The press is a ass [Reader Post]

In Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Mr. Bumble is told “the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction”. To that Bumble replies “If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot.”

The press is also a ass. Specifically, the NY Times, WaPo, the LA Times and mostly, Politico.

Unemployment is brutally high, Obama is doing nothing about jobs, the EPA is carrying out Obama’s edict to make electricity rates skyrocket, the stock market is tanking, the economy is grinding to a halt. What does Politico find important?

Their continued effort, along with the NY Times, WaPo, and the rest of the idiot media, to destroy Sarah Palin.

A commenter at Bill Jacobson’s blog wryly notes

The Washington Post thinks it’s “harassment” to request Michael Mann’s files from the University of Virginia (their Memorial Day editorial http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harassing-climate-change-researchers/2011/05/27/AG1xJMEH_story.html) but it’s cool with requesting and obtaining and asking for citizen-journalists to go through 24,000 of the State of Alaska’s emails involving Sarah Palin.

Have a look at some of the stories that dominate Politico today and they all center the same thing:

Long-lost Palin surfaces in emails

Palin emails: No bombshells
By MOLLY BALL | 6/11/11 7:10 AM

The bitter disappointment is palpable. And the list of hot stories goes on:

Many of the highly-anticipated messages deal with the mundane business of government.

– Palin emails show media distrust
– Family didn’t want special treatment for son
– Palin praised Obama for ‘flip-flopping’
– Bush joked with Palin on VP buzz
– Palin sought meeting with Obama aide
– Commissioner pitched Fey head-to-head
– Gingrich advised Palin on PR

And there was this bombshell:

Palin, staff were excited when McCain named her to the ticket (via Glenn)

The left wing media is quite selective in who it wishes exposed and embarrassed. The LA Times won’t release a video of Barack Obama feting a Jew hater in 2008. CBS won’t release the full content of an open mike conversation Obama exchanged with donors. They attempt to eviscerate Palin yet they offer full protection to Obama. Politico has a long history of Palin Derangement Syndrome.

Apparently not satisfied with the truth, Politico enlisted two authors to fabricate a Palin quote out of thin air in another effort to smear Palin. They wrote:

Will Sarah Palin’s intensifying rivalry with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) cause the former Alaska governor to run for president?

The first female Republican vice presidential nominee clearly believes she is the one who has paid the heavy dues by bearing the brunt of the “liberal elite” attacks to help build the tea party, social conservative wing of the GOP.

Palin’s bus tour had some of the hallmarks of a primal scream: “I built this constituency, not Bachmann, not anyone else,” she said. Looking at it through her eyes, she has a point.

Palin never said it. They made it up. They put those words in her mouth.

When they were caught in the lie, Politico was quick to defend it as an “innocent mistake.” If Politico didn’t such a long history of Palin bashing one might entertain the notion that it was a mistake, but that simply doesn’t hold water.

Paul Goldman is former chairman of the Virginia democrat party and Mark Rozell is a Professor at George Mason University, so the odds of his being anything other than a liberal are about zero. The two collaborated previously in an article about Barack Obama which the word “obsequious” doesn’t come close to describing.

A president needs the public to trust him to take the country in the right direction. This connection is not a product of office work but a work of art.

Obama, a brilliant and successful policy wonk in the Oval Office, is overexposed. But the skinny guy with a left-hand jump shot who plays hard, shoots the breeze with the guys, marvels at a beautiful wife able to outshine him and cherishes two adorable daughters who can melt his heart is underexposed.

Yet once again, Sarah Palin has defeated them. She has allowed the press to show just how demented it has become. She has amply demonstrated that the left wing media have devolved into paparazzi. Politico is nothing more than tabloid journalism fully immersed in the Barack Obama tank. The same media that hounds Palin mercilessly has no interest in the absence of Barack Obama’s records.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made this point in 2008, saying “Our investigation suggests Senator Obama could have had his records archived so that they are available to the public, but, to this day, he does not want a complete paper trail of his time in the Illinois State Senate. Where are his office records?”

This continued persecution of Sarah Palin is going to backfire. The press may unwittingly do something Sarah Palin might not have been able to do on her own. In their mendacious efforts to destroy her the press may just rehabilitate Sarah Palin’s image into that of a genuine Presidential candidate.

You go, girl.

DrJohn

DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.

DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.

Except for liberals being foolish.