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Frank Rich, in a stupid column for the New York Times, can't resist throwing an elbow at a politician's child.

The essence of Palinism is emotional, not ideological. Yes, she is of the religious right, even if she winks literally and figuratively at her own daughter’s flagrant disregard of abstinence and marriage.

What a classless jerk.

Other than having committed the unpardonable sin of being born Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol did nothing to warrant getting slammed in the pages of the New York Times. What's important is that the family respects life. And lives by those values. But he's too poisoned by libtardism and bitterness to see that.

These ratfucks have a pathological obsession with Palin vaginas.

The game is evident. The libtard media has driven Palin from office by targeting her daughters.... or think they have. They will stop at nothing to use Bristol Palin and her child to attempt to discredit Sarah and drive a wedge between her and Christian voters. It won't work, though. Christians don't condemn premarital sex nearly so much as they 1.) value the sanctity of life, and 2.) Hate the judgementalism and venom coming from people like Frank Rich.

The libtard media is nothing but a pack of rabid hounds. In another time and place, they would probably be Red Army soldiers lined up to gang-rape German girls.

God, I hope she runs for President next time round. I can't say I'll vote for her over the other conservative nominees. I recognize her shortcomings as a candidate. But it might be worth voting for her just to give these bastards conniption fits.

It brings to mind the following line from Sylvia Plath:

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair
And eat men like air

Splash, out

Jason

P.S., Frank Rich has a problem with Bristol getting seduced by Levi as a teenager. But Rich, as a fully-formed adult, was seduced by a con-man, Alan Conway, who convinced Rich that he was really Stanley Kubrick.

That's right: Conway told Rich all the right things, said everything Rich wanted to hear... probably did the journalism equivalent of stroking Rich's hair. Rich was seduced. Taken in by this guy. And thought he was going to get an interview with Stanley Kubrick. Conway lied to him and Rich fell for it.

But Rich, the pathetic, blackened little cur, can't find it in his tar-pumping heart to cut some slack for a small-town teenage girl who's handsome, rugged boyfriend promised to marry her. No, even more than that, he has to drag his sick obsession with Palin vaginas into the pages of the New York Times.

What. An. Ass.

No wonder he draws a paycheck from the New York Times. He fits right in with their corporate culture.

MORE:

Palinists regard their star as an icon of working-class America even though the Palins’ combined reported income ($211,000) puts them in the top 3.6 percent of American households.

No, dipshit. Nobody regards the Palins as 'working class.' They are a middle to upper middle-class family. And it's not a matter of income, you ignorant cur. It's a matter of culture and shared values. And here's a whack on the head with a clue-bat: SARAH PALIN WAS NOT ALWAYS THE F---ING GOVERNOR OF ALASKA!!!!!

MORE:

Or that Rush Limbaugh held up a picture of Chelsea Clinton on television to identify the “White House dog.”

Did he?? Ok, Rich. I'm calling you and anyone who says that a liar. Rush Limbaugh himself "held up" a picture of Chelsea Clinton on television to identify the White House dog?

I'm calling that stupid bluff.

Show me the vid.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Alaska, class warfare, Limbaugh, Palin, Palin's Vagina

It's no mystery to me why Palin resigned. She was right to resign. It was a no brainer. Had she not resigned, she would be doing irreparable financial harm to her family.

Here's why.

Sarah Palin and her husband have five children and one grandchild. All of them, with the possible exception of Track, who's in the Army, are going to need a lot of help. Bristol's a teenage mom who's baby-daddy is useless. Levi's parents aren't going to be much help. The burden of bringing up that child is going to fall mostly on the Palin family, and Bristol herself has exremely limited means. Piper is six or seven. Just starting school. her expensive teenage years ahead pf her, and she'll need a college fund. Bristol may need some help finishing her education.

Retirement? Palin will have a modest pension, but she hasn't spent THAT long as a State of Alaska employee. Todd? He's done ok, but with five children? He's gonna have to scramble to fund his own retirement on top of everything else.

