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Palin Manages To Make Santorum’s NYT Cursing Incident About Her


What’s worse: Taking flak for a spur of the moment outburst or having an outside party try to make that incident all about him/her?

The latter definitely happened to presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who swore at a New York Times journalist this week for inquiring about his previous statement that rival Mitt Romney is the “worst Republican in the country.” During a Monday evening appearance on Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren’s show, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin related this experience to everything the media has put her through: “Welcome to my world, Rick, and good on ya.” On Santorum’s irate reaction to reporter Jeff Zeleny’s question, Palin told Van Susteren:

“It was good, and it was strong, and it was about time because he’s saying enough is enough of the liberal media twisting the conservative words, putting words in his mouth, taking things out of context and even just making things up…So when I heard Rick Santorum’s response, I was like well, welcome to my world, Rick, and good on ya. Don’t retreat.”

It goes without saying that Palin is well-versed in taking shots from commentators and news people alike, so she could be perceived as a bully victim standing up for the latest kid to be picked on. She was just trying to sympathize, and it’s always helpful to receive advice from veteran politicians…except when you’ve been involved in politics longer than the person spouting words of wisdom. Santorum faced nationwide criticism for his handling of the exchange, and while he may appreciate Palin taking the eyes and weight off him for a millisecond, he’s the focus of the scandal right now, not the former vice presidential candidate, and now is as good a time as ever for her to quit injecting herself into debates unrelated to her.

[POLITICO]

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  • Anonymous

    Laura, take two of your Palin Degrangement Syndrome pills and call me in the morning. 

  • Anonymous

    If you don’t want it to be about her, don’t write about her.

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    Thanks! 

  • Anonymous

    She was asked.  She answered.  Is there something she should have done differently that would have been ok for you?  We all know the answer.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Wow.
    That was EXACTLY your response when those on the right claimed Obama injected himself into the Trayvon story.
    Good for you.

  • Anonymous

    Obama was asked about Trayvon Martin. He answered. Is there something he should have done differently that would have been ok for you? We all know the answer.

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    That was not my response. I actually thought it was pretty awful of the president to make a teenage boy’s killing about him. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Laura Donovan is rounrty?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    He was asked.  He answered.  Is there something she should have done
    differently that would have been ok for you?  We all know the answer.

  • Anonymous

    I think it was very nice of Mrs.Palin to support him. Very generous.
    She has unique experience in understanding his situation : a republican
    national candidate being harassed and spun by the MSM.
    Of course. No good deed goes unpunished by the President’s media.
    Very snarky article.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the way I heard it, they talked BEFOREhand to the reporter that spontaneously asked the question.  Though the liberal media didn’t report that little tidbit.

  • Anonymous

    The liberal media is famous for this.  They obsessively report on everything that comes out of Palins mouth and then turns around and bashes her for contanstly being in the news. 

  • Anonymous

    Apparently she is trolling herself. Mind. Blown.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You heard it huh?
    Where did you hear this?
    Sounds like the Fox news trademarked
    “some are saying”.

  • Cersei L.

    I am not a Palin fan at all. However, I don’t see what she did wrong here. She was about the situation and then she commented on it like a pundit. Isn’t that what’s she’s paid to do?

  • Anonymous

    Palin is roadkill.  Who cares what she says.  Pathetic the way FNC keeps trotting her out every time there is a lull in the campaign.

  • Anonymous

    Palin and her brrod will be riding her failed governership and vp run till the moose come home because she has no real opinions or answers on important issues.

    She doesn’t bother me. It’s the people who think she’s viable that freak me out. So.. many… dummies…

  • Centrist79

    How comes she doesn’t talk about Newt anymore?

  • Anonymous

    Um appearantely the liberal media care because they report on everything she says. 

  • Anonymous

    I feel the same about you Obama fanatics.  Absolutely clueless.

  • Kizar

    Sarah Palin is the most narcissistic and less self-aware person in the country.  

  • Henry Wood

    Reporting on everything that $arah says is a good thing if you want to make republiklans look stupid.

    Librul media boo hoo hoo.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    The ol’ LBRUL media twisting Palin’s words.

    And twisting her palm to write 4 talking points she could not remember.

