viernes, 26 de noviembre de 2010

Palin se burla de los medios

La principal razón por la que una parte importante de las bases conservadoras simpatizan con Sarah Palin a nivel personal es el martirio al que la someten los mass media vinculados al establishment. Los medios llevan un par de días haciendo una bola de nieve de un gafe verbal que cometió durante una entrevista, cuando confundió a Corea del Norte con Corea del Sur. Ella ha respondido en su Facebook con un mensaje de Acción de Gracias que contiene una demoledora lista de todos los gafes cometidos por el Presidente Obama y que no merecieron la atención de los medios de comunicación. Cada gafe va enlazado a un video de youtube en el que, efectivamente, puede verse a Obama pronunciando esas frases.

(...) My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.

Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.

If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)

“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

- Sarah Palin (...)

4 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Por favor que no presenten a esta Señora. Es un lastre que repetiría el resultado de Modele en 1984. Los republicanos tienen candidatos ganadores como Romney, Huckabee o Barbeor que cualquiera de ellos tendrían enormes posibilidades de ganar a Obama en la elección general. Lo del otro día con la metedura de pata cuando denomino "aliado" a Corea del Norte fue para llorar.

Aun me acuerdo el debate que protagonizo con el Senador Biden. Que ridículo !

Con respecto a las elecciones que aun mucho pero Romney , es mi pronostico , ganara a Obama.


Miguel

Explorador dijo...

¿En serio tiene opciones esta mujer?. o la veo más como agit-prop, la poli mala, alguien que da caña al Presidente y lo desgasta...pero que no creo que entusiasme a nadie. Pero vamos, no sé.

Saludos :)

Antxon G. dijo...

Para ganar la elección general a día de hoy parece que no, pero para hacerse con la nominación republicana tiene muchas opciones.

Anónimo dijo...

Yo espero que Romney se pueda imponer, también me vale Huckabee u otro candidato, porque presentar a esta pobre mujer seria asegurar lustros a los demócratas en La Casa Blanca. Confió en que la organizacion de Romney logre imponerse y presentar un candidato viable para ganar. Siempre dije que era mucho el daño que Mcain hizo al partido republicano al escoger a esta señora. Espero que la gente use el sentido común.

Pablo