SHE'S A WITCH!!!! BURN HER!! BURN HER!!!
Posted on 09/28/2008 9:38:31 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
WASILLA, Alaska - Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows. When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception — and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.
She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free "awesome facial" she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The "absolutely gorgeous flowers" she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home. She also stepped in to help friends or neighbors with City Hall dealings.
She asked the City Council to add a friend to the list of speakers at a 2002 meeting — and then the friend got up and asked them to give his radio station advertising business.
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total caca
Hey LameBrainMedia!
I’ll give ya an “awesome facial”.
This could quite possibly be the biggest non-story ever in the history of the Associated Press. They have no shame and are absolutely worthless when it comes to objectivity.
I have yet to read a single story by them knee capping Dodd, Biden, Obama, Frank, Pelosi, ACORN and the real messes that are happening in this country...and THIS...THIS is a breaking front page investigation to them.
A free facial and flowers.
I demand she return this awesome facial immediately and denounce this transgression.
And demand that she resign, from public life.
Add 20 lashes and I am not talking eyeliners. Shes a witch so throw her in the lake.
Oh dear! someone gave her a piece of fish?
Pure graft!
Desperation is never pretty.
Full Court Press continues...
This is so petty and childish it’s hardly worth the time to scan. It shows how hard up the LIBERAL media is to smear her.
AND NOT A WORD ABOUT CHRIS DODD’S COUNTRYWIDE DEAL? NOT A WORD ABOUT OBAMA’S CRIMINAL NEIGHBOR, REZKO - WHO HELPED HIM PURCHSASE HIS MILLION DOLLAR MANSION?
I’m sick of this shoddy journalism.
Somebody call the police.
OMG! ROTFLMAO!
Why don’t they investigate Keith Obermann and his income tax schemes and animal stuff?
In the meantime..we have Rezko starting to sing..we have a choir of Rats who took mortgages from Countrywide..etc etc.
It is time for McCain to take some of these issues national by hitting hard on them. There should be a Rezko add..with film noire background and his middle east stubble showing..
They sent a squad of “truth seekers” for Obama and this is what they came up with...I need to go for a walk..if I don’t my head will explode. Nobody...and I mean NOBODY at AP made a single issue out of the millions of gifts and cash given to Hillary Clinton during her entire tenure in the White House and in the Senate and her campaign....
BIAS BIAS BIAS BIAS BIAS BIAS BIAS
Excerpt”
Nosek said Sarah Palin didn’t do anything more than any other citizen would have done.
“I sincerely don’t feel that Sarah used her position as mayor at the time to get that accomplished,” said Nosek, who no longer lives in the home.
This is the “October Surprise”? There is tangible “hate” of Sarah Palin.
So they are trying to say that no dem ever accepts a meal from anybody at a restaurant or some other kind act. I would think Harry Reid’s land deals would be more important than a facial.
Although I abhor violence, it wouldn’t surprise me if groups of angered Conservatives found some of these so-called “journalists,” “reporters,” “pundits” and “anchors” and stormed their offices, banging on the walls demanding justice.
It worked in the 2000 Florida recount fiasco.
It would be funny if it weren’t so damn sad.
This guy is working awful hard to justify why AP sent him to Alaska. He’s already prepared his expense allowance voucher and this is his feeble attempt to justify it.
Mr. Blackledge, two can play this game.
Blakcledge once accepted a gift from his grandmother. This proves that he was “bought” by the AARP lobby.
And yet the story has a 4 star rating by Yahoo users and its only been up for 35 mins.
The dems claim to be for the little guy and the middle class yet mock them when they pull this kind of crap. jmho
Brett J. Blackledge==Let’s investigate him . I’m sending private detectives to check into his closets. And he BETTER be squeaky clean!
What’s next?
Microscopic navel examination?
If I didn’t read the AP byline, I would swear this is straight out of The Onion.
what next? She had 13 items in the 10 items or less aisle and the checker let her go anyway?
my goodness, she’s corrupt.
what next? She had 13 items in the 10 items or less aisle and the checker let her go anyway?
my goodness, she’s corrupt.
More Bravo Sierra.
Hey AP! Read my tagline!! Dumbass reporters. Wouldn’t know a story if it jumped up and bit ‘em on the ass.
Well, then send our local mayor to jail, because my company has him to our plant once a year for lunch, which the company pays for.
She turned me into a NEWT!
(I got better...)
LMFAO
Oh, no! That’s almost as bad as one of my clients giving me one of those plastic hummingbirds that would tip over and take a drink. Anyone remember those, lol?
Son of a B! can this be confirmed?
You got to be kidding me?
Not a word about Obambi’s house purchase scam but Palin got an “awesome facial”?
Do these idiots at AP and Yahoo think that a single vote will switch because of this story?
I should not ask....see tag line...again.
BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE
Media Mum on Barney Frank’s Fannie Mae Love Connection
Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former ‘spouse’ was Fannie Mae executive
Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.
Of the eight appearances Frank made on the three broadcasts networks between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 21, 2008, none of his comments dealt with the potential conflicts of interest.
The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.
Frank was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae, which is now under FBI investigation along with its sister organization Freddie Mac, American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) – all recently participants in government bailouts. But Frank has derailed efforts to regulate the institution, as well as denying it posed any financial risk.
He has served on the committee since becoming a congressman in 1981 and became the ranking Democrat on the committee in 2003. He became chairman of the committee, now called the House Financial Services Committee, in 2007.
Moses was the assistant director for product initiatives at Fannie Mae and had been at the forefront of relaxing lending restrictions at the company for rural customers, according to the Feb. 23, 1998, issue of National Mortgage News (NMN).
“Herb Moses, who helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs, has left the mortgage industry,” Darryl Hicks wrote for NMN. “Mr. Moses - whose last day was Feb. 13 - spent the past seven years at Fannie Mae, most recently as director of housing initiatives. Over the course of time, he played an instrumental role in developing the company’s Title One and 203(k) home improvement lending programs.”
In 1991, Frank and former Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., lobbied for Fannie to soften rules on multi-family home mortgages although those dwellings showed a default rate twice that of single-family homes, according to the Nov. 22, 1991, Boston Globe.
BusinessWeek reported in its Nov. 14, 1994, issue that Fannie Mae called on Frank to exert his influence against a Housing & Urban Development proposal that would force the GSE to focus on minority and low-income buyers and police bias by lenders regardless of their location. Fannie Mae opposed HUD on the issue because it claimed doing so would “ignore the urban middle class.”
Much more here...
What an absolute joke the media has become. While the nation looks to the likes of Barney Frank, who admitted he had a prostitution service run out of his apartment, to craft a plan to get us out of this financial mess, the media is worried that Palin might have accepted a gift of fresh salmon from a merchant.
No mention of the Obama Gestapo “TRUTH SQUADS”? No mention of the KNOWN COMMUNIST RADICAL TERRORISTS that make up Obama’s supporters and friends...
I think this goes past sheer incompetence. This has got to be deliberate sabotage. It’s the communist manifesto come to life...
Is there a phrase that means the opposite of: “Damning with faint praise”? Because that would be what this article is. Like the big ‘story’ the media made over Quayle’s ‘potatoe’, this is only going to make people think, “Is this all there is?” She must be squeaky clean if the media, whom we all know are digging as hard as they can, can only come up with a free facial.
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