{"id":6050,"date":"2011-06-03T00:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2011-06-03T00:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:32:15","slug":"sarah-palin-media-nemesis-2-of-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/sarah-palin-media-nemesis-2-of-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin: Media Nemesis (2 of 2, er, 2 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Fox on the run<\/h4>\n

Things are developing even as I write. \u00a0Sarah Palin’s bus tour has taken off, with that fox leading a pack of ten to fifteen barking cars of the mainstream media. \u00a0MSNBC’s Martin Bashir demands to know what she’s doing, and charges her with violation of federal law for having a flag motif painted on the bus. \u00a0CBS’s Ryan Caruso insists that the situation is unsafe, and blames Palin for not telling the media where she’s going. \u00a0She rode in front at Rolling Thunder, to which CBS dutifully records the irritation of a few RT office-holders, and this demonstrates the essential divide: CBS is talking to the “national legislative director” for an organization’s public event, while Sarah Palin is feted by the attendees.<\/p>\n

The thing is, she comes back stronger, while the media cannot recover. \u00a0She doesn\u2019t have to win an election, and she may be better off not to try. \u00a0All she has to do is prove that she is the anti-media; that by colluding to take her on head-to-head, the MSM made her into a figure more powerful than any media outlet, perhaps more powerful than all of them.<\/p>\n

In countless matters large and small, Sarah Palin is telling the truth, whereas the MSM is lying. \u00a0For example we on the right (and many more) know that the colorfully named Death Panels must be there somewhere in a rationed-care system, or there’s no rationing. \u00a0The media is covering this up by ridiculing, rather than merely addressing, or (gasp!) reporting on these issues. \u00a0This is not because she is smarter or more experienced or anything of the sort. \u00a0It’s because her job is easy, because it’s simple and well-suited to her. \u00a0All it takes is guts, character, charisma, stamina, judgement, honesty, and leadership. \u00a0It’s also because the media’s job is hard. \u00a0They have to convince the American people that good people are bad, the bad people are good, that simple things are complicated and that complicated things are simple. \u00a0That evil is merely different, whereas wrong is proof of evil. \u00a0They have become prisoners of their own contradictions, and are finally being called for it.<\/p>\n

They rely upon speed and confusion to keep viewers from arriving at the obvious follow-on questions. \u00a0This sort of hand-waving is an old fiction trick, appropriately enough. \u00a0As a writer, you don’t actually have to solve some issues. \u00a0You only have to show the protagonist attempting to solve it, and move on smoothly. \u00a0He’ll ask a good question and will receive a plausible answer. \u00a0The difference is that in fiction, towards the end of the book, he gets suspicious and follows up on things. \u00a0In the media this does not happen.<\/p>\n

And it’s intentional.<\/p>\n

Advantage: Palin<\/h4>\n

Sarah Palin is the biggest threat to the media right now because everybody knows the deal: 60% of Americans like her, zero among the media like her, and the media has her blood on its hands from her first career. \u00a0The whole Obama Palace Guard lined up to do battle with someone they thought was an easy target.<\/p>\n

Well, they should have picked on McCain. \u00a0His other stellar qualities notwithstanding, he has been a liability for the GOP since the gang of fourteen derailed our judge and Justice nominations. \u00a0Remember the whole “Nuclear option”? \u00a0Remember how we didn’t in fact do that because McCain’s gang of fourteen forked us into accepting that it wasn’t going to happen, and it would mean more civil times ahead? \u00a0Look at the runaway Marxism, the lawless administration, and the simple nullification of American rights since the election of Obama. \u00a0Pelosi and Reid locked the Republicans out of the Congress for two years, issuing every single bill from their own offices, bypassing the committees and staffs who are supposed to work on these things, and which by the way, are composed of both parties. \u00a0So the Gang of Fourteen bought us nothing, and cost us quite a bit. \u00a0Now those same squishy “Republicans” are counseling moderation \u00a0in opposition to the destruction of our country.<\/p>\n

These shenanigans are only possible because the media is covering for the democrats. \u00a0I just explained in a sentence how Pelosi and Reid had their way with our laws, and the media couldn’t be asked to cover these abusive irregularities in two years. \u00a0So yes, the foreign enemy is Islamist terrorists, and yes the domestic threat is Marxism, but it’s the media which renders us defenseless against both threats by keeping us in the dark. \u00a0They have an Achilles’ heel, however, and Sarah Palin discovered it while being kicked.<\/p>\n

