Conservative candidate and columnist Andy Martin says everything he wrote on Wednesday concerning the media’s relentless efforts to demonize and destroy Sarah Palin is continuing on Thursday and Friday. Martin says excuses such as the claim that the Wednesday “scene” in Tucson was an “Irish wake” are disrespectful and demeaning to Irish-Americans. Irish know the difference between a wake and a public spectacle.
Martin also observes how the media are trying to control the message and editing the facts to serve their own agenda by concealing Daniel Hernandez’ sexuality from public view.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin says the media are continuing to abuse Sarah Palin
Martin rises to defend Palin from the malicious attacks of the liberal media elite and Barack Obama’s Democratic Party hit men such as Senator Dick Durbin
Martin says that the media have tried to “control the message” of the moment by eliminating any reference to Daniel Hernandez’ homosexual activism
(NEW YORK)(January 14, 2011) On Wednesday I wrote how the media were out to demonize and destroy Sarah Palin. I also offered her some pointers on how Palin could improve her television presence in the future. On Thursday, however, the attacks on Palin continued (see link below). I’m sure the attacks have not ended. The media are unabashedly trying to demonize Palin. They are out to destroy her.
On Wednesday I speculated that media attacks might be endangering Palin’s safety. I was not surprised to learn on Thursday that I was correct. As a result of media malignancy Palin has been inundated with threats.
What has Sarah Palin done to deserve these attacks? Nothing. Nothing at all.
The media’s latest ploy is to compare Palin’s remarks to Obama’s (see link below).
Obama’s team crafted a political pep rally in Tucson and he delivered a rousing campaign speech. He tried to suggest we had to mold America to fit the vision of a nine year-old child. While the death of a child is tragic beyond belief, and the loss too horrible to contemplate, it is doubtful that a child has a world vision that we must live up to. Instead, Obama was back to his old campaign malarkey, this time cynically using the death of a child to advance his agenda before an extremely liberal and disrespectful crowd. The man is shameless.
Not once did Obama admonish the crowd to be serious or reflect due reverence. Instead, he ramped up and ratcheted up his own campaign rhetoric in response to the crowd’s boisterous behavior. On Thursday, stung by the nation’s shock at the misbehavior of Tucsonians, Obama tried to walk back responsibility for the rally and tried to stick the University of Arizona with blame for the outbursts. As always, Obama claimed he was totally innocent of any accountability for the event which he created to showcase his compassion for the victims. Yah, sure.
Some of Obama’s media sycophants have condescendingly tried to compare the noisy and rambunctious Tucson crowd to an “Irish wake.” There’s an old expression, which is not limited to the Irish, that people cry at weddings and laugh at funerals. But any joviality at a funeral is conducted in private, among family and friends, and not before a crowd of 15,000 persons yelling and screaming on national television.
There was no jocularity at any Kennedy family memorials I can remember. It is demeaning to Irish-Americans to compare Obama’s Tucson mob to an Irish memorial.
Palin, by comparison, merely defended herself in her Wednesday video. And she was attacked for that defense. Palin is not the president. She is not the national “uniter” or “decider.” She is still a private citizen.
To the extent that Palin owes anyone anything in the public arena, she might want to provide some solace for her supporters in response to the malicious attacks being leveled at her by the Democratic Party’s resident hit men.
Not only is the media broadcasting a totally false and relentlessly negative image of Sarah Palin, they are apparently editing the facts to serve the “hero of the moment” story.
Daniel Hernandez is an authentic American hero. I have no problem with that fact. He was great. He is a young man with amazing presence. I salute him for his efforts to save the life of Representative Giffords.
Mr. Hernandez is also a gay rights activist and he was probably working in Representative Giffords’ office because of their common support for gay rights. But instead of holding up Hernandez as a gay hero, all mention of his sexuality has been deleted from the reports of his heroism.
