Laura Berman Has A Serious Case Of Palin Derangement Syndrome
I’m shocked by Laura Berman’s Palin Derangement Syndrome on full display at the DetNews.com:
Palin wins by quitting while Granholm can’t win for trying
Laura Berman is jumping on the Sarah Palin hating wagon and her blinding hatred is drive her to the fringes sanity. Case and point: Laura Berman is comparing Sarah Palin to Jenifer Granholm.
But Granholm — elected in 2002 on a combination of charisma, communication skills and intelligence — is mired by the state’s endless series of unfortunate events and badly matched personalities. Her star power wanes with every day she stays in a difficult game.
By all rights, Palin ought to be at least as dead in the water. A failed vice presidential candidate, she quit her job as Alaska’s governor midway through her first term, ridiculing “lame duck” governors, and by inference, all governors who (a) don’t quit after one term or (b) who don’t quit in the middle of their first term.
I have one question, does anyone remember remember ‘Cool Cities’? That took some intellectual gravitas from Jennifer Granholm to put that economic juggernaut together.
But, getting back to Laura’s point that Sarah Palin is a quitter. The reason Sarah Palin resigned from office was that she was subjected a series of frivolous lawsuits that she was required to answer legally. These actions cost her an exorbitant amount of money to address. It seems Laura’s blinding hatred caused her to overlook that small detail.
I wonder what Laura would have to say if Granholm was selected by “The One” to sit on the Supreme Court? Would Laura call Granholm a quitter for not finishing her last 18 months on the job “fighting for green jobs and heavily subsidized movies?” I doubt it.
Finally, Laura Berman’s hatred allows her column to descend into the realm of bitter high school gossip about the girl she doesn’t like(emphasis added):
Palin’s high heels and chesty bravado — and her indifference to proving herself as a policy wonk or scholar– are just fine with the “let Sarah be Sarah” crowd.
Laura Berman has a serious case of Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Is it caused by jealousy? Sarah Palin has published a best selling book and her Facebook page, where she publishes her op-ed’s, has over 1 million subscribers. Laura’s paper has a print circulation of 167,849 and less than 600,000 online readers. That’s gotta sting, just a little bit. And, I’m not sure, but, I would bet that Obama doesn’t read Laura Berman’s column, but he (or his ‘people’) does read Sarah’s FB op-ed’s.
So, just who is the ‘policy wonk’? Is it Laura Berman, who isn’t read by Obama and his henchmen and is writing for a declining paper? Is it Jennifer Granholm, who has managed to lose jobs in every single year of her disastrous tenure as Governor of Michigan? Or is it Sarah Palin who has driven the debate of Socialized medicine, actually proposed real market solutions for energy and was a driving force behind nearly getting a conservative third party candidate elected to Congress.
I would say that’s not too bad for a ‘quitter’ former Governor and “failed” VP candidate. (News flash to Laura Berman, McCain lost that election, not Sarah Palin.)
Maybe, if Laura and the rest of the DetNews writers were a bit more intellectually honest and a little less condescending to their readers, maybe they could get a few more subscribers and readers. And then, maybe. Just maybe. The DetNews could make a little more money and publish a paper, every day.
I wonder if they realize that they’re only making her stronger by attacking her. The MSM has a massive credibility problem, pretty much everyone thinks the helped Obama get elected. Their ratings are in the tank, and still falling. I think it’s going to reach a point in which anything they say is going to be disregarded. In the end, they are making Palin more popular.
@Matt: Nasty op-ed’s like the one above and incidents such use AP using 11 fact checkers to nitpick her book, while at the same time take Obama and the Democrat’s word as gospel show how openly the MSM is in the tank for the left.
I agree that the MSM has crossed the tipping point with the attacks on Sarah Palin and people are starting to tune them out and are starting to listen to what she actually has to say. And, I think a lot of people will like what they hear.
“Policy wonks” are the reason our state and country are in the mess they’re in today.
“I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution … or have failed their purpose … or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.” – Barry Goldwater