The Savaging of Sarah Palin and the ‘Uncouthness’ of Barack Obama
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 20, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Conservative talk-show-hero Rush Limbaugh, on today’s EIB radio show, illustrated how false images can be so easily created and magnified. For good or for evil.
Rush was right. Let’s go back to pre-election times—before November 2008. Two separate images, created and magnified at about the same time, for contrast/comparison:
The mainstream press, zealous liberals, Hollywood celebrities, Democrats, and many Republicans, about then-Sen. Barack Obama: He’s so elegant and calm and intelligent and suave. So cool and soothing and well-spoken. He went to Harvard! He dresses so well! Look at how cute he and his wife look together holding hands! Oprah endorses him! He cares about the poor, about me! Obama’s for hope and change and taking money away from those greedy rich people, so I’ll vote for him. His pet projects, issues, Senate voting record, Senate accomplishments, ideological foundation, and personal political agenda? Why do I need to know any of those? He’s for change, dammit, and that’s all I need to know…
Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin
And then, last night, the metaphorical “other shoe” dropped loudly. Into a huge cow patty. Obama’s foot was in that shoe that plopped squarely into that cow patty.
We had the oh-so-suave, caring, and well-spoken President Obama make an unthinkable crack about the Special Olympics—on television, before millions of viewers on the Tonight Show. Yeah, real elegant and suave and caring.
When, pray tell, does this man do any “real president” work? He’s on TV and interviewed by all sorts of the media so often, he outranks Britney Spears and the cast of Gossip Girl in overexposure. And don’t forget those frequent White House bashes, with hand-massaged wagyu steak from Japan and conga dancing lines that go until real late. Especially on Wednesdays. Obama shouldn’t make any crucial decisions or make any important statements on Thursdays.
Hmm… Obama’s ill-fated appearance on the Tonight Show was yesterday, a Thursday. Coincidence or too much Wednesday-night partying catching up with him? I’ll let you decide.
Alaska's Special Olympics - Torch, 2007
Here’s a posting about Palin and the 2009 Special Olympics: Blue Star Chronicles: Sarah Palin Special Olympics Message 2009. It’s also on Mommy Life and other blogs.
Sarah Palin was savaged by the press EVERY SINGLE DAY prior to the election just for being herself. Fabrications and lies and insults swirled about her like locusts during the presidential campaign.
But, she retained grace and humor and unflagging energy during the ordeal (and I’m sure it was beyond difficult as the unbridled attacks increased as Election Day drew closer). The blatant hypocrisy was thick and pervasive, as noted by bestselling author and political columnist Ann Coulter in her September 3, 2008 commentary about Palin, “The Best Man Turned Out to Be a Woman”; here are a few snippets:
They claimed Palin was chosen only because she’s a woman. In fact, Palin was chosen because she’s pro-life, pro-gun, pro-drilling and pro-tax cuts. She’s fought both Republicans and Democrats on public corruption and does not have hair plugs like some other vice presidential candidate I could mention. In other words, she’s a ‘Republican.’
…They attacked her daughter, who actually is pregnant now, for being unmarried. When liberals start acting like they’re opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain’s vice presidential choice has knocked them back on their heels. While the difficult circumstances of Palin’s pregnant daughter are being covered like a terrorist attack on the nation, with leering accounts of the 18-year-old father, the media remain resolutely uninterested in the parentage of [married Democrat leader John] Edwards’ mistress’s love child. Except, that is, the hardworking reporters at the National Enquirer, who say Edwards is the father. But at least liberal reporters had finally found someone their own size to pick on: a 17-year-old girl.
The media hysterically denounced Palin as “inexperienced.” But then people started to notice that she has more executive experience than B. Hussein Obama—the guy at the top of the Democrats’ ticket.
To those who still worship the ground Barack Obama walks on, please remember this isn’t American Idol. Although, Obama does seem to forget that he is our Commander in Chief and no longer needs to go on tour. Whenever his approval ratings drop, he shows up on magazine covers or hops on the fuel-guzzling Air Force One to make another “remember how cool I am?” pitch for his socialist policies at another townhall meeting or TV show appearance. Maybe next week, if his numbers drop because of his Special Olympics crack, he’ll be a surprise guest on Dancing with the Stars. I’m tired of being told we “have to give him a chance.” You betcha, that seems fair and right… I’ll give him just as many chances Sarah Palin was given by the media and liberals and some Republicans.
Palin does what she does best. She’s not a media hound like Obama, who skitters away to California or Colorado or Arizona or Canada or Illinois to appear on some show each time the country doesn’t fawn over him. She’s running her family and the state of Alaska with a frugal eye, a Christian heart, a conservative’s prudence, and a mother’s fierce love. She’s active in the Alaskan community and with local events and charity events. She serves Alaskans every day, with or without adoring photographers handy.
Alaska is one of the only states in America that isn’t in financial turmoil, on the brink of economic collapse. Alaska has been governed with the state’s best interests at heart, which included not going on a spending binge when times were good. Palin made sure that a huge chunk of the state’s money was saved, in the event that times would not always be so good. Palin knows how to be thrifty and cut back on spending. She even pruned the budget for her beloved Special Olympics—tightening the belt everywhere paid off for Alaska. Wish Congress would stop trying to destroy her and instead take notes from Palin. Right now, they’re royally flunking Economics 101, with Treasury Secretary Tim “Lying Boy Wonder” Geithner leading the pack of ineptitude with the AIG bonuses. They have the conspicuous consumption mentality of a spoiled high school prom queen when it comes to spending money they don’t have and isn’t even theirs.
So, where in the heck is the mocking and vilification of Obama’s insensitive, stupid remark on the Tonight Show? Or the one he made earlier in the day, that AIG was just like a suicidal terrorist with a live grenade in hand? Oh, trust that the outrage and criticism and lack of confidence in his leadership abilities are out there. They’re just not being reported by the American mainstream media. They’re too busy trying, even now, to squash Sarah Palin. Why?
Because the presidential election of 2012 isn’t that far away, and they fear that America will see past their empty savaging, get sick of the ongoing corruption in Washington with this administration, and will resonate with Palin’s fiscal responsibility and success, her honesty, and conservative family values—she must be targeted, ridiculed, and marginalized pronto. With the lies pouring out of Washington this week about the AIG bonuses (it’s now a bona fide “Bonus-Gate”), Palin is a bigger threat to them than she ever was before. Because, once again, she isn’t one of them. Which was one of the main reasons that they were compelled to crush and destroy her in the first place. But now, “not being one of them” is the next best thing to having a picnic in the park with no ants and perfect weather.
The British press reports Pres. Obama’s gaffes and blunders far more timely and accurately than our own media (assuming that our media even reports them). Very telling, and chilling.
Palin didn’t go to an Ivy League school? Yep, that’s right. We’re grateful she didn’t, since we’re seeing daily the dismal results of those who did. Liars, cheats, and wastrels. Does any one politician with an Ivy League education tell the truth? Or not make fun of the disabled? Or not spend money like a 5-year-old in a candy store?
Who’s vulgar and uncouth now? And which image, created in the pre-election months, is proving to be false?
RedState: The Campaign To Bankrupt The Palin Family
2009 Gala Media Research Center Dishonors Awards: Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin
Jim Blazsik: What if it was Sarah who made Hillary’s trip?
Michelle Malkin: Accused Sarah Palin hacker hit with more charges: Feds say he concealed records to impede investigation and Report: Liberal sock puppet invasion at Team Sarah
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Standards
BUUUUURRRRNING HOT: Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection (153 Cases)
Joan Swirsky, CFP: Bristol Bashing Reflects The Left’s Ongoing Fear of Her Mother
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Excellent article!
Wow! Extremely well written and right on target! Am sending this on to several friends who will really appreciate reading it.
Thank you for the great feedback, and I appreciate your support of the article and this blog. Sarah Palin is one of my heartfelt heroes, and we need her more than ever in America.
Wonderful article!!! But I’m wondering what happened to it — I only get the comments now, not the article itself.
We’ve had some odd technical difficulties with this file. Not sure what is wrong, but I’ve tried to find the culprit text/code, to no avail. The post is up again, but I never did find the glitch, so it may “raise its ugly head” again later.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Wow, just wonderful writing. And very true. Governor Palin is a breath of fresh are for America. A true leader, and a class act.
You might be interested in a report I put together that ties Obama directly to the “troopergate” witch hunt.
The liberals live in fear of Sarah Palin. Check this out:
With Sarah Palin, Barack Obama Shows Rod Blagojevich How Pay -For-Play Is Done!
http://hotrodsnitroandconservatism.blogtownhall.com/2009/03/10/with_sarah_palin,_barack_obama_shows_rod_blagojevich_how_pay_-for-play_is_done!.thtml
Thanks again for a great read!
Very fair and well-written. Those of us who admire the Governor already know of her great accomplishments in Alaska, as well as her fiscal and personal conservative values. As I peruse various articles and message boards, Sarah Palin is constantly villified in a baseless and often vulgar manner (I’ve blogged about this, too). Why? If she’s so stupid, inept, etc., why would anyone bother talking about her? If she is so insignificant — dismiss her, get over her! Same invitation to the media; almost five months after a failed bid for the vice presidency, Sarah Palin should be a vague memory … but the MSM continues to target, print and air inaccurate and inflammatory stories about the Governor. This reaffirms, again, your position: there is tremendous fear of a Palin presidential run for 2012.
THANK YOU. America is coming around and seeing the injustice that was heaped on Governor Palin
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Thank you for an outstanding article. You said it all and you said it well.
I must commend you on a well written and well researched blog. Very interesting indeed. If there were some way to commercialize it and show it side by side, the American people might get it, but their will always be those that are easily lead, and those that forge the road. I am uncomfortable with a president that believes he should iinclude in his EMERGENCY spending bill a BLUEPRINT for our new future in America, Gee i thought we had a blueprint, though you might not know it if you looked in a classroom. It is the Constitution of the United States that has held for more than 200 years and dosen’t need his revision. Although apparently he believes that it does. I only hope that some will come to see what overexposure does. It ingraines you with that person makes you look at him and listen to his speeches every day on t.v., internet, and I am sure somewhere on the radio. This is called PROPAGANDA. Learned that in my history courses at the local college, I didn’t have to go to harvard to get that one.
The only difference between Barrak Obama and Hugo Chavez is that one, Obama cannot speak to the public without a teleprompter, he showed that with his nice little stint on the tonight show, does he feel llike a star now? Would he please quite worrying about his basketball brackets, we have an ECONOMIC CRISIS,that seems to be working itself out withough stimulus number 2 or the rest of porkulus. The massive stimulus plan that he signed into law, the bulk of the money will not even be spent by the years end. So explain to me again how it is helping the market to climb back up, hnmmnmmmmm he dogs the market and our country it goes down, he gets up and finally says something positive so you know other countries will feel comfortable as well as our own people investing once again. The stock market is NOT a poll as the president suggest but PEOPLE MONEY, THEIR RETIREMENT, OF course he dosen’t care about that he just got the plush version of employment benefits with the best retirement in the world. If he is so concerned with healthcare and letting everyone have it, give up what you pay for congress make them pay for part the same way every other american has to, quite giving them a golden parachute while thowing our veterans, the ones who serve to protect our country who give up life limb and sometimes mind to do so, out to the curb and try to make them pay for their own. Didn’t work though did it Mr. Obama.
