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ORWELLIAN MEDIA MASSACRED SARAH

I have a keen interest in George Orwell and I like your website, but Sarah Palin? What has she got to do with George Orwell or today's "Orwellianism"?

It's a sad situtation, but true, that in America (and elsewhere in the world for that matter) the proof that a politician is good, honest and has the potential for greatness is that he or she is villified by the right-wing-owned left-wing media, be it TV, newspapers, magazines, books, radio, movies and internet. In "1984" Orwell called the media the Ministry of Truth (Lies) and said it was owned by Big Brother and run by The Brotherhood.

Examples of patriotic Americans (and the list could go on and on) who have been viciously attacked by the media (before and after natural death or assassination) are Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, General Douglas MacArthur, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Kennedy Sr, President John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Edison's light bulb and, most recently, Sarah Palin.

The cartoons scanned above are pictures worth a thousand words, the way they so accurately depict the ravaging the media inflicted on Governor, Vice-Presidential Candidate, now ex-Governor Sarah Palin. For people, like myself, who love Sarah Palin and everything she stands for and represents, it's been painful to watch as she's been dragged through the mud and suffered political death by a thousand cuts.

Right from the very beginning - before she'd even publicly accepted the Vice Presidential candidacy - the media were attacking her - gossiping about her baby son, saying he wasn't hers but her daughter's and to counter that she had to tell the whole world that her daughter was actually pregnant and so couldn't possibly be the mother. Then the media ridiculed Sarah for having a teen-age pregnant daughter who, like herself, didn't seek abortion when learning of the "problem" pregnancy, as do millions of others in America every year. For that reason alone - ie carrying their babies to term and giving them life - Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol deserve accolades, not scorn.

When the wide-world first saw Governor Sarah Palin (a one-time beauty queen contestant) at the televised Republican National Convention on September 3, 2008, she spoke out strongly and not politically-correctly about her beliefs and her plans for America, based on the precedent of her twenty-year political career in Alaska - where she'd taken on the "good old boys" (the Orwellian "Brotherhood") and represented "the people" who'd elected her, first on PTA, then as city councillor, then as mayor, then ultimately as governor of the biggest and richest state in the Union. It was never "politics as usual" with Sarah Palin - the "barracuda" - the "pitbull with lipstick".

And all through this tumultuous year - since she was "tapped" as a VP presidential candidate last August 29, 2008, until she was forced to resign (probably under threat of harm or death to self or family) from her elected position as Governor of Alaska a couple weeks ago on July 26, 2009 - Sarah Palin has stood up for herself and her constituents - accomplishing more in her short term as Governor (half-way through her four-year term) than any politician has ever accomplished before her. She put Alaska on the map - the same way she put her little town of Wasilla (once a strip mall on the side of the road that if you blinked you missed) on the map.

In her three major speeches - Acceptance, Resignation and Farewell (not counting all those she did on the stump which were record-breaking-crowd love-fests where people screamed for her like they did for JFK) - Sarah Palin managed to get much truth out for the record. She exposed how the "politics of personal destruction" and the media had forced her to resign ("the political blood sport isn't going to end") and she asked the media - for the sake of America - to respect freedom of speech and stop telling lies - and to leave her successor's kids alone. That's not likely to happen - at least not if he sticks to Sarah's guns, stiffens his spine and resists - as did Sarah - until the pressure came too much to bear and she had to sacrifice self for country - unable anymore to implement her agenda for Alaska.

"If people bring so much courage to this world
the world has to kill them to break them
so of course it kills them.
The world breaks every one and afterward
many are strong at the broken places.
But those that will not break it kills.
It kills the very good and the very gentle
and the very brave impartially."

I believe Sarah Palin will be "stronger at the broken places" and - not needing a title to effect change - she can and will continue as a force for good for we the people.

I hope that answers your question about what Sarah Palin has to do with today's Orwellianism*.

SARH PALIN: ONE YEAR LATER, by John Ziegler, Aug 29, 2009 (...Moments after I heard the news I did a radio interview and predicted that the news media would destroy her in their transparent quest to pave the way for Barack Obama’s historic election. I had no idea just how right that “blink” calculation would be and I certainly never would have guessed that I would become a small part of that story by dedicating my life and fortune to documenting just how unbelievably bad it would get....)

PS - Since Sarah's exit from the political scene the media massacre hasn't ended. Last week (providing a classic example of Orwellian prolefeed) the 19-year-old father of her grandson was sexually hit-on by a 50-year-old woman on national television seen world-wide:

PPS - I'm really looking forward to reading Sarah Palin's upcoming book. Maybe she'll consider writing as a way to reach the people, perhaps creating her own website (not on Facebook or newspeaky Twitter but a REAL website) where she can share her ideas and wisdom with the world. I have the first book written about her and also a comic that came out a few months ago. [I like the cartoon in the Vanity Fair August 2009 edition although the article was an attack piece].

PPPS - Just a few minutes ago - like a gift from God or Orwell - I discovered fantastic You Tube videos about Sarah Palin:

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