Sarah Palin is back, and she’s blaming the media for her abysmal performance during the Presidential Campaign:
Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) believes that the media deliberately tried to bring her down during her vice presidential run.
As part of an interview with conservative filmmaker John Ziegler for his new film out this week, Palin said she believes the media made a decision that “we’re going to seek and we’re going to destroy this candidacy of Sarah Palin’s because of what it is that she represents.”
“Obviously something big took place in the media,” she added. It is “very frightening, I think, what the media was able to get away with, this go around.”
Palin suggested that unbalanced media coverage posed a threat to democracy.
“This is for the sake of our democracy that there is fairness in this other branch of government, if you will, called the media,” she said. “It is foreign to me the way some in the mainstream media are thinking.”
Really, Governor ?
Was it the media’s fault that you demonstrated little understanding of the important issues of the day, or that you didn’t seem to know what the Vice-President actually does , or that the First Amendment meant that media didn’t have the right to question your statements and qualifications ?
Was it the media’s fault that you engaged in rhetoric that made McCain’s promise of a clean campaign seem like joke ?
Was it the media’s fault that even lifelong Republicans, including officeholders, doubted that you were qualified for the job that you were running for ?
Was it the media’s fault that you had higher negatives than any Vice-Presidential candidate in recent memory and had were a demonstrable drag on the ticket ?
No, Governor, that was all your doing.
Jazz Shaw says exactly what I would:
I’ve long since grown tired of this endless chant from Palin’s conservative base about how poorly she was treated. What she received was far less than she’d have gotten if the 4th estate had been given a few more months to really get into high gear. As it played out, we barely had 12 weeks to figure out who Governor Palin was before the whole shooting match was over. In that short time plenty of fodder turned up which the media never got a chance to fully explore with the public. Many of the facts surrounding Palin were lost in the endless buzz created by her sheer inability to stand in front of a camera without completely melting down. In a few short months she managed to land herself a place as the female Joe Biden, a feat which the Vice President needed a lifetime of Foot In Mouth moments to achieve.
If Palin dares to run for President in 2012, the media is going to be locked and loaded next time. Endless examinations of her highly questionable cabinet appointments in Alaska will be conducted. Questions will be raised about taxpayer dollars which were funneled through her completely unqualified Secretary of Agriculture into fat checks for family and friends. (Payments which state auditors later said could not be justified.) The ambulance chaser she appointed as Attorney General (who recently had to resign in disgrace) will be on full display. And if the Governor can’t find a way to conduct an interview without sounding like an angry scold, high on umbrage but low on substance, President Obama will be able to take most of the election off on holiday and slide in to an easy win.
Quit blaming your problems on the press, Governor, and work on hiring a competent staff and going back to media and debate prep school. Otherwise, you may as well just let Tina Fey run in your place for the entire thing. If nothing else, she’d handle the interviews better.
Stop whining Governor and grow a pair.
If you can’t handle those 12 weeks, you’re not even going to make it past Iowa in three years.
