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HBO’s ‘Game Change’ Goes Easy on Sarah Palin, John McCain in 2008 Saga

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Michelle Goldberg - Mar. 10 (Review) - If you're a fan of Sarah Palin, or if you just haven't followed the recriminations from John McCain staffers in the wake of the 2008 campaign, you will likely find Julianne Moore's portrayal of her in the HBO movie Game Change to be sexist. It's not just the depiction of her shocking ignorance""*at one point, she has to be told that the Queen of England doesn't conduct that country's foreign policy, while at another, she is confused to hear that Saddam Hussein was not behind the September 11 attacks. She's also absurdly vain, going on the...

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Bill Maher Calls Michele Bachmann & Sarah Palin Boobs, Jesus Sexist (VIDEO)

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bill Maher - Jul. 17 (Comedy News) - One thing is abundantly clear: Bill Maher is not afraid of offending you.

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Why the right hates Common

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Mary Elizabeth Williams - May. 13 (Opinion) - On Wednesday, the White House honored arts education with a Celebration of American Poetry. There was a poetry workshop for children during the day, and in the evening, performances by the likes of Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Kenneth Goldsmith. This being the administration that can turn Jay-Z references into campaign rallying cries -- and campaign rallying cries into hit videos -- there were also musical artists on the bill, including Aimee Mann and Jill Scott. And, this being the administration that never fails to provoke the outrage of that holy trinity of right-wing attention gluttons -- Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin – there was controversy.

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Why Are the Republicans Afraid of President Obama?

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Bob Cesca - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - One of the most often-overheard refrains from the Republican Party and its far-right base is that President Obama is the worst president in American history. Others say he "pals around with terrorists." They say he's destroying America. They say that he's weak, that he dithers and that he's effete -- implying either that he's gay or effeminate or both. Around half of all Republicans have told pollsters that he's not even constitutionally eligible to be president, which ought to mandate an immediate removal from office.

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Was Sarah Palin's Reality TV Show Government-Subsidized?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - her reality TV show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," received a $1.2 million subsidy from the state, covering almost a third of the show's Alaskan production costs. The state subsidy was signed into law by Palin herself in 2008.

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Dismantling the NYT’s Misrepresentations of Governor Palin’s Record

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Big Government - By Whitney Pitcher - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - The New York Times also questions the progress of Governor Palin’s natural gas pipeline project–the Alaska’s Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA)–which will bring natural gas from the North Slope of Alaska through Canada to the Lower 48 as an additional means of achieving energy independence. Governor Palin’s pipeline project was done in a transparent free-market friendly manner with proposals available for public consumption-- a far cry from the behind-closed-doors pipeline discussion with oil companies that were commonplace and unsuccessful in previous administrations. The New York Times argues that neither gas suppliers nor federal permits had been obtained for the project. However, at the end of the first open season for bidding by gas suppliers this past summer, there were “several major players” who had submitted bids. Additionally, the pipeline company TransCanada and oil company ExxonMobil, both partners on AGIA-backed pipeline project, have had discussions with BP-ConocoPhilips to work together on the project. Additionally, the permitting process with both American and Canadian regulatory agencies has made “significant progress,” and the progress is right on track with time projections.

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Palin Blames Obama For High Gas Prices

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Mar. 16 - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted President Obama in a Facebook post on Tuesday, accusing his administration of intentionally pushing energy policies designed to drive...

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Sarah Palin's bizarre view of the First Amendment

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Justin Elliott - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin, who has more than once invoked the First Amendment when she or her allies faced criticism, today denounced the Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling allowing the Westboro Baptist Church to protest outside soldiers' funerals with signs reading "“God Hates Fags" and the like.

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Job Protection, 2012-Style

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Real Clear Politics - By Eugene Robinson - Mar. 01 (Opinion) - For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidates for the 2012 election -- an odd assortment of the uninspiring and the unelectable.

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Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Operation Demoralize Is Working

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Legal Insurrection - By William A. Jacobsen - Jan. 19 (Opinion) - You can throw Palin under the bus if you want, but what will you do when the next candidate faces blistering false accusations which drive negatives high after a mainstream media feeding frenzy? Why not let the political and primary process work itself out. We do not even know if Palin is running, or if she will garner enough Republican support to win. There is an insatiable mainstream media hunger to demonize and marginalize potential Republican nominees. Feeding that beast in the wake of the Tucson shooting is not the way to win in 2012.

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Palin is the Republican Obama

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The American Conservative - By Jack Hunter - Jan. 18 (Opinion) - Obama and Palin represent opposing versions of the same identity politics. Based primarily on personality, love, or hatred for the other, it is politics driven primarily by emotion–not logic. If you don’t believe me, try telling an Obama-loving Democrat that he is no different from a Palin-loving Republican or vice versa. Even the soundest reasoning will do little to quell the forthcoming rage.

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Palin Was Terrific

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

American Spectator - By Quin Hillyer - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - I continue to believe that Sarah Palin is not yet qualified to be president, but my admiration for her continues to grow. Her interview with Sean Hannity, just aired, was almost pitch-perfect. It was dignified. It was well-modulated. It was strong. And it was thoughtful.

