Mark Levin on the Palin emails

"Do you think they'd be falling all over themselves for John Huntsman's emails?"
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Mark also says MSNBC's bookers are only looking for guests who are critical of "The Undefeated," the new documentary about Gov. Palin. MSPDS isn't interested in being either fair or balanced.

- JP

Gutless Grandstanding to Gig a Grizzly

'The left sinks to new lows' has become a cliché
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Whether Sarah Palin's One Nation Tour is a quest to try to get America back in touch with its founding, or whether it's a testing-the-waters expedition is a valid question for debate. But in the active imagination of a ten year old child for whom politics is just boring stuff that adults do, it's a vacation. You don't need advanced degrees in child psychology to figure it out unless, you're a Democrat with an agenda and a cable "news" network for a megaphone.

MSNBC crackpot host Lawrence O’Donnell and radical leftist Comgressman Earl Blumenauer show that they have no problem with running a sword through Piper Palin to get to her mom:


America is broke, thanks to the likes of Blumenauer and other Democrats who have spent other people's money like drunken... well, Democrats; beltway statists have skyrocketed the national debt up to incomprehensible heights; unemployment under Obama is double what it was when Dems blamed Bush in 2005 for it being 4.5 percent; Obama is borrowing money from China to give to Greece; he loaned more Chinese money to Brazil to drill for oil that he's promised to buy from them, after shutting down domestic production in the Gulf of Mexico. With all that and much worse going on, Blumenauer and O'Donnell are obsessed with whether the National Park Service gave 15 minutes of its time to talk to Sarah Palin exclusively at a stop on her bus tour?

We always knew "progressives" had their priorities all out of whack, but the left's obsession with making war on Sarah Palin and her family is nothing less than pathological. That Blumenauer and his useful idiot O'Donnell would use MSPDS to grandstand about it while attacking little Piper Palin to sling a little mud at her mother clearly demonstrates that the left no longer cares how low it sinks below the level of the rest of humanity.

h/t: Mediacrank

- JP

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

Crazy Chris Matthews goes for a twofer...

...as MSNBC leans forward and trips over an ugly stick
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More Palin derangement from MSNBC's loosest cannon (he is, now that Olbermann's gone to Gore some oxen elephants):

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday decided to wade into the Rick Santorum-Sarah Palin-CPAC dust-up by cherry-picking what the former Pennsylvania Senator told S.E. Cupp on Glenn Beck's online program the day before.

Not surprisingly, by presenting only his biased and abbreviated side of the story, the "Hardball" host attacked both Palin and Santorum...

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Matthews and Company chose to air only fifteen seconds of a 44 second video. They apparently didn't have an additional 29 seconds of air time for "Hardball" viewers to see Santorum's entire response to Cupp's question...

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Matthews, being the spectacular investigative journalist he's known to be, chose not to inform his small viewership of this fact, or that this was the third year in a row that Palin turned down an invitation from CPAC.

Such inconvenient truths would have gotten in the way of his ability to besmirch and degrade two conservatives in one fell swoop.

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NewsBusters Noel Sheppard says we should just imagine how ugly Matthews will get when the 2012 primaries get into full swing. We don't know, for it's hard to imagine the "civility" of Matthews and MSNBC getting much uglier. But as for it getting more unhinged and probably certifiable, not much imagination is needed. The cheese fell off Matthews' cracker long ago.

- JP

Armey says Matthews is losing touch with reality

"Uninformed pejorative"
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FreedomWorks chairman and former Texas Congressman Dick Armey says MSNBC host Chris Matthews is losing his grip on reality. Asked by Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade to comment on Matthews recently comparing the Tea Party to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, Armey replied,

"I don’t know whether it’s his age or what, but he just seems to be slipping out of touch with reality."

Lachlan Markay of Newsbusters writes that in addition to repeatedly implying Republicans are racists, he has called Glenn Beck "absolutely crazy", compared the Tea Party to "Nazi stuff", and has done his best to connect Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann to the tragic shooting in Tucson.

So numerous are Matthews' attacks that Newsbusters has an entire section highlighting his vicious rhetoric.