Only the homosexual media have commented on Hernandez’ status (see links below). Is it a secret? Should Hernandez’ gay activism be hidden from the public? Hernandez is one of the most prominent gay heroes in recent memory and yet the media are concealing his private life despite the fact that, by comparison, they usually trumpet the sexuality of people involved in fighting discrimination in the military. Why the secrecy? Why the silence?
Hello Rachel Maddow? Why so quiet? Here is a national gay hero and you are totally silent. Hypocrisy my dear? Good gracious.
I’m not gay so I can’t speak to what it is like to be a closeted gay such as U. S. Senator Mark Kirk. And I have expressed concern about closeted gays because of the conflicts they create in the political process and especially in the Republican Party. We’ll have a column on Kirk when the news quiets down.
But Hernandez is not closeted. He is honest, open and aboveboard about his private life. Due respect for that candor would suggest that the media should have credited him for what he was, a superman who in a moment of abject terror rose to the challenge. Hernandez would be welcome in my White House.
Bottom line:
I think Sarah Palin continues to be victimized and, contrary to what others have said, I believe she had every right to defend herself. Bravo Sarah!
As for Mr. Hernandez, he is a genuine hero. But given his openness and honesty, why has everyone been so hush-hush about the reason Hernandez was working in Giffords’ office? Are we sanitizing Giffords' pro-gay political views and Hernandez’ own role in her office? I don’t know. But the media aren’t talking. Didn’t Hernandez personal life rate a brief mention, a few words, somewhere in all of the verbiage? Apparently not. Why did only the “gay” media report on Hernandez’ activism?
And they wonder why the American people, liberal and conservative, distrust the media. When it suits their interests, the media trumpet a person’s homosexual status. When it suits their interests, they drop any mention of sexuality from their narrative. It’s all media manipulation.
On the other hand, maybe the media know us better than we know ourselves. Maybe we are a nation of hypocrites when it comes to sexuality. I’m not sure. I invite readers to respond with their reactions and comments. The Hernandez “silence” is a question where we can have a lively debate and discussion. As family.
And as for Sarah Palin, the behavior of the media and Obama’s Democratic Party hit men has been and continues to be despicable. The media have done her wrong. Why? To paraphrase the great expression from the McCarthy era, “At long last, have Obama and the media no shame?” Are they willing to endanger the lives of Sarah Palin and her family to advance their socialist political agenda? Apparently so. And the American people elected this narcissist to “lead” us? For shame.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: Andy@AndyMartinforPresident.com
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LISTEN TO ANDY’S TALK RADIO INTERVIEWS (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
http://www.briantilton.com/
[See December 29th entry, for two-part podcast]
To hear Andy in Denver go to http://www.khow/, click on Peter Boyles show, go to left margin for “Past Shows” and look for January 7, 2011 and December 31, 2010 Andy Martin audio (you can download) (Boyles can also be heard on EinhornPress link below)
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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/
post_leadership/2011/01/obama-and-palin-two-
responses-at-a-time-of-crisis.html?hpid=smartliving
http://www.queerty.com/daniel-hernandez-jr-the-
gay-intern-that-kept-rep-gabrielle-
giffords-alive-20110109/
http://www.queerty.com/does-the-family-research-
council-know-rep-giffords-hero-daniel-
hernandez-is-gay-20110111/
http://www.afterelton.com/people/2011/01/
daniel-hernandez-gay-saves-life-gabrielle-giffords
http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/editorial/
publishers-editorial/2893-35-years-later-a-
new-gay-hero-in-a-shooting.html
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Bloggers go wild over Andy’s campaign:
(These are totally independent blog postings and are not part of Andy’s official campaign; we are not responsible for the content):
http://einhornpress.com/AndyMartinforPresident
NewsandPictures.aspx
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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring http://www.americaisreadyforreform.com/. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
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Showing posts with label Palin video. Show all posts
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Republican Presidential candidate Andy Martin analyzes Sarah Palin’s Tucson video
Martin says the national media have “declared war on Sarah Palin.” Martin suggests the media’s attacks may be endangering Palin. Martin says Palin’s Tucson video was poorly produced; she needs better staff work and a more expert team of advisers.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2012
“The Right Republican” for
President of the United States
www.AndyMartinforPresident.com
Campaign mail:
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforPresident.blogspot.com
www.AndyforPresident.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin on the liberal media elite’s “War Against Sarah Palin”
Martin says the media’s relentless attacks on Palin may be endangering her
Martin says Palin’s video on the Tucson tragedy was poorly prepared
(NEW YORK)(January 12, 2011) Sarah Palin released “two” videos today, laminated together as one. My remarks are in two parts, first analyzing the "war” against Sarah Plain that is an ongoing trope of the nation’s media elite; second, I address the somewhat disappointing Palin remarks on their own merits.
