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FLASHBACK: Sarah Palin Kills False Enquirer Affair Story (Just Saying)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/30/flashback-enquirer-wrong-on-sarah-palin-affair/ ^

Posted on 03/31/2016 4:00:43 AM PDT by cba123

In the critical early days of September 2008, after Sarah Palin was nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for Vice President, the National Enquirer ran a cover story alleging that the Alaska governor had an adulterous affair.

Palin, and Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, immediately and unequivocally denied the story. "The smearing of the Palin family must end," said McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt, as quoted at the time. "The allegations contained on the cover of the National Enquirer insinuating that Gov Palin had an extramarital affair are categorically false. It is a vicious lie. The efforts of the media and tabloids to destroy this fine and accomplished public servant are a disgrace. The American people will reject it." The campaign also threatened legal action.

(That was a textbook example of how to shut down a media rumor)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2008election; alaska; arizona; election2008; garbagemedia; johnmccain; nationalenquirer; palin; sarahpalin; senatorjohnmccain; senatormccain; steveschmidt; trashtabloids; yellowjournalism
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To: nclaurel

So, the willingness to sue is an indicator of guilt or innocence?

Think first and do a little research before you respond.


41 posted on 03/31/2016 4:44:29 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: silverleaf

The Clinton Campaign has the videos. Trust me.

Cruz should be in Bangkok chasing hookers, not running for President.


42 posted on 03/31/2016 4:46:00 AM PDT by section9
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To: LowOiL

Well Lowoil at least I am not fighting on the side of Soros the MSM and Establishment. Have you looked at who you are fighting with lately. How is that conservative?


43 posted on 03/31/2016 4:46:13 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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To: McGruff

I say again.

I simply posted what Sarah Palin did when accused on a relationship, when she was running for Vice President.

Sarah Palin. She shut down the rumor immediately. I didn’t say a single word about anyone else.


44 posted on 03/31/2016 4:49:04 AM PDT by cba123
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To: McGruff
Quit attacking my wife and children.

Exactly when did Trump or his campaign attack the Cruz children.

Another Cruz lie?

45 posted on 03/31/2016 4:50:44 AM PDT by CapitalistCrusader
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To: ScottinVA

It seems to be you who might want to think first about how Cruz and surrogate mommy have handled this. That doesn’t say I have a clue if the story is true.

I just know it is out there and makes him look whiny like Obama blaming Bush for everything. Those of us who don’t like Obama see through it, but ask any Obama supporter and they believe his Bush comments completely despite facts. Just like despite Rubio’s group putting out the story Cruzers believe Cruz’ Trump accusations.


46 posted on 03/31/2016 4:51:37 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: cba123

I was doing some research on an old article (Mississippi couple that got caught going to work for ISIS).

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/30/mississippi-woman-who-attempted-to-join-isis-pleads-guilty-to-terror-charge.html?intcmp=hphz09

The story focused on the lady (who had been a high school cheerleader). I wanted to know more about the fellow she married so I googled (startpage actually, I don't do google) his name. I forgot where it took me, but eventually it was a CBS story.

Now I believe you are right, except I have a add on program (called Click&Clean) on my computer (running IceDragon which is a Firefox based browser) the kills all cookies as I browse the net. I frequently make sure I have little to no cookies for a history for ad providers to use.

47 posted on 03/31/2016 4:52:35 AM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

New York values. Understandable. That’s where all the leftists are, of course Trump is their guy. That is, until the day after the primaries.


48 posted on 03/31/2016 4:59:19 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: VitacoreVision
Did Trump plant the story? /sarcasm

You never know - he was an Obama supporter at the time...

49 posted on 03/31/2016 5:00:19 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Mechanicos
Well Lowoil at least I am not fighting on the side of Soros the MSM and Establishment.

Neither am I. Never have been.

Have you looked at who you are fighting with lately

You mean that person that wanted to take away my means to fight... Trump who was for taking away "assault weapons" at one time. You mean that person that said his NY values were for abortion rights. Perhaps that person that thinks I am uncompassionate because I don't believe in Obamacare.

Yeah, I know who I am fighting for and who I am fighting against.

50 posted on 03/31/2016 5:01:25 AM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: nclaurel

Not a single one of these targeted women has substantiated a solitary thread of that smear as true.