It's not like Matthews' descent into madness is anything new. We've been reporting on his hate-filled and misogynistic attacks on Gov. Palin for years. So as far as Matthews "losing touch with reality," that trainwreck left the station a long, long time ago.

- JP

Maddow explains why she fell for Palin/Egypt hoax

She blames -- wait for it -- Glenn Beck!
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We posted Tuesday about how MSPDS host Rachel Maddow, whom the left touts as "brilliant" (like Bill Clinton, she's a Rhodes scholar), fell hook, line and sinker Monday for an internet spoof by a satirical website that Gov. Sarah Palin was advocating an attack on Egypt.

Maddow took 24 hours to come up with an excuse, and, as Noel Sheppard reports, on Tuesday's program explained that it was all conservatives' fault, in particular that diabolical Glenn Beck:

And that was Maddow’s explanation for getting duped by a satirical website: in her view, conservatives – especially Glenn Beck – are saying all kinds of crazy things. As a result, it’s become difficult for her to know what’s real and what’s a spoof.

If this is the case, then maybe she should stop reporting on what conservatives are saying.

If she can no longer discern between fact and fiction, serious commentary and satire, she can’t possibly be trusted or taken seriously about anything, for who knows what her next source will be and whether or not it’s actually legitimate.

Maybe more importantly, how can anyone on television – Rhodes scholar or not! – be deserving of the public’s trust if she blames her own mistakes on others not at all involved in her program?

Sadly, this is par for the course on MSNBC as well as other liberal media outlets.

These are the same people that disgustingly blamed conservatives for the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) last month. They’re used to pointing fingers at others without merit.

Leftists have been mocking University of Idaho graduate Sarah Palin for two years for biting down on a prank by two Canadian DJs pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy, claiming it makes her dumb as a rock. By their thinking, then, Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow, because she fell for an internet spoof, should be dumb as a bag of dirt.

After all, the DJs got Gov. Palin's telephone number and called her, putting the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate on the spot. But Maddow and her producers, on their own initiative, found the spoof story and ran with it without bothering to take a couple of seconds to do a Google search to verify the story. So by the left's own standards, Sarah Palin is not just smarter than the average Grizzly Bear, she's just as smart -- if not smarter -- than a Rhodes Scholar.

- JP

Quote of the Day (February 1, 2011)

Dana Milbank’s ‘Palin-Free February’ Lasted a Whole 15 Hours
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Doug Powers at The Powers That Be:

"Charlie Sheen gave up coke and porn stars longer than Milbank quit Sarah Palin this month."

- JP

Watch leftist Rachel Maddow make a fool of herself

She does that every weeknight, of course, but this is special...
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Even Palin hypercritc Glynnis MacNicol has to admit that "This is pretty lamestream":

Alas, apparently the story sounded solid to the Maddow team because they ran with it last night.

Maddow's people caught the mistake a short while later (as the Atlantic Wire notes, more than can be said for HuffPo). But so much for Sarah Palin making it through the month without getting connected to Egypt.

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Wow, leftist anti-Christianist Rachel Maddow gets punked by a leftist anti-Christianist satire site. Who says God doesn't have a flair for irony?

Update: NewsBuster Noel Sheppard is all over this story.

- JP

Quote of the Day (January 31, 2011)

“MSNBC does not have a political agenda" - and milk shoots out of your nose
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John Sexton at Verum Serum:

"...it becomes clear that Palin is MSNBC’s Emmanuel Goldstein, the fictional villain from Orwell’s 1984. Their coverage (and that of much of the MSM) amounts to a daily two minute hate which serves their political and business interests even if – as in the case of the Arizona shootings – it has little to do with reality."

- JP

Shepherd: Hollywood Reporter all but diagnoses MSNBC with PDS

Calling Captain Obvious...
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NewsBuster Ken Shepherd observes that Paul Bond at The Hollwood Reporter characterizes MSNBC's obsession with Gov. Palin as a "sickness":

"MSNBC’S dependence on Palin was best displayed with the recent shootings in Tucson that left six people dead and Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded. MSNBC was crucial in driving the narrative that the killer was egged on by violent political rhetoric, particularly from Palin. Even after it was learned that the shooter was an atheist, flag-burning, Bush-hating, 9/11 Truther who enjoyed joking about abortion (not exactly the portrait of a Palin supporter), MSNBC still did not let up on that story line," Bond noted.