But get this the minute they found out that Trig had Down Syndrome, the financial planning picture changes. Why? Because the Palins insurance needs changed radically.

Trig will likely never be able to work or live independently, and will be dependent upon assistance his whole life. The Palins are confronted with a number of simultaneous financial challenges:

1.) Meet the college/education needs of at least three children and one grandchild. (Track will have the GI Bill, and possibly an ROTC scholarship if he wants it, so he's less of a worry, though still may need some help when he gets out of the Army.

2.) Help Bristol with her own day-to-day expenses and those of her baby.

3.) Provide for the day-to-day needs of Trig, who's going to have some pretty serious special needs and will require more and more time and attention as he gets older and becomes self-propelled.

3.) Provide enough life insurance protection to provide for her family's substantial needs if she got on the wrong airplane or got shot by a rabid libtard.

And here's the rub: Many middle class families opt for cheap term insurance, on the theory that their need for life insurance goes down substantially when the kids are out of school and no longer dependent.

That is not the case here. In the Palin's case, Trig's need for life insurance protection doesn't end when he gets a college diploma and moves out on his own. His need is permanent. The Palins must, on their limited incomes, provide for everything above, AND provide enough money for an endowment to support Trig Palin... probably for decades.

Financial planning for children with special needs is a little different than planning for most families. And it takes quite a bit more cash flow to provide for them. Cash flow the Palin's don't have on a Governor's salary and Todd's pay.

If Palin didn't quit, they could get through the next couple of years in decent shape. But then their options would deteriorate sharply if Palin's star faded. At 48/49 years old, it would be extremely difficult to recover.

The Palins very likely need a substantial amount of permanent life insurance. Not term. Set aside for Trig. If they wanted to be equitable to all their children, they would need a lot more permanent insurance, as opposed to term.

It's a lot more expensive, in terms of cash flow and monthly required premium, to buy that insurance in her late 40s than it would have been if she were in her 20s or 30s. And there's not as much time to build it up, either. Had Palin tried to stick it out on the Governor's salary, it would have been almost impossible.

But quitting, and getting a book out there, and hitting the lecture/fundraiser circuit in the next few years, would allow her to do all that. She can take care of her family, provide a legacy for her other children, spend some time with the kids, create something that creates residual income (book royalties), and STILL have a shot at running for president or senator.

Most importantly, if she doesn't provide for Trig, her critics sure as hell won't. No one else can do it but her.

Maybe she didn't explain it too well. And maybe it's none of our business anyway. But in my view, she did the right thing.

Best of luck, Governor Palin and family.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Alsaska, Bristol, finance, money, Palin, special needs, The Left, Track, Trig

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Labels: Countercolumn News Ticker, Humor, News Ticker, Palin

Andrew Sullivan continues his demented obsession over Sarah Palin's vagina.

Labels: Palin, Palin's Vagina, Sullivan, The media

From the wonderful Cynthia Yockey:

I did not watch the TV sitcom Happy Days very often, but one of the shows made a lasting impression on me. It encapsulates why all of us who are outraged at David Letterman’s vile rape jokes about 14-year-old Willow Palin and his unfunny, degrading remarks about her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, must get this bully fired from his show on CBS.

As you may know, Happy Days was about the high school days of an all-American, clean-cut boy, Richie Cunningham, his family and clean-cut friends, and his family’s tenant, the motorcycle-riding, womanizing, leather-jacketed drop-out known as The Fonz, or Fonzi.

Well, in one show some bullies have been harassing Richie, so The Fonz meets him at the soda shop to teach him his technique for intimidating other tough guys out of beating him up. The Fonz demonstrates his technique by looking his opponents in the eye, getting angry and red in the face, and then furiously tearing off his jacket and throwing it down on the ground in order to prepare for the fight. At that point, his opponents look frightened and hurry away.

So, just as Richie is confronting his own tormentors and angrily taking off his letterman’s jacket, he and Fonzi note that the tormentors are unimpressed and stand their ground. Fonzi is startled by a flash of realization and pulls Richie aside and says, “I just remembered! For this to work, you must have once hit someone.”

