Have the Media Treated Palin and Obama Equally?
- Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:46pm by
Billy Hallowell
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So far, the mainstream media’s “Sarah Palin e-mail blitz” has exposed nothing noteworthy — no bombshells, no surprises and certainly no scandals. Earlier today, we reported on Palin’s heartwarming e-mail about Trig (one of the more covered tidbits to come from the emails). If anything, the messages collectively paint a favorable picture of the former Alaska governor — a doting mother, a curious politician, a God-fearing and God-loving woman.
The Telegraph’s Tony Harnden goes so far as to say that the emails show a woman who is “…idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane…slightly bemused by the world of politics.” Harnden, perhaps, best sums up the entire saga in the following words:
One can only assume that the Left-leaning editors who dispatched teams of reporters to remote Juneau, the Alaskan capital, to pore over the emails in the hope of digging up a scandal are now viewing the result as a rather poor return on their considerable investment.
If anything, Mrs Palin seems likely to emerge from the scrutiny of the 24,000 pages, contained in six boxes and weighing 275 pounds, with her reputation considerably enhanced. As a blogger at Powerline noted, the whole saga might come to be viewed as “an embarrassment for legacy media”.
With the dust poised to settle, some are wondering why the media spent so much time and effort on Palin and very little, comparably, investigating President Obama. Early this morning, Gateway Pundit wrote about the infamous 2008 tape that The L.A. Times purposefully withheld from the American public:
In 2008 The LA Times withheld a video that contained footage of Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who were openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama reportedly even gave a toast to a former PLO operative, Rashid Khalidi, at this celebration. This was something the LA Times hid from the American public before the election. The media refused to release the video.
Below, watch The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund discuss the differences in the levels of media scrutiny that Palin (no longer a public official) and Obama (the American president) have faced:
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Comments (282)
coderaven24
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:16pmI am not a Sara Palin fan, so I can honeslty say that they do seem to be addicted to smearing her.
Report Post »Fredhead
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:51amAre you female? , fall into the category that was mentioned by a caller on Rush’s program last thursday, by a caller I think her name was Andrea? on the scale of attractiveness rate yourself lower than an 8?
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:12pmKing Obama won’t show his records from when he was a state senator because they have Blago written all over them. Remember he “forced” his opponents off the ballot so he could win. He forced his way in to Harvard as well.
Report Post »Italia
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:04pmYou mean “forced” like, the way Republcians that are trying to FORCE America into being a state of the Corporations and by the Corporations, and opening up our drinking water to toxic pollution, exposing the air we have to breathe for life to pollution, and Republcians’ attack on farmers who furnish the American People with our food supply?
Somethings just are NOT as harmful as others. Even if it were true that President Obama forced his way into Harvard, which I am so sure Harvard would deny, it still doesn’t have any of the devastating qualities that, say, toxic air pollution would have on the American People.
Report Post »woodyl1011fl
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:04pmItalia, we Americans have toxic pollution; it is the democrat party and and the Obama Administration either one or both will destroy us if we don’t vote them out of office in 2012.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:11pmHow many Billions has Sorass given to the media to control them? Does any conservative believe the lib media? If the media gave it’s full attention to investigating BO for one day, he’d be gone….
Report Post »Risky Business
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:11pmScrutinize Obama? That would be racist …
Report Post »Deda1
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:09pmLook Nobama is a bum and loser and Palin is a true American.
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:09pmDon’t bother reading the 2,500 page monstrosity that is ODumbocare. Instead lets send the dogs after a woman who isn’t even a politician.
Hypocrites.
Report Post »ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:05pmGotta love Liberal Media! Bunch of Losers!
Report Post »libloather7
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:03pmIt’s hard to keep a straight face with a question like that.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:13pmThat’s tantamount to asking, “Do you think the sun is hot?”, and shows exactly how dumb our society has gotten.
Report Post »livingfree
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:03pmNO! Not at all since the very day she was announced as VP candidate. Normal middle class people don’t have a chance with these guys. They think we are stupid and hate her for her success without an Ivy league pedigree.
