Posted by
Ed Donath on Friday, November 20, 2009 5:48:58 AM
from eddobloggo.com
My better half would probably throw me under the bus and tell you that I lost my bout with awake-ness by a knockout during Sean Hannity's hour-long interview of Sarah Palin Wednesday evening. I'm sticking with "Tough day. Just resting my eyes, sweetheart."
Regardless, I'll be candid and admit that after seeing this interview I had about as much of a craving to buy Palin's memoirs as I've ever had to read Barack Obama's account of what he did during his formative years in the Soviet Union. 
Actually, it would never even have occurred to me to write about Sarah Palin at this point in time. She's not officially running for anything and, other than her book promotion tour and a controversial Newsweek cover designed to stimulate that magazine's own sagging sales, nothing she has done lately is newsworthy.
Nonetheless, the left is still deathly afraid of her. They will go to any length, including their nearly unilateral preservation of her 15 minutes, by continuing a perpetual "discussion" of this hated subject. They do so, apparently, merely to enable themselves to get in a nasty jab at her as often as possible.
It appears to anyone paying honest attention that the left talks and writes far more about Gov. Palin than does the right. Case in point: David Letterman, who does over-the-top Palin insult shtick whenever his writers run out of new ideas -- which is obviously pretty often.
My own impetus for joining the lefties with today's Palin piece is the story about the Associated Press putting a team of 11 crack investigative reporters on her case. AP claims Palin misstated her record as governor of Alaska with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts. They also speculate that Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life, "...has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto."
According to Newsmax, "the AP, an organization with over 4,000 employees and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, would not comment on their own reporting for this story."
"Imagine that," reads Sarah Palin's Facebook come-back. "Eleven AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."
Of course I agree with Gov. Palin's perspective and believe that her ability to both defend herself from her attackers and to throw their hypocrisy right back at them is in large part responsible for the lefties' fear and hate of this unflappable woman.
They would have you believe that she is incapable of original thought, let alone solid executive performance. Remember that they said essentially the same things about George W. Bush which helped get him elected twice in spite of the know-it-all belief that their vitriol would ring true.
Harry S. Truman was fond of saying: "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." I agree wholeheartedly with Truman's logic and would apply it to anyone who writes an autobiography; anyone with or without a political ulterior motive for doing so. But while I trust that Sarah Palin is very much like President Truman in both her forthrightness and plain-talking style, Mrs. Bloggo will attest that I'm not losing any sleep over any of it.
The ultimate irony, however, is that we will know more about Sarah Palin's background as a result of the AP and the liberal media's old-fashioned vetting years before the next presidential campaign than we knew about our current president before his election.
In all likelihood we will know more about Sarah Palin, whether or not she ever runs for office (and whether or not we ever care) than we will ever know about the background of Barack Hussein Obama -- which is the cause for many Americans' sleepless nights.
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