Hating Sarah Palin


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Why do they? Hanson reviews:

The furor

The AP supposedly hired 11 fact-checkers to discredit Ms. Palin’s memoir (Did Fox News hire 11 to question the very questionable things found in the two Obama memoirs?)

Bloggers post on Palin’s live interviews minute by minute; few, if any, opponents of Barack Obama do the same.

Every statement she makes is parsed, to prove she is ignorant or parochial—though most of her so-called lapses are the sort of things Biden and Obama are accustomed to committing weekly.

So what?

The list could go on, but two fundamental questions arise:

1) What drives this fear and loathing?

2) How does one, then, assess the Palin phenomenon?

Question one is easy, and we can be systematic in our exegeses:

Read the whole thing.

My take: they hate her because she’s not one of them. Mostly on the left but with some on the right, the correct perception is that Palin doesn’t care what they think and is entirely uninterested in what they have to say. Failed people who consistently get things wrong are not to be listened to even if they have television shows, syndicated columns and a shelf of books to their name.

I’ll add: she’s also proving herself vastly smarter than her critics.

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Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.


142 Responses to “Hating Sarah Palin”

  1. retiredspook says:

    sorry CO. remember you’re talking to birthers & palinites which is irrational.

    OO, I get that you don’t like people who question ObiOne’s birth place. Most have simply asked him to put the issue to rest by making public his orignal long-form birth certificate. He could have ended the controversary over a year ago when it first came up. If you blame anyone for the issue to continue to drag on, it should be the President.

    As for Palin, I just really don’t get the hatred for her by those of you on the Left.

  2. jeremiah06 says:

    ohioorange,
    just remember this… tell this to the families of 9/11 and tell this to the families of the Ft Hood Massacre (Terrorist Massacre), caused by the Religious Hatred and variance caused by the mind-washed person who commited such atrocious acts, tell this to those who are Stopping the very acts of investigation into this murderious act and then start using your own “your own mind” for once. These Muslim terrorist will not stop here. They are intent on raising their flag over this United States of America. And this Great United States of America was founded upon those who had “guts” they had the “mind of freedom” because they had left a nation of tyranny, a nation that had no personal good in mind, they had left England where they were persecuted. In England they had laws and governmental ideas forced upon them and go further East and look at the Fascism and Communism and the Ideals of Stalin, and Marxism, “ask Hillary about her Saul Alinsky and his rules for the radicals. Most of those CZars the President has “Chosen” and not elected are great thinkers after this mindless idealism. You want to fall into this group then “jump” my friend. This thinking will bring about the destruction of any nation and will try to bring down the very ideals this nation was founded upon, but I believe there’s enough God fearing, Moral Men and Women today in America that will give their lives to defend this. So Maybe you should take your ideas, your friends and transplant yourself into one of those nations, Oh I know; How about Mao Tse Sung of China.
    And if you don’t like what they force upon their people in China then join the throngs of million whom they have murdered and thrown to the dogs. As for me and my house I will serve the Lord and live for His ideals and His Moral Rights.

  3. jeremiah06 says:

    EXACTLY SAID RETIRED SPOOK.
    JUST ASK OUR PRESIDENT TO PRESENT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE. ITS NOT HARD. IT IS EVIDENTLY QUITE EASY TO DO THIS. CALL THE VITAL RECORDS DEPARTMENT AND FORM AN INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL TO OVERSEA THIS (WITH THE HELP OF A GOD FEARING REPUBLICAN OR INDEPENDENT OR DEMOCRAT IF YOU CAN FIND ONE). THEY WILL BE HONORED TO DO THIS, OTHERWISE WHAT IS TO HIDE.
    COULD IT BE TRUE?????????
    COULD IT BE WRONG TO ASK FOR SUCH A BURDENLESS TASK?
    I THINK NOT.
    HOW EASY MR PRESIDENT. TO DO THIS FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
    OUR MINDS WILL
    BE
    IN
    EASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE..
    AND WE WILL KNOW THEN THAT YOU ARE LEGITIMATE.

