By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Sarah Palin on Sunday punched the liberal media yet again. And this time it looks like she connected.
Hopping on comments promoted by conservative blogs, Palin said the media are trying to hide Barack Obama's comments that his pollution proposal could bankrupt coal plants.
The audio of the interview with the San Francisco Chronicle is here.
The germane part of the interview:
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted."
Said Palin on Sunday:
"Why is the audio tape just now surfacing? This interview was given to San Francisco folks many, many months ago. You should have known about this, so that you would have better decision-making information as you go into the voting booth."
John Diaz, The Chronicle's editorial page editors, blasted back:
"How can anyone suggest that we hid an interview that we did, immediately put up on the Web - and advertised to our readers?" he said. "We promoted it like hell ... and I'm sure the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign scrubbed it. You can still find the whole 48 minutes and 33 seconds online."
However, a visit to the San Francisco newspaper's Web site shows two things.
-- First, the paper's information about the audio recording does not mention Obama's cap-and-trade proposal, the controversial part that's now getting attention.
Instead, the newspaper chose to highlight three other issues discussed by Obama, and to post the entire interview (again, without mentioning the cap-and-trade plan).
-- Second, the news story produced by the newspaper the day after the interview does not contain any mention of Obama's plan for coal-fired power plants.








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Its Not JUST About Coal
Skyrocketing electric prices will kill the American Steel Industry, the American Aluminum Industry, the American Paper Industry, and a host of support industries related to these. In addition, it will further decimate the American auto industry.
The decline in these industries will force many communities completely out of business. It will affect restaurants, real estate, insurance agents, hardware stores, tire stores, pet shops, auto parts stores, fashion shops, hospitals, schools, tax receipts, and more importantly people's lives who live in those communities.
It will affect the coal miners, steel workers, iron workers, electrical workers, construction workers, brick layers, painters, carpenters. In other words, it will affect almost everyone.
It will raise residential heating and cooling costs at the precise time when our economy can tolerate it the least. This could be the straw that breaks the back of the American Economy and forces it down to the depths of a deep depression.
This is not JUST about bankrupting the coal industry. It is about bankrupting the nation as a whole.
The full transcript--for those few that like the truth.
“I voted against the Clear Skies Bill. In fact, I was the deciding vote -- despite the fact that I’m a coal state and that half my state thought that I had thoroughly betrayed them. Because I think clean air is critical and global warming is critical.
“But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it. If we can’t, then we’re gonna still be working on alternatives.
“But ... let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade policy in place that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anyone out there. I was the first call for 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system. Which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases that was emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants are being built, they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted-down caps that are imposed every year.
“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel, and other alternative energy approaches. The only thing that I’ve said with respect to coal -- I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as an ideological matter, as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should."
Cocaine usage leads to an ego psychosis.
A San Francisco disk jockey calls out for m..f. Joe the Plumber to be murdered. And bloggers on this site say Palin distorts the facts to incite hatred and violence ignoring the crap that has come out of liberal mouths for the last 8 years. Kill Bush has been a mantra for the cowardly left.
Vote McCaine / Palin. What’s left of a healthy way of life depends on it.
Palin Represents a Low Point in Politics
Palin is a rabble rouser who distorts the facts to incite hatred and violence. Her lack of education makes her an ideal tool of the extreme right. Her baseless and misguided attack on the San Francisco Chronicle is just one of many examples where she and her action puppets, Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder, behave like moronic and evil cartoon figures in a Simpson's episode. Palin is the worst of the worst because she does not know how limited she really is. McCain chose her and it has been his undoing as a candidate. There is some justice in the world.
Good Post Jenn
Two years the media has had to vette the junior senator from IL, yet they found the task impossible. It took them a nano second to pull the levers of government in OH and tell the world all you wanted to know about Joe the Plumber. They sent an army of investigators to AK to turn over every stone in an attempt to discredit Palin. They even went as far as to make up stories about Palin print them as truth only to be discredited later. But the damage was done, just read Tiller and you can see how effective they were.
The big losers in this election is we the people who have lost any faith with the media to do some honest reporting. The Media has forever denied us the trust and confidence they require to be effective in telling the people the whole story, not just the parts they they want to tell.
The Star will always endorse the Democrats, but they could at least make the case by putting all the cards on the table instead of playing with half a deck. Readership in papers is going down for a reason, one only has to view the coverage of this newspaper to see why.
We have to wait
Hey jenniferm - Yael will get right on that investigative reporting!
We have to wait until he's elected to find out all of the other far-left radical things he's had to say. That's the way it works in Obamaland. You have to elect him president before he'll give you the information. Thanks alot liberal media!
Good read.
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For starters, here's a list of Obama's history that is unknown to the American public and completely unexamined by McClatchy (the KC Star):
Occidental College records — Not released
Columbia College records — Not released
Columbia Thesis paper — ‘not available’
Harvard College records — Not released
Medical records — Not released
Illinois State Senate schedule — ‘not available’
Law practice client list — Not released
Harvard Law Review articles published — None
University of Chicago scholarly articles — None
Illinois State Senate records—'not available'
Room for alot a investigative journalism in those areas. But from McClathy there was no digging, no curiosity. Not even a hint of effort.
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Unfortunately, McClatchy readers know more about the history of Sarah Palin and Joe the plumber.
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What one has to do in order to keep their job.