Joe McGinniss
Breitbart Blogger Says MSM Smearing Sarah
May 5, 2011
Here I was, foolishly thinking mainstream media bears responsibility for the degree to which Sarah Palin has been able to inflict herself on American society, when a Breitbart blogger set me straight. “Big Hollywood” editor in chief John Nolte explains that, in fact, MSM, “in their desperate efforts to undermine and destroy” Sarah, have “weaponized” her own children (gasp!) as “political bludgeons against her.”
It’s a leftist conspiracy, all right, led by well known, arch-radical militants Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg.
Someday, I’d like to see Breitbart, Glenn Beck and Greta Van Susteren all on stage somewhere with a physician who could tap each of their knees with a rubber mallet, just to see whose jerks fastest.
Posted in 2012, Breitbart, Fox, glenn beck, Greta Van Susteren, Joe McGinniss, mainstream media, Obama, right wing, Sarah Palin, The Rogue | 
Tags: 2012, barbara walters, breitbard, conspiracy, GOP, john nolte, right wing, Sarah Palin, smear, whoopi goldberg | 
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“Remember When We Cared?” I’m Afraid We Still Should
May 5, 2011
Alexandra Petri is a terrific young pundit-to-be, who stepped straight from Harvard (class of 2010) into an opinion blog at the Washington Post.
She doesn’t need my good wishes in order to succeed, but I extend them to her anyway. I’ve actually read some of the columns she wrote for the Harvard Crimson and have found her to be a clever writer with a keen wit. She’s a breath of fresh air in the flatulent opinion pages of the Post.. Bookmark her and read her: she’s a voice of the future.
But like many young artists, Ms. Petri lacks a sense of history–even recent history. As witness her most recent Post piece:
“Remember when we cared.”
It’s yet another argument that Sarah Palin doesn’t matter any more.
I hope Ms. Petri will be proven right, eventually, but the headline on her column: “Palin…Remember when we cared?” is premature.
Only last weekend, Ms. Petri’s own newspaper cared very much about Sarah.
Presumably, Ms. Petri has not yet been compromised to the extent that she would have attended the “after-parties” (why do I think of placental expulsion whenever I hear that term?) that followed the White House Correspondents’ annual dinner–which, by the way, the New York Times does not allow its reporters to attend–but had she done so, she would have learned that Sarah “Isn’t She Pretty, Isn’t She Nice?”” mattered very much to the WaPo reporters who were there.
Even Sarah’s dithering for fifteen seconds before naming Greta Van Susteren as the most influential journalist in America became news on many a website over the past couple of days.
The sad fact is that only a few days ago the Washington Post said Sarah stole the show at the biggest inside-beltway-insider-politico-media event of the year.
The time will come when we’ll remember–or not–those days or yore (and bore) when we cared about Sarah. But it’s not here yet, as I’m afraid the next few months will make clear.
So do the country a favor, Ms. Petri: don’t stop paying attention yet.
Posted in 2012, Joe McGinniss, mainstream media, Sarah Palin, The Rogue | Tags: alexandra petri, harvard, harvard crimson, Washington Post | 31 Comments »
Sarah & Billy’s Boy Frank View Tornado Damage in Birmingham//UPDATE (with photos)
May 4, 2011
Sarah did inspect tornado damage in Birmingham today, in the company of Franklin Graham.
A brief video appears on the Samaritan’s Purse Facebook page.
I’m sure you’ll find it as moving as I did.
The whole thing was stage-managed by Graham’s organization (see Sarah’s sweatshirt), so nobody not
on the team got close enough to ask her any questions (i.e., “How much are you personally donating to this rebuilding effort?”)
I wonder how much more it will take before genuine, caring, true Christians have had enough.
UPDATE:
Samaritan’s Purse says:
“The Palins Pitch In.”
Sarah says, “It feels great to be working out here. I hope more people sign up with Samaritan’s Purse so they can be blessed like I am today.”
Pictures are worth thousands of words? I have nothing to add to these.
