Bristol Palin and the Omniscient Media

If I had a swing state vote for every pundit, reporter, columnist, and netizen who presumes to know the secrets of 17-year-old Bristol Palin’s sex life, I could win this election for the McCain/Palin ticket. Give me another vote for every kitchen table pundit decrying Sarah Palin’s views on birth control and sex education, and we’d have a landslide of historic proportions.

Bristol Palin “had unprotected sex with her boyfriend and took the risk of getting pregnant,” the editor-in-chief of Seventeen tells us. She was failed by abstinence-based sex ed that gives “teenagers as little practical information as possible,” asserts Joan Smith. Her “predicament” is likely due to the state of sex ed in our “puritanical society,” says NYT columnist Charles Blow. “They don’t sell Trojans in Alaska?” scoffs Dave Letterman. And Kos reveals his intimate knowledge of Bristol Palin’s birth control practices with this gem: “Bristol would’ve been better served with a discussion about safe sex. Instead, she’s now facing a shotgun wedding to the baby’s father.”

But how many of these people were there the night Bristol conceived?

That’s right, not one.

Not one of them knows whether Bristol Palin and her fiancé were practicing safe sex and not one of them knows whether the couple received comprehensive sex education.

That’s not what the liberal media would have you think. They know what happened because they know what kind of people the Palins are. Only their bible-thumping, Christianist ways, complete with abstinence-only education and a prohibition on contraception, could have caused a teen girl to get pregnant.

And that, of course, is a crock.

Sarah Palin is pro-contraception and approves of sex ed. She does not favor explicit sex education, but supports an approach that discusses both abstinence and contraception, including condoms.

Sarah Palin’s (fairly moderate) views on sex ed and birth control are fair game for the “keep your laws off my body” crowd. Bristol Palin’s sexual experiences are not, and concocting fictions in the absence of details only makes the barrage of opinion from the MSM and blogosphere more unseemly.

September 11, 2008 · Filed Under Liberal Absurdity, Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin, Brain Rapist?

Things Cintra Wilson believes Sarah Palin has done to her:

ideologically brain raped her
mortally offended her
made her retch into her handbag
made her feel like a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism
shanghaied her

I’d like to be the first to thank Sarah Palin for her efforts. Having had the extraordinary displeasure of being ideologically brain raped by Cintra Wilson at a KGB Bar reading a few years ago, I can’t help but feel that Sarah Palin has paid her back on my behalf.

You can witness the full extent of Cintra Wilson’s extreme Palin Derangement Syndrome in her diatribe on the governor, also known as that “enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.”

Hat tip to Jonah Goldberg who thinks Sarah Palin should simply read this at a press conference verbatim.

September 10, 2008 · Filed Under Liberal Absurdity, Misogyny, Sarah Palin

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Live From the Sty, Obama Calls Palin a Pig in Lipstick

Barack Obama stepped in it big time today. Addressing the McCain/Palin message of change and reform, he told the audience at a town-hall event:

You can put lipstick on a pig … it’s still a pig.

Oh yes he did. And he got a standing ovation.

If Obama didn’t spend so much time in the sty, he might not have pigs on the mind. But his purported intentions with this outrageous turn of phrase are irrelevant.

After Sarah Palin’s joke that lipstick is the only thing that distinguishes a hockey mom from a pitbull, there was no question in Obama’s mind that people would realize he was calling Sarah Palin a pig. Like the liberal media, he indiscriminately tossed out a slur to seed hatred, then he’ll pretend to take offense that his intended meaning is being skewed.

Like his running mate who earlier today called Sarah Palin a backward step for women, Barack Obama epitomizes poor taste and poor judgement.

Ready to lead, indeed.

Update: Hot Air has video of the slur and audio of the response from the McCain camp. Reporters are actually suggesting that this isn’t a gendered comment.

Update 2: Tammy Bruce captures the problem with Obama’s words perfectly. “Make no mistake, Barry has created the culture of sexism within the Democrat party, and this is just one more indication that it’s his choice for his campaign to use the personal destruction of women as its standard.”

Update 3: Hot Air updates us that an Obama rep has called the McCain camp’s response “a pathetic attempt to play the gender card.”

September 9, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Election 2008, Misogyny, Sarah Palin

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The Source of the Sambo Smear

Bill Hennessy is doing the job the liberal media won’t: vetting the source of unsubstantiated Sarah Palin rumors.

Hennessy has made it his quest to ferret out the true identity and qualifications of foul smear merchant and self-anointed “independent investigative journalist” Charley James. Charley is the vacuous slob responsible for fabricating the “part Aboriginal” waitress named Lucille NoLastName. He claims she’s an anonymous source who overheard Sarah Palin say to her dining companions, “So Sambo beat the bitch!” when speaking of Senators Obama and Clinton.

As Dr. Melissa Clouthier points out, this would be comedy gold if Charley James wasn’t trying to pass it off as serious.

Charley’s ugly prevarications spread rapidly to the seediest dens of liberal iniquity, like Kos and Democratic Underground, then leached out into the wider blogosphere, including Barack Obama’s campaign site. His lies are inadequately sourced to the point of absurdity, and his credentials as a journalist are extraordinarily suspect. But as NewsBusters reminds us, “It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be repeated enough for people to hear Palin and the disparaging remark together in a sentence.” Ugh.

Hennessy is doing the legwork to find out just who this charlatan is, and what his ties might be to the Obama machine. I’ll be eagerly awaiting the results.

September 8, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity, Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin Fact: Sarah Palin Bans Books Years Before They’re Published

(image: Wasilla Public Library)

In 1996, Sarah Palin banned Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone from the Wasilla Public Library. Of course, it wasn’t published until 1998, but that just proves what I’ve been saying all along: Sarah Palin’s readiness to lead is due largely to her unparalleled precognitive ability.

Michelle Malkin has more on Sarah Palin’s uncanny ability to clear library shelves in a single bound.

Let’s hope Barack Obama’s campaign strategists never find out that in 1963 Sarah Palin organized a community-wide effort to find and destroy all copies of The Audacity of Hope.

Sarah Palin Facts has more little known gems about Governor Palin.

September 6, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity, Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin and the Huffington Smear

Just in case you thought The Huffington Post was somehow more respectable than The Daily Kos, take a look at these tawdry smears of Sarah Palin vomited forth by Arianna’s lackeys on Friday:

Sarah Palin is a villainous thief and lying, contemptuous racist. She hates Rosa Parks and she hates you too. She is a Buchananite and an extremist with radical separatist ties who unlike Obama didn’t write her speech. She is both anti-science and anti-knowledge and amounts to nothing more than an empty distraction with a soap opera life.

All of that is just from the posts linked from the front page of HuffPo. There aren’t enough hours in the day to address the the rank invective and outright lies that dominate the reader comments.

And you know who else has written for The Huffington Post? Why yes, Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

September 6, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity, Sarah Palin

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