Posted on 09/21/2011 4:43:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Twenty years ago, NBC's "Today" devoted three days of interviews to the insufferable Kitty Kelley, who unspooled baseless allegations against Nancy Reagan, like her supposed love affair with Frank Sinatra. That kind of tabloid bilge belched back up the garbage disposal on Sept. 16, when "Today" promoted the new Palin-bashing book "The Rogue," by leftist author Joe McGinniss.
NBC doesn't have an evidence standard when its conservatives are being gored. With liberals, it's a different story. NBC didn't give a second to McGinniss after liberals roundly condemned him in 1993 for his Ted Kennedy book "The Last Brother." In 1996, after the Clinton White House complained, "Dateline NBC" canceled an interview with author and former Secret Service agent Gary Aldrich on his anti-Clinton book "Unlimited Access."
This time, McGinniss was out to destroy Sarah Palin, and NBC reporter Savannah Guthrie rolled out the red carpet. McGinniss called Palin "An utter fraud. An absolute and utter fraud." Guthrie added: "You called her a tenth-grade mean girl." McGinniss insisted "those are kind words compared to a lot of what you would hear in Wasilla...the people who know her best like her least."
Who are "the people"? When the target is a conservative, NBC's "news" programs clearly don't find it necessary to prove damaging personal charges from anonymous character assassins before spreading them. Guthrie enabled McGinniss as the personal attacks mounted. "He accuses the famed hockey mom of using her children as props and reports she was not much of a mother at all." She was "virtually nonexistent as a mother," insisted McGinniss. Guthrie also forwards that Todd and Sarah Palin were "fighting incessantly and threatening divorce."
The Palins also used cocaine, according to the NBC manure-spreaders. Guthrie touted: "Another bombshell, McGinniss writes that both Todd and Sarah have used cocaine in the past, a claim that has not been verified. How do you substantiate something like that?"
Better question: If it isn't verified, why the hell did you report it?
McGinniss replied: "Well, you talk to somebody who snorted it with her, and you talk to many of Todd's friends who describe him as having been on the end of the straw frequently in his youth. I'm not saying that Todd and Sarah Palin today abuse cocaine or even use it. But there's no question that they both did at one point in their lives."
Who are these "many friends"? How about naming just...one?
How are liberals treated when the story deals with drugs? On Dec. 14, 2007, this same NBC program put on the shame-shame faces when one of Hillary Clinton's campaign co-chairmen resigned after suggesting "Republicans could attack Obama for using drugs." His source?
That would be Obama's 1995 memoir "Dreams from My Father," page 93, about his high school years and cocaine: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it."
Still Hillary Clinton was scolded and had to apologize. In an Andrea Mitchell report, NBC replayed a clip of a 2004 interview when Tom Brokaw asked Obama if Republicans could exploit it, and Obama dismissed it: "They already have." Mitchell said the American people didn't like these stories: "Clinton allies have been openly frustrated that people are not paying more attention to Obama's teenage drug use. And their problem now is that that is exactly the kind of politics that Iowans say they don't like."
But that "kind of politics" is fair game for the GOP -- even when Sarah Palin isn't currently running for anything.
After Mitchell's report on Clinton's apology, the late Tim Russert even mourned the lack of journalistic ethics: "But the difference is, there used to be more of a filter. Now with so many media outlets, this explosion of the information spectrum with cable and radio and the Internet, little things like this suddenly explode because, they're, quote, 'in play.' And we're talking about it this morning." This line is a sick joke when you look at the network promotion of hatchet-job authors like Kelley and McGinniss.
NBC's Guthrie also helped champion McGinniss' claim that Palin slept with a pro-basketball star: "McGinniss also quotes friends who speak of a sexual encounter Palin had with basketball star Glen Rice in 1987, while she was a sports reporter for a local Anchorage station, prior to her marriage." Who needs proof of Palin's romances at 23?
Then Guthrie wrapped up: "McGinniss portrays Palin as hands off when it came to governing Alaska, but a ruthless political opportunist who crushed her enemies and rarely lived up to the fiscal conservative image she championed." He said "At best, she's a hypocrite...At worst, she's a vindictive hypocrite."
Truer words were never spoken...if they were applied to the news manufacturers at NBC.
Propaganda.
True!
The idiots are desperate and using the same outdated playbook from 2008. The idiots are also too blind to realize that they are following the same trash playbook that thoroughly inoculated Clinton and got him elected in 1992, and are now just adding fuel to the fire. A fire that will ultimately consume them and finally drive them out of office in 2012.
When NBC put Michael Isikoff on the air, it exposed their left wing bone fides once and for all.
Yep.. that same Michael Isikoff who knowingly falsified a story about American troops flushing korans down GITMO toilets. He is directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and additional risk to our troops in Afghanistan. That seditious bastard KNEW the muzzie baboons would go rabid over that story, and he pushed it anyway. NOBODY can EVER convince me the leftard loons don't seek the outright destruction of this country.
“Ok, let’s say it’s true Palin used coke and slept with a black guy and least she stopped unlike obama who has not.”
So true...lol
According to very reliable friends of both the shameless sex addicts, "It doesn't matter whether they're male or female, if there's two or twenty, or whether they ring the front doorbell or come in through the "garage," "Joe blow" and "Sassy Savvy" are always up for a party."
Joe reportedly started seeking the comfort of other men, preferably ethnic exotics, after his mother and grandmother used him for 'social experiments' up until his teen years.
People closest to her say that Guthrie has no explanation for her depravity other than, "Hey, if that's what lights up your party tree, right?"
In fact, it is this frequent refrain that has friends referring to her as "Savvy, the "burning bush.""
Wow. Who knew. Read it on the internet.
;^\
Got to know what the enemy is saying and thinking, otherwise you can't counter it. That means watching them actively and closely. Not passively sitting there and letting them lull you with stories and half truths, but really listening and looking for motive.
Of course, in this case the motive pretty much jumps out of the screen and rips your nose off ....
NBC is going to discover that it's easier to throw credibility away - than to get it back.
Why Palin Resigned, A Choice Between Destruction and Progression
http://bit.ly/pzMSmz
Best way to treat this garbage is to ignore it, IMO.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.