    And twisting her mouth to say President Obama wants to take back the country to the days of slavery.

    Oh, wait… the point was about Santorum denying the stupid things he has said. Like endorsing Mittens.

    Now watch moose snot endorsing Mittens. Because the LBRUL media has twisted her mouth. AGAIN.

  • Anonymous

    what a crock

  • Anonymous

    What the hell kind of headline is that?  So you hate Palin and found the need to dump on the woman?  Grow the hell up!

    She was asked what she thought.  She answered – suddenly you are saying she made it about her?  

    Honestly, the left wing has absolutely no credibility because of stupid headlines like this writer used – why?  TO GET MORE TRAFFIC!  

    So you call out Palin and you’re trading on her name to drive up business.  Perhaps the headline should have read “EXCITING WORDS UTTERED BY PALIN REGARDING SANTORUM AND JANE DOUGH NEEDS THE TRAFFIC – COME AND READ!”

  • Anonymous

    If it was O’Biden as Sarah calls him,She would have
    condemmed the language from here to Russia.

  • Anonymous

    Just like Palin bashed Newsweek then accepted their offer to write a column.

    Sarah is a hypocrite of the highester order. Sarah would be nothing without the media she loves to bash. Kinda a symbiotic relationship.

  • Anonymous

    Like her he’s done,maybe he can have those
    7 Lincoln-Douglas debates he’s always crying for with her.

  • http://twitter.com/jewdocrat ProudLib

    Sorry Sarah, the reporter read the words VERBATIM. Santorum has only proved one thing. HE’s a POTTY MOUTH.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    Moose snot was replying to Frankenstein Face.

    Moose snot made it about her. pRick Santorum has been in the pubbie nomination race while moose snot decided to stay on the sideline and endorse another loser.

    Oh, BTY, you are going to vote for Mittens. Right?

  • Anonymous

    It’s not like she goes around the country making stupid statements. Whatever criticism she gets she asks for and richly deserves. If there ever was a bimbo in politics it’s Palin.

  • Anonymous

    Now your just being a Palin.

  • Anonymous

    This has nothing to do with the media, reporters didn’t put words in his mouth.  Repubs just seem to have a hard time understanding what a video camera does and the fact what you say can be seen at a later date.  It would behoove them to check the tape before the media does if they don’t want to look the fool later.

  • Anonymous

    It’s you baggers who are fanatics – on par with the new black panthers. Both understand the language of Palin or stupid, whichever comes first.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, nobody mentioned Obama. You have no idea who I support.

    So, instead of addressing the points I made, you make a supposition to deflect.

    BECAUSE YOU GOT NOTHING!

    Now, go home and get your shinebox.

  • Anonymous

    The points you made were mindlessly partisan, so why would I bother responding to them?  It’s impossible to talk to those that suffer from Palin Derangement Syndrome.  They are beyond help.

  • Anonymous

    Um, don’t confuse Palin with Obama.  I have NEVER in my life seen a bigger narcissist than Ozero. 

  • Anonymous

    That is because it’s hard for anyone (sans baggers) to believe the total crap that comes out of this idiots yap.

  • Anonymous

    Seems like you are hitched to palins hip. Be careful, stupid is catching.

  • Anonymous

    You are just regurgitating what the whack jobs on radio tell you to.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, Laura. Why do you hate Sarah Palin so much?

  • Anonymous

    are stupid of just trying, our GOP is in trouble with idiots like you

  • Anonymous

    just Sarah and you

  • Anonymous

    Our GOP?  HAHA, nice try, libbie!

  • Anonymous

    You’re projecting again.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t listen to the radio so that sort of smashes your theory.

  • Anonymous

    True, but he left off the last half of his sentence.  The worst Republican to go up against Romney, not the worst Repub period.  Maybe you’re not bright enough to see the difference in the 2 statements.

  • Michelle Santorum

    The only thing Governor Sarah Palin did was beat Democrats and “Frick & Frack” Republicans, get on the city council, become Mayor, chair an energy commission, become Governor and run as Vice President, raise her family, not abort her child, share earnings responsibility with her Husband, start a small business, and stick by her pregnant daughter. I can see how she would be a bad example for the woman’s liberation movement, the establishment, Demoocrat & Republican, abortion for children without notifying parents and others who want us to buy oil from the Middle East and hate Israel.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     HAHA
    Toe the party line or your a libbie!

