When it’s a Republican the mainstream media is dealing with, it’s okay to report hearsay as fact.
Sarah Palin was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. The chairwoman of the party said she was “mistaken” and going by statements made by “another member.” In other words, it was meant to be a smear, and it didn’t work.
So where is all the news on this? Well, there isn’t any. As little as three hours ago, by a quick Google search, Palin was still being linked to the AIP by news outlets around the world. As it turns out, it was her husband, Todd, who was the member. He was a member for only two years, back in the 90s. Or so we’re told. What can we believe as true anymore, when the media is so ready to attack without fact checking?
Shall we get Dan Rather in to say it was “fake but accurate”, because Governor Palin once attended an AIP convention with Todd?
September 4th, 2008 at 6:54 am
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September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I’m a bit worried about the McCain/Palin energy policy. (Especially drilling in ANWR) I think that one of the best things we can do is support ‘green’ business. For example, http://www.simplestop.net stops your postal junk mail and benefits the environment.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:59 am
What’s the deal with this Walter Monegan, this Alaska Public Safety Commissioner who Palin supposedly fired for not getting rid of her State Trooper ex-brother-in-law? Is this just a bunch of bologna? Is this gonna blow up in our faces right before the election? I read the story this morning and one of my neighbors said Monegan was one of the faithful of the Republican party in Alaska. I suddenly have a feeling of impending doom.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am
But her husband was a card caring member of a secessionist party, recently, and as governor, she thought enough of them and their support to address their convention (this year). While it is apparent the the AIP party chairman, who was the original source of the information was either wrong, or now covering for their Manchurian candidate, her sympathy for them is just one more black mark which will draw away middle America. In reality the only thing that she adds to the ticket is maybe just maybe, you’all won’t lose more than a net of 5 Senate seats this election.
[taking off the Democratic hat, whilst my American spirit, and logic remains] These quick moving news stories about Palin is really just the problem when you sneak up on the press with a major announcement. They go scrambling for stories, and pick up and report whatever they find. Good move McCain, turns out even keeping it a close secret was a mistake. Instead of letting the press do some vetting, and giving them some time to check sources for confirmation, he’s now made his VP pick the focus of the news cycle. I wonder what else they’ll find over the next couple of weeks.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Eric, can you please point out where in the Constitution it say that the PRESS gets to do the vetting of a candidate?
RG
September 4th, 2008 at 9:14 am
RightGirl,
There isn’t anything in the constitution about vetting any candidate at all. It’s just a reality in the modern election. I know that you guys are rabid constitutionalists, well at least when it suits your cause, but really, making that claim is re-duck-u-las.
The constitution does however, have a fourth Amendment,
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation…
The Bush administration violates that on a scale unimaginable to our founders. Yet, I doubt if this even bothers you. Hopefully under a Obama administration these illegal wiretaps will end, or do you really want the ‘other side’ to have the unchecked power for which you are willing to submit?
September 4th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Take a deep breath and try to focus, Eric. You have gone from blaming McCain for not letting the press vet Palin, to panicking about the Patriot Act. Whereas the actual article you’re commenting on is about how the media hasn’t got a damn clue what they’re talking about. Focus, Eric. Focus.
