AP Reporting from Wasilla

November 19, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Humor, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

We just received in our email box the Associated Press working files on the following story…

Palin’s Daughter Arrested in Wasilla for Dangerous Drunk Driving

(AP) WASILLA, ALASKA — The daughter of failed Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was arrested Thursday in Wasilla for driving drunk.

Bristol Palin, 19, was stopped by officers at about 12:40 a.m. and booked after rude behavior at the Wasilla police station for driving under the influence.

She was held for about five hours and released at about 5:30 a.m. after posting $5,000 bail, officials said.

Bristol Palin is the eldest daughter of failed Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and could be responsible for the loss of Republican John McCain’s bid for president in 2006. After it was discovered she was pregnant out of wedlock, the doomed Palin GOP bid for vice president suffered repeated scandals. Governor Palin was thought to have been a book banner in Wasilla and it was reported that her son, Trig, was really Bristol’s child.

The hypocrisy of the Palin campai….

Wait…

This just in….
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USA Today Uses Attack Book to Talk Palin’s

November 17, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Early on the morning of Governor Sarah Palin’s book release day, USA Today’s The Oval blog posted a piece asking who was more qualified to be president, Clinton or Palin. Naturally, instead of using an image of Sarah Palin’s book cover to illustrate the story, USA Today used the attack book against Palin that mimics Palin’s cover in a cynical bid to confuse readers on which book is which.

We are left wondering about USA Today. Were they just stupid, not knowing that there was an attack book making itself look like Palin’s book? Or did the folks at USA Today know full well that they were posting an image of the attack book’s cover and not Palin’s actual book?

Here is a screen capture of the original page.

After multiple complaints, USA Today did end up changing the image later in the morning to the proper book cover image with an “erratum.”

ERRATUM: An earlier posting featured the photo of a different Sarah Palin book. The Oval regrets the error.

I’m sure they regret getting caught. Not really sure if they regret the error.
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William J. Kelly: Another Palin Endorsement Request… From Todd Palin

November 12, 2009 | Filed Under Chicago, Cook County, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Republicans, Sarah Palin, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Sun-Times’ Michael Sneed is reporting that another Chicago area candidate is seeking a Palin endorsement. But this time it isn’t Sarah’s endorsement being sought but her hubby Todd’s.

… William J. Kelly is seeking the endorsement of — Todd Palin, husband of Alaskan you-know-who.

Quoth Kelly, who produces a sports show called “Sportsaholic:” “Anyone who has won the Iron Dog Snowmobile Race four times is someone I definitely want on my side in 2010.”

Well if a Palin endorsement request is good enough to get center left candidate Mark Kirk in the news, why not for State Comptroller candidate William Kelley?

For info on Kelly’s campaign visit his campaign webpage.

Meghan McCain’s Latest: Too Stupid Not to Comment Upon

November 12, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Feminism, Founders, Free Trade, Freedom, GOP, Government, Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Liberals, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Just hearing her name causes me pain and normally I wouldn’t waste a minute’s time worrying about what this vacuous little child has to say on much of anything — as is evidence by the fact that this is the first time my keyboard has shuddered out her name. However, Meghan McCain’s latest blog post is a piece of conventional wisdom that, while not unique to little Meaggie’s fallow mind (which itself is de rigeuer for the girl, sadly), it is one that has been heard since the day women began to stride into the world of western politics. However, it is one that I think no longer applies. So, I’d like to address the empty reasoning on women in politics despite that it emanated from McCain’s somewhat barren pen.

Here is McCain’s prosaic premise: The attacks on Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have made it harder for women and is proof that no woman will ever be “just right” for politics. To which anyone not looking to make excuses can only say a resounding “yeah, right.”

The simple matter of fact is that anyone that clamors for great power will stir great passions in those whom they wish to govern. And those that find wide support among the people will find that such support is ephemeral once decisions start having to be made. It doesn’t matter if the powerful is man or woman.
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Dem. Senate Candidate Uses Palin Against Mark Kirk

November 7, 2009 | Filed Under Campaign Finance, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Liberals, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Senate, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Democrat Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is trying to use Mark Kirk’s approach of Sarah Palin for an endorsement against him. Giannoulias is attempting to use the Kirk/Palin incident as a fund raising tool.

A few days ago, we reported that Mark Kirk sent a letter to Governor Sarah Palin challenging her to support his candidacy for the GOP nomination for Barack Obama’s old Illinois Senate seat. It seems unlikely that Kirk will receive Palin’s endorsement, though. Being far, far too liberal Kirk is hardly Palin’s sort of Republican.

