Sarah Beware, Glenn Beck Ambushed!

Glenn Beck is one of the latest conservative television personality to demonstrate that, when it comes to the MSM, conservative television personalities never learn. Below is the information Beck sent out today about his "interview" on The View.

"Glenn knew this wasn't going to be pretty -- but his interview with the ladies on The View was even worse than anticipated, mostly because they wasted an entire segment on accusations that Glenn 'lied' about who said hello to who first on his Amtrak train ride with Barbara and Whoopi to the Correspondents dinner in Washington DC. The saddest part is that not only did they waste an entire segment on a completely insignificant, petty, humorless and incidental point – Glenn had already clarified the point the day before! Tune in to Fox News tonight at 5pm for Glenn's first response to the 'liar liar pants on fire' ambush interview by the ladies on The View. Watch the ambush HERE."

Gee, the dear ladies of The View treated Glenn Beck with hostility and unfairness. Gee, who woulda thunk it?

What exactly did Glenn expect? Did he believe that because he is a "nice guy," which he regularly tells us, Barbara, Whoopi, and the joyless Joy were going to become his new best friends? Why was Glenn so naive? Why did the "ambush" come as a surprise? And why oh why did he ever consent to go on a program famous for liberal hit-jobs?

Glenn is not a man of great talents, but he nevertheless has a huge ego. If the disastrous journey to Barbara Walters and friends accomplished anything, maybe it brought his ego at least slightly more into congruence with reality.

My notable blogger friend, Rodger Morrow, made the following comment after Sarah Palin's disastrous interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson: "Every time we hold the hand of friendship out to liberal journalists . . . they bite it."

I believe Sarah Palin knows what might now be occurring to Glenn Beck: the leftist errand boys and errand girls on the networks are not our friends. They do not have our best interests at heart. They do not want us to succeed. The errands they carry out are done on behalf of Obama and other far-left politicos/celebrities.

If any of us, including Sarah Palin, get ambushed in the future, we will have no one to blame but ourselves. Let the liberals interview one another, while we stay far away from them. The only thing we accomplish by being on with them is to increase THEIR ratings.

Note: What about Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the one conservative on The View? She has to realize she's no more than a token. Joy, Whoopi, and Barbara don't respect Elisabeth. She needs a new job.]

Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee

We Cling to our God . . . and Our Children Cling to Us. Sarah, Todd, and Trig Palin, an American family.

On the ridiculous "charges" against Gov. Palin that she was a diva and other nonsense. I wrote the following to a Texas friend who's a great supporter of Mike Huckabee . . . and Sarah Palin

Larry, three McCain Staffers came out today and said it was all B-S. On the "diva" charge, staffer Nicole Wallace said, "She once asked me for a can of diet soda." Schoenmann, the foreign policy expert said she was as smart, curious, and focused as anyone he'd ever encountered. Another staffer (Miss Stapleton?) also defended Sarah vigorously.

On my support of Sarah in 2012: It's so much easier to organize around a person than an issue or two. Fair tax won't draw a crowd, but Gov. Huckabee will.

It's so important that people who were devastated by the results on Nov. 4 have places to go -- and people to follow. Sarah is one of those people. She's not the only one, but she is now the biggest magnet.

Larry, I hope she and your political hero Mike Huckabee do a lot of talking over the next year-plus. The differences between them, if any, are minimal. Both have great appeal because they basically love humanity, warts and all.

I have tremendous respect for Mike. I wish we lived at a time when they could run together, but either of them would be a great President. They both have the capacity to live moral lives without coming across as holier-than-thou.

My friend and PA political analyst Rodger Morrow called Obama's win "a catastrophic victory." Today, BHO explained he had talked only to "living" Presidents. Is that what he meant by "change?"

How Sarah Palin Wins Presidency

Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. ET: In a few moments, the polls will start closing, a process that will go on for many hours, until Alaska polls shut down at 1 a.m. ET. Over the next few weeks, a massive effort will begin to ensure that Sarah Palin wins the presidency in 2012. This site will be one of the leaders in that effort, as will Janet's great site: http://readmylipsticknetwork.com/ (RMLN). I urge you to join forces with Janet at RMLN. Below, I'm reprinting Rodger Morrow's superb piece on what Republicans have to do to win elections. It's exactly what Sarah Palin needs to do to win the presidency in 2012.

