Huffington Post Libels Palin, Refuses to Change Story

Pundit Press ^ | 11/9/10 | Aurelius

[rightistight]

Does this really surprise anyone? Currently, the liberal psuedo-news site the Huffington Post has a gigantic picture of former VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and a 99 font size (and all capital letters) "GOTCHA" on the front of their website:

The picture, which intentionally tries to mock Palin, links to an article by the Huffington Post that states that Palin "misquoted" a story in the Wall Street Journal. However, if you wade through the article and past the liberal slant, you would realize that Mrs. Palin is telling the truth.

If you read the article, Palin stated that food prices increased over the last year. They did. The HuffPo cries foul, saying that the prices didn't rise that much, but obviously their lies cannot hid the fact that Palin was correct.

[earlJam]

Like I said, I don’t mind the blogs so much.

It is not the size of the excerpt that makes me object. It is the pimping aspect of it:

For example:

HILLARY DROPS 2012 BOMBSHELL

Hillary Clinton held a press conference today and made her intentions clear. She said, (to read the rest of this story go to this link)

[lonestar]

BINGO!

[Las Vegas Ron]

LOL...how ya doing Andy?

[lonestar]

To this point, our basket showed a 5.8% increase in average prices at Wal-Mart – which represents the most significant sequential increase since the inception of our study in January 2009. Moreover, we only had one rollback item in our basket vs. four in the June study.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart-raising-prices-on-food-2010-8#ixzz14oZlFrPM

[Syncro]

Then why did you disrupt this thread with your complaint?

Post a link to the Hilliary story, I’d like to read it!

Again, if you don’t like blogs, don’t look at the bloggers section

[jonrick46]

This is the last thing the Zombies for Zer0 want the nation to know: prices are up on food. The increase in food prices adds to the misery of high unemployment.

Only by letting the individual keep more of their money with less taxes and regulation, will we be able to climb out of this recession.

[andy58-in-nh]

Doing well, Ron. Just passed the 10-year mark on FR - hard to believe I've been ranting in public for so long. ;-)

My sincere condolences on that SOB Harry Reid's re-election. Looks like he called in his chits and pulled out all the stops, because even the exit polls showed him losing. Geez, ya think HuffPo will ever investigate that? < /rhetorical question>

Of course not: they're too busy planning their next 32 hit pieces on Palin...

[NC28203]

>>>Now Ms. Palin said a year or so - so was she overstepping?

I think she weakened her case by responding with a quote from the article that intentionally removed part of the sentence that contradicted her initial statement.

Here was her post:

The article noted that “an inflationary tide is beginning to ripple through America’s supermarkets and restaurants … Prices of staples including milk, beef, coffee, cocoa and sugar have risen sharply in recent months.”

Notice that ellipsis? What was in it? Well, the full sentence is:

"An inflationary tide is beginning to ripple through America’s supermarkets and restaurants, threatening to end the tamest year of food pricing in nearly two decades."

So it wasn't just that the article contradicted her claim, it's that it did so in the very same sentence that she quoted.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Doing well, Ron. Just passed the 10-year mark on FR - hard to believe I've been ranting in public for so long. ;-)

Congrats!! FR is lucky to have you, I for one have always appreciated your posts.

You have 'ol dingy Harry summed up perfectly, he no doubt has the power players of this State locked up tight...they certainly demonstrated they will answer to his beck and call, sigh, it's so disgusting and infuriating.

Glad to hear you're doing well, it's always a pleasure to see you here.

[editor-surveyor]

Hi Ariana!

How’s your toenail fungus doing?

You shouldn’t waste your time reading the economics comics; the real world is a better guide.

[editor-surveyor]

Poor baby!
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[earlJam]

[NavVet]

The quoted article has a nice graphic showing beef prices up 13%, sugar up 9%, milk up 10%. Now that may not be much to a WSJ reporter but to many Americans that is significant, especially when the dropping dollar is causing other commodities and imported goods to go up in price at the same time.

[NC28203]

>>>The quoted article has a nice graphic showing beef prices up 13%, sugar up 9%, milk up 10%.

However, current milk and egg prices are below September 2008 levels when quantitative easing took off. Prices are down year over year for a number of fruits and vegetables and beverages.

As I noted in an earlier post, the run-up in commodity food prices is not being driven by too many dollars, but is instead driven by fundamentals. Demand is up across the globe due to economic recovery and there have been supply issues due to lower crop output levels in key producing regions.

[roofgoat]

I disagree 100%. The article, which I read, has a very clear statement in the second paragraph, first sentence. The accompanying graphic is 100% clear and easy to understand about some basic foods and what they have done over the year. The WSJ wrote it and posted it. Food Prices have risen recently and over the last year.

The rest of the article is opinion, some govt numbers and quotes from the business community.

[roofgoat]

I’ll add, according the the WSJ article, here is what the govt thinks will be food inflation next year..

“The U.S. Agricultural Department is predicting overall food inflation of about 2% to 3% next year.”

Now I am not an economist, but 2 to 3% seems small. And if we are to believe the above govt prediction, why write an article about the fear of food inflation?

[NavVet]

And yet the WSJ has a prominent graphic showing milk prices up considerable year over year. And in the article where business owners claim that they are seeing 10-20+ increase in commodity prices I guess they are wrong as well. Don’t forget that one of the fundamentals is costs, and the dollar has been dropping like a rock, causing the price of fuel, fertilizer, feed, and all other things produced oil to go up in price, at least if that rag the WSJ is to be believed. Anyone who believes we can devalue the dollar by 20%, with no increase in wages and not see prices shoot up by a cooresponding amount doesn’t undertand fundamentals.

[The Wizard]

what beautiful skin....

[trappedincanuckistan]

Arianna hates. Period.

[editor-surveyor]

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I like your hat anyway...