Foreign Press Says What America’s Won’t: Sarah Palin is a Traitor (warning: graphic}

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85. i'd say limbaugh is real leader of this unpatriotic movement. and is also responsible for palin

not only does she (like most republicans) ride the talk radio bandwagon of ignorance and depend on that groundwork repetition and well established alternate reality for her material, the choice of her was likely made on his behalf.

limbaugh resisted supporting mccain until the friday before the GOP convention. mcain would not have had his support if he had gone with one of the 'respectable' choices (lieberman, pawlenty) and that would have been disaster for the convention and the election. she was announced minutes before his friday show and he led off the show saying because mccain 'chose' palin he could now suport mccain. it saved the convention at that point.

but it's likely that rove and others saw it as a disaster and blamed limbaugh. in the last days of bush in the white house limbaugh was invited to it and bush gave him a microphone-shaped CHOCOLATE cake as if to say thanks, rush, suck on this for 4 years. rove lost the white house and his control of talk radio. the koch think tanks took control and brought the dittoheaded talk radio base out into the open to stop the public option. the media and the left mistakenly branded the talk radio base the tea party and the huge influence of talk radio in politics and media continues to fly under the radar while it is used to kick liberal ass over and over.