Iowa Speech

The great Iowa speech is now over. Well received, it was rousing and positive and focused on the upcoming mid-term elections. Sarah Palin delivered the approximately 45 minute speech without the aid of a teleprompter. To Politico, great recorder of any dollar earned by the governor, she did not seek or receive a fee for the speech. She did not announce or deny rumors of a presidental run. She talked about today and what needs to be done today for wins in November. I liked the speech. It was wide ranging and typical Palin. My one critique is that I think she needs to move on from the news media comments. Ok maybe make one comment now and then. She has overcome a barrage of crazy, goofy rumors and gossipy speculation and is riding a wave of success. She doesn't have to defend herself against every hack to who foams with speculation. Let others defend her. As to the success of reacting to the wack jobs in the media, consider the NPR report from the speech speculating that Palin implied in some vague way that Rove should go to h---. I submit, some in the media live to speculate. They wouldn't know a fact if they tripped over one. Bored with the drudgery of their lives they blow bubbles of speculation and then report on them. It's called creating the news from a mud tub. Thanks Dan Baltz of the Washington Post for a decent report from the Iowa speech. Thanks to C-Span for telecasting the speech live so we could hear the governor in her own words.

Tonight Is the Night

At 8 p.m., Eastern Time, C-Span will telecast live Gov. Palin's speech from Iowa. This is 7 p.m. Central Time. It is a speech to watch. As the pundits twist and turn trying to determine if Palin is going to run for president she keeps them guessing. Trying to gauge her by the usual actions of prospective candidates, some think she isn't up to grassroots campaigning. Guys check out how she campaigned out for governor of Alaska. Check out how she welcomed the crowds at rallies during the 2008 presidental campaign and took extended time going through the crowds talking and handshaking. Others think Palin indeed may run and that if she does she will be a formidable force. I think if she runs she will run to win. So I'll be listening carefully to the speech tonight and watching the reactions to it.

A Great Speech

It was a well delivered, informative, witty speech and it was given by Sarah Palin on Wednesday, Sept. 15 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event was held by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. Palin was comfortable at the lecturn and displayed an array of comments on everything from how the media is focused often on irrelevant things to how she made her way from council member in Wasilla, Alaska to the governor's office to the national stage. This speech extended for over 45 minutes. Coverage of it by the national media has been next to non-existent. This is not suprising. When Palin gave a major address during the 2008 presidental campaign on equality for women and issues relating to women, the media was on coffee break. The coffee they drank was bitter and the things they wrote about Palin were also bitter and devoid of sugar. Sadly the brew the media heated up all was about Palin's shoes and her clothes and her glasses and her kids. They slept through the women's rights speech.Today the media is still frozen in place and still offering up the same stale brew. But if you really want to hear the governor give a very excellent speech then go to Palin TV and watch the speech she gave in Oklahoma this week. It is a lead up to the very important presentation she will make on Friday in Iowa. Don't miss the Iowa speech. It will be shown live on C-Span. Tune out the lost on earth media who are sinking in the muck they created and hear what Palin has to say direct.

Major speech coming

Sarah Palin will make a major speech on Friday in Des Moines, at the annual Iowa GOP Reagan dinner aptly themed this year as a "Salute To Freedom." Tune in. The speech will be broadcast on C-Span at 7 p.m.central time from Hy-Vee Hall. I suspect some other news organizations will join in. The question continues to circulate, will she run for president in 2012? This speech should offer some very interesting clues as will other aspects of her visit there. More on the event coming here.

The Great Mosque

The Great Mosque controversy is correctly defined by Sarah Palin. Sure the Iman has the right to build a Mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero but common sense and sensitivity say it is a bad idea.It is simple. Not complicated as the Iman and others are trying to make it. It has nothing to do with anti-Muslim feelings sweeping America. Those advancing this argument try to change the conversation at the same time they try to twist America into a fearful place. Those who built this country and held it proud are told they are just an angry, intolerant mob clinging to their guns and bibles. Now the Iman says Palin is disingenious when she posts about this issue. He implies that she and others are using the issue for political purposes. Now lets ask the Iman, what is his purpose?

