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Andrew Breitbart to GQ: The Presidency is ‘Beneath’ Sarah Palin

by Tommy Christopher | 12:31 pm, March 18th, 2011

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Conservative media lightning rod and former “Matt Drudge bitch“ Andrew Breitbart is nothing if not quotable, a quality he displays to amusing effect (intentionally and otherwise) in his interview for April’s issue of GQ magazine. Asked why former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R-FNC) wasn’t on his 2012 dream ticket (he picked Allen West and Michele Bachmann), Breitbart responded that the job was “beneath” her. The governorship of Alaska must have been positively subterranean, then.

“It would be my goal for Palin to become Oprah and be the ultimate kingmaker for twenty-odd years,” Breitbart told interviewer Lisa DePaulo. “Oprah anointed Barack Obama.”

Although it sounds rather silly on its face, Breitbart may have hit upon the perfect “Eject!” button for Republican politicians who are put on the spot about Palin’s qualifications to be President. Yeah, she’s too good for that lousy job!

Among Breitbart’s other gems from this interview is the nugget of wisdom that “(t)he Right has focused its energy and money on the political process, and it just kind of shrugged off culture.”

Yes, if only conservatives would get over their timidity, and finally weigh in on cultural issues. I think the distinction Breitbart misses is that conservatives seem to have missed the boat on popular culture, but if he can figure out a way to make Ted Nugent popular again, I tip my cap.

Breitbart does make an interesting point about the difficulty that liberals have had gaining a significant toehold in talk radio, saying “…they don’t have to ever argue their points. Conservatives know what liberals think because we have to swim in their waters.”

While I think my friend Bill Press has a pretty good handle on the problems that liberal radio talkers face, Breitbart has a good point that applies to conservative audiences, as well. It’s not just “swimming in (liberal) waters” that enables conservative talkers to thrive, but the fact that they are providing waters in which those listeners can swim. It’s hard to carve out a niche when you’re in the majority.

Elsewhere in the interview, he takes aim at the “dark souls” of Planned Parenthood, Katie Couric, and Hollywood’s “new casting couch,” the political fundraiser. Having interviewed Andrew several times before, I think Lisa DePaulo deserves some kind of an award for getting so many words in edgewise. You can check out the rest of the interview here.

Allen West, Andrew Breitbart, barack obama, Bill Press, Katie Couric, Lisa DePaulo, Matt Drudge, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent

http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Of course. Why be the most powerful person in the world, when you can be on reality TV with Kate plus 8 and The Situation?
cjd ohio 1

Publius219 said:
Of course. Why be the most powerful person in the world, when you can be on reality TV with Kate plus 8 and The Situation?

money
Raygun

That’s conservative rhetoric for “please don’t run”.
cjd ohio 1

poor tommy thinks he is in the majority lol
tatboy

Raygun said:
That’s conservative rhetoric for “please don’t run”.

So why didn’t Oprah run???
Tommy Christopher

cjd ohio 1 said:
poor tommy thinks he is in the majority lol

No, Breitbart does.
Lou Sarah

Um, I believe Matty Schneider wishes he was beneath Miss Palin!

Sorry, that was too easy. I’ll try to do better next time………
lonestar77

Congrats, Tommy. You managed to refrain from calling everybody a racist today. Must have been tough to make it through an entire half hour at the laptop without playing the race hustling games.
ProObamaAgenda

all i can say about this is lolololololololololololololololololololololo0lolol0olololololololololololololol
cjd ohio 1

Tommy Christopher said:
No, Breitbart does.

go back to the other thread and answer the questions about what the message was tommy
eingriff

There is something to what Mr. Breitbart says.

We might need a title for her: “Philosopher Queen”, perhaps. Again, a little jocose, but think about it. Don’t you learn in group dynamics that there are institutional leaders and there are real leaders? This is especially important when the institutional leader is ineligible and a mole.
cjd ohio 1

Tommy Christopher said:
No, Breitbart does.

and i do see your point after i re-read it
Newt Limbaugh

Tommy Christopher said:
No, Breitbart does.

Yep
Great read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c3d7QgZr7g
and for the tea party patriots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE45DCRzFOM
gar

Although it sounds rather silly on its face, Breitbart may have hit upon the perfect “Eject!” button for Republican politicians who are put on the spot about Palin’s qualifications to be President. Yeah, she’s too good for that lousy job!

