Chicago Tea Party: See You In Iowa: Sarah Palin‏

August 25, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Chicago, Conservatives, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Illinois, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Taxes, Tea Party, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Chicago Tea Party…

Free Road Trip: Restoring America Rally featuring Sarah Palin

The Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour seeking to highlight “our nation’s heart, history and founding principles.”

Palin said this about the rally, “Gatherings like this of independent liberty-loving Americans from every walk of life exemplify our commitment to come together to seek solutions to the problems confronting our nation…We don’t need a ‘fundamental transformation’ of America. We need a restoration of all that is good and strong and free. The 2012 election will be a great debate between those two conflicting visions for our country.”
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It’s A Weak GOP Field Facing Romney

August 22, 2011 | Filed Under Chris Christie, Collin Corbett, Conservatives, Elections, GOP, Government, Herman Cain, John Bolton, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty | Comments Off

-By Collin Corbett

Jon Huntsman, fighting to gain traction in his presidential bid, took a jab at frontrunner Mitt Romney in New Hampshire this week saying, in reference to the recent debt ceiling debate, “to dodge the debate or to wait until the debate is over effectively and to take a side, I don’t consider that to be leadership.” Huntsman is absolutely right, but when it comes to Romney’s Presidential campaign, he’s following the straightest possible path to the Presidency. Romney’s best strategy, running contrary to what seems logical, is to stay out of the Primary fray, mostly out of the news, and as far away from controversy as possible. He may not be creating as much of a buzz or leading on current issues as many would like, but right now he’s showing definite leadership in the one area that matters most to his campaign: the polls. Hovering above 20% and in first in all major polls, Romney does not need to stick his head out in a debate or attack his opponents, a stark contrast from where he stood four years ago.

Around this time during the 2008 primaries, Romney trailed Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain in every poll and was forced to run a momentum-based campaign: the same strategy many of the challengers have to employ today. Since coming up short then, Romney has essentially been running as the front-runner for the 2012 nod, all while avoiding the over exposure that could allow voters to outright reject him and move on to another candidate.

A majority of Republican Primary voters are looking for someone, anyone but Romney. Romney hasn’t even put much effort into energizing the base, knowing that eventually Primary voters will come home. Following the GOP South Carolina debate in May, a Fox News focus group hosted by Frank Luntz expressed some disappointment that Romney had decided to forgo the early debate. However, Romney pulled 24% of likely Primary voters in a PPP poll that same week, fending off Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin who polled second and third respectively. It is obvious that regardless of what Romney does, or doesn’t do (absent a misstep), he won’t see serious movement in the polls. He needs to let voters flirt with other candidates for a while before they eventually come home and marry him, or they’ll never be content.

Tea Party Poll: Rick Perry On Top

June 29, 2011 | Filed Under Al Gore, Budget, Business, Conservatives, Elections, GOP, Government, Jobs, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, President, Republicans, Rick Perry, RightPundits.com, Sarah Palin, Taxes, Texas, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

According to a McClatchy-Marist poll from Wednesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry is the Tea Party favorite to be president of the Untied States in 2012.

Perry has not made any announcement of running as of yet, but he comes in above Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and the others either announced or mulling still.

The poll shows that Perry garners 20% support with Mitt Romney coming in second at 17%. Palin comes in third at 16% while Michele Bachmann rings in at 12%.

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Interview With Director of New Sarah Palin Movie, The Undefeated

June 29, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Entertainment, GOP, Government, Hollywood, Movies, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

I attended the great RightOnLine 2011 event this year and had a chance to have a sit down with Stephen Bannon, the director and mastermind behind the new Sarah Palin biopic The Undefeated.

And for those of you in Chicago, Anne Leary over at Backyard Conservative has a great idea. Let’s help bring The Undefeated here to Chicago!

Go to webpage and VOTE NOW to bring the film to Chicago, or anywhere, for that matter. On the The Undefeated vote now page you input your zip code so that the tallies can be seen by area by the film folks.

