At the beginning of this week, the leftist media spent dozens of man hours spewing out the same, tired old theme. That being the fact that Sarah Palin makes money and for some reason the world should be outraged about it. I understand why they would try this trick in the beginning. I get that the left has to throw the entire kitchen sink at Governor Palin, due to her Teflon 'mojo.' But still, I find this absolutely ridiculous. They are making themselves look very foolish to anyone paying attention.
After the speech Palin gave in Turlock for the 50th Anniversary of CSU Stanislaus, and the subsequent harassment she, as well as the organizers of the event received for doing such - it goes back to this theme. It is a pure political strike conducted by left-wing officials and their close friends in the press. No other former public servant, or possible future candidate has had to deal with this sort of scrutiny on their wallets. You just never see hundreds of stories all lined up disclosing the amount any other candidate is paid for anything they do, unless they are corrupted or abusing tax-dollars. Well, Sarah Palin has never been corrupt, she is a private citizen, getting paid with private dollars, and the only one getting abused here are her and her family.
What happened in California was an embarrassment to me as a Californian. Yes, I have to live with these left-wing lunatics. And no, having their heads examined doesn't help. Fortunately for me I live in a military city, so I am surrounded by level-headed, reality based folks. My friends in Los Angeles are not so lucky.
I think one of the worst aspects of the treatment Sarah Palin received in California, is that it was started by government officials. Jerry Brown made a mockery of his elected office by assisting in the stunt created by the future wannabe Candidate for San Francisco Mayor, and former Hawaiian shoplifter, Leland Yee. I wrote about this before here and here.
They tried to bully the organizers of the CSU event and bully Sarah Palin with the use of orchestrated theatrics for the all too available news cameras, and with the help of "dumpster diving" students. By the way, to those young girls that went dumpster diving for this state government witch-hunt... That was really lame. I'm in my early thirties, but have things changed that much since I was your age? I wouldn't have been caught dead digging in the trash for "The Man" back then. Lame.
Governor Palin asked Jerry Brown from the podium at the speech in Turlock a very interesting, very valid question. She said, “This is California. Do you really not have anything better to do?” Great question, governor! I happen to know for a fact that he does.
California is a mess any way you slice it. I have never witnessed Jerry Brown do anything with his department to help correct the dire state of our state. In fact, Jerry Brown is the person most responsible for unionizing the public employees here with SEIU, whose pensions are one of the main culprits for the current fiscal mess that IS California. And guess what... Jerry Brown earns his income from tax-dollars so perhaps a little more scrutiny on Moonbeam is a good idea.
Back in March, I wrote a post about this ongoing phony outrage over speaking fees, and why I think the left uses this trick to put a wedge in between Sarah Palin and her supporters. It said:
This is why Governor Palin's detractors are never concerned with the speaking fees of Al Gore or even Mitt Romney. They aren't members or leaders of the working class. They are fellow members of the same elite establishment that leftist media belongs to.While I still agree with my own assessment there, I think it is more than that at this stage. I think it is also a diversionary tactic meant to drown out Governor Palin's message. As Don Surber noted the other day in his piece titled "AP fights to cover a speech it then didn’t cover," he said (emphasis mine):
So the main reason for such reporting and documenting of every dollar Sarah Palin makes is nothing more than the establishment and the lefty press trying to put a wedge between Palin and her supporters. They think, falsely that Governor Palin will lose some of that "street cred" they admit exists if she makes some money. Just look at any comment section of a mainstream news site. You will no doubt see any number of leftists repeating the same meme that "she's only in it for the money!" ... Rubbish!
Working class Americans who support Governor Palin mostly come from a conservative worldview. The left seems to be confusing their own populist rhetoric with the true concerns of the modern populist movement. Conservatives don't begrudge people for making an honest living. And while the left constantly tries to say she is paid too much for giving speeches and such, these people are no experts on the going rate of high profile speakers. It's just more phony negative narratives about Governor Palin from the left.
You can read his entire article here
The Associated Press and other news organizations fought to get permission to cover the speech.
But what exactly did Palin say?
One cannot tell from the Associated Press. All the story talked about was the process. The story was long on Dumpster-diving students who tried to get her speech engagement contract and other liberal-manufactured controversies around the woman’s speech.
But the speech itself?
Garance Burke of the Associated Press failed to report it. His whole story was about the various controversies stirred up by liberals.
So there you go... The media is actively helping their political allies mask out Sarah Palin's words and push phony controversy to dilute what the public at large thinks about her. If it causes a rift with her own supporters, well then that's fine too for these people who are nothing more than undercover activists.
I do wonder however, if they realize what a bunch of outright hypocrites they look like. They take home a paycheck. They think they serve the public, yet none of them are disclosing all the fine details in the contracts with their employers. Doesn't the public have a right to know? Why are their companies making money? Aren't they supposed to be serving the greater good?
It's nonsense, they know, Governor Palin knows it, those of us paying attention know it, and the general public with busy lives trying to make ends meet - the one's these people give no credit of processing any intellectual prowess - they get it too. The only people "outraged" by Governor Palin making an income are people who are faking it for political reasons.
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