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Sarah Palin, Trig, And Journolist…Did Your Head Explode Yet?

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Most of the time it’s hard to muster sympathy for Sarah Palin when it comes to her treatment at the hands of the press; this is a woman who could teach an advanced course in media relations. In fact every day I wonder if she’s doing just that with her Facebook notes. However, when it comes to the ongoing, and inappropriate speculation about her youngest son Trig, I think she has a point.

In her latest note today Palin responds to the Daily Caller’s latest Journolist release (actually more like a dump…there was no pruning or editorializing this time around) in which members of the list discuss whether or not the Trig birther conspiracy theory is fair game to cover. Says Palin:

It’s tough to fittingly describe these numerous members of the mainstream media who actively engaged in the debate about this conspiracy back when I was first introduced as John McCain’s running mate, and it’s impossible to legitimize any “prominent” media publication that continues to traffic in this bizarre narrative today. It wasn’t just a few fringe characters in that JournoList discussion. It included writers for major newspapers, magazines, and online news publications. Those participating in this immature exchange in attempts to plant seeds of doubt and falsely accuse even included a famous historian.

This JournoList exchange exposes the warped nature of today’s media, thus explaining why many of us are forced, in fairness to the public, to utilize other mediums to communicate until the mainstream media wakes up and begins respecting the public’s intelligence and desire for truth in reporting. There is a sickness and darkness in today’s liberal media. With revelations like the JournoList exchanges, may the light keep shining to expose the problem.

Emphasis mine. Because while it is well within Palin’s right to respond loudly and harshly to speculation about her youngest child, using that coverage as an excuse for why she has almost entirely withdrawn from any unscripted media exchange is almost as lamentable as the coverage she is complaining about. Andrew Sullivan, meanwhile, is happy to have some company.

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  • felixw

    When journalists decide that they want to influence events rather cover the news they have stopped being journalists and have become political operatives. The JournoList scandals make clear that most of the major news outlets in America have made that switch. So congrats, fellow travelers, on becoming operatives for the leftwing agenda. But don’t expect anyone to take your seriously as reporters any more.

  • Azarkhan

    “Most of the time it’s hard to muster sympathy for Sarah Palin when it comes to her treatment at the hands of the press” Glynnis MacNichol

    Like your fellow leftists who viciously smeared Sarah Palin, you to have no sense of decency.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Most of the time it’s hard to muster sympathy for Sarah Palin when it comes to her treatment at the hands of the press” Glynnis MacNichol

    I agree 100%.

    although for me my loathing for her did not begin until she quit her job as
    governor so she could claim victimhood of media bias.

    You cannot be a victim and a quitter at the same time and expect anybody
    to still respect you..

  • TfT

    Sarah is dead on balls accurate when she claims conservatives are forced to use alternate media venues to get the word out. And good for her for being a leader in that regard.

    The lefty media in this country have become “sick puppies”, not only evidenced by the most recent daily caller j-list reveal, but the others as well.

    Look what you idiots did to Rush and any other conservative — you NEVER worried or explained CONTEXT. You just lied through your teeth. Now poor Shirley and her racist husband, have to have everything put in context so as to protect he himself the one and his racist pals.

    The smearing of Palin is over….Palin now has the proof of how j-listers colluded and coordinated their attacks against McCain and her and worked for Obama. I’m presuming that is why mediabistro has been completely silent on this topic.

    I will give mediaite props for at least covering J-list, and laugh out loud hysterically that mediabistro still refuses to even cover it.

    The media have ruined themselves through the lies and idiotic coverage….Katie, the bowing Brian, and Dianne are on their last legs, deservedly so.

  • Newsjunky

    Sarah Palin is a coward and a quitter. I hope she runs for President in 2012. Democratic landslide if so… I’m pretty certain she’s just stupid enough and ignorant enough to run.

