Who is John ZIEGLER & why has he turned on Quitter PALIN?!1 Another turncoat!1

[UTUSN]

There's a hyperlink to an article by him embedded in this link.


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http://gawker.com/5811494/sarah-palins-chief-propagandist-turns-on-her

Sarah Palin’s Chief Propagandist Turns On Her

John Cook — John Ziegler, a talk-radio host and filmmaker whose zeal in defending Sarah Palin's every move and utterance over the past two years zoomed past advocacy and into creepiness has now done what all stalkers do eventually: He's decided if he can't have her, no one can.

In 2009, Ziegler, whose previous claim to fame was being the hero of a David Foster Wallace story on the moral bankruptcy of talk-radio and getting fired for saying there's a difference "between people who just happen to be black and people who act like niggers" on the air, made a movie called Media Malpractice... How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted. He spent the next three years on television talking about how awesome Sarah Palin is and how awful liberals are etc. To judge by Ziegler's own account of his relationship with the Palins, he spent a lot of time trying to get...closer to them, and ended up getting rejected now and again in spite of his tireless ass-kissing.

Well now he's decided she can't be president and has written a lengthy tell-all-ish (tell some?) story in the Daily Caller arguing that she's going to destroy the Republican Party if she runs—which, he says, she will—and is surrounded by yes-men. He's also launched a site called "The Sarah Palin I Know" as a future vehicle for damaging information about her. Ziegler is the second high-profile denizen of Palinland to defect: Earlier this year long-time aide Frank Bailey wrote a tell-all based on thousands of e-mails with Palin that he'd kept.

Bailey's turnaround was instructive in the sense that an insider became disillusioned with Palin as he came to know more about her. Ziegler's is instructive in the sense that any time you see someone on television defending Palin, keep in mind that they're probably an attention-starved opportunist who just wants to feel important and will probably say whatever you want as long as you keep listening. Also that Sarah Palin surrounds herself with horrible people, because she is one.

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[tishaLA]

1. Stupid Daily Caller page won't load for me

And Zeigler is one of the worst people in the world--and not in that Olbermann way, either; he's legitimately awful. I remember listening to him when I used to listen to RW hate radio and...he was uncommonly vile. Like Tammy Bruce vile.

Ah. It finally loaded. Probably the first popular thing DC has ever published.

[jberryhill]

2. What an odd man

His opinion of Palin seems to solely correlate with how he feels he's being treated by her.

He sounds more like a jilted boyfriend than anything else.

He managed to remain remarkably blind to the Sarah Palin that has made herself too well known, and then shocked when the normal thing happens to him.

[Broderick]

3. The Ziegler I am familiar with

is in it for what sells. So, frankly, he capitalized equal opportunity wise in whatever suits his pursuit for media attention. Don't trust him, cause in another year he might turn coat another way again. Take it and run, and use it to dent her appeal I guess.

[FLPanhandle]

4. Ziegler is a con man who cranks out whatever will sell

Not really someone who has any credibility.