Unfortunately, all of Palin’s comments were overshadowed by the ill-advised insertion of the term “blood libel” in her remarks.
First, the “War Against Sarah Plain.” Almost from the moment she was chosen as a vice presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin has been the target (can we still use the word “target?”) of a vile campaign orchestrated by the nation’s liberal media to demonize and destroy her. Although I was surprised by the choice of Palin, I felt that Senator John McCain had to choose a woman as his running mate. He chose Palin. Mission accomplished (ohhh).
Palin is what we used to call a “self-made” person. She didn’t inherit wealth. She didn’t inherit social position. She didn’t marry wealth. And she didn’t have wealth fall on her by accident through the invention of some electronic gizmo or by penning a bestseller. Instead, Palin literally worked her way up from high school student, to college graduate, to wife and mother, to local and then state politician. No, Palin was not schooled in our elite institutions or inculcated with the values of our “governing” organizations in New York and Washington. She is truly “self-made.” Which is why ordinary Americans identify with her. The fact that Palin is who she is, and that she is not the product of a family legacy or the invention of the entertainment media, makes her someone whom the American people instinctively like.
Unfortunately in 2008 McCain, who ran one of the most haphazard campaigns in history, frittered away Palin’s authenticity, her natural energy, and her own sound political instincts. McCain forfeited the White House because of his own incompetence, not Palin’s. Nevertheless, the national media, who always loved McCain for being the "anti-Republican" Republican, have willingly shifted the blame for his abysmal campaign from McCain to Palin.
McCain could have sat Palin down after he appointed her and schooled her in a couple of minutes. “If you don’t know the answer, say ‘I don’t know.’ Tell the truth to the best of your ability. It is easier to remember the truth than a lie.” End of grooming. Instead McCain and his minions bollixed up Palin and sought to “compensate” for her national inexperience first by hiding her from the media, and then throwing her to the wolves. Can I still say this was the political equivalent of a “blood sport?” Or is that term now also verboten? Can we “throw people to the wolves” or is that too violent for our new national “civility?”
Palin’s political instincts were better than McCain’s. She wanted to tackle (too violent, again?) Obama head on and expose the fraudster for what he truly was. McCain was willing to undermine his own campaign by pulling his punches (a forbidden expression in the “new civility?”) and by allowing Obama to paint McCain as a confused old man, which in truth he was.
No sooner had the shooting stopped in Tucson than leftwing operatives such as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann were goading Palin to come out and speak. I was perhaps the first presidential candidate and political writer to condemn Olbermann and his cohort for trying to pin the blame for Tucson on Palin, Bill O’Reilly and other conservative personalities. The murders at Tucson were a crime, not a political event.
Since Saturday there has been a rising crescendo of left-wing attacks on Palin for not speaking out. Finally, Wednesday, she spoke (I analyze her remarks in part two below). But no sooner had her video been released than the media increased the volume of their attacks on Mrs. Palin.
Let me ask a question, and please feel free to respond. If, as we know, vile rhetoric and exaggerated attacks can cause a person to be targeted by the mentally deranged, is the media’s War Against Palin endangering her and exposing her to “revenge” attacks by extremists?
