Roll Reversals: The media whines about Palin

For almost three years now the mainstream media (MSM) has been on a mission to destroy Sarah Palin. The MSM has not missed a single opportunity to distort Palin's record or to portray her in the most negative light possible.  To add to the assault, whenever Palin comments on the media's over the top behavior they accuse her of "whining".  For anybody else this would be the Catch 22 from hell, but not for Sarah Palin.


Sarah Palin has effectively turn the tables on the media with her One Nation bus tour.  Palin has design the tour to have the look and feel of a campaign tour. Yet, the tour also fits the bill for exactly what Palin says it is; a tour of historical sites that played a role in America's history and foundation.  Palin uses this ambiguity to the hilt and has refused to release any information about where the bus is going next.  The result is that the media is now forced to follow Palin's bus or accept her own written accounts on SarahPAC.


The media has become so frustration they are now the ones doing the whining.  The media has whined that Palin refuses to follow their standard protocol, that she has turned them into paparazzi or she has created a dangerous driving situation and they even whine that she may be breaking Federal flag law (ROTFLMBAO over that one).


I think the MSM's real frustration has little to do with Palin not accommodating them.  Instead, I think the MSM's frustrations stems from the fact that after almost  3 years of character assassination, Palin is still standing.  Worse yet she is still a happy camper.  Palin's resilience reminds the media of their growing impotence in the age of new media and social networks. But the part that really gets their biased little hearts aching is that Palin keeps resurrecting herself.


The media declared Palin dead after the 2008 election and she stayed popular. When she stepped down as governor, the MSM declared her political career dead, but Palin came  back stronger than ever.  Then the MSM blood libeled her over the Arizona shooting and once again said she was politically dead.  Now Palin is back and making more buzz than all the 2012 GOP contenders combined.


Deep down inside you just know that under the MSM's frustrations they have real fear. They fear that Palin will pull off the ultimate resurrection and waltz right into the White House in 2013.


Via: Memeorandum
Via: CBS News 
Via: Hot Air
Via: Real Clear Politics

One Nation: The left tries to mimic the Tea Party again

First there was the Coffee Party which was suppose to be this great grassroots movement based on coffee, civility and the end to gridlock, that was suppose to act as a counterweight to the Tea Party movement. You haven’t heard a peep from that bunch of astrotrufers after the glowing and fawning media reports ended.

Now the left is trying again to counter the Tea Party movement by bringing all their radical cabals together under the title of One Nation. 

Washington Post: In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement's political energy and influence. They promise to "counter the tea party narrative" and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.

The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed "One Nation," will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago. In a repurposing of Barack Obama's old campaign slogan, organizers are demanding "all the change" they voted for -- a poke at the White House.[…]

The groups involved represent the core of the first-time voters who backed President Obama -- including the National Council of La Raza, NAACP, AFL-CIO, SEIU and the United States Student Association. (The effort is separate from the Democratic Party'splan to spend $50 million trying to reach those same voters.) 

I don’t know about you, but I smell another epic fail in the making. The problem for the left is that there is no over arching theme to tie all their victim groups together. The Tea Party has an over arching theme of opposing Washington Gone Wild, but what does the left have?

To complicate matter for the left, they had the power for two years to execute the kind of Hope and Change they wanted.  In their attempt to do so, the opposition to their plans is what helps fuels the Tea Party to this day. So the harder they try with One Nation, the more passionate the Tea Party will become.

I suspect that One Nation will follow in the footsteps of the Coffee Party. The media will dole out tremendous fanfare and praise only to see One National fail to live up to the hype (much like the current White House occupant).

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Washington Post