Another dumbster,dumpster article, you pick it. There’s the ”ONE TRICK PONY” and about twenty others that need to regurgitate Palin’s name for a paycheck.
She has no shot and Republican politicians need no ”Eject ” button at any point to explain themselves.I honestly think she gets played as a potential candidate at this point to watch morons like you write it as being credible.
You guys are like flies on shit, whatever conservative name get’s thrown out there you gravitate to and then go on a search and destroy mission.
Palin at least needs a thank you for the tremendous amount of the venom she takes which otherwise would be directed to other candidates.
AmeriCuda

Yes, we Americans do have to swim in the media’s liberal waters- daily, of which Mediaite is one of its rip-tides.
Rip conservatives
Rip Palin
Rip Christians
& Rip America
Sprocket

Maybe Andy B has fallen under the spell of the half-governor of Milfistan and thinks she should be Empress of the Known World.

Or maybe Andy B thinks HE should be “beneath” Sarah Palin.

Or, as the author points out, this is the best exit strategy for yet ANOTHER unqualified Republican dilettante.
stoogedudes

You know, I used to consider Andrew Breitbart as being pure evil. In fact, if I remember correctly, I said as much on here back when I first started visiting this site.

Now, I’ve watered down my disdain for him. Yes, he’s very polarizing. Yes, his mission of “taking down the institutional left” is kinda ridiculous. But after reading this article and other exposes on him, I’ve come to have a little respect for him. Obviously, he is passionate at what he does and I can respect that. And I’d like to think that despite our differences, we could sit down and talk about baseball, among other non-political things.

That said, I don’t buy that the Presidency is beneath Sarah Palin. Yeah, I know the right says Obama has cheapened the office, but it’s still the seat once occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, two Roosevelts, Kennedy, Reagan, etc. I can’t see how Sarah Palin would think of being above an office that Reagan once occupied.

I also don’t see how Brian Williams is part of the problem. My grandparents, staunch Republicans and people who really don’t like Obama, watch his program every night. I would think that if Brian Williams is such a lefty as people like Breitbart would have people believe, they would refuse to watch him.
Newt Limbaugh

stoogedudes said:
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You read my mind.
I was just going to start chanting Wheres Curly
RUexperienced

“Presidency Beneath Sarah Palin”

In other words, the $500,000 per year salary is beneath her pay grade.

BTW, I don’t think Sarah Palin could be the next Oprah. First she would have to learn to listen to people. Plus she would need to find compassion. And third she would have to be loved by people on both sides of the political spectrum.

Fail. Fail. Fail.
lonestar77

stoogedudes said:
You know, I used to consider Andrew Breitbart as being pure evil. In fact, if I remember correctly, I said as much on here back when I first started visiting this site.

Now, I’ve watered down my disdain for him. Yes, he’s very polarizing. Yes, his mission of “taking down the institutional left” is kinda ridiculous. But after reading this article and other exposes on him, I’ve come to have a little respect for him. Obviously, he is passionate at what he does and I can respect that. And I’d like to think that despite our differences, we could sit down and talk about baseball, among other non-political things.

That said, I don’t buy that the Presidency is beneath Sarah Palin. Yeah, I know the right says Obama has cheapened the office, but it’s still the seat once occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, two Roosevelts, Kennedy, Reagan, etc. I can’t see how Sarah Palin would think of being above an office that Reagan once occupied.

I also don’t see how Brian Williams is part of the problem. My grandparents, staunch Republicans and people who really don’t like Obama, watch his program every night. I would think that if Brian Williams is such a lefty as people like Breitbart would have people believe, they would refuse to watch him.

