Posted on 09/02/2008 4:29:31 PM PDT by cdchik123
Rick Klein, from ABC’s The Note, reports: Let’s say you don’t read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter). Let’s say you don’t follow the big political blogs and you’re not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race.
Let’s say, instead, like millions ofworking-class Americans, you get your “news” on the political race from the supermarket aisle. Let’s say you’re -- I don’t know, a “hockey mom” -- and you’re intrigued by this Sarah Palin person you’ve been hearing so much about since Friday.
So you’re shopping this week -- and what do you see on the cover of US Weekly? That esteemed journalistic institution is taking it right to John McCain’s running mate -- with a hard-hitting piece that details the “scandal” involving her daughter’s pregnancy.
“BABIES, LIES & SCANDAL,” screams the headline on the cover, with a picture of a smiling Palin holding her fifth child, 4-month-old Trig.
Inside is a collection of Palin lowlights -- from her daughter’s now well-known pregnancy; to Internet rumors that the governor pretended to be pregnant to cover for her daughter; to “troopergate”; to her onetime support for the “bridge to nowhere”; to a radio appearance where she giggled while shock jocks called a political rival a “bitch” and a “cancer.”
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But this, to me, is the clearest evidence yet that the McCain-Palin campaign is losing the battle over Palin’s image. US Weekly readers are the voters her selection was designed to attract. There’s not much to like in this early take -- and not much to indicate that the next round will be much better.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Lying efn scum! I wouldn’t use their rag to wipe my dogs a$$! Time to fire up the letters to these slimeballs- set them straight. This is war.
The National Enquirer is on it, too:
SARAH PALIN AT WAR WITH DAUGHTER OVER PREGNANCY & WEDDING
Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.
Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.
But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.
The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.
In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.
The ENQUIRER has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career.
Palin’s ongoing war with her ex brother-in-law Mike Wooten, a state trooper, has caused multiple sources to come forward with shocking allegations about the governor.
Details of those allegations, the family feud, and Palin’s attempt to cover up her teen daughter’s pregnancy are in the new issue of The ENQUIRER.
It seems like the attacks are becoming more and more visceral by the hour. Even on other boards that I go to that seem more moderate, people seem to be taking an unnatural glee that Mrs. Palin is being trashed so much.
Obama is really afraid of this little soccer mom. he is spending hundreds of millions to smear her in the media. She must threaten his short man syndrome tremendously
This is Rick Klein’s sly way of giving a bigger megaphone to a scandalous article he knows is not fit for print; with his additional snide, lie, told as as a presumption that most “hockey Moms” read and care about the scandal sheet he refers to (as though they are too “stupid” to read anything else.
Now, let’s ask him just one thing: when exactly did HE know about John Edward’s affair??? (and failed to ‘report’ it)
Obviously Sarah Palin is the right pick. The only other times the MSM has gone ballistic like this was when Republicans are in the news.
I believe the National Enquirer was the fist to run with the Edwards Love Child Story.
I just hope our side can take the heat, and give as good as they get.
They ( the Edwards campaign ) had bought the mistress a three million dollar mansion down in Santa Barbara, and were giving her a 15,000 dollar a month "allowance". They were flying her all over the damned country, as well as the Carribean, in a private lear jet. The Enquirer claimed that there was a paper trail several miles long.
The way the Dems are in full attack mode, their internal polling numbers must be simply devastating.
I’m in NY (land of the over-taxed and virtually surrounded by liberals). However, many of my lib-leaning coworkers are now openly saying that they’re paying attention to Palin and McCain. In fact, the Hillary supporters are openly switching sides and are fed up with the Dems’ response/attack.
Folks, this is in New York!!
McCain hit a home run.
This story will boost the sales of Us Magazine and the National Enquirer and that is the only reason why both outfits are leading with this story.
And yes, they would do the very same thing if a Biden or Obama daughter were in the same situation.
Liberals are just plain nasty. They don’t care who they destroy so long as they can advance their socialist agenda. It is ugly and getting uglier.
I know women who read this garbage and they’re all brainless, zero IQ liberals, not potential McCain/Palin voters.
“While the more profitable single copies (of Us Weekly) in the past had accounted for more than half of the magazine’s sales, it now accounts for less than half.
“Newsstand sales had accounted for 50 to 55 percent in the past. It’s now 54 percent subscription and 46 percent single copy,” Rose conceded.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08062008/business/magazines_see_poor_circulation_123261.htm
WE LOVE YOU SARAH !
We love you Sarah . .
More today . .
Than yesterday . .
We love you Sarah . .
More today . .
Than yesterday . .
. . but not half as much . . .
as tomorrow . . .
I agree with the guy who wrote on FR that if McCain were to throw her under the bus, he would not vote for McCain if he dug Ronald Reagan up and somehow managed to breathe life into him and name him his VP pick.
The MSM does NOT like you, John McCain. Remember that.
It was more of an open question. Maybe some pressure on their advertisers would help.
Sarah Palin should get a copy of all these rags, and make fun of them during her speech. She needs to literally hold them up for ridicule.
Take heart folks. The campaign knew this was coming when they offered Gov. Palin the job. I think the libs are falling right into the trap that was set for them. The “baby trading” stuff might even be a great big bonus.
What is the trap? Well I really don’t have a clue. But I cannot imagine that a campaign run this well up to this point was unaware of what the disgraceful obots, MSM and tabloids would do with a teen pregnancy.
Have faith that they planned for this and will shove it in their collective faces shortly and pray a lot too.
As I recall the Edwards Affair story was around long before he dropped out of the race.
This is not political for the Enquirer but simply a way to sell their tabloid.
Going to give them hell right now!
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