"Death to Amerika!" vs. Ferragamo loafers and $150K makeovers

"Our motto, which we are not afraid to repeat, year after year, is: Death to America! Death to America! Death to America! Death to America!"

"With placards in their hands and clenched fists they shout: Death to Israel! Death to Israel!"

"Isn't it strange how all of the world leaders who support Obama hate the United States?"

The media wants you to think that. But many, many of you don't, and the media will be shocked if it ever wakes up to that fact.

Michelle Obama wears $2,000 outfits, Barack Obama's suits cost $1,500 each and he's bought 6 of them for a total of $9,000. So.What?

Just look at what the liberal media wants you to focus on, and what they refuse to show you that really matters. (HINT: it isn't about the suits, loafers and makeovers, people, it's in the damn video above...At least some students in this country know what the right priorities are.)

Case in point: the media's bashing and pollsters' skew-polling of Sarah Palin:

As a self-described spy for Bubba who moves between home in the rural South and inside the Washington Beltway, I get more than an off-the-bus glimpse of the Palin phenomenon. Inside the Beltway, I've often felt like Jane Goodall, summoned from the hinterlands to explain the behaviors of the indigenous peoples.

We're not talking disconnect, but worlds apart.

Back home at my local grocery checkout counter, most of the other folks in line don't know or care how Tina Fey totally owns Sarah Palin. They only know that their food costs too much and gas prices are making the trip to work prohibitive.

So how do the media win back the trust and respect of this segment of the population? [Jonathan] Klein [president of CNN/U.S.] said media folk need to get out of their bubble and find out what people think. Indeed.

After George W. Bush won re-election in 2004, few were more baffled than the media. In the South and flyover country, almost no one was surprised. How does that work?

The gap has only grown wider in the years since as an ever-expanding new media permits people to ratify their own worldview without straying far afield or tapping into a well of shared information.

...[However] there is a boring old central reality that characterizes the lives of the many Americans who are not perpetually plugged in. Their narrative may lack a dramatic arc, but their story is familiar and deserves respect. It's called paying the bills, getting the kids schooled and fed, and trying to keep a rapacious culture at bay.

These are the folks who have found light in Sarah Palin and who have been a major part of the Palin frenzy. They will vote the McCain ticket regardless of whether Palin can rattle off Supreme Court cases with which she disagrees. They recognize themselves in her. To them, her lack of polish and knowledge feels like an absence of slickness and glibness.

McCain's hunch that Palin would catapult him into the White House ultimately may prove wrong, but the Palin phenomenon and the mainstream media problem are of a piece. Therein lies the answer to the media's self-inquiry.

[The Media's] contempt for one's audience is not a sure way to its heart. Palin's people feel that contempt and they have identified its source as the enemy.

~ Kathleen Parker, columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group

Lastly, for all those who like to get their "news" from the likes of SNL, Steve Colbert, Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann, consider this:

"Lorne Michaels, the executive producer of 'Saturday Night Live,' lives on the forward wave of American life. This week he gave his view of Sarah Palin to EW.com:

'I think Palin will continue to be underestimated for a while. I watched the way she connected with people, and she's powerful. Her politics aren't my politics. But you can see that she's a very powerful, very disciplined, incredibly gracious woman. This was her first time out and she's had a huge impact. People connect to her.'"