Sally Quinn Projecting on Palin
By Larry Johnson on September 3, 2008 at 8:32 PM in Current Affairs
I was puzzled by the crazy attack that Sally Quinn launched on Sarah Palin, Republican V.P. nominee, because it was so over the top. Sally’s view? A woman with five kids has no business being Vice President. (Of course, no one made that argument to Joe Biden when he was a widower and single dad working in Washington as a Senator. But I digress.) Here’s Sally’s latest ranting:
Sarah Palin has five children. She is nursing her fifth child, an infant with Down syndrome. Her 17-year-old unmarried child is pregnant. Palin has spoken against sex education or the teaching of contraception. When her water broke with her Down Syndrome baby she got on a plane and flew eight hours back to Alaska, making it only hours before the birth, a risky decision for a pregnant woman of any age. After delivering one child she went back to work the next day. After the birth of her fifth child, she was back in the office after a few days.
I would like to hear what women think of her priorities. Do they believe that her first priority is as a mother or as a governor? Will her first priority be as a mother or as a Vice President or a President? One in three Vice Presidents become President. John McCain is a 72-year-old cancer survivor. As Vice President, Palin could ascend to the highest office in the land at any moment. Do women believe she should relegate her job to second place or her children to second place? Does she have to make such a choice? Every woman, and particularly every woman who works, including me, understands that the conflicts and the guilt are always there in a way that they are not for men.
So what’s her problem? Well, to use her logic, she’s a lousy, irresponsible mother. She was working as a journalist at the Washington Post, had a fling with the boss and married him, and then, at the advanced age of 41, had a child.
According to Wikipedia Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee was born in 1982 velo-cardio-facial syndrome. The National Institutes of Health describes Velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS):
as a disorder that has been associated with over thirty different features. (A disease or disorder that has more than one identifying feature or symptom is a syndrome.) The name velocardiofacial syndrome comes from the Latin words “velum” meaning palate, “cardia” meaning heart and “facies” having to do with the face. Not all of these identifying features are found in each child who is born with VCFS. The most common features are cleft palate (opening in the roof of the mouth), heart defects, characteristic facial appearance, minor learning problems and speech and feeding problems.
Quinn wrote about her son and his medical challenges in a 2006 article “What My Son Taught Me About God.” Well, God may have been teaching but she didn’t learn jack. Let’s face it, Quinn blames herself and her work ethic for her son’s physical and mental limitations. She probably blames herself that she waited too long in life to have a kid. I think she is being unduly hard on herself, but that’s her choice. But she has no right to dump her guilt on Sarah Palin and try to smear Palin for doing what Palin thinks is right.
Quinn is a cruel person. She could have drawn on her experience and come to Palin’s defense. Nope. Not an inkling of a charitable spirit or human kindness. Sally, pay attention to Sarah Palin in the the coming days. Take notes. Maybe God couldn’t teach you anything but i think Sarah can. YES SHE CAN. YES SHE CAN.
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WATCH SALLY QUINN ATTACK SARAH!
http://www.workingmannews.com/
see her as she says sarah crossed the tipping point!
wow…aren’t these the same sexist arguments the good ole boys used to “keep women in their place” back in the 50s and 60s. what a joke….these statements have no place in the 2008 presidential discussion. i’m SICK AND TIRED of the sexist, racist, america hating left wing bloggers and corrupt and unethical media types shirking their responsibilities and trying to cram a fraud, liar and terrorist sympathizer down our throats. obama must LOSE so we can clean house in the dnc and to teach a lesson to the networks. the media is NOT all powerful…and many heads - matthews, olberman, shuster, cafferty, brown, need to roll.
BREAKING NEWS NOW!
RUPERT MURDOCH HAS ORDERED PEACE DEAL BETWEEN OBAM AND FOX NEWS!
http://www.workingmannews.com/
IN LOS ANGELES ALL THE FOX STATIONS ARE BASHING SARAH INCLUDING KFI 640 AM JOHN AND KEN!
