Interesting Numbers

[Gaspar]

The media has been trying to burry Palin.  The bloggers and posters have been trying to sully her.  The media cannot stop talking about her (good and bad).  By doing so they have elevated her so high that she is beginning to overshadow Obama and Biden.

This from Nelson:
37,244,000 WATCHED PALIN SPEECH ... [24,029,000 WATCHED BIDEN; 38,379,000 WATCHED OBAMA]

I wonder what McCain's numbers will be tonight?

I also saw an article in the UK Telegraph comparing her to Margaret Thatcher.  

Keep blasting her!  Keep going!

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

The media has been trying to burry Palin.  The bloggers and posters have been trying to sully her.  The media cannot stop talking about her (good and bad).  By doing so they have elevated her so high that she is beginning to overshadow Obama and Biden.

This from Nelson:
37,244,000 WATCHED PALIN SPEECH ... [24,029,000 WATCHED BIDEN; 38,379,000 WATCHED OBAMA]

I wonder what McCain's numbers will be tonight?

I also saw an article in the UK Telegraph comparing her to Margaret Thatcher.  

Keep blasting her!  Keep going!

There you go getting your facts wrong.

42,000,000+ watched Obama. The numbers you indicate did not include public stations such as CSPAN and PBS.

The devil in me wants to know how many switched channels and for whom. FOTD watched Carriboo Barbies' schpeil for 20 minutes....but watched all of that great historical political speech from Denver in it's entirety. Do you think 37,000,000 put up with her entire crapolla?




Boy the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.
Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.

"Pipe down meathead" A. Bunker
   

[pmcalk]

I am glad so many people watched her.  I think it will definitely backfire.  She was condescending, and clearly offended community organizers--people who work hard to provide hope for ordinary people.  People like Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Jane Jacobs.  One of the best lines I have seen: Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a govenor.

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a govenor.

I thought that line deserved to be said twice.

[Cubs]

The numbers he quoted of 37M and 38M are from the same source, therefore if the 38M didn't include CSPAN and PBS, neither did the 37M. I actually watched Palin's speech on CSPAN ... usually I would've watched Fox, but I was watching CSPAN during the not-so-exciting parts of the convention and forgot to change the channel when 9pm rolled around.

"Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a govenor."
Let me tell you something, don't repeat this again unless you want McCain to win ... part of the McCain strategy is to paint Obama as a "savior." Haven't you seen the McCain ad? http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Multimedia/Player.aspx?guid=779c7d13-7d76-47a5-a4cd-e928e8f1f1d6

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

quote:Originally posted by pmcalk
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a govenor.

I thought that line deserved to be said twice.

Good grief. Have you both sunk so low that you are forced to channel DKos?

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/4/162029/0439/39/586772

[USRufnex]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

The media has been trying to burry Palin.  The bloggers and posters have been trying to sully her.  The media cannot stop talking about her (good and bad).  By doing so they have elevated her so high that she is beginning to overshadow Obama and Biden.

This from Nelson:
37,244,000 WATCHED PALIN SPEECH ... [24,029,000 WATCHED BIDEN; 38,379,000 WATCHED OBAMA]

I wonder what McCain's numbers will be tonight?

I also saw an article in the UK Telegraph comparing her to Margaret Thatcher.  

Keep blasting her!  Keep going!

1. Whine about the media-- check.

Boy, they sure have been tough on her, there Gaspar... in your alternate universe.

[USRufnex]

They're really sorry, though...

Why the media should apologize
By ROGER SIMON | 9/4/08 12:15 AM EST  

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html

ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.

We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.

We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn't be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols.

Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head Wednesday night (and several in the audience wish she had hit some reporters on the head instead) when she said: "I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone."

But where did we go wrong with Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways:

First, we should have stuck to the warm, human interest stuff like how she likes mooseburgers and hit an important free throw at her high school basketball tournament even though she had a stress fracture.

Second, we should have stuck to the press release stuff like how she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere (after she supported it).

Third, we should never have strayed into the other stuff. Like when The Washington Post recently wrote: "Palin is under investigation by a bipartisan state legislative body. ... Palin had promised to cooperate with the legislative inquiry, but this week she hired a lawyer to fight to move the case to the jurisdiction of the state personnel board, which Palin appoints."

Why go there? What trees does that plant?

Fourth, we should stop making with all the questions already. She gave a really good speech. And why go beyond that? As we all know, speeches cannot be written by others and rehearsed for days. They are true windows to the soul.

Unless they are delivered by Barack Obama, that is. In which case, as Palin said Wednesday, speeches are just a "cloud of rhetoric."

Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.

Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.

Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.

Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)

The official theme of the convention's third day was "prosperity," but the unofficial theme was "the media are really, really awful."

Even Mike Huckabee, who campaigned for president this year by saying "I am a conservative, but I am not mad at anybody," discovered Wednesday night that he is mad at somebody.

"I'd like to thank the elite media for doing something," Huckabee said, "that, quite frankly, I didn't think could be done: unify the Republican Party and all of America in support of John McCain and Sarah Palin."

And could that be the real point of the attacks on the media? To unify the Republican Party?

No, that is simply the cynical, media view.

Though as Lily Tomlin says, "No matter how cynical I get, it's just never enough to keep up."

I couldn't resist that. For which I am sorry.