But Giannoulias thinks that even the slightest connection with Palin will drive his fundraising. The Democrat sent the following email to his supporters (bold in the original):
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Mark Kirk’s Yo Yo Campaign (Plus Did He Ask for Palin’s Support or Not?)

November 5, 2009 | Filed Under Chicago, Congress, Conservatives, Cook County, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Liberals, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Security/Safety, Senate, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

**Now with Updates**
-By Warner Todd Huston

Only a few months ago, Representative Mark Kirk voted for Cap and Tax… er, I mean Cap and Trade. Conservatives and Republicans in general lit into Kirk with a vengeance. Then he started running for the Senate and at a subsequent September 5 campaign stop he reversed himself and decided he wouldn’t support Cap and Trade.

Kirk is not a strong pro-life supporter, he is bad on the Second Amendment, Kirk is only middling on free trade, and he has drifted back and forth on sometimes support for Obama’s left-wing, big spending agenda in Washington.. though he is sometimes good on national defense. In all, Kirk is not quite as bad as N.Y. 23’s Dede Scozzafava, but he is no Illinois Dough Hoffman if you want a current analogy.

Now comes a November 4 report by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza that Kirk sent a memo to Fred Malek attempting to get Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement for his (Kirk’s) Senate run. Cillizza claims that this Kirk request shows Palin’s power and Kirk’s worries for his campaign.
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Palin Enemy Denied Propaganda Effort

September 20, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

Oopsie. Palin smear artist Joe McGinnis was denied his chance to make a mockery of the Palin diner auction when the good Guv nixed his ebay bid last week, sources say.

The New York Daily News reports that smear writer McGinnis, who is writing an unauthorized “biography” attacking Governor Palin, tried to top the winning $60,101.01 ebay bid for the dinner with Palin but the bid was voided by Palin herself.

Palin reserved the right to refuse bidders who failed to meet “standards of suitability, professionalism, background and other factors.”

Good for her. This yellow journalist was denied a chance to put himself in the news by snagging this dinner with Palin. McGinnis was denied his attempt at propaganda and self aggrandizement.

There is another reason why this denial of the smear writer is a good thing. His taking dinner with the governor would have overshadowed the charity for which the dinner was planned. Certainly the news would have focussed on McGinnis’ blather and the clash between he and Palin and the great charity that the dinner was to benefit would have been forgotten.

That charity, by the way, is Ride2Recovery, a great charity that helps our wounded military veterans recover their health and dignity.
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Macleans: Those Racist, Mean ‘Palin Republicans’

September 17, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

You know, those Palin Republicans are all such racist, fearmongers, right? Well if you didn’t know it, Macleans of Canada wants to make sure you do with a piece headlined “The Palin Republicans.”

For Macleans, writer John Parisella thinks he’s discovered why the GOP can’t capitalize on the distrust that more and more Americans are feeling for the Obama administration and his Social-Democratic Party. It’s because Sarah Palin is a big ol’ meanie that told a lie about death panels.

And what could save the GOP according to this loony leftist? Why capitulating to socialist healthcare, of course. Oh, and getting rid of Palin would help, he thinks.
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Vanity FAIL: No solidarity on the Left for Levi’s lies

September 5, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Family, Josh Painter, Journalism, Media Bias, Sarah Palin | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

Usually the leftist media can be counted upon to unite, seize upon an anti-Palin meme and run with it. That liberal solidarity, however, has all but vaporized in the wake of Levi Johnston’s latest round of charges against Sarah Palin and her family, as promoted by Vanity Fair magazine.

The first cracks in liberal media wall appeared when only CBS of the big three alphabet television networks bought into the myth Vanity Fair’s editor Graydon Carter had hoped to spread to take down Palin, as NewsBusters’ Kyle Drennen reported:

“Teasing an upcoming segment on Thursday’s CBS Early Show about new attacks on Sarah Palin by the father of her grandson, Levi Johnston, co-host Maggie Rodriguez exclaimed: ‘And shocking allegations that could shatter former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s conservative family image…’”

[...]

“Unlike the Early Show’s accepting coverage of Johnston’s outrageous claims, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America raised serious questions about his credibility.”

Oops! Only one for three with the morning big three.

FAIL

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$25,000 for Dinner With Sarah!

September 5, 2009 | Filed Under Conservatives, Military, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

OK, folks, starting September 8 you’ll only have ten days to pony up a winning bid on ebay for a dinner with Governor Palin. And the starting bid is $25,000. If yours is the winning bid, you and four of your closest friends are invited to dinner with the Guv.