  4. ohioorrin says:

    Moderator’s note: offensive religious comment deleted.

  5. neocon1 says:

    Chef
    http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/Images/south-park-chef.jpg

    this is how those right LEFT-wing, uber-nationalistic, marxist quasi-religious, muslem cults of personality march in line to the kool aid table…or into the crowded hotel w explosive belts (same exact behavior).

    Maybe in the mosque where you ride the rug,

    ……….
    Muslim, Christian, & Jewish extremists are closer to each other than the majority of any religion.

    Utter unadulterated GARBAGE.
    You are really beginning to lose the rest of your marbles, you are about four short of a six pack now.

    Keep it up though Chef, your real hatred and racism is shining through like a flood light.

  6. neocon1 says:

    CO

    If you could put aside, just for a moment, the personal hatred you feel for the President and examine those accusations with a clear and functional mind you would see how the fear-mongers have hijacked your rational thought process.

    Sorry, I used to be from the north, and was a democrat committeeman.
    I left the donk party BECAUSE of the radical marxist, leftist lunatics that were taking over it and are now in charge.

    Heck JFK today would be considered as poisonous as radical and “hard right” as you perceive Palin to be.

    you are just a frog who stayed in the slowly heated water to long and will soon be boiled to death by the lies of radical leftist communism.

  7. neocon1 says:

    spook

    that is have pretty much gotten to the point where most Palin admirers are finally saying GFY!

    BINGO,
    Americans are finally waking up. We are getting ticked, and off arent going to take it any more.

    The beating up of, and biting fingers off of senior citizens by che wearing union thugs wont last long.
    someone will defend a senior being beaten with posts by the use of deadly force (rightfully and legally so) and the fun will begin.

  8. canadianobserver says:

    jeremiah06 says:
    November 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
    —————————
    Have you ever wondered, jeremiah, why those who question Obama’s origin of birth are considered to be missing a few brain cells?

    “Michael Medved, a conservative talk-show host, described the leadership of the so-called “birther” movement as “crazy, nutburger, demagogue, money-hungry, exploitative, irresponsible, filthy conservative impostors.”

    They caused terrible damage to the conservative movement, he added. “It makes us look weird. It makes us look crazy. It makes us look demented. It makes us look sick, troubled, and not suitable for civilised company.”

    **********************

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories

    ‘Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, at the Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham, herself a natural born citizen of the United States from Wichita, Kansas. Obama’s father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama’s parents were divorced in 1964. His mother subsequently married Indonesian student Lolo Soetoro, who was attending the University of Hawaii. The family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1967, where Obama attended a local public and a local private school until he was ten years old. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and has resided permanently in the United States since 1971.

    Citizenship facts, rumors and claims

    During the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential primaries and the subsequent presidential election, numerous chain e-mails circulated false rumors about Obama’s background.

    Although he has repeatedly made clear that he believes Obama was born in Hawaii, Jim Geraghty of the conservative website National Review Online may have sparked further speculation when he asked that Obama release his birth certificate to disprove rumors that he was not a natural-born citizen qualified to stand for the Presidency. Geraghty wrote that releasing his birth certificate could also debunk several other false rumors that had circulated via the internet, namely: that his middle name was originally Muhammad rather than Hussein; that his mother had originally named him “Barry” rather than “Barack”; and that his father had not really been Barack Obama, Sr. The Obama campaign responded in June 2008 by releasing his birth certificate and launching a website called “Fight the Smears” to counter what it described as a smear campaign against the candidate. Geraghty subsequently reiterated: “there is no reason to think his [long-form] birth certificate would have any different data.’

    *************************

    You have to ask yourself, why, if the President is not an American citizen, the Republican Party has been derelict in its duty to the citizens of the United States in refusing to remove the foreigner from office.

    Why hasn’t your party moved to carry out your wishes, jeremiah? Don’t you feel alienated from your Republican representatives? They’ve really let you down.

  9. jeremiah06 says:

    OK CANADIAN OBSERVER,

    WHY NOT JUST SHOW THE CERTIFICATE AND FORGET ALL THE NAMECALLING. HOWS THAT FOR A NO-BRAINER SIR?

