Palin Sounds Off On Media, McCain Campaign At GOP Dinner (VIDEO)

CNN picks up on a speech Sarah Palin gave last week to the Alaska GOP, posted online this Tuesday, where she again expressed frustration with the media.

"Some in the media actually participated in not so much the 'who-what-where-when-why' objective reporting on candidates and positions, those five W's that I learned when I had a journalism degree so many years ago in college, when the world of journalism was quite different than it is today," she said.

"No, things have changed," she continued. "But complaining? Or whining? Absolutely not. But I am going to call it like I see it. It doesn't do any good to whine about any of this. But I can call it like I see it. Sometimes it gets me in a lot of trouble when I speak candidly, and I speak from the heart and I do such a thing. But I am going to."

"And there was that media slant this go round," she said. "And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, 'cause we got that on the battlefield also. I call it like I see it and like I lived it on the campaign trail. Not complaining, but dealing with reality."

Palin also criticized " those goofy Defenders of Wildlife celebrity starlets who don't even know about Alaska" -- meaning Ashley Judd and the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, which has targeted Palin for her support of aerial wolf hunting. Of the McCain campaign, she said that when she wanted some support before her debate with Joe Biden, there was "nobody I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray."

Watch Part 1, where Palin begins her remarks:

Much of her media criticism comes in Part 2:

The rest of the speech (there are 12 parts total) is available here.

Comments

[reverence]

03:23 PM on 03/27/2009

Ignorant, pompus, ass. What....do­es she also still believe you can get cooties from touching someone. Oh yea, that is exactly what the elementary "mean girls" started with in her day. Aparently no one told her that her down home act doesn't work very well when she talks down about or to other people, especially when they are doing their very best to help.

She should be held up as an example of what every young girl should never aspire to be.

[Yve72]

03:21 PM on 03/27/2009

"nobody that I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray"

1) What is with the necessity for the public pronouncem­ent of faith/reli­.gion?
She is unable to pray alone. Why?

BUT THIS IS THE KICKER...

2) "nobody...­I wanted to hold hands with"
Huh? Now she's a conceited so-called Chri.stian­.
What? Was the McCain staff full of hea.thens? I doubt that.

The more Sarah opens her mouth the more we learn.

[JoyIsGwenNYC]

05:08 PM on 03/27/2009

Thats what puzzled me... Well htis is about the 97,647th time she said something that puzzled me, but where I come from, you can pray on your own.

So this is the kind of President she would be? Can't even figure out how to PRAY on her own? Then whine about it later... Months later, to top it off.

[DCinFrance]

05:20 AM on 03/28/2009

On your second question, it is about the only thing that comes out of her mouth that's understand­able. She is saying that there weren't any REAL Christians such as herself.

You see, these poor, foolish people known as Christian Fundamenta­lists don't understand that they are being played by the Republican party. Sarah has come to know this...mak­ing her all the more dangerous.

[ediva75]

01:27 PM on 03/27/2009

The gift that keeps on giving. She is still whining on her "whoa is me, the mainstream media hated on me and no one in the McCain campaign was worth of me holding hands with them for prayer".

Only person she can blame on how she put forth such hypocrisy, bs and bigotry and lack of articulati­on on national concerns to showcase towards the national public is you sunshine. So go and whine about to your Pain-lin supporters­, fight off those Alaskans who are givine you **** on you turning down federal money

My two favorite quotes from a Lil Kim song- "your mouth is a cage for your tongue when you just close your teeth" and the track title from that quote "Shut up B****" are the best things I would love to say to the winking GMILF!!! LOL

[jastewart]

12:52 PM on 03/27/2009

The "slanted" media (whatever that means) asks you, Ms. Palin, what Supreme Court cases you disagree with, and you have no coherent answer; you were asked to give examples of McCain's maverick decisions in the Senate, and your answer was 'I'll get back to ya'; you are simply asked about what news sources have influenced you life and career and AGAIN the answer was lame...any­thing and everything­. Your college experience was disjointed­, your political background is weak and narrow, you have abused the power of your office by allowing family tensions to cause the firing of a decent Alaskan public servant. There is no media slant, there is only a pathetic, vain, egocentric and dare we say it again unqualifie­d Sarah Palin, willing to expose her family (poor Bristol) to the glare of the national spotlight, because by golly, god was opening her door, and everyone get out of the way!!!