All told in the year 2010 alone, Sarah Palin was the subject of 611 segments on the programs hosted by MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, and Rachel Maddow. Bond didn't take into account non-primetime MSNBC hosts like Joe Scarborough, Chris Jansing, or Tamron Hall. Adding in those numbers could easily push the total to near or above 1,000.

"Now that Keith Olbermann has left MSNBC, perhaps cable news can begin weaning itself from its addiction to Sarah Palin," Bond quipped at the open of his article

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Sheppard doubts that an Olby-free MSNBC's symptoms of Palin Derangement syndrome will be eased, but the leftist network may engage in some substitution therapy by directing more of its vitriolic attacks at Rep. Michelle Bachmann instead of Sarah Palin.

- JP

Palin-hatin' Olbermann sacked by MSPDS (Updated)

Buh-Bye Bathtub Boy
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RedState's Caleb Howe tweets:

"At long last, sir, have you no job?"

Keith Olberman, has been abruptly fired by MSNBC, apparently during Friday night's show. More here. Just last month he dubbed Bristol Palin the "Worst Person In The World" for her role as an ambassador for abstinence with the Candies Foundation, and as recently as Tuesday misrepresented a CNN poll in a ridiculous attempt to tie Sarah Palin to the Tucson shootings.

Olby has been a frequent critic of Bristol's mom beginning just days after she was announced as John McCain's running mate more than two years ago. On September 17 of 2008, he falsely accused Gov. Palin of cutting funding for the Special Olympics by half in Alaska. He has bashed the first woman to be both governor of Alaska and the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate as a "phony" and an "idiot," and has named her "Worst Person In The World" a number of times. The hysterical host also labeled Gov. Palin and other critics of ObamaCare "subhumans," "ghouls," and "fiends." After Sarah Palin called David Letterman out for making a crude sexual "joke" about her teenage daughter Willow, Olbermann called the governor "sanctimonious, holier than thou, exploitative, undignified, pedantic, childish, self-inflicting, insipid, backwards, embarrassing, over-reactive, overreaching" as well as a "delusional lunatic." Even after all of his slandering of Sarah, the not-too-bright Bathtub Boy couldn't seem to understand why she would not be itching to appear on the network of hate, referring to her as a coward and throwing in for bad measure "idiot-woman" and "idiot." And that's only the highlight reel.

Olby probably won't be an unemployment statistic for long. We fully expect Ariana Huffington and/or Tina Brown to offer Keif a job. Or perhaps CNN will snap him up to replace the failing Parker Spitzer program in prime time. On second thought, he could get a column or a blog at the Washington Post. He would be just the ticket for "the new era of civility" there...

Update: Andrew Breitbart makes it short and tweet:

"OVERMANN"

- JP

Mark Levin on the Death Threats Against Gov. Palin

Nobody has been as viciously maligned by MSNBC, and now we have death threats
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h/t: Mark Levin Fan

- JP

Quote of the Day (January 14, 2011)

Most people will fairly conclude that Palin had a right to defend herself
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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

"Joe Scarborough and Donny Deutsch consign Sarah Palin’s political career to the ash heap — certainly not the first time anyone’s done that — after her video response to the slanderous accusations of the media regarding her supposed responsibility for the Tucson shootings. Wasn’t that the conclusion media analysts had been flacking before her response, too? And let’s not forget that the supposedly self-centered response was prompted by the media centering the story on Palin for the previous three days..."

- JP

Jeffrey Lord: Mark Levin's $100,000 Challenge to Chris Matthews

"I challenge him right now. Sarah Palin. Me. Go ahead."
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Talk show host, Landmark Legal Foundation president and former Reagan cabinet advisor Mark Levin has issued what The American Spectator's Jeffrey Lord writes is "a stunning challenge" to those on the left who are accusing Gov. Palin and other outspoken conservatives of encouraging mass murder:

First, he offered $100,000 to Chris Matthews to find any example where Sarah Palin or Levin himself had "promoted the murder of anybody."

