Palin Takes Shots at the Media on Her Way Out

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I think Sarah Palin is great. She has more guts then the entire Obama organization. She tells it like it is and she dosen't give a damn if you like it or her or not. She was thrown into the ring without a lot of knowledge and now she has the knowledge and you haven't heard the end of her yet thats for sure. GO SARAH

jERRY of VA 4:34PM August 10, 2009

The media has been assailing her with negativity ever since she was nominated vice presidential candidate, and even now, they can't let her alone. Why? Tell me one thing that LEGITIMATELY qualifies her as the stupid bimbo that people think she is. Tell me. Bush was dumb; Bush was a "C" student whose daddy paid his way through university and whose name led him to the presidency. John Kerry was a "D" student -- dumber than BUSH -- although the media never paraded -that- fact around. But Palin is a bright woman. She switched between colleges for awhile, bearing the uncertainty that all teens have, and then proceeded to work her way up to the position of STATE GOVERNOR. The news would lavish praise on Sotomayor (who will be a fine justice) and Pelosi (who lies so obviously that it's sickening), but not Palin? Really.
Palin is brave to stand up to the BLATANTLY left-leaning media (and that includes this article, which obviously tries to spin the story in a condescending and negative light -- fail). She is right to step out of their line of fire, because if they attack her now, they are just targeting a normal woman for no reason whatsoever.
BITE ME, you corrupted media.

Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Who Sees the Truth of NJ 6:04PM July 28, 2009

Sarah Palin has played her role of Pit bull with lipstick very well. It seems it is alright for her to criticize, demean and denigrate everyone else, but she is appalled when the favor is returned. As far as her children, she was the one who paraded them all around where ever she went. If she did not want the media to scrutinize her children she should have done what others do and left them home where they belonged. She may disdane the media and call them names but when she wants free publicity she calls press conferences "like quick." Sarah is shameless and bizarre---she hates the media but loves being in the public eye---what she lacks is credibility. The media should do her a favor and ignore her in the future.

Ann G of IA 5:50PM July 28, 2009

I'm actually o.k. that she stepped aside. In fact, she can do what ever she pleases. I don't even think we even deserved a reason why she stepped aside. I presume that she saw the governorship for what it was . . . a political dead end. You see, she's a lighning rod for liberals and being in the governorship not only keeps her put but it puts a bulls eye on her.
Now she's able to go unfettered and do as she pleases . . . leaving the media and liberals to pound sand.
I expect that we will see her energize her base, oiling the political machinery, calculating and planning her next move, and raising vast financial resources.

david of ID 1:01PM July 28, 2009

Why is quitting for a government job acceptable while other reasons for quitting are not? Is there something sacred about government jobs?
The facts are that when those three other governors quit they were each doing what they deemed best for themselves. However, when Palin quit she was doing what she deemed best for her state. Yet somehow she is condemned and they are not. I guess her mistake was in not immediately going to another sacred GOVERNMENT JOB.

fred of MO 10:21AM July 28, 2009

And people say Republicans don't have a sense of humor. You're a funny guy, Fred. Your reasoning made me laugh out loud.
So, if I have this right, all the governors, and, one presumes, Senators, Congressmen, corporate CEO's, etc., that took jobs in the Bush Administration are bad people because they were just doing so to "further their own political ambitions".
Two problems with that. First, everyone in the country who accepts a position in the federal administration would be moving upward on the job ladder except 1:Ex-presidents, who would be moving down (after giving jobs to Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Carter, we'd still have a lot of openings) and 2: The unemployed, since they don't have jobs to move up from (hey, my mom's not working - she's in her eighties, but she's still way sharper than Sarah Palin).
The other problem? Before she quit her job as governer to become Celebrity Fighter for Alaska, your beloved Sarah Palin was perfectly willing to quit her job as governor to further her "own political ambitions", by becoming Vice President. Unless, that is, you expected her to quit as Vice President before she was sworn in so that she wouldn't quit as governor.
Run, Sarah, run.

jimatmadison of WI 8:44AM July 28, 2009

My mistake, one of those other three governors who quit their job is a very liberal Republican. But all three of them quit, have forsaken their states, merely to further their own political ambitions.
However, Palin quit because she was so hassled by the attacks and frivolous lawsuits against her that she could no longer give the governor's job it's proper due. So she sacrificed herself for the good of her state, she passed the ball to someone in the clear.
Anyway, that's what we Palin supporters uderstood from her clear and straightforward July 3rd resignation speech. That's how we see the situation, and none of that negative spin Palin haters put on it matters a damn. None of it is the least bit convincing. It's mostly laughable. They fear her so much.
Palin's quitting was self sacrificing, their quitting was self serving. But somehow she's the "quitter". Amazing!

fred of MO 12:31AM July 28, 2009

Her comment about her replacment (saying her replacement, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, "has a very nice family too, so leave his kids alone!" ) well why then did she parade her kids around during the campaign, even that dolt future son in law, if she did not want the media to scrutize her family and children she should have left them home where they belonged, and kept them out of the public eye,

rusty32 of WA 11:47PM July 27, 2009

Yeah, Fred, it's exactly the same.
Katherine Sebelius resigned as governor of Kansas to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Janet Napolitano quit as governor of Arizona to become Secretary of Homeland Defense.
Jon Huntsman was the Republican governor of Utah who resigned to become Ambassador to China.
Am I missing somebody? I count two Democrats and one Republican governor who resigned to take very important positions within the federal administration.
Basically, they accepted promotions.
Sarah Palin resigned because people were saying bad things about her.
And she didn't want to be viewed as a 'lame duck' after announcing that she wouldn't run for re-election (she could have just not made the announcement).
And she wants to fight like a grizzly for Alaska by quitting the most important position in the state.
My boss saw me heading toward my car in the parking lot this morning.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"I'm going home so I can fight even harder for you, boss." I replied.
"The job I hired you for is back inside the building." he said.
"Like a grizzly bear!" I explained.
He didn't understand. I'll bet he didn't understand Sarah's reasons either. Must be a Democrat.

jimatmadison of WI 9:42PM July 27, 2009

1) Being a lame duck herself would be bad, but putting her hapless Lt. Governor in that position is quite okay.
2) The press allegedly "making things up" (about her) has some unidentified thing to do with American soldiers.
3) "Starlets" should be afraid of Sarah, because Sarah packs heat.
It's gonna be like this with her for years to come.

Muser of NM 8:48PM July 27, 2009