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December 19, 2009 in Letters
Palin must have media pals
I was going to ask, in as respectful a way as I know how, why this person of little accomplishment other than fame-seeking rated Friday’s (Dec. 11) full-color front-page prominence. But before I got to that, I heard of both Sarah Palin’s accusation that Al Gore lies to the public about climate change to make money, and her acceptance of a large fee to speak at a fundraiser for a Canadian hospital that not only services “socialized medicine,” but performs abortions.
Glaciers recede and polar ice melts whether Gore makes money or not, but he’s criticized when investing in what he believes in becomes profitable – proving green energy is not the dollar-sucking job-killer climate change deniers claim – by someone collecting a paycheck from two things she professes to oppose and abhor.
One attendee at Palin’s book-signing sees someone “genuine, 100 percent, real-to-the-core.” I see an anything-for-attention-or-a-buck opportunist who drips with artifice and insincerity.
There isn’t space to list her other pretenses and hypocrisies, but the press she gets in spite of them can only lead me to conclude the media are “in the tank” for Palin.
Steven A. Wells
Spokane
Don’t fudge fish standard 
scotland_station on December 20 at 4:12 a.m.
I agree with the author of the article. Ms. Palin’s admirers confuse notorious with famous. Has the public sunk so low, that being photogenic is the primary qualification to pursue office, obtain votes, or permission to misbehave publicly . Albert Einstein said something about ‘try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value’. This should be the motivation inspiring all public officials, and political wantabes.
tfagan on December 20 at 8:22 a.m.
Talk about the cat calling the kettle black, here we have someone defending Al Gore’s Lies by suggesting that Sarah Palin has friends in the Media and that is why the media permits Sarah to get away with lies about Al Gore. It would take too long to go through the list of Gore’s lies and distortions concerning the devastating climate change that has befallen us.
I just read over the last 11 years we have cooled down a little less then one degree to where we where 100 years ago. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if the temperature increased one degree over the next 100 years, that would give us a total of one degree rise over 200 years. My favorite temperature is between 70 and 73 degrees Fahrenheit but I wouldn’t even notice if the temperature rose to 74 degrees average world wide.
As I think about it, since Co2 acts like a fertilizer, we should consider ourselves lucky if the Co2 levels would double over the next 100 years and thereby promote more rapid vegetation growth world wide. Imagine the good it would do providing increased food for the hungry of the world.
I guess that is one of the reasons that Sarah’s idea of “Drill Baby Drill” is so good for the world, more oil, natural gas and coal plus coal shale use in power plants around the world would provide many wonderful gifts for the earth and all living things world wide. In addition it would provide many benefits for the US economy, more construction workers, more designers, more plant operators increased well paying jobs in the millions could result. Now for the nut jobs who will say we will pollute the atmosphere, I say build bigger and better particulate scrubbers to remove the those particles.
That’s why we love Sarah so much, she seems to be the only one willing to speak the truth and wants the best for America and the people of the world. Her decisions are not based on how much money the special interests can push into her pockets. She doesn’t have to pay off the labor unions, Fanny Mae, Freddy Max, Goldman Sacks and who knows how many other of the good old boys.
Keep up the good work Sarah!
mmspowaus on December 20 at 9:55 a.m.
It is sad to see even after a year, liberal lemmings, lackeys and louses are still slamming Sarah Palin. Steven A. Wells of Spokane apparently was upset enough to chastise the Spokesmen Review for reporting on Palin; a best selling author who recently was in the area for a book signing. (FYI, Steve, Gary Crooks like you took petty pot shots at Palin in his bastardization of Twas the Night Before Christmas in his Sunday December 20, 2009 editorial.)
Yes, Sarah Palin has been critical of Al Gore. Why not? Honestly, why aren’t other leaders calling Al Gore on the carpet for his environmental idiocy and opportunism. The Nobel Peace Prize winning champion of global warming, and nearly elected president of the United States, commented on the Tonight Show in mid-November 2009 that core of the earth is millions of degrees in temperature.
CONAN O’BRIEN, HOST: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy…
AL GORE, NOBEL LAUREATE: Yeah, yeah.
O’BRIEN: …and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …
GORE: Yeah.
O’BRIEN: …to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
GORE: It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy - when they think about it at all - in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ‘cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …
Really. The surface of the sun is not even 10,000 degrees Celsius; ask any high school freshman earth science student.
The most recent Gore gaffe however happened in December 2009 in Copenhagen.
Al Gore stated “computer modeling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014”.
Really. Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work Gore’s prediction was based on, refuted his claims.
Dr Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, told The Times: “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at.”
Al Gore has profited tens of millions of dollars and made a political career in his chicken little promoting global warming (now climate change due to the fact that the earth has been cooling for 11 years in a row.)
Also a quick note: The ever looming and growing story about the leaked emails indicating fraudulent global warming research data from top global warming researchers has dumb struck Gore, since most of his shtick is based off this material.
I’m glad someone finally had the guts to call out Al Gore on his idiocy. Since the City of Spokane as well as other cities counties and States in the US collectively might be spending unnecessarily billions of dollars thanks in part to Gore’s leadership.
Palin is an effective communicator. She is a certified crusader against fraud and abuse of power. Just ask the people of our 49th state how Palin stood up against her own party in Alaska and exposed the corruption against a sitting governor. This took courage and personal strength above and beyond the capacity of most current elected officials. She was critical of Obama and his proposed policies in 2008; more than any other elected official. As the apparent rolling disaster of the Obama administration (check his approval ratings compared to all other modern presidents at this time of their presidency) and Al Gore continues to unfold, Palin will be eventually vindicated and honored. Some will still attempt to nitpick, but most reasonable people will see them for what they are: small-minded mooncalves mired in lifetime of bitter partisanship.
We need leaders like Sarah Palin who will stand up and state the underreported obvious and highlight the ignored apparent.
Roger__Young on December 20 at 4:12 p.m.
Sarah Palin a leader of what or whom? She abdicated any leadership when she quit as Governor. The “I can see Russia from my doorsteps in Wasilla” fan club?
Brittany Spears and jessica simpson have more media pull. Go comment on them.
mmspowaus on December 21 at 2:32 a.m.
One does not need to hold elected office to be a leader Roger.
Gandhi
Jesse Jackson
Martain Luther King
Al Sharpton
Will Rogers
Rush Limbaugh
The Prophet Mohammad
Jesus
All leaders, yet unelected.
Your petty partisan toady hatred of Sarah Palin is based from the vitriolic for victory campaign wagged by the democrats in 2008. What they didn’t highlight in 2008 or even to this day is Sarah Palin had the courage to stand against her own party and expose the corruption of the most powerful elected official in Alaska.
Most who attempt such a bold move as this are generally relegated to political obscurity and never heard from again. Palin however ran against the corrupt Alaskan Governor and won decisively. Most reasonable people would applaud and admire this accomplishment. Add this to the fact that Palin is an effective communicator. This is why the DNC has been so acidic and dishonorable towards her. They must assonate her character and reputation by misquoting and taking her words out of context then filter and simplify it for the mindless lemmings to bleat as ammunition for petty potshots and blog post. Palin is too much of a threat to future DNC presidential candidates and therefore must be discredited. If Palin is not a threat; why all the political venom even after a year?
Your regurgitation of “I can see Russia from my doorsteps in Wasilla” makes the point.
Why no comment about Al Gore’s obvious lack of understanding of basic earth science? His rhetoric has cost this nation billions of dollars unnecessarily. Sarah Palin has cost us nothing.
Between the two, who is the real threat to the DNC in 2012?