Rupert Murdoch has said for awhile now that Obama will win. I wonder about this man, Rupert…
Murdoch says that an Obama presidency will sell more papers. Imagine how many papers a Palin presidency will sell in 2012/2016.
Fox is hedging their bets.
If the string of the bow snaps they don’t want to be left with a stick.
So what does this mean?
That we will get no hard news on 0bama?????
Then Americans everywhere should do what they did in the movie Network, go to our windows and shout:
“We’re mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it anymore!”
This is so unfair. So unbelieveably unfair!
If Sarah Palin cannot run for VP because she has 5 kids, should we not allow women in the arm forces because they have kids at home.
Wake up America. This is not the Middle East where women cannot work. This is a very highly accomplished woman who have vetoed bills and actually manmged a budget.
It really appears this media campaign is orchestrated. Truthfully, I think much of it coming from the right is in hope of creating underdog sympathies.
That isn’t to say the writer had any business going to that depth.
Much of it from the left is the usual divide and distract stuff. Hope to get fundamentalists fighting over differences. It has not worked in the past.
Catholics and Baptists will still cling to wedge issues. This attempt to go after her when she still espouses the policy is a mistake. It could lose votes.
The fact remains many people are just plain fed up with the GOP’s greed and giveaways to the rich. There’s deeper issues at play, to try and campaign on things less than that is a mistake.
Who will deliver us from this campaign malaise? This was the new kind of politik?
No. It IS orchestrated. They want Obama. He’s the go along to get along Corporate/Mob candidate who is going to sell us out and then they will own both parties. They’ve been pulling strings for him all along.
i wondered if they were going to turn on McCain after they pushed Obama over the finish line in the primary. I figured it could be that they felt “heads we win, tails you lose,” because they would have had two acceptable candidates. But I think they don’t want McCain because he wouldn’t be controllable. Like the Clintons he has a mind of his own and he’s smart enough and knows the system well enough to fight. I have been feeling, since the 2000 election, that we no longer have a Democracy. Maybe we didn’t have one before and I just didn’t notice, but after Florida 2000, I did notice. I kept having hope, but watching this primary election was like watching a sports game that has been rigged, kind of like the time the Russians were in cahoots with the French at the Olympics.
What Evelyn Pringle says keeps being borne out by events.
Yes… connect the dots.
That makes sense. That is why the DNC suddenly is behaving like the RNC…
This election has felt so much like the Bush elections…
Do we want our government to be corporate owned as the media is now?
Yes, Keith Olberman is completely controlled by the right. Pleez.
I am offended by your “GOP’s greed and giveaways to the rich” statement. It’s a matter of choosing to do with our, OUR, own money rather than allowing a government to squander it on inefficient social programs. Government is known to not handle funds adequately. Choosing your own cause, or charity is better for all in the long run.
It’s GOP policies that allow small businesses to thrive and expand. Employing hard working Americans rather than those people milking the system. Give fish, or teach to fish?
I say that as a small business owner. We have provided several Americans throughout the years with a good job and a steady paycheck. I am shocked at some of the things we have to pay taxes on. Most people do not understand the challenges of running a small business. Additional taxation hurts those of us who rely on ourselves rather than hand-outs from the government.
I think that people like Quinn are disconnected from the obvious and ordinary because they have such ‘high’ ideals from the kool-aide they have been partaking in.
I swear that I have many friends that used to be rational, caring people turn into someone I never thought them to be capable of being during this election. It is almost like they have rabies or something…
The Obama following is like a National Hysteria or some other idea that is too scary to comprehend. I wonder if these people hear themselves thinking, or if they have, indeed been invaded by a body snatcher.
Sally Quinn is a self-obsessed, elitist, hypocrite who desperately needs therapy. Quinn is extremely jealous of any woman who is more successful than she is. Check out this article describing just some of her obnoxious behavior and her feud with Hillary:
http://www.salon.com/media/1998/03/09media2.html
I keep telling people that the media is stuck in high school!
