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Sarah Palin: Crazy as a Clinton?

By Brian | July 7, 2009 | Share on Facebook

Like many Americans, I was confused about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

Topics: News and/or Media, Political Rantings | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Sarah Palin: Crazy as a Clinton?”

  1. Michael Weinmayr says at July 7th, 2009 at 8:40 am :
    I don’t see how the Clinton quote matches with your comment of “getting what we deserve”. I read his quote to say “An ex-president can focus on a few things. A president has to deal with a thousand things that change every day (Hurricane! Flu! North Korea!)”. How do you see “an obstacle to governing”?

  2. Joe Woods says at July 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am :
    Thank you for this. The real reasons for her turning over the governor’s desk to the Alaska Lt. Governor will probably never be clearly laid out by the media, because they are part of the problem and certainly not part of the solution.
    Just searching “Palin” on Twitter, I mostly saw comments like, “They roasted her on Hardball! I can’t wait for Countdown!”
    The possible consequences of this trend for the media to effectively exercise so much power over such a huge portion of the voting population are staggering. Luckily, there are so many sources for news that people who really want to know can find some of the truth. If the news industry continues to collapse upon itself and go the way of railroads and automobile manufacturers, then there won’t be a lot of little voices to examine and search for the whole truth – only one big Orwellian voice.

  3. Brian says at July 7th, 2009 at 9:47 am :
    @Michael – I don’t think Clinton was referring to natural disasters or global pandemics. I think he was referring to the extra-curricular nonsense that crowded his press conferences and public appearances for most of his presidency, but especially his second term. When he says “worry about today

  4. Jeff Porten says at July 8th, 2009 at 1:42 pm :
    You commit several logical fallacies in this post:

    1. The presumption that the most truthful assessment will be Palin’s own announcement. Seeing as how she flat-out lies about being acquitted on all ethics charges, there’s objective disagreement with that thesis right there. (Beyond that is a subjective question of whether you trust her; personally, I think the reasons not to are extensive, but probably boring to debate.)

    2 The subtext that “all politicians are the same” and “all scandals are the same.” I think this presumption is much more damaging than any scandal coverage could ever be.

    I think the statement that all of Palin’s stems from political backlash is whining about a self-inflicted injury — but is also unfalsifiable as I can’t produce the alternate universe where she didn’t run for national office, and was also pursued on ethics charges. My understanding is that most of the internal Alaskan politics would have proceeded regardless, but we just wouldn’t have cared here in the lower 48.

    Have we turned national politics into

  5. Brian says at July 9th, 2009 at 10:05 am :
    @Jeff – I’m fine with the media pointing out that Palin is craven, vain and uneducated, if she actually is all those things. It’s then up to us (through our courts, our legislative houses, or our voting booths) to take corrective action.

    What I’m not OK with is the media acting as judge and jury, deciding that because she’s craven, vain and uneducated, her full-time job should be to answer their questions, leaving Alaska without a governor.

    And again, lest you think this is a partisan thing, I said the same thing about the media when they took away our President during Monica-gate.