Blogress Divas Regent do have a way of zeroing on those afflicted with Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS). Here’s Clarice Feldman on the Atlantic’s Andrew Cohen commentary on the charismatic former Alaska governor:
Read the skewering in its entirety and marvel with me at how this gorgeous backwoods gal is felling a whole forest of hypocritical and under- educated men and women who have been posing as professional writers worthy of our respectful attention to their views.
Via Instapundit.
Has the left-wing media ever hit Sarah Palin with any scandalous charge that ever proved to be, you know, true? Has she ever been proven guilty of doing anything illicit, immoral, illegal, or unethical? (Apart from refusing to go bankrupt in order to satisfy left-wing activists?)
On a related note, Mark Levin challenges MSNBC to find any incident where he or Sarah Palin ever called for the death of a political enemy. He’s putting up $100K to whoever finds the proof.
I will see Levin and raise him. I will put 100 TRILLION dollars (Zimbabwe) on the table. Same bet.
#1: Nope. And for me, that’s what made the Left’s obscene accusations this week bearable. The Left has been trying to destroy Palin and her family for over two years, and every time, she has come back stronger and more popular (while her worthless accusers have revealed themselves to be nothing but pathetic assholes). But after all of that, they think THIS smear campaign is going to bring her down? That Americans are going to agree that she’s a “child killer” and responsible for mass murder? THIS TIME it’s going to stick? Ummm………..YEAH.
Liberals are so stupid and worthless. They don’t deserve our civility. They deserve our pity.
wow, that’s $8,035.35
Paul Constant delivers a description that is just hilarious. . .via the Stranger. . .I know, I know. . .how could one bring in that horrendous work linked to Dan Savage http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/crosshairs-and-consequences/Content?oid=6265645
But just because Sarah Palin should go away, that doesn’t mean she will go away. And begging for civility out of teabaggers is like trying to convince a treeful of chimpanzees to stop masturbating. In many ways, it’s up to the media to stop swooning over everything the extreme right wing says or does—we have to stop helping the people who are cranking up the crazy—which, ultimately, means it’s up to all of us to stop needlessly amplifying their hateful, violent rhetoric.
The bloodbath in Tucson opened the 2012 presidential campaign. If we don’t find a way to elevate the discourse, it’s all downhill from here.
#5: “And begging for civility out of teabaggers is like trying to convince a treeful of chimpanzees to stop masturbating.”
And begging for decorum out of Democrats at a memorial service is like trying to get 20,000 homeless crack addicts at a Jay-Z concert to play “the quiet game.”
Can we all just stop for a moment to appreciate the beautifully concise, perfectly blatant hypocrisy of that phrase let alone the larger sentence and paragraph.
Self parody at it’s finest! Bravo!
The “memorial service” at the U. of Arizona was a circus. They turned it into the O Show. With all the T-shirts and the cheering, it seemed to have been totally forgotten that it was supposed to be honoring the people who were gunned down last Saturday.
It was quite the strangest spectacle I’ve ever seen. If that’s the way the president chooses to kick off his run for reelection, he might want to reconsider. It tripped the gag reflex of every decent American.
The Dems have turned into an even bigger gaggle of hillbillies than they were under Bubba Clinton.
Wow. Really? Wanna take a Mulligan?
“20,000 homeless crack addicts at a Jay-Z concert to play “the quiet game.””
S-A is letting her colors show.
Rusty wins comment of the week.
In fact, I often feel like I’m approaching a treeful whenever I visit this site. I am a glutton for punishment.
#12: So, hit the road. You’ve contributed nothing to the discussion other than to praise rusty for being completely obnoxious and admitting that Obama is such an inauthentic, craven political opportunist that he used the AZ memorial to launch his ’12 presidential campaign.
Or was your comparison of this site’s visitors to a treeful of masturbating primates an attempt to elevate the political discourse?
I guess this period of civility didn’t last very long.
Obama asking the left wing bloggers to chill, was pretty hopeless from the start. They heard Obama during the last campaign, one speech at a rally wasn’t going to change his followers daily operating procedures.
And besides, as I’ve pointed out, Barack Obama and the Obama Party are already demanding that Sarah Palin be imprisoned.
“It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target,” Eric Fuller said in an interview with Democracy NOW.
“Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled — senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all — even 9-year-old girls,” he added, referring to the death of Christina Taylor Green.