    IT WOULD BE SO SIMPLE AND WE WON’T LOOK SO STUPID. “YOU AND ME I MEAN”

  10. jeremiah06 says:

    If it wasn’t for alot of Mr Obamas selections of CZARS and those he associated with “Jeremiah Wright” the Preacher filled with such hatred towards America” and these other Associations I am confidently assured that most Americans would never questions Mr Obama’s Birth, Mr Obama’s Ideals and Idealogies. But henceforth this has not been proven or brought forth, “actual certificate” then I think it would only be just to call for such an action.
    If I join the Military, If I join any part of the government would they ask me for my records? Would I be investigated? How about you? Nah.. probably not. They’d say, lets let him in, he sounds like one of us.

  11. retiredspook says:

    someone will defend a senior being beaten with posts by the use of deadly force (rightfully and legally so) and the fun will begin.

    Well, I don’t know about the “fun” part, but I’m beginning to believe it’s inevitable. I can fully understand and appreciate protecting yourself with deadly force from someone attempting to rob you. I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around being attacked by someone because they disagree with my political beliefs.

    This is an article I archived a while back that illustrates exactly what you’re talking about.

    Remember that Alinsky’s advice was that the ends justify the means. Think of Florida in 2000 and the manipulation of military ballots. Think of Milwaukee and unattended polling places, which allowed leftist college students to take handfuls of ballots to check off. Think of a million immigrants in the 1996 election granted instant voting rights by the Clinton administration.

    More importantly, think of South Dakota in November of 2002, or Nevada in 1998 or 2002.

    In a brilliant bit of investigative reporting, National Review’s Byron York gave us a grand overview of the corrupt and unpleasant outline of how Alinsky’s rules work during election season. Republicans, once again asleep at the switch, live in the land of euphoria. They still believe that their Democratic counterparts are among the angels on God’s right.

    Considering that Alinsky expresses admiration for Lucifer, they are looking in the wrong place to find many modern Democrats. Republicans still assume that the modern Democratic Party, its media sycophants, its operatives during national or state elections, will play fair. It is hard to say which is worse, Republican naïveté’ or Democratic cheating and law breaking.

    When Democrats cheat, especially under Bill Clinton’s and Terry McAuliffe’s watch, they whine when they discover they didn’t cheat enough to win. When they are caught in the big lies, they expect Republicans to ignore it and give them a pass. The last election in South Dakota is a case in point.

    In the primaries and election of 2002, lawyers from Washington started showing up at polling places in the hinterlands of South Dakota. The Republican leadership and the establishment should have seen it coming but they didn’t.

    As Byron York relates in “Badlands, Bad Votes”: “On Election Day, Noma Sazama knew something unusual was going on the moment she arrived at her polling place, the St. Thomas Parish Hall in Mission, South Dakota. Sazama, a member of the local election board, noticed several strangers in the room – an unusual sight in Mission, population 904, where most people know one another. It turned out the strangers were all lawyers, Democrats who had come to town to serve as poll watchers for the race between incumbent Democratic senator Tim Johnson and Republican John Thune. One was from Washington, D.C., another was from New York City, and a third was from California. ‘There were no locals, and I’ve never seen that happen before,’ says Sazama, who has lived in the area for 73 years.”

    Furthermore, York maintains, “The Democratic team of lawyers confiscated the Parish Hall kitchen only a few feet from the balloting tables.”

    Witnesses swore in affidavits that party hacks had rented dozens of vans and hired drivers to bring voters to the polls. Lawyers from elsewhere made the Parish Hall their headquarters. Seventy-three-year-old Ms. Sazama stated, “They had the names and time-of-pickup and whether someone voted on them, and from those he would contact the drivers.”

    Finally she understood that the influx of outside Democrats were going to use the polling place as their headquarters, an action which is against the laws of South Dakota.

