Posted on 11/08/2010 10:03:49 AM PST by John Semmens
POLITICO executive editor Jim VandeHei defended his publication’s use of anonymous attacks on Sarah Palin as “essential to the way we do business.”
“Granted, an anonymous source is unverifiable,” VandeHei confessed. “But sometimes it’s all you’ve got. Does this create suspicion that the entire thing is fabricated? You bet. Still, as long as people keep reading our mission is accomplished.”
To try to dampen suspicions that the anti-Palin quotes might have been fake, VandeHei posited the very plausible alternative that “it is entirely credible that these GOP ‘pussies’ who’re anonymously complaining about Palin don’t have the balls to take her on face-to-face. I mean she’s dynamic, assertive and politically astute. Who wouldn’t be afraid of her?”
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LOL John.
I wonder how they would feel if the “sniping” was conducted by the military and the target was a terrorist?
What you write, as satire, is Politico’s standard operating procedure.
Nobody does a better job of political satires that suck you right in.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Politico writers are as dishonest as Obama is. ‘Nuff said.
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