Reaction To My Palin Interview Proves The Point
by John ZieglerUnless you were hanging out with Joe the Plumber in Gaza this past week, you probably heard that I did an exclusive interview with Governor Sarah Palin for my forthcoming documentary, “Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Smeared.”
The reaction to the interview excerpts has been far more intense and far more deranged than I expected. Quite simply, the media response has done more to prove the basic point of the documentary than just about anything I could have produced in the film.
Here are just a few ways in which this episode felt like I had suddenly become Alice in Wonderland (without the dress or blond hair).
Governor Palin’s comments about being taken out of context were clearly taken out of context and her statements that they were being taken out of context were themselves taken out of context in a blatant, though thus far, unsuccessful attempt to turn the Governor and I against each other.
The Governor’s measured, rational and accurate attempts to correct the historical record about the basis for which a Presidential election was decided were “reported” by the left as being “whiny,” “catty” and “delusional.” Folks, there’s a reason why there’s such a thing as a war crimes tribunal; some things you just have to get to the bottom of.
Palin’s incredibly mild and humorous pushback against two very grownup media stars (Katie Couric and Tina Fey) who clearly had it out for her, helped destroy her candidacy and who benefited greatly from doing so, was somehow “reported” as an “attack,” “taking shots,” and “not taking responsibility.” Please. This is almost like ripping a Jew for making a Nazi joke (No doubt, THAT will also be taken out of context).
Both the vaunted New York Times and the tiny liberal rag, the Alaska Dispatch (it was difficult to tell them apart since neither bothered to contact me before writing very deceiving pieces), figured out a way to discuss everything about the interview excerpts except the primary issue, which, of course, was their own malfeasance during the campaign. It’s become patently obvious we’ve reached a point where, especially when you’re a conservative, blatant bias, combined with the incredible shrinking attention span of the media and public, make it absolutely impossible to get a message out that is remotely nuanced. And once conventional wisdom is cemented, even when done so by a comedian on SNL with a clear agenda, there’s virtually no chance to set the record straight (again, especially if you’re a conservative and even more so if you’re seen in any way as a threat to Barack Obama).
While I’ve been most concerned with the unfair assaults on Governor Palin and the ignoring of the basic truths she reveals in our interview, I’ve also taken more than my share of shrapnel. It began with a bizarre appearance on MSNBC with David Shuster.
Instead of even bothering to pretend to find out the background of the interview or the nature of the “real Sarah Palin” (forget about why I did the interview or why I’m making a documentary), you would have thought I’d been accused of a major crime. I guess at MSNBC trying to get out the truth about Barack Obama and Sarah Palin may indeed qualify as such.
Judge for yourself how this episode went down:
At one point after that appearance I was booked to do three more spots on Obama’s pet network (two of which had already been scheduled) as well as two more on Fox, one on CNN and one on Saturday’s version of the “Today Show.”
Next up was a live shot with Norah O’Donnell, with whom I’d gotten along great with the previous day during a lengthy interview (only 6.3 seconds of which was actually used, I believe) for that morning’s “Today Show.” After waiting around 30 minutes watching their largely non-condemning coverage of the post-impeachment press conference of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, I was not happy.
When O’Donnell hit me on the air with a totally out of context statement from the Governor’s office I hadn’t seen that made it sound like they thought I had misled them, I thankfully and correctly didn’t believe her and tossed the question aside. But on the follow up I let loose.
Here’s what that looked like:
After that, I was suddenly bumped from “Hardball” on MSNBC, which I was very much looking forward to. (Chris Matthews is not only one of the stars of my new documentary, he also grew up with my deceased mother and many of my aunts and uncles in the Somerton section of Philadelphia. The only time I met Chris was at the home of my grandfather who passed away the day after the Palin interview). I didn’t view the cancellation as a coincidence. I was also bumped from “No Bias, No Bull” on CNN, which I had really wanted to do, if only for the inherent irony in it.
As for Keith Olbermann, he cherry picked an inaccurate description I gave (and have since corrected after being able to view a tape that I previously didn’t know existed) about how the Governor reacted to seeing his photo. It is my only regret of this entire bizarre week that I was not more accurate in that initial post for Big Hollywood and gave that professional liar even more of a chance to gloat over being called “evil” (doesn’t THAT say everything about MSNBC) than was warranted by the facts. He, of course, did not have the courage to even pretend to have me on his show.
Finally, Shuster, I guess feeling he hadn’t gotten much of me the first time, heavily promoted a “rematch” on his afternoon show. His behavior and journalistic ethics (is there such a thing any more?) hadn’t improved in the ensuing few hours between confrontations.
Here’s Round #2:
The next day I received a call at home from Governor Palin. We briefly discussed a miscommunication with her staff that led to some on the Alaska state side (who had nothing to do with the actual interview, which was conducted at her home) to be unprepared for the coming storm even though I had informed my contact person of my intentions the morning before the story broke open on Big Hollywood and Drudge.
The Governor also mentioned she had watched my first documentary, “Blocking the Path to 9/11,” and thought it highlighted just how deep the issue of media bias really goes. But mostly we discussed how the pathetic news coverage of this event proves the need for my new documentary. I think this episode has strengthened the resolve of both of us, each in our own way, to keep fighting to get the truth out on this subject. Once again, I was amazed at her courage to not back down when the average politician would do a George W. Bush and just lie in the fetal position. Sarah Palin is apparently no George Bush, and for that we should all be thankful.
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Good work Mr. Ziegler!
And, it’s always best practice when dealing with claims from the “Drive-bys” to first ask yourself: “I wonder if that’s true?”
I’m looking forward to your film, thanks for making it…
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The mewling hyena class of so-called journalists are a disgrace to their profession. As if we ever needed more proof that today’s Media is stuck on itself and thinks itself the most fascinating person in the room. Obama just better watch his step, much as they love and obey him, it’s still really all about them.
Here’s a hint, guys. When a person says that their comments were “taken out of context”, that means “I actually said that”. For instance, Palin DID claim that she had foreign policy experience based on Alaska’s geographical proximity to Russia. She repeated that in several interviews.
This incident just underscores how essential it is for people on the Right (or even Center-Right) to be articulate, measured, and factual. Newt Gingrich routinely obliterates these people because he’s just flat out smarter than all of them, and listens to what they say, responding with the appropriate level of disdain. Just like internet trolls, these people have 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to sound like they’re winning the argument (Journalism? Please….), so if the person being interviewed gets angry or rattled (or makes a single misstatement), they’ll do nothing but focus on that.
The problem right now is that there isn’t much of a chance to get the message out to people other than the choir, so when they have their shot, they need to really hit a home run (unlike Ann Coulter’s shoutfest on The View). The only way to deal with deranged, dishonest people is to be pragmatic, measured and utterly devastating with your logic. It’s an impossible standard, but the one we’re left with at the moment.
On the bright side, most of the big Liberal papers will be dead or dying by the end of the year, which is going to leave a big vacuum for people reporting facts and balanced opinions. Nice try John. It’s a shame the message gets cluttered with their nonsense.
Sarah Palin needs to a write a piece for Big Hollywood.
Hey, Des, was Gingrich being “smart” when he served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery? Oops..citing an actual fact about Newt might be “out of context”….
Actually, Erasmus, she claimed that part of her experience had to do with their proximity to Russia and Canada (including security briefings and being forced to be up on the latest news regarding both countries). She also as Governor was head of the Alaskan National Guard, which forced her to be up on what they were doing in Iraq and Afghanistan. She had limited additional experience due to trade negotiations.
Not much experience, but a hell of a lot more than the guy from the South Side of Chicago (although to be fair, Obama spent a lot of time with Palestinian sympathizers and an Arab guy who helped him buy his house).
Hey Pete, could you explain to me what intelligence and education has to do with a messy divorce? I’m a little confused by your logic. I never said I was a fan of Newt’s home life (or any other politician), I just said the guy was very smart (a fact I’ve never heard disputed except by anonymous posters on web sites).
Palin is an idiot quit trying to make her sound like she isn’t, it just makes you sound like an even bigger idiot, which I don’t actually think you are.
In a way, the above poster is right, but in a way incorrect. Yes, we believers in classical liberalism and the individual rights and liberties as opposed to the Left with it’s belief in rights based on collective and identity groups needs to be articulate, DES, but we individualists also need to begin to think of ourselves more as revolutionaries because really that’s what we are now. It’s the liberals and the Left who are the Establishment and as long as we play by their rules and their guidelines we’re going to come out on the short end of the stick. We have to tip over the game board completely.
To do that, we need Mr. Ziegler and others to make documentaries and we need to promulgate and release them using everything available at our command. We need Ann Coulter and Mr. Graham to act as our Samuel Adams’s and Thomas Paines–to “rabble-rouse” and “bomb throw”–really call things as they see ‘em. To stir people up and to rouse them to action. There’s a time for being measured and there’s a time for righteous anger. Mr. Ziegler did what needed to be done–he called the media on its behavior in their ballpark–he tipped over the gameboard and made them look bad.
You have to know when to use the scalpel and when to use the sledgehammer and there are times you have to break out the sledgehammer. We are now the people seeking change–we need to think of ourselves in that way if we are going to succeed in getting our message out.
Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on permanent active duty?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.
Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor had a higher classified security rating than either Democratic candidate prior to the election?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: Which of the four candidates was the ONLY one with any executive experience?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Not qualified?
I know.
The truth hurts the libtard liars.
Sarah Palin didnt run for President–McCain did. McCain lost–not Palin. By the way, if the Republicans want Palin in 2012, I don’t think you’ll find too many disappointed Democrats. A woman who doesn’t support woman’s rights is nothing short of a retard. Oh wait, that’s right. She’s got retard genes in her blood. And what a negotiator she’d be for our country. “Hey ladies, out of respect for human life you no longer have any abortion rights; but you can still send your sons to Iraq to fight for oil.” Now thats respect for human life! Then there was her appearance on Saturday Night Live–now that was Presidential! Chick is a walking joke and deserves to be.
Stay classy, Lodo.
“A woman who doesn’t support woman’s rights is nothing short of a retard. Oh wait, that’s right. She’s got retard genes in her blood.”
LODO GRDZAK,
Since you are full of extraordinary wit and intelligence perhaps you can get a job changing Al Franken’s diapers? He loves brown-nosers, the dirtier the better in fact.
“I don’t think you’ll find too many disappointed Democrats.”
Is that why they’re so determined to destroy her?
That doesn’t seem like how you react to someone you don’t fear.
Now that the MSM has ripped off its mask of neutrality, I’m wondering how that will effect the future democratic process. Will anyone not in the most liberal 1% be smeared as a right-wing extremist? Sarah Palin is intelligent and qualified, but her refusal to endorse baby-killing disqualify her in extreme-left minds and this justifies the lies that were told about her.
Actually, Sarah Palin, like almost all governors, is NOT briefed daily on internal affairs of the Alaskan National Guard. She appoints the commander in charge of the National Guard who is briefed daily on the things you were speaking about.
If Sarah Palin was so worried about her caricature on SNL, which though I enjoyed it was over the top, why did she appear on the show? Appearing right next to her caricature did nothing but cement THAT visual image and stereotype in the American minds all over the nation, whether they were Republican or Democrat or a third party. That, to me, shows an extrodinary lack of judgment. To then turn around and complain about the very caricature she apparently supported, is simply whining. Her political acumen might work well for Alaska, but I think it is a major failure for the national scene.
Great stuff John. Gotta say when they start using your words out of context to bolster their own flimsy arguement you know you won the debate. Awesome stuff dude.
2008, the year the left sanctioned sexism.
Hey John: Well done my friend. It’s truly fun to watch these Goebbels acolytes squirm in their propaganda stew, and the use of the filibuster is one of their favorite techniques. They’ve invested their careers in the Bambster, and any small inkling of impartiality is out the door. The thing that these MSM myrmidons have over looked, they’ve pissed of the people that actually watch the news, read papers, etc., and as a conservative, I believe the real support of both the MSM, and the Bamster is a mile wide, and a millimeter thick. The test is when someone with real intestinal fortitude, self reliance, and natural character such as Sarah Palin comes along and simply by being can rip the veneer off the whole messianic charade. I will look forward to your documentary, and the continued collapse of the MSM. We all now know the slogan of, “speaking truth to power, is just that a slogan.
“Governor Palin’s comments about being taken out of context were clearly taken out of context and her statements that they were being taken out of context were themselves taken out of context in a blatant, though thus far, unsuccessful attempt to turn the Governor and I against each other.”
Yep. I noticed that. I heard them trying to pit you two against one another. Don’t fall for it. And please don’t shut up or back down–that’s what they want you to do.
Varuna : You clearly misread that.
Try it again.
It’s about time someone stepped up to hold the media’s feet to the fire. Keep it up. It won’t be easy to change the propaganda machine.
“Lodo”~
I never resort to name calling, but I will make an exception only this once, because you warrant it:
You are a piece of sh#t.
You made fun of the mentally handicapped status of an infant. There’s a special place in hell for “people” like you.
True conservatives should join teamsarah.org
Send me a friend request if you like.
You know, there’s one thing Palin probably has every right to be mad about. Obviously the Trig thing. You know what, I believe her on this one. I believe her story that when her water broke in Texas while she was carrying a Down’s Syndrome baby, instead of doing what most people would have done and gone to the nearest hospital, she hopped on an 8 hour plane trip back to Alaska. While a reasonably intelligent person might think that doing such a thing was a shockingly irresponsible act, potentially putting the baby in danger as well as potentially forcing her plane to make an emergency landing in case she gave birth on the plane, I guess by believing Palin’s story about this to be entirely truthful, I guess I have to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Although if Palin really has aspirations towards higher office, developing a reputation of kvetching in the press about how everyone is out to get her for no real reason isn’t going to be helpful. I’m not even sure Nixon had a cultural chip on his shoulder as big as Palin’s.
