Hasselbeck: Media 'sexist' on Palin

The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck introduced Sarah Palin in Tampa this morning chastising the media for its coverage of the $150,000 that McCain campaign spent on Palin's wardrobe (John McCain said today much of it was returned).  "Instead of the issues, they are focused, fixated, on her wardrobe. Now with everything going on in the world it seems a little but odd. Let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist,'' the View's lone conservative said.

"As you can see Sarah Palin sure is a woman who knows how to dress. I'm actually most impressed by her accessories - like the flag pin she wears in honor of her son and our military men and women fighting abroad. ... They didn't list that accessory and it's value in their reports, did they? You know why,? Because they it's priceless." (cue the chants: USA! USA!)

Palin also noted a "double standard" with the clothes issue: "I'm trying to ignore this because it's so ridiculous. But I'm glad now that Elisabeth brought it up because it gives me an opportunity without the filter of the media to tell you the whole clothes thing. Those clothes they are not my property. Just like the lighting and staging and like everything else the RNC . I'm not taking them with me. I'm back to wearing my own clothes from my favorite consignment shop in anchorage, Alaska."

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Mr McCain's aides have been labelled "incontinent" for leaks last week that revealed falling morale in his inner circle and mutual recriminations about his lacklustre campaign.

Ya think????!!!!

What about this:

"Philip J. Berg is Appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court as Obama is "NOT" qualified to be President of the United States Lawsuit Against Obama Dismissed from Philadelphia Federal Court"
http://www.obamacrimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/2-news/45-press-release-berg-v-obama-dismissed-berg-appealing-to-u-s-supreme-court

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20081025_Judge_rejects_Montco

That persistent sexism is WHY so many Hillary Democrats are voting for McCain.

Sexist? Ya think????!!!

[McCain/Palin going Down]

"Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image -- even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline."

"She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.[...]

Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.

"These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves," said a McCain insider, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign."

[Wiseguy]

Obama/Biden LANDSLIDE PREDCITED!!!!

OBAMA 371 ELECTORAL VOTES
MC CAIN 167 ELECTORAL VOTES

IMHO

12:35 that posting - wherever you got it from - shows Palin to be EXECTLY what we need - somebody who is above partisanship in their willingness to do the right thing. We don't need another party hack - like Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

But what about that persistent comments about Obama NOT being a real US citizen? Is that headed for the Supreme Court?

Whatever happened to the story about Sarah Palin allegedly having an affair with her husband's former business partner?
The press was all over Mahoney about his affair. Is it sexist that they do not report about women having affairs?

I wouldn't be too worried - McCain/Palin will win and ther it will all be OK.

[ALW]

Sexist? Were the Republicans being sexist when they made a big deal about John Edward's hair cut? If the Republicans had spent $150,000 on John McCain's wardrobe, hair and makeup would it be sexist to challenge the legality of that? Get a grip folks.

The lawsuit says Obama was born in Kenya and cites his grandmother and a couple of aunts. He can't be President.

[Pink Chocolate]

If the vagina is American, the baby is American. And Obama's mama's vagina was American. Doesn't matter where the baby pops out. Stop wasting our time with such silliness.

The level of hatred being displayed by the right-wing posters on this site is matched only by their ignorance of the issues and facts.

Obama wasn't born in Kenya--a lawsuit doesn't make it so--in case you didn't know, I could file a lawsuit alleging all sorts of things about any of you, too. But that doesn't make the allegations true. That is why ridiculous lawsuits filed by lunatics tend to get dismissed (as the one cited above did).

Please, learn to think critically instead of using forwarded emails as your source material. Hint: chain emails are almost certainly biased and wrong, no matter which side sends them.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck does women a disservice to cry sexism when someone questions why a candidate who paints herself a plain old hockey mom spends 150K on clothes. It's not sexism to ask legitimate questions about a woman running for office. It's not racist to ask questions of Obama, either. But it's just plain stupid to decry the 'elite' when you're rolling with 150K worth of designer threads, like Sarah P has been. And the fact that her stylist made more money than anyone on the McCain campaign speaks volumes, don't you think? Form over substance, much?

[Jason]

Just keep chasing ghosts you right wing wackos. This is great watching you idiots waste your time and effort with some fake story about Obama's birth certificate. Stuff like this is why McCain is behind by 100 electoral votes.

Palin is the straw that broke the Republicans back.

12:58 actually that is NOT the way it works at all.

1:06 the man who filed the lawsuit is a lifelong Democrat who has held public office as a Democrat. And he says he is taking it to the Supreme Court.

Isn't that birth certificate thing the real reason Obama went to Hawaii in the first place?

[Jason]

lol now you guys are trying to bash the guy for visiting his dieing grandmother in Hawaii. Give me a break, you are out of your minds.