Well, getting David Letterman fired is our version of scaring off future bullies by having once hit someone.

I agree.

I'm not one to want to destroy a career over a one-off joke. But I'm getting awfully tired of the libtards getting away with murder, and this idea that prominent libtards get into their heads that there is no accountability or consequence for their vilest public statements.

Letterman will be ok. He can go to cable TV, like Larry Shandling, or something. He's made his money. He'll be fine. And the Late Night show will be much, much better with almost anyone else in there. Letterman was never that funny to me.

Take him down.

Funny, because the other day on Althouse's blog, I commented that if I were Willow's dad, I would have publicly challenged Letterman to a duel. Then again, I'm old-fashioned that way.

It would have been hilarious watching Letterman weasel out of that one.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Arts, culture, International relations, Palin, Palin's Vagina, Television

I actually encountered this one at a leftist cafe I occasionally play music at (and where I pissed off some of the Obamatons who tried to draw me into their tripe, assuming that because I was a musician I must agree with them):

Sarah Palin pals around with terrorists.*

Their construct: Obama/Ayers = Todd Palin/Alaska Independence Party.

Their hope is to neutralize the Obama/Ayers connection by slandering Todd Palin and the AIP.

Case in point: the lameass who writes "The Smirking Chimp:"

The question that needs to be asked now more than ever is, “Are you, Sarah Palin, a terrorist?”

Governor Palin, there is a man by the name of Joe Vogler living in your state. He has led this organization called the Alaska Independence Party. Guess what, Governor Palin, your husband Todd, Alaska’s self-designated “first dude” has held membership in it.

You remember the organization well since you addressed one of their recent conventions and wished those Alaskans well.

Indeed, you wished them well, and you call Barack Obama someone who consorts with a known terrorist. Let us examine your vulnerability in that area.

Organizations are known and recognized by their leadership. As for this Joe Vogler, what does he think about the America that you are seeking to convince the nation’s voters that you are ready to lead as president or vice president?

Sarah, if you become vice president or perhaps president, should circumstances dictate, would you follow the lead of Vogler and spearhead an effort by your own state of Alaska secede from the union? Does this sound like Civil War II?

Have you read, Sarah, what Vogler has said about America on the Alaska Independence Party’s website?

Here are Vogler’s stinging words:

“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”

Do you support those words of the leader of the party you wished well and that your own husband joined, Sarah?

Sarah, don’t those words of Vogler’s sound like a … like a terrorist?

The author, a libtard named Bill Hare, is a dumbass in more ways than I can count.

First of all, only a thumb-sucking imbicile could have written "there is a man living in your state named John Vogler," without first having done enough research to learn that Vogler has been dead since 1993.

Second, Hare-brain is too stupid to figure out that Vogler was killed before Palin even entered politics as a city council woman in Wasilla. Palin had very little chance to "pal around" with Vogler in any politically relevant way.

Third, Vogler was a Fairbanks guy. That's a long-ass way from Wasilla. It's a hell of a lot longer from Fairbanks to Wasilla than it is from one end of the hallway at a Chicago office building to another.

Fourth, Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. There is no evidence that Vogler every advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, while Ayers formally declared war against it.

Fifth, there is no evidence that Vogler ever espoused violence to achieve his political objectives; it is part and parcel of Ayers' political philosophy and he put it into practice, with deadly results.

Sixth, as a transplanted Hawaiian, I can tell Hare-brain that even though his information-starved view of history is so limited that he cannot conceive of a secessionist movement without immediately equating it to the Confederacy, there are a lot of ways to skin a cat, and there are legitimate secessionist movements that have absolutely nothing to do with the C.S.A., either in motive, political philosophy, or legal justification.

I do not support Hawaiian secessionism personally. But to equate them with the C.S.A. or terrorist movements is just retarded. Ditto with Alaska. Hare-brain apparently doesn't understand oddball-state psychology or native and long-time resident resentment. Hell...even Texas sometimes thinks it's still a Republic!