Posted in evangelical, Joe McGinniss, Sarah Palin, The Rogue, Todd Palin, Uncategorized | Tags: billy graham, birmingham, franklin graham, greed, hypocrisy, samaritan's purse, tornado | 46 Comments »
Sarah to Console Tornado Survivors Today
May 4, 2011
Sarah said last night that she and Todd will travel to Birmingham today to offer solace to those who lost loved ones and property in the recent tornadoes.
“We want these folks in those parts to know that they are not alone in this time, and Americans come together in moments like this to help support and to rebuild,” she said.
I hope a Birmingham journalist will ask Sarah one simple question: “How much of the $100,000 fee you got last night for being Trig’s mother will you be donating to Alabama tornado victims?”
I doubt that the question will be asked (last night, Sarah took only pre-approved questions), but I think we know what the honest answer would be.
However, I’m sure Sarah’s inspirational words about how sometimes God has to tear down so He can build anew will do more to lift spirits than a mere cash donation.
But here’s another idea: I happen to know first-hand that Todd has a whole crew of fence-builders on call 24/7 in Wasilla. Maybe he could send them down for a couple of weeks to help with rebuilding? After all, I won’t be returning to Lake Lucille until September.
Incidentally, attendance at Sarah’s speech last night was estimated at between 150-200. Heck, when the crowd is that small, you don’t have to estimate: just count ’em.
God to Sarah: “A hundred and fifty is all you could draw? You’re wearin’ out your welcome, gal. Better go home.”
Posted in evangelical, Joe McGinniss, Sarah Palin, The Rogue, Todd Palin, Trig Palin | Tags: birmingham, Sarah Palin, todd pallin, tornado, Trig Palin | 28 Comments »
Oh, great! Sarah Hires Breitbart Blogger as “Foreign Policy Adviser”// UPDATE: The Mouse that Roared
May 3, 2011
After being jilted by neocons Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb, who told her “flat out: ‘We can’t give you the time,'” Sarah has scooped up Peter Schweizer, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and editor in chief of Breibart’s Big Peace blog.
You can take a look at this huckster in his natural habitat at his personal website.
For every rat that deserts a sinking ship, a new mouse can always be lured aboard.
UPDATE:
Mamma mia! I had no idea that Schweizer is so loony he once wrote a book attacking Disneyland and Disneyworld:
Disney actually allows gays in their theme parks! So keep your good Christian kiddies away.
Posted in 2012, Breitbart, Joe McGinniss, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, The Rogue | Tags: 2012, big peace, breitbart, goldfarb, GOP, hoover institute, neocon, peter schweitzer, Sarah Palin, scheunemann, sinking ship | 17 Comments »
Sarah and Jerry Boykin Share Stage at Colorado Christian U.//UPDATE//UPDATE 1.1
May 3, 2011
The Colorado Independent offers a fine preview of this “patriotic/Christian” event.
Conservatives4Palin site promised live streaming, but all it does is crash my browser.
Probably God telling me not to bother paying attention.
Even God must have limits when it comes to Sarahspeak.
UPDATE:
Jason Salzman at http://bigmedia.org writes that “neither Boykin nor Palin is going to discuss Islam,” and says: “She and Boykin should be asked the question that the organizer of tonight’s event posed but refused to answer, ‘Can a good Muslim be a good American?'”
Don’t hold your breath for either the question or answer. Although I think we know that if they were honest, both Palin and Boykin would have to answer, “No.” Their God is for evangelical Christian dominionists only. It’s not a big tent. Leave your shoes and rationality at the door before entering. But bring your guns, willful ignorance, intolerance and cross-hair maps. Donations to the cause gratefully accepted–especially by Sarah.
UPDATE 1.1
ABC News’ Claton Sandell reports from Lakewood, Colo.:
Sarah Palin gave passing praise to President Obama’s “decisive leadership” in the operation to kill Osama bin Laden, though in a speech here Monday night the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate did not once use Obama’s name.
“We want to thank our president,” Palin said, but then she quickly shifted focus to the previous administration for having laid the groundwork.
“We thank President Bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory,” Palin told a cheering crowd.