One of the very best blogs you've never seen is "This isn't writing, it's typing," the product of my long-time friend Rodger Morrow of Sewickley, PA. A one-time speechwriter for President Ford -- Don Rumsfeld once threw a speech back at Rodger -- and PA Governor Dick Thornburg, Rodger regularly writes some of the best political commentary in the U.S. Why don't people like GWB and John McCain have Rodger-- and yours truly, frankly -- at their right hand 24X7? That's a good question. Enjoy (I hope blogs all over the Western world will reprint and link to Rodger's piece.)

Link is: http://writingcompany.blogs.com/this_isnt_writing_its_typ/2008/11/no-more-mr-nice-guy.html

Whether or not John McCain pulls off an upset today, it's obvious that the GOP is in for some rough sledding over the next few years. Fred Barnes has an excellent op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that explains why our center-right nation is headed for a sharp left turn.

But what may be less evident, even after eight years of eroding Republican political capital, is that the strategy of bipartisanship — championed not only by John McCain but also by George W. Bush — is a failed strategy. Why? Because, simply put, every time a Republican reaches his hand across the aisle, some nasty little Democrat bites it.

The GOP's myopia began after 9/11, when, in the warm glow of seeming national unity, Democrats supported the early phases of the President's Global War on Terror and were rewarded with an unexpected gift: Big Government Republicanism. The No Child Left Behind Act, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the Medicare Part D plan gave a huge boost to Federal spending, vitiating a decades-old record of Republican fiscal restraint. Throw in the cost of financing a necessary but expensive war, and the red-state party of limited government suddenly morphed into the K Street Party of Earmarks and Red Ink.

President Bush compounded this bipartisan folly by allowing two key Clinton-era holdovers — George Tenet at the CIA and Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve — to linger well past their freshness dates. For this largesse, he was rewarded with faulty intelligence going into Iraq ("WMDs are a slam dunk, Mr. President") and the low-interest-rate policies at the Fed that helped bring on the current financial crisis.

Tenet and Greenspan made the mistakes, but Democrats saw to it that the George Bush and his fellow Republicans took the political fall. Had the chimerical WMDs in Iraq been ignored and the financial WMDs on Wall Street been recognized, No. 43 might be leaving office with near-Reaganesque popularity ratings.

Still, if Bush embraced bipartisanship only after 9/11, John McCain made it the hallmark of his two decades in the Senate. McCain's criticism of the Iraq war made him the Toast of the Beltway, every Democrat's favorite — that is, right up to the moment he won his party's Presidential nomination. Then, abruptly, the Dom Pérignon stopped flowing.

The drubbing McCain has taken in the media for failing to accede to the inevitable coronation of Barack Obama (especially the effrontery of choosing an "unvetted" running mate like Sarah Palin) should be an object lesson for Republicans who fondly imagine that acting in good faith toward the liberal establishment will yield anything but scorn and derision. In the immortal words of Otter in Animal House, "You f***ed up. You trusted us."

But if you're going to be vilified as a fear-monger, a race-baiter and a Bush-wannabe anyway, why bother pitching woo to editorial boards, network talk-show hosts and other A-listers on the Georgetown cocktail circuit? Why not hang out instead with the pajamas media, with talk radio listeners or with sportsmen, NASCAR fans, veterans groups, entrepreneurs, chain-restaurant diners and Wal-Mart shoppers? The conversation's bound to be livelier (and definitely more intelligent).

Let's stop fooling ourselves: We're not welcome at the National Press Club. And bipartisanship's a sucker's game. The Democrats kneel behind our knees, and the MSM gives us a push. Yet we get back up and fall for it, over and over.It's time Republicans stopped being such easy marks. Time we played our own game, by our own rules.

And this time around, no more Mr. Nice Guy.