Sarah Palin Flashback: 'Whining' About Media Coverage 'Bothers Me' (VIDEO)

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Sarah Palin has largely stayed under the radar since her surprising and rambling press conference Friday announcing that she will resign as Alaska Governor on July 26th, barely halfway through her first term. However, she has resurfaced a couple times in the form of messages: One on her Facebook page, the other a statement released by her lawyer. Both have taken hard shots at the media for what Palin perceives as unfair coverage.

In her Facebook message, Palin slammed the press for their "predictable" coverage of her resignation and for applying "different standards" when covering her:

The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the "politics of personal destruction". How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it's about country. And though it's honorable for countless others to leave their positions for a higher calling and without finishing a term, of course we know by now, for some reason a different standard applies for the decisions I make.

Understandably, much of the media coverage has focused on Palin's reasons for resigning, as her lengthy goodbye speech did nothing to clear up the confusion. One oft-repeated theory is that there is a new scandal looming; talk of ethical problems has been swirling around in Alaska for weeks. Palin's lawyer released a statement threatening to sue various media, including the Huffington Post, for what he called "defamatory rumors."

Palin is known for her hostility towards the media. But she has not been so quick to decry tough scrutiny when it is pointed at other female targets: Hillary Clinton, example.

In August 2008, Palin lamented Clinton's complaints about unfair media coverage as 'whining' that is bad for female candidates everywhere (H/t Wonkette):

Fair or unfair, I think she does herself a disservice to even mention it. You gotta to plow through that. You have to know what you're getting into -- which, I say this with all due respect to Hillary Clinton, and to her experience and to her passion for changing the status quo also -- but when I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or you know maybe a sharper microscope put on her, I think, 'man that doesn't do us any good' -- women in politics, women in general wanting to progress this country, I don't think it bodes well for her, a statement like that. Because, again, fair or unfair, it is there, I think that's reality, and I think it's a given. I think people can just accept that she is going to be under the sharper microscope. So be it. I mean, work harder, prove yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable, that you're going to be the best candidate, and that of course is what she wants us to believe at this point. So it bothers me a little bit hearing her bring that attention to herself on that level.

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Comments

[G Katz]

12:28 PM on 07/16/2009

And how is that whining working for you, Sarah?

[jonjon66]

05:29 PM on 07/15/2009

From The Queen of Whinning Herself

[ThermoChemist]

04:15 PM on 07/07/2009

"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."
-- Lord Jeffrey

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache."
-- Bernard M. Baruch

"In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine."
-- Author Unknown

"Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy."
-- Martin H. Fischer

[clearlythinking]

11:24 AM on 07/07/2009

Interesting to note that she was on 3 networks this morning. The networks were contacted and told to go to Dillingham that she would give them 10 minutes of her time. She is a media hound but probably wishes it was state run media.

[DavidGNY]

10:56 AM on 07/07/2009

I don't think the media spotlight would be nearly as harsh on Palin if she didn't come across as such an uninformed, political lightweight. Her whining and complaining about how the media treats her has now become her story, further limiting her in the substance and believability departments. She also suffers from what I call the "Lindsay Lohan Syndrome" -- or just replace the name with any current Hollywood bad girl -- in that she loves to complain about the media's treatment yet sees absolutely no correlation between her behavior and the scrutiny it invites.

[AlaskanToo]

03:02 AM on 07/07/2009

What a beeotch.

[clearlythinking]

11:49 PM on 07/06/2009

She has whined about the media since she was the mayor of Wasilla. She also had the audacity to say Hillary Clinton should stop whining about the media. Glad she's gone.

[ImJustSaying007]

10:07 PM on 07/06/2009

Hot? If only people could see me as I come in from a run early in the morning without a trough full of makeup on, I think that they'd have a different opinion.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/sarah-palin-interview-0309#ixzz0KXFhkSNQ&C

Finally she tells the truth about something

[ImJustSaying007]

09:50 PM on 07/06/2009

k July 6th, 2009 2:50 pm ET

Think about it: Sarah's argument is that the media sunk her reputation. But she came out swinging in MN. She was out to clobber Obama's reputation and all. She was not a respectful adversary, and she even attacked the media. Plus, she was the one who gave those dreadful interviews, she would not take her teams advice, and and she made judgments as to who real Americans were, and were not. She did so without regard of what peoples response would be, and she did not like the results. Now she quit her job, but she can still make tons of $ which is not a bad spot to be in. SHE NEEDS TO STOP CRYING ABOUT HER COVERAGE. Nobody is assured fair press. The press is an element with its own properties. There is no controlling it. Once false move and Obama will have to court them too.

[huffingt]

08:45 PM on 07/06/2009

there is so much un-american about this woman.

[Downrivers]

06:35 PM on 07/06/2009

Kathleen Parker had it right when she wrote in National Review Online: "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."

[ozwald888]

06:46 PM on 07/06/2009

AMEN!!!

Listening to palin is painful, but it does put a human face on the word "hypocrisy".

[Berkana]

05:49 PM on 07/06/2009

Someone needs to remind her of her interview with Newsweek. Tweet back to her or something on twitter.

[ThermoChemist]

06:06 PM on 07/06/2009

Or the Esquire magazine interview (March 2009).
http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/sarah-palin-interview-0309

"You have to LET IT GO.
Even hard news sources, credible news sources — the comment about, you can see Russia from Alaska. You can! You can see Russia from Alaska. Something like that — a factual statement that was taken out of context and mocked — what you have to do is LET THAT GO."

-- So, she SAYS one thing..and DOES another. Hm.!

"I'd been a fan of SNL for decades, and I have a lot of respect for the present talent. I knew it would be a good thing to be a part of. And also, of course, to let Americans know that I can laugh at myself, too."

-- So, she was FOR SNL before she was AGAINST it..! Seems odd to work with people who you've said had besmirched (?) your reputation, heh Palin..?

[Berkana]

05:47 PM on 07/06/2009

BTW, she was supposed to be 7 months pregnant in this video, given the birth date of Trig.

[sjones66]

05:50 PM on 07/06/2009

she actually gave birth weeks after this, according to the newsweek articled that accompanied this footage.

[JazzyJim]

05:13 PM on 07/06/2009

In the words of her father, "Doh!"

[Clovie]

05:12 PM on 07/06/2009

This is easily explained by the liberal, "gotcha" media...umm, wait...guess she's just a hypocrite- who would have thought?!