Unpardonable Media Fabrication, Exploitation and Abuse of Sarah Palin

One of the main reasons why Sarah Palin is so qualified to be a political leader is because she is not in politics for political power and personal or financial gain, but rather to serve her fellow citizens and maintain the common sense, conservative values of limited government, free enterprise, energy independence, and Reagan-type foreign policy.

Her substantial experience far outweighs that of Obama’s. She served on the Wasilla, Alaska City Council from 1992-1996, as Mayor of Wasilla from 1996-2000, on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission chair from 2003-2004 and as governor of Alaska from 2006-2009. This is a stark contrast to Obama’s experience which is confined merely to 8 years in the U.S. Senate and chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Foundation. I find it interesting that nearly 130 times during his years in the Senate Obama voted neither yes nor no on issues but chose to vote as “present.” He’s definitely keeping in step with that neutral, non-committal tradition as President! Even if his experience had surpassed hers, it is ridiculous that the media was constantly haranguing on her political experience and forever comparing her supposed lack of experience to Obama’s supposed extensive experience when she was running for Vice President and he was running for President!

Contrary to the erroneous misconception that Sarah Palin is unintelligent and inexperienced, her intellect, achievements and competence are remarkable. These are a few in-depth descriptions of how this woman was completely misrepresented and brutalized by the mainstream media. (One should read Sarah Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” for the full details on these stories.)

Mark and Nicolle Wallace worked for the Sarah Palin campaign team. Nicolle used to work for CBS and repeatedly insisted that Sarah do a series of interviews with Katie Couric on CBS. This was to be the public’s first real view of Palin, and unfortunately it was one of the few media outlets that “headquarters” would allow. John McCain had nothing to do with the unfair treatment of Palin during the campaign as the leading campaign staff and the “headquarters” they constantly referred to called the shots. But back to my story. Sarah Palin ended up filming hours and hours of interview tape with Couric who twisted and turned every word of Sarah’s possible. She would ask her the same question at least a dozen times and then she would edit out most of her answer in the final cut making Sarah sound unintelligent. Also, after being asked the same questions about a dozen or so times each, after being asked incredibly condescending questions by Couric that pertained very little to the actual issues of the campaign and after being subjected to hours and hours of this time-wasting nonsense when she could have been doing more important things, Sarah became slightly frustrated at moments. Of course in the final edit Couric entered those few minutes as a supposed representation of the entire series.

As I said earlier, Couric would also ask her questions and then cut her off before she could finish, or just leave the rest of her answers out of the final cut. For instance, we all know the SNL quote, “I can see Russia from my house.” Unfortunately, many people assumed that the SNL humor was reality. In the interview, Couric was questioning Palin’s foreign policy experience, and Sarah started to explain the various ways that Alaska has an impact on foreign policy and her experience in dealing with those issues as governor. At the beginning of her explanation she began to speak of the geographic positioning of Alaska and mentioned that you could even see Russia from some parts of the Alaskan shoreline (which is indeed true). Regardless, she was definitely not using that statement as proof of her foreign policy experience; it was merely a random side note within an introductory premise with which she was explaining the geographic positioning of Alaska. Couric interrupted Sarah before she was able to finish her explanation, edited out most of her response and presented that one statement as Sarah’s supposed primary explanation for why she was qualified in foreign policy. Go figure. There are dozens and dozens of situations where she was used and abused by the mainstream media as well as some individuals from within her own campaign team.

Here is another brief illustration. One of the leading individuals on the campaign staff, Steve Schmidt, has made statements in the press lately that Sarah thought that Saddam Hussein was the main factor behind 9/11 and that she didn’t know who her son was going off to fight in the war. Again these accusations are completely unscrupulous lies. Undoubtedly, Schmidt is trying to save his own reputation because he doesn’t want any of the scorn and hate that Palin has incurred to have a negative effect on his future campaign leadership opportunities. Let me explain why he said those things in particular. During his first meeting with Palin they extensively discussed the situation in Iraq and the history of the war. During that session Palin asked him several questions, one of which was whether there were possible ties between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. Schmidt twisted those questions around and stated that she blatantly and repeatedly claimed that Saddam was the main cause of 9/11. What a jerk is all I can say! What people do for power and money and self-preservation.

Regardless, many have wondered why Sarah Palin, of all people, incurs so much hate and scorn. This is my opinion. Yes, the Liberals are afraid of her common sense conservative values of free enterprise, limited government, energy independence, Reagan-like foreign policy etc. However, what really terrifies them is the dynamic energy and honesty that she brings to the Republican ticket because she is not afraid of what people think of her and “says it like it is.” The Liberals’ biggest asset, the mainstream media, is therefore powerless to manipulate her into giving mediocre, vanilla and neutral non-answers and statements. Her unrelenting honesty and prioritization of practical values and the good of her fellow citizens over her reputation, financial profit or political advancement terrifies those who crave power and the fulfillment of the Liberal agenda. She is a threat to them and that is why they sought so desperately to destroy the reputation of her and her family.

While we are on the topic of financial profit, I have a couple of other enlightening stories to relate. Most people remember the rumor, which the media claimed to be fact of course, that Sarah Palin had rendezvoused on exorbitant shopping sprees and rung up a bill of $150,000 for the RNC. This is perhaps the most laughable rumor of all. She had nothing to do with any of the purchases that they made for her or her family. Campaign staffers purchased a great deal of clothes for them which Sarah considered to be far too expensive and would have preferred to wear her own clothes, but they insisted that she wear what they wanted her to. Also, most of the clothes were returned because a variety of different sizes were purchased so that they would be sure to have the right sizes on hand for her and her family.

