Did I hear her say, "we need to keep exploiting our God-given natural resources"?? Key word = "exploiting"
Or the more likely case is that Palin was talking out of her ass, as usual, and a team of her handlers had to google everything they could to find a plausable excuse for her stupidity.
If anything, I'd say that video shows the incredible media bias against Palin. The way it was presented was completely misleading.
It's funny how every time she says something stupid/odd/dumb/silly/factually void, it's because of the media.
You don't see any bias there? It's not like she was saying that Revere warned the British in the way that he warned the colonists. She was making some broad statement about sending a warning to the British that they weren't going to be able to take away our arms. Sure, the statement wasn't exactly history professor worthy, but I've seen far worse generalizations about history made by politicians. I don't think it was news worthy and they were presenting it in a way to make her look as bad as possible.
I'd say she presented it in a way that made her look as bad as possible, it's hardly evidence of bias to film her saying it. She was, after all, talking to the press. Press coverage is what she was looking for, otherwise she wouldn't have been talking to them (and wouldn't be on the bus tour). barfo
You think there's a left bias, I think there's a lazy bias. btw, Sarah Palin on her own does a good enough job to look as bad as possible. She doesn't need the press to do that. And the medias response to her talking to the press and saying stupid things (the validity of this statement, yet to be determined, withstanding) make it a bias.
I didn't say anything about filming her saying it... the talking head that presented the story was pretty biased in how he presented the story. "Palin may need to brush up on her American history" and "it sounds like she got a bit confused on the details"... I didn't see anything in what she said as especially inaccurate, except for maybe the part about the bells... I don't remember anything about Revere and bells, but that's not what they're talking about. They're portraying it as if she was saying that Revere warned the British, not the Americans, on his historic ride.
I remember a story where she was 'viewed in a poor light' by the mainstream media b/c she had 3 words written on her hand in a half-hour speech. That was a difference b/w "unvarnished truth as seen by the camera" and spin. I don't particularly care--she wants to be in a political race, she should be doing things to make herself look good. And if that means overcoming a bias, that's among the smaller problems the next president will have. But to maintain that there isn't a sizable block of media outlets out to disparage her is not being intellectually honest. Edit: you may be right, julius, that it's more "lazy" than "left", but there's some precedent for a lot of vitriol coming her way from the more liberally-based media sources. I'm not saying Fox doesn't do that, either, but generally it seems like the stuff there (at least, from the article of the Fox CEO someone posted earlier) is dug up and factual, rather than spewn and spun.
I think there's a bias in that the media knows that people on the left love to hear things that make her sound/look stupid... just as they liked to hear and see things that made Bush look stupid. It's simply a money thing. They want to put stories on the news that are going to attract the most viewers. If Palin was widely loved, they wouldn't say shit. I'm not especially impressed with her, and I don't think she's a very good public speaker by any means, but I think it's unfair how she's been picked on since she came into the national spotlight. The left has gone after her mercilessly with the jokes and the sexual innuendos, which I think is pretty fucked up. I would say the left would be more supportive of women's rights and equality, yet they are attacking a woman who ran for VP and wants to be a strong and powerful woman. I guess I don't get it.
Ok. I only watched a clip of her talking, I didn't review the press coverage. In any case, she sounds like a idiot, so I'm not sure what sort of unbiased coverage you'd be looking for on that. Unbiased commentary would be to say "Wow, Sarah Palin sure is a fucking idiot, isn't she, George? Now over to Lanny with the weather." barfo
Writing things on your hand - no matter how many - is extremely lame for a politician, or any adult, for that matter. It's fine if you are in 8th grade. Reality is out to disparage her. She doesn't know anything about anything. You can hardly blame the media for highlighting that fact. Hell, even Roger Ailes thinks she's a moron. barfo
Now, now. I don't hate her. In fact, I hope she runs and wins the nomination. She's exactly what the Republican party needs. barfo