The report is a press release from Berg's office. Nowhere have I been able to find an independent source verifying this crap.

One of the links you provided is no longer supporting the page.

This is unfounded pap.

[Jason]

Of course it is utter crap. That's why the judge threw it out. It's just a wacko that filed a lawsuit with zero evidence. You have to look at the pattern of McCain supporter insanity. There is this birth certificate thing, and then there is the girl who drew a backwards B on her face and said a scary minority attacked her.

They are basically the same thing. Crys for attention.

[ALW]

I love to see McCain supporters grasping at nonexistent straws. Can you spell desperation? We can sure smell it.

1:13, I don't care if he is a lifelong libertarian, he's still a lunatic.

[Wiseguy]

Obama/Biden LANDSLIDE PREDICTED!!!!

OBAMA 371 ELECTORAL VOTES
MC CAIN 167 ELECTORAL VOTES

IMHO

Hasselbeck is too young to give her opinions to most people. She is clearly very far to the right, a position that has no tolerance for any other opinion then their own. I could care less about an opinion from her. I am decades older then her and have lived through much more. I find her imature and not accepting of a diverse country. Many women (I am a female) do not support Palin because of her actions or inactions, her untruths and her extreme positions. Stop making these sexism excuses. Women in public positions should not be crying about how they are treated. Show some guts and fortitude. Don't whine about sexism, especially when many women, even pro-choice Republican women do not support her.

Pleeeeeze. Hasselbeck???????? Who is this person? What makes her opinion important? She is a extremeist hothead that sits on a panel on TV. What are her qualifications to give a public endorsement? People would be idiots to take her opinion seriously. Who cares what she thinks and why is her statements newsworthy?

Even in Palins own heavily republican State of Alaska (they dont come more republican than Alaska), the McCain/Palin ticket is seen as unqualified

Alaska's largest newspaper endorses Obama
Associated Press
10/26/08

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's largest newspaper, has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

The newspaper said Sunday the Democrat "brings far more promise to the office. In a time of grave economic crisis, he displays thoughtful analysis, enlists wise counsel and operates with a cool, steady hand."

The Daily News said since the economic crisis has emerged, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has "stumbled and fumbled badly" in dealing with it.

"Of the two candidates, Sen. Obama better understands the mortgage meltdown's root causes and has the judgment and intelligence to shape a solution, as well as the leadership to rally the country behind it," the paper said.

Palin "risky" says her own state large news paper

Alaska's largest newspaper endorses Obama
Associated Press
10/26/08

"Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her [Palin]one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time," the paper concluded.

Wasn't it Palin who once said that women crying sexist ought to not? That women who encounter sexism should not cry about it? (And no way she did not know Hasselbeck was going to say that.)

Isn't Palin the woman who was ok with r ape victims having to pay for the collection of evidence from their attack? And they want to cry sexism?

I have to wonder, considering how Obama is outspending in ads, how much air time would $150,000 buy? Wouldn't that money have been better spent elsewhere? To me it's another case of the horrible mismanagement in McCain's campaign. He can't even run his campaign - the country? I think not.

Oh how sweet. One airhead defending another. Bet they went shopping later on.

[Gilbert]

While I am a Republican, I AM NO FOOL, Governor Palin is not qualified to be Vice President! The pandering and hoorah has long left this extremist. When, SHE Governor Palin stated that her foreign policy experience consisted of living close to Russia, I darn near feel over! While I was stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (United States Army) I, too, could have said the same dumb ignorant thing, but I didn't! How misinformed and yet we are to take a chance with her as Vice President?

As for Ms. Hasselback, when Rosie O'Donnel laid into her on the view, she whined and wanted everyone to feel sorry for her I didn't! Sometimes even as adults, we have to take our lumps, be it in public or private. Character is developed when you rebound from your lumps. Being born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she would not know. Sure can campaign for Governor Palin, as she claims the media is too sexist towards her, horse manure with that thought!

When an African American is mistreated more than likely, they will scream racism. More often than none, it is a simple, "they did not do what was asked" and subsequent racism is the only crutch they can use.

So when Governor Palin, stood up and unequivcobaly, stated that she told Congress "thanks but no thanks" and was PROVEN she lied where is the sexism in the lie? When she effectively used her office against her ex brother in law and again lied was that sexism , too?

I can go on and on, but by now, I am a Republican, that just does not like the horse manure that is being fretted about! I am African American and I see things as substantiated facts and NOT what my party or someone else wants me to SEE!

Gilbert. Very well said. I am a pro-choice Republican white female and feel very much the same way. Many other Republicans do also and they are so tired of feeling like they have to drink the KoolAid and support a prty that has left us behind. No more. The only way this party may learn is if they first lose and except the loss for the real reasons as to the loss.

Hasselbeck nailed it.

