{"id":7294,"date":"2009-07-10T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2009-07-10T10:23:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T17:23:30","slug":"palin-08-clinton-does-herself-a-disservice-by-whining-about-medias-excess-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7294","title":{"rendered":"Palin ’08: Clinton ‘Does Herself a Disservice’ by Whining About Media’s ‘Excess Criticism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>We hate to pile on, but we’ve been on the roll much of this week, and haven’t had time to post this until today. But it’s worth noting it here, if only for the historical record.<\/p>\n

The soon-to-be Community Organizer, then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in March 2008, was critical of then Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s complaints about perceived unfair media bias against her. Here’s what she had to say about it back then (video above right<\/i>):<\/p>\n

PALIN:<\/b> Fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it, really. I mean you gotta plow through that. You have to know what you’re gettin’ into, which — I say this with all due respect to Hillary Clinton, and to her experience and to her passion for changing the status quo also — but when I hear a statement like that, coming from a woman candidate, with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think ‘Man, that doesn’t do us any good’. Women in politics, women in general, wanting to progress this country, I don’t think it bodes well for her, a statement like that.<\/p>\n

Because, again, fair or unfair, it is there<\/i>. I think that’s reality. And I think it’s a given. I think people can just accept that she is going to be under that sharper microscope. So be it. I mean, work harder. Prove yourself to an even greater degree that you’re capable, that you’re going to be the best candidate and that, of course, is what she wants us to believe at this point.<\/p>\n

So, it bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level.<\/p><\/div>\n

Palin seems to have had a change of heart since her video-taped apperance early last year criticizing Clinton for not sucking it up in the face of “fair or unfair” media scrutiny, since she is now “bring[ing] that attention to herself on that level” by “whin[ing] about that excess criticism, or maybe a sharper microscope put on her” by media, and even local bloggers, who she has now threatened with defamation lawsuits<\/a> in a statement issued by her private attorney on the Fourth of July. <\/p>\n

We don’t think it bodes well for her, a statement like that, or for her passion for changing the status quo also.<\/p>\n[Hat-tip Paul Rosenberg at Open Left<\/a> via BRAD BLOG commenter “Another Joe”<\/a><\/i>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hate to pile on, but we’ve been on the roll much of this week, and haven’t had time to post this until today. But it’s worth noting it here, if only for the historical record. The soon-to-be Community Organizer, then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in March 2008, was critical of then Presidential candidate Hillary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,226,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-hillary-clinton","category-sarah-palin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}