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Sarah Palin's Jewish Problem

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:45:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Jan. 14 - "...the Jewish people today are in slavery to many false gods in America.... My prayer is that American Jewish people become aware of the bondages to these gods and break free from them.. They must make Aliyah (return) to Israel before greater judgment o

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The Ultra-Imperial Presidency

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Dec. 16 (Interview) - Yale’s Bruce Ackerman, a constitutional scholar, warns that unilateralism in the “most dangerous branch” of government is setting the stage for a tragic future. Bruce Ackerman discusses how far the country has strayed from the system the Founding Father

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He doesn't know Jack

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By Scott Johnson - Dec. 12 (Opinion) - In an appearance on Hardball last week (video below), Wolffe demonstrated his intellectual daring with critical words about Sarah Palin. Palin had cited C.S. Lewis as an author to whom she turns for divine inspiration. Wolffe thought this was absurd. Wolffe expressed incredulity that Palin turned to the author of children's books for inspiration. Matthews interrupted Wolffe: "I wouldn't put down C.S. Lewis."

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In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Aaron Sorkin - Dec. 08 (Opinion) - "Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation." You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go fuck ourselves now. The snotty quote was posted by Sarah Palin on (like all the great frontier women who've come before her) her Facebook page to respond to the criticism she knew and hoped would be coming after she hunted, killed and carved up a Caribou during a segment of her truly awful reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, broadcast on The-Now-Hilariously-Titled Learning Channel.

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Palin responds to Bushes’ criticism: No offense but they’re “blue bloods”

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Hot Air - By Allahpundit - Nov. 24 (Opinion) - Too bad it wasn’t Huckabee who tossed this rhetorical grenade, as we could have spent a fun afternoon ripping on him in the comments for such a heavy-handed populist pander. (Huck would have thrown in a reference to Beltway cocktail parties too for good measure, but then he’s a longstanding master of class resentment politics on the right.) Since it’s Sarah, though, it’ll be lauded as a case of grassroots truth being spoken to RINO establishment power.

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Who's Ignorant?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Power Line - By John Hinderaker - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Dumb liberal op-ed pieces are legion, and generally we let them pass in silence. But this one by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post is such a howler that it deserves comment. Cohen's theme is that Sarah Palin is ignorant; the evidence is her criticism of Michelle Obama's famous observation, in connection with her husband's Presidential nomination, that "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country...." Given that pretty much everyone denounced Mrs. Obama's comment at the time, it is not clear why Governor Palin's reference to it in her forthcoming book, two years later, is worth a column. The only apparent explanation is the Left's obsession with Palin. But Cohen's reasoning tells us more about him than either Governor Palin or Mrs. Obama

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Who will smack down all the lies?

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Gene Lyons - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - For most of two decades, Democrats have acted as if they actually believed what conservatives say about the allegedly liberal "mainstream" news media. Any day now, appropriately stringent and evenhanded news gathering and editorial standards will reappear as if by magic.

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Fox News Reporters Caught On Camera Mocking Sarah Palin's Show (VIDEO)

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Nov. 18 (Comment) - video

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Palin a hero to many in Tea Party, but not their pick for president

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Caller - By Jon Ward - Nov. 17 (Opinion) - Perhaps the least known aspect about Sarah Palin’s relationship with the Tea Party is that though almost all in the movement love her and support her, many of them simultaneously have serious reservations about whether they want her to run for president.

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On Palin; No Animus, No Condescension

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Anchoress - By Elizabeth Scalia - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - The US mainstream press–for all its deplorable excess–is still comprised of US citizens. A president who intends to be president of all the nation, and not just his base, will need to remember that; he cannot treat some like enemies. Reagan never did. Whatever his private feelings, he treated the press like fellow-citizens who simply held another view. Right now, Palin is getting a great deal of mileage out of hating-on the mainstream media (and let’s face it, hating-on the media is fun and kind of righteous at the moment) but eventually–if she means to be president–she is going to have to see them as her citizens, too.

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Josh Silver: Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint Take Aim at NPR Funding

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Josh Silver - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - It's no longer just about Juan Williams or NPR. We're in a moment when we have to decide: Are we going to let our news media further devolve into a morass of shouting heads, hateful rhetoric and political opportunism? Or will we build something better?

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Sex and the GOP

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Betsy Reed - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Has the party truly cultivated and supported its women candidates, and is it, as a result, poised to bring more women to Washington and more women voters into the fold? Or, as it lurches to the right, is the GOP in fact alienating women, including voters and potential leaders, who tend to be less conservative than men in their partisan identification and ideological views? Is the party's embrace of the current array of female candidates really about enhancing its appeal to men?

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Sarah Palin, "Mama Grizzlies," Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - We are awash in crises right now -- crises that require smart and creative policy fixes. So why is Sarah Palin, who so rarely deals in policy fixes, so popular? It's not Palin's positions people respond to, it's her use of symbols -- symbols that operate on a level deeper than policy statements about the economy or financial reform or health care or the war in Afghanistan.

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