Steve, it's simple. Sarah Palin = WATB.

What is it, exactly, that Palin thinks she "represents"?

True America. Genuine, bona fide, real-deal America. If you have to ask what that is, you're not one of us.

She represents that George W. Bush was not a fluke. Ignorant idiots can be successful in politics. Then again, a majority of the Republican Party do that too.

Standard policy for Rethugs. Accuse your opponent of the exact thing you are doing. I must have missed that Liberal MSM picking on her.

every time i'm reminded of the smallness of palin's mind, i'm also reminded that there were people who thought john mccain had pulled off a great move in selecting her....

Horseshit. She's rewriting history. If you review the media coverage when her candidacy was announced, it was all positive. They gushed over her so-called charisma and leadership skills, her family, her jest-folksiness, her hawtitude.

Then she opened her mouth. She was the most poorly prepared national candidate in recent history. She made herself into a joke, and then on the campaign trail she became the nasty face of the McCain campaign.

She may be right about one thing - there is a lot of sexism in media coverage, so she probably got a lot more negative press for being an attack dog than a man would have. OTOH, her specific brand of negative campaigning, with the nasty, bitchy personal slurs, the "how low can you go" assaults on Obama's patriotism - she deserved the negative coverage.

She's such a narcissist she thinks she "represents" something bigger than herself, when in actual fact, what turned people of was Sarah, her very own self.

Palin has turned into the STD of politics. No matter how many trips to the free clinic we make, we can't seem to get rid of her.

LOL more funnies...

Here's that Zeigler guy trying to pin it all on poor Matt Lauer.

Zeigler was outraged but he's no Michael Moore!

::rolling eyes to heaven::

Perhaps she represents the functionally retarded. I hear Michael Steele is making quite a push for that demographic lately.

Palin represents extremely stupid people failing upwards by virtue of connections & charm. After W, most of us are done with letting people like that anywhere near the budget or the button. Sucks to be her. The irony is, she's NOT stupid just because she's a woman, but BECAUSE she's stupid, she THINKS our contempt is based on her being a woman.

If you have acces to the variety show "The Kids in the Hall" look for Dave Foley's "bad doctor" monologue. That's Bush. That's Palin. That's our national fascination of shunning people who are capable, and rewarding people we like far beyond what they deserve or is safe.

I think Palin just had her confidence shattered and she's dealing with it by reinforcing her natural tendencies of being an ignorant far-right crazy blow-hard.

Seriously, she has the air of a truly self-assured moron who has gotten lucky throughout her life and never had a real challenge before. She won both the Wasilla mayor's office and the Alaska governor's office by being the predictable far-right crazy, and since it never failed before, she expected it to take her to the White House. The problem is that, as bad as the national press have been for the past 20 years, they're still good enough that you have to be fairly savvy to deal with them.

Palin is not savvy. She is, as I said above, an ignorant far-right crazy blow-hard. And while far-right crazy blow-hards can do pretty well in modern America, they can't be ignorant. Or at least, they can't be as ignorant as Palin is. So she did what has always worked for her before, and it failed pretty hard this time. That has to be a pretty big blow to her self-confidence.

And just like all far-right crazies, she is dealing with the blow by pretending to be the victim, because, after all, it can't be her fault.

Zeigler the filmmaker used to be Zeigler the radio hack. Seriously, if you are a right wing hack who can't make it on the radio you're as pathetic as they come.

Two failures lamenting their lack of success is all I see here. Misery and her company.

Governess Palin represents all that is good in America and that is why liberals despise her.

The jackass who made this documentary (John Ziegler) was on the Today show yesterday morning and once again I found myself wondering why NBC gives even a minute of time to these hacks. Clearly Lauer was more than a little irritated with this idiot by the time the 8+ minute (!!) segment had finished, the last 5+ minutes of which were spent "interviewing" Ziegler.

Check it out ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah8Pw3__OG4

Zeigler couldn't keep his job on the radio in Louisville Ky, too much of a letch. Incredible how he moved west and became a documentary film maker. only in america.

Lots of good observations here.

I'd add that the trick of accusing your critics of being threatened by you is, while revolting, not exactly unique to Palin. Republicans use it constantly to demonize their political opponents as trying to "destroy" the values that Republicans think they alone support.