If this meal with Mrs. Palin is not in your price range, perhaps a $7,500 bid for lunch with Karl Rove is closer to your level?

The first annual Ride 2 Recovery ebay charity auction will begin soon with the several dinners to be auctioned off to help recovering military vets.

Ride 2 Recovery is a program where wounded vets are helped to rebuild confidence and strength by hitting the road on bicycles of all sorts. So, this is a worthy cause.

So, look inside that wallet, folks. But, if these two dinner auctions are a tad too high faulting’ for you but you still want to donate to this worthy cause, contact Ride 2 Recovery at R2Rinfo@aol.com or go to the Ride 2 Recovery main page and see the donation tab at the bottom of the webpage.
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Um… What? Palin Was Picked For McCain by the Media?

August 28, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, President, Sarah Palin, Warner Todd Huston | 3 Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

He’s kidding, right?

Sometimes a mediot (that would be media idiot for those unaware) lapses into some crazed, other world, some bizarro-land where up is down and black is white. It looks like our pal Greg Mitchell from Editor & Publisher is the latest to toke a little too hard on that wacky tobaccy. Mitchell, you see, thinks he’s lighted on the real story of how Governor Sarah Palin got chosen as McLame’s running mate last year: the media is whot done it.

I know, I know, I laughed, too. But Greg is serious. He thinks the media’s attention on Hillary Clinton’s supporters, the PUMAs, convinced McLame to pick Palin because she… well, she’s a she.

You see, Mitchell figures that the media’s concerted attention on those Democrat defectors that were incensed that their “historic” female candidate was out campaigned by The Obammessiah was ubiquitous in the Old Media and this attention made the female vote seem more consequential than it was. This, in turn, made McLame pick Palin thinking to cash in on the disgruntled female vote.
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A Tortured Headline

August 21, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

I had to laugh at an Associated Press headline that is so tortured as to be beyond belief. Naturally, the purpose of the twisted headline is so that the AP could get a Palin reference into its headline in order gain attention for its story, even though the story has little to do with the Palins.

OK, so without dallying further, here is the tortured headline: “Mom of Bristol Palin’s former fiance pleads guilty.”

So, a story about a person only loosely connected at this time to Governor Palin doesn’t even get named in the headline but Palin does? We couldn’t see a more tortured headline if AP had written: “Governor Palin’s hairdresser’s friend’s dog bites child.”
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There is no joy in Mudflats…

August 16, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Health, Josh Painter, Sarah Palin, Socialism | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

Dan Riehl reports that upon hearing the news that Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) said the Senate will never pass a government-funded public health insurance option, and it was futile to continue to “chase that rabbit” — President Obama…

“…was rumored to have been spotted roaming the White House in a stupor late last night searching for his faux-Greecian, paper mache columns cursing, my kingdom for a Facebook account! Woe is me, oh woe….”

Riehl says “one fast ball over the plate from Sarah Palin” and the mighty Sox Fan has fanned. Dan goes on to paraphrase Shakespeare, but we were inspired to have our way with some lines from Thayer:

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy at Mudflats — mighty Barack has struck out.

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Now CNN Reporting on What Sarah ISN’T Doing

August 14, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, State Government, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

To show how obsessed the Old Media is over Governor Palin, now CNN has a story on its website ruminating over what Sarah isn’t doing. It seems that she can’t get away from the Old Media even by doing nothing. First they lose their minds over what she is doing, and then when she stops doing something, they go ga ga over that, too.

This time Eric Kuhn, CNN’s “Audience Interaction Producer” — what ever the heck that is — is all caught up over if and when Sarah will re-launch her Twitter account. “Is Palin getting ready to tweet again?,” Khun breathlessly asked on the 13th.

Listen, we all love Sarah, but is this actually news?
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Sarah Palin goes mano a mano with Obama over health care

August 13, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Health, Josh Painter, President, Publius Forum, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Socialism | 1 Comment

- By Josh Painter

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has maneuvered President Obama into a mano a mano virtual debate between the two on health care with a series of well-argued and fully documented Facebook essays which are essentially short-form white papers on the issues, each one properly footnoted, referenced and linked. Here’s the latest round from the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate:

Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these “unproductive” members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.

