Washington Post's Quinns Smears a Giant Leap Backwards for Womankind

Well continuing on with the theme-dijour of the Palin nomination, Sally Quinn of the Washington Post had to throw her two cents in:

• The Washington Post's Sally Quinn Questioned Whether A Woman With Five Children And One Having Down Syndrome Would Be Able To Make Her Family A Priority If She Were Vice President.

SALLY QUINN: "And I do think, too, that you have to weigh the situation. It's one thing to have one or two or three children, especially if they are healthy children. And everyone knows that women and men are different and that moms and dads are different and that women — the burden of child care almost always falls on the woman. But I think, when you have five children, one a 4-month-old Down syndrome baby, and a daughter who is 17, who is also a child and who is going to need her mother very much in the next few months and years with her own baby coming, that I don't see how you cannot make your family your first priority. And I think if you are going to be president of the United States, which she may well be, I think that's going to be a real stretch for her." (CNN's "Newsroom," 9/2/08)

Interesting perspective Sally, but doesn't this go against the entire "Women's Rights/Women's Liberation" movement? Basically, her article is implying, that VP Nominee Sarah Palin couldn't possibly have a family and be a Vice-President at the same time. I mean, oh, wait a second...Al Gore was married....um, hmmm, who was the last and only Vice-President of the United States that didn't have a family? William Rufus de Vane King who served under President Pierce administration of 1853.

Is it really any of Sally Quinn's business? Would she ask Barack Obama to quit campaigning and stay home and raise his daughters because they are a minority and in a risky demographic? For that matter, Quinn makes no mention what-so-ever Palin's husbands contributions to raising the children. Honestly, Quinn's glancing blows would never be made to a man, or a liberal woman for that matter, but its a way for her to empatheticly stick a knife into the back of another woman in the name of "women's rights."

So in the spirit of things, I decided to do a little research on Ms. Quinn. Found out a few interesting things about her.

Her first interview with the Washington Post with Managing Editor Ben Bradlee consisted of the following (Source Wikipedia):

"Can you show me something you've written?" asked Managing Editor Benjamin Bradlee. "I've never written anything," admitted Quinn. Pause. "Well," said Bradlee, "nobody's perfect."

*Putting on my Liberal Smear Goggles*

Ah, so there we have it. She is completely inexperienced for such an important job. More over it is quite obvious by the statements of Bradlee there was some sort of inappropriate relationship going on between he and Quinn for him to offer her a job in which she is totally unqualified for.

*Goggles Off*...Now I have a headache.

A notable incident of her career was her claim that Zbigniew Brzezinski, then the National Security Adviser, jokingly opened his fly in front of a reporter, a claim that the Post retracted the following day.

*Goggles On* ...everything's rosed colored now.

Ah, so another lie. And was this some sort of sexual harassment? I think Brzezinski might have a seriously claim against this predator Quinn. I mean if roles were reversed and Quinn had her fly down and Brzezinski made comment about it....oh well, never mind, who would want to look....

*Goggles Off* ...Man I don't think anyone should be allowed to drive impaired like that.

In August 1973, Quinn tried her hand at television, joining CBS News reporter Hughes Rudd as co-anchors of the CBS Morning News.^[3] The show's anchoring team was its first disaster since debuting in 1963 -- ninety minutes before her television debut on August 6, 1973, Quinn, who never reported for television before, collapsed while trying to fight the flu. The next day, she was forced to anchor solo when Rudd's mother died. Quinn's ad libs during the show's first week also tended toward the inappropriate -- on one episode, following a report on the children of California migrant farm workers, she quipped that child labor "was how I felt when my mother and father made me clean up my room." Quinn left the CBS Morning News after the February 1, 1974 telecast.

*Goggles On, Weapon Systems Armed*

This is just a an extension of the failed policies of CBS. Truly no one could afford four more years of Quinn and they canned her. Also this might be a serious indication that the woman could not have a family and a job at the same time since she is 0-2 in the journalism department up until this point. Further, she may be incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time and there is a very high probability that she suffers from Down Syndrome herself.