But this kind of accusatory defensiveness occurs across the political spectrum: in every blog's threads, including this one's, there are people who respond to criticism of their attitudes or communication styles with angry insistences that no one but themselves can handle hearing "the truth."

I guess it's too much to hope that John Ziegler is related to Ron Ziegler? That would be delicious.

As much as I'd like to agree with you, Steve, I think she's right. And don't get me wrong, I don't see her as an average, hard-working American. You're point about her situation is dead on. But her point is about the Washington insiders. Their perception of her is what she is talking about. In that regard, I'd say she hit it on the head. Right, left, liberal, conservative. These ideologies are unimportant to the beltway buddies. It's simply a matter of whether they are in step with the "DC in-crowd." She is no different to them then Clinton.

Remember, the Beltway Buddies don't drink the Kool-Aid, they dispense it.

Wow, Shade Tail, you nailed it! Bravo!

Governess Palin represents all that is good in America and that is why liberals despise her. -Al

OK guys, if you're going to do a parody, you at least have to make up a new name.

Lets be fair. Everybody knows the media forced Palin to say some of the dumbest things in the history of dumb things. But how could it be her fault? Katie Couric used her Satanic powers to make poor innocent Sarah to make a fool of herself, when she was really ready to say the smartest things in the history of smartest things.

No one is buying this idiots bullshit. Go back to the sideshow tent on a traveling circus you fucking idiot. Who funded this documentary?

Or maybe Palin meant something else entirely.

Maybe she resents the media because they were not successful in convincing me that Palin's shlock-o-sh!t was politically superior to the Truth....

Palin knows exactly what she is doing. She is making an appeal to the weak-minded, ignorant, mean-spirited, pseudo-ideological neo-brownshirt dittohead base.

Those people have been programmed with a set of rigid fixed ideas by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc. The central organizing principle of their programming is hatred of "liberals" and one of their key programmed beliefs is the ludicrous notion that the hated "liberals" control the "mainstream" media, and that this so-called "liberal media" victimizes poor, pitiful conservatives by excluding or attacking them or lying about them.

Palin (by which I refer not only to Sarah Palin herself, but the paid professional propagandists who write her focus-group-tested scripts) thoroughly understands this programming and how to use it. Like Angela Lansbury's character in The Manchurian Candidate, she knows exactly what key phrases will elicit specific programmed reactions from the dittoheads.

That is, of course, exactly why ultra-rich, reactionary corporate right-wing extremists funded Limbaugh and his ilk for decades: to turn an audience of gullible dupes into a zombie army that will respond on cue to support corrupt far-right politicians like Sarah Palin.

Of course the difference is that in The Manchurian Candidate, Angela Lansbury's character had only one brainwashed zombie who would take up arms against a "liberal" president on command.

Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin has thousands of them.

That Palin had the aptitude of a small-town city council member (at best) rather than that of a potential VP was what got me. Nothing anyone else said mattered more than that which came out of the hussy's mouth. Strangely, the same attribute was probably what caused all those normally corpse-like white boys to gush. Cute and stupid. Just the kind that needs a little taming. What Todd couldn't do, they can.

Walt: Thanks! ^_^

Rook: Sorry, but I can't agree. You're half-right; the villagers see themselves as the Kool-Aid dispensers rather than the drinkers. But I recall them being very supportive of, if nothing else, Palin's message of anti-Obama hatred. For them, it was all Ayers all the time. And open wondering about Rev. Wright. And "fretting" (read: sneering) that Obama was not connecting to normal Americans. And so on and so forth. Palin certainly didn't lose because of them.

Same interview, she says, “It is foreign to me the way some in the mainstream media are thinking.�

Shorter Palin: "Thinking is foreign to me."

The funny thing is, if you look at Couric's questions, for instance, a lot of them were softballs. If you woke most people up in the middle of a sound sleep they could tell you what newspapers they read. And most people running for national office could probably rattle off a Supreme Court decision or two, even if they only had the shallowest knowledge of it.

Instead of trying to figure out what she means, ask her. Sit her down and ask her. Then ask follow-up questions like did you really mean to say foreign policy can be understood merely by being able to see that country from your front porch? You know, questions like which ones exactly do you read from "all of them" that has enlightened your political accume, or, why real america is only found in red states, etc. A full bore 60 minute interview that asks probing questions.