  • katestyle

    But it’s oh so easy to muster symphony for crooked politicians like Rangel and the like, huh! You guys practically form a line of demarcation around your own sacred cows…Obama’s Journolister storm troopers were dimed out….now where will they hide! Why not man up and outward proclaim your true allegiance and give the public half a chance to determine where the truth really lies (no pun intended).

  • Azarkhan

    “using that coverage as an excuse for why she has almost entirely withdrawn from any unscripted media exchange is almost as lamentable as the coverage she is complaining about.” Glynnis

    Blame the victim much, Glynnis? Just how pathetic are you? The vicious swine who smeared her are still working in the media. But you choose to ignore that “inconvenient truth” with your BRILLIANT idea that Ms. Palin should once again allow herself to be libeled by the same leftist pigs who libeled her during the campaign, and who continue to libel her today.

    Sorry, but Sarah Palin isn’t going to play your leftist smear game again:

    “With the shackles off, I relish my freedom to call it like I see it, while starving the media beast that was devouring the false reports about me, my staff and my loved ones,” (Sarah Palin)

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    i totally agree…the whole conspiracy about trig is just wrong..
    in fact, someone told me a joke about the retarded stuff that comes out of her mouth…nevermind…and i just told the guy that was not funny.
    the one about her being half-term gov. and at least someone in the family having the sense to pull out was kinda funny though…haha

  • Ted

    Azarkhan said:
    “using that coverage as an excuse for why she has almost entirely withdrawn from any unscripted media exchange is almost as lamentable as the coverage she is complaining about.” Glynnis

    Blame the victim much, Glynnis? Just how pathetic are you? The vicious swine who smeared her are still working in the media. But you choose to ignore that “inconvenient truth” with your BRILLIANT idea that Ms. Palin should once again allow herself to be libeled by the same leftist pigs who libeled her during the campaign, and who continue to libel her today.

    Sorry, but Sarah Palin isn’t going to play your leftist smear game again:

    “With the shackles off, I relish my freedom to call it like I see it, while starving the media beast that was devouring the false reports about me, my staff and my loved ones,” (Sarah Palin)

    Jesus, do you need a few moments alone with a Sarah Palin cut-out?

  • Newsjunky

    Ted said:
    Jesus, do you need a few moments alone with a Sarah Palin cut-out?

    LOL… no kidding.

  • Azarkhan

    Pearls before swine.

  • Bootleghaircut

    Ted-

    Palinistas are crazy like that!

    But hey look at the bright side; now conservatives think that if they quit
    they win-we should ENCOURAGE THIS LINE OF THINKING!!!!!!

  • Permatiltx

    TfT said:
    Sarah is dead on balls accurate when she claims conservatives are forced to use alternate media venues to get the word out. And good for her for being a leader in that regard.

    The lefty media in this country have become “sick puppies”, not only evidenced by the most recent daily caller j-list reveal, but the others as well.

    Look what you idiots did to Rush and any other conservative — you NEVER worried or explained CONTEXT. You just lied through your teeth. Now poor Shirley and her racist husband, have to have everything put in context so as to protect he himself the one and his racist pals.

    The smearing of Palin is over….Palin now has the proof of how j-listers colluded and coordinated their attacks against McCain and her and worked for Obama. I’m presuming that is why mediabistro has been completely silent on this topic.

    I will give mediaite props for at least covering J-list, and laugh out loud hysterically that mediabistro still refuses to even cover it.

    The media have ruined themselves through the lies and idiotic coverage….Katie, the bowing Brian, and Dianne are on their last legs, deservedly so.

    Tragically, that is a very naive idea. The media really hasn’t ruined themselves with “lies and idiotic coverage.” For the most part, the J-List doesn’t really represent lies and idiotic coverage. It’s still a non-conspiracy. This is not gonna bring down an industry that actually was used to start a war. (That would be the Spanish American War, over 100 years ago). It’s no more than believing that FOX News was “going down” because ACORN was exonerated of charges against it. That the video was doctored to support a conservative narrative. Well, FOX News is still here. And the “left” media is also not going anywhere.

