Upstaged! New Hampshire’s Biggest Newspaper Puts Palin Over Romney On Today’s Front Page

by Mark Joyella | 2:54 pm, June 3rd, 2011

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It was supposed to be Mitt Romney‘s big day. With his carefully designed announcement speech surrounded by wholesome Americana, and a few sharp words about President Obama, Romney hoped to have at least one day driving the political narrative. Then the One Nation bus rolled into town with a flood of journalists in its wake, and somehow Romney got upstaged. As Talking Points Memo notes, the state’s largest–and most important–newspaper, the New Hampshire Union Leader, did put the Romney announcement on its front page. But the story was quite literally dwarfed by its banner coverage “Palin Hits the Seacoast.” As the sub-headline informs, Palin didn’t officially begin a campaign for the White House (as Romney did) but she did “stop by clambake” and visit a fisherman’s pier. Sorry, Mitt.

Romney was given a front page photo, TPM observes, but not much else:

Romney’s kickoff was reduced to a mere inset photo within text of the Palin piece, and a small headline, “Romney Announces.”

The caption text: “INSIDE: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announces his presidential candidacy Thursday in Stratham. Story, Page A3.”

Here’s the front page:

(h/t TPM)

2012, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Union Leader, Sarah Palin

Son of Sevenless

Where is the class?
WCinWI

Son of Sevenless said:
Where is the class?

At school, I presume.
TeaPartyNation

Upstaged! New Hampshire’s Biggest Newspaper Puts Palin Over Romney On Today’s Front Page

No respectable, responsible, honest newspaper (a VERY, VERY rare thing in the US) would promote a PHONY like RomneyCare over A RESPONSIBLE, HONEST, TRUTHFUL CANDIDATE !!!!!

The Union Leader has the RIGHT priorities.
Harry Flashman

Watching the collective media coverage/nervous breakdown of Palin and her impromptu bus tour has been amusing but, hey lefties – it’s just a warm-up.

She’ll hit Iowa, and the media will follow like puppies, then the West Coast.

She’s winning friends and influencing people. When she declares she’ll have enough of the voters that the nomination will be a lock for her.

Then she’ll beat Obama like a David Duke pinata at a New Black Panther meeting that’s serving free booze.

Be afraid, lefties. Your worst nightmare is coming true before your very eyes. Be very afraid.
Gasket

Harry Flashman said:
Watching the collective media coverage/nervous breakdown of Palin and her impromptu bus tour has been amusing but, hey lefties – it’s just a warm-up.

She’ll hit Iowa, and the media will follow like puppies, then the West Coast.

She’s winning friends and influencing people. When she declares she’ll have enough of the voters that the nomination will be a lock for her.

Then she’ll beat Obama like a David Duke pinata at a New Black Panther meeting that’s serving free booze.

Be afraid, lefties. Your worst nightmare is coming true before your very eyes. Be very afraid.

60% disapproval. In case you haven’t been following, her popularity has worsened in the past two and a half years. The more she talks, the worse it gets. No amount of “tours” can salvage that nor is she “winning” any new friends. She’s actually pissing over other Republicans. Even Brian Kilmeade, a loyal sycophant of hers over on Faux and Fiends called her “classless” for her Romney upstage. She could very well win the GOP nom if she ran, but each and every sensible political strategist — right or left, knows that would be the end of Republican chances in 2012. Obama would actually win several 2008 McCain states.
rm

Not only does Palin’s bus tour do NOTHING to educate the American people about this country despite what she says, it also appears she is actively distracting others from learning anything about it.

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2011/06/not-only-does-palins-bus-tour-do.html
Harry Flashman

Gasket said:

“She could very well win the GOP nom if she ran, but each and every sensible political strategist — right or left, knows that would be the end of Republican chances in 2012. Obama would actually win several 2008 McCain states”

Polls also show her as second behind Romney with the others in the dust far behind her and she’s not a declared candidate. If she declares and runs, she’ll win, and she’ll beat Obama.

