The one and only Sarah Palin of course is running for
Alaska's only seat in the house.
She was was the governor of Alaska and
also a former vice presidential candidate in 2008.
She has, trying all kinds of schemes to rehabilitate
her image to sort of like be relevant.
I think she was a masked singer all the things and
now she's getting a little boost e-boost from none other
than the Washington post that decided to write a very gushing
peace Allah Maggie Haberman on Kirsten Cinema style.
Piece about what makes Sarah Palin tick and
why maybe we've been way too harsh on her.
They write this is by TA frank,
excuse me in the Washington post says Palin is the sporting aunt who in
2019 went on a Goofy cannabis focused podcast co hosted by her nephew.
To be quizzed for
an hour about matters such as whether she'd ever tried marijuana.
She's the community member who if you ran into her at the grocery store
would ask you about people in your family by name,
says former high school dance instructor, Sharon Peak.
So her friends, you could say that Palin seemed to point
the way to a different sort of GOP one that stood for
social conservatism, but also for Alaska style libertarianism and
working class friendly economics lull it continues.
So this is my favorite part because this is where this writer essentially says
that actually it's not just the Palin we've been ignoring all her working class
policies and how wonderful she is.
She's a hero, but actually of course it's sexism and
she has been treated just like other famous women like Britney Spears.
So if journalists have been revisiting past episodes of sexist treatment of women
in public life, from Hillary Clinton to Britney Spears.
Mainstream reassessments of the treatment of Sarah Palin have been slower to arrive.
Yet it's hard looking back at the 2008-2009 and
not and not asking if Palin's gender allowed people to feel freer,
not just to hate but also condescend, that is a lot of supposition.
I I'm sorry, I just like I will.
Here's what I think, you look at Palin who was in the spotlight in 2008 and
2009 and who was she?
She was a conservative, she was running as a Republican on the McCain ticket and
then you compare that to and the treatment that she got.
Okay, let's think about it.
Tina Fey impersonated her on SNL.
All right, all right, fine.
2016 Hillary Clinton runs for president,
I'm no fan of hers, but there were shirts sold outside of
Republican rallies that said Hillary sucks and swallows.
Or something like this Hillary Bill sucks Hillary swallows something
to that effect, like horribly sexist, people talking about her
health people talking about like, all kinds of horrible things.
I mean it the amount and what's the difference.
She ran as a democrat, she was a democrat, so it was fair game.
And Britney Spears, like please please spare me the comparison between Palin and
Britney Spears, like Sarah Palin had her was put into a conservatorship.
And yeah her life was where she was followed around by
Paparazzi everywhere she went, they sold pieces of her hair junk on e-bay.
No. >> Yeah, so I think the most interesting
part of the story is the mindset of mainstream media.
So this article, like the first draft of the book that
I wrote was like 600 pages, this article was longer, okay.
And it was and the writer acknowledges she doesn't know anything about policy,
she doesn't know anything about anything, she's not right about anything.
But he and he even actively explains like I am trying super hard to write
a positive piece about her.
>> Yeah. >> To which I asked why,
like what a weird thing for a reporter to do.
Why did you set on a quest to write a positive story about her when you can't
pinpoint anything positive, you have to do vague things like her friends kind of like
her, although in the article, he explains, it's not in his framing like he's like,
like actually a lot of people close to her don't like her like her, I mean she got
divorced, that's not a big deal that happens to a lot of people, right?
But like her ex husband's dad is endorsed?
Like so her ex father in law is endorsing her opponent,
a lot of people closer do not like her at all.
Okay, but he just mentioned that tangentially so, but he's on this massive
like quest to show there's some sort of something positive about Sarah Palin.
Why?
What a weird request that you're on.
But more importantly, as I wrote, read this thing I thought
look at the benefit of the doubt that a right winger gets has
a progressive ever gotten 1% of the benefit of the doubt that
the mainstream media gives republicans like Sarah Palin,
that article was more positive coverage then I have seen of all
progressives in my entire lifetime combined in mainstream media.
Yeah, and they bend over backwards to do this kind of stuff I'm saying like with
Kirsten cinema, same stuff, like she waltzes through the halls of congress like
a bloody believe, I mean it's just insane like you think I'm thinking of someone
like linda Sarsour right, muslim activist, amazing racial justice organizer.
She worked with the women's march, she's been maligned and victimized,
I mean and death threats called her like I mean to say nothing of people like
Rasheeda LIBOR representative Ilhan Omar or alexandria Ocasio Cortez,
maybe they've had more ink spilled on them, but when does the Washington post
do like a sort of have we misunderstood someone like linda Sarsour actually,
have we misunderstood, progressive leftist women activist organizers?
No, never.
What the point of this is to massage our little brains into accepting yet
another fascist As normal, they're gonna write this about Bow Bert,
they're definitely gonna write this about marjorie, taylor greene, right?
It's it's all coming.
Yeah.
And and to your point Francesca.
