Posted on 09/12/2014 10:59:54 PM PDT by lowbridge
On Friday, all three network morning shows seized on reports that Sarah Palin and her family were "caught in a massive brawl" during a house party in Anchorage, Alaska. ABC's Good Morning America opened with substitute co-host Lara Spencer declaring: "One witness saying it was like an episode of Jerry Springer, her kids throwing punches. What sparked this rumble in the tundra?" The song Eye of the Tiger was heard playing in the background.
In the full report that followed on GMA, correspondent Paula Faris pushed the tabloid story: "According to the Washington Post, Palin, along with her husband Todd and kids Bristol, Willow, and Track, arriving in a stretch Hummer. The Post also reporting that as the beer started flowing, that's when the fighting started." Supposed eyewitness Eric Thompson proclaimed: "I heard Sarah Palin scream out, 'You know who we are, don't you?' It was like we were just on a Jerry Springer episode."
After the report from Faris, news anchor Amy Robach urged other party guests to send in video of what happened: "Someone's cell phone had to be rolling. Come on, people." Co-host George Stephanopoulos chimed in: "If it was, we will find it."
Will Stephanopoulos bring that same tenacity to investigating his old bosses the Clintons during the 2016 presidential campaign?
At least ABC included someone who claimed to have actually been at the party, on NBC's Today, news anchor Natalie Morales was simply repeating internet rumors:
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“Their imaginations are running wild with visions of the Palins being like the Kardashians. The FACT that they are not...”
Their worldview does not allow the possibility that they are worse than conservatives. Ergo, whatever demonrats and other scumbags get up to, conservatives must also necessarily do.
Our Sarah does have a wild streak in her nature, but on the other hand, she is very intelligent and socially savvy. I would not be surprised if some of this ‘situation’ was prescripted or at least deliberately provoked, as a way to draw attention to her channel. Look at how it’s worked in just a few days. Look at all the free publicity she’s gotten. For better or for worse, the public is once again massively curious about the Palins. We ‘know’ about 30% of the story, maybe. We in the lower 48 may not ever know what really happened and why and by whom. Go for it Sarah, let’s give them something to talk about!
Egads—I hope not! (And don’t think so.) That would truly be Jerry Springer territory.
If the Clintons did it you wouldnt know it even know it happened
If this really happened, a cell phone video would have already been released.
Any video corroboration or is it just another of the “fake but true” deals the Left is so eager to poison the Truth with?
I call BS. THAT is what liberals say.
The libs will do anything they can to get the Palins at every opportunity.
IMO, they pushed this story to take the heat off of their beloved odumbo leader. His popularity due to his recent launch against ISIL, (note not ISIS) didn’t sit well with the non-libs so they needed another diversion.
They are all so happy that maybe just maybe the Palins are just like us, dumba##es
I strongly doubt the credibility of this story, considering statements like the one above purported to Sarah Palin. This just doesn't sound like her.
The anti-palin crackpots who are peddling this story, and even furiously defending it, should have done a better job imagining up the details. Even details like one of the Palin kids "ripping of his shirt in anger" sounds like something out of a third rate Hollywood production.
The nitwits who are gleefully defending this story on FreeRepublic, and taking the opportunity to trash Palin stand out like warts on baby skin- even when some of them are trying to hold it back and sound sympathetic.
Until there is credible details, and credible people talking about it, this story is bunk. Add it to the pile of other Palin stories they come up with. My favorite is that Palin said that "she can see Russia from her front porch".
She lives 24/7 in their heads.
I think you have hit on a key point. Their champion turned out to be just an epic fail. So they try to turn the attention of the not-so-bright segment to someone else.
True, but not what he and the media claimed. Bill Clinton ostentatiously carried a bible to church.
The current administration has claimed to be the most “transparent” ever.
This is all about attacking the “other side” with Alynski tactics. In that you are correct. Alynski despised the whole idea of “standards” or morals, or even right vs wrong.
Next the media will be reporting Rumble in the Tundra bigger than Ferguson riots. LOL!
She's a witch!!!! GET HER!
Excellent point you make!
Yeah I know...it has as much impact on the world as my kids getting into fight...
We all know what PDS is on the left...(Palin derangement syndrome)...
But there something akin to that on the riht as well...
Palin shunning syndrome
Some on the right think she is responsible for McCains loss....they wish she would go away....and anyone who supported her (or still does) is a fool or cultist of some type...
In their eyes she is ,stupid, a quitter, and a loser....They have actually come to see her as the
caricature the left presented to the rest of America...
I wasn’t going to vote for McCain AT ALL until he picked Palin...And it has been researched....Palin brought 12 points to the campaign...
Without Palin it would have been a landslide loss...
I didn’t even see her the first time she spoke nationally (when she was announced as VP candidate)...I heard her on the radio at work....and I knew she head the heart....I didn’t care what she looked like....
And I would remind everyone.....before the left wing press got ahold of her...she was Governor of Alaska with an 89% approval rating....
Story seems a bit exaggerated and too scripted, in my opinion. Not a fan of Palin, but that’s how it looks to me.
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