Bits and Pieces and Megan McCain again

I'm not wondering about Megan McCain. She reveals herself in an unflattering way when she writes in her book of being upset at not being able to use the F-word around Piper Palin. She reveals more of her self when she implies a campaign is not a place for children. Here is a person with the best of educations, wealth in her family that is akin to Midas and according to her she fits in well in all the best places but she lacks something called knowing the world does not revolve around her. She lacks class. As Megan is scheduled for an appearance, or two, on the good old Joy Behar Show, no joy there, expect more slams and digs at the Palins. Where ever she goes, Megan takes her snipy view of life and dark clouds with her.
Then we have the frothy Chris Matthews, host of the MSNBC Democratic Party show, who has lost all crediblity as an impartial journalist. His latest raving is so out of this world as he tries to imply Sarah Palin does not come out strong against the Koran burning pastor so she must tacitly support him. Matthews should clearly label his show for what it is, propaganda.

PA Senate Race Comings and Goings

The US senate race in Pennsylvania is underway in a low key way. But things are picking up. The big Democratic fish are coming in to endorse Joe Sestack. We wonder if Sarah Palin will come to the Keystone State to rally for Pat Toomey? Palin drew big crowds when she campaigned in the state during the 2008 presidential campaign. She also drew crowds at a recent gathering in Hershey. Toomey has the lead now and it's hard to see how Sestak is going to catch up given the situation on the ground. Pennsylvania has its share of budget and unemployment problems. It has an outgoing Democratic governor and a Republican controlled legislature. There is talk of budget cuts and disagreement between the governor and the GOP legislature on the amount to tax natural gas resource development in the state. As the campaign heats up between Sestak and Toomey here's hoping to see Palin in the Keystone state again before November.    

And then there was Megan McCain

Oh that Megan McCain, you gotta feel sorry for her. This poor little rich girl who spent most of her dad's presidental campaign blogging about life on the campaign trail, now tells us how she cried and cried when she learned Sarah Palin was her dad's VP nominee. Gee, Megan was so upset. I mean she just didn't know  anything about this Palin. It was all so scary and confusing to her. She became a basketcase. She didn't even meet Palin until they took the stage in Ohio together. I mean, she was frantic. This unknow woman might do or say some wacky thing. Now this story sounds dramatic and all but it also points out that Megan might not be too smart or maybe she was hysterical because she was hoping for a different VP selection. I mean here is internet savvy Megan just breaking out in a sweat over the Palin selection because she knows nothing about her. Come on. Way before Palin was ever selected, when she was a longshot possibility, some of us went on the internet and read about her, her record, her accomplishments, watched videos of her speeches and so on. Tell me I knew more than Megan and I knew it before her! Ok, I don't buy it. When Megan heard that scary unknown from the last frontier had been selected, why didn't she get on her fabulous laptop and google search Sarah Palin? Why didn't she inform herself before the selection? Now I'm only saying that a week or so ago, when asked, Megan said she didn't know who she would support in the 2012 campaign. Then this week she came out in the open and told us what we already surmised, she's a Romney girl. I wonder if she was a Romney girl in 2008? Just wondering. Megan, when you don't know who someone is, google.

