Says Newsweek’s Jon Meacham: “When you’re as intelligent as I think I am, you should be able to sell magazines. Please check out next week’s issue about how Joe Biden is our only hope to defeat racist babies.”

I don’t like this headline or didn’t like Politico’s yesterday. I can be mis-leading. It’s lazy and sensationalism. If you agree, then the stories are sensationalism intended to draw readers only.

Where/what is the service of that to readers? Value?

She cut sort vacation OVER blacked out visor but because she/they/others were being harrassed. I read Politic’s reporting and using Palin’s quote to mean that’s why they left, not because people found out she blacked out McCain’s name on visor.

You can stretch the headline meaning to be accurate, but it’s stretching for a reason.

BTW: how much time have we all spent on reading / commenting on a blacked out visor?

Seriously, Glynnis?

Why do you care? With so much going on in the media these days….why do you care what Palin is wearing on her head in Hawaii?

You are beginning to write like an intrepid 14 year old Junior High School reporter.

I thought Pailn’s dad said she didn’t like Hawaii because there were too many Asians there. Maybe the quitting habit is just hard to break.

I think the bigger story here is that once again TMZ is being elevated to the the level of a respectable news outlet – or is it that journalism is lowering itself down to TMZ’s level? These days who can tell anymore?

This is a stupid story put forth by lazy “journalists,” looking for a cheap headline. Sadly Palin only helped with what is a truly inane comment about going incognito. She really needs to learn the phrase, “No comment.”

For the record, I am not a Palin fan, but I do feel bad that she is constantly hammered over this kind of meaningless nonsense.

Puter Boi says:
December 18, 2009 at 9:46 am
Seriously, Glynnis?

Why do you care? With so much going on in the media these days….why do you care what Palin is wearing on her head in Hawaii?

You are beginning to write like an intrepid 14 year old Junior High School reporter.

Beginning to?

Jim R says:
December 18, 2009 at 10:40 am

Source, Jim?

(That’s a dangerous question — he’s probably sitting on it.)

Keeva wrote:

This is a stupid story put forth by lazy “journalists,” looking for a cheap headline.

Amen. You got that, Editor Glynnis?

Sadly Palin only helped with what is a truly inane comment about going incognito. She really needs to learn the phrase, “No comment.”

That wouldn’t have worked either.

Look at Newsweek editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham, who can’t get enough of demeaning Palin on the cover of the fading magazine. After suggesting she’s too simple and common to be allowed near Washington, Meacham rejects the simple and common explanation Palin gave, and instead implies it’s some sort of bizarre pre-2012 campaign strategy. Whatever analysis puts her in the worst possible light is what guys like him (and Editor Glynnis) will go with.

For the record, I am not a Palin fan, but I do feel bad that she is constantly hammered over this kind of meaningless nonsense.

Amen, amen, amen again!

Thinking differently about the Palin bashing. Palin may be doing a valuable service to our country (BTW: I don’t think she was qualified to be VP)

For some reason, Palin is a magnet that draws out what’s harmful to our country from the media, journalism, political parties, the political process, D.C, ideologues and political pundits.

It exposes them. Makes it very clear on their intentions. That’s the service.

The more and more it happens hopefully the more and more damage to those entities happens. Perhaps majority of the public takes notice and demands, then makes them be better or they will fail.

The source for Jim R’s assertion is the book “Sarah in Alaska”, by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe. (Conroy and Walshe covered Palin’s campaign for CBS News and Fox News.)

Here’s the quote, as quoted in the New Yorker’s review of various books on Palin:

I haven’t seen any protestations from Heath saying he was misquoted, incidentally.

and I meant to close that a href tag, I really did.

She’s simply having trouble digesting her pillow-talk with McShame. “Ace” is in a faster lane than Todd & Levi.

Vidiot says:
December 18, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Maybe because virtually nobody knows about that book? Maybe it’s because nobody cares?

ANYWAY… yet another irrelevant post from Glynnis about Palin. And here, I thought this was a “media” site… apparently not.

Maybe because virtually nobody knows about that book? Maybe it’s because nobody cares?

WTF? Someone asked for the source of Jim’s assertion. I provided it because I’d read the same assertion, and tracked down the place where I read it — in a major magazine’s review of the book along with others, including Palin’s. I’m not the publishing company’s PR rep, and I didn’t write the book, so I have no interest in whether the book is well-known or not. But thanks for playing.

Palin is important because she’s a celebrity, because she’s got a really big book out that’s getting huge interest and support, because she’s perennially being talked about as a contender in 2012, and because she’s important in the public debate, with things like WaPo op-eds. But go ahead and argue that she doesn’t matter all you want.

Vidiot says:
December 19, 2009 at 3:12 pm

I’m arguing that this story has nothing to do with media. It is a political story (as you point out), and this isn’t supposed to be a political site. She’s important in a variety of ways… but that’s irrelevant. The story should have never shown up on this site… it has nothing to do with television or television coverage, it’s not a media “insider” story, it’s just a political story at best, a gossip story at worst.

As for the book… who cares? Her dad was “quoted” as saying something that could be spun by some in the media. Does this mean that Palin doesn’t like Asians? Hardly. Does it mean that she felt out of place as a minority? (Isn’t that one of the properties of BEING a minority? A feeling a being ‘different’? And when you’re not used to that… Alaska isn’t known for being overly diverse… would you be surprised that someone was uncomfortable?)

Oh, and one more thing… you know I love to look up authors. Well, is it any surprise that the book review that mentioned this “fact” is by Sam Tanenhaus… author of “The Death of Conservatism.” He’s got a pretty clear opinion… is it any wonder that he is eager to portray Palin (and her family) this way? Yeah… perhaps he isn’t the best source for this kind of information.