Video: Palin’s valediction to the media
posted at 8:47 am on July 27, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Sarah Palin said goodbye to Alaska as governor yesterday, and she didn’t let the occasion pass without shooting a couple of well-deserved zingers at the national media. Via John Ziegler, we have the key moment in her speech, in which she tells the media to stay away from the children of her successor, and to “quit making things up”:
It’s difficult to recall a time when the national media treated two candidates so differently in an election than in 2008 with Palin and Barack Obama. I’ve seen nothing like it, not when Geraldine Ferraro ran as the first woman on a major-party ticket, not when George W. Bush ran against Al Gore or John Kerry, not even when Ronald Reagan — who the media intensely disliked at the time — ran against Jimmy Carter. For that story, see John’s site and his documentary, How Obama Got Elected.
As for not making things up, I’d just be happy if we didn’t see her daughter’s ex-boyfriend appearing on talking-head shows ever again, with the shows treating the 19-year-old as though he was an eminence grise on all things Alaska and Palin. How many teen-age boyfriends become experts on their girlfriends’ families, anyway?
Alllahpundit linked to a mostly fair CBS report in the Headlines on Palin’s speech, which made this good point:
Yes, Palin’s poll numbers have tanked since the heights she achieved after her resounding speech at the Republican National Convention in August of last year. Forty-four percent of Americans viewed her favorably in the CBS News poll taken then, while in the July 12, 2009 CBS News poll, only 26 percent had a favorable view.
But there is another number that should give Palin and her supporters hope that she may yet have a second life in national politics. A whopping thirty-nine percent of those polled in the most recent CBS News survey said that they were undecided or had not heard enough about her.
If a run for president in 2012 is in her future, and don’t be so quick to count her out, she must focus on those 39 percent. After all, her most ardent backers will continue to support her no matter what.
Whether or not the resignation turns out to be a mistake, it’s now done and over. Even if she doesn’t run for office, Palin’s going to be a major force in activist politics, and we’ll see where the road takes her.
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I think it’s funny because he doesn’t seem familiar with The Wealth Of Nations, the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, or The Communist Manifesto.
But who cares? Just rely on your common sense and what you *think* they say, and that’s apparently all you need. Who cares. Why read the books? Why go to class? What difference does it make?
I just find it very funny that someone is differentiating between differing economic theories, declaring some common sense and others not while having only a cursory understanding of any of them.
And then we get “all orthodox(?) economic thought” is just codified common sense.
From someone that hasn’t read any of the books. Or ever taken a class.
I think that’s funny.
Proud Rino on July 27, 2009 at 8:10 PM
What a shit. What makes you so sure I HAVEN’T read any of the above? And how do we know that you have, beyond knowing the titles in order to throw around and impress all those ignorant peasants?
Let’s get into a discussion on the counter-intuitive elements of Smith, Marx and Keynes, shall we? You wanna? Really?
ddrintn on July 27, 2009 at 8:22 PM
By the way, the Communist Manifesto isn’t really a good starting point in examining Marxian thought. Better try books such as Critique of the Gotha Programme, Das Kapital or Grundrisse. I went through my Marxist phase. Dude.
ddrintn on July 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM
I guess not. Another blowhard pseud…
ddrintn on July 27, 2009 at 8:40 PM
I don’t care if you love her or loathe her, Sarah told the MSM what the majority of Conservatives have been screaming about for the past year, “Quit making things up.” I hope she continues to take them on and take them down … God knows somebody’s got to do it.
redridinghood on July 27, 2009 at 9:16 PM
I’m pretty sure Proud Rino is Meghan “Big Mac” McCain in real life.
alliebobbitt on July 27, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Chekote has a point, but I still think it’s too soon to entirely write off Palin.
alliebobbitt on July 27, 2009 at 9:22 PM
Chekote’s points are pointless. There is no precedent for the ethics bombs being dropped on Palin and she never “backed down”. They have all been dismissed or soon will be. Standing bravely in front of a firing squad may be noble, but it has the disadvantage of leaving you quite dead! Since she wasn’t looking to become a martyr, the next best thing was to change the rules of engagement. Nothing she does will ever be sufficient to please the Palinphobes, but everyone else will comprehend that the “tuck” was actually a pivot. Hate her if you will — I personally find much to admire in this quintessentially American woman.
littleguy on July 27, 2009 at 10:06 PM
alliebobbitt on July 27, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Nah, Ms. McCain voted for Daddy. She even joined the GOP for him. Why won’t we all take the lessons to heart that she’s spent months learning about what the GOP should do to be successful?
/sarc
cs89 on July 27, 2009 at 11:29 PM
NOW I UNDERSTAND HER SPEECH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCdqRbWYWbU
Dave Rywall on July 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM
What the left doesn’t admit or realize is that there is a huge difference between quitting and a tactical or even a strategic withdraw
bullseye on July 28, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Most of what chekote says is pointless if not blatantly false or distorted. Agreed. However, at this point, Palin is no longer a sitting Governor who completed her first term, but she can be an activist now and build her experience in the private sector, bone up on policy, though she won’t actually have a seat at the table for policy discussions. Even though she complained she was a “lame duck”, she still had the influence of her office. So, you and I and even chekote agree that Sarah Palin cut her losses and stepped down. Like you, I don’t think she’s finished, but like chekote, I think it’s a handicap toward a 2012 run.
alliebobbitt on July 28, 2009 at 9:34 AM
But it was daddy’s turn to be President! At least he lost honorably to the hip and good-looking black man, but it’s the GOP’s fault they’re the party of cranky old white men. As a chubby blonde slut, Big Mac will improve the Republican brand. She is, after all, an irresistible siren’s call to key demographics in the Democratic party… nerdy IT guys and single mothers who perceive her as nonthreatening.
alliebobbitt on July 28, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Some white men are old and cranky, not all. CBS must be full of ‘em.
johnnyU on July 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM
For those of you who think Sarah Palin lacks experience, I will use Doris Kearns Goodwin’s (a prominent lib) own words in which she used to describe why Obama was qualified to be POTUS in 2008: “He has run a successful campaign in a very efficient and organized manner.”
Once Sarah gains the GOP nomination in 2012 she will be in the same position as Obama was in 2008, according to the Dems.
technopeasant on July 28, 2009 at 1:34 PM
“He along with George Soros, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, The NY Times, Newsweek, Time, the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, WaPo, LA Times, NOW, NARAL, USA Today, HuffPo, Kos, Larry Flynt, the NEA, the AFL-CIO, the ACLU, the Black Panthers, Wall Street, and Hollywood has run a successful campaign in a very efficient and organized manner.”
Very efficient, very organized. Just ask Jack Ryan.
OlympicLeprechaun on July 28, 2009 at 8:16 PM
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