    The lawyers tied up the phones, which meant that the poll watchers and election officials could not make needed phone calls. York quotes the election supervisor: “They were on the phone using it to call I don’t know where, and I needed to call because we had some new districting. They were always talking on it.”

    When Wanless, the election supervisor, protested, she got a chilly reaction from the out-of-towners. “I felt like they were trying to intimidate me,” she recalls.

    In fact, all this is against South Dakota law, which states: “No person may, in any polling place or within or on any building in which a polling place is located or within one hundred feet from any entrance leading into a polling place, maintain an office or communications center. …”

    There were no Republican lawyers or authorities around to inform election officials that it was against the law for the Democrats to be running their campaign from a polling place. That was bad enough, but ever since November Republicans have failed dismally to make it a BIG national issue.

    Quite frankly, if something like this were to happen at my local polling place, I know a bunch of locals that would put a serious hurt on such outsiders.

  12. jeremiah06 says:

    Canadian,

    You need to have your water checked out.
    They say the chemicals they’re using there in Canada makes a person sound lulu.

  13. neocon1 says:

    spook

    Well, I don’t know about the “fun” part

    simply a metaphor…that all hell will break loose, not really “fun” in the true terms.

    Florida law justifies use of deadly force when you are:

    * Trying to protect yourself or another person from death or serious bodily harm;
    * Trying to prevent a forcible felony, such as rape, robbery, burglary or kidnapping.

  14. ohioorrin says:

    ohioorrin says: November 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm Moderator’s note: offensive religious comment deleted.
    _

    hey mr moderator, why protect religious extremists?

    I used no profanity nor vulgarity.

  15. neocon1 says:

    CO

    “Transition and Transaction

    The transition of the old Democratic Party to what exists today should not surprise or confound conservatives. Nor should Alinsky’s tactics seem foreign. After all, for nearly 40 years, Republicans and the conservative agenda have been getting hammered by the left through the successful use of Alinsky tactics.

    In that cause, radicals and the liberal-left gravitated toward the print and electronic media, toward the university professorate and the law. The left, consciously or unconsciously, adopted Alinsky’s rules. The impact changed the nature of the Democratic Party and the direction of the United States. Increasingly, the left is succeeding in changing the nature of the Republican Party as well.

  16. canadianobserver says:

    the chemicals they’re using there in Canada makes a person sound lulu…jeremiah

    ———————–

    lu·lu
    n. Slang
    A remarkable person, object, or idea.

    Thank you, jeremiah, that’s quite a compliment.

    Much better than being labled cuckoo for instance.

    (cuckoo) Slang – A foolish or crazy person.

  17. neocon1 says:

    Chef

    I used no profanity nor vulgarity.

    but a double dose of stupidity counts as 10 on the profanity and vulgarity scale of 1-10.
    YOU obviously exceeded the limit. :)

    r u werking this wekend or wil we mis you hear?

  18. retiredspook says:

    not really “fun” in the true terms.

    Yeah, neo, I knew what you meant.

    Florida law justifies use of deadly force when you are:

    * Trying to protect yourself or another person from death or serious bodily harm;
    * Trying to prevent a forcible felony, such as rape, robbery, burglary or kidnapping.

    I think Indiana is the same. True story from a few years ago. An elderly man who resembled George Burns was walking across a local supermarket parking lot with a bag of groceries. He was approached by a young black thug with a knife who threatened to cut him if he didn’t surrender his wallet. The old guy pulled out a .38 and put a couple in the chest of the would-be robber. Ruled justifiable homicide.

  19. canadianobserver says:

    she’s also proving herself vastly smarter than her critics…Mark

    —————————–

    Let’s give Sarah the benefit of the doubt and say that confusing Iraq with Iran was an honest mistake.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM7Xhg0WIbU

    Perhaps she got just a little bit flustered looking into Hannity’s dreamy eyes.

  20. jeremiah06 says:

    RE: A remarkable person, object, or idea.

    Not in hillbilly country, in hillbilly country if someone calls you lulu then that is the same as loony, or “not all there.”

