In defense of Sarah Palin

I made the mistake of turning on The Daily Show with John Stewart the other night. As usual, nothing he said made me laugh, just a collection of poorly written jokes slanted to the far-left. I haven’t had much use for Mr. Leibowitz since Stephan Colbert left his show, and I didn’t much appreciate his attack on John McCain a few years back, so it was simply morbid curiousity with what he would be saying now that Barack Obama is President-Elect that kept me from changing the channel. In an unsurprising move, this partisan hack decided to take a shot at Sarah Palin, trying to paint her as a whiner now that the election is over, and “correct” her claim that she wouldn’t make baseless accusations by showing clips of her discussing how Obama was “paling around with terrorists”, and that he doesn’t see America the same way we do. Of course Mr. Leibowitz wouldn’t bother researching those claims would he? Oh no, that would get in the way of his laughless jokes…

There seems to be a growing number of people who haven’t bothered to do any research on the Governor of Alaska, deciding to simply believe the worst they hear about her. Go to any far-left website like the Huffington Post, and you will find a group of rabid anti-Palin partisan hacks. Let’s forget that Keith Olbermann didn’t bother reading the transcript of the Charlie Gibson interview when he made his ignorant comments about how Palin “seeing Russia from her house” doesn’t count as foreign policy experience, especially when any idiot watching the “final product” could tell it was poorly doctored. Let’s also ignore that everyone discussing her “lack” of foreign policy experience has outright ignored the Alaskan Pipeline Project, something she put together by working with a variety of Canadian officials from the Yukon, Alberta and British Columbia, something I have been discussing for a while on my blog… Let’s simply address a few of these lingering issues…

Let’s start with Stewart’s ignorant remarks about Palin’s statements. For a man who claims to be an expert on politics, he sure missed the mark on this. Barack Obama DOES have a history of “paling around with terrorists”. I have heard CNN’s Rick Sanchez try to debate this by saying the only “terrorist” Obama knows is Bill Ayers, and that he is “actually” a “respected” member of the city of Chicago, ignoring that he has repented for his past crimes and that he often brags about them. For Sanchez and Leibowitz’s information, you can’t talk about one of these “terrorists” without bringing up the other, and in this case, it is Bernadine Dohrn. As Camille Paglia said the other day,

The mystery of Bernardine Dohrn: How could such a personable, attractive, well-educated young woman end up saying such things at a 1969 political rally as this (omitted in the film) about the Manson murders: “Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach. Wild!” And how could Dohrn have so ruthlessly pursued a decade-long crusade of hatred and terrorism against innocent American citizens and both private and public property?

This woman is just as twisted, hateful and dangerous as her husband, and why her name wasn’t raised during this “investigation” is beyond me. For those keeping count, that is two “terrorists” Barack Obama has “paled around with”. What about Progressives For Obama? If Ayers and Dohrn aren’t enough, why not bring in the rest of the Weathermen who aren’t dead or in jail? My count was at least five other members of the former terrorist group (ran their member list through a Google search), so that is now seven “terrorists” he is “paling around with” for those who still believe what Palin said wasn’t true. How about Rashid Khalidi for number eight? We don’t know who else was at the 2003 going away party Obama threw him, but I am sure there were a slew of antisemities in attendance, if not a few foreign and domestic “terrorists”. Even without taking into account Raila Odinga and other “skeletons”, there is enough of these relationships to back-up Palin’s statement, and seeing that these people helped “educate” the President-Elect, I also believe that Obama doesn’t see America the way others do.

John, you honestly have to do your research. I know you are busy writing laughless jokes with your useless staff of unfunny writers, but since you claim to be a political comedy show, it would be nice to at least have the “political” aspect nailed since you definitely lack anything resembling “comedy”.

If it isn’t Sarah’s comments about Obama’s associations, it is her supposed remarks about “Africa being a country” and “not knowing what NAFTA is”. The New York Times was reporting on the “Martin Eisenstadt” fiasco, something which should have caught the attention of all these rabid anti-Palin, especially when they quoted the non-existent source to back up their deranged beliefs. The truth is that this story started with Fox News’ Carl Cameron and a post-election appearance on The Factor with Bill O’Reilly. No one knows who Cameron’s source was, and while Allahpundit at Hot Air has said that it wasn’t the imaginary “Eisenstadt”, I do believe that whoever it is, they are just as credible as the nonexistent McCain adviser.

It doesn’t matter that, according to various sources inside the McCain campaign, that many of these people seemed out to “destroy” Palin since the start of the campaign, that much of this isn’t fact, but fiction created by their own misguided hatred. Greta Van Susteren actually “debunked” this on her show during a discussion with Elaine Lafferty. Lafferty, a Clinton supporter who joined the McCain-Palin campaign after Hillary’s loss in the primaries, told Greta that the Governor was far more intelligent than anyone had given her credit. As I have stated before, while thin, she does have foreign policy experience, but it isn’t simply her dealings with Canada. I could go on about the $4 billion in trade Alaska does worldwide, but all that needs to be said is that in 1994, after NAFTA was put in place, trade between Palin’s state and Canada and Mexico wnet up by about 629 percent. I highly doubt anyone who is Governor for even a week, let alone two years, wouldn’t know about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Many should have known this was garbage the instant that accusation was made…

The problem is no one cared. You had CNN, MSNBC, CBS and any other partisan network jump on this story the instant it broke. Nicolas Graham at the Huffington Post didn’t even bother verifying his source when he post the original story, something to which deranged reader couldn’t help but comment with glee over. No one has bothered to issue apologizes for this mess, especially not Cameron himself who seems to have been sidelined since the Eisenstadt story broke. No matter what Fox News says, no matter how firmly they are standing behind the original story, I honestly believe that they are the ones who should take the blame for this fiasco. It is obvious that they are trying to save their credibility when this whole thing began to unraveled, but it isn’t working. Many bloggers, including myself, have begun to wonder whether or not O’Reilly and Cameron were trying to “turn over a new leaf” with this story since Obama became President-Elect, especially with the way CNN and MSNBC are fawning over Barack since his election win roughly two weeks ago.

All in all, I think all this says more about the quality (or lack of it) in journalism in America, then Palin’s intelligence. It does seem the glory days of reporting are now long gone…

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I could go on about all the incidents of the media mistreatment of Sarah Palin again, but I would recommend new readers to look at Double Standards of the main stream media, as well as other articles I have written on the subject. It would be nice to see reporters trying to stay fair and balanced now that the election is over, but I am not holding my breath. Until this love affair with Barack Obama ends, we won’t see reporter like Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams or Rick Sanchez giving up their rapid partisanship. All we can do is continue to research the issues, rely on credible sources of information for the real stories instead of those who have shown to have political agendas… No matter what cosmetic counter girls and other uninformed partisan hacks like John Stewart tell us…

UPDATE: The instant I think they will leave Palin alone, the MSM goes after her for be around while turkey’s are “executed”. They act as if they have never had a turkey sandwich or celebrated Thanksgiving before… Urgh, if Michelle Malkin wasn’t reporting it, I would have a hard time believe that this lunacy was true… Sinking to new lows all the time…