  • Anonymous

    She absolutely did by bring it back to herself and she also has a history of doing this.  She likes to think of herself as the victim and refuses to accept any responsibility for any of her actions or for what she says.  Because of this, she created “lame stream media”, or if it’s a person, that person is a “hater” as her two replies for anyone or any media that criticizes her.   Palin is also the person who brought these two excuses into our political dialog, and it’s still used constantly at her fan site “Conservative4Palin”.  I can think of nothing that Palin has ever taken responsibility for her actions or false statements.  She is also know and documented as a lier which she also uses in her effort to explain what she has said or done.  To put it mildly, she is political incompetent and lacks any qualifications for any political office above the local level.  She lacks the intelligence, work ethic, common sense, and lack of taking responsibility for any higher office.  Her record as governor gave us a perfect picture of her lack of qualifications.

  • 12voltman1

    To Sarah, It’s always about Sarah.
    Talk about Benig narcissistic.

  • elguapo

    Sarah Palin needs to keep her empty head out of the fray!  

  • Anonymous

     Lie.

    World Net Daily does not count as “way I heard it”

  • Anonymous

     Yes.  Generous to make it (as Tupac said) all about you. 

    The president’s media.  Sigh.  This same reporter had Obama sputtering mad a few years ago.  But no, don’t let the truth muddy your ridiculous talking point.

    Sarah doesn’t

  • Coalminer007

    It never ceases to amaze me,if you listen closely you can actually hear FNC announcer stating “cue the rodeo clown”!! As for Santorum,it’s evident during this campaign he’s a lock on an independent ticket named the DWB Party-Dog Walking Backwards.

  • Anonymous

    Tell you why I said ‘ the President’s media.’
    Last year on Morning Joe, the WH objected when a
    conservative criticized them. WH said perhaps there
    were too many conservatives on Morning Joe.
    MSNBC fact checked. Mika announced that 95%
    of their guests were liberal. So she felt they were fair
    to our President. 95%.

  • Anonymous

    Except he didn’t.

  • Anonymous

    No need t even make an effort.

  • Anonymous

    For lack of a better word Palin has made stupid good.

  • labman57

    Santorum suffers from the same weakness as do Palin, Gingrich, Bachmann, Cain, and other tea party brown-nosing political wannabes:He regards any reporter or interviewer who has the temerity to hold him accountable for his previously stated positions to be a bullying, biased member of a left-wing conspiracy, and he views any question for which isunwilling or unable to provide an honest, substantive question to be a “gotcha” question.In short, these political lightweights feel that members of the news media should act as though they are working for their public relations departments, only asking them the questions that they want to be asked.Santorum has defended his outburst with a snarky little response to the effect that every self-respecting Republican politician has cussed out a reporter now and then.So according to Righteous Rick and Snarkmeister Sarah, it is a Republican rite of passage to treat journalists (or non-fawning constituents) with contempt.

  • Anonymous

    You’re either a Mittwit, or a moron….

    …and yes they’re interchangeable…:)

  • grandmalorraine

    Oh poor Sarah, ALWAYS a victim.  What a joke she is.  Sarah and a handful of fans she has left from the Sea O’ Pee are about the only ones who probably still take her seriously anymore.

  • Anonymous

     Lol.  Sounds like BS.   Link please.  No way in hell Obama, Rahm, Axelrod, Carney or any of those guys counted up reps on Morning Joe.

    90% guests are liberal?   Ha.  Fat Boy Christie is on there every three days it seems, as is Michael Steele. 

    Try again.

  • Anonymous

    OMG – this just makes me fall on the floor laughing out loud!!!

    Of course, when Obama spoke about “Trayvon looks like he could be my son” he was being compassionate and not making it about him.
    really media – you folks need to get a grip.  This story makes you look more foolish than you are.

  • Anonymous

     you are right, a screenname like that I am sure you are a moderate

    #FalseEquivalenceFail

  • Anonymous

     *half-term Governor

  • Anonymous

    News busters July 1, 2011. Film.
    Mika: morning Joe Pressured

  • Anonymous

    Lol, why not link to World Net Crazy while you are at it.

