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Thanks to the left, Rush Limbaugh's attempt to become a minority owner of a NFL franchise went down in flames. They branded Limbaugh as a racist and used outrageous, unconfirmed racist quotes to support their argument. Now they confirm the gasoline they used to burn down his dream was, wait for it, a lie. Karl Frisch, a Senior Fellow at Media Matters, was a guest on the Stephanie Miller Show yesterday and had the following to say: "You know, in fairness to Rush, those two out of literally dozens of racist things were not necessarily accurate. We were never able...

While many became enraged by an op-ed column by local GOP leaders, Yomin Postelnik came to their defense. Postelnik, a Republican candidate for Florida’s House District 91, wrote a column that was quickly circulated among blogs and online community forums in which he, a Jewish man, defended the actions of the Orangeburg and Bamberg Republican Party chairmen. The column by Jim S. Ulmer Jr., Orangeburg County chairman, and Edwin O. Merwin Jr., Bamberg County chairman, praised U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s stand against congressional earmarks. In lauding DeMint’s frugality, the two men wrote: “There is a saying that the Jews who...

Terry Krepel of Media Matters and ConWebWatch took issue with my claim that "reporting" on the allegedly questionable circumstances of the death of Glenn Beck's mother would constitute a smear. Terry decided to engage me in the comments to try and make me explain why it was inappropriate for his organization to make Beck's deceased mother a ball in the political football game:

A new generation of conservative activists has come forth, and many of the newcomers have never experienced the kind of nastiness to which liberals are inclined, falsely labeling them as racists, even Nazis. Many of the new activists worry that liberals' smears will be effective. But the old-timers among conservative activists have a message for the newcomers: Don't worry. We've heard these smears throughout our political lives. Even in the old days, the smears rarely worked. It is, to paraphrase Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls," the oldest established permanent floating crap game in American politics.

.... Would you please sit down and shut up you old fool! Yup. Think about this one for a moment. You're a young black man or woman, you're finishing up your education and hope to have a career in politics. Along comes Barack Obama and you're just elated! The barrier has been broken and a black man is now President of the United States! Your path is clear! But wait! In the early months of Obama's presidency his inexperience starts to show. He fails on several big fronts: Health care, cap-and-trade and the union card-check bill. He tries to convince...

<p>While the rest of his party was celebrating the choice of novice VP candidate Sarah Palin last August, then-President George W. Bush attempted to inject some reason and caution into the melee, according to a new book by a former White House speechwriter.</p>

"Glenn Beck 1990" is an exercise in the politics of retribution - a spoof of Glenn Beck's outrageous assertions and obfuscations - an Internet meme engineered by those seeking justice - a theater of the absurd. "Glenn Beck 1990" is short for "Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990", a web site dedicated to tracking the meme questioning Glenn Beck's guilt in 1990. Glenn Beck is not pleased, and is taking legal action against the website tracking the meme. tech dirt reports: It turns out that Glenn Beck isn't happy about this either. He's filed a domain name...

Guess who's not pleased about Van Jones middle-of-the-night-on-a-holiday-weekend resignation? Perhaps you never would have seen this one coming, but no other MSNBC "Countdown" host and provocateur Keith Olbermann himself. Bitter and seeing red? Perhaps. In a post on the Daily Kos dated Sept. 6, Olbermann urged the half-crazed liberal Kos readers to go digging for dirt on Fox News host Glenn Beck, Beck's radio producer Stu Burguiere and Fox News president Roger Ailes. (h/t Morgen of Verum Serum) "I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and...

Levi Johnston tells editors at Vanity Fair about the off-camera life of the woman who almost became vice president, revealing that the Palin family's home life was very different from what was presented in the mainstream media. “Even before she was nominated,” Johnston writes, “there wasn't much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn't cook, Todd doesn't cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I'd barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.”

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin set off a frenzied debate about health care reform when she accused President Obama of planning to establish "death panels" via health care reform. Now, proponents of the president's health care agenda are taking to Palin's preferred medium to attack her claims, with a Facebook ad asking Palin to "stop lying." The labor-affiliated group Americans United For Change is running the Facebook ad directly targeted at the more than 800,000 listed "supporters" of Palin on Facebook, according to Greg Sargent of the Washington Post blog the Plum Line. "Health insurance reform is too important for...

