Roger Simon and the Media Bias Against Palin

What about being a mom and not qualified because of it.

They still don’t get it, and I don’t think they ever will.

The problem with the entire msm as a whole is that they think Obambi is qualified because he was awarded the nomination, therefore any further questions about his past and lack of achievement are null and void, because they assume that the voters don’t care and don’t want to hear any more about it. Unfortunately, the Repubs are going to begin going through the public vetting of Obambi, and the education of the public about him. Things that should have happened much more in-depth Jan – March.

Roger That!

Great post Larry….I am waiting with all of America for those answers.

Obama and the media [photo]
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Take No Prisoners Larry..NO QUARTER..!!

What DID Obama and His Friends and Mentors..like the Terrorist Bomber William Ayers…and His other American Government Hating Mentor…Jeremiah Wright TALK about all those Years they were together..???

WHAT..??

Inquiring Minds Want to Know..

Larry wants to Know…I want to Know..All of the
UNBAMADAZZELED Americans want to know…

I think even the FBI and CIA want to know..

Exactly who is this UNQUALIFIED PILOT…who Only Wants to Learn how to TAKE OFF…and CRASH LAND..

Senator OBAMA.. You Phony Democrat..I’ not gonna fly Anywhere with You..
I’ve seen the kindof DAMAGE your Friends can Do..

And…They have BAD ATTITUDES Too..

I did my page on Palin on my blog 7/7/2008, if the MSM missed it it was because they were so busy praising Odrama.

Yes us who pay attention to what is really going on knew she was a possible pick. They only have themselves to blame for their lousy work.

US troops went into Pakistan

But the questions asked about Sarah Palin were not the tough but legitimate questions. They were asking intrusive and sexist questions that would never be asked of a man. Questions such as who is the real mother of her baby. And why did she get on a plane after her water broke. I am so PO’d about those questions!

Sarah Palin is pro-contraception and a member of Feminists for Life, she has never banned library books, or abortion, nor forced anybody to teach creationism in public schools. She also does not torture polar bears, and it is doubtful that is she having an affair as the nat’l enquirer tries to imply. A girl only has so much time.

I realize everybody would like to project all the evils of the rabid right onto this one woman, but that’s not really rational. It also speaks to a certain amount of desperation.

I would love to debate some of Palin’s issues, but I suppose that shall have to wait until the hysteria and outright panic has passed.

Perfect… I am sending that to my local paper. they are also terrible at covering Obama…

They do not hesitate to put the slightest negative slant on Hillary or Palin. They went so far as to publish some of Leonard Pitts over the top garbage calling Hillary a liar and smeared her character.

Its becoming quite clear they are all playing childrens games. I remember one that should fit in.

Apparently Roger is a proud member of the Pitty Party, so we would all like to give him a big, AAAWWWW.

I hope that the sexist gig is up and is as ineffective as the racist card.

Seeing Sarah after her speech with her family made me realize how brave McCain is. He is challenging Americans to rise up to our highest and best ideals. We can be anything, and a woman can be a good mother and a strong leader.

This action of asking Palin to be on his ticket as VP is one action that is change. He is walking his talk. What a breath of fresh air.

I posted a list of Barry Soetoro’s friends at Politico and asked Roger Simon to vet the big O (that is zero)
Truly I wasn’t nasty, snarky maybe but not nasty. They took it down! lol Maybe it was the BC question? Or that Pakistan trip? lol

Wish Pat would do a toon showing the MSM, Dean and the rest of Barry’s tribe. (Barry said he liked tribes so no racism in that) Whirling and tumbling Tasmanian devils, franticly coming out of an ant hill. Every time I read a desperate troll post or the MSM I laugh at the image.

McCain’s campaign kept the speakers close together to keep the talking heads from getting their snarky bits in. Brilliant!

MSM 101
Telling lies about Sarah Palin is “journalism”.
Telling truth about Obama is racist.

