“Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely.”

But they also:

plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic.

If Tea Partiers really are so horrible, why would you need to resort to infiltration & agitation to make them look bad? If there was any truth to the MSM’s attempts to paint them as homophobes, racists and morons, you would have nothing to worry about from the movement.

Obviously the Tea Parties are striking a chord. And foes must resort to tactics like this as they are completely unable to debate the actual issues.

Much like the treatment of Sarah Palin, they don’t work so hard to undermine you if they don’t fear you and your potential to elicit change.

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She understands that the U.S. has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president.

And in this one, he attempts to capture the reasons behind the remarkable vitriol she inspires, mostly from the Left, but also from a certain ‘class’ of the Right.

When push came to shove, they could not resist what Van Voorhees calls Mr. Obama’s “prodigious oratorical and intellectuals gifts” and they could not resist attributing Sarah Palin’s emergence as a formidable political force to “the base enthusiasms and simian grunts” of “the loathesome Tea Party rabble.”

She didn’t go to the right schools, she isn’t from the right urban area, she fishes & camps & shoots things, she is married to a blue collar worker, she has too many children…..

Here’s what those elitists snobs on both sides of the aisle are forgetting: Most people in America didn’t go to the right schools, there are vast tracts of land outside the uber-sophisticated urban hot spots, large numbers of their countrymen hunts & fish & enjoy camping. We are either blue collar ourselves, or unlikely to look down on someone who does an honest day’s work. We love a woman who loves her children and finds that she can, in fact, have it all; career, gorgeous hubby, beautiful children – and look great while doing it.

At this point, I don’t know that I want her to run for President in 2012. I do know that,

…I would rather be ruled by the Tea Party than by the Democratic Party, and I would rather have Sarah Palin sitting in the Oval Office than Barack Obama.

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If you read the article you will see it very clearly makes the claim that if Obama is voted out of office (and if Palin is on the ascendancy) it is because of racism. So, I commented. And he commented. And I commented. And I wanted to get more people involved, so here is the exchange:

Vox: How can you seriously reference an article that makes it’s point with a line like “who’ve emerged to redeem, or reclaim, the land from Northern carpetbaggers and uppity Negroes.”

Come ON!

Him: Sometimes hyperbole can get to a point. It is exactly what seems to be happening, and the expression accurately describes southern Dems at that time. And have you ever heard the terms “northern liberal” or “liberal elite”…they are just less noxious terms for the same impulse being cultivated by those mentioned in the same article.

They are once again suggesting that anyone who disagrees with Obama or any of his policies is inherently racist. As far as “at that time” they reference Reagan & Palin, both fairly recent Pols. – neither one of which has ever displayed a penchant for keeping down “uppity Negroes” It is ridiculous and ineffective to distill every argument down to something so base – especially when it is not in evidence.

As someone else said, and I wholeheartedly agree, I have a lot of problems with Obama – the only thing I DON’T have a problem with is the color of his skin

What is the “color of his skin”? The article never mentioned Obama’s ethnicity; but I think he is half-black AND half-white. The article only draws a parallel to a group of people who felt disenfranchised after years of perogative (Southern whites) with those who also feel disenfranchised today (both white and black, Dems and the GOP). They are looking for a leader, and Palin is wisely cultivating that frustration. Without making any policy speeches, holding any elective and accountable office (she quit), she is perfectly invulnerable right now. It is working.

The article clearly (and repeatedly) referenced his ethnicity, and claimed that Palin was in the running due to her being one of a long line of politicians – sorry, “demagogues” – who are trying to save the country from “uppity Negroes”.

It also claims that “There’s an anger out there, and I have not seen it since my very first campaign which was George Wallace” – yet another jab at racism (Wallace actually was racist, and a Democrat, who luckily learned the error of his ways)

“And for black America, that’s the good news.” Why would the author think that especially good, or bad, for black America if he is not fixated on & alluding to the color of Obama’s skin.

“Consider the post-Reconstruction era, or the post-civil rights era, or even South Africa’s Afrikaners who responded to a fiscal crisis by electing the National Party which introduced apartheid in 1948.” Really, does he think Obama’s abysmal performance is going to usher segregation back in the US?