Check out MarathonPundit’s post, too.
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Sarah Palin: America’s Real Frontrunner; Still on the Back Burner?

June 27, 2011 | Filed Under Budget, Business, Capitalism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Jobs, Liberals, Michael Bresciani‏, President, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Rev Michael Bresciani‏

I have heard of starting an article with a disclaimer but never with an apology. It isn’t so much about breaking new ground in journalism but it is about respect for all our candidates that causes me to say that they all seem like a group of the very best gentlemen and ladies and all deserve to be heard out and considered.

I have enough trouble trying to get Americans to see that while the economy and jobs may be on the top of the list as a campaign war cry that is not all there is to the restoration of America. We must return to the rule of law and stop trying to quash every inference to God from our schools, public discourse and everyday life. Need I mention the abortion scourge and our plunge into unbridled immorality yet once again?

Our moral strength is inextricably entwined with our economic well being. This is a fact I have been pounding away at for years even as I have watched our nation teeter and scramble like so many blind men stumbling and falling just trying to find the door.
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Chicago’s New Top Cop: A Race Baiter That Stands Against the U.S. Constitution

June 25, 2011 | Filed Under 2nd Amendment, Anti-Americanism, Catholicism, Chicago, Christianity, Constitution, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Guns, Liberals, Race, Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once again St. Sabina, the “Catholic” Church on Chicago’s South Side, makes the news for race-baiting and down talking our U.S. Constitution. This time it is Chicago’s new Police Superintendent, Garry McCarthy, who appeared at the church and indulged his inner Father Pfleger with a rant on how the US is filled with racists and how the U.S. Constitution was written to kill minorities.

After the race-baiting “Father” Michael Pfleger left the stage, Chicago’s new top cop took his turn at stirring the race hatred instilled deep in the parishioners by years of Pfleger’s demagoguery. Superintendent McCarthy didn’t disappoint the crowd eager for more race-baiting, for sure.

“So here’s what I want to tell you…,” McCathy said warming to his theme. “Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow. What, what did they all have in common? Anybody getting’ scared? Government sponsored racism.”

Then he really got into the weeds…
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Romney’s Huge Money Advantage

June 24, 2011 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, President, Republicans, Rick Santorum, RightPundits.com, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

A few weeks ago, Herman Cain said that he wasn’t worried about facing Mitt Romney, but he was worried about facing Mitt’s money. Today, Politico reports that Romney has a huge advantage over the other Republican candidates with a campaign war chest they can’t duplicate.

If his one-day fundraiser in May that brought in $10 million is any indication, Romney seems to be on target to raise nearly $40 million for the 2012 election and the primaries that precede it. The campaign is low-balling that figure by saying that he will only reach about $20 million, but even to me that seems low…

Read the rest at RightPundits.com.

Why The Elites Hate Sarah Palin

June 10, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Nancy Morgan, Republicans, Sarah Palin | 2 Comments

-By Nancy Morgan

The media is in a frenzy and elite pundits are all atwitter. Why? Because Sarah Palin refuses to let them define her. As Palin puts it, “I don’t owe the media anything.”

The political and media elites on both left and right are rising up in anger at former Governor Sarah Palin. Stories abound, all negative, about this American citizen whose message resonates with ordinary citizens yet doesn’t conform to the current political and media template.

By all rights, Palin should be kowtowing to the media. Doesn’t she know that? Instead, this upstart dares to ignore the unwritten rules governing political behavior. Palin is playing by her own rules and that just isn’t done.

