Posted on 09/02/2008 7:01:27 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
If a hypothetical tabloid owned by, say, Richard Mellon Scaife had a cover story with scurrilous accusations about Joe Biden, do you think Chris Matthews would be waving it about on camera and Keith Olbermann citing it? Neither do I.
But Matthews saw fit—not once but twice—to display the cover of Us magazine, with its story "Babies, Lies and Scandals" about Sarah Palin. Olbermann alluded to it as well. And who is the owner of Us? Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone . . . and a big-time donor to Barack Obama. How big a donor? You can view his list of contributions here, with an image after the jump.
Now it's true that Matthews discounted the "lies" allegation. But why give currency to dubious accusations—by a magazine whose stock-in-trade is celebrity gossip—by displaying them repeatedly on a national news show? There was no suggestion that Us, unlike the National Enquirer in John Edwards' case, had done any significant independent reporting. This is apparently scandal-mongering, pure and simple. And of course, neither Matthews nor Olbermann ever mentioned the Wenner connection.
View edited video here.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
What about Wenner ping to Today show list.
These people are buying more trouble than they are bargaining for.
Jann Wenner, the homosexual owner of US magazine and Rolling Stone and the orchestrator of this smear:
US Magazine Publisher:
Victoria Lasdon Rose
Let her know we will start contacting her advertisers and Walmart tomorrow...
Contact Wal-Mart and tell them to pull US magazine from their stores:
http://walmartstores.com/contactus/feedback.aspx
http://walmartstores.com/7663.aspx
Do to the unique nature of Alaska from what I understand, Sarah Palin has a security clearance as well.
I am just an average Joe and I can figure this out?
And Chrissy boy and the rest of the Prissy Media can't figure out that Sarah's Clearance was a good chunk of her vctting?
Thank G_d these dolts in the dominant media are not worth me getting upset over, or I would have lost it a long time ago...
Panty wad Chrissy grasping at straws as usual.
I am sure nothing was running down Chrissy’s leg when Palin spoke the other day.
Well, well, Chrissy, we’ve long known that you are just tabloid-trash scum and now you’ve proven it once again.
Holding up a garbage TABLOID owned by a big-time Obama/Democrat supporter is your idea of responsible reporting, Chris Matthews?????
Chris, let’s say that the Weekly World News “reports” that you have mated with space aliens and they are having your babies..... can we have the front page headlines displayed on TV “news” shows with “Babies, Lies, and Scandal” displayed over YOUR photo?? Would you consider that “responsible news reporting” Chris??!!??
someone at redstate.org was saying that the PR guy for USmagazine was formerly in the Press Secretary office under the Clintoon Administration. Shock of shocks!
Americans are going to get to choose between those who put family first and love our babies rather than looking at new life as a punishment to be dragged from the womb and killed.
Spitboy needs to be replaced w/someone less bias like Howard Dean.
Pray for W, Mav/Palin and Our Troops
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