New Girl Media Unplugs Old Girl Network

Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often 'illusory and deceitful," reports Reuters. Compare Papa Ratzi's open invitation to engage in an expansive search for truth with President Obama's secretive, craven attempts to use the art community as a tool of the state to propagandize his own not-so-hidden statist agenda. Grazie tanto to darling friend and blogbuddy Miss Kelly for the heads up. (REUTERS/Osservatore Romano photo)

"Like me, Jackie became politically involved because of Sarah Palin," writes self-described "California girl, proud conservative, palinista, future politician" Rachelle Friberg, bearing witness to the Amazonian clash between New Girl Media and Old Girl Network that played out upon the national stage last week when MSNBC warhorse Norah O'Donnell tried to play "gotcha" with fresh-faced 17-year-old filly Jackie Seal at a Sarah Palin Going Rogue book-signing event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The usual suspects used the occasion to present Palin supporters as clueless cultists, but we're more interested in the folks who are paying attention. Here's Rachelle:

I actually got to know Jackie a couple months ago on Twitter. When I first met her, I was struck by how mature, articulate and intelligent a young woman she was. Like me, Jackie became politically involved because of Sarah Palin. She is an amazing girl, and I wish I had become politically aware when I was her age. While she may be young, she is already a very talented blogger who has a great future ahead of her. I actually recently wrote about her and other great, young conservative bloggers who are out there making a difference one post at a time. I find it so amazing and incredible that Sarah has brought so many people together. While Jackie and I do not know Sarah personally, we and millions of others have formed a bond that will last a lifetime.

"The so-called 'Staircase Group' by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) is arguably the first major original painting in American art," writes collector and curator John Wilmerding in today's WSJ. Read the whole thing for its historically and aesthetically rich appreciation of the Philadelphia-based artist, inventor, scientist, soldier, writer, naturalist and museum founder. The take-home point for our discussion here: "The full-length format … speaks to its final originality. Heretofore it was reserved in the Old World for upper-class and royal portraiture. Peale inverts its use for American figures who are ordinary, relaxed and democratic." Sarah Palin and the Tea Party/Town Hall Movement come to mind.

Then comes Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who begs to differ with those like Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel who say the Tea Party Movement requires "the emergence of a national leader, group or structure" to become a "sustainable bloc with the power to shape the GOP and swing elections." Freedom Works Press Secretary Adam Brandon explains:

We were never looking to own or control it. The focus needs to be on the issues at hand.

Clouthier nails it:

Asking the “who’s in charge” questions about the Tea Party movement is to fundamentally misunderstand conservatives. Conservatives do not like being told what to do. The notion of subsuming self-interest for “the greater good” is anathema to them. That makes replicating the Borg-like work of ACORN and Moveon.org organizations nearly impossible on the right. When conservatives see a goal, they’ll take 50 roads to get there. The left will get on the Huffington Post highway and ride along together.

In related commentary, it's the town hall, stupid, Bill Whittle tells Scott Ott at PJTV:

Let's remind ourselves of what the essential part of a representative democracy is all about. It's a town hall meeting. Who's in charge of a town hall meeting? Nobody … There are rules and procedures so that equals can come to an assignment of responsibility based on their equality.

The final word goes to the totally adorable Tucker Carlson, who had this to say on Fox and Friends this morning:

There's something about Sarah Palin that drives a certain kind of liberal wild, and I don't know why. I'm not a psychiatrist.

But I personally wish she'd stop calling people "sexist." That's what liberals do.

Carlson may not know why Saracudda drives a certain kind of liberal wild, but we do. 'Been blogging about it for years: It's the tribalism, stupid.

Update: Instalanche! Thank you, dear professor.

Update II: "I am the last person in the entire b-sphere to link it, but I’m delighted to do so, writes Attila Girl." Never too late.

Comments

[J.]

I have no sympathy for the dying media. The bias from those jerks played a HUGE role in how we got here.

I trust citizen journalists much more and then let the facts shake out.