In the elite world of the old media, any contender for public office must give due deference to the unwritten and ever-changing rules of political correctness. The sacred cows of diversity, multiculturalism and social justice cannot be ignored. And the media is the only one allowed to define the issues (thereby winning the debate by default).
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Hollywood ‘Comedian’ Calls for Assassination of Sarah Palin

June 8, 2011 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Entertainment, Hollywood, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, TV, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Jeff Poor at the Daily Caller has a disturbing story this week. It’s all about a so-called Hollywood comedian telling a talk show audience that he would assassinate Sarah Palin were she to become President of the United States. He wasn’t being “funny” either, was he? After all, those Hollywierders that blamed the right for a “culture of violent rhetoric” said this sort of talk was a “serious” threat to the country. Right?

Christopher Titus appeared on the Adam Corolla show when a discussion of Palin was started. Here was the “humor” he offered:

“You know what man? I am going to literally — if she gets elected president, I am going to hang out on the grassy knoll all the time, just loaded and ready — because you know what? It’s for my country. It’s for my country. If I got to sacrifice myself, it’s for my country.”

Now, let’s harken back to 2009 when the left went wild over the “cross hairs” graphic that Palin used on her website to target at risk Democrats during the then upcoming 2010 midterm elections. The far left website Gawker, for instance, was ready to bring Palin up on charges for using the common symbol on a campaign map. And that was just an image on a campaign website! They weren’t the only ones, either. The charge was everywhere.
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Huggies Diapers, Papa John’s Pizza Pull Ads From Left-Wing Blog Attacking Trig Palin

April 20, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Children, Democrats/Leftists, Gays, Government, Liberals, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Note, I was going to ignore this story, but since advertisers are pulling out over it, I felt I’d better write about it.

One of the left’s favorite websites is called Wonkeete. It is popular because it has a reputation of being newsie, yet snarky, sort of like a less intelligent version of Comedy Central’s Daily Report. Truth be known it is more often than not merely profane as opposed to humorous or droll and for some of its advertisers the profane site has gone too far with its April 18 post making fun of Trig Palin, a child with Down’s Syndrome.

Wankette “writer” Jack Stuef decided it would be “fun” to mark Trig Palin’s third birthday by posting a “funny” post calling the child “retarded,” demeaning Trig’s intelligence as America’s “great gentleman scholar,” Saying that Todd Palin molested his own daughter and that resulted in Trig’s birth, saying that the child can’t dream because “he’s retarded,” making fun of Trig’s sister, Piper, for loving the boy, and saying that because he has Down’s Syndrome, Trig is only “somewhat alive.”

That is a lot of hate for a three year old developmentally disabled child, isn’t it? Imagine. Leftists think all that hate spewed upon a child is “humor.” Sort of tells you where leftists are coming from, doesn’t it?
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Karljacked: Rove’s Attack Against Palin is Petty

March 16, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Daniel Clark, Elections, GOP, Government, Karl Rove, Republicans, Sarah Palin | Comments Off

-By Daniel Clark

If Karl Rove doesn’t think Sarah Palin would make a good presidential candidate, he could have made a reasonable case for his point of view, as could be made against any other potential candidate being considered. The criticism he offered during a recent interview with New York magazine, however, says a lot more about him than it does her.

Rove pointed to Palin’s TV show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, as being beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate. Referencing a scene from the program, he mimicked the ex-governor saying, “Holy crap! That fish hit my thigh! It hurts!” Then he asked, “How does that make us comfortable seeing her in the Oval Office?”

So she should be disqualified from the presidency for saying “crap?” Has Rove forgotten what his former boss, George W. Bush, said about New York Times correspondent Adam Clymer during the 2000 campaign? Or what Vice President Cheney said to Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor? How about John Kerry’s premeditated f-bombing in a Rolling Stone interview?
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Left Decries Palin’s Stalker… Or Not

March 8, 2011 | Filed Under Alaska, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Ethics, Government, Liberals, Media Bias, Pennsylvania, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last month a stalker of Sarah Palin was discovered only 50 miles from her home in Alaska. He has been talking about “tracking her down” at book signings, falsely claimed he’s had a sexual relationship with her, and has sent the Palin’s receipts of gun purchases. So, now I am waiting for the leftists that immediately began to blame the shooting on Gabrielle Giffords on “violent right-wing rhetoric” to point to the violent left-wing rhetoric that would cause a teenager to buy guns (and send the receipt to Palin), send threatening emails, make threatening phone calls, call himself Palin’s “magic enemy,” and ultimately set out to threaten her at her home, until caught by the FBI.

