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Yes, Sarah, There is a Media Conspiracy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

True/Slant - By Matt Taibbi - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Is the media out to get Sarah Palin? It seems like most of the letters I get are insisting that I admit it. “Surely you can’t deny,” writes one woman from Florida, “that no political figure in American history has had to put up with what Sarah Palin has had to put up with from the mainstream media.” Now, this is the part of this red-blue schtick where I’m supposed to strike back without thinking and re-hash the history of, say, the Monica Lewinsky scandal in rebuttal and then, as the argument progresses, do the whole “I know you are but what am I?” thing until the end of time. I’ve decided from now on that I’m just not going to go there with any of this culture-war bullshit. It’s exhausting. I mean, hell, if you want to argue over who’s more justified in wallowing in media victimhood, that’s not a fight I mind losing. Mazel tov!

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Sarah Palin, WWE Star

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

TrueSlant - By Matt Taibbi - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - Obama knows the long odds against a right-wing populist winning the presidency, no matter how good she looks in a skirt or running clothes, brandishing a gun. He shouldn’t be too cocky, however, because the death of the center is ultimately a problem

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Easy Choices

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

OurFuture.org - By Terrance Heath - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - I'll say it again. Whether it's Sarah Palin's self-serving contradictions, or Democrats' and Republicans' cynical political compromises, in the realm of politics, the choices we make for others are the truly easy choices.

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Palin agonistes

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Nov. 13 (Opinion) - You have to feel a twinge of sympathy for Sarah Palin.

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Paranoia Strikes Deep

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:04 -0800

New York Times - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - If the G.O.P. essentially shrinks down to a rump party across America, the country could become ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

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The Revenge of Levi - NYTimes.com

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gail Collins - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In an article for Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston shares his view on the Palin home life. It’s too bad he is untrustworthy about every subject not covered by Field & Stream.

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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - Jul. 20 (Comedy News) - If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.

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Sarah, Inc.

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Phoenix - By David S. Bernstein - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - When earlier this month Sarah Palin abruptly announced her intention to resign as governor of Alaska — barely midway through her four-year term — the political punditry was left puzzling over what she could possibly do next. If Palin was not in office, nor actively campaigning for election, how could she remain relevant, influential, and, of course, paid?

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Palin won't be GOP nominee in 2012

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By Robert Shrum - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin is the bright red thread in the dull grey fabric of the Republican Party. She is charismatic, quirky, melodramatic, and fervently anti-choice, anti-gay, and anti-Obama. But there's one thing she'll never be—the GOP nominee for President in 2012.

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Even out of office, Palin is her party’s leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Daniel Finkelstein - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - There is no more eloquent statement of modern Republicanism than resigning office with time still on the clock. Mrs Palin has chosen to talk about power, rather than exercise it. She would rather write a book and give lectures about being a governor than actually be a governor. And her party has made the same choice.

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Palin's Resignation Leaves GOP Searching for New Leader

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

U.S. News & World Report - By Kenneth T. Walsh - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin's abrupt resignation as governor of Alaska has set off a new round of soul searching and hair pulling in the Republican Party.

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Sarah Palin Does Not Understand Cap and Trade

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Conor Clarke - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - If you're wondering what Sarah Palin will do after leaving the Alaska governor's office, look no further than her op-ed in the this morning's Washington Post. She writes, "at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be: I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy." As a card-carrying member of the chattering class, let me say that I am in indeed disappointed by this development. Not because Palin is showing a greater interest in policy, or because she'll be focusing on an issue that's near and dear to my heart. I'm disappointed because Palin's op-ed displays an ignorance for the subject so profound it's almost gutsy. Almost.

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Have Palin and Sanford damaged the GOP brand?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Katherine Mangu-Ward, Glenn Reynolds - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - You'd think Americans would be jaded about political scandals by now. Any voter still surprised to discover feet of clay (creeping out from under the partition of a bathroom stall, for instance) should seem impossibly naive. But instead we collectively thrill to revelations of salacious secrets about our leaders.

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Palin Hints At Third Party To Save Republican Party From — Liberal Control (?)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Moderate Voice - By Joe Gandelman - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - within the GOP there really will be a battle royal between those who feel the party must become a bigger umbrella and appeal to moderate and progressive Republicans, independents and some Democrats, and those who want the GOP to become conservative — but with a conservatism that is not the same as Barry Goldwater’s or even Ronald Reagan’s.

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She Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - As the Republicans’ lone charismatic performer, Sarah Palin has come to represent a dwindling white nonurban America that is aflame with grievances. Sarah Palin and Al Sharpton don’t ordinarily have much in common, but they achieved a rare harmonic convergence at Michael Jackson’s memorial service. When Sharpton told the singer’s children it was their daddy’s adversaries, not their daddy, who were “strange,” he was channeling the pugnacious argument the Alaska governor had made the week before. There was nothing strange about her decision to quit in midterm, Palin told America. What’s strange — or “insane,” in her lingo — are the critics who dare question her erratic behavior on the national stage.

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Sweet, Tweet Revenge

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - It was only a matter of time, once John McCain joined the 21st century and got himself a Ford Fusion Hybrid, a Facebook page and a Twitter account, that he would reconnect with people out of his past he would rather forget.

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A Farewell to Harms

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Peggy Noonan - Jul. 11 (Opinion) - In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.

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Why Palin Quit

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - People close to Sarah Palin say national political reporters and pundits have missed the real reasons for her surprising decision to resign as Alaska governor. The national media have dismissed or downplayed her real motives, which had little to do with any plans to run for president in 2012.

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Letterman sort of apologizes about Palin wisecrack

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By The Associated Press - Jun. 11 (Interview) - NEW YORK -- ’Late Show’ host David Letterman is apologizing, sort of, for jokes about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and one of her teenage daughters.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Bristol Palin’s New Gig

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gail Collins - May. 07 (Opinion) - But when a teenager goes out on this kind of mission, you have to wonder where her parents’ heads were. What does this say about Sarah Palin’s judgment? Although we’ve sort of answered that question before

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Why Sarah Palin, Oh Why???

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Jan. 13 (Opinion) - What Sarah won’t answer is, does she include in those pathetic liars the one that spread the rumors that Barack Obama was a Muslim, was the anti-Christ, was going to rape and pillage towns across America, and was a, ummm, terrorist? You know, those right wing bloggers that showed up at Palin rallies and made news for their extreme behavior. Is she talking about them too?

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No Sarah Palin, it is you that is ‘very scary’

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - Quite absurd!!! What about Barack Obama being called a terrorist? What about Barack Obama being called a muslim? What about Barack Obama being called the anti-Christ? You have room to complain? How? You actually inferred support for some of these extremely ridiculous falsehoods, and you expect sympathy?

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