I think the most jaw dropping thing was how outraged Sally was by Bill Clinton’s sexual behavior when her own husband had told the whole world in his memoir that she had chased him and broken up his marriage (not that he was blameless). So she was just like Monica, only successful. How people can be so holier-than-thou when everyone knows their equally dirty secrets is beyond comprehension.
Oh I agree….they have this strange, shall I call it demonic, look in their eyes and they are rabid. Ever watch the Stepford wives? Stepford people? Maybe they forgot to wear their tin foil hats?
Great Post! I saw Quinn’s rant earlier and was shocked at her hostility. Okay, after what we’ve seen during the past number of days, nothing is shocking in the primal scream coming from Barack’s new “Democratic” party and the Dear Leader’s adoring media.
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BO’s ties to a Saudi Advisor since he was 25. Manchurian Candidate or what.
Pelosi is mother to 5 and grandmother to several. The hypocrisy is laughable. I smell fear.
Then what was Nancy doing running for office? She should get home right away!
/snark
Not that it matters, but I think Pelosi’s kids were grown when she started running for office. The better analogy is to Biden who is treated like a hero for staying in the Senate when his boys were little and had just lost their mother. It’s not like he was able to be home every day at five. (I think he deserves the admirations, by the way.) Palin has a spouse to help out while Biden did not.
Yeah, Pelosi is the first women politician I thought of! And what about the Kennedy’s, especially Robert Kennedy (I know he was an HRC supporter) who had 11 (eleven!) kids!
The double standard still exists.
Women of America unite. IF BO and his backers take the white house you could end up wearing scarfs. Now we know why barack is so sexist. Shame on you Barack Obama.
Penalty Quinn: Fifteen yards for holy roiling.
Palin abandoned Catholicism for the Assembly of God. Quinn is talking about Southern Baptists in order to work the angle of Billy Graham’s daughter. This is so tenuously absurd a link that it could only appear in the blogsphere.
As for the rest of her nastygram, it’s a hit piece on working mothers, even obsessively driven ones like Palin.
What a very odd thing to write..
Then why has Quinn worked all of these years? She didn’t stay home with her kids all of that time?
The shame!
Balance the yin and yang, grasshopper.
I did not have to bring Mr. Remington 870 to my daughter’s wedding.
It’s surreal — the men of the world have caused such war and suffering, violence and greed — but what are they obsessed about? The behavior of women! Like having babies is the worst thing in the world — no, wait, the worst is wanting to choose your husband — that gets the death penalty in some places.
What is the bad and horrible thing that is supposed to happen if a few women are in charge of a few things in this world? The rabid frenzy of hate directed at Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin is truly bizarre.
How can women put up with this crap!!!
It makes me want to turn in my Guy Card.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu4IFSGIUFU
My heart goes out to parents who birth children w/disabilities…they have “homework” for the rest of their lives. It’s still no reason for Quinn to take the low road. What on earth is the matter with these people who want to torment candidates whose lives are not Happy-ever-after? Is that not the way life goes?
Furthermore, Gov. Palin is no less qualified than the Gov. of Virginia, one of Obama’s candidates for VP.
Obama continues to take the High Road, while his campaign shoots the knees off anyone who dares try to get into the arena…this is the scariest guy I’ve come across for a long time.
PUMA. No Obama, not on your life.
Sally Quinn despised Hillary also, and made sure her friends at msnbc knew it. What’s with these washington women? Do they only know how to assume the trophy position with the so-called power brokers.
I agree with Quinn, but will not vote for Obama.
Palin juggled being Govenor of the State of Alaska and taking care of her family just fine. I have no doubt she can do the same as VEEP.
Palin’s priorities should be what she and her family feel are best. I, or anyone else, should have no say so in their decisions. Sarah does have a husband who from I read is quite willing to help out, and he should. He contributed “something” to the birth of their children. Women should and can do anything they want. Oh I forgot, it is still a man’s world. Not for long fellas, not for long. It seems to me that women like Quinn only want abortion rights. Anything else, career, balancing family, equal pay, etc. appear to really cause them grief.
