Flemington, NJ, January 14, 2011 – A new national study among 1,437 self-reported Democrats, Republicans and Independents revealed that Americans indicated that Sarah Palin was more sincere and believable after viewing her speech in response to the shootings in Tucson.
The study was conducted during January 13-14 by HCD Research and reported on its MediaCurves.com® website, to obtain Americans’ perceptions of Sarah Palin after viewing a video of a speech she gave in response to the shootings in Tucson.
Respondents were asked to rate Sarah Palin on a scale from 1-7 regarding likeability, believability and sincerity, with 1 representing “not at all strong in this attribute” and 7 representing “extremely strong in this attribute.”
With the exception of likeability among Democrats, Palin’s attribute ratings increased among all parties after viewing her speech. The most notable increase was her sincerity ratings, which increased from 2.62 to 2.69 among Democrats, from 5.25 to 5.45 among Republicans and from 3.68 to 3.85 among Independents.
Among the Findings:
Please rate Sarah Palin on the following attributes where 1 represents “Not at all strong” in this attribute and 7 represents “Extremely strong” in this attribute
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Republican |
Independent |
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Likeability |
2.84 |
2.75 |
5.07 |
5.24 |
3.80 |
3.86 |
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Believability |
2.49 |
2.59 |
4.97 |
5.29 |
3.35 |
3.70 |
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Sincerity |
2.62 |
2.69 |
5.25 |
5.45 |
3.68 |
3.85 |
Would you support Sarah Palin if she were to run in the Presidential Election in 2012?
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10% |
12% |
54% |
56% |
27% |
29% |
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No |
90% |
88% |
46% |
44% |
73% |
71% |
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Palin also doesn't have enough palms and Sharpies to appear in that press conference she's never had since her 2008 nomination.
"Fox News: Sarah Palin is an idiot "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5BXMv64EfU
Time Magazine: How Obama Writes His Speeches --
"Four years ago Obama spent months writing the convention speech that would catapult him onto the national stage."
"Obama takes an unusually hands-on approach to his speech writing, more so than most politicians. His best writing time comes late at night when he's all alone, scribbling on yellow legal pads. He then logs these thoughts into his laptop, editing as he goes along. This is how he wrote both of his two best selling books—Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope—staying up after Michelle and his two young daughters had long gone to bed
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837368,00.html
Jim Stovall, University of Tennessee, Professor of Journalism, author/writer: The Audacity & Hope of Barack Obama, the Writer --
"But there is one fact that no one disputes. Obama wrote his own book. He struggled with sentences, phrasing and structure. He edited, rewrote and rethought. The words are his and his alone. He didn't pay a ghostwriter or take on some partner to do the literary heavy-lifting. The writing is his creation."
http://open.salon.com/blog/jim_stovall/2008/11/15/the_audacity_and_hope_of_barack_obama_the_writer
When she reads a speech that someone else wrote for her she miraculously speaks in coherent sentences and when she speaks unscripted she babbles in run-on sentences.
Ask Alan Dershowitz, Ed Koch or Rabbi Shmuley Boteach if they had a problem with it.
You think when Andrew Sullivan said that the accusation that gay men spread aids is a "blood-libel" he was identifying himself as Jewish, and saying that the people who said that were anti-semiticc (sic)?
You really don't know what "blood-libel" or "anti-semiticc" (sic) mean, do you?
The problem is, Jewish leaders from around the world have defended Sarah's use of the words "blood libel" Because it is. Thanks to the vile democrat party, Sarah Palin is now receiving hundreds of death threats for an event she had absolutely NOTHING to do with.
The gunman was a loon, a LEFT WING loon.
Also, democrats have used it for years and no one has said a word. Go sell your DNC talking points elsewhere.
