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MSNBC retracts false Palin story
AP via Sun Media ^ | 2008-11-13 | David Bauder

Posted on 11/13/2008 9:29:42 AM PST by Clive

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1 posted on 11/13/2008 9:29:43 AM PST by Clive
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2 posted on 11/13/2008 9:30:13 AM PST by Clive
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Victim of a hoax? They could have done a little checking.


3 posted on 11/13/2008 9:33:31 AM PST by Genoa
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I still don’t believe the story. I’ve heard McCain aides say it is BS.


4 posted on 11/13/2008 9:33:53 AM PST by freespirited (Honk to indict the MSM for treason.)
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Are we to believe this? If it was a hoax why did Cameron, ET, Extra, and all the others repeat it along with the other lies? Is this a McCain staffer CYA?

IF true, lazy, mission oriented yellow journalism lives on.


5 posted on 11/13/2008 9:34:18 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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MSNBC, basically, is one enormous retraction.........


6 posted on 11/13/2008 9:34:53 AM PST by soozla ("It is God's job to judge the terrorists....it is our job to arrange the meeting" - U.S. Marines)
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The only way to make this fair is to have Keith Oberman wrestle nude with a pig on live tv.


7 posted on 11/13/2008 9:35:09 AM PST by jetson
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From the article:

""Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. ..."

Kudos, I suppose, for his continuance of a slanderous attack on Palin. In any other jurisdiction in the Common Law this would hoax have been grounds for an action for libel.

8 posted on 11/13/2008 9:36:53 AM PST by Clive
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Too little....too late.


9 posted on 11/13/2008 9:38:27 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin - not the Fox News story itself.

So, the lies are still not retracted. It is just the source of the lies they got wrong.

10 posted on 11/13/2008 9:39:49 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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The only way to make this fair is to have Keith Oberman wrestle nude with a pig on live tv.

Clearly an animal rights violation.

11 posted on 11/13/2008 9:40:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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To: jetson

And that would be fair towards who?


12 posted on 11/13/2008 9:42:44 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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Where does one go to get their reputation back?


13 posted on 11/13/2008 9:45:53 AM PST by Skeptical constituent
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The only way to make this fair is to have Keith Oberman wrestle nude with a pig on live tv. ............................... I doubt if he will keep it a wrestling match, he may be part of that Swedish Animal Fetish Group?


14 posted on 11/13/2008 9:46:12 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Not my President, Remember, Decent is Patriotic!)
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The only way to make this fair is to have Keith Oberman wrestle nude with a pig on live tv.

Even pigs have standards.

15 posted on 11/13/2008 9:46:53 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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Find the culprit and sue his a$$ for slander in civil/supreme court.


16 posted on 11/13/2008 9:47:39 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Not my President, Remember, Decent is Patriotic!)
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To: Clive
Har, watching MSNBC is like being the victim of a hoax.

They say they found out this was false and ran a correction on air within minutes.

A lot of good that did, Olberman and others to this day still repeat the lie almost every show they have.

I guess they didn't get ignored the memo.

Palin today said she is concentrating on Alaska and also national problems, and isn't looking to run in 08 at this time

Jindle appears to be on fast track to run in 4 years.

He (at this time) looks like a good running mate for Palin in 08

Pawlenty is another name put out there

His waffling on the vote fraud in his state and his non-answers to the obvious fact that Franken and the ACORN member Sec. of State are aggressively stealing the election there turns me off to him

17 posted on 11/13/2008 9:49:15 AM PST by Syncro (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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So, the lies are still not retracted. It is just the source of the lies they got wrong.

MSNBC version of "Fake but Accurate."

18 posted on 11/13/2008 9:50:41 AM PST by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.............maybe.)
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To: Clive
MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday...

Total BS...a skeptic can't be conned. Con artists focus on those who already want to believe.

19 posted on 11/13/2008 9:51:15 AM PST by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops by accusing them of war crimes.)
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Pigs, but the damage has been done.


20 posted on 11/13/2008 9:51:26 AM PST by JFC
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