How can women put up with this crap!!!
Not only do they put up with it, but they often encourage it, promote it and then profit from it. The smears against Hillary have exposed far more than just male misogyny.
What happened to choice? What happened to the liberal mantra that a woman may work at home or in the workplace?
These are lizard pod people.
Or something.
I already big time bitched on Rage tonight.
About 9:20 edt
I stand there still.
Congratulations to our former First Lady (92-00)
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
the Woman who rises above POTUS tonight.
Crash.
That was the glass/marble ceiling. Yup, She did it!
I am looking forward to Governor Palin catching up with our Hillary this Indian Summer coming.
I’m in the mood for some Maya Angelou~~
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by what happens to me.
I am
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Palin/McCain 2008
With Gratitude, Senator Clinton. (dNY)
I am so proud to be an American Woman with you.
The GOP truly overstimated the value of its big name speakers.
None of these clowns should have spoken on Palin night.
Unless she totally redraws the map lines, this convention bump could head the opposite direction.
Larry -
What about the late Anne Armstrong? She had four children and was ambassador and chairwoman of the RNC. I recall marvelling at her when I was young and asked my father how she did it all. My dad replied, “She has help.”
So, of course, Sarah will have help, she must now, and her children will not suffer from it. Wish we would stop asking this question at this late date.
If Sarah Palin cannot run for VP because she has 5 kids, should we not allow women in the arm forces because they have ikids at home.
Wake up America. This is not the Middle East where women cannot work. This is a very highly accomplished woman who have vetoed bills and actually manmged a budget.
Sally has one child. Is she envious? Women can be this way to one another. Amazing.
The cartoon was wrong to depict the media as a pack of wolves. Mice is more like it.
More like angry nasty filthy roaches. I used to be a member of the Press. I am ashamed of them all.
You’re right, those are wolves. At first I thought they were pigs.
Rats…..
The sexism in this campaign, whether it be Hillary or Sarah, has been astounding. It shows that we “Haven’t Come A Long Way, Baby”.
What’s been even more astounding is the sexism of women against women. Women wanting to set limits on other women. Or women dissing their own because they want the good-looking black guy to win.
We had Randi Rhodes foaming at the mouth rant where she called both Hillary and Geraldine “Effing Wh@res”. Randi, is an alcoholic middle aged talk show host of little accomplishment. If anyone is an “Effing Ho” it is Randi.
Of course Stephanie Miller, another middle-aged talk show host, who after failing in every other show biz endeavor has achieved a modicum of success with her progressive talk show, fell in love with BO, tried not to bash Hillary too much herself, but allowed her callers to trash Hillary mercilessly. And if you called in to support Hillary, you had to bring your best game. If you didn’t, Stephanie and her crew mocked you mercilessly. Unlike Randi, Stephanie can be quite hilarious. That said, I’ve tuned in to her show very little since March and don’t know if I will ever go back to being a regular listener. From November of 2004 to March of 2008, I used to listen to all 3 hours of her show. Now, I might tune in for 15 minutes per week, but usually turn it off because they have inserted McCain in Hillary’s place for the bashing.
I just don’t get it when women bash other women for not doing everything the same way. Enter Michelle Obama bashing Hillary for Bill’s infidelity and holding her own family as the model of what a “really good family” looks like.
What a really good family looks like includes the Palins and Clintons. MObama just doesn’t get it.
missive delivered from WashingtonPost Junior High. Sally, shame on you for your critique of Sarah Palin and her decision to go for VP. since you care so deeply about children, why is Barack Obama parading all around the country with two children in lower school? double standard. and you are jealous of
sarah. sad.
Someone earlier mentioned the parallel of all those women serving in the National Guard particularly, and other branches of the service, who are shipped out for months of foreign service leaving their children behind.
If Sally Quinn and others are so distraught at the idea of Palin serving as Vice President taking time from her children, why have they not been marching in the streets to keep military mothers from being shipped out away from their children?