MSNBC's Mike Barnicle: John Kerry Underwent A "Blood Libel By The Swift Boat People." "The problem for Kerry here is that two years ago, Joe, he did not talk like that when he was undergoing a blood libel by the Swift Boat people. If he had stood up two years ago, in July of 2004, and looked into the cameras with the same intensity he showed today on this issue and said, Hey, I didn`t see Dick Cheney on the bow of my boat in the Mekong Delta, we might have a different president today. That didn`t happen then, and so he`s playing catch-up in terms of his reputation now." ("Scarborough Country," MSNBC, 10/31/06)
Democratic Congresswoman On Accusations Against Al Gore: "I Would Put Them In A Category, Literally, Of Blood Libel.""Rep. DEUTSCH: Well, again, it–it is ve–a–an incredibly fair and well-run process. But let me respond to the two things you said. First is the Republicans' allegations over the last 24 or 48 hours, which I consider the most scandalous statements that I probably have heard in my entire life. And I would put them in a category, literally, of blood libel, that Al Gore has conspired to prevent servicemen and women from their votes being counted, which is absolutely not true." ("Rivera Live," CNBC, 11/20/00)
Christie Todd Whitman but for most Democrats that's a blood libel that Republicans have been spreading since the McCarthy era — alas, with some success." (John Farmer, "Presidential Campaign To Run From The Sewers," Star-Ledger, 11/24/03)
Salon: Blair Trumpeted "Blood Libel" Against Iran. "You can't teach an old lapdog new tricks. And Tony Blair was barking up the wrong tree yet again last week in his first major appearance since he skulked ingloriously away from office back in June. Blair seized the opportunity of a New York speech to trumpet the blood libel that Iran is now the embodiment of the entire ‘global ideology' of Islamic extremism, explicitly conflating the Tehran regime not only with al-Qaida but also with Nazi Germany." (Chris Floyd, "Blair And Bush Team Up To Sell New War," Salon.com, 10/24/07)
Washington Monthly Book Reviews Labels Anti-Clinton Book "Awfully Close To A Blood Libel." "Losing bin Laden might be thought of as the pilot for a series to be called CSI: Right ‘Wing Conspiracy.' In the book, British journalist Richard Miniter sifts through eight years' worth of the Clinton administration's approach to Osama bin Laden's terrorism, and lays the blame for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks squarely on — altogethernow, Regnery Publishing buffs! — Bill Clinton. Armed with 20/20 hindsight, Miniter finds a long series of missed opportunities to capture or kill the terrorist. The result is an odd book that manages to raise serious questions and make serious points about the competing pressures and interests that go into creating a foreign policy, but that still overreaches in manipulative and mendacious ways. . . . However, if Miniter had been less interested in leveling what seems awfully close to a blood libel, it would be easier to congratulate him for producing a clear account of the competing policy questions, institutional inertia, bureaucratic competition, and the personality conflicts that thwarted the formulation and execution of a policy to stop bin Laden." (Jamie Malanowski, "Kill Bill: The Relentless Effort To Blame 9/11 On President Clinton," Washington Monthly, 11/1/03)
CQ Weekly: "Not Just A Fiction, It Was Very Nearly A Blood Libel." "In his Oct. 17, 2002, testimony for the joint House and Senate inquiry, CIA Director George J. Tenet conceded no error, acknowledged no miscalculation. Beyond removing ‘the wall' of legal restrictions on intelligence sharing and increasing his budget, he saw no need for fundamental change. In his view, any suggestion that the CIA was not joined at the hip with the FBI in pursuit of al Qaeda was not just a fiction, it was very nearly a blood libel. ‘One of the most critical alliances in the war against terrorism is that between CIA and FBI,' Tenet testified." ("CQ Outlook: Is Homeland Security Keeping America Safe?," CQ Weekly, 6/13/03)
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author David Halberstam Describes The Movie Pearl Harbor As A "Blood Libel." "Look at ‘Pearl Harbor.' ‘Pearl Harbor' is nearly a blood libel against the event. The people who made that movie should be ashamed of themselves. Then you see ‘Apocalypse' and you see what real filmmaking really is." (Jeff Stark, "David Halberstam on ‘Apocalypse Now'," Salon.com, 8/3/01)
Baltimore Sun: Ellen Sauerbrey Issued "A Political Blood Libel" In 1998. "Post: ‘Take us back to the last election. Do you still think you won that?' Sauerbrey: ‘I think it's irrelevant.' Excuse me? Sauerbrey then vaguely blamed Baltimore City for ‘problems,' which she said have been addressed by ‘new equipment.' And then the subject was changed. Well, all denials to the contrary, the last election is not ‘irrelevant.' What Sauerbrey issued, in its aftermath, was a political blood libel, accusing her opponents of stealing the democratic process. She had all sorts of time to prove her allegations, or drop them, or apologize for them and blame them on the emotions of the moment. Instead, she took them all the way to court — where they were thrown in her face." (Michael Olesker, "Accusations Hurt Credibility Of Candidate Sauerbrey," The Baltimore Sun, 7/21/98)
"The problem is, Jewish leaders from around the world have defended Sarah's use of the words "blood libel"
Oh really, you think so? Well let's check in with a few "Jewish leaders from around the world" and see if they agree with you....
Haaretz (Israel's oldest daily newspaper) reported:
"United States Jewish leaders condemned Wednesday Sarah Palin's statement comparing the accusations against her in the wake of the shooting attack on Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to blood libel, a centuries-old claim that Jews use the blood of Christian children in religious rites."
""In the past two months, Ms. Palin and Glenn Beck, the most well-known media personalities on Fox News, have abused two of the most tragic episodes in the history of the Jewish people: the Holocaust and the blood libel," said Simon Greer, President of Jewish Funds for Justice.
"J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami, also responding to Palin's comment, said he hoped "Governor Palin will recognize, when it is brought to her attention, that the term 'blood libel' brings back painful echoes of a very dark time in our communal history when Jews were falsely accused of committing heinous deeds."