Fuller, a 63-year-old veteran, had campaigned for Giffords during her reelection and was at the supermarket for her Congress on Your Corner event.
“I would put Sarah Palin in first place there. I think, really, she should be incarcerated for treason for advocating assassinating public officials,” Fuller said in an interview with Media Matters.
Glad to see the Obama Party is showing its true colors — accuse and imprison for dissent, guilty regardless of evidence.
It’s also showing what a complete and total liar Barack Obama is.
Lol, where did Barack Obama ever demand Palin be imprisoned for this? You really do love spreading lies about him don’t you? You just can’t help yourself, it’s scary.
Sean A >> I come here to let off steam and to see what the latest is on left-wing conspiracy theories. One of these days, I will be gone from here, but, much to your displeasure, not right now.
Sean >> Speaking of elevating discourse, your crack addict/Jay-Z analogy shows how far down the evolutionary scale you’re at when it comes to public discourse.
snap.
Speaking of elevating discourse, your crack addict/Jay-Z analogy shows how far down the evolutionary scale you’re at when it comes to public discourse.
And given how you and your Barack Obama call making death threats at a public meeting the height of civility, I think we can safely say that you’re reading the scale upside-down.
Anyone who disagrees with ND30 supports Obama.
Understand?
Didn’t you read the link, AJ?
“It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target,” Eric Fuller said in an interview with Democracy NOW.
“Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled — senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all — even 9-year-old girls,” he added, referring to the death of Christina Taylor Green.
Fuller, a 63-year-old veteran, had campaigned for Giffords during her reelection and was at the supermarket for her Congress on Your Corner event.
“I would put Sarah Palin in first place there. I think, really, she should be incarcerated for treason for advocating assassinating public officials,” Fuller said in an interview with Media Matters.
Now, remember the rules here: Obama and the Obama Party stated that Sarah Palin was responsible for everything Jared Loughner said and did, even though there was no evidence that Loughner had ever given Palin a moment’s thought.
But now you’re insisting that Obama isn’t responsible for Obama Party activists and campaign workers with a clear link to him and avowed and overwhelming support and endorsement of him and his beliefs?
And apparently Obama is somehow responsible for anything and everything that anyone somehow related to the Democratic party does. Still waiting to see where Obama called for Palin to be imprisoned for this incident. I guess it only exists in NDT’s alternate universe.
NDT, you claimed that Obama said that she should be imprisoned. I just said he didn’t. Create all the straw man arguments you want but please show me the link where Obama said anything of the sort. Otherwise, stop blatantly spreading lies.
He never said she was responsible for laugthner’s actions either. But facts don’t seem to stop you from spreading lies about him.
And apparently Obama is somehow responsible for anything and everything that anyone somehow related to the Democratic party does.
Of course.
After all, Sarah Palin is directly responsible for anything and everything that anyone somehow related to the tea parties does.
Even if they aren’t related to the tea parties at all.
Isn’t it funny how liberals like AJ cannot under any circumstances follow the same rules or logic that they impose on others?
By the way, the death threats by the Obama-approved Giffords campaigner?
Nowhere to be found in the Blood Libel Media — even though it has been all over Twitter and the blogs for well over two hours, linking to one of their own affiliates.
Last Saturday, they were screaming that Sarah Palin was responsible before Giffords was on the operating table.
Hilarious. Obama Party campaign operative makes death threats against a Republican and a Tea Party representative, in a public meeting, being filmed for an ABC special, and nothing gets out into the BLM.
Isn’t it funny how I never said, or defended anything of the sort. I don’t believe Palin is responsible for this at all. But don’t let that stop you from lying. It’s the only thing you do well anyways. Finding facts to support your arguments would be too hard for you I guess.
Btw, still waiting for that link where Obama called for Palin’s imprisonment like you claimed. Doubt you’ll post one tho. But don’t let that stop you from lying about him some more, say it enough and it might actually be true.
In fact I said quite the opposite NDT,
But don’t let facts, logic or the truth stop you from proving your point. Keep spreading lies about Obama and anyone you disagree with.
All right, AJ, that’s fair. I apologize for accusing you of blaming Palin. I was wrong on my facts there and wrong to do that.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Has Obama, as the leader of the Democrat Party and the Progressive movement, ever told his own people to tone down the rhetoric?