If you are a woman or a black and don't think like a liberal the major news media and the Democrats will smear you and try to destroy your credibility. They can't afford for "right" thinking woman and minorities to be successful.

[HopelessObama]

Exactly - the Dems are all for "diversity" and "tolerance" and "acceptance of others" ... unless, you know, you don't happen to walk lock-step with them.

So according to the Dems, if you are a woman or a black, and you are running for high office and you're a Far-Left Lib, then you're practically the second coming of the Messiah. If you're a woman or a black, and you are running for high office and you're a conservative, then you're the Devil.

If Palin had been a Left-Wing Lunatic running as VP with Obama, Dems would have been praising the "historic" nature of her nomination (which, in fact, IS historic, but Dems are too blind/dumb to see).

Instead, they bash her for the clothes purchased for her by the RNC. Like some of the $600 million raised by Obama - that's a scandal in the making - doesn't go to pay for his $5,000 suits.

Palin is the only one of the four who is NOT a millionaire.

[john]

Hasselbeck eats PUPPIES - plumbers' puppies.

[Cheryl]

Yeah thats right...throw his middle name in there. Doesn't make a difference to me. I'm voting for the full package, middle name and all!

Barack HUSSEIN Obama 2008!!!!!!!!!

[HopelessObama]

Cheryl:
Why is Obama so afraid of his middle name?
Is he ashamed of his heritage? And if he's ashamed of what his middle name says about his heritage, isn't that ... racist?
If he doesn't like his middle name, why doesn't he change it?

[Financial Times Endorses Obama]

The Conservative "Financial Times" has endorsed Obama.

[Cheryl]

Obama has no trouble with his middle name. He has joked about it throughout the campaign. Do you use your middle name on a daily basis? I don't. If he were trying to run from who he is...he'd still be using the name he used growing up..."Barry". He is not. Read his book "Dreams from my father". He released it when he was 33, I believe...long before he knew his future political career. It gives you a true sense of what makes this man tick. He is very forthright in the book. He is...just like you and I.

At a charity dinner this month Obama joked... "whoever gave me my middle name... must have never guessed I'd run for President."

He, I truly believe, will make an incredible leader. He has all the components of a great leader. Put your feelings about race aside. He is the real deal. I've never been more sure of my vote...ever. Truly.

[HopelessObama]

He "jokes about" his middle name?

Are you kidding?

He and his surrogates/sycophants raise holy hell about anyone ever using his middle name. He didn't want to be announced as "Barack Hussein Obama" at the Dem coronation, I mean convention.

YOU GO GIRL!!

SARAH PALING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012.

So Sick of the Evangelical religious right trying to shove their way down everybody, and every other religions throat. Hasselbeck and Palin are of that same ilk. You can spout out all the c r a p you want about the liberal media, the RINO Republicans, and the heathen communist not allowing your right wing lunatic agenda get a fair shake. You are the ones who do not tolerate differences. That is clear by the way you support the circumvention of the Constitution and the way you constantly are more then willing to take people's rights away by changing that great Constitution that our fore fathers fought so hard for. They knew there would be extremeist like you and warned us. You are the ones that are not happy with this country allowing people to be free. You are the ones who want to invade peoples most personal decisions, you are the ones who are so willing to compell government intrusion including government compelled pregnancy. And you have the nerve to call anyone and everyone else liberals. You are false Republicans and you have destroyed the party. MANY and I do certainly mean MANY Republicans are going to leave you in droves because you continue to p i s s us off by not recognizing the wrongs of the recent administration . We have tried to get it back for too long, now you suffer the consequences. Post all you want little R's who drink far too much Kool Aid. I think you will be singing a differnt tune soon. Keep alienating the R's who have worked hard to build a good R party,one of less taxes less governmnet more personal freedoms and family empowerment. Soon you will be all alone.

8:28 Yea right. Ha Ha Ha Maybe President od Never Never land. Ha Ha Ha Way too funny.

[ALW]

Personally I love the fact that Joe lied about being a plumber (you must have a license to be a plumber in Ohio) and working under someone else's license (you can't do that in Ohio) and failed to pay his taxes. It all makes McCain's bad judgment even clearer - as if we needed more proof after his VP pick. And of course, the fake attack on his campaign worker - it's just too sad.

8:30 AMEN!

I am tired of the liberal left trying to shove their way down everyone's throats. Everything is OK as long as you do exactly what they tell you to. They just do not value individual liberty.

[HopelessObama]

8:30 - Gesundheit!
Now, back on your meds.

[john]

By a strange coincidence of nature John McCain, Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck all have "Sadam Bin Laden" as a middle name. Gasp.

[john]

Oh, and if Sarah Sadam Bin Ladin Palin's is SOOOOOOOOOO pious, why wasn't she OR her followers at church this morning? Gasp.