Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin

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First, a video segment with Neil King, Jr.

Then Neil’s write-up –

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The Palins Versus the Critics

Brent Bozell

Townhall

From our seats in front of the television, it certainly feels like the TV network programmers have all the power to entertain us. But the press gatherings of the Television Critics Association in Tinseltown suggest that others audaciously think they should be in the driver’s seat, and they’re not shy about saying so.

BRISTOL PALIN

The latest TCA press tour showed off the intimidating power of the television critics flailing away at young, shy Bristol Palin, who’s returning to ABC for an all-star version of “Dancing with the Stars.”

Look, there’s no doubt that Sarah Palin has figured out a way to benefit from all the media attention – mostly negative, often vicious – after the 2008 presidential race. The enemy of my enemy is my friend — and her support has grown by the millions. Her supporters across America made Bristol a fan-favorite on “Dancing,” even if she was hardly Ginger Rogers on the season debut. But the Palin-haters who dismissed her as being on the show only because of her famous mother proved their real agenda when Chastity “Chaz” Bono took a turn (as a “male”) on the program, and the crickets chirped.

In addition to the TLC series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” and Bristol’s two turns on “Dancing,” Bristol is currently on the show “Life’s a Tripp” on Lifetime. Her father, Todd, will star in the fall on the NBC show “Stars Earn Stripes.” There’s no doubt the TV critics hate the idea of this family on television.

Washington Post critic Lisa de Moraes made great fun of how the Palins are cashing in to become “the Barrymores of reality TV” and competing with the Kardashians to see which shameless “family business” can do the most programs. The Palins have a good response: “I don’t think it’s our business,” Bristol said of her family, when one TV critic asked that question. “I just think you guys are going to be talking about us either way, so we might as well be doing something enjoyable and fun.”

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Israel's President Shimon Peres, right, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney meet at the President's residence in Jerusalem on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)

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Map of Jewish communities (not complete)

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Gore Vidal and “The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name”

Abe Greenwald

Commentary

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Paradigm shift: Sarah Palin takes Texas

By Bernie Quigley

Establishment Republicans rally today to debunk Sarah Palin much as Letterman, Couric, Tina Fey and the vast info/entertainment culture did at the beginning. It is a measure of her success and the fear Grizzly Mama strikes in the heart of the timid. The Ted Cruz victory in the Texas Senate race brings substantive political change and Sarah Palin is behind the paradigm shift. It is, as The Washington Post called it, “a victory for the Tea Party.” Today, “the establishment” pushes further away from the main pulse of America and Sarah Palin holds the pulse.

The paradigm shift can best be seen in Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s last primary race for governor. The entire Eastern Conservative Establishment including George H.W. Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Karen Hughes — as proxy for W. — lined up behind Kay Bailey Hutchison, who had challenged Perry for the governorship. Perry had in his corner Sarah Palin. Perry was then to be seen as the front man on the rising Tea Party. Yesterday, Gov. Perry brought his support to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Palin backed Cruz. So Perry, in Texas, has been marginalized as a Tea Party figure and wrapped in with “the establishment,” a phrase now used in mainstream publications like the Post.

The Cruz victory brings the Tea Party to a higher level of maturity and engagement. And it pushes “the establishment” in Texas and the heartland closer to the margins.

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