it's a hit piece

!st/blockquote>

And soon to be gone. (I think RD is probably the only place besides WSJ where McCain can get an even-handed interview.)

I read the whole magazine when it came a few weeks ago
and Carl Cannon admits his love for Obama
even says his kid runs around the house yelling Obama's name

he also asks Obama puffball questions
and McCain gets the meat and potatoes

Obama also gets more page inches as a setup BEFORE the questions and everything just seems very biased

read both interviews and I think you will be as appaled as I am

Does the media constantly mention Obama's age in each news article?

Interesting

Hmm, killed the blockquote tags. Let's try this: Obageegee, Charles hates that kind of post, and kills them all.

I hope no one in the MSM reads this interview. They might start to catch on to how bad they are doing. Let me toss this out there to chew on.

I don't think their coverage of Palin is some anti-conservative conspiracy. This is just an example of too many years of intellectual inbreeding. And it is not just from the left either. There are some on the right who are just as out of touch.

Most folks who populate the MSM would not recognize a real religious or social conservative even if they punched them in the nose. Almost everyone commenting, reporting, editing or producing for the MSM live in four cities (DC,LA, NYC, Chicago) and went to one of two dozen schools (the Ivy League, Georgetown, and a few others). They are a tiny minority so intellectually inbred they simply do not understand what America is like beyond the center of a handful of America’s largest cities.

They have probably never had dinner with someone who attends church weekly in the midwest (and certainly not the *gasp* Bible Belt). They have no idea that churches tend to help people who have kids out of wedlock and want to do the right thing.

Here is an example of a comment from a guy on the Right:

"The stakes in the Palin gamble grew even higher Monday, whe the governor announced that her 17 year old unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant. That raises unanticipated questions about how social and religious conservatives [will react]"
Gerald F Seib, WSJ, September 2, 2008

What a dumb observation! He has no idea that a church is the most basic social program out there. And not just in red counties either. Hell, in many cases the only think holding poor black communities together are poor black churches. Unmarried mother, house burned to the ground, kids need day care - it's the local church – in the city or in the sticks - that helps out when these things happen.

But the folks in the MSM have never met the people who make up these churches or organizations. And if they did, their memories have long been blocked out by the way their friends portray us on the TV shows the write and produce.

The MSM thinks they know us because they know Rosie, Archie and that crazy preacher from Footloose. I once thought the elites were making fun of us in fly over country. I know now they did not realize those were caricatures. The joke was on them all along.
Now they want to show us they are one of us – they want to fit in – they want to be relevant – they want to give us the stories they think we want to here.

And when they show up at the end of summer cookout, dressed like Will Rogers with a mullet, all ready to dish on Palin, they cannot figure out why we don’t take them seriously.

re: #4 Adrenalyn

I read the whole magazine when it came a few weeks ago
and Carl Cannon admits his love for Obama
even says his kid runs around the house yelling Obama's name

he also asks Obama puffball questions
and McCain gets the meat and potatoes

Obama also gets more page inches as a setup BEFORE the questions and everything just seems very biased

read both interviews and I think you will be as appaled as I am

If all Obama gets fed is puffballs and McCain gets fed mean and potatoes....guess which is going to be the stronger man?

I'm reluctant to click this. The regional version sold here had a big picture of Obama's face with the subtitle "Obama: The New Face of American Politics" a couple of months back.

re: #9 Lively

indeed, McCain holds up well if you want my opinion
I have to say, over the years he has not been a favorite of mine but he has held his own so far

but the Magazine used to be unbiased but they've swayed left over just the last couple years, notably

McCain Team 'Seriously Pissed' at the Press

I'm usually a fan of Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, and he has me on his CNN program regularly. He declares, via Twitter, "McCain people are seriously pissed at the press and not bothering to hide it." Gee, I can't imagine why. They're treating the running mate's family like the stars of a deranged reality show, they've botched several key facts about her in their reporting, and several networks just ignored Fred Thompson's speech, in order to showcase their own talking heads bashing Palin.

McCain - the rest of normal Americans are pissed too.

Who is pandering? Obama to give speech on women and economy

The campaign also released a radio ad highlighting McCain’s opposition to abortion and suggesting that he will overturn Roe vs. Wade.

“John McCain's out of touch with women today,” the narrator says. “McCain wants to take away our right to choose. That's what women need to understand. That's how high the stakes are.”

Disinformation campaign.

Not sure if a Reader's Digest interview is gonna get to anyone in the "under 70" demo

* [new] Plus it steals coverage from McCain's speech (0+ / 0-)
How cool is that! Upstaging the maverick during his big moment.

From the kos diary.

THIS IS WHAT I AM WORRIED ABOUT>

Reader's Digest is a fairly conservative publication, if I assess correctly.

OT

I've been camping for the last 5 days and with the Palin VP pick missed what had to be some of the best threads here at LGF in months. I'm going to get caught up but I just wanted to ask if anyone knows if this blogger Adam Brickley is a lizard or not.

re: #14 Misfit138

I read it.
I'm 48

re: #14 Misfit138

Not sure if a Reader's Digest interview is gonna get to anyone in the "under 70" demo

But they all vote

re: #14 Misfit138

Not sure if a Reader's Digest interview is gonna get to anyone in the "under 70" demo

I agree. I would never read a RD article....not even in a doctor's office. I'd go for the Better Homes and Gardens rag.

re: #12 FrogMarch

McCain Team 'Seriously Pissed' at the Press

I'm usually a fan of Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, and he has me on his CNN program regularly. He declares, via Twitter, "McCain people are seriously pissed at the press and not bothering to hide it." Gee, I can't imagine why. They're treating the running mate's family like the stars of a deranged reality show, they've botched several key facts about her in their reporting, and several networks just ignored Fred Thompson's speech, in order to showcase their own talking heads bashing Palin.