And another left-wing death fantasy. Note the charming “Is Palin’s Bastard Grandson still allive?” post.
Yes he has actually.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/15/parties-seek-political-profit-arizona-shooting/#ixzz1BAMukyhd
It’s amazing, he feels like everyone should do it, not just the right or the left. Maybe if people stopped using the excuse, “they do it too!” and we all just worried about ourselves, things might slowly improve. No one politicizing this tragedy, right or left, is doing the victims justice. The Palin smears were ridiculous and it really was a shame to watch.
I don’t think that’s quite adequate. “We should all be nice to each other” is not quite the same as “Knock it off, you guys, or there are going to be consequences.”
Did Al Gore ever apologize for inspiring the Unabomber? Just wondering.
So you’re effectively calling for Obama to censor speech of the media using the presidential “bully pulpit”? What consequences could possibly threaten against the “liberal MSM”.
I mean it’s your opinion, but I don’t see what’s wrong with what he said. He called for unity of the American people. Both sides have politicized this tragedy. I don’t understand the importance of focusing on party or ideology right now. Things like this transcend liberal and conservative and he correctly called everyone out for their nonsense.
No, I’m suggesting that if the Head of the Democrat Party really wanted to set an example, he would tell members of his party (Fuller, Dupenik, Laura Richardson) to lay off the accusations and threats or be expelled or censured.
Bullspit. It was more like…
The Left (Krugman, Kos, Olbermann, Fuller, Dupenik): “You right-wing teabaggers caused this!”
The Right: “Um, no, we didn’t.”
The Left: “See, that’s just the sort of uncivil behavior we were talking about. Now, let’s try and be more civil so it won’t happen again. See you at the pep rally.”
But again, I have tried to argue sense with AJ in the past and it is utterly futile.
I don’t really want to get into this partisan fingerpointing, because it’s not productive and solves nothing. The fact that anyone did it is unfortunate, and shouldn’t have happened. But on Fox News there were numerous “experts” interviewed on the network claiming the individual was a leftist and that no it was his leftist ideology that played a role in the tragedy.
And they even posted a piece talking about talking about how both sides have politicized the tragedy
Again, it isn’t really important who said what or of what party they are, just trying to defend my original post. If everyone worried about themselves and didn’t try and unfairly blame people they disagree with for the worlds problems, we might begin to make progress. The they did it first or they did it too mentality just leads to more problems.
Then we wouldn’t have liberals. I would add that Obama also said:
For one thing, I reject the notion that Americans don’t. For another, I don’t think he really believes what he said particularly after his many international America Sucks Ass tours.
Maybe aj can give us a few links of TEA party folks and the right blaming people by name for fomenting this, with no basis or facts, before the actual facts came out. . . well? Should be easy. That link two days after was when we knew he was A: A truther (not a TEA party thing for sure) B: pre-Palin already somewhat obsessed with Giffords, C: Pro Abortion (again not a TEA thing) D: listed Mien Kampf and Communist Manifesto as Favorite Books (definitely not a TEA thing) E: Atheist (well I am too but most folks ain’t gonna associate that with Palin or the TEA party) F: convinced the gov’t was using Grammar to control minds (the tinfoil hats set are like that, and they are not by and large, conservatives) not to mention being described by a schoolmate as a drugged up Liberal, Perhaps you can steer us to all his rightwing rantings…even his one time gold standard beliefs were changed to hatred of all monetary based economics. (I guess I’d buy a car with chemicals or something)
Either that, or you believe people accused with no basis in fact should accept the blame without ever once replying to spurious claims.
Or are you claiming if he was a big Palin groupie and TEA party supporter, shot a RINO like say Snowe, and say Rush or Palin came out within hours of an attack Blaming 0bama that Move on, DNC and others would not point to the proof and say “He is one of you!, Not us,” and use that to raise money. . . your side is already using it to raise money anyhow! and basing said fundraising on the same lacking facts that are being used to blame Palin et al.
… How easily the gunman got a weapon … definitely a TEA thing.
And which truther are we talking about? The birth certificate? Because there is plenty of overlap.
@32 AJ brings us the President’s words:
Okey, Dokey. The President is the First Citizen of the nation and following his own lead, he will now be the Dale Carnegie President.
Shall we all watch the State of the Union and see how the First Citizen of Civility does not place blame, imply causation, attack another branch of government, or tacitly pull taffy?
