Sarah Palin Meets World Leaders — Reporters Kept Away?

MMMMM! I wonder why?

His pick of Palin is an absolute joke and a mockery of the election process.

Can everybody say “We are going Commie?” There is something just WRONG with this!

My vote is ALL PRESS tells them to go shove it? They should all REFUSE to cover it period.

Wow, there’s free press for you. Imagine what these dolts will do if they’re actually elected? It might make Bush’s scripted press conferences look refreshing!

Kate,
Do you think that perhaps you, your organization, and the liberal media are part of the problem?
Why is it that most non-liberal people have to go to additional news orgranizations outside of ABC/NBC/CBS to get clarity on “your news stories” as you edit them to make people think one thing, when in actuality what happened was another!
Perhaps no one trusts you, or your organization?
Look in the mirror once in a while

How does the McCain campaign feel they have any right to limit media exposure for their VP candidate, over and above what is normal? And more importantly, why??? IT is clear they see her as a liability, and fear that she will say or do something to let the public know her true nature.

IF Charlie Gibson had been more civil on ABC with Governor Palin, and IF Martha Raddiz had indicated that of 60 soldiers interviewed, 54 (90%) were voting for McCain and only 6 not, maybe the news would be more represented. Martha then used 3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton on the air, a 1/100,000 statistical chance on a RANDOM basis. No wonder the campaign does not want the liberal broadcast media and the warped Fourth Estate there when Palin meets these folks. Only an idiot would tolerate such Obama cheerleading and distortion of the news. For the most part, journalism is unethical, biased, uses charged language and represents the political agenda of wealthy liberal slobs. I recommend that reporters who do not offer objectivity and fairness in their reporting take a break and do some honest work for a change. In the interim, I would recommend reporters be given sparse access to the candidates. Then they can work for the National Inquirer instead, until they go back to school and learn what journalism really was supposed to be. Until then, they can crawl up in the fetal position and suck on their thumbs.

OF COURSE.
I have guessed it right, since last week.
Has any other VP Pick, ever been so ‘Mysterious’, for this long?
This is why America, is digging through her garbage. They just want to know who she is.
What do you think the rest of the world, will view her?
As a fragile little chiwawa, that needs protected.

MCCain hasn’t done a press conference in 40 days and Palin hasn’t done one since she ‘s been picked. I think what McCain is afraid of is that the truth hurts.

Wake up America… This is a marketing campaign, not an election process. Let’s get some photos with Sarah acting international.

YOu know, you journalists (and I use that term loosely) are not the end all, be all. You maliciously attacked Sarah Palin for days after her nomination… spread vicious horrible rumours.. why should she give any of you the time of day? Just so you can twist and distort and attack? You guys have NO CREDIBILITY with the public anymore.

I’m with the previous writer. The networks should respond by refusing to cover the story at all. Give them what they want – in spades.

Why is it that that Democrats seem to be the most bitter and angry group in America. If you don’t like Palin vote for Obama and watch SNL. I had given money to McCain but not my max since all of the personal attacks have happened I now have given the max. Be angry in silence because when you say it out loud the base will react

Sarah Palin wants to ban books in Alaska and now John McCain wants to block media coverage. This is the type of governemnt we need.

Oh, but she really is ready to lead! She said so herself on television! I agree.. the press should boycott this one simply on principle!

What’s the difference. If the other reporters were in the room, they wouldn’t be able to participate in the meeting anyway. They can do the same reporting from the camera feed and don’t have to be in on the meeting. Besides, What does the McCain Campaign owe any of these Democratic Loving Media reporters. We need to bring back the law that requires EQUAL reporting for both major parties. You can see the media just can’t be trusted.

I never seen anything like this before in my life….Not only is she not answering qustion here but in the debate next week, she and Biden aren’t allowed to interact. This is insane.
Tell me again ….why is she the VP canidate?

Why would anyone want to do a press conference with all the lies and stories that have been printed about Governor Palin…I wouldn’t.

Can anyone be surprised by this latest revelation? Of course reporters and cameras were banned. Otherwise, it would have recorded her being the most confused, out-of-touch, and ridiculous candidate in history. I can only imagine what the world leaders think! They probably thought she was the “entertainment” when she walked in the room!

Look at the recent polls people…Yes this country is full of idoits who will still vote for a man who pick his VP for political reasons vs. safety & security of our beloved country. But most of us are beginning to realize who McCain really is. And what his admin. would look like. I say more Palin, more troopergate, more flip flops, more ignoring the media..more more more

Wake up folks Sarah Palin is a real dimwit and this is the reason the McCain handlers do NOT what any major coverage of her meetings. They RUSHED to select her ONLY because she was a woman with a pertty face who puts on a good “act” of bing a pit bull, but is really a cupcake with artificial icing provided by the Republican party! Her selection was designed to attract women over from Hillary Clinton and if anyone, man or women, votes for McCain only for this reason you will earn exactly what you deserve—NOTHING! Sarah Palin is AGAINST everything women have worked fought for over these last 70 years and if elected she will set YOUR cause back at least 100 years! If that is what you are willing to get up only to see a woman as vice preident may God have mercy on you all!

So will the media also have limited access if she becomes President?

Well, isn’t that adorable? John is taking his daughter Sarah to work with him. How cute. She’ll get to see some of the really neat-o things that world leaders do all day. I wonder if he’ll take her to get a balloon and a butterscotch sundae afterwards.