    As far as Sarah Palin goes, do we want to have leaders who are hounded by the media and decided to up and quit. Would we have respect for Obama if after the Sherrod case and the constant hounding from conservative media (FOX News, et al) he just said, “Can’t take it anymore, gotta go.” I know we like to sit here and brag when the side we support scores a win, but the reality of the case is that this “jornolist” non-story is not going to destroy the mainstream media.

  • jesse cornish is an impotent weirdo

    I concur, Glyninis. After all, it’s thoroughly (thoroughly!) unreasonable that people were troubled by the prospect of an advanced-age, grand multipara with a history a miscarriage carrying a Tri-G fetus boarding an aircraft for a transcontinental flight after suffering pre-term membrane rupture. I mean really.

  • Newsjunky

    Permatiltx said:
    Tragically, that is a very naive idea. The media really hasn’t ruined themselves with “lies and idiotic coverage.” For the most part, the J-List doesn’t really represent lies and idiotic coverage. It’s still a non-conspiracy. This is not gonna bring down an industry that actually was used to start a war. (That would be the Spanish American War, over 100 years ago). It’s no more than believing that FOX News was “going down” because ACORN was exonerated of charges against it. That the video was doctored to support a conservative narrative. Well, FOX News is still here. And the “left” media is also not going anywhere.

    As far as Sarah Palin goes, do we want to have leaders who are hounded by the media and decided to up and quit. Would we have respect for Obama if after the Sherrod case and the constant hounding from conservative media (FOX News, et al) he just said, “Can’t take it anymore, gotta go.” I know we like to sit here and brag when the side we support scores a win, but the reality of the case is that this “jornolist” non-story is not going to destroy the mainstream media.

    Agreed. Yet another misinformed post by TfT. Also, 99.9% of the American public gives two shits about this “J-List” thing. TfT will soon realize her error in babbling on about this and move on to some other conspiracy theory. It’s fairly predictable.

  • Grammie

    Has anyone else taken a peek at the “dump” as Glynnis so delicately describes the Daily Caller’s response to screams of “out of context”.

    I’ve read/skimmed thru 5 pages of wishful thinking, soul searching indecision and PURE GOSSIP to come upon this:

    “Also I really wouldn’t want to deal with the gossip about the fact I had a baby–particuarly and the kids at school. High school kids are such gossips–and can be so judgemental. (Has anyone read the book by Glenn Greenwald’, “Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics.”? I’ve read only the Salon excerpt, but it’s about how the Karl Rove/Chris Matthews petty focus on personality unleashes the dynamics of
    high school . .”

    I guess she never heard of that ignoring the stake in one’s own eye while focusing on the mote in another’s.

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/26/raw-journolist-emails-on-palins-downs-child/6/#ixzz0upeMSZgJ

  • murf

    How the Left think

    Daily Caller publishes JournoList leaked emails —BAD—- Wikileaks release classified govt documents -GOOD

  • harkin

    Amazing there are still those dishonest/uninformed few pushing the ‘quitter’ meme in regards to Palin.

    She ‘quit’ because she couldn’t maintain the legal fees required to fight the numerous frivolous lawsuits brought against her by the moonbats. She saved herself and the state of Alaska hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Something she could have avoided by just saying no to McCain and staying out of the gunsites of the leftist hounds.

  • Ted

    murf said:
    How the Left think

    Daily Caller publishes JournoList leaked emails —BAD—- Wikileaks release classified govt documents -GOOD

    How right wing whack jobs think. Stupid, good. Smart, bad, very bad, icky bad.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Something she could have avoided by just saying no to McCain and staying out of the gunsites of the leftist hounds.”

    So she should have quit the moment Mccain asked her!!!!!

    PRICELESS

  • TfT

    harkin – they can’t help themselves, the will never believe the truth….they got the word spread by j-listers through mainstream media and they will never ever ever turn their backs on a fellow lib liar.

