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Title: #Palin: This is disappointing, if true
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sistertoldjah
URL Source: http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2 ... this-is-disappointing-if-true/
Published: Aug 16, 2011
Author: phineas
Post Date: 2011-08-16 13:11:47 by calcon
Keywords: None
Views: 3263
Comments: 12
Anyone who knows me or who has read my posts for any length of time knows I’m a fan of Sarah Palin. A big fan. I like her politics, I like her outlook, I like her record, and I think she has the makings of a good president. Which makes this news both disturbing and disappointing: What happened was that Alex Pappas of The Daily Caller, one of the rising stars among political scribes and a meticulously careful and wonderfully polite, fair-minded young man (an aside: I’ve known him since he was in junior high school), wrote a perfectly fine story about Palin’s current stances vis-a-vis the presidential race. In it, one of the things she said was that if Mitt Romney is the nominee, well, of course she would endorse him over Barack Obama. Fox Nation picked up the story and, in its own headline (not Pappas’, not the Daily Caller’s, but its own headline completely apart from anything Pappas ever wrote) played up the “Romney endorse” angle in a way that apparently did not make it clear that the endorsement might be in the general election, rather than the primary campaign. (The headline is no longer available at Fox Nation, so I can’t say exactly what the wording was.) Anyway, the Palin team pounced. Specifically inviting over reporter Kasie Hunt from Politico so she could hear the exchange, Palin called Pappas’ cell phone and began berating him in a very scolding manner for writing a headline suggesting she supports Romney. Pappas didn’t even know what she was talking about. When he tried to say that neither he nor his editors had written such a headline, she said she didn’t have time for this, that she needed to go back to the “real people” at the State Fair, and hung up on him. Later, when it became clear that Fox Nation, not Pappas or The Daily Caller, had written the semi-offending headline, a Palin press aide called Pappas back not to apologize but to say that they now realized it was Fox and that the headline had been taken down. “No,” Pappas said, far more bemused than angry or upset, “he didn’t come close to apologizing.” Be sure to read the whole thing. Let’s set some context here. The article’s author, Quinn Hillyer, is a solid conservative. American Spectator is an old-line conservative magazine. Both Hillyer and the magazine have defended Sarah Palin in the past. And, while The Daily Caller tends toward the tabloid style, it’s well to the Right, too. This was not a Lefty hit-job. What jumps out at me is not that the former Alaska governor blew her stack at a reporter. We know how miserably she’s been treated by the press and, well, everyone can have a bad moment. (Even I’ve been known to have one from time to time. Ahem…) That I can write off. In this modern age of flip cams and 24-by-7 coverage, every politician will at some time or another reveal their warts. No, I’m bothered by two other items: first, that Mrs. Palin apparently called over another journalist to witness her reaming of Pappas — what was the point? It reeks of pettiness and unprofessionalism. She is a serious contender for President of the United States. This kind of “Watch me burn this guy” behavior should be beneath any candidate. Second, once it became clear that Pappas and The Daily Caller were not at fault, Governor Palin owed him a personal call to apologize. Not a non-apology call from an aide. Not only is that simple courtesy and the decent thing to do, but it’s smart politics. Once you, a contender for high office, have been shown to be wrong, admit it, apologize, and defuse the issue immediately. In the process you show yourself to be a good person and you disarm your opponents’ talking points. To do what Sarah Palin is accused of doing, however, is to compound boorish, childish behavior with poor political judgement. In a candidate with ambitions for high office, that’s a bad combination. Again, that’s if this is true. I say “if” because we all know the dangers of first reports and how there can be many wildly different viewpoints regarding the same set of facts. (Ever see Rashomon?) And it just doesn’t sound like Sarah Palin, for several reasons. But here we have witnesses, and I suspect what was reported is at least close to what happened. And if that’s the case, then Sarah Palin owes Mr. Pappas a sincere apology. PS: In case you’re wondering, no, this does not change my support for her. Not by itself, at least. However, it does go into the “Hmmm… File” as something that bears watching for signs of a trend. PPS: I won’t at all be surprised to be fired at by both Palin-haters shouting “SEE? WE TOLD YOU SO!!!” and Palin-bots who go into attack-badger mode at even the least criticism. To the latter I suggest looking at my prior posts to see what kind of a supporter I’ve been. PPPS: Rick Perry also had a serious unforced error moment in Iowa. Like I said, it’s going to happen to every candidate. Perhaps both should blame the deep-fried butter on a stick.
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#1. To: calcon (#0)
this is consistent with dozens of other reports noting that Palin doesn't take criticism kindly.
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that in a nutshell describes the quitter palin
that in a nutshell describes the quitter palin That and the fact that the neoqueen© adores that POS McCain and supports him 100%.
A political scribe so naive that he can still be disappointed by a politician.
------------------------------------- oh for goodness sake. All of these people need to find themselves looking for real work with real people. Anyone else sick of the ,*bright lights- big city*, mind set of these people? Go get a cup of Starbucks- you big jerks.
. LOL! You PDS insane fuckwad losers obviously do not have a life! GOVERNOR Palin farts and you cunts faint! LOL! You powerless little whiny PDS insane asswipe SCUM! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUNNY STUFF! LOL! ... .. .
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
have you ever posted anything that made sense moron?
bachman does a great impression of mad dog with some man meat
. What's the matter calfag? Should I aim my prose at the very lowest idiot percentile so that YOU can understand it calfag? I don't think that I can make myself as stooopid as YOU are calfag.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
LOL! What's the matter calfag? Why do YOU hate ALL conservative WOMEN calfag? What's the matter calfag? Do YOU wish that you were as "pretty" as they are? Maybe you bought the same dress? Tsk tsk don't be so catty calfag, just buy another dress. Maybe it's YOUR "time of the month" calfag? Maybe YOU are deeply involved in "the change" calfag? No worries calfag they can fix menopause now without surgery. There, there, that's a good wittle gurl calfag. Does wittle calfag need a nappy poo? Koochie koochie coo calfag. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
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. Yep Boris, libTURDS are a F ing CULT of brain dead gibbering drooling idiots. "Why wolves eat their young."
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#2. To: go65 (#1)
It reeks of pettiness and unprofessionalism
#3. To: calcon (#2)
It reeks of pettiness and unprofessionalism
#4. To: calcon (#0)
one of the rising stars among political scribes
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#5. To: calcon (#0)
one of the rising stars among political scribes
#6. To: calfag, all PDS insane assholes (#0)
#7. To: Mad Dog (#6)
#8. To: Mad Dog (#6)
#9. To: calfag (#7)
#10. To: calfag (#8)
faux/FRAUD "CONservative" calfag's wet dreams redux
#11. To: Mad Dog (#6)
GOVERNOR Palin farts and you cunts faint!
#12. To: BorisY (#11)
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