Political Patchwork: Obama, Palin and Edwards, Oh My!

September 5, 2008

Obama's Community
Palin's MSM Fallout
Edwards a Libility




A Community Organized

Sarah Palin doesn't have a lot of use for community organizers. Democrats are aghast, but most of America doesn't have any use for them, either. Chicago has community organizers: how's the Windy City's community organized?

Democrats.org say that community organizers are how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies. Doug Ross responds, "Do tell. For the last 77 years, Democrats have controlled Chicago." Oops!

Chuck Norris calls the Democrat Nominee "Puff, the Magic Obama". Well...Obama did say--in one of his better lines of the campaign--the "idea was to inhale".

Barack Obama, phone home: your city needs you.

In a cbs2chicago.com report published today, Chicago’s CBS affiliate reported some incredible news: the city’s 125 summer murder total nearly doubled the number of soldiers killed in Iraq during the same time period.

One statistic you won't see Harry Reid calling a press conference to announce.

Palineous



JWF says that a renowned community organizer whined like a little bitch today after getting gangster-slapped by the hockey mom" and points out that a certain community looks a bit unorganized. For equal time, we refer the reader to PJ's This is Why.


More equal time: The United Steelworkers' Union admits that Todd Palin is a union brother--and then treats his family like red-headed stepchildren. Shoebox thinks Hell Hath No Fury Like (Bitter) Women Scorned. No, not Sarah Palin, the has-beens at NOW. The Palin Bounce. CBS Poll McCain 42, Obama 42.

Newt Gingerich verbally body-slams an MSNBC reporter who thinks he's talking to another member of the media instead of the former Speaker.

Speaking of slams, RR calls a certain left-wing nutroots site, "The Daily Kock".

BRINGING THE HATE BOOMERANGS ON MSM: Rasmussen says American, after the MSM `went 24/7 Kill Mode, view Palin more favorably than either McCain or Obama. Bringing the heat means bringing the love, at least in this latest example of the MSM injecting itself into the news instead of just reporting it.

OPRAH says, "no" to Palin; though her staff is split on the issue. This is understandable: Oprah actively campaigned for Barack Obama earlier on.



Only last week, a spokeman said that John Edwards was looking to fill out speaking schedule. So, he followed in the footsteps of his wife and canceled his speaking appearance at Hofstra University. Strange way to expand your appearances.

“Nothing is more important than electing Barack Obama and Joe Biden,” Edwards said in a statement released Thursday by the Harry Walker Agency in Manhattan. “I don’t want my appearance at these events to be a distraction from the important issues of the election, or from the important purpose of these meetings.”

Which prompted Simon at Deceiver to raise the question: Is Edwards admitting that he's a political liability?

Hey, wait a sec… I thought Edwards was a private citizen? I thought this scandal had absolutely nothing to do with Obama? But there it is in black and white gray and slightly lighter gray: Edwards just went out of his way to link himself to Obama. Otherwise, why would appearing in public be a distraction from Obama’s campaign?

More on Edwards later today.


by Mondoreb
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Sarah Palin Reactions: The Usual Swamp Gas

September 4, 2008




Who's saying what when.


Ann Coulter calls the MSM on Sarah Palin. Coulter on the MSM's non-story that John McCain's campaign didn't vet Palin: "As this goes to press, the latest media-invented scandal about Palin is that McCain didn't know her well before choosing her as his running mate. He knew her well enough, though admittedly, not as well as Obama knows William Ayers."

Who speaks for the MSM? Joe Klein of Time does!

The second thing is more insidious: [senior McCain aide] Steve Schmidt has decided, for tactical reasons, to slime the press. He wants the public to believe that there is an unfair--sexist (you gotta love it)--personal assault going on against Palin and her family. This is a smokescreen, intended to divert attention from the very real and responsible vetting that is taking place in the media--about the substance of Palin's record as mayor and governor.

Klein is the same brave reporter that asked John Edwards a boatload of questions in Klein's responsible vetting of that then-presidential candidate. Oh, wait...Klein kept his mouth shut like a good little foot soldier. Never mind, just the ultimate MSM insider lapdog, who can't see the forest for the trees.