McCain - the rest of normal Americans are pissed too.

the leftist Dems are trying to turn the campaign into a jerry springer episode. they are making a big mistake. almost suicidal imho.

re: #18 Typicalwhitey

I'm sure you're a "mature" 48 though.

re: #8 jester6

The people of whom you write are so clueless. My town is full of them. They automatically assume I think like them too. It is so annoying.

re: #8 jester6

Don't worry. It is only us ordinary folks that would even consider reading RD. It is simply too low class for the media elite.

re: #14 Misfit138

I'm 21.

/but I'm not taking out a subscription after reading this, lol

re: #15 Typicalwhitey

From the kos diary.

THIS IS WHAT I AM WORRIED ABOUT>

Agree...where's O'Reilly's head?

re: #9 Lively

If all Obama gets fed is puffballs and McCain gets fed mean and potatoes....guess which is going to be the stronger man?

McCain?

Puffballs - is that like eating cotton balls to keep from gaining weight?
(I've heard of women who have done that)

Cross threading this:

re: #1168 Bobblehead

I'm having a WTF moment. After all the initial excitement over the Palin pick There seems to a veil of doom and gloom settling over the some of the conservative blogosphere. This 'let's just give up and crawl under a rock' attitude is , in itself, pitiful. Did you all think the media wasn't going to go after anyone who McCain picked. They are desperate. I thought we were made of stronger stuff. Rant off.

Anyone at all agree with this?

My response:

Moby say what?

Noone is crawling under a rock. Sharpening our swords and girding our loins.

The opposite is true. I've had a few conversations with people who thinks something stinks in Denmark. Maybe some people are coming out of their MSM induced haze.

I can only thank US magazine for showing the man behind the curtain.

Is P Diddy gonna be on the next series of Celebrity Rehab?

re: #6 Typicalwhitey
Please warn us that you are linking to the kkkos page.

re: #22 Spider Mensch

the leftist Dems are trying to turn the campaign into a jerry springer episode.

They consider any of us not living in New York, Boston, Chicago, and L.A. to be living a Jerry Springer episode.

re: #27 jorline

Agree...where's O'Reilly's head?

Apparently it is up Obama's ass

This is just such bad form not just oreilly but Obama too>

Charles, can you also dig up the Obama interview in that issue
and insert an "update" in your story with the quote about the author's kid running around yelling Obama's name

I think the public needs to see the bias in the author.

Just my opinion but please ?

re: #27 jorline

Agree...where's O'Reilly's head?

O'Reilly is a profit center, he works for himself and not RNC.

/I don't watch him.

Q: One of our readers asks, "Why would you want to be president and inherit all the problems we have right now?"
A: Because I have spent my life in service to the country. I think there's nothing nobler than to serve a cause greater than your self-interest, and I think I am qualified with the experience and knowledge and background to make the judgments that are necessary. I am very humbled by the nomination for the party.

Perfect.

re: #35 Lively

O'Reilly is a profit center, he works for himself and not RNC.

/I don't watch him.

But a lot of people do!

Go Newt!

(F*** Cybil Shepard)

re: #12 FrogMarch

& GWB in his speech to the R convention last night mentioned 'the animosity of the left' or words to that effect.

It has not gone un-noticed.

But the political leader whom McCain talks about without prompting -- and most resembles temperamentally -- is another Republican president: Theodore Roosevelt, noted warrior, pioneering environmentalist, Republican rebel, big game hunter … and founder of the breakaway Bull Moose Party.

Cousin of FDR too, IIRC...

re: #5 Lively

Awww, don't pick on "the kid." lol, I actually heard Matthews refer to him as this.

re: #35 Lively

O'Reilly is a profit center, he works for himself and not RNC.

/I don't watch him.

Kinda like putting on Figure Skating when the Super Bowl is on.

all the hot air and ink that has been written can be neutered tonight.

Great speech by Palin, bye bye MSM.

Pressure for her. She has to be likeable, and clear, and positive.
If she is, MSM will overstep its hand.

people will tune them out

re: #37 Typicalwhitey

But a lot of people do!

True.

re: #37 Typicalwhitey

I'll be watching (that's what Tivo is for). I WANT these people to keep speaking. They're going to have to actually take a position and state some facts. Most folks I know can see through it (I may need to nudge a little).

re: #14 Misfit138

Not sure if a Reader's Digest interview is gonna get to anyone in the "under 70" demo

Dentists office
Doctors office
hair stylists
........

I know a lot of people in their 30s to 50s who read it. My old boyfriend has had a subscription since he was 25. He's in his early 40s. Me, I'm old.

Good morning
Just posted the C-Span Youtube clips of Joe Lieberman and Fred Thompson in the Links.

I will state, for the record, that I'd rather read Reader's Digest than US Magazine. Hell, I'd read Highlights before I'd read US Magazine.

That Goofus, he was such a little scamp!

re: #38 FrogMarch

Go Newt!

(F*** Cybil Shepard)

Newt rocks.

(Umm . . . what's the Cybil Shepard angle, and why has it got you riled?)

re: #32 StinkHammer

They consider any of us not living in New York, Boston, Chicago, and L.A. to be living a Jerry Springer episode.

too true.

re: #40 laZardo

Cousin of FDR too, IIRC...