Ruth Marcus meets Orwell

Ruth Marcus thinks she has the lowdown on Sarah Palin and Orwell. Writing in one of her incessantly critical columns about Palin, Marcus implies it is highly unllikely that Palin knows anything about Orwell and probably never read any of his work. Orwell wrote about many things including manipulation of languague to distort truth. In other words, fantasy over fact. Sound familar? I thought about fantasy over fact as I read the column where Marcus berates Palin for defending herself against another slam by another left leaning guy with the last name of Gross. The slam was called something like the Sound and Fury of Sarah Palin when it really should have been titled the Sound and Fury of Michael Gross. Palin called such hacks "impotent" or something similar. Marcus was offended, not for Palin of course who is defamed on a daily basis but for the Gross guy. She thought Palin's comments were too strong, too tsk tsk. Somewhere in that column Marcus got around to Orwell and defended him too from the likes of Palin ever reading his writings. How Marus gained her knowledge of Palin and Orwell she doesn't say. Did she have Joe McGinnis peek over the fence into Palin's book collection? If she did, she's not telling. We just have to take her word for it, as she is more elite than the rest of us, that people like Palin (and probably like us) don't read Orwell. We don't even know who he is. That's why Marcus and the like have to tell us what's best for us and why they try to destroy with words people they don't agree with, like Palin.

Oh the wonderful AP

It must have been a slow day in AP land. Well really a slow two days. Beginning on Sept. 4 and carrying over into Sept. 5, breathlessly and in expanded form, AP told the world that Joe McGinnis, you remember him as the Palin stalker, was slinking (my description) back to his lower 48 sink hole to sling together another tell it all about Palin. Here's the bad thing for Joe and the good thing for Palin supporters, there isn't much left to throw at Palin. Joe you're just a little too late. Your account of life over the fence, has already been told over and over again and frankly we're getting just a little tired of all this recast much ado about nothing stuff. Not content to just keep us updated on McGinnis's travel plans, AP lets McGinnis prattle on and on about the bad Palin and how everyone in Alaska is scared of her and how he is such a nice guy who really never meant to do harm to anyone and got badly treated by that rude Todd Palin and only rented the house next to the Palin's because the rent was low and he would never look over or under the fence. Of course not. Does anyone really think Joe is the type of guy to look under a fence? Besides anyone who wants to see the Palin house can just sit in a boat in Lake Lucille, old Joe says. I'm sure he knows. AP just lets him prattle on about folks offering him guns and stuff to protect himself. This guy gets more news space than Hillary Clinton. I guess AP is promoting the upcoming McGinnis hatchet job on Palin which they will quote in even more expanded form. Here is a clear link between two members of the chain gang in their belief when it comes to Palin anything can be alleged. The AP prints the latest allegations and McGinnis's incredible defense of his indefensible behavior and gives big headlines and news space to it. When it comes to Palin every day seems to be a slow day at the AP and few things are too low or ridiculous to print. Checking the facts and giving both sides, well that's what journalism used to be.

chain gang

There is an attack pack that regularily throws words of stone at Sarah Palin. These include, Ruth Marcus, Maureen Dowd, Kathleen Parker, Jonathan Capehart, David Joseph Gross, David Weigel, various AP writers, Joe McGinnis, Greg Sargent, Gail Collins, Vanity Fair magazine, CBS morning show, CNN, David Letterman, and a swarm of Alaska bloggers spreading rumors and lies with asps flying from their hair and their feet in the mud. Parading as journalists or columnists, or tall tale tellers of one sort of another, or free wheeling bloggers, this group is consistently anti-Palin. They repeat and publish any rumor or allegation. They use freedom of the press to try to defame and diminish Palin. What do they have in common?  Aside from being rampant anti-Palin, they accept that when it comes to Palin and her family, there isn't anything that can't be said, charged, claimed, reported or lied about. When it comes to this gang, nothing is sacred when it comes to Palin.   

This blog will focus on identifying and reporting the on-going media assault on Sarah Palin. Among the questions to be examined is just what is behind the on-going negative reporting on the governor. Some writers appear stricken with sexism. But there are women in the media who rush to ridicule her. There are partisan bloggers filling empty space with empty charges. There are columnists regularily attempting to diminish her. Attacking the governor is an industry by which some people make money. Some gain name recognition. Some attack from the darkness of secrecy. There are some newspapers wasting massive amounts of ink trying to discredit Sarah Palin. What is going on? Lets find out together.