Sarah Palin derides bloggers as ‘kids in pajamas’
Sarah Palin lashed out as bloggers in a Fox interview, calling them “kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ homes”. That statement’s already earned the ire of a Huffington Post blogger.
Linda Bergthold watched said interview and certainly didn’t mince words about what she thought of Palin’s statement. “Well, I am no kid, I am definitely not wearing pajamas and I am living in my own house, thank you! And I am seriously depressed about the prospect of this person having a political future.” Join the club, Bergthold.
Much has been made in the news about the Internet proving an effective force for Barack Obama’s campaign. Unfortunately on the flip side, it’s also been way too easy to use it to highlight the weaknesses of the GOP’s vice-president candidate.
Like it or not Madam Palin, more people blog than you think or perhaps know. Bloggers from differing spheres weighed in on the campaign, and it wasn’t just political blogs like the Huffington. You had sci-fi writers such as John Scalzi, geek icon Wil Wheaton, tech bloggers, parenting bloggers and the like all wearing their political affiliations on their sleeves. Belittling what they do (blog) doesn’t make them look bad, but I wouldn’t say the same for Palin.
Sarah Palin seems to call the media unfair only when it’s reporting her weaknesses or highlighting them the way Katie Couric did with her interview. Of course you do have the dependable Republican bulldog Michelle Malkin blogging about the supposed ‘character assassination of Sarah Palin’.
Palin didn’t need assassination – she made herself look bad all on her own. In interviews, she comes across as ill-informed, prone to attempting to look like a down-to-earth hockey mom when being a hockey mom isn’t a prerequisite for leading the country. Knowledge of security issues, foreign affairs and a clear understanding of economic fundamentals are.
Unless the Republican party understands the power of the Internet, unless members like Sarah Palin understand that blogging and bloggers matter, then we might as well declare the Democrats have won the Internet. And with Obama’s encouraging stance on technology issues, that might not be a bad thing at all.
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November 11th, 2008
I do not agree with what Sarah Palin said although I will fight for her right to say it. Just like it is your right to be able to say how you feel and boycot the people who do not agree, if you wish. We truly do live in a Wonderful USA. Careless statements and affiliations, are a part of human error. We get tired, and tired of defending ourselves. I think we need to stay focused on what the real issues are. Our freedom to do just what I am doing now. Anything that threatens that freedom, I would take an issue with. Criticism or rumors or lies are just what they are…. Unless they take away my freedom or yours.
November 11th, 2008
Sarah Palin.
Stop right there.
Got back to obscurity, you silly ridiculous person – and take your aggressive politico-religious nonsense away with you while your at it.
With a little luck the Reps will realise the damage the Sarah Palins of this world have done the party and begin to change.
They sure as hell did not lose because they were not right-wing or religious enough!
November 11th, 2008
McCain was nothing until Sarah Palin came along & I know I am not alone in this. Your response was typical of a liberal and no-one said anything about religion. But go ahead and be personally critical cause that is how you guys have learned to respond. Silly? Ridiculous? You have the right to say it …………..Today. No I won’t stop right there because Sir although I do not agree with you, I have the right to say it.
November 11th, 2008
I dunno, I think she’s on to something there.
November 11th, 2008
This was the woman who had a ceremony to be protected from “witchcraft”,correct?
November 12th, 2008
Bloggers are a mixed bag, and I think overall they have lowered journalistic integrity. She was talking about reporting without any first hand observation or needing to pass through the fact checking that the old system required.
Dinosaur media used to be New York Times and the Weekly World News which could print anything. People had no problems with each one because it was common knowledge of the standards.
Now? We won’t ever have confidence in any news source because the standard has been lowered. It’s all Weekly World News. She has a point.
And instead of debating the premise, we attack the person and verify the point. Ironic, eh?
November 12th, 2008
Wanda, I don’t know what you have been watching but this thrad is about Palin and it is simply undeniable that she invoked/s ‘God’ at every possible point.
Palin was a calculated appeal to that rump of Rep voters who are ever-more right-wing & love all that Godtalk.
Unfortunately that crowded out McCain’s appeal to the more balanced & sane.
Unfortunately for the zealots they just aren’t enough to win a national election.
You need to appeal beyond that core.
That is the lesson I hope the Rep party digest amd I look forweard to them returning to being the more ‘normal’ political party they once were.
(and before throwing idiotic terms like ‘liberal’ around you might just accept you know f**k all about my politics)
November 12th, 2008
mana
Correct.
She is just another example of the ‘unreason’ corrupting American politics.
Wanda just got her words mixed up.
She should have stopped when she said
“McCain was not….”
and added
“the glabal laughing stock he bacame once he’d gotten Palin on-board”
November 12th, 2008
Palin doesn’t understand that with the Internet, and bloggers, her lies/mistatements/exagerations are easily exposed. She just doesn’t GET that we can check everything that comes out of her mouth instantly…. and the more we debunked her comments, the less we respected her.
Anyway, blaming bloggers is useless. We all SAW her on the few interviews that she did do, and it was obvious that she didn’t know enough to be VP for an old man who might not live to see the end of his first term. Thanks, but NO THANKS to another uninformed bozo in the WH… been there, done that ….
November 12th, 2008
DBG, calm down man. I don’t know what those so called “zealots” have done to you for you to spread all that HATE. But get some therapy, It might help.
November 12th, 2008
Wanda, whatever you might like to think my feelings about any of this are far from “hate”.