Newsweak, Time, Communist News Network, MSNBC, NYTimes, Wash. post,

All horrible. The AP putting 11 journalists on factchecking Palin's book? How many did they put on Obama's?

[Yehudit]

Tucker was on RedEye a couple days ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqjFKNqlQE

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[goomp]

Putting the greater good ahead of self-interest is an allusion of liberals. It is my self-interest that they wish to sacrifce to make themselves feel good not theirs.

[Boomer]

Isn't it interesting that Norah O'Donnell can't stand the idea that there could be people out there, including young women, who don't agree with her? I don't know too many people with an ego so fragile that they have to try to belittle a 17-year old to buttress their own idol worship of President Obama.

Norah O'Donnell and Susan Roesgen are the same individual, cut from the same cloth, and stitched together by the same network, giving the same illusion of journalism, when in reality it's partisan indoctrination of the highest order.

Wouldn't it be delicious to ask Norah O'Donnell, "Say, Ms. O'Donnell? I understand your need to feed your ego by intellectually attacking a 17-year old, but where were you when those three kids wore t-shirts proclaiming 'Palin Is a ***T'?"

Very curious that Ms. O'Donnell made no noise regarding that tiny little protest.

Perhaps her "journalistic" slip is showing.

[Gayle Miller]

All of the so-called elite media (elite only in the sense that they are united in their dopiness) are terrified of Sarah Palin. She reminds them that the East and West Coast are not the sum total of this country and that those of us who comprise the middle (and majority) of this nation did not go to their fancy schools and high-toned universities and we have a simple and responsible attitude toward our lives. We don't buy their horse manure for one second and that kills them because they've been given self-esteem their entire lives, instead of earning it! So of course they think we should curtsy to their brilliance and when we don't, well they are just shocked, shocked I tell you, down to their marrow. Pfui on them and their ill-conceived point of view and candidates. It's time to take back our country!

[Brooklyn]

I certainly love what the Pope did, by inviting the Artists.

Not certain what it has to do with the Palin experience.

Perhaps leadership?

Maybe my reading this morning is to swift, as I may need some more coffee.

I truly think "Freedom Works Press Secretary Adam Brandon" is wrong.

It takes a team. In Virginia and NJ recently, it took a team.

It took a team to get the fine GW Bush elected twice, same with Ronald Reagan.

And frankly, I find the 'cult of personality' building concerning. I never do it with any politician, thus I suppose, I am never let down.

Regardless, it is nice to see so many in the Conservative realm, thrilled with the presence of the fine Mrs. Palin.

She is nice, but I remain the cynic.

GW Bush drove the left even more insane. They hate all who oppose the disastrous Democratic Party, this is nothing new to me.

Perhaps the gender is the issue, as we may have never had a Mom, a true American Women on the Conservative side, who holds such a Celebrity status.

Regardless, when I watched this morning, I was hopeful and happy to see Mrs. Palin interviewed via Fox on the morning show. Great to see the many faces at a crowd. Then I was so disappointed by the actual offering of the interview. Saying 'conservative principles' over and over, is not impressive, nor is blaming everyone else for bad interviews long ago. But this odd suggestion at a third party, entertaining the idea, seemed to lack Leadership and ethics, coming from a former GOP VP Nominee of the last General Election. It was odd to see Sarah Palin bash her own Party, as if she followed fashion. One thing to be critical in a constructive manner, while including the positives, another to simply toss the Republicans under a bus. "Get it's act together" ? The same Party which voted against the TAX AND CAP disaster, the Obama - Pelosi failed Stimulus, the horrid Nationalization of Health Care, etc.?

I grew weary with the fashion as you know. Same fashion that debased GW Bush, and helped empower Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, etc. today.

I was looking for leadership this morning, and was not seeing it. And this contradiction reminds me of the Fred Hype.

Just have to be honest, as my instincts remain concerned.

Something doesn't add up.

But we shall see.

Hoping I am deeply mistaken.