FEAR and SELF-LOATHING in the MSM

Larry Johnson says Sally Quinn feels guilty about her own situation: that's why she launched her version of the Mainstream Media's Palin attack du-jour.

So what’s her problem? Well, to use her logic, she’s a lousy, irresponsible mother. She was working as a journalist at the Washington Post, had a fling with the boss and married him, and then, at the advanced age of 41, had a child....Quinn wrote about her son and his medical challenges in a 2006 article “What My Son Taught Me About God.” Well, God may have been teaching but she didn’t learn jack.

Community organizers demand an apology from Sarah Palin. To which Charles Johnson responds, "Heh. Good luck with that."


Rasmussen poll: 51% of Americans think the media is trying to hurt Sarah Palin and 39% of them think she has more experience than Obama.

The Nation's proud progressives insist that Palin's speech was a flop. Jonathan Alter thinks Palin "keeps the experience question alive". A journalistic birds-of-a-feather two-fer.

The New York Post says Palin is a "She's a Pit Bull with Lipstick".

Sarah Palin introduced herself to the nation last night with a part-folksy, part-fiery convention speech, tongue-lashing Barack Obama and her critics and saying she's been slammed simply for being a Beltway outsider.

AP apparently considers conservative women a majority of the country: Where are minorities on RNC's prime-time stage?.

McCain's lovefest with the press is now over, according to Todd Warner Huston. If it wasn't before, it is now.

For those who say that the Maverick can’t learn a new lesson, Bloomberg has a story that proves John McCain has at least learned this lesson; the media is not his friend. Pronouncing that McCain’s “longtime love affair” between himself and the media is “on the rocks,” Bloomberg reports on how McCain has been distancing himself from the media of late. Naturally, Bloomberg takes a few shots along the way, too.

Swearfinger swears that Obama's best speech-writer is the Chicago Housing Authority? Who could argue that the Windy City--and any big city--doesn't need "CHANGE!"?



Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick's going to jail and Crippy wonders, "Hey, what's Marion Barry doing these days?"

The AP's already "stretching the truth" on the Palin speech: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth." The AP is that investigative whirlwind that whined it could not report on the John Edwards scandal for ten months because it was too hard to investigate. With Palin, though, it's all about the "fact-checking". Palin's 'Scarlet R' behind her name makes the fact-checking a lot easier for the AP--and more palatable.

Froma Harrop seems down in the dumps: maybe it's the dinner company she keeps?

I had dinner last night with a Republican-leaning independent who was despondent over John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She had been looking forward to supporting McCain as a fiscal conservative with a deep understanding of foreign relations. But all she could now see was that picture of Palin's pregnant 17-year-old looking defiant and stupid as she held mom's fifth baby.

Harrop's dinnermate wonders, "Don't they have birth control in Alaska?" while the headline on the piece insists that "Palin's Social Views Hurt Ticket". Harrop shows promise as a Real Live MSM pundit: seeking out someone that agrees with her so that she can state her case through the words of a "Republican". Harrop has no qualms about describing a pregnant 17-year-old Bristol Palin as "defiant and stupid". She knows she's safe there: no blowback in the MSM over that. But what would the result have been if Bob Novak would have applied that same label to any of the children human shields--or their parents--the Dems used in the S-CHIP debate?

Roger Simon says the "media should apologize". The lion should lay down with the lamb, while we're at it.

It's all about the GOP's "cheerful viciousness". Vicious, only if you're Glenn Greenwald trying to describe people whose views differ from his own.

Andrew Sullivan got tired of picking on 17-year-old pregnant girls and now is raising the alarm: Wasilla is the Meth Capital of Alaska.

At Slate, John Dickerson explains "why the smiling, sudden, relentless Sarah Palin should scare Democrats":

Drill, baby, drill. Sarah Palin was relentless in her speech Wednesday night. She drilled Barack Obama, elites, San Francisco, the press, and civil libertarians. She even went after Michelle Obama.

And that's a few quick-hitters for September 4, 2008. We're going to try this everyday, schedule permitting.


by Mondoreb
images: dbkp