I love how Palin’s pro-life position qualifies her as “retarded” yet the pro-life Democrat Senator, Rober Casey from Pennsylvania is lauded as brilliant and the greatest thing since sliced bread. Ironic that Obama’s life in the womb was protected under our law. One has to wonder if his mother would have made a different CHOICE had she had the option then? My own grandmother may have aborted my mother had she been a teenager in this day and age. The idea that a woman has a right to abortion is a complicated topic. The life of the fetus is not the only life aborted in the act that has exponential consequences. Though I do understand there are circumstances that a woman is in dire straits due to an unwanted pregnancy, if only these few cases were the ones that end in abortion. Regretfully the majority are performed as a means of birth control rather than the implementation of SELF CONTROL. Even Nietzsche was a big promoter of self control and the art of denial of self to build the self most powerful. In today’s entitlement and instant gratification mindset, the thought of self control is too difficult and cerebral a task to undertake. Forget about dealing with the consequences of one’s actions! That would require living one’s life for someone other than oneself. That’s asking too much of the all about ME-ers. Palin may not be ivy league but she practices what she preaches unlike the hypocrites (both right and left) in D.C. Great documentary and blog post John! Thanks.
The only reason I voted for Palin was because she at least knew there were 50 states. And she knew when FDR became President. And she knew that Arabic wasn’t the most commonly used language in Afghanistan except by the terrorists. And she knew that the Civil Rights movement hadn’t started yet when Obama was born. And because her Pastor was the Pastor she knew.
At least, I think she knew all that, only a couple of obtuse morons wouldn’t.
On top of all that, she knew how she got her house for the price she did and she didn’t vote present while running Alaska.
Just think, if she would have murdered her baby, this all could have been avoided.
I also find it odd that folks are dismayed at Palin’s opinions regarding her treatment in the press and SNL. I heard Obama on several occasions lament his treatment on FOX and has chosen to only answer questions from “certain” reporters. To me, he is not ready for prime time. I do think Palin would have served herself better had she not said a thing but Obama complained before Palin ever did and will no doubt complain about and ice out “difficult” reporters in the future. Obama likes scripts that he’s approved. That tactic will only last for so long even amongst his most ardent adorers. Having said that, the person who took more heat and blame for the ills of the world since time infinitum has never made so much as a hiss about his treatment. Of course, I’m refering to Bush. He’s not my favorite but his ability to never complain about the irrational displays against him from the press always impressed me.
Lodo,
I am not sure what pisses me off more. Your vile spewing about a innocent baby or your complete ignorance about the war in Iraq.
I’ll goes with the child. As the mother of a developmentally delayed ( that’s the new PC term btw) I’m offended. My son is emotionally and academically delayed and has a seizure disorder. You are the type that would call seizure “fits” aren’t you? As if he has any control over when they hit him. Let me tell you something else about my “retarded” son. He is the most loving, funny, caring, energetic kid you would ever met. He can not stand to see others hurting and will go out of his way to offer kind words and caring to any one he sees in pain. Defective? To people like you I suppose he is. To me he is exactly what he is suppose to be. A caring human being. You could a great deal from my “retarded” son about how to treat others.
I didn’t MISREAD your comment. I DISAGREE with your comment based on research I did regarding the setup of the National Guard in both Alaska and my state when that question came up in the press.
Right, and to totally believe that Trig is really her grandson and she’s covering it all up even after she was actually blessed with a grandson without any evidence or regard to basic facts, pictures, witnesses and records is completely the path I would take.
Steel doesn’t melt! Water doesn’t break!
I’m excited that Palin seems to be taking on those “who buy their ink in bulk.” For too long, it’s been easy to ignore and brush under the rug. Obviously people unable to see truth in front of their face will complain that she’s another paraniod Nixon, but for those of us with an IQ larger than our shoe size, it’s refreshing to see something so obvious as a problem brought to the front of the public conscience.
Amanda, I couldn’t agree more.
Particularly on the issue of experience, the hypocrisy and deceit of the left has never been more apparent than with their vetting of Palin as opposed to the lack thereof for Obama.
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Thanks for the post Mr. Ziegler. The MSM is dead in my opinion and they are getting bludgeon by the Internet.
But that doesn’t automatically dismiss the impact of media influencing the perception of people. Why is the quote, “I can see Russia from my House” the most popular quote and thought of as a quote from Governor Palin when in fact it was uttered by Tina Fey and taken out of context from the Gibson interview? The press has edited the interviews horribly.
The press continuously play clips as if SNL is the say all of politics when it is just leftist mantra. Don’t get me started on Palin’s appearance on SNL pushed forward by McCain’s people. That was a denigrating appearance where Baldwin and Fey threw every insult to Palin and she didn’t even get to respond. Another trick by the MSM. Sure Palin said she would appear on SNL regardless of that crude joke and shot taken at her daughter by Fey, but you can tell she was annoyed and flustered by not knowing the content of the “comedy” throughout the season after she saw the Fey clip.
Also, the republicans need to come out of the shadows and defend themselves instead of only relying on talk radio. Rush, Sean, Levin, etc. can only do so much. If they refuse to defend themselves, republicans have an uphill climb in getting anything repaired in their party. The liberal media has taken control and the republicans have no response. Yes we have Breitbart, Malkin, etc., but that is not enough. Republican politicians need to engage the electorate. We feel misrepresented and maligned by them. Instead they cross the aisle to join democrats and feed off their propaganda about conservatives and not defend us (ie McCain, Parker, Will, Buckley, etc.).
Their losses in 2006 and 2008 should ring an alarm. But all I hear is crickets chirping and no republican standing up for us. It’s really pathetic and sad.
Varuna : YES, you did.
I didn’t use the word “daily”.
It used to be that the right were considered the racist, sexist, dense, humorless ones.
Nice work lefties. Solid .
I like the way Shuster pretends that he’s never heard the term “character assassination” before. Real classy.
Question for those on the left who take issue with Gov Palin’s experience.. wasn’t Bill Clinton merely a governor when he ran for the presidency?
John, keep fighting to good fight. We’ve got your back. I am looking forward to the documentary.
Thank you!
John, you and I have met at the last two Evans Sayet show here in Hollywood. I want to commend your efforts for telling the truth about Sarah Palin. I think what you are dong is beyond the call of duty. No one else is exposing the leftist insanity as you do. Just look at the reaction to see how successful you are becoming. The leftist mad dogs hate Sarah Palin because she has the Presidency in her hands, we know it, she knows it, the left is scared of her and they know it, even Obama knows it. She ever gets out there and starts campaigning she will raise a movement bigger then what Obama did with all new, young and vigorous conservatives not only for her supporters but people with her mindset to run for congress. She is the catalyst that will bring in new young true conservatism and flush out the weak country club conservatives that bend to the whine of the tyrannical democrats. This is why they HATE her guts and will say any vile thing against her and this will add to her appeal. Keep up the good work John, keep making films that expose the liberals for the insane mad dogs that they are.
I’m a filmmaker also and I am ready to assist you in this fight for over country. You can get contact me through my website http://www.forgottenheroesthemovie.com
Oh, good..this is one of those pro-Iraq War websites. Just for fun..
1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
2. Where are the WMD’s?
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?
Funny that Obama’s inexperience hasn’t even been touched esp by MSNBC.
John-
This is great! I am so glad that someone from the right is challenging schmucks like Shuster and others who are so clearly biased and never get called on it. We need more John Zieglers in this world.
Funny how they’re attacking you when the trail at the bottom of the screen represents their idea of leaders…IMPEACHES GOV. ROD BLAGO….
Lodo, what seems to be your problem? Are you so blind that you refuse to see how biased the media are? Are you so ignorant you refuse to understand that president-elect Obama is a Socialist in political clothing?
Your audacious opinion of Governor Palin shows the depths to which liberals are willing to go when their intelligence (if they have any, that is) fails them.
Here is an undeniable fact: Barack Hussein Obama has no executive experience at all. None. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Zip.
Even if we only take Sarah Palin’s stint as Wasilla’s Mayor it’s still far more executive experience than Obama’s. When you factor in her gubernatorial position, she could run circles around Obama. Not only that, but she (a) has an 80% approval rating (name another governor that popular); and (b) runs the only state budget that’s in the black.
You’re just another example of those who hate Sarah Palin for no reason whatsoever. You can’t elucidate why, so you resort to name calling and the basest of language that has nothing to do with anything. And yet you fawn about and fall all over yourself when it comes to Obama – a man with known associations with admitted felons, a man who sat under the teachings of ranting racist preacher and lied about what the preacher said, a man who has publicly said he is going to increase the federal deficit into the trillions.
You really should stick to what you do best: nothing.
Great follow up, John. What I find incredulous is not the blatant media bias but their denial that there is any bias. And it certainly is enlightening how they are treating Caroline Kennedy.
Bottom line here, buddy. The American public was smart enough to know that Sarah Palin was not smart enough to be one heartbeat or a billion heartbeats away from the presidency. We have had enough of ignorance and lack of intelligence (as in I. Q.) in the White House to last a very long time. Forget Palin. She is a footnote and blame John McCain for putting her in that position in the first place, of you need to blame anyone for her being a standing joke.
Going out of Interest Sale
1. don’t know
2. they are in Syria where Iraq moved them during the invasion. Unfortunately, this may be proven as Syria uses those on Israel.
3. From your taxes so please get off the board and go to work or school.
I wrote about your first interview with that snotty punk David Schuster on my news blog:
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2009/01/09/video-john-ziegler-shreds-msnbcs-david-schuster-on-live-tv/
The best part was when he said “Doesn’t it diminish real assassinations when you throw out the word assassinate?” I had to laugh out loud it was such a ridiculous question (although typical of MSNBC).
Keep up the good work John.
@Going out of Interest Sale
1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
*There were 22 reasons for going into Iraq in the resolution passed by the House and the Senate. No where in those reason does it state Iraq was “actively” involved in the attack on 9-11. So what is the point of your question?
2. Where are the WMD’s?
*Please spend 50 minutes to educate yourself by viewing http://www.iraqandbeyond.com/ It will inform you on the WMDs. But that said the resolution stated that Iraq had ‘history” of WMDs and failed to prove the complete destruction of such programs.
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?
*More important question. What would the cost be for NOT fighting this war? Not everything of value in life is about money.
I’ll take a decent “common man” with common sense over an “ivy league elite” any day of the week. Look where the “elites” have gotten us. So, keep waiting for the next Buckley to support. Those intellectuals are doing a smashing job.
For those of you living under the fiction that Caroline Kennedy is getting a free pass, please go to CNN’s Political Ticker, where they report that her support is eroding among NY Democrats for the Senate appointment. Kennedy has been getting roasted in the press for weeks, but you guys are consciously choosing to ignore that, lest it punch a hole in your carefully created Palin talking points.
The Bill Clinton analogy isn’t very appropriate for Ms. Palin. Clinton had been actively involved in DNC politics and had been the keynote speaker at the 1988 DNC Convention. Palin was only thrust on the American public 8 weeks before the election. She had a very small window to demonstrate that she had a knowledge of the world and public policy that made her qualified to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Frankly, she didn’t accomplish that. Every major political candidate in the modern era gets the “what do you read” question, and until now, every candidate has answered that question without a second thought. Perhaps if Palin had actually studied the ritual of elections, she would have realized that Couric’s “magazine” question was fairly innocuous. But, nooooo…Palin had to internalize an innocent question asked to EVERY candidate as somehow meaning Couric was calling her an illiterate hillbilly.
Palin’s chip-on-the-shoulder non-victory victory lap she’s been going on for the last month is akin to the Buffalo Bills’ kicker Scott Norwood blaming his inability to make the winning kick in the Super Bowl on the refs failing to call a holding call on the Giants in the second quarter. Sarah..you missed the kick.
“Brad Hart – January 14th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Palin is an idiot quit trying to make her sound like she isn’t, it just makes you sound like an even bigger idiot, which I don’t actually think you are.”
Hey kid, shouldn’t you be paying attention in school instead of texting messages to sites for adults? I’d try working on that “C-” in English composition before you shoot your gums off.
1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
We’ve never thought that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11. Bush never made that statement…ever. There is proof that bin Laden’s representatives had spent time there before 9/11. The war with Iraq was a separate incident and partly based on the Gulf War treaty stating that if any conditions were broken by Hussein then a state of war would continue to exist. Hussein broke ALL the conditions and lied to UN weapon inspectors.
2. Where are the WMD’s?
We have quietly recovered some of them (this actually made the news but the MSM played it down significantly). A lot of it was sent to Syria since Iraq had over six months before we invaded to get rid of them. Dude, a chemical/biological weapons lab can fit in the back of a pickup truck…how easy do you think it is to hide WMD’s, huh? Anyway, talk to Syria. I’m sure you’d believe anything they say, right?
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?
Honestly, you have me on that one. But it was a Democrat Congress who passed the legislation to allow that expenditure so you should talk to them. They’re good at spending the big bucks with no accountability.
Clearly ‘journalists’ like Shuster are poseurs who have no interest in facts other than how to manipulate and mask them for their own ends.
Notably MIA from this entire Palin debate is any support whatsoever from the man who put her into this media Blitzkrieg, John McCain. His lack of defense for Palin has been shameful considering that it was the incompetent hacks in his campaign that bungled Palin’s rollout.
As to Palin herself, the truth is that if she wants to make a serious push for the national stage she is going to have to work on her ability to communicate more deftly particularly with antagonistic interviewers. If she thought they were gunning for her in 08, they will be loaded for bear in 2012, and she had better be well educated, nimble on her feet and ready for anything, which she was not in 08. She is going to have to be faster and clearly more prepared than her Democrat opponents because the media is so deeply in the tank for the Dems.
“Oh, good..this is one of those pro-Iraq War websites. Just for fun..
1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
2. Where are the WMD’s?
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?”
1. This is one of those lies which moron leftists have been perpetrating for years. Were there connections between al quaeda and Iraq? Sure, there were tangential ones. Were we attacked because of our presence in Saudi Arabia for the explicit reason of enforcing sanctions, the no-fly zone and protecting civilians in the Kurdish and southern territories of Iraq. Absolutely. Only an idiot or a liar suggests that all these things are not connected.
2. A better question, moron, is why wasn’t our intelligence better? Or, that is, why did Carter and the left handcuff them and make it so difficult for our intelligence agencies to subsequently operate in countries with evil, totalitarian governments? Then there’s also the fact that the left chooses to define WMDs as weapons ready to use as opposed to materiel which has been found. And my personal favorite aspect being the way you people like to argue that Bush is leading a cabal of sinister liars yet they forgot to plant weapons to satisfy creeps like yourself.
