Posted on 09/01/2008 4:25:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I just watched the most amazing bit of TV in decades - I cannot wait to see the YouTube version of it. Wolf Ditzer (aka Blitzer) was hosting Gloria Berger, Bill Bennet, Donna Brazille an John King (I believe) on The Situation Room and were discussing young Bristol Palin’s (Governor Palin’s oldest daughter) pregnancy and her plans to have the baby and marry the father. At the center of this discussion was Barack Obama’s call to keep the families (and these personal decisions) off limits. But what does CNN do? They air a woman reporter who ran to Alaska questioning the entire abstinence position of Governor Palin in light of her daughter’s pregnancy. It was pathetic.
Besides the Duh factor that abstinence works every time it is tried (pregnancies being proof of the opposite) Bill Bennet was rightfully outraged at CNN and Blitzer for bringing the Palin family’s personal issues into the debate like this. Bennett was hammering Blitzer who did not want to concede CNN crossed the line.
John King was looking just stunned and as if he was going to get sick. He wanted nothing to do with the muck raking by CNN.
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Saw that whole exchange. Kristol made mort look like the dope he is. Kristol was right down the line. Mort came off looking like an insensitive jerk.
They put it out there, doing all the dirt work, then they allow Obama to take the high road and come out and denounce the attacks.
Truly, it's a totally repulsive technique, it's nevertheless, a very effective technique...you noticed Fred [FRED?!? Couldn't believe I was hearing him correctly!!!] Barnes said, "It proved what I had already thought, Barack Obama is a very decent human being."
So - according to you and Obama - this discussion is off limits.
So why are you here discussing it?
Or how Obama’s wife got a 160% raise and the hosiptal got a $1,000,000 Obama earmark...
She was right up there on the stage for all the world to see, not hidden away someplace.
And even if she wasn't there, so what? Her pregnancy is her business, not the McCain campaign's.
I LOVE Kristol. He’s up front and honest.
Unreal....sleaze machine in action....
So has the following thread here on FR...........Well over 2000 replies so far
.PALIN ADMITS HER 17-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT>
For some reason the Mods have forgotten how fast the threads were pulled when it came to Chelsea Clinton or the Bush girls............
Maybe they're all out to a Labor Day picnic.........
That might partly explain why we are stuck with the caliber of politicians we have now.
Do you have any credible, historical evidence for your position?
“I was so pissed off, I wanted to go through the tv and beat the living crap out of them”
Chill.
The more they do this (especially the men), the more independents and PUMAS will vote for McCain/Palin.
I agree with your assessment. I saw the whole thing and am livid. But we are powerless to stop it, because the Left has poisoned and politicized journalism in America. It’s tragic.
The only comfort is that the MSM must be so terrified by Palin that they have to quickly destroy her - just like Dan Quayle.
We all predicted this treatment on Friday.
You have no concept of moral and social issues, do you?
Sir. Do you see NOTHING wrong with an unplanned teenage pregnancy?
Do you not know that conservatives on this forum routinely disparage young teenaged mothers?
Now we are praising them?
Sorry. I’m not a hypocrite.
And let me also challenge you. Post one article from last week disclosing this pregnancy.
Can’t do it? That’s because it was politically expedient for McCain/Palin to hide that fact.
And that’s a low-life move.
Jim Rob is in the hospital dip stick...
Hmmmm ... worked for the Clintons. They told the media to stay away from Chelsea while they were in the White House and they willingly complied.
Thanks!
I would LOVE to see a replay of that!
I had this brief childish moment today..in the midst of the madness when I shouted “Why doesn’t someone DO something”? - My dog barked at me :) ...I then sent another (2nd in 4 days) donation to McCain/Palin ‘08
P.S. this- after I swore I’d never send McCain one thin dime.
You need some credible, historical evidence for my position that politicians and their families have no personal lives?
How about 535 credible, historical evidences?
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