WORLD NEWS TRUST: Lipschtick and Pigs (Mary Lyon)

[Tace]

Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

Amazing what a difference a week makes.

Something has changed since Sarah Palin burst into the Republican Convention and started living it up by the stiletto. It still stings to look back over her mean-spirited, scornful, barb-laden speech. Whoever once said sticks and stones might hurt but names would not, has obviously never met the new Republican Annie Oakley wannabe. But it’s not just the nastiness anymore. Now it’s the wall-to-wall lies. Evidently she hasn’t yet bothered to visit the now-fabled “Straight Talk Express.”

I’ve noticed an interesting new yeast beginning to leaven the Sarah Palin story. Her acid tongue has pierced through a wall that seemed unassailable for years. The near-adoration of her by a ridiculously fawning media a few days ago now has some strings attached. For a nauseatingly long time, Republicans in general and the Bush administration in particular have enjoyed a singular freedom from vetting by the media. The most we’ve ever had when one of these people bore false witness was a lipstick-on-pig vocabulary of delicate wordings and phrasings such as “misleading,” “misstating,” “misspeaking,” “misrepresenting,” “stretching the truth,” “exaggerating,” “prevaricating,” and other verbal tidy-wipes.

Sarah Palin’s statements have apparently pushed this tolerance threshold just a bit too far. Seems someone has finally noticed -- and doesn’t mind saying so -- that the lady has trouble telling the truth. For the first time, I’ve actually heard some mainstream media people using that other “L-word” -- lie -- in all its derivations, when discussing her. That attests to the power of the blogosphere that decided not to wait for the mainstreamers to fact-check her claims. I guess their due diligence dug up so much pay dirt so quickly that the conventional media couldn’t afford to remain so willfully blind or deferentially on their knees any longer. Previously, there never would have been heard a discouraging word -- after all, we are talking about a Republican here.

I think it might be a case of “it’s the magnitude, stupid.” It would be one thing if the issue were a single boo-boo, or one teeny tiny tall tale that gets a nice laugh and then fades. But with Palin, it keeps coming and coming and coming, over and over and over again. Not just one inadvertent omission or exaggeration. Multiple statements she made in her speech, and repeated on campaign stops, have not passed the smell test. At such a high level of regularity, it shouldn’t be surprising that somebody somewhere started to notice. That heightened awareness has bloomed from such blogs as Talking Points Memo, DailyKos, and ThinkProgress to Newsweek, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, MSNBC, NBC’s Nightly News, CBS, the Washington Post, even Chris Wallace on Fox Noise, and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wondering aloud “is she telling the whole truth?” We’re finally seeing the media at least attempting to be completely impartial and start questioning again, rather than dutifully funneling whatever any GOP celebrity said, directly from tongue to TV screen and news print without regard to whether that tongue might be forked.

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1. I always like these. I can literally say I could kick myself! :D

:rofl: :hi:

Thanks, Tace!

[bleever]

3. Please, allow ME to kick you.

"Lipschtick".

:rofl:

[ladjf]

4. Palin will never use that joke again.

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6. Didn't hurt a bit!

:hi:

[ladjf]

2. This is a beautiful piece of writing.

Thanks for posting it. I will read the entire article.

And may I also put in my two cents worth.

Mrs. Palin has only been on the National political scene for a couple of weeks. She hasn't earned the
real prestige to be able to start harshly castigating and ridiculing the Democratic candidate, a person of hard earned accomplishments.

Would she even have a clue about what it takes to be the number one law student at Harvard and to graduate Magna Cum Laude, or what it would take to fight and a hard ,two year primary battle against outstanding Democratic candidates?

My point is that Obama has proven himself to be intelligent, caring accomplished person who earned his laurels the hard way. She is trying to dissemble his reputation from a standpoint of being his equal. Maybe she is his equal, but that has yet to be proven and her childish vitriol is not showing the thinking world that she is ready for big league politics.

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7. Childish vitriol is a good way to describe it.

That's exactly what it is.

On the other hand, we were watching Obama in some news report, and my husband said - "man, he sure looks presidential." I couldn't agree more. A classy guy.

[bleever]

5. Kick.

[Samantha]

8. Wonderful piece, Mary, just found it

I hope to come back later and read it more thoroughly. But just let me ask you this for now. What do you think will eventually happen to Palin? What is her destiny?

Sam

PS Nominated

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9. I don't know.

I know what I'm dreading, though.

What I'd LIKE to see is her returning to Alaska to watch the returns (usually means, if they go back home, that they aren't expecting to win), and then to fade into obscurity because she has "loser stench" all over her. Or maybe to be resurrected to try again for the brass ring on her own in four years? That's what I'm hoping, anyway.