Tag: sarah palin

#rsrh Media whine about Palin Tour, 6/3/2011.

Apparently, THAT WOMAN is making them break traffic laws.

The reporters who are speeding, tailgating, cutting off other cars, blasting through roundabouts and passing on the right in an effort to keep up, say they have no other choice since they never know what Palin’s up to or where she’s headed — and aides typically won’t tell them anything. Once they’re on the road, they’re filing urgent updates by phone and figuring out unorthodox bathroom breaks, like the reporter who pulled over to relieve himself on the side of the highway going from Gettysburg, Pa., to Philadelphia — drawing notice from both Palin aides and the rest of the trailing press.

Hey, here’s a radical notion: STOP STALKING HER, then.  Because you do realize that she’s doing this to mess with your heads and give everybody else a good laugh, right?

Moe Lane

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Regarding the Rebecca Mansour awkwardness.

Erick is being extremely nice and civilized about being called a rude name by Ms. Mansour, who is one of former Governor Sarah Palin’s top aides… and being nice and civilized about it is the smart thing to do, as well as the ethical one*.  But I have to say, from the comfort of my own blog: I have long since given up any attempts to work with or even keep in touch with Gov. Palin’s organization, and it’s largely because of her gatekeepers.  I don’t expect to have my butt kissed – it’s the “of RedState.com” part of “Moe Lane, of RedState.com” that opens doors, and I understand that perfectly – but I do like having my emails returned… and communicating with the Palin folks is like communicating with a black hole.

And this is being said by somebody who can cold-call a Senator or Governor’s office in the morning and confidently expect a callback before lunch.  Which is not a sign of me being awesome; it’s a sign of a well-run communications staff.

Moe Lane

*That’s true more often than you’d think.  Or that our culture in general thinks, I suspect.

QotD, Scarier Than It Looks edition

MSNBC VP Bill Wolff, in the process of denying that his entire network has a psychotic sexual obsession towards Sarah Palin:

“MSNBC does not have a political agenda.”

Here’s why it’s scary: what if this guy actually believes that? Cynical lying we can handle: heck, the media does that every day.  But this kind of lack of elementary self-awareness that’s for reals – well, it’s the sort of thing that ends… badly.

Obama’s Tucson speech preempted by THAT WOMAN.

Mister President, here’s the bar that you have to clear.

Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.

It’s a high one. A much higher one than your attendants are telling you that it is. They are almost certainly telling you to concentrate on the ‘blood libel’ comment – which, by the way, will immediately resonate with at least 40% of the population of the country, mostly because it is damned accurate* – but what you really need to do is take note of the fact that she’s saying the things that the President should be saying right now about the need to come together, the glory of this country – and, yes, that the Democratic party is acting like a bunch of [expletive deleted] right now, and that they need to stop.

Call in your speechwriters. Make them watch this speech. Tell them that you need one just like it, only twice as good. Because if you don’t – if you go with your usual scheme where you try to set yourself up as the only rational solution in a world full of the irrational – you will merely hasten your irrelevance.

(See also here: I promoted, but I had more to add).

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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Cook gets two out of three right.

Which is not bad for a political prognosticator, actually. Charlie Cook is arguing in his latest column that the President must be hoping that one or more of the following things happen:

  1. Unemployment goes down;
  2. We not lose the war in Afghanistan; and/or
  3. THAT WOMAN gets the Presidential nomination.

…if the President wants to be reelected. First off: amazing what two years of institutionalized blithering incompetence will do to a man’s public perception, isn’t it? Seriously, Barack Obama should have taken four years off to go be Governor of Illinois, or something: because he’s got pretty much none of the life skills that we expect from chief executives these days. Second: let’s look at Charlie’s points, more or less out of order.

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#rsrh Sarah Palin’s… book tour itinerary (DUN DUN DUN!)

