The Press – The Main Stream Media, a rapidly deteriorating collection of subjective Progressives, hiding under the camouflage of the entity formerly known as the Fourth Estate.

Palin -Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin

–scopy – Viewing; seeing; observation

Palinoscopy – The treatment that these so-called “broadcast journalists” are receiving from former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin during her national bus tour, exposing them for the clueless paparazzi that they are, foiling their well-worn ambush tactics and any Progressive “spontaneous” protests.

A prime example of the hissy fit that these broadcast journalists are having over Gov. Palin’s national bus tour can be found in the words of Martin Bashir, an ex-patriot Brit, presently seen on the White House’s propaganda arm, MSNBC:

It’s time now to Clear the Air and to ask a question: what is the purpose behind Sarah Palin’s current bus tour? It’s difficult to ask that question directly because Sarah Palin specializes in checkbook journalism. That is, she only gives interviews to a network that pays her in excess of $1 million a year. So we’re forced to make judgements from the outside and it all looks like the precursor to a presidential campaign. The vehicle itself reminds us of all those campaign buses that crisscross the nation at election time. The media are ever-present, catching her every handshake and every book signing. And the journey itself – visiting locations of national importance along the East Coast and proclaiming once again as the most patriotic American that ever lived.

And yet, even in her paid-for interview, she seems coy and almost confused about what she’s doing. “This is not a campaign bus,” she said on Fox News. “This is a bus to express to American how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested about all that is good about America.” It all sounds like a wonderful commitment to American values and American history, but it’s nothing of the kind. In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law because the United States Flag Code establishes important rules for the use and display of the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States. Under standards of respect and etiquette, it’s made clear that the flag of the United States should never be used for any advertising purpose whatsoever. Yet that’s precisely what Sarah Palin is doing. She’s using the flag of the United States for her own financial purposes. She drapes herself in the stars and stripes and makes millions of dollars in the process. This has got nothing to do with the presidency and everything to do with filling her pockets. And by raising her profile, she raises her income. It is as simple as that. So she was right when she said that hers is not a campaign bus. It’s a cash bus and she’ll keep it rolling for as long as she can. Thanks so much for watching.

Now, that’s funny.  A British Progressive lecturing an American Conservative on the proper use of our country’s flag.  I guess that he forgot that his channel’s logo used to be intertwined with an image of the American flag from 2001 – 2003 when MSNBC was going through its America’s Newschannel phase.

In an article posted May 31st, 2011 on latimes.com, for a regular column titled On the Media, James Rainey writes:

The people complaining about Palin’s tour act as if she would no longer be a political player, perhaps even disappear from public life, if reporters didn’t ask her what she was up to. Alert: Sarah Palin has found a way to reach an audience via Fox News, Facebook, Twitter and her SarahPAC.com website.

Whether she will run for president, those who love Palin and those who loathe her exhibit a relentless attention to what she does. Television ratings jump when she goes on air. Web posts with her name in the headline draw more hits and many more comments.

It shouldn’t be the sole variable for judging newsworthiness, but at some point writers, editors and producers have to give their audiences a dose of what they are interested in.

Then he gets sarcastic:

Palin has signaled she is intent on teaching those smart-alecky reporters a lesson or two. She greets them with a smile at her events, then depicts them in her blog posts and interviews as slothful and unaware of the significance of the history she is putting in front of their noses.

A blog post Tuesday was headlined that she was “Reminding Reporters, too, of America’s Foundations.” She told Van Susteren reporters wanted too many handouts like, gasp, a schedule of her events.

“I want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this, and that would include not necessarily telling them beforehand where every stop is going to be.”

Yes, fellow Americans, that’s really the biggest failing of the media: not overlooking crucial topics or obsessing on horse-race-style coverage. It’s the way those lazy-bones reporters expect you to tell them what you are doing.

Hey, Mr. Rainey…you want some cheese with that whine?

By the way, Main Stream Media… If you guys had been objective reporters, instead of subjective Progressives, you wouldn’t be receiving such a painfully public Palinoscopy…would you?