Report Post »Fredhead
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:07amWho was the NBC anchorette that was so appalled the day McCain announced her as his VP pick,
Report Post »that at first all she could say was, ” But she’s a wester-nerner! Has she been properly vetted?,
Then my other favorite was, Elenor Clift, ” Who is she?, We haven’t even had lunch yet!
Fredhead
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 7:27amThe arrogance of so many north~eastern progressive liberal types is beyond the pale!
Report Post »Bigliardi
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:00pmSarah Palin enjoys much greater positive coverage in the Mainstream Media than does Sarah Palin…The mainstream media seem to hold her in the highest esteem, and print only positive things about her…
Report Post »Webonics
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:48pmHuh?
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:06pmYou just blew my mind.
Report Post »Bigliardi
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 11:13pmof course I was kidding..it was a ridiculous question…And the 2nd “Sarah Palin” should have read “Barack Obama..”
Report Post »lisa2994
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:00pmLMAO! All I am going to say!
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:00pmIt just never occurred to the mainstream media that, unlike most liberals, Palin’s emails would NOT reveal a dark side and hypocrisy. They instead showed her as she is – a loving mother, wife, politician who loves her country and state and really tried to do the right thing for both.
Report Post »code green
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:10pmThat is exactly why the media are so afraid of her, and feel the need to destroy someone wholsome. because they are so corrupt. ,and vile to the senses .
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:20pmI believe you two hit the proverbial nail on the head.
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:27pmYou’re right; the left always projects their own traits and tendencies onto others. It’s a symptom of the disease of liberalism.
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:28pmYou’re right; the left always project their own traits and tendencies onto others. It’s a symptom of the disease of liberalism.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:48pmyeah–they just really HATE that when they give a witch hunt and nobody burns, don’t they! Hee hee. I hope the outfit who dug all that up spent LOTS of their money doing it, since they got so little for it and all.
Report Post »trappedinwv
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:59pmI saw the one where the libbies are all in a bunch (made one of their top 10 most damaging emails or something like that) because Palin said her daughter wasn’t pregnant a month after conception. I know it is so shocking a teenage girl didn’t tell her mom she was pregnant right away. Clearly they have no values and are a bunch of idiots.
Report Post »drimmel
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:59pmIf only they vetted the current resident in the White House as extremeley they are vetting Sarah Palin. If she does decide to run, you will know what you are getting! A true believer in what America once was and do her best to restore it.
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmLet‘s go gather Debby Wassrman Hyphen Shultz’s emails. I’ll bet the loudmouth with the wizard of Oz doo and toddler speech lisp will scream bloody murder and thrust the First Amendment back in our faces. Thanks to Kagen, nothing ever penned, spoken or transmitted by Obama will EVER get into the hands of the public or the legitimate media. Freedom of information does not apply to this administration.
Report Post »desertdove
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmR u kidding me? What kind of question is that..Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nope, not in the least..They gotta be on drugs, I am telling you, they got to be.
Report Post »Chasvs391
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmWho would look more Presidential if you Honestly Comapred their Character and Accomplishments? Palin, hands down…
Report Post »legion of doom
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:55pmno
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:55pmNo, and they never will unless a person seeking the truth buys the left media. They have to much power to spin just whatever they want. To heck with the truth when a lie will suffice.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:53pmWhy would they, Obama is the President of the Unites States the most powerful man in the world and Palin quit her job as Governor. There is no comparison.
Report Post »Chasvs391
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:59pmPalin is NO Marxist, something that can’t be said about your hero obama
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:11pmOh…..good one, and I so agree…..actually for a Governor who quit, she is getting too much media!!
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hauschild
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:00pmAnybody catch the Marxist’s words of widsom today about debt? How can any reasonable mind listen to this idiot and be inspired? This bottom-feeder makes Jimmy Carter look like Mahatma Ghandi.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:03pm@13thGenerationAmerican
Report Post »Come on, we all know you and WALKWITHME1966 are the same person.
RN MOM
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:33pmAll the more sad…the position of “most powerful man in the world” is currently held by a chess piece for Soros and “Team Marx”. Meanwhile, Sarah, an honest public servant needs to resign from her position because of the non-stop harassment and the constant barrage of frivolous lawsuits and “misquotes/misprints” by the LSM.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:42pm@13thGenerationAmerican who Posted:
“Why would they, Obama is the President of the Unites States the most powerful man in the world and Palin quit her job as Governor. There is no comparison.”