It won't happen because she and her ilk don't have intellectual curiosity. BUT neither does 40% of americans. That's why these races are so close. We have a lot of really stupid people pulling the lever.

Exhibit A: 8 years of George Bush

Exhibit B: People who think Ronald Reagan was a great President

Exhibit C: Sara Palin

Exhibit D: Joe the Plumber

Exhibit E: The GOP

Exhibit F: (Place your own here...)

Palin destroyed her own candidacy with her own words and actions. Period. People inside and outside of the beltway thought she was great until she started giving interviews--then they realized the gravity of the situation, especially after the financial meltdown.
This conservative habit of blaming the media for all of your failures is getting sooooo old.

When Sarah was thrust into the spotlight, oil was 4x/barrel than what it is now.

It kinda sucks being stuck as a guvner of Alaska when the state budget needs oil at $80+/barrel.

Sarah loves the spotlight.

She doesn't like folks looking into the shadows.

It's simply a matter of whether they are in step with the "DC in-crowd." She is no different to them then Clinton. -Rook

Clinton is not in with the DC in-crowd? Since when?

And please, name one situation in which the media tried to "destroy" Palin's candidacy?

Look, it doesn't get anymore DC in-crowd than John McCain, and he elevated her to the national stage, a stage which she was woefully unprepared for.

Nothing destroyed her candidacy beyond her own inadequacy for the job. Stop making excuses for her.

I think a key point is not how much the Palins have in terms of money and property, but just exactly what they have done to get it. Just exactly what do either Sarah or Todd do for a living? That they should have so much more than real people who've gone to work at real jobs for all their lives?

The same question, albeit with a more obvious answer, applied to Dubya of course, and we all paid it not being asked and answered at the appropriate time -- probably fair to apply it to Cheney as well, who wasn't really a manager but played one on TV.

Palin, like George W. Bush, feels like to be questioned is to be attacked. And that anyone who doesn't like her must be jealous of her. It's just plain juvenile. Hopefully she only carries on like this because it's always worked to rally people behind her -- because if she really truly means it, it's troubling that she's gotten as far as she has.

Mr. Benen, I respectfully request that you please read this comment carefully, and internalize it for future posts addressing issues of this type.

"Horseshit. She's rewriting history. If you review the media coverage when her candidacy was announced, it was all positive. They gushed over her so-called charisma and leadership skills, her family, her jest-folksiness, her hawtitude.

Then she opened her mouth. She was the most poorly prepared national candidate in recent history. She made herself into a joke, and then on the campaign trail she became the nasty face of the McCain campaign.

She may be right about one thing - there is a lot of sexism in media coverage, so she probably got a lot more negative press for being an attack dog than a man would have. OTOH, her specific brand of negative campaigning, with the nasty, bitchy personal slurs, the "how low can you go" assaults on Obama's patriotism - she deserved the negative coverage.

She's such a narcissist she thinks she "represents" something bigger than herself, when in actual fact, what turned people of was Sarah, her very own self."
Posted by: g on February 24, 2009 at 10:03 AM

That about covers it. Mr. Benen, your positioning is far too important that you can counter crap such as Palin's without emphatically correcting the narrative. What she's doing isn't funny, it isn't humorous, it isn't cute; what it is is profoundly disturbed and potentially dangerous. We just exited 8 years of what this crap leads to, and if we know one thing it's that these jackals NEVER GIVE UP until a) they get what they want, or b) they're ground into the dirt. Read g's post, then read it again. Please.

Deride St Sarah, if you wish - But, she is a true Trail Blazer - When aides knocked at the hotel door, did one ever read of a Cheney, Biden, Quayle or Breckinridge racing from the shower clad only in a towel to greet aides? The "Lady" has her priorities.

Ah, Agnew in a G string.

Then she opened her mouth

Incorrect - remember how the media were complaining that they were being "kept away" from her? The bashing was well underway before she gave any interviews.

Palin Derangement Syndrome started with "Troopergate" and the "Trig Truthers."

Projection. You can't be a Republican in good standing without having mastered the fine art of accusing your opponents of doing what you alone are doing.

What the Palin phenomenon tells us is that the core Republican base really is as stupid and disconnected from reality as we on the left have claimed. While most of America quickly figured out that she is wildly incompetent and unprepared, her popularity with the Republican base is stunning.

