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weeklystandard.com - 10/14/2008

The Weekly Standard

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A look back at the original language used by Palin at the rally in question makes it nearly impossible for the exclamation to be misunderstood as an attack on Obama unless you happen to be a MSM member just dying to think the worst of the Right. Here's the original account from the Washington ...

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redstate.com - 10/16/2008

Conversations with an internal pollster for Obama...

— redstate.com — Very enlightening indeed! I have an interesting story to relay that took place earlier this week between... my boss (a senior VP in the company I work for) and one of the Obama campaigns' internal pollsters. Just to note, my boss is a republican ... (more) Conversations with an internal pollster for Obama...

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realclearpolitics.com - 10/15/2008

On the "Palin Effect"

— realclearpolitics.com — A reader writes in with a question: A few of my friends have said almost in the... same words, "I was thinking of voting for McCain until he chose Palin. After that, I'm voting for Obama." Packer's article in the... (more) On the "Palin Effect"

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thenextright.com - 10/15/2008

Hands Off Palin

— thenextright.com — Ross Douthat smartly reviews the unfolding civil war in the conservative pundit-sphere over Sarah Palin, and tries... to call a truce of sorts: In such circumstances, what's the best course of action - denouncing the rats, or trying to figure out why ... (more) Hands Off Palin

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DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... suggests at Patterico’s Pontifications: instead, the widely reported exclamation was aimed at Ayers. The moment—originally reported a week ago along with other seemingly aggressive remarks from McCain supporters—came after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was talking about Ayers at a rally, and according to Patterico, that’s who the angry supporter was referring to. Mary Katharine Ham agrees at The Weekly Standard, accusing the mainstream media of misusing the quote to paint McCain supporters as an angry mob. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), meanwhile, has solidified his enmity with ...

Why Would the Left Rather Attack than Engage?
GayPatriot — ... Yesterday while doing my cardio at the gym, I was subjected to another of Keith Olbermann’s rants on MSNBC.  I could not believe the effrontery of the man whose TV show has become little more a forum for Bush-bashing and Republican ridicule to claim that his political bête noire (the GOP) had become a party of hate because yet another (that makes two, with some doubt cast on the first one) participant at a McCain-Palin rally cried, “Kill Him” (about Obama). (Brian Faughnan has ...

Spinning Anger
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... 1994-95 as "a temper tantrum," "angry white men," etc. (all the way to Bill Clinton essentially blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh) see the same campaign ramping up again with media claims that Republican voters are dangerously unhinged and the only cure is to stop saying bad things about Barack Obama's record. If you have been following this "story," it's helpful to have a few reminders that a lot of these stories are based on misreporting, and that there are plenty of examples of this and worse ...

POLITICS: Spinning Anger
Baseball Crank — ... 1994-95 as "a temper tantrum," "angry white men," etc. (all the way to Bill Clinton essentially blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh) see the same campaign ramping up again with media claims that Republican voters are dangerously unhinged and the only cure is to stop saying bad things about Barack Obama's record. If you have been following this "story," it's helpful to have a few reminders that a lot of these stories are based on misreporting, and that there are plenty of examples of this and worse on ...

Barack Obama: One Man, One Vote, One Time
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... to prosecute McCain and Palin for criminal incitement for their criticisms of Barack Obama. But there are many examples of emphasis in the media or by the Democrats and their prominent supporters on stories - the bulk of them false or severely distorted - suggesting that Republican crowds are dangerously angry due to supposedly false rhetoric or simply tough arguments about Senator Obama's past - see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, ...