Seventh, there is no evidence that Palin was ever a member of the Alaskan Independence Party (but so what if she was? Vogeln wasn't a terrorist, it's legal to be an AIP member.)

Eighth: Todd Palin was indeed a member. But he did not become a member until AFTER Vogler's death. Again, not much of a chance to pal around with the guy - again, who wasn't a terrorist. Bill Ayers is.

Ninth: Todd Palin isn't even on the ballot. But Obama is.

Don't let these libtard rats try to obfuscate away the Obama/Ayers connection and Obama's radical roots. Their attempt to do so is a filthy, contemptible lie.

Splash, out

Jason

* CNBC interviews The Nation reporter Max Blumenthal without bothering to speak to anyone from the McCain campaign or anyone else to provide accountability to Blumenthal's one-sided reporting. Oh, and for good measure, CNBC doesn't bother to mention that Max is the son of former Clinton aide Sydney Blumenthal.

Labels: Alaska, Ayers, bloggers, Obama, Palin, Politics, stupidity, The Left

Apparently, to Time's Amy Sullivan, the phrase "Bible-believing Christian" is "code."

Well, she's right. It's code for "Bible-believing Christian," you drooling genius!

You would think Sullivan would do a better job than she does with this hack of an article. After all, she's the author of "The Party Faithful: How the Democrats are Closing the God Gap. (Answer: Simple! Ronald Reagan isn't running!). And she claims to be an evangelical herself (though apparently doesn't understand it beyond the Wikipedia homework level.)

Case in point: Here's Sullivan on the "task from God flap from Palin's Charlie Gibson interview:

But Palin herself has at times consciously distanced herself from her Evangelical faith. When asked by ABC's Charlie Gibson about a comment for which she has been criticized — asking her former congregation to pray that U.S. soldiers in Iraq are "on a task that is from God" — Palin argued that she had been paraphrasing an Abraham Lincoln quote. In fact, she had used fairly standard Evangelical language in expressing a desire that human actions conform with God's will. In trying to separate herself from that tradition, Palin's explanation struck both secular critics and many Evangelicals as scripted by political strategists.

This is stupid beyond description. Sullivan sets up an absolutely false dichotomy. There is no contradiction between paraphrasing an Abraham Lincoln quotation and being connected to Christian tradition. It is certainly conceivable that Palin is not the first evangelical to quote Lincoln, for example. And the Lincoln quote is certainly a matter of publicly available record.

At the same time, however, Palin's statement is firmly rooted in a longstanding Christian tradition of praying for those in authority...which certainly predates the Iraq War. Indeed, it goes all the way back to Pauline New Testament writings (specifically, I'm thinking of I Timothy 2:1-2

"I urge then first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone - for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness."

What evangelicals are praying for, when they pray for "those in authority," is precisely what Palin was saying: That we should pray that those in authority make decisions in humility and align public policy with the designs of a living and loving God. In other words, we should pray that our politicians and leaders should work to ensure that we are on God's side.

But wait: Sullivan get's even dumber:

And in her interview with Couric, Palin was, if not ashamed, purposefully vague about her churchgoing habits. "I don't have a church, I'm not a member of any church," she said. "I get to visit a couple of churches in Alaska when I'm home, including one, Wasilla Bible Church." Church-hopping is a common practice for many religious Americans, but it is relatively unusual for Evangelicals with children to shift among a number of churches instead of belonging to one stable faith community.

What do you mean "if not ashamed?" Amy? Why would you use such a damning, yet mealy-mouthed construction? (Imagine if I had written that "Amy Sullivan is, if not a child molester, purposefully vague about her child-rearing habits." Inappropriate? You betcha.

It is not for Amy to draw conclusions or inferences by clucking her tongue at whether Palin chooses to attend a variety of churches. I would imagine that Palin probably has close friends at a number of congregations, and occasionally chooses to accompany one group or another. Perhaps Palin doesn't feel the need for a "stable faith community" in one church, because her stable faith community exists in more than one church!