It's good to have her continue to talk to the media and to have the media provide her a soapbox. The low-information centrists needs a continual reminder that this is the kind of person who the Republican party wants to lead this country.

Agnew in a G string

When did misogyny become a liberal value?

This place sounds almost like Freeperville

To the extent that what Palin represents is the most toxic kind of know-nothingism, destroying her and salting the ground would be appropriate.

But she did it to herself. "The MSM" just handed her a little bit of rope.

"Posted by: myiq2xu"

Ah, the troll from Balloon Juice has migrated.

"my-iq-is-2," could you and your fellow right-wingers stop with the "(Fill in the blank) Derangement Syndrome" bullshit? Please see a psychiatrist about your persecution complex — the sooner the better.

myiq2xu, If you prefer to think I meant to infer St Sarah the Lost is Agnew in a G string, so be it. However, I was trying to picture Spiro standing in front of a Watergate door, clad only in a G string, while soaking wet from the shower. But, perhaps, you have given it a far better meaning. Thanks, for your input.

You quote: "The mainstream media made it a mission to destroy the vice presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor says in a new documentary released Monday."

Well, let's see. In the speech she gave at her introductory rally (in Ohio, right?), she looked into the camera, smiled that big confident smile of hers, and bragged about how she had just said "no thanks" to that "bridge to nowhere."

A few seconds with the Google proved that to be a lie. And also revealed that she was under investigation for abusing her powers as governor. It was all downhill from those first few minutes (except for a brief convention bounce -- and don't forget that the convention gave us that memorable picture of McCain embracing and endorsing those paragons of Repub family-values, two unmarried teen parents-to-be who had both dropped out of high school).

By the way, in picking her, McCain destroyed the whole rationale for his candidacy, that he was the experienced leader and Obama a mere celebrity, themes which he had worked so hard to establish during the month of August.

Conclusion: McCain destroyed himself, then Palin destroyed herself. How to explain it? Blame the media! Standard Repub logic.

Free floating victimhood is the coin of the conservative realm. Whatever errors one commits, whatever flaws are revealed are the fault of one's attackers.

This construction was most perfectly stated in Mr. Bush's pronouncement: "They hate us for our freedom."

She thinks she represents Real True Christians (to borrow a phrase from Fred Clark) and that the press are unwitting agents of Satan.

Imagine "what it is that she represents" spoken from a preacher at the pulpit pointing to heaven with a triumphant tone. She is what George pretended to be.

Hey, be careful here. We're talking about McCain's "soulmate".

Yeah, he actually said that.

Tell me again how he got 46% of the vote?

As messages go, this is pretty weak. The Palins are pulling in a quarter-mil, own a plane and two boats, and live in a half-million-dollar, custom-built lake house. She also happens to be the chief executive of a state. Is this why campaign journalists tried to "destroy" her?

While I bow to no one in my desire to see Sarah Palin get whacked politically, let's at least use some actual facts that are accurate when we do so.

In Alaska, more people own airplanes per capita than any other place on earth. It's how they get around up there. And a 50-year old Piper PA-18 Super Cub is far far far from comparable to a Dassault Mystere 50 (the $50 million corporate jet everyone was complaining about Citigroup getting with their bailout money). A Piper Cub is an old-fashioned, fabric-covered, two-seater with a top speed (with floats) of around 90 mph. You can buy them for less than $50,000 fully equipped in Trade-A-Plane. Not quite comparable, eh?

As to their "half million dollar custom-built house on a lake," that actually strikes me as quite cheap. The average middle class home in Los Angeles - back when the price was set for this house - was over $800,000, and that wasn't for lakefront property.

Like it or not, the Palins are middle class, and "The First Dude" is about as working class a working class guy as you can find. Alaska is where high-school dropouts go to make $100K a year on the North Slope. From what I have seen, they earn every penny. And salmon fishing as he does is damn hard (even back-breaking for most of us latte-sipping urban liberals).

There's a thousand things wrong with Sarah Palin, and all of them are what we should be attacking her for. Attacking her for things like the above only provides proof for her argument that the media is out to get her for being "working class."

I know for a fact you're smarter than this, Steve, so just stop, OK?

The only things Palin represents as far as I can see are: sound bites of ignorance.

Tell me again how he got 46% of the vote?

The other guy was black.

