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Talking Points Memo — Another little nugget of information suggesting a less than thorough vetting of Sarah Palin.

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Obsidian Wings — ... by hilzoy This is amazing: "On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin's hometown newspaper. How does he know? The paper's (massive) archives are not online. And when he went to research past content, he was told he was the first to inquire. "No one else had requested access before," said the source. "It's unbelievable. We were the only ...

Huffington Post 1, Washington Post 0
The Reality-Based Community — ... , Sam Stein reports that when Democratic oppo researchers asked to see the Palin clips in her hometown newspaper's morgue, they were told that they were the first to have asked. It's already on record that ...

Huffington Post 1, Washington Post 0 (maybe)
The Reality-Based Community — ... , Sam Stein reports that when Democratic oppo researchers asked to see the Palin clips in her hometown newspaper's morgue, they were told that they were the first to have asked.* It's already on record that ...

FNS: McCain Calls Palin His “Soulmate”
Crooks and Liars — ... and little to no vetting, McCain has decided that Sarah Palin is his “partner and soulmate”.  Ew, that’s a little creepy.  Can you imagine him saying that about his true partner, Joe Lieberman, if the ...

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Political Animal — Borderline This is amazing: "On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin's hometown newspaper. How does he know? The paper's (massive) archives are not online. And when he went to research past content, he was told he was the first to inquire. "No one else had requested access before," said the source. "It's unbelievable. We were the only people to do that, which means the McCain camp ...

There's A Lawyer Vet, Then There's A Political Vet
The Atlantic Politics Channel — Let's accept that AB Culvahouse, John McCain's veepstakes vetter, did a careful legal vet of every jot, tittle and parking ticket of Sarah Palin's. Her health, her family, her life. A political vet -- one done by political researchers -- is entirely separate and equally as important.  Political attacks often hurt as much, if not more than, long-ago put-to-bed legal troubles. And it looks as if one major part of the political vet -- the hometown newspaper archive search -- did not take place.

Sarah Palin wasn't vetted
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — There are reports that the McCain campaign came up with the idea to pick Palin a week ago, and then only vetted her for four days. That would explain the plethora of bad news the blogs and the corporate media have been able to find on her in such a short period of time. And now we have even more evidence that John McCain simply wung it in picking a neophyte with no national security experience as the person who may replace him as president in as little as six months. McCain didn't even check her hometown paper to see what it had to say about her. At some point, McCain's ...

Not an impulse pick, honest
Newshoggers.com — ... By BJ Earlier today the Washington Post put out a story quoting some folks from the McCain campaign claiming that Palin had been thoroughly vetted by the campaign and was not in fact a impulse, spur-of-the-moment choice. Well, whoever was doing the vetting certainly didn't turn over all the stones, so to speak. On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the ...

No Vetting Watch
Oliver Willis — The McCain campaign didn’t even check out Palin’s hometown newspaper.

The Palin Vetting Process
TalkLeft — ... resulted in McCain asking her to come to Arizona. On Wednesday Palin flew to Flagstaff. That night she conferred with Schmidt and Salter. The next morning around 7, the three of them, along with a Palin aide, climbed into an SUV with tinted windows to begin the 45-minute drive to McCain's retreat in Sedona. She then talked to McCain for a while, and then Cindy, and was offered the job. What didn't they do in their vetting process? Huffington Post reports: Bq.. the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Special doin' a heckuva job edition. Gustav could make landfall in Louisiana by sunrise. As this is election season, the GOP is making a show of caring.  But they're also already politicizing Gustav.  The McSame campaign, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be on top of things. Though they did have time to scrub edit Palin's wiki page.  Turns out, Palin was for the bridge to nowhere before she was, you know... A few questions for Sarah Palin. ...

McCain-Palin: Sloppy To No Vetting? How Can Anyone Trust McCain?
Firedoglake — ... I mean, honestly, any vetting process at all should have uncovered something this basic, shouldn't it? If, in fact, there was any vetting process other than "she's ...

One Most Likely Biting the Dust
The Moderate Voice — ... , and they just might have themselves a viable candidate! (And just for the record, no… the clearing up of the most tawdry, vacuous item to emerge in the first twelve hours really doesn’t change my disappointment in McCain’s selection of Palin nor encourage me about he viability as a VP and potential President on a moment’s notice. Nor does it sell me on the idea that she underwent a long, thorough vetting.) ...

And the Vetting Goes On
The Moderate Voice — ... While this may seem vindictive, I have seen the standard talking points issued in defense of both the vetting and the qualifications of Sarah Palin as our next Vice President. Frankly, even before seeing the report above, I have hardly been convinced by either. Never mind the fact that nobody ever checked into the hometown newspapers where Palin was Mayor. Perhaps we can assume that Team McCain knew that the pro-life, abstinence-only, family-values-oriented Palin’s unmarried teenage daughter ...

Wednesday Mostly Palin Bashing
Discourse.net — ... Crooks & Liars, To Serve For The Wrong Reasons: “What does it say about Sarah Palin that in her first big appearance before a national audience - her introduction as McCain’s running mate - she decided to flat out lie about her accomplishments?” (That she’s in a long tradition of GOP Veeps from Agnew to Cheney?) Bob Geiger, McCain To Katrina Victims In 2005: You’re On Your Own HuffPo, McCain Camp Didn’t Search Palin’s Hometown Paper Archives — and they want to run the ...

Frank Rich: Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
The Latest on Air America — ... to the fired state public safety commissioner at the center of the Palin ethics investigation. No McCain researcher even bothered to consult the relevant back issues of the Wasilla paper. Apparently when McCain said in June that his vice presidential vetting process was basically “ ...

HuffPo 'Reporter' Has Not Corrected Week-Old Errors in 'McCain Didn't Search Palin's Hometown Paper' Story
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The following assertions about the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (the VF) that you made in your August 31 report are untrue, and should be corrected: ...