Distant cousin, like 16th.

re: #47 lifeofthemind

Good morning
Just posted the C-Span Youtube clips of Joe Lieberman and Fred Thompson in the Links.

Good on ya.

re: #33 Typicalwhitey

Apparently it is up Obama's ass

This is just such bad form not just oreilly but Obama too>

Remember that McCain held off on announcing Palin until the day after Obama's acceptance speech because he said it wouldn't be right.

O'Reilly's a glory seeker.

re: #13 Celtic Templar

Who is pandering? Obama to give speech on women and economy

Disinformation campaign.

I have never once seen any indication that John McCain would turn over Roe v. Wade even if he could. In point of fact, no one politician has the power it would take to void Roe v. Wade. And certainly not any president.

All attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade occur within the Legislative branch of government - the House and Senate. Even if a president could convince a Congress with a sitting Democrat majority to support & pass such a bill and even if the POTUS signed a bill once they had done so, it would still have to pass the muster of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

I was an adult when Roe v. Wade was passed. I have seen numerous challenges to Roe v. Wade come and go and by far the greatest majority of them have been shot down by SCOTUS. Right now there is a 5-4 splt at Scotus along liberal v. conservative lines - and not even all of the conservatives would overturn the ruling.

McCain's abortion stance - or Palin's - is completely immaterial. This does, however, leave the door wide open for John McCain to mount a counter attack against Obama's pro infanticide stance - and voting record.

The massive click resounds across the land, it is the turning off of the network TV news shows

re: #48 Misfit138

Holy crap, I actually remember that Magazine from my old alma mater's library.

/preferred Motor Trend and MAD...

re: #48 Misfit138

I will state, for the record, that I'd rather read Reader's Digest than US Magazine. Hell, I'd read Highlights before I'd read US Magazine.

That Goofus, he was such a little scamp!

I read US Magazine at the grocery. Gotta keep up with the Best and Worst Beach Bodies donchaknow.

What time is Sarah Palin's speech on?
I will try and stay up for it (am in a different time zone, gah ...) - especially if some Lizards can provide a link to an internet stream ...

re: #27 jorline

Agree...where's O'Reilly's head?

Performing recto-cranial inspection, like it usually is.

OT

Buddy at work just told me this one;

"If the Palins really didn't want anyone to report on their daughter's story, they could always just have said John Edwards was the father."

Got a chuckle out of me

Reader's Digest has more drug advertisements than Craigslist!

re: #55 Ojoe

The massive click resounds across the land, it is the turning off of the network TV news shows

Network TV has news shows?

;^)

re: #43 pittrader1988

all the hot air and ink that has been written can be neutered tonight.

Great speech by Palin, bye bye MSM.

Pressure for her. She has to be likeable, and clear, and positive.
If she is, MSM will overstep its hand.

people will tune them out

I hope she does the 'power' speech instead of the whining 'poor girl from the south side' speech. one of those "yeah, I'm a blue collar person, so what, it isnt where you come from, its where you're going, and I'm going to the White House as Vice President. Are you with me America?" speeches.

re: #12 FrogMarch

The MSM is completely disconnected from middle America on this one. I have never seen anything like it in my life. It's like they have been invited to dinner with bunch of Mongolians living in a yurt. The MSM is talking about about Google Chrome and they cannot figure out why their hosts are falling asleep.

re: #54 galloping granny

You're right. Bush was more pro-life than McCain. And Bush really can't/couldn't do anything about the 30 year old court case.

re: #29 Celtic Templar

It's not just Us Weekly. It's the NYT. WaPo. ABC News. All the big media outlets, who cannot countenance the possibility that a woman, this woman, could be McCain's choice on her merits.

They will say and do anything to knock Palin down. And they're willingly lapping up all that the National Enquirer, Perez Hilton and other outlets have to offer - smears or not. Everything is apparently fair game.

I wonder why no one bothered to mention that JFK was ineligible to run for President having young kids. Or why Joe Biden was ineligible to run because his wife just died leaving him to raise the kids alone. Apparently a female politician from the wrong political party (in their eyes of course) cannot possibly run for office with five kids in tow, including an infant with Down's syndrome, and that one of their daughters is pregnant and now engaged to the father.

It's a double standard laced with misogyny and anti-feminism. What's more galling is that this comes from so-called feminists.

Obama typically doesn't play by the fair rules. In a duel he would have shot you in the back.

McCain aired ads, but didn't do any big tv during the Dem convention week.

you cannot blame O Reilly. He has been pestering Obama to come on for a year now. To turn him down would have given Obama the upper hand. Here is hoping Obama stutters and shows his true personna.

re: #56 laZardo

Mad was sophisticated humor, like the old Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes.

re: #48 Misfit138

I will state, for the record, that I'd rather read Reader's Digest than US Magazine. Hell, I'd read Highlights before I'd read US Magazine.

That Goofus, he was such a little scamp!

I cannot tell you how many ER waits, surgery waits, critical hospital visits and extended stays in the bathroom have been made endurable by Reader's Digest over the years. I don't think I have ever opened a cover on US magazine.

Re O'Reilly this evening.

O'Reilly will be taking hits for raining on McCain's parade the night of McCain's acceptance speech. But I think there's something more going on here than meets the eye.

For months now, O'Reilly's been pushing the story that Obama refuses to come on his show. Today, we learn that the head of Fox met with Obama 3 months ago to set up Obama's appearance on O'Reilly.

So, while O'Reilly is telling the folks that Obama won't appear on his show, O'Reilly already knows that Obama is going to appear and that he's lying in order to set up his audience for a huge ratings bonanza.

Man. Talk. About. Cynical.