  21. truthisright says:

    Jeremiah
    I have to admit, there’s lulu’s, knuckleheads and koo-koos on everysight,.
    Great job and appreciate your endeavor to show the truth to those who are blinded by the light.
    Mrs Palin knows the security issues that are so vital to our national security interests and see the grave danger of the policies of the administration in charge.
    As talented as Mr Obama is you would think he would use that talent for the good of every American and the safekeeping of our land fro shore to shore and preserving the freedom of our Constitutional rights. But its not confusing to see his ideals and his agenda and regulations taking control of our major companies, closing the doors of banking institutions with governmental control, taking the trillions of dollars we are endebted in now and using this money to start a “healthcare” bill that is unreadable, unestimatable and will surely cause major major problems within our nation.
    Mr Murtha, Mr Reid and Smiling Schumer from NY addressed the nation showing a great profound readiness to pass this bill ASAP. Unfortunately our nation will no longer defend these rights we have and the only defense Americans will have will be those who vote their “clear” consciences to move these Representatives as quickly from office, otherwise we will be consumed with a debt we cannot repay and China will not patiently wait for a debt that’s owed because their own billion plus people are moving quickly in control of the world stage. We may be licking the boots of those we are endebted to and if china does not take that lead role then we will be endangered very much in the role that our government is taking to so favor the very terrorists who murdered so many innocent civilians and military personnel just a few weeks ago.
    God help us as a nation for the ‘truth’ must make right and the leaders who lie in darkness will be exposed for their evil deeds. ‘praise’

  22. ricorun says:

    I’m guessing PT Barnum would think this thread is absolutely hilarious. And quite apart from whether he would, I do. Go job folks!

  23. truthisright says:

    And when I say exposed I want to say that when Plans and Ambitions of any Party whether Democrat or Republican are used solely for political purpose for Political power to control the masses then their plans will be exposed because this exposure will come from the American People seeing for themselves what actions are taken by these leaders. If their actions are for evil then the evil deeds will be seen because the American people are not arrogant and blinded to the point of not seeing what is happening to our national scene.

  24. truthisright says:

    Ricorum you just made my point. “Good for starters

  25. truthisright says:

    Its this blindsightedness of so many (possibly the reefers), that cause so much harm. And must be from Pelosi’s district.
    Oh Wait! Maybe from another Planet? Mars, would somebody tell us what planet she’s from?
    They asked her if she was a wine-o, and she said, What? What?
    And imagine, “Speaker of the House”
    She would do very well from a Kentucky Outhouse.

  26. sirwilliamwallace says:

    The only comment I will make is this:

    Sarah Palin said on Rush’s radio show that in Obama’s plan “people who don’t buy heathcare might serve jail time.”

    Wow!

    You mean, you people actually believe this stuff? And that crap about Death Panels and Grandma being killed for Obama?

    Wow!!

    Palin is nuttier than a fruitcake and so arew those of you who believe her.

    And you DARE to say that the left is full of conspiracy theories!!!

    Palin’s mouth is the biggest conspiracy theory of them all.

    Drink some more Kool-Aide, people – it’ll make you feel alright…..

  27. retiredspook says:

    Willy,

    You need to start paying closer attention

    Google “healthcare bill + jail time” and take your pick of 3,290,000 hits.

  28. thealientruth says:

    hey
    marksarah
    i tried social security spooky’s galactic google logic
    and googled
    “”healthcare bill healthier people”
    and got 2.71mm hits
    then i googled “hating healthcare” and got 52mm hits
    and then i googled “loving health care and got 38mm hits
    as always cosmically confused
    what does it all mean?
    please explain….

  29. neocon1 says:

    spook

    Willy,

    You need to start paying closer attention

    wanker is the gold standard for “liberalism is a mental disorder”
    if Palin got elected, his head would explode and he would pee his panties.

  30. neocon1 says:

    what does it all mean?
    please explain….

    Na Nu Na NU….points to the sky….HOOOOOME!!

