Posted on 09/14/2008 9:06:05 AM PDT by Starman417
It's been amazing to see a media shunned... since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the McCain veep, the unofficial 4th branch of power has been in overdrive for their own personal "vetting". And evidently, they are so insulted that they were not included in the campaign vetting, they've swarmed Wasilla like locusts, concentrating on just about anything *but* Palin's political record.
So here's a roundup of the desperation, twists and turns, and tales of just what the media there is up to. And this doesn't even include the antics of Obama's team of lawyers, researchers and investigators.
By Sept 3rd, Wasilla Mayor, Dianne Keller, and her staff was so swamped with requests... hindering the daily business of keeping Wasilla functional... that she called a press conference at Wasilla's Iditapark to lay out some ground rules.
The rules? If you want to ask questions about Palin, file requests in advance, 10-minute interviews, mornings only. Any records requests require a form filed with the city clerk. And no long-distance phone calls will be returned."We are a small city with a small staff and our residents and business community expect us to fill their needs as well as the needs of the media," Keller said.
~~~Requests for actual records have to be submitted in writing and the city has 10 days to respond, but Smithers said her office had filled 17 of the 18 requests received by 3 p.m.
Even then, the reporters were on the case... asking about the book burning rumors. Keller told him to "file a request".
By the next day, the requests were up to 25-30 a day. The city officials compiled city’s legislation and council minutes during Palin’s tenures as a councilwoman and mayor, burning them to CD's and creating a special page on the city's website to ease the workload.
Evidently documents on Palin's performance as a city administrator were not what they wanted. They were more interested in probing for stories from childhood to Trooper'gate. With everyone searching for a new angle, and the same pool of residents who were willing to trust and cooperate with the media, the zoo was increasing... and the rumors along with it.
By the end of Sept 4th, the desperation for dirt was becoming readily apparent:
Richard Best, Palmer City Councilman, wrote an opinion piece for The Frontiersman telling the locals how the NYT's was calling his wife to get the skinny on a car accident between the Councilman and Bristol Palin. He let 'em have it in no uncertain terms in the op-ed.
If “journalists” really want answers, then ask the right question. If Obama really wants to be the “leader of change,” then ask him “why he does not demand and then produce all his papers that are being held out of the public’s eye.” This information includes his involvement with a Bill Ayers, an admitted terrorist against the United States of America, and his Tony Rezko issues.I challenge everybody including “journalists” to dig deep into Obama’s past with the same fervor that they have with the past of a 17-year-old daughter of the Republican VP pick.
It was explained to this reporter that he indeed had his facts wrong.
I believe she IS the working-class lunch-pail folk that cling to our guns and our religion and it IS here across the Heart Lands of American that Obama will find his defeat that he has been so eagerly seeking!
By the 6th, even the Politico reports the Alaskans are pretty fed up with the hoards of media pond scum, searching for everything *besides* Palin's record as an elected officials.
The National Enquirer was doing their digging on the divorce of Scott and Deborah Richter in order to suggest an affair between Scott and Sarah Palin.
The liberal blogosphere was abuzz Friday with news that a friend of Sarah and Todd Palin had tried to seal his divorce records.Surely, the Netroots speculated, that friend must be the unnamed business partner whom this week’s edition of the National Enquirer alleges — without proof so far — was romantically linked to Palin. The McCain campaign's characterization of the story as a "vicious lie" seemed to only fuel more speculation.
And then the moment of truth, as the motion to seal was denied.
The filings, housed in a district courthouse in this town about eight miles east of the Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, contained a lot of hot news — presuming, that is, you’re interested in the child-custody agreement reached by Scott Richter and his ex-wife Deborah Richter, or in the former couple's holdings, which include a recreational property that Scott owns with Sarah and Todd Palin.
Then of course, was the next angle... Palin cheated as a beauty queen to win runner up... huh?
