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Sarah Palin on the media: ‘Compare my treatment to Caroline Kennedy’s’

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is wondering out loud — and on video — whether the media will give prospective New York senatorial designee Caroline Kennedy the same scrutiny that it gave her.

This from Politico.com:

“I’ve been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope,” Palin told conservative filmmaker John Ziegler during an interview Monday for his upcoming documentary film, “How Obama Got Elected.”

Excerpts from the interview were posted on YouTube Wednesday evening.

“It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be.”

Here’s the YouTube video in question:

In the nine-minute clip, Palin also addresses media treatment of her unmarried daughter, who just gave birth.

Says Palin:

”This report that Bristol and Levi, they’re high school dropouts, and they’re just going to look for government handouts to raise their child and such — nothing could be further from the truth. And I’ve asked some in the media to correct that, and they haven’t corrected that, and that gets frustrating.”

Palin also questions the manner in which she was deployed by the McCain campaign, particularly her assignment to engage CBS’ Katie Couric:

”I knew it didn’t go well the first day, and then we gave her a couple of other segments after that.

“My question to the campaign was, after it didn’t go well the first day, why were we going to go back for more?

“Because of however it works in that upper echelon of power brokering, in the media and with spokespersons, it was told [to] me, yeah, we’re going to go back for more.

“And going back for more was not a wise decision, either.”

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By AMike

January 8, 2009 4:48 PM | Link to this

Good. These things need to be said. The GOP had a classy, intelligent, informed and experienced candidate in Sarah Palin. Yet the McCain team handled her either with gross incompetence, or with malice aforethought.

Even against an opponent who outspent the GOP two-to-one, and even in the face of her own team’s incompetence, Sarah still carried the GOP to 47% of the popular vote. Then she backed up for Chambliss in Georgia, bringing him a landslide. Its good to see that she is still carrying the fight to the opponents with this video.

By Jo

January 8, 2009 4:49 PM | Link to this

Palin came at the media with the same old “liberal media” bias thing. The Republican party purposefully protected her while they prepared her.

Claiming that her response to Katie was just “flip”, why did she think Couric would take kindly to have her questions answered in a “flip” manner? The American public genuinely wanted to know about Palin. Being sarcastic and flip is not way to win admirers.

And then there was the “I said thanks but no thanks” outright lie. Sorry Sarah, no one was going to overlook that one.

Caroline, remains low key, appears humble and is polite and gracious while answering questions, and is not complaining about how unfair everything is.

Someone from Alaska should understand that if you spout “fightin’ words”, make accusations and go on the attack, you will not be given a “pass”.

By Aaron Burr V. Mexico

January 8, 2009 5:00 PM | Link to this

Not to mention the fact that she’s a total idiot.

By AMike

January 8, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this

The charge of “liberal media bias” is fully justified, in spades. There was not even a pretence at objectivity by people like Couric. And virtually every unsourced rumour dreamed up by left-wing bloggers was run as “fact” by the media.

Caroline Kennedy is neither “humble” nor “low-key” - she simply has nothing to say. She is relying on her blood to get her a senate seat, like a true aristocrat.

By Will Jones

January 8, 2009 5:21 PM | Link to this

Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama’s candidacy was timely and moving.

As a U.S. Senator, she, the daughter of our martyred president treasonously assassinated, according to the ‘Hunt v. Liberty Lobby’ Federal District Ct of Southern Florida Jury in 1985, by a Knight of Malta-led, Roman Catholic CIA hit-team managed by Richard Nixon and George Herbert Walker Bush, would represent a restoration of grace and nobility in American public life so degraded by Rome’s Fifth Column’s appointment of that Bush’s homosexual draft-dodging son to the White House, and his subsequent 9/11 treason (Viz.”The New Pearl Harbor,” Griffin, PhD)for false war (Viz. “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,” Bugliosi).

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is an example, like Mobfront daughter and sister Nancy Pelosi, of just how far a woman can rise in our society whose only measurable endowment is the expanse of her “endowment.” She is cursed whitetrash with the same anti-American perspective on a woman’s sovereignty as that expressed by Adolph Hitler’s regime and the gay German pope alumnus of Hitler Youth…allied with the same Anti-Christ sectarian faction which killed John Kennedy.

She is trailer trash and just as bad a reflection on Alaska as Bush is on Texas and America.

The weeds must be chopped out or the crop shall fail.

By JW

January 8, 2009 5:36 PM | Link to this

Where are the polar bears when you need them?

By AMike

January 8, 2009 5:36 PM | Link to this

Hmmm, looks like class snobbery is alive and well in America. And snobbery is the enemy of substance. Thank you for proving my point.