3. Its always heartening to see left-wingers concerned about government spending. While I’m sure your numbers are a lie which fail to account for military operating expenses regardless of whether or not we’re there, and I die laughing when you attack the government for paying US companies in support roles rather than potentially cheaper foreign sources, the fact still remains that a.) toppling Saddam was the morally right thing to do and that b.) we’ve killed thousands of jihadi fanatics there who came not because they give a damn about Iraqi freedom but simply because they hate the west and thank God we brought the battle to them rather than some of them killing Americans here. Even you perhaps. I realize that most of you people are fundamentally unserious, but I wouldn’t even begin to know how to put a price on the ability to drain the swamp of those nuts somewhat and send the message that we ain’t screwing around to people who understand nothing but strength.
[...] Reaction to My Palin Interview Proves the Point [...]
Little off topic, but UBL just released another tape. National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the tape demonstrates bin Laden’s isolation and “continued attempts to remain relevant at a time when Al Qaeda’s ideology, mission, and agenda are being questioned and challenged throughout the world.” He said it appeared to be a fundraising effort for al Qaeda’s propaganda campaign.
Well guess he hasn’t heard about Obama’s ability to raise funds.
USA USA USA!!!
Talk about propaganda phft ….. They’ll never be able to match the New York media now that they’ve found their flag pins again.
John Ziegler is a defensive, unemployable punk and Sarah Palin is an incompetent ignoramus. We need these mutants for their comedic value alone. Palin in 2012!
JohnnyRussia – January 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am
John Ziegler is a defensive, unemployable punk and Sarah Palin is an incompetent ignoramus. We need these mutants for their comedic value alone. Palin in 2012!
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Wow you know Johnny by your intellectually stimulating and educated statement there I’d say the person who is the ignoramous is the person you see in the mirror everyday. Way to project though. Awesome.
In my humble opinion, the left is sooooo afraid of Sarah Palin that they are continuing to smear her even though she is not running for anything. Just the thought of her running in 2012 is terrifying to the left, because they “Know” in their heart of hearts that by 2012 their unvetted choice will have made any number of “horrible” mistakes from which the left will not recover. Our country will need a good strong person with common sense, moral structure and a better sense of right and wrong than what we have been given by folks who are for the most part idiots.
quote:”Going out of Interest Sale – January 14th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Oh, good..this is one of those pro-Iraq War websites. Just for fun..
1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
2. Where are the WMD’s?
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?”
1. We didn’t go to Iraq bwcause of 9/11. We went after Al Qaida in Afghanistan. Iraq was a pre-emtion (remember the pre-emtive war part?) against terrorist symphatizers. Ask Colin Powell.
2. WMD was found, just much less than Bill Clinton’s “intelligent” reports estimated. Some may have been sent tp Syria and Iran. How ever, I doubt if they’ll tell us the truth. Ask Colin powell, and Bill too.
3. $120B/year comes from your tax dollars. Where do you think the government’s money come from? The same pile of money that’s bailing out the Dem’s housing/ecoomic fiasco. Besides, the Dems have had to power to pull funding for over 2 years now. Why haven’t they done so? Ask Reed and Pelosi.
Palin is Woman’s Rights. She’s a woman in a very powerful, male-dominate, position. She’s also kept her own values, not adopted the ones that may gets her a few more votes. That’s integrety.
The McCain campaign hammered away on Obama’s experience for months (which is a fair debate). But his choice of Palin not only destroyed that point but made any subsequent criticism of Obama seem insincere as a result.
The bottom line is that while their experience levels can be compared and debated that does not mean that Obama=Palin or vice versa. You can blame Katie Couric all you want but it is clear that a major qualification for most of the country in their President is that they be able to hold a press conference or be interviewed and be able to answer the questions and handle the moment.
She failed miserably and in a manner that I can’t remember having ever seen before. Schuster didn’t handle the altercation well but that doesn’t mean Ziegler won any argument. The election is all the evidence you should need to know that.
Seriously *eyeroll* Fine, please allow me to correct myself:
“Actually, Sarah Palin, like almost all governors, is NOT briefed daily on internal affairs of the Alaskan National Guard. She appoints the commander in charge of the National Guard who is briefed [correction] on the things you were speaking about.”
Let me make myself clearer. SP would have no reason to be briefed on Iraq. When the National Guard is activated for a national security reason, the professional military is in charge, NOT the governor. She might be briefed enough to lobby for additional monies, but NOT to make decisions (i.e. Commander in Chief) for anything related to Iraq. The only time she would actually be a Commander in Chief of that National Guard is when it’s activated for a STATE emergency. To say that gives her foreign military experience enough to fully knowledgeable about the situation in Iraq is laughable.
Beyond the fact that SHE wasn’t required to be, except for the problem of choosing a 72 year old man with established health issues as the presidential candidate.
Instead of whining about how she was borked (at least Bork was an incredibly intelligent, educated, and scholarly man who was treated unfairly about his views, I don’t believe SP falls into the same category), maybe you should start hanging out on sites like the Next Right, where they’re at least interested in moving forward and upward to picking up the Republican party.
Oh crap, I missed a daily.
Kinda like this article and it’s criticisms are missing the point. Oh well.
To DOGONCRACK:
Can you give me a source for the statements from your 01/14/09 0553 post? I have a column prepared for a local newspaper and this info would bolster the column greatly. The theme of the column is how the newsmedia is degrading the fairness of elections and the public’s confidence in those elections.
Thanks.
I think the idea that Palin has foreign policy experience because of her non-existent strategic authority over the Alaska National Guard would be like saying that because I live near an airport, I have experience at running an airline.
The actual adults of this country have correctly seen Palin struggling mightily with the chip on her shoulder and her increasing displays of cultural and political paranoia. With each demented, self-pitying “interview” she gives on her non-victory lap, Palin is increasingly unable to conceal her clear disdain for wide segments of this country. This whole “you city slickers think you’re better than me” jive might whip up the GOP base during a primary, but it is a recipe for disaster when it comes to actually GOVERNING the country.
Considering Palin has spent her entire life insulated from American society in rural Idaho and rural Alaska, I doubt she has even a basic framework for understanding the diversity of our current population and the many unique problems you find in large cities, small towns, and different regions here.
Frankly, combining the willful ignorance of Bush with the vindictive paranoia of Nixon should be enough to scare anyone.
Varuna : I don’t recall mentioning Iraq but now that you mention it, exactly what does Obama (the least experienced of all) know about it that she wouldn’t?
Maybe you should start hanging out at Kos.
Tehstupid : The election is only evidence of how good the MSM is at brainwashing people.
Varuna-sorry, I’m not understanding. please explain BO’s experience in being Commander of anything and how the media explained this to the American public? I’d rather have a 72 year old man that is proven with a known, non-issue health concenn that a 48 year old, nonproven man that I don’t know if he has health issues becaue he never released his medical records.
Lots of admiration John. Media malpractice needs to be dealt with, it has become a gossip/promotion show, not news. As far as Gov. Palin, she is able to speak freely and intelligently without stutter or teleprompter. I still believe she was sabotaged when she gave her acceptance speech. Her teleprompter was messed up and she STILL gave an amazing speech. Hope that is included in the film. Best to you John and a BIG thank you for taking this on!
I’m neither a Sarah Palin fan nor a detractor. I admit her way of speaking is off-putting, but unlike Lefties, I try to be tolerant of differences.
So far as her being dumb, it’s hard for me to keep a straight face when the people who support Al Gore and Caroline Kennedy have the temerity to call someone “dumb”. Fact is, I don’t think Couric or Fey are candidates for Mensa either.
If Palin is no threat to them, a dumb hick from Alaska, etc., as they say, then why all the brouhaha about her? She sets their teeth on edge, and the only reason I can come up with is that they fear she is the harbinger of a new kind of Republican who, unlike the Bushes and other gentlemenly, aristocratic, Country Club Republicans, will be unwilling to go into a defensive crouch when the propaganda media starts wailing on them and will instead engage in the down and dirty, street-fighting politics the Dems and their propaganda media have had to themselves for the past two or three decades.
Lodo will be going into a nursing home eventually. I nominate the “Terry Shiavo Nursing Home” for this person. Don’t worry, Lodo, you’ll have lots of liberal friends who spent their lives aborting their children, stuffing the living ones into child care centers and encouraging the right-to-die movement that is now morphing into a duty-to-die.
Led, of course, by the President who as an attorney argued that leaving a living child of a botched abortion to gasp to death in a soiled utility closet is right, just, and proper.
There will be lots of beds available, I’m sure. Turnover is sure to be high.
PETE simply confirms the craven idiocy of the left.
Palin’s comments about foreign policy “experience” were the standard boilerplate stuff that all manner of candidates throw out when faced with this issue. Obambi himself actually referenced his early childhood in Indonesia.
Frankly, when I think of “actual adults” people on the left will never be who comes to mind and I live in New York City. The shameful conduct of the left and the media during the campaign would leave Palin or any sane person rather irritated. It was deeply personal, often dishonest and went way beyond politics. Then again Pete here is a classic example as he goes off on some earnest masturbatory riff about Palin’s hostility towards certain parts of the country as though there were no “bitter people clinging to their guns and religion” in America.
And what kind of jackass has the temerity to suggest that a middle-class woman who has lived an extraordinary example of the quintessential American life is somehow more removed from normal America than someone who has lived in Hawaii and the mickey mouse leftist environs of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Cambridge and Hyde Park. Good lord.
I don’t particularly believe that Obama had better credentials in that area. I also didn’t state that I did believe that. B/c I happen to disagree that SP didn’t get what she deserved by horrible mishandling of the press(ALL of it, not just Couric, she even did terribly at softballs), obvious naivete for a national stage, and appearing on SNL to legitimize a carticature started on a comedy show, doesn’t mean that I suddenly think Obama is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Or does anyone having some logical disagreement with their party platform not occur to anyone? Do your research and understand what the National Guard is. Read the damned Alaskan Constitution. Follow the press on all sides. Just b/c I can state that I did those things and know what her role as “commander in chief” of the Alaskan National Guard is, which has nothing to do with any of our foreign military plan for Russia, China, Iraq or even farkin’ Japan, doesn’t mean I LOVE Obama.
I don’t follow blind idealism to ANYONE, much less to politicians. I’m never going to defend Palin. McCain I could at least stand behind, but that woman was ridiculous as a VP candidate and everyone knew it, including the party infrastructure and McCain himself.
Dogoncrack, Obama was on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Palin was, um, never mind–if it has to be explained to you after all this time, you wouldn’t get it, anyway. Obama will be the president in less than a week, and Palin will still be the never-ending comedy font and professional media “victim” with the uncontrollable id. If a Hollywood writer had tried to make up a dolt like her, nobody would have believed the character. Palin is the greatest gift to comedy since George W. Bush.
PETE simply confirms the craven idiocy of the left.
Palin’s comments about foreign policy “experience” were the standard boilerplate stuff that all manner of candidates throw out when faced with this issue. Obambi himself actually referenced his early childhood in Indonesia. Because the left is composed of emotional infants this became some sort of device to disingenuously create a narrative.
Frankly, when I think of “actual adults” people on the left will never be who comes to mind and I live in New York City so I hardly have a limited supply of examples. The shameful conduct of the left and the media during the campaign would leave Palin or any sane person rather irritated. It was deeply personal, often dishonest and went way beyond politics. Then again Pete here is a classic example as he goes off on some earnest masturbatory riff about Palin’s hostility towards certain parts of the country as though there were no “bitter people clinging to their guns and religion” in America.
And what kind of jackass has the temerity to suggest that a middle-class woman who has lived an extraordinary example of the quintessential American life is somehow more removed from normal America than someone who has lived in Hawaii and the mickey mouse leftist environs of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Cambridge and Hyde Park. Good lord.
Cait, that Palin/teleprompter story is an urband legend. The teleprompter didn’t malfunction, so she was able to give the speech that she in fact didn’t write. Besides, if Palin was so well versed on the issues, why couldn’t she name more than one Supreme Court case when asked (again, a pretty simple question).
Growltiger, in what universe is Palin a “different” Republican. She has the same incurious streak, utter lack of self-awareness or self-reflection, and infallibility complex that has been THE hallmark of the Bush years. “Scared” isn’t the right word. Americans are “tired” of the culture-war Republicans touting yet another simpleton like Palin in their ceaseless quest to venerate the mediocre as the American ideal.
Note to JOHNNYRUSSIA:
Thanks for the link to your blog, man. While you’re here calling certain politicians stupid I think everyone should pop over there and take a look at your quality of non-thinking. What kind of kook goes to the trouble of starting a blog nobody reads to post other peoples’ writing/thoughts/etc. and adds a sentence of his own thoughts at the end? Some deep thinker and quality writer you are!
Hey, George: None of your damn business how or why I operate my blog. Don’t like it? Don’t visit it!
Got it?
Simple, huh?
Pete:
Just for fun, why don’t you tell us all about Obama’s foreign policy experience. After all, unlike Palin, he’s actually going to be president and thus have to implement foreign policy. So let us know what experience he has.
Re: DOGONCRACK
You’re lost, son. You have a Talking Point for everything, huh?
George, nobody is forcing you to read my blog.
So don’t.
Going Out Of Interest Sale:
What’s your problem? You’ve got your guy. Can’t you liberals ever be happy about anything? Rejoice and stop dragging down Palin. If you’re so convinced she’s the boob you claim she is, then you ought to try a little reverse psychology and build her up so we neanderthals on the right nominate her in 2012.
Oh, I got it JOHNNYRUSSIA. I only visited once, courtesy of the link you chose to add. I just thought others here would enjoy a sample of your high quality thinking.
Going out of Interest Sale
“…another simpleton like Palin” Dude, was it Palin who picked a Treasury Sec who didn’t pay taxes for 4 years? If anyone is a simpleton…it is O’Dumbo.
Varuna : I’m tired of your longwinded, continually misdirected attempt at debate.
Think what you will.
JOHNNYRUSSIA : I’ve no interest in talking to people who are clearly bent on hatred such as you.
Please don’t address me.
TEHSTUPID : You ARE stupid.
I’m not your son.
Tony, you miss the point. In order for democracy to be healthy, you need a viable political opposition. The Bush/Palin wing of the Republican party has utterly destroyed the Republican brand for a generation, if not longer. You simply cannot function as a viable national party focusing virtually all of your energies exclusively on rural, white, evangelical Protestants. The Republicans’ inability to articulate an immigration message that didn’t come off as a screed against ALL Latinos (legal or otherwise) arguably caused huge GOP losses in Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. Bush in 2000 was polling nearly 40% of the Latino vote, and I can safely say that it will be a LONG time before the GOP hits that mark.
