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khyber
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction
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| A redkneck is defined in Alberta; as a man that works for a living and pays his taxes. |
Absolutely and definitively wrong.
A redneck is defined in Alberta is a fuckin' ingrate who is marginalized by the rest of society for the sole purpose of entertainment.
Any doubt?
http://www.fubar-themovie.com/ |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
September 3, 2008
NYT Issues Retraction
Posted by BLAKE DVORAK | E-Mail This | Permalink | Email Author
ST. PAUL -- Yesterday the McCain camp hit back hard on this front-page NYT story by Elisabeth Bumiller reporting that Sarah Palin had been a member of the Alaska Independence Party in the 1990s. Today, the paper writes:
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A front-page story in The New York Times on Tuesday and articles in other news media reported that Ms. Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party for two years in the 1990's.
The information in the Times article was based on a statement issued Monday night by Lynette Clark, the party's chairwoman, who said that Ms. Palin joined the party in 1994 and in 1996 changed her registration to Republican.
On Tuesday night, Ms. Clark said that her initial statement was incorrect and had been based on erroneous information provided by another member of the party whom she declined to identify. The McCain campaign also disputed the Times report, saying that Ms. Palin had been registered consistently as a Republican.
After checking the party's archives, Ms. Clark said that she could find no documentation that Governor Palin had been a member of the party. She said Ms. Palin attended the party's 1994 and 2006 conventions and provided a video-taped address as governor to the 2008 convention |
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However, Bumiller, according to Howard Kurtz today, remains "completely confident about the story."
To which McCain blogger Michael Goldfarb responds:
She is completely confident in the word of a single source who has since retracted her claims? What kind of operation are the editors at the Times running?
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/09/nyt_issues_retraction.html |
Joo,
I just found this independently as well. The NYTimes has retracted its allegation, coming from a single source, that Sarah Palin was a member of the AIP.
Jake Tapper has the story as well. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Noonan_Murphy_trash_Palin_on_hot_mic_Its_over.html
September 03, 2008
Categories: Sarah Palin
Noonan, Murphy trash Palin on hot mic: 'It's over'
After a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mic ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin.
"It's over," said Noonan, and then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen.
"The most qualified? No. I think they went for this � excuse me � political bullsh** about narratives," she said. "Every time Republicans do that ... because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at and they blow it."
Murphy chimed in:
"The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical."
Noonan's blunt call contrasted with her conflicted column today saying Palin "could become a transformative political presence."
"The Sarah Palin choice is really going to work, or really not going to work," Noonan wrote. "It's not going to be a little successful or a little not; it's not going to be a wash. She is either going to be magic or one of history's accidents. She is either going to be brilliant and groundbreaking, or will soon be the target of unattributed quotes by bitter staffers shifting blame in all the Making of the President 2008 books." |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Maureen Dowd:
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| Palin, the governor of Alaska, has already accrued two gates (Troopergate and Broken-watergate), |
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| It seems like a long time since Vice President Dan Quayle denounced Murphy Brown for having a baby out of wedlock, bemoaning a �poverty of values.� It also seems like a long time � and another McCain ago � that Republicans supporting W. smeared the old John McCain by spreading rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate black child. |
Murphy Brown, of course, being a fictional TV character.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Well, guess what?
Sarah Palin's real life daughter is going to have a baby out of wedlock before she even graduates from high school, while taking care of Sarah "No Choice" Palin's special needs baby cause Mom is too busy. All while finishing high school, going moose hunting and playing hockey, just like Mom.
But don't worry, Bristol is going to get married, so it's all right with the new Flexible Family Values Republicans.
The good news is there's a new Republican Dynasty on the way: Bristol Palin will be able to run for the PTA on the FFV platform while she is still in high school. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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GOP is getting desperate and calling the media sexist now.
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"It's a pile-on," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said after addressing the California delegation Wednesday.
When asked if he thought Palin was experienced enough to be president, Hatch responded that the question was sexist - even though gender was never mentioned.
"I think it's demeaning, it's dismissive of women to think that a woman has run a small town, they're dismissive of small town America," Hatch said. "If it's not a big city, it's nothing to them (the mainstream media)." |
And McCain's team is being a bunch of wimps:
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| And the McCain campaign canceled the Arizona senator's planned Tuesday appearance on "Larry King Live" because it felt CNN host Campbell Brown was being unfair to McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds during an interview Monday. Campbell's question to Bounds: "Can you just tell me one decision that she made as commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard, just one?" |
GOP strategy on Palin: Blame Media of Sexism |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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BB,
You're right. Its not sexist when the NYTimes poorly sources its stories and ends up printing half-truths. Its just unprofessional.
Obviously the GOP is shaken. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Rudy G is introducing her now... |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Oh that 'bitterness about guns, religion, antipathy to people unlike them, and free-trade' is getting a lot of play.
Sarah Palin seems to be happy to defend her character and experience. I think its a boon for her, she doesn't have to face withering policy questions. She certainly hasn't mentioned ONE in her speech.
Edit: She's describing what she did
Half a billion dollars in vetos
Thanks but no thanks to Bridge to Nowhere
Windfall oil taxes to Alaskans
$40 billion deal for energy pipeline
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Now she's getting into foreign policy through the context of oil, nice segway . . . |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Some female radio talk-show host appearing on Larry King Live had a good line relating Palin's NRA membership to shotgun weddings...
As turncoat Democrat Joe Lieberman embraced the "Country First" theme of the GOP convention, it's not really clear which country he places first in his mind - the U.S. or Israel...
Listening now to that paragon of moral virtue, Rudy Giuliani, spitting out his hyperbolic spiel and setting the stage for the Grand Old Party's moose-eating new celebrity diva, I find it lamentable that intellectual standards for top-level leadership positions have plummeted so far.
And education levels have declined so far that many Americans figure to be unduly impressed by her ability to stylishly read from a well-written script prepared by someone else (except for the "homey" parts about her family, etc. - repeated from her earlier appearance with McCain...)
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| John McCain has promoted change? When did that happen? Finance reform. Anything else? |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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The speech was written before she was picked, and then tweaked. Maybe this is normal, I have no idea.
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| Sitting around a dining room table, the McCain team has talked to her about Iraq, energy and the economy but has focused on what she should say in her speech, struggling almost as hard as she has to prepare for what will be, along with a debate in October, her main opportunity to shape the way she is viewed by voters. Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was "very masculine," according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and "we had to start from scratch." |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090301176.html |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| John McCain has promoted change? When did that happen? Finance reform. Anything else? |
Did you mean campaign finance reform?
Even then, that law has HUGE loopholes in it. Exactly the type the Republicans need given their candidate is tied to public funds. They are called Independent Expenditure Groups or 527's. People can donate tens of thousands of dollars to those. While I am sure Democrats are using them as well, they don't have to as much given the fact Obama is not taking public funds. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| He did have a fairly reasonable immigration bill, no? With Kennedy? |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Part of her answer to the Democrats' "no experience" attacks...
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Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities... |
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