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FP: What threat
did Palin pose to the Obama campaign and why did the media treat her so
viciously?
Ziegler: Obviously the only time McCain took a real lead was after
Palin's convention speech. She represented the worst nightmare for
liberals because she had been able to reach national prominence without
already having been discredited by the news media.
The media lost their ability to decide for America whether she was
acceptable or not. She had been able to go over their heads and that
proved that the initial attempt to destroy her had backfired. This is
part of the reason the media needed to bring out the big guns to
destroy her. Again, the examples are too plentiful to get into here,
but it was more a death by a thousand cuts, most of which were
illegitimate with the public's belief in one myth making it easier for
them to believe the next one. You have to watch the film to see it for
yourself.
FP: Why was the feminist Left so silent in witnessing the media
treating a woman so badly?
Ziegler: It seems pretty obvious that it was because she was obviously
very pro-life and someone who actually lived that belief. But I think
it went further than that. I think the fact that she was a very
successful career woman, with five children, who still clearly loves
her husband, who kills her own food and who looks amazing doing all of
it, is a very threatening package for a lot of women. Unfortunately,
Sarah Palin makes a lot of women feel badly about themselves.
FP: What has been the reception to this film? Has the media recognized
its arguments, let alone existence?
Ziegler: The answer to that is complex. The reaction of audiences has
been amazing. We often get standing ovations when it is screened and
the e-mail I get from people who have purchased the dvd is
overwhelmingly positive. As for the media, I have been on The View and
The Today Show among many other shows, so it is hard to say they have
ignored the film, but some elements (particularly the written press) of
the media have pretty much done so -- at least so far. Interestingly
there has not been even ONE allegation of me getting a fact wrong or
even of a distortion. The best one liberal critic could come up with
was basically that I didn’t have video of Brian Williams, Katie Couric
and Charlie Gibson mapping out their plan to get Palin. I figured that
pretty much meant I had nailed it.
FP: What does it say about our country in general that this media bias
occurred in terms of Obama getting elected?
Ziegler: It says a lot. It says
that far too many of us simply down whatever the media spoon feeds us
and that we don't do a lot of critical thinking or research on our own.
The video we did of Obama voters on election day and the two scientific
polls we did to back those up prove that.
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