Political convenience? Classism? Or just plain stupidity?
Linda, you are absolutely right. If women can die in battle for this country than they definitely can hold the highest offices of the land.
I think Quinn may be one in the cocktail crowd Thompson referred to.
This woman is not worth wasting time on. She’s pathetic.
I am concerned about the Murdock/Fox News deal with Obama. I suppose we will have to jerk the cable out of the tv and what? There will be no where left to go. This is so disturbing.
There is always here and sites like this. YouTube and bloggs will get the truth out. It will return to being Americans for Americans.
The bought media have been feeding us crap for years. If not for them being so blatant and over the top now we might have continued to accept it.
PBS has been nearly as bad as the other stations. They are paid for by donations of the PEOPLE. They have been pro Obama from the start.
No matter what our age, we are the NEW voices of America. Thanks to Larry and others like him for giving us a place to uncover the vileness and the control of this country by a few rich and powerful and possibly corrupt people.
It will be a hard fight, it may be impossible if Obama is elected.
It may be impossible to stop him now. We have noted the caucus frauds, we suspect that their can be tampering with the electronic voting machines. The voting registration process is out of control. Now there are sites to register to vote online. In Ohio you can votes as soon as you register.
Does voter fraud exist? You bet it does. I know a woman who said this to me. “I need to run to the house. I only have 2 of my voter registration cards with me and I left three at home! Thankfully
my state now requires drivers licenses or similar ID.
Sally Quinn is another self-hating, jealous woman like Maureen Dowd and Nancy Pelosi. We have all known this type of woman ourselves. She hates sharing the spotlight with any other woman and always tries to tear down other women’s achievements. Sorry to be dealing in stereotypes but this type of woman does exist.
Sally Quinn and other ‘liberals’ like her, I guess would ABORT their unborn babies IF such an important opportunity came their way. It’s ironic that Quinn complains about Sarah not being a ‘good’ mother while she and her liberal buddies have no qualms whatsoever about other ‘mothers’ choosing to KILL their babies. Ironic indeed!
Judging from what I have been hearing from Obama supporters since Palin was chosen, I guess we can expect the U.S. to follow the China model on choice, that is, the government reserves the right to choose whether a baby is born or is aborted. Perhaps Sally Quinn and Alan Combs can be on the government birth oversignt panel. But who would serve as the tiebreaker? Suggestons?
Thanks anyway, Sally. I doubt I’ll be taking advice any time soon from a husband-stealing whore who made the entire WAPO newsroom MISERABLE, and set back genuine Equal Opportunity (without resentment) for women in that organization back a decade.
Who the hell does that putana think she is, casting aspersions on a woman who DIDN’T fuck to get where she is today? Talk about outrageous–Quinn, a disgrace to the majority of women, who work for a living and don’t use their sexuality to achieve power-by-association, needs to shut the FUCK up–for a change.
Do we hear the strains of Sally’s new theme song? Jealousy….Night and Day You Torture Me!
I guess that “having it all” is only for Democratic women — no Republicans need apply. As a former Democrat I am appalled at how their principles are so easily thrown out the window when partisan politics calls. No love lost on the Republicans but my God, what has happened to my former party? Were they always like this but I never saw it?
They’re the Pod Dems now supported by the Pod Feminists.
Sally Quinn should go back to her cave.
Sally famously SLEPT HER WAY to the top and got jobs in the broadcasting world according to the high rank of the men she slept with.
How DARE she criticize any woman for anything?
Sally Quinn defines the word TRAMP.
P.S. Sally Quinn was the LAUGHINGSTOCK of the TV broadcasting world years ago when she was sleeping her way up the ladder of success.
She was taken seriously — or The Wash. Post PRETENDED to take her seriously — ONLY AFTER she married Ben Bradlee, the legendary and powerful executive editor of the Wash. Post
Didn’t this has been trash Hillary too?
By Gloria Steinem
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton’s candidacy stood for — and that Barack Obama’s still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-ste
Wow! Gloria Steinem is a Pod Feminist now! Never thought I’d see the day!
