thinkprogress.org - 10/22/2008
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Today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat down with CNN for the first time. During the interview, CNN reporter Drew Griffin noted that “socialism” has “come up on the campaign trail.” But when Griffin asked, “is Barack Obama a socialist,” Palin dodged and deferred ...
thinkprogress.org - 10/21/2008
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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 ...
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Palin Claims The Vice President Is ‘In Charge Of The ...
thenextright.com - 10/21/2008
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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 ...
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Is Sarah Palin the Right's Howard Dean?
huffingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Since her selection as the vice presidential nominee
in late August, the Republican National Committee spent more...
than $150,000 on clothing and make-up for Gov. Sarah Palin, her husband, and even her infant son, Politico reported on Tuesday evening. ...
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Palin Clothes Spending Has Dems Salivating, Republicans ...
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Mean and Dumb: You take a dirty campaign and add dumb to it
BlondeSense —
... : When asked by a third grader what the Vice President does, Palin replied, "[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." Don't they have a book like "Government for Dummies" that they can hand out to folks running for public office? I'll bet a lot of Americans think she's correct too. Dumb and Dumber : Palin invoked Joe the Plumber again. PALIN: I’m not going to call him a socialist but as Joe the plumber ...
Bachmann: Obama isn?t ?anti-American,? but his views are.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... Obama (D-IL) “may have anti-American views,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said on Dennis Miller’s radio show today that she doesn’t believe “that Barack Obama is anti-American.” Bachmann confused her own message later in the show when she said she was “concerned he may have anti-American views.” Listen here: Bachmann’s contradictory statement is reminiscent of when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told CNN that she wasn’t going to call Obama a socialist, but then added that his policies “ sounds like socialism .” Coincidentally, some right wingers are already contemplating a “ ...
Media Amplify The McCain Campaign’s ‘Socialism’ Charge
Wonk Room —
On the stump recently, both Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) have been calling Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) economic plans “socialism” because he wants to “spread the wealth” by raising rates on the top two federal income tax brackets back to the level at which they were under President Clinton.
As the Tax Policy Center noted, “sharing the wealth, as McCain puts it, is what government does.” But this hasn’t stopped the media from amplifying the McCain message by questioning if ...
McCain: ?I Don?t Know? If Obama?s Policies Amount To Communism
The Hollywood Liberal —
... Obama is a socialist. After all, his campaign has spent the past couple weeks trying to scare Americans into believing that Obama’s economic policies amount to socialism. Yesterday during ...
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Sarah Palin The Socialist?
corner.nationalreview.com 10/23/2008 — Marc Ambinder writes:
Palin is going on about Obama and wealth redistribution.
Palin taxed oil company profits and cut $1200 checks for every Alaskans.
That's spreading the wealth. Redistributing some money.
The McCain campaign talks about Palin's ...
Palin Invokes Socialism Charge Against Obama
blogs.abcnews.com 10/20/2008 — ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued the Republican ticket's attempt to tie Sen. Barack Obama to what it calls socialist economic policies, attacking in new language Obama's plans to offer tax credits to those paying no...
Palin and CNN
corner.nationalreview.com 10/21/2008 — 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 ...
CNN Distorts Palin Comments From Its OWN Interview With Her
redstate.com 11/14/2008 —
What is it about CNN that they
have to distort things that Governor Sarah Palin has said in
interviews? This time, CNN even distorted what she said in an
interview one of its own correspondents conducted. On CNN's
Political Ticker Blog on ...
CNN Distorts Palin Comments From Its OWN Interview With Her
newsbusters.org 11/16/2008 — ***Video Linked Below Fold***
What is it about CNN that they have to distort things that Governor Sarah Palin has said in interviews? This time, CNN even distorted what she said in an interview one of its own correspondents conducted. On CNN's ...
Palin Suggests Obama Would Re-Write Constitution
blogs.abcnews.com 10/29/2008 — ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin went beyond her running mate's recent attack on Sen. Barack Obama -- inaccurately claiming that Obama called the lack of "redistributive change" during the civil rights movement a "tragedy" ...
AP: Palin put kids on state tab
swamppolitics.com 10/22/2008 — by James OIiphant
The Associated Press is moving a story that says that as Alaska's governor, Sarah Palin charged the state some $21,000 in expenses for her children's travel as she conducted official state business.
But Alaska law is unclear ...
Sarah Palin, the AIP, and the Extremist Fringe
themoderatevoice.com 10/23/2008 — So McCain and Palin want to smear Obama with guilt by association over his non-relationship with Bill Ayers , eh?
Well, perhaps more attention ought to be paid to Palin’s long and ongoing relationship with the extremist Alaska Independence ...
McCain vs. Obama: A double-digit lead —
First Read 10/22/2008
The Wall Street Journal on the new NBC/WSJ poll: “Sen. Barack Obama has opened up a double-digit lead in the presidential race, with a growing number of voters saying they're now comfortable with the Democratic nominee's values, background and ...
Biden keeps focus on McCain —
First Read 10/22/2008
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- While Palin continues to hammer away at Biden , the Delaware senator is for the most part focusing on McCain , hitting him again today for a “wait-and-see” attitude on a second stimulus ...
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