I think there is a serious possibility that by relentlessly demonizing Palin the media elite are endangering her and her family. The level of vitriol directed at Palin far exceeds that “targeted” at anyone else in political life except President Obama. Palin is still a private citizen. Madmen usually gravitate to attacks on persons who are being vilified in the media. I am concerned that media attacks on Palin are increasing the possibility she could be threatened.
It is hypocrisy of the worst sort that in decrying the violence of political speech, the media are trying to demonize Palin and possibly energizing mentally unbalanced persons to attack her because of the media’s antipathy for her. The media could be making her the next target of some madman or woman. I think the media need to declare an end to the war against Palin and start realizing their attacks could be triggering a new round of violence.
Now to Palin’s video itself. I have been involved in every aspect of radio and TV over the past forty years. I thought Palin’s remarks were disappointing. Putting aside the “blood libel” remark, Palin was too cheery and too botoxed for a solemn occasion. President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg for mere minutes. Lincoln’s words endure; Palin’s will not. Lincoln’s remarks were simple and direct. A heartfelt message of mourning was all that Palin should have delivered. Instead, Palin’s advisers got her to deliver a Chamber-of-Commercy speech full of boosterism and self-congratulation for America, when solemnity and only solemnity was called for.
Although Palin has worked on TV, she has seemingly forgotten the lessons she learned there. “Sincere” remarks which do not appear to be heartfelt will not endure. President Ronald Eagan understood the distinction.
Ironically, in his remarks tonight Obama is likely to make the same mistake as Palin. See today’s “second column.”
Palin’s video did not call for and of her facial gestures. Her mannerisms were inappropriate to shared grieving. Palin’s latest team of “advisers” is diluting Plain's genuineness and undermining the integrity of her “brand.” Palin is authentic. Obama is not. But today, Palin sounded like Obama, and like Obama will probably sound tonight (see my second column today for criticism-in-advance of Obama’s Tucson production).
Finally, the use of the term “blood libel” was bizarre. The term has an unfortunate history. The “first use” of the blood libel term passed without major comment in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. So we now know that words which, when uttered by someone else, are noncontroversial can become “libelous” when used by Palin. Is there any better evidence of the media’s “war” against Sarah Palin?
Bottom line: (i) the media are endangering Palin by demonizing her. The media are rapidly making Plain into the Governor George Wallace of the current generation. (ii) In my opinion, Palin’s remarks were poorly written by her speechwriters, instead of being spoken by the heart by Palin herself. If I were advising Sister Sarah (as I call her) I would say, “Sarah, be yourself, and don’t let them put words in your mouth. Speak from your heart.” (iii) The insertion of the term blood libel may have been an accident by an inexperienced speechwriter, seeking to appeal to the religious heritage of the principal victim of the shootings Representative Giffords. Obviously, the words backfired. The speech was not properly tested.
With all of her supporters, and all of her advisers, this speech was obviously not focus-grouped in advance. That’s why and how the libel error slipped in.
Governor Palin, lock and load. The media have declared war on you. In the meantime, you need a new team of advisers. You won’t make it to the White House with writers that slipped the term “blood libel” into your remarks.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: Andy@AndyMartinforPresident.com
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LISTEN TO ANDY’S TALK RADIO INTERVIEWS (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
http://www.briantilton.com/
[See December 29th entry, for two-part podcast]
To hear Andy in Denver go to www.khow.com, click on Peter Boyles show, go to left margin for “Past Shows” and look for January 7, 2011 and December 31, 2010 Andy Martin audio (you can download) (Boyles can also be heard on EinhornPress link below)
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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2011/01/12/
AR2011011202145.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html
Bloggers go wild over Andy’s campaign:
(These are totally independent blog postings and are not part of Andy’s official campaign; we are not responsible for the content):
http://einhornpress.com/AndyMartinforPresident
NewsandPictures.aspx
From Peter Boyles Show on Frank Marshall Davis (independent blog):
http://www.reformation.org/frank-marshall-davis-obama.html
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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com
[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]
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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2011
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NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2012
“The Right Republican” for
President of the United States
www.AndyMartinforPresident.com
Campaign mail:
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforPresident.blogspot.com
www.AndyforPresident.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin on the liberal media elite’s “War Against Sarah Palin”
Martin says the media’s relentless attacks on Palin may be endangering her
Martin says Palin’s video on the Tucson tragedy was poorly prepared
(NEW YORK)(January 12, 2011) Sarah Palin released “two” videos today, laminated together as one. My remarks are in two parts, first analyzing the "war” against Sarah Plain that is an ongoing trope of the nation’s media elite; second, I address the somewhat disappointing Palin remarks on their own merits.
