Charles Krauthammer: leave Sarah Palin aloonnnne!!!

Here’s the perfect example of how the far right punditry tries to frame every issue -  and every one of their own party darlings – into a win-win situation. These guys are the masters of manipulation of any hot topic so that if the media ignores it, it’s lamestream. If it tackles the issue with the appropriate reaction, it’s lamestream.

This damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t trick is practiced to almost perfection by WaPo/Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer. But as the following exchange between Mr. K and fellow pundits on a news show demonstrates, no cigar Mr. K.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I should explain again as I do every week to the viewers as a kind of a viewer’s guide that this is the weekly Sarah Palin segment in which the impression is given that the whole of conservatism in America is encapsulated in this one glorious woman?

PETERSON: Why do you oppose her candidacy if she has one?

KRAUTHAMMER: I never took a position on her candidacy. I am making a comment on the editorial judgment of this show in which she is prominently figured week after week, which is I think in the liberal imagination she is and will always be the only representative of conservatism of any importance.

COLBY KING, WASHINGTON POST: She is the most significant Republican, conservative around. She brought this your party back from oblivion to this wonderful state that it is in now…

NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: (Laughter)

KING: …where the nation’s Democrats are quaking in their wake.

KRAUTHAMMER: You see what I mean?

KING: You ought to be proud of her. The elites, the elitists in the Republican Party puts this poor woman from Wasilla down. I think it’s a shame.

KRAUTHAMMER: Perfect evidence of how liberals are obsessed with Sarah Palin.

It has become a de rigueur post on the rightblogs for all the wrong reasons. Wingnuts have come away from the exchange thinking Krauthammer made his point that the left is obsessed with Palin, while the surrounding pundits are actually making subtle fun of the right’s own obsession with Palin. But that part just sails over rightbloggers’ heads.