While African-Americans have tended to vote Democratic at a 90% clip in Presidential Elections (no matter who is running), do you think having an RNC official distributing CD’s of “Barack the Magic Negro” was a smart long term move in currying favor with AA voters. Remember, Bush in 2004 actually reached 15% of the AA vote, which was the deciding factor in the National vote as well as the Ohio result.
And frankly, you guys don’t want to hear this, but a lot of moderate and independent voters REALLY despise the hold that ultra-evangelical Christians have on the GOP’s approach to governance. Have you noticed how the GOP really doesn’t grab the Catholic vote the way they used to, despite Roe v. Wade politics? I remember in 1992, how the convention in Houston was seen as the culture war nadir for the party. The way you guys have flipped out over the Cult of Mediocrity makes Houston 1992 look like a rerun of Buckley’s Firing Line. You guys are as diminished as a party as the Democrats were in 1972 and 1984, yet you still think you’re winning the debate.
If you could actually run and govern as fiscal conservatives, that would be great. But you also are going to need to drop the culture-war schtick and overreliance on military action as the first and only option in a crisis if you ever want to rebuild. The younger voting generation in this country just isn’t fooled by shallow simpletons and Karl Rove style divisive politics anymore. The fact that Jindahl isn’t your frontrunner in 2012 merely reinforces my opinion.
By the way, did Reagan ever balance a budget? Oh, right, Clinton managed to do that, no?
Funny how that works.
Hey Son,
I called myself Teh Stupid so that I would command the utmost respect from the Morono-Fascists on the rightwing. As well all know, it’s terribly uncool to be smart in Republican circles and being thick, dumb, stupid and generally not knowing much of anything is a badge of honor – it means you are “real” and not “elitist”.
Or is being ignorant bad now? Make up your GD minds.
C’mon, Pete, if you’re gonna drag up Norwood’s name at least remember Jim Kelly took the heat for not getting his kicker better field position.
Tehstupid so your real name is? Too cowardly?
I love the quality of imagination among people like TEHSTUPID. Very child-like.
Dogoncrack: I will address anyone, anytime, anywhere, as I see fit.
I get so tired of Republicans being called dumb. Let’s see, who was it that got an MBA? And who was it that failed out of divinity school?
When exactly was Obama on the Senate FRC? He was running for President almost as soon as he was elected senator.
Maybe Palin didn’t make the case that she was qualified. She sure didn’t get a fair chance to. Yeah her interviews with Couric were awful. Obama didn’t exactly win points in his interview with Rick Warren, did he? There wasn’t a big deal about that. Mr. Transparency hasn’t exactly been transparent about his health status or birth records, has he? Where’s the fuss about that?
Going out of Interest Sale:
Do you think that our entrance into that war can only be justified by the existence of ANY of the three prerequisites you mention?
Wow. Get a clue, buddy. Where were you in 2002 & 2003? Let alone 1992-2001.
Start with UN resolution 886 and follow along (as slowly as necessary) until you hit 1441, then get back to me.
Retard? Idiot? Moron? That’s the way some “liberals” describe fellow Americans with whom they disagree. Schoolchildren are no longer allowed to engage in such cruel, thoughtless name-calling–its “bullying.” But you adults indulging in hate speech here ought to be ashamed. The Nazis, BTW, zealously murdered those they considered “feebleminded,” so you’re in good company.
John Ziegler, I miss listening to you greatly out here on L.A. radio. The fantastic work you’re doing now is crucial to exposing the media-bias truth. Keep it up, John! Your efforts are making a difference — as aptly demonstrated by all those in the media who have gotten their panties in a wad over your Palin interview and your film — and are much appreciated!
I am not imagining the intense anti-intellectualism of the Bush years. Smart people were considered effeminate and called elitist. If you are constantly demonizing scientists and educators then people will assume that you don’t like thinking.
If you don’t want to be called dumb then start respecting and celebrating intelligence and expertise.
And seriously, Phil the Obama birth certificate nonsense is the equivalent of the Trig Palin stuff. Don’t embarrass yourself.
I’m thinking Brad’s World is not the only tiny thing over at BradsTinyWorld.
Whoa. Truly the trolls here are the biggest bunch of morons in the blogosphere. Great Job! Not one sensical thing said by the whole bunch. Just hatred of Palin.
Winston, meet Obstreperous Infidel.
Winston just told me that people who call other people “morons” are using hate speech. Do you agree? LOL.
Going out of interest sale
“The younger voting generation in this country just isn’t fooled by shallow simpletons…”
You got to be kidding me. What about O’Dumbo? I’ll bet less than 10% of those who voted for O’Dumbo can name any of his policy positions (one’s that he has kept).
No, you actually are imagining things. What the hell does respecting intelligence and expertise mean exactly? I wonder because not a day goes by where some liberal rag like the New York Times or some lauded academic fails to make me laugh uproariously at their abject stupidity or craven intellectual dishonesty. There’s no shortage of anti-intellectualism across the political spectrum, but the left has a stranglehold on delusional intellectual arrogance.
Sarah Palin mentioned, in her 12/12/08 interview with HumanEvents.com, that she was held back from doing important interviews and was muzzled in what to say. Now the gloves are off.
Obama spent two years of his four junior senator years campaigning. Maybe his years organizing the corrupt ACORN could be designated “executive experience”.
He got the presidency with the help of billionaires who are going to call the shots.
The main point of Palin doing this media tour she seems to be doing is that she wants to show us who she really is. She was so over managed by the mccain people, that she was never able to fully explain her experience or her opinions. I guarantee every speech she gave, every comment she made, was prepared for her. Mccain had an idea of what he wanted her for, and that is all he allowed us to see. He’s nearly as guilty as the media. I’m so glad she’s speaking her mind right now, she deserves it after how she was treated.
And anyone that debates her experience is an absolute fool. Obama and the stand up comedian biden have little useful experience. Its funny that you never hear a liberal argue that Obama has more experience…it is always about how little Palin has.
Keep it up John. Pound, pound, pound away at the dangerous MSM. It is nothing more than a collective Goebbels and its liberal followers are equivalent to the brainwashed Germans.
“The election is all the evidence you should need to know that”, said TEHSTUPID.
What an utterly, utterly stupid statement. There was no media bias because the election proved it?
Translation–I didn’t cheat on the test and my passing grade is all the evidence you should need to know it.
Chew on this TEHSTUPID; I have never witnessed such sheer ignorance and Obama winning is all the evidence you should need to know that.
Oops. Resolution 686. I need to start that geggo blababia program I have heard so much about. My memory has failed me again.
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“intellectual arrogance”?
Why are you so insecure in your own intelligence Georgie? You could just say you don’t agree with the left but whining about someone who supposedly thinks they are smarter than you is a major tell and totally reinforces my argument.
Your contempt for academic credentials is quite clear.
I saw a t-shirt at: http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/ that says it all:
“LIBERALISM = LOGIC’S retarded cousin.”
Jeanniemac, I realize facts are tough for zealots, but…Obama didn’t “organize” ACORN–he represented them in a lawsuit.
Sarah Palin’s “gloves are off?” Is that why she keeps hurting herself with her “I’m a victim of the mean, ol’ press” charade?
And you might say that designing and implementing the single most successful grass-roots campaign organization in history IS “executive experience.” BTW: the vast majority of money Obama raised was via small donors, not “billionaires.”
Sorry to burst your Bill O’Reilly/George Soros bubble.
John
Down goes Schuster, Down goes Schuster!! Great work John! I am a huge Sarah supporter and recently have become a big fan of yours. I really like your Breitbart TV with Scott Baker interviews. Good Luck to you!
MADELYN,
You are blaming the media because you cannot face up to the fact that not only did you lose handily, but that your movement and party are a national disgrace. You had COMPLETE control of the government for a good six years and totally BLEW IT.
So go ahead, blame the media, blame liberals, blame Europe, blame Muslims, blame everyone else in the entire world except yourself. Don’t take any responsibility for the smoking crater you have left behind.
It’s all someone else’s fault to you. PLEASE continue to scapegoat and guarantee your irrelevance and powerlessness.
Mr. Zeigler you are one brave man agreeing to go on MSNBC. I refuse to allow that station to even be on my television.I ask my husband to turn it off if he stops on it while surfing. I’ve never heard such biased, dishonest “reporting” in my life. It was obvious they could care less you were on to give a different point of view, to them you were just “comedy relief” for the uninformed who drop in for their mandatory daily 2 minutes of Hate Speech.
What does this have to do with Hollywood?
So Pam L: MSNBC really scare you, huh? So is it all FOX News for you, all the time?
If they didn’t want Ziegler on, why was he invited on at least three separate times to promote this powder-puff, Palin foot washing?
Ooooh! That big, bad, MSM!
(As if a Rupert Murdoch property isn’t “mainstream!”)
So, we had UN sanction to unilaterally invade Iraq? Did any of those 1991 resolutions mention the US giving out oil and construction no-bid contracts to GOP political donors? How about the plans for permanent US military bases there?
Bush couldn’t sell the invasion on the “we really want Iraqi oil” so he ginned up this phoney baloney WMD excuse and his people subtlely and overtly invoked 9/11 to put forth the image that Saddam was busy in one of his palaces planning a direct attack on US soil.
The really funny thing is that when the US leaves Iraq (because no matter how you spin it, the Iraqi people want us GONE), what will be left behind will not be a pliant democracy that will serve as a launching pad for the invasion of Iran, but instead will be a hostile government attempting to placate a population that is without water, electricity, and employment because we bombed their country into the ground. In fact, I can guarantee you that Iraq will be a theocracy within five years, it remains to be seen if it aligns with Extremist Shia Iran or Extremist Sunni Saudi Arabia.
The fact that some of you on this site are actually clamoring for Hollywood to make PRO-Iraq War movies, while deliberately ignoring the reality of this six year clusterfrak is rather disheartening. I know that you guys hate being called stupid, but when you try to rationalize this war, you just make it so damn easy.
I’m not sure i follow you Tehstupid. If you want to talk about “major tells” I would say that your comments are suggestive of someone whose reach far exceeds their grasp. Clearly this line of thinking is emotionally satisfying to you, as is par for the course among people of the left. Especially progressives. I haven’t met too many for whom being (thought of as) smart isn’t their primary source of self-esteem. But then again, I’m willing to bet my academic credentials are far superior to yours even if I’m more pleased with my ability to hold my liquor and sleep with good looking girls than a couple of degrees which mean nothing once the work day starts.
“constantly demonizing scientists and educators then people will assume that you don’t like thinking.
If you don’t want to be called dumb then start respecting and celebrating intelligence and expertise.”
I’ll celebrate when we have intelligence and expertise in the academic world. Sorry,but most young people today are being robbed of an education. The stats are available or better yet, discuss history and current affairs with any young person. It’s difficult to respect scientists and educators without facts to back their opinions. Last I knew, science was somewhat based on facts, yes? Of course, journalism USED TO BE based on facts.
JOHNNYRUSSIA most of Obama’s donations were from untraceable cards….Soros hired a team to supply these
What a flake. Apparently any news media that does not repeat right wing ideological fiction has liberal bias. Apparently any news reporter who asks any question harder than what did you have for lunch has media bias. So much for freedom of the press.
Well Georgie, what I meant is that if you were actually up for intellectual sparring you wouldn’t be sitting around whining about intellectual arrogance. You would just be arguing.
And a giant LOL at your bragging about drinking and getting laid. And you call me childish?
You lost, Georgie, you lost big time and it’s because more people hate conservatives than hate liberals. The only way you gain control again is to turn those numbers around. And your strategy is… the media did it?
Pathetic!!!
(And I LOVE it)
Where are the WMDs? Here are a few!
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.
The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.
The shipment, which until recently was kept secret, involved a U.S. truck convoy, 37 cargo flights out of Baghdad to a transitional location, and then a transoceanic voyage on board a U.S.-government-owned ship designed to carry troops to a war zone, he said.
The “yellowcake” uranium transfer was requested by the Iraqi government at the encouragement of the U.S. government, Whitman said.
The United States approached Canadian company Cameco to bid for the material, according Cameco spokesman Lyle Krahn. He would not disclose the winning bid amount.
Krahn admitted that this was not a “routine transaction,” but he said the agreement was approved by the Canadian government and was carefully monitored.
The undertaking, named “Operation McCall” by Pentagon officials, was in the planning stages for months and was completed Saturday after the material had been in transit for weeks, according to Whitman.
He said yellowcake uranium is a commonly traded commodity used for nuclear power generation. It is not enriched and cannot be used without first going through a complicated enrichment process, he said, but because of the unstable nature of Iraq, the United States and the Iraqi government decided it should be moved out of that country. Iraq has no nuclear power generating plants.
The uranium was packed into 110 shipping containers moved by convoy from a facility in Tuwaitha, Iraq, about 12 miles south of Baghdad. The containers were first moved to the secure International Zone in central Baghdad and then to Baghdad International Airport, where thery were loaded onto C-17 cargo planes.
It took 37 flights to move the shipping containers out of Iraq to a “third country,” Whitman said.
A Pentagon official who asked not to be named said that third country was Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean where the United Kingdom and the United States operate a joint military base.
From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones. The ship carried the uranium to Canada, where it was bought by Cameco, a private firm.
The uranium will be sent by truck to two processing plants in Ontario, Krahn said. Once it has been enriched for energy use it will be sold to power plant operators, he said.
The United States is Cameco’s largest customer, Krahn said, but he did not specify if the Iraq yellowcake would ultimately end up in the United States.
Whitman said the Department of Defense’s cost of securing and transporting the uranium from Tuwaitha to Canada was $70 million, and the government of Iraq had agreed in principal to reimburse the United States for part of that cost.
He said he could not say how much Iraq intends to repay the United States
You’re really not moving the needle on my impression of you as an overly ambitious lightweight tehstupid. Who was whining about intellectual arrogance? It was an observation. A statement. And it is merely a source of amusement to me.
Yes you are childish. I wasn’t bragging about drinking and getting laid, it was in jest, and a means of underscoring just how meaningless my degrees are to me no matter how impressed you seem to be about academic credentials.
As far as why we lost… I’m sure many here are grateful that a keen intellect such as yours dropped by to spell it out for us. Seriously. I have a job waiting for you in the mail room when you finish college.
Again with the yellowcake?
Yellowcake is not a WMD.
