The dying dinosaur media launched a coordinated attack against Vice Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin Sunday, firing the rhetorical equivalent of those little Nerf missiles in her direction while boldly proclaiming they’d launched daisy cutters.
Jennifer Ruben of Commentary Magazine deconstructs the New York Times’ Page A1 hit piece on Governor Palin, discovering that, despite their bluster, the Times really uncovered nothing more than standard state and town operating procedure. Wake the kids, as Mayor Sarah Palin instituted a policy dictating the conditions under which town employees could talk to the press. And don’t look now, but Sarah Palin actually hired people loyal to her who would forward her vision and fired people loyal to her predecessor.
Newsbusters takes on the other three attacks on Governor Palin found within the pages of the Sunday New York Slimes, describing the tenor of the 6,000 words devoted to the Governor as “panic.”
In what is surely a coincidence having nothing to do with the slime team dispatched to Alaska by Barack Obambi, the Washington Post also managed to level almost identical charges of (gasp) politics in Alaska. Politics! In Government! The (com)Post found a bunch of controversial goings on in Wasilla.
[Wasilla Police Chief] Stambaugh was fired on Jan. 30, 1997, partly, the mayor said, because he had not taken seriously her request for a weekly progress report “on at least two positive examples of work that was started, how we helped the public, how we saved the City money, how we helped the state, how we helped Uncle Sam.” Stambaugh filed a wrongful-termination suit, which he lost.
Clearly Sarah Palin was on a “do your job serving the people” rampage. This woman needed to be stopped.
In 2006, Palin told the Anchorage Daily News she learned from it all. “At the time, it seemed perplexing that people would object. I was very bold about what needed to be done,” she said. “It was rough with a staff who didn’t want to be there working with a new boss. I learned you’ve got to be very discerning early on and decide if you can win them over or not. If you can’t, you replace them early on.”
Replacing people who don’t want to work for you? Where does it end?
Flopping Aces chronicles the media’s sliming of Governor Sarah Palin to date.
I’m sure the detailed analysis of Joe Biden’s son’s lobbying activity, Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, and an accounting of the money Obama funneled to his fund raisers in Chicago will appear in next week’s editions.
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