This new, improved First Citizen will promise that if they bring a knife, he will bring a Bible, an olive branch and hot chocolate. He will risk scoring a goal in order to slow the process in the name of transparency and full debate. He will do simple things, like produce his birth certificate and apologize for all the delay. He will ask Bill Clinton and Jessie Jackson to work with him and help him go on an atonement tour to dispel any lingering doubts that he is not a full blooded Christian moral relativist. He will have a beer summit on racial dialogue where he will not have taken sides in advance. He will travel to the grave of his grandmomma and tell her he is sorry for calling her a typical white woman. He will do this with Oprah, Barbara Walters, Christiane Amenpour, George Stephanopoulos, Joy Behar and John Stewart standing by and holding lighted candles.
AJ, the old saying is that one man’s meat is another man’s poison. So it is with politics. The left gets all puckered up when one of their holy political correctness oxen gets gored. Rush Limbaugh loudly proclaimed that he hoped Obama’s efforts to fundamentally transform America would fail and the left accused Limbaugh of wanting Obama to fail in every way, shape and form as President. That is how politics is played. If this civility thing is carried out to perfection, Schumer, Leahy, Durbin, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, Levin, Rangle, Frank, Weiner, Wasserman-Schultz, et. al. might as well have their vocal cords cut.
Is it senility or a lobotomy that leads to this type of disjointed babble?
But, let’s visit the attic corner where this comment was hatched in the cobwebs and rafters. The TEA Party is the “Taxed Enough Already?” Party. One of their basic issues is to return to obeying the Constitution of the United States of America. That Constitution has a second amendment concerning bearing arms (weapons) which has been interpreted differently by some current liberals and conservatives. Ergo in the minds of some liberals, the TEA Party supports letting lunatics buy weapons and ammo and shooting liberal politicians. (One wonders if they would care a hoot if a reactionary on the right shot a RINO.)
Bilge Water Whale is here only to poison the well with what passes as wit in his alleged mind. He is likely incapable of making a civil point and defending it in a civil manner. So, he floats a turd in the punchbowl and posts it for all to see as if he has created a masterpiece.
And this is pretty much where Obama can’t win with people who don’t like him. Heliotrope, what would you have liked him to say? Hey every, let’s keep blaming each other for this awful tragedy.
The fact that you find something wrong with him saying that is interesting. He simply asked people to stop blaming each other blindly based on their ideology. Of course people are going to disagree, he just would like it to be done in a more civil manner, on both sides. I guess that’s a terrible thing to call for though.
More importantly, why does he have to prove to you that he’s a Christian. He says he is and last time I checked, being a Christian wasn’t a prerequisite for being POTUS.
And if he wasn’t a citizen, I’m sure the conservative leaning SCOTUS would have done something about it by now. It’s ridiculous that you think a foreigner could somehow be allowed to be POTUS without any sort of certification.
But hey, baselessly implying that our President is a foreign Muslim is exactly the way to start having civil discussions to help fix the problems in this country.
And now we can demonstrate the hypocrisy AJ brings to the table on this one.
… How easily the gunman got a weapon … definitely a TEA thing.
Comment by Guilty White Male — January 16, 2011 @ 10:40 am – January 16, 2011
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And which truther are we talking about? The birth certificate? Because there is plenty of overlap.
Comment by Guilty White Male — January 16, 2011 @ 10:41 am – January 16, 2011
So where’s the condemnation of this, AJ?
Oh, that’s right. You just started whining at and attacking Heliotrope.
That’s what makes you leftists so hilariously transparent. You blather and blather and blather about how “we all need to”, but then you somehow fail to condemn anyone but people whose beliefs you don’t like.
And this is pretty much where Obama can’t win with people who don’t like him. Heliotrope, what would you have liked him to say? Hey every, let’s keep blaming each other for this awful tragedy.
Let’s see, what did the Obama Party official media start demanding?
Bluntly put, you had to admit you were guilty or your own party had to repudiate you completely.
So there’s the standard, AJ. Obama can start meeting it, or he’s guilty.
And before you start bleating, you can either repudiate the standard and the Obama Party media that pushed it, or you can be called out as a hypocrite.
What’s worse is, since the left controls the MFM, their slanderous lies become the media template. Tea Party rhetoric played absolutely no role in the shooting, but the template is “Because of the shooting, the right should be more civil in its discourse.”