The Obama presidency is a slap in the face to MLK’s dream, wherein people would be judged not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character. Every time any resistance to Obama’s agenda (which is also a resistance to a lot of old white men..and women) is written off as the product of racism, the color of his skin becomes paramount to his character. Interestingly, and tellingly, the only people I hear mentioning “uppity Negroes” are on the Left – and trying to put it off on those that lean Right is projection. It reeks of desperation and an inability to argue the issues on THEIR face, not his.

He’s referring to the black constituency (consider this source). Lots of anger and feelings of unrequited love among these people. I don’t blame them; Obama has so far let down a lot of people.

Anyone want to continue the discussion?

 
* To be clear, I do think Obama’s performance, and that of his cronies like Pelosi, Reid, Frank, et al is paving the way for a GOP presidency, but not Palin. However, I see nothing to “be very afraid” about if she were to hold a higher office.

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1. They were tasteless, they were crude, they were over the line, they were sexist – all those things. And, they were unfunny.

2. Greg Gutfeld was right; it is pathetic that with an entire inept administration to choose from for his jokes, Letterman is still so obsessed with Sarah Palin. It is also pathetic that he couldn’t come up with something funny.
3. It is conceivable, and even likely, that his staff was too stupid, too lazy, or too disinterested to check which daughter was with Palin in NY. Had it been Bristol, the jokes would have been stupid, the fact that it was Willow puts the jokes in beyond-the-pale territory. And don’t forget that Letterman also targeted Palin herself.
4. He would never have made those jokes about a female, left-leaning politician, let alone her children. You can imagine the outrage had Rush said something about the Obama girls, or if Treacher’s Ashley Biden joke was not merely in illustration of the double standard. There was hell to pay when Chelsea Clinton was maligned during her father’s campaigns/terms – and even much gnashing of teeth when it was suggested that as a grown woman she was being “pimped out” during her mother’s failed Presidential run.

That said………we do ourselves no favors by becoming “hysterical” over these things the way the left does. I know that in most cases it is an attempt to give as good as we got, but I don’t think that is always the best strategy in a PR battle. Think about how idiotic lefties appear when they bluster and foam at the mouth over every perceived slight, is that what you want for yourself? These were obviously comments that needed to be addressed, but not hammered over and over. Letterman needn’t be fired, though an actual, sincere apology would have been nice.
A-Rod having sex with Willow Palin would quite obviously be statutory rape (though pushing Letterman’s idiocy into giggles at statutory rape is a stretch), besides being disturbing on other levels. But statutory rape is quite a different animal from RAPE. To continue referring to Letterman’s comments as advocating the rape of a child trivializes the word, much the same way as moonbats calling Bush “Hitler” and Republicans “Nazis” trivialized the evil that was done by the Third Reich. It also has undoubtedly caused the child in question, whether Willow or Bristol, more harm than anything he said in the first place. We need to stand up for our principles, we need to defend smart, conservative women who are brave enough to step into the political arena, and we need to ensure everyone understands the limits of humor stop long before the family gets attacked. We also need to keep our heads and not risk becoming like the loonies on the left. We are bigger than that, we are smarter than that – and we need to stay true to who we are.
We also don’t need to give a jackass like David Letterman any more attention than he deserves. He can’t win on the humor front but he always has controversy. Since his Palin digs, and for the first time in a very, very long time, David Letterman won the ratings battle in his time slot.
It would behoove clear thinking lovers of humor to allow Letterman to fade into the obscurity he has been toying with for decades.
UPDATE: Found this quote

“If the right goes after Letterman, they make him look big and themselves small,” says Mark McKinnon, a former campaign adviser to George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). “It’s win-win for Letterman.”

UPDATE: Regarding giving Letterman more attention than he deserves.
UPDATE: Here is Greg Gutfeld’s take.

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In general, according to Beigun, Palin had a steep learning curve on foreign issues, about what you would expect from a governor. But she has “great instincts and great core values,” and is “an instinctive internationalist.” The stories against her are being “fed by an unnamed source who is allowed by the press to make ad hominem attacks on background.” Biegun, who spent dozens and dozens of hours briefing Palin on these issues, is happy to defend her, on the record, under his own name.

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I heard Carl Cameron once answered his hotel room door in a full Wonder Woman costume
I’m not sayin’ it’s true, I’m not sayin’ it’s not. That’s just what I heard. And no, I won’t tell you who said it. Under the new standard of journalism, it’s plausible until proven otherwise. And I get to decide what constitutes proof.
Better get out in front of this one, Carl!

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