But I think a lot of his viewers will not take lightly for being played fools.

Time will tell.

Jon Voight is doing the introduction of Sarah Palin tonight...this will be good.

OT

I wish America had more kids like this one.

preteen girl with an AR-15

re: #61 Alouette

Reader's Digest has more drug advertisements than Craigslist!

I like the way drug companies skip the doctor and go directly to the patient to lobby their drugs.

/

re: #63 Eowyn2

I hope she does the 'power' speech instead of the whining 'poor girl from the south side' speech. one of those "yeah, I'm a blue collar person, so what, it isnt where you come from, its where you're going, and I'm going to the White House as Vice President. Are you with me America?" speeches.

Don't worry - the gal is not a whiner. I doubt she has ever once whined in her lifetime.

re: #58 yma o hyd

[Link: www.gopconvention2008.com...]

Worked well for me last night.

Anyone see the US Magazine hit job?

M. Malkin's got a link to comments on their site and though I was happy that most are offended by the Magazine's bias, some of the comments are ridiculous and make Conservatives look really creepy. I was going through and wishing I could delete some of them. Oh, well. What'cha gonna do.

I've always hoped that Magazine would go away for reasons far from political.

re: #49 StinkHammer

Newt rocks.

(Umm . . . what's the Cybil Shepard angle, and why has it got you riled?)

A long long time ago, Cybil, displaying typical hollywood leftist bile, said snidely about Newt - "He's a Newt". She mocked his name and like most hollywood idiots, didn't have a thing of substance to say about him. She just mocked his name to the fawning cameraman. I'll never forget that.

re: #56 laZardo

Holy crap, I actually remember that Magazine from my old alma mater's library.

/preferred Motor Trend and MAD...

Growing up in the '70s, I read MAD Magazine religiously.

A couple years ago, out of curiosity, I happened to pick one up while browsing a magazine stand, just to see what it was like nowadays. Complete conservative/Republican bashing throughout. I was saddened. Back in the day, MAD was an equal-opportunity offender, smacking-down the ridiculousness of hippies as well as the far-righties. (sigh) How things have changed . . .

re: #14 Misfit138

Not sure if a Reader's Digest interview is gonna get to anyone in the "under 70" demo

I'm 28 and have read Reader's Digest since I was a kid.

re: #70 Irene NYC

Re O'Reilly this evening.

O'Reilly will be taking hits for raining on McCain's parade the night of McCain's acceptance speech. But I think there's something more going on here than meets the eye.

For months now, O'Reilly's been pushing the story that Obama refuses to come on his show. Today, we learn that the head of Fox met with Obama 3 months ago to set up Obama's appearance on O'Reilly.

So, while O'Reilly is telling the folks that Obama won't appear on his show, O'Reilly already knows that Obama is going to appear and that he's lying in order to set up his audience for a huge ratings bonanza.

Man. Talk. About. Cynical.

But I think a lot of his viewers will not take lightly for being played fools.

Time will tell.

Meanwhile, O'Reilly is laughing all the way to the bank.

re: #54 galloping granny

Why is there always the whole "Abortion is the only realy issue to females" mentality in the press?

We are living in a time of war. Even as an anti-abortionist, I think the abortion issue can be put on the back burner until the terrorist issue is thoroughly dealt with. The only issue I'd really like to see take the forefront on abortion is the partial birth/live birth abortions. They should not be allowed to happen unless the mother is really dying and a c-section is unrealistic.

re: #64 jester6

The MSM is completely disconnected from middle America on this one. I have never seen anything like it in my life. It's like they have been invited to dinner with bunch of Mongolians living in a yurt. The MSM is talking about about Google Chrome and they cannot figure out why their hosts are falling asleep.

Please, don't confuse Mongolians with leftists. Mongolians would never act this dishonorably.
;)

re: #24 Ojoe

I live in a neighborhood filed with academics. Every house I have been to within three blocks has someone either working for or attending Kent State University.

These folks will travel 8,000 miles to visit a tribe in the Amazon whose greatest accomplishment is a dug out canoe. But would be aghast at the idea of traveling 8 miles to a bar populated with construction workers, factory workers and just plain folk.

re: #67 pittrader1988

Obama typically doesn't play by the fair rules. In a duel he would have shot you in the back.

McCain aired ads, but didn't do any big tv during the Dem convention week.

you cannot blame O Reilly. He has been pestering Obama to come on for a year now. To turn him down would have given Obama the upper hand. Here is hoping Obama stutters and shows his true personna.

You can blame O'Reilly and I most certainly will. He has been boosting his own credibility for months claiming that Obama won't talk to him - while all the while quite obviously knowing. O'Reilly is a hypocrite of the first order. But then that has been obvious for some years now.

BIG O'REILLY IS RIPPING US OFF!

The kos kids are LOVING that obambi is going on oreilly thursday night.

They say this will step on mccains speech.

I agree.

re: #76 Noam Chumpski

Anyone see the US Magazine hit job?

M. Malkin's got a link to comments on their site and though I was happy that most are offended by the Magazine's bias, some of the comments are ridiculous and make Conservatives look really creepy. I was going through and wishing I could delete some of them. Oh, well. What'cha gonna do.

I've always hoped that Magazine would go away for reasons far from political.

Probably written by Fauxtocans (TM) in elephant suits.

re: #59 galloping granny

Performing recto-cranial inspection, like it usually is.

I agree GG. O'Reilly has been playing up this non-partisan and not buying into any political party affiliation BS.

O'Reilly...Obama's ass is a NO SPIN ZONE!

re: #75 experiencedtraveller

Thanks - bookmarked this, although the programme for tonight isn't on the site yet ...

