After Calling Hillary Clinton a Whiner, Palin Blasts Media's "Different Standard"
One day after her rambling resignation speech in Wasilla, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was a no-show for July 4th events in her state. But that didn't stop her from issuing yet another statement on Facebook, attacking the media for the "different standard [it] applies for the decisions I make." As it turns out, it is Sarah Palin who is holding herself to a different standard; in March 2008, she slammed Hillary Clinton for whining about her own treatment at the hands of the press.
To be sure, the only inkling Palin gave about her new "higher calling" was that it will doubtless continue to feature her now trademark proclamations of victimization by the political media. In her statement, she labeled the press reaction to her cutting and running "predictable," adding:
"How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."
During a Women and Leadership event back in March 2008, Governor Palin was asked about Senator Clinton's response to media scrutiny - and criticism - she received on the campaign trail during the Democratic primaries. Palin made it clear to moderator Karen Breslau of Newsweek that she considered Clinton's conduct unbecoming. Hillary, she insisted, needed to just "plow through":
"Fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it...When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or, you know, maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, man, that doesn't do us any good. Women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country. I don't think it's, it bodes well for her -- a statement like that...It bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level."
Here's the full Newsweek video of Palin complete response. For more on Palin's post-election take on the media "stinkers" who caused "disappointment in my heart about the world of journalism today," visit Perrspectives.
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This is the act to rile the wingnuts. This story will be talked to death by Rush, RW radio, and Fox. But, they will leave out the part about Mar.08 and her advise to SOS Clinton.
F*^k ,I just said Palin giving advise to Clinton? WTF, I can't believe this world?
else to do all their dirty work for them.
palin is just a hypocrital
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Remember how much of a victim John Waynce Gacy was? He compiled a large book while living on death row explaining how much of a victim he was. He was still issuing the words of a victim as the last breath left him in the execution chamber.
As a woman and someone with a brain, I'm offended by Palin, her camp and inviduals who blindly follow her, regardless of the mindless, contradictory statements that pour out of her mouth. Her backing out of the position of Alaska's governor, even if it is to prepare for a run at the presidency in 2012 (gulp), shows me just what kind of VP she would have been. And, if she can't take the heat as governor, how could she possibly handle the pressures of the vice presidency or God forbid the presidency. She scares me.
DeniseD
http://reallybadboss.com/
she's to pathetic to be frightening.
you've got a point...
Alone she is too pathetic to be frightening but the fact of the matter is she has a following. She also is not smart enough to realize she is not qualified for any "higher cause." Hell she can't even handle being governor! SHE QUIT.
As my son pointed out, she herself said, "I'm doing what's best for Alaska." There you go, Alaska is better off without her. Here's hoping she just goes home to fight all her legal problems.
I think she is a very dangerous character. She is more insane than Bush.
as Governor just to run for president.
no kidding. Not to mention those who will push to get her nominated/"elected".........
sad thing is, I don't think the people who pushed to get her nominated/elected are scared. I think they still believe she's a credible person. God help us all.
All bets were off when this stupid bitch claimed Obama "palled around with terrorists." Like Dumbya, unqualified for any public office. Good fucking bye and please don't ever come back.
That was unbelievable when she said it about Obama. It was ineffective as are these stupid threats to the media. She's pathetic.
Is it the 21st century yet?
Palin's threats are baseless. The media really isn't doing anything any differnt than the public or even her own party for that matter. Everyone is asking questions, speculating about her motives and wondering what her next move will be.
If she can't take the criticism as a governor how on earth could she take the heat as president? Every president is under attack from all sides all the time. Obama has Fox on his heels 24/7. He has people on the left criticizing him as well. Nobody can please all the people all the time. God help us if she quit so she could take a break before she runs for president. She is an unstable hypocritcal dishonest whack job.
BOO!
Ah, I feel much better!
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Look,
This is a woman who was unable to name even one US newspaper during the course of an interview.
Her claim to fame is that she is easy on the eyes?
Oh, please!
trash talking her and is now at home fighting the system via facebook? What grade is she in?
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She couldn't even name a Supreme Court case other than Roe V. Wade! I'm only a high school graduate and a few more than that could pop into my mind.
love america.
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Palin brought all of this on herself. She can whine and complain all day about the media but in the end, she is the only one who abruptly made her resignation known without giving any indication of what she plans to do next. By doing that she set herself up for this mass media speculation. She had better have left for a darned good reason and have something to go to because if not the speculation will build and she will be ripped apart even further.
her stated reasons for leaving.
What reasons? She rambles for 10 minutes and does not name a single one other than people are mean to her.
Bibmo
Wasilla Wacko
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
the media going after her for are things SHE made an issue.
She didn't have to bring her family into the limelight. She put Trig and Britney's teen pregnancy and Todd out there at campaign issues for the media to run with.