How about Ilhan Omar?
So if you wrote that about Ilhan Omar, you could actually have an enormously
substantive piece that could fill a piece that long with how she has been
maligned and and and the facts that were written about or
the articles that were written about her were actually false.
So she criticized lobbyists, she was actually completely right about that.
And I can show you exactly how she's been proven right
on the decoupling of infrastructure and build back better proven 100% right.
I could write that article filled with nothing but facts.
I wouldn't have to go to her dear cousin ran into her at the safeway and
kind of liked her.
I wouldn't have to go to any of that stuff.
Right.
And so the Palin article has almost no facts about how she's a good person while
framed in like but she's misunderstood and you we should all love her by the way.
She spits in the guy's face that reporters chasing her all across Alaska,
please write a positive article about you?
And I wanted to be longer than the entire encyclopedia.
Okay.
And she's like no no.
Right.
Meanwhile progressives are dying for one article to mention one
positive thing about us when we have all of the facts on our side.
No no no not gonna do it not gonna do it.
So and and then on top of everything that then to add insult to injury they say
that the mainstream media is liberal.
No no I can't stand it.
And so no economically they are massively conservative.
You can find me where MSNBC and Fox News or new york times and
Fox news disagrees on economic issues.
Find it for me you won't be able to do it.
Okay.
$15 minimum wage.
Both of them that's nah it's inflation, nah it's gonna be a problem.
Na no way deficit deficit deficit.
We're really worried about it.
Right.
Every single progressive policy that is massively popular Medicare for all.
It started at near 80% and then both Fox News and CNN and
New York Times etc went to work on it with a pair of pliers and
a blowtorch and then they're like no no everybody getting health
care instead of just the ridge we hated are gonna pay for that.
You're gonna pay for that that's gonna cost too much.
Right but what about the wall What about building a wall on the US Mexico border?
My God we love.
Yes yes let's talk more about the wall.
What are you gonna use to build and who are the contractors?
That's so realistic by the way.
How about that? How about the defense budget,
the most expensive thing we do new york times CNN agrees with
Fox News 100% pass it right away.
Don't question it, 100%.
You have to pass it right away right away, pass it.
Right, no questioning of it at all.
Right on economic issues, they're massively concerned.
And then on top of that they layer in these puff pieces where they go around
Alaska trying to find a way to pleasure Sarah Palin And
then you give that same reporter or that same newspaper amazing progressive
that is trying to do something for the American people.
And the polling indicates that the American people are massively favored
Medicare for all after they brutalize it is still at 70%.
But if you if there's a progress, that all progressives for
a while took off not all progressives, but a lot of them did took off Medicare for
all from their websites and said universal health care and said, why?
Because if they put Medicare for all it guaranteed negative
coverage in not in right wing media in mainstream media,
they were guaranteed to get a butcher of an article.
Absolutely trying to destroy their candidacy.
If they put something on their website that was at 70% popularity after
the mainstream media.
They love the right wing and then they get called liberals, it's absurd.
And also Sarah Palin is not a good person.
Sarah Palin does not deserve to be like remember differently or resuscitated.
No, no Sarah Palin is now like the world is caught up to Sarah Palin, she was out
in front of the marjorie, Taylor Greene's and the bobcats and she was laughed,
laughed at rightfully so because she's parroting insane lines, right?
And she's like drill everything, drill it all the time and
now she's like tripling down on that.
She again and look there's not a causal relationship here necessarily.
But but Gabby Giffords was was shot in the head perhaps because
of some incendiary imagery that Sarah Palin put out.
So like she was the first on that she's saying don't retreat reload was was her
little map Gabby Giffords office with the crosshairs over it, Guess what?
Six people died that day.
She's not a good person.
And and instead this Alison wonderland peace says it was so
unfair to blame her for why he never states why it was unfair.
And by that he never states the trend that you just explained Francesca,
which is that, that then led to now, Matt gates Madison cawthorn,
donald trump so many republicans say, grab your guns, grab your guns,
The right wing just did a symposium on how America should be armed politically.
But they mean physically literally with weapons right?
And so she was among the people that started that trend, grab your weapons and
maybe maybe we shoot the other side.
And this resuscitate her, saying that we're being unfair to her.
Look, it's just mainstream media.
Go find a republican and make out with them and leave us alone.
Okay.
And stop lying about progressives.
Stop lying about where the country is.
We did a story earlier in this show.
This show that even on social issues like transgender rights,
66% of Americans want to protect transgender people.
Is that damage you get from forget right wing media from mainstream media
that two thirds of Americans are so
progressive that they really, really want to protect transgender rights.
No, you don't get that image at all because the mainstream media lies to you
24/7 both center right country, center right country countries,
moderate centrist right wing positions are moderate centrist, right?
No mainstream media, you're the poison.
You're the poison that destroyed our democracy.
And then ironically the Washington post is democracy, dies in the darkness.
No, it dies in your newspaper.
That's where it dies