One other thing about annual incomes in Alaska. As a friend of mine who went up there 20 years ago pointed out, the cost of living in Alaska is about 35% higher than the cost of living in the lower-48, so if you factor that in, the Palin's income isn't that much higher than people with two incomes in the upper half of the middle class down here.

Once again, THESE ISSUES ARE NOT THE ISSUES TO ATTACK HER ON. Let's stop giving the other side ammo.

TCinLA, OK, but, John Ziegler of LA is the one who is trying to create the "victim" image of St Sarah in his documentary. This is the poor "victim" who bills the State of Alaska for her interviews and phone calls to the media. She is the one who has her staff contact the media for interviews. However, phonies know phonies - So, it is apt for Ziegler to create this more of a mockumentary than a realistic documentary. Ziegler is now reaping the talk show, cable show circuit pick up the bucks tour.

Yeah, Palin is soooo bad. That's why her state is one of only 7 that doesn't have a multi-billion dollar deficit. That's why Alaska is the national leader in energy production and policy. Yeah, she's far worse than "Teh One" who let the constituents in his own district freeze to death in the tenements owned by his buddy Tony Rezko. "Teh One" who has appointed Joe "Credit Card" Biden to oversee the money going from your pockets into the wallets of Wall Street. How's that working for you now? Any of you checked the balance in your 401K lately????

That's why her state is one of only 7 that doesn't have a multi-billion dollar deficit.

Actually, Alaska did have a multi-billion dollar deficit in 2004 when oil was $30 barrel. Then it rose to nearly five times that figure and voila! Alaska is in the black. The oil and natural gas in ground pay for 80% of the state budget.

Now that the price of oil has dropped again guess where Alaska is headed?

To a multi-billion dollar budget deficit. Tool.

Does it bother you when it's revealed that you don't know what you're talking about? Just curious.

That's why Alaska is the national leader in energy production and policy.

Yes, that's why: because when Sarah Palin created the earth she planted all the oil and natural gas there. Then in a previous incarnation she developed the North Slope and the pipeline. She's all that!

Any of you checked the balance in your 401K lately????

Sure have. Over the last twelve months 40% has been wiped out. Who was president during that time again? I'm trying to remember....little guy, totally incompetent, couldn't think his way out of a paper bag. Had a bunch of loony followers with the same mental defects....

when Sarah Palin created the earth she planted all the oil and natural gas there

Oh. My. God. I knew Sarah Palin had a reputation as a skillful hunter, but only now am I realizing...

Sarah Palin killed the dinosaurs!

Sarah Palin killed the dinosaurs!

They had to go -- they were casting too much doubt on the Young Earth theory. God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and...Triceratops.

Sarah Palin killed the dinosaurs!

From a helicopter, no less.

You guys are killing me.

I disagree with the rest of you that Palin represents the Republican base in a substantive way. The Republican base is the activists and loudmouths.... the "thought leaders", such as they are among Republicans.

And when you ask one of these people, "what newspaper do you read," they scream, "Dammit, I read the Wall Street Journal editorial page 6 days a week because I like reading about how the libruls are destroying the country!" And when someone asks them, "What do you think of the Bush Doctrine?" they bark back, "I think we need to get behind Bush to bomb those terrists back into the stone age if we even THINK they might look at us funny."

Sarah Palin is not one of those people, and that's why her standing within the party is much weaker than she thinks it is.

Palin Derangement Syndrome started with "Troopergate" and the "Trig Truthers."

Not exactly. Troopergate was a purely local story, but because it was on the record and grounded in fact - there was an actual inquiry procedure going on - it became part of the national news.

the Trig Truth stuff was local gossip that became national gossip. The mainstream media didn't touch it, however, at least until the "story" became about the "story" - in a manner similar to the "controversy" about Obama's birth certificate.

If you want to blame the media for Trig Truth, then blame them for the Birth Certificate Controversy - both were bits of gossip blown up nationally. Neither were part of mainstream media until they got big enough.

But Palin's approval sank with her interviews. And yes, after initial media glory, the media started to buzz about the McCain campaign restricting her access to the press. Remember how at first they touted her brilliance, and hyped how well she did at the convention? If you heighten expectations for your Media Start, you have to be able to come through on your promise.