She very well could have run on her own history and policies, but decided to USE her family.
Has anyone suggested she's a Muslim born in Nigeria and hasn't provided a valid birth certificate? How about the one about her killing Vince Foster? That was a low one.
all that.
just spell my name right papers u serve me, be-yotch.
Who was it that said "politics ain't beanbag"?
Like my mom used to say to me "what kind of sissy word is fair"?
we can stop talking about MJ and talk about something important. Oh wait.
Thats extreme bad form for a flag wrapped patriot Republican governor of a red state.
Its a kick in the teeth for the United States citizens of Alaska and shows 'Planks' true allegiance to the AIP. Vogel would be proud of her.
Exactly. Now just what are all those troops going to think of that 'non-support'...oh wait, iokiyar
I wonder when she will start wearing her underwear on her head, while chanting unknown dialects?
To think, 46% of the people in this country (morons) thought she would be just "okey dokey" as president.
If this doesn't prove Americans are the dumbest fuckers on the planet, I don't know what would.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
And yet less of substance was said, than by that smiling/laughing turkey cutter who stood behind her smirking during that thanksgiving PR photo op.
... is just the old 'MSM' slam perpetuated by Rush Limbaugh, so watch out.
The media - sad to say - will begin fawning over the Wasilla Snow Queen.
Typical hypocritical crybaby, bedwetting bullshit, from an ignorant uneducated Reslug *****.
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We are not the WBC or knee jerk fundies.
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... she would do anything for money and power, like parading her mentally handicapped son as a campaign prop at hours that surpassed any decent bed time for a toddler, for crying out loud.
Sure we could use that whole sentence to capture her actions, but "wh*re" is a single word and goes to the point.
Brevity and conciseness is a good quality when it comes to communication.
who pulled Palin from obscurity and put her in a position she was extremely incompetent to fill.
She had the ability to do a mayoral term or two, until the voters got fed up with her, or the facts surrounding the mansion came into the light.
Palin Pranked (11/01/08) perfectly illustrates her competence, and the Repugs who surrounded her.
Does Bexie Noble (and the others in Palin's team) still have jobs in politics ?
I wouldn't hire them for PR for a school fete !
... the problem is that a lot of people, esp. the super concerned class, tend to use terms out of context to the point that when the time comes that those terms are in context... some people do not know how to react to it or deal with it.
Palin is a willing participant in all of this, ergo she is a wh*re. She almost became vice president and she was *this* close on inflicting her agenda of all of us. Trying to excuse her as a victim is to me kind of pathetic.
There are people who deserve actual concern, this idiot wh*re is not one of them.
It would have been surreal having Palin and her advisers in the WH, we prob would have had a total collapse of government and the economy.
Palin"s a grown woman responsible for her choices in life...like the rest of us.
Palin was a complete and willing participant in her joke of a political career.
Than use of that word, which would revitalize her base in their support. They love victims and self pity.
IF she does the Faux interview with Trig and Piper, with much visible tears and weeping about the horrible left, she is reborn in the eyes of the 20% and any others who feel sorry for the 'victim' of the MSM. Emotion would overide logic and reality.
Her supporters scare the Hell out of your average racist.
supporters may or may not do, and whether or not their feelings are hurt. And start worrying about the interests of this nation.
Electing a complete idiot wh*re is not in the interests of any decent American, I rather side with what decent Americans may or may not do or what they may worry about... than what may or may not affect the sensitivity of the knuckle dragging component of our population.
I hate glyphs over swears.
My mind immediately tries to fill in the gap with every invectiveness imaginable
And I'm ex-military.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I immediately come up with one of 2 'C' words, regardless of the number of asterisks, which are usually not 2 words on the mind of the OP.
Which automatically makes the entire post subject to deletion!
me-oww!
If Palin never could handle the media imagine what she would be like taking on experienced foreign leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel as President of the United States. They would eat her for breakfast.
Aw no they wouldn't she could order the military to back up/prove her various truths.
True, but the military is overstreched and Russia's conflict with Georgia called that bluff a long time ago when Bush was in office.
Sun, 07/05/2009 - 10:45 — Joe O.
They would eat her for breakfast.
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And then sell the video.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This is her concession message to the people of Alaska:
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/exec-column.php
The fact that this person almost became president of the United States, is beyond reprehensible. We should be ever so ashamed we hit such rock bottom standards.
Also, according to her biography she has degrees in journalism or communications. Who gave this idiot a degree with such atrocious writing skills?
She ended her "speech" with: "In the words of General MacArthur said"
Really? Really?
She is a known liar.
The true spirit of obscurity/incompetence trying to attain power.
But at least I am not the governor of any state, so I guess I have an excuse ;-)
Hungover and coffeeless is no way of posting, I guess....
is like 'pwned' or 'ZOMG'...it just means u are TRULY crying.