So Sarah mentioned Bush by name, but not Obama. One thing about people devoid of class: they’re consistent.
Hey, tomorrow is a new day. And Sarah will get up in the morning and realize that she’ll have to live with herself throughout it.
No wonder–as I report in THE ROGUE–she used to come home when she was mayor of Wasilla and go to bed at 4 p.m. with a box of chocolates and a handful of celebrity picture magazines.
Living with that self for sixteen hours a day would exhaust any of us.
The Girl Can’t Help It: Nastiness & Pettiness Form Sarah’s Core//UPDATE 1.1
May 2, 2011
Even knowing that it was the right thing to do–both from a standpoint of simple decency and for her own self-interest–Sarah Palin last night could not bring herself to congratulate President Obama.
On Twitter, she thanked “American men and women in uniform.”
On Facebook, she added “our intelligence services.”
But for President Obama, Commander-in-Chief of U.S. military and intelligence forces, nary a word.
She’s just too mean-spirited and resentful. It’s in unguarded moments that character–or lack of same–most often reveals itself.
First, after the Giffords shooting and again last night, Sarah inadvertently gave us a glimpse of what passes for her heart.
It ain’t pretty.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that when Sarah appeared at the MSNBC party after the White House Correspondents dinner, “Invariably, onlookers whispered to their friends: ‘Isn’t she pretty? Isn’t she nice?‘”
Answers?
No, and no.
UPDATE:
Even Rush Limbaugh was able to say what needs to be said: “Thank God for president Obama.”
Snarky Sarah has painted herself into another lonely corner by refusing to give the president credit for the successful Bin Laden operation.
UPDATE 1.1
Limbaugh now says he was being sarcastic, which makes him every bit as horrid as I always thought he was. Let’s see what Sarah says tonight at the “Honor the Troops” event at Colorado Christian U.
Posted in 2012, Joe McGinniss, Obama, Sarah Palin, The Rogue | Tags: Giffords, mean girl, MSNBC, osama bin laden, president obama, Sarah Palin, shooting, Tuscon, Washington Post | 83 Comments »
And You Thought She Was Finished?///UPDATE
May 1, 2011
Where was Sarah today, before flying to Fresno for her $115,000 speech tomorrow at a junior college thirty miles to the south?
Holed up in her Lake Lucille compound, licking her self-inflicted wounds?
Hardly.
If you thought that, it just proves you don’t know Sarah: as irrepressible as she is irresponsible.
Look at the picture above. That’s newly-spruced up Todd on the left; then Sarah, looking at Todd as if she’d just learned that all the rumors about him and his love child and the hookers had been confirmed; then Greta Van Susteren, the Fox TV blatherer who last summer called me “The Wasilla Stalker,” and on the far right, Bill Press, who hosts a theoretically “liberal” talk show on SiriusXM satellite radio, and who’s proven himself a more tolerant man than me, because I’d never let Scientologist Van Susteren get close enough to me to put her arm on the back of my neck.
Washington Post gossip column Reliable Source has such a wonderful account of this event that I’ll republish here in full, rather than just posting a link:
Sarah Palin is surprise guest at White House Correspondents’ weekend parties
By The Reliable Source
And you thought this weekend was going to be all about Donald Trump! Probably only one other lightening-rod VIP could have stolen the mogul’s buzz in the pro-am zeitgeist tournament known as the White House Correspondents’ weekend, and darned if she didn’t pull a surprise appearance. You betcha, she did.
Sarah Palin walked into the Georgetown home of Mark Ein shortly before noon Saturday to dazzle a brunch crowd of Washington insiders and visiting luminaries. Black bell-sleeved summer dress, shiny hair. She and a clean-shaven Todd Palin posed for a few photos with hosts Wendi Murdoch and Susan Axelrod, then carved a path through the crowded dining room with their host for the weekend, Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren.
So, a win for Van Susteren, scoring the buzziest guest? (Her other guest, Kate Hudson, had to bow out for movie-promotion commitments.) Sure, but with an asterix, for Palin’s not actually expected at tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Van Susteren’s husband John Coale told us: “She’s just doing the brunch and the after-parties.”