Sullivan's argument, such as it is, is just ridiculous. She should not be clucking her tongue at Palin and looking down her nose at another Christian's decision to church hop. There is nothing in the new testament that requires any Christian to attend one and one church only.

But Sullivan gets dumber still:

It is this Pentecostal association that most concerns and confuses the McCain campaign.

Sullivan basis this observation on...on.. on what, exactly? There's no sourcing cited in the article at all. Why? Because she pulled it out of her ass, that's why!!!!

As Minnery makes clear, millions of Evangelicals have accepted Palin because of her membership in a Bible church. But there is no denying that mainstream Evangelicals and Pentecostals, while political allies on many social issues, have historically had significant tensions over theological differences. The Evangelicals' swoon for Palin might fade if it turns out that she continues to hold fast to Pentecostal practices and beliefs.

Ridiculous. Yes, mainstream Protestants and evangelicals are a bit puzzled by the practices of charismatics and pentacostals. But those who are deeply enough ensconced in Christian practice to understand and articulate the differences between mainstream protestantism and the evangelical movement is probably NOT voting for Obama!

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Christianity, Palin, Politics, Religion

Heh heh heh. "Query." Heh heh heh. Nice one, Mistuh Kurtz.

If I were the owners of The Atlantic, I'd be telling Sully to find a new home about now.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: bloggers, Palin, Palin's Vagina, Sullivan, The media

CNN writes a big, long story about how Wasilla charged rape victims for rape kits... which is all true, except for the part about Wasilla actually charging victims for rape kits.

Not one person.

But read through the story. You can just taste how desperately, DESPERATELY the reporter wants to find something there. But the piece is nothing but a smear job. It's an abuse of journalistic practice, with every salacious detail designed to titillate prominently featured, while every piece of exculpatory evidence in support of Gov. Palin tucked neatly at the very end of the piece.

Neat trick.

And the leftard vagina-sniffing continues.

Splash, out

Jason

UPDATE: See the minutes from the relevant meetings.

Ok, CNN...find me a police agency in Alaska who ever actually billed a victim, directly, as a matter of policy. Do you have the goods? Have you done your job? Name names.

P.S., If there's anything wrong with a municipality passing rape kit charges along to a victim's insurance company, I haven't found it. I'm assuming that when the Wasilla official talks of passing charges on to the insurance company, the deductible has already been paid. But aren't insurance companies in the business of taking on risks like this? They'd get the bill if the victim were injured wouldn't they? They'd get the bill for an MRI. Why should a rape kit be treated any differently?

I guess because it's a law enforcement expense. But it could just as easily be construed to be a medical expense, too, since samples could be examined for HIV and other communicable diseases.

UPDATE: Much more from Confederate Yankee

Bottom line: Wasilla's police chief has no record of any victim ever having been billed for a rape kit. The city's finance director likewise has no record of any victim ever having been billed for a rape kit.

So where is the reporter's information coming from? Did they check it out? Did they check ANYTHING out?

Just terrible.

Labels: Palin, The media

....Literally, this time.

Via Ann Althouse

Splash, out

Jason

(P.S: I'm introducing the Palin's Vagina tag. This may be a blogosphere first. But it's really because I'm trying to bump up my traffic from liberals, and Palin's Vagina, for some reason, is the only thing those panty-sniffing ratfucks can think about anymore.)

Labels: culture, Palin, Palin's Vagina

...And the obsessive, pathetic sniffing of Palin family genitalia continues.

Hey, at least Andy is confining his vagina-sniffing to an adult now!

What a sad, pathetic little man he's become.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: bloggers, Palin, Sullivan, The Left

John McCain gave over 27% of his income to charity in 06-07.

Obama gave 5.8% and 6.1% in those two years.


Hmmm. 27 to 6. Sounds like Koufax's Win/Loss record in his hall of fame prime!

McCain might not be able to type well. But he knows how to write a check!

As for Biden: He gave three tenths of one percent.

Wow. I don't think Palin's released her figures yet, but all she has to do is tithe, and she will be body-slamming Obama...while raising four children, on less money!

