Thread: Media will destroy Palin if she wins in the primaries

Matthews: Media will destroy Palin if she wins in the primaries

12:15 pm on July 7, 2010
by Ed Morrissey

This isn’t intended as a criticism of Chris Matthews or his statement about Sarah Palin; in fact, he’s exactly correct in this analysis. If Palin decides to run for President and scores big in Iowa, survives in New Hampshire, and can go big in South Carolina, she will have a strong lead for the Republican nomination. Actually, that’s not exactly news, since that’s also the strategy for Mike Huckabee and Tim Pawlenty (who is spending three days in Iowa), and anyone else seeking the Republican nomination. Matthews is also not wrong about what will happen if Palin manages to do it (emphasis mine, courtesy of Greg Hengler):

An early knockout is the way she can win. The media will try to destroy her, of course, but if she goes early, wins early, I think she can win it before anyone can stop her.

Of course they will! Notice that no one objects to this characterization of the media on this panel of, er, media personalities. No one questions whether that is actually the media’s job, to intentionally try to destroy political candidates. It’s all just a given. Palin runs, media will attempt to destroy her — and it serves as an implicit admission that the media did exactly that in 2008.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/07/m ... primaries/

I'm still waiting for that major lawsuit against the media, forcing them into service to the people and not manipulation of. Or please God, just one renegade station that reverts to just the facts ma'am format and ditches the bias and the talk.

JohnDoe, do you have an opinion of your own? Would be nice to hear your own voice rather than article after article.

Originally Posted by TexasBorn

JohnDoe, do you have an opinion of your own? Would be nice to hear your own voice rather than article after article.

I like to post articles. Feel free to do what you like to do.

JohnDoe is a man of few words...a quiet thinker.

Originally Posted by TexasBorn

JohnDoe, do you have an opinion of your own? Would be nice to hear your own voice rather than article after article.

I don't have an opinion on every article that I post. I don't even read some of them. I don't post them because I am interested in what they say but rather because I know that others here are interested in what they say.

P.S. I don't care what they do to Palin because she supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and I don't.

"P.S. I don't care what they do to Palin because she supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and I don't."

OMG! I am lost! She was supporting Governor Brewer. I don't care for Ms. Palin and I thought that accepting her support might even have been a mistake - but nonetheless I thought she was supporting us?!?!?!

Originally Posted by sarum

"P.S. I don't care what they do to Palin because she supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, and I don't."

OMG! I am lost! She was supporting Governor Brewer. I don't care for Ms. Palin and I thought that accepting her support might even have been a mistake - but nonetheless I thought she was supporting us?!?!?!

Q: So you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?

A: I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.

Source: Univision Interview with Sarah Palin, by Jorge Ramos Oct 26, 2008
www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=1716304

Sarah Palin Supports Arizona SB1070 - But Still Supports Amnesty ...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1053150.html

PATH TO CITIZENSHIP IS AMNESTY
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-197367.html

An Amnesty by Any Other Name . . .
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1053161.html

Hah! I just KNEW I couldn't trust that woman!

Some people would call "that woman" a decepticon.