Weak.
Going Out of Interest Sale:
Please read the resolutions.
Then, if necessary to further understand where I am coming from, watch “A Fistful of Reasons” (Brady Bunch season 2 / episode 8).
The effectivity of the UN is well represented by Mike’s telling Peter to handle a simple schoolyard bully with “calm, cool reasoning”. Great idea. Bravo. But, you know what MIKE BRADY did when that failed? He taught Peter how to fight and sent him to DO THE JOB.
Schoolyard bully? Fighting solved the problem on the Brady Bunch.
Saddam Hussein? The use of deadly force solved the problem in the real world.
Oversimplified? Ok. Fine. But for me to see your point of view on this will require better spoon-feeding from you to me than that.
Keep it civil. I have thin skin and my feelings are easily hurt.
Ghekko biboblia.
(Katie Couric and Tina Fey) who clearly had it out for her, helped destroy her candidacy
You’re joking of course.
She could not handle the publicity blitz and you blame…one interview and a comedian? Funny.
Any person who is introduced to the public that quickly will be scrutinized. And most go down in flames. It is certainly not ‘fair’ and not something that our society can seem to rise above. But it is part of the game. I blame McCain more than anyone because he threw Palin [an unknown] into the pit and let her take the shots. But blaming Couric [who even Huckabee said treated her easy] and blaming Saturday Night Live is just silly.
I laugh when liberals breathlessly claim that Sarah Palin is “against women’s rights.” That’s utterly stupid, because that would mean she’s against women voting, holding office, running a business, being in the same careers as men, etc. etc.
What these silly liberals really mean is that Palin is against unfettetred abortion on demand, which to libs is the ONLY “women’s right.”
Hey there! Georgie girl
Swinging down the street so ignorant,
Nobody you meet could ever see
The Stupidity there inside you.
Except Teh Stupid!
TEHSTUPID
“You had COMPLETE control of the government for a good six years … ”
You sir/ma’am are ABSOLUTELY STUPID.
Go and educate yourself on the federal government of the United States; you’re an embarrassment to yourself.
PS–As an Independent who voted Democrat in the three presidential elections preceding 2008, I can tell you that the failings of Democrat policies and the mind-numbing lack of intelligence and nastiness among so many Democrat voters is what made me realize the truth; the principles of conservatism are what I believe in and I’m going to start to really take a stand.
Madelyn:
It’s “Democratic”, not “Democrat”, as you are using it.
And it’s taken you three presidential election cycles–in which you voted the Democratic ticket–to decide you are a conservative?????
Yup; those must really be some “principles” that you believe in.
No, tehstupid. You’re a moron. You could be the most aptly named moron in here, too. I think even Winston would agree. Props to you for your introspection. You hate and you have the attention span of a gnat. You’re a binary character. You are a moron. And yes, the rest of your fellow puerile trolls are morons, too. If any of you type anything not moronic then maybe you can escape that designation. Somehow, I doubt it.
Mr. Ziegler, you wrote “… reaction to the interview excerpts has been far more intense and far more deranged than I expected.” Dude, these are the same talking heads who spent millions flying investigative teams to Alaska to crawl over the Wasilla town dump like a wriggling carpet of maggots in search of anything they could devour to justify their meme about Sarah Palin. The Convention dust hadn’t even settled before the MSM started presenting Gov. Palin to America as a barely sentient, and possibly incestuous, book burning hayseed from Alaska with a third rate public education who espoused an absolutely medieval religious (Gasp!) world view she would impose upon the nation. Did ya think they was gonna give ya a cookie or sumpin’?
One of the tip-offs of a fake “former Democrat” concern troll is actually the use of the phrase “Democrat Party”. That whole “Democrat Party” nonsense is just a Limbaugh phrase he thinks really boils the blood of the Democratic Party.
According to Madelyn, she voted for Clinton twice and Kerry once. So, what changed in four years that made you so impressed with modern conservatism? Was it Katrina? The Iraq War? Torture at Abu Ghirab? The outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame? Joe the Plumber? ORRRRRR..are you one of those..ahem..PUMA’s…disaffected by Hillary losing the nomination and now pretending that somehow Hillary and Palin share the same political values?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, dealing with lefties is just like dealing with a hormonal teenager.
Sometimes you just have to walk away.
Have a nice walk, Gary.
Good job Ziegler…way to knock Obama’s c**k out of Schuster and O’Donnell’s mouth. Too bad Matthews and Olbermann won’t take their mouths off his b*lls to talk to you.
Gee, Gary; David’s comments seem a bit, um, “hormonal”, huh?
Crude and stupid, anyway….
[JohnnyRussia said....Jeanniemac, I realize facts are tough for zealots, but…Obama didn’t “organize” ACORN–he represented them in a lawsuit.
And you might say that designing and implementing the single most successful grass-roots campaign organization in history IS “executive experience.” BTW: the vast majority of money Obama raised was via small donors, not “billionairs."
See, this is the beautiful part about discussing Liberal ideas....you get a chance to see how utterly uninformed their spokesmen are. The first thing Johnny does is try to minimize Obama's contact with ACORN. Nevermind the fact that he was a speaker for them, called a "trainer" by several spokespeople, and steered millions towards them as a Senator (both state and local), let's just pretend that didn't happen....Mkay?
Second, he claimed that Obama "Designed and implemented" his campaign. Funny, I always thought that's what campaign director's got paid for. I guess we're all fine though, because somebody named "JohnnyRussia" is so close to Obama that he has first-hand knowledge of how the campaign was designed and run, day to day.
Oh yeah, and as for where Barack got his money, anybody claiming to know is a liar because his campaign website doesn't track donors, so the money could be coming from anywhere (including donors named MickeyMouse). Brilliant. Please keep the insight coming, JR. It's very revealing.
One way to judge an individual’s grit is to watch how well they hold up in public under withering fire. This isn’t a political thing, it’s a people-thing. Some on our side crack, some on the Democrat side don’t.
By that standard (and I think it’s a good one), Governor Palin is one of the strongest public figures I’ve ever seen. She’s all dignity, and I miss seeing that everyday on television, though I don’t miss watching our awful media try to tear her down.
I also miss hearing her. I’m from Wisconsin. She reminds me of home. It’s a little different in Wisconsin but closer than what I hear out here in L.A. — “Like, doesn’t like Sarah like Palin like talk like funny like-like?”
Moddem,
On Palin: ‘Any person who is introduced to the public that quickly will be scrutinized’.
Why wasn’t Obama scrutinized as fiercely as Palin?
Because he never would’ve been elected if they did.
Obama would’ve never qualified for any security clearance due to his ‘associations’.
Years ago Obama simply would’ve been called a crooked politician and a communist sympathizer.
The denial of the MSM to even consider how empty and venal he actually is completely diminishes their role in being considered to objectively inform the country on any issue.
6 days until President Obama. I guess the majority of us don’t buy into Sean Hannity/ACORN conspiracies/evil, secret donors/Obama’s lack of “executive experience”, etc., huh, Des?
Enjoy the inauguration! It will be historical!
Mr. Nolte,
Respectfully, is it really “dignity” on display with the Palin media blitz. Whining about Tina Fey, claiming such outrage at the joke about “unmarried teenagers”, yet then appearing on the show a few weeks AFTER that joke? Her pithy dustup with the ADN editor about a story they didn’t run about her son and was actually being approached as siding with her? Her bizarre and overly defensive press release that her daughter and the father of her baby who isn’t married to her weren’t “high school dropouts”, when technically they were. In fact, if Palin hadn’t announced “Levi’s not a dropout”, then no one would have noticed that he had an oil field job that he legally wasn’t supposed to have. Her take on the Katie Couric “what do you read” question (frankly, it was an innocent question asked of every candidate) was so dripping with seething class resentment on Palin’s part, it would have done Nixon proud.
The real trick Palin is going to have is how will she make her budget numbers without Alaska’s windfall profit tax on oil companies to fall back on. With oil dropping from $140 a barrel to $38 a barrel in the last 6 months, all of a sudden Alaska’s coffers won’t be so flush. Although I’m sure she’ll find a way to blame the media for that as well.
A “Communist sympathizer?”
Congrats, Joe: you are living in the era of “years ago”…
Oh, and John Nolte: Joe McCarthy was from Wisconsin, too. Do you miss him as well?
TEHSTUPID – January 14th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Again with the yellowcake?
Yellowcake is not a WMD
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OMG they actually let you use the internet? OK Genius since yer so darned smart what is Yellow Cake then HMMMMM???? What is it FOR? HMMMM…
you think maybe it is used for WMDS? What do you think that WMDS just fall out of the sky completed and ready to go? You know I know leftists are stupid but this little statement by TehStupid proves that calling them stupid would be insult to stupid people. Look if you need an explanation for WHY its WMD I can ask my neice to let me borrow her crayons so you can have it explained….I’ll even draw Barney so it makes you feel comfortable. Sheesh.
I agree, Johnny. It will be hysterical (oh wait, I misread that….sorry
). Trust me, I’ve lived my entire life within 10 miles of Obama’s district. I don’t need Sean Hannity to tell me anything about Obama or his friends. The truth is, I don’t hate the man, but because of where he has come from and the way he’s lived his political life, I have absolutely no trust in him, whatsoever. We had a very good man here (Democrat Paul Vallas) run for Governor two terms back. He had done much to improve the Chicago public schools and had no machine backing (making him about the only chance to get away from the corruption that has slimed this city for decades). Vallas got no support from Democrats in Illinois (literally not one public endorsement by a Democratic party representative), yet lost in a very close election to party hack and full-time scumbag, Rod Blagojevich. Obama heartily endorsed Rod, gave him money, helped him raise money, and supported him every step of the way….as he has every corrupt politician in the Chicago machine. He has never once stood against the corrupt aspects that keep our city mired in poverty, high taxes, and poor education.
Enjoy your victory. I hope he turns out to be something other than what he has been over the last fifteen years. Unfortunately, I sincerely doubt it.
JohnnyRussia,
Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dhorn called themselves communists.
How many admitted communists do you know? I don’t know any.
Yeah. 40 years ago.
I’m sure I know a few Communists; I worked in Russia as an expat.
So for you, Obama is the Manchurian candidate. Oh, well; I guess SOMEBODY has to listen to talk radio.
[Joe Weldon said...Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dhorn called themselves communists.
How many admitted communists do you know? I don’t know any.]
Not to mention, I’ve never had a felon buy a house for me (or a soon-to-be felon Governor’s wife conduct the transaction). Seriously, I never have any fun.
Yeah JR.
And I guess someone has to listen to NPR.
My favorite part of the second Shuster interview is that he uses polls to make his point. POLLS! What is the whole point of the documentary? Did Shuster miss that? Isn’t it about how the media is/was in the tank for Obama? How would a poll of people who thought Palin was unqualified help Shuster? That poll combined with the cold hard facts of Palin’s qualifications would support Ziegler.
All this hatred directed at Palin proves the libtards are terrified of Palin. Her presence is the only reason McCain lost by 4 pts instead of a landslide after being outspent over 4 to 1 nation wide (and how come there’s no one looking into all the illegal foreign contributions and finance irregularities?). Not to mention the in-kind media coverage, and it being a “democratic year”.
The libs know Palin resonated with ordinary Americans. They also know they’re not gonna have the 4 to 1 money advantage in 2012. Even if Obama gets the Fairness Doctrine and Card Check passed. So better to take her down now, while the MSM still exists, because by 2012 it probably won’t.
“Terrified of Palin?” Only if McCain had won, and she became VP. Otherwise, we love her comedic value and join you in urging: PALIN IN 2012!!!!!
Please, please, PLEASE!
I am SO glad someone is taking the time to put together a documentary film like this. I truly look forward to seeing it when it’s done.
As a supporter of Sarah Palin, I still am appalled at the things that are said about her and her family. I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised by the nastiness and venomous nature of the things said, but just when I thought I’d heard it all, I’m proved wrong. Again.
Anyway — I’m enjoying Big Hollywood very much, have it bookmarked, and am planning on visiting daily. Congrats on its success so far!
DK
Joe Weldon – January 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Why wasn’t Obama scrutinized
Obama was introduced to the public [at large] at the 2004 Democratic convention. He was in the public eye as a Senator for 3 years before he announced his candidacy. By that time he was an established personality. In short, he was slowly introduced like many politicians are. Palin on the other hand went from 0 to 100 in a week. That is tough for anyone. I’m not saying it was right that the media smashed her. Just saying this is what happens when you are introduced so fast.
Years ago Obama simply would’ve been called a crooked politician and a communist sympathizer.
Ummm, I’m not sure where the crooked politician comes from. Was he more crooked as a Senator than JFK, Johnson, Nixon or any number of politicians that became presidents? I would say heck no. Less experienced too but the voters didn’t mind that. Also where do you get communist sympathizer? Okay, so he happens to have crossed paths with some people on the left. But he has also crossed paths with literally thousands of people – some on the right.
Regarding the Africa Story – this is from Fox News website archive. The story is for the AP: I found it in 2 minutes on a search of their site:
I maintain the Africa is a Country statement by Palin is a Lie. Would you libs just man up and admit to it. Your MSM stooges were caught again. SHEEEEEZH
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK — MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.
Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.
“The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air,” said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. “We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes.”
Gaines told the Times that someone in the network’s newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.
God is giving me a second chance. In the 80’s I was an atheist and a Democrat (redundant?) which means I was too stupid to appreciate the magnificence of a man called Reagan. Imagine that. I lived during the time of one the greatest Presidents who ever lived – and I not only didn’t realize it, I voted for Carter.
Well, now I’m Catholic and a Republican – and like I said, God is giving me a second chance. And it’s name is Sarah Palin. I know she’s the one. It’s not just that I connected instantly with her, it’s not only that Sarah didn’t just speak her principles but actually lived them – it’s that she’s the most charismatic politician in the world. I NEVER saw a politician stir up such energy (and it was INSTANT energy) as Palin did when she was nominated as vice president. She was so powerful that even with the media, her own party and even her own Presidential candidate and his staff stabbing her in the back, Palin STILL nearly won! That’s charisma, my friends. That’s worthiness, that’s intelligence. That’s a winner. This woman is THE one in 2012!
Mr. Ziegler, your documentary is hitting all cylinders. Now only is it showing the corruption that stole this election, it’s showing the candidate who will triumph over that corruption and win in 2012. Wow!
