Palin pops a persistent meme bubble

8Nov/108

Palin pops a persistent meme bubble

Not so fast, smart guy...

That she's an attractive but hopelessly stupid person; and in the process of doing so smacks a WSJ reporter down with a velvet gloved backhand.

After NRO published exerpts from an upcoming speech, one she gave tonight in Phoenix, where she was critical of Bernanke's planned quantitative easing because of the commodity inflation that will most likely accompany it, the WSJ's Sudeep Reddy questioned her assertion contending, “Grocery prices haven’t risen all that significantly, in fact.”

The backhand comes when Palin references a WSJ article written 4 days earlier describing how supermarkets were being forced to pass increased food costs on to already strapped consumers, and asks rhetorically whether Mr. Reddy bothers to read his own newspaper's articles. Says sister Sarah:

Now I realize I’m just a former governor and current housewife from Alaska, but even humble folks like me can read the newspaper. I’m surprised a prestigious reporter for the Wall Street Journal doesn’t.

Delicious...I wonder if Couric will take notice of the fact that Palin reads the Wall Street Journal? Probably not. But perhaps a larger question is, will the legacy media pick up on this story, specifically Fox which is also owned by Murdoch's Newscorp, and will Sudeep Reddy issue an apology/correction.

My guess? Someone like O'Reilly may discuss this, but otherwise, no way; although I hope I'm pleasantly surprised, at least by Mr. Reddy.

But I won't hold my breath. Because, you know, the MFM never let's a good meme go to waste.

What do you think?

Rocketman

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The Real Polichick
November 8th, 2010 - 22:06

Great blog! Will you add me to your blogroll? I’ll add you to mine!

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paul mitchell
November 8th, 2010 - 22:58

Dude, when was the last time that Reddy was in the grocery store? Hamburger meat is double what it was just three years ago. Bread has gone up around 40%, too.

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Bob Reed
November 8th, 2010 - 23:16

That’s exactly right Paul, and gas is also up, around 40 cents a gallon here in the NYC area.

What I still don’t get is how so many of the economic experts don’t seem to realize that while the stock market may go up as a result of quantitative easing, and that’s not necessarily guaranteed, people won’t be fooled into believing that they’re more wealthy and start spending indiscriminantly again; that is, although they’ll see their 401(k) increase so too will they see more do-re-mi flowing out of their pockets every time they buy gas, groceries, or pay their heating/air conditioning bills.

Seems like a not seeing the forest for the trees thing…

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agile_dog
November 9th, 2010 - 13:02

In the minds of the coastal elites, Sarah Palin’s new show about Alaska will only reinforce their mistaken impression of her. Riding an ATV, fishing, hunting – gawd what a country rube! /sarc

The fact that she is probably smarter than all of them galls them the most, and they just can’t admit it.

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Bob Reed
November 9th, 2010 - 13:10

You betcha, AD!

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Nick
November 9th, 2010 - 20:03

After Palin stepped down as Govenor she could see 2010
from her house.

What a view!

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Bob Reed
November 9th, 2010 - 20:39

Hah! Pretty good one Nick.

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Meep
November 10th, 2010 - 05:29

A lot of people can remember the late 70s/early 80s. I do, and I was a little kid then. But inflation was something I heard my parents talk about.

Yes, we are noticing.

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