*Goggles Off*...Now I Know how Jim Carey felt in the movie The Mask

Regarding Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr, she wrote:^[6] "Similarly, independent counsel Ken Starr is not seen by many Washington insiders as an out-of-control prudish crusader. Starr is a Washington insider, too. He has lived and worked here for years. He had a reputation as a fair and honest judge. He has many friends in both parties. Their wives are friendly with one another and their children go to the same schools." Starr had won the gratitude of Quinn's husband Ben Bradlee in 1987, as an Appeals Court judge, by dismissing a $2 million libel suit against the Washington Post. ^[7] It was also pointed out by Harry Jaffe, writing for Salon, that Quinn's condemnation of Bill Clinton's adultery rang hollow coming from someone who broke up the marriage of her boss Ben Bradlee and then went on to marry Bradlee herself.^[8]

*Goggles On. Vomit Bucket Out*

SEEEEEE I TOLD YOU SHE WAS BANGING BRADLEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quinn knows about breaking up families so she must really know about what it takes to raise a family!

*Goggles Off*

(Regarding Barack Obama) In early May 2007, liberal Web sites and commentators were critical of Quinn for an extensive op-ed piece published in the Washington Post in which she complimented herself at length for not noticing the color of his skin: "I realized that when I look at him, I don't see a person of color. I see a really smart, appealing, thoughtful person."

*Handing Goggles to Teddy Kennedy*

So this woman has a history of discriminatory speech. Excellent. Maybe she was a Klansman in a former life. Hell, you know I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy that says she burns wooden lower case t's in her front yard. So it must be true!

*Ensures no secretaries are in Teddy's car and lets him drive off*

Quinn also owns three homes, one in East Hampton, one in Washington and one in Maryland each valued in the millions of dollars, so you know she is the typical stay at home apple-pie baking woman who knows all about raising a family...NOT. This woman breaks up a marriage and is a miserable failure at journalism. No wonder she is so afraid that Palin can't do both jobs. Quinn can't even do one right!

Remember folks, the spin works both ways and the left needs to be careful about the path it heads down. As much as they try to paint conservatives as the party of old fools, they completely forget the new generation of conservatives who are every bit as smart and savvy and witty and cute with their attacks as they think they are.

They don't call this place the Flying Circus for nothing, folks.

Napalm in the Morning: Gore Just Might Have Invented the Internet - Liberal Smears Rule the Net

One of the things I've learned in the short period of time blogging is that in this great, never-ending void called the Internet, conservative bloggers are a minority. The left has the advantage in online media sources as well.

Take a look onto Buzz from Yahoo and you'll see the sites and articles that are pro-Obama are buzzed through the roof, and in much greater number than the McCain articles. Same holds true on digg.com and other social networking sites.

Not only is the amount of sites greater in number, the content of the articles are far more venomous than anyone would imagine. Take for example, the headline content from the Huffington Post:

PALIN EXCLUSIVE: IRAQ 'A TASK FROM GOD'

... PREDICTION MARKET STARTS BETTING THAT PALIN WILL WITHDRAW... ... TOP GOP GOVERNOR: I'VE HEARD NO DISCUSSION ABOUT REMOVING MS. PALIN FROM THE TICKET ...

Report: McCain Camp Stalling Palin Investigation... 'Fringe' Alaskan Secessionist Party: Palin Was A Member... Almost Recalled As Mayor... Directed Fundraising For Indicted Senator's 527... Troopergate Scandal... 17 Year-Old Daughter Pregnant... Husband's DUI...

The Huffington Post tries to pass itself off as a legitimate news outlet, but the content of its articles are about as factual as the Weekly World News at the check-out lines of the grocery store, and apparently they hire 3rd graders to proofread their material. Now, I'm not saying I don't make a typo here or there, but I don't do this for a living (I actually have a job, maybe that's why I'm voting Republican), and I certainly don't try to pass this site off as a professional news source. And, if their is any doubt as far as the fairness and balances in reporting, that headline is actually pretty conservative for the Huff (a bong) Post. And really, if you consider that site to be a reputable source of news, there is no sense in trying to talk about issues with you.