Great interview. This man, if finally elected (let's hope so), can make the kind of President the country needs. Although MSM ignores him and attacks his candidacy, he is fighting back and seems like his message and convictions are slowly getting to voters.

re: #86 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are LOVING that obambi is going on oreilly thursday night.

They say this will step on mccains speech.

I agree.

Took'em a while to realize it.

At first, they were all crying, "Obama's selling out!"

re: #54 galloping granny

I have never once seen any indication that John McCain would turn over Roe v. Wade even if he could. In point of fact, no one politician has the power it would take to void Roe v. Wade. And certainly not any president.

I've challenged so many Democrats (some even elected) to get off the fear campaign and actually WRITE A LAW if they have so much support and feel so strongly about abortion rights. The ones that can actually discern the difference between judicial decision (Roe vs Wade) and Legislative Law won't touch it.

They won't write a law because it won't pass and they won't try because they wouldn't be able to keep their minions in fear of Roe being overturned.

If you're too chicken-shit to write an actual Bill over the past 30 years then you should have that decision overturned simply because of your own cowardice. Humble opinion.

re: #67 pittrader1988

Obama typically doesn't play by the fair rules. In a duel he would have shot you in the back.

McCain aired ads, but didn't do any big tv during the Dem convention week.

you cannot blame O Reilly. He has been pestering Obama to come on for a year now. To turn him down would have given Obama the upper hand. Here is hoping Obama stutters and shows his true personna.

"He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way."

And that's the way Obama learned his politics.

re: #78 StinkHammer

I grew out of MAD before that happened, though maybe I was too young and/or in my ecoprop days to notice. I'd like to get into CRACKED though.

/the magazine, not the drug q:

re: #85 Peacekeeper

BIG O'REILLY IS RIPPING US OFF!

Not exactly news.

As far as O'Reilly is concerned- I suspect that the DNC has details of the sex harassment lawsuit that Bill settled. It's an insurance policy that Bill won't get to aggressive in the future.

re: #87 galloping granny

Probably written by Fauxtocans (TM) in elephant suits.

Hmm... I'll go with your answer.

re: #86 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are LOVING that obambi is going on oreilly thursday night.

They say this will step on mccains speech.

I agree.

I don't. I think it gives an entire pile of ammunition. Starting with his disgraceful and ungentlemanly actions in contrast to McCains. And don't think for a half a second that those of us old enough to remember that there is such things as manners and common decency won't notice.

Diplomacy is the act of telling someone to go fuck themselves with a smile on your face. Lynne Chenney is a past master of the art. Obama, not even close.

re: #66 lawhawk

It's not just Us Weekly. It's the NYT. WaPo. ABC News. All the big media outlets, who cannot countenance the possibility that a woman, this woman, could be McCain's choice on her merits.

They will say and do anything to knock Palin down. And they're willingly lapping up all that the National Enquirer, Perez Hilton and other outlets have to offer - smears or not. Everything is apparently fair game.

I wonder why no one bothered to mention that JFK was ineligible to run for President having young kids. Or why Joe Biden was ineligible to run because his wife just died leaving him to raise the kids alone. Apparently a female politician from the wrong political party (in their eyes of course) cannot possibly run for office with five kids in tow, including an infant with Down's syndrome, and that one of their daughters is pregnant and now engaged to the father.

It's a double standard laced with misogyny and anti-feminism. What's more galling is that this comes from so-called feminists.

They are not applying a double standard. They are giving us what they think we want to here. And since they think we are all ignorant rednecks they are giving us all the low brow misogynist crap they can churn out.

re: #15 Typicalwhitey

From the kos diary.

THIS IS WHAT I AM WORRIED ABOUT>

Note how firmly McCain kept control of his VP announcement until the day after Obama's speech, specifically to let him have his moment.
So what does Obama do? Give an interview the same night? pfff... It'll just backfire and make him look petty.

re: #86 Typicalwhitey

I don't think it will.

Be not afraid.

Obama / Oreilly will be oil and water. Not necessarily in beliefs, but in conversational style. Oreilly talks very fast and has an ADD of sorts. Obama needs time to formulate a thought.

Do you think the Obama camp is sending approved questions? Do you think Oreilly will follow them if so?

I'm recording it, so it won't interfere with the RNC for me. But is there a possibility that the audience will be able to compare/contrast Obama with McCain and come away with a more favorable impression of McCain.

I believe so, because I've watched both men speak. So I'm kinda glad he'll be off teleprompter.

Is that crazy?

The press is still in full attack mode on Palin. If she's as good as we suspect she can be, tonight is going to make the media look like the scum they are.

re: #86 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are LOVING that obambi is going on oreilly thursday night.

They say this will step on mccains speech.

I agree.

I don't. Obama bloviating on a talk show will only matter to his base; and they weren't voting McCain, anyway.

Does anybody think O-Reilly is really going to ask Obama anything hard? I think he's going to punt. Obama probably put so many preconditions on the interview "you shall not ask about Rezko, Ayers, Wright, etc" that it's gonna be a puffballsville.

Obama- Ready to meet Ahmdinajhad without pre-conditions.
Obama- Not Ready to meet O-Reilly without pre-conditions.

lol!

re: #66 lawhawk

It's not just Us Weekly. It's the NYT. WaPo. ABC News. All the big media outlets, who cannot countenance the possibility that a woman, this woman, could be McCain's choice on her merits.

They will say and do anything to knock Palin down. And they're willingly lapping up all that the National Enquirer, Perez Hilton and other outlets have to offer - smears or not. Everything is apparently fair game.

