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In Defense of Paul Broun: Anatomy of a Smear
11/11/2008 6:50:00 PM
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If anything points out the problems with the GOP, this is it. But maybe not in the way you might think.
The Associated Press smears a Republican congressman from the South, then conservatives can't line up fast enough to take turns in the firing squad.
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The Media Assault on the Beaches of Alaska - to Dig Dirt on Sarah Palin
11/7/2008 5:20:00 PM
An Army of 64+ reporters were shipped off to wage a preemptive war in Alaska against Sarah Palin.
They launched over 3 dozen coordinated smears and attacks from their Alaskan outposts.
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Get Ready Joe: They're Coming After You
10/16/2008 7:00:00 PM
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Get ready Joe. They are coming after you.
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Smear: Sarah Incites Scranton PA Crowd to 'Kill Him' Hatred
10/14/2008 6:00:00 PM
Headline: Palin rallies Scranton voters; crowd member calls to 'kill' Obama
However, deeper in the article it clearly states:
However, someone did shout out, "Kill him!" during Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett's remarks before Mrs. Palin took the stage.
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Race Card: PuffHost huffing and puffing
10/14/2008 12:37:00 PM
Palin stated defiantly that she had no intention to hire any minority staffers.
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Outrage: Reuters Sells Palin Upskirt look-a-like Pictures
10/9/2008 4:24:00 PM
Reuters chooses upskirt look-alike photos of VP candidate Sarah Palin to sell.
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Slander: Palin Endorses Hamas
10/1/2008 7:46:00 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg with The Atlantic accuses Palin of endorsing Hamas
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Original Smear: LA Times Palin Believes in 6000 Year Old Dinosaurs
9/28/2008 6:00:00 PM
This is the origin of the Creationism smear. Repeat of the teaching intelligent design in school smear.
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Racist Talks about 'White Privilege'
9/16/2008 6:00:00 PM
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin.
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Washington Post: We are not fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq
9/12/2008 6:00:00 PM
The Washington Post is not aware that we are fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq. Who do they think we are fighting over there?
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US News equates US Military Moms with Taliban
9/12/2008 6:00:00 PM
US News equates US Military Moms with Taliban
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LA Times: Palin like Princess Diana
9/12/2008 6:00:00 PM
Palin, a quarter-century older than Diana was when she said ''yes'' to Charles, likewise has admirers who proclaim that her very inexperience makes her perfect for the vice presidency, who say that her personal and family troubles make them love her all the more.
The old saying goes, ``Marry in haste, repent at leisure.'' Will the new saying go, ''Vote in haste, repent at leisure''?
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Palin Never in Iraq
9/12/2008
campaign aides said Palin did not go past the Kuwait-Iraq border.
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GOV. SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY
9/11/2008
ABC News headline -
GOV. SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY
was changed to:
Sarah Palin Defends Experience, Takes Hard Line Approach on National Security h/t LGF right_on_target
ABC Lead-in: "Palin.. said that war with Russia may be necessary if Georgia were to join NATO and be invaded by Russia."
(of...
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NYT: Blindsided by Bush Doctrine
9/11/2008
And she seemed blind-sided by the question about the Bush doctrine, guessing that Mr. Gibson was asking about Mr. Bush’s “world view.”
Granted, this might not be something that your average hockey mom would know, but it probably is something that a commander-in-chief-in-waiting might have considered.
Ms. Palin appeared as an eager student, someone who has crammed for an exam a...
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Palin: primary qualification seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion
9/10/2008
Sarah Palin.. a running mate.. whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion
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The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for
9/10/2008
..somehow Palin slips out of reach, no revelation - no matter how jaw-dropping or career-ending were it applied to a normal candidate - doing sufficient damage to slow her apparent march to power
We know one of Palin's first acts as mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska was to ask the librarian the procedure for banning books. Oh, but that was a "rhetorical" question, says the McCain-Palin...
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MTV: Sarah Palin sending her own daughter to the electric chair
9/10/2008
Russell Brand was forced to cut jokes about Sarah Palin sending her own daughter to the electric chair when he presented the MTV Video Music Awards, he has said.
I wanted to say she was forcing her teenage daughter to have a baby because she is so anti-abortion.
But also, as a Republican she is pro-execution so she is going to give her the electric chair for being a ...
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Very extreme position on stem cell research
9/10/2008
Criticized Palin for having an "very extreme" position on stem cell research. "By excluding that entire scientific method, it seems like you're an extremist, and frankly, her position is very extreme in the American spectrum".
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Dig for Dirt: Obama operatives airdrop mini-army of 30 lawyers and investigators into Alaska
9/9/2008 6:00:00 PM
[Obama operatives] have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into [Alaska] ... to dig into her background.
