Meat Shield Chronicles

Sarah Palin is on the Facebook thingie again, this time noting that it’s “ironic” that the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act falls on the same day Tucker Carlson’s Daily Douchebag released a batch of JournoList emails on the Trig birfer conspiracy.

Palin links to the JournoList emails, but either she didn’t read (or understand) them herself or she’s hoping none of her Facebook friends will peruse them. I say this because, if anything, the emails exculpate the “liberal media” from narrative Palin is trying to weave: That these ravening hordes of conservative-hating hacks would stop at nothing to bring Palin down, even if it meant peddling falsehoods about innocent children.

The emails certainly don’t contain anything nasty or disrespectful about Trig as Palin’s juxtaposition of the email release with the ADA anniversary implies. In fact, one of the participants mildly scolds another for using the phrase “Downs child:”

A note to journolisters who may not be aware of this: “Downs child” is NOT an appropriate or sensitive way to refer to Palin’s son, who has Down Syndrome. Please use “people-first” language here. I’m not at all a fan of Palin, either, but as liberals and decent human beings, we should be respectful in how we refer to people with disabilities.

Since Carlson is selectively releasing JournoList emails, we can be sure that Daily Douchebagginses pored over the cache to find the most damning possible quotes. However, the overall impression I got was that practically everyone agreed the story was too outlandish or politically toxic to touch. The only thing mildly scandalous was the extent to which a group of self-professed liberals processed all information through the prism of how it would affect the Obama campaign. And on that, well, duh.

Palin characterizes the JournoList dump as a “Journey into the Media’s Heart of Darkness.” Journey into the “Spleen of Dullness” is much closer to the mark. Ho-hum. But like Breitbart, Palin counts on her audience to swallow her assertions uncritically and not check the sources. It’s usually a pretty safe bet.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 07/26/10 at 06:11 PM • Permalink

http://thedailypingpong.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/sar ah-palin-a-bull-shit-artist/

Thank God I’ve been able to stop caring about “liberal” feminists who don’t care about themselves. It leaves me a lot more time to catch up with All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku—the original PUMA.

Miz Sarah isn’t nearly the only one who’s flagrantly misreading these emails.  Check out Andy Ass Sullivan on the subject:  http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/20 10/07/the-partisan-tools-at-journolist-and-trig.html

If the Nobel Committee ever devises a prize for aural and visual and tonal myopia, Andy will collect the first one - fer shure.  Also.

And after all the birther bullshit she’s flung at Obama, she has a lot of nerve to talk about how badly she was treated by the media. Sweetheart, nobody forced you to not be able to name a newspaper. Nobody forced you to lie about the bridge to nowhere. Nobody forced you to not know anything about the Bush Doctrine. If you thought Winkin’ and Blinkin’ and Straight Talkin’ was enough to win over anybody but Viagra Republicans, that was your own stupidity.

http://thedailypingpong.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/sic k-and-tired-of-sully/

Sully and McArdle are hot headed bumbly-blabberers bloggers. The only one worth his salt on the blogs at The Atlantic is TNC. I love his thoughts and his wonderful style of presentation.

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