How about asking if her children are really hers?

Sarah Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, a church she has been attending her whole life, gave its pulpit over to a figure viewed with deep hostility by many Jewish organizations: David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus.

Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner on Aug. 17, according to a transcript of the sermon on the church’s website.

“He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism,” Kroon said.

Brickner’s mission has drawn wide criticism from the organized Jewish community, and the Anti-Defamation League accused them in a report of “targeting Jews for conversion with subterfuge and deception.”

Brickner also described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t embraced Christianity. “Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can’t miss it.”

Palin was in church that day, Kroon said.

My guess is “Larry the Bulldog” will not pursue this story with the same vigor he pursued the Rev Wright fiasco. Prove me wrong, Larry!

Both stories are legit, Larry. What exactly was Sarah Palin doing exposing her children to this kind of hate-speak two weeks ago?

LMAO!!! What are Obama’s two main weaknesses: Inexperience and Rev Wright. So what does McCain do? He picks someone more inexperienced than Obama who happens to go to a church where hatred of Jews is tolerated. Ohhh, the irony!

Obama’s the luckiest SOB in the world!

Anybody who thinks the national media are in the tank for Obama aren’t paying attention. This is very clever of the media to trash Palin in order to get MORE support for their darling, John McCain.

It’s funny to watch the Republicans trash the national media when it is most likely the two are in cahoots.

After all, THEY singled out Obama because Obama could not win, and McCain was to be the nominee. Voters in both parties be damned.

Most people don’t realize the extent of the manipulation.

Sourced on Politico…not one of the nutty extreme right wing blogs y’all source here.

My guess is that is why Larry is going after Roger Simon, the editor of Politico today.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13098.html

Francis,
You are completely full of shit. Jews for Jesus is not a radical organization. Yes, they believe that Jesus is the Messiah. And yes, conservative and orthodox Jews dislike them. But they are not bad people and they certainly don’t want to damn America.

I’ve followed Jews for Jesus for 25 years. They are good folks.

are you kidding? a guest speaker? one time, not 20 years? you are really grabbing air!

Debbie Wasserman Shultz tried defending the sexist attacks against Sarah Palin by saying she preached abstinence only and also favored banning sex ed from classrooms. So, it was a “legitimate issue” to attack her pregnant teenage daughter.

Have you seen her daughter? She’s angelically beautiful.

And her fiance Levi? He’s incredibly hot and very much in love with his young bride judging from their body language and easy comfort around one another.

Like it or not, they’re a celebrity couple now. The Palins are a royal family to give the Obamas a run for their money.

When you see the Obamas and Bidens together, they’re sleaze. Kissing on the mouth, wife-swapping, drunk in public. Add that to all the other strange friends Obama keeps, and you’re seeing a disgraceful 4 yrs.

The Obama surrogates keep mocking “family values.” It is okay to attack a young woman, because the GOP preaches family values. Then why is that daughter being “punished with a baby”? Last I heard, you’re supposed to do the right thing, get married and keep your child. That’s a woman’s choice, and in this case it is consistent with “family values.” If Obama keeps this up, it will cost him votes. All his high road “condemning” means nothing when his surrogates, people speaking on record on behalf of his campaign, make statements contradicting his code of conduct.

Francis troll – sitting through one sermon of Jews for Jesus is not the same as sitting through 20 years of anti-white, anti-semitic, anti-American Jeremiah G-d D–m the USof KKKA Wright sermons. The test for Sarah Palin is if she would attend another sermon by that organization or donate say $56,000.00 to Jeremiah Wright for his $10 million dollar mansion fund! Why doesn’t Roger Simon look into that? Why doesn’t the National Enquirer interview the Obama nanny? Exactly how much is the princesses dance lessons costing? How about asking Obama about his college records, state senate records, tax records, medical records, birth certificate, passport and other citizenship he has held over the past 20 years. How about Roger Simon post the transcript of the speech Obama gave in support of his good friend Edward Said? Do you think Jews would care to know about that? Just asking. It is so much more important to have Sally Quinn, the scion of American motherhood, tell us that Sarah Palin can’t possibly work as a VP and be a mother at the same time, isn’t it Francis.

