Obama organizing group: Palin book tour “dangerous”
posted at 1:36 pm on November 20, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
This is actually kind of cute, and completely hypocritical. Organizing for America warns its mailing list of a new danger to America. Is it terrorists getting a global platform in federal court? Political correctness keeping soldiers in danger? Massive deficits being run up by the Democrats to satisfy their statist agenda? Er … not quite:
President Obama’s political operation took a shot at Sarah Palin today, accusing her of lying on her media blitz.
“It’s dangerous,” Organizing for America Director Mitch Stewart said of Palin’s book tour. …
Let’s see if we have this right. The Left accused conservatives opposed to trying Gitmo terrorists in federal court of cowardice, a charge echoed to some degree by Eric Holder in his testy exchange with Senator Jon Kyl. Put aside for the moment the myriad of arguments against Obama’s decision. Even on that basis, we’re now to believe that giving al-Qaeda terrorists a global media platform for propaganda and recruitment isn’t at all dangerous … but a book tour should have people running for cover?
And of course, Stewart is showing just how dangerous this is — by exploiting it for every red cent he can find:
Stewart asks supporters to help raise $500,000 to “push back against Sarah Palin and her allies.”
Well, maybe Palin is dangerous. But dangerous to whom? If Stewart has his crying towel out already, the answer is pretty clear.
Want to be “dangerous” to Mitch Stewart? Buy the book, which is still #1 at Amazon:
Update: Stewart, not Daniels. I was doing some research on Daniels at the same time I wrote this and never noticed the error until Ryan Lewis pointed it out to me on Twitter. (And I fixed the last one, too, which I missed the first time.)









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I recommend viewing “Sophie Scholl – The Last Days” regarding “The White Rose” Nazi resistance movement in Hitlers 1942 Germany. There are striking similarities in the nature of the Nazis then and what is going on now in our own government. For instance, throwing ordinary citizens in jail for refusing to purchase a government health care plan, controlling the very air we breath through so called “climate” legislation, controlling free speech through a so called “fairness” doctrine. It’s all there. The Nazis hid their evils for some time through a thin veneer of “nationalism”, but the evil and the quest for total control was just beneath the surface. If Sophie Scholl were alive today, I wonder what she would have to say about the current state of affairs in our own republic.
long_cat on November 21, 2009 at 1:20 AM
I don’t think anyone has to do anything. They are absolutely going to continue.
They have gone too far, frankly, to pull back. They over-invested with too little information from the election, but too many people/professional media/bloggers have now anted up too much to fold.
And you’re right. The more they try to defend, the more they energize the opposition.
And that’s a good thing.
AnninCA on November 21, 2009 at 1:26 AM
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. I can’t wait!
Griz on November 21, 2009 at 4:05 AM
Why don’t we talk about Sarah Palin? This site needs more Sarah Palin. P.S. Allahpundit = Todd Palin.
voxpopuli on November 21, 2009 at 6:06 AM
Why no coverage of McCain potentially losing his primary in Arizona?
Spathi on November 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Uhmmmmmmm cuz a politician ALL WAYS have a “Potential” of losing their primary?
DSchoen on November 21, 2009 at 6:06 AM
Seriously?
Ugly on November 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Stewart’s wiki is being edited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Stewart#Early_Life_and_Education
Ugly on November 21, 2009 at 6:21 AM
Good grief,the year is 2009,and America is enveloped in a Eastern Berlin style of Lefty ideaology,that now actively
seeks and destroys any American that is of love of Freedom,
o dares to fly old glory,the Stars n’ Stripes,and goes afte
r average “JOE” Americans with the weight and full-bearance
of the US Government,and now,Sarah Palin is once again,bein
g re-taretted and attacked,by the Liberal Party,within using
parts of this current government and media as well,furthering
their propaghanda,to smear and lie,and totally distort Sarah
s character!!!!
DISGUSTING!!
canopfor on November 21, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Simple.
THEY’RE JUST USING PALIN TO EXTORT THEIR DIMWIT LIBERAL FOLLOWERS.
TheAlamos on November 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Marxists denounce the US Constitution as “dangerous”.
Before Obama entered from stage Left, Palin consistently campaigned for the conservative “Change We Can Believe In” to vanquish corruption. Obvious distinction being, Palin consistently campaigned upon Constitutional grounds, whether within the Alaskan State Constitution (Alaskans literally own their state’s natural resources) or upon our nation’s Constitution that stipulates separation of powers and the literal responsibility of officials to uphold the Constitution and perform their constitutional duties responsibly before all else. The Marxist Obama would suffocate any voice that yet sings, “Let freedom ring!” as he works frantically to dissolve rule of law through his corruption of authority into authoritarianism.