The direct challenge to Matthews took place shortly after Levin had played clips of Matthews suggesting Levin's passionate radio shows were "angry" and apparently implying that Levin's shows and those of talker Michael Savage had some responsibility for the Tucson murders. The allegation came on the heels of a specific allegation by left-wing Pima County Sheriff insisting Rush Limbaugh was at fault, while MSNBC's Keith Olbermann demanded Palin "repudiate her own part in amplifying violence and violent imagery in politics."

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"I challenge Chris Matthews, I'll put $100,000 on the table, to find any example where Sarah Palin has promoted the murder of anybody," said Levin -- specifically excluding terrorists and the Taliban.

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He's waiting for a very specific allegation "because I'm going to sue." In federal court.

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Of course Matthews and the other irresponsible leftists who are making their wild accusations will neither put up nor shut up. They never do, because they have nothing to back up their irresponsible rhetoric lies.

Audio of the Levin challenge is here.

- JP

Breitbart TV: Is MSPDS Promoting Mike Huckabee for GOP Nomination?

You betcha!:
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Why? Because it's getting tough for the leftist network to sell Mike Bloomberg. Meanwhile, Newsweek, the $1 liberal magazine, is busy hyping yet another Republican progressive.

- JP

Moonbat Matthews: The fact that Sen. Demint 'has a mind is news'

Showing how low MSPDS can go
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The clowns at MSPDS demonstrate on a daily basis why the leftist cable network's ratings are down in the sewer along with its program hosts. A prime example is provided in the following clip, in which "Hardball" host Chris Matthews can't just disagree with Sen. Jim Demint about Sarah Palin, but has to engage in an ad hominem attack on the intelligence of a sitting U.S. Senator who has an undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, an MBA from Clemson University and years of experience as a marketing research professional:

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

As is so often the case with elitist liberals, Matthews didn't listen to what Demint said. The Senator did not say that Gov. Palin has done more for the GOP than Ronald Reagan; he said that she has done more for the party since Reagan. But leftists aren't exactly known for being attentive listeners. They are too busy trying to think of something snarky to say as a putdown than to pay attention, and more often than not, they beclown themselves with their catty responses.

h/t: TheRightScoop

- JP

Bristol Palin answers Keith Olbermann's cruel attack

"I have never claimed to be perfect."
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On her Facebook page, Bristol Palin defended herself against Keith Olbermann's recent cowardly attack on the young woman made on his MSPDS network show:

Mr. Olbermann--Sorry We Can't All Be As Perfect As You

Recently, a left wing commentator named Keith Olbermann attacked me for being a spokesperson for abstinence education and for being an Ambassador for the Candies Foundation, which promotes teen pregnancy awareness and prevention education. He went so far as to call me "the worst person" he knows, apparently, for my efforts to educate teenagers about the real world risks of premarital sex.

Accusing me of hypocrisy is by now, an old canard. What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with insincere incredulity. Mr. Olbermann fails to understand that in order to have credibility as a spokesperson, it sometimes takes a person who has made mistakes. Parents warn their children about the mistakes they made so they are not repeated. Former gang members travel to schools to educate teenagers about the risks of gang life. Recovered addicts lecture to others about the risks of alcohol and drug abuse. And yes, a teen mother talks about the benefits of preventing teen pregnancy.

I have never claimed to be perfect. If that makes me the "worst person in the world" to Mr. Olbermann, then I must apologize for not being absolutely faultless like he undoubtedly must be.

To Mr. Olbermann let me say this: you can attack me all you want. But you will not stop me from getting my message out about teen pregnancy prevention. And one day, if you ever have a daughter, you may change your mind about me.

Bristol Palin

- JP

Scarborough's attack on Gov. Palin just part of the plan

More opening salvos in the Vichy GOP's war on Sarah
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Vichy Republican, former Congressman and MSDNC talk show host Joe Scarborough launched a full-scale attack on Sarah Palin Tuesday. The two-pronged assault by the man Don Imus has described as "a disgusting, backstabbing phony," was waged in a Politico opinion piece and on MSDNC's poorly-rated "Morning Joe" program.

