Dispatches from the Culture Wars

What's the purpose behind these attacks on Sarah Palin from Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron? It's not a secret that Rupert Murdoch donated to Hilary Clinton's campaign. It's not a secret that 81% of Fox News reporters and employees donate money to the Democratic party - that's a crazy high number for an allegedly conservative TV channel. It's no secret to the gay community that Shepard Smith is "one" of them. It's no secret that Fox News has really hot chicks and I'm tuning in just to look at them!

That made my day ... Its apparently the 'gays!' and 'hot women!' that are responsible for it! Panic! I find it amusing he had to throw in "hot chicks" to balance out the gay comment about Shepard Smith.

Posted by: yoshi | November 11, 2008 10:28 AM

"Do you mien "news source"?"

Ouch, please do not point out my typos. Especially those within my attempt to point out someone else's typo. Thank you.

Also, I believe you mean "mean". :P

Posted by: Deepsix | November 11, 2008 10:40 AM

This is disturbing. The woman is unrepentant and smug:

Palin dismissed some of her critics on the other side as "bloggers in their parents' basement just talking garbage."

Yet some of the comments by the Freepers are almost creepy in their high opinion of her:

--->"She is one great gal and doesn't deserve the abuse she's had to take here."

--->"I have never been so outraged in all my life as to how this magnificent self made woman has been savagely, and undesrvedly, attacked. "

--->"Washington and Lincoln would be very proud of a true American like Sarah Palin standing up for patriotic Americans."

Posted by: marnk | November 11, 2008 11:19 AM

For one week beginning at 3:00 PM today no one tunes them in. We will demonstrate the power of conservatives when their ratings plummet dramatically.

If you don't have Neilson box in your house won't that do absolutely nothing?....actually that would accurately represent the power of conservatives come January!!( What's the emoticon for rim shot?)

If there is indeed going to be a Republican civil war I can't wait. That will be VERY entertaining. This just might be a sign of things to come.

Warning: Do NOT read the comments at Free Republic. They will make you very, very sad.

Posted by: Feynmaniac | November 11, 2008 11:26 AM

Isn't "Freeper" usually what they call writers form the Detroit Freepress? Your headline had me baffled for a sec there.

Posted by: Arikia Millikan | November 11, 2008 11:30 AM

I'm with Arikia. The Detroit Free Press has been "the Freep" much longer than these nutjobs have had their site. They're muddying an almost fine name.

Posted by: James Hanley | November 11, 2008 12:05 PM

It's no secret that Fox News has really hot chicks and I'm tuning in just to look at them!

So are attractive women now a point against a conservative channel? Are they considered liberal by dint of their attractiveness? In all this talk over whether the American conservative movement was dying out, I never thought we were talking about it dying out biologically.

Posted by: Der Bruno Stroszek | November 11, 2008 12:31 PM

Deepsix:

Yes, I wanted to see if you'd catch it (most of my typos are the result of being too zoomy).

Ya just gotta wonder what is in the water in Freepistan. Now that they are on the fringe of the outs instead of the ins they will be going (if such a thing is possible) even more insanely apeshit.

Meanwhile, pretendsident George W. Bush, continuing his enchantment with oceangoing airfields, did his riff on Veteran's Day from the deck of the USS Intrepid which is, fortunately, permanently berthed.

Posted by: democommie | November 11, 2008 1:07 PM

My favorite part of FreeRepublic is the last line of their full disclaimer:

"Free Republic does not advocate violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government."

Because if you can't trust a website that feels the need to point out that they don't really advocate a violent overthrow of the US government, well, who CAN you trust?

Posted by: Technogeek | November 11, 2008 1:23 PM

Ed:
This is slightly off topic. But I thought you would find it interesting. I was reading this weeks edition of The Economist ( an excellent publication by the way). As one would expect they have a lengthy section on the results of the American election. The article about ballot initiatives is entitled "Dispatches from the Culture Wars". I kid you not.

Posted by: Cheddar | November 11, 2008 1:41 PM

Ed:
I have a book on my shelf entitled "Culture Wars" by James Davison Hunter. It was written in 1991. The summary on the back cover describes it as "A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular culture".
That book was the first that I ever read on the Culture Wars. In fact I have read elsewhere that it was Hunter who first coined the phrase "Culture Wars". As for the longer title of "Dispatches from the Culture Wars" you should definitely get the credit for that.

Posted by: Cheddar | November 11, 2008 2:17 PM

When you're that conservative, many things are going to seem liberal, including things that liberals don't actually believe or support. I have to continually point this out to them.

Posted by: Bachalon | November 11, 2008 4:18 PM

Listen you LIEBruhls I have had enough of you bashing everything that is fine and good in this country. Sarah Palin is a darling of a woman, and quite the honey, too, and I'd be glad to be curled up in an Igloo with her.

The election was stolen by the Fifth Columnists and Commies who are going to be banging your daughters with their dark-skinned friends soon enough.

