Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Opinion

John Aloysius Farrell

McCain Advisers Feel Guilty Over Loosing Sarah Palin on the American Public

June 30, 2009 10:18 AM ET | John Aloysius Farrell | Permanent Link | Print

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Yellow Journalism

Fox News owns that title; The Yellow Journalism one, that is.

Thank goodness for Vanity Fair. It's more than Fair.

Yellow Journalism

Yellow journalism got its start with the rise of technology allowing newspapers to print thousands of copies. Competition was fierce, so yellow journalism arose as a means to sell papers. Today, the economic downturn is weighing heavily on newspapers and competition with new media is fierce.......hence yellow journalism is making a big comeback.

Interesting example here as well as the Vanity Fair piece it is based on.

sarah palin is about the most beautiful thing to have happened to the united states

it is so amazing how the american media obssess about sarah palin. They present rumors against her as fact. Now let me ask: How will you deal with the rumor that:

1. Obama is gay and has an active gay partner?

2. Obama's daughters are not his biological daughters?

3. Obama is a 'sleeper cell' and a closet muslim?

how would the american media have reported this? would huffington post bloggers have presented this as fact?

It is a tragedy how the media finds the destruction of a sincere woman comedy.

Palin is a "valley girl"

Sarah Palin will finish what George Bush started, and that is ruin the GOP. Like Bush, she is no leader and sounds just as stupid.

Some of her supporters claim that the Democrats are afraid of her. No reason to fear, she will never amount to anything for the GOP, except to be a drag; big time.

Quite honestly, it's the GOP who should be concerned; Palin will keep the party in turmoil

Governor Palin

You know it is sickening how jealous and vindictive the liberal media is. This clown at Vanity Fair should be fired for yellow journalism. Palin has more intelligence, class, competence and morals than all the liberals put together. They are all just incredibly jealous of and fearful of Palin because she exposes their rotting stinking cesspool politics. She is a breath of fresh air and I pray she comes back and makes them all toast. She has my vote. She is class all the way. Drill Baby Drill....Tori Bennett-far right extremest

I still say, if McCain wants to feel guilty,

it should not be over Palin---but rather, over running, himself. He should have known, as we did, that a pair of beer dealers (John & Cindy), rich from decades of alcoholism sold to the Arizona underclass, were not suitable to lead the free world. Voters chose better.

As for Sarah Palin, well, she is mentally still in high school---most recently telling a magazine that she thinks she could beat Barack Obama in a foot race.

And La-Dee-Da, too.

Disagree

"Palin has a lot more character and substance than most D.C. denizens - and I think you know it and that makes you, and the rest of the progressive, subjectivist, elites, real nervous."

I really don't think that's true, I'm a pro-life, pro-gun, rural conservative, and I know plenty of the same who agree with me. She just doesn't seem to have what it takes. As conservatives we should demand more and better.

John...

The Vanity Fair article was garbage and you're enough of a journalist to know it. Just a bunch of baseless character attacks and unnamed sources. National Enquirer stuff under a glossy cover.

Palin is not part of eco/socialist elite and that infuriates a lot of pseudo intellectuals.

Palin has a lot more character and substance than most D.C. denizens - and I think you know it and that makes you, and the rest of the progressive, subjectivist, elites, real nervous.

Politician/Leader

Perham of NY of NY wrote: "She certainly is a very capable politician."

No doubt about that. She knows how to get attention. That's hardly the same thing as being a capable leader.

As a conservative, I agree with her philosophically in many respects. However, her performance, when unscripted, in the 2008 election left me doubting her abilities on the national stage. Her evident misunderstanding of the duties of the office for which she was running and other bedrock constitutional principles (not to mention just about any federal policy) were troubling at best.

She will have to do a lot to convince me--and other conservatives who were paying attention to the content (such as it was) of her remarks--that she is not just ready, but able, to execute at that level. Her post-election comments have not helped.

Not thinking of you Gov. Palin for 2012

Ambition -the lil' Devil that whispered "go for it Sarah".If she had possesed the love for her Family ,Country & State or the loyalty to Sen. McCain's she professed to have- she would have sat this one out.Largely the reason we have this "Agent in Place" as our Chief Executive.

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John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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