By JW

January 8, 2009 5:38 PM | Link to this

Where are the polar bears when you need them?

By Denise

January 8, 2009 5:39 PM | Link to this

Since Kennedy isn’t a backwoods moron, she will probably not get the same kind of “scrutiny.”

By alaskan50

January 8, 2009 5:44 PM | Link to this

Sara Palin is no more then a small time hick govenor with a BIG mouth. When will she do her job like she told us she would instead of leaving it up to others. She has brought enough trash to Alaska.

By JenJen

January 8, 2009 5:47 PM | Link to this

Once again, Sarah Palin proves herself to be completely delusional. Comparing her situation to Kennedy’s is sexist… Sarah Palin was running to be A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY, while Caroline Kennedy is looking to be 1 of 100 Senators.

Sarah is comparing apples to oranges, and anyone who falls for her cries of “class bias” is a fool.

At least she’s a laugh-a-minute. Please, Sarah, stick around for 2012! :-)

By Aaron Burr v. Mexico

January 8, 2009 6:16 PM | Link to this

Wait….Sarah Palin, Republican, engaging in Class Warfare?

By RenoSteve

January 8, 2009 10:21 PM | Link to this

this woman is not qualified for that position and any suggestion that she was responsible for singlehandidly accomplishing anything is laughable.

By Mike

January 8, 2009 11:13 PM | Link to this

Haha, the libtards are out in full force for “Sweet Caroline”, “I’m, you know, more than my, um, you know, name, you know”

—“At least she’s a laugh-a-minute. Please, Sarah, stick around for 2012! :-)”

Should be

“At least they’re a laugh-a-minute. Please, libtards, stick around for 2012! :-)”

There, fixed.

—“Someone from Alaska should understand that if you spout “fightin’ words”, make accusations and go on the attack, you will not be given a “pass”.”

Where have you been? That’s the Dems’ whole M.O., has been ever since Tom Foley proclaimed that “facts aren’t important, it’s the seriousness of the charge”. Still waiting for Tom Delay to be proven guilty of anything

—“Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is an example, like Mobfront daughter and sister Nancy Pelosi”

This latest case of PDS is worth just to see the libtards turn on Herress Pelosi, guess that “most ethical Congress in history” really earned all of its 11% approval marks, eh?

Poor libs still can’t handle that they actually WON. I guess it’ll be the same thing when the Lions finally win a game.

By Mike

January 8, 2009 11:14 PM | Link to this

Haha, the libtards are out in full force for “Sweet Caroline”, “I’m, you know, more than my, um, you know, name, you know”

—“At least she’s a laugh-a-minute. Please, Sarah, stick around for 2012! :-)”

Should be

“At least they’re a laugh-a-minute. Please, libtards, stick around for 2012! :-)”

There, fixed.

—“Someone from Alaska should understand that if you spout “fightin’ words”, make accusations and go on the attack, you will not be given a “pass”.”

Where have you been? That’s the Dems’ whole M.O., has been ever since Tom Foley proclaimed that “facts aren’t important, it’s the seriousness of the charge”. Still waiting for Tom Delay to be proven guilty of anything

—“Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is an example, like Mobfront daughter and sister Nancy Pelosi”

This latest case of PDS is worth just to see the libtards turn on Herress Pelosi, guess that “most ethical Congress in history” really earned all of its 11% approval marks, eh?

Poor libs still can’t handle that they actually WON. I guess it’ll be the same thing when the Lions finally win a game.

By Andy

January 8, 2009 11:31 PM | Link to this

I’m going to vote for Sarah in 2012. She’s against abortion and is pro-God. Unlike Oboma and the liberals.

By Andy

January 8, 2009 11:35 PM | Link to this

I’m going to vote for Sarah in 2012. She’s against abortion and is pro-God. Unlike Oboma and the liberals.

By MArk

January 9, 2009 4:55 AM | Link to this

LIBERALS ARE RETARDED AND ELITISTS. WHEN A DEMOCRAT LIKE SARAH PALIN IS RUNNING THEY ALL PRAISE HER.

BUT AS A REPUBLICAN YEAH, LIBERALS DON’T LIKE CONSERVATIVE WOMEN BECAUSE THEY CLAIM WOMEN SHOULD HAVE EQUAL CHANCHES.

BUT CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ARE SHUNNED. JUST ANOTHER REASON TO SENT THE LEFT-WING NUTS PACKING IN 2012.

I HOPE BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA CAN TAKE ALL HIS LIBERALS AND ANARCHISTS, RACE MONGERS, FEMINAZIS AND COMMUNISTS YOU KNOW OBAMA’S BASE PACKING IN 2012.

