Bad Will Hunting

By Andrew Breitbart

Matt Damon is scared. Last week his e-mail runneth over with nasty Sarah Palin rumors. And before he could get his facts straight, the “Bourne” film series star and Barack Obama supporter spread false fears in a hysterical video that immediately went viral on the Internet.

“I want to know if she thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago or if she banned books or tried to ban books,” Mr. Damon raged to the Associated Press. “I mean – you know, we can’t – we can’t have that.”

Mrs. Palin has neither pushed for creationism in Alaska schools nor moved to ban a single book in Wasilla. Yet the “Ocean’s 14″ ensemble is currently unable to get through another smarmy scene for fear that a John McCain presidency will lead to an evangelical Christian theocracy and catastrophic artistic oppression.

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Palin and the ‘Experience’ Canard

By BRET STEPHENS

If nothing else, the media meltdown over Sarah Palin’s candidacy for the vice presidency has exposed the not-unsuspected truth that, when it comes to historical ignorance and political amnesia, our cultural panjandrums are in a class by themselves.

ABC’s Charlie Gibson is only the latest to offer himself upon the altar of self-parody with his pop-quizzing of the Alaska governor during their interview last week.

Gibson: “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?”

Palin: “In what respect, Charlie?”

Which was a sensible answer, given that no higher authority than Jacob Weisberg of Slate has counted six versions of the thing (including “absence of any functioning doctrine at all”). Further pressed on the subject, Gov. Palin explained that “what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism,” which better sums up the gist of Bush policy than Mr. Gibson’s cramped definition of the doctrine as “anticipatory self-defense.”

And so the candidate, without so much as the benefit of a junior year abroad, managed (maybe luckily, though luck is often a function of wit) to get the better of the anchorman, Princeton ‘65.

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Palin unlikely to speak with investigator

By GENE JOHNSON

Gov. Sarah Palin is unlikely to speak with an independent counsel hired by Alaska lawmakers to review the firing of her public safety commissioner, a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday.

Spokesman Ed O’Callaghan said he has not spoken with Palin, but she was “unlikely to cooperate” with the inquiry “as long as it remains tainted.”

O’Callaghan also said he did not know whether Palin’s husband, Todd, would challenge a subpoena issued last Friday to compel his cooperation. Thomas Van Flein, the Palins’ lawyer, who has accepted service of the subpoena, did not return messages seeking comment. The governor herself has not been subpoenaed, but the Legislature’s investigator, Steve Branchflower, has said he hopes to speak with her.

Palin and her husband campaigned Monday in Colorado and Ohio. Palin also planned appearances Tuesday in Ohio.

McCain’s campaign insists the investigation into the firing of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan has been hijacked by Democrats.

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Maternal Flame

Sarah Palin’s family-friendly appeal

By Steve Sailer

Why, in one uproarious week of American politicking that not even H.L. Mencken would have expected, has the obscure governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, outraged roughly one half of the country and overjoyed the other?

What intrigues people about elections aren’t the platform planks. Deep down, political contests are about picking symbolic champions. Just as Barack Obama, recently of the Illinois legislature, has excited tens of millions by his emphasis on his bloodlines, by his implication that national racial reconciliation is “in my DNA,” the overstuffed life story of the caribou huntress and mother of five (and soon to be grandmother at age 44) embodies the oldest boast Americans have made about their homeland: the fecundity of the frontier.

Compared to Obama’s much-lauded but tedious life, cautiously plotted in countless Chicago backrooms, the Alaskan-sized lustiness of Governor Palin’s full-throttle biography—the only-in-Alaska factoids about her keep piling up like an Old West tall tale—always leaves me laughing.

Consider, for example, Palin’s husband Todd. What kind of man could be married to a woman so hormonally exuberant, with her dual archetypes straight out of a Camille Paglia reverie: half Alaskan Amazon, half Venus of Willendorf? Exactly the kind you’d expect: he works as both a North Slope oilfield roughneck and a salmon fisherman. He’s also won the state’s snowmobile championship, the 2,000-mile Tesoro Iron Dog race, four times. He only finished fourth this year because he had to ride the last 400 miles with a broken arm after being thrown 70 feet. Did I mention he’s part Eskimo?

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The Barack Dilemma is Not McCain–Her Name is Palin

Armstrong Williams

In the fall of 2007, we took a production crew to Alaska for our annual taping of the RightSide television broadcast. While there, we heard quite a buzz about this woman named Palin, and the fact that she would one day be someone’s vice-presidential candidate. Keep in mind that this was 2007, and 80% of the country had never heard of Sarah Palin. It struck me that even though so many Republicans had issues with her at the time, they strongly urged us to interview her while in Alaska. 

