{"id":3326,"date":"2010-11-27T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2010-11-27T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T20:06:02","slug":"sarah-palins-media-persecution-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin’s Media Persecution Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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”<\/em> Korean allies. It was a rather trivial spurt of mockery that was more entertainment than news.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> (because the “mama grizzly”<\/em> is still too afraid to peek out of her online cave to talk to real people) Palin complained that the media…<\/p>\n

“…couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Media Matters reports<\/a>, 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?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/em> Perhaps if the media ever gets to ask her a question it might be who “they”<\/em> are. Although this incident should not diminish the other cases of persecution Palin suffers at the hands of the “lamestream”<\/em> media. Take this barrage of venom<\/a> for example:<\/p>\n

“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.’<\/em> 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\u2019s opening, ‘A-LASK-ahhhh\u2014I love this state like I love my family.’<\/em> 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. 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