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Sarah Palin’s ‘Lamestream Media’ Quip Potentially Friendly Fire On Fox News

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It only took about 17 hours for Sarah Palin‘s impressive showing on Hannity last night to be debunked. Media Matters is raining on the Palin competence parade this morning by noting that her one questionable attack on the “lamestream media” may have been inadvertently directed at her employer, Fox News. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Palin attacked the “lamestream media,” as she is wont to do, for a headline she saw on one of the cable news channels claiming that the Arizona immigration law made it “illegal to be illegal” in a manner that could be construed as a bias against the bill. Media Matters dug up a chyron, above, reading precisely that, except it’s from a segment on Fox and Friends.

To her credit, her aside on the “lamestream media” does not directly reflect on her knowledge of the illegal immigration issue or how to run a state, and her point that attacking a law that makes it illegal to be illegal is ridiculous still stands. And it’s also quite possible that she did see a similar headline on another channel (there are only so many ways to title the same issue).

At this point in her career, Palin probably feels an obligation to attack the media wherever she goes– in a similar way to how bands feel obligated to play their most successful hit singles at every single concert– and, not finding an opportunity to do so in a debate that exclusively about policy, came up with an attack off the top of her head. For someone with Sarah Palin’s head, coming up with an attack solely for the sake of attacking in a way that completely breaks the train of thought on which she was traveling, this is always a bad idea.

On the plus side, this shows that Palin hasn’t been cheating on her employer by watching any of the other news channels! The clip with the comment in question below:

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  • http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

    “Palin attacked the “lamestream media,” as she is wont to do, for a headline she saw on one of the cable news channels claiming that the Arizona immigration law made it “illegal to be illegal” in a manner that could be construed as a bias against the bill. Media Matters dug up a chyron, above, reading precisely that, except it’s from a segment on Fox and Friends.”

    Other then being a run on sentence. what does “as she is wont to do” mean???

    Go back an rewrite this article because the whole thing is screwed up. What is your point? Be more discript! if you just want to attack Palin you are batting a no hitter. Kids….

  • .

    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wont

    I like the the word wont.

  • ImNotBlue

    Ah Media Matters… you know when they open their mouth, something dandy is just about to fall out.

    I’d ask why Media is inclined to use a for-profit propaganda site like Media Matters at all… but, I think we all know the answer.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Uh-oh….Sarah shot herself in the foot while it was in her mouth again. lol

  • Toshiba2

    Oops!

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    Obviously Great American Journalist STEVE DOOCY is upset because everyone ended up attributing his “Russia is close to Alaska” quote to the SEXY, SEXY Ms. Palin and this is how he is RETALIATING!!1 I’m not sure whose side to take here, because I love them BOTH so much!!1 I interned as Mr. Doocy’s pool boy two summers ago and he used to give me an extra FIVER every time I did PUSH UPS for him… but Sarah is going to be PRESIDENT soon so I’ll support her this time!!1 SHAME ON YOU, Fox & Friends!!1

  • TfT

    I’m certain that Palin was referring to the not-so-intelligent Contessa Brewer who made the statement on air this week. But nice try though.

  • Bania

    karl you’ve been working out , you’re huge !

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    Not as HUGE as the fact that the Obamessiah is a SECRET MUSLIN!!1 Now THAT… is… HUGE!!1
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6LBbeXTww

  • ImNotBlue

    Karl Spensen says:
    April 28, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    I interned as Mr. Doocy’s pool boy two summers ago and he used to give me an extra FIVER every time I did PUSH UPS for him…

    Actually… according to your resume… Christian Larson interned for MSNBC a few years ago.

    Are we surprised?

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    CREEPSHOW

  • ImNotBlue

    Karl Spensen says:
    April 28, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    JOURNALISM!

  • Olby Sucks

    INB, do tell..was he fired for sexually harrassing olbermann…or was he the tingle up mathews’ leg? Both?

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  • Alfred J. Lemire

    “At this point in [Sarah Palin’s] career,” people on the left “probably” feel “an obligation to attack her and Fox News Channel, too. Ms. Martel has no idea where Governor Palin got her “illegal to be illegal” remark. I did not watch the early morning program; the chyron’s “illegal to be illegal” likely had an edge to it. But I have encountered the expression elsewhere. Ms. Palin got the “lamestream media” image from Bernard Goldberg, who has used it often on the Fox news O’Reilly program.

    Ron Carlson, writing in the Bismarck, N.D. Tribune, commented brilliantly on the weirdness of the left’s reaction yesterday, and one wonders where Ms. Palin was when Sean Hannity interviewed her. Mr. Carlson: “Will someone please explain this to me? And keep it simple because you are working with a Swede, here. Arizona has to pass a law to make it illegal for illegals to be in the United States? Where has this country gone so wrong?

    “We don’t have the stomach to profile Islamic terrorists and it is legal for illegals to be in the United States? My word. My word.

    “And my president says it is a bad idea? According to him, it is legal for illegals to be in the United States?

    “Call me racist. Call me uneducated. Call me out of touch. Call me a Bible clinging, gun toting, etc. Call me whatever, but this is stupid.”

    The state has roughly a tenth of its population here illegally, which does not count those legalized in the 1986 amnesty. One suspects the left sees a chance to demagogue on Arizona’s problem, created because of the federal government’s failure to enforce its laws, mostly for nasty political reasons.

    The problem won’t be solved unless there is an international effort to improve the economies to our south, the long border is protected, inadequate (anchor babies) laws, and laxly enforced laws. Desperate people understandably come here because of those weak economies, but they bring problems to Arizona. (Mexico’s immigration laws and restrictions are more stringent than ours.)

    Moe evidence of why many on the right puzzle over the objection to a law that enforces existing federal law, from this AP article today, from Phoenix, written by Amanda Lee Myers: “Many day laborers . . . say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.”

    “Makes it a crime to be in the U.S. illegally”? So Arizona made it illegal to be illegal? Ms. Myers’s comment is appalling.

  • Alfred J. Lemire

    I wrote too quickly, under a time constraint. But I meant, “inadequate (anchor babies) laws are changed, and laxly enforced laws are enforced.” And moe=more. When I was a reporter, I also wrote quickly. But that was a while ago.

  • Grammie

    Here’s a link for you, Frances, that I think you should consider adding to your article:

    http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2010/20100426051339.aspx

    Note tthis:

    [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Law Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant]

    From Contessa Brewer’s show on MSNBC.

    You said in your piece that:

    “And it’s also quite possible that she did see a similar headline on another channel (there are only so many ways to title the same issue). ”

    Now you have the citation to change your uncertainty to a certainty, with proof

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    @ Alfred J. Lemire says:
    April 28, 2010 at 10:42 pm:
    I’ve posted a response to you in the Gretchen Carlson section

  • Phocus

    Sarah Palin is here to stay…get used to it. And as for Media Matters…just a lefty sewer serving warm leftovers. No one but the limited and naive ‘waste’ time there..

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  • The Real Royal King

    Phocus says:
    April 29, 2010 at 1:19 am

    Sarah Palin is here to stay ….

    The people of Alaska thought that once, too.

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  • ImNotBlue

    The Real Royal King says:
    April 29, 2010 at 8:47 am

    The people of Alaska thought that once, too.

    So did Illinois… and New York.

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