Somehow we devolved from sending a man to the moon and statesmen like Kennedy, FDR, Lincoln, et al... into having to suffer the tribulations of a semi retarded idiot who felt entitled enough as to almost reach the office of the vice president of the United States.
A person displaying those writing skills should not even be in charge of a McDonald's franchise, let alone the governorship of a state.
Don't worry. She will have her own show on Faux July 27th.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
I love that quote, too. "We're advancing in another direction." In other words, you're retreating.
is made of glass but she has yet to figure that out.
How about republicans screaming at Dems that they voted against more funding for Blackwater and all the other needless funds and calling them unpatriotic? Yet with the last war funding vote. Republicans completely opposed it because of something they personally didn't like. Had nothing to do with supporting the troops mind you.
Then Gov Palin.
She abused her freedom of speech to incite violence at campaign stops for her VP bid by espousing that Obama, "pals around with terrorists". That is OK with her. No double standard there in her mind. Even though her husband belongs to a seperatist group to leave America.
As a conservative, Palin takes the stance of tort reform. To much frivilous lawsuiting goings on out there. Of course as a good conservative, lawsuits are OK for her, just not for anyone else.
She was a VP candidate ?
The hockey Mom putting lipstick on her bulldog lawyer is justice that she and the GOP does not believe the rest of American's are entitled.
So on the question of Palin quitting as the going gets tough and accountability begins to be calculated and tallied. Is Gov Palin going on her walkabout to the southern most part pof the Appelation Trail? Was it Palin that Sanford crossed the line with in New York?
I'd watch.
No feudin' hillbillies want to be seated anywhere near them.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
her pole dancing for her upcoming appearance.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
She wants to be a republican lap dancer
But she forgets, republicans have no laps.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
How in the world do people like palin and bachmann get elected?
At least they prove that you don't have to be born in the South to be mulehead stupid.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Why do you guys at C&L keep pumping up her PR machine? Let her die away now.
Isn't stinkers what she calls one of Trig's diapers when he needs changing?
She could at least say provocateurs.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Obama's path to the presidency wasn't conventional, so perhaps he's proved to her that without the impediment of that 72 year old guy and the pests from the RNC, nothing can stop Sarah Barracuda?
taken far more shit than she's been handed.
She's a lightweight in every sense of the word.
And, by the way, she can't even really speak English.
Sarah, look!! Putin is rearing his head! Protect us!
Wouldn't that have to mean his head's up his ass?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Could be. Wonder which head?
Don't Blink!
I'm sure somebody's brought this up, but on the off-chance it hasn't been said here goes; to the people justifying her actions by blaming the media, how you gonna justify her not being able to take on those mean old terrorists, Russians, or even Democrats, if she were in their dreams elected to the office they believes she deserves.
...there is a big old ethics charge about to hit the Snow Princess.
There aare only two other options that make any sense. I think she is done for any elective office. Can you imagine campaigning against "How do we know you won't quit on us when the going gets tough?" Impossible. Even God couldn't pull that off.
Sooo, reason 1: Eff politics, I can make a boatload of money on FOX and speachafying w/out ever having to run for office.
Orrrr, reason 2: Perhaps she'll take a token head position of Mom's to Kill Abortion Doctors, or something similar. Maybe head of the RNC. Steele has proved you can say any damn thing from that position and not be held accountable for it.
Regardless, I will guarantee you it is all about Sarah, and not the people of Alaska, you betcha!
Nailed like a cheap Alaskan beauty queen!
Are you gonna sue me now, Sarah?
To the writer, author, blogger of this article:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I regret to inform you that this article, (fill in name) by (fill in name) is libelious, defamitory, or just plain mean (choose one).
See ya in court, you betcha,
Nanook, Bumpkiss, and Levin
Attorneys-at-law
Goose Bay, AK
I've got the fever, too
Is Palin bi-polar? (aka Manic-Depressive) She sure acts like it.
She'll do it to male or female polar bears.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Just think, if she and McCain had gotten in, we'd have an evil old man, who wants to bomb everyone, a dimwitted female flamethrower, and ignoramous like Joe the Plumber constantly making assinine statements at will. There is a god.
"And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make."
Well, if that's the case, Sarah, perhaps you could name a couple for us. Name, position they held before resigning, and what they're "higher calling" was. That shouldn't be too difficult.
I'll wait (but I won't hold my breath).
Representative Mark Foley, who quit his position in Congress for the higher calling of real estate agent.
Or maybe Rod Blagojevich, who involuntarily quit for the higher calling of starring in The Second City's musical entitled "Rod Blagojevich Superstar."
LOL - The gun-toting self-styled Caribou Barbie can't take a little media heat?
Someone got the goods on her BIG TIME.
"What is it exactly that the VP does every day?"
This douchebag never stops whining.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
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