Next up on the hit parade is the DailyKos, the website credited with breaking the Palin Pregnancy story. Well, not really, their actual posts attacked Palin by saying that Gov. Palin's last baby that was born was actually her daughters, but hey, who's counting facts here when it comes to the liberal media. Their basic premise is two-fold and simple, create a super left-wing love fest for their community, and sling as much mud as possible and find out what sticks, sort of like "communicating with the dead or reading palms." Why do I get the strong image of some guy in a pair of tight leather pants sitting at a latte bar in San Francisco typing away, profusely sweating and turning red in the face when I think of who contributes to these blogs.

But, hey, whenever you try to talk about Rev. Wright, Tony Rezco, Obama's drug use etc, they get their boxing trunks pulled up over their noses and cry foul.

Now why might their be such a disparity in conservative versus liberal blogs? Well, the left would like you to think that they are the more popular party, but this isn't the case. My opinion is this, conservatives actually have jobs to go to don't sit home all day buzzing up their idol. I mean, they have to do whatever they can to ensure we keep paying taxes for them right?

So, it looks like, maybe Al Gore really did invent the Internet - if not, he certainly staked a huge claim for the left wing, but don't worry, the higher the folks get over at the Huffabong Post, the further the fall.

Chicago Tribune: Politics don't get dirtier than smearing pregnant girl.

Politics don't get dirtier than smearing pregnant girl

John Kass

September 2, 2008

(Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune)
http://www.chicagotribune.com

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Have American presidential politics become so hateful that a pregnant 17-year-old girl has to have the intimate details of her life exposed to the nation by character assassins?

Ask the left-wing Internet haters, the anonymous propagandists who call themselves bloggers on the Daily Kos.

And ask Bristol Palin, who didn't deserve it, and was a victim of the rumor-mongers consumed with attacking her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican running mate of Sen. John McCain, because the mother is a conservative and opposes abortion.

The Internet rumors claimed that Sarah's baby, Trig, born four months ago with Down syndrome, wasn't really hers but her daughter's. They plucked some photos from the Internet, photos out of sequence, to make it appear as though Gov. Palin hadn't been pregnant, proving once again that on the Internet, the casualties are credibility and civility. Reading it, you could almost hear the saliva dripping from their teeth as they typed anonymously.

"Sarah Palin is NOT The Mother" cried one Daily Kos blogger who goes by a screen name ArcXIX. "Attention! Read The Follow-Up too! BabyGate: Explosive New Details.

"Now, I've known liars all my life," the blogger wrote. "Their single core problem is not with themselves, but those around them. If they're never called out on their twisting of truths and fabrications, they simply continue to make larger lies. Well Sarah, I'm calling you a liar and not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better."

I don't know if Komodo dragons can type, but their mouths are so full of bacteria that if they bite your leg you'll likely die. This anonymous Komodo was probably in mommy's basement, perhaps with a bowl of Chex Mix and a Diet Coke nearby.

Unfortunately for big lizard and the other haters, it wasn't true. But it did force Sarah and Todd Palin to come out with a statement on Monday. That's how Bristol was exposed.

"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our hearts and mean everything to us," Sarah and Todd Palin said. "Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support."

The parents say their daughter will marry the young man. It would most likely have come out anyway, given the determination of Sarah Palin's opponents to make her out to be a hypocrite. But the way it became public was cruel. Now they're saying her mom's at fault for preaching abstinence to her children.

When I was just starting out as a reporter, a wise old newspaper man told me his rule: Don't ever write about their kids. Leave the kids alone, unless the child runs for office, or pulls down some fat government contract, or if the parent hauls them out as a shield before an indictment. Leave them alone, he said, because the kids don't deserve it, because they're civilians.

I took that to heart. And I know what it's like to be on the receiving end. Some of you may remember that, years ago, white political thugs under federal investigation for city affirmative-action contract fraud—who had connections to both the mob and City Hall—asked me about my children.

The thugs came up to me in a restaurant and asked why they never saw my little boys playing outside my house. They let me know they were interested in my kids. The thugs showed me their teeth, as if smiling, but their eyes weren't smiling. It was a message. It didn't work, and I wrote about it. And I'll never forget the thousands of e-mails and letters and calls that came to me from readers, many offering to stand in my driveway and watch out for my sons. My wife and I will never, ever forget your kindness.