Tribe of Sarah: A Guide for the Media

[dgriffin]

The Tribe of Sarah: A Guide for the Perplexed Media

By Thomas Lifson

Our friends in the media just do not understand the popular following Sarah Palin has attracted. In an effort to help, I thought I should explain her popular appeal to them in terms even an Ivy League graduate could understand.

If you consider yourself a member of the intelligentsia, think of Sarah's unexpectedly numerous admirers as a kind of tribe. We are going to examine a few of the folkways of strange and foreign people. Think of them as exotic and it may help you stifle any revulsion you may feel at their differences from your own familiar accepted ways.

Unlike your own refined and infinitely more complex moral understanding, these people believe in abstract concepts known among them as "right" and "wrong" (alternatively "good" and "evil.") They regard those among them whom see as championing the cause of right and defeating wrong as role models to emulate, and frequently accord them honors and deep respect.

Continued at: The American Thinker

www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/the_tribe_of_sarah_a_guide_for.html

[gearofzanzibar]

It amuses me to no end that the far-left's freakout about Palin has blown up in their faces. I'm almost tempted to believe that it was actually stage-managed to work out that way.

Unfortunately, the only way the Democrats can fix it is to purge the fringe elements from the party the same way the Birchers and Freeholders were purged by the Republicans in the 60's and 70's.

[dgriffin]

See Jonah Goldberg's Friday column,
Palin Bashing Press Keeps Swinging and Missing

article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzcwNmQ4MTczNzBkN2NjNTdhMWQ3MjY2Nzc3NzZhODI=

I especially liked his comment about her being a "lip-sticked pit bull."

Also:

Unfortunately, the only way the Democrats can fix it is to purge the fringe elements from the party the same way the Birchers and Freeholders were purged by the Republicans in the 60's and 70's.

Except, in this case the fringe is already in control. My father's Democratic Party is long gone.

[Clipper]

That is a sad and undeniable fact Dave. It may be too late to purge the fringe element that has become the dominant element. Yep, you dad's democratic party is a thing of the past, and it is sad.

[Ralph]

[dgriffin]

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