Thought you promised to go away.

TUESDAY NITE CONVENTION RATINGS, 10 PM ET

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NBC 4,468,000
CNN 3,220,000
ABC 3,098,000
CBS 2,928,000
MSNBC 1,590,000

Looks like Sarah’s church is addressing this:

David Brickner was recently a guest speaker at Wasilla Bible Church, the church Sarah Palin attends. Please be aware that his statements regarding God’s judgment have been published out of context in a way that we feel is misleading.

and this:

When David Brickner spoke at Wasilla Bible Church, the title of his message was, “The Jerusalem Dilemma.” Sarah Palin had not yet been tapped as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Following that announcement, David’s message became a matter of public interest, and portions of his message were removed from context to give the impression that he believes God is judging and punishing Israel via terrorist attacks. That is not David’s belief. Had his entire message been published, people would have seen the following, (also excerpted from his message).

“And so all of the controversy that we see swirling in Jerusalem is really a mirror that the world looks into to see the controversy within. The Jerusalem Dilemma is the Wasilla Dilemma; it’s the dilemma of the human heart. And so it’s important for us to notice, then, Jesus’ response to this unbelief, this rejection.

‘How often I’ve longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings.’

In other words, in the face of unbelief, God’s unrelenting response to human unbelief is to say, ‘Hey, I long to gather you. Despite your long history of rejecting My messengers, My passion as I look down the corridor of time over this vast history,’ the Son of God, in His most divinely aware statement, says, ‘I long to gather you.’ And here, I believe He’s reflecting the words of the Psalmist in Psalm 91,

‘He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. (verse 4…) …under His wings …

“Whose wings? The Almighty’s wings…
‘…you will find refuge.’

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20080903

Glad to see MSNBC in last place. They deserve it. This morning on MSNBC.com, the review of Palin’s speech appeared to be written by the Obama campaign, mentioning in the first couple of paragraphs that Palin was only the mayor of a TINY town, then referencing the pregnancy of her 17-year-old daughter, all the while ignoring the fact that Palin happens to be the Governor of Alaska. So transparent. They must think we’re fools.

Larry John is he same idiot who used to go to Olberman’s show. What an idi ot

The dems have gone all Rove on us. Simon answers a charge that wasn’t made, a tactic the Bush administration perfected. No one criticized the media for asking legitimate questions. They are being hammered for their sexism. Too bad Simon and the rest refuse to see it. Guess they’ll keep blaming half the country for being bitter, nagging, bitches who should get over it, stay home and keep to the kitchen and the bedroom. Roger that.

Exactly! What BS, Palin gets more vetting in a week than Obama has gotten…EVER.

It is very clear on who owns and runs this network the loud mouth nesman, , Do they not have anyone with a spine to say lets talk issues, not smears? well down with them, if they cannot see what is going on, then they deserved to be on the bottom of the rating polls, , McCain Palin 2008

No they won’t. It’s like they have some kind of mental deficit.

Ask about the ISSUES! That’s fair.

Soledad 0′Brien had the nerve to tell Amy Holmes that her statement about the msm being biased against Palin was unfair.

Are these people ALL on 0bama’s payroll?

What on earth are they watching? Because what I’m watching and have been for the past 8 months are people committed to the narrative of this biracial candidate becoming the first AA POTUS. They’ve dubbed him exceptional and have ignored anything that conflicts with their narrative.

For God’s sake, they’re still trying pass the idea that he has more foreign policy experience than she does. Based on what? That 10-day crash course foreign policy junket that flopped. He even pissed a couple of people off along the way. So he met with a couple of heads-of-states for an hour or two. That passes for foreign policy expertise.

