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Her Turn

Palin’s big night out. Roundup starts with Boston Herald: 

ST. PAUL, Minn - Top Republicans are swinging into battle after 48 hours of brutal personal attacks on Sarah Palin as the GOP vice presidential contender steps up to speak for herself tonight.

The Alaska governor takes tonight’s Republican National Convention stage in a dramatic, high-stakes bid to take her candidacy back from liberal bloggers and pundits who have pummeled her and her family.

“She’s tough, she’s thick-skinned and she seems to be very bright,” said U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.). “She’ll be able to handle anything that comes her way.”

The all-out attack on Palin - waged on the Internet, talk radio and cable TV - has included intense scrutiny of her teenage daughter’s pregnancy, purported photos of the 17-year-old partying with liquor, rehashing of Palin’s husband’s two-decades-old drunken driving bust, questions about her links to a quasi-secessionist group, scrutiny of her former church and even questions about whether better prenatal care could have prevented her newborn son from having Down syndrome.

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson strongly defended Palin in remarks last night, saying the Alaskan governor is, “from a small town, with small town values, but that’s not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.”

It gets a little embarrassing sometimes, being an ink-stained wretch, when you see the way the other scribblers can’t stop piling on one and can’t stop worshipping the other. Here’s a great Dem talking point, compliments of the Washington Post: Palin slashed funding for teen moms. Not a peep on what the increase was, what the money was actually for, what else she might have slashed, whether the program is actually worth a damn or well managed, or anything else resembling context. Maybe it was the horrible, meanspirited act of a hypocritical pol, but with no indication anyone bothered to ask any of those questions, who knows? A little shoddy. Hnag on, here we go. New media makes old media look bad again. Via Malkin: Slashed line item was a threefold increase. 

Then there’s the rampant lefty sexism. Even some of my own pals can’t help themselves. The funny part is how they think a couple days of partisan squawking will be enough to force her out. Anyway, tonight we hear from the vice-presidential candidate who has the power to induce fits of apoplexy, and then, maybe, we’ll get a sense of whether actual voters share the ire.

Today’s quick roundup, compliments of RCP and Memeorandum:

National Enquirer: We Outted the Teen Mom!

LA Times: “As the GOP Turns,” Palin baby dad to attend convention.

TPM: Founder of group Palin courted expressed “hatred of American govt,” cursed “damn flag.” (New interest in candidates’ fringe associations by anti-Swiftboating, anti-slime TPM.) Could be a problem. Did she sit in this guy’s pews for 20 years, get married by him, start any educational reform initiatives with him?

Former Herald opiner, token Globe rightwinger Jacoby: A stark choice on abortion.

Politico: Palin pick reignites culture wars.

Charlie Martin at American Thinker: McCain’s OODA loop. Fighter pilot out manuevers community organizer.

Lifson at RCP: Sarah Palin and the Two Americas.

USA Today: McCain’s bet on Palin sets up a “wild ride.”

Hayes at Weekly Standard: Media’s new low.

Victor Davis Hanson: Why do we like Palin? … millions of Americans are simply tired of being lectured at by smug elites.

Via Herald: Barney Frank, Palin’s family life is fair game. Well, fair’s fair. Article notes that Frank took an awful lot of flak over his own family life, back when he was shacked up with a male hooker.

Surber, with that foot-tapping country hit, Wasilla High School PTA.

Tigerhawk: London bookies shorten odds on Palin dumping.

Malkin: PDS Alert, Us maggie’s Palin hit job.

In other business,

Surber: 2000 Dem VP pick makes sense at the 2008 RNC.

Hotair: RNC Night 2, Thompson and Lieberman.

Gateway, with your RNC protest art: They gas violent protesters, don’t they?

Topics: media, pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:18 am on Wednesday, September 3, 2008

7 Responses to “Her Turn”

1. Americaneocon Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm

   Trackback marked as spam, Jules.

   Here’s the excerpt from “Sarah Palin Takes on Beltway Media Elite”:

   “Crittenden links to his employer’s piece, “GOP Ready to Rumble,” and offers chagrin at his journalistic brethren’s anti-Palin attackocracy…”

2. RebeccaH Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm

   If I had doubts about whether my vote for McCain was the right one (and I did), his choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate banished them. There’s a lot of giddiness among Republicans right now, and a lot of panic among Democrats, but I hope we’re seeing the future first female POTUS.

3. Antimedia Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   I was completely unaware that Fred Thompson was a Senator from Mississippi. Did he server there before or after his eight years for Tennessee? Is this a breaking news story?

4. Jules Crittenden Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm

   You didn’t know that, Antimedia? Sheesh … corrective action underway.

5. Bloodthirsty Liberal » Lunch Palin Conservative Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm

   [...] Jules Crittenden, the Boston Herald’s front page [...]

6. WP Zeller Says:
   September 4th, 2008 at 9:07 am

   I know it’s pedantic, and I dislike myself for it, but…
   Do you think anyone at the Herald knows that’s not a gun Governor Palin’s holding in that picture?
   It’s actually an electronic training device.
   Okay, back to clinging.
   Meanwhile, my bellwether, social-worker-background, self-employed professional Chicagoan wife watched the entire Palin speech on the edge of her seat, smiling, laughing, and practically cheering.
   I think she left early this morning to see if the polling place was open yet.

7. Palin .NE. Bush | Think Forward Says:
   September 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am

   [...] The smears continue as found in this article. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Palin .NE. Bush”, url: [...]

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