Since the first article on American Thinker warning about the forthcoming types of attacks on Sarah Palin was posted last Friday (Defending Against the First Attacks on Sarah Palin), the assault has come fast and furious from both the media and the Democrats. Perhaps the only surprising thing about it has been, however, the depravity of the attacks.
While the campaign against Governor Palin has been vicious, certainly more so than any I can remember previously, it has managed to expose the soft underbelly of the Democratic Party, including the mainstream media. The Left is, at its heart, a movement of fear and intolerance—despite its loud and frequent proclamations that it is exactly the opposite.
Here’s a blue-collar woman from a blue-collar family living a comfortable blue-collar life. She’s able to be successful in a career while raising a family, and her spouse is also hard-working and successful in a blue-collar job. Her life is not perfect—her family has to deal with serious issues that normal families have to deal with from time to time, such as a husband’s old DUI conviction, a sister’s divorce from a lunatic that Tasers the sister’s ten year old son, and a daughter’s unplanned pregnancy and forthcoming marriage. But they deal with it with love, respect, and mutual support. In short, she is exactly the type of woman that the media and the Democrats should champion.
Which is precisely why they are so afraid of her: she isn’t one of their own.
And so we have all the usual suspects launching abhorrent personal attacks on her and her family. It doesn’t matter if what they report, allege, or insinuate is even slightly factual. The point is to get these stories out in public, where they can develop a life of their own. That’s why you have a supposedly honorable liberal such as Alan Colmes writing a blog post that essentially blames Sarah Palin’s pre-natal regimen for her baby’s Down Syndrome (which is scientifically impossible since the malady is chromosome-based). He took his disgraceful piece down after a while, but his objective was achieved. He got people talking about it, and in some intolerant and uneducated circles it’s become the new conventional wisdom. And bless Colmes’ little, cold heart—he’s been rationalizing writing the post ever since.
The Democrats have even gotten so desperate that one of their party operatives has released the first five numbers of Sarah Palin’s Social Security number to the public as part of a Democratic opposition research file. That means, by the way, that they have the whole number, and have previously used it as part of their research against her. And it’s probably not too difficult for some lefty hacker to figure out the remaining four digits if it hasn’t already been released—it’s a simple permutation equation with just 10,000 solutions. The Politico has helpfully posted the entire opposition report, including the partial SS number, here. Is this a surprise? Not really—Chuck Schumer did the same thing to Michael Steele in 2006. Make no mistake about it; the media and the Dems are out to destroy Palin and her family by any means necessary.
As usual, the DailyKos has been in the forefront of the attacks on Palin. Many of the more despicable attacks, such as the story that it was Palin’s daughter Bristol who gave birth to Trig, have been removed from DailyKos’ site—not because they were inaccurate (which they were), but because they were becoming embarrassing to DailyKos and its owner and chief propagandist, Markos Moulitsas.
But DailyKos still has 51 lines of attack against Governor Palin up on their website, and to show you how depraved the mainstream media has become, many of them have been embraced by outlets such as CNN (embracing Kos Attack #4).
I first thought that DailyKos had received a copy of the aforementioned opposition research file, and used it to develop their lines of attack. But after reading the report, I realized that it was not so, since much of the opposition research can be used to rebut many of DailyKos’ attack points.
So let’s revisit the original lines of attack on Sarah Palin that was predicted last Friday, and assess how they’re going. And then let’s expand it by going through the 51 DailyKos attack directives issued to the drive-by media, with admissions and rebuttals where appropriate. It’ll be done in order, keeping all original misspellings and grammatical errors, skipping (and noting) only those attacks that were first covered in last Friday’s post and updated in today’s.
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Read the whole thing; there are specific rebuttals of all the main attacks, but they are multiplying daily, so study up!