Washington Post Columnist Breaks His Palin Vow On Day One of Sarah-Palin-Free Month
- Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:02pm by
Mike Opelka
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Back on January 21st of this year (11 days ago), Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank made a pledge to not mention former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin for an entire month. His hope was for a “Palin free February” and he also wished that others would join him. Milbank made no secret of his intentions or motives, he wanted Sarah Palin out of the spotlight forever:
“I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention Sarah Palin — in print, online or on television — for one month. Furthermore, I call on others in the news media to join me in this pledge of a Palin-free February. With enough support, I believe we may even be able to extend the moratorium beyond one month, but we are up against a powerful compulsion, and we must take this struggle day by day.”
He went on to say;
“if we treat her a little less like a major political figure and a little more like Ann Coulter — a calculating individual who says shocking things to attract media attention — it won’t matter”
Pardon me? Look in the mirror Mr. Milbank or at the title of your last book, “Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America.” One could easily say that calling for a month-long media blackout of a major political figure is… the work of ”a calculating individual who says shocking things to attract media attention.” Very few in the media have lined up to sign the pledge or wear the Palin-free Promise Rings being pitched by Dana Milbank. He wrapped up the column with this final, clarifying paragraph;
“And so I pledge to you: Sarah Palin’s name will not cross my lips — or my keyboard — for the entire month of February. Who’s with me?”
Yesterday, February 1, 2011, at 3:45pm, as the rest of the world was watching for the highly anticipated statement from Egypt’s President Mubarak, Milbank posted online the following;
“I survived Day One of my February Sarah Palin moratorium, defeating the evil plans of ABC News’s Rick Klein. Only 27 days to go…”
Note to Mr. Milbank, putting Sarah Palin in your headline and starting the column by using her name clearly violates your pledge. You almost made it 16 hours. FAIL.



















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Comments (151)
dorothea
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:39pmMilbank is going insane because, he knows that, she is a real threat to the radical socialists ideas of the leftist like him.
Report Post »jose wasabi
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:38pmAnother BOZO !
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:36pmI agree–we have to call out these clowns for their slanderous lies and misinformation. No one has manifested the political will to pursue the civil service and governmental reforms we know from empirical experience are necessary, and while these corruptions and injustices erode the structure we have nothing but the blind, the shortsighted, and the willfully malicious and greedy in power and unable, or unwilling, to do what must be done. Let the charlatans, and straw men–those who distract us with illusions and the circuses cease to hold our attention, arise, O America, to the matter at hand; an earnest struggle for the evolution of our race. Empiricism has proven Progress to be true–we improve all areas of knowledge and behavior through the application of knowledge–”techne.“ This ”applied knowledge“ is coalesced over time in an evolving set of utensils ”technology“ which improves ”ourselves.” For example, we can communicate further away, quicker, than ever possible via the social and industrial economic technology that allows the mass production, transportation, and ownership of individual cell phones. We constantly get better at what we’ve done before and infer more about mono-variable systems that we can then test assumptions about, expanding our knowledge of new inferential horizons.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:35pmI think, write and talk about President Sarah Palin every single day! PALIN 2012 !!!
Report Post »Danaman
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:31pmThe liberal media is scared of Palin cause she talks with common sense! Plus, they knew she drew a crowd of 25,000 people at lunch time in Raleigh,N.C. And 10,000 @ lunchtime in Greenville,N.C. And totally drives the libs nutts!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:29pmAutomatic writing. No thought required.
Report Post »ohioan1000
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:28pmI can so relate to this guy. I would love an Obama-free month. Just one month free of his vacuous speeches would be so refreshing–even one day would help.
Mama Grizzly for Palin 2012
Report Post »eflow504
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:28pmOne word.. left
Report Post »ramjet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:26pmD-Rat! I was looking so forward to a Daily Countdown to the end of Milbank’s Palin free February so he could return to having The Last Word on playing Hardball with the forward leaning former Governor.
