Via Blake, Sarah Palin’s response to the Obama campaign’s new internet ad attacking her (and Breitbart and Hannity) for their thinly veiled racism — and attack that evidently relies on editing Palin’s comments such that they no longer even share the original referents, much less are used fairly in context.
— Which, sorry, but cry me a river, honey. I mean, you know you’re going to be scrutinized, Governor Palin. So it’s up to you to make sure that nothing you say can be cut, rejiggered, and then pasted back together in a way that can give reasonable people the wrong impression about what it was you were actually discussing. As a professional communicator, such a failure redounds to poor rhetorical decisions on your part, and frankly, your decision to talk at all about anything allows the left to point to you and your statements and change the subject — namely, that we have an election to win, which we can do if all the conservatives would simply stay silent, or else agree with prevailing leftist narrative frames.
That’s the only way we’ll win over moderates and independents, and it’s them we need to win back power. At which time, we’ll be able to keep them as part of our big tent. Just so long as we agree to act like liberals.
At any rate, here’s Palin (whose continued presence and influence in and around Republican circles is just totally vexing to some erstwhile McCain and Romney staffers, who now, pathetically, appear to be making a career out of attacking the former Alaska governor for the enjoyment of the liberals they so want to impress):
Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?)
Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurdling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.
I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime; and I’m sure any of the four patriots currently running for the GOP nomination would also welcome the opportunity to talk about the problems everyday Americans face due to the abject failure of our current administration’s politics. The President will dismiss all of these problems by saying, “Well, uh, ‘change isn’t easy.’” But considering that candidate Obama promised to turn back the waters and heal the planet, the American people had at least a reasonable expectation that, at the bare minimum, he wouldn’t bankrupt our country.
This latest ad is quite odd, but also quite telling. It shows that our President sure seems fearful of discussing the economy, energy prices, and all the other problems people need addressed. And intended or not, now that his ad opens up the discussion of Barack Obama’s radical past associations and the radical philosophy that shaped his ideas about his promised “fundamental transformation” of our country, I welcome the media to join ordinary Americans in finally vetting Barack Obama. The media failed to do so in 2008 to the detriment of us all. Maybe this time around they can do their job.
They might start by noting the President’s heavily edited attack ad.
Well, again, in fairness to ObamaCo and the organized left, you did appear in public and use those words they’ve ascribed to you, did you not? I mean, those were your words, yes?
So while sure, it’s true the Left has behaved unfairly here by maybe rearranging the order of the words a bit and leaving out some clarifications — and that yes, your actual position was in favor of a colorblind society of the kind dreamed about by Martin Luther King and helped on its way into being by Lincoln’s reading of the framers and founders, precisely the opposite of what they are trying to ascribe to you here — the truth is, you have to expect this of the Left and behave accordingly. But biting your tongue. Or hiring lawyers to write your interview answers. To wit: Using “Civil War” is a dog whistle that awakens the secret longings conservatives have to bring back a strong confederacy. So you undercut yourself by using that particular bit of loaded “historical” language. In fact, you should probably shy away from words like “South” or “Constitution” or “state’s rights” or other such hermeneutically charged signifiers, too. Just to be safe.
Silence ought to do it.
Actually arguing our positions is fraught with peril, I’m afraid. And from a pragmatist’s perspective, it’s best to just be quiet rhetorically and hope Mitt Romney’s bland bullshit and Obama-Lite policies, coupled with Karl Rove’s brilliant use of a white board, sweeps us back into power. At which time we’ll really show the Left how you run an enormous federal Leviathan in a way that is both compassionate and that polls well!
VICTORY!
She’s a whiny scrunt, isn’t she?
Best she should just shut up and let our betters take care of business.
Go Mitt!
I guess maybe “Bush’s fault” isn’t polling so well these days.
Of course, in 2008, when Palin was nominated, Obama started running against Palin, rather than McCain.
Hmmm.
Or, instead of supporting Mitt Romney so that he’ll owe us and do things we want him to do in order to keep our support, what if we threw the nomination to Obama himself on the second ballot? Think of all the things we could accomplish under the banner of Bipartisanship if Obama found himself in the position of owing us. We could win for losing!
BIPARTISAN VICTORY!
Didja see that? Did you see it? SHE MISSPELLED “HURTLING”!!! GOD, what a moron. She should probably be killed, and then tortured. And then killed again. Just to be sure.
Plus, y’know, “death panels.” Stupid snowbilly bitch bint cunt twat. Which is perfectly acceptable speech because, y’know, Rush Limbaugh and all.