Like Verum Serum I’m waiting for that sincere national dialog from the left. Waaaaaiting….

Naturally, we have to turn to foreign press to hear the story as the US press didn’t make much noise about the stalker Shawn Christy, 19, from Pennsylvania.
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CBS Names Its Palin-Supporting Character After Terrorist

March 1, 2011 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, CBS, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Hollywood, Liberals, Sarah Palin, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The CBS drama The Good Wife, a politically charged soap-opera-like series, is coming under fire for naming its Sarah Palin-boosting character after America’s most infamous domestic terrorist, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Matthew Vadum of the Washington-based Capital Research Center says that naming the character “McVeigh” conjures an unmistakable inference. “Calling a character ‘Kurt McVeigh’ conjures up unmistakable images of mass murdering terrorist Timothy McVeigh. Hollywood screenwriters don’t live in a cultural vacuum; they help to create American culture,” Vadum told Fox News.

Even as the TV producers claim that they weren’t trying to discredit Sarah Palin by naming a character that supports her in its series after America’s most murderous homegrown terrorist, they also admit that they purposefully chose the name to invoke anti-government sentiment in the show’s other characters.
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Palin Gives Time A Few Minutes of Her Time About Its False ‘Reporting’

February 14, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Democrats/Leftists, Egypt, Foreign Countries, GOP, Government, Liberals, Magazines, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Time Magazine, TV, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

The media is so sure that only the worst about Palin could possibly be true that false stories, out right lies, and even comedy bits are constantly presented as actual news. Time Magazine is the latest to fall into that trap by reporting a satirical Internet posting about Sarah Palin as hard news. It all just goes to prove that Sarah Palin lives in the heads of the Old Media and it must be awfully cramped up there.

Last week on Time Mag’s Celebrity Newsfeed, Nick Carbone reported satire as fact only to make a “correction” days later. Carbone had fallen for a “tongue-in-cheek” Internet posting that joked that in an interview with Fox News personality Sean Hannity Palin said she wanted to deport Christina Aguilera for screwing up the National Anthem at the opening of the Superbowl.
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‘Sarah’ Comes to CPAC 2011… OK, Not Really

February 12, 2011 | Filed Under Entertainment, GOP, Government, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

A Sarah Palin impersonator also hit the floor at CPAC 2011. She had the style and did a great vocal impersonation, but her facial features are just a little off. Still “Sarah Palin” appeared at CPAC and fooled a few bloggers and fans in the process.

Obviously a stunt. Thanks to Uncoverage we find that this was just a woman looking to drum up some business for her impersonator business.
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Even As Arizona Shooting Story Unfolds, Some Media Already Blaming Tea Party/Sarah Palin

January 8, 2011 | Filed Under Conservatives, Crime, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, The New York Times, Warner Todd Huston, Washington Post | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Even as the early, sketchy details of the shooting incident in Arizona were still emerging some members of the left-leaning media were already trying to tie the killer to Tea Party activism in general and Sarah Palin in particular.

Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic.com was early to attempt to link lunatic killer Jared Loughner to the Tea Party, but he wasn’t the only one. The Washington Post’s Sandhya Somashekhar immediately attempted to color the story as an example of the “militant rhetoric” of the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin.

Liberals on Saturday blamed the tea party movement’s sometimes militant rhetoric — for example, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s advice to her supporters via Twitter, “Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD,” or Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle (R) advocating “second-amendment remedies” for some of the nation’s problems. Palin had also posted a U.S. map depicting crosshairs over the states where she hoped to oust Democratic incumbents. That map no longer appears on the Web site of her political action committee.