Man, I love it when God gives me a second chance!
Wow. The lack of intelligence here by a few people is extraordinary.
Pete and JHONNYRUSSIA
Regarding “Democrat policies.”
I SPECIFICALLY use the word Democrat when referring to the party and/or policies and it has NOTHING to do with Limbaugh. It appears Pete knows more about Limbaugh than I do as I had no idea that this is what he also does. Not only do I not listen to Rush but I only found out last week that he is on the radio in Chicago and I have yet to listen to him.
My only ‘contact’ with Rush is when I saw him a handful of times on TV, and that was MANY years ago. Other than that, it is just when he is ‘referred’ to in the media, etc.
Pete
Learn reading comprehension. I never said I was a Democrat (an Independent) and I said I voted Democrat in the 3 presidential elections preceding 2008. That means Kerry, Gore, and Clinton, NOT Clinton twice and Kerry once (Gawd, talk about stupid).
I also voted for Reagan twice and Bush Sr.
Your lack of intelligence and critical thinking is appalling.
Perhaps you should focus on Democrat controlled urban areas throughout the US and their gang warfare, woeful education systems, high unemployment, and corruption.
I’m a born and raised Chicagoan and Illinois resident. Don’t even dare to get into a debate with me about the sheer corruption and ineptness of Democrats and their policies. I will chew you up and spit you out faster than you could say Detroit.
JHONNYRUSSIA
I see that you don’t believe in intellectual growth (nor, apparently, emotional growth), or you do but it must be within a certain number of presidential election cycles(?).
Let me point out some basic observations; the world changes, countries change, cultures change, and people change. I have voted a certain way for a variety of reasons, e.g., balance of power.
I see a cultural change and a change of ‘mentality’ in America that I believe is very destructive and for that reason I have firmly embraced the conservative principles which I always had, but blew off because they didn’t seem so ‘critical’.
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If the liberal extremists are trying to destroy Bush, they are demonizing Palin. In the meantime, all you have to do to check them out is look at the complaints they lodged against Bush for the past 4 years, and see if they complain about Obama for the same thing. For example, all hell broke loose over Bush having a $40 million inaugural day. Obama is spending $100 million plus. Not a complaint in any media about the cost of Obama’s inaugural. Pure Hypocrisy. And the liberal media wonders why people choose other sources for the news. I can’t wait for them to all go broke. And the whiny reporters, including dunce lord Couric, are out of their tail.
ModDem – January 14th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Joe Weldon – January 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Why wasn’t Obama scrutinized
Obama was introduced to the public [at large] at the 2004 Democratic convention. He was in the public eye as a Senator for 3 years before he announced his candidacy. By that time he was an established personality. In short, he was slowly introduced like many politicians are. Palin on the other hand went from 0 to 100 in a week. That is tough for anyone. I’m not saying it was right that the media smashed her. Just saying this is what happens when you are introduced so fast.
Years ago Obama simply would’ve been called a crooked politician and a communist sympathizer.
Ummm, I’m not sure where the crooked politician comes from. Was he more crooked as a Senator than JFK, Johnson, Nixon or any number of politicians that became presidents? I would say heck no. Less experienced too but the voters didn’t mind that. Also where do you get communist sympathizer? Okay, so he happens to have crossed paths with some people on the left. But he has also crossed paths with literally thousands of people – some on the right.
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OK Modem is now shilling and apologizing for the big HE! Awesome. Already relugating Bill Ayers WHOM THE BIG HE worked with closely to back bencher sort of aquaintence. Can we say defensive MODEM? Like it? Thats what YOU are going to be doing now for four years. Get it? I hope you like it because its this kind of thing that we have been doing for 8 years. You will find it not so nice. And I hope you do. I hope get a big giant Tablespoon full of what it feels like to have everything YOU believe in deconstructed into the size of a thimble.
Awesome. Please don’t sit there and tell us stuff about Obamawan we know isn’t true. I mean I know you think Republicans, conservatives and your fellow Americans are morons but some of us had him figured out when he burst onto the scene. We got it. Uh huh. I mean my attitude is if you swim in the cesspool that is Illinois Politics you will get poo on you. Obama has some stinky stuff on him. But hey rock on, keep on apologizing for your guy. It will be so much fun for you trying to convince people who have it undercontrol that the lies your telling are really the truth
Madelyn – January 14th, 2009
Actually the phrase ‘Democrat party’ is a slur. It is used by such Conservatives as Rush and is standard on right-wing talk radio. So if you use the term most likely it is because you hang around people who use the term or have heard the term in Conservative media circles.
Anyway, it is the “Democratic party”. You would only use Democrat when referring to one person. So, “He is a Democrat” is fine. But, “He is a member of the Democrat party” is incorrect.
Years ago Obama simply would’ve been called a crooked politician and a communist sympathizer.
Ummm, I’m not sure where the crooked politician comes from. Was he more crooked as a Senator than JFK, Johnson, Nixon or any number of politicians that became presidents? I would say heck no. Less experienced too but the voters didn’t mind that. Also where do you get communist sympathizer? Okay, so he happens to have crossed paths with some people on the left. But he has also crossed paths with literally thousands of people – some on the right.
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Did Obama get over 121,000 from Fannie Mae. Did he not put Franklyn Reynes the CEO who ran Fannie Mae into the ground in charge of picking his VP. Did he not stand against the Republicans in 2006 when they said more regulation of Fannie Mae should be put in place.
Check out the CSpan clips on You Tube – - – NakedEmporerNews.com. Evidently for Fannie Mae to have the same caplitalization rate as any other bank is required to do is “racist” and “mean to the poor”.
Is Franklyn Reynes the guy who sttod up before congress and stated “The instruments (mortgages) are backed by real assets and therefore are essentially riskless” —Of Course they are look at how good Fannie Mae has done in 2008.
Say that poor 90 year old black woman whose house was being foreclosed. The one until recently had been on welfare most of her life. You know the one that shot herself in the head rather than face losing her house. Do you think that her dying thoughts were those of gratitude for Democrats like Obama and Reynes stopping the Republicans from placing those restrictions on the capitalization of Fannie Mae.
But Hey Obama no bigger crook than JFK. Oh OK I feel better about it now!!! Thanks for your insight.
Maybe MSNBC has more imaginary friends to source for their reporting………… Tell us all about it.
Oh what a Fascist web we weive when first a liberal does deceive………
Oh my God! I was just reading in the paper about Hillary Clinton’s unanimous confirmation as Secretary of State of the United States when I’d realized that people actually responded to my comment. And funny comments too!
John Nolte says “Sara Palin is one of the strongest public figures he’s ever met.” No offense but..what you talkin’ ’bout John? She goes on Saturday Night Live, then complains about how she was characterized. She goes on Katie Couric and then complains about how she was characterized. She joins McCain’s team then complains ’bout how they handled her. Well which is it Sarah? Did you make lousy choices or were you unprepared? Pick your excuse. Either ways its a loser. But John did get one thing right, Palin’s a “public figure.” She’ll have a radio or TV show of her own soon (once she’s milked being Governor for all its worth) then you can hear that sweet Wisconsin accent everyday in stereo.
To the rest of you Palin supporters: President Palin? When exactly did she decide she wanted to be President? Certainly not in high school. Certainly not while she transferred from college to college (5 in all is my understanding). Certainly not while she was reading sports scores in front of the camera. Certainly not while parading around in a bathing suit for prize-money. But suddenly there’s some unknown sponsorship or monetary-backing and she’s a politician Hmmmm.
Man I can just go on and on. From her “First Dude” husband (very Presidential) to her winking at the camera during the debates like a pageant contestant offering a clandestine blowjob under the table. C’mon Republicans–this is the best you got? I know you can do better! You know you can do better!
6 days ’til Inauguration Day!
MADELYN
Thanks for taking those fools apart with your last post. The ignorance of the liberals in this country is absolutely mind boggling, only paralleled by the journalistic malpractice of the MSM.
Thank You, John for taking on these MSM mental midgets too. And Go PALIN!!!!! She scares the hell out of the libtards….don’t you just love it? She’s got more common sense in her little finger than the sum total of liberals in this country have in that empty space they call their heads.
Look, the truth is, Palin got schooled in the Couric interview. Granted, we don’t know what was edited out of the interview and if that had any effect on how she presented herself. But sitting down with a Lib like Couric, or Gibson, is like walking into a lion’s den. Say she answered every question perfectly, Couric and Gibson and their editors would’ve found a way to make her look bad. Believe me.
A beautiful piece on the qualities of the REAL Sarah Palin:
http://www.themudflats.net/2009/01/14/a-cry-for-help-from-rural-alaska-is-anyone-listening/
I find it interesting how the MSM is so eager to give you advise on how to conduct and interview and get to the bottom of whether a candidate is telling you the truth or not when they clearly did not do that with O-massa. How dare they chastise you for not drilling Palin with hard questions when to date has no one has asked O anything substantive since this all began. Even O’Rielly gushed all over him like a lap dog.
They totally miss the point of your discussion that is to point out that there was a horrible bias conducted throughout the campaign that continues today and will continue until more like you have the courage to speak the truth.
Bravo.
I find it STRANGE when someone says they decided to run for President when they were 12 or 20 or whatever. When a person decides has not bearing on how good a candidate they are for that office.
Hang on to your wallets folks – PREZ-BO and the Gang of Thieves in Congress will go into overdrive raping the taxpayers of this country and bringing our free markets to their knees.
I saw the interviews with David “Misinformed” Shuster. Can this guy be any more blind to the truth?? I can’t believe David, Chris “Thrill up my Leg” Matthews, and Keith “Obama is God” Olberman are even considered news anchors. They speak of Sarah foreign experience or lack there of as if the Messiah himself had more. Obama has never ran anything other then a commuinty action committee. I’m fed up with it. I can’t stand stupid people like these liberals who think that BHO has the experience to be President and then speak ill of Sarah Palin. This whole thing is absurd and I, for one, am sick of it.
Lola
Thanks for the laugh.
You seemed to be surprised that Bush was hated.
I am under no illusion that the Right Wing will embrace Obama and the Liberals. I can recall the Clinton years pretty well and the hatred was just as thick then as it was against Bush now.
But so what?
Why be offended by those who disagree with you? If your convictions are strong enough just move on.
Part of my response to Ziegler’s article is that there are haters in the media, on blogs and among partisans. That goes with the territory. And it always has. But it seems Palin did not seem to understand that – nor perhaps does Ziegler. All one can do is try to set the record straight.
But feel free to be angry all you want. I won’t be offended if you hate Obama and Liberal principles. And I won’t hate you back if that’s what you want.
ILonaE
The free markets aren’t free and they are already on their knees.
Going out of Interest Sale:
Sorry I couldn’t respond earlier, but let me deal with each of your points.
First, whether you like her or not, Palin comes from the conservative wing of the party. Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t republican nominees who run as conservatives win national elections? Since 1980, every republican running as a conservative has won, while every republican who turned to the middle during the election has been soundly defeated. Go look it up.
Second, it was Bush and our presidential nominee John McCain who were the leading proponents of comprehensive immigration reform, legislation that would have led to amnesty for about 12 illegal immigrants. While I do not believe that Latinos in this country are necessarily for amnesty, you apparently do. So if Bush and McCain were for the very program that would have appeased this particular constituency, how can you conclude that it was Bush/McCain who ruined it for the GOP among Latinos?
Third, if culturally conservative issues are losers, as you suggest, then explain how Proposition 8 won in California, of all places? McCain didn’t run as a cultural conservative, or more to the point, he de-emphasized cultural conservatism because he spends too much time listening to people like you telling him it’s a losing issue for conservatives. But again, why did Prop. 8 win in a decidedly liberal state that went overwhelmingly for Obama? Oh, and by the way, hasn’t Obama declared his opposition to gay marriage?
Fourth, do a little research on the “Barack the Magic Negro” tune. You will discover that the source of the concept of the “magic negro” comes from a liberal black columnist at the LA Times. His point was that Obama was a black guy that guilty white liberals were comfortable voting for, an accurate put down of said liberals. Maybe if the MSM did their job and reported accurately on the issue, it would have a bit more context.
Lastly, understand that there is a culture war going on, and we conservatives will never give in, just as liberals will never give in. It’s no more schtick on our part than the liberal fantasy of a responsibility free society is on your part. I do agree that republicans have screwed up royally over the past decade, but I think you are mistaken if you believe that Americans in general have decided to run into the waiting arms of Nancy Pelosi, etc. Remember, in what was an absolutely horrible year in every sense of the word for republicans at every level nationally and locally, somehow John McCain, the weakest candidate we could have possibly nominated, got 56 million votes and about 180 electoral votes. The fact that you guys couldn’t do even better than you did in a year that was served up on a platter for democrats ought to give you pause.
By the way, I’m not a big balanced budget type of guy. I’d rather run deficits if steep spending cuts are enacted as opposed to balancing a multi-trillion dollar budget. As for R.R. and Clinton, I seem to recall that spending bills originate in the House. In the 80’s, the democrats ran the show in Congress. So don’t lay all the blame at R.R.’s feet.
Clinton never proposed a balanced budget in 1993. He talked repeatedly about deficits ranging from 5-10 years. Google it. The budget wasn’t balanced until after Newt and the boys took over. That was probably the last time republicans were truly fiscally conservative in DC.
MODDEM:
I agree that there were many people who hated Clinton, but I don’t think it even comes close to what went on the past 8 years. Liberal hatred of Bush is institutional, an article of faith.
Personally, I never hated Clinton. I dislike him and thought he was a bad man, but I find it difficult to hate someone I don’t even know. I also think that many Clinton supporters had a knee jerk reaction to criticism of Clinton, referring to any opposition or criticism as hatred. I believe it spared them the awesome responsibility of having to explain or defend his policies and actions.
With Bush, the hatred runs in the blood of almost every democrat. I could spend hours upon hours giving you examples, but just go look at mainstream democrat websites, such as the Dailykos or Huffington Post. You will find some of the most vile excrement on these widely read and very influential (in democract circles) sites. There was never anything comparable with Clinton and there won’t be anything comparable with Obama.
Tony, can you imagine the reaction of the media and bloggers if on the day Bush was giving a criminal deposition, he decided to invade a country?
Seriously, do you think Liberals really keep a straight face when they type this stuff?