RG
September 4th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Right Girl,
Do you know anything about this Walter Monegan news? I’m worried and so are several of the party people who live nearby. We’ll need to find a way to explain this soon! Ignoring it will only cause more barking from the media bloodhounds.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Palin is good speaker but said nothing about Middle America. And she and MCcain say they are going to shake up washington-Well Bush is now handing over 1 billion to Georgian government-MCcain represents more of the same. The republicans crack me up saying they are for lower taxes–Yes because they like Mr. Bush will just steal money from the tax payers where we have it or not. We are bankrupt thanks to the Republicans-If Palin and McCain are trying to be reformers start with the Republicans who are fake.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:17 am
The focus is on Gov. Palin now! McCain selected her on a whim and look where it got him, and look at the humiliation it is going to cause the Palin family. Clearly, neither one of them thought this through. As a woman, I am all for seeing a woman in this role but it has to be the right time for her family. I think that w/5 children (a 5 month old w/special needs and a 17-year old about to become a mom) she can not possibly give the VP role 100%! As mom’s we can do both (career and family) but there is a time to do it, and when the kids still require so much of your time and energy – your career is second!! Gov. Palin comes with lots of baggage, both personal and professional and I don’t think that Republicans were fully aware of any of this, regardless of what they say. They still stick to their story and say she is the most qualified – no she isn’t! They needed a woman on the ticket, and it sounds like “any woman” would do. She is the “full-time working soccer mom w/5 kids” and they believe that she is going to pull in Hillary supporters? I think Gov. Palin had enough “comic relief” in her speech last night, don’t make me laugh – she is no Hillary Clinton by any stretch of the imagination! Gov. Palin will not pick up the women that were lost on Sen. Clinton because she is 360 degrees to the left! We do not need a sarcastic comedian in the White House!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Errr… L R Maxwell, 360 degrees to the left leaves you in the exact same spot you started. Next time, buy a GPS.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
US magazine did an peice on Palin that was oozing with contempt.
Megyn Kelly ripped the author a new one yesterday on FOX.
I mean she smacked this guy and his article down “HARD”
AIP, trooper gate, it all gets hashed out
This guy is so full of sh*t and she nails him on it . He becomes very uneasy and any fool can tell hes lying through his teeth.
This is a “MUST SEE” !!!!
The video and transcript are at the link.
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=3064954&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,416785,00.html
September 4th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Max.
We went through this argument about her children yesterday.
By now its become clear to many that its not going to impede her performance or the childs up bringing.
Move along
“We do not need a sarcastic comedian in the White House!”
But we could certainly use someone with a sense of humor.
What most on the left call sarcastic in her speech yesterday was actually ironic truth.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
If a republican ticket does take the white house, I would prefer at least one of them be a smarmy, condescending hypocrite who doesn’t understand basic science or political philosophy and laughs at the concerns of regular people.
At least that way, it would reflect the republican base. Just like the last 8 years.
Rip it up, you spiteful cretins!
September 6th, 2008 at 6:01 am
She may not be a member of the AIP like her husband, but you may want to check out the video she did for their 2008 convention. It is posted all over the internet. For a party that was so offended by barack obamas failure to sport a lapel pin with a flag on it, the GOP sure seems oddly dissinterested in their VP nominee’s close relationship with a group that seeks to form it’s own Republic.
September 6th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Cab, get up too speed.
McCain and staf have already said its a bunch of crap.
what sense would it make to bring someone like that on board ?
September 6th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
There is a YouTube video of an AIP meeting where the chair talks about Palin having been a member of the AIP but quitting before becoming mayor for political reasons and then becoming a Republican later, again for political reasons.
I also watched her greeting to the AIP convention and she sounds totally supportive and encouraging. Both videos sound completely true.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I just pictured Sarah next to Dick Cheney and indeed it’s a lot more eyecandy!
However I am a bit worried about the family of this hunting soon-to-be-granny, because who will take care of her children?
Her Husband may be the worlds fastest on a skidoo, but I don’t see him racing from his oilplant job to his salmon fishing carrying that poor little baby with special needs do you? Is it not a bit too much to ask from a human being?
Also Mr. McCain probably has special needs considering his age and physical state, medication and so on. How are these two ever going to get to know eachother well enough to effectively work together, let alone lead and protect our country?
September 8th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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September 14th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I was enthralled when McCain picked Palin as I already knew about her from her suit against the EPA for listing the Polar Bear as an endangered species.
The Polar Bear whose population has increased substantially in the last 30-40 years and is well protected by the Marine Mammal Act. The logic of the listing was that Anthropogenic CO2 inducted catastrophic global warming (A-CO2-GW) would make it endangered in 50-100 years.
The message I got from her action is that she is ready to call a lie a lie and she won’t go along to get along. Is that not exactly what we need in our leaders?
I even hope that she can convince McCain to rethink his position on carbon cap and trade legislation as it is based on the massive fraud of A-CO2-GW.