He didn’t hold ONE meeting of his sub-Committee on foreign affairs. He had the chance to be a leg or two up, but he blew it.

The msm has to answer not just for Sarah, but for Hillary as well. They thought because they got away with it with Hillary they were going to get away with it with Palin.

Wrong!

The Republicans don’t play that!

Actually, by defending their sexist approach, they’ve invalidated the race card as well.

Trust me, AAs are not going to be happy when they discover that their support of 0bama cost them this.

I think the convention night ratings say it all. People are sick of the hatred coming from the CNN and MSNBC, ABC and CBS. If as another post suggested that the Repubs are behind the media takeover to create support for McCain and keep BO from winning there’s nothing we can do about that now. It doesn’t mean anything because as a lifelong Democrat I’m not sitting home–I’m voting McCain/Palin. If I’m going to be standing in soup lines I’d rather do it without radicals like the Obamas, Ayers, Dohrns,Huffingtons, the crazy leftist Soros and all of the others in the White House. I’ll take a pregnant teen over someone with ties to Islam, slumlords,and no record(maybe even of his birth) and mentors for 20 years like Wright, Mechelle and Pfleger.

So were they trying to gain Hillary support during the Primary as well?

Oh please!

Try again!

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THE MEDIA IS FUNNY

Things change!

And I ain’t laughing!

No actually watching the unctious and ridiculously suited Game Show Host Olbermann is better than old Warner Bros. ( circa 1930-45) Cartoons.

Butch Maddow is also a hoot. What I do not understand is how a person being interrogated by these mental defectives does not convulse into laughter.

Milky, would get his buckers loosened were he around Real McCoy Bid City Micks – like my neighbors -were he to play the jackass – which he does so well.

My God MSNBC is overpopulated with buffoons.
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/09/msnbc-thetool-shed-clowns-want-to-play.html

I cannot believe the way the MSM has gone after Gov.Palin and her family.Why don’t they all look at the skeletons in their closet. Campbell Brown lets hear about your father who is a convicted felon he ripped off Louisiana citizens for insurance fraud and found guilty of conspiracy.Sally Quinn had a fling with her boss and married him. If we look deep enough we could find some thing on each one of them.True journalism is dead.

As a campaign strategist I want to hear from the Vice Presidential candidate three times: The day they’re announced; The day they give their convention speech; And the night of the debate.
If I hear from them any other point of time or if you (Media) write about them any other time, it’s probably trouble.
Ed Rollins speaking on Charlie Rose, September 1 2008

Are you bucking for a thank-you card from Howard Dean?

I’m the last person I thought would be saying this, but: To be fair to Jews for Jesus . . .

They are not an apocalyptic cult. They do not hate Jews. They are not about exterminating Jews. (They do take advantage of the lonely elderly, and most of them are not Jewish.) They are not close to being as monstrous as Scientology.

The headquarters of Jews for Jesus is on my block, in New York City. They don’t try to convert around here. When they first moved in, I talked to the (Jewish) father of the guy who started the group; he was bemused but said it had turned his son’s life around. Much more worrisome is the new Japanese cult moving in down the other side of the block, who do have apocalyptic beliefs, are connected to the Japanese cult that released sarin in the subway, and stretch back to the Imperial Japanese military in World War II. According to a book about them I found online, when you reach a sufficiently high level in the hierarchy, they hand you “The Protocol of the Elders of Zion.” No kidding. (I told the J for J people to watch out for them.) Meanwhile, God wants you to send money.

Three blocks away we have the headquarters for Opus Dei.

What’s the world coming to?

Anyway, Francis, this seems a laughably weak reed against Black Liberation Theology. Drop it, for your sake.