At least Palin supporters can't claim that they were "blindsided." Politico predicted that this was coming in an October 31 article written by Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei titled "Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin." The GOP establishment's campaign against the party's 2008 vice presidential candidate was described in the piece as an "urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over." By "in earnest," Allen and Vandehei meant to say beyond the usual anti-Palin smears made by pretend "conservatives" such as Kathleen Parker, David Frum and Peggy Noonan. Those sort of attacks have been seen since Gov. Palin was named as John McCain's running mate in late August of 2008.

Indeed, we have seen similar attacks on the first woman to be both Alaska's governor and the GOP's vice presidential candidate coming from new quarters. Probing maneuvers by Karl Rove testing Gov. Palin's perimeter began in mid-September and were ramped up by "Bush's Brain" just two days before the Allen-Vendehei article was published by Politico, when Rove questioned her "gravitas" and declared the "Sarah Palin's Alaska" series on TLC to be "unpresidential."

The next skirmish in the coordinated RINO attack on Gov. Palin came from the unlikeliest of guerrilla fighters in the person of Barbara Bush, whose diss was both sexist and condescending, as Mama Frizzy preceded her opinion that Sarah Palin "should stay in Alaska" with a back-handed compliment about the beauty of the woman she was attacking.

The assaults on Gov. Palin by Rove and Bush were both based on style, not substance, as was pointed out at Wake up Black America:

The reason why anti Sarah Palin snipes can't debate me and her supporters on the issue of Sarah Palin's qualifications to be president is because the arguments that go in her favor are all based on facts, where as the negatives are based on opinions, gossip, smears and lies. Palin has earned the right to run for the GOP nomination. She in essence saved the GOP from it's certain death as a national party. While she has been going after Obama, Pelosi, Reid and others on their failed polices, other potential 2012 GOP candidates have been silently standing by watching trying to keep their powder dry.

The attacks by Scarborough are similar to the ones made by Rove and Mother Bush in this regard. Let's examine Scarborough's points from his Politico hit piece one by one:

"What man or mouse with a fully functioning human brain and a résumé as thin as Palin’s would flirt with a presidential run? It makes the political biography of Barack Obama look more like Winston Churchill’s..."

This is a bald-faced lie. Sarah Palin was a city councilwoman for two terms (4 years), a mayor for three terms (6 years), chair of a state oil and gas commission for a year and chair of an interstate (38 states) oil and gas commission for a year. As governor of Alaska, three of her administration’s major proposed pieces of legislation passed in her first year in office -- an overhaul of the state’s ethics laws, a competitive process to construct a natural gas pipeline and a restructuring of Alaska’s oil valuation formula. As governor, she also used her veto powers to cut budgetary spending and called a halt to the “bridge to nowhere” that would have cost taxpayers an additional $400 million dollars. Comparisons of her resume to that of Barack Obama are here and here, lest anyone question whose is "thin." It is important to note that her resume includes considerable government executive experience, while Obama's has none. In the private sector, she is also a small businesswoman, co-owner of the family's salmon fishing operation with her husband Todd for years. So Sarah Palin's resume not only puts Barack Obama's to shame, but Joe Scarborough's as well.

In the past month alone, she has mocked Ronald Reagan’s credentials, dismissed George H.W. and Barbara Bush as arrogant “blue bloods” and blamed George W. Bush for wrecking the economy.

Sarah Palin most certainly did not mock President Reagan or his credentials. She merely pointed out that others had dissed Reagan as "only an actor" in response to Rove characterizing her television show as "unpresidential." Gov. Palin's remarks about the Bushes were also made in response to an unprovoked attack on her, one made by Barbara Bush herself.

Borrowing again from old left-wing attacks that Democrats used against GOP presidents, Palin channeled Ann Richards by bashing Bush and his wife as “blue bloods” who had wrecked America.

Exposing his own hypocrisy, Scarborough borrows from Democrat attacks on Sarah Palin in this piece. No less than three times Scarborough uses "half-term governor," one which comes right from the top of the list of DNC talking points. His characterizations of her as "maniacal" and "dopey" come right out of the left wing's anti-Palin playbook. Sarah Palin was correct that George H.W. Bush's abandonment of Reagan principles doomed him to be a one-term president who opened up the door for 8 years of Bill Clinton in the Oval Office.