Let me sum up this story (via Hot Air Headlines): the America by Heart book tour of THAT WOMAN – who has not yet announced whether or not she is running for President – does… not include any stops in the state of New Hampshire.  This apparently confounds a large variety of professional political observers, even though THAT WOMAN is not particularly popular in New Hampshire and is not running for anything at the moment.

(pause)

I know that this is going to sound like a radical, wild-eyed theory: but have people considered the notion that a state with a total population of 1.3 million people and no major cities might not be the most cost-effective place to hold a book media event?

Moe Lane

#rsrh QotD, Shoot-the-messenger edition.

While going through Ben Smith’s law blogger roundup of THAT WOMAN vs. Gawker (short version: Gawker is kind of hosed*) I came across this bit of misdirected exasperation on William McGeveran’s part:

…if you are sick of hearing Sarah Palin decry the arrogance of the media that covers her, then you’d rather deny her the satisfaction of being right.

I think that it’s just the tiniest bit uncouth to be blaming the victim for this, Mr. McGeveran?  Blame Gawker, blame the abusers of fair use, heck, blame the media/liberal/Democratic crusade if you like.   But I don’t see exactly what THAT WOMAN did wrong here.

Besides exist, of course.

Moe Lane

*They probably didn’t help matters much by taunting THAT WOMAN with links to… sites that proved her point, actually.

Book of the Week: America by Heart.

Mostly because America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag is not even out for the next two days and it’s already #23 on Amazon: my readers are probably going to buy it from somebody, so it might as well be me.  Not to mention the fact that the latest book by THAT WOMAN is promising to be the centerpiece of a sharp lesson to Gawker about why you Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Print Conglomerates.  Something about how Harper Collins would very much enjoy putting a New Media icon’s head on a stick as a warning to the rest…

And on that cheery note, farewell to Bring the Jubilee.

Moe Lane

THAT WOMAN 1, Wall Street Journal 0.

The executive summary:

  • Former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin has an upcoming speech in which she criticizes a plan to institute ‘[quantitative] easing,’ which is in this case basically the practice of creating money via buying our own debt (this particular example of the practice is usually called ‘QE2’ by the papers, apparently because the term is more confusing to people than simply calling it ‘[quantitative] easing’).  Palin makes the fairly obvious point that this encourages inflation, and in the process mentions that food prices have significantly gone up recently.
  • “A-ha!” shouts Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal.  “The CPI says that they have not!  Silly Sarah Palin!” (I summarize.)
  • Sarah Palin raises an eyebrow, as her source for that claim was apparently… the Wall Street Journal, which reported last week that food prices had significantly gone up recently.  It also derives that conclusion from an examination of the CPI, which suggests that if Reddy has an issue with the methodology, then Reddy should probably take it up with his own newspaper.
  • As Palin put it: “Now I realize I’m just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I’m surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn’t.”

Agreed, but I’d go one step further: it’s fascinating to see what an editor for the media will let pass through.  Statement that food prices are rising?  Smart! Sarah Palin agreeing with your statement that food prices are rising?  Dumb!

And they wonder why even their own reporters don’t read the papers anymore.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

The THAT WOMAN election tracker.

I saw this last week; the Washington Post has put up a Palin Endorsements Tracker to track, well, former Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsements. So far, of the 42 that they list: 20 primary wins, 10 primary losses, 6 still to be determined (this includes Miller up in AK, as the primary isn’t officially concluded up there yet), and 6 no-primary. That works out to two-to-one successful primary picks, which is apparently not too shabby.

Looking at the map itself: it’s pretty eclectic.  Categorizing the choices is surprisingly hard, and may be actually the result of a deliberate strategy by Palin.  Maybe she’s running, maybe she’s not; maybe she’s Tea Party, maybe she’s establishment; maybe she’ll throw her support behind female candidates, maybe that’s not really a concern for her, balanced against the need for conservative candidates. If I were a Democratic strategist, this would be worrying me.  Hard to plan against a strategy where the pattern isn’t obvious*.

Moe Lane

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