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Biden: Palin Would Be 'Backward Step for Women'
9/9/2008
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) says that if Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) becomes the first female vice president it will be a "backward step for women."
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Palin bills state for nights at home, kids travel
9/9/2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home.
The governor also has chargd the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions.
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An icon of fertility
9/9/2008
... such ancient and enduring symbols of fertility (yes, that's what they are!) were understandably absent, a rather newer and quietly powerful symbol of fertility was at centre stage in St. Paul, Minn., in the person of Sarah Louise Heath Palin, mother of five.
... a super-mothering, feminist image-busting, glass-ceiling shattering, hunting-and-fishing so-con heroine, Palin out-sy...
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In Palin's Past, the Personal Got Political
9/9/2008
Sarah Palin and John Bitney go way back. They were in the same junior-high band class. Mr. Bitney was a key aide in Gov. Palin's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.
Seven weeks later she fired Mr. Bitney for what her spokeswoman now describes as "poor job performance."
What happened in between? According to Mr. Bitney, Gov. Palin got a call from another old friend, Scott Rich...
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Obama: She's "still a pig"
9/9/2008
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
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Palin: white trash vote
9/9/2008
She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.
So why do it?
It's possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she...
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Obama Campaign: McCain and Palin were lying about their records
9/8/2008
I've got to admit, these folks are shameless.
Politicians lying about their records? You don't call that maverick - you call it more of the same.
McCain and Palin will say or do anything to make people believe that they will change something besides the person sitting in the Oval Office.
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Letter: Barracuda Song
9/6/2008
The rock group Heart, angry that its '70s hit "Barracuda" is being used as the unofficial theme song for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, is taking aim at the Alaska governor.
Heart singers Ann and Nancy Wilson said a "cease-and-desist" letter has been sent to the Republicans asking them not to use the song.
"The Republican campaign did not ask for p...
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She converts gays
9/6/2008
Palin's church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.
"I think gay Republicans are going to run away" if Palin supports efforts like the prayers to convert gays, said Wayne Besen, founder of the New York-based Truth Wins Out, a gay rights advocacy group.
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So Sambo beat the bitch
9/5/2008
“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.
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No Military Experience, But Has Fought Museums
9/5/2008
When the Republic nominee for vice president was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a suburb of approximately 9,000 people outside of Anchorage,
she declared war on a local museum.
Palin also reportedly pressured Wasilla's librarian to ban books and tried to fire the woman when she refused.
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She has Five children
9/5/2008
Laura Ingraham and Gutman were discussing Sally Quinn's comments
"Not only do we have a woman with five children, including an infant with special needs, but a woman whose 17-year-old child will need her even more in the coming months. Not to mention the grandchild. This would inevitably be an enormous distraction for a new vice president (or president) in a time of global turmoil....
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Record shows little foreign experience
9/4/2008
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin got her first passport in 2006 and has visited just four countries, and has had little involvement in her state's cross-border issues, raising questions about her supporters' assertions that Alaska's proximity to Russia has given her unique experience on foreign affairs.
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Baby Used Prop Newborn Boy 3-6 Months Special Needs
9/4/2008
Ebay Listing Found: Baby Used Prop Newborn Boy 3-6 Months Special Needs
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Who Wrote Palin's Speech?
9/4/2008
The speech, you see, had been written before she'd been picked, for a man. But who, exactly, wrote it? The Obama campaign claims it was Bush speechwriter, Matthew Scully.
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Us Weekly Cover
9/3/2008
Obama: Love and Kisses Sarah Palin: Lies and Scandal
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Affairs
9/3/2008
John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner.
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She hates Jews
9/3/2008
Sarah Palin, Republican John McCain’s choice for V.P. is not Roman Catholic but a member of the Assembly Of God. This sect has
a history of intense hate for Roman Catholics and Jews. In their comic book type of literature they refer to the Virgin Mary as the whore who slept around with Roman soldiers.
At a recent meeting at her church in Alaska the speaker told the gathered throng t...
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Palin: War is Messianic
9/2/2008
Speaking before the Pentecostal church,
Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.
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The current war in Iraq as a messianic affair
9/2/2008
Three months before she was thrust into the national political spotlight, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked to handle a much smaller task: addressing the graduating class of commission students at her one-time church, Wasilla Assembly of God.
Her speech in June provides as much insight into her policy leanings as anything uncovered since she was asked to be John McCain's running mate.
Speaking b...
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Jewish voters may be wary of Palin
9/2/2008
Palin's social conservatism, her paper thin record on Israel, and - perhaps most importantly - her cultural roots in evangelical Christianity may be a major turnoff to Jewish voters.