Our media enjoy a protection by name in the Constitution because a completely non-governmental press, driven by market forces and the ceaseless clash of ideologies, is the only method by which the people might monitor their government. \u00a0The capture of our media by the “progressive” left is a clear and present danger to our republic. \u00a0This is why Palin’s war on the press is a worthy cause, and why every Republican candidate should get to work supporting her. \u00a0She can keep bouncing back, whereas the media is trapped between what they should be doing and what they have done for the past decade. \u00a0Nobody really stands up to the media, and that’s just the way it goes. \u00a0Until now.<\/p>\n

The point is not to elect her. \u00a0The point is to give her the longest fox run possible, because we are not hunting foxes. \u00a0We are hunting dogs.<\/p>\n

The Field<\/h4>\n

Oddly enough, it may seem both a bit late and a bit early, and at any rate arbitrary, to declare Sarah Palin the implacable agent of the MSM\u2019s necessary decline. She has after all not declared, and might not in the end. And if she insists on playing for all the marbles, it might not workout well.<\/p>\n

[pullquote]Romney is struggling to explain what scant differences there might be between RomneyCare and ObamaCare, and the problem is NobodyCares. Quack, blam![\/pullquote]<\/p>\n

It could be that a Palin campaign ends up about as well as Gingrich’s run. He should have stayed in a supporting position, where he was devastating. He got out in front and was hammered by his own mealy mouth. Romney is struggling to explain what scant differences there might be between RomneyCare and ObamaCare, and the problem is NobodyCares. Quack, blam! \u00a0There’s Tim Pawlenty, who won himself another chance by doing what Romney would not, and renouncing an old bad decision. \u00a0People will forgive you if you ask them honestly. \u00a0Herman\u00a0Cain has a real shot which is only beginning to gain traction. So far, all systems go. Gary Johnson gave three good interviews, then put himself on the wierd side of Ron Paul, which is admirable, but not desirable.<\/p>\n

And a host of very good Representatives and even a Senator or two look appealing, but are just not ripe yet, and they know it. \u00a0Lay off these guys, and let them build power. \u00a0If they’re worth electing now, they’ll still be good men in 2016, 2020, and if not, then don’t worry about it.<\/p>\n

There is a growing list of governors who are either on the line or ambling up to it. \u00a0This is very good indeed, and is the most promising source of the Republicans’ “dark horse” or political messiah. \u00a0It is important to note that none of this would be developing if we had a settled front-runner. \u00a0Far from a disaster, the Republican field is right now the healthiest it has been in my lifetime because it is ideologically wide and numerically deep, it is dynamic in rankings and fertile in producing a stream of new names, and it has more attention focused on it than ever in my recollection.<\/p>\n

How<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Palin’s gambit to work, the whole Republican organization is going to have to take a leap or two of faith. \u00a0We all want to see Obama defeated, and everything else is secondary. \u00a0I would vote for John McCain or Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich even though I have little confidence in any of them as President. \u00a0This is because I live in the real world, and that any of them would be just fine compared to four more years of Obama. \u00a0If we elect (say) Rudy Giuliani and later he goes to grab our guns, then we fight that out later. \u00a0First get the nominee elected, then worry about how much wiggle room we have for complaining.<\/p>\n

This is dragging on. \u00a0For now call it 2 of 3, and I’ll screw it all down Real Soon Now. \u00a0Meanwhile, please do comment.<\/p>\n

Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n

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Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Fox on the run<\/h4>\n

Things are developing even as I write. \u00a0Sarah Palin’s bus tour has taken off, with that fox leading a pack of ten to fifteen barking cars of the mainstream media. \u00a0MSNBC’s Martin Bashir demands to know what she’s doing, and charges her with violation of federal law for having a flag motif painted on the bus. \u00a0CBS’s Ryan Caruso insists that the situation is unsafe, and blames Palin for not telling the media where she’s going. \u00a0She rode in front at Rolling Thunder, to which CBS dutifully records the irritation of a few RT office-holders, and this demonstrates the essential divide: CBS is talking to the “national legislative director” for an organization’s … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,240,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-conservative","category-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}