Mudflats reviews John Ziegler's "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted"

[Blue_In_AK]

This is pretty funny.


http://www.themudflats.net/2009/05/29/zieglers-folly/

Ziegler’s Folly

Conservative documentary filmmaker John Ziegler was in town to do a special screening of his new film “Media Malpractice - How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted.” It’s been a while since I infiltrated a Palin event, so I decided to slip in and join the festivities.

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Enter John Ziegler. It’s kind of funny to see people who come to visit Alaska in any sort of official capacity. Mostly they look like they have no idea how to act, or what to say. Sort of like they’re visiting a foreign country, and they’re on stage at the same time. Ziegler explained to us that his purpose in creating the film was (and I quote) “I decided to dedicate my life to constructing a story to correct the historical record.”

Then he proceeded to list all the media sources that were “in the tank” for Obama, and when The View was mentioned, there was a loud “BOOOOOOOOOO” which eminated from Eddie Burke. Ziegler told us how important this screening was, and that it might even be the most important one of all, and that “If anyone is going to get the truth it would be the good people of Alaska.” I tried not to smile.

The film was basically one long interview with Sarah Palin, snipped up into little bits, and interspersed with lots of clips of political commentary from various media sources during the campaign. Ziegler went out of his way to say that he wasn’t pandering to the base, but that he really wanted to convince people in the middle and on the left that the Obama coronation and the Palin hatchet job was something we all needed to rally around. So here are the talking points.

Obama is a crooked politician who was annointed in the living room of his BFF, “unrepentant terrorist” Bill Ayers. Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement made it possible for him to be elected and he is now “beholden” to her. He created his own “presidential seal.” Reverend Wright is evil. Michelle Obama is unpatriotic. The mainstream media was totally focused on undoing Sarah Palin, who is actually more qualified than Obama.

Somehow, we were supposed to believe that the media glossed over the whole Reverend Wright fiasco, and the Bill Ayers association. They supposedly never mentioned Joe Biden’s “Obama will be tested” gaffe and suddenly the heroes of the day for conservatives were Geraldine Ferraro, and Bill and Hillary Clinton who seemed to be the only ones brave enough to speak truth to power. We also revisited Joe the Plumber, and the dreaded “spread the wealth around” comment. Keep in mind that the premise of the movie is that none of this was covered by the mainstream media.

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[LynnTheDem]

1. And the WORST most DESPICABLE part about the targetting of Palin' was how the

media used HER OWN WORDS...IN HER OWN CONTEXT!!1!!!!111!!

Shocking.

[jbnow]

2. Hard to believe someone can see the world that way

let alone be sure enough of it to make it a film.