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Rolling Thunder Confirms Palin Invite; Andrea Mitchell Demonstrates Journalistic Incompetence, Bias
Conservatives4palin ^ | Saturday May 28, 2011

Posted on 05/28/2011 12:27:08 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Remember when Andrea Mitchell attempted to interrupt Governor Palin’s Going Rogue tour in 2009 and got stopped cold by a security guard?

Well, Andrea Mitchell attempted to interrupt Governor Palin’s “One Nation” tour with a false report and has been stopped cold by the facts.

Yesterday, she falsely reported on Andrea Mitchell Reports that Governor Palin was not invited to participate in Rolling Thunder activities this weekend, relying on one disgruntled source to imply that Palin was using the veteran’s group for publicity without their approval. Mitchell’s story has been thoroughly refudiated.

Hot Air scoop:

Sarah Palin’s “One Nation” bus tour appeared to have gotten off to a false start yesterday as a member of the pro-veterans organization Rolling Thunder went on NBC to denounce her presence at an upcoming event of theirs, claiming no one had invited her. Turns out, as per organization spokesperson Christine Colborne, Palin had been invited, but had RSVP’d too soon for the group to announce her arrival to all its members.

Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey called up the organization and got in touch with Colborne, who explained that the issue was one of “internal miscommunication” and that Palin had been invited by Michael DiPaolo, a retired board member. Ted Shpak, another organization spokesperson and veteran himself, hadn’t been notified of Palin’s appearance by the time he went on Andrea Mitchell Reports and was seriously concerned that Palin would be a “distraction”:

Colbourn spoke with me on the phone in the middle of an all-night car ride to Washington DC, and explained that the last-minute RSVP didn’t get communicated through the echelons of Rolling Thunder. . Shpak (and Colborne) were taken by surprise by Palin’s announcement. Shpak does have the authority to speak for the organization, they had no idea that Palin was invited

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2012; palin; rollingthunder; sarahpalin
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To: onyx

I think it can now be officially renamed: “Rolling Thunder and... Lightning.”


21 posted on 05/28/2011 1:30:35 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can go to hell.)
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To: eyedigress
A 1962 impala no less, racing towards a one lane bridge. Sheesh!

Naw, that would have been a 1970 Torino Cobra with a 429 in my case.
Never messed up the *Big* Ford, came close, but never messed up :^)

22 posted on 05/28/2011 1:32:26 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Bachmann, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: Bigtigermike

How do you blame Andrea Mitchell for an official spokesperson telling her Palin wasn’t invited? How is that her fault? Even Conservatives4Palin admit that the guy she interviewed was authorized to speak for the group.

That’s the guy you should be blaming this time. Andrea deserves blame for lots of things, but not really this — except maybe being too excited about reporting what she was told by an official spokesperson.


23 posted on 05/28/2011 1:32:32 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: BooBoo1000
I understand.

I understand.

I understand.

Sorry couldn't resist.

24 posted on 05/28/2011 1:35:07 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Bachmann, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

I was the “passenger” going into the field with pelosi eyes. My brother was a nut with that thing.


25 posted on 05/28/2011 1:35:13 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: FreeReign

there are claims he was on stage with richard Bluemental to “Defend” him when he lied about serving in vietnam


26 posted on 05/28/2011 1:37:11 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: CharlesWayneCT
How do you blame Andrea Mitchell for an official spokesperson telling her Palin wasn’t invited? How is that her fault?