MODDEM
Your so disingenuous. Claiming that there’s always been ‘hate’ in the media as if the hate has been equally (not even close) directed at Democrats and Republicans is ludicrous. Please, no one with the slightest bit of honesty or rationality would say such a thing unless they have no use for credibility.
Regarding ‘Democrat Party’; don’t be so presumptuous. The use of the term is of my own volition. I did not pick it up from people I “hang” around with (mostly apolitical or Liberals) nor conservative radio. Though I listen to conservative talk, I became disgusted with the Democrat Party and referred to it as the Democrat Party long before tuning in to radio.
I didn’t even know it was considered a slur as you claim.
I’ll tell you what; when the Republican Party stops being referred to as the Rethuglican Party, I’ll stop too. In other words, don’t count on it.
Here’s how it goes; I never voted for Bush W., but the vitriol and rabid hatred directed at him has been outlandish, and I believe, undeserved. The Democrats, yes the Democrats, have destroyed and undermined America as they wallowed in an abyss of malevolence, unable to muster even a modicum of rationality. I will never vote for a Democrat again.
Personally, I can’t stand what the Democrat party now stands for. I have not accepted Obama as my personal savior, nor will I. My son loved President Bush and what he was committed to. This country became during the past election…a country of lemmings. My son was the most a mother could ask for. He was bright, educated, and willing to take a stand for each and every individual in this nation. I can’t say the same for myself. Derek died defending these freedoms on Memorial Day of 2005. He was part of the elite of the elite of our fighting forces. Few Americans will ever understand that these men fight terror on our own soil and foreign soil each and every day. Their families don’t even know where and when they will go.
I am sick to death of the bashing of President Bush. Lemmings that follow Obama over the cliff will soon understand that he is a shallow and inexperienced man that will lead our country into demise.
Good night America. Have a good sleep!
Deb, Proud mom of Capt. Derek Argel, USAF CCT KIA Memorial Day, 2005
“First there that others may live.”
John, you are sorely missed on KFI during my evening drive home.
Shuster has been and always will be a tool. I assume that you knew that going in (both times). Your ability to get him to proclaim that Palin was “clearly unqualified” was just awesome.
As for the O’Donnell interview, your last statement in the clip was priceless and gave me a hearty laugh. As for Nora herself, I think I will use my MSNBC training to assume that she is just a stupid, pretty woman who is clearly unqualified.
http://alaskareport.com/news19/x61897_anwr_statement.htm
unqualified?
Nice…
Good work lad, keep it up! I’ll be front-row-center for the documentary when it opens…and I’ll bring some Righties and Lefties so we can debate the show at Happy-Hour afterward!
Cheers!…and Thank You.
“Palin is an idiot quit trying to make her sound like she isn’t, it just makes you sound like an even bigger idiot, which I don’t actually think you are.”
Here’s a thought — if you’re going to call someone an idiot, try using proper punctuation in the process.
“You seemed to be surprised that Bush was hated.”
Name one Republican president in the last 40 years who wasn’t hated by liberals.
Name one Democratic president in the last 40 years who wasn’t hated by conservatives.
One of my old bosses used to say (from Air Force history), “You know you are over the target if you are attracting a lot of flak.” Q.E.D.
JOANIE, I think you are missing one of the key differences between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives may hate what liberals are doing to our country. But they rarely get to the point when they “hate” a Democrat President. I disliked Johnson, was frustrated by Carter and embarrassed by that horndog from Arkansas, but I never hated them. Compare that to the assassination fantasies that are part of the normal conversation of the left side of the blogosphere.
Yoda said it best – “Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate…” Fearful, Angry and Hateful are three words that accurately describe the Liberal Left.
Going out of Interest Sale:
Thanks go out to you for again illustrating the hate fueled blindness of the Left.
If you’ll allow me to address your…”points”.
1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
Only morons like you even attempt to couple Iraq with 9/11. The Iraq Front was strategically significant because thank goodness our military had the good sense not to make Afghanistan the central front of the war. I know they don’t teach history in public schools anymore, but there once was a great and mighty superpower called the USSR, and they got their asses kicked in Afghanistan. We learned from their mistakes. Couple THAT with Saddam Huessein’s countless violations of UN restrictions, and the Iraq invasion was, and is totally justified.
2. Where are the WMD’s?
Smuggled into Syria and other radical states in the region. Thanks to the media tipping off the enemy a month before the invasion, giving the bad guys plenty of time to get rid of them. I have connections with NORAD; we’ve seen the missles, and the test firing of them coming out of Syria a year after the Iraq invasion. Syria isn’t supposed to have that kind of weaponry. But they do.
And just for fun, why don’t you ask Howard Dean, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer; all of whom lobbied Bill Clinton to invade Iraq (unilaterally if the UN didn’t support it) because they also KNEW Iraq was developing and manufacturing WMDs. Funny how they changed their tune when their political party lost power in 2000.
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?
Probably in the same fashion your current Democrat heroes are paying for all of these bailouts. They simply print more money.
Do you have any more questions? I’d be happy to educate you more.
And finally to “Lodo”…
It would be my exquisite pleasure to knock every tooth out of your hollow skull if a chance meeting were ever to happen. All the best, and do us all a favor: Get a discount lobotomy.
Pete writes on January 14th, 2009 at 5:27 am:
“Hey, Des, was Gingrich being “smart” when he served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery? Oops..citing an actual fact about Newt might be “out of context”….”
Actually at the time his wife was in the hospital recovering, a divorce was ALREADY in the works. He didnt serve her with divorce papers.
Oops. Citing an actual fact about Newt with an actual FACT.
Why does it take so long for the truth to catch up with liberals?
“Name one Democratic president in the last 40 years who wasn’t hated by conservatives.”
John F. Kennedy
All you liberals are going to be very surprised very shortly. You are going to find out that you voted for a empty suit and a Markist with a fat head. He does not care about anything but himself and I for one would still like to see all his records. If the world is still in one piece and we get through four years of the big zero I will with great pleasure vote for Mrs. Sarah Palin. I agree with everything she says and does. Abortion is murder and that is a fact.
GIN789:
“I agree with everything she says and does.”
Yeah. Uh-huh. Abortion. Uh-huh.
Sarah Palin can’t manage her own press office. Imagine that empty, RNC suit-funded bimbo in a financial crisis.
You certainly are easily sold on incompetence; Bush voter, were ya?
“Sarah Palin can’t manage her own press office. Imagine that empty, RNC suit-funded bimbo in a financial crisis.”
Yeah, that dumb snowbilly wouldn’t even have the brains to just print four or five trillion dollars and then flush it down the toilet on a bunch of political patronage payoffs and ditch-digging make-work jobs.
Who are President Teleprompter Genius’s economic advisors again? Jennifer “One State Depression” Granholm? And it sounds like Robert Mugabe?
Smart. Liberal Smart.
Shuster worried that you were so enamoured of Sarah that you just took her at her word and refused to ask any questions. He might ask himself , if he took the time between idiotic rants, why Couric refused to question Joe Biden and took HIM at his word during her interview with him. She treated Sarah with disdain but allowed Biden to make the most outrageous historically inaccurate statements. So much so that it was an embarassment that this man, who wished to be, and now IS the Vice President of the United States could make such statements, showing glaringly that his 30 plus years in the Senate did absolutely nothing for his intellect or his sense of history.
For a man to state that FDR ‘went on television to the American people’ during the depression and that the VP has nothing to do with the senate but the legislative branch only is such a glaring error it should have disqualified him from running for the office, or even opening his mouth in public. Yet Couric smiled sweetly and said absolutely nothing about it. Either she did not know herself the glaring inaccuracies of his statement or she just did not care what he said.
And the argument is What Sarah Palin did nor did not say??!!
These people are not qualified to question the dog catcher let alone dictate main stream discourse.
John, you are doing a fine job on these two interviews with Shuster. He is a complete moron, rude and ill prepared. Unfortunately so was Couric, Gibson and all other of the MSM who think they are the arbiters of national dialog.
Looking very much forward to the documentary.
Okay, there’s a long list of comments here, and I’ll probably get lost in the fights, but I saw one comment I must respond to.
Lodo Grdzak said “Then there was her appearance on Saturday Night Live–now that was Presidential! Chick is a walking joke and deserves to be.”
Gee, ever hear of Richard Milhouse Nixon? Y’know, the presidential candidate that went on Laugh In and said “Sock it to me.” Guess a president or vice president with a sense of humor is only bad when it’s a Republican.
And to that Going out of Interest Sale person who asked “1. Do you guys still think that Iraq was actively involved with 9/11
2. Where are the WMD’s?
3. How exactly are we paying the $120 billion a year for this war?”
1) I never thought they were actively involved in it. I did, however, get very perturbed when I saw Sadaam having a parade in the streets of Baghdad and was shooting guns from one of his palaces in celebration of it, before Al Queda had claimed responsibility.
2) Wherever Iraq shipped them to, during the time they were kicking out weapons inspectors. While they knew the U.N. was impotent, unable to do anything but pass resolutions, they knew other countries were not so willing to just let a piece of paper be their defense.
3) It’s being tacked onto that 4 trillion dollar deficit that keeps on growing. Shoot, the deficit goes up by more than a million dollars every minute. Pelosi & Reid have the tools to pay that down, but they seem intent on stuffing pork into bills (that 700 billion dollar bail-out cost 850 billion, with all the pork attached, and the not-needed visitor’s center that came in at over 10x the cost budgeted for).
Heck, a better set of questions would be:
1) Now that Obama’s elected, will he go through with his campaign promise to raise taxes on those making over 250,000 a year, which will kill the economy, or will it be just another broken campaign promise?
2) Obama promised us all “Change we can believe in”. Is that because we are getting the Clinton administration people all over again, or is that because that’s all we’re going to have left over after he “spreads the wealth around?”
3) (Non-Obama question finally) New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, a category 5 hurricane, the residents had ample warning, and despite a lot of effort, still has neighborhoods that look like they did just after the waters receeded. Why are they farther behind than Greensburg, KS, a city devastated by an EF-5 tornado that left only a few buildings standing, and came upon them with almost no warning?
I’ll let you answer the first two, but I’ll give you the answer to the third. The residents of New Orleans shot at people trying to help them in helicopters, then demanded that the Federal government help them out. The residents of Greensburg did neither. They just salvaged what they could, and started rebuilding.
I would vote for Sarah Palin if she invited the US into her house every night and cooked us all dinner. I don’t think she would though, as she does not like alot of Americans because they are stupid and did not vote for her. By the way, if she does decide to run in 2012, she better start developing some curiosity in and understanding of the country and world around her.
Question to all the Iraq war supporters: If you had to pay $5,000 a year in an additional war tax to support he war, would you still support it?
Questions to the pro lifers: A miscarriage is a human death in your opinion. Who is responsible for this death? If you believe that God exists, did God murder the fetus? If a mother decides to abort a fetus that would have miscarried, is that still murder?
Ooh, good point- Grow up, I guess abortion must be OK- You really nailed it!
I believe that John has only good intentions in mind and I can’t wait to see the rest of this interview, it is too bad as I sawa the same thing he did within the media. many people are going to disagree here… (mainly liberals and democrats) who have been swindled, and brainwashed by todays mainstream media because they are too lazy to look for more information before being quick to judge someone like Sarah Palin. The Sarah Palin they’ve been exposed to is different than the Sarah Palin many of us in Alaska know and hopefully others across the country. I’ll admit there are some in the news I don’t agree with… and also I don’t watch NBC, MSNBC, ABC or CBS news, for the fact they have forgotten how to do there jobs and were so far in the tank for Obama it made me sick… I found FOX news to be somewhat better because they have real journalists that know how to do their jobs and they do at least try to give liberals and democrats time on their news to debate issues… I certainly think that there seems to be a problem in this country with many of you who have certainly not given Sarah Palin a real chance, I am here to ask you not to judge her by the little snippets you’ve seen in main stream media, look around online there are other points of view other than what the news has given. Sarah Palin is genuine and a breath of fresh air, the reason people seem to fear her in my opinion is the fact she is so real. Look She’s Attractive, Has a Great Job, and I’ll be the first to admit her family isn’t perfect but she definitely keeps it together. I think that’s why she’s feared for being normal. and definitely charismatic… which she gets from her 9th cousin, the Late Princess Diana… where ever she goes she draws a crowd. I’m a little in wonder to what so many see in Obama, other than the fact he seems so slick… but did you really take a look at what he’s done… I have and didn’t like the information I found out… that’s why I turned my support to John McCain and Sarah Palin. I can admit I was on the fence before John Picked Palin to run as His VP, I probably would have voted for Ron Paul, although what I did Learn about John McCain certainly Impressed me alot, He’s an admirable person and served the country for 22 great years in the armed forces. Barak Obamas cabinet picks havne’t impressed me much either, they are crooks in my opinion, MR.Geithner, hasn’t paid his taxes and it’s just a hiccup, give me a break you all know if it was one of us we’d have been thrown in jail, and the Attourney General, can’t give a deffinite description of Terrorism? Hello I’m no genius here, but A Terrorist kills, Maims and takes the life of Innocent people, Gee that was really hard. there are other things that I disagree with Obama on as well, you should do yourselves a huge favor and look at where he stands on the 2nd amendment. YOu might thank a few of us later for mentioning that one, why do you think he’s trying to rais ethe price on guns and ammuntion. these are important questions you need to ask yourself. the Truth is out there folks… you need to look for it and not be relying on the media to give it to you. Today’s media is not as good as what it used to be, you’re going to hate this but I agree with Mr.Sean Hannity in the Fact that real jounalism Died in 2008 and getting the real truth is harder. the internet doesn’t exactly help much either, as there are so many others with there own opinions that you have to sort out alot of untruths to find the real stories and the real truths. I’m just asking that you give Sarah Palin a chance… we have in Alaska, and she has done well here, why else does she have the highest approval rating of all governors in the country? Hmmm… And so many of you say she’s not smart. you might re think that judgement… the media hasn’t been honest with you about that, see… if you’d do a little research you just might find that out. so in the end John Zeigler is right about the Media and how it is Biased in it’s reporting, and many of you have taken the bait they’ve laid out for you and swalloed it hard, and they are taking you for a ride… you don’t want to admit it but that’s the cold hard honest truth. Todays media has done us all a huge injustice… it’s too opinionated and we need some true media journalists that can give us the news and keep there own opinions to themselves…
John Ziegler, you are doing a service for this country pointing out what is wrong with the Media. I am really getting sick of the media’s worship service of Obama. It is so hard to find a true source of entertainment or reliable news on T.V. anymore. I am a true fan of Fox news since they are only source of balance, but I don’t have cable so I would have to log onto the website to get my news. However, John you have given a new light into the injustices that was conducted by the media. Katie Curic who is in my mind isn’t suited to even be sitting at the desk at CBS, can be considered to be the holy-than-thou when it comes to asking questions. I have the right not to answer her off-the-wall questions–so does Sara Palin. Tina Fey,in my opinion should be sued, I mean, Tina is making bank from her protrayal of Sara Palin, and that Tina should be paying Governor Palin money for using her name.