[flhu]

12:38 PM on 03/27/2009

Mainstream media took her accusation­s of pallin' with terrorists and ran with it for weeks, yet I never saw, not once mentioned, her involvemen­t with AIP on mainstream news... yeah, there's a slant. They were being nice to her. They didn't present the reality of Palin although it should have been painfully obvious that she doesn't hold the mental and philosophi­cal faculty for the job... ANY job.

[redsongia]

04:28 PM on 04/07/2009

It was obvious.

[Virginia Plain]

12:25 PM on 03/27/2009

I tried to watch the video, but I just could NOT do it.

Let me call it like it is.

Sarah - YOU'RE NUTS!

[lunchlady]

11:32 AM on 03/27/2009

She seems to have plenty of time and energy for "sounding off" and not much time for dealing with her Governor job. Seems to me that she's being rather ruthless in how she prioritize­s her time.

[jimbeaux1961]

11:28 AM on 03/27/2009

"I am NOT whining! I'm NOT I'M NOT I'M NOT! They're picking on meee!!!" Absolutely pathetic. Seriously Repubs, if THIS is the best you've got...

[norsegirl]

11:00 AM on 03/27/2009

What She doesn't understand is that the media and the world had already seen her every single day for eight years straight (Bush in a skirt) and we had all had enough of ignorance and "God put me here" rhetoric. She seems to have a fierce sense of entitlemen­t and thinks she should not be attacked for her actions like supporting absinance only (while her teen-age daughter is knocked up) aerial assaults on wildlife, or sponsoring some-kind of VooDoo priest in her own church. The media is just waiting with baited breath for a candidate (Dem or Rep) to give them what they want, A Story, that is News, that is Journalism and no amount of complainin­g and whining will ever make it go away. Perhaps if she realized that the problem was HER, she would shut up and go back to that hole she crawled out of.

[dimplesmile7]

08:32 AM on 03/27/2009

Oh poor Sarah no one prayed with you before the debate. I have news for you Sarah, you can pray all by yourself. I do it all the time. The Lord will take solo prayers too. You are so bogus lady.

[Buddy McCue]

04:05 PM on 03/27/2009

Jesus said "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

Matthew 6:6

[OrionKC]

04:15 PM on 03/27/2009

I was wondering when someone was going to mention that.

[sunnyjane]

06:20 AM on 03/27/2009

It is patently offensive for her to call what she did for three months in 2008 "being on the campaign trail."

Many serious Democrats and Republican­s (no matter who you were supporting­) worked long and hard for years to get to the place where she made her entrance. I truly believe that McCain would have had a better campaign had he chosen someone more credible to be his running mate, but that was HIS mistake and I have no sympathy for him.

She's the one who bitched and moaned about being kept from the press and yet, when they let her out of her bubble, she failed so badly that she became a laughing stock. She is not political material and she can't figure that out so she sounds off (also) on how she was mistreated by the media and by the McCain campaign. She's a selfish, arrogant, stupid whiner. She will be SLAUGHTERE­D by her own party if she tries to run for office outside Alaska.

[denicci1977]

11:04 PM on 03/26/2009

And this is supposed to be our next Commander in Chief ?

[oscartucker]

10:36 PM on 03/26/2009

I really thought that by this time, SOMEBODY would have worked with Palin to stop those awkwardly constructe­d and illogical run-on sentences. I thought Greta Van Sustern's husband was "helping" her.

*** "And there was that media slant this go round," she said. "And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, 'cause we got that on the battlefiel­d also. I call it like I see it and like I lived it on the campaign trail. Not complainin­g, but dealing with reality."*­** WHAT??????­???????

[KathyTS]

08:40 AM on 03/27/2009

Her "illogical run-on sentences" are a reflection of her illogical brain. This woman is an uneducated­, backwater hick. Whoever granted her a college degree in journalism should be waterboard­ed.

[ediva75]

01:29 PM on 03/27/2009

Let me cosign with your KathyTS on the waterboard­ing. LOL

[CJWebber]

10:31 PM on 03/26/2009

There is something very wrong with her.

[alaskacat]

10:30 PM on 03/26/2009

What was really scary during her speech was not so much that she said she couldn't find anyone on the McCain campaign who she would hold hands with to pray. What was scary was what she said right after that..... that she wanted to pray to ask God to speak through her during the presidenti­al debates.