BBC’s Kevin Connolly covers the Sarah Palin book tour on Today this morning. (7.24AM) I thought it was a pretty fair although I smiled at Kevin accepting he is seen as part of the liberal elite media. Quite so.
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Why is the BBC so obsessed with Sarah Palin ? Is it jealousy ?
Isn’t this site (and many of its contributors) far more obsessed with the lovely Mrs P.
Just be honest here guys; she’s a looker, but that’s it isn’t it? She’s not a very good conservative. She’s the right wing pin up girl but she can’t help coming across as ignorant. There are plenty of good right wing politicians in the US – she just ain’t one of them. She’s no Reagan – though she thinks she can try. She’s no Bush Snr, no Nixon even.
Actually, on a separate point, Nixon was a good type of conservative. Had it not been for Watergate, the 70s might have been a much better time for the US under him.
You might want to check the governing record of Gov. Palin. She governed as a better conservative than George W. Bush, that’s for sure. I’m not sure you have any grounds at all to claim that she’s “not a very good conservative”.
It’s a superficial jealousy of her looks and a bit of anti-American/class bigotry that leads people like you to dismiss her out of hand. I suppose The Obamessiah’s much-lauded features, and almost total reliance on cleverly prepared remarks have nothing to do with why Leftoids are so enthusiastic about him? Or does that only work when the subject is female and working class white? Sexism, anyone?
Her lack of basic knowledge is why I dislike her. Her populist brand of conservatism is why I dislike her. Her approach, of trying to appeal to stupid people by dumbing down conservatism to simply ‘the state is bad’ is why I dislike her. Reagan may not have come across as intellectual, but he was much smarter than people gave him credit for. Nixon was very smart. I disliked the way she is one of these ‘us and them’ people. She’s one of these people that divide the world into black and white on every issue. I think that populist conservatives like her give intellectual ones a bad name. People like her rant and rave about family issues/social conservatism in a way that preaches only to the converted and alienates all others. Social consevatives don’t have to be as bitter and divisive as she was, nor hypocritcal.
Nixon was white and working class – and many on the left in America hated him for that very reason. But they also hated Nixon because he was smart, very smart in fact. A crook, yes, but very smart. She isn’t Smart in that way. Obama probably is – the problem is, so far he doesn’t seem to be able to use that intelligence to govern particularly effectively. Time will tell perhaps.
In terms of sexism, some of the criticism was sexist – as some of the vitriol aimed at Thatcher was. But much of the Palin criticism was well deserved – I cannot think of a VP candidate who was less prepared than she was. She was ignorant of basic facts, incapable of talking rationally about things to independent types, and her approach (the way she speaks, her family life) took away any credibility she had. She never looked professional enough. When you become a figure of fun that quickly, you’re just not leadership material.
FFPS hates Palin.
I like her even more now.
Obviously you arent the thinking man’s conservative….
A figure of fun according to whom, though? One can find any number of detractors for any politician and make the same case for anyone in the world. Oh, excpet Him.
A figure of fun to most of the country….
Funny how it’s only in certain, select cases that people like you value the judgment of United Statesians.
care to elaborate on the ‘people like you’ part….?
intelligent people? arsenal fans? those of us who like dogging? i’m not sure what ‘people like you’ category i fit into here, but i would like to be informed so as to make sure i tick off my census form correctly.
or maybe the ‘people like you’ remark was a anti-christian slur towards me…..
An anti-Christain slur? That’s hilarious. Sarah Palin is a Christian, so that’s a totally illogical thing for you to say.
You know perfectly well what I mean, of course. Most of the time United Statesians are considered parochial, puritanical, backwards, too Christian, gun-toting, mostly racist, unable to appreciate nuance. Our collective opinion is rarely respected, and mostly looked down upon. Yet, magically our opinion has value when trying to denegrate Palin. Hilarious, I say.
but David, my sweet, when have I referred to the US in relation to
parochial, puritanical, backwards, too Christian, gun-toting, mostly racist, unable to appreciate nuance. Our collective opinion is rarely respected, and mostly looked down upon.
You are generalising, and you picked the wrong person. Just because I don’t happen to believe the BBC is biased, and I argue for that case here, you seem to assume I subscribe to those dodgy anti-American views.
This exposes more about your black and white view of people, and the world, more than you perhaps realise. They either believe everything you do, or they believe all the other dodgy leftish stuff. Newsflash mate – it ain’t like that.
Grant
I think you’re right. At least Palin is able to think and speak for herself. The BBC ‘reporters’ and ‘commentaters’ are subservient to their own cultural BBCnulabspeak.
Young Kevin also has a reasonably fair report at the BBC website – “Hurricane Sarah rolls into town”.
The one point he omits is that some 1500 of those folks in Grand Rapids had been queuing since very early in the morning – some of them overnight – in FREEZING weather.
Here is an excellent summary of the Palin phenomenon. I have seen extended clips of all her interviews so far this week – and in all of them she performed solidly and with her usual good humour.
Idiots like Frei and Webb will still try to write her off. But her key line was – it was the economy that sunk our campaign. Reminiscent of James Carville saying for Clinton “Its the economy, stupid”.
Palin has already damaged Obama on healthcare. She will use the next few months to rip into him on narional security, on his driving the US economy over the cliff, on his foolish and spineless foreign policies. And every time she attacks – her attacks will be listened to. Right now she has been acting as the real attack dog for the conservatives/conservative Republicans. We will have many more months of her acting in this way.
Who knows – she may even go head-to-head with the Perky One, Katie Couric again.
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So were those young girls the ludicrous Connolly interviewed merely infatuated with Sarah Palin’s good looks? What about the soldier who mentioned his respect that she has a son in the military? Was that just a lie to cover for his sexual desire?