Biden isn't going to want to show his face. "Stand up, Chuck!" ROFL!

Splash, out

Jason

ADDED: Plus, I'd weight what a conservative gives to charity a lot more than what a libtard gives. If a conservative does charitable giving, it will go to feed the hungry, teach people to read, it will go to the Scouts, to Little League, the Red Cross, or other worthy causes.

When a libtard gives to a charity, it's more likely going to PETA or some damned tree-hugging outfit dedicated to saving dolphins from becoming sushi.

Labels: Biden, McCain, Obama, Palin, Politics, taxes

First, its David Carr, a man who neglected his own child to feed his own drug addiction, writing that "journalists wrinkled their noses in disgust" when Piper Palin was filmed kitty-licking her brother's hair into place.

Taking their cue from the clueless David Barr, the scumnuts at HuffPo go after Piper, and use that adorable six year old as a weapon with which to bash her mother.

Class!

Sample comments:

You Right Winged Hypocrites weren't crying when Michelle Obama was getting blasted. Remember you said Family was FAIR game. So let the games continue!!!!

Totally creepy. Hasn't she been taught not to lick her hands? And to put it on her baby brother...eewww...makes me cringe. Needs more home trainig - nothing cute about this no matter howthey change to spin it. Disgusting...

I agree. This is probably a result of HOME SCHOOLING by her mom. She can't train her own children, how can she lead a country!!!!!!

1. Pregnant + an Alcoholic
2. Lacks home training

Do we really want her running anything at the White House?

No way! No how! No McCain/Palin!!!! HRC


Shows her lack of home training further pointing to her mother's incompetence!!!

It is one of the sickest perversions of politics yet that a 6-year old was co-opted to perform a stunt in front of a camera ready to tape it. Who told her to do that? Was Karl Rove under the seat whispering instructions?

this is just amazingly gross

I feel the same way. I turned my head when the clip was shown on television.

I question if Piper is being home-schooled just so she's around to take care of Trig.

Now that was too cute! Too bad her parents won't let her go to school with her friends instead of babysit.

I guess hair licking must be commonplace amongst you conservatives. What other strange behaviors do you have that we 'Libs' don't know about?


Those are from just the first few pages. Just keep scrolling!

Labels: Media, New York Times, Palin, The media

Jeralyn Merritt's now declaring open season on Palin's children.

Stay classy, libtards!

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: bloggers, Palin, The Left

TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt, who had started the pool on when McCain would fire his disastrous Veep pick, or she would, ahem, "save him the paperwork," could not be reached for comment.



Splash, out

Jason

Labels: bloggers, Palin, Politics, The Left

Behold the source!

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.
“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.
Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”

So we're going to run explosive charges and rely on an anonymous waitress.

There were, according to this anonymous source, a half-dozen other witnesses. The juiciest scoop of this reporter's abortive career and there's no effort made to verify a word?

Well, let's hope it's a very short career.

That's inexcusable. Journalistic malpractice, even for a rag called The L.A. Progressive.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Palin, The Left, The media

You disappoint me.

I thought you had more class, character and common sense than this transparent attempt at manipulation.

You know you launched the Obama rocket. You're scared to death of Palin. But you should do everything you can to make sure she stays in politics.

If you don't, Palin is the one woman on the earth who, if she doesn't win the Vice Presidency, could start her own show and empire one day and threaten your own.

I can see it now: The Sarah Palin show. Watch her gut a moose on the counter, right before your eyes!

Nothing says Christmas like whale blubber and pemmican.

Integrating elk antlers seemlessly into your decor.

Space-saving tips for the igloo.

We'll put it right up against your time slot.

We'z in ur demografik, steelin ur advurtizers.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Oprah, Palin

Howie Kurtz, whom I have a good deal of respect for, relates his interview with a McCain senior official about the press coverage over the last week - and he is spitting mad.

Sen. John McCain's top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being "on a mission to destroy" Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by displaying "a level of viciousness and scurrilousness" in pursuing questions about her personal life.