  31. neocon1 says:

    rico

    I’m guessing PT Barnum would think this thread is absolutely hilarious. And quite apart from whether he would, I do. Go job folks!

    calliope music playing in the background…..

    welcome to the GREATEST SHOW on the EARTH LOL

    just think here YOU can be part of it!!
    LOL

  32. retiredspook says:

    as always cosmically confused

    Yeah, bagni — drifting around the cosmos will do that to you.

    what does it all mean?
    please explain….

    I suspect it means that there’s a little something in the healthcare bill for everyone — including JAIL TIME if you don’t comply. With over 2,000 pages, you’d expect that, wouldn’t you?

  33. neocon1 says:

    spook

    I wonder if they give out baggy pants with the jail time?

  34. tiredoflibbs says:

    willy,

    go back to your government job with your master’s degree and just be the drone that you were meant to be. Life under that rock must be the best you can do and it’s obvious why you make so little money with a Master’s degree.

    “Sarah Palin said on Rush’s radio show that in Obama’s plan “people who don’t buy heathcare might serve jail time.””

    Obviously, you have no clue as to what is in Pelosi’s bill. She was specifically asked about jail time being an adequate consequence and in modern liberal fashion she ducks the question.

    Now, how about joining the rest of the world and becoming aware of your surroundings and current events. Oh, and disconnect the line from which you get your talking points.

    There is time to change for the better. Right now you are just existing for the Obamateur and the Democrats, which is where they want you.

    Pathetic, truly pathetic.

  35. neocon1 says:

    tired

    go easy on w wanker, he will never come back here again …….for the 40th time. LOL

  36. ricorun says:

    neocon: just think here YOU can be part of it!!

    I got stuff to do. Here’s a message from the AG tho…

    klkl,j bkh jvbkc dtgrwrwwdg yuhu

  37. neocon1 says:

    rico

    translate……

  38. ricorun says:

    Neocon: rico, translate…

    Sorry, but I don’t speak infant. I just thought you might.

  39. Amazona says:

    I am sorry I missed the predictably insane anit-Palin hysteria, but am glad to see an anti-pollution agenda being put in play here.

    I picked up Sarah’s book last week and was in the middle of reading it as her Fox interviews took place. I was one of millions who could see that the McCain camp hung her out to dry, not stepping up to the plate to explain how THEY had decided how they wanted her packaged, dressed, scripted and presented, how THEY hired stylists to pick and purchase clothing and accessories for her and her family, and how THEY folded when the RRL rabble went on the warpath and started their campaign of lies and smears. It was when I wrote McCain off—he may have stood up for his fellow prisoners when he was a POW, but he didn’t lift a finger to defend this woman from the situation in which his “headquarters” placed her, and I have never regained my former respect for the man after seeing how he allowed her to be treated.

    But she has learned, and won’t let anyone else take charge of her the way these people did. I loved it when she told a crowd her jacket came from her favorite consignment store, and the McCain camp flipped out because she went “off script”.

    This woman made more progress, in more ways, for more people, just because of her common sense and integrity and determination to do the right thing for the people of Alaska than had been done in decades before her election. And it appears that her experience in government is geometric in its growth curve–the more she learns, the faster she learns more.

  40. Amazona says:

    This can be a very educational blog. For example, it appears that wikipedia in Canada actually has some credibility, and is not the propaganda joke it is down here. Who knew? But CO seems to think wiki is quite the credible “news” source.

    I love it when the trolls can only find wiki to back up their lunacy–wiki or Al Jazeera.

    I wonder if Algore went to wikipedia to find out that the core of the earth is “millions of degrees”. Was that millions of degrees farenheit or celsius, Al?

  41. canadianobserver says:

    Wow, who would have thought the parrot population was so big in the U.S. of A.

    If these folks are any indication of Palin’s fan base, it is frighteningly obvious that she has become a magnet for the uniformed and the ignorant.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk

    If you believe Bush & his supporters dumbed down the image of America; well, Sarah and her minions surpass even those deluded individuals.

  42. tiredoflibbs says:

    “Wow, who would have thought the parrot population was so big in the U.S. of A.”

    Well, how do you think Obamateur got elected?

    You parrot his tripe daily. Why are you so surprised?