O'Reilly effectively backs Palin's claim on the basis that her crammed, force-fed burbling of talking points in the Biden debate somehow refutes the idea that she hasn't the slightest clue what goes on in the world or the slightest knowledge of history outside of sports. And he is essentially pledging that News Corporation will advance her lies and spin, as it did by publishing her book, and protect her from any real scrutiny that a political candidate deserves.
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I do not believe that this means she is out of politics. Au contraire. FNC and the RNC are effectively the same operation (and Harper Collins, which published her fiction as non-fiction with no fact-checking or editing is also part of NewsCorp). Her new job is running for office via the chief propaganda network for the red states. The strategy is obviously to focus entirely on the base, demonizing the president and anything he does, exploit economic malaise, and then get back to power on a wave of frightened white ressentiment with Palin as the hood ornament one more time.
I fear her.
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So do I, as well as fear the lost souls, thousands and thousands of them, who support her. Ignorance and lying are always dangerous, and we haven't seen the likes of her since McCarthy. Only she is even more dangerous because she appears to be "positive," a good innocent Christian just acting out God's Plan. May the gods save us from such egomania and ignorance!
But I also fear this: we get the politicians we deserve.
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