Rachel Maddow: The Right Needs to Answer for What's Happened to Conservatism

(Via http://crooksandliars.com ) While discussing the success of Sarah Palin's book Mike Murphy echoes David Brooks with his statement that "the noisiest parts of kind of the conservative media machine have far less influence than the mainstream media machine that covers the Republican world thinks they do". Murphy needs to tell that to those sour-grapes Palin voters hitting those tea bag protests across the country. I also wonder if he thinks there's a difference between the "conservative media machine" and Fox News?

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[LarcheOsborne]

The conservatives of today are as bad as when they were twenty years ago when I turned voting age in Louisiana. If Sarah Palin associates with racists, she tainted in my eyes.

[tomitstube]

collaboration with a racist cannot simply be defended as, "guilt by association", there's a high % that someone associating with a racist would indeed be a racist.

but you have to factor in palin's awareness and intellect. she very well could be too stupid to see the conflict.

hard to say, is palin a racist or an idiot?

[spoonguard1989]

Surely that guilt by association stuff Maddow was doing to Palin is the exact same thing Hannity and O'Reilly did to Obama over William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Rashid Khalidi during the 08 campaign?!

[leonarddaccardi]

mr, maddow is very handsome. but he is way over my head. he must of went to harvard.

[tigerone1970]

Sarah Palin is also married to an Alaskan separatist.

Bachmann-Palin 2012!

[franklindavid]

This year the Conservatives have a lot of nut cases on their hands, including the tea party, do they have a serious plan to run on?.

[kevincindy]

She dissected that mother fucker like a surgeon!

[DwightSimpson]

You seem like someone who likes the intellectual Harvard types, the types who have no practical experience, but lots of theory from inside a goldfish bowl while attending Harvard. You know the kind. The kind that will bury this country in so much debt we'll never get out.

As far as racists, how about Dan Rather's comment that Obama can't even sell watermelon. Or Reid's comment that Obama has a negro dialect, but he doesn't use all the time.

You and Maddow are blowing smoke, my friend

[Stingray3440]

Nothing has happened to it. Too bad about Ted k.'s senate spot a?

[ptinder]

Rachel Maddow's point is simple: Sarah Palin is profoundly popular among conservatives. She seems like a pretty unsavory person from her campaign, and from her dubious associations. So, given her popularity, conservatives who don't like her need to consider the fact that most conservatives do like her as they try to move forward.

[bush1tman]

Sarah Palin picked Lynne Vincent to co-author her book. She could have picked anyone to co-author it. Why her? Is it because Palin is secretly a WHITE SUPREMACIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST!!!!!! Hey did you hear eminem did a duet with Elton John. HOMO, HOMO. So much for not compartmentalizing lesbians. Compartmentalize and demonize anyone you care to do. Because Sarah Palin is a WHITE SUPREMACIST!!

She could have picked anyone