Palin: Media Hates Me Because I'm An Average American
Sarah Palin has an answer to her media critics who say she isn't fit to be next in line for the presidency: They hate me because I represent the average "Joe Six-Pack" American.
Palin called in yesterday for a brief interview on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, and had this eminently quotable exchange:
Hewitt: Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to?Palin: Oh, I think they're just not used to someone coming in from the outside saying you know what? It's time that normal Joe six-pack American is finally represented in the position of vice presidency, and I think that that's kind of taken some people off guard, and they're out of sorts, and they're ticked off about it.
Well, it's true that Palin has taken some members of the press off guard, but not for the reasons she suggests...
Late Update: There was also this interesting line about bias by the media and the left against her religion:
Palin: I think that there's a lot of mocking of my personal faith, and my personal faith is very, very simple. I don't belong to any church. I do have a strong belief in God, and I believe that I'm a heck of a lot better off putting my life in God's hands, and saying hey, you know, guide me... And you know, so bet it, though I do have respect for those who have differing views than I do on faith, on religion. I'm not going to mock them, and I would hope that they would kind of I guess give me the same courtesy through this of not mocking a person's faith, but maybe perhaps even trying to understand a little bit of it.
Have any prominent members of the mainstream media mocked Palin's faith? Does anyone know what she's talking about?
Are comments disabled on the morning roundup thread?
October 1, 2008 9:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't get to them either.
October 1, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
So let me say here:
PA +15, OH +8, FL +8. Wow!
October 1, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly what I wanted to talk about.
Those numbers are nuts.
October 1, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
From the poll report
Sen. Obama clearly won the debate, voters say. Their opinion of Gov. Sarah Palin has gone south and the Wall Street meltdown has been a dagger to McCain's political heart. Roughly a third of voters, and almost as large a share of the key independent vote, say McCain did more harm than good in trying to resolve the financial crisis, and the share of voters who see the economy as the top issue has risen from roughly half to six in ten."
October 1, 2008 9:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now let us pray for substantiating polls. Other polls also seem to indicate that the GOP does in fact own this piece of crap economy. Their attempts to get the Dems on the pink slip with them seem not to have been effective.
Everybody knows who did this to us. Everybody.
October 1, 2008 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Franklin & Marsh (never heard of them) have Obama +5 in PA. I think it probably somewhere between these two. Maybe, +7 or +8. But you only need +1 to win.
October 1, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah thanks. Haven't been worried about PA, personally. But FL and OH, now that gets my attention. Hard to believe the worm is turning so sharply, isn't it?
October 1, 2008 10:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Franklin and Marshall College is in Pennsylvania.
October 1, 2008 10:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, acamus! What the heck?!
October 1, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Quinnipiac Polls that just came out. I'm sure the next polls will show it closer, but...WOW.
October 1, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
"PA +15, OH +8, FL +8. Wow!"
Yep, that's a wow. Hope he can maintain that.
October 1, 2008 9:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think Governor Palin must have a very poor opinion of the average American.
October 1, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
And I'm not certain the average voter is, indeed, saying: "I'd like my Prez and VP to be just like me." In fact, I would say just the opposite. It's probably more like, "Represent me to the best of your ability, but be smarter than me on the things I'm not well-versed in."
I mean, does Joe six-pack (what derogartory term that is) want to know the ins and outs of foriegn policy. I'm guessing no. What Joe six-pack doesn't want is someone with limited intelligence, access to the button and a temper that goes off if their local NFL team loses on Sunday or if the pastor's sermon is particularly fire and brimstone.
That's a bad mix right there, Barbie.
October 1, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anyway, can't we hate her just for she is, in her own special way?
October 1, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Go back and try the other thread. I've managed to post several times.
October 1, 2008 9:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
hmmm, still nothing.
October 1, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Strange.... I have a Mac. With Firefox.
October 1, 2008 9:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm on my shitty work PC with an old version of IE.
October 1, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Still not working for me (PC as well)
October 1, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Another Mac User.
October 1, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Joe 6-pack? HA! What the hell is wrong with her? And that riff on Israel makes me wonder if she's one of the Third Temple End-Of-Days types...
October 1, 2008 9:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think that would be a safe bet that she is. If she was really so pro-Isreal, she would have known who Hamas was when asked by Couric.
October 1, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
If she's a Joe-Six-Pack then I'm a beauty queen!
October 1, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poor Baby. Boo Hoo. Is that your Pit Bull Best?
Ok. Their ticket is now splitting up the work:
A. mcShame's Pompous Lies.
B. mcDame's Pitiful Cries.
That's it. That's all they've got!
October 1, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cereal Hypocrisy: Breakfast of Simpletons!
October 1, 2008 10:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
BTW, OT: What the heck is up with the site today? Front page and EC won't load and comments are off limits for roundup...
October 1, 2008 9:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Probably a guess, but some versions of IE might be having trouble with one of the ads.
October 1, 2008 9:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sure 'nuff! Firefox has no problems... Gotta love Mickeysoft!
October 1, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
COURIC: And since you've compared yourself to the average Joe Six-Pack, I'm curious, what beers did you regularly drink before you were tapped for this — to stay unaware of and indifferent to the world?
PALIN: I’ve drank most of them, with a great appreciation for the hops, for the barley —
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our beers.