Unfortunately, all of Palin’s comments were overshadowed by the ill-advised insertion of the term “blood libel” in her remarks.
First, the “War Against Sarah Plain.” Almost from the moment she was chosen as a vice presidential candidate, Governor Sarah Palin has been the target (can we still use the word “target?”) of a vile campaign orchestrated by the nation’s liberal media to demonize and destroy her. Although I was surprised by the choice of Palin, I felt that Senator John McCain had to choose a woman as his running mate. He chose Palin. Mission accomplished (ohhh).
Palin is what we used to call a “self-made” person. She didn’t inherit wealth. She didn’t inherit social position. She didn’t marry wealth. And she didn’t have wealth fall on her by accident through the invention of some electronic gizmo or by penning a bestseller. Instead, Palin literally worked her way up from high school student, to college graduate, to wife and mother, to local and then state politician. No, Palin was not schooled in our elite institutions or inculcated with the values of our “governing” organizations in New York and Washington. She is truly “self-made.” Which is why ordinary Americans identify with her. The fact that Palin is who she is, and that she is not the product of a family legacy or the invention of the entertainment media, makes her someone whom the American people instinctively like.
Unfortunately in 2008 McCain, who ran one of the most haphazard campaigns in history, frittered away Palin’s authenticity, her natural energy, and her own sound political instincts. McCain forfeited the White House because of his own incompetence, not Palin’s. Nevertheless, the national media, who always loved McCain for being the "anti-Republican" Republican, have willingly shifted the blame for his abysmal campaign from McCain to Palin.
McCain could have sat Palin down after he appointed her and schooled her in a couple of minutes. “If you don’t know the answer, say ‘I don’t know.’ Tell the truth to the best of your ability. It is easier to remember the truth than a lie.” End of grooming. Instead McCain and his minions bollixed up Palin and sought to “compensate” for her national inexperience first by hiding her from the media, and then throwing her to the wolves. Can I still say this was the political equivalent of a “blood sport?” Or is that term now also verboten? Can we “throw people to the wolves” or is that too violent for our new national “civility?”
Palin’s political instincts were better than McCain’s. She wanted to tackle (too violent, again?) Obama head on and expose the fraudster for what he truly was. McCain was willing to undermine his own campaign by pulling his punches (a forbidden expression in the “new civility?”) and by allowing Obama to paint McCain as a confused old man, which in truth he was.
No sooner had the shooting stopped in Tucson than leftwing operatives such as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann were goading Palin to come out and speak. I was perhaps the first presidential candidate and political writer to condemn Olbermann and his cohort for trying to pin the blame for Tucson on Palin, Bill O’Reilly and other conservative personalities. The murders at Tucson were a crime, not a political event.
Since Saturday there has been a rising crescendo of left-wing attacks on Palin for not speaking out. Finally, Wednesday, she spoke (I analyze her remarks in part two below). But no sooner had her video been released than the media increased the volume of their attacks on Mrs. Palin.
Let me ask a question, and please feel free to respond. If, as we know, vile rhetoric and exaggerated attacks can cause a person to be targeted by the mentally deranged, is the media’s War Against Palin endangering her and exposing her to “revenge” attacks by extremists?
I think there is a serious possibility that by relentlessly demonizing Palin the media elite are endangering her and her family. The level of vitriol directed at Palin far exceeds that “targeted” at anyone else in political life except President Obama. Palin is still a private citizen. Madmen usually gravitate to attacks on persons who are being vilified in the media. I am concerned that media attacks on Palin are increasing the possibility she could be threatened.