Relief that the right-wing in US politics might finally begin to come to their senses is the primary emotion and a degree of sorrow that it should ever have got as it is.
November 12th, 2008
Who wants to play Halo 3!!!!
November 12th, 2008
RE: the damage the Sarah Palins of this world have done
How about the damage the Barney Franks have done? You seem to overlook the important issues while focusing on the insignificant affairs of Sarah Palin…. Or perhaps they ARE significant.
You see, Dave, they call your behavior a defense mechanism. You’re allowing yourself to get so worked up about Sarah because you fear that she’s the competiton and would certainly stand a fighting chance.
And all the while you’ve got poor Erna, obviously offended, defending herself and fellow bloggers by attacking Palin’s intelligence (e.g. ill-informed).
November 12th, 2008
George
you seem to have missed who has held the power
(not only Presidential but also which party has held Congress and the Senate and the majority of nominees on the Supreme Court)
for most of the last 8yrs – and while we’re at it for the bulk of the post-WW2 period.
Barney Franks?
What about him?
Is it that he’s gay or is it the support for medical marijuana or civil rights that you find so “damaging” – or maybe you mean (more topically) his refusal to go along with the removal of Congressional oversight of Fanny & Freddie?
Is that what you think we needed, less public scrutiny of the financial world?!
As best as I can see he and Ron Paul have stood out against the ‘flow’ in Washington and worked against the last financial orthodoxy.
In fact the latest misinformation, now wheeled out by those who have seen the almost entirely unregulated financial world that they pushed for collapse, is to blame what has happened on ‘sub-prime’ and the extension of private home ownership (which gives a bonus double bash at the least well off and their risky mortgages and you get to blame those – mostly Dem politicians – who supported the least well off and their attempt to gain their own home).
Sadly for this fairy tale sub-prime was not the root cause of the latest disaster, it caused last years bis problems actually
(which, though large, were such that they could have been gotten over as was usually the case with any ‘normal’ period of readjustment).
This years cataclysm is actually about ‘Credit Default Swaps’ which have gone completely out of control and are debts ‘worth’ multiples of the US economies total annual earnings.
They make sub-prime look like a drop in the ocean.
That’s why the global system is in danger of meltdown.
Or maybe it’s just that he’s a long serving Dem and therefore must also be responsible for so much that has gone wrong?
The people of Massachusetts certainly don’t seem to have a problem with him.
You see George, now that the ultra Reps are a busted flush, their supporters rush to label anyone who points the finger at the religious nutter element and ultra right-wingers as being full of “hate” or using “defence mechanisms” because of their “fear”.
LMAO
Contrary to your imaginings I am not in the slightest bit worked up.
Sorry to disappoint.
The only people that ought to be actually afraid are those who thought they were high on the hog forever.
US politics is, if we are lucky, about to adjust & realign.
Hopefully the extremists on the right (who preached unregulated markets come hell or high water) and their friends who imagine they know exactly what God wants will be told where to get off.
With luck they can go away & try to find another party to pervert and corrupt, they sure as hell have done their best to wreck the Rep party and make it unelectable.
BTW
I never once said or implied Palin was lacking in intelligence (being ill informed about certain matters does not define ones’ intelligence).
Your strawman, I believe.
Like many I found her qualifications laughably poor and her obvious religious bent highly dangerous in view of the job she might have had to do (especially with McCain being the age he is and having had the life he has).
Still, what do I care?
Obama won.
I’m pretty happy about that actually.
It doesn’t mean any of the big problems have vanished or it’s all milk & honey from now on but it is a signal that things have changed for the better (and will be seen as such around the world).
Happy days.
November 13th, 2008
Why is Sarah Palin evan an issue? Dems have the presidency, the senate, the congress… Libs pretty much have free reign to do whatever they want to do for the next 4 years. And even that’s not enough to get them to STFU? Geez…
November 13th, 2008
Sarah is a joke
She talks- her mouth goes 100 mph. That sound even hurts a common man’s ear. She a leader? Is there a better joke? I mean really a joke!
Her still praising McCain and picking on Obahma- is the worst act. She is one sick lady. Really.
November 13th, 2008
Eep, Man are you right! Why is Sarah even an issue? I have no idea, unless they are afraid of something.
DBG, Your messiah has arrived. Along with the angels to help him raise the taxes to high heaven and spread the wealth. They will not have any excuses after this administration. Maybe they will get as much done as they have the last two years, or maybe more. I cannot wait until four years from now and our country is prospering with health care, and security, and no global warming. It doesn’t matter that 3/4 of our check will go toward taxes. It is patriotic to pay taxes.
BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!
November 14th, 2008
Wanda, try a little perspective, for once, please.
Did I say a word that sounded anything like your messianic nonsense?
No.
In fact I specifically made mention that such delusions were silly.
You can live in dread of a more normal spread of wealth across society if you like – like as if a return to the levels of wealth distribution which was the case under Nixon would be ‘Marxist’, to you guys….this merely proves the degree to which you guys have lost the plot.
No-one “feared” Sarah.
Wake up.
She was symptomatic of the laughing stock politics on the right in the USA had become (hostage to the forces of obvious unreason).
For shame.
November 15th, 2008
Missed this
“3/4 of our check will go toward taxes”
LMAO
If you start to seriously believe your own side’s most ridiculous & laughable election propaganda you need help & treatment.
A long lie-down in a darkened room might help.