But, hey, keep underestimating her. It’s working.
WillP

What good Americans they do have in New Hampshire!!! Sarah Palin is the one true American who speaks to the voices and concerns of ordinary Americans. The fact that her patriotic One Nation tour visited New Hampshire far surpasses the importance of Romney’s announcement of entering the presidential race. Good hard working, freedom loving Americans everywhere should hope for more press coverage of the One Nation tour than the activities of other less important candidates. Every true American should have the same positive emotions and feelings when they see Sarah walk through Ellis Island or discuss Paul Revere’s ride. Sarah makes me so proud to be an American. God bless America. And God bless Sarah Palin. Visit SarahPac. Sarah Palin 2012!!!!!!
WiseOne

This reminds me of palin’s sick attention-getting stunt after the tragic shootings in Tucson in which she released her early morning poor-me “Blood Libel” video on the very day that President Obama and many others were attending a memorial service for the victims of that horrible shooting. palin is an utterly classless egomaniac–I don’t think there is anything she wouldn’t do to steal the limelight away from everyone else, because it is ALWAYS all about sarah. Did I mention she’s classless?!

Excerpt from Politico:

“On a day that political leaders in Washington and Arizona devoted to honoring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson, Sarah Palin proved once again that her bully pulpit is second to none in commanding the attention and passions of the political world.

As Democratic and Republican lawmakers filed into the well of the House to offer prayers for the severely wounded Giffords and the six people who were killed, Palin’s eight-minute Facebook video — in which she accuses her opponents of “blood libel” — dominated the national political conversation.”

More:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47532.html
W.I.S.C

Gasket said:
The more she talks, the worse it gets.

Yep. The only thing I like about her is her ability to annoy the media.
felixw

Every liberal media outlet would rather cover Palin than Romney. But in this election, you can tell which candidate poses the biggest threat to Obama by how hard the media tries to avoid covering him.

Isn’t it quite strange how little coverage is devoted to the front runner among the Republicans who recently raised $10 million in a single day? But this is business-as-usual for the liberal media — you can gauge the important news stories of the day by the vigor with which the liberals try to bury them. Thus you couldn’t get a more glaring example than this article that focuses specifically on which story is being buried.

The liberal media spent months pretending Trump would be a candidate, but even they knew that would never happen. Now they are facing a serious Romney challenge, and are in such deep denial that they will grasp for any political story that allows them to focus on another candidate. Too bad that you can’t win an election through denial.
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The look on Palin’s face if she looses the Iowa caucus to Romney or Huntsman will be priceless. Even slick Mitt has more integrity in his pinkie that Sarah.
Glackin

Mitt should be happy. TPawl ended up on the obituary page in his capital’s paper when he announced.
Barack Must Go

One word sums this up: POLITICS!
Darr247

Hah… they put her “below the fold.”
Darr247

By the way, her ramblings on Revere reminded me of what Tina Fey said, during her recent SNL appearance, about how the lame stream media would be trying to make her look bad by quoting her verbatim. :-).
DFW

The Manchester Union Leader would run a banner headline saying that Donald Trump coughed, and if Barack Obama had singlehandedly cured cancer, it would be buried in between box scores for the Red Sox. Even in today’s world of right-wing biased media and non-serious newspapers, the Union Leader has been consistently a print version of Fox Noise for decades. Their take on anything other than the weather and last night’s sports scores is to be taken about as seriously as something reported on Fox “News.”*

*i.e. not very
Nachi

“The Stormin’ Mormon.”
Snidely

Sarah ROCKS! And Mitt Romney may be the least genuine candidate since Al Gore did his Mr. Rogers impression in 2000.
george L

Sarah Palin: Glitz, glitter, and a flash in the pan that keeps on flashing.
According to her and her ilk, the only true patriot is someone who agrees with her.
No substance, only empty banter.
She couldn’t win a debate against a fellow Republican, let alone anyone from a different party.