It’s Obama who opposes everything Hillary stands for! He’s turned the Dem Party into the BROs before HOs Party!
Gloria, you’re still a bitter white woman clinging on to your lack of faith which is now biting you in your ugly ass. Get with it and try to grow a heart.
What is the “lunatic fringe” going to come up with next?
I was appalled when Judy Woodruff, last evening, asked Cindy if Palin was ready for the Presidency in the event of a trajedy! The outright gall to ask a wife about her husband dying!
BTW Cindy came back strong, stating that she was insulted, and that SHE had children and ran her business!
Bill O’Reilly is a WIMP! He let Quinn get away with idiotic comments.
Larry,
I loved Sarah’s remarks about the Washington pundits…the LADY plans to WORK, not play!
The “narcicisstic media” love their own kind…thus the “O”!
Reminds me of the constant onslaught against the Carters…brother Billy, wrong menus, no bars, no juicy sex!
Damn, the upper crust were so BORED!
Sally Quinn has been educated beyond her intelligence, and after her attacks on Sarah Palin, there is no way of remaining civil in any dialogue with her. She is simply wrong. She got it wrong and she is dumber than a bag of hammers. Her comments to Bill O’Reilly on Fox News yesterday were totally shattered with Palin’s speech, and now all she can do is damage control. It is more clear than ever why I stopped reading the Washington Post.
I believe the operative word here is - choice.
Ms. Quinn made hers and Governor Palin did as well.
I would like the Governor to re-examine what “choice” means and that pro-life is pro-choice. She made a decision and every woman also has that right.
No one should dictate what/how a person lives their life. Ms. Quinn chooses hers and Mrs. Palin has as well. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A strong tenet to guide our lives, ladies.
[...] Larry Johnson says Sally Quinn feels guilty about her own situation: that’s why she launched her version of the Mainstream Media’s Palin attack du-jour. [...]
I just watched Sally Quinn on CNN (9/5/08 with Kiran Chetry). What a bitch Sally Quinn is. This is 100% politically motivated.
Sally Quinn only proves how unprogressive liberals really are and how little genuine moral imagination they have.
Sally Quinn is a ranting fool with a maniacal look in her eyes. And she’s so hypocritical it’s almost laughable.
It’s got to be jealousy. Sarah Palin is a strong, bright, powerful woman, which of itself is disarming to some people. But couple that with the fact that she’s all those attributes AND she’s a Republican so that drives everyone mad! Plus she’s a Washington outsider and all the insiders feel like “how dare she”! I’m loving it! Sarah really shook up this election. I’m a registered Independent (I was a registered Democrat for years and years until I got sick of their ‘Holier Than Thou’ attitude, my husband is a registered Republican and he’s getting sick of the same attitude on that side), I really felt there was no good candidate running to get excited about, they are both so ‘Washington’ and then stepped in this breath of fresh air!
I’m swinging McCain’s way now and I’m not alone! The fact that she’s a newcomer is a big draw. Couple that with the media outrage and the smear campaign and you’ll have Sarah smeared right into the Whitehouse.
[...] Last September, Larry Johnson wrote “Sally Quinn Projecting on Palin.” [...]
Qiunn is a dumb witch–she should take her diploma off the wall and place it beside the toilet–it is worth very little except maybe toilet paper
donita, your well formed wording should win an award. you stated it very well!
I just watch Sally Q on Fox News…..this is the first time I have seen or heard her and I was shocked at her remarks about Palin. Who is she to judge the reason why Palin resigned? She goes on to state what Palin should of said. I really do not understand why people say what they would say if they were the ones actually making the statement!!!
Would someone please explain that to me?
the dims are trying to hurry their agenda through because they know it will be repealed along with them. hehehe
Never heard of sally quinn until she started attacking sarah palin, but she sounds like one big hypocrite, what makes her so special that she can work doing whatever she does when she has a special needs child of her own to take care of.