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Even More Palin Cluelessness (Another Leper)
The New Republic ^ | 11/10/08 | Michael Crowley

Posted on 11/10/2008 1:50:53 PM PST by Dawnsblood

Martin Eisenstadt outs himself as Carl Cameron's source for some recent Palin-mockery and delivers yet more fodder (emphasis added):

As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.tnr.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eisenstadt; lies; martineisenstadt; palin; waronsarah
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To: Dawnsblood

The problem is, true or not, this all continues to sit out there in the mainstream and make Sarah look bad. It is just amazing to me what they have done to her. She needs to work hard (which I believe she will) to remake her image with the so called swing voters. Who cares about the libs, they’d never vote for a conservative anyway, but in order to win next time as her as the nominee, we will need swing voters.

I hope by doing these interviews the next couple of days and the governor’s convention next week, she kicks their A##!!!!!!


41 posted on 11/10/2008 2:21:04 PM PST by davek70
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To: Dawnsblood

Hehehehe. I just went to the TNR link for Michael Crowley and found the following:

“Update: Oy—this would appear to be a hoax. Apologies.”


42 posted on 11/10/2008 2:21:12 PM PST by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a Constitution...)
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To: Dawnsblood
I guess TNR is another publication that I’ll need to find confirmation at a second site before I believe them.

Why can't our own "professional" journalists scuh as Crowley check this stuff? Are they so eager to get it out first that they throw away all standards just the the MSM does? This is so frustrating.

43 posted on 11/10/2008 2:21:51 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: jennyjenny
Cool. Glad there actually was a link there... somewhere.

Sometimes a couple words like, “Martin Eisenstadt is a fictitious source, the article is a hoax,” helps.

My day is already going better, knowing that you had to reply twice complete a thought.

44 posted on 11/10/2008 2:23:40 PM PST by delacoert
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To: LRS

Talk about some rich irony.


45 posted on 11/10/2008 2:24:06 PM PST by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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To: ColoCdn
This is his mea culpa:

Update: Oy--this would appear to be a hoax. Apologies.

After the original report that Palin didn't know whether Africa was a country or a continent, I complained that people were being too credulous about her supposed cluelessness. Looks like I committed the same sin (although I actually find these clams are a lot more believable than that one).

He actually says he believes the hoax is still credible, lol!

Fake but accurate, in other words.

And we're supposed to respect his assessment of someone else's cluelessness?

Sheesh, TNR, how far have ye fallen!

46 posted on 11/10/2008 2:24:18 PM PST by leilani
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To: realdifferent1

what is the best caliber rifle ammunition to take down a bull moose?


47 posted on 11/10/2008 2:25:22 PM PST by stan_sipple
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To: Dawnsblood; Admin Moderator
There is no real person "Martin Eisenstadt" who worked for McCain campaign

Admin mod may want to modify title to indicate the story is a HOAX.

48 posted on 11/10/2008 2:25:26 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Right Wing Assault

So how many of the network news broacasts run with this at 6:00?


49 posted on 11/10/2008 2:26:07 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Uriah_lost

The persistent problem with these hoxes, even after they are confirmed as hoaxes is the willingness of the MSM to perpetrate the basic storyline that Sarah Palin is a dimwitted woman - which isn’t the case.

This also doesn’t excuse John McCain, a lecherous man.


50 posted on 11/10/2008 2:27:01 PM PST by Doug4McCain (I'm ashamed of myself for supporting McCain, but I still love Sarah Palin.)
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To: Dawnsblood
"MARTY EISENSTADT" IS A HOAX"

So did "Marty" also hoax Carl Cameron and FoxNews so that the entire story is without substance (as it always appeared to be)????

51 posted on 11/10/2008 2:29:52 PM PST by Enchante (Sarah Palin is Worth Infinitely More to Us than Any Vicious RINO Anonymous Staffers)
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To: Dawnsblood
Funny that even Wikipedia knew the guy was a fake.

I don't think they have this yet. You were probably reading Sourcewatch, a wikipedia look-alike.

52 posted on 11/10/2008 2:30:11 PM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Cedric

I supported McCain, because I had my blinders on. I wanted to believe and I really truly believe that Obama is a disaster for this nation and the world is marching toward tyranny.

John McCain has never been a friend of the small government conservative, but John McCain will wrestle an alligator on behalf of his democratic colleagues in the senate.

Sarah Palin in 2012.


53 posted on 11/10/2008 2:30:33 PM PST by Doug4McCain (I'm ashamed of myself for supporting McCain, but I still love Sarah Palin.)
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To: Dawnsblood

Dishonerable doesn’t even begin to describe this kind of betrayal. Hey Eisenstadt, but for Sarah Palin your sorry !@## would be associated with the most lopsided loss since McGovern.


54 posted on 11/10/2008 2:32:52 PM PST by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: Doug4McCain

I wouldn’t discount the willing dupes out here in “right-o-sphere” land. This sort of thing is happily propagated around here and other sites uncritically without any filters on.


55 posted on 11/10/2008 2:34:02 PM PST by Uriah_lost (There is no balm in Gilead....)
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To: Dawnsblood

Many of these so-called facts put out there by unnamed sources has been refuted by the people actually there.


56 posted on 11/10/2008 2:34:06 PM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Dawnsblood
This is a hoax, they guy is a sockpuppet and either never worked for McCain at all... don't people ever check these stories before they post them anymore? Sheesh, I've seen threads locked for a lot less:

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/06/conservative-blogger-m-thomas.html

Conservative blogger M. Thomas Eisenstadt is a hoax, fraud, an identity thief and perhaps more

| posted by William K Wolfrum | Wednesday, June 04, 2008

After spending a couple days looking through yards of info regarding the racist, homophobic, transgenderphobic conservative blogger M.Thomas Eisenstadt, I've pretty much reached my conclusion on the subject:

There is no M. Thomas Eisenstadt.

There is no Eisenstadt Group.

57 posted on 11/10/2008 2:35:34 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: delacoert
Cool. Glad there actually was a link there... somewhere.

Sometimes a couple words like, “Martin Eisenstadt is a fictitious source, the article is a hoax,” helps.

My day is already going better, knowing that you had to reply twice complete a thought.

Actually, each post contained it's own thought.

Don't ever lose that charm.

58 posted on 11/10/2008 2:35:39 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: agincourt1415
"Palin can COMMUNICATE, McCain CANNOT!"

I think that John McCain communicates well enough.

That is why I did not vote for him.

One can get away with that and even brag about it here in Massachusetts.

59 posted on 11/10/2008 2:37:53 PM PST by Radix (Senator Robert Byrd considers retirement: " Someone has got to iron those sheets.")
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To: Dawnsblood

Wow. Further proof of how scared the media/Dems are of Sarah.


60 posted on 11/10/2008 2:38:38 PM PST by Allegra
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