The view of the left-wing blogs that right-wing rhetoric was responsible for the shooting was formulated before the wounded had even reached the hospital and before anything about the shooter became known. It became and remains the template of ABC, CNN, NBC, PBS, and all the other MFM outlets. Any discussion of “civility” in the context of the incident inherently politicizes it.
Keith Olberman is not a political official. You have this issue where you lump in whatever people on the left say with Obama. Instead of showing things that Obama said, you show what other people said and then, with no proof, claim it’s what Obama thinks. I’m still waiting for you show me where Obama called for Palin to be imprisoned like you claimed. Probably won’t happen though, considering it was a lie.
And it’s not my job to refute any and every bad thing people say. There are plenty of examples of conservatives on this blog that said bad things too, but I didn’t call them out. Heliotrope responded to my post so I responded back, not that hard to figure out. I said that everyone should watch what they say numerous times, for some reason Heliotrope took offense to that, so I defended my statement. If GWM wants to attack me for saying that, then yes, I would have said the same thing. I’ve said multiple times, that people who called out Palin were completely wrong. Guess what, they were liberals, I tend to agree with them on certain things, yet I called them out, guess your assessment might not be so true after all.
No hypocrisy here. Just more of your ad hominem, straw man arguments and lies. Show me where Obama called for Palin’s imprisonment, please! I’d LOVE to see it!
Even funnier NDT, is the fact that Olbermann is holding himself to his own standards, he called EVERYBODY out for their part in what he believes is wrong. Not that I always agree with him or not, but that’s a weird example to sight when he calls for all people to watch what they say. Seems like a reasonable thing to ask for to me, not that anyone is or should be obligated to do what he says. Claiming Olbermann somehow set a standard is ridiculous.
Back on topic, why is it so hard for people to stake out a reasoned, considered opinion on Sarah Palin along the lines of my own:
1. She came from a lower middle class background and rose to be a nominee for vice president of the USA, she’s a successful author, and an influential political figure while raising a pretty darn good family. In some ways, she is the archetypal American success story.
2. OTOH, the philosophy she espouses is too often facile, she doesn’t seem intellectually rigorous, and she comes across too often as defensive.
3. The great bulk of the attacks against her are unjustified, over-the-top, and flat-out lies much of the time. And defending her against unfair attacks is not the same as endorsing her political ambitions, whatever they may be.
4. It is possible to hold nothing against her personally but still think she would not be the best candidate in 2012. You can also still wish her well, despite thinking she should give 2012 a pass.
That, to me, is the sane way of assessing Sarah Palin. Honestly accounting for her virtues and her faults while not wishing her ill. And I can assess most any left-wing figure the same way; although many of them fall conspicuously short on what I consider virtues. (e.g. Pelosi, Reid, Olbermann)
TBH, I agree with you mostly. I don’t think it’s necessarily the sane way to view her, sane people could definitely have other, valid opinions of her as well. But I do think she has lead a very successful life. Love her, or hate her, she’s a best selling author and VP candidate. That’s more than the vast majority of people can claim for themselves.
However, I don’t believe that necessarily qualifies you to be president. Until I see more of Palin and hear more of what she has to say about a whole host of topics, I personally don’t believe that she should be POTUS. That’s just my opinion, and many others can have their own opinions on the matter as well.
People do attack her too much and it’s getting annoying. The media is almost validating her by always talking about her. If they just left her alone and stopped reaching for nonexistent stories, she might not be as big a deal as she is right now.
Disagree with the woman all you want, but I can’t really think of a valid reason to hate her.
AJ, I’m back! Let us look at #43, shall we?
Easy: “I have been pretty harsh in my own rhetoric on occasions. But that ends as of now. I intend to oversee the restoration of civility in our efforts to lead this nation forward. I urge leaders on both sides of the aisle and in the media to follow my example.”
Not if he is going to lead by example and is willing to put his words into action and his intentions into words. It is distinctly the opposite of Alinsky and the Chicago way, but stranger things have happened.
He doesn’t. If “birthers” believe his birth certificate lists him as Muslim, there is one sure way of dispelling that claim, isn’t there.
Lots of cases attempted to get the attention of the Supreme Court, but they were denied on the grounds that those suing “lacked standing.” Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue if the Supreme Court found that Social Security is unconstitutional? And, suppose they found that Ronald Reagan was not Constitutionally qualified to be President? All his authorizations, signatures, appointments, etc. would be invalid. There are places where you just do not go.
