It's Not Sarah Palin's Fault

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Full piece: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wellington-ennis/its-not-sarah-palins-faul_b_806312.html

"It's not Sarah Palin and her rhetoric that make crazy people do crazy things. It's making her crazy rhetoric matter that does."

[joe the nerd]

1. i think this author is warped.

nothing like having eyes that can't see and ears that can't hear.

this is cynical drivel.

[bemildred]

2. Well then, I relish her bad luck. nt

[eleny]

3. Palin gets an inordinate amount of media coverage because she outrages more people than she inspires

I agree with that quote from this article.

The complete paragraph:
"But the reality is, Sarah Palin gets an inordinate amount of media coverage because she outrages more people than she inspires. Networks: they really do not care why you are watching. Blogs? Are you kidding? They count clicks in one way, and anything Palin-related gets clicks. What is lost on the news sources is that part of the backlash against her is because of her ongoing media coverage despite any real news-making. People can't believe that other people take her seriously, and people do, because she's always in the news, which traditionally connotes "relevance," "importance," "stature," "influence," "impact," "a thing that matters." "

[Demeter]

4. Oh, Really?

Where do crazy people get their ideas from, then? Make them up all by themselves? Not hardly.

When one's grasp on reality is that tenuous, the loudest, most energy-packed message is the one received. Turning off the verbal bombing would do a lot to bring discussion out of the atomic cloud and back to human levels again.