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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
... Palin did not try to ban any books from the library.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html
Yeesh, how dumb do you have to be to constantly repeat a false rumor?
Oh, wait ... this is Salon. Nuff said.
David Talbot would have made great reporter during the Salem witch trials, reporting for the prosecution of course. So articles like this are what pass for journalism at Salon. Truly sad!
As I write this McCain is speaking at a town meeting challenging Obama to go around America with him and speak to the people. He even offered to even pay for the plane. He also asked his supporters to speak to their Democratic friends to urge Obama to accept this challenge. I doubt Obama has the testicles.
I have been considering both presidential candidates as viable options for quite a while now, but this article has cemented my conviction that I will vote for Obama. No need to recap all the things that others have already said better than I could. I just find her views on so many important things just irreconcilable with logic and reason, and this is a darn shame because I think McCain is so reasonable about so many things. But Palin cannot be in the White House - too much risk.
You gotta count on foreigners for what's REALLY going on in the world:
Iran 'sending weapons to Taleban'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7616429.stm
Pakistan soldiers 'confront US'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7396366.stm
UN nuclear agency criticises Iran
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7616744.stm
It seems like Sen. Obama has his Revs. Wright and Pfegher and Gov. Palin has a pastor who clashed with her. Rev. Wright and the Trinity Church got thrown under the famous bus. And Gov. Palin's former minister's book did not get banned, but he may now go on and make a lot of money on it.
This article, which you wish to denigrate, is journalism unlike a lot of pundit-type speculation that goes on in Salon. The author spoke to real people and quoted them directly. Yes, much of it is techinically hearsay, but it is also interesting that an article in the NYT on Palin paints a rather similar picture of her. These are cumulative and as more such articles are printed we get a clearer picture of Palin, just as we have gotten clearer pictures over time on McCain, Bush, Cheney and others.
It is due diligence that has journalists going to Alaska and attempting to find first hand accounts that inform us. We can each weigh how much credence we give these accounts.
Why are on the record statements of ordinary small town folks considered to be less important than unnamed sources that deliberately leak their self-interested items to the Washington Post and the New York Times more valued? Because they are less likely to lie? Hardly.
... is that the Salon idiots are falling for this bit of half-wit "journalism" full of innuendo and hearsay.
Talk about the will to believe!
I was responding to the charge that people were not defending Palin. I quickly went back through the letters finding defense of her book banning. I wasn't discussing your charges about the rally and including you was a mistake based on a quick-re-reading of the posts finding the tacit defense of which I spoke.
I apologize for including your comment. Mea culpa.
As for the charge you address, though, Palin is anti-abortion; she is from Wasilla; the hospital board was taken over and abortion was banned, leading to a court care, and there was apparently anti-abortion protests in Palmer. One persons account of Palin's presence there may not be definitive, but it is far more plausible than saying McCain is a member of the Church of Satan.
http://touchngo.com/sp/html/sp-4906.htm
Great story - keep it up!
While Salon is running this drivel, why have its crack journalists missed this story?
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/09/update-fannie-mae-and-freddie.html
No wonder Obama's been so silent about the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crackup. He was in their pocket all along. (And his campaign director Tim Johnson was hip-deep in the Countrywide mortgage scandal, too.)
So while liberals concentrate on absolute non-stories about the second slot on the Republican ticket, they ignore this major biggie on the first slot on the Democratic ticket.
You can whine "unfair, unfair!" all you like. No one believes you.
thank you salon for this eye-opening article. we really need to be aware of what a danger the this country we love this woman is. picking someone with her positions wouldn't matter so much if the person leading the ticket was not a man in his 70s who has battled melanoma numerous times. there's a very real chance that this woman could become president with his demise.
one of the most harmful effects of the reagan years was packing the federal courts with rightwing, reactionary judges. because of retirements and so forth, we have a chance now to reverse this trend but only if there is a democratic administration in the white house. but a mccain/palin administration will further the damage to our nation for another generation and we simply can't let this happen.
there seem to be a rather large amount of rumor and hint of scandal surrounding gov. palin. it brings back the old adage: where there's smoke, there's usually fire. i hope we don't wait until after she's in office (ala spiro agnew) to find the house in flames! and the idea that the #2 person in the administration believes in creationism boggles the mind. george bush keeps saying that we have to fight them over there in order not to have to fight them over here. but my hook and by crook the christian taliban looks to be in a good position of taking over the reins of power in this country. i hope people really realize what a danger this is to our country!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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