Report Post »me the people
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:14pmTheir hate for her should be enough proof that shes the one this country needs. This woman is like us and I can not think of anyone I would trust more with our most precious country. Please Sarah RUN RUN RUN.
Report Post »woolie877
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 10:13pmA few others do come to mind; Glenn, Rush, Sean, Michelle.Joe the Plumber, Bob the Oil Guy( well, he’s MY oil guy anyway). Anybody but the tool box we have right now. I do agree, though. Please run Sarah, run.
Report Post »Republic Under God
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:05pmReminds me of my early childhood when we used to play the WHO CAN STAY QUIET THE LONGEST game. The first one might giggle from excitement and prompt the second one to shout YOU MADE A NOISE!
I‘ve got some drinking games I’d like to play with Dana.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:01pmCommies are so funny.
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:59pmHow to solve the National Debt….offer daily fishing tours with Todd and Sarah! Here’s my $1000.00. I’m sure to be outbid.
Report Post »emertz8413
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:41pmBut, if everyone who wanted to go just paid $1,000, we’d have a great start on that debt!!!
Report Post »Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:31pmKeeping true to form, the lamestream journalist always find a way to make the news about themselves.
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:59pmWow…16 hours? Stumbled on the corner bar after walking out of rehab? See ya in the gutter.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:53pmI can’t stop thinking about Sara Palin Either, but for a different reason. I’m positively smitten. But I’m also smitten with Michele Bachmann, Michele Malkin, Ann Coulter, Monica Crowley, Laura Ingraham, etc. How come all the hotties are conservatives?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:05pmYou forgot Megan Kelly ;)
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:10pmThe reason Liberal women are ugly is because of all the stress they are constantly under by hating other people. Remember when your Mom told you not to frown or make goofy faces because your face would stay that way? Pelosi is a good example.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:57pmYou also forgot Martha Mcallum.
Report Post »Idaho Kirk
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:59pmMMMMMMMM….. Megan Kelly…….. I agree. BUT DON”T forget my new favorite….S.E. Cupp. Soo sexy. Thats why the left hates them. The yhate all successful, good-looking intelligent people. Most libs were losers in high school, college, etc and are just bitter, angry, jealous people.
Report Post »bluzrider
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:52pmDoes anyone really care what this guy thinks, or says.
Why do we give this guy the time of day.
He must think he’s important, and only his liberal friends thinks he is, and I‘ll bet most of them don’t really care either.
Lighten up Dana, get a real job. Nobody cares.
Report Post »takemout
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:50pmOne word … nobody!
Report Post »Falcon11
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:50pmHow about a month of refusing to cover the antics of these low-intellect liberal D-Bags? I’m all in.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:49pmWhy in the world would anyone think that a liberal could help himself. If these wackos didn’t bash a conservative on a daily basis they would just sit silent with the stupid look on their face. Maybe they would have to actually report a news story instead of waiting for their propaganda from Robert Fibbs.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:09pm“Why in the world would anyone think that a liberal could help himself”
Only a liberal would think a liberal could control him/herself. But conservatives have common sense. We don‘t expect a dog not to sniff another dog’s butt, or flies not to land on poo, or a liberal not to bash Palin or Beck for 24 hours….they just can’t help themselves.
Report Post »awiderview
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:48pmWhich is more silly- his pledge or this headline on THEBLAZE? One would think it were a very slow news day…
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:18pmlol riiiiight……………and the huff-n-puff and media splatters articles are exemplary bwaaahaaahahaaha
go home troll
Report Post »BQI
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:47pmThis just proves the point made in our article Why Sarah Palin Should Be President. The left fear her such that they must be constantly on the attack.
http://www.blackquillandink.com
Report Post »TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:47pmSarah Palin, who has received nothing but hysterical, foaming-at-the-mouth, vicious, mean-spirited, false, mis-leading and totally biased slime attacks from Ruling Class Repugs, the lunatic-left and their “Corrupt B-tard” puppets in the lamestream media, is now indisputably the MOST POWERFUL, MOST INFLUENTIAL, MOST EFFECTIVE woman politician in America today (special thanks to the Trifecta of Scum, aka the official “You Lie!” hussein cheerleading squad, nbc, snl and tina fey. And ,of course, couric deserves a special place in hell for her unrestrained bias against Palin and all that is American.). So, to the lunatic-left d-crat socialists and especially their stooges in the lamestream media, I say: keep it up until President Palin – and the overwhelming majority of the American people – have the last laugh at you.
