[Publib] Palin's history

[Fred Beisser]

So much for trusting NEWS sources.....

*Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters*
*September 3, 2008*

Are most reporters trying to help Sarah Palin, hurt Sarah Palin, or 
provide unbiased coverage of Sarah Palin?

Help

	

5%

Hurt

	

51%

Provide Unbiased Coverage

	

35%

Not Sure

	

10%


Source is Rasmusson Reports at http://tinyurl.com/58mfue.

Sometimes it takes a pundit to clarify the NEWS....or something like 
www.realclearpolitics.com.

Fred


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> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:52:31 -0500
> From: rtomerlin at pcpls.lib.in.us
> CC: publib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Publib] Palin's history
>
> There is a difference between opinion and news (At least, there should be).
>
> Palin attempting to fire a librarian during the same time frame that this
> librarian repeatedly refused to ban books is relevant to my occupation but
> opinions on Palin's faith, and her personal motivations are not.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?_r=2&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
>
> It seems like Peggy Noonan's article is opinion and the NYTimes article is a
> piece of news. Forgive me if I offend.
>
> However, whether you agree with my Noonan assessment or not, I do believe
> that we need to distinguish the difference between opinion articles and new
> articles.
>
> There is a good reason that they are usually found on different pages.
>
>
>
>
> Tim Spindle wrote:
>
> Peggy Noonan.
> *********************************************
> What political pundit wrote this???
>
> Fred Beisser wrote:

> >> You may be right, Sue.
> >>
> >> Some commentary from a well-known political pundit:
> >>
>   
>> >>> Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a
>> >>> feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload
>> >>> This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie
>> >>> and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an
>> >>> Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats
>> >>> mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because
>> >>> she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because
>> >>> conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of
>> >>> them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their
>> >>> beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present
>> >>> danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'll tell you how powerful Mrs. Palin already is: she reignited the
>> >>> culture wars just by showing up. She scrambled the battle lines, too.
>> >>> The crustiest old Republican men are shouting "Sexism!" when she's
>> >>> slammed. Pro-woman Democrats are saying she must be a bad mother to
>> >>> be all ambitious with kids in the house. Great respect goes to Barack
>> >>> Obama not only for saying criticism of candidates' children is out of
>> >>> bounds in political campaigns, but for making it personal, and
>> >>> therefore believable. "My mother had me when she was eighteenâEUR¦" That
>> >>> was the lovely sound of class in American politics.
>> >>>
>> >>> Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the
>> >>> chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of
>> >>> the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble
>> >>> people. We are Bubbleheads. We know this and try to compensate for it
>> >>> by taking road trips through the continent -- we're on one now, in
>> >>> Minneapolis -- where we talk to normal people. But we soon forget the
>> >>> pithy, knowing thing the garage mechanic said in the diner, and
>> >>> anyway we weren't there long enough in the continent to KNOW, to
>> >>> absorb. We view through a prism of hyper-sophistication, and judge by
>> >>> the rules of Chevy Chase and Greenwich, of Cleveland Park and McLean,
>> >>> of Bronxville and Manhattan.
>> >>>
>> >>> And again we know this, we know this is our limit, our lack.
>>     
> >>
>   
>> >>> Another Bubblehead blind spot. I'm bumping into a lot of _critics who
>> >>> do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship_ (Palin had two
>> >>> terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and _executive as
>> >>> opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small
>> >>> towns, run something_. There are 262 cities in this country with a
>> >>> population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred
>> >>> thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. "You do the
>> >>> math," the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. "We are a
>> >>> nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos."
>>     
> >>
> >> Looks to me as if the author is saying that mainstream America will be
> >> voting.....
> >>
> >> Fred
>   
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