We can't let this stand.

Posted by: Richard Cranium | November 11, 2008 5:12 PM

I heard this morning that Mother Jones discovered that the 'campaign insider' who revealed the info to Faux News didn't work for the campaign, and that his identity is an online ruse.

Posted by: Lisa D | November 11, 2008 5:41 PM

I was trying to figure out whether "Richard Cranium" was serious or a parody.

And then I realized the joke in that name.

Very nice, my good sir! You've given me quite a chuckle

Posted by: Paper Hand | November 11, 2008 6:12 PM

I didn't know that many Freepers owned televisions. I doubt you can get FOX News on rabbit ears anyway. :\

Posted by: mgordon | November 11, 2008 7:12 PM

Palin dismissed some of her critics on the other side as "bloggers in their parents' basement just talking garbage."

Heh. Heh heh. HAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

ow quickly Palin forgets who brought her to the nation's attention. It was a conservative blogger who lived in his parents' basement.
University of Colorado-Colorado Springs student and right wing blogger Adam Brickley was given credit for being the first to envision Palin as a Republican vice-presidential candidate via his website: http://www.palinforvp.blogspot.com/.

Sarah and Todd Palin personally called to thank Brickley after she was selected as McCain's running mate. Brickley gained national media attention for his successful Palin VP lobbying and here is his appearance on the Colbert Report. The interview starts around 6:00 minute mark of the video.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: gwangung | November 11, 2008 8:03 PM

Ah, how quickly they forget!

In February, 2007, Adam Brickley gave himself a mission: he began searching for a running mate for McCain who could halt the momentum of the Democrats. Brickley, a self-described "obsessive" political junkie who recently graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, told me that he began by "randomly searching Wikipedia and election sites for Republican women." Though he generally opposes affirmative action, gender drove his choice. "People were talking about Hillary at the time," he recalled. Brickley said that he "puzzled over every Republican female politician I knew." Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, of Texas, "waffled on social issues"; Senator Olympia Snowe, of Maine, was too moderate. He was running out of options, he recalled, when he said to himself, "What about that lady who just got elected in Alaska?" Online research revealed that she had a strong grassroots following; as Brickley put it, "I hate to use the words 'cult of personality,' but she reminded me of Obama."

Brickley registered a Web site — palinforvp.blogspot.com — which began getting attention in the conservative blogosphere. In the month before Palin was picked by McCain, Brickley said, his Web site was receiving about three thousand hits a day. [Hey, I can easily do half or more of that even on a day when I haven't been Pharyngulated!] Support for Palin had spread from one right-of-center Internet site to the next. First, the popular conservative blogger InstaPundit mentioned Brickley's campaign. Then a site called the American Scene said that Palin was "very appealing"; another, Stop the A.C.L.U., described her as "a great choice." The traditional conservative media soon got in on the act: The American Spectator embraced Palin, and Rush Limbaugh, the radio host, praised her as "a babe."

Given that Palin made it easier than anyone had ever imagined to ridicule the McCain campaign, I think we all owe Brickley a vote of thanks.

Posted by: Blake Stacey | November 11, 2008 9:11 PM

Oops pressed "post" before giving a BIG LIBRUL shout-out to Mr Adam Brickley!
Well done sir, you've ensured those 'evul libruls' will get 8 to 12 years (at least) to destroy America* before what-ever remains of the right gets anywhere near re-election. -DJ
*Right-Wingnut speak: destroy = improve, repair, unite, rehabilitate, strengthen and etc.

Posted by: DingoJack | November 11, 2008 10:10 PM

When you're that conservative, many things are going to seem liberal, including things that liberals don't actually believe or support. I have to continually point this out to them

Or, to put it more bluntly, when you wear your underpants on your head so consistently that your mental concept of "far left" is slightly to the right of center...

Posted by: Azkyroth | November 12, 2008 12:47 AM

In other words, thanks to her limitless ambition and limited sense, she has ensured that the Forces of Good(TM) will have four years to make sure that sinking her campaign will be like dynamiting fish in a barrel.

Posted by: Azkyroth | November 12, 2008 1:32 AM

And let's not forget the ones who say she was one of the lucky ones as she 's been spared the inevitable nightmare of repeated pack-rape and death by slow torture that awaits all whites in Obama's America.

See after the Iranians attack the US with the nuclear weapons he's going to sell them, Obama will use that as an excuse to establish a Marxist dictatorship and will enlist millions of black gang-members and Hispanic illegal immigrants into his new Gestapo.

Posted by: Ian Gould | November 12, 2008 6:06 AM

Ian Gould:

He's the Anti-Christ but he still needs to build his stash of Frequent Flyer Miles? Man, if I was the Anti-Christ I'd just say "Pimp my imps" and let them do it. Even the Anti-Christ needs to learn how to delegate responsibility.

Posted by: democommie | November 12, 2008 12:19 PM