Pounding The Podium

Let’s start with Geoffrey Dunn’s article, now Dunn according to Huffington Post  is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian.  Apparently several of his movies have qualified for Academy Awards, which is quite surprising as I am pretty sure that you have never heard of them (me either).  Now I will admit that I am a blogger, that’s not a bad thing to be, unless I started off as an award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian and was now reduced to writing bad things about Sarah Palin for money.

Just to give you a taste of what a award-winning journalist Dunn is, here is an excerpt from his article

There’s little mention of Palin’s role as a council member and mayor of Wasilla, her brutal firing of Police Chief Irl Stambaugh and her betrayal of political allies from the early days of her career. I also would have liked to have seen some excerpts from the Branchflower Report included in the collection along with a run-down of the nearly 20 ethics complaints that are tidily posted on the pages of the Anchorage Daily News. While Palin is now an American icon, she is also very much a product of longstanding Alaskan political traditions of isolation and corruption, and her current political traction remains linked to the interplay between those forces.

This is far from Dunn’s first attack on Palin, nor will it unfortunately be his last as he is apparently in the process of writing a book about her.  It is rather sad when you stop and realize that this represents what the man’s career has come to, waxing elequent about a book that is little more than a collection of articles that have been previously published.  But Dunn does not stop there, he continues his attack saying:

One thing is certain: You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs, being published by (who else?) Rupert Murdoch. If there is a single consistency in the Palin canon it is that she is an inveterate liar and motivated by a reckless ambition that has left a trail of collateral damage from Wasilla to Washington, D.C. Going Rouge is full of golden nuggets about Sarah Palin. Judging from her past performances, her own book will most certainly be riddled with deceit.

Gee I wonder if after all that overly dramatic crap that Dunn plans to show us that Palin is 1/2 as big a liar as our current President, you know the guy who can’t even honestly state where he met his wife because that betrays his other lies about knowing the terrorist Robert Ayers?  Is it possible that Sarah Palin has defeated her political opponents by having their divorce records unsealed and made public?   Collateral damange Geoffry?  You mean like the Obama’s left behind in Chicago?   Please as if your articles don’t represent the absolute worst in yellow journalism.

Next up is the article that Huffington Post has in it’s style section “Sarah Palin’s Post Defeat Duds: One Year, Many outfits later” of course this is the same style section that contains the story “Obama’s PDA: One year as A cute First Couple” and no, I’m not making it up.  What is remarkable about the Sarah Palin Poll is that the pictures represent the worst possible pictures that could be found of Sarah Palin, you would have to make a concerted effort to find pictures this bad.  And can someone please explain to me how on earth this is relevant to anything?  Sarah Palin’s wardrobe should really not be that big an issue unless it is keeping the unemployment numbers RIDICULOUSLY HIGH.  It wasn’t an issue then, it isn’t an issue now.  It is just the only tool the left has, throw crap at the wall and hope somebody is stupid enough to believe some of it.   Levi Johnson has a pistachio commercial for God’s sake, why not drag Mr. Obama’s brother back from Kenya and let him make a commerical for ANY kind of food.  I am sure he would be glad to.

How did Sarah Palin get to be the villian here?  Did people finally catch on to the current White House blaming George Bush and Fox News for everything?  What does Sarah Palin have to do with the Health Care fiasco?  Are those Blue Dog Demoncrats following her lead?  What does she have to do with the Unemployment numbers?  How about the war in Afganistan?  Did she tell everyone to turn their ’suspicious’ neighbors in to the White House?

Truly all Sarah Palin did was disagree with the White House and the people in it, which is enough these days, just ask Fox News, Edmonds.com or the AP.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn