Last week the blogiverse had a field day with Sarah Palin’s gaffe wherein she told Glenn Beck that we must stand with our “North” Korean allies. It was a rather trivial spurt of mockery that was more entertainment than news.
Palin’s reaction, however, was a massive escalation that revealed her acute sensitivity to criticism. In fact, her reaction tells us much more about her than the gaffe that started it all. On her Facebook page (because the “mama grizzly” is still too afraid to peek out of her online cave to talk to real people) Palin complained that the media…
“…couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline.”
As Media Matters reports, this was hardly a major political story. It was not reported at all by ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, PBS, NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and most other major news outlets. What else is left that would qualify this as a major story of any kind?
So when a bunch of bloggers find humor in Palin’s faux pas, she interprets that as another example of the media unfairly assaulting her. Even though the media she’s fingering had nothing to do with it. It is entirely in her warped imagination. And she advances her complaint to suggest that a string of bloopers by the President were not treated the same as her own miscues. The only problem with that is that his muffs received every bit as much attention as hers did, if not more. It should also be noted that, unlike her flub, none of Obama’s exhibited a potentially disastrous ignorance of foreign affairs.
You have to wonder to whom Palin is referring when she said “Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time.” Perhaps if the media ever gets to ask her a question it might be who “they” are. Although this incident should not diminish the other cases of persecution Palin suffers at the hands of the “lamestream” media. Take this barrage of venom for example:
“Just how Sarah is Sarah Palin’s Alaska, her new hit reality show on the TLC network? It’s soooo flippin’ Sarah, as Sarah would say. And it’s soooo Alaska, which Palin pronounces ‘A-LASK-ahhhh.’ She repeats this on the show over and over again, as though we might forget where she’s from otherwise. She says it in that chirpy honk that, to her legions of fans, represents the music of Mom, apple pie, and flyover country. To her legions of enemies, it is the sound of gum smacking and syntax breaking. As Palin intones in the show’s opening, ‘A-LASK-ahhhh—I love this state like I love my family.’ Except that she didn’t give her family up after governing it for two-and-a-half years, so that she could get a Fox News contract, and make 100 grand per speech, and write two books in a year, and drag her entire family onto a tacky reality show.”
My mistake. That wasn’t the lamestream media. That was Matt Labash in the ultra-conservative Weekly Standard. But Palin is certain to find a way to blame this on liberals in the media who somehow bewitched Labosh and his editors into publishing this screed. No doubt George Soros had something to do with it.
“As Media Matters reports…”
There is your first clue about just how full of excrement this thread is. Media Matters can’t be trusted to tell accurate news. Ever. Dig this: AP did a story on the slip-up, and it made its way onto 162 sites including CBS News, Washinton Post, Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, and others. And ABC News did do a piece on the slip-up on “Good Morning America”.
“I’ve campaigned in 57 states – one more to go.” – then-candidate Barack Obama
You are obviously getting your info from Andrew Breitbart and you’re afraid to source him (I would be too). Of course it’s BS. The web sites for CBS or WP do not equal the TV network or newspaper. And ABC DID NOT “do a piece” on GMA. That is such a dishonest claim. There was a text in their crawl at the bottom of the screen that was visible for all of six seconds. But maybe that’s what right-wingers regard as a “news” report after having been dumbed down by Fox for so long.
Media Matters documents everything they publish. You may not agree with them, but their accuracy is unassailable. And even if your Breitbart-sponsored rebuttal were completely true, it still wouldn’t change the fact that Palin lied about this being a major headline. The list of news sources that never reported on this is still more significant than a bunch of blurbs on AP affiliates.
gee, i guess that’s why they present so many audio and video recordings, since they ‘can’t be trusted’ to tell the truth.
that way, the fools trip themselves up with their own words and MMFA doesn’t have to do anything.
“It was not reported at all…”
You got that?
“…at all…”
So Media Matters lied. And don’t talk as if websites from established news organizations don’t factor into the mix. The dishonesty comes from Media Matters and your site, not from me.
The fact remains, no major news outlet made a big deal out of her slip of the tongue. Palin complained about the “lamestream” media having a heyday with her faux pas, when in fact the story was practically non-reported.
“It was not reported at all…”
I stand by that. Regurgitating an AP wire blurb does not constitute reporting. And there is a HUGE difference between the CBS web site and their network news broadcast.
You obviously don’t know what “reporting” means. It isn’t a six second crawl or posting a wire story. And even giving you the benefit of a doubt, it doesn’t change the fact that this was NEVER a “major political headline” as Palin whined. Why can’t you address that? You just want to pick nits, and you don’t even get that right.
It would like you or Media Matters stating someone didn’t break the law, when in fact they were driving 71 in a 70. Okay, so technically speaking that’s breaking the law, but in the context of this story, it would be like comparing 71 in a 70 to 90 in a 70. Maybe “…at all” was improper wording when it should have read “hardly at all”, but the fact still remains that the only one who made a big deal out of it was Palin, who jumped the gun with overzealous damage control. Palin probably doesn’t know the difference between North and South Korea, and it probably wasn’t merely a slip of the tongue, but the only ones who played up the story were a few bloggers. And not even the big ones.
“Palin probably doesn’t know the difference between North and South Korea…”
Prove it, Carnac.
From The Times (Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper), McCain advisers said:
“Palin couldn’t explain why North Korea and South Korea were separate nations.”
Doh!!!
As Palin intones in the show’s opening, ‘A-LASK-ahhhh—I love this state like I love my family.’ Except that she didn’t give her family up after governing it for two-and-a-half years, so that she could get a Fox News contract, and make 100 grand per speech, and write two books in a year, and drag her entire family onto a tacky reality show.”
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that’s because she gave up her family a long time ago. they’re nothing more than props for her ego, pride and greed.