Have your grandparents been watching the nightly news for the last few decades? Have they watched NBC in particular? My Dad understands the deep lefty bias among the network news anchors but he still watches because he’s watched since since the 50′s & 60′s. My point is, maybe they watch because they’ve always watched. If they are “staunch Republicans”, they most likely see the bias and just roll their eyes at it.
Kitsune

stoogedudes said:
You know, I used to consider Andrew Breitbart as being pure evil. In fact, if I remember correctly, I said as much on here back when I first started visiting this site. Now, I’ve watered down my disdain for him. Yes, he’s very polarizing. Yes, his mission of “taking down the institutional left” is kinda ridiculous. But after reading this article and other exposes on him, I’ve come to have a little respect for him. Obviously, he is passionate at what he does and I can respect that. And I’d like to think that despite our differences, we could sit down and talk about baseball, among other non-political things. That said, I don’t buy that the Presidency is beneath Sarah Palin. Yeah, I know the right says Obama has cheapened the office, but it’s still the seat once occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, two Roosevelts, Kennedy, Reagan, etc. I can’t see how Sarah Palin would think of being above an office that Reagan once occupied. I also don’t see how Brian Williams is part of the problem. My grandparents, staunch Republicans and people who really don’t like Obama, watch his program every night. I would think that if Brian Williams is such a lefty as people like Breitbart would have people believe, they would refuse to watch him.

I think by “Beneath”, he means in terms of exposure. Once you hit the presidency, there’s nowhere to go but down. He says he wants her to be an Oprah type. Could Oprah still have been the Oprah she is today (media empire, etc…) had she been Preisdent first?
Arch

Transparent attempt to give Palin a face-saving way to not run. Expect to hear more of this.
kvon

Like a child who is put in time out.
BruinAlum77

lonestar77 said:
My Dad understands the deep lefty bias among the network news anchors but he still watches because he’s watched since since the 50’s & 60’s.

It’s funny how you guys repeat this mantra every other minute, but there is not one scientific study that supports this right wing myth. Big corporate media goes for ratings, pure and simple. Even Fox skews the news because they know how to keep their core audience tuned in.

Case in point:

In the 2000 election, Bush got better press than Gore, even though he had major gaffes caught on TV. The media hammered Gore because he was stiff and could fake it as well as Bush. Gore came off too stiff and uppity for the average beer drinkin’ truck drivin’ American, so the networks gave people what they wanted to see and took that boy down a notch. It doesn’t matter if reality didn’t match their portrayal – they played on the public perception to increase their ratings.

When Dubya was the big war president, no one questioned his administration’s false claims about WMD in Iraq, or the connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. Even the New York Times swallowed their crap, hook, line and sinker.

But after hostilities ended and the Bush appointed weapons inspectors found no trace of any program, infrastructure, or resources, the public was unhappy. The majority of Americans stopped believing the Bush administration (doesn’t matter whether they lied or were incompetent – they screwed up). The major networks picked up on the national trends and started hammering Bush.

One more example of “media” bias in the real world. When the Iraq war started, all we saw on CNN in the U.S. were images of soldiers giving kids chocolate, building hospitals and saving grateful Iraqis from the evil dictators.

I have an Indian friend who told me that his family called him from India asking if the U.S. had gone completely crazy. The reason was because CNN India showed nothing from Iraq but images of burning corpses, crying mothers holding their wounded or dead children, and mass destruction.

It’s all about ratings and selling advertising, but you guys are too stuck in your narrow world view to understand it.

Palin-Walker 2012
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Randal/100000535186834 James Randal

This pig is getting desperate. This race-baiting fraud was exposed during the ACORN and Sherrods “scandals”. No one takes this pig seriously anymore. It is hard for conservatives to be taken seriously because the vast majority of them deny the theory of evolution, deny global warming, believe that the Earth is 6000 years old, believe in letting the poor, sick and elderly fend for themselves, and hide behind that “family values” crap in order to censor people.
cjd ohio 1

James Randal said:
This pig is getting desperate. This race-baiting fraud was exposed during the ACORN and Sherrods “scandals”. No one takes this pig seriously anymore. It is hard for conservatives to be taken seriously because the vast majority of them deny the theory of evolution, deny global warming, believe that the Earth is 6000 years old, believe in letting the poor, sick and elderly fend for themselves, and hide behind that “family values” crap in order to censor people.

how misinformed are you lol
Harry Flashman

Arch said:

“Transparent attempt to give Palin a face-saving way to not run. Expect to hear more of this.”

She’s speaking at an international event in India tomorrow, then going to Israel to meet with Netanyahu. After that she’s speaking at a sold out event in Florida.

Gee, maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t look like she’s “looking for a way not to run”, does it?
Arch

Harry Flashman said:
Arch said:

“Transparent attempt to give Palin a face-saving way to not run. Expect to hear more of this.”