    They can’t handle the truth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    Nah, no exploding heads, because nobody is surprised that the lousy, low-down, lying lefty lamestream media shills resented Gov. Sarah Palin for her ravishing beauty & conservative views.

  • Ted

    TfT said:
    harkin – they can’t help themselves, the will never believe the truth….they got the word spread by j-listers through mainstream media and they will never ever ever turn their backs on a fellow lib liar.

    They can’t handle the truth.

    My bad – I thought she quit to cash in. Of course, she hasn’t done that so her intentions were noble. And speaking of noble, you can get her latest book, I Refudiate the Lamestream Media for just $19.95 at Barnes and Noble. Available while supplies last,

  • murf

    How Ted thinks

    Glenn Beck & Palin Articles- teabagger , teabagger racist , racist , stupid , stupid teabagger idiot idiot racist teabagger racist stupid stupid racist teabagger idiot teabagger racist idiot …

  • Azarkhan

    It kills leftist assholes like Ted that their efforts to destroy Sarah Palin have failed. But hey asshole, don’t stop! Keep doing what you’ve been doing. Because Sarah Palin’s riches, her fame, her popularity…she owes it all to assholes like you.

  • Ted

    Lars Svensen said:
    Nah, no exploding heads, because nobody is surprised that the lousy, low-down, lying lefty lamestream media shills resented Gov. Sarah Palin for her ravishing beauty & conservative views.

    Lars – timing could not be better. Thanks for the lamestream media reference. Listen, if I were to sell Sarah blow up dolls for $19.95 can I count you in? There’s a market here and I’d like to cash in.

  • Ted

    murf said:
    How Ted thinks

    Glenn Beck & Palin Articles- teabagger , teabagger racist , racist , stupid , stupid teabagger idiot idiot racist teabagger racist stupid stupid racist teabagger idiot teabagger racist idiot …

    How murf thinks. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

  • Bootleghaircut

    Ted

    I love how conservatives now play the race card every chance they get!!!

  • Ted

    Bootleghaircut said:
    Ted

    I love how conservatives now play the race card every chance they get!!!

    It’s all they’ve got. I wish them luck.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    ted
    My bad – I thought she quit to cash in. Of course, she hasn’t done that so her intentions were noble. And speaking of noble, you can get her latest book, I Refudiate the Lamestream Media for just $19.95 at Barnes and Noble. Available while supplies last,

    everybody is gonna be saying refudiate…it will be an epidumbic
    haha

  • Azarkhan
  • Ted

    Azarkhan said:
    Excellent article on Sarah Palin’s endorsement clout-

    http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/07/21/the-practical-calculating-side-of-sarah-palin/

    So if I were able to secure her endorsement, can I count on you for at least one, perhaps two dolls?

  • roxsteady

    Anyone who is stupid enough to believe that she wrote that has probably forgotten her resignation speech which she clearly did write. Think about it? I dare any of you Palin fans to “refudiate” this!

  • Azarkhan

    It kills leftist assholes like Ted that their efforts to destroy Sarah Palin have failed. But hey asshole, don’t stop! Keep doing what you’ve been doing. Because Sarah Palin’s riches, her fame, her popularity…she owes it all to assholes like you.

  • Ted

    Azarkhan said:
    It kills leftist assholes like Ted that their efforts to destroy Sarah Palin have failed. But hey asshole, don’t stop! Keep doing what you’ve been doing. Because Sarah Palin’s riches, her fame, her popularity…she owes it all to assholes like you.

    I’ll put you down for two.

  • Azarkhan

    ‘I’ll put you down for two.”

    Are you crazy? I would never give up my Sarah Palin dolls. Or my Sarah Palin blanket.

  • Ted

    Azarkhan said:
    ‘I’ll put you down for two.”

    Are you crazy? I would never give up my Sarah Palin dolls. Or my Sarah Palin blanket.

