So much for Sarah Palin's 'misinformation'
By David Neiwert Monday Nov 10, 2008 7:15pmSarah Palin whines to the Anchorage Daily News that too much of the reportage on her record was "based on misinformation." An example?
But just looking into the record. It was reported that I tried to ban Harry Potter when it hadn't even been written when I was the mayor.
When I was in Wasilla to look into her record, I never found any evidence that Palin tried to ban Harry Potter from the local library (she seemed to be more concerned about a local pastor's book written for closeted gays).
But the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, was published in 1997.
Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996 to 2002. By the time her term of office expired, four of the Potter books had been published.
It is true that the Potter books had not been published at the time there was a discussion of bannings at the Wasilla library, which took place in January 1997. And the whole Potter claim is based on a spurious e-mail anyway.
But that's the real problem with Palin citing this as an example of bad media reporting, even beyond the fact that her "proof" is afactual: It never made it into any serious media account of her record that I can find, other than to dismiss it.
Palin seems to be trying divert attention from the serious reporting on her record by building up a strawman about nonexistent reportage.
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Let's leave her alone and maybe she'll go the eff away.
so she must be turned into a national joke before 2010, so that when god talks to her, it will be to laugh in her face
She is bucking for Steven's seat. Even Maddow was all over it tonight.
She had a taste of the good stuff (all them thar fine clothes and stuff) and could do so much more on a senator's salary than a measly guv of a state who will soon find itself in fiscal straits with no more tax buckages coming in from those oil companies with the prices of oil being what it is and the way the contracts are written, she is about to become not so popular when those socialistic $3500 checks to each Alaskan stop.
That Wasilla hillbilly is going to do whatever it takes to get what she wants.
alaska will have to institute both income and sales taxes
drill baby drill???? oil is plummeting....think the oil companies are really gonna invest more just to bring the prices down and lower their profits???? i dont think so
This'll be great. She'll bully and threaten people into rigging the Stevens recount, declare Stevens the winner, then stab him in the back with an indictment, and take his senate seat just before the spaghetti hits the fan in Alaska. Then she'll go to Washington and be even more high profile. We've GOT to keep this clown in the spotlight to remind people about what the ALTERNATIVE party is like.
Palin and Michelle Bachman both on Capital Hill has the opportunity to provide us with hours of amusement.
NoooOOOO!
We must go on mocking her and sneering at her until the Republican party feels they have NO CHOICE but to run her for president in 2012 just to put liberals in their place. It'll be like tripple dog daring Flick to stick his tongue to the flabpole!
(CNN) – Sarah Palin told local reporters in Alaska that unhappiness with the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy and spending record were responsible for the GOP ticket’s defeat this year.
“I think the Republican ticket represented too much of the status quo, too much of what had gone on in these last eight years, that Americans were kind of shaking their heads like going, wait a minute, how did we run up a $10 trillion debt in a Republican administration?” Palin told the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska’s KTUU Channel 2.
“How have there been blunders with war strategy under a Republican administration? If we're talking change, we want to get far away from what it was that the present administration represented and that is to a great degree what the Republican Party at the time had been representing. So people desiring change I think went as far from the administration that is presently seated as they could. It's amazing that we did as well as we did.”
Maybe what poor Sarah meant is she cannot see Hogwarts School from Alaska.
I fear we are stuck with her. I figure she'll knock of Colmes and be Hannity's sidekick before long.
You give Palin far too much credit for knowing what a strawman is to set up for knockdown purposes...she just ain't that bright.
Call her what she is...a blatant liar who is so clueless that she equates a non-issue with factual reporting. As a journalist by education (via five different colleges and universities) and a Fox lover by trade, she knows nothing of factual reporting.
Lying, however, she knows (and performs) intimately.
I wouldn't say she knows and performs lying intimately. True, she's the biggest pathological and habitual liar since that JOHN LOVITZ character from SNL, but that doesn't make her a "good" liar. Saying Sarah Palin is a liar is like calling Steve Bartman a BASEBALL PLAYER. True, he's probably the most famous man in history to ever try to catch a baseball, but that doesn't make him a baseball player.
To be a liar, you have to at least be able to fool SOME of the people SOME of the time. You have to at least be able to fool children, small animals, insects, or Playmobil figurines with your lies. She can't even fool her BASE, with it's cumulative IQ of 68. They just PRETEND to believe her because they think she's fooling OTHER people.
It's amazing!
"I said thanks but no thanks to the bridge to nowhere."
"I couldn't remember the names of any newspapers or magazines I read because I was annoyed."
"Those millions of dollars in earmarks I requested to study the mating habits of crabs weren't earmarks because they weren't a secret."
"I didn't spend $150 000 on clothes, the RNC did."
"I'm glad that the Alaska commission found me completely innocent of violating ethics guidelines when I fired the Safety Commissioner."
"I'm not always going to answer the questions you asked me because I'm a plucky little maverick."
"We've got to stop talking about my clothes because this is supposed to by Barack Obama's 'shiny day.'"
Sheesh...
Let's just say she's no Joe Isuzu.
the list was long and absurd and way too ez to check
here are the facts, as reported by numerous sources...
on 3 occasions, palin did talk to the librarian about removing books from the library...but was neither specific nor demanding
the librarian told her that she would never think of removing any books
palin attempted to fire her....palin says due to budget contraints...of course, this is the same woman who spent 50k redecorating her office to look like a bordello...the citizens of wasilla raised a fuss...the librarian wasnt fired
lets not leave out that palin brings up trig's birth in this interview...then asks the reporter if he/she wants to see the med records
well hell ya sarah...show us the records
you wont...cuz YOU NEVER DID BIRTH NO BABY TRIG
Bible Spice, STFU, we don't wanna hear any more of your whiney BS.
What a ignoramous. She gives women a bad name. Watching the woman serve up moose chili really repulsed me. Christ! Can't she go away?
i have no prob with her eating moose, elk or rudolf
do have a prob with alaska's preditor control program...which causes more harm than it fixes, as predators kill off the sick animals that would spread diseases to a herd
also have a prob with the ok to kill cubs, and that awful hunting from helicopters deal
if i was gov...i would allow predator control...but you cant use a gun...just a bowie knife...i think that would be a fair fight
Actually, I'm not a vegan. What pisses me off, was this was staged to appease her her very small base. So when the cameras are running, she decides to serve up moose? I don't beleive that for a minute.
Sarah has a much more effective weapon...she talks at the animals until they give up and commit suicide.
What is really important, is HOW IS JOE THE PLUMBER??!!
What is he thinking?
Did he have a nice dinner?
Are his stools firm or ?
seeing that Old Joe is totally full of shit, I would say...
He is about as credible as Sarah.
she can see russia,
he can hear israel.
Plugging my ears! La La La La La La La!!!!!!!!! Enough already!
Did you just cite yourself as the example of "serious" reporting on Palin? :)
Sorry, but I don't believe there has been any "serious" reporting on Sarah Palin - just as there has never been any serious culinary critique of a pop tart.
I mean, you can try, but the tart isn't really deserving of such review, and the fans of the pop tart wouldn't really appreciate the critique anyway.
The rest of us have had all the information we needed from the briefest of glances: the tart is sweet on the surface, contains nothing natural on the inside, and is flaky throughout.
Did we really need to know anything else?
metaphorically speaking.
:<[)
Gee, I dunno -- do you think that wasn't serious reporting?
Max and I spent every day after the announcement of her nomination drilling down on that story and spent long hours in Alaska gathering the needed interviews and data, then were pored over the pile we had afterward. It seemed pretty serious, and I thought the results were serious too. The story was certainly more damning than an anonymous e-mail.
And I know we worked a hell of a lot harder to secure our facts than Sarah Palin does.
I for one thank you for your reporting of her many lies and misinformation. It does matter. Even now, despite the understandably widespread sentiment that she just disappear.
Who is she to scold others about misinformation? She's a misinformation factory herself! Have you ever seen anybody spout more misinformation in less time?
On principle I agree.
Sending reporters out to do 'serious reporting' on whether Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP or not is like listing the reasons why Captain Crunch is not qualified to be the Navy Chief of Staff. You'd think it should be self evident. But it's not like they'd be doing anything BETTER with their time if they weren't doing this. I'd love for them to investigate something important, but let's face it, it's either this or continue snooping through Joe the Plumber's garbage cans.
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 20:04 — fiver
Did you just cite yourself as the example of "serious" reporting on Palin? :)
Sorry, but I don't believe there has been any "serious" reporting on Sarah Palin - just as there has never been any serious culinary critique of a pop tart.
Brittany?
misinformation is five syllables.
they should play the tape.
Like any good Repuke, she went straight for the trough as soon as she could.