Why would they, indeed? Sooooo, why DID they? Maybe because they have to continually cover for your hero, ODumber, who is not only not very bright, he is the most abysmally incompetent excuse for a president in our history (not to mention a Communist traitor who is hellbent on destroying what is left of our country and handing Israel over to the Arabs in the bargain).
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 9:27pmWell Robert-Ca. I have to ask. Why are you hanging out with what you choose to see as loons? I don’t come looking for you.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:04pmYeah and Obama’s only skill is community organizing, in which he did a dang good job at organizing communities of idiots to vote for him, gullible people who would sell their souls for a “free ride”, the dregs of society, who are easily persuaded, so really, not much skill was needed.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:52pmHope they ALL paid Alaska a lot of money!! This time, maybe it was not ours!
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:51pmSarah you go girl !!!
The libs are so terrified of her they will spend their last breaths trying to destroy her and she just keeps getting stronger.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:40pmDo you think Chris Matthews will drop dead from a heart attack if Sarah becomes president?
Report Post »PER100
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:53pmhe looks like he is not far from it already. drinking has aged that poor man and turned his brain to grey goo.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:57pmIt would kill Matthews and his ilk because Palin would get the “outliers” and misled conservatives to realize that traditional American values and ideals lead to tremendous strength and prosperity. Deep down, losers like C-Matt know this, but they’re fighting like hell to hold onto their bankrupt social theories.
This is why this next election will represent a tipping point, either way.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:37pm@ SlimnRanger who Posted: “Do you think Chris Matthews will drop dead from a heart attack if Sarah becomes president?”
We can opnly hope that would be just too much for poor “Tingles”!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:52pmI have always wondered . . . if she is as lame and stupid as they say, then why are they all so TERRIFIED of her that they feel the need to keep attacking her 24/7? Honestly, they’re like a pack of RABID DOGS!
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 11:44pmI surely hope so slimnranger. That would be the frosting on the cake.
Report Post »Fredhead
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:25amNow, now, , SLIMNRANGER & VIET VET, . We wouldn’t wish a heart attack on anyone, very painfull !
Report Post »it’d be much funnier to watch his behavior while she is sworn in as the new President !!!!!
sometimes finding the humor, is most rewarding of all, and I can’t think of anything more
humorous than the afore mentioned scenario, can you?, besides, it would probably be much more
painfull for Mr. Matthews to watch her taking the oath of office, don’t you think?
grandmaof5
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:51pmIs that a trick question? I suppose if you consider the amount of coverage and not the content.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:49pm6 loons so far voted yes , it’s the same regular loons in here .
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:34pmSo the voting thingey does work for some people huh. Just errors out and says ‘page not found’ everytime I try to vote.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:33pmRobert-CA Posted: “6 loons so far voted yes , it’s the same regular loons in here”
You got it. Our resident loons are out in force today :)
There is nothing like a question whose answer is so apparent as to be obvious to all but the most brain-dead among us–meaning the liberal left–to bring the little darlings out from under their rocks..
Report Post »Fredhead
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 6:11amI have tried to vote, and also view the results,
Report Post »keep getting this “diagnose web page problems” thing,
Probably been hacked into by some,, Long haired, maggot infested, dope smoking, politico type!
noleftturn
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:50pmis this a rhetorical question?
Report Post »martnee777
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:20pmLol
Report Post »101
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:25pmU nailed it!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:49pmDouble Standard to the extreme!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:54pmSure they’ve treated Obummer and Palin the same. And I’m a Swedish supermodel.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:54pmIf the media put half the scrutiny on Obama that they’ve put on Palin, Obama would never have become president. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/06/feud-between-sarah-palin-and-michele.html
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:56pmIf they were 1/10 as deliberative in the quest to dig up “dirt” on Obama as they have been Sarah – he wouldn’t be the president now….
Report Post »Whitey4West
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:57pmFigured there would be a poll. Of course they haven’t. Even if you dislike Palin, you can‘t possibly believe that she’s been treated the same as Obummer in the media
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmWho cares?