By Mark

January 9, 2009 5:49 AM | Link to this

I think the far left and liberals hate Sarah Palin is because she is not entitled to something.

Caroline Kennedy is nothing but a PRincess and ELitists just because you have a famous last name doesn’t make you qualified.

Gov. Palin runs a big state. Caroline Kennedy just wrote books and pretend to care about all DUMB LIBERAL CAUSES.

the Liberals are full of contradictions.

Also Will Jones, spewing the ANTI-CATHOLIC HATRED brings nothing but shame to your cause. I WOULDN’T BE SURPRSIED IF SOMEONE LIKE YOU WANTS THE POPE DEAD.

AND FOR YOUR INFO MY GRANDFATHER GREW UP IN BAVARIA DURING WWII. HE WAS FORCED INTO THE GERMAN NAZI ARMY LIKE ALL TEENAGE BOYS.

MY GRANDFATHER KNEW THE RATZINGERS, THEY GREW UP NEAR PASSAU IN SOUTHERN BAVARIA.

By Will Jones

January 9, 2009 10:54 AM | Link to this

“Hitler’s Pope” was the bishop of Passau, where Hitler went to school and “worshipped”…maybe he molested your grandfather as well as Ratzinger’s father to create such twisted perversion and Fifth Column treason and confusion in succeeding generations.

You must take great pride that the blood of millions of American families was poured into the earth of Europe because your Roman Catholic ancestors’ false elite, their “Black Aristocracy,” employed the Austrian/Bavarian pervert, Adolph Hitler, as a military catspaw, in one of their more recent attempts to fulfill the motto of Rome: “Urbis et Orbis,” City and World.

They believe, and teach victims of their molestation, that they “own the world,” and all on it. Though you may well see yourself as one of Rome’s “owned,” America’s Whig Founder called Rome the Anti-Christ and founded Our Nation as The New Secular Order - a refuge for all peoples of the world who wished to be free of the Old Sectarian Order of caesaropapism, king and pope, Hitler killed so many trying to serve. American’s are subservient only to G-d, by Annuit Coeptis, if they so choose. You clearly choose something entirely different.

So you endorse the gay pope who extolls the views of Hitler on a woman’s “obligation” to obey “the state” in her reproductive decisions.

We whose families built America are not only bemused but fully threatened by newcomers like you who promote your sick views and illegal immigration to remake America as a new fascist state to serve perverts in power and the corrupt rich Thomas Jefferson called “pseudo-aristoi.”

Though the homosexual closet-queen your fellow false religionists on the Supreme Court cheated into the White House has carried much water for Rome you shall not succeed in destroying America.

Palin is trash, cursed of G-d. Birds of feather flock together.

theamericanfundament.blogspot.com

By mediabias

January 9, 2009 1:05 PM | Link to this

SO…WHERE are the photos of Caroline photoshopped in a bikini? Where is the expose about her trashy womanizing father and uncle who should have been convicted for manslaughter and conspiracy. The Kennedy family rape guy? All the other garbage that comes out of the family. What about her not voting and only showing up for her “job” a couple hours per week if that. And the fact she has never had ANY job at all? The media calls the voting record “a couple of times” when in essence it was many times. Same old transparent crap. Palin was assaulted within hours and Kennedy is a humble public servant. HAHAHAH who says ya know 8 times in every sentence. She’s actually a WORSE speaker than That One, which I didn’t think could be possible.

By John Gray

January 9, 2009 1:26 PM | Link to this

I would have thought that as Governor of Alaska,when Katie Couric asked her to name a Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with,other than Roe v Wade,she would have mentioned the Court’s decision throwing out the punitive damages against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez disaster. The Supreme Court decision that most directly affects your state and somehow you blank on it when asked to name Supreme Court deciscions that you disagree with? That whole interview was a disaster.She came across as painfully inarticulate,and woefully uninformed. And how hard is it to name some of the newspapers that as governor of a state you should be reading in order to have some idea of what is happening in your state and what the issues are?It wasn’t an unfair question or a particularly difficult one to answer! Mr.Jones please lay off the mind altering drugs,they’ve done far too much damage to your brain already. As for those of you who hate liberals,let me remind you that it was liberals who supported equal rights for women,liberals who gave you bank deposit insurance(so when your bank goes bust you don’t lose YOUR money),liberals who fought for equal rights for African-Americans,liberals who created Social Security so you don’t have to spend your “golden years”in poverty.Basically every progressive idea of the modern era has been created and championed by liberals. I can’t think of anything good that conservatives have ever done for America.