Additionally, within minutes of the attack, hard left-winger Paul Krugman of the New York Times asserted that the reason Giffords was shot was because her seat was not turned over to Republicans. Despite that no political motive was at all known, Krugman immediately asserted that it was the fault of the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
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Shocking: Dave Weigel Doesn’t Get Sarah Palin

December 30, 2010 | Filed Under Campaign Finance, Conservatives, Elections, GOP, Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Like most leftists, former Washington Post blogger David Weigel just doesn’t get Sarah Palin. Weigel took a look at the year-end contributions from the Political Action Committees (PACs) sponsored by Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin and what he saw there baffled him. While Weigel thought he understood the “strategy” of Romney’s donations, he admitted that he just couldn’t understand Palin’s.

Weigel took a look at the Federal Elections Commission’s emerging reporting records of the two GOP player’s campaign donations. Weigel figured that Romney was doling out his campaign donations in key areas and to key candidates, all obviously meant to help his likely run for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. So Weigel thought Ronmey had a discernible “strategy” in his PAC donations.
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More Palin Bashing: How CNN Misleads With Headlines

November 30, 2010 | Filed Under CNN, Foreign Countries, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Journalism, Media, Media Bias, North Korea, Sarah Palin, South Korea, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

CNN indulged a classic left media tactic by misleading with a headline in a recent piece on former Governor Sarah Palin. The headline, if read by itself, seems to be saying that Sarah Palin delivered a “gaffe-filled message,” when the truth is that her message talked about gaffes, but wasn’t “filled” with them per se. The effect was that the headline made Palin look worse than the story itself did. If all one read was the headline, one would get a far different opinion of what was going on than if one read the story that went with it.

On Nov. 26, CNN delivered this headline on its Political Ticker blog: Palin delivers a gaffe-filled message.

Think about that headline. Doesn’t it say to you that Palin delivered a bunch of gaffes in her message? If all you did was read that headline, you’d think she made a fool of herself with all sorts of incorrect statements in it. One suspects that CNN fully realized this fact.
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How The Old Media Constantly Undermines Sarah Palin

November 22, 2010 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Republicans, Sarah Palin, TV, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Most media-watching conservatives have simply been flabbergasted at how the Old Media establishment has so neatly come together to destroy Sarah Palin. The Internet has been abuzz with examples of this attack on Sarah since she was chosen by John McCain to be her number two during the campaign for the 2008 presidential election. Every day there is a new example of it and here is yet another one.

This time it was penned by a “TV critic” for the Washington Post named Lisa de Moraes. De Moraes is well known for constantly injecting left-wing asides into her work and her Nov. 19 attack on the Palins is no exception.

She misled her readers (all 20 of them, I’m sure) right off the bat with her snotty headline, “Sarah Palin tries to lure Bristol’s huge ‘DWTS’ audience to her far less popular TLC reality series.”

What is with this “her far less popular” epithet? This claim is not based in logic.

De Moraes went on with her accusatory rhetoric.
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Right-Wing Conspiracies: Dancing With the Stars and Now… The Dictionary?

November 15, 2010 | Filed Under Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The wild-eyed, conspiro-nuts of the far left have been waxing goofy over claims that there simply must be a vast right wing conspiracy because Palin moppet Bristol Palin continues to scoot by ad stay on the Dancing With the Stars show. Well, now I’d guess they have a new conspiracy to launch: the New Oxford American Dictionary has just named “refudiate” its word of the year.

The left is all ready to call in Jesse Ventura and his TV crew of Conspiracy Theory on this one. After all, it must be a vast right-wing conspiracy if a real-life dictionary is to be seen giving such as Sarah Palin the benefit of its validation.

ABC News reports:

Sarah Palin has officially changed the modern lexicon, one tweet at a time. While one might expect the New Oxford American Dictionary to refudiate the former Alaska governor’s favorite verb, today they embraced it, announcing “refudiate” as the official 2010 word of the year.

