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Palin and CNN
A bit more on CNN's "quote" from National Review in its story on Sarah Palin. In the CNN interview with Palin, aired today, reporter Drew Griffin said to Palin: GRIFFIN: Governor, you've been mocked in the press, the press has been pretty hard on you, the Democrats have been pretty hard on ...
Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The U.S. Senate’
thinkprogress.org — Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued ... (more) Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The ...
Palin's Medical Records II
Palin's Medical Records II
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — According to the NYT today , the Palin campaign has refused to give any interviews or provide any documents with respect to Sarah Palin's health records. Like her refusal to hold a press conference in the campaign, this makes Palin uniquely ... (more) Palin's Medical Records II
Is Sarah Palin the Right's Howard Dean?
thenextright.com — The title of this post is provocative and it's meant to be. But it's not a knock on Sarah Palin. I'm still firmly a Palinista, and I hope this post shows you why. Everyone remembers Howard Dean for the "scream" but I think his example ... (more) Is Sarah Palin the Right's Howard Dean?
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CNN Goofs
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — A pretty dismal distortion of a National Review piece. I mean: you finally get to interview Palin and this is what you use? ...

Bill Dyer: CNN is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... ) This is beyond shameful. If a lawyer made this kind of misrepresentation to a court, he'd lose his license to practice law. Drew Griffin and his producer(s) should be fired and shunned by every other media employer for this outrageous piece of bad faith. — Beldar

CNN lies about Byron York to attack Palin
Rathergate.com — ... have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well. The National Review had a story saying that, you know, I can’t tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above . Griffin had declared that NR had dismissed Palin as joke. Palin asked who had written that, and Drew, being clueless, could not name the writer. The National Review writer in question, one of the best, was Byron York. In NR magazine, he wrote : Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice president , it’s sometimes ...

CNN’s unmistakable anti-Palin bias
Sister Toldjah — ... Last but not least is how, earlier this week, CNN reporter Drew Griffin tried to ridicule Gov. Palin in an interview by using a quote by NRO’s Byron York that was taken so far out of context that it’s hard to believe that it was a “mistake.” Once you read the quote at the NRO link, you’ll see why the use of it was so despicable. ...

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Mudville Gazette — ... my words, within the next -- first six months of this administration, if we win, they're going to -- we're going to face a major international challenge, 'cause they're going to want to test him, just like they did John Kennedy, they're going to want to test him, and they're going to find out this guy's got steel in his spine.So there. (Also here) And now that that's been unsaid, let's get our attention back to the Palin Threat. Byron York, in NRO: Watching press coverage of the Republican candidate for vice ...

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