I saw Rove just this morning with his white board. I ended up cursing the cosmos for filling me with unearned shame.
Could you depict us as 1st graders any more blatantly?
When Rove treats the base as rational adults, I will rekindle hope the establishment is starting to understand.
As is, I remain hopeless of regaining hope.
I’ve never once seen Rove with a white board.
bh 1, universe 0.*
* This score doesn’t reflect death, failure, or bad pop music from 2002 onward.
Well, again, in fairness to ObamaCo and the organized left, you did appear in pubic
hee hee hee
Interesting. I’ve been looking for an image on the net of Rove and his whiteboard, and I’m having a hard time. It’s famous for crying out loud!
The Russians, who are still smarting over that ‘great deal’ that Alexander 11,
gave to Seward, that Obama had the nerve to joke with Putin; dubbed her Okhanitsa, ‘the Huntress’ that’s a rough transliteration,
Sheesh. NSFC
Or a JMO?
Thanks geoffb!
NSFC?
You bastards!
I’d have gladly lived another couple decades without seeing that image.
Not safe from conservatives.
Have another media matters style.
I wasn’t sure if you were kidding as you mentioned in another thread.
OK, “Not safe for conservatives” then.
Just shoot the TV or monitor, unless your guns have all been stolen.
bh, you shoulda seen me throwing things at the tv this morning.
It was all very juvenile.
This is a thing I might kid about, Geoff.
Not that I am. Just that I might.
Coincidence, I’m sure;
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/13/hbos-game-change-promoted-by-same-pr-firm-that-represents-sandra-fluke/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
I never kid geoffb.
Well, except for maybe now…
Dunn-derheads huh.
As I’m this same way, I don’t watch these things at all.
I really don’t. I listen to the Beatles and early DC punk. Then I clean or work or cook or drink.
*
No, I’m easily confused. I know NSFW, but NSFC frightened and confused me.
ILTKWWAAT.
I mean, I like to know what’s what at all times…
OK, when I get this goofy, I should go to bed.
Later days hobbits.
‘Night.
ILTKWWAAT
Like most men my age, I love ‘tkwaat’, as well — though that’s a very odd way of spelling it.
Icelandic? * Klingon?
—
* Bjork!
Wasn’t it just a week ago when Teh One was yammering on about how wrong it is to attack private citizens for expressing their beliefs?
BJORK
FNORDS!
It would not surprise me to see some outfit produce an ad attacking some conservative by splicing together some kind of outrageous utterance using words said on different occasions at different locales, in ransom-note fashion.
Nor would it surprise me for Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) treating the ad as an actual depiction of things the target actually said — and I don’t mean merely “false, but accurate.”
Bjork!
Back in her Björk Guðmundsdóttir days.
Re: “Game Change”
HBO
BHO
Coincidence? I think not!
Been done already: “Bowling for Columbine”. Lardass spliced together phrases from two different speeches Charlton Heston made, slapping a cut to the supposed audience over the discontinuity. Heston wasn’t even wearing the same color suit for the two speeches.
He was referring to people. He doesn’t consider anyone who opposes him as people.
i’ve appeared in pubic before. I think i was in college, pretty wasted, and with others similarly pubically attired.
Whoa. Even Ron White has never been arrested for drunK in pubiC.
Hence the reason I’ve never run for office. Rs are sex-hating prudes what fear naughty bits, dontchaknow?
Genius. I’m using that.
Yes Palin is incredibly stupid and embarrassing stupid and the supposedly republican people who help the democrats trash her are brilliant. They only lose because reality cheats. Y’know, like it cheated Arlen Specter. Oh and the tea party is dead or something so we have no choice but to help the rinos help the democrats stamp out our fire. It’s the only intelligent option.
The GOP is easily hypnotized by independents slowly swung back and forth. And unlike the elephant it forgets in less than two years.
There is no pro-democrat premise too shaky or self contradictory for” intelligent” republicans to use as a club against their “less intelligent” cohorts. The approval seeking forces are intellectually dominant. They want that plastic sheriff badge that says “Democrat Posse Buddy” more than they want to win. or exist.
Better a useful idiot than a useless one right guys? Loyal opposition fo’ life, yo! Ya feel me dawg?
Did you guys know that Sarah Palin ruined politics? Me neither, until now. Thanks, Richard Cohen!
And did anyone notice who was intentionally excluded from being “yucky” Republican?