Because of her massive influence, Palin has literally change the language Americans use. Examples of her power over our language include:
“How’s that [substitute ANY idiotic lunatic-left atrocity here] working out for you?”
Report Post »“refudiate”
“hopey-changey”
“lamestream”
“Corrupt B-tards (of the lunatic-left media)”
“blood libel”
…..more to come !
moriarty70
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:51pmYou’re right, she has changed the way people in the States use the English language, but as this site has been more than ready to point out, change isn’t always a good thing.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:06pmYou have to stop holding your real feelings inside of you!! If you feel strongly about something you need to get it off of your chest. Holding back like this will cause stress related health problems for you.
They (the left) are afraid of her and others like her with good reason. She makes sense – something they don’t know how to handle.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:10pmthe toadie in the article is right…if they would just stop talking about her…she probably would fade some….thing is…just like with Bush derangement syndrome…now Palin/Bachman derangement syndrome…they just can’t help themselves…..you would think with all of them taking the same talking points from the same handlers like Soros and Obummers other controllers….and reading the same news posted as factual opinions at HuffPoo… you would think it would be easy for them to just stop mentioning Sarah and Michelle and Glenn and Rush….if you say they are so bad for us…then stop telling us about them so that people with a clue might actually flip the channel or listen to the radio just to find out why you hate them so much and hear something that makes them like those that you hate so much…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 8:58pmDon‘t forget Obama’s new catch phrase … “Winning the Future” .. that Sarah rightfully acknowledged as WTF ! ROFL .. she gets them again!
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:45pmWhatta dumfart.
Report Post »DUMBASPELOSI
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 11:57pm“Dana” (like Charlie Sheen) is the give that keeps on giving. If you ever wondered if being a progressive is a sign of superior intellect . . . wonder no more.
Whether its Al Gore, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Bill Maher, Jesse Jackson, Sheriff Dupnik, Rosie O’Donell, Roseanne Barr, Danny Glover, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, . . . there is a strong theme of “fool” running in the personas of all these lefties.
Let’s put the arguement to rest – George W. Bush is smarter then Barack H. Obama. It’s obvious.
P.S. – Sarah Palin / Michelle Bachmann 2012
Report Post »TexanLogician
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:45pmLeftists are obsessed, and pathological in their hatred. They can‘t resist attacking people who don’t toe their line. They truly hate diversity.
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:26pmYeah! Those lefties and their RINO hunting! Oh wait….
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:40pmDana, liar, liar, pants on fire. Ha ha you mentioned HER name. I think you’re obsessed with her:
Report Post »is it a crush? Is it jealousy? Is it wishing you were that popular? Or, are you wishing you weren’t such a hateful man? You, Dana need to get in bed with Chris Matthews. He also has a thingie for her, but it’s kinda little and embarrasses him. He’s a small little man, Dana, don’t be like him. It doesn’t make you look better. Poor pathetic Matthews has lost it entirely from the way he’s been, perhaps his job too.
13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:42pmSarah who?
Report Post »BUCKEYE_PATRIOT
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 11:01pm” Nothing frustrates those who champion diversity more, than an opinion diverse from their own”
Report Post »rray
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 5:33ampubliuspincilman
Are the lefties going to use their blue dogs for rino hunting? After all the former master of hounds said that he hoped they would go away because they could not be trusted.
Report Post »Biminy
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:39pmOne word…… Dumba$$
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:41pmOne word…Liar.
