Here's
a hint to acquaintances of The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty-if you invite her
to a function tell her its the day before as she, clearly, arrives
late for the party-very late. This can be determined by her having
writing a "column" actually a cut and paste screed (do they
actually pay for that sort of thing nowadays?) about Palin in Iowa. This after all the heavyweights from the left and GOP Establishment had
been sicked on to Palin, then the various vultures and jackals descended
on the metaphoric carcass and snuck out a bone or cartilage-Tumulty
being in the latter category of course.
In
a Valley Girl piece of headline
juvenilia "Palin
and her one time fans on the right:it's so over" (God that is so
pathetic in its petty snark) Tumulty joins the six year long queue of
commentators who have advised that Palin is "over". She
hits all the prescribed talking points right on target; "Odd
rambling speech/Influential voices saying "it's
over"/devastating critiques" and
more tawdry hatchet job writing than I care to reproduce. Masochists
or students of hackery can amuse or abuse themselves at the link.
What, obviously, begs the question is why? Why would there be such a
massive array of firepower from left and right be directed at Palin
over one speech? Before I address this in the wider view, perhaps
there are some clues, nuggets amongst the Tumulty crap, to paraphrase
Jon Stewart when he lampooned an earlier effort to kill off Palin-the notorious "Palin email hunt.".
First
it is interesting to note Tumulty's either ignorance, or, perhaps
worse, deliberate misdirection, in lampooning Palin's "ride your back"
comment. That was a direct quote from Martin Luther King Jr. as so
many idiotic Tweeters found out when they were ridiculed for attacking her
(they shut up almost immediately in their equally choreographed
retreat.) For Tumulty to still not mention where the quote came from
shows how needful she is to denigrate Palin, which of course
ended up with her denigrating herself and her profession.
She then goes on to quote Bill Kristol;" “The name Sarah Palin hasn’t come up in the past three to six months." Five minutes research would have led her to Kristol's tweet about my American Thinker article "Palin Achiever of the Year" (which received massive coverage) "Nice tribute to Sarah Palin: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/american_achiever_of_2014__sarah_palin.html#.VKB4VL4lw-g.twitter … )
"I'm adding her to my list of 26 (now 27) GOP 2016 possibilities. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/more-merrier_822400.html …
Tumulty
quotes Byron York's hatchet job on Palin, but fails to mention
one of the "GOP insiders" he quotes, Sam Clovis, was
defeated by Palin's endorsed candidate, Joni Ernst, for senate from Iowa. Neither
does a moments research or half-hearted attempt at any balance, lead
her to mention that Palin, who is supposedly written off and of
limited influence, had a 91% success rate with her mid-terms
endorsements (which left Hillary in the dust).
Nor the fact that for
all the media's best efforts she is slowly but surely populating
Congress with her endorsees. Ernst, like Cruz, Fischer, Sasse and so many
others owe their elections directly to her support-as so many others
will in the future.
Anyway,
enough with picking apart, (it's like shooting rotten fish in a barrel) her pathetic hatchet job driven either by her editor's demand for
more red meat to the WashPost's leftist audience, or her concern for
being last rank cab off the rank, as it is of import to try and
understand why such a mass of venomous vitriol should escape from the
left and right at this time.
There
are a couple of things which strike one after the dross has been
cleared off. "There
is also a tone of soul-searching and even repentance in some of the
commentary, as pundits on the right reconsider their own role in
stoking the Palin phenomenon." This is of course preposterous
vainglorious posing. These various pundits have the mistaken belief that anyone, outside their mutual
admiration society, gives a rats ass whether they
are "repentant or they are searching their
souls. The same media that has ripped her to shreds for six
years is terribly mistaken if they think she
is done for because they are ripping her a new
one now.
The
media also has their memes mixed up-which is not surprising when Palin derangement is in play. For years the cry was
"Palin is playing the victim" and now 'The media was
destructive of her from the start." This sort of jumble just
illustrates further that what is going on is a deliberate attempt to
destroy Palin by any and all means possible.
So blatant is this that
the various players believe they can change their memes at will with nobody noticing. Let me assure them that those days are well over as the Palin
supporters,who are legion no matter what Tumulty believes, agree with Palin "this is war" and fight back with
grim determination.
So
what is going on? The exact same thing that went on before the 2012
election when the forces of left and right, who would be destroyed if
Palin ran and were elected, went into attack. The garbage
fantasy "Game Change" was trotted out as the
primary season began, the most scurrilous "book"
about her and her purported private life was published by
the lowest of muckrakers and every word and action of Palin
and her family was parsed and scrutinized.
That
there is jostling amongst possible GOP candidates for the 2016
nomination is of course one reason for the ludicrous
attacks on Palin over one speech. More importantly the various
media supporters of these other than Palin candidates have taken the
opportunity to not only attack Palin as the obvious threat
to their chosen ones but to also unleash years of bottled up hatred towards
her.
In an
article where I
reviewed ('Media Losing All Credibility With Their Palin Madness') the blatherings and hypocrisy of another
Palin Derangement sufferer L.A.Times' Abcarian, I wrote" It
is as if a dam, the size of Boulder, of hatred
and resentment cracked and burst spilling a reservoir of
venom from a million rattlesnakes cascading down a river of
leftist and Establishment loathing."
All
those who in recent days have written Palin off, expressed heartfelt
mea culpa's for ever having said a kind word about her, will find
themselves in the exact same position of all those who,
when her contract was terminated at Fox, said exactly the
same thing and had to eat crow shortly after.
How ludicrous
they are, and Tumulty is symptomatic, was summed up by another "journalist" (Laura Ashburn at The Hill) who boldly wrote; Mark my words. She's not running. And if she does, well, I never wrote this column.. Such is the blatant hatred, pandering and
idiocy of the leftist media today that they even qualify their memes
in the same sentence.