October 1, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
haha
October 1, 2008 9:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
We have to be prepared for whenever VladimAle Putin rears his Dogfish Head and flies into Alaskan airspace.
October 1, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would totally buy a case of VladimALE Putin. I bet the Polonium-210 gives you one hell of a hangover, though.
October 1, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not as bad as Miller Half Life, though. Brewed with the finest heavy water.
October 1, 2008 10:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Brilliant, sir. Well done.
October 1, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know you can play stump the candidate if you want, and she can play it right with you, but if you're saying you don't like the average American either, of course that's one thing. She is in this race to win it for every American and trade is another important way to create jobs so we all have medical care, and while even though John McCain doesn't like to talk about it, I don't know if you realize that he was a POW and maybe that's why he wasn't afraid to pass the bailout since the votes weren't even there!
October 1, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
She bears a striking rhetorical resemblance to Miss Teenage South Carolina...
October 1, 2008 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, at least they don't hate her because she's beautiful.
October 1, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm surprised she hasn't claimed they hate her for her freedoms.
October 1, 2008 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now Palin is channeling the late Nebraska Sen. Roman Hruska:
"So what if he is mediocre? There are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they? We can't have all Brandeises, Cardozos, and Frankfurters and stuff like that there."
- Hruska speaking of Supreme Court Justice nominee Harold Carswell
Full disclosure: I have been living in Nebraska for the last 17 years, so go easy on the Cornhusker jokes, please. :>)
October 1, 2008 9:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's hear it for mediocre surgeons! For incompetent surgeons! Especially Joe Sixpack surgeons!
There ought to be a political malpractice statute!
October 1, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't know if you follow the estimable Alaska blogger Mudflats, but posted last night was the news that a witness in the Troopergate scandal got caught lying and has changed her testimony:
"Murlene Wilkes, faced with this situation, decided to change her testimony according to a report in The Public Record. Now, with the little extra incentive of avoiding perjury charges, she has admitted that she was asked to deny the claim - at the direct request of Sarah and Todd Palin."
http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/troopergate-witness-flips-like-a-pancake/
October 1, 2008 9:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whoa! Seems Gov. Palin has been using extortion to have the workers comp folks deny her brother-in-law's claim!!
Sarah Palin - same as before but even toastier than ever!
October 1, 2008 11:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Later on in the interview she states that her son has not called her once since he has arrived in Iraq, but that he had called his girlfriend twice.
Does he hate her for being an average American, too?
October 1, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
He probably hates her for her freedoms.
October 1, 2008 10:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
No Ms Palin,
People hate you because you are an insane, lying fascist plutocrat trying to rape the Great American Experiment to death and destroy everything good and right about our country.
October 1, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not to mention, Sarah, that you failed to foresee - from your backyard in Alaska - what Russia's intentions in Georgia were. How could you let us get caught so flat-footed, Sarah?
October 1, 2008 10:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, but the McCain camp is running out of victim's cards to play.
October 1, 2008 9:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, I think Olbermann's gone a little over the top on the church videos in a way that could be called mocking.
Course, those were the videos where a witch hunter was laying hands on her and praying for her to be protected from witchcraft, so mockery was awfully hard to avoid.
October 1, 2008 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll agree with you about Olbermann...but I wonder what the right would have done if there was a video of Obama being blessed by an African minister talking about witches?
October 1, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
You nailed that one, for god's sake. Yeah. What *if* Obama were the one on the tape? Well I'll tell you what you obviously already know: He would lose thing outright.
Keith did a good job with that video, IMO. He didn't go on and on talking about the obvious. He just showed it, described it, and let the chips fall on the table. Make of it what you will.
That stuff turns Christianity into a circus act, IMO.
October 1, 2008 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
He'd have to give up the nomination.
October 1, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, No, No . . .
Mega-churches and 'modern' evangelicalism have turned christianity into a circus act.
(Kinda sorta like the Romanists did with that whole baroque thing, except with crappy music and pathetic architecture . . .)
October 1, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good on Olbermann. For so long, the blathering heads on the right have gone completely over the top with little or no response from anyone on the left. If he amps it up now and then, and gets ratings in the process, what's the harm?
Time to give those nattering nabobs of negativism (for once in my life, thank you Spiro Agnew!) a little of their own back. It's long overdue.
October 1, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bless her little heart.
October 1, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow on troopergate.
Has anyone looked at the RCP map with no toss ups included.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/?map=10
It's actually better than the fivethirtyeight projection.
I hate to celebrate early, as I've seen the polls swing quite a bit in just two weeks but hot damn is that a pretty site to wake up to in the morning.
October 1, 2008 9:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please don't celebrate early. The last thing we need to do is have our own "Mission Accomplished" before the mission has been accomplished.
But after we win - we all get shitfaced.
October 1, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
I've put the bottle of whiskey back into my office desk.
October 1, 2008 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
as for the religion thing, my guess is that they'd be pretty upset by Olbermann who has definitely been critical of her 'witch hunting' pastor. Seeing how they have a low opinion of NBC anyway...
October 1, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
But back to the question:
Anybody? I've heard disparaging words on the blogs, but that hardly counts. Well, unless the blogs are those ephemeral sources of her news that she couldn't be specific about. Regardless, I'm pretty sure she's not personally reading lefty blogs. So, did she make this up or is there something out there?
October 1, 2008 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
She's reading them with the sound down.
October 1, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink