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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Where did she claim that as her reason for saying it's nobody's business?
BTW, they announced her pick Friday at noon. They announced her pregnancy and her engagement to the world Monday — before ANY news source had found the truth.
And if not for the media poking around, I would have preferred the girl be given a chance to tell her story to a local reporter, in her own time — it was HER privacy, not her mother’s that was being breached here.
BTW, I presume you are sending notes to the other candidates, like Bob Barr, and you send a simliar e-mail to Duncan Hunter when he was a candidate, insisting that he disclose to you his son’s sexual habits, since that apparently is something you feel the right to know.
You must have been soooooo happy when this story broke today. I have a mental image of you, rubbing hands together...'oh boy, oh boy, oh boy...I get to go alllll over the web today and vaunt my moral superiority...yippee!!'
I'll say it again, and again...karma is a b!tch...
And just how do they do that?
Ok. Let’s call a press conference.
“Before you guys destroy our daughter, we’d just like to announce that in conjunction with full disclosure on the day I’m named as VP, I want to announce that my daughter is having a baby out of wedlock!”
Yeah. That would be a swell way to announce her as a running mate.
Eschoir? Nahhh...not as pithy...maybe one of the Ash re-treads.
I had no idea that part of the “trig is the daughter’s kid” story included the ex-trooper.
The depths to which the DailyKos people will sink to win this election is very, very troubling.
Exactly. They had no clue.
You continue to NOT answer that simple question — why do you care that some 17-year-old-girl had sex?
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It amazes me that so many have lost sight of the moral relevance that America once had.
Morality matters. Maybe not to you. Maybe not to the Clintons or other democrats, but to me, I would like to hope that my candidates are trying to live up to a higher standard than some democrat.
Of course I support the Palin’s decision. I would stand behind my daughter also.
But why.... Why did they feel the need to HIDE this? Why was this not disclosed until the last minute before the DUmmies tore it aprt.
McCain/Palin would have been much more credible if they would have owned up to this scandal last week.
There would have been far less damage done.
In fact isn’t reality exactly the opposite, that in their hometown it was known among the neighbors that she is pregnant.
Yes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072540/posts
So basically we’re dealing with a troll here.
Yes! and Mortie and Woffie et al are demonstrating the pervert walk. They want to get into the details and roll in them like perverted pigs in shit.
I had another word in mind.
I think it’s time that CNN investigate a rumor I just started — that Joe Biden did not in fact graduate from College at all, but instead hired someone to take his finals for him.
I have a picture of Joe Biden NOT taking a final exam. I don’t know when it was taken, but it clearly COULD have been taken when he was supposed to be taking his final, which shows that someone else was taking his finals.
I’m sure CNN will get a reporter on this right away, just as they got a reporter on the story of a governor faking a pregnancy and birth and pretending a child was hers instead of her daughter’s.
I'll second that opinion
“McCain/Palin would have been much more credible if they would have owned up to this scandal last week.”
Last week? Last week was practically over by the time McCain announced Palin.
“There would have been far less damage done.”
What is it? Are you concerned about flexing moral superiority, or supporting a winning ticket? What happened, did Johnny skip over your veep choice?
WRONG.... in a “ Gossip Column, As The World Turns” atmosphere???? Damaging a young girl? NO WAY!
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