A new book documents the elite media's preoccupation with denigrating former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti has written a new book that details the quantity and intensity of misinformation that was hurled at Sarah Palin by the mainstream media since she stepped onto the national stage in August 2008. The book is called The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star. Continetti says Sarah Palin represents most of what the left dislikes about the U.S. and wants to change. "She's a forthright Christian. She is a pro-life woman who doesn't subscribe to the establishment feminist narrative, and she hasn't hailed from elite schools on the east or west coast -- and yet she still claims to speak for Americans and presents a challenge to the Democratic Party," the associate editor notes. Continetti contends the most egregious myth the media spread about Palin was that she is not the mother of her youngest child, Trigg. This rumor "emerged from far-left websites and then parroted on more prominently trafficked websites and then launched into kind of the ether there, being repeated actually in newspaper accounts of controversies surrounding Palin," Continetti explains. "I think that is probably the most disgusting, and I think Palin would agree." Continetti says since Palin energized the Republican grassroots more than any other political figure in the 2008 campaign, she represented a threat to Barack Obama, and now she is a symbol of "someone who doesn't sit down and shut up when the liberal media and Democratic elites tell them to." Results from our related pollWhat will be Sarah Palin's role in the 2012 elections?
Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti has written a new book that details the quantity and intensity of misinformation that was hurled at Sarah Palin by the mainstream media since she stepped onto the national stage in August 2008. The book is called The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star. Continetti says Sarah Palin represents most of what the left dislikes about the U.S. and wants to change. "She's a forthright Christian. She is a pro-life woman who doesn't subscribe to the establishment feminist narrative, and she hasn't hailed from elite schools on the east or west coast -- and yet she still claims to speak for Americans and presents a challenge to the Democratic Party," the associate editor notes. Continetti contends the most egregious myth the media spread about Palin was that she is not the mother of her youngest child, Trigg. This rumor "emerged from far-left websites and then parroted on more prominently trafficked websites and then launched into kind of the ether there, being repeated actually in newspaper accounts of controversies surrounding Palin," Continetti explains. "I think that is probably the most disgusting, and I think Palin would agree." Continetti says since Palin energized the Republican grassroots more than any other political figure in the 2008 campaign, she represented a threat to Barack Obama, and now she is a symbol of "someone who doesn't sit down and shut up when the liberal media and Democratic elites tell them to."
Results from our related poll
What will be Sarah Palin's role in the 2012 elections?
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