This of course proves what I have learned in my political science class, that the media is being studied by political scientists, and by their study, the media is biased to the left. It is hard for anyone to argue with that. I really enjoyed the fact at least someone out there is making a true documentary focused what is a problem in this country, is that the media has way too much power. My Political Science Professor is right, the Media is the unoffical forth branch of government. It needs to be check and balanced. But they seemed to claim to have the right to free speech, that means they can talk of lies. So it is up to the imformed public–like myself, to check the journalists, the comics, and others of their lack of fairness–which most liberals enjoy preaching. I can’t wait for the documentary to be released, I will be looking for it when it will be published, so the nation can see, that Obama’s voters don’t know who they voted for, because of the media unfairness of Sara Palin.
It is so funny that Obama is cannanized even before he even takes office. It is funny that Obama is comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln. Taking almost the same pattern that Lincoln took. Though if Honest Abe could talk, he would most likely would see that yeah the nation is beyond the racial division to finally elect a black President. But Obama isn’t a son of a slave, his family on his father’s side wasn’t even in the country during the Civil War. So I just don’t understand it. However back to my point about Lincoln, and what would he say about Obama. Well Lincoln would be critical on Obama’s policies, and would catch Obama slipping in his double-talks. The Media refuses to look into Obama, because it proves that the news outlets, and talk shows have their own agendas. It is unfair for them to search into Sara Palin’s past, or even talk of her family, or even look at the harshness of the content that SNL is showing to the general public relating to Sara Palin’s tone and intellect. Shoot, Tina Fey would run circles around Palin. But that’s the way of the liberal world. We need to take it away from them. It’s about time that the truth is coming out. With your release of your documentary, the truth will be heard. But like always, the liberal media will take things out of context. Because they want to make a conservative to be viewed an evil vilian. I am actually happy that you have spent your time and effort to get the truth out. Just remember one thing, you have a viewer who would watch your film, and will encourage others to see it, and know the truth. Plus I will never take anything that you or Sara Palin’s statements out of context.
On the night of the election I finnaly did some research on Obama. I did not vote for him as my grandma would put it “butter wouldnt melt in his mouth” I can not vote for someone who thinks having a child is punishment. I must admit that I went to MSNBC for info throughout this election on who was who I knew it was biased so I believed only a quarter of what I read. I never heard of this Kennedy person untill today but I can tell you I read almost every negative thing about Palin and McCain also of Bush. Keep up the good work expose those Journalistic imposters for the self rightouse hypocrits they are!
Wow what else can you blame the media for? Sarah Palin was a candidate for vice president, so of course the media was all over her. It is not the media’s fault that she gave them so much material to work with. She complains in the interview about the medias obsession with her family, when she was the one who threw them all into it, with doing things like parading around her teenage daughter’s pregnancy. Is it Joe Biden’s or Barack Obama’s fault that they didn’t have pregnant teenage daughters? Is it the media’s fault that Sarah Palin did and said things publicly that were just insanely idiotic in many ways? Its like blaming the media for Britney Spears meltdown, all just insane. Even in this interview where John Ziegler is trying to make her look good she still looks like dumb. Her saying if she had been on the democratic ballot she would of been portrayed differently is just ridiculous. Her personality would still be the same and so would of the stupid things she said that got her so much attention from the media. The Republican Party thought that women today are so ignorant and would vote for any woman put up for election, regardless of what woman they chose, and they were wrong. I’ve voted republican the previous three election, and this year I voted democrat. My opinions on Sarah Palin were made after watching how she conducted herself in interviews and debates. Some people loved her and some people hated her and thats just how things go. Obviously John Ziegler has a hard on for her, and I can’t wait to enjoy the rest of this interview.
First off, I would like to say that today is the first time I have actually heard of you Mr. Ziegler. I haven’t been keeping up with the media lately for the same reasons you are making your documentary…and I have to say that I’m very glad I stumbled upon your website. It’s truley amazing how biased the media has become, going so far as to continuously attaking Gov. Sarah Palin, even though the election is well over. It’s great to see that someone is wanting to show everyone the truth, and it’s astonishing to see how much these liberals truly see Sarah Palin as a threat, and how far they will go to still give her hell. I am looking forward to seeing your film this February. Keep on fighting the Good Fight, hehe.
I’d also like to point out now, that after reading just about every comment on this page, it really speaks in volumes how much hate lies within the words of many liberals. Am I saying that anyone who votes “Democrat” (yes Moddem, it’s actually correct to use democrat in that contex) is just a hate spewing idiot…of course not. There are Republicans who are guilty of it too…but reading these comments, it’s just shocking to see all the hate…How these people can’t help themselves from attacking Sarah Palin’s down syndrome son,(which infact because he has Down’s Syndrome, it gives more credibility to him being Sarah’s actual son and not grandson, as the chance of mental defects increases in a newborn the older the mother is when she has the child), to how she talks and how “stupid” or an “idiot” or “incompetent” she is. You will hardly see any person siding with conservative views, ever attack another political figure as violently or on such a personal, un-political stance, as these liberals will. You may hear some older, southern citizens loosley throw around the N-world while talking about B-HO, but that’s based on how they were raised, (I live in Texas and that’s the way my great grandmother was raised, she’s not racist and her words aren’t filled with hate, but that’s what she grew up learning). You never, ever have seen McCain/Palin supporters completely pick apart or verbally abuse the Obama family, have you? The same way these people have spewed absolute, pure hatred at President Bush over his last two terms for no better reason’s than simply because he’s Bush. It’s sad to see such hatred being lashed out at fellow Americans, and by people who really have no authority to be saying how qualified a person is or isn’t for a position. These people need to stop attacking people for reasons that have nothing to do with politics, and focus on what really matters…but the only way this kind of thing could stop is if Presidential (or other political) candidates were to actually keep their faces, voices, and ethnicity unmentioned to the public during campaigning, and have voters actually read what the candidates are promising America, and to get a grasp at what is really being said. If that would have been the case this ‘08 election, Obama would have lost, because reading “Change…Change…Change…Change…yes we can…Change…” on paper isn’t as appealing as seeing and hearing a good looking man say it on a stage.
I fear what Obama will do to our country. I am not particularly religious, and am fairly liberal. I consider myself an “Independent.” I don’t vote along party lines. I don’t care what color my president is, or what gender, but I find Obama to be very suspect. I don’t trust his background, his citizenship, his associations. I think he is a consummate con man, a muslim sympathizer, and could well be a closet terrorist. All good con men are successful because they make you “want” to believe them, even though that little voice in the back of your head keeps nagging at you that something just doesn’t quite ring true, but you so want it to be true that you take the chance and the risk. The best way to destroy America is from within. Obama now has that opportunity. I can’t shake this ominous feeling that there is a huge conspiracy and “machine” behind his election. He bought his way into office, along with help from the MSM. He and his machine deftly manipulated the palpable hatred for Bush to their advantage. Everything they did, that he said or did not say, was cold and calculated. He rode the fence on every issue in transparent attempts to appease both sides to ensure his election. When an elected official refuses to vote on issues, thereby revealing his true opinions and feelings by simply voting “present,” then you know you cannot trust him. Where did all his election machine money come from? The Middle East? He is the most unqualified, inexperienced man ever elected to the Presidency simply based on media manipulation of the population. I can’t tell you how distraught and ashamed I am of some of my friends, co-workers, and even members of my own family who fell for this charade. I am so disappointed in them and their lack of judgement and standards, that they are greatly diminished in my eyes. Intelligent people who were so desperate for a change from Bush, that they would vote for anything or anyone who represented the opposite from Bush just to make a statement. It’s very sad when one can no longer voice an opposing opinion without being attacked and called a racist. I fear for the future of our great country. And Obama already has a built-in alibi for all the things he will not accomplish and all his unfulfilled promises to come–”it is because of what I inherited from Bush.” I can’t wait for the honeymoon period to be over and for people to finally see “that the emperor has no clothes.” That is, if the MSM will report the truth and facts. I just hope it won’t be too late and that not too much irreversible damage will have been done by then to the United States of America. Unfortunately, he has made a mockery of our democratic process and Inauguration. It has been turned into a “Coronation.” Oh, I guess I forgot, the “Messiah” has come. Google “Obama and conversational hypnosis” and see what comes up. Scary.
John,
It is great to see you kicking against the goads of the media elite’s dog and pony show. The attacks against Palin and the “hands-off” treatment of Obama and Biden were deliberate and concerted on the part of the major news outlets (except Fox.) How sad is that?
I wish you great success.
I find it interesting:
1. that Friends of Bill lauded his “executive” experience and chastised Palin for the same experience.
2. that Hardball with Chris Matthews played softball when he interviewed the democratic candidates.
3. that Katie Couric felt the need to continue to bring up her interview with Palin long after the world had moved on.
4. that Carter left this country holding the highest national debt in history and standing in gas lines, yet Reagan gets NO credit for turning the economy around during his tenure in the White House, and they paste it onto Clintons back who had only served 18 months when the stock market started its rebound. NOT TIME ENOUGH FOR ANY POLICIES TO MAKE ANY IMPACT!
I’m stuck listening to CNN at work at break,Yet I find them completely redundant in reporting anyway. No news they want to report so they just rehash the old news telling the viewer what they should think the entire time. Can’t take it! Only channel allowed, so can’t change it. would if I could
Side bar to grow up america: a miscarriage in nature is not murder, An abortion to avoid having a miscarriage is….oh yeah, the baby isn’t a baby according to you lefties. Until you can acknowledge preborn people as people, then the rhetoric will continue being misguided by you pro abortion people.
I’ve enjoyed reading all the banter back and forth. Thank you for conveying your ideas so eloquently. Hence this small town, rural, backwoods, home-grown, uneducated middle american girl can understand “whacha all bin sayin’”
I have to laugh at the title of this video. Here I thought that McCain was running against Obama and not Palin.
Where has everyone been. The media has been and always will be Biased. Walter Cronkite is not on the air anymore folks. This is the way it is and the way it is going to be. MSNBC backed Obama that was obvious. Fox Backed McCain and that was obvious.
It is up to us to do the research. Anyone that doesn’t is just a sheep. I don’t believe everything I see on TV or the WEB. I do my own research. Does that mean I believe what I have seen int his video. Not in the least. I play to watch the full thing as soon as I can but I am not going to blindly take what is said as the literal truth. I do the same with the news.
AS far as this silly experience issue. Come on. Senator/Congressman Vs Govenor. Which do you think is going to have more experience dealing with National Politics?
If Palin is going to run for president she is going to need to be ready to put it all on the table. there will be no privacy for her or her family and she better be ready for that and not complain when it happens. She also needs to start putting the rumors to rest. There are still those that Question that Trig is her baby. If she has the test results then why not put that dead horse down and show the papers. The more I hear about Palin the more I think she is shooting herself int he foot. She is going to need the Media if she is going to run in 2012. So far I get the impression of a sore looser from all this.
The View has now become so biased to the far left that I may no longer watch it. Again, they have vitriolically attacked a guest with an opposing opinion. John Zieglar was not allowed to talk about his documentary, tell his information, or share his knowledge. The carefully hand-selected, liberal audience gave the expected approval for such rude behavior. Most of the press is now the far-left, liberal handmaiden of Obama and his socialist power group. They will stop at nothing and are on track toward the demise of America as we knew it.
John, I listened to your interview with Barbara Walters on your website and was very impressed you extracted those admissions from her. As for The View, I can’t stand it (- not all women are like that, everyone!) You did well there, though, encircled as you were by those idiotic hyenas.
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Mr. Ziegler, you are a complete idiot! You and Sarah are a great pair. Did you not mention above that you and have been a personal friend of Sarah? I am sure you had other people who were complete oposite of the idiots that you interviewed for your so called bias piece of crap documentary on Sarah. I wish you would have interviewed me or my wife or any other one of my family…you would have had another side which you don't want to have viewed. You are a biased editor of crap. Sarah is one one of the biggest embarrasements to our country that we have and you are promoting this to the lowest IQ citizens in our great country. I saw your poor showing on the View and I am sure you and your conservative buddies think you are the victims! I am just glad that McCain and his 7 houses and rich wife is not occupying the White House…and Sarah is back in Alaska protecting us "…from them Russians over there and all…" You and Sarah are nothing but idiots…please burn your piece of Obama smearing crap and go do a threesome with ol Sarah and Todd in their igloo!
From Texas: "If Palin is going to run for president she is going to need to be ready to put it all on the table. there will be no privacy for her or her family and she better be ready for that and not complain when it happens. "
So I guess that's why Obama said his family was off limits?
You are correct in stating that Sarah Palin was not smart enough to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency. I am the parent of an Alaska National Guardsman. After watching how she pandered to General Campbell giving him an unprecedented and undeserved third star, I lost respect. He lacks integrity and fairness and caters to his cronies. He is a liar and a crook and she swoons all over him. Enough said!!!!
I am not a Liberal but the parent of an Alaska Guardsman. Sarah Palin is not a credible Commander in Chief of the Alaska Guard. She has given a third star to General Campbell which is undeserved and unprecedented. Guardsmen think it's a travesty but have to live with it. According to the National Guard Bureau, the Alaska Guard has the lowest personnel end strength in the nation. However,these Guardsmen continue to perform in an outstanding manner. The risk is eventual burn-out by the existing understaffed membership. This state promotion of Campbell is not about pay and benefits but is symbolic and pandering. The proud member of the Alaska National Guard need a leader not a self serviing policy writer. Come on Governor, get real!!! Experience does not mean good judgment General Campbell.
The Phantom is right on about Sarah Palin and General Campbell. They are both publicity hogs and love the adoration. However, the loyal Guardsmen aren't too excited about them but they realize that power overcomes truth so they stay quiet.
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