The past week has been truly incredible and truly busy. So busy in fact, this is the first time I have stopped long enough to actually write about how incredible things have been and what has been going on. Most know that our group has been writing about the democrat/communist party operatives in Alaska, their attempts at destroying Sarah Palin by continually filing bogus ethics complaints, and then illegally publicizing them. If you don’t know, it’s illegal to disclose any information about an ongoing ethics investigation. Oddly enough, under the law, if you do this to a legislator, the complaint...

Just when you thought liberals couldn’t sink any lower, hate blogger Linda Kellen Biegel proves that the levels of depravity from modern day democrats knows no bottom. I mean we were just treated to the absolute disgusting display by so-called comedian David Letterman a couple of weeks ago, where he and his liberal viewers thought it was quite OK to call the married Governor and mother of 5 a "slut", and then voiced his rape fantasies that featured Governor Palin’s 14 year old daughter! For an encore, Letterman called the daughter a whore one day later. His apology consisted of...

I realize I'm a bit late to the outrage over David Letterman's vomit-inducing anti-Palin 'jokes', but trust me I have been watching - and the coverage here has been spectacular. That said, there is one other angle to this story which I am surprised is not getting more coverage. This little joke is rightly overshadowed by the outrage over Letterman's perverted sexual 'humor', but I cannot let this issue die without going back to item #3 from the "Top 10 Highlights of Sarah Palin's Trip to New York": 3. Finally met one of those Jewish people Mel Gibson's always talking...

Geoffrey Dunn, in an unhinged huff piece at HuffPo, has charged Gov. Palin with plagiarism. In a dubious diary titled "Palin Plagiarizes Gingrich in Anchorage Speech," Dunn declares, "It's a pure case of unadulterated plagiarism": Palin acknowledged that "Recently, Newt Gingrich, he had written a good article about Reagan...." (Recently? It was four years ago; and she said "good," with an obvious disdain, since Gingrich has been rather dismissive of her recently.) 2. Palin: He said, regarding your dad Michael, he said that we need to learn from his example that courage and persistence are keys to historic achievement. Gingrich/Shirley:...

Gordon Brown is today engulfed in crisis after a key aide resigned and the Tories threatened legal action over explosive leaked emails discussing how to smear senior Conservatives, including David Cameron's wife, Samantha, with rumours about their private lives. Damian McBride, one of the prime minister's closest advisers, quit over his exchange with the Labour blogger Derek Draper, in which the two discussed setting up a website to air scurrilous allegations about opponents, including unfounded allegations about affairs between leading opposition MPs. The idea was still being actively discussed until a fortnight ago, the Observer has learned. ..... Among the...

Some of our readers have emailed us wondering what Dennis Zaki at the Alaska Report website is alluding to with his teaser headline: An iceberg is heading toward the Palins. Can it be stopped? I don't think so. Will it sink the ship, all signs say yes. Stay tuned... We decided to do a little research. It is clear that the Alaskan leftwing blogs are working together to destroy Sarah Palin and her family. First their work centered on frivolous ethics complaints, and now they are moving on to the Palin family itself.

As if it is not enough that they have been decimated by the Democrats in the past couple of elections, the Republican survivors are now turning their guns on each other. At the heart of these internal battles have been attacks on Rush Limbaugh by Republicans who imagine themselves to be so much more sophisticated because they are so much more in step with the political fashions of the time. New Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele’s cheap shot at Rush’s program as “ugly” set off the latest round of in-fighting. That is the kind of thing that is usually...

For all the focus on the king of conservative talk, Democrats may have found a more important villain in House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a telegenic young Republican trying to bring life to his party on Capitol Hill. As the Virginia Republican fights President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority on everything from spending to stem cells, the Democrats are racing to introduce him to voters before he can introduce himself. • At last month’s White House summit on entitlement reform, Obama painted Cantor as a poster child for obstructionism. “I’m going to keep on talking to Eric Cantor,” the...

Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1. Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Mr. Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails. Well, given what Mr. Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Mr. Obama’s agenda is much more audacious. Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has said as a matter of objective analysis that Mr. Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet...

