Nikki Stone1

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Alert Nikki Stone1 - from whrab (General Discussion: Presidential)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6969095&mesg_id=6969095
Forum: General Discussion: Presidential
Subject: This is what FrenchieCat is warning us about (Re: Palin)
Author: Nikki Stone1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/uselections2008.republicans2008/print


When Barack's berserkers lost the plot
Nick Cohen
The Observer, Sunday September 7 2008
My colleagues in the American liberal press had little to fear at the start of the week. Their charismatic candidate was ahead in virtually every poll. George W Bush was so unpopular that conservatives were scrambling around for reasons not to invite the Republican President to the Republican convention. Democrats had only to maintain their composure and the White House would be theirs. During the 1997 British general election, the late Lord Jenkins said that Tony Blair was like a man walking down a shiny corridor carrying a precious vase. He was the favourite and held his fate in his hands. If he could just reach the end of the hall without a slip, a Labour victory was assured. The same could have been said of the American Democrats last week. But instead of protecting their precious advantage, they succumbed to a spasm of hatred and threw the vase, the crockery, the cutlery and the kitchen sink at an obscure politician from Alaska...

But instead of following a measured strategy, they went berserk. On the one hand, the media treated her as a sex object. The New York Times led the way in painting Palin as a glamour-puss in go-go boots you were more likely to find in an Anchorage lap-dancing club than the Alaska governor's office.

On the other, liberal journalists turned her family into an object of sexual disgust: inbred rednecks who had stumbled out of Deliverance. Palin was meant to be pretending that a handicapped baby girl was her child when really it was her wanton teenage daughter's. When that turned out to be a lie, the media replaced it with prurient coverage of her teenage daughter, who was, after all, pregnant, even though her mother was not going to do a quick handover at the maternity ward and act as if the child was hers...

In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks. Their judgment is rarely favourable when it does. Barack Obama knows it. All last week, he was warning American liberals to stay away from the Palin family. He understands better than his supporters that it is not a politician's enemies who lose elections, but his friends.



Read the article.

Understand that attacking the woman personally, with rumors and innuendo, hurts Obama. If we stay on the issues, we win.

Reason:
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The cited article opens with,
"My colleagues in the American liberal press ..."
Obviously it is right-wing garbage as expected from Guardian.co.uk.
Yet the post is in SUPPORT of what this article says.

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