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Sarah Palin's Scientology link, and Greta Van Susteren's massive conflict of interest
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... , but the man is the husband of FOX News' Greta Van Susteren. And ThinkProgress says that not only did Van Susteren never reveal that her husband was a top Palin adviser, while Van Susteren was interviewing Palin on FOX during the campaign, but TP says that Van Sustern even did stories about her husband's work, without revealing her husband's involvement in it. ...
Greta Van Susteren's Husband An Advisor To Sarah Palin
News Hounds —
... It turns out that there's more to Greta Van Susteren's slobbering, softball and unending interviews with the Palin family than just her idea of "fair and balanced" journalism. Thanks to Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post (H/T Think Progress), we now know that Van Susteren's husband, John Coale, actively advises Sarah Palin. ...
Conflict of Interest Much?
Rising Hegemon —
Greta Van Susteran has produced many puff pieces on Saran Palin...and the fact that her scientologist husband is responsible for rehabilitating Palin is why. ...
Repuke moral values
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... , but the man is the husband of Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. And ThinkProgress says that not only did Van Susteren never reveal that her husband was a top Palin adviser, while Van Susteren was interviewing Palin on Fox during the campaign, but TP says that Van Sustern even did stories about her husband's work, without revealing her husband's involvement in it. ...
Mark Nickolas: Imagine The Reaction If It Were Olbermann
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... It's incredible how quickly CNBC is rivaling Fox News when it comes to conflicts of interest and as a bastion of biased and partisan news. ...
Disclosure is a virtue
Political Animal —
... to criticizing David Letterman. His offense? He'd made jokes about Sarah Palin and her family. There seems to be a pattern here. In fact, it's hard not to notice that Van Susteren seems to enjoy closer ties to Palin than most media professionals. Matt Corley explained , for example, "In September, she hosted a one-hour 'documentary' on the GOP vice presidential candidate, titled 'Governor Sarah Palin -- An American Woman.' She also scored an exclusive interview with Todd Palin, in which she grilled him 'on everything from the story behind the name 'First Dude' to how he feels ...
Still Not Revealing Her Husband's Role As Palin Advisor, Greta Van Susteren Spins Palin Approval Ratings
News Hounds —
... about the Washington Post's revelation that Greta Van Susteren's husband serves as an advisor to Sarah Palin, guidng her political image in Washington. Van Susteren not only failed to address that conflict of interest - important because of Van Susteren's near nightly and always favorable coverage of Palin - but Van Susteren seemed to be doing her part to help her husband by offering another gushing report, this time over Palin's poll numbers, that accentuated the positive and minimized the ...
Sarah Palin and the 3-Step Libby Legal Defense Fund
Crooks and Liars —
... noted earlier this week, Fox News' Greta Van Susteren has made a cottage industry of fawning interviews with the Alaska Governor. That Van Susteren's husband Joan Coale also happens to be the man "guiding Palin's political image in Washington" (if not actually a paid adviser) is yet another serendipity. The third and final step in mounting a successful and lucrative right-wing legal defense is to recruit a Republican presidential contender to your cause. For Scooter Libby, that role was played by former Tennessee Senator and TV star ...
Unique Relationships
BAGnewsNotes —
... at Greta for serving as First Dude's handler during the (weekend of the) White House Correspondents Dinner, escorting him to the lead up garden party, the dinner itself and an after-party. (Above we see the two arriving together at the main event.) Having also provided Palin with an uncritical TV platform, Van Susteren flaunts a conflict of interest given her lawyer husband's professional ...
FOX Flashback: Greta Van Susteren shouldn't be casting stones
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... , but the man is the husband of FOX News' Greta Van Susteren. And ThinkProgress says that not only did Van Susteren never reveal that her husband was a top Palin adviser, while Van Susteren was interviewing Palin on FOX during the campaign, but TP says that Van Sustern even did stories about her husband's work, without revealing her husband's involvement in it. ...
