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Fox Dishes The Dirt On Palin
Washington Independent ^ | 11/6/08 9:25 AM | Matthew DeLong

Posted on 11/06/2008 7:52:14 AM PST by do the dhue

The effort within the McCain campaign’s upper ranks to pin Sen. John McCain’s loss of the presidential election on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now in full swing, and Fox News’ Carl Cameron eagerly plays the gossip columnist.

On “Fox Report” last night with Shephard Smith, Cameron said he learned during the campaign that many within the McCain team were concerned that Palin “lacked the degree of knowledgeability” to be a heartbeat away from the presidency — but agreed not to report the details until the after the election.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attackthelady; defendsarah; dirt; elites; fox; helpsarah; mccain; mediabias; nastyattacks; nastylefties; palin; personaldestruction; queercarl; sarah; sarahpalin; satanicliberals; scumattacks
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To: do the dhue

I’m not going to write off Fox because there’s still a good corps of reporters there. Greta was going off on these “anonymous sources” as cowardly. She did a lot of interviews and research up in Alaska after Sarah was brought on board, and NEVER did anyone ever make the claims that the “anonymous sources” are.

BS all the way.


141 posted on 11/06/2008 8:40:28 AM PST by ScottinVA
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To: xkaydet65
Ask yourself, if this woman was so dumb would anyone be wasting time attacking her? they'd let her go back to Alaska and be forgotten. The very fact they're picking up after the MSM and the Dems is that some feel Romney should have been the candidate and must be the candidate in 2012. And that Sarah Palin is too difficult an obstacle for Romney to overcome. Join the Dems and kill her now. I don't think they understand how tough this woman is.

Exactly right. Free Republic needs to become a Romney-free zone for the next 4 years.
142 posted on 11/06/2008 8:41:28 AM PST by Antoninus (Beware of so-called Republicans who trash Sarah Palin.)
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To: do the dhue

Country clubber, mealy-mouthed and limp-wristed republicans didn’t like Gov. Palin. Imagine that.

Here’s a clue for those nancy-boys on McCain’s team. Gov. Palin was the only reason we voted for him.


143 posted on 11/06/2008 8:42:08 AM PST by kenth (Will Rogers never met Barack Obama.)
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To: pollywog

“sad that Hannity cannot, as a employee of FOX, stand against this.”

I think he still might be on it with a vengeance; he’s on a roll and pretty pissed off.


144 posted on 11/06/2008 8:42:16 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("...a hyphenated American is not an American at all." T. Roosevelt)
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To: veritas2002
She fired me up.

I was not fired up over McCain. Probably would have still voted for McCain, but Palin made it palatable.

145 posted on 11/06/2008 8:44:19 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: veritas2002

I wouldn’t have “sit out” the election were it not for Palin, but I would have voted for someone else — Keyes or Baldwin, maybe. Without Palin, though, no vote for McCain.


146 posted on 11/06/2008 8:44:26 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("...a hyphenated American is not an American at all." T. Roosevelt)
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To: thesearethetimes...

I also sent it out to everybody on my email list...managed to get a huge response already from all my conservative friends that I thought were still in bed with the covers over their head. A grassroots campaign, swamp the Governor’s office with thank you cards.
Post it everywhere!!!!!

Governor Sarah Palin
Alaska State Capitol Building
Third Floor
P.O. Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811-0001


147 posted on 11/06/2008 8:44:31 AM PST by TiredofItalltoo (tiredofitalltoo)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative; brownsfan

Don’t sweat it. Clearly, he is of the barefoot/kitchen camp. Me, I have my socks on ; }


148 posted on 11/06/2008 8:45:48 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: do the dhue

Fox is so “fair and balanced” that they “dish the dirt” on Palin from anonymous “sources.” To get any news from Fox you not only have to put up with that garbage but also with the stable of shop-worn Dim hacks who come on - 50 % of the time = fair and balanced - to read talking points.

I’ve pretty well given up on TV as a source of news.


