Exhibit A in the Stop Palin Campaign, Dave Journolist Weigel

I’ve com­mented a few times on how the media has, for the most part ignored Her­man Cain and his early success.

Yes­ter­day Dave Weigel wrote quite a few excel­lent posts but the most inter­est­ing was con­cern­ing a Gallup poll and Her­man Cain:

Cain has come out of the gate mak­ing knowl­edge blun­ders (not know­ing what the “right of return” is, for exam­ple), get­ting gen­er­ally dis­mis­sive cov­er­age. There is no team of reporters cov­er­ing his every move on the trail, as there is for Hunts­man. There’s no mas­sive scrum out­side his appear­ances, as there is for Paw­lenty. And yet he’s out­polling Pawlenty.

That’s accu­rate, but while Stacy is ecsta­tic that his pal Dave is giv­ing Her­man some richly deserved props, I think he is miss­ing the big pic­ture here.

It is axiomatic that the old Journo­list crowd hates Sarah Palin and will when­ever pos­si­ble knock her for a loop. I’ve already stated the MSM and the Demo­c­ra­tic party (talk about redun­dancy) actu­ally fear a Palin can­di­dacy and will do their best to derail one.

Does Weigel do this, Why yes! While Prais­ing Her­man Cain he damns Sarah Palin in the guise of cri­tiquing Byron York for miss­ing the pri­mary story:

But we’re talk­ing about the 2008 GOP vice pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee who has been the sub­ject of mul­ti­ple books (includ­ing two of her own), two doc­u­men­taries, and in some months as much as 50 per­cent of all media cov­er­age of the GOP field. Fif­teen per­cent? That’s actu­ally about half of what she got in the very first sur­vey of this pri­mary, a Feb­ru­ary 2009 CNN poll.

Dave some­how doesn’t take into con­sid­er­a­tion in his cri­tique relent­less attacks from a media that never men­tions her suc­cesses while always attempt­ing to belit­tle her.

The sim­ple fact is the left needs to stop Sarah Palin and the best equa­tion to stop her has already been written:

(Social Conservatives+Tea Party) /​(Sarah Palin+Michelle Bach­mann + Her­man Cain) = Rom­ney wins in early primaries

As long as the left was rea­son­ably sure Sarah Palin was not run­ning, Her­man Cain needed to be ignored by the MSM. They couldn’t take the chance of him becom­ing a threat to Mitt Rom­ney and/​or Jon Hun­st­man, who are the most likely GOP can­di­dates to lose to Obama. That means any atten­tion Dave gave Her­man online wasn’t picked up by the MSM.

And while his oblig­a­tory Palin Bus post was fun:

I sort of like the idea of Palin doing this on Memo­r­ial Day week­end, a time when plenty of reporters (like, er, me) are headed out of D.C. Brings back mem­o­ries of her giv­ing reporters a July 3, 2009 assign­ment to cover her res­ig­na­tion announcement.

It seemed inter­est­ing to me the very day polls indi­cate that Palin might be run­ning, Weigel’s first post is: “Gosh that Her­man Cain looks pretty impres­sive doesn’t he?”

Well of course that’s just Dave. It doesn’t mean the old Journo­list crew is back in busi­ness decid­ing to sud­denly notice Her­man Cain . I mean you’d need some­thing like a poll­ster from Daily Kos writ­ing for the NYT say­ing the same thing for that to be true wouldn’t you?

But what I found more news­wor­thy is the strong per­for­mance of Her­man Cain, the entre­pre­neur and talk-​show host who was included in Gallup’s poll for the first time. He polls at 8 per­cent, ahead of can­di­dates like Tim Paw­lenty, Michele Bach­mann and Jon Hun­st­man, who have received far more attention.

Well what do you know Nate Sil­ver in the NYT is impressed by Her­man Cain too! What an amaz­ing coincidence!

Now I’ve already said I like Her­man Cain, but mark my words, the “Journo-​listic” MSM will sud­denly find him a lot more inter­est­ing and wor­thy of cov­er­age for as long as they think he will take votes away from Palin.

Will Her­man take advan­tage of it? He’s not run­ning to lose so of course he will, but I sus­pect that if the media’s attempt to use him to neu­tral­ize Palin suc­ceeds then they will no longer con­sider him news­wor­thy or electable.

EXTRA UPDATE…CBS fol­lows suit.

Update: Exhibit B: the DNC attacks

Update 2: On Morn­ing Joe the entire the­sis of the open­ing team is Sarah Palin is NOT run­ning (One thing they didn’t men­tion her age, she would only be 60 in 2024 so she has a ton of time). They spent their time say­ing she will not, Politico also says she was not run­ning, call­ing it an “atten­tion grab”. (They don’t deign to men­tion this Byron York Piece)

And sur­prise sur­prise, who do they not men­tion by name? Her­man Cain!

Remem­ber the the­sis, If Palin is run­ning they boost Cain, if not they ignore him. As long as they believe Palin is out, Cain (who they also fear) must be kept down.

Update 3: Same theme on Today. They main­tain Palin is not run­ning so not only to they fail to men­tion Cain they don’t even show the Her­man Cain Graphic in the Gallup poll. Can’t show a Black Repub­li­can in 3^rd 5^th place if Palin isn’t running.

Update 4: Wel­come Con­ser­v­a­tives for Palin read­ers, You will want to check out this post on why I sup­port Palin and today’s DaT­e­chGuy on DaRadio’s 2^nd hour on polit­i­cal courage.

Update 5: Wel­come Weigel read­ers, exhibits B C and D are here. Also might I point out that Charles John­son and co are not argu­ing with me but with Paul Revere’s own words.

I really like Dave, only met him one but Stacy McCain vouches for him and there was some­thing about the man that just seems right, but I think he’s dead wrong on Palin. But check out my stuff and make up your own mind and give me what for if you would like to.

Update 6: BTW Charles John­son btw is hav­ing a very bad day.