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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:03 PM
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Do you think the media will make Lady Blah Blah smarter between now and mid 2011?
She's a moron. A great grifter, but not a deep, intellectually superior thinker.

And that shows. She just plain sounds stupid except to other stupid people.

Do you think the media will be working to repair or elevate her image to paint her as someone actually qualified to be even the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska?

Can they make her appear qualified to be president?









I bet they can. What do you think?
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:04 PM
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1. 50% of people are of below-median intelligence.
So, she probably sounds at least "not stupid" to a horrifying number of voters.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:06 PM
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2. They will work at it full time and will improve her image. America is dumbed down enough now to
fall for it.
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joe_sixpack Donating Member (655 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:34 PM
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3. That would be a hard task, even for the pop media
It's funny how we on the left helped prop her up to where she is. Most of the people I hear about her from, say they like her primarily because she "pisses the left off" so much. She may be dumb, but she's smart enough to cash the checks and make the most of her infamy.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:52 PM
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6. As said in the OP, she's a skilled grifter.
She and her whole family.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:37 PM
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4. america likes their politicians stupid....and the media loves her
it's really a perfect marriage...she could become our first female american idol president in 2012
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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 06:37 PM
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5. Faux has already been hard at work..
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spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 07:39 PM
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7. George W. Bush was no intellectual ...
And yet he garnered a lot of votes in two elections with opponents who were obviously far more intellectual than he was. I know that his first victory may not have been an actual win, but the fact remains that the election was extremely close.

Voters don't always vote for the smartest candidate. Obama is very intelligent and intellectual but he couples this with a likable personality. If he would have just been an aloof intellectual, McCain might have done better. Of course, with the economy in free fall because of the policies of G.W. Bush, McCain had no real chance of winning.

The media may try to make Sarah Palin into a good candidate because their bottom line is profit. A race between Obama and Palin could be a bonanza for the profits of the news media, especially the 24/7 cable news outlets. A race between Mitt Romney and Obama might be a real snoozer.

What the news media would probably love to see is a race between Obama and Hillary for the Democratic candidacy and the victor of that race going up against Sarah Palin.

Fox News would try to make Palin look good and a conservative savior similar to Ronald Reagan, They would paint Obama as incompetent and a socialist determined to destroy our form of government. Having biased but competent management, Fox would win the ratings race. Glenn Beck would spend weeks tying George Soros to Obama and drawing numerous incomprehensible diagrams on his black boards. He would climax with a conspiracy theory linking Obama and Soros to the Mayan Doomsday Prophecies and aliens from space.

MSNBC would ridicule Sarah Palin as a quitter and an intellectual light weight and Obama as an individual who could really make a difference if he only had four more years. Along the way they would fire KO for violating some incomprehensible rule.

CNN would try to be balanced and would merely flounder around like a headless chicken.






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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:16 PM
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8. if her ever expanding daughter wins dancing with the stars...
there will be no hope for america...

sarah`s great adventure was the highest rated program for that network.

you betcha'

i can see a sarah in the whitehouse.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:17 PM
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9. I bet they can too. After some local stuff that went down in this last election, I've suspended all
my faith in politics. I've made a conscious decision that nothing will surprise me anymore.
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subterranean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-15-10 08:59 PM
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10. No, but they will try to build up her image.
The media want her in the 2012 race because she is polarizing and will attract viewers. People enjoy watching train wrecks. She'll give them something to talk about.
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