Report Post »Webonics
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmThey treat Sarah MUCH nicer than O’Bummer and for Good Reason! She is a sexy Executive and he is a community interferer with a bunch of elite degrees.
If you start listening to the correct news sources you will find that Sara is favored as she deserves.
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmAbsolutely not–they have not been fair. They refuse to report even NOW on what Obama is doing. The media is full of leftist moonbats hellbent on destroying this country because they are idiotic enough to believe they will be allowed to still maintain their status in the aftermath.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pmWait until the old girl knocks the Marxist out…looking forward to that.
To all the social morons out yonder: Get ready because Palin’s en route and there will be hell to pay!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:00pmOne is extreme left; the other is extreme right.
Report Post »Is that what is known as “fair and balanced?”
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:01pmWell one of them is afraid of the MSM and the other isn’t.
Palin will never be President. She will never run. I never agree with Ann Coulter or O’reilly but Palin makes too much money selling her brand.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:03pmYou want to see hypocricy in the Liberal Biased media? Here is an Idea for all the Libraloons running free and unmedicated here. Instead of looking into Palins emails, why not look into Weiners? I am 100% positve there is a hell of a lot more interesting things in there than Palin would ever think of writing.
Report Post »Webonics
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:04pmSarah is the only true woman in the United States and the whole world. Every other woman should be ashamed that they do not possess her smartness and beauty-fullness and speech-giving talents and wealthiness all wrapped into the one total (sexy too!) package.
Report Post »Sarah is so wonderful she makes other women seem to be 71 year old white haired hags who never leave their lonely kitchen tables during the daytime because they have no self esteem left due to Sarah, and just have their little pet dogs for company.
Go Sarah!
PER100
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:05pmour president still has not seen any real form of major review. they protected him before the election, they protect him now, and they will protect him all the way through the next election. no surprise. he is weak minded, and gives them everything they want. RUN SARAH RUN
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:11pm@middleclassprophet
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:58pm
Who cares?
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Who cares?
WHO CARES???!!!
You must not be aware of the sinister plans that Obama has for you, MCP!
There are over 800 FEMA camps, manned and empty, waiting for American citizens.
Unless you are completely ignorant of what’s going on, you could not, with a clear conscience, make a statement like that.
How about educating yourself or simply moving on? Stop wasting our time with your brainless, absurd remarks.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:12pmand still have not fiinished laughing at the headline.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:12pmNot only “no” but “hell no!”
Report Post »Dry_Drunk_GA
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:13pmShe is so Hot, Hot, Sexy and Beauteous.
Report Post »Her pretty face is sculpted and her bust is perky.
She is a good money-earner and is super smart and everything too.
She makes normal women look like skunks. No straight man could ever want anyone else.
Sarah’s Email will soon be on every best seller list in the world, because she is just so clever, thoughtful, invents new words, and is just as talented as a journalist and is darn good at writing too. Not to mention her hypnotic speaking skills, angel voice and patriotic accents.
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:15pm^____^____^
Exactly! Had the clown media done its job and taken BHO apart as they have done to Palin… well BHO wouldnt be Pres. Its clear IMO they are protecting him and have been since day one. So we must assume (as dangerous as it is to do) that they either do not care or approve of what he has and will do to this nation. Either way its bad for the majority.
Someone please tell me when backwards logic takes precedence in our land. Star Treks Spock has said “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one”. Yet today in our reality from sci-fi “the needs of the few or the one outweigh the needs of the many”?
Report Post »taxed
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:19pmThe double standard is amazing. Her conservatism is relative to the liberal bias of the MSM. If Hussein had 1/100th of Palin’s scrutiny, he would be in jail.
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/index.php?board=1.0
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:21pm@Webonics
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:04pm
“Sarah is so wonderful she makes other women seem to be *** 71 year old white haired hags who never leave their lonely kitchen tables during the daytime because they have no self esteem left due to Sarah, and just have their little pet dogs for company. *** ”
Careful, Sonny!
Report Post »I might take offense at that! There are more of us 71-year-old white-haired “hags” here on the Blaze than you realize.
tower7femacamp
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:22pmOf course not, Has the Media been fair to Ron Paul ?
