Posts Tagged ‘sarah palin’

Palin and Frum on opposite sides again…

Posted: December 11, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…this time over Obama’s Oslo speech.

The Nobel address was Obama at his worst or near-worst. Let’s count the ways.

He then proceeds to Fisk the speech raising a some valid points. I personally think he is missing the forest for the trees but it is a valid critique.

More interesting that this is the fact that Mr. Frum will find that the media that normally fawns over him lately while trashing Palin will be quoting Palin approvingly today (as Morning Joe already has) and ignoring his take. The results for him are predictable:

Will this be a dawn of awareness concerning the media’s sudden respect for him? I wouldn’t be the farm on it. I think he might be one of the people Mike Gravel is talking about.

Update: Talk about strange bedfellows, Atlas and Bolton are with Frum on this one.

Palin vs Gore Round 2 the networks…

Posted: December 10, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Sarah Palin continues to prove herself a master of political Jiu-Jitsu.

Palin’s statement causes Gore to respond. Since Gore is responding the networks cover it and are forced to cover the climategate issue, even to discount it, but Palin also throws back:

Former Vice President Gore also claimed today that the scientific community has worked on this issue for 20 years, and therefore it is settled science. Well, the Climategate scandal involves the leading experts in this field, and if Climategate is proof of the larger method used over the past 20 years, then Vice President Gore seriously needs to consider that their findings are flawed, falsified, or inconclusive.

Vice President Gore, the Climategate scandal exists. You might even say that it’s sort of like gravity: you simply can’t deny it.

and the networks (like Morning Joe this morning) cover that too.

The end result of all of this will be people’s exposure to the evidence, this can’t but hurt the Climate change cult as thread after thread that defends the “decline hiders” turns into rebuttal from normally reliable readers.

Most importantly while the usual suspects cry foul, fair people on the other side are asking probing questions about the data.

The worm is turning and their fear is palatable. When Palin can go toe to toe with as seasoned a pol as a former congressman, Senator and 2 term Vice president from a political family and come out not only ahead but standing the left has to be shaking.

Exit Question: Is it a coincidence that one person in this debate is making public appearances all over the country, while the other ducks public forums?

Stanley Fish gets Palin…

Posted: December 8, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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….and his review in the New York Times shows it. And in four sentences he boils down the essence of both Sarah Palin and the book.

For many politicians, family life is sandwiched in between long hours in public service. Palin wants us to know that for her it is the reverse. Political success is an accident that says nothing about you. Success as a wife, mother and citizen says everything.

That is the bottom line, oh and notice the amusing condensation he deals with in simply obtaining the book and the talking down he gets from the shocked readers of the times totally unaccustomed to even a review of a conservative book let alone a positive one..

My own review is here and my post here.

Via Glenn.

Amazon Review: The Persecution of Sarah Palin

Posted: December 6, 2009 by datechguy in amazon reviews
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My review of Matthew Continetti’s book: The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star is Available at Amazon.com here.

I only bought the book because I needed to get my order for Going Rogue up to the $25 dollar free shipping bound.

I think I would have been better picking up a 3rd copy of Palin’s book. It wasn’t horrible but if you are a blogger or a person who reads blogs regularly you could have written this book yourself. If I had any brains I would have done it and made enough off of the piggyback factor to be set for a year or two.

It is interesting to note that the same Palin Tag derangement that took place over her book is alive and well on this one.

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