In an extraordinary and emotional interview, Steve Schmidt said his campaign feels "under siege" by wave after wave of news inquiries that have questioned whether Palin is really the mother of a 4-month-old baby, whether her amniotic fluid had been tested and whether she would submit to a DNA test to establish the child's parentage.

Arguing that the media queries are being fueled by "every rumor and smear" posted on left-wing Web sites, Schmidt said mainstream journalists are giving "closer scrutiny" to McCain's little-known running mate than to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

The McCain camp has been unusually aggressive in pushing back against the media, and it seems to hope to persuade journalists to back off in their scrutiny of Palin. Obama campaign officials have complained to news organizations that their man has been subjected to considerably more investigative reporting than McCain has, but they have done so in more low-key fashion.

By contrast, Schmidt spoke on the record in denouncing as "an absolute work of fiction" a New York Times account of the process by which the McCain campaign vetted Palin. He also charged that Newsweek columnist Howard Fineman was predicting that the governor might have to step down as McCain's vice presidential choice.

Just to be clear, the New York Times is looking pretty idiotic after the whole "Palin was a member of a secessionist party" and "Palin was a Buchananite" memes.

But that's nothing new to readers of this blog.

Let me zero the sights a little more precisely on New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller. Bumiller reported that Palin was a member of the American Independence Party for two years.

Bumiller told Kurtz that she's "completely confident" in her story. (Quoted on page 2 on the online version)

Yeah, those "unimpeachable sources" are a bitch, eh, Bumiller?

That's what happens, though, when you rely on DailyKos for your story ideas.

Splash, out

Jason

P.S., Kurtz himself blows it here:

Bloggers on the left and right increasingly drive media coverage by turning up the volume on questions until they are difficult to ignore. Sometimes they are right, as when they questioned what CBS's Dan Rather said were National Guard documents in a 2004 report on President Bush's military service that led to Rather's ouster as the network's anchor. And sometimes they are wrong. Last year, the New Republic retracted a soldier's dispatch on petty wartime cruelty in Iraq, and National Review Online acknowledged that two blog postings by a former Marine about military movements in Lebanon were misleading.

No, Kurtz...you're filling sandbags for your buddies over at the New Republic. The bloggers were RIGHT on that one. Beauchamp's articles were not blogs, and Beauchamp was not a blogger. Beauchamp's serial fabrications were feature articles, vetted by the editorial staff of the New Republic. (It helps to be fucking your fact checkers).

It was the BLOGGERS who kept that story alive, despite every attempt and stonewalling, delay and deception by the New Republic in their biggest embarrassment since Stephen Glass.

Labels: Media, New York Times, Palin

In a nutshell: Executives don't get to vote "present."

Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it, libtards.

Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Obama, Palin, Politics

The drooling bunch of troglodytes that make up leftard opinion makers are now roundly accusing McCain of failing to vet Palin prior to naming her as the Republican Veep nominee... and exhibit A is the fact that Palin's daughter is expecting. The argument goes like this: The careless incompetents that make up the McCain campaign staff was clearly negligent in not specifically inquiring into the intimate sexual history of a 17-year-old girl.

So I guess now it's expected practice for prospective employers of women to start sniffing out not only the applicant's vaginas, but those of their children, too!

Another triumph for feminism!

What's amazing is that Bill Clinton anticipated all of this as far back as 1996! (Give that man a cigar!)

Of course, the Libtards have no problem with the failure of Democratic delegates to vet and weigh the sexual history of the nominee himself.

Here's a dose of libtard logic for you:

That's right: Bill Clinton, the Democratic nominee of 1992 and again in 1996, is widely known to be a serial philanderer = No problem.

Some 17 year old girl, not running for office, and who has done NOTHING to warrant or deserve this kind of public scrutiny is pregnant (by her intended) = Problem.

Indeed, it's so much of a problem, that Obama's minions of flying monkeys gleefully embark on an intense campaign to use this girl as a bludgeon with which to attack her mother.


Splash, out

Jason

Labels: Palin, Politics, The Left