Inclunding the Blaze and Glenn Beck. the problem is this is Tweedledee dee
and Tweedledee dumb at a time when we really need serious change
Much of the public focus is on the nation’s public debt, which is $14.3 trillion. But that doesn’t include money guaranteed for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which comes to close to $50 trillion, according to government figures.
The government also is on the hook for other debts such as the programs related to the bailout of the financial system following the crisis of 2008 and 2009, government figures show.
Taken together, Gross puts the total at “nearly $100 trillion,” that while perhaps a bit on the high side, places the country in a highly unenviable fiscal position that he said won’t find a solution overnight.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/43378973
I only Trust Ron Paul at this time in History.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:23pm@AKMIIKEUS
Report Post »How much money is “too much money?“ Does Steve Jobs make ”too much money?” How about Al Gore, Any actor in Hollywood, Pelosi?
What does it have to do with the question anyway?
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:23pm@NoBaloney:
Indeed, the extremists of the left and the extremists of the media will always do anything they can to tear apart anyone they perceive to be an enemy or an obstacle in their path. Vindication has come to Sarah Palin in full (my opinion) and now the left wing radicals will only be able to make up the usual distortions and such about her – as they do with everything and everyone else.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:23pmThe Justice System sure doesn’t treat police and civilians equally.
Officer Mehserle served 11 months out of a measly 2 year sentence in COUNTY JAIL, not PRISON (where he should have spent his duration) for shooting Oscar Grant in cold blood, execution style, while handcuffed and facedown in a California train station full of commuting high school students.
He has never expressed any remorse or apology to the family of the victim.
Report Post »Atlas_Shagged
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:25pmPalin is a handsome, square-hipped and fecund symbol of Patriotic Strength, American Virtue and Feminine Guile.
“Sarah/Allen 2012!” I am sure you see the logic, if you are open minded.
I wish we could give a woman the front seat this time! Just because the president is a partial African is no reason to just go with a black but inexperienced politician (who is really just a recently discharged from active duty soldier), we actually need to beat a working, experienced black administration that will someday be led by Hillary, so I say go Woman-Black!
Not that there’s anything wrong with Allen or Herman. Or what have you blacks.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:28pmRevere1
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 2:54pm
If the media put half the scrutiny on Obama that they’ve put on Palin, Obama would never have become president.
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No bigger truth has ever been told.
Report Post »Webonics
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:31pmTO: Showtime:
Report Post »Careful, Sonny! I might take offense at that! There are more of us 71-year-old white-haired “hags” here on the Blaze than you realize.
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Dude! — hey, relax i was just kidding around, I did not mean to offend your mom, or whatever. I am sorry – just don’t let her see it and she will never know! OK/ Sorry dude.
PerniciousD
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:32pmRomney is getting the “kid gloves” treatment right now. Heck, Joseph Smith even won a Tony – the ultra-liberal Hollywood elite gave the honor. Here is what Southpark Writer said:
Collecting the best musical prize, Parker said he‘d be remiss if he didn’t thank his late book co-writer – Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon church.
“You did it, Joseph! You got the Tony!” Parker said, looking skyward.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:34pmThis is kind of a dumb question because, HELL NO the media hasn’t treated Palin and Obama fairly. Every time Sarah Palin even puts one foot in front of the other, the media comments on how stupid they think the woman is.
Why do they even go to the trouble of examining all these thousands of emails of a woman who hasn’t even said she is running for public office yet, when our frickin President has been covering up almost all of his records as to how he got into Hawaii’s most expensive high school when his mom was broke, how he got into college, who paid for college, his college thesis, his law firm records, HIS MEDICAL RECORDS and so much other crap I can’t even believe it, they cover absolutely NONE of it.
The media are nothing but useful idiots to the Obama propaganda socialist machine and they don’t give a flyin rip about anything else.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:35pmIf the media would have done their job in the first place we wouldn‘t have to look at OBAMMY’S face everyday! No, to take the media back from Liberal Marxism is one of the most important things we patriot’s can do for our country!!
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:37pmPalin is a Progressive joke who will impose her religious tyranny on Americans such as Obama imposing his social tyranny.