I wonder why no one bothered to mention that JFK was ineligible to run for President having young kids. Or why Joe Biden was ineligible to run because his wife just died leaving him to raise the kids alone. Apparently a female politician from the wrong political party (in their eyes of course) cannot possibly run for office with five kids in tow, including an infant with Down's syndrome, and that one of their daughters is pregnant and now engaged to the father.

It's a double standard laced with misogyny and anti-feminism. What's more galling is that this comes from so-called feminists.

Its because she is anti-abortion. Emily's list is strictly guided by which candidates are actively pro-abortion. It is the way NOW and its associates work. It should not be surprising anyone.

re: #83 jester6

I live in a neighborhood filed with academics. Every house I have been to within three blocks has someone either working for or attending Kent State University.

These folks will travel 8,000 miles to visit a tribe in the Amazon whose greatest accomplishment is a dug out canoe. But would be aghast at the idea of traveling 8 miles to a bar populated with construction workers, factory workers and just plain folk.

Its difficult to get a 50K grant to study the blue collar folks at the local bar.

re: #100 nikis-knight

Note how firmly McCain kept control of his VP announcement until the day after Obama's speech, specifically to let him have his moment.
So what does Obama do? Give an interview the same night? pfff... It'll just backfire and make him look petty.

McCain's move seemed more like he was up to his own business; even taking the time to air a commercial congratulating Obama.

Obama's move looks petulant and rude.

I love that guy's arrogance. It's going to win this thing for McCain. I just hope Obama gives us one more awfully worded zinger that I can catch-phrase.

re: #104 Claire

Does anybody think O-Reilly is really going to ask Obama anything hard? I think he's going to punt. Obama probably put so many preconditions on the interview "you shall not ask about Rezko, Ayers, Wright, etc" that it's gonna be a puffballsville.

Obama- Ready to meet Ahmdinajhad without pre-conditions.
Obama- Not Ready to meet O-Reilly without pre-conditions.

lol!

O'Reilly needs to look at this interview as his only chance to talk to O....because that's what it really is.

re: #92 Noam Chumpski

I was talking to my wife about this the other day. If Roe v. Wade were overturned the issue would go back to the legislature. I really do not think the majority of the people in the country would support a ban on abortion. But there would be restrictions. And after a short bloody fight the body politic would find a middle ground and the folks on both extremes would be basically out of business.

OK OK! I didn't mean to inflame all the RD-heads around here. There's just some phenomina that I'm just clueless about. 1000 pardons. Mea culpa, mea culpa...

/hangs head in shame.

Most conservatives will tivo the O'Reilly interview so they can watch McCain's acceptance speech. The problem lies in McCain's target audience...undecided and Hillary Dem's will probably tune into O'Reilly.

re: #107 Noam Chumpski

McCain's move seemed more like he was up to his own business; even taking the time to air a commercial congratulating Obama.

Obama's move looks petulant and rude.

I love that guy's arrogance. It's going to win this thing for McCain. I just hope Obama gives us one more awfully worded zinger that I can catch-phrase.

Ok you guys have convinced me.
I thought it was petty too and rude.

Hopefully others will think like we do.

re: #83 jester6

Absolutely true!
Nothing riles me more than the superciliousness of such academics, who think their 'intellectual' achievements mean they can tell others how to live their lives, from a great height.
My late husband absolutely despised that sort of attitude. He was a professor - and we live in a 'working-class' neighbourhood. Our dear neighbours loed and revered him - and were flabbergasted when they heard at his funeral what his position in life was. They had had no idea.
Both of us always maintained that academic snobbery goes hand in hand with intellectual dishonesty.
Loathsome.

Jester6

"Most folks who populate the MSM would not recognize a real religious or social conservative even if they punched them in the nose. Almost everyone commenting, reporting, editing or producing for the MSM live in four cities (DC,LA, NYC, Chicago) and went to one of two dozen schools (the Ivy League, Georgetown, and a few others). They are a tiny minority so intellectually inbred they simply do not understand what America is like beyond the center of a handful of America’s largest cities.

They have probably never had dinner with someone who attends church weekly in the midwest (and certainly not the *gasp* Bible Belt). They have no idea that churches tend to help people who have kids out of wedlock and want to do the right thing."

Jester - brilliant analysis. Also, the Lefties I know who live in big cities, upon being introduced to a new person, will ask that person "where did you go to college" almost immediately. It's almost like four-eight years of one's life is the only criteria upon which a person is to be judged. Now, if you're in a conservative crowd, people want to know a). What church do you attend? and b). Who are your parents, sisters, brothers?

re: #106 Eowyn2

Its difficult to get a 50K grant to study the blue collar folks at the local bar.

50K would buy alot of drinks.

re: #106 Eowyn2

I keep trying to get them to go though. I really think some of them are pretty nice people, they have just lived in the bubble too long. Hell, I live in the bubble now and it is nice. But I still travel outside to rub elbows with the unwashed to keep myself grounded.

re: #111 jorline

Most conservatives will tivo the O'Reilly interview so they can watch McCain's acceptance speech. The problem lies in McCain's target audience...undecided and Hillary Dem's will probably tune into O'Reilly.

actually i believe that obama will be on right before McCains speech.
Not during it.

re: #83 jester6

I live in a neighborhood filed with academics. Every house I have been to within three blocks has someone either working for or attending Kent State University.

These folks will travel 8,000 miles to visit a tribe in the Amazon whose greatest accomplishment is a dug out canoe. But would be aghast at the idea of traveling 8 miles to a bar populated with construction workers, factory workers and just plain folk.