The President made light of these concerns. He said:

“Let me just be specific about some things that I’ve been hearing lately that we just need to dispose of here. The rumor that’s been circulating a lot lately is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for death panels that will basically pull the plug on grandma because we’ve decided that we don’t, it’s too expensive to let her live anymore….It turns out that I guess this arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allowed Medicare to reimburse people for consultations about end-of-life care, setting up living wills, the availability of hospice, etc. So the intention of the members of Congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they’re ready on their own terms. It wasn’t forcing anybody to do anything.” [1]

The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.” [2] With all due respect, it’s misleading for the President to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.
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The Other Shoe Never Dropped

August 6, 2009 | Filed Under Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Josh Painter, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, State Government | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

The anti-Palin hate bloggers in Alaska have attracted a great deal of attention nationally. One of those who has been watching them is Marc Ambinder, columnist for The Atlantic. His August 4 piece calls attention to a fact of political life that has been overshadowed in all of the uproar over the “Splitsville” hoax perpetrated by hate bloggers Jesse Griffin and Dennis Zaki and propagated by the rest of their “community” of bloggers.

When Sarah Palin announced on July 3 that she intended to resign her office of governor, the hate bloggers assured their readers that it was because of an impending Palin scandal. One of the members of the circle of bloggers, Shannyn Moore, is also a Huffington Post contributor, and on the day of the announcement she posted:

“For weeks the rumors of a criminal investigation against the governor have been brewing. They are rumors, but are swirling fresh again with Palin’s resignation. I’m holding my breath for the other ‘Naughty Monkey’ to drop.”

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New York Mag Sees Palin Under Bed at Night

August 6, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

New York Magazine is so afraid of Palin that it cannot help but imagine grand, wild conspiracy theories even in her choice of New York restaurants. Seriously.

The now ex-guv was in New York this week to meet with her publisher and decided to take a little time from business for a nice dinner at the well known eatery Michaels. The restaurant is a hang out for denizens of the publishing industry so it might seem a natural thing that her publisher would take her to a place where publishers hang out… right?

Not according to New York Magazine. To the scandal inventors of this rag, Palin could only have ulterior motives for daring to go to a restaurant that serves as a hang out for journalists.

Guess she just couldn’t have been hungry, right?
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Palin-hatin’ bloggers and the Wyle E. Coyote Effect

August 3, 2009 | Filed Under Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Entertainment, Humor, Josh Painter, Liberals, Media Bias, News, Sarah Palin | No Comments

- By Josh Painter

We don’t subscribe to the notion recently floated by Rick Moran in “Did Sarah Palin just ‘Pwn’ the media with divorce rumors?” The theory holds that the Gryphen-Zaki meltdown over the weekend was the result of an elaborate Rovian-style setup brilliantly planned and executed by Sarah Palin:

It’s too pat, the pieces fit too nicely together (an “explanation” for why she resigned) not to raise alarms with real journalists. So I think there is at least the possibility, that either someone in the Palin camp with an ax to grind with the media - or, less likely, Palin herself - whispered a few words to a birdie they were sure would get the word to people who would publish it.

We have even seen some of Gryphen’s fellow travellers advance the same idea. But you have to remember that these are the same people who claim that Sarah Palin is the stupidest woman to come along since Lot’s wife, and she is supported by a cast of characters of such incompetence that they can’t even manage to book her solidly for speaking events. How then, can she be so dang dumb and yet manage to outfox the best liberal minds in Alaska, the Gryphenistas never bother to explain. Go figure…
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L.A.Times Uses Car Racing Report to…Bash Palin?

July 30, 2009 | Filed Under Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

So, you are a car racing reporter and you have a big story about the news that BMW has pulled out of the Formula 1 race scene. So, what better way to start off your report by saying that BMW is the “Sarah Palin” of F1 racing?

Revealing a complete lack of understanding of politics and Palin’s situation, sports writer Dan Neil has decided that BMW is “just like” Sarah Palin ostensibly because it quit the race scene in a piece headlined “BMW quits Formula 1. It is now the Sarah Palin of F1 and the future of KERS.”

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The Media’s Constant Palin Hyperbole

July 28, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Sarah Palin, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | No Comments

-By Warner Todd Huston

A recent CBS report by Scott Conroy and director of political coverage Steve Chaggaris is typical of the hyperbole to which the Old Media is prone when “reporting” (by that you can read dramatizing) Sarah Palin’s political doings.

This report is not as chock full of it as some others that have utilized over-the-top phrases and rhetoric to beat down Palin, but there are a few here that ring typical of the sort of backdoor slams that the Old Media constantly over use in its Palin coverage.

We start with the opening line:

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