Herman Cain is a Federal Reserve plant.
Perry is a Bilderberger.
West is a TORTURER.
Ron Paul 2012. Strict Constitutionalist.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:38pmReally? Are you serious when posing this question? However, if you ask the Marxist media they will say they are “fair and honest”. However, living in denial of God causes one to see reality in an entirely different way.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:42pmPerspective….the DNC sent 30 attorneys to Alaska to dig up dirt on Palin….how much did the RNC spend to dig up dirt on Oblamabush? They found nothing on Palin, so the went after her family. Still not enough? A guy moves in next door to spy on her while writing a sack of lies on her. The DNC attorneys want her emails as governor….they get over 2300 emails to now look again for some dirt. Now, if it were not for Fox news, we wouldn’t have a clue who Obama was. None of the big three mentioned any of it. Why? Soros give them money to keep their mouths shut. And when the do, they are let go. This question asked here…shouldn’t even be asked its so obvious. This is why we have an Airhead in office bumbling everything he does…..
Report Post »Jacktt100o
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:42pmThe LSM have done everything they can to vilify Sarah Palin and her family but despite a massive effort to destroy Sarah Palin she is still on her feet and making a difference in the political world.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:43pmI have re-named the Mainstream Media – to the LEFT-Stream Media.
Those people are pigs.
And – If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:44pm“Have the Media Treated Palin and Obama Equally?” – this is a either a rhetorical question or dumbest question ever asked!
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:45pmThe press is an accomplice to this crime of confiscation of wealth, liberty and freedom. Shame on them!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:49pmYea, of course they are treated differently, Palin loves America, and Obama, well, you know.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:50pm@AKMIIKEUS
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:01pm
Well one of them is afraid of the MSM and the other isn’t.
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Have to agree with you on that. Palin is not afraid of the MSM, but Obama’s thugs had to threaten the lives of the MSM in order to snap them into line.
Don‘t go spouting about how I don’t know what I’m talking about. I know for a fact that members of the MSM, to include Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and two national radio networks, have signed affidavits that their lives and/or careers were threatened if they mentioned Obama’s birth certificate or passport prior to the 2008 election. The statements were notarized, and certified copies were made. The originals were taken out of the country and put in a safe place, out of the reach of Obama’s hands.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:50pmI don’t think it could get more “unequal”
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:06pmToo bad being a sexist isn’t as immoral as being a racist. I have never seen such a witch hunt. Every other day Palin is put on the defensive for things she didn’t say or do. It never ends. The MSM should have spent 1/2 the time vetting Obama…. That is why no one trusts them anymore. We have found out what they were hiding from us during his election and it is quite disturbing.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:12pmNoooooooo!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:17pmThat is the stupidest question I ever heard…It so obvious. Should ask is the color red really red….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:43pmOh and it won’t let me vote…..
TEA!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:44pmContrast this to obama’s teams of lawyers running around the globe sealing court records, even SCHOOL records, mysteriously disappearing thesiseseses.
Double standard? What double standard?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:50pmNot only don’t they investigate Obama .. they run defense for him .. where are the School, Adoption (Ba rry Soe t oro), passport, name change, social security, etc. The birth certificate that has been deemed a fraud by experts .. they have covered and continue to cover for him. What about the Obama kids … they have been hands off by the media (as it should be ) but Palin kids are fair game to the MSM .. including one with special needs.
They are obsessed with Palin … to bring her down .. yet she is STILL HERE!
TEA!
Hope this one posts… unlike the last time I posted these “questions”.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:55pmSarah Palin 2012!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 4:56pm@W. Ebonics
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Navyveteran
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:24pmDoes that question in the headlines really be there? We all know there is a huge difference between media coverage between progressives and conservatives. Another good example is the emails of Sarah Palin vs. the hacked emails of the global warming scientists in the NYTimes. The NY Times didn’t feel that these hacked emails of the scientists were “news worthy,” I sure bet they don’t treat Sarah Palins emails the same way.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:30pmWhat a shameful profession Journalism has become. The bill of rights gave them special and unique rights in order to keep the government in check. They we’re to challenge the Government and investigate every claim regardless of which political party it was. There have been numerous studies and polls clearly showing a rabid media bias when it comes to how they cover the two parties. There is no need to even quote the latest examples, any clear thinking person knows this to be an irrefutable fact. The media has become nothing more than mouth pieces and shills for the progressive liberal left, shame on all of them.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:47pmTreat Sarah Palin and Obama equally? Why would you ever want to do that?