Before returning home, we made a call to Palin’s office, and, lo and behold, were given an hour to spend with her and interview her on camera. As someone who unabashedly believes in God, and finds moral striving to be critical in today’s America, I was surprised to discover that we both shared a Pentecostal upbringing. In our profession, we get to interview people of all walks of life. Yet we were so impressed by this woman called Palin, her unwavering faith in moral absolutes, and her warmth and sincerity towards our production crew, that we found ourselves feeling almost awestruck upon leaving her offices.  

Back in Washington that fall, when we mentioned Governor Palin to insiders, many of them considered it laughable that she would one day be considered someone’s vice-president; so the interview and our experience lay dormant. Fast forward to where we are now and Senator Barack Obama’s decision not to select Senator Hillary Clinton as his running mate, and out of the wild blue yonder, McCain selects Palin as his. Who would have ever thought that Palin, an unknown and, in some minds, untested small state Governor could have had such an impact on women voters and the conservative base so quickly?

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He’s Kerry; she’s Reagan

Ohio and Florida show up red, which, unless Colorado and Nevada and New Mexico flip en masse from red to blue and are bigger than I think, pretty much means the old ball game.

by John Brummett

Barack Obama has turned into Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Al Gore. Sarah Palin has turned into Ronald Reagan.

Thus the electoral map looks fairly typically red where it counts and blue where it doesn’t.

Democrats win the cities. John McCain and the moose-hunter take all that space in between.

For all the talk of newness and history-making, we’ve seen this presidential race before.

Democrats are burdened with a mealy-mouthed, message-conflicted, reactive, apologizing, conflict-averse nominee. He goes into a prevent defense on Labor Day, at which point the Republicans commence traipsing up and down the field hitting wide-open receivers.

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Why Feminists Hate Sarah Palin

By CATHY YOUNG
September 15, 2008; Page A21

Left-wing feminists have a hard time dealing with strong, successful conservative women in politics such as Margaret Thatcher. Sarah Palin seems to have truly unhinged more than a few, eliciting a stream of vicious, often misogynist invective.

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Too strong for the cause?

On Salon.com last week, Cintra Wilson branded her a “Christian Stepford Wife” and a “Republican blow-up doll.” Wendy Doniger, religion professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, added on the Washington Post blog, “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”

You’d think that, whether or not they agree with her politics, feminists would at least applaud Mrs. Palin as a living example of one of their core principles: a woman’s right to have a career and a family. Yet some feminists unabashedly suggest that her decision to seek the vice presidency makes her a bad and selfish mother. Others argue that she is bad for working mothers because she’s just too good at having it all.

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Barack Obama vs. Sarah Palin

The Constitutional requirements for eligibility to serve as President (or Vice President) of the United States are only that one must be a naturalized citizen of the United States, have attained to the age of 35 years, and have resided in the United States for 14 years.

While we work ourselves up into a frenzy about experience, health, whether someone is too old, or elitist concerns for where a candidate was educated, has traveled, etc., our Founding Fathers had nothing to say about such things. But the Founding Fathers didn’t count on the current state of what passes as journalism.

Americans tell their children that anyone can be President. We tell them they can aspire to the highest office in the land without regard for their race, gender, creed, or any other circumstances. Perhaps those of us in the generation that fought for the rights of all people to be treated and accepted equally have come to believe this more strongly than others before.

Some things we’ve learned in 2008 now cause me to question whether this really is true.

This year, history will be made. Either Barack Obama will be the first African American elected as President, or Sarah Palin will be the first woman elected as Vice President.

Far from being treated as equals, however, so-called journalists, pundits, columnists, media talking heads, etc. have treated these two candidates quite differently.

The audacity of hype and hypocrisy

On the one hand, we have Barack Obama, an African American community organizer-turned Illinois State Senator and United States Senator. Senator Obama has befriended more than his share of anti-American acquaintances along the way, many of whom were influential and instrumental in his political rise. Among them are unrepentant domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, Communist Party activist, Frank Marshall Davis, and racially-divisive pastors, Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger, not to mention Barack’s own wife, Michelle, who only recently found a reason to be proud of our country. There is much about the Senator’s background that remains mysterious (e.g., his years at Columbia University), and no one seems curious to fill in these blanks about the man.

Tina Fey Returns to ‘Saturday Night Live’ to Play Palin

Elizabeth Holmes reports from Loudon, N.H., on the presidential race.

How could she not?

Actress and comedian Tina Fey returned to her old stomping grounds Saturday to portray Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP’s vice presidential candidate. Fey was a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live from 1997-2006 before leaving to write and star in the Emmy-award-winning “30 Rock.”
 
But Fey came back to portray Palin, to whom she bears a striking resemblance. The brunettes share the same side-swept bangs and prominent spectacles. The SNL costume department only had to put Fey in a red high-button jacket and tease her hair into an up-do and the transformation was complete.

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