The left must be at its lowest point emotionally.

First they are tossed out of office in a landslide, and then THIS!

It’s an outrage, I tells ya.
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Politico Lying about Palin Again?

October 21, 2010 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Politico, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Radio host Mark Levin says that Politico’s piece slamming Sarah Palin today is an outright lie, at least as far as his part in the story is concerned.

In a long piece by Jonathan Martin about how he thinks Sarah is wrecking havoc on GOP politics across the country, he says this…

According to a source familiar with the situation, she backed out of planned interviews with conservative talk-show hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin the morning she was scheduled to talk to them. And her multiple schedule changes so annoyed Glenn Beck that he finally decided not to have her on his radio or TV show to promote the book.

Levine says that this is flat out untrue. On his Twitter feed, Levine wrote:

This is a flat out lie. Sarah Palin never backed out of any interview with me. Period.

One wonders why Martin didn’t actually practice proper journalism and check out the claims of his “source familiar with the situation” and call Hannity and Levine and see whether or not it was true from their perspective?

So much for “journalism,” eh?

On her Twitter feed, Governor Palin tsked Mr. Martin:

Johnny, Johnny, Johnny…ya just made big mistake lying about Levin, Beck, Rush…U can lie about me, but taking on the Big Guns? Not smart

She cracks me up.
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Sarah Palin Wins Right Nation 2010 Presidential Straw Poll

September 21, 2010 | Filed Under Sarah Palin, Uncategorized, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From Right Nation 2010…

CHICAGO – Conservatives, Republicans and Tea Party independents from throughout the Midwest have chosen former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as their top choice for President in 2012. Palin received 323 of the 1,693 votes cast at Right Nation 2010, the unprecedented event sponsored by the United Republican Fund and held just outside Chicago this past Saturday, September 18th.

Palin beat out New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who came in second with 274 votes, and Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who came in third with 227 votes. Herman Cain and Mitt Romney rounded out the top five with 201 and 190 votes, respectively.

Full Results:

1. Sarah Palin – 323 votes (19.1%)
2. Chris Christie – 274 votes (16.2%)
3. Newt Gingrich – 227 votes (13.4%)
4. Herman Cain – 201 votes (11.9%)
5. Mitt Romney – 190 votes (11.2%)
6. Mike Huckabee – 156 votes (9.2%)
7. Ron Paul – 78 votes (4.6%)
8. Mitch Daniels – 76 votes (4.5%)
9. Tim Pawlenty – 68 votes (4.0%)
10. Mike Pence – 45 votes (2.7%)
11. Rudy Giuliani – 33 votes (1.9%)
12. Haley Barbour – 22 votes (1.3%)

The straw poll was conducted via paper ballot and overseen by Right Nation 2010 officials. It was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity.

For more details on Right Nation go to www.RightNation2010.com.

Alaska Senator Launches Ill Advised write-in Campaign

September 17, 2010 | Filed Under Alaska, Congress, Elections, GOP, Government, Government, Corruption, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Senate, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Talk about sore losers. We are starting to see the GOP country club set getting petulant, aren’t we?

First was pouter Mike Castle who lost his incumbency to Tea Party insurgent Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. Castle is refusing to back the voter’s choice and he’s gone off whining about the tough campaign that O’Donnell waged. Boo hoo, Mickey, boo hoo.

Now we get sore loser Lisa Murkowski of Alaska pulling her own little stunt. She just lost her Senate seat to another Tea Party backed candidate, Joe Miller. But instead of acquiescing to the will of the voters, Murkowski is petulantly launching a write-in campaign for herself!

Miller was also endorsed by Murkowski rival former Governor Sarah Palin, adding to Murkowski’s pain.