There is a reason that our nation is founded on the principle of "We are all created equal" rather than the European notion of nobility and commoner. This would be it.

BTW MSM- two of my ancestors arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony. I am a member of the DAR and the UDC. My ancestors have fought and died in every single war this nation has ever fought, sometimes on both sides - and I have played my own part in that too. I don't need to be categorized in some "class" - white, blue or low - because my class is American Born, American Bred and someday I'll be American Dead.

re: #109 jester6

I was talking to my wife about this the other day. If Roe v. Wade were overturned the issue would go back to the legislature. I really do not think the majority of the people in the country would support a ban on abortion. But there would be restrictions. And after a short bloody fight the body politic would find a middle ground and the folks on both extremes would be basically out of business.

I'm often struck that people fail to realize the whole thing rides on a judicial decision and not on a Bill voted into law by the People's Representatives.

When you bring that to people's attention (whether for or against) it always turns that little light bulb on inside their heads.

Reader's Digest jumped the shark a few years ago. Every issue now features an interview with a left-wing celebrity. Instead of long, substantive articles, over half the mag is little news briefs and informative tidbits. They are constantly promoting a green agenda and applauding ordinary people who organize yet another recycling effort. I only get it because my mom gives me a gift subscription every year and I don't have the heart to tell her to stop. However, the jokes are still pretty funny and the survival stories are excellent.

This morning on Today I believe the uber-correct hostesses were being careful to make the point that the criticism of Pallin was crossing the line and they actually mentioned the comparison to Biden having parental responsibilities. Very surprising.

re: #114 SagamoreGal

Your right. But the folks in the city do not mean it as a slight when they ask about your education. They are just making conversation.

And I cannot tell you how many times I have responded to that question - just the local state school - as I kind of felt they were looking down on me when they probably we not.

re: #120 doppelganglander

Reader's Digest jumped the shark a few years ago. Every issue now features an interview with a left-wing celebrity. Instead of long, substantive articles, over half the mag is little news briefs and informative tidbits. They are constantly promoting a green agenda and applauding ordinary people who organize yet another recycling effort. I only get it because my mom gives me a gift subscription every year and I don't have the heart to tell her to stop. However, the jokes are still pretty funny and the survival stories are excellent.

Agree completely, and the only reason we still get it is because of parents subscribing us as a Christmas present! Haven't the heart to say 'no thanks.'

Now I know why John never answers my email.....

#121

"This morning on Today I believe the uber-correct hostesses were being careful to make the point that the criticism of Pallin was crossing the line and they actually mentioned the comparison to Biden having parental responsibilities. Very surprising."

Which hostess? Don't they have like four different versions of the "Today" show now stringing it out until noon in some markets? (I haven't watched it years, and, will never watch it again unless Theodore Roosevelt were to come down from the Heavens and be a guest on the show!)

In a perfect world, O'Riley would just sit there w/ Obama, watching the convention on a 72" plasma. When Obama would start to talk, O'Riley just says, "SHHHHHH". Then, when the convention coverage goes to commercial, he lt's Barry have it.

/I can dream, can't I?

re: #119 Noam Chumpski

Every now and then, when I cannot figure out how the average voter can supposedly take a position so against the laws of economics, or math or physics, I look for a poll testing the political knowledge of the average American. You gotta remember who you are speaking to.

Peggy Noonan makes an interesting observation:

Palin's friends should be less immediately worried about what the Obama campaign will do to her than what the McCain campaign will do. This is a woman who's tough enough to work her way up and through, and to say yes to a historic opportunity, but she will know little of, or rather have little experience in, the mischief inherent in national Republican politics. She will be mobbed up in the McCain campaign by people who care first about McCain and second about themselves. (Or, let's be honest, often themselves first and then McCain.) Palin will never be higher than number three in their daily considerations. They won't have enough interest in protecting her, advancing her, helping her play to her strengths, helping her kick away from danger. And – there is no nice way to say this, even though at this point I shouldn't worry about nice – some of them are that worst sort of aide, dim and insensitive past or present lobbyists with high self-confidence. She'll be a thing to them; they'll see the smile and the chignon and the glasses and think she's Truvi from Steel Magnolias. They'll run right over her, not because they're strong but because they're stupid. The McCain campaign better get straight on this. He should step in, knock heads, scare his own people and get Palin the help and high-level staff all but the most seasoned vice presidential candidates require.

re: #117 Typicalwhitey

actually i believe that obama will be on right before McCains speech.
Not during it.

Thanks...that's good to hear...I still think O'Reilly is a pompous ass..LOL

re: #105 Eowyn2

Its because she is anti-abortion. Emily's list is strictly guided by which candidates are actively pro-abortion. It is the way NOW and its associates work. It should not be surprising anyone.

It has nothing to do with being anti-abortion.

She is female.
She is pretty.
She has more than 1.5 children.
She has never been divorced and her parents are still married too.
McCain kept her a deep dark secret rather than leaking the news (which bodes really, really well for his stance on quasi-official leaks.)
She shoots, at the very least, hunting rifles (takes a pretty darned powerful one to bring down moose and caribou) and M-16s.

The anti-abortion stance is just gravy.

re: #128 Kenneth

Excellent point.

re: #127 jester6

Every now and then, when I cannot figure out how the average voter can supposedly take a position so against the laws of economics, or math or physics, I look for a poll testing the political knowledge of the average American. You gotta remember who you are speaking to.

I hear you. Do they teach Government/Civics in school anymore?

