In the wake of her disastrous video statement Wednesday, Sarah Palin is running to Sean Hannity for a heaping of consolation and damage control.
The video Palin released on the day of the memorial for the victims of the Tucson rampage presented her as the victim and, if that weren’t bad enough, offended millions with her appropriation of the phrase “blood libel” to describe what she was suffering.
It didn’t take long to recognize the depths to which her foot was shoved down her throat. She was lambasted from all sides with even staunch conservatives in shock by her fumble.
So in an effort to redeem herself she has announced that she will appear on national television to take questions about the incident. The only problem is that the questions will be coming from her dear friend and apologist, Sean Hannity. No one is more obsequious than Hannity, who we can rest assured will do his best to rehabilitate Palin’s image.
The one thing that we can take away from this is that Sarah Palin is bent on affirming her manifest cowardice. Just by scheduling this “interview” she is demonstrating a pitiful lack of character. She is conceding that she does not have the intellectual capacity, or the intestinal fortitude, to face her shortcomings or her critics. Does she really think that anyone will conclude from this charade that she has been put to the test and reclaimed her dignity (such as it is)?
Palin is now in full flail mode. Her latest book is #542 on Amazon. Her reality show on TLC is not being renewed after having dropped viewers throughout its short run. Most polls show that even Republicans don’t support her for president in 2012. And her favorable ratings are hovering in the mid-twenties.
It may be time for her to take a bow and return home to Wasilla. Thank goodness the American people are demonstrating a far greater measure of common sense than Palin ever will.
she’s toast. it’s amazing to me that the regular news outlets are still talking about her after Wednesday’s disaster. at some point, people are going to throw up there hands and she will be relegated to the Limbaugh pile of waste. Ya know, talk radio for crazy people.
I have seen the term “Blood Libel” used, for better or worse, so often that I forgot it even had a nefarious anti-semite meaning, so I’m not extraordinarily upset about the term itself (though under the circumstances it does seem idiotic to use it).And to be honest, I found the Washington Times’ saying the reaction to Palin’s gaffe is part of an “ongoing pogrom” against Conservatives many degrees more offensive.
What bothers me more is Palin’s belief, and those of her fans, that she needed to make herself a martyr in the wake of a the killing of, among others, a nine year old child. She could have taken down the map and waited to make a statement until after the funerals before she said, basically, “I’m a victim here”. I find the disconnect between the events and Palin’s egotism horrendous.
Some polls have her getting 40% of the vote if she went head to head with President Obama.
My advice to the Liberal Media is to stop berating her because when they partake in this senseless behavior, they make her a “victim.” If they leave Ms. Palin to her own devices, rational and intelligent Americans will continue to see her for what she is–an intellectually inept, selfish, angry, and irrational American that believes in two America’s–Sara Plain’s America and the Evil Liberal America.
Hmmm. The Liberal Media should stop “berating” her. Good advice. I only have two questions (and neither is to ask which polls have her doing so well): What, to you, is the Liberal Media? Anyone with an opinion and a blog? And how is pointing out how uninformed she is for someone who, in some polls gets 40% of the vote against the sitting President, “berating”?
Left to her own devices Ms. Palin has manufactured a small media (presumably a Tea Party Media) machine. She was hand-picked to be a vice President candidate and, despite her intellectual ineptness garnered this into great popularity. There is no indication that leaving Ms. Palin to her own devices will do any damage to her popularity.
Sarah Palin–the Anna Nicole Smith of American politics. All she needs is Bobby Trendy and a yappy little dog named Sugarpie.
Godslayer, that is the best Palin description I’ve ever read.