Many get confused with skeptics positions that A-CO2-GW is a fraud because they don’t or can’t separate the Environmental protection message of the A-CO2-GW campaign from the specific technical question of the impact of CO2. Also they can’t separate CO2 from the image of dirty fossil fuel emissions. To them CO2 = polluted smoke. By realizing that CO2 is not a concern, we can focus environmental protection funding on technologies to clean fossil fuel burning with the ideal future state being emissions consisting of clean/fresh CO2 and H2O. Can you imagine if the current US coal scrubbing technology was put into all of of China and India’s coal stacks in 2 years? And this is an effort that is “here and now”.
Never mind Al Gore’s impossible and fraud based “stop fossil fuel burning in 10 years’ advertising campaign. Cleaning the world’s CO2 stacks should be the world’s environmental protectors practical and valuable Manhattan project. That the world’s self described Environmental organizations don’t advocate this action as their #1 priority suggests they have some other motivations and/or they lack the capacity for rational thinking.
Palin has hinted that she understands the fraud, but realistic politicians are walking on egg shells on the A-CO2-GW issue. The only thing that will allow them to adjust their position is if an independent scientific inquiry can be conducted allowing them to cite those results and/or if there is a grass roots groundswell against the fraud that elects more “climate skeptic” legislators. I understand this may be happening in the U.K. and perhaps it may happen in the fall elections in the U.S.
Alaska’s EPA lawsuit might bring some light to the fraud, although it might be too late if Obama/Biden/Gore are elected first.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Sarah Palin is a typical Alaskan Hillbilly along with Gramps ( MCain) at her side.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Palin is a member of the Alaskan Hillbilly Association
September 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
On the topic of Media interviews of VP candidates. This is the first general election that it has ever even been an issue. And it became so only because 24 hours after Palin’s RNC speech, Biden planted the seed to the Media suggesting that Palin was being “sequestered”. The media ran with it and that became their new mantra.
In the past, VP candidates were always “sequestered” on both sides to prevent them from blurting out policies that went against that being presented by the top of the ticket or to prevent them from saying something embarassing to the presidential candidate. It was a calculated risk on Biden’s part. He banked on Palin’s infamiliarity on the issues brought up throughout the campaigns to date to be her undoing. However, if you set aside the liberal bias and compare the overly-inflated supposed gaffes of Palin, to the outrageous one’s by Biden’s, for whom the media has too much respect than to point out. It becomes quite clear the reason why VP’s have always been sequestered. Every day Biden places his foot in his mouth and it goes largely un-noticed.
Many of you may not be old enough to recall how frequently Hubert Humphrey embarassed Nixon during his administration’s first term, Quale was a genius compared to Humphrey. But his opportunity to do so prior to the election was seriously contained up to the election. Nixon selected Humphrey primarily under party pressure. This is similar to the party pressure Dems put on Obama to select Hillary. Humphrey’s constant gaffing was the very reason Nixon replaced him with Ford for his second term. It was Obama’s own discision to choose a gaffe-master, over a potentially adversarial VP. Granted, had he chosen Hillary, he might have been in better standing in the polls today, but it probably would have led to a liberal version of the Bush-Cheney administration. Another, descisively-challenged, president with an overly agressive VP.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:32 am
> Many of you may not be old enough to recall how frequently Hubert Humphrey embarassed Nixon during his administration’s first term, Quale was a genius compared to Humphrey. But his opportunity to do so prior to the election was seriously contained up to the election. Nixon selected Humphrey primarily under party pressure. This is similar to the party pressure Dems put on Obama to select Hillary. Humphrey’s constant gaffing was the very reason Nixon replaced him with Ford for his second term.
Err. This turns out not to be the case, although for a moment there you had me wondering if my aged brain had turned to soup.
Hubert Humphrey was LBJ’s veep. Nixon beat him in the 68 election.
Nixon’s veep was Spiro Agnew. Nixon dumped him because he was an embarrassment, in the sense that he was under indictment for corruption and tax-fraud, to which he eventually pleaded guilty, not in the gaffe-prone sense.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:07 am
1970’s – Vogler founds AIP
1991 – “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. And I won’t be buried under their damn flag. I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”
“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
2008 – Sarah Palin welcomes members to the AIP Convention?
And her husband was a member of this group.
And you thought the tenuous Ayers Obama “connection” was bad!