Let’s forgive the Washington Post for misspelling “lightning rod.” Because, that’s our Sarah, isn’t it? “Just the brunch and the after-parties.”
She wouldn’t attend the dinner itself, because there she could not have made herself the center of attention.
But to all who still think she’s toast: Sarah Palin plans to run for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
She’s not kissing Beltway butt just because she likes the way it makes her lips feel.
Thanks to a commenter for pointing out that the real reason Sarah is not attending the dinner itself–this is something the Washington Post gossip columnists apparently did not know–is because she’s picking up another $100,000 for speaking at the “Heroic Media: Heroes among Us” dinner just across the District line in Bethesda, Maryland. Heroic Media describes itself as “a faith-based non-profit that reduces abortion by helping women who face unexpected pregnancies learn hopeful alternatives through mass media advertising.”
Best way to stay non-profit is to pay Sarah a hundred thousand bucks a pop.
Posted in 2012, Fox, Greta Van Susteren, Joe McGinniss, mainstream media, Obama, Sarah Palin, The Rogue, Todd Palin | Tags: bill press, brunch, greta, greta van susteren, kiss ass, white house correspondents' dinner | 56 Comments »
Sarah Cashes In Again
April 28, 2011
DON WARKENTIN: Junior College President is Sarah’s Latest 100K+ benefactor.
Even while asking SarahPAC donors for a new round of contributions, (“I know what a sacred trust it is to be asking you to contribute your hard-earned money to SarahPAC,”)–oops, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold it right there:
Asking for donations to a political action committee is a “sacred trust?”
Trust because you have to trust her not to spend the money on herself?
Sacred because Sarah herself is the sacred one God personally chose to prepare America for the return of Jesus, which she has said she knows will occur during her lifetime on earth?
Sacred trust: just one more phrase whose meaning eludes Sarah and her ghostwriting team of C students.
But speaking of C students, Sarah will plump up her personal treasure chest to the tune of $115,000 on Sunday when she speaks at West Hills Junior College in Lemoore, California, thirty miles south of Fresno.
Preparations have reached fever pitch.
The school’s president, Don Warkentin, says proceeds from ticket sales will go toward maintenance of the new Golden Eagle Arena, a $24 million indoor sports facility.
Sarah should feel right at home, no doubt reminded of the $18 million indoor sports arena she built while mayor of Wasilla, leaving the city staggering under the weight of long term debt.
But at least one West Hills JC student sees Sarah’s $115,000 fee as money well spent. Deseree Soto told a local ABC station,
“I think it’s actually really good… we always need someone to come down and motivate the students.”
Sarah’s speech will be entitled “More Power to the C Student,” echoing her recent comment to Greta Van Susteren.
Posted in Joe McGinniss, Sarah Palin | Tags: lemoore, lemoore california, palin speaking fee, palin speech, warkenton, west hills college | 45 Comments »
“More Power to the C Student”
April 27, 2011
That could be Sarah’s 2012 campaign slogan, previewed last night in her interview with Greta Van Susteren, FOX News’ resident Scientologist.
“What the heck is wrong with asking the President of the United States to disclose what his college thesis was, what some of the Harvard Law Review papers were that he wrote? I don’t care about his grades. I don’t care if he was a C student. You know, more power to the C student. What I care about is what goes into his thinking today?…A lot of that could be reflected in the writings that he produced as a college and a grad student.”
That got me wondering about college theses. Has anyone ever asked Sarah for hers? Do you suppose the University of Idaho required her to write one before awarding her a degree? Wouldn’t it be fun to read that?
Do you suppose Sarah’s college writings offer clues into the roots of what passes for her “thinking” today?
Forget Trig’s birth certificate: Trump should demand to see Sarah’s college thesis. He could send his investigators straight from Hawaii to Idaho.
William Shatner could give it a live reading, with bongo drum and bass accompaniment.
Posted in Donald Trump, Joe McGinniss, Obama, Sarah Palin, The Rogue, Uncategorized | Tags: idaho university, scientology, van susteren | 37 Comments »
