Obama did win the election, right?

[iceman66]

I ask because every time I turn on the TV news, all I see is Sarah Palin!

I don't recall seeing very much at all of Kerry or Edwards after the 2004 election.

Damn liberal media!

[bunnies]

1. Sarah Palin on the TV and trolls galore at DU.

Yep, Obama won. Clearly the losers have nothing better to do! :banghead:

[Hutzpa]

The media is thinking with their pants,

every time they see her its wet dreams all the way baby...


:evilgrin:

[jrockford]

18. I don't get that. Are they fucking blind????

[rurallib]

2. That's because the media is owned by lioberals who only want to advance..

well hold it - that doesn't make sense. If the media were liberal we wouldn't see palin at all, would we?

[tishaLA]

3. They've decided we are fascinated by her

Don't let anything get in the way of their conclusion.

[Seen the light]

4. That's because Kerry/Edwards weren't giving interviews every single day

Palin is. Also, they've covered every second of the one Obama press conference that's been held since the election.

I don't get why people are getting upset with this. Do you really think that if President-elect Obama was having a press conference right now that they wouldn't be covering it?

[rurallib]

5. BTW what is with her cheeks? they are always so red! Does Todd

slap her around a bit before each appearance?

[WI_DEM]

6. I hope she does run in 2012 and brings the GOP down with her.

[nc4bo]

7. Joe Biden is the VP Elect too, wonder if Sarah and M$M is aware of that little fact! WTF. nt

[iceman66]

10. Joe who?

From the MSM coverage, you'd hardly know he was even in the race!

[onenote]

15. is joe giving interviews?

Nope. No one on the obama side is because that's what they've, wisely imo, decided is the best approach to this transition period. Stay out of the limelight. DOn't give the msm anything to shoot at. Avoid public exhaustion before you ever get sworn in. Meanwhile, the media and the public are having a hell of a time kicking their addiction to the campaign, which has been covered incessantly for two years. Its certainly evident that is the case here at DU. SO they look for something to fill the vacuum. And Sarah obligingly has offered to fill it. And, like it or not, she is the most interesting new figure on the national political scene. She' "exotic" compared to most national politcal figures -- she doesn't talk, dress, or act like a Kay Baily Hutchinson. From my perspective, she's a clown, a buffoon, a pathetic loser. But she is different. And different sells. And she's still largely unknown -- unlike Kerry or Edwards, who were well known to the public and the media before, during, and after the 2004 campaign, palin has been in the public eye for all of two months.

As I have said over and over -- let her talk herself out. SHe has very little to say. The holidays will be here soon enough and attention will turn elsewhere and no one will remember much of this interview binge. And then, a few weeks after the holidays, Barack Obama will stand in front of the Capitol and before the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration (both in person and on TV) and deliver a speech that will remind people what it means to be presidential -- and how far from that standard palin resides.

[Occam Bandage]

16. Isn't he a plumber or something?

[WI_DEM]

8. Oh, it's not just the media either, look at how many Palin posts are on this page.

[bigwillq]

9. I know. Some DUers are complaining

about the media but they're contributing to the Palinthon as well.

[Politics_Guy25]

11. Warning to DU: Everyone thought Ronald Reagan was a joke as well just like Palin

And how'd that turn out? Carter desperately wanted to run against Reagan in 1980. Palin is incredibly dangerous (probably the most danagerous GOP politician since Reagan) and that is why I'm so upset with the inessant coverage of her.

[anonymous171]

12. Reagan won because he won the one and only debate one week before the election

Can you see Palin winning a debate? Or even running a competent campaign against other GOP challengers?

[WI_DEM]

13. Palin is no Ronald Reagan.

[4lbs]

14. Reagan was also Governor of the most populous state in America.

The Governor of Alaska would be like the mayor of Fresno.

[onenote]

17. If she is as significant as you claim, than how can you object to her being covered?

Many here at DU seem to object to the Sarah-fest because she's a footnote to history, not a main page. You, on the other hand, seem to object to her because she is the real deal - a potentially historic figure. While I am not the least bothered by the Sarah-fest and am fairly certain the Obama team are quite happy to have attention focused away from them so they can go about their transition work with the media's attention centered elsewhere -- at least the argument that she's too irrelevant to warrant such attention makes some sense. Saying she's the next Reagan and then complaining that the media is focussing on her seems to make less sense.

[iceman66]

23. I can only speak for me, but

I object to her being covered simply because she does not deserve the coverage - a losing VP candidate is just not that newsworthy.

Has nothing to do with whether she is the next Reagan or not.

[azmouse]

19. The next election is 4 frickin' years away...

Can we at least wait a few years before we start panicking about Palin and whether she's the second coming of Raygun?

[Generator]

27. The reason Du'ers are talking about her is because of TV

Du'ers endlessly discuss whatever is on TV or talked about on the cable channels. That's why. If you go without tv for awhile it can be damn weird to read whatever the outrage of the day is around here-becaue it's all media driven.

[Overseas]

20. Yes our FIVE media conglomerates are Republican owned.

So they're doing their 2012 marketing right now. That is correct.


Full details about how our national discourse has been pushed to the right are available in

"What Liberal Media?" by Eric Alterman www.whatliberalmedia.com


Details focused on the consolidation of US media from 50 companies in the 80's to FIVE ONLY these days is available at http://www.corporations.org/media/

[qwlauren35]

21. It's about ratings... remember?

Enough said...

[AtomicKitten]

22. Let her keep talking. It will convince America we dodged a bullet.

[onenote]

24. Yep: My hope is that the repubs let her give their response to obama's first state of the union

so everyone can see the difference between someone who is presidential and someone who is a clown.

[VaYallaDawg]

26. Let's not give clowns a bad name ...

[gypsylud]

25. it'll be like the 04 election.

It's funny but few people I know (and I do have some republican friends) are proud of voting for Bush in 04. Let her spew her non answers, and dog chasing tail analogies, it will just solidify our Man. And make the people who voted for her embarrassed to admit they even did.