{"id":15642,"date":"2009-11-17T12:41:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15642"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:41:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:41:12","slug":"falling-into-the-medias-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15642","title":{"rendered":"Falling into the media’s trap"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS News<\/a> has published a new poll that declares Sarah Palin radioactive for Republicans. According to them, only 1 in 4 Americans view Sarah Palin favorably;<\/p>\n

Just 23 percent of those surveyed in a new CBS News poll have a favorable view of the former Alaska governor. That matches her favorable rating in July, when Palin announced she was resigning from her job as governor.<\/p>\n

Thirty-eight percent, meanwhile, have an unfavorable view of Palin — also roughly matching her July rating. Another 37 percent say they are undecided or haven’t heard enough, despite the spotlight on Palin in recent days tied to the imminent publication of her memoir, “Going Rogue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m pretty sure Ronald Reagan polled about the same way in 1977. The media pounded him pretty badly in the Republican primaries and treated him like a crank through Carter’s rush to give away the Panama Canal and reward draft dodgers with amnesty. Three years later, the American voter was tired of being blamed for our national problems constantly, being told how to dress in our own homes, being scolded for spending more time on our families than being part of the community and our national malaise.<\/p>\n

Now, the media is trying to prevent Sarah Palin from stealing our attention from the President’s wildly successful presidency the same way they did Reagan. He was able to overcome the media bias against him with only Commentary magazine and The National Review as a megaphone. <\/p>\n

The LA Times<\/a> notices how scared the Democrats seem to be of Palin;<\/p>\n

Every few minutes another note from Democratic National Committee operatives and others dropped into electronic mailboxes across the media-verse, helpfully passing on even the tiniest tidbit of negative news about Palin.<\/p>\n

You know how sometimes a friend tells you how much he\/she doesn’t really care about….<\/p>\n

…someone else. Really doesn’t! And repeats it a sufficient number of times that you become convinced of precisely the opposite?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So here we are nearly three years away from the next election, at about the same point that Obama began his run at the 2008 election, and the media is trying to convince us that Palin doesn’t have a chance to win. I wonder why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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