A candidate's job is to be accessible to the press, and the McCain campaign for whatever reason decided not to provide access. They created a hunger and then they refused to feed it - all the while continuing to hype her qualifications.

then when she finally did go before the cameras, the high expectations collided with the abysmal realtity and she became a national joke.

At best that's incompetent media management on the part of the McCain campaign - and Palin herself.

How soon we forget. She represents the Real America...remember?

The trouble with taking about Palin is that she is 'all of the above.' There is so much to say about her that focusing on one part of her noxiousness downplays the others too much.

But it is simply staggering to see the number of things that are true about her that would rule any other person out of public life forever. Let's just remember a few:

She is the 'Baroness Munchausen,' telling lie after lie, not even caring that they have been disproven;

She was the Mayor of Wasilla around the time it became the 'meth capital of Alaska' and she is the governor of the state that annually ranks #1 in spousal abuse and domestic violence -- yet she's done nothing, has never even campaigned on claims she would do anything about these problems;

Her ignorance of national affairs was shown time and time again, particularly in interviews;

The 'best case scenario' involving the birth of her son has her rushing to take a six-hour plane trip after her water had broken;

She has been convicted by the (mostly Republican)legislature for misusing her office to conduct a private family vendetta, and is in serious tax trouble over the 'per diems' she collected for spending time at home;

She has stabbed every person who helped her in the back, from John Stein to John McCain;

A substantial part of her state is in serious, life-threatening crisis, and her response has been first to ignore it, and then to travel to the area with a prominent evangelist -- and her Lt. Gov. traveled to another village with a less prominent evangelist -- so as to say that it's private charity, not *shudder* government that has the solution.

(On the last, her speeches at the Villages made the usually extremely calm Native Alaskan blogger, Writing Raven, in her own words, 'lose it.' You can -- and should -- read her comments here. Mudflats reprinted them, but reading the original takes you to the blog of someone who should be much better known.)

And yet, with all of this, Palin was nearly the VP and might win the 2012 nomination if it were held today.

(There is a great comic-political roman a clef waiting to be written about her. I hope it arrives in time for me to read it.)

The media didn't like her because she represents the dogmatic stupidity of the republican party; just like Bush did. She was the most Bush like representative of the republican party at a time when America was at its most sour towards the former President.
That is why she got laughed off the stage.
Bush in drag is hard to take seriously.

On the last, her speeches at the Villages made the usually extremely calm Native Alaskan blogger, Writing Raven, in her own words, 'lose it.' You can -- and should -- read her comments here.

Thanks Prup, the blog post by Writing Raven is really an insight into Palin's indifference to her state's problems and her poor governing skills. The working link is here.

Vladimir Putin can FLY????
Is he invulnerable too! And super-strong??
Why are these important facts never mentioned inthe main stream media????

She was the Mayor of Wasilla around the time it became the 'meth capital of Alaska' and she is the governor of the state that annually ranks #1 in spousal abuse and domestic violence

Also, IINM, #1 in rape. And I believe Alaska's addiction rates are also well above the average.

Yea, keep living in the past with rants about Sarah Palin. No one in the entire country is still talking about her except you guys.

"No one in the entire country is still talking about her except you guys."

...and all the people still interviewing her on TV. Not to mention the people making light of her promise not to take stimulus package money. And, of course, this "documentary" maker making a "documentary" about her.

Gee. Looks like there is a big swathe of the country still talking about her.

Lib media have been pulling the character assassination routine to help liberal candidates for as long as I can remember.

Remember when Goldwater was running and the liberal media invented the word "extremist" for Goldwater in order to present the choice as one between "extremism" and "moderation" rather than between "conservative" and "pinko socialist tax-and-spend slimebag liberal."

I think if the lib "reporter" contingent had any honesty, they would be more worried about the possibility of Nancy Pelosi, who supporters say has the IQ of a bar of soap, to be kind, and is two heartbeats away, is a bit more of a threat than Sarah Palin, who has done a remarkable job in an executive position and gained 80% approval ratings. Compare this to Nancy Pelosi's ratings. Sorry, Nan, Botox won't help. That's not the problem.

"Lib media have been pulling the character assassination routine to help liberal candidates for as long as I can remember."

No they haven't. You GOP dead-enders only say this because you don't like unbiased reporting, so you claim that unbiased reporting is biased against you. Stop wasting our time with that lie.