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Terrible Sarah the terrorist
The Reaction —
... She's been making the Slime Circuit, or cruising the Bullshit Belt if you prefer, telling the folks that Obama is a terrorist and a friend of terrorists. She cites a New York Times article as a source although, true to the Palin Practice, the article does not say anything of the sort and that's been affirmed by most of hte mainstream media. Of course back when Ayers was raising hell trying to stop the Vietnam war by blowing things up, Obama was thousands of miles away and eight years old. They do, now that Ayers is a 63 year old professor at the University ...
CNN Fact Check On Obama “Palling Around With Terrorists”
The Moderate Voice —
CNN’s Political Ticker’s Fact Check’s conclusion:
Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now “palling around,” or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.
Go to the link to read it all.
Sarah Palin: Obama pals around with terrorists.
INSTAPUTZ —
Right out of Putz's playbook. Problem is, the corporate press is then obliged to respond. Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now "palling around," or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are. CNN is clearly in the tank for Obama.
McCain campaign unmuzzles Palin
Newshoggers.com —
... encounter back in the days I taught Sunday School. They were well dressed, perfectly coiffed and pillars of the church, mainly because they donated lots of money. Usually they had a stained glass window or at least a pew named after them with a little brass plaque. They were sugary sweet to everyone to their face, but would make oblique insults about parishioners they didn't like behind their backs, subtly mocking their clothes or their social status. That's Palin in a nutshell, with her desperate attempts to resurrect the long dead meme of Obama's nonexistent 'terrorist pals' ...
Republicans Turn to Lies, Race Baiting and Swiftboating
Taylor Marsh —
... called Palin out on her the "racial tinge" of her comments, including
Ayers. CNN
said what Palin is asserting is false. ...
What’d I Miss?
The Mahablog —
... Palin is impersonating Marge Gunderson (one of the all-time great film characters) as much as she and Frances McDormand are/were evoking a generic woman of the Frozen North. But Marge Gunderson is less of a caricature than Sarah Palin, IMO. Palin’s “by golly” and “you betcha” stuff is just too contrived.
I see also that the McCain-Palin campaign is still trying to scare voters with the alleged Bill Ayers-Obama connection. CNN does a good job explaining that there is no “there” there.
It’s ...
McCain Camp Finally Expose Obama Ayers Connection, Media Quick to the Rescue
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, finally played the Ayers card. CNN were quick to the defense in what they had the gall to call a “fact check”. ...
McCain Camp Finally Plays Ayers Card, Media Quick to Rescue
Stop The ACLU —
... The media want this controversial relationship to be swept under the rug. Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, finally played the Ayers card. CNN were quick to the defense in what they had the gall to call a “fact check”. Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now “palling around,” or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are. Of course CNN ignores the entire point. Obama had a long history and ...
‘Racial Subtext’- I am Not Seeing It
Balloon Juice —
... I have been wrong about things before, but I am just not hearing the dogwhistle here. Yes, Sarah Palin is an asshole, and those remarks were obnoxious, stupid, and factually inaccurate, but I have a really hard time thinking they are racially loaded remarks. The real test is whether or not you think they would be saying the same things about Joe Biden, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, or any of the other candidates from the Democratic primary. ...
CNN: But Obama Ain’t Palling Around With Terrorists Now!
PoliGazette —
... Via CNN which does a ‘fact check‘ of the Obama - Ayers connection: Verdict, the two men do not have a close relationship now, and there is no proof that they were working together closely at any point “in the last three years.” ...
Despicable: McCain and Palin Revive McCarthyism
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... we not have enough real issues and decisions to discuss in the coming four weeks? Edward R. Murrow, one of the great journalists of our time, said it best when confronting Joseph McCarthy:“We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of anot her. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.” A Buzzflash Reader Contribution The McCain-Palin Recycled Attacks Debunked Again: See Fact Check. Verdict: False. There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are ...
CNN Ignores Bernardine Dohrn's Terrorist Past While Defending Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... CNN's supposed fact check that came in response to a speech that Sarah Palin gave where she did the job the mainstream media refuses to do by mentioning the words terrorists, relationships and Barack Obama in a single sentence while referring to the former Weather Underground leaders. ...