Why would a sitting VP want to exaggerate how many jobs are disintegrating on his watch? Because, silly, the worse things seem now, the easier it is to credit The One later with having “created or saved” the jobs people still have.

In September, after The Washington Post reported that the GOP vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had charged the state per diem expenses when she was staying in her own home, her office issued statements claiming that the practice was fine. "The governor is entitled to a per diem, and she claims it," gubernatorial spokeswoman Sharon Leighow said at the time. . [SNIP] . Obtaining further information on the governor's taxes was difficult. . [SNIP] . When The Post followed up, asking if Palin thought it was important to pay all her taxes, Leighow responded: "Nothing I have said...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) owes income taxes on nearly $17,000 paid to her as travel reimbursements when she spent nights in her Wasilla residence, according to a state legal opinion that the payments were not legitimate business expenses, a state official said yesterday. During her first 19 months in office, Palin charged the state $16,951 in "per diem" allowances for spending 312 nights in her home. The allowances were intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while she was traveling on state business. The state this week reversed a policy that had treated the payments as legitimate business expenses...

You saw the earlier post about Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton slamming the new unauthorized Palin biography, written by an assistant People magazine editor, as inaccurate.

Friday, February 13, 2009 Filmmaker says media got it wrong about Gov. Sarah Palin John Ziegler's upcoming documentary defends the Republican VP candidate. By LINDSEY BAGUIO MISSION VIEJO — John Ziegler is about to release his latest documentary, in which he targets the media for what he considers the character assassination of Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign. Ziegler, a documentary film producer and former KFI radio talk show host, will speak to a group of Mission Viejo residents on Sunday about the upcoming film "Media Malpractice…How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted" — an action he...

Showing they have no sense of morality, no grasp of corruption and no understanding of what defines a criminal, CNN gives us another one of those ubiquitous year in review stories, this one titled "Politicians who fell from grace in 2008." In this one, CNN has decided to reveal for us their top eight politicians that found 2008 to be a "career-buster" because of their "crimes and misdemeanors" or their outrageous controversies. CNN features corruption mired Rod Blagojevich, the sex crazed Elliot Spitzer and John Edwards, and the criminal bribe taker Ted Stevens among four others. Each of these men...

Sarah Palin's spokeswoman on Friday denied the stream of accusations leaking out of John McCain's campaign about the Alaska governor's alleged incompetence, calling the charges "sickening." Meghan Stapleton was responding to several reports that have surfaced since Election Day about the tensions between McCain's running mate and his staff. Campaign officials apparently had doubts about her preparedness to run for vice president. Sources told FOX News, for instance, that Palin did not realize that Africa was a continent, not a country, and could not name the countries who had signed the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sarah Palin is facing fresh allegations that she abused her power as governor of Alaska. An investigation has revealed she charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later changed expense reports to indicate that they were on official business. The charges, which totalled more than £10,000, included costs for hotel stays and commercial flights for three daughters to watch their father in a snowmobile race.

The Obama campaign says its candidate is a victim of “smears” -- and has even created a Web site to fight such attacks. But a Newsmax investigation finds many of the so-called smears are largely based in truth -- and the Obama campaign uses half-truths, clever language and ad hominem attacks to spin the facts. Obama’s www.FightTheSmears.com focuses mainly on anti-Obama messages being repeated on the Internet and talk radio, the only media where Obama ideological allies are not dominant. These “smears” and the Obama rebuttals are often framed in lawyerly language that leaves much wiggle room in the candidate’s...

Biden "Nifongs" innocent man's reputation, then complains about "smears" We received the following unsolicited fundraising letter from the Obama/Biden campaign. Given Biden's own documented conduct--from his Senate Web site and not from any Republicans or PUMAs--he has about as much right as disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong has to talk about lies and smears. The McCain campaign is on the ropes, and sadly it's no surprise they're responding with attacks and outright lies. I've heard some pretty unspeakable things in the past few days -- deeply offensive smears that we'll hear over and over again until Election Day. John McCain and...

As if Palin hasn't had to deal with enough, Major Garrett just completely smeared Palin a little while ago on Hannity & Colmes. He basically mocked Palin as needing to be more prepared because she couldn't even cite McCain's request for more regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when Katie Couric asked her to cite examples. Well, Mr. Garrett who gets paid lots of money to cover the election campaign (he travels with the Obama camp), how about you actually have a clue what you are talking about before you open your mouth. Hold your self to the same...

