And People Wonder Why Sarah Palin Stepped Down
August 1, 2009 / 9:51 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierI won’t link to the abomination about Sarah and Todd Palin. Let’s see, it’s a New Media trifecta: unsourced, no confirmation, no eye-witnesses. Lots of innuendo, next some backtracking and finally, the denial from the person involved, Sarah Palin.
Why do they do it? Fear and loathing.
There is not one politician on this planet who has been harassed, harried, and harangued like Sarah Palin. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie must be breathing a sigh of relief. All the scum and scoundrels in the media salivate over the lives of strangers. What the hell is wrong with people? The Palins are human beings. They live, breath and have feelings.
The excrable Firedoglake features Lisa Derrick’s salacious joy at the thought, with the post titled, “Sarah Palin is Quitting AGAIN: Now, It’s Her Marriage?!?!”:
“And the family has had a lot of stress and media exposure. Kind of like John and Kate Gosselin, but with fewer kids.”
And making a comparison to Jon and Kate…as if Sarah Palin’s goal is to exploit her children.
This whole episode says more about the amorality of the Left than it says anything about the Palin family. When a political threat exists, the Left, with one accord, grabs the metaphorical pitchforks and readies the stake. They’ve had the fire burning for Sarah Palin for months. Now, all they need is the Scarlet letter and they’ll feel justified in doing what they’ve wanted to do all along-burn her to a cinder. Well, they’ve been doing that anyway. What they need is justification for their actions.
A friend told me that Sarah Palin Hate reveals so much about the hater. Yes it does.
Ace struggled with whether to write about it, since its such unsourced garbage and blogging would give oxygen to the growing flames. But these flames continue if not fought with fire.
Really, I figure the blogs and press will get more vicious, the more Sarah Palin goes around them. I love that she issued a denial through Facebook. I love that they’re irritated that she hasn’t even Tweeted for a week. They need headlines! Can’t they see that by stepping down and using alternative new media outlets, the press is deprived of the circulation numbers a woman like her generates?
The solution, then, is to make stuff up. And on the day she resigned, she chided the press for making stuff up. The press got offended. So, they make more stuff up and prove her point. If it weren’t so pathetic, it would be comical.