Sara said that: 'God would show her the way to the White House.' And God showed Sara to the 'Out house',and said that Adam just prayed to him asking for his rib back.
No wonder why The Base loves her...
Like an oozing festering herpetic lesion, we'll assuredly see her again.
Haven't we really all had enough of our fill of the Governor from the great state of Alaska? She was good fun while it lasted but this story is dead. Let it rot.
May the people in Alaska live in never ending darkness for months on end as punishment for inflicting the rest of us with these Wasilla Billies.
No! Nail it to the front door of the RNC, and THEN let it rot like a skunk roadkill.
So do the dumb idiots who support her.
I caught some of her interview earlier with Van Sustren. She cited the book banning example of distorting her record, and she also cited the media saying that Trig was actually her daughter's son. The first time I ever heard of that rumor was when the MSM reported that the McCain campaign denied reports of it. I don't think any legit media outlets mentioned that rumor. The strawman gets bigger and bigger.
You all may want her to go away but apparently she will be doing more "record straightening" on Larry King on Wednesday.
If she whines about the media, she wins.
If she whines about McCain camp backstabbing and further divides the GOP, we win.
Let's hope the McCain people keep dragging her through the mud.
He's worked hard to bring some clarity throughout this election season and has earned his right to have yet another bimbo on his show, imo.
He enjoys his Hugh Hefner status and it seems to do his heart good, so I'll give him his little reward and just not watch while Palin's on.
I find it interesting that people are still talking about her as if she has a political future. Sarah is the base the Republican Party courted. She is the gulible tasteless gun-nazi religous fundy that can't string together a coherent sentence. But, she is also being beaten down by her party that doesn't want to lose its control to the likes of her and her ilk. She was a prop. Now shes being disgarded as the trash she is. She'll be relegated to cheerleader status.
..A simple, mean-spirited dunce.
I think Saturday Night Live is behind all of this. They haven't enjoyed such high ratings in years. Yep, betcha she's on the payroll!
and from now on, refer to her as "she who shall not be named."
Like you are going to get an honest response from David Neiwert...or any other media (liberal, conservative or otherwise).
Just the source...The rest is a waste of time.
Hey...
I like spending time wasted.
I think the key misinformation that palin's received in her lifetime is that she's competent in anything.
So who was more popular with the voters, sarah palin or the inflatable sarah palin?
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Wonder how well the manufacturers did with this thing..? And now we know that any included clothing has to be given/paid back to the RNC.
I'd feel so embarrassed if she was my love doll.
She's the gift that keeps on giving...the more she flaps her yap the more this country will realize how close she was to being President -- and realize come Thanksgiving we'll be giving thanks for President-elect Obama
This is a Thanksgiving which Canadians will be able to gratefully share with our terrific neighbors too.
Turkey?
..thank you very much :D
Ya mean you're not going to expect us to eat a little crow?
Not at least my friends at C&L. I was all ready to hate all Americans by about 2005 until I stumbled upon John's little blog in the wilderness (at the time).
If there is crow on the menu, then most of us worldwide would need to eat some with you.
It wasn't only her interview with Couric that turned the country against Palin. She kept lying without a hint of hesitation to everyone who'd listen. An empty idiotic lie about the Bridge to Nowhere. She got caught and just kept going. The McCain in-fighting and name-calling is petty stuff. She revealed her character over and over and over again.
And us lucky Americans will have another opportunity to send this hick packing in 2012. I guess the opportunity to be POTUS is a huge step up from the job Sarah is most qualified for. You know.. "Would you like fries with that?"
She's never been a particularly good liar - well, in public. I followed the "book-banning" story pretty closely, and wrote a few posts on it. Here, she's trying to use a bogus e-mail to claim innocence, in addition to getting the dates wrong on Harry Potter. She didn't get as far as banning books. but mainly because it wasn't feasible. She did test the waters. But after the librarian wouldn't play along, Palin fired her (and initially lied about firing her), although the librarian was reinstated due to public outcry. Palin's church was trying to ban Pastor, I'm Gay and several other books. Palin, as a city councilwoman, wanted Daddy's Roommate removed from the shelves, but naturally, hadn't even bothered to read it. As with almost everything with Palin, a closer examination makes her look far worse, not any better.
"Palin seems to be trying divert attention from the serious reporting on her record by building up a strawman about nonexistent reportage."
Seems to be trying? Seems to me pretty clear she IS trying.
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