Swing and a Miss
September 14th, 2008 at 04:03am Geoff
The front page of the New York Times tomorrow will have a story headlined: “Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes.” A sentence like that and you’d think they’d have the goods on her, right?
Well no, actually. It is the New York Times we’re talking about here after all, which now only adds itself to the multiple media outlets flailing about and embarrassing themselves trying to find mud that will stick to the governor. Toss this story into the mountainous heap of media headlines composed of scandolous assertions supported by zero substance.
In other news, we still have not received word from the Grey Lady whether or not those reporters they sent to Alaska are going to head to Chicago next to actually examine the content and degree of Sen. Obama’s past associations with William Ayers and their mutually-favored leftist organizations and causes. Stay tuned…
Hat Tip: Mark Hemingway
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1. Joe | September 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Again, I’d rather talk issues, but since you brought this article up…..
“Zero substance”
Isn’t that kind of an issue? Isn’t that at all similar to putting someone who was head of an Arabian Horse Society in charge of FEMA??
Isn’t that an issue? I believe the Bush Administration has done the SAME thing!
Still “zero substance”? Didn’t we go thru all this secrecy and false statements over and over again over the last 8 years?
From the museum operator to the city attorney… if they didn’t agree, she had them or tried to have them fired.
By the way… why the heck was her husband so involved in the State activities between the budget and calling Legislators?
She is new to the national political scene. Obama went thru 20 months of scrutiny. There is no saying these are not legit questions to ask of someone that has been on the political scene for 2 weeks.
2. Geoff | September 15th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
20 months of “scrutiny” Joe and still the national media has made no serious attempt to determine the full story of Sen. Obama’s long history of membership in far-left groups (including time as an instructer in the magical voter-creator ACORN) and his troubling association with a confessed and unrepentant terrorist. If Gov. Palin had even been in the same county with an unrepentant abortion-clinic bomber the NYT would devote a full section to it.
Looking into Gov. Palin’s past is fine, assuming an equal level of scrutiny has been applied to the other side. It clearly has not, as Sen. Obama had essentially secured the nomination before we even heard hints of his past and record which exists beneath the vapor of his “Change you can believe in” rhetoric. And these are hints which none of the major media has made any credible effort to examine, especially nothing akin to that devoted to Gov. Palin.
As to the items you higlighted, Jennifer Rubin highlights in the piece I linked to that there is not much there but lightly touched upon gruel.
3. Joe | September 17th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Geoff,
I’ve searched and searched and all I’ve come up with are right-wing attack blogs that link Obama with ACORN. I’ve never heard of ACORN until I googled it.
You forgot to bring up that Obama went to a “radical church” for TWENTY years and that he refused to wear a flag lapel pin!
Also, who cares what Jennifer Rubin says about the article. When I commented on the article, I read THE ARTICLE, not what someone says about it. Form your own opinions.
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