those infected with Palin Derangement Syndrome reduce themselves to. We're not outraged -- just bemused. The loony left followed these same patterns back in Ronald Reagan's day. He was another person the liberals could allow themselves to see only as stupid. Curious how well he worked out for the people of the United States and the millions in Eastern Europe he helped to free from Leftist oppression in its most extreme form. Ah, but the Left will continue to underestimate Sarah Palin, just as they underestimated Reagan. In the latter's case it worked out quite well for him strategically, as Reagan rode liberals' underestimation into two terms in the White House. We see no reason why it cannot work just as well for Sarah Palin.

- JP

NY Times Op-Ed Savages Bristol Palin

An op-ed in the leftist New York Times by Gail Collins today attacks 18-year-old Bristol Palin, her parents, her home town, her role as teen ambassador for a teen pregnancy awareness campaign, the Candie's Foundation, abstinence, and... well, you get the drift.

Among the many poison darts Collins threw at the teenager was this one:

"It's hard not to suspect that for her, being the anti-pregnancy ambassador is just a good excuse to get out of Wasilla."

Slimy, elitist opinion writers are standard fare at the Times, but Collins is a really rotten piece of dried-up fruit. She has been attacking Sarah Palin since the Alaska governor was chosen by John McCain to be his running mate. On August 30 Collins wrote of Palin's impending nomination as the GOP vice presidential candidate, comparing the historical achievement by the Republican Party to Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in the Democrat primary race as "a step back" for women.

After Gov. Palin's barn-burner of a speech to the Republican convention September 3, Collins used a disgruntled Romney supporter's unguarded moment to point out that "some Republicans who think the microphone is off, believe that Sarah Palin is a terrible choice for running mate."

In a December 6 op-ed, Collins lamented the fact that McCain did not pick liberal Senator Olympia Snowe as his running mate instead of Palin, whom Collins described as "an out-to-lunch moose-murderer who cannot seem to put together a coherent sentence."

I submit that a character assassin, especially one that tries to justify her attacks on a teenage girl, has little room for denouncing a moose huntress. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Hypocrisy is a leftist core value.

- JP