Survey says, "No!"

re: #121 lifeofthemind

This morning on Today I believe the uber-correct hostesses were being careful to make the point that the criticism of Pallin was crossing the line and they actually mentioned the comparison to Biden having parental responsibilities. Very surprising.

Not to me. I have noticed a lot of that from the female announcers at Fox too. If you pay close attention you will notice that the "females" that are dissing her are all part of the old guard of the women's movement.

The female announcers at Fox are not. Young, pretty, might have a hubby or a kid or two themselves and every single one of them is saying "This could be me. Will they do this to me? What happens when I am not young enough and pretty enough anymore to read the news.

All of which is very indicative of the strength of the working wife and mother sisterhood circling the wagons in defense of one of their own.

re: #104 Claire

Does anybody think O-Reilly is really going to ask Obama anything hard? I think he's going to punt. Obama probably put so many preconditions on the interview "you shall not ask about Rezko, Ayers, Wright, etc" that it's gonna be a puffballsville.

lol!

They probably will discuss those issues and Obama will be allowed to deploy canned responses that O'Reilly will not challenge. Then, afterwards Bill can strut and preen about his tough questions and Obama can claim he answered them decisively once and for all-never raise them again. Win-win.

re: #86 Typicalwhitey

The kos kids are LOVING that obambi is going on oreilly thursday night.

They say this will step on mccains speech.

I agree.

Turnabout _IS_ fair play.

Oh wait a minute. Sen McCain held off his announcement and didn't rain on Sen Obamas' parade. Same old Democrat play book. Never mind.

/

re: #106 Eowyn2

Its difficult to get a 50K grant to study the blue collar folks at the local bar.

Be a great idea though. I'll jump on this grenade for the team and volunteer to accept $50k to go to the local bar and study the working class folks here in Coastal Georgia. It will be a sacrifice, not going and living in a jungle somewhere, but someone should do it.

Dang, I should have put a comment in

re: #134 Peacekeeper

They probably will discuss those issues and Obama will be allowed to deploy canned responses that O'Reilly will not challenge. Then, afterwards Bill can strut and preen about his tough questions and Obama can claim he answered them decisively once and for all-never raise them again. Win-win.

No way is Obama going to go unscripted on O'Reilly's show and just take whatever questions O'Reilly wants to throw at him.

Not going to happen.

I suspect the thing will be more choreographed than a moon launch.

What other rumours can the Left start on Sarah:

- She and John McCain are really hiding the fact they did secretly meet in Seattle many times before the announcement last Friday. Many times...(wink, wink).

-Sarah only won a starting position on her high school basketball team because she blatantly tripped the team's leading scorer in practice, sending that teammate to the sideline for the rest of the season (hence, the knickname Barracuda!) She was also known for biting opposing players on the hands right before they would drive to the basket for a lay up. Who knows how many innocent girls she could have exposed to that unnamed blood disease that runs in her family?

-Sarah's mother is really the grandmother of John & Cindy's adopted daughter. Mrs Heath had had a five-year affair with a Bangledeshi business excutive who traveled back and forth to Juneau during the '60's.

/all the slime that's fit to print!

re: #14 Misfit138

Not sure if a Reader's Digest interview is gonna get to anyone in the "under 70" demo

Careful....I've had a subscription for at least 6 or seven years. I was in the 'under 40 demo' when I started.

re: #117 Typicalwhitey

actually i believe that obama will be on right before McCains speech.
Not during it.

If Obama is on right before McCain speaks, I seriously doubt that he will hold up well in comparison. He will have been giving his oh so intellectual metrosexual BS to O'Reilly and then McCain, the real man, will be showcased, and just clean Obama's clock for him.

Reader's Digest?

Wow. Way to go after the youth vote, McCain.

Does anyone really doubt that people who regularly read Reader's Digest wouldn't already be voting for him?

Still, it'll work out well, along with that nice puff on Sarah Palin from US magazine.

Oh, wait...

re: #142 sandspur

I tend to agree with your comments. I have been trying to find the time slot for the acceptance speech and believe it will be at 10 PM eastern which is 2 hours after the big O's show. I also think that unless big O leaves the convention he will be interviewing big 0 via video conference. I really don't think that big O will be able to go after big 0 but if he does it will certainly be interesting.

FYI apologies to the alphabet and numerals for O's and 0's

Here is an idea that a friend of mine came up with:
"Energy scarcity is what fuels Russia’s new aggression, what fuels Wahabist Terrorism, what determines and has determined the policies of the US State Department for 60 years.

The McCain plan is obvious Watston–attack earmarks, get a line item veto, and make the United States a massive energy producer, enough so to influence world markets and world politics. Gov. Sarah Palin is only person on the planet with those unique qualifications. But enough about her actual qualifications, let’s all talk about her ovaries. Back to you Wolf and your glorious panel of experts. "

I am starting to believe this myself.

re: #145 jweaver

Here is an idea that a friend of mine came up with:
"Energy scarcity is what fuels Russia’s new aggression, what fuels Wahabist Terrorism, what determines and has determined the policies of the US State Department for 60 years.

The McCain plan is obvious Watston–attack earmarks, get a line item veto, and make the United States a massive energy producer, enough so to influence world markets and world politics. Gov. Sarah Palin is only person on the planet with those unique qualifications. But enough about her actual qualifications, let’s all talk about her ovaries. Back to you Wolf and your glorious panel of experts. "

I am starting to believe this myself.

* * *
You are so right on the money, Sherlock!

re: #146 alegrias

Your friend may be right, Alegrias.

OT---if you're interested in following the Left's melt-down over Palin, check out the anchoressonline.com; she's keeping a running record through today.