Pres Obama: you're losing our future. NoThe article she linked to in her tweet is the same Janet Daley op-ed we linked to this morning as a related item in this post.
more pretending "with ever more manic
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8 PM Central Time/9PM EasternThe show will be aired again at 11 PM Texas Time.Are Tea Partiers 'terrorists'? @SarahPalinUSA sounds off tonight
on @hannityshow! Tune into @FoxNews at 9 PM ET!
@BarackObama you're wrong, threatening to throw seniors under the bus because you refuse to prioritize govt spending.Time to #womanup & leadJust minutes earlier, Gov. Palin had tweeted that if the president really wants a balanced deficit solution, he should drop his opposition to a balanced budget amendment:
@BarackObama wants us to support a "balanced deficit solution." Great idea! How about a balanced budget amendment?
@BarackObama wants us to contact Congress. Great idea! Tell them to rein in our dangerously unsustainable debt to protect our credit rating.- JP
Sounds like she and Todd are taking the busBeautiful drive from MN yesterday, breathtaking scenic run along Des Moines Rvr, coffee w/great Iowans, head to Pella for "The Undefeated"!Game on!
Birds of a feather...Herman Cain tells me that he is contacting Sarah Palin's camp. "We are reaching out," he says.Now what could the Herminator and The Cuda possibly have to talk about? Plenty of things, most likely. Gov. Palin had words of praise for Cain in her interview (at about the 7:35 mark) with Judge Jeanine Pirro over the weekend. Cain was appreciative in February when the governor linked to one of his op-eds.
"Pls pray for victims & assist however you can as Joplin, MO is devastated by violent tornado's direct hit. MT@Drudge http://drudge.tw/kQeqy5"- JP
"May 14, 1948 Jewish independence in their homeland called Israel! May Jerusalem be peaceful & prosperous; may our ally's enemies be silent"In a reference to Psalm 143:12, she also called for Israel's enemies to "be silent." That verse of the Psalm, a warrior's prayer, is translated in the NIV version of The Bible as:
"In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant."h/t: US for Palin
More great summer reading- hope Wasilla bookstores stock up w/"Outnumbered" & @AndrewBreitbart's "Righteous Indignation" http://is.gd/Y2ZhiLYes media/left, she reads. She also writes. Like you, she earned a journalism degree. Unlike you, she doesn't just re-publish stuff from foaming-at-the-mouth leftist bloggers.
"Boot on the throat of business in the USA. Here's another JOB KILLER that Obama idly watches, while freedom erodes http://on.wsj.com/j2vMAD"Now the unions presume to dictate where business can and cannot operate. Had enough socialism yet?
"Show photo as warning to others seeking America's destruction. No pussy-footing around, no politicking, no drama;it's part of the mission"Stacy McCain points out that the photos will eventually leak anyway (in Update IV).
An analysis by OhMyGov of social media activity during the early stages of the 2012 campaign reveals that Palin can do no wrong when it comes to Facebook and Twitter. Palin's social media fan growth so far in 2011 outshines that of any other GOP contender, declared or rumored, in many cases by a factor of 10. And she doesn't need to be part of the day's big story to experience continued rapid growth.Gov. Palin's social media presence is remarkably strong, the authors note, pointing out that the 150,000 Facebook fans Gov. Palin picked up during just the weeks of the State of the Union and her India trip are more than most politicians, government agencies and many in the GOP presidential field can claim in total fans.
The former Alaska governor has gained momentum in a number of unexpected situations. Palin attracted more news coverage than both Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty in the days following their announcements of presidential exploratory committees, as OhMyGov reported yesterday, even as her own presidential intentions remain unclear. Palin also drew more new social media followers than Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the aftermath of the assassination attempt in Tucson that left Giffords critically wounded. And Palin saw her biggest spike in new Facebook fans --- or "Likes" of her page --- around the time of President Obama's State of the Union speech, which she provocatively criticized as being full of "WTF moments."
Anytime Palin becomes part of a news story, whether deliberately or unwittingly, our analysis shows, she benefits handsomely on social media. With a commanding advantage in Facebook fans over all her potential GOP primary opponents --- and a strong showing on Twitter as well --- Palin wields a lot of influence in the campaign whether she enters the race or not.
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After keeping a respectful silence in the first days following the Tucson attacks, Palin made her first public statement via a video message released on January 12, resulting in a slew of traditional media coverage and social media activity.
In the 24 hours after accusing the mainstream media of "blood libel" in her video statement, Palin picked up another 3,021 Twitter followers and a staggering 15,068 new Facebook fans. Within a week of her remarks Palin netted roughly 9,000 new Twitter followers, proving once again that in politics there is no such thing as bad publicity.