If Mitchell only reads what the producers give her to read, then you are right. But she should no longer call herself a journalist. If she investigated this story herself then she should have done some fact checking because the story was all about how Palin was not invited. A journalist would want verification of their primary thesis. Either Mitchell is a reader who was given an agenda or she is a lazy journalist with a dislike for Palin.
27 posted on 05/28/2011 1:37:17 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: eyedigress
Even more thrill when you have no control over the issue :^)
28 posted on 05/28/2011 1:37:52 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Bachmann, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

the news media use to have two sources before going to press with something like this. NBC failed


29 posted on 05/28/2011 1:38:37 PM PDT by unseen1
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To: CharlesWayneCT

You suppose to get two or three sources to confirm a story or at least seek the right sources on a subject as media use to do.....Mitchell showed her incompetence in not verifying the information with other sources that HOTAIR obviously went to to confirm and she is bias in rushing to report it

Checkmate


30 posted on 05/28/2011 1:38:55 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike
rushing to report it

Bet there were sparks flying from her little shoes as she ran to report it.

31 posted on 05/28/2011 1:43:27 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Bachmann, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
When Newsweak put Sarah Palin on their cover, dressed in running shorts, Angrya Mitchell was only too happy to shove it into Sarah's face. Mitchell is a bitter, leftist hag who does a great disservice to the cause of objective journalism.
32 posted on 05/28/2011 1:44:50 PM PDT by JPG (Bibi 1, O'Hamas 0.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
How do you blame Andrea Mitchell for an official spokesperson telling her Palin wasn’t invited? How is that her fault? Even Conservatives4Palin admit that the guy she interviewed was authorized to speak for the group. That’s the guy you should be blaming this time. Andrea deserves blame for lots of things, but not really this — except maybe being too excited about reporting what she was told by an official spokesperson.

I believe the 200,000 or so members who show up for the event are allowed to invite whoever they want.

Mitchell could have done her homework and found out that official spokesmen for the group does't have records of all the invitees. She could have asked Shpak such a question about that.

I think it's what a responsible reporter interested in finding the truth would do.

33 posted on 05/28/2011 1:47:45 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: CharlesWayneCT
How do you blame Andrea Mitchell for an official spokesperson telling her Palin wasn’t invited? How is that her fault? . . . Andrea deserves blame for lots of things, but not really this — except maybe being too excited about reporting what she was told by an official spokesperson.

Those journalists who care about accuracy fact check their stories. Even an "authorized" source can be wrong, so professionals like to get independent confirmation. It's like a patient, even if the first physician is from Hopkins, getting a second opinion. A professional would have left her socialist, anti-American views at home and verified the statements before reporting. Mitchell is too sloppy and biased to behave like the ideal covered in journalistic ethics or even professionalism courses (if they even bother with that quaint concept).

34 posted on 05/28/2011 1:48:01 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Bigtigermike
ROLLINOBAMA
35 posted on 05/28/2011 1:55:44 PM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: Bigtigermike

I hope when the Rolling Thunder Rally is reported on there will be PHOTOS of the event........and of PALIN’s presence.


36 posted on 05/28/2011 1:56:54 PM PDT by Tucker39
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To: CharlesWayneCT
How do you blame Andrea Mitchell for an official spokesperson telling her Palin wasn’t invited?

Okay, let's roll tape with a real reporter doing the interview.


37 posted on 05/28/2011 1:57:13 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: CitizenM

Their elitism and inside the belchway snark has put them into a very compromised position, they have to manufacture scandal to attack, scenarios that blow up in their over-pancaked faces.


38 posted on 05/28/2011 1:57:58 PM PDT by Shady (The President has become Judas.......)
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To: Bigtigermike
Ted Shpak whining to Mrs. Greenspan that Sarah Palin is stealing his thunder.

-Jerk-

Our veterans love Sarah Palin, this jerk was afraid Sarah would upstage him. ..pure & simple.

39 posted on 05/28/2011 2:01:13 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: CharlesWayneCT
How do you blame Andrea? Here's how:

As a major-network "news" journalist, you never take one or two people's word for something and race to air with it. You "vet" everything six ways from Sunday so that when you finally go to air with it, you don't end up looking like an untrustworthy, salivating, agenda-driven slut.

That's how. Got it?

;-\

40 posted on 05/28/2011 2:02:47 PM PDT by Gargantua (Palin 2012 ~ "Going Oval" ©2010 by Gargantua)
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