{"id":905930,"date":"2021-10-21T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=905930"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:59:46","slug":"gop-treated-sarah-palin-really-horribly-set-her-up-for-failure-meghan-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-treated-sarah-palin-really-horribly-set-her-up-for-failure-meghan-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Treated Sarah Palin \u2018Really Horribly, Set Her Up For Failure\u2019: Meghan McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-treated-sarah-palin-really-horribly-set-her-up-for-failure-meghan-mccain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=905930&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Thirteen years after the bruising 2008 presidential election made Sarah Palin\u2019s family the target of endless media smears, Meghan McCain said members of her father\u2019s presidential campaign \u201cset [Palin] up for failure\u201d and indicted members of the legacy media for trying to make Palin \u201clook bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a whole new lens of viewing how Sarah Palin was treated,\u201d said the younger McCain during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people working for my father\u2019s campaign really, in my opinion, treated her really horribly \u2014 set her up for failure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2008 campaign, Palin became the focus of numerous media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/trashing-of-sarah-palin\">leaks<\/a> that she lacked intelligence, obsessed over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/23\/us\/politics\/23palin.html\">expensive clothing<\/a>, and branded her a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2010\/01\/steve-schmidts-war-against-palin-031420\">whack job<\/a>.\u201d McCain said the legacy media gladly facilitated the internal war between the Republican Party\u2019s more liberal elements and its conservative, grassroots base.<\/p>\n<p>McCain referred to former \u201cToday\u201d show host \u201cKatie Couric talking about how<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Ruth Bader Ginsburg<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>is someone she helped look good\u201d by concealing comments the justice made critical of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. \u201cI thought, \u2018Well obviously, she probably put Sarah Palin in a position to look bad,\u2019\u201d said McCain. \u201cAnd by the way, [former McCain campaign strategist] Nicolle Wallace was the person who facilitated that interview, who now has a show on MSNBC.\u201d Wallace now hosts the network\u2019s dependably alarmist, two-hour \u201cDeadline: White House\u201d from 4 to 6 p.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n<p>The media verified McCain\u2019s claims at the time. Two days after the 2008 election, CNN\u2019s Campbell Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0811\/06\/ec.01.html\">reported<\/a> that \u201ctop advisers to John McCain\u2019s failed campaign\u201d are \u201cdesperate right now to find someone to blame for their long, long list of mistakes. They have been launching grenades at Palin and her supporters. Some of their allegations, we at CNN we have found to be patently false.\u201d The next day her colleague, Anderson Cooper, <a href=\"https:\/\/ac360.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/11\/07\/palin-camp-fires-back-over-claims-by-some-mccain-aides\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cFormer McCain campaign aides have been sources for a string of embarrassing stories about Palin that have become public since GOP defeat Tuesday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Far from being a drag on McCain\u2019s popularity, the Real Clear Politics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2008\/president\/us\/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html\">average of polls<\/a> showed that the only time McCain led Barack Obama after Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination was a 10-day period stretching from shortly after John McCain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2008\/aug\/29\/mccain-nears-vice-presidential-pick\/\">named<\/a> Palin his vice president until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/lehman-employees-describe-feelings-of-anger-and-uncertainty\">Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy<\/a>, considered the height of the subprime mortgage crisis at the heart of the 2008 economic recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years after the bruising 2008 presidential election made Sarah Palin\u2019s family the target of endless media smears, Meghan McCain said members of her father\u2019s presidential campaign \u201cset [Palin] up for failure\u201d and indicted members of the legacy media for trying to make Palin \u201clook bad.\u201d\u201cI have a whole new lens of viewing how Sarah Palin was treated,\u201d said the younger McCain during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Tuesday night.\u201cThe people working for my father\u2019s campaign really, in my opinion, treated her really horribly \u2014 set her up for failure,\u201d she said.During the 2008 campaign, Palin became the focus of numerous media leaks that she lacked intelligence, obsessed over expensive clothing, and branded her a \u201cwhack job.\u201d McCain said the legacy media gladly facilitated the internal war between the Republican Party\u2019s more liberal elements and its conservative, grassroots base.McCain referred to former \u201cToday\u201d show host \u201cKatie Couric talking about how\u00a0Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u00a0is someone she helped look good\u201d by concealing comments the justice made critical of NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. \u201cI thought, \u2018Well obviously, she probably put Sarah Palin in a position to look bad,\u2019\u201d said McCain. \u201cAnd by the way, [former McCain campaign strategist] Nicolle Wallace was the person who facilitated that interview, who now has a show on MSNBC.\u201d Wallace now hosts the network\u2019s dependably alarmist, two-hour \u201cDeadline: White House\u201d from 4 to 6 p.m. Eastern time.The media verified McCain\u2019s claims at the time. Two days after the 2008 election, CNN\u2019s Campbell Brown reported that \u201ctop advisers to John McCain\u2019s failed campaign\u201d are \u201cdesperate right now to find someone to blame for their long, long list of mistakes. They have been launching grenades at Palin and her supporters. Some of their allegations, we at CNN we have found to be patently false.\u201d The next day her colleague, Anderson Cooper, reported, \u201cFormer McCain campaign aides have been sources for a string of embarrassing stories about Palin that have become public since GOP defeat Tuesday night.\u201dFar from being a drag on McCain\u2019s popularity, the Real Clear Politics average of polls showed that the only time McCain led Barack Obama after Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination was a 10-day period stretching from shortly after John McCain named Palin his vice president until Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, considered the height of the subprime mortgage crisis at the heart of the 2008 economic recession. Meghan McCain has always rejected notions that Palin had a negative impact on the ticket.Yet the legacy media and the Republican Party establishment continued to hound Palin long after the 2008 election ended. Shortly after election day, numerous media outlets reported the fake story that Palin thought Africa was a country rather than a continent. The error \u2014 which was reported by MSNBC\u2019s David Schuster, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and Fox News \u2014 allegedly came from a McCain campaign insider named Martin Eisenstadt, who turned out to be a fictional character created by two independent filmmakers.Nicolle Wallace would become a short-term host on \u201cThe View\u201d before Meghan McCain filled the conservative seat \u2014 which she said had been occupied by \u201cwomen who claim to be Republican and are not, in my opinion.\u201d McCain said she took the job on her father\u2019s advice, because \u201cI do think it\u2019s important that we have to fight the culture war in their spaces, because quite frankly I think we\u2019re losing it.\u201dYet McCain says her communications skills actually harmed her relationship with her liberal co-hosts. \u201cBeing a conservative woman in mainstream media is deeply threatening; being a woman who can hold her own on a show like that proved to be ultimately threatening,\u201d she said. \u201cThe more I pressed liberal candidates and liberal guests on the show, the worse it got for me backstage. And then ultimately, it started spilling out on air.\u201d McCain left the show of her own volition this year, with two years left on her contract.McCain said her views have become more conservative as part of her maturation process. \u201cI fell in love with a really, deeply conservative man who runs The Federalist,\u201d referring to her husband, Fox News personality Ben Domenech. \u201cI have gotten older. It\u2019s like the old adage: \u2018If you\u2019re not liberal when you\u2019re young, you don\u2019t have a heart; if you\u2019re not conservative when you\u2019re old, you don\u2019t have a brain.\u2019\u201d\u201cI just really hope that the culture has some redemption for Sarah Palin in the same way that we have for so many other women right now,\u201d she said.You can watch her exchange with Sean Hannity below:[embedded content]The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}