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"Media: admit it, Trump forced the issue. Now, don't let the WH distract you w/the birth crt from what Bernanke says today. Stay focused, eh?"- JP
Best of all, and contrary to Andrew Sullivan feeling all “queasy,” this was not a “Palinista” uprising. (Heads up: When it comes to Trig Palin, Sullivan is nothing more than Wonkette with professorial elbow patches.) Decent people of all political stripes, including some in the media, put partisan politics aside over this — and it was a beautiful thing to behold. Better still, organized under their hash tag, a group of citizen activists discovered the small “d” democratic wonder of Twitter and effectively learned how to politely, firmly, and publicly fight for something they believed in.Some extreme hate sites which don't depend on ad revenue will, of course, continue their despicable attacks on innocent children, but those websites are self-marginalizing, and this form of depravity amounts to little more than preaching to the
Personally, I’m not a boycott person, but that’s my right. Others have a right to boycott, and brother, did Trig’s Crew put on a boycott. All on their own, they organized a list of Wonkette advertisers, tweeted them directly with a request that they pull their ads, and kept track of those who did and didn’t. Within hours, it was obvious a tidal wave was brewing and by the next day it was just as obvious that it had hit. As of this writing, over 30 advertisers [forty-six, as of this Monday morning - JP] agreed with Trig’s Crew and pulled their ads from Wonkette. Seemingly, and in record time, the dismantling of a fairly mainstream, left-wing snark-site seemed probable.
Like the Tea Party, Trig’s Crew has represented the very best of mainstream America as they engaged in an inspiring First Amendment online debate with dignity and decency.
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Fighting the "tolerant" left..."Big thanks from the Palin family to folks on Twitter today who took a stand for children w/special needs. Happy Easter!Thank you #TrigsCrew"h/t: US for Palin
But then, according to Slate's David Weigel, conservative bloggers stumbled across it and the outcry started. It quickly spread across political lines as people of all stripes (or claiming to be) declared the post beyond tasteless and started demanding that advertisers pull ads.The human filth at Wonkette, who did not respond to an Ad Age email requesting comment, predictably melted down on Twitter by calling Papa John's "homophobic" and urging fellow filth to boycott Papa John's. We're not sure what objecting to the despicable treatment of an innocent special needs child has to do with homosexuality, alien is logic to the "progressive mind." But we digress...
So far, the Twitter presences for both Papa John's and Huggies have decried the post. According to the Papa John's tweet, the company will make sure its ads won't run on Wonkette in the future. Huggies went so far as to tweet, "All -- We do not support the @Wonkette story & have taken action 2 pull r ads, effective immediately. TY 4 bringing this issue to r att'n!"
“Odd--@politico says Palin has yet to do very basic thing of starting email list of supporters--I see 2,892,130 of them on Facebook”- JP
“Today I am 75/25 that she will run. And Sarah Palin only plays to win.”- JP
“Hey @thefix, re: http://wapo.st/dS2Hku She's been here: http://is.gd/xE72xM And here: http://is.gd/yyx8G1 And here: http://is.gd/mnplu0 etc.”- JP
"GOP: don't retreat! The country is going broke. We can't AFFORD cowboy poetry & subsidizing abortion," Palin tweeted [here and here]. "If we can't fight to defund this nonsense now when we have the chance, do you think we'll win the big fight on entitlement reform later on?"Gov. Mike Huckabee, in an interview on Fox Business Network, recommended that Republicans make a deal and "live to fight another day." But talk show host Mark Levin sided with the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, tweeting his approval:
Palin referred to an issue that both sides involved in the ongoing negotiations on Capitol Hill agree has been a major sticking point -- the debate over providing federal funding to the family planning group, Planned Parenthood.
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Earlier today Palin posted a more than 800-word Facebook message, critizing President Obama for threatening to veto a one-week continuing resolution proposal that would have funded the Department of Defense for the rest of the fiscal year.
"Why would the Commander in Chief declare that he will veto this?" Palin wrote. "Why would he play politics at the expense of our troops who are putting everything on the line to protect us?"
Notably, some of Palin’s fellow possible 2012 presidential contenders appeared to be at odds with her Friday evening tweet, counseling GOP leaders on Capitol Hill that it’s time to cut a deal.
“I am ready for a big fight that will change the arc of history,” Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., wrote on Twitter this afternoon. “The current fight in Washington is not that fight.”
"Gov. Sarah Palin: Right on! http://fb.me/WCllXsIf"- JP
"Presidential nonsense. MT"@ShannonBream: BREAKING! Pres will veto 1-week spending bill to avoid govt shutdown if Congress passes" So, now...$4T later, leaderless govt digs further debt, bickers over cutting peanuts - peanuts we don't even have. It's unsustainable! Let him shut it"The two consecutive tweets combined above are here and here.