Mitchell said the Daily News received a call from a media outlet seeking the rules of the Miss Wasilla Pageant, presumably to determine whether Palin cheated when she won it in 1984.
The quest for scandal really started getting to the locals, with one very perky lady suggesting that their politeness to the lower 48ers in their midst might be running thin...
Stopped outside Wasilla’s post office on a blustery afternoon this week, Cynthia Shoemaker said “people in Alaska want to give the national media a mouthful” for scrutinizing Palin’s background. “She answers to God, not reporters,” Shoemaker said
Amen, Cynthia. Go ahead, tell 'em what you feel... the rest of us would not only applaud you all, we'd be jealous as hell at the opportunity.
Remember, by this time, city official records were at the reporter fingertips. Since we weren't deluged with performance deficiencies, one can only assume they found nothing there to use for sheeeet to throw at the fan.
(Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...
I have never in my life seen such an amazing (and totally made up bogus fraud) attempt at character assassination.
What? No investigations of Joe B’s history in Delaware? No, I guess there’s nothing there...
I think that in the wake of the Charlie Gibson Condescending Interrogation of Governor Palin and the drive-by media plus Obama hack feeding frenzy based in Wasilla, the McCain campaign has had to come to the stark acceptance that the MSM is determined to get “the black man” elected at any cost. Consequently, Obama gets the “boxers or briefs, Senator?” sorts of questions, while Governor Palin is treated to two hours of intense grilling from a media hack loaded for bear (he thought) to attempt to make her look like a little girl. The MSM deserves not another crumb from the McCain campaign until they learn to treat GOVERNOR Sarah Heath Palin with the deference and respect that the executive leader of a state commands rather than a transparently butchered interview with an INTERROGATOR looming over her with his pince nez spectacles falling off his nose. All Gibson needed was an overhead light directly over her head. . . it backfired on Sir Charlie though. HE was the one who looked like “Ned in the First Reader” and “Snotty Ned” at that.
How?
Did she stick wads of toilet paper into her bra?
Why?
Does being Miss Wasilla make you a national icon like Michael Phelps and put you at the top of the list to be a Vice-Presidential nominee?
John McCain: "My God, the lady was Miss Wasilla! It's a no-brainer. I'll choose her for my running mate."
These Obama cultists and media lapdogs are a bunch of lunatics.
The people of Wasilla, Alaska, need to tell all of these people to get lost.
Robert Bork must be thinking “Man, did I ever get off easy!”
Yes....it’s..........literally stunning.
Well, it won't be long now, and the locals are going to get tired of stumbling over reporters and lawyers. They might, for instance, send them on an Alaskan-style snipe hunt, or just drink them under the table and put their carcasses on the next train back to Anchorage. There are all kinds of things we can do. We might just make them stick around, and enjoy a REAL Alaskan winter...
The Politics of Palin Destruction is in full force. They will spend a $B trying to destroy her and what she represents. She needs to go directly to the people and bypass the Establishment press.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
The Marxist/Anarchists of the Democrat Party
will do anything and say anything in order to seize power.
This is how the new Left does things now. Instead of sending muscle-bound goons, they send suit wearing goons to attack with computers instead of ax handles.
The left is like the Nazis, without the snazzy uniforms.
One of the first reforms Palin might work on is to call respected journalism schools together to develop universal standards of excellence - sort of like a hypocratic oath. Subscribers, advertisers/comsumers and viewers could descriminate in their patronage according to whether a news association subscribes to the standards. Public pressure could demand it. Opinion, commentary and advocacy need to be separated from the news and isolated and identified as such on appropriate pages or sections. The public also needs to be taught to differentiate between the two.
Parents need to demand that journalism courses in high school include the standards in their curriculum. Foundations need to promote the standards with appropriate scholarships for prescribers and awards for excellence. The public also needs to lean heavily on advertisers to place adds with only those newspapers, magazines and media that subscribe to the standards.
People cannot make good decisions in a democracy if they are not getting the facts in an unbiased and non-incindiary manner.
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