Simon’s simpering piece of sarcastic drivel just proves Palin’s point. The MSM is in bed with Obama. GAG, that thought just made me cringe! The contrast between the two candidates is clear and Palin made it even more obvious. One party is for the people. The other is for the socialist state which our poor country would become under the proud leadership of a no-nothing opportunist named Obama. This is the man who wants to run our lives for us, and level every playing field to a bland state of mediocrity, while he lives the good life off the sweat of our brows.

Just say “no” to the Mr. Zero, the empty suit candidate.

Roger Simon is a dick.

Can we drop the ballet lessons as an all-purpose slur? It makes no sense out of context (tone deaf, speaking to working people as if from another planet). I take ballet lessons. Chelsea Clinton took ballet lessons. People would be happier if they danced more.

I first heard Mr. Johnson on Susan Millers radio show. So What?

So if I hear someone who’s intelligent and with experience in a field I am interested in on “inSannity and Foams” I should not bother?

Good Grief Charlie Brown!!!

Right now the Situation Room is reporting about State Trooper Gate. Of course they are grudgingly reporting that the trooper threatened Palin’s father, tazered his son (step), but didn’t say that he was only 11. They said he illegally shot a moose (they seemed to make light of it), and drove drunk. I almost felt as if Blitzer was holding his nose when he reported these events. It’s too bad that the media are beginning to realize that we are going to hold them to account and call them on their lies and bias.
Olbermann, after the speech, looked like he had swallowed a lemon. He so didn’t want to say anything fair about Palin and the whole tone of is reporting (if you can call it that) was like this whole thig was an anomaly. Nope, Keithie, she’s the real deal. Get used to it. Maybe when she gets into the White House she will root out the corruption in the media!

Reading all these comments got me to thinking about the two parties. IMHO there may be some similarities in what has happened in the two major parties.

Reagan was a conservative, but grew the GOP by reaching out to people and treating others with respect. He worked with a Democratic congress and managed to get some things done.

Bill Clinton did much the same thing on the Democratic side. Some of his best work was done when he had to work with a Republican congress.

After Reagan, it seems that the ultra right wing took over the GOP. The party elite seemed to think that they had “won” the culture war and that only their ultraconservative values were acceptable. For example, Republicans who agreed that abortion was not a good thing, but also thought that it was not the government’s business to decide it (but a moral issue) were demonized. I know. I was one of those. Then, they seemed to come to believe that it was their “right” to be in office and they became corrupt (evidence Tom DeLay et al). So “we the people” threw them out.

In their stead, we elected Democrats. Enraged by the way they were treated by the GOP and emboldened by the large margins given them in the election, it seemed to me that the far left elements in the Democratic party became more powerful. Just as the Republicans had forgotten the moderate middle of their party, the Dems seemed to forget they also needed to represent Democratic moderates.

The reason for all this rambling is that much of the time I find that it is women who occupy the moderate, pragmatic, inclusive middle ground in both parties. The hard core ultraright conservatives of the Republican party, if given their druthers, would rather not have a woman–any woman–lead their party. The political reality of being out of power has forced them to welcome Palin lest they remain in the political wilderness.

The Democratic Party elites IMHO, made a calculated decision that they would promote Obama because he is AA and they knew that if they angered the AA voters, they could not count on getting an automatic 90% of their votes. They thought that women would give in and support BO because they would be afraid of Republicans. Obviously many of the attacks on Palin have been directed more at scaring Hillary’s voters than anything else.

So, perhaps it is not a bad thing for Democratic and Republican women to unite behind qualified women whenever we can. We seem to be most able to reach across the aisle and do what is best for America–not just the political party we happen to identify with more closely.

Comments and criticism welcome.