No state would have been ratified if that state’s constitution had been deemed incompatible with the nation’s.
Do go rogue if you must to purge corruption from eroding the platform that would conserve our national Constitution which protects each state’s Constitution.
Preserve our Constitution to retain our unalienable rights as well as our Constitutional Rights which in Alaska include the Alaskan people OWNING Alaska’s natural resources, NOT the Federal Bureaucracy POSING as the Constitutional Republic, not Congress preempting the Alaska State Constitution post facto, nor executive mandates from the Oval Office presuming rights of ownership over Alaska from a temporary termed resident of the White House.
Palin is an experienced and knowledgeable executive in the natural resources of Alaska that include oil, natural gas, fish and wildlife, lumber, and conservative ecology. She has initiated and achieved responsible governance. Palin is also a gifted and experienced diplomatic leader who well represents the fabric of society, you and me. Together, we keep America functional.
And the political forces that are in power, all corruption, either fear Sarah Palin out of guilt, or dismiss Sarah Palin with contempt. And united they stand against her.
I’ve always liked Sarah Palin. The more of her book that I read, the more I like Palin. I wrote yesterday that reading her book is like visiting with a best friend. I support her efforts to fulfill her calling in life.
I respectfully submit that Rick Perry and Sarah Palin should conference and organize the conservative statesmen who champion the core of governors who signed the states rights document. The federal bureaucracy has bloated into a fungal infection pervading our existence and preventing responsible governance according to constitutional law. The total degree of corruption in our federal government is amalgamated within the corrupted political process that we identify as the Democrat and Republican two party system.
The same political forces that selected Palin to VP McCain’s GOP ticket in order to facilitate the removal of Palin from “success” (along with removing Ted Stevens from the Senate in order to empower Reid) are those who are sending Kay Bailey Hutchison to destroy GOP party unity in the great state of Texas (“conservative” senate seat and “independent state spirit” governorship sunk–two important birds killed with one brain-dead stone). /Hutchison fans are ignoring 1) her hypocrisy on “holding accountable criminal behavior” while dealing behind the scenes to cooperate with McCain on comprehensive immigration reform, 2) her poor mental performance made painfully obvious in her speeches from the Senate floor (all these years in the senate and she can’t read a simple speech that she prepared!), and 3) her sedated face-voice-body recorded to advertise her campaign for the TX Gov. GOP ticket. As with McCain, Hutchison is on mood altering drugs. I don’t want that controlling my life or the direction of my state and my country. I distrust the person who is addicted to a mood enhancer in a position of authority over me. I’ve witnessed and been victimized by drugged authority figures and I refuse to tolerate their abuse or enhance their ability to inflict further damage on my ability to survive by standing silent as I see that permeate what remaining little corner of earth I call home.
maverick muse on November 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Excellent analysis and spot on! KBH would be a huge mistake for the Great State of Texas, IMO. Too soft and squishy on a lot of issues. Thanks for your service, Kay. Here’s a nice hot cup o’ tea. Now go sit down and I’ll bring your shawl.
Proud Texan on November 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Proud Texan on November 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Texas Tea Party
maverick muse on November 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM
A book tour is dangerous. Dangerous. Funny word that. It’s a book tour. Ideas are dangerous, reading is dangerous. Education is dangerous. Free speech, free thought, freedom period is dangerous.
Truth, now that is the most dangerous thing of all–if you are a liberal.
Oh my gosh they are right! She wrote a book! Duck!
petunia on November 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Yep! Having the option to later edit out mistakes sure must be nice. Yes indeedy!
IMHO, this article is what has the beltway insiders from BOTH parties wetting their panties …
I think that’s simply wrong. We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place. The mortgage crisis that led to the collapse of the financial market, it was rooted in a good-natured, but wrongheaded, desire to increase home ownership among those who couldn’t yet afford to own a home. In so many cases, politicians on the right and the left, they wanted to take credit for an increase in home ownership among those with lower incomes. But the rules of the marketplace are not adaptable to the mere whims of politicians.
…
Lack of government wasn’t the problem. Government policies were the problem. The marketplace didn’t fail. It became exactly as common sense would expect it to. The government ordered the loosening of lending standards. The Federal Reserve kept interest rates low. The government forced lending institutions to give loans to people who, as I say, couldn’t afford them. Speculators spotted new investment vehicles, jumped on board and rating agencies underestimated risks.
