Sarah Palin an Obama girl? You betcha

Ohhhhhh, So he's saying that FOX broadcast a fake story and fooled MSNBC? Double shame!

Fox broke the story and has not divulged their sources.

"Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent...Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist...the lies get better headlines."

See, I keep telling you that you can't believe FOX!

Of course, the NY Times isn't really all that reputable anymore since their horrid stories prior to the Iraq War, but Obama fans always liked to link to NY Times stories as "proof" of everything.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.

“With the 24-hour news cycle they rush into anything they can find,” said Mr. Mirvish, 40.

Mr. Gorlin, 39, argued that Eisenstadt was no more of a joke than half the bloggers or political commentators on the Internet or television.

An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network’s misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. “It had not been vetted,” he said. “It should not have made air.”

But most of Eisenstadt’s victims have been bloggers, a reflection of the sloppy speed at which any tidbit, no matter how specious, can bounce around the Internet. And they fell for the fake material despite ample warnings online about Eisenstadt, including the work of one blogger who spent months chasing the illusion around cyberspace, trying to debunk it.

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Oh look, the KC Star's own blog ran a link to the story.........

On Stevens - is she or isn't she calling for Stevens to step aside, she hasn't spoke against Stevens, a convicetd felon, for quite some time, yet he still running for office;

she's on record for asking and lobbying Congress for millions in earmarks;

She increased the windfall profit taxes on oil companies and doubled the welfare payments made to Alaskan residents (CAN YOU SAY REDISTRIBUTOR-IN-CHEIF?)

She was for the bridge to nowhere until it became a liability;

She replaced the bridge to nowhere with a gravel road to nowhere at a cost of $23M;

She put the governors jet on eBay alright - a five year old practice in the state (of putting things for sale on eBay) and she did it against expert advice that told her to use a broker. Over 8 months later she turned it over to a broker - the delay costingthe state thousands.

She's been convicted of ethics violations;

And she's a strange opportunistic conservative Alaskan political hack who enjoys the full support of only those 28% of Americans who think Bush did a great job as president.

Yeah, I'm familiar with her record.

It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

Last month Eisenstadt blogged that Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber, was closely related to Charles Keating, the disgraced former savings and loan chief. It wasn’t true, but other bloggers ran with it.

You can keep on believing the lies, but the people who have actually met Palin all agree she is intelligent and quickly grasp complex problems. All you really have to do is look at her governing record and that should point out those qualities. But why do that when the lies get better headlines.

the supposed biased media that you reference was FOX NEWS, and their correspondent with very deep connections into the Mccain campaign.

His sources were real, Fox News broke the story, and why on earth would we listen to Palin's defense?

She isn't credible defending her own ignornace.

It appears that the leaks out of the McCain campaign about Palin were a hoax.

MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.

I suspect an apology from Yael and all the other columist at the Star will be forthcoming, right?

The truth is the media calls itself a profession but they are nothing more than gossip mongers who will destroy those they feel are a threat. There is no regulation in the media, no accountability, and worse yet, the harm they have inflicted will not go away and most of the absurd left will continue to believe the lie. Thank you Big Media for you honest reporting, bias, and lack of objectivity. By any standard you should go the way of the Big 3.

I like Camille. I guess Molly didn't like Camille. Doesn't really mean anything in today's world--that column is from 1991.

Of course, let's not look at the substance of what Camille wrote--let's either do the attack the messenger or use the distraction tactic.

Wonderful game if people are willing to play it.

for this link. Molly at her finest! Great last line.

That kind of sums it up for me .

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~erich/misc/ivins_on_paglia

I've previously taken 'jenniferm' to task on her posts. But I've got to say she's right on here. Thank you Jennifer, for the excellent Paglia excerpt. It too was right on.

People like 'mainstream' (and the Uncredible Halkah) who post snide, vitriolic comments about Sarah Palin are simply scared to death of her. They abandon logic and even their purported core principles in attempt to dimissively paint her in a negative way. How in the hell can mainstream (or anyone else) say with conviction what portions of the campaign Governor Palin spent "attacking" or discussing issues (by the way, why is it "attacking" when your opponent takes your messiah to task, and it's just "clearing the record" when you or your cronies do it to the other side)? 'Mainstream' (and Yael), you have absolutely no idea ... you're basing your definitive conclusions on the partial, skewed information fed to you by the liberal press corps.

Sarah Palin is bright, principled, and the kind of cooperative leader (willing to reach across the aisle) we need. Interestingly, it was this type of willingness to bridge the gap for which the Democrats praised Obama; but now they whine should be abandoned ... now that they control the White House. Nice consistency.

For anyone interested in brilliant writing on this subject, check out www.ejectejecteject.com. Bill Whittle is a genius, and a masterful writer.

Tiresome? Hmmmmm, yet you read and respond.

Sorry, don't like what I write, feel free to ignore--or the alternative, which seems to the MO of many here, is the juvenile name calling and insulting tactic. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

And Terra, please share your "research" on Camille--I would love to read it.

Mainstream is 100% correct. Having done some research on Camille Paglia, I can say with some conviction that Camille Paglia is talking total rubbish!!! Palin is an ambitious back-stabbinng opportunist. She has demonstrated clearly to the entire world (I'm an Australian) that she is as dumb as a stump and clearly out of her depth. Why Americans insist on voting morons into positions of power is beyond me. Surely after 8 disasterous years of Bush, people would wake up!!! I'd like you take this opportunity to thank, on behalf of the entire planet, the voters who supported Obama.

I don't think you "hit" anything.

It's just that you're tiresome.

I'm calling for a strike on discussions of anything Mr. Yael A. posts - the amount and range of articles that he posts here are ridiculous. His influence is WAY overblown with respect to Midwest Voices.

I know I can't influence him or the Red Star - what I AM asking is that everyone who would otherwise be tempted to post responses to Yael simply refuse to do so, in opposition to his influence.

Just say no to Yael. Say no to his ever-present opinions on EVERYTHING under the sun.

Thank you.

Seems like I hit sore spot. Camille has a habit in her writing of living in the real world. I like that.

Feel free to ignore what I write if you don't agree. But then again, and I'm sure you won't do this, why don't you cut and paste the part of my comment where I'm "telling you what's appropriate to think or do" BECAUSE I DIDN'T!

Nice lecture, though.

Have a nice day.

of being anti-American. And a terrorist sympathizer.

She's a modern day hybrid between George Bush and Joe McCarthy.

I'll feel free to rant on about her absolutely disgraceful behavior as long as I damn well please.

Do you get it, jennifrem?

Read my lips: Palin spent an inordinate amount of time not disagreeing on the issues, but on deliberate character assination of the worst kind - she spent almost all of her time on the campaign targeting Obama as un-American, a terrorist sympathizer, a socialist/communist, with even deeper racial/ethnic implications.

Do you really think it was just an innocent mistake when she said she liked visiting "pro-America" parts of the country?

Don't lecture me or anybody else about Sarah Palin - I have a crystal clear view of what she is about, and more importantly what her enthusiastic followers are about.

I don't need you telling me what's appropriate to think or do, we have enough of that from the rapture right.

Best summed up by, Camille Paglia, in a very interesting read in Salon (and she loves Obama):

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/11/12/palin/print.html

Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology -- contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.

I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is -- and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English -- big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns -- that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee -- what navel-gazing hypocrisy! What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry's nod for veep four years ago? And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama's pick and who was on everyone's short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin's. Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.

Yael, are you trolling the internet for something to comment on? My guess is she answered a stupid question.