149 posted on 11/06/2008 8:46:10 AM PST by Malesherbes (Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: do the dhue

I know this sounds like Captain Obvious; the MSM is the enemy...the true enemy of this country. We need to devise a plan to absolutely destroy the media that represents themselves as journalists but reports “fake but accurate” stories and opinion as fact.

Am I being unrealistic?


150 posted on 11/06/2008 8:47:22 AM PST by PhiloBedo (I won't be happy until Jet-A is less than $2.00 a gallon)
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To: PLD

I think, in the end, Sarah Palin did about as much harm as she did good.

As far as qualitative data goes: A small chunk of republicans were more likely to vote for McCain because of Palin. But this was balanced out by all the Independents and soft-dems who, being less likely to give her the benefit of the doubt, were definitely not enthralled with her.

In the cnn exit poll (yes, i know, exit polling...) It appears that Palin made little difference as well.


151 posted on 11/06/2008 8:47:27 AM PST by Tears of a Clown (The Obamessiah has risen. All hail the One.)
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To: NativeTxn

Jindel trashed her too? Whoa. I didn’t know that.


152 posted on 11/06/2008 8:47:28 AM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: TiredofItalltoo

Grins broadly, I did that, as soon as I had finished posting my Thank you, to you :}

Tatt


153 posted on 11/06/2008 8:48:06 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Antoninus

“Provide a link that proves that charge or withdraw it, please.”

The tone of your demand is uncalled for. But, what am I to expect from someone who apparently is google challenged.

There, enjoy.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/05/palin-africa-continent/


154 posted on 11/06/2008 8:48:23 AM PST by brownsfan (Algore makes P.T. Barnum look like a piker.)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

HEAR HEAR

good post


155 posted on 11/06/2008 8:48:42 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: Auntie Toots

“I feel sorry for McCain....he did his best”

Are you out of your MIND? He did no such thing. There were so many opportunities for him to attack Obama on actual, proven issues, but he took them “off the table”. He’s so weak that if I hadn’t seen pics of him in Hanoi Hilton, I wouldn’t even believe those stories. Maybe a person is allotted a finite number of heroic moments in a lifetime, and he spent all of his in Vietnam.

The way he ran this campaign, he betrayed America and he betrayed Palin — someone who didn’t deserve such horrendous treatment. If he planned to run a half-assed campaign, he should have chosen another VP candidate.


156 posted on 11/06/2008 8:49:27 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("...a hyphenated American is not an American at all." T. Roosevelt)
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To: Robbin
I won't say if Fox is finished, but I'm mad at them too....I'll be watching the Home and Garden channel during the day, or the Golf Channel, or the Food Channel...I won't watch Britt's show, he's leaving anyway...the all stars like Nina Easton and Charles Krauthammer were a huge disappointment, at least Myra Eliason, Juan Williams and Mort Kondrake, who are liberal, weren't condescending like Nina and Charles were this election season.

I'll have to rethink watching O'Reilly, Hannity and Greta...Fox was pretty much my evening entertainment when I didn't have anything else to do.

But now I think I'll get my politics fix from watching reruns of Dallas at night...Obama is a worse con-man than JR, only no real person gets hurt.

157 posted on 11/06/2008 8:49:28 AM PST by Auntie Toots (The GOP has taken on new life..wirh Sarah)
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To: brownsfan

No, it’s trash talk. They are going after the Right...striking while the iron is hot.


158 posted on 11/06/2008 8:50:19 AM PST by PhiloBedo (I won't be happy until Jet-A is less than $2.00 a gallon)
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To: pollywog

I totally agree. I wrote Sean last night and will write him again, along with a few other Fox people.

Like Rush has said, there’s a fight for the heart and soul of the republican party. The rockefeller blue bloods against conservatives.


159 posted on 11/06/2008 8:50:43 AM PST by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: NativeTxn

I believe it is Jindal, and source please. Google has nothing.


160 posted on 11/06/2008 8:51:00 AM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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