By John Gray

January 9, 2009 1:35 PM | Link to this

I would have thought that as Governor of Alaska,when Katie Couric asked her to name a Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with,other than Roe v Wade,she would have mentioned the Court’s decision throwing out the punitive damages against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez disaster. The Supreme Court decision that most directly affects your state and somehow you blank on it when asked to name Supreme Court deciscions that you disagree with? That whole interview was a disaster.She came across as painfully inarticulate,and woefully uninformed. And how hard is it to name some of the newspapers that as governor of a state you should be reading in order to have some idea of what is happening in your state and what the issues are?It wasn’t an unfair question or a particularly difficult one to answer! Mr.Jones please lay off the mind altering drugs,they’ve done far too much damage to your brain already. As for those of you who hate liberals,let me remind you that it was liberals who supported equal rights for women,liberals who gave you bank deposit insurance(so when your bank goes bust you don’t lose YOUR money),liberals who fought for equal rights for African-Americans,liberals who created Social Security so you don’t have to spend your “golden years”in poverty.Basically every progressive idea of the modern era has been created and championed by liberals. I can’t think of anything good that conservatives have ever done for America.

By mediabias

January 9, 2009 1:38 PM | Link to this

SO…WHERE are the photos of Caroline photoshopped in a bikini? Where is the expose about her trashy womanizing father and uncle who should have been convicted for manslaughter and conspiracy. The Kennedy family rape guy? All the other garbage that comes out of the family. What about her not voting and only showing up for her “job” a couple hours per week if that. And the fact she has never had ANY job at all? The media calls the voting record “a couple of times” when in essence it was many times. Same old transparent crap. Palin was assaulted within hours and Kennedy is a humble public servant. HAHAHAH who says ya know 8 times in every sentence. She’s actually a WORSE speaker than That One, which I didn’t think could be possible.

By John Gray

January 9, 2009 1:40 PM | Link to this

I would have thought that as Governor of Alaska,when Katie Couric asked her to name a Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with,other than Roe v Wade,she would have mentioned the Court’s decision throwing out the punitive damages against Exxon for the Exxon Valdez disaster. The Supreme Court decision that most directly affects your state and somehow you blank on it when asked to name Supreme Court deciscions that you disagree with? That whole interview was a disaster.She came across as painfully inarticulate,and woefully uninformed. And how hard is it to name some of the newspapers that as governor of a state you should be reading in order to have some idea of what is happening in your state and what the issues are?It wasn’t an unfair question or a particularly difficult one to answer! Mr.Jones please lay off the mind altering drugs,they’ve done far too much damage to your brain already. As for those of you who hate liberals,let me remind you that it was liberals who supported equal rights for women,liberals who gave you bank deposit insurance(so when your bank goes bust you don’t lose YOUR money),liberals who fought for equal rights for African-Americans,liberals who created Social Security so you don’t have to spend your “golden years”in poverty.Basically every progressive idea of the modern era has been created and championed by liberals. I can’t think of anything good that conservatives have ever done for America.

By TED

January 9, 2009 6:26 PM | Link to this

Caroline Kennedy, like Sarah Palin may well be a blethhering dope. The difference in the way she is treated by the media may have to do with the fact that she isn’t running as second in command to an elderly and ill old man whose responsibilities would be to run the country. Palin would be wise to shut that big yap—she might have a chance at national office if shhe did. Most Americans who watch the news have rather short memories.

By truthteller

January 10, 2009 7:10 AM | Link to this

Dear Mediabias and Amike, I have a news flash, your bias is showing. Not only that you ignorance also. Caroline Kennedy might not be the most qualified person but she is the daughter of an assassinated US President and deserves a little special treatment because if that. Palin is ok but certainly no Einstein and too b*** and whiny. The media has never ever been totally fair and never will be, it’s just human nature and has been going on forever. Why the big “Oh I’m so surprised at the media bias” are people stupid?

By Will Jones

January 10, 2009 10:34 AM | Link to this

“John Gray” The truth have you so confused you’re seeing double…or triple? Speak to the facts and dispense with the ad hominem admit come out of the closet with your loyalty to alien and treasonous culture.

By Will Jones

January 10, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this

NB: …or come out of the closet and admit your loyalty to…

By Louise

January 14, 2009 8:47 AM | Link to this

Whine, whine, whine, poor me the mean press picked on me. Sorry if you aren’t smart enough to drive in the fast lane go home to Alaska. The actual difference between Caroline Kennedy and Sarah Palin. Brains. Caroline has them and Sarah, sorry honney. The election process has reject you Sarah time to go home and get over it.

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