Tonight, I have reached the point where I can no longer stomach any more of the lies, bias,smears and outright hatred being dumped on America by the MSM. It sickens me everytime I read a story posted at FR, telling me of another hate filled lie or another out and out smear or the out and out campaigning for two of the very worst politicians this country has had the misfortune to have run for President and VP, Obama the Fraud and Biden The Idiot. I cannot take it anymore and am totally frustrated because it doesn't seem like there...

By Herb Denenberg, 09/24/2008 If Gov. Sarah Palin had ever looked at her first grade teacher cross-eyed, that would be a front-page story in the newspapers of the dishonest, fraudulent and biased mainstream media. Papers like that include The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer. However, if you're running on the Democratic side of the ticket, you can have a long record suggesting you're stupid, arrogant and dishonest and that will be ignored by the mainstream media. Take the case of Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for vice president. Most people remember his famous plagiarism...

Not that conservatives in the know should be surprised, but it looks like the assault on Sarah Palin was astroturfed by a PR firm with extensive ties to the Democrats and Obama. The Jawa Report has done an amazingly thorough piece of investigating on this. It truly is amazing work, and the conclusions are strong:Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run ThemExtensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a...

You really can't experience the full effect of Monday's news conference featuring Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton unless you hear it for yourself. Stapleton passionately attacked former Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan. Her rhetoric was plain, desperate, and obvious. Her tone, pure shrill. With intensity, urgency, and alarm in her voice, Stapleton described Monegan's behavior as commissioner as egregious insubordination, full of obstructionist conduct and a brazen refusal to follow instructions. Did Walt Monegan, former Marine, and lifetime crime fighter deserve this? Of course not. But history has proven, get in the way of Sarah Barracuda's political ambition, and you...

Rusty Shackleford has posted the results of his and his Jawa team's investigation to determine the source of smears directed toward Sarah Palin. The smears include false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views. Shackleford's research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated the rumors, that the rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure and that the firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign. While not conclusive, Shakleford's evidence suggests a...

Excellent forensic analysis of the "viral" youtube Palin smears. These guys usually track down internet Jihadis.

A week after a high-profile send-up of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," the NBC comedy show returned to making fun of the Alaskan governor in a skit where New York Times reporters sought to probe the possibility Palin's husband was having sex with the couple's own daughters. "What about the husband?" asked a Times reporter during a mock assignment meeting for the paper. "You know he's doing those daughters. I mean, come on. It's Alaska." The assignment editor for the Times, portrayed by actor James Franco, responded: "He very well could be. Admittedly, there is...

For those that missed it, Sarah is vindicated once again by the non-partisan group Citizens Against Goverment Waste which states she killed the Bridge to Nowhere not Congress.

This is my first post, so please excuse the mistakes... I was just on the Politico site reading Jon Martin's blog & came across this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_2Cw4RH1c I am beyond outraged that this vile, ignorant comment was made on the floor of the House: "I submit to you Mr Speaker that the parties have differences but if you want change, you want the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus who our, ahhh, minister prayed about, Pontius Pilate was a governor." So, Obama is like Jesus and... ... Pontius Pilate was a governor. Pontius Pilate, the man who washed...

I urge everyone to do what I have decided to do to counter all of the Palin smears. Whenever I see a new smear of Mrs. Palin, I do a drinking trick. Instead of downing a beer, I go to the RNC site and donate to the cause. I figure the more egregious the smear, the higher the donation. Its up to you all what you feel is egregious-but to me, little Trig brings out the beast in me, so, if it involves Trig, its at least a $25 donation, belittling religion gets you $25-$50, and bashing anyone in the...

Daisy Sunday this weekend, September 7th: conservatives’ Pearl Harbor Day, notable for dems’ revelation then – as so many times before but less dramatically – that they are the masters of trash-mouth politics and ethically-challenged ethnic challenges to traditions with any and every tactic known in the political playbook. Dirty pool, dirty politics – the democrats’ and liberals’ game plan since at least January 1929, and emblematically emblazoned on the nation’s primetime TV screens on September 7, 1964. Only one airing of the trend-setting “Daisy ad� during a movie of the week, but it’s gotten airing by its heirs in...