DannoJyd on November 21, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Just got my copy of Palin’s book in the mail – cant wait to read it
tanvec on November 21, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Is Martha Stewart and employee of Organizing for America? She claimed in an interview yesterday that Sarah Palin is “dangerous” and simultaneously boring.
Sarah Palin has never spent time in Club Fed.
BOYCOTT MARTHA STEWART!
bbh on November 21, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is our problem.
bbh on November 22, 2009 at 12:06 AM
I am buying 2 copies of the book to read, and then pass on.
If you would like a copy of one of them,
Get a job and buy one!
These are reserved for friends, the well meaning and the ignorant.
Oh shyte, I’ll need more than 2.
Can we pass the plate?
OkieDoc on November 22, 2009 at 12:17 AM
I still think Jetboy supporting Palin is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.
Blake on November 22, 2009 at 12:48 AM
“When they came for the Jews, I did nothing because I was not a Jew”.
Johan Klaus on November 22, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Look at Obama’s eyes at some of his interviews. I do not think that all of his gafs are because of totus.
Johan Klaus on November 22, 2009 at 2:32 AM
Lets get this snowball rolling. They have us on the ropes withi this healthcare crap. Lets start fighting back and don’t let up, not for one second.
johnnyU on November 22, 2009 at 8:29 AM
Suppressing free speech and the publishing of books is dangerous… VERY dangerous…
Khun Joe on November 22, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Opposing Liberalism and publishing books refuting Liberalism is dangerous… To those doing the opposing and publishing.
Get it right.
Holger on November 22, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Sorry… My bad… I forgot…
Khun Joe on November 22, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Odd how Palin is considered “dangerous” by the left. She holds no political office and is not a zillionaire like Soros. Perhaps Stewart can enlighten everyone as to what EXACTLY is “dangerous” about Palin. After all, the left paints her as stupid and shallow. Given that criteria, why haven’t they gone after Barry Obama and Joey Biden?
GarandFan on November 22, 2009 at 11:46 AM
SNL did a funny skit on the danger of Palin last night. What’s funnier is that the lefties don’t even realize they were being spoofed a bit on their PDS.
AnninCA on November 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM
For all those critics still stuck with stupid Couric, as an example of what Palin reads, note well the research Palin personally completed for AGIA, prior to McCain contacting her about the VP possibility.
Btw, I’m not at all surprised that in particular NPR and PBS commentators refuse to acknowledge Sarah Palin’s experience. MOBIL was the first international corporate sponsor for PBS, proudly presenting “Masterpiece Theater” back when Bill Ayers began Marxist “community organizing”.
Exxon/MOBIL have had a vendetta against Palin since she became the Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC). Through Palin’s true grit, holding everyone’s feet to the fire (including her own), she directed the course, personally leading the way, to force ExxonMobil out of their litigation MO as they persistently refused to uphold their lease contracts with the state of Alaska (as well as perpetual persistent postponement payment of their Valdes oil spill judgment for damages). It isn’t simply Exxon/MOBIL but the global oil industry affiliated with the Bush family (with alliances that Palin distances herself from) that have a universal vendetta against Palin because she won’t get in bed with them, but belongs heart-and-soul with the working American instead of global incorporated governance.
Those against Palin enable Obama’s Marxist agenda.
I am not alone standing with Palin against the beast.
maverick muse on November 22, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Given the spending “Porkulus” and “TARPS” what are the chances that this bear baiting using Palin for donations will work? I mean Obama is President and we are at 10.2 unemployment. People have money to send to this guy to run what commercial in an off Presidential Election cycle?
Somebody is scared really scared. I think 2010 is going to see a drop in Democrat fund raising money. All they have is be afraid that Sarah Palin wrote a book? Really that’s their strategy?
They are more than out of touch with Americans, they are out of touch with reality.
How many Americans have a family member serving in the Military like Sarah Palin? How many of those folks don’t care much for the response to the Ft Hood Massacre by the Obama Administration? Americans vote self interest. The Democrats have not aligned themselves with American’s Self Interest. As far as I can see the Democrats have aligned themselves with Wall Street. How popular will that be for Democrats trying to get elected in 2010?
Dr Evil on November 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM
I plan on buying at least 2.
4shoes on November 22, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Okay, looked at the “this truth” vid and the other one, gotta ask, was their a point you were trying to make?
Come on, surly, you had a point in that pointed little head of yours, what was it?
DSchoen on November 23, 2009 at 4:50 AM
Maybe they have a point.
BobAnthony on November 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM
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