"Maybe poor George Herbert Walker Bush was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Indeed, he was so pampered growing up that on his 18th birthday, the young high school graduate enlisted in the armed forces. This spoiled teenager somehow managed to be the youngest pilot in the Navy when he received his wings, flying 58 combat missions over the Pacific during World War II. On Sept. 2, 1944, “Blue Blood” Bush almost lost his life after being shot down by Japanese anti-aircraft fire."

What does the elder Bush's commendable war record have to do with this argument? It doesn't change the fact that his ineptitude on fiscal matters prevented his reelection and allowed the Democrats to gain control of the executive branch for 8 years. Sure, he did the right thing in Kuwait, and he's a nice guy, but this doesn't change the facts of history. Congressman Charlie Rangel served honorably in the Korean War, yet those admirable credentials did not prevent him from making bad decisions which led to censure by his peers on the House ethics committee. Scarborough's diversionary tactic is transparent and weak.

Who wouldn’t agree that finishing third in the Miss Alaska beauty contest is every bit as treacherous as risking your life in military combat? Maybe the beauty contestant who would one day be a reality star and former governor didn’t win the Distinguished Flying Cross, but the half-termer was selected as Miss Congeniality by her fellow contestants.

It's no surprise that Scarborough would throw in some sexism in his attack on Gov. Palin. The Vichy GOP has been in bed with the liberal Democrats for so long now that their attacks on good conservatives sound just like those made by their fellow travelers in the donkey party. Look, Sarah is so much more than a former beauty contestant. She only entered beauty contests to try to help pay her way through college, and for that she is vilified? She has, in fact, been a Blue Star Mom and Commander of her State's National Guard and Air Guard. As both a governor and a citizen, Sarah Palin has been nothing but supportive of our troops and veterans. That Scarborough has to reach all the way back to the Second World War to defend George H. W. Bush only demonstrates the weakness of his argument.

Another claim repeatedly made by Scarborough on MSDNC and aped by his Democrat co-host is that every Republican leader or talk radio host with whom he's spoken shares his criticism of Palin but is afraid to say so on the air. He must not talk to many conservative talk show hosts, then. We will bet real money he doesn't talk to Mark Levin, who just last month condemned Moaning Joe for previous attacks on Gov. Palin:

I see Palin campaigning all over the country for candidates. I see her raising funds for them. I see her attending Tea Party events, Republican events, you name it. She's in the fight. She has put her neck on the line and has exposed her family to outrageous ridicule. And she has done great things that have advanced conservatism and Republican Party hopes next week.

Conversely, Joe Scarborough has done nothing. He sits at his table on MSNBC arrogantly denouncing conservatives, pandering to liberals, and repeating stupid talking points someone uttered days earlier. He has no ideas and, worse, he drags down those who do. Has he campaigned for anyone? Yet he passes judgment on someone who has. Has he raised funds for anyone? Has he used his "celebrity" (such as it is) in constructive ways?

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Go Sarah. Get lost Joe.

We also doubt he's had many conversations with the king of talk radio, Rush Limbaugh. The two have had a long-running feud, during the course of which Rush said:

Moderates want kumbaya, moderates want everybody to just hug and kiss and get along. It's all a myth.... People fall for these tricks that are designed to shut us up, that are designed to get us to stand down, to be nice and gentle because the Republican Party, you have to understand, Rush, is hated and despised because everybody knows it's full of racists, sexists, bigots, and homophobes, and that's a cliche, and it just bothers me that smart people like Scarborough fall for this because he's allowing himself to be neutered, and that's what made him upset today, I called him a neutered, chickified moderate. [Emphasis ours.]

No, Scarborough didn't find corroborators in the lies he's telling about Gov. Palin in the persons of either Limbaugh or Levin, so one has to wonder which lower-echelon Republican talk show hosts Moaning Joe is talking to. It must be the ones whose ratings are as pitiful as Scarborough's are. Oh, wait, nobody's ratings are that pitiful, at least not anybody of consequence.

