So What If She Called Him?

So apparently there is some big hoopla regarding a simple phone call between Sarah Palin and Senator-elect Scott Brown…

Sen.-elect Scott Brown is acknowledging receiving a phone call from Sarah Palin on election night less than a week after he denied any contact with the former GOP vice presidential contender.

In a Jan. 28 interview with the Associated Press, Brown said he didn’t know Palin, had never spoken with her and that she never reached out to him.

Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton told the news Web site Politico that Palin did speak with Brown on election night and congratulated him “on his most historic victory for not only Massachusetts but the nation.”

A Brown aide said the call from the former Republican presidential candidate “had completely slipped his mind,” and added that it was very nice of her to make the call.

So what if she called him? So what if he forgot she called? So what??? Are the Democrats so desperate to paint Scott Brown with the Sarah Palin brush that whether or not she called him–to congratulate him on his victory–is a big deal?
Chris Good at The Atlantic commented on this story.

A minor discrepancy, and the Associated Press lists Brown’s quote by itself, so it’s hard to tell how the conversation went up until that point; but, given Palin’s national prominence, and the fact that Democrats had sought to tie Brown to Palin during the election–national Democrats sent out press releases highlighting Brown’s praise for Palin and Palin’s praise for Brown, seeking to paint Brown as a Palin-style conservative, and Sen. John Kerry compared Brown’s more riled-up supporters to attendees of Palin’s rallies on the presidential campaign trail in ‘08–it’s also an interesting one.

Interesting, indeed. It seems clear the Democrats are hung up on trying to paint Scott Brown as a Sarah Palin conservative in order to cast an ugly shadow on Scott Brown. If they want so badly to connect the dots between Scott Brown and Sarah Palin, why is White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggesting that Scott Brown’s election was an expression of support for Obama?

Let’s look at this logically:
IF Sarah Palin = Scott Brown (as the Democrats have been to trying portray);
AND Scott Brown = Barack Obama (according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs);
THEN Barack Obama = Sarah Palin

That’s transitive properties people.

Not a Joking Matter

Senator John Kerry has stooped to a new low, making a joke in exceptionally poor taste.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry must have been channeling his inner Letterman yesterday.

The Bay State senator was telling a group of business and civic leaders in town at his invitation about the “bizarre’’ tale of how South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford had “disappeared for four days’’ and claimed to be hiking along the Appalachian Trail, but no one was really certain of his whereabouts.

“Too bad,” Kerry said, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.”

Excuse me, Senator…since when is person going missing a joking matter? Political rival or not, that kind of joke is inexcusable, and shameful to come from the mouth of a United States Senator. Would you still be joking if the story of Governor Sanford turned out worse?

I’m sure Senator Kerry wouldn’t be laughing if someone joked “too bad it couldn’t have been the other Senator from Massachusetts with the brain tumor,” so perhaps he ought think twice about joking about such serious matters.

I hope we get something resembling an apology from Senator Kerry. Until such time, I hope Governor Sarah Palin knows that the rest of us in the Commonwealth, at least, those of us with some class, apologize for the behavior of our junior Senator.

Rosie’s Place Nixes Sandra Bernhard For Palin Remark

Rosie’s Place, a Boston shelter, was going to have comedian Sandra Bernhard headlining their annual benefit. But no longer. Bernhard’s recent comment the Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be gang raped in New York has led benefit organizers to can her appearance.

Bernhard’s made the remarks last month during her one-woman show in Washington before Palin visited New York to campaign. Bernhard said Palin would be “gang-raped by my big black brothers” during a diatribe in which she also criticized Palin for opposing abortion rights.

Many guests at Rosie’s Place, a Boston shelter, have been victims of violence, public relations director Leemarie Mosca said.

“In light of our mission, we don’t think violence against women is a laughing matter,” she said.

Mosca said the shelter expected to book a replacement before the Oct. 16 luncheon “Funny Women … Serious Business.”

“Right now, our main focus is our event and making sure the event is a success,” Mosca said. “And for us, that means not including Sandra Bernhard at this time.”

A representative for Bernhard had no immediate comment on the cancellation.

In a statement on her Web site, Bernhard said the gang-rape comment was part of a larger piece from her show about “racism, freedom, women’s rights, and the extreme views of Gov. Sarah Palin _ a woman who doesn’t believe that other women should have the right to choose.”

“I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm _ I’d just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views … and then go back to Alaska,” she said.

It’s all relative Ms. Bernhard… there is a large population of people who find your views on abortion just as outrageous as you find people’s pro-life views. Seriously, if that’s all you have against Sarah Palin, perhaps you need some substantive material.

Lipstick Politics As Usual

WTKK’s Michael Graham is calling on you to drop off a lipstick with him so he deliver the message to the Obama campaign.

Sick and tired of the trashing of Sarah Palin? Heard enough accusations that she’s a bad mother, bad parent, bad wife, a “dominatrix,” a “fundamentalist Muslim” and a Nazi?

Fight back! Drop of a lipstick at our Greater Media offices at 55 Morrissey Blvd in Boston (02125), or bring one by the parking lot of Ken’s Steak House on Rte. 9 in Framingham today between 5-7pm. I’ll be there collecting them, and I’ll keep collecting them until Friday at noon.

I will personally deliver your Lipstick Politics message to the Obama campaign, to make sure that they get the point. Or at least the lip gloss.

Howie Carr: The Media Loves to Hate Sarah Palin

Howie Carr, in his fantastically unique way, excoriates the media attacks on Sarah Palin:

It’s become a regular “60 Minutes”/Texas Air National Guard feeding frenzy of bogus reporting out there. The whoppers about Palin are piled up so high in the moribund mainstream media that the wrinkly newsreaders have taken to blaming their most scurrilous, sexist screw-ups on those nefarious unnamed left-wing “bloggers” – you know, like Brian Williams.

Why do the pampered poodles of the elite media loathe Sarah so much? Let’s go down the list.

She’s only 44 years old. She’s just not seasoned enough – and if you don’t believe me, just ask Gloria Steinem, age 74, or Barbara Walters, age 78, or Sally Quinn, age 67, or Eleanor Clift, age 68, or Andrea Mitchell, age 61, or Gail Collins, age 62.

Why, up on the stage, it has been noted that you can distinguish Sarah’s ankles from her calves. She’s never had a Botox injection. The hags of the Hamptons speak as one on this issue. Snow White Palin must be stopped. Anybody got a poisoned apple?

How can she be qualified when she doesn’t have a single $1.2-million-a-year lobbyist in her family? How can she relate to “lunch-bucket” Americans the way lunch-bucket blowhard Joe Biden can?

She admits smoking pot as a teenager, which sets a terrible example for the youth of America, unlike Barack Obama, who admits smoking pot as a teenager, and whose “refreshing candor” is a breath of fresh air after eight years of Cheney-Bush.

She went to multiple colleges as an undergraduate, which shows how flighty and immature she is, unlike Barack Obama, who went to multiple colleges as an undergraduate, which shows the inquisitive nature of his intelligence, which has been such an inspiration, at least to everyone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Howie then goes on to list various lies about Sarah Palin that have been reported as facts by the mainstream, and really nailed the situation perfectly.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It’s called “vetting.” Printing the truth about liberals – that’s called “swift-boating.” From career MSNBC jock sniffer Keith Olbermann to Barney Frank’s favorite publisher Jann Wenner, the verdict on Palin is unanimous.

Read the whole thing.