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Mean girl Sarah Palin has a way of using "old boys" -- then dumping them when they become inconvenient.
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  • And what about FDR? On TV?

    And she's so dumb, too. Did anyone catch her saying this:

    "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'look, here's what happened.' "

  • Palins biography on McCain site

    Every thing in the Palin biography on the McCain site can be proven to be a LIE, well except she did finally get a degree in journalism from Idaho U/ (not proven yet). After 6 colleges in 5 years.

    Isn't it rather ironic that Plain has a degree in journalism but won't speak to reporters ?

  • Believe It...

    How sad you are, Talbot...

    Suggest everyone read "Salon's David Talbot is Clueless About Palin" - William Dyer, Beldar

  • dumb boy

    WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.

    "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."

    Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/biden_mistaken_history;_ylt=ArSS6N5JDNs9BGTMl1eNzH8DW7oF

  • Wise up!

    Bernbart--no one who knows anything about journalism speaks to the press. It's only fools and knaves who open themselves up to the sideshow.

  • @ andoyputi The "liberal media"? Are you kidding?

    I read your link. It's all "spin". To paraphrase, "So people who got beat by Foxy Palin don't like her, what a surprise." In your world evidence of bias is evidence of lying, it's not. Demonstrate that they are lying. We are listening. How about addressing the questions raised and accusations leveled by her accusers, instead of simply attacking the people who made them? Because you can't.

    This person believes in creationism (that's all I need to know - she's an idiot, a moron, a low grade mouth breather), she just got a passport last year to visit Iraq (well sort of Iraq anyway, but the facts don't matter do they?) and you think she would be a good leader for America? Maybe for you, but not for working people and certainly not from the point of view of the rest of the world (you remember the rest of the world, the surrender monkeys, old Europe and all those all people not lucky enough to be born in the greatest country in the world right?)

    As for the "liberal media", this canard is often raised by dittoheads like yourself. I think you mean that there are still some people in the media who don't completely and abjectly support the Republican/Likud party to the extent that FOX does. Or perhaps you mean The Nation or Amy Goodman (neither of whom is much read or viewed)? I don't even live in your country and am neither a Republican or a Democrat so I can say with some objectivity, that there are no "liberal" media in America -- hasn't been in years. Even the Liberal NYT supported the war, and has kept it's Liberal mouth mostly shut about the serial crimes of the buhs administration. Everything you say in your post is wrong and good evidence of the extent to which you have been propagandized, brainwashed and lied to all your life.

  • @ sonofloud dumb and dumber

    You said,

    "Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair."

    The Liberal Media says,

    April 7, 1927

    Bell Telephone Labs and AT&T give a USA public mechanical television demonstration over both wire and radio circuits. The demonstration was directed by Dr. Herbert Ives and Dr. Frank Gray. Pictures and sound were sent by wire from Washington D.C., to New York City. A wireless demonstration also occurred 22 miles away, from Whippany, New Jersey, to New York City.

    The main part of the demonstration was a speech by Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, which originated in Washington D.C. The 50-line pictures, transmitted at 18 frames per second, were received on a 2" x 3" screen. It was claimed that there was no difference in quality between the pictures sent by either wire or radio.

    http://www.tvhistory.tv/pre-1935.htm

    When does the civil war in America start anyway? After McSame wins? Or maybe the election of a "mooslim" like Obomba will trigger it? You people are nuts.

  • Just like Hillary, Sarah is another chance to pile on to female candidates

    If the politics of pile on was not so hard on Hillary, who is a very qualified candidate to run this country, then the criticism of Gov. Palin might have more merit. But Hillary got so dumped on including her own party, it was disgusting. Every word, her clothes, her hair, her first lady experience, her campaign and her accomplishments were put down all the time by so many. I think that Gov. Palin is a wonderful role model for younger girls that they have political futures and should rise above all the garbage everyone will use to try to discourage them from seeking higher office. You go girls! Work through all the mess put in your way. And may be the "change" we have been waiting for.

  • Republicans want us to focus on Palin

    I am convinced that the overwhelming obsession with Palin is all part of a republican plan to keep the focus of the campaign OFF of McCain. Please Salon. Stop falling for the ploy. Lets focus on McCain. Even if someone doesn't like Palin, that is not going to keep them from voting for McCain if they like him.

  • Grat sourcing for your material, David!

    http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/0d495ec4-a02e-4802-a14f-bc98e31047e0

  • Am amazed...

    ...this article was not pulled in embarrassment.

    "Victor Kohring, another key Palin supporter during her political rise in Mat-Su Valley, found this out after he became a victim of the FBI's oil corruption sting operation."

    In Talbots world, apparently politicians convicted on federal corruption charges are just poor victims to be swaddled and loved like little tots.

    How low can Salon go? Talbot certainly has no limit.

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