So I guess Murkowski hasn’t had enough of the power of being a Senator and is having a bit of trouble accepting the voter’s will because now she is launching a ridiculous writein campaign. She is sure to be wholly embarrassed by the outcome if she sticks this thing out all the way to November, but she also might just hurt the real nominee just enough to allow a Democrat to win right when Democrats are losing big time everywhere else.
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Politico Again Slaps Bad Vanity Fair Palin Attack

September 3, 2010 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Government, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

As many tongues on both sides of the political divide wagged yesterday Vanity Fair published a badly sourced attack piece on Governor Palin. But the piece is even worse than first thought.

As Politico’s Ben Smith discovered, the Vanity Fair piece contained yet another lie passed off as “journalism.”

Smith highlighted the part of the VF piece that led the reader to think that the Palins used son Trig as a political prop at the rally held in Kansas City.

Smith excerpted this section of the VF piece:
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BREAKING: Murkowski Concedes in Alaska

August 31, 2010 | Filed Under Alaska, Elections, GOP, Government, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Another one of Mitch McConnell’s favorites just went down in flames as Senator Lisa Murkowski just bowed to Alaska’s new GOP candidate for Senate, Joe Miller.

Miller is far more conservative than Murkowski who was vying for the Ted Stevens award for pork.

As the New York Times says…

Mr. Miller shocked the political establishment here and in Washington last week when he emerged with a narrow lead, 1,668 votes, after the primary vote, on Aug. 24.

Chalk up another win for a Palin pick, too, as Miller got former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s support in this primary.

At first tongues were wagging that Murkowski was doing better than expected in the absentee ballots but as the night wore on it became clear that she was never going to be able to make up the lead that Miller had going into the counting.

That she conceded is a very good thing for the race in Alaska because it means that the bruising primary is over and Miller can spend his time and money on his Democrat opponent and not on a recount battle.

I am pleasantly surprised that Murkowski did concede, too, because yesterday an RNC hired gun lawyer was quickly flown up to Alaska and that could have portended a hard fought recount battle.

But it isn’t to be and that is a good thing.

Now let’s shake hands in Alaska, Republicans, and get to the job of putting Joe Miller in Washington D.C.!

AFL-CIO Leader Attacks Palin

August 26, 2010 | Filed Under AFL-CIO, Alaska, Government, Liberals, Sarah Palin, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka spoke before the union’s Biennial Convention in Anchorage, Alaska today. In that speech Trumka called Governor Palin a new Joe McCarthy and says she has come “close to calling for violence.” He also objected to Palin’s use of the phrase “union thugs” in her comments and Internet postings.

Transcript of Trumka’s Palin comments

Sarah Palin?

She used to have a job, your governor…. You knew her…. Or thought you did…. I know I thought I did. She seemed like a decent person, an outdoorswoman. Her husband’s a steelworker. She seemed to take some OK stands for working families.

And then things got weird. After she tied herself to John McCain and they lost, she blew off Alaska. I guess she figured she’d trade up…shoot for a national stage. Alaska was too far from the FOX TV spotlight.

I bet most of you, on a clear day, can see her hypocrisy from your house.

I think Sarah Palin quit so she wouldn’t have to be accountable… so she wouldn’t have a record that could be scrutinized…

Roger Ebert: Calls Sarah Palin Hitler, Says America Is At Fault for GZ Mosque Troubles

August 23, 2010 | Filed Under Adolph Hitler, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | 8 Comments

- By Warner Todd Huston

Roger Ebert is nothing if he isn’t a knee-jerk leftist, absolutely without a single original political or cultural thought in his head and his latest meandering post on the Sun-Times hosted Roger Ebert’s Journal is a perfect example.

His piece is titled “Ten things I know about the mosque” but it doesn’t seem like there really are ten things nor are they all about the mosque. After reading his wandering post one is tempted to believe that the only reason he posted the thing was to find an excuse to attack Sarah Palin, someone that has nothing to do with the Ground Zero Mosque.