I am sick of watching my country morph into something I don’t even recognize. And I am not that old. Unfortunately my genereation and very few before it(former hippies) seem to even care what is going on, or even get it, they just think o.k. everything will be fine, I’ll vote for this one, or the one that looks best like someone I know gessh. You would think that women hadn’t suffered for years without the right to vote, and this is how she treats it. Like a Game. This is not a game it is our children, and after last night crack who would you leave your children in the care of? The Obamas? (dont remember the kennedy mother in law or jackie mom moving in to take care of those kids huh? or the Palins? I know what my answer is. Palin.
This is why the left has to try and villify her because she is a huge threat to them, and they know it. The important thing is to keep the grassroots movin till the next election then kick into high gear and counterpoint every lie or bias we see. That is what the public is supposed to do, keep OUR GOVERMENT, THAT WE THE PEOPLE ASSEMBLED in line and doing what they are supposed to both morally and judiciously.
Anyone catch the appeal to the Iranians with no American flags in the background orr even in the Oval Office boy that showing who you work for. And he got just what the public and so many other have predicted, a reception from the Iraq govt. that makes it look like they are laughing him out of the country, they say he is talk, he needs to stop supporting Israel or nothing will work, boy Obama it sounds like you just need to keep talking, sounds like its really working, as they push ahead to build a bomb to reach Israel. Bush tried to protect Israel with a missle defense system but Obama quickly put a squash on that, so with other world leaders, what has he shown of himself? Nothing, empty words and rheoric, they know now that he can be pushed around and made to do things by the polls. Not a good thing for your enemy to know when they vow to kill you froom the inside out. But I guess he forgot the declared war and not us. We didn’t go over and fly their commercial planes full of CIVILIANS into their highrises, we didn’t begin this war but with the RIGHT president and the RIGHT congress we could have won years ago, by the way have you all heard any good news out of Iraq? Like We Won? Less people are being killed and terrorized than before we came there. I would call that a success, just as I would call a photo of Iraqi GIRLS in uniform going to school. Something that up until now they had never been able to do. That shows progress, but the MSM won’t show you that.
Finally, an article that speaks the truth!
Great article. It cinched it for me. Palin in 2012.
Love the Governor. During the election, when her critics would break out their garlic wreaths and silver bullets I would remind them that she had but one mission for Sen. McCain. Motivate the base. She did that in ACES!!!! McCain was going to loose huge if she was not in the game.
As to 2012, She is still one to watch, but check out http://tiny.cc/oYiVl
Romney is still in the race
Very well-written article, and right on! I wish this article was on a MSM page, but we know the MSM is in bed with Hussein Obama. Many people know how Gov. Palin was slammed by the drive-by media, it is even documented in John Ziegler’s movie, “Media Malpractice”, which I just received in the mail today. Gov. Palin is a threat to the liberal socialism agenda.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Such a hypocrite….
I will be sharing your piece. It is just terrific.
FINALLY THE TRUTH IS BEING TOLD.
MUSLIM OBAMA IS SHOWING HIS TRUE COLOR,
SARAH PALIN WAYS ARE GOLD,
OBAMA’A WAY ARE LIKE NO OTHER,
HE WANT’S TO MAKE US SOCIALIST,
SHE WANTS TO KEEP US FREE,
WE DON’T NEED OBAMA’S MESS,
SARAH PALIN IS WHAT WE NEED.
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Thank you for such a great article about Sarah she is an amazing woman. I will be sharing with friends.
Sarah…2012
Vicki, you hit it right out of the park! Thank you! Those of us who love liberty and truth have ALWAYS known Sarah was a class act, but you make the case like no other.
Well done!
Well said. And to Jumpcuts I also enjoyed the Romney clip. Can you imagine Palin and Romney on the same ticket? Not only would you have a ticket with substance and executive experience but it would be the best looking ticket ever in history!
Keep this going! Wake up America! We need more writers to get the truth out there!
Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Joannah
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