As the Huffington Post reports, Russell Brand, British comedian, hosted the MTV VMAs, which is not really political news. However, it's what he said that has everyone astir. Here's one of the ridiculous things Brand had to say: Again and again, Brand _ a confessed former sex addict _ poked fun at young sex and abstinence. Speaking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter's boyfriend and would-be father, Levi Johnston, Brand sympathized with him: "That is the safe sex message of all time. Use a condom or become a Republican! I don't know why a European metrosexual is in America asking...

Given that we’re more than halfway to the century mark in Palin smears, I think it’s time to take another brief look at the left’s method of smear dissemination. 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.

Slip of the tongue or momentary confusion? In a television interview today discussing his religion, Sen. Barack Obama stated, "My Muslim faith." Obama, speaking to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," was talking about what he described as "smears" that were claiming he was a Muslim when he maintains he is a practicing Christian. "Let's not play games," Obama stated. "What I was suggesting – you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come." Stephanopoulos immediately interrupted Obama, stating, "Christian faith." "My Christian faith," Obama quickly said....

Anger at fake Sarah Palin photos as smear campaign makes her 'look like a stripper' Last updated at 23:52pm on 06.09.08   Skirting the issues: Clearly mocked-up photos like this are being used to undermine Sarah Palin's image as a serious politician Sarah Palin's credibility as a possible American Vice-President is being undermined by a series of spoof photographs circulated on the internet.The saucy pictures, which exploit her glamorous image, have been published amid a concerted ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against the former beauty queen, following her surprise appointment as 72-year-old Republican candidate John McCain’s running mate. One shows her apparently...

The bogus Sarah Palin Banned Books List By Michelle Malkin  •  September 6, 2008 12:01 AM Photoshop: David LundePalin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. This time it’s hysterical librarians and their readers on the Internet disseminating a bogus list of books Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly banned in 1996. Looks like some of these library people failed reading comprehension. Take a look at the list below and you’ll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban…that hadn’t even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasn’t published until 1998.The smear merchants who continue to circulate the list also...

Palin shocked to learn she backs Fannon: MAYOR: Candidate spliced an old statement into a new ad. Byline: Rindi White Oct. 1--WASILLA -- Who's supporting whom for Matanuska-Susitna Borough mayor became a hot issue Saturday morning when Republican gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin, on her way to the airport for a Fairbanks flight, heard a radio ad saying she backed Wasilla resident Charlie Fannon. "I was shocked and disappointed to hear that ad on the radio," Palin stated in a Saturday statement released later. "I made clear to Mr. Fannon that I was supporting Curt Menard in the 2006 election. For...

Was writing US magazine to let them know that I will never read their rag again (even in the beauty salon) when I saw a McDonalds ad on their site. I say for each media outlet that seems bent on destroying Sarah Palin and her family we get all the more bent to contact their advertisers to show our displeasure. Hit them in the pocket books, and if they don't straighten up may the dinosaur media death watch include every outlet that has dared to attack this precious family.

The attacks on John McCain's bold veep pick have begun. But if the critics think Sarah Palin is an easy target, they'd better think again. She can fire back. Working moms of the world, unite. "There's a gigantic difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and between me and I suspect my vice-presidential opponent," Joe Biden said while campaigning in Toledo Sunday. "She's good-looking." It's a dismissive put-down we would expect from Biden, one a Republican couldn't get away with. Obama spokesman Bill Burton was more direct, saying that McCain had irresponsibly put "the former mayor of a town of...

Suddenly appearing among the Google search results for “sarah palin gay,” a web site titled: Sarah Palin Supports Gay Rights. Sarah Palin (GOV-Alaska-Republican), supports gay rights, says Anchorage Daily News. Quote "Gov. Sarah Palin vetoed a bill Thursday that sought to block the state from giving public employee benefits such as health insurance to same-sex couples." Quote ""It is the Governor’s intention to work with the legislature and to give the people of Alaska an opportunity to express their wishes and intentions whether these benefits should continue," the statement from Palin’s administration said." Coghill said he’s interested in a new...