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Assault on Palin, DeMint and Other Conservatives Often Rooted In Lies or Distortions

By: hogan (Diary)  |  October 21st, 2010 at 11:57 AM  | 

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The long knives have been out for Sarah Palin since her emergence on the national stage just over two years ago. Katie Couric infamously mocked Sarah Palin and her family on tape even while the Republican Convention was still going on… long before her “objective” interview with her. But that was just the beginning.

Recently there was this silly effort by leftists to make fun of Palin for admonishing activists not to “party like it’s 1773″ yet. Not just random bloggers, mind you, but that paragon of fairness and balance from PBS, Gwen Ifill, lept at the opportunity to make fun of Palin for getting a date wrong. The problem, of course, was that Palin was correctly referring to the year of the Boston Tea Party. Ooops.

But then today, we see that Jonathan Martin with Politico has put out a piece trying to make the case that Palin is a “Diva.” In the article, he writes “[a]ccording to a source familiar with the situation, she backed out of planned interviews with conservative talk-show hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin the morning she was scheduled to talk to them.” Again, there’s at least one problem… that is, Mark Levin says that this is an outright lie. On Facebook, Mark says, “Sarah Palin never backed out of any interview with me. Period. And John Martin, the reporter, never contacted me to ask me directly. I insist on a retraction. ” Sarah Palin has her faults, but it sure makes one wonder how accurate this piece is when at least part of it is a flat out lie.

But that’s not the only example today. Jim DeMint was on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News last night. During the interview, the Senator made some comments about the state of the Republican Party – pointing out, essentially, that he “doesn’t want to watch the Republican Party betray the trust of the American people again.” Amen. But, what does RealClearPolitics put up as the headline?

They wrote, “DeMint threatens to leave GOP if agenda is not limited government.” Jim DeMint did not “threaten” to leave the GOP. He said he doesn’t want to be a part of a Republican Party that is like that – and that this is not what Republicans are about across America. See here for the full video. To be honest, I don’t want to be part of a Republican Party that is interested in perpetuating the power of its leaders… so you know what? We set out to change the face of the Republican Party – to get it centered on limited government and defending the Constitution instead of self-promotion, earmarks and compromise in the false name of pragmatism.

This is only the beginning, of course. Senator DeMint will find himself as the ever-increasing focal point of criticism, by the press and, perhaps more, by Washington establishment insiders who feel threatened by anyone willing to stand up to their big-spending, back-scratching, Senate “club” ways. Senator DeMint dares to suggest that the old guard needs to change or go home. He dares to criticize pork-barrel spending and the corrupt appropriators who continue to do it. And most of all, he dares to fight against an establishment built around perpetuating itself rather than liberty, by backing candidates who are willing to challenge that establishment.

One thing is certain. If other people are gunning for you, you are doing at least some things right.

But think twice when you read any story or headline about good conservatives who are fighting the fight.

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  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    Atilla the Hun and Ghengis Khan conquered far too much territory to be wrong. Conservatives will fight this with fire and expose the dishonest, lying sacks of excrement or get used to our cultural dhimmitude.

    • congressworksforus

      I am sick of hearing and seeing democncrat ads that refer to republican candidates (incorrectly) as “extreme”. It’s the freakin’ mantra all around the country.

      I never see an ad (correctly) labeling the demoncrat/marxist as “extreme” even though THEY ARE the extreme candidate.

      The GOP over and over and over folks like a deck of cards. I hope there are GOP “pundits” reading. You get ONE chance here; screw us over and you are DONE in 2012.

  • rdelbov

    a DeMint post to link this

    http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003752959

    Yup DeMint who had 3.6 million COH 09-30-2010 transfered 1.6 million from his personal campaign funds to various states to support GOP candidates. He opposed Kelly Ayotte in the primary but New Hampshire is on tap for 100K. This is sign of true leadership.

    Now campaign finance gets a little hard to follow but this different then money DeMint has raised under the “Senate Conservative Fund”. DeMint is putting +150K into ads for Joe Miller this week.

    I consider Jim DeMint to be a model for all US senators. Yes the MSM is out to get him but I am wary of much of the discord they start to stir up.

    • seattlebruce

      “I consider Jim DeMint to be a model for all US senators. Yes the MSM is out to get him but I am wary of much of the discord they start to stir up.”

      DeMint is probably number 3 on the MSM hit list behind Sarah Palin and O’Donnell (?). They really are evil propagandists. Nothing more than that.

    • paulainnes

      Let me see, hasn’t George Soros put millions of dollars in the Obama Campaign? Oh he filters it through leftist organization but it is happening even as we speak. Democrats need to check into their own “sins” before they charge accusations against the opposition. The Bible says “Be sure least your sins find you out.” Oh darn, I forgot that a lot of radicals and liberals are progressive.

  • Aaron Gardner

    I think this holds true for both Palin and DeMint.