Then of course there is the reason why she resigned as governor. Most people accepted explanations like this, given by Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse, "Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job." He referred to it as a "pattern of bizarre behavior." Let’s take a more in-depth look. Throughout the course of the campaign and even for months and months afterwards, she was accused of dozens of supposed ethics violations from wearing a jacket with a logo on it to answering reporters’ questions in the governor’s lobby to the supposed fact that some Alaskan women were wearing their clothes too tight. As Sarah Palin says in her book, “After the string of nutty complaints she’d already hit us with, this one just cracked us up. I told Nizich and Kris, ‘Yep, that’s my job. I’m the state Cleavage Czar. I’ll get right on it.”

As a more extensive example of one of these charges, she was accused of firing Commissioner Walt Monegan for refusing to fire a trooper who was an ex brother-in-law of Palin’s. In the first place, Sarah did not fire Monegan but reassigned him, a perfectly legal action; he chose to resign. The reasons that this trooper, Mike Wooten, should have been fired extended far beyond the fact that he was an abusive ex-brother in law who threatened to put a f@#$&^% bullet through her father’s head etc. etc. This trooper was a failure at his job. He would drink alcohol on the job, shot his nephew with his taser gun, and was involved in illegal activities such as poaching etc. etc. And here the media claimed that she wanted him fired merely because he was an ex brother-in-law?!

Another of these “ethics violations” was that she and her family had taken trips on Alaskan tax payer dollars that were outside of the parameters of her job as governor. Some of the trips that they accused her of neither she nor her family had ever taken! And ALL of the trips that actually did exist were definitely within the parameters of official business. Interestingly enough the traveling expenses that Sarah’s family incurred were FAR smaller than the two previous governors who even had smaller families than her too! The cost to Palin personally of these illegitimate and ridiculous charges that were continually thrown at her, even after the campaign, amounted to over $500,000. She also adds in her book, “Just one of these requests for a certain batch of e-mails generated 24,000 individual sheets of paper. So instead of doing our jobs, my staff, including attorneys, spent thousands of hours and wasted more than $2 million of public monies to sort through it all one sheet at a time.” She had two choices: stay in office and waste most of her time dealing with these cases and take away Alaska’s precious tax payer dollars dealing with the court/lawyer charges, or resign. She chose the most honorable choice of course and resigned.

I am so happy that she is now on Fox News and can speak freely without being micro-managed by power-hungry and paranoid-of-revealing-any-true-substance campaign managers and that she is now free to speak her own mind on the issues that challenge our country during these crucial times.

P.S. I would also like to add that among some of the abuse that Sarah and her family endured were threats that her 14 year old daughter was going to be gang-raped and her oldest daughter was going to have her pregnant body shot from a helicopter, rumors that she and Todd were divorcing, that supposed porn pictures and videos of her were going to be released, that Trig was not really her son and crude references to her daughter having been “knocked up in the seventh inning by Yankee infielder Alex Rodriguez.” When Sarah Palin did not take too lightly to that last tasteless reference to her daughter she was accused of not being able to take a joke. She says, “No, I guess I can’t take a joke that suggests it’s funny to humiliate a young girl and pretend that statutory rape by a thirty-four year old man is something to laugh about. More telling, though, was the reaction by some women’s groups and feminists, who, as usual, stayed silent too long. If they couldn’t articulate some concern, if not outrage, that this kind of ‘humor’ was still acceptable—to the detriment of young women, who are already too often made to feel like sex objects by sexist older men—then these women’s rights activists were hypocrites.”

Frustrated by Ignorance-Induced Injustice

I am incomprehensibly frustrated by ignorance-induced injustice. It would be more beneficial to society if there were merely intelligent, evil individuals and intelligent, decent individuals. As it is, there is an overwhelming class of ignorant, naive and complacent citizens who, though deep-down share a lot of the same values and essential beliefs as the intelligent, decent people, are brainwashed to believe a distorted version of the truth by the intelligent, evil people. Please don't give me any of that politically correct garbage about "truth depending on one's perspective." I'm not a relativist; I believe in absolutes and I'm willing to debate anyone on my beliefs so that logic and facts will determine what those absolutes are.

Is there hope for a society whose educational system and media are stupendously lopsided towards the agenda of evil people? In Iran, at least the majority of the citizens (who have learned the hard way) can see through the blatant media and educational bias and are willing to fight and die for truth, but here in America I am discouraged by the realization that many of our citizens are so tightly bound by the chains of complacency, materialism and dependency that they can't see the noose tightening around their necks while they puppet the lies they are fed by the media and their education (or lack thereof).

The only thing that can spare them is a voracious and exhausting fight for truth by the intelligent, decent people in society or, tragically, they will learn the hard way after the very last of their liberty is stripped away and they are left defenseless against a tyrannical monster called unlimited government. Yeah, that's right, the same guys who were supposed to be your friends and promised to pay your mortgages, create eternal peace by banning self-defense, save the planet and win your country an international popularity contest by consenting to the demands for appeasement of evil as opposed to forceful opposition of evil.

If the underlying Liberal agenda, parading under your sacred values of "multiculturalism, tolerance and diversity," wins out in the end, it will bring you only ultimate submission to evil and not "co-existence with a very different but very similar and equally decent religion or culture." This same agenda will also bring Socialist-induced dependence (and eventually devastating poverty), human rights violations and the final collapse of any sanctity for life and liberty our social structure still possesses. Nicely done America.