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/u-s-jewish-leaders-slam-sarah-palin-s-blood-libel-accusation-1.336653
LATimes Reported:
Sarah Palin's charge of 'blood libel' spurs outcry from Jewish leaders
""Instead of dialing down the rhetoric at this difficult moment, Sarah Palin chose to accuse others trying to sort out the meaning of this tragedy of somehow engaging in a 'blood libel' against her and others," said David Harris, president of the National Democratic Jewish Council, in a statement. "This is of course a particularly heinous term for American Jews, given that the repeated fiction of blood libels are directly responsible for the murder of so many Jews across centuries -- and given that blood libels are so directly intertwined with deeply ingrained anti-Semitism around the globe, even today."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/12/news/la-pn-palin-blood-libel-jews20120113
UK's Guardian reported:
"The Anti-Defamation League, a group in New York that campaigns against antisemitism, said that while it "was inappropriate at the outset to blame Sarah Palin and others for causing this tragedy", it objected to her language.
"We wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase 'blood-libel' in reference to the actions of journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on others. while the term has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history," it said.
"But she has not only come under criticism from liberals. Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota and a potential 2012 presidential contender, told the New York Times that he would not have produced a map similar to the one using rifle crosshairs."
http://mediacurves.com/forum/newreply.cfm?a=newreply&m=6424
http://biggovernment.com/cjohnson/2011/01/15/in-praise-of-alan-dershowitz-is-he-americas-last-honest-liberal/
or
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/01/and-award-for-most-hypocritical-blood.html
or
http://bigjournalism.com/wjkelly/2011/01/13/fire-krugman-olbermann-now-for-blood-libel-against-palin-americans-in-az-shooting/
Should I find more???? The left has no credibility..
While I would not be unhappy if she never ran for President I would vote for her over Obama any day of the week!
So there goes you theory.
What do you expect her to do?
Here, this should help--
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2011/01/11/media-reality-check-while-media-indict-conservative-speech-left-s-lunacy
Stop reading HuffPo and watching MSNBC long enough to take off your hateful myopic blinders and honestly learn the truth.
Pathetic, you all have exposed yourself for the frauds you are.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/15/media-myth-busted-americans-view-palin-more-sincere-and-believable-af
A irrational and destructive behavior.
Perhaps Sarah could retain that speech writer for the future. It is refreshing when she speaks in a positive fashion.
I personal respect Sarah Palin for her continuing and genuine commitment to public service. She did serve as Mayor of Wasilla and part of her tenure as Governor of Alaska. We need dedicated, democratically elected public servants to handle the day to day policies, budgets and management of our public institutions. For that she deserves our gratitude.
I also admire Governor Palin for her community involvement. She tried out for beauty pageant and played high school basketball. She stepped out side her door and contributed in no small way to her community. She must have been thrilled to get that call from John McCain asking her to run for vice president - who would not.
She was clearly not well vetted by the Republican Party when she was chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate to run with John McCain. I still do not have a clear understanding how that huge mistake was made. Kaye Bailey Hutchinson and other women leaders in the Republican party would have made outstanding candidates who would have appealed to the much broader constituency and could have better served our country at the highest office if the need had arisen.
I felt that the Tucson tragedy was one of the saddest days of my lifetime. It was not of the same scale of death and destruction as 9/11 or Oklahoma City but it was very personal, cruel and scary. We could identify with little Christina and Congresswoman Giffords along with her aid Gabe Zimmerman and the others who were wounded or where killed. We had recognizable heroes just like you and me, people we could identify with who stepped forward under insane circumstances.
Yet, Governor Palin, when she had a terrific "political moment" to show compassion and attempt to heal the national wounds, spent less then 2 minutes speaking of the victims and 6 minutes justifying herself. This was totally the wrong political move. Yes, she spoke to her very small conservative base with some effect. But, as you show in the CBS News poll during her speech, independents and Democrats where not impressed.
I hope that Governor Palin sets and achieves many worthwhile goals for herself and her family over a long and successful lifetime. However, I am confident her political future as a presidential candidate is over. I am not sure she understands it at this point but if she goes forth and seeks that office, it will be a losing cause not only for her but for the Republican party.
With respect,
Mark Zober
The shooting of 20 people in Tucson became the surreal backdrop for a modern witch-hunt, the perfect opportunity to frame and smear a pesky opponent. The media's speedy and drone-like convergence of attention on Sarah Palin was too smooth to be an accident and too incessant to be real.
Palin's accusers, none of whom was morally qualified to cast the first stone, insisted that the shooting was the result of a polarized political atmosphere. Learning the truth about the shooter was apparently a low priority. Palin, and everyone like her, had to be framed.
For a week, the left has blamed Sarah Palin, not Loughner, for the shooting. Then they attacked her for not responding. Then they attacked her for her response .
Facing this, Sarah Palin stood up and responded to her critics firmly, clearly and with an uncommon civility. She might never be president but, in the face of a media ambush, she certainly set an example for the incumbent.
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