    #fail

  • Elm_232

    Part of the president’s job is to make statements about things like this. It is expected of him or any president. He was asked to comment and he did, speaking more to the family of the victim than the public at large.

  • Elm_232

    Sorry, Widdle…that comment was meant for rountry and Laura Donovan.

  • Anonymous

    Listen to Mika and Joe on the clip.
    Their own words.

  • Anonymous

     If you think Joe Scarborough is a mouthpiece for the left, you have either 1) never watched or 2) are insane. 

  • Anonymous

    Mika seems sincerely liberal.

  • Anonymous

    Except when it comes to Catholics, or being a prude, she is. and Joe is a Republican Congressman from Florida.

    Hey, remember that guy on Fox and Friends that was a Democrat Congressman. Ohhh…wait.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/WMPW74Q3JHIBQDVNKU5MZWP54E rocketfueler

    Wait. Are you telling me this ISN’T all about Sarah Palin?

    The guys who did “Game Change” were dead on target, weren’t they?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GPhvIiWoQ

  • Anonymous

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GPhvIiWoQ

  • Anonymous

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GPhvIiWoQ

  • Anonymous

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GPhvIiWoQ

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/55OSAEU7E47DQ4ZRIVFD4UUEH4 R D

    Sarah , why don’t you just go home and take care of your children and try and be a good mother.  Everyone knows that you are always talking about the liberal media this and the liberal media that when everyone knows that you have know business in politics.

    You may have the somewhat good looks but you have no Brains, so just go home and leave the liberal media to someone who can answer their questions with a intelligent answer.

  • Anonymous

    Sarah could you go home and hump your husband for a change. Because we are tired of you humping us. And beside he looks like he needs a good humping.

  • dubiousraves

    Seriously? A teenage boy’s killing is about all of us. Don’t you get that? This could happen to anyone with a kid, only ESPECIALLY if you’re black. Laura, I suggest looking up the word “empathy,” and then thinking about it for awhile. 

  • http://acaiburnextremereviews.com/ecmd-store-coupon-code-promotion-code-ecmd-store-coupons-discounts/ ECMDStoreCouponCode

    he latter definitely happened to presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who swore at a New York Times journalist this week for inquiring about his previous statement that rival Mitt Romney is the “worst Republican in the country.

  • Anonymous

    love it when you tea_tards blow a gasket…careful or you might go the way of the seditionist breitbart

  • Anonymous

    tea_tards = projection

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    so u r saying Obama is a sociopath? 

  • scgrad96

    Why is everyone so upset at President Obama for making Trayvon Martin’s death about him (although he didn’t); however, noone is saying Mitt Romney made the same death about him because he certainly weighed in on the situation as well. President Obama was asked a question, and he answered it.  Why is it disgraceful for him to answer but not disgraceful for Romney to answer?  We all know that if Romney had said if he had a son he’d look like Trayvon, it would not have been true.  But President Obama said it and it just so happens that it would have been true.  Mitt Romney could have said, Trayvon Martin is my son to seem compassionate but he didn’t.  Some of you childish and simple-minded adults really need to catch a clue and grow up.  Next thing you know, there’s gonna be reports circulating that the Trayvon Martin slaying is a conspiracy where President Obama hired George Zimmerman to murder a black child during an election year just so he could score votes to increase his approval ratings in an attempt to extend his presidential term.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    it is a well known fact in how the liberal media manipulated the truth to attack palin in every way possible.  She was showing kinship with Rick over what occurred to him.  Liberals only do it to people they fear.  A little trip down memory lane from 2008.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443712,00.html

  • Anonymous

    In Sarah Palin’s low-functioning mind, everything is about her.

  • tegeagent007

    Doesn’t she always make it about her. Zeleny is one of the most respected reporters. Fact of the matter is that Santorum is an angry, arrogant man with a short fuse, taking the easy way out like Newt, blaming the media for their own misstatements. They’re been taking a page out of Palin’s book when a else fails blame the media.