    They are in the mail. Customer service is job one.

  • Azarkhan

    Then shouldn’t you be “servicing” Obama? Run along now.

  • Azarkhan
  • Ted

    Azarkhan said:
    Then shouldn’t you be “servicing” Obama? Run along now.

    Oh no my friend, like it or not, I’m serving you. And by God, or by Sarah, you’ll enjoy it.

  • Azarkhan

    LOL

  • Some_Dude

    I’ll preface this with: I haven’t read the journalists’ speculations. It sounds like professionals gossiping, much as we all do via e-mail or over drinks on occasion. So…..

    At face value, this appears to be a story about a public person (a politician, no less) displaying mock outrage over journalists discussing whether or not there’s integrity in reporting on certain aspects of her private life. This should not be a surprise to any person that seeks fortunes via fame or infamy.

    She gave up her position as governor in order to a seek a more lucrative and public career. Trust me, she doesn’t care – but her fans believe it when she pretends to.

  • Azarkhan

    “I’ll preface this with: I haven’t read the journalists’ speculations.”

    But you are going to spew anyway. OK.

    “Trust me, she doesn’t care…”

    Some_Dude, in the immortal words of MichelleF: “Unfortunately, there are no medications for chronic stupid. I’m sorry.”

  • jjpeditor

    Perhaps all of you rabid Øbowmaoists can explain why Trig’s ancestry was so vitally important to the discussion, while accurate analysis of Øbowmao’s decades-long association with mad bombers like Ayers and Hamas loving / America-damning Rev. “Wright” was not?

    And as for sleazy replies about “Palin cutouts”, please feel free to go get some cigars and go play with your first black President.

    If Hussein is busy I am sure Clinton can oblige your need to be used as an journo-sexual ashtray, once he intimately confirms your slavish devotion to the cause.

    (Just bring your writing samples, you’ll get to the head of the line).

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Leave this woman’s children alone . Where is the decency ?

  • kittycat

    What go around –come around—explosed her head —-what is with her cries of Obama birth—-This woman is such a sham and low life I can’t believe the noise this is all about —feel sorry for the bimbo I think not—she likes the dark side—-Something is wrong with our feeding off this trailer park trash.

  • Azarkhan

    “In a straw poll of attendees at the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas over the weekend, 48 percent of respondents said they’d like to see Palin as the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee.”

    Be careful what you wish for.

  • http://SailRabbits.com Magister

    TfT said:
    mediabis

    TfT said:
    Palin now has the proof of how j-listers colluded and coordinated their attacks against McCain and her and worked for Obama. I’m presuming that is why mediabistro has been completely silent on this topic.

    I will give mediaite props for at least covering J-list, and laugh out loud hysterically that mediabistro still refuses to even cover it.

    I have no interest in their blog family and will admit that I have not yet read today’s Daily Caller piece, but thus far, I can’t recall any television news personalities beyond analysts being involved, so “Journolist” hasn’t really been within the realm of TVNewser.

    With that said, the topic has been covered by their sister site, FishBowlDC, though I believe they’ve been mostly reporting more about the personalities. But as a point of fact, as these Mediaite posts indicate, they were pretty instrumental in the beginning because FishBowlDC actually fired one of the first shots across Dave Weigel.

  • The real Royal Gnome

    Ted said:
    Lars – timing could not be better. Thanks for the lamestream media reference. Listen, if I were to sell Sarah blow up dolls for $19.95 can I count you in? There’s a market here and I’d like to cash in.

    Uhhhhhhhh…….. You do know that Lars Svensen is Karl Spensen ,right ?

  • murf

    Lars is Karl Spensen aka Christian Larson .. And here I was thinking he was some scandinavian foreign exchange student. Sneaky basement bandit that ” Karl ” is .

  • The real Royal Gnome

    murf said:
    Lars is Karl Spensen aka Christian Larson

    Also known to occaisionally use “The Stiffmeister” .