She’s speaking at an international event in India tomorrow, then going to Israel to meet with Netanyahu. After that she’s speaking at a sold out event in Florida.

Gee, maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t look like she’s “looking for a way not to run”, does it?

True, but it’s also good for her brand to be considered a contender, so even if she weren’t running she might be doing the same things. I dunno. After she quit as Governor, I have doubted she would be willing to endure the exhausting and difficult national campaign trail. I guess we’ll see.
http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Randal/100000535186834 James Randal

AmeriCuda said:
Yes, we Americans do have to swim in the media’s liberal waters- daily, of which Mediaite is one of its rip-tides.Rip conservativesRip PalinRip Christians& Rip America

Rip America? Since when? Conservatives are busy trying to convince middle America that Obama is the anti-christ. If Mediaite bothers you so much, then why do you spend so much time on it?
azgrandma

She just may need to rearrange her schedule so that she can help one of her mama grizzlies kick off her campaign in Nevada or maybe it will be like a popular excuse of hers that there just was not enough time. So palin when you gonna meet with Angle? Palin is not capable of the presidency since she could not handle the governorship and sounds like she really couldn’t quite handle teenagers either.
TfT

Harry – Just wait, Tommy will get fed something from MM on some made up gaffe from Sarah’s trip to India and/or Isreal, then he will jump ugly on it. Laughable, Tommy really ought to just stay away from all things Palin and not write about them. Speak of transparency – SDS big time.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

Screw this guy and screw him saying The Office of the President is beneath anyone, especially a retard nobody from Alaska.
CosmosDan

he wants Sarah to be the GOP king maker by anointing candidates with her seal of approval? I doubt that will happen. I think people will just lose interest in what she has to say because there’s no real depth there.
idesign

Snowspot said:
Screw this guy and screw him saying The Office of the President is beneath anyone, especially a retard nobody from Chicago.

Fixed it…..
redleaf

In other words, she has no chance of winning, so let’s make it seem like the office is beneath her.
That way, we have an excuse.

And even forgetting the comment’s obvious and desperate purpose: if she’s beneath becoming the most powerful person on Earth, that really says something about Conservatives.
erin

Is this guy on Rush’s leftover drugs??? I do give him points on originality for suggesting the office of President isn’t good eough for her. I don’t think she would be a very good “new Oprah” though. She is way too self-absorbed and would just keep interviewing herself–not good for ratings after the first week.
Harry Flashman

TfT:

“Harry – Just wait, Tommy will get fed something from MM on some made up gaffe from Sarah’s trip to India and/or Isreal, then he will jump ugly on it”

That’s the only way the media will coverv it. If she brings down the house they’ll ignore the story. If she makes some sort of gaffe they’ll be all over it.

It’s their deck, and they’ve stacked it.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

Just think of the cut in pay the BFW would have to take!
She could never afford her current lifestyle on the Pres.’s salary.
And, of course, she WOULD have to open her books.
meena140

Sarah Palin now also mad at India’s lamestream media:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/18/palin_india

When your best-known comments on foreign affairs include mixing up the two Koreas and saying that you can see Russia from Alaska, it is time for a field trip. ;)
Fuzzytoes

That’s strange because a poll shows, “Yes, Sarah Palin is now trailing Charlie Sheen in certain presidential polls.”
Greg

Anyone who employs Jim Hoff, Big Eddie (Gramatico) and collaborates with Michael Savage deserves serious analysis… my guess is a defect in the genome.
Elrod

AmeriCuda said:
Yes, we Americans do have to swim in the media’s liberal waters- daily, of which Mediaite is one of its rip-tides.
Rip conservatives
Rip Palin
Rip Christians
& Rip America

There the neocons go again. Steal everyone else’s money, put cameras in our bedrooms, then wrap themselves in the bible and flag say, “Wha? You’re a meany!”
Armageddon T Thunderbird