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin is too ‘on the defensive’ to be a sociopath, in my opinion.  I think she has a weak character but it’s on display for all to see.  A sociopath would hide that a lot better.  President Obama is not a Sociopath.  He has the measure of his own power (which he actually possesses) and uses power to good effect.  He may be able to lie coolly (I don’t know) but he does not lie to the public and certainly does not lie indiscriminately.    

  • Anonymous

    Sarah Palin may well have come under fire from the ‘Liberal’ media (certainly not from the Right Wing Media) but only the right would cry foul because she is critisized for her inaccuracies and for her bitter attitude.  Can she open her mouth without complaining about left wing media bias, one wonders?  President Obama certainly can and he has plenty to complain about when it comes to media bias and inaccuracies.

  • Anonymous

    Do not like me I do give a sh…. About your opinion. You are just a domestic terrorist

  • http://twitter.com/corley44bc Paul J Corley

    If you Right Wing nuts love Palin so much, let her run w/ Mittens….  

  • http://twitter.com/Odieyama JV

     You nailed it!

  • Lowellbonnie

    She is amazingly wise!

  • Anonymous

    nope, not even close tea_tard,
    $he’s a cowardly grifting white trash quitter fraud with a bonafide obsession of being a text book seditionist

  • LJB57

    Sara Palin is what normal women sound and act like.

    Miles above the nattering hate filled femi-lesbos, who hate the fact that they were born female.

    …democrats are scum.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    if you look at Ms Palin real record prior to her joining the VP ticket in 2008.  She would be the type of republican most on the left would like.   Take a look at the top 10 things most on the left said about her during the campaign.  All of them lies.  Remember the original birthers were liberals attacking Palins child saying it wasn’t really hers. 

  • Anonymous

    fits, but sociopaths are very intelligent. She does not meet that criteria.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Wisper/100000614935577 Michael Wisper

    Answer me this, TangledThorns: What’s to LIKE about her? She’s basically just a nobody with a big mouth. She holds no office, no position in her gradually self-destructive political party, and is way too whiny for anyone to take seriously. I mean, really, who IS she, and why does she deserve ANY coverage by ANY media?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3GKFVYE4ERPTIPL3NJ3S7COQGY Doc P

    It is NOT a well known fact-except to her sycophants that fawn over every word and move…lol. And dont mistake “fear” for despisement-quite a bit of difference there-if youre more educated than a carrot. Are you? Lol, never mind…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3GKFVYE4ERPTIPL3NJ3S7COQGY Doc P

    O bs. Shes been a freak all her short lived career. From exorcisms, to back-tracking to abortion not allowed even in cases of rape or incest. Most of all? Shes a QUITTER. Period. not fit to govern a McDonalds…Just keep one thing in what goes for your mind, subpar, she wil NEVER be elcted to a national office AGAIN. Never-now go cry in tyour moose juice-
    PS How laughable was it when “Ms Moose Steak” couldnt even fire a gun on her stupid tv show-lolol, i had to laugh!

  • Anonymous

    You go girl, you set women back 100 years and it is all about you, You n YOU !!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    The Victim from Wassilla knows the discrimination’s blues.

  • KMinA2

     ”a well known fact”?  And your source is Fox News?  To be accurate, you should state that Fox aficionados have been programmed to believe that “the liberal media manipulated the truth to attack palin in every way possible.”  And, what is this elusive truth, obscured by mainstream media manipulations, that she demonstrated her qualifications to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

  • Chappel User

    Then  you’re either very dumb or very blind.

  • Chappel User

     How can you expect the media to ignore what she says when so much of it is wrong?

  • Chappel User

     Oh, the irony.

  • Chappel User

     ”The president’s media”? The dumbing down of America continues.

  • KMinA2

     This just gets better and better … or should I say superer and superer.  I’ll have whatever you’re havin’ to get me past my writer’s block on my latest work of fiction.

  • KMinA2

    I reject the premise.  An analysis of content would reveal no obsessive reporting.  The reason: she is increasingly irrelevant, despite her grandstanding efforts to remain a media focus.

  • Chasmc

    It is an amazing thing how the conservatives use terms like, “It”s a well know fact” rather than producing facts.  Other statement used are, “everybody knows that”, “It stand to reason that”, and my favorite “It goes without saying”  The worst enemy of a conservative politician is a scientific study.

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