My point — and this thread bolsters it — is that the National Enquirer, which vociferously endorsed Donald Trump and is led by a very close friend of Trump, was the only “media” outlet that published this smear piece. That Cruz hasn’t gone public with plans to take legal action — yet — is completely unrelated to guilt or innocence.


51 posted on 03/31/2016 5:01:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: Hatteras
That is, until the day after the primaries.

Ditto for the lion's share of those "crossover" voters in the primaries.

52 posted on 03/31/2016 5:03:48 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Breathe, Donald.... Breathe.)
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To: Mechanicos

You are obviously a Trump supporter because your tagline is childish and your reading comprehension is worse. Are you sure that you are not a Democrat like Trump?

LowOil has been registered on this site for 16 years. Do you think he/she is a deep mole?


53 posted on 03/31/2016 5:03:50 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Hatteras

leftist values eh? Like where otherwise sane conservatives find themselves fighting on the same side as Soros, the MSM and the Establishment.

We know your claimed reasons for hating Trump, what is your fellow Trump-haters reasons for doing what you are doing? Are you being used?

The Fact is Soros Hilary Bernie MSM and the Globalists all want Trump to be destroyed. These are Patriotic American’s enemies. Yet you are on their side. Something is obviously not right when you are doing their work for them.


54 posted on 03/31/2016 5:06:08 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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To: LowOiL

Yes you are fighting on the same side as the ones Patriotic Americans are fighting against.


55 posted on 03/31/2016 5:07:50 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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To: catfish1957

Oh when the time is right, the democrats will finish mr Cruz with a bang and the msm knows it ..It will be epic and make the lawsuit campaign against Sarah look like amateur hour once they start launching NBC lawsuits, ethics lawsuits, ads of Ted waving the Bible with interviews from prostitutes and video of Ted’s Tue-.Thurs afternoon delight sessions in DC hotel, pics of Ted with his religious backer along with quotes from his religious backer about Biblical jjustification for death to homosexuals .... And more

Remember when John MCain thought the media and establishment loved him because he was “ maverick” ? Man after he was nominated that love affair died faster than Amanda Carpenter’s twitter cache

Ted is feeling giddy now .... He’s figured out how with the help of RomneyBush ( who dislike him and know he is unelectably flawed) how to get delegates without the will,of the voters and to turn the “ GOP”’ into the Grand Old Process

The entire msm suppressed the story of his infidelities and launched no obvious ( att ) investigation into it ...whew! Within a week Heidi got a makeover and was assigned a Stepford wife minder. Carly stepped up as a wannabe Valerie Jarrett who handles the press ... Ted is reinvented overnight as the patron saint of womanhood ... and Icarus soars higher and higher

We are watching an American political train wreck and the cooptation of socially and intellectually isolated Establishment conservatives into the destruction of “conservatism” , just on the other side of the mountain. The movement has the perfect / imperfect man to lead the way. You know who are the Trumpsters? The ones being ridiculed and reviled for jumping off the train.


56 posted on 03/31/2016 5:09:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: neocon1984
Do you think he/she is a deep mole?

Hey, I got a mole account at DU with like 14 whole generic posts. I like to think I got some spy vs spy in me.

57 posted on 03/31/2016 5:10:13 AM PDT by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: ScottinVA

I bet the NE owner has many friends again unsubstantiated comment on your part. I did not say I know whether or not story is true. The way it is being handled by Cruz is not doing anything thing to make him look like his has class.

He is a whiner and has no more proof that Trump did anything than we have about the NE story. Carpenter’s tweets are more substantial than Trump is friend with whoever and both are conjure as to proving anything.


58 posted on 03/31/2016 5:10:37 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Hatteras
.. New York values. Understandable. That’s where all the leftists are, of course Trump is their guy ..

'All the leftists.'


59 posted on 03/31/2016 5:11:24 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (It's them or us.)
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To: neocon1984

no Neocon1984, Its a legit question, when you find yourself on the same side as those you were fighting against all of sudden something is not right. if Soros the MSM and Establishment hate him hes obviously not one of them.

But then logic also says one would notice by now they are being sucked in by their own enemies to take out the enemies’ threat.


60 posted on 03/31/2016 5:12:01 AM PDT by Mechanicos (Attend a Trump Rally and get to "Punch a Commie for Mommy.")
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