The hangers-on and sycophants at Breitbart.com scored a real coup when they got Sarah Palin to write a tribute to their fallen leader, extolling his many imaginary virtues — and theirs as well. It’s classic Palin, filled with little but cliches and a total lack of self-awareness:
Breitbart’s most immediate mission was the belated vetting of Barack Obama. This obviously is an issue very near and dear to my heart.
During the ’08 campaign, the same media that reported breathlessly about an old used tanning bed I purchased to get some sun during the dark Alaskan winter, couldn’t be bothered to investigate Barack Obama’s associations, statements or even his voting record as a state senator. Suntans and what I wore on the campaign trail were more important than Obama’s political background. Unbelievable.
In many ways, Palin is the perfect conservative — proudly and defiantly ignorant and possessed of a persecution complex as big as Newt Gingrich’s ego. No matter what else is going on, you can count on her to relate it to how terribly mistreated she is — never mind that she has become fabulously rich by turning her life into one big reality TV show.
And then she goes on to complain that Obama was never “vetted.” Seriously. The most unvetted candidate in modern American history — the McCain campaign knew almost nothing about her when they nominated her — is complaining about a lack of vetting.
Standing up and defending those who are being unfairly targeted and maligned was also the mission. Is it any wonder Breitbart titled his autobiography “Righteous Indignation” when you consider his deep-seated sense of justice and fair play? He was on the side of the little guy and ready to run to the aid of those who needed it. He possessed that old fashioned virtue of courage, compassion, and decency that we once called chivalry. He inspired that in others.
Oh yes, of course. Justice and fair play. That explains why he was always dishonestly editing videos to destroy the reputations of his political opponents, because he was just so committed to justice and fair play.
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Bronze Dog
March 20, 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think I’m going to need an astronomer to channel the spirit of Sagan for me to grasp just how big those things are.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne
March 20, 2012 at 1:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This has been another edition of “I’d Have to Be a Total F***ing Idiot to Say . . .”.
d cwilson
March 20, 2012 at 1:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I love how the right is still harping on the “Obama was never vetted” meme. We have a vetting process for presidential candidates. It’s called the campaign. But they’re so obsessed with finding that smoking gun that prove to the American people that Obama is atheistmulsimsocialistnazi who was raised on a steady diet of Das Kapital and Mein Kampf. The stuff they’ve come up with and announced with breathless excitement so far this year has been that he hugged a Harvard law professor and went to a play about Saul Alinsky. Really? I went to see Spamalot this month, that’s doesn’t make me one of Knights Who Say Ni!
Obama’s had 3+ years as president for which the voters can fully “vet” what kind of a leader he is, for good or ill. But rather than focus on that, the right keeps insisting that there’s some deep dark secret in his past that he’s kept hidden all these years. As that has anything to do with the country’s current problems.
Then again, given the candidates they have to work with this year, I wouldn’t want to talk about today’s issues either.
davidct
March 20, 2012 at 1:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
She is certainly a shining example of how to gain riches from the political process while doing little or no public service.
Area Man
March 20, 2012 at 1:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My fave:
Breibart was painfully uncool in every sense of the word. Not only was he a total weirdo, he was the very antithesis of calm, rational, and collected. The first time I heard Breitbart was on public radio when they did a short spot about his new Big*.com websites, and he started screeching into the microphone like a scared child, his voice cracking like that teen character on the Simpsons. I figured he must have suffered permanent wedgie damage as a kid.
Dennis N
March 20, 2012 at 2:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Just because they looked at his record and saw reality and not a radical, doesn’t mean he wasn’t vetted. Unless “vetted” means attacked and brought low like you wish.
Maybe in Bizarro world. On nearly every single issue, he favored the powerful over the powerless.
yoav
March 20, 2012 at 5:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Of course it’s all because the lame stream media didn’t vet Obama since McCain losing can’t be in any way attributed, even a small part of it, to having a running mate who needs 10 attempt to successfully point the US o a map of north America.
Michael Heath
March 20, 2012 at 7:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m surprised no one’s pointed it out yet. The whole, “we didn’t really know him [Obama]” or, “the media never really vetted him”, is a blatantly obvious racist dog whistle. That an uppity nigger was taking the White House and which required conservatives to rally ’round and obstruct such impudence by the usurper.
The more relevant question here is whether Sarah Palin is too stupid to realize what makes this particular dog whistle resonate within the conservative community. Sarah Palin is an obviously overt racist, but the question remains whether she’s cognizant when she’s deploying some racist rhetoric. With Bill O’Reilly it was obvious he knew what he was doing, especially since him and Fox News were also using other racist dog whistles against Barack Obama at the time this particular whistle was most prevalently deployed. It was like waves where each wave was a different threat, revealing this was not unconscious on Fox’s part. Except in the Spring of 2010 where they were throwing all the shit on the wall hoping some would stick. Enough shit I think Fox was the key factor in determining why the GOP increased their share of representation in Congress in the 2010 election.
briandavis
March 20, 2012 at 8:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Obama vetting was pretty weak. I don’t remember anyone asking him what newspapers he reads. Why was it only Sarah who got the stumppers?