Should this be a suprise to anyone.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:45pmWell, he DID to his credit, manage to make it ALMOST 16 whole and painful hours without spewing the rhetoric at her. I shall now credit him with a full garbage man cheer displayed unto the world.
cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:47pmThat’s the word I had in mind too biminy. I love how Sarah Palin just drives these people crazy. They will never get over her and I think it’s awesome. I have never seen the liberals so insane over anybody, even Bush. You go Sarah!
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the Obama mixed message on Egypt video
Report Post »Curator_JDR
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:52pmIf Dana can’t spew hate, he doesn’t have a reason to live. Bearah Salin is the HERO (along with the grizzly clan and Wren Bleck) in this lol animated satire where Hairmericans take back their country from a ruling PC totalitarian elite and throw the criminals in JAIL
Report Post »http://www.marcrubin.com/hairmerica.ivnu
click4cheapandeasyweb
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 4:58pmC’mon, this should be expected from these people (I hope all real-people out there forgive me for mistaking Milbank for a person).
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:00pmI wish I could get a trick mirror and put it in this guys bathroom
Report Post »and everytime he looked in it
he would see Sarah Palin.
RightWingStuffcom
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:03pmTo quote Gomer Pyle
Suu-prize! Suu-prize! Suu-prize!
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:04pmI forgive you click. :-)
Report Post »BMartin1776
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:07pmUhg another liberal loon who cant resist the Palin angle. I like how they all said she injected herself into the Giffords crisis when THEY were the ones that dragged her into it. Fact is they need her b/c without the Sarah bashing they can’t sell their cruddy news. They know the zombies listen to them and hate Palin, so when they went silent demand for their drivel in general dropped. So what can they do but start bashing again.
They are so afraid of and hate her b/c #1 she is attractive unlike what they have on their side of the fence (Clinton, Wasserman Schultz), #2 she has legit experience compared to their boy king #3 she is not a member of their political club she is an avg citizen who got into politics b/c she cares. Unlike most politicians who make it their career from high school through college. Her presence shows the people can make a difference #4 she speaks to the people with respect, not disdain or belittling the people like they are children and dont understand. She and anyone like her is a threat to their establishment of power and control.
They need to trash her and the like to keep the pressure on since the a**whooping in Nov. They must demonize people and associate them with Sarah, to let off her for a month or ignore her hurts them in their quest to maintain and regain power.
She needs to not acknowledge them and feed them more ammo though, but I think she does it b/c its fun to her to get them all worked up.
its simple though STOP playing their game and start playing your game through http://www.savingtherepublic.com
Report Post »hud
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:13pmIf anyone meets him in person kick him in the nuts
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:22pmI really like the pic of him with an arrow on his face. It’s reminiscent of the “I’m with Stupid” t-shirts, only the arrow is pointing ON him! It really makes me laugh how one beautiful, talented, well-spoken woman can scare the daylights out of liberals….Oh, make that two: Michele Bachmann….opps, 4, Ann Coulter. Shoot, I forgot Michelle Malkin. I could go on and on. Their sickness is all encompassing: “HELP! Attractive conservative women scare us!!!”
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:27pmOh wow – this is great news stuff!! Absolutely riviting!! http://wp.me/pYLB7-yW
What-A-Joke
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:40pmNailed it, what a dumba$$ ! And these people have T.V. shows????????? They get PAID to be a DUMBA$$! I missed my calling.
http://timnbettyp.blogspot.com/p/club-sea-breeze_03.html
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:54pmHey HUD, He doesnt have any.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:58pmLOL @ Mike Opelka, writer of this story. Last word: “FAIL”
Report Post »You forgot “EPIC” at the beginning.
Nice funny story, especially in the face of the beginning of armageddon!
ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 5:59pmi pledge not to mention milbank for the next 30 days.
Report Post »milbank=tool. oops, i lose.
grandmaof5
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:01pmTypical liberal, all talk, good intentions and no action. I’m sure he intended to do it but what he had to say was so-o-oooo important that the word “Palin” just slipped out. Who is he?
