So why is Fox helping throw Palin under the bus?

[Jersey Devil]

I thought she was the right wing cover girl for 2012 and the darling of the right. Is Fox in bed with someone else who needs to cut her off so that he/she can get a stranglehold on the party rather than Palin?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. They realize they've created a monster.

They're hoping to strangle it early.

[goodgd_yall]

2. Because a woman is always a better target

What about McCain's responsibility in all this? Where's the talk about his poor judgment?

[Ian David]

10. It's backfiring then. They're just circling the wagons around Caribou Barbie...

... and taking their anger out on McCain and Fox "News."

They can't bring themselves to realize they were fooled by the moron.

That not only is she stupid... but THEY are even MORE stupid for having been fooled by her.

[goodgd_yall]

27. My comment wasn't just meant to be applicable to Fox news

but everyone, including DUers. She's easy to attack, but McCain was the real f*ckup.

[peacebird]

19. not because she's a woman, because she couldn't name the 3 countries in North America

and she didn't know Africa is a continent. And she is the only nominee to spend over $150 thousand dollars on clothes for the election.

Sarah Palin is truly "The disasta from Alaska"

Should McCain have known this? Yes. Should she have been vetted? Yes. But would vetting have shown that she would REFUSE the campaign efforts to prep her for the Couric interviews? Would the prep have shown that she was an egoistical climber who saw this as her road to the White House? Would it have revealed her to be so harsh and vicious that she drove staffers to tears when they displeased her? Nah - I think she can hide her true stripes better than that in an interview.

[goodgd_yall]

24. The real blame for the failure of McCain's campaign goes with the guy in charge

and that's McCain. But you know how he's the untouchable POW so I doubt he'll ever get an honest assessment from the media.

[peacebird]

31. McCain ran a bad campaign, it was spluttering out and smoking before the convention

Sarah Palin poured gasoline on the mess igniting it - at first the fire was warm and welcoming - until it burned too hot with rage and hatred, leaving only ashes in its wake.

McCain blew his last chance by accepting Palin as his VP. I still think he wanted to choose Lieberman.

And the first thing Sarah said after they lost? something to the effect of how sad it was that McCAIN LOST THE ELECTION. Not that "we" lost.

She is a vile, selfish, slimy creature.

[goodgd_yall]

32. The rumor that he would like to have choses Lieberman

but didn't, shows up the fact that he did not have the qualities of a leader, much as he and everyone around him was touting that he was.

I don't care how vile Palin was, she'd not have gotten the exposure she did get and have the opportunity to whip up the right wing mob without McCain's blessing.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. She's yesterday's news.

[MNDemNY]

4. Fox is in bed with the R's who USE the "social" issues, not the R's who actually believe in them.

[Caution]

6. Bingo. They are in the pocket of the $$$ people

[mtnsnake]

11. Someone posted today that Fox's Colmes pasted Joe the Plumber for his hypocritical

views on socialism, considering Joe the Plumber was on welfare once himself.

[hvn_nbr_2]

22. Yep. It's the beginning of the intra-party war: rich greedy bastards vs. fundie whackjobs

Fox = Murdoch and all his multi-millions per year on-air "personalities" on the side of the $$$ interests throwing fundie whackjob Palin under the bus.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

34. that's why they went after Huckabee so hard

Bible Belters are to be exploited, not supported

[Critters2]

5. She's the scapegoat. Someone must be responsible for the nightmare that was

the McCain campaign.

[hatrack]

16. And Heaven knows, it certainly COULDN'T have been McCain!

:eyes:

Yet another cynical distraction - they'll separate the Fundie Nutbags from the "Real" Republicans, until it's time for the "Real" Republicans to start firing up the useful idiot brigade for 2010 - probably in about a year or a bit more.

[eissa]

7. Have you seen Greta van Sustren's show?

She creams her panties at the mere mention of Palin's name. I'm not exaggerating here either, the woman becomes seriously breathless. She's been her staunchest defender.

[El Supremo]

8. They need a scapegoat.

But Rush still thinks she is the conservative's messiah. They are all in disarray.

[yardwork]

9. Yes, Fox is in bed with the corporatists. Rupert Murdoch does not want Palin in the White House.

The television media will side with the corporatist wing of the Republican Party. I'm not sure what radio will do.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. To deflect responsbility from themselves.

They're as much to blame for the failures of the Republican party as anything else.

[goodgd_yall]

33. Agreed n/t

[southpaw]

13. They realize that if Palin is the future of the Repub party

Then the party is royally screwed.

[fadedrose]

14. Sarah's not in the 2012 scheme of things for Reps

Their hacks are to make sure she's too disabled to run for anything. Somebody has plans to run that don't include her.

[ecstatic]

15. Their golden boy is Huckabee. Mark my words

They're grooming him and indoctrinating him.

[Lumpsum]

17. It's odd they are throwing her under the bus.

Especially since Kristol and Rove love her so much.

[seabeyond]

18. right wing cover girl for 17% of the party. the loudest mouth part of their party. they KNOW she

is a losing candidate for their party and will make them a fool and a easy loss. they want her chances for 2012 to not exist

[Monk06]

28. That is correct. The Fundie contention that they were the Republican base was a fiction.

This election proved that they can't deliver.
When Pat Robinson starts sucking up to Obama
you know the game is over for the Religious
Right.

The Republicans would be wise to find a way
to live without their support.

They are not the peaceful live affirming Christians
they pretend to be. They're deeply misanthropic and
cruel.

[Kitsune]

20. It's the moderates in the GOP firing the first salvo of their civil war.

I know how asinine that sounds, calling Fox News moderate, but compared to the theocons, they are. They know that there's going to be a massive pull to the right from the fundies, and they're trying to offset it any way they can by utterly destroying Caribou Barbie's political career. And they probably will succeed in doing that, but they won't stop the rightward drag, I think. The fundies are into the power structure of the GOP way too deep to be told to sit down and shut up.

[jezebel]

21. They're not. Carl Cameron is, but everyone else on fox is defending her and calling these "savage"

attacks against Sarah Palin. The twits during the day are all defending her and throwing the McCain camp under the bus saying how terrible it is that the McCain people are doing this to poor Sarah. O'Reilly and the rest of the night crew also are defending Palin.
Carl Cameron must either be loyal to McCain to report it, or more likely I suspect just couldnt resist the good story the McCain camp handed him so he is willing to hurt Palin to help himself.

[KathieG]

23. The GOP wants Palin destroyed...Fox is the mouthpiece of the GOP, they were told to go after her.

[workinclasszero]

25. MONEY..MONEY...MONEY

They fear the Palinites nihilistic fervor for the black-hole intelligence destroying, freeper woodie inducing Disasta From Alaska.

Freepers will follow Palin right off a cliff into political irrelevance, they could care less. Murdock cant make as much money as usual unless he has access to power in Congress and the White House.

He realizes Palin and her stiffy freeper disciples will drive out all of the ideological impure and make the repig shelter a pup tent. LOL

[sknabt]

26. Fox News is *** NOT *** throwing Palin under the bus

Yep, you read that right. Fox News is firmly in Palin's camp. Here's my theory http://www.eyesonfox.org/?p=401.

[Two Sheds]

29. They're terrified of her being the nominee in 2012 and driving the GOP

into the ground.

Are they right? If there's more to Palin than I think, she might be able to appeal to some fundies to punish her GOP enemies and the party in 2012. I don't know that there is anything else to her.

[Ediacara]

30. They're reading the tea leaves and know that Palin in 12 would be an even earlier call than 08

[olegramps]

35. Because they are Fascists and they always have a scapegoat for their failures.