McCain Campaign Refuses To Address Palin Lies About Obama "Palling Around With Terrorists"
DownWithTyranny! —
... CNN bends so far over backwards to present all sides, that they often-- very often-- will state completely made up propaganda from the GOP and give it an equal footing to objective reality. It's part of the reason I bade my longtime station adieu and migrated to MSNBC earlier this year. But today CNN did yeoman's work in debunking the Lipsticked Pitbull's latest Obama smear, the Bill Ayer's nonsense. Keep in mind that Obama was 8 years old when Ayer's was a member of the Weather Underground and that he long ago denounced Ayers' violence. ...
William Kristol, Whoring For Sarah Palin
Daily Kos —
... It seems that Kristol just happened to chat with Sarah Palin on the phone and gosh, you betcha that she thinks saying that Obama "pals around with terrorists" is fair game, never mind that it's not true. And never mind that Palin herself has a very personal ...
Krazy Kristol and the Dominatrix: The neocon extraordinaire swoons before Sarah Palin
The Reaction —
... ," specifically William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn of the Weather Underground. Needless to day, it's a false charge, but it's one she's ...
McCain Voted To Protect Domestic Terrorists Who Carry Out Violence At Abortion Clinics
Think Progress —
... This morning on CBS’s Early Show, McCain-Palin campaign spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer attempted to defend Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AZ) debunked claims that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has been “palling around” with former radical William Ayers. Referencing a ...
Turning the page
The Reaction —
... The rest of the attacks, including Gov. Sarah Palin's false claim about Barack Obama "pallin' around with terrorists" -- and doing it in a way that even the ...
McCain Voted To Protect Domestic Terrorists Who Carry Out Violence At Abortion Clinics
The Hollywood Liberal —
... This morning on CBS’s Early Show, McCain-Palin campaign spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer attempted to defend Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) debunked claims that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has been “palling around” with former radical William Ayers. Referencing a This morning on CBS’s Early Show, McCain-Palin campaign spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer attempted to defend Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) debunked claims that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has been “palling around” with former radical William Ayers. Referencing a ...
Losing it
The Reaction —
... the same neighborhood as an aging former radical who is now a professor of education at the University of Chicago, William Ayers. And as it has been exhaustively pointed out, Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers relationship is casual at best. But that doesn't mean anything to the McCain campaign or to their vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, who has spent the last three days crowing about the alleged connection between Mr. Obama and a "domestic terrorist." Aside from the fact that this is demonstrably false, Ms. Palin either doesn't realize or doesn't care that she's got more ...
Omid Safi: Terrorizing the American Politic
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , most Americans probably think of "Muslims" when
they hear terrorists. What
they probably do not think of is a 1960's activist who has never been found
guilty of a crime, and is today a distinguished professor of Education at
University of Illinois at Chicago. Yup, this Bill Ayers is Sarah Palin's
"terrorist." ...
That one
The Reaction —
... And then there's the biggie: Slimy Sarah is telling people right now that Obama is palling around with terrorists. That, being an accusation of high treason, should have been carefully checked out and perhaps she did in her own barely literate way but of course it's a lie. It's the kind of lie that gives us a window into the empty, vicious soul she claims is saved. ...
nuremburger and fries
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... obama and ayers, now a university professor, met in 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation. cnn's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved. cnn fact check: is obama 'palling around with terrorists'?... ...
Meghan McCain ‘Can’t Get Over’ Smears Of Her Sister, Forgets Same Operatives Now Run Her Dad’s Campaign
Think Progress —
... smears. Still, Meghan McCain yesterday said, “[O]f course, I’m supporting my father.” She further claimed that the attacks in this election have “ ...
Right-Wing Florida News Anchor Asks If Obama Is A Marxist; Defends Questions As ‘Probing’
Think Progress —
... about his proposed policies. Instead, she asked McCain why he had not “gone after” Obama’s previous ties to ACORN. She asked if McCain felt that Democrats were “trying to make it impossible” for him to criticize Obama and allowed McCain to repeatedly mischaracterize Obama’s relationship with William Ayers. ...
Palin Says “We Weren’t Fair To The Electorate” Not Focusing More On Rev. Wright And Bill Ayers
News Hounds —
... “Yeah, it surprised me.” Hannity reiterated a litany of accusations supposedly “proving” Obama and Ayers were close. However, Hannity undoubtedly knows that, as CNN reported in a fact check of Palin’s “palling around with terrorists” charges against Obama during the campaign, “There is no indication that Ayers and Obama are now ‘palling around,’ or that they have had an ongoing relationship in the past three years. Also, there is nothing to suggest that Ayers is now involved in terrorist activity or that other Obama associates are.” ...