You know what I find appalling. During the primary
those on the left supporting OB, in the MSM and on
the right criticized Sen. Clinton’s foreign policy
creds. Did she not travel to more than 80 countries over time? Between her service as first lady and
senator?
I just had to raise this point of information. Among
those were very harsh critics of Sen. Clinton, now
it is OK to, “only” recently, have gotten your passport for an overseas trip to see the troops in Germany, which is what Gov. Palin did as CIC of Alaska’s National Guard. It is great that she went. OB should have while he was there. But, then again, his trip was primarily was to “look” presidential. When will that stop being the criteria?
What I know, Hillary IS presidential!
Just wanted to share my thoughts among “family”.
We don’t get to vote for Hillary this time. Everyone has to make their own alternative choice about what to do come November
As for Roger’s drivel…its about as sincere as Mika’s. Enuf said.

HILLARY 2012

correct; mccain showed us who the real man is. a strong man is not threatened by a strong woman.

Thank you!

The democratic party lost their way a long time ago.

McCain/Palin 08

Well what the media is doing is taking a gamble with Palin supporters as ex Hillary supporter support Palin. I saw so mant tricks with the democratic party.I saw how they talk at the table,I heard it all and it made me sick to my stomach.The treatment that the democratic party let go on and not standing up for their own democratic cause winning was all they wanted and all they cared about.

As Donna Brazile said “I may have to hurt the party before I can unity it” Well that meant hurting Hillary and many of her supporters.And it meant to get back the people who they hurt,Hillarty supporters. NO THANK YOU DNC NOT FALLING IN LINE.!!! Now they want us,Now they run the polls as lies.Now they talk sweet of Hillary.Give me a break.I will never fall in line to a democratic party who took the will of the people.Who held secrt meeting in private before the convention May 31, 08 and calling on all delegates to come and take your vote.A roll call vote in secert.The media of the democratic Party go get her MSNBC CNN .It made me sick to watch all the wrong the DNC laid on the american people as Hillary.Now that we have another great V.P The rummors-lying and the media-press jumping in again on the nasty ways the run their media.Now it’s kind nice but then turns to sour in their ways of talking.They use Hillary still in this.They use her name.They make up stories by placing people in to act as someone they are not.The tricks of their media will never end.

I will never go back.I found a great home with McCain and Palin.And I know Obama is behind the curtains as he trys to act nice but his other half of him comes out.

NEVER OBAMA!NEVER DNC!

One thing you failed to mention is that Jews for Jesus are infact Jewish. Are you saying that they are being anti semetic? Do you think God’s judgement on Jewish people is anti semetic? All through the Hebrew scriptures, God judged the people he loved to correct them and bring those who had wandered away from him back . Like the father in Fiddler on the roof said, “I know we are your(God’s) chosen people but couldn’t you you chose some one else once in a while. The scriptures say that he whom God loves, he corrects and chastens. Every Christian( which is a jewish continuem and natural progression)that has allowed gentiles to be fellow heirs with the decendants of Abraham. I grew up with Jewish bible hero’s as my hero’s. Daniel , Abraham, David but all through the bible God judged the people he loved. Judgement was always meant to save God’s people from ultimate distruction. The purpose of Judgement was salvation, not hate. Christians may be a pecular people but they understand this. They also know that he who blesses Israel will be blessed of God. They pray for the peace of Jerusalem

Of course(as I slap myself on the head) It’s all clear to me now’I cut off my nose to throw my opponents off. Susan Nunes, you are so brilliant. Now what did I really mean.Spoken like a true conspiracy theorist.

This is hilarious. Great response.

Hey, speaking of media. How ironic that this didn’t make the news. I noticed Obama and the Democratic committee was served with papers on Sept 4. Why do you think that didn’t make headlines? The attorney that filed the case is challenging Obama’s citizenship. Seems someone made the connection between Obama, Factcheck, and Annenberg. A Hillaru supporter initiated the lawsuit, according to Phil Esquire, the attorney that filed this case. You can watch for updates at http://www.obamacrimes. com. I’m surprised Msn, NBC, CBS, Yahoo, ABC, is all over this. NOt!!!!!!

http://www.obamacrimes.com
Susan

http://www.obamacrimes.com

They didn’t report on this story.

http://www.obamacrimes.com