Make no mistake, the attacks on Sarah Palin by first Rove, then Mrs. Bush and most recently Joe Scarborough were carefully planned and coordinated. These are only the opening salvos in the Republican Party establishment's war on Sarah Palin. Chief among her many sins in their eyes is that she encouraged and supported the grass roots movement against the good old back room boys, and for this she must be destroyed politically. Ironically, while she has been busy taking the fight to Barack Obama and the liberal Democrats, the same Republicans who should have joined her in that battle have been busy planning and waging political warfare against her instead. One thing you can be sure of, more attacks have already been mapped out by the GOP elites, and we will be witnessing them in the coming weeks.

In conclusion, Scarborough got one, and only one, point right. If establishment Republicans want to criticize Gov. Palin, let them do so not in a cowardly and anonymous manner. Let them grow a spine and put their names behind their disrespect. Of course, Gov. Palin was the first person to make that suggestion, so Scarborough is simply echoing the woman he wants to destroy on that particular point.

- JP

SPAlaska's 3 million viewers vs. MSNBC's 250,000

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The leftist moonbatosphere sees it as a very big deal that the second episode of Sarah Palin's Alaska drew 3 million viewers, while the premiere episode had an audience of nearly 5 million.

TLC, however, is not complaining, and the network people point out that despite the more modest ratings, Alaska was still in the top five programs in ad-supported cable Sunday night. They reason that the first episode drew so much media attention that a drop-off was probably inevitable.

The Alaska media blog Broadsheet notes that Sunday’s 3 million is a larger audience "than than the 2.4 million viewers who tuned in for the best performing season finale of AMC’s hit series, Mad Men":

As another recent highly anticipated series, Conan, had a 41% drop from week 1 to week 2, this week’s ratings dip from the premiere’s record-setting ratings of 4.96 million viewers is to be expected. It’s of course difficult to determine everything that affects ratings, but some are speculating that Sunday Night Football and the American Music Awards may have had an impact on the numbers. Find more information about these ratings with this pessimistic slant or with a more evenhanded report.

Don’t let pundits fool with you to comparisons to broadcast show. Cable and broadcast viewer ratings are dramatically different from each other. Compared to other cable TV programs, Sarah Palin’s Alaska has more viewers and is considered to be quite successful.

But don't expect the haters on the left, who try to put a negative spin on everything Gov. Palin does, to report how well Alaska is actually doing.

"Progressive" sewer site Jezebel coughed up the furball of a headline "Viewers Already Sick of Sarah Palin's Alaska" in a typically slanted story. It occurred to us that if, with an audience of 3 million, viewers are in any way "sick" of Alaska, then the entire MSNBC network must have its audience on their deathbeds. The leftist cable news network's viewership rarely gets above 750,000 in weekday prime time -- only about a fourth of the size of Alaska's audience for its second show. On Sunday nights, when Alaska airs, MSNBC can only manage a pitiful audience of about 250,000, or about .08 percent of the Alaska viewership in the same time slot.

Pathetic.

- JP

MSNBC Falsely Claims M. Obama 'Never' Said She Wasn't Proud of U.S.

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NewsBuster Scott Whitlock catches media leftist Norah O'Donnell engaging in a bit of MSDNC mendacity. O'Donnell had the gall to insist that Michelle Obama "never said that she had not been proud of her country." The cable host's deception came on Friday while she was spinning for the First Lady while ostensibly reporting on a speech Sarah Palin delivered in California:

In fact, on February 18, 2008, Mrs. Obama addressed a crowd in Wisconsin and announced, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change." [See video. MP3 audio here.]

On Thursday, Palin wondered, "You know, when I hear people say or had said during the campaign, that they had never been proud of America until, until that time, I think haven't they met anybody in uniform yet?" This prompted O'Donnell, during a supposedly straight news report, to chide, "Of course, Mrs. Obama never said that. She never said that she had not been proud of her country."

Now, perhaps O'Donnell was trying to argue grammatical semantics over the words "really" or "adult lifetime." But, clearly, Obama was saying that she hadn't previously been proud of America.

Of course, Norah O'Donnell is the same person who berated then-17-year old Jackie Seal for her support of Palin.

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Gotta watch these soulless media maggots like a hawk.

- JP