One’s a confident, intelligent leader, not to mention a parent of beautiful children … and the other‘s some broad that has a daughter that got knocked up and a mongoloid baby she’s proud of. (Oh, and she’s a quitter.)
Who treat them equally? [giggle]
Report Post »encinom
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:50pmDepends do you mean the real media or Fox News? Real media has shown her warts and all, Fox News dares not upset her highness with pesky things like in-depth questions. I think Chris Wallace was flogged when he corrected her twisted view of American History.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:53pm@ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Thank you for making my point….. troll.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 5:59pmI don‘t know what point you’re talking about, Cat B!
Listen ____________, why don’t you go ____-off to pictures of Ronnie Reagan. Adults are posting here.
O’kay? (hugs and kisses)
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:00pmAll politicians are very concerned about what kind of media coverage that they are getting.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:28pmHoly Moly, we’ve got some nuts posting on here. We’ve got SavingtheRepublic.com, channeling Karl Marx through Star Trek and Spock, hilarious. And Showtime doesn’t know how to determine left from right.
SavingtheRepublic.com is a lost cause, but Showtime, the only way to tell who in the U.S. is extreme left or right is the Benchmark, aka the U.S. Constitution. Yes it is the calibrating point, When contemporary politics are measured against this calibrating point…the democrap party is not only extremely left of the Constitution, but also left of Lenin. The republican party is even slightly left of the Constitution. Sarah Palin and many others of her ilk are right their with the Constitution. Right there with the Founding Fathers. The one’s who are extreme right are the Libertarians, aka, anarchists.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:40pmTAXED
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:19pm
The double standard is amazing. Her conservatism is relative to the liberal bias of the MSM. If Hussein had 1/100th of Palin’s scrutiny, he would be in jail.
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EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:56pmTo my mind, what the LA Times did was VERY close to treason. After all, the PLO is a terrorist organization and our avowed enemies, recent press coverage to the contrary–and a video of a presidential candidate not only rubbing shoulders with members of a terrorist organization but CELEBRATING with them in a manner openly hostile to our ONLY ally in that region. . . well, wouldn’t you think that would be news? Can you imagine if they caught Sarah Palin donig something like that, how often that video would have been played? These media whores should blush to call themselves “newspeople”!
Report Post »kreese
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:08pm@REVERE1
Had the news media treated Bush and Clinton the same, we would not have had Clinton.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:12pm@ Sinista MACE, who Posted:.”Officer Mehserle served 11 months out of a measly 2 year sentence in COUNTY JAIL, not PRISON (where he should have spent his duration) for shooting Oscar Grant in cold blood, execution style, while handcuffed and facedown in a California train station full of commuting high school students.
He has never expressed any remorse or apology to the family of the victim.”
And this is relevent to a story about how the media is biased against Sarah Palin how?
I think you’re on the wrong forum–you should be on the “We be black and pissed off” forum, yes?
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:22pm@ ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
I’m sure glad Zombie Jesus does, because I bet nobody else would love an ignorant little liberal troll puke like yourself. I’m pretty sure nobody on this forum even LIKES you. Go home you brain-dead troll–we are not interested in your inane remarks.
Report Post »PerniciousD
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:29pmOne is treated like a well-read, highly educated, introspective, thoughtful, rational person.
The other one isn’t.
Problem?
Report Post »MYMOTHERSDAUGHTER
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 7:35pmYou have to love it – Sarah Palin has spunk and she does not get mad she gets even! Good for her! She is not vindictive and she speaks her mind and speaks for many people! You go girl!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 8:00pm@PerniciousD, who Posted: “One is treated like a well-read, highly educated, introspective, thoughtful, rational person. The other one isn’t. Problem?”
