Run The End-Around
By Mitch Berg
To: Governor Palin
From: Mitch Berg, supporter and fan.
Re: Lessons Learned.
Governor Palin,
I watched with great interest your interview with Carl Cameron, about the two ambush interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric.
A couple of good – and very deserved – shots at the always-vacuous Katie Couric, there.
But the real lesson, I think, is to not give hamsters like Couric and Gibson the chance to “control the battlefield”, to shape your message for you, as they quite clearly did in both intereviews. Remember – you can say anything you want into the mike; when the editor gets done with the tape, you may or may not recognize anything you said. The media is a law and set of “ethics” unto itself; they are unaccountable to anyone.
So you should ignore them. Bypass them. Let them stew.
Bypass them. Go directly to the American people, like Ronald Reagan did. Good gravy, if you have a talent in this world, it’s connecting with all of us who live between the Hudson and the Sierra Madre. Use that talent.
Ignore them. And when they react as they will – arrogantly, fuming at the impudence of a mere plebeian daring to displease them – then mock their impotent rage. Play to your strengths – and conservatism’s. We don’t need the major media. We detest them every bit as much as they detest us.
Or at least make sure you have a camera crew of your own there, to make sure that the truth is out there, somewhere. The word would get out, and fast; there are a whole lot of us bloggers (perhaps you’ve heard of us?) who’d see to that.
So take control. Even if you and Mac lose this one, you – like Reagan – can look forward to a short time in the wilderness.
Especially if – as I suspect will be the case – Barack Obama becomes the worst president of my lifetime on Inauguration Day.
Tear ’em up, Sarah.
MBerg
October 6th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Mitch gushed: “Good gravy, if you have a talent in this world, it’s connecting with all of us who live between the Hudson and the Sierra Madre.”
Actually, her talent is playing unchallenging solos on the flute. Surprised you don’t pay more attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0OZ9W2K_z0
October 6th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Mitch comforted: “Remember – you can say anything you want into the mike; when the editor gets done with the tape, you may or may not recognize anything you said.”
Haha! Yeah, it was the editors that made her appear to be saying so many stupid things! She actually delivered the modern equivalent of the Gettysburg Address, but those network techies edited in all kinds of incomplete sentences, subliterate speech and “homina-homina” moments.
“What newspapers do you read?” Wow, Katie really went for the throat!
October 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Mitch rationalized: “So take control. Even if you and Mac lose this one, you – like Reagan – can look forward to a short time in the wilderness.”
Ya think? Cause I’m thinking in eight years Mac will be buried in Arlington and Sarah, her MILF-itude long gone, will be an answer on “Jeopardy.”
But at least her “ideas” will live on. “Ya gotta be a truth-tellin’ maverick, boy howdy!”
Hahahahahaha! Angryclown’s busting a gut over here.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Angryclown bowel-released: “I’m thinking in eight years Mac will be buried in Arlington and Sarah, her MILF-itude long gone.”
Age prejudice AND sexism. Double score plus-good.
October 6th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Yep.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Truth to power, Sarah Barracuda!
When the MSM finally reports all about how Che Ayers wrote Barry’s economic bombing policy and continued to lobby the domestic terrorists RIGHT FROM Barry’s school bus, it’s gonna be over for Scary Barry! Over!
Ya git goin’, girl!
/jc
October 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am
No kidding, Slash – I literally set my watch to your post!
10:30 Central, on the dot!
Thanks! You never disappoint!
October 6th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Meanwhile, I paid $2.99 per gallon for regular gas just outside Taylor’s Falls on Saturday.
I blame Bush.
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October 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I blame Bush.
I blame the fact that the European banks are in worse shape than the US ones. I’ll bet we see lower oil prices here shortly and it will have nothing to do with Barry or Bush or McCain.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I paid $2.99 per gallon for regular gas just outside Taylor’s Falls on Saturday.
I paid $4.19/gallon in Kea’au, outside of Hilo, Hawaii on Friday. Ugh.
For that much you think they’d at least check the oil.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
all kinds of incomplete sentences, subliterate speech and “homina-homina” moments
Is this not a reference to Obama, sans teleprompter? Except omitted was the complex thread of ah, er, ahhh, um (insert pointless statement), er, ah, ah, ah, yaeaeaa…..
October 6th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Funny, Kerm, cause everybody thought Obama did pretty well at the *foreign policy* debate, even without a teleprompter.
Well, not everybody, I guess. There’s still 24 percent who approve of the job Bush is doing.
That would be you kooks.
“Alex, I’ll take ‘Unqualified MILFs’ for a thousand.”
October 6th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Eh, eh, eh, er, ah, yes He did! Those 300 policy advisors he keeps on the payroll have finally paid off.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
The man’s a quick study, Kerm. He’ll make a good successor to a president whose legacy will be eight years of wire-to-wire incompetence.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
eight years of wire-to-wire incompetence
So, any skyscrapers been knocked down in your neighborhood recently?
October 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Clown isn’t really sexist. He’s bitter because he gets beat up by girls a lot.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Clown knows girls?