It is hypocrisy of the worst sort that in decrying the violence of political speech, the media are trying to demonize Palin and possibly energizing mentally unbalanced persons to attack her because of the media’s antipathy for her. The media could be making her the next target of some madman or woman. I think the media need to declare an end to the war against Palin and start realizing their attacks could be triggering a new round of violence.
Now to Palin’s video itself. I have been involved in every aspect of radio and TV over the past forty years. I thought Palin’s remarks were disappointing. Putting aside the “blood libel” remark, Palin was too cheery and too botoxed for a solemn occasion. President Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg for mere minutes. Lincoln’s words endure; Palin’s will not. Lincoln’s remarks were simple and direct. A heartfelt message of mourning was all that Palin should have delivered. Instead, Palin’s advisers got her to deliver a Chamber-of-Commercy speech full of boosterism and self-congratulation for America, when solemnity and only solemnity was called for.
Although Palin has worked on TV, she has seemingly forgotten the lessons she learned there. “Sincere” remarks which do not appear to be heartfelt will not endure. President Ronald Eagan understood the distinction.
Ironically, in his remarks tonight Obama is likely to make the same mistake as Palin. See today’s “second column.”
Palin’s video did not call for and of her facial gestures. Her mannerisms were inappropriate to shared grieving. Palin’s latest team of “advisers” is diluting Plain's genuineness and undermining the integrity of her “brand.” Palin is authentic. Obama is not. But today, Palin sounded like Obama, and like Obama will probably sound tonight (see my second column today for criticism-in-advance of Obama’s Tucson production).
Finally, the use of the term “blood libel” was bizarre. The term has an unfortunate history. The “first use” of the blood libel term passed without major comment in the Wall Street Journal on Monday. So we now know that words which, when uttered by someone else, are noncontroversial can become “libelous” when used by Palin. Is there any better evidence of the media’s “war” against Sarah Palin?
Bottom line: (i) the media are endangering Palin by demonizing her. The media are rapidly making Plain into the Governor George Wallace of the current generation. (ii) In my opinion, Palin’s remarks were poorly written by her speechwriters, instead of being spoken by the heart by Palin herself. If I were advising Sister Sarah (as I call her) I would say, “Sarah, be yourself, and don’t let them put words in your mouth. Speak from your heart.” (iii) The insertion of the term blood libel may have been an accident by an inexperienced speechwriter, seeking to appeal to the religious heritage of the principal victim of the shootings Representative Giffords. Obviously, the words backfired. The speech was not properly tested.
With all of her supporters, and all of her advisers, this speech was obviously not focus-grouped in advance. That’s why and how the libel error slipped in.
Governor Palin, lock and load. The media have declared war on you. In the meantime, you need a new team of advisers. You won’t make it to the White House with writers that slipped the term “blood libel” into your remarks.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: Andy@AndyMartinforPresident.com
--------------------------
LISTEN TO ANDY’S TALK RADIO INTERVIEWS (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
http://www.briantilton.com/
[See December 29th entry, for two-part podcast]
To hear Andy in Denver go to www.khow.com, click on Peter Boyles show, go to left margin for “Past Shows” and look for January 7, 2011 and December 31, 2010 Andy Martin audio (you can download) (Boyles can also be heard on EinhornPress link below)
--------------------------
LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2011/01/12/
AR2011011202145.html?hpid=topnews
http://www.khow.com/pages/boyles.html
Bloggers go wild over Andy’s campaign:
(These are totally independent blog postings and are not part of Andy’s official campaign; we are not responsible for the content):
http://einhornpress.com/AndyMartinforPresident
NewsandPictures.aspx
From Peter Boyles Show on Frank Marshall Davis (independent blog):
http://www.reformation.org/frank-marshall-davis-obama.html
--------------------------
ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com
[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]
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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2011
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