Oh, please, DSYoungEsq, you’re being very legalistic here–in the bad way. She could easily have made this argument: “We value the press as a watchdog over our government, and because we do so, the press must cherish and protect its credibility,” without the gratuitous shout-out to the troops.
And that’s the objection. Her smarmy innuendo that people who disagree with her or frustrate her political aspirations–an increasingly large fraction of the American people–are unpatriotic quislings. It is the cheap and cheapening identification of Sarah Palin with the loyalty and sacrifice of our servicemembers. It is using men and women who shoulder the burdens and risks of military service as a marketing gimmick.
Although if the media really wanted to get her panties in a bunch, they would grant Sarah Palin, now just a stay-at-home mom in Alaska’s meth manufacturing hub, her putative wish: to have no longer her doorstep darkened with pressmen and their reporter’s notebooks and cameramen filming B-roll footage. Does anybody doubt that this would finally make Sarah Palin happy and grant her the peace and serenity she has long sought?
Sometimes, you people drive me to distraction.
I am NOT defending her.
I am EXPLAINING what she was saying, which was the point of the OP. Several posters have opined that what she said was either incomprehensible, or was nothing more than an illogical and irrelevant way to drag the troops in. My entire point is that it is not incomprehensible, nor is it an entirely disconnected set of thoughts.
I have never said it was a GOOD thing to say, nor that it was said WELL. :smack:
Actually, all smarminess aside, I – a lifelong very liberal Democrat – do long for a strong loyal opposition GOP. As much as I identify with the Democratic Party, I don’t want to live in a one-party country.
An intelligent counter-balance is nice to have … emphasis on intelligent, not rabid name-calling.
Not your only options. You could get a genuinely progressive party (formed out of the left wing of the Democratic Party) and a moderate centrist party (formed out of the Blue Dogs and moderate Republicans) and a right-wing Party (formed out of fecal matter).
This could indeed be the system we will have here soon here in the U.S.
And I’d be O.K. with that. It does have the drawback that the FMP (Fecal Matter Party) would represent the blue southern states (and maybe Alaska), and that they would seceed from the union.
It sounds to me like she’s practicing a tactic popular with poorly-informed or unprepared debaters, whereby anyone confused by a confusing statement is either stupid, or maybe part of the unpatriotic opposition.
Right-wing radio host Ken Hamblin once rambled ca. 1993 on Politically Incorrect w/Bill Maher that he hoped that the Clinton administration wouldn’t bring back “microwave ovens”.
When Maher admitted, “You lost me”, Hamblin impatiently “explained” that he was referring to the Nazis’ use of ovens for cremation of concentration camp prisoners.
It’s our fault if we don’t understand her. If she doesn’t understand us, it’s “gotcha” journalism.
Don’t know anything about the source, but it would make everything fit together. Meg Stapleton (Palin’s PR person) has already denied it, so who knows…
I’m not sure what a speculative impending divorce has to do with this topic, (or whether this topic has any point any more), but let’s leave the gossip posts to MPSIMS or the BBQ Pit as appropriate.
Huh? So are you moving this to MPSIMS or BBQ Pit, or what? Or are you just passing a casual observation, or some gas, in your official Mod mode? If this isn;t about the media making shit up (or not) about public figures, and specifically Palin, then I don’t know jack.