Unfortunately, you are wrong. There is no “certification” of Presidential/Vice-Presidential candidates. Would you object to having the Archivist of the United States examine the birth certificates of each candidate and certifying them and keeping valid copies in the archives? Would you be willing to start with Obama?
I happen to believe that no good can come of pursuing Obama’s birth records, because too much water has gone over the dam since the issue arose. You, apparently, accept his word as an article of faith or infatuation or whatever. But do you not find it passing strange that he will not provide something so fundamentally important as a birth certificate to prove his Constitutional citizenship requirements?
AJ, lets be civil and have a civil chat. What possible reason does Obama have for hiding his birth certificate? I have read that some think he was born in Kenya. Some think his named daddy is not his daddy. Some think his religion is listed as Muslim. That is a problem because radical Islam does not allow a person to leave Islam alive. Some think really crazy stuff.
What is there on a birth certificate which you want to keep from public view? Suppose you just want to keep your fundamental medical record, the birth certificate, private. Fine. But don’t apply for anything that requires it to be used as an official document. In no way shape or manner did you ever catch me implying, basely or otherwise, that Obama is a “foreign Muslim” or a “foreigner” or a “Muslim.” But will make it clear that the truth can not hurt you and Obama has no earthly reason to keep his birth certificate under wraps …… unless he does have a birth certificate problem he does not want known.
So, AJ, now it is your turn to be civil.
He has posted his birth certificate online. Tea Partiers and “birthers” said it wasn’t good enough, that it could’ve been faked. Even if they hung the birth certificate out in the open for all to see, they would likely claim the same thing.
He has provided sufficient proof, really all that he can, for people who really wanted to know if he was born here and weren’t trying to simply invalidate his presidency for political reasons.
AJ, you might want to contact Governor Neil Abercrombie.
http://www.examiner.com/post-partisan-in-national/hawaii-governor-trying-to-release-original-obama-birth-certificate
As I said, I am not wrapped up in all of this. The complexity of Hawaii’s infant statehood at the time of Obama’s birth and the whole Certificate of Live Birth mess that followed makes this a mare’s nest, at best. His mother was an American Citizen from Kansas so the issue has many avenues for resolution. The point is, until Obama authorizes his records to be searched and reported by an impartial panel, he owns this “birther” distraction. Capish?
Keith Olberman is not a political official.
Neither is Sarah Palin.
You have this issue where you lump in whatever people on the left say with Obama. Instead of showing things that Obama said, you show what other people said and then, with no proof, claim it’s what Obama thinks.
Just like the Obama Party did with the Tucson shooter, claiming that his beliefs were the same as the Tea Party, Republicans, conservatives, and Sarah Palin.
You’re squealing and whining over someone doing what you support and endorse when your own party does it.
And it’s not my job to refute any and every bad thing people say.
But both you and Olbermann demand that other people do it.
Isn’t that amazing? You demand all these things, but refuse to do any of them yourself.
Please, if you use Palin derangement syndrome, use it correctly: to characterize the increasingly small (now about 30 percent) portion of the country who doesn’t despise a whiny, nasty, mean-spirited, dishonest, intellectually shallow, lazy, self-pitying person who managed to attempt govern all of one half of one term, and who built her entire political image on an out-and-out lie (opposing a Bridge to Nowhere that she campaigned on a platform of supporting). There is a reason she is the most disliked political figure in the country, by far, and it is not the media — it is her own fault, by basically saying, any time you dare to disagree with me / criticize me, it is because you are a God-hating, America-despising, liberal. Please, please, just watch this Jon Stewart segment — Stewart is not a Palin hater. He even agrees with some of her (all too rare) reasonable statments. But he totally, completely, and utterly eviscerates her. Not that it’s terribly hard to do. All of the negativity surrounding her is her own fault. I’ve never seen someone who is SO self-pitying for no good reason, who is SO guilty of every … single … misdeed that she (often falsely) attributes to her critic. To her, all liberals are inherently evil. So why, exactly, should liberals care what she has to say? But really, WATCH THE SEGMENT. She is, and always will be, her own worst enemy. And that’s why the 65-70 percent of Americans who think negatively of her are NOT all “deranged”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/stewart-sarah-palin-victim_n_810870.html