The Anchoress
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While running through my spam filter this evening I accidentally hit ‘delete’ instead of ‘not spam’ and wiped out all the spam and a few legit comments as well. Sorry, folks. If you do not see your comment up right now (I’ve just released all in moderation) it may have been lost in the Great Spam Filter Deletion Debacle of September 13. My apologies.
It was an honest error, as I’m a little distracted; we’re painting another room over here. But you can find some other deleting going on that has nothing to do with a mere brainburp, but was quite intentional; have you had a chance to read some of the full transcript of Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson? Go read the stuff they edited out. Clearly, she was smarter than they wanted her to appear. Our modern professional journalists. The “gatekeepers” and “mediating intelligences,” who seem increasingly dependent upon memory holes. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?.
Glenn Reynolds says you gotta bring your own camera, Sarah!: Do you know, Archbishop Chaput, of Denver always records his interviews, now, because something he said in an interview was misrepresented a while back, and he learned his lesson. HE will guard the guardians, himself. Now, a reporter turns on a recorder, Chaput turns on his own. Keeps everyone honest, no? Perhaps Palin and McCain and anyone else not beloved of media, should follow the shepherd’s example. I think Palin SHOULD bring her own camera, next time. And smile nice and wide when she says – as Chaput is said to have told an inquiring reporter – “it protects both of us, and if you have no intention of misquoting me, you shouldn’t mind.” Heh.
Ace wonders why the press, so enamored of NUANCE in both Kerry and now Obama, seems so reluctant to allow Palin to exhibit her own nuance. It’s only pretending to wonder, you understand. By the way, I have friends who refer to John Kerry as Pope Nuance I. They’ve recently begun calling Obama, Pope Nuance II.
My Auntie Lillie always told me, “…child, stay away from the gin drinkers. The whiskey drinkers will slap you on the back and be your pal, the vodka drinkers will get quiet and sad, and chase dreams, but the gin drinkers are just mean and lo-down. Even when they’re not drinking, they’re mean.” Oh, and some woman on the radio is accusing Sarah Palin of raping teenage boys. According to Jeannine Garofalo, who I used to like, Democrats are “fundamentally decent people,” while she admits, she’d like to see people on the right thrown into jail. And just think, someone asked me recently why I have a category called “The perpetual adolescents…” Mindblowing.
More Mindblowing: More nasty journalism, but at least the intent is admitted; she tricked McCain and his “unsophisticated” staff into getting him to pose under a strobe for a menacing effect. :::UPDATE::: THIS WOMAN reveals something awful in her admission. This does not seem like normal adult behavior. It doesn’t even seem like perpetual adolescent behavior. Well, okay, it does. But it seems like something else, too.:::END UPDATE:::
To which one may reasonably respond as the poster does, here Michelle Malkin has more on this person, who intentionally makes children cry, for her “art” – and get this, she made them cry so she could make political points about how much she hates…get ready for it…George W. Bush. It’s Dubya’s fault that she abuses the trust of children. But, may I remind you that Garofalo said just the other day that “Democrats are fundamentally decent people,” while everyone else is – you know. Not.
Maybe we’re just too cornpone to understand the prices of “art.”
Doug Ross calls the press decrepit and desperate. It’s more than that.
If Charles Gibson was looking for hubris…we found it! And here, too.
By the way, Gov. Palin showed up at a 3,500 seat arena: 10,000 were waiting for her. Keep it up, press!
Lorie Byrd looks at the Snow set-up piece and the Gibson interview. Also, pay attention to the similarities between Palin’s answer and the answer of a foreign policy “expert”.
Not getting the memo, USA Today reports that as Governor, Palin has governed from the center.
More:
Charles Krauthammer Gibson’s Gaffe, in which he answers the NY Times on Palin. Interesting, Krauthammer was not immediately enamored of Palin. Surber goes so far as to correct the NY Times editorial for them.
The Virginian ponders controlling the narrative and finds, as I did earlier this year, that one movie line in particular is resoundingly apropos regarding the press, these days. In fact, I’m using it again in a PJM piece later this week.
Story that will get least attention this weekend but should get much more: Democrats interfering with subpoenas in Alaska?. The GOP better get on that.
Jennifer Rubin has an absolutely must-read roundup of links not seen everywhere else.
If only Palin would just take Obama’s advice, things would be easier for her.
Okay, that was fun, but all joking aside, I just noticed that Texas Rainmaker has not posted since 3:00 AM, as Ike hit. I hope he’s okay…update: he is. But it sounds like it’s awful over there.
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