Report Post »Evening, SNOWLEOPARD, we’ve been hit and miss (no violence intended) the last couple of days. Hope you are staying warm with the last cold front and the one on its heels. Gloomy all day today but cats didn’t seem to mind too much. Have a great evening!
WTH
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:13pmHypocralyptic Deuchepocalypse!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 6:23pmLOL, gotta post this quote from “Zombieland”…
Wichita: Let’s play the quiet game.
Columbus: I’ve actually been meaning to ask you, have you been to Columbus, because I’ve been trying to…
Wichita: Have you never played the quiet game?
About the same thing.
Report Post »Dig it!
PubliusPencilman
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:19pmSorry folks. As important as this bit of news is, it’s not even true.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48710.html
Not that this matters, since I am sure that 85% of you know nothing at all about Dana Milbank. This was just another attack dog Beckbot exercise–and all of you passed! Congratulations!
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:20pmThanks for mentioning Ann Coulter’s name too – she’s great!
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:34pm.
Report Post »Even if Milbank didn‘t actually type Sarah Palin’s name today (it may’ve been someone else), I’m still grateful he previously mentioned Ann Coulter – who doesn’t get nearly enough credit for driving the libs so insane they dare not mention her name, much less let her speak! Coulter is awesome, I’ve read all her books. Her logic and insights provide a graduate-level education in reason!
fletcher1
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:45pmSarah is just doing as God has told us to do….”this little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine”…
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 9:07pmPubliusPencilman
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 7:19pm
Sorry folks. As important as this bit of news is, it’s not even true.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48710.html
Not that this matters, since I am sure that 85% of you know nothing at all about Dana Milbank. This was just another attack dog Beckbot exercise–and all of you passed! Congratulations!
WELL done and good cross-blog posting there, scooter! Now here‘s your cookie for giving us news on something we were mocking and didn’t give a rat’s ass about anyway! Run along now! There’s a good boy!
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 10:06pmMSH,
Report Post »So sorry to suggest that there are other sources of news and information out there. I’ll try to avoid breaking the bubble in the future. Thanks for the cookie!
Sheepdog911
Posted on February 2, 2011 at 11:06pmMoron!
Report Post »ozz
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 3:28amNo surprise here. Democrats have no brain and no spine.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 5:47amHow about a Milbank-free……………….life!
Report Post »bread and circuses
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:03amBLAZERS………….please NOTE:
Report Post »WALKWITHME1966 AND 13THGENERATIONAMERICAN are hufPOS trolls, arguing with them is a waste of time and space. Their lunatic socialist rantings are illogical and the height of ignorance
jakartaman
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:14amDemedopes are such jokes!
We are not done yet
Report Post »vote 2012!
gbo
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 9:18amTwo words/cents:
Report Post »Who
cares?
Taquoshi
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 10:35amPubliusPencilMan -
I checked out the page on Politico and this is what I found:
“Dana Milbank just shot over an e-mail letting us know it wasn’t him who posted – under his name – an item on the Post Partisan blog pointing out that he had “survived” the fist day of his month-long Palin “moratorium.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48710.html#ixzz1CuUYP8hn
Editors come and editors go – however using someone else’s name as the author of an article is a little dicey, don’t you think? Also, the Politico might want to proof read their own text, since I assume they meant “FIRST” day, not “FIST” day. I know, I know, it’s a typo, but still that’s two errors right in a row.
Report Post »Satyr
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 11:25amI would like a moment to break down an argument between a leftist and a person on the right.
Left: General statement (No facts, no anything, just a statement.)
Report Post »Right: Response to a general sta-(interrupted)
Left: (Inaudible…Pause) You’re a racist
Right: …
rodamaa
Posted on February 3, 2011 at 12:11pmSo let’s see in influences a few thousands including his entire family!! Who cares weather he mentions her or not. He is of no consequence.
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