Yeah, there is a problem. I have seen little evidence that ODumber is “highly educated,“ much less ”introspective, thoughtful, OR rational”. Since all his college records are sealed, who can say? As for “introspective and thoughtful”, he can barely read a teleprompter–much less form an original thought. As for rational–yeah, running off to London to escape from Netynahu and proceeding to make an a$$ of himself by dragging along an entourage and a cast of thousands that would have made Cleopatra blush–just to “show” those Brits how important he was (because they did not invite him to the Royal Wedding, yaknow). Yeah–THAT was the act of a rational man. Puh-leeze. The Boy who would be king is a petty, vindictive, and not very bright third rate political hack. His highly touted “brilliance” is another fawning media fabrication–which is just what we were discussing here.
You should crawl back under your rock and go to sleep, Troll. Obviously all this “deep thinking” has taxed your little head beyond its capacity!
Report Post »mill
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 8:17pmI didn’t like your poll. It should have had a statement that she is..IS…a public figure…and has been treated poorly.
Anyway, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLAIN !!!! SHE ROCKS!!! YEEAAAAAAAAAAH next the MSM will start criticizing her choice in underwear and toilet paper.
If you are not afraid of or concerned with someone…you merely walk away from them The MSM has proven they are scared spitless of this woman.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 9:03pmOf course it’s a double standard. And she’s not even running. If the worst thing that they can come up with after all the scrutiny is that she wants a tanning bed, and you know they are digging hard, she has my vote if she decides to run. She is smart and not afraid of very much. But many people seem to be afraid of her. And the attacks on her son Trig. Please. He’s precious. God knew what he was doing when he placed him with this family and wonderful Mother. But having said this, I think it sucks with the bigness what they have tried to do to her.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:04pm@Webonics
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 3:31pm
TO: Showtime:
Careful, Sonny! I might take offense at that! There are more of us 71-year-old white-haired “hags” here on the Blaze than you realize.
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Dude! — hey, relax i was just kidding around, I did not mean to offend your mom, or whatever. I am sorry – just don’t let her see it and she will never know! OK/ Sorry dude.
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You wiggled out of trouble. I’m the 71-year-old I was referring to!
(Mama won’t see it, either. She died at 89 yoa in 1998.)
And I don’t mind being called “Dude!”
Carry on, “Sonny.” You do good work! :D ♪♫
Report Post »jzs
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:08pmI’m not sure this question – whether Palin is treated better than Obama in the media – even makes sense. Except for FOX, Palin doesn’t engage the media. Here’s what you hear on FOX when she makes an appearance:
Hannity: What do you think we need to do to save the country?
Palin: Well, we need smaller government, less taxes and do the exact opposite of whatever Obama does on any issue, domestic or foreign.
The media dutifully publish any tweet she makes, discuss it ad nauseum, and follow her everywhere reporting on her every movement. Palin has figured out how to stay in the news, sound like an American, and not make a single policy statement except that whatever President Obama does, she’s against. She’s unique in getting coverage from the media as a serious person while, basically take a stand on nothing.
And nobody has asked her for her birth certificate, or the charges against her in Alaska, or the fact that most people in Alaska would not vote for her for President.
Palin is doing fine with the press.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 10:09pmThere was a ton of curiousity over that fool Obama back in 2008, we were just denied the opportunity to get honest answers by the media. They only sold us what they wanted us to buy. Yet, its all fair game with Palin. And they still cant win. ******** are going down.
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 11:09pmThere are very few things that have not be carefully scrutinized by the left wing loons concerning palin
Report Post »her husband her children and her self.
Million have been spent concealing Obumlbers scholastic endeavors,His IQ.. his bisexuality
his muslim back ground,His Communist back ground, his mental health.
This is almost unbelievable that a person could become president.commander in chief of the world’s premier armed forces and could not pass a high security FBI back ground security check
WebWrat
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 2:47amIf O’Bambi had had the same scrutiny he would have been deported, by now, to his homeland Kenya.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on June 14, 2011 at 10:06am.
Let’s answer the question this way.
How many reporters are scouring Obama’s hacked E-Mails looking for dirt?
Media = DNC whores.
Report Post »jaktexas
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:09pmThe reason for all the attention is because Sarah Palin will be the next President of the United States. “That’s a fact Jack” !!
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