Anatomy of a Smear (Who's giving Andrew Sullivan his Palin smear info?)

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[Free ThinkerNY]

Weekly Standard Dean Barnett asking a very important question.

One that needs to be answered: Now.

Yesterday on a blog hosted by the prestigious magazine the Atlantic, a post popped up at 11:49 a.m. with the breathless title, “Here We Go.” The post read in its entirety, “Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God.” The post linked to the Alaskan court system where you could see the motion if you cared to click through.

"The author" here is, yes, RAWMUSLGLUTES himself. WS isn't saying so because they're so repulsed by this vile thing they avoid even naming him anymore.

Although the author didn’t care to make his innuendo explicit, the insinuation was clear – the National Enquirer had previously reported on what it called “a rumor” that the former business partner in question had had an affair with Sarah Palin. The breathless title and the brevity of the post implied that the smoking gun for the affair laid in the court filings that the former business partner wished to conceal. Naturally, because the purported scoop had the imprimatur of the prestigious Atlantic, many other news sources picked it up in rapid order.

[bboop]

Misogyny is rampant among gay guys.

[marron]

Obama wins by digging dirt, including divorce papers. Had we realized it sooner, we might have spared the Democrats the drubbing they are going to get this November.

Obama doesn’t deal in ideas, he looks for the silver bullet that will put his opponent out of the race. He and his disciples are frantic to find something, anything, on Palin that will force her out. In so doing he exposes himself. If this is the way he treats people he disagrees with before he is president, how is he going to deal with dissent afterward? What will he do when Justice and IRS answer to his people?

[ModelBreaker]

What will he do when Justice and IRS answer to his people?

It's gonna be ugly.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Obama doesn’t deal in ideas, he looks for the silver bullet that will put his opponent out of the race.

Obama has a history of doing that. He offers no 'hope for change.' He's just a cheap Chicago Dem thug. If elected, he will show his true Red colors and use the power of government against all who dare to defy him.

[kalee]

Had we realized it sooner, we might have spared the Democrats the drubbing they are going to get this November.

Rush tried to help them.

[PowderMonkey]

Keep it up, girls. It just rachets up Palin's approval ratings. Their desire for bloody vengence following their defeat in 2000 and again in 2004, is simply breath taking. Their quest for dirt on Palin borders on the feverish. I personally know family and friends who've become completely unhinged over Palin. Their discourse utterly devoid of intelligent argument or basis in fact. They're reduced to wild shrieks and...ahem, flinging poo.

[scooby321]

Chicago still has the Al Capone mentality. Al have every Politcan in his pocket.

It was so bad the feds had to come in without talking to Chicago officals.

It is still the same.

Heard any Mafia arrest since in Chicago?

[Eye of Unk]

I suspect some enemies that refused to leave Wasilla after Sarah kicked them or their relatives out of a comfy job.

Not naming names here after all I do live in Wasilla.

[okokie]

I personally know family and friends who’ve become completely unhinged over Palin.

They are really afraid because they know she will run for President in 2012!!

[Enchante]

Great post by Ace! We need to know if/how the Obama campaign is linked to the smear campaign squalor. This as you note is how Obama gets ahead -- knocks a campaign opponent right out of the race so that he doesn't really have to compete.

As for Andrew Sullivan, well heck, he does have a HAHvahd PhD in govt. so who are we to question his salacious gossip-mongering and smear machine? /s

"Andrew Sullivan is known for many things -- general histrionics, "excitability," intellectual shallowness that requires him to blog about the only things he's marginally capable of discussing (emotion and scandal), unquenchable vanity, a guileless passion for conspiracy theories of all sort, "gobsmacking" outbursts of hypocrisy and inconsistency so laughable he's chiefly read for his inadvertent entertainment, casual antisemtism that was all the rage at British boarding schools but doesn't play as well in America, power glutes, seeking anonymous three-way sex, and an endless stream of insults that sound vaguely "smart" but are really just variations of "fascist" and "hater" tarted-up with a thesaurus and some memories of introductory-level college classes.

[InterceptPoint]

I heard on one of the talk shows that Obama has 30 lawyers in Alaska looking for dirt on Palin. Could somebody make a calculation for me? Here it is:

What's 30 lawyers x $333/hr x (lets say) 100 hours/lawyer?

Plus expenses!!!!

Well the answer is $10,000/hr for 100 hrs or an even One Million Bucks ... plus expenses!!!

[SeaWolf]

Local radio talking heads tend to be rather negative towards Sara as well, they are becoming quite petty.

[YCTHouston]

Dang it! I had to go google “RAWMUSLGLUTES.”
My eyes hurt.

[Eye of Unk]

I stopped off for a beer after work last night at Mug Shots, I saw unfamiliar faces, one guy was trying to pass himself off as a local sourdough, it is happening and its the truth, I do absolutely plan to avoid talking politics here.

My friends at the bar also gave me the “look’ to show me we have unknowns passing themselves off as Alaskans.

Unfortunately there will be those that will be tempted by money and I do expect it will happen that more dirt will get dug up, the rats are desperate, they are losing and they do not realize all the real rats have left the sinking ship.