Let’s deal with Ebert’s off topic attack on Palin first. For a piece that is supposed to be about the Ground Zero Mosque (and by the way he never once calls it the Ground Zero Mosque, even as the Imam that was planning the thing has called it that) Palin’s appearance at point 6 on his list makes no sense. Not only that but Ebert goes off on a tangent of a tangent by discussing Palin’s interaction with Dr. Laura and her “N” word controversy. Hello, Rog… mosque? What does Palin and Dr. Laura have to do with the mosque?

Even more absurdly, Ebert’s first few points are filled with his ruminations on the First Amendment. Then he attacks Palin for employing her own freedom of speech? It’s a whiplash-inducing tangent, for sure.
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Palin is Nasty Because She ‘Rolls Her Eyes’ or Something

August 11, 2010 | Filed Under Media, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

What’s the Old Media’s latest nit-picking Palin apostasy? They claim she rolled her eyes at a nasty, negative constituent. Mean, rotten, evil Sarah the “eye roller” should be tarred and feathered over this, I guess.

Here’s how The New York Times’ The Caucus Blog is reporting it:

In a video that has been widely reported, Ms. Palin asks a woman standing next to a large “Worst Governor Ever” banner what she does for a living. The woman — Kathleen Gustafson, according to news media reports – responds that she’s a teacher. That leads to a response that prompted several outlets to comment that Ms. Palin rolled her eyes — or at least looked like she was rolling them.

This supposed “eye rolling” occurs after the woman told the Governor that she was a teacher (about 1:10 into the video). Many of the left-media are claiming that Palin rolls her eyes and gives a “knowing glance” to her supporters as if to say, “oh, a teacher, now we know this constituent is a left-wing, loony.”
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About the Left’s New Palin-Confronting ‘Teacher,’ Turns Out She Lied

August 9, 2010 | Filed Under Alaska, Education, Liberals, Sarah Palin, Teachers Unions, Warner Todd Huston | 2 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Earlier today the left sent up cheers for an Alaska “teacher” that is seen on video attacking Governor Palin as “the worst Governor ever” as the sign she was putting up read.

When Gov. Palin interacted with her, the woman told Palin she was a “teacher.”

Looks like the woman, Kathleen Gustafson, is a liar. As we find on GatewayPundit, she isn’t a teacher but a theater tech. Even more absurdly, the woman belongs to a band that features drag queens as its attraction!

Another blogger whose blog is named Mac’sMind did some digging and the only Kathleen Gustafson he could find connected to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District works in the theater dept. as a tech.

So, once again, the left’s hero turns out to be a whack-job and a liar. Are we surprised?

Here’s that confrontation with Gov. Palin:
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Palin’s Newest Crime Against Humanity: An Ugly Fence

June 24, 2010 | Filed Under Journalism, Media, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

It must have been a slow news day for the Washington Post’s Adrian Higgins. Either that or someone made him upset that day and he wanted to take some anger out on someone and get paid for it at the same time. Catharsis doesn’t come free from a journalist, you know? So, looking for some payback, Higgins decided a petty attack upon Sarah Palin would be cheaper than a visit to his therapist. Besides, Palin is always the Old Media’s favorite target for venomous attack so he obviously didn’t have to think too hard in the effort.

But, since Sarah hadn’t been in the news over the last several days, Higgins must have had a hard time trying to find a rhetorical hook upon which to hang his venomous pen. Then it hit him. Her fence is ugly. Who cares that the fence story is now months old, eh? Who needs topical when one is going after Sarahcuda?

That’s right, the fence is ugly and that makes Palin an evil, oil-loving, war-mongering, racist, anti-feminist, monster, right? Man, that must have made Higgins feel better. And it saved him from kicking his dog this time, too. Smiles all around.

Of course, there was more to it than just saying the fence was ugly. Higgins also proclaims the Palins as “bad neighbors” because of it. Never mind that the only reason that the thing was even put up is to keep the hack-next-door from acting the peeping Joe on Palin’s young children.
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