This guy is such a stupid fucking idiot and a complete loser. He is not a true conservative as he is simply another neocon out there on the fringe doing anything to try and discredit those who actually have real integrity. When idiots like this step up to the microphone at various conservative PAC meetings and other right wing hate groups, they are a total embarrasment to true conservatives who acutally have personal integrity. It is a true reminder when people like this speak at right right political gatherings the truth is exposed that these are not conservative people and they are all basically liars who mix religion with politics and sell their snake oil lies to registered republican voters who are stupid enough to drink anyone’s load. The Republican Party made a deal with the devil a very long time ago which involved the merging of the rich wealthy fat cat Republican voters with the stupid red necked Sunday school Republican voters. Unfortanately for America, this means you wind up with a synthesis of greedy self serving corporate scum who own all Republican politicians mixed with very low IQ idiots who will vote for any pathetic waste of skin if that waste of skin claims to be Christian, pro-life (whatever that is really even supposed to mean) and conservative. The devil has come for payment as a result of the deal the GOP made with the devil and his answer is stupid people like Andrew Breitbart , Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O Reilly, Mike Hukabee, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and other right wing extremists like them who are not even true conservatives.
dsriley

He was kidding, Right? I hope so . Allen West or Michelle Bachmann? Come on.
West sounds like a leader from an Al Quaida cell speaking to the people he is training to carry out attacks. If anyone had seen some of his Campaign ads you would be scared to death of what this guy would be capable of doing if he had any more power then he already does.

Bachmann is just plain stupid, stupid, stupid.

The Tea Party has turned into the largest terrorist organization in the world today. Even the REpublican party is trying to distance themselves from the Tea Party.

Every day the Limbaughs, Becks and Hannity’s are losing listeners. Beck and Hannity have been cancelled in several markets and advertisers are dropping Fox more and more each month because of the outlandish behavior of this group of extremists. O’Reilly had seemed to calm down for a while but he’s back to his old self and lying more then ever.
Dave Richards

dsriley said:
He was kidding, Right? I hope so . Allen West or Michelle Bachmann? Come on.West sounds like a leader from an Al Quaida cell speaking to the people he is training to carry out attacks. If anyone had seen some of his Campaign ads you would be scared to death of what this guy would be capable of doing if he had any more power then he already does. Bachmann is just plain stupid, stupid, stupid. The Tea Party has turned into the largest terrorist organization in the world today. Even the REpublican party is trying to distance themselves from the Tea Party. Every day the Limbaughs, Becks and Hannity’s are losing listeners. Beck and Hannity have been cancelled in several markets and advertisers are dropping Fox more and more each month because of the outlandish behavior of this group of extremists. O’Reilly had seemed to calm down for a while but he’s back to his old self and lying more then ever.

WOW!! Talk about somone who needs to be medicated. Who handed you those “Progressive” talking points?
roxsteady

Right! That’s what you say when you know you don’t have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the Presidency. How about Palin is beneath the Whitehouse. Her hillbilly family of trash and uneducated idiots won’t get near the Whitehouse without a visator’s pass.
Dave Richards

roxsteady said:
Right! That’s what you say when you know you don’t have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the Presidency. How about Palin is beneath the Whitehouse. Her hillbilly family of trash and uneducated idiots won’t get near the Whitehouse without a visator’s pass.

It’s good to know we can count on roxsteady for another round of ignorant vitriol.
TeaPartyPatriot

“Andrew Breitbart to GQ: The Presidency is ‘Beneath’ Sarah Palin”

Actually, with what “You Lie!” hussein has done to it, it’s now beneath a dung beetle.
Kitsune

dsriley said:
Allen West? Come on.
West sounds like a leader from an Al Quaida cell speaking to the people he is training to carry out attacks.

Racist.
Harry Flashman

Palin just delivered a smokin’ speech followed by a very interesting and well handled Q&A in India. I’m waiting for the coverage. (Mediaite?)

No gaffes, so the MSM may just put their hands in their pockets and whistle while looking the other way.
meena140

Sarah Palin India Visit – Reactions from “Real Indians”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZzVH0qPZn4&feature=player_embedded

http://indiareloaded.tv/article/sarah-palin-india
Harry Flashman

Here’s a link to the Q&A afterwards. Check it out. They aren’t softball questions, and she nails every one:

http://www.therightscoop.com/watch-sarah-palin-qa-at-india-today-conclave/#

I don’t expect anyone from the left to actually watch it. Its always easier to mock than to think. Besides – if they actually did watch it they just might pay a lttle closer attention to what she has to say.
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