  • murf

    That name seems most fitting . Lol

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Gessford/657775682 Sally

    Since these questions were raised BEFORE Trig was even born, I find it hard to accept her hypothesis that this all happened because she wanted to be VP. Her co-workers were shocked when she announced her impending motherhood at 7 months, one month before the blessed event actually occurred. She hadn’t looked pregnant, hadn’t mentioned anything that spring. Meanwhile, Bristol HAD been sent away from Wasilla and was attending a high school in her aunt’s hometown-for five months! The rumor was that she was pregnant, in late 2007. All this information was available to McCain, and well-known in Alaska, but he chose to ignore it.
    I also find it hard to believe that there wasn’t a comparable right group digging into Obama’s past, particularly since every one of Palin’s speeches was filled with charges and innuendo about him. But I guess it’s OK for the loser to continue to whine for two years. She ought to just ignore this crap, if it is not true. However, methinks the lady doth protest too much.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Flesher/850830455 Steve Flesher

    “Most of the time it’s hard to muster sympathy for Sarah Palin when it comes to her treatment at the hands of the press”

    That’s because — unlike members of the press — most of us have class.

  • kittycat

    Palin family have become media whores–they will do or say anything for money. Sarah-Bristol-Willow[-Piper-now Daddy Chuck and Brother Chuck–can’t say that one is less of a grifter than the other. It’s all about having your picture on the cover of People or US Magazine (like these are the magazines read by the intellectuals) or airing your dirty laundry on the talk shows. They think they are building themselves up by tearing others down–silly high school games. Unfortunately, the Wasilla hillbillies are making all Alaskans look like they do drugs and make crazy statements. Sarah Palin is definitely not qualified to be the President–she is a liar, a quitter and couldn’t handle the job of being a half term guv. The Office of the Attorney General has made a statement about how the state was NOT saddled with legal bills so that she had to step down. They also have a statement contradicting Sarah’s comment about the majority of the unethical complaints being found to not be true. Sarah Palin appeals to those fans who are too lazy to question whether what she says is true or not. Alaskans agree that Sarah Palin was one of the worse Governors we have ever elected–it was all about self promotion for this Diva and celebrity want-to-be.

  • MDT

    There’s plenty of warped minds to go around…around here.

    Review some of these comments on this post and you’ll find examples of :
    warped
    sick
    viscous
    pathetic and sad…

    and that’s just “Kittycat”

    Why are you such a hateful pussy..?

  • kittycat

    I dish it out no different than the Wasilla bimbo in her speech she gives. Sarah Palin gets her power because she is a fear monger and dispeller of untruths. Instead of being able to offer sensible solutions, she goes for character asassinations and wants to be known as being divisive and polarizing and controversial. She attracts the same audiences as Glenn Beck and Rusch Limbaugh, because this pays the best money. She is for the immediate monetary reward because she cannot work as a team player. There is no way that she would be able to handle the responsibilities of a higher office. Most Americans realize that she is a political Dimwit and that her idea of foreign country experience is having her picture taken with Margaret Thatcher, who is now exhibiting advanced dementia. Every day Sarah’s speech writers make comments for her on Facebook about someone who is currently in the news, writing stories or comments trying to link Palin into this person’s claim to publicity. She never accepts responsibility for using her dysfunctional children to get her media coverage and does not understand that the Clintons never pushed their daughter into the public eye. Instead Sarah Palin becomes paranoid and hysterical and places the blame on everyone else. MDT Palin is your hateful pussy!!!! and that’s my take on this quitter.

  • TeaBagALibby

    Ted, I am sure I am not alone when I say you may have a problem with your blow up doll fascinations. What are you gonna do with all the left over dolls, my guess is they will be staged in unscrupulous positions around your 1 bedroom apartment with Pelosi’s face painted on. Perhaps you should check out this website, I am sure there is some help out there specifically for your affliction.

    http://www.sexaddicthelp.com

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