    • davesinsanantonio

      Joe Miller, etc., etc.

  • itrytobenice

    They are lying. Plain and simple.

    Maybe at one time they just buried stories they didn’t want us to know. Or they only gave one side of an issue.

    But now they are lying. How shameful. I can’t wait until they all go out of business. They’ve never deserved it more.

  • Scope

    Yup, the very same one that trashed Sarah Palin after the elections. On Tues, her new book, Eighteen Acres hit the bookstores.

    http://thehill.com/capital-living/in-the-know/124897-former-gop-staffers-new-novel-drew-inspiration-from-hillary-clinton

    The novel has something to do with the first female president, and, Wallace says she got her inspiration from Hillary Clinton, who she greatly admires.

    In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulous (sp), he asked her if the VP character in her book, who she calls “loud, tacky and rude” was her revenge on Sarah Palin, and, Wallace doesn’t deny it.

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2010/10/loud-tacky-and-rude-nicolle-wallace-revenge-on-sarah-palin.html

    I find the timing of the release of her book to be very interesting. Shortly before the mid-terms, and, not long before the Presidential campaigns will start. I still think there is a good possibility that Hillary will challenge Obama. Gee, I wonder who Wallace, who worked for Bush and McCain will support should that happen.

    • chihank

      What bugs is that Hannity has Nicole Wallace on his Fox show.

  • smitch61

    Is in full blown panic right about now. If we keep this up for a few election cycles, we can wipe their liberal BS right off the map.

  • seattlebruce

    The whole 1980s/1990s ‘debate’ over whether or not the press ‘leans’ left is not even a discussion these days. Forget about ‘leans’ left. They are completely and utterly and totally working for and within the left.

    The new discussion is, how will the new media look as it reforms the old, dead, biased media. at the very least we know we won’t have a liberal filter applied to all news – that we’ll be able to get all sides to a story – or at least most sides to most stories.

    The old ‘trusted’ media – is no more for most Americans.

    The same can be said for other topics that the “liberal BS” you refer to has applied – global ‘warming’, gay ‘marriage’, ‘war on poverty’, PC toward islam, etc.

    • bobbymike

      advocated Republicans and conservatives to go on the leftists shows and flat out make fun of and mock them. Start asking them questions about the Constitution or current legislation and try to trap them and without remorse look into the camera and tell the American people how dumb they are.

      They are out to destroy conservatives they will never accept nor ever treat us fairly. So I say now that we know that let’s – rhetorically – take them on and take them out.

      • davesinsanantonio

        with facts to back it up, and then deride the host who doesn’t get it. Politely, of course. But, it must be direct and hard hitting, not some long-winded intellectual treatise. The Left have very short attention spans, and cannot keep up with something drawn out.
        This is not to hope that said host will convert, but that some of the viewers will have their eyes opened, or, if already opened, will realize their true home in the conservative movement. We convert them when they realize their failed policies are not working, AND we give them clear concepts to support. We cannot, will not, get any converts if we are merely Dumbocrat Lite! The RINOs will never convert anyone to our side, because they have no true convictions themselves. In fact, they are just as much a part of the problem as the True Believers, just slower at getting to the edge of the cliff.

  • cam1

    to see the faces of the talking heads from the MSM on the evening of Nov. 2 and the morning of Nov. 3. It will be incredible and the fight for right will be on for real. The house cleaning will have begun. RINOs don’t believe the Tea Party has staying power. How wrong they are.

  • paulainnes

    This mudslinging has been going on for many years both by the Democrats and Republicans. It seems that it has been more cut throat than it has been in the past.

    Having said that I would like to point out that the first victim of their lies and character assassinations was President Bush. I realize that he wasn’t perfect but he does and did love our country and Americans. I hear the Dems say that President Bush spent trillions of dollars. Why not compare the money that Bush spent in 8 years to the amount of money being spent by Obama in 2 years.

  • southcoast

    Politics is a dishonest past time at best and destructive at worst.
    Given that the attacks, the assaults on Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint et al. are politically based, these affronts can only be viewed as dishonest and equally malicious. I can see political attacks on Jim DeMint since he is a policy maker and legislator. How the left is so insecure about Sarah Palin, who is not a policy maker, is mind numbing and exasperating. The people whose ill-informed prejudices against conservatives are deeply held and these same people are not going to be educated overnight. The best we can do is not give them the attentions they do not deserve.

  • edwlstr

    And he may become head of the banking committe if we take the Senate. His name is Richard Shelby. RINO?, not really sure but bears watching.

    • edwlstr

      I meant ….LIKES earmarks. subject/predicate agreement. You know what I sayin’.

  • momofthecastle

    Not that I ever listen to the MSM, nor believe anything they say. But getting the truth here at Red State gives me the facts to refute the errors when my friends say something they “heard in the news.”