Give this woman NO coverage at all.
This Republican party dictating is a non-funny joke.
A continuing sign of things to come…

We live in an OPEN GOVERNMENT. What IS McSame afraid of? He’s afraid that his inept choice for VP will put her foot in her mouth like she has started to do regularly. Give me a break pppuuulease. McSame/Palin = Same old Crap! Your days are numbered… and REAL CHANGE will come to America.

s.b.
If she wants to be Vice President she most certainly DOES owe something to the press. Ever heard of democracy, or the First Amendment?

Angry voter ,
Palin’s running for the second highest office in the US. We’re entitled to know what her qualifications are. And to hear it from her own mouth and not a prepared script.

THEN WHY COVER HER????PLEASE STOP THIS SILLY OBSESSION WITH GOV. PALIN. I WOULD NOT GIVE HER NOT ONE SECOND OF COVERAGE. THE MCCAIN CAMPS WANT TO CUT AND PASTE WHAT IS SAID, THEN MAKE THE CLAIM SHE HAS MET WITH X,Y AND Z…A NOTE TO ALL MEDIA “DO NOT COVER SARAH PALIN OR JOHN MCCAIN”

curtis41: You said,”If Charlie Gibson had been nicer during his interviews…etc.” Um hello, I saw those interviews and he was extremely professional and only pressed her once each time she tried to get around a question, then he moved on. You think Putin and the boys will be so nice? Get a grip. Also, I didn’t see you on here slamming O’Reilly when he was yelling at Obama…typical Republican double standard.

John McCain picked Palin as his running mate what a joke.
“I can see Russia from my house” something to that affect.
Palin is old news, meeting Heads of State, why?

Not all media is liberal. How about Fox Noise Channel. They could report on her and do a real great job of making her look like the best person on the planet to be V.P. Maybe Rush and his ilk could cover the story. They love her. A rational person can only conclude that the reason the McCain Campaign doesn’t want any coverage of her discussions with foreign dignitaries is because she is ill-informed and unqualified to be Vice President of the United States. But, I don’t think McCain really cares. He’d rather win an election than do what’s best for this country. And he claims “Country First”. Yeah, right!

I also agree, the press needs to boycott the whole thing. I hope they do.

can you beleive the spin and lies that the mcCain supporters are putting up in defense of this slimy behavior again
behavior that can only remind us of the behaviors from the last 8 years that got us into this mess.

All MSM are in Alaska looking into rumor Sarah had an unpaid parking ticket. The MSM needs a reality check and I think it is great. They legends in their self important minds.
Bravo McCain-Palin for not playing their game!!!!

Shocking!
The heavily biased left-wing media is getting push-back for their anti-McCain/Palin BS and people are outraged?
Why?
Why was there never any outrage over the abusive coverage of Palin that led up to this decision by the McCain campaign?
Why let the press in at all when the coverage will only be biased against you no matter what?

randy, you may think banning books is “minor and trivial” but some of us still believe in that quaint little bit in the Constitution about freedom of speech. Palin may have only asked about banning books (3 times, before she tried to fire the librarian who wouldn’t agree with her)but any idiot should know the answer to that question. Banning books was one of the first acts of the Nazi regime. That should say it all.

The media asked for this. I’m glad McCain told them all to shove it.

As an Independent voter who will be voting for the first time I believe Obama is risky but in the last one week since the economic problems came to fore I even believe more that McCain is the riskier candidate for president.
He seems to have no clue on economic issues and besides I have no confidence in his economic advisers. I watched Obama surrounded by economic advisers from the Clinton era and that somewhat has made me tilt towards Obama but I still havent made my final decision. I wish we had better choices

Why Colombian President Uribe and not the President of Peru, the President of Venezuela, the President of Argentina – all three have ejected the U.S. Ambassadors until after the election. Why not the President of Ecuador who before the Latin American Countries secured admonisment against the U.S. backed Uribe for crossing the border and killing innocent Ecuadorans in the U.S. backed “war on drugs” which has funneled millions to corrupt politicians and military. Why not talk to Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras Presidents and explain the U.S. backing of dictatorships that killed indigenous peoples? Why not balanced reporting? Because Telemundo and Univision have already seen and are reporting the distortion that Palin and McCain are making regarding relations in this hemisphere. Why doesn’t Palin ask the Russian delegation why a nuclear submarine from Russia next month will be off the South American coast (as reported last night on Univision and Telemundo)? Get this woman off the stage before she does more damage than George W. Bush could ever have dreamed of.

It’s funny to me that those that support the McCain/Palin ticket just attack the media as being “liberal” when they hear something negative about their candidate. I have heard/read plenty of negative things about my candidate over the last year, but I never labeled the media as conservative because of it. Why were you not complaining about the press when they were attacking Hillary Clinton? How come you only care what they say when it’s something negative about McCain/Palin? Look yourselves in the mirror and ask yourselves those questions. Those of us that are complaining are doing so because we want the truth. We want to know who/what our elected officials are all about. We don’t want smoke and mirrors. As the article states, what the media is asking for/expecting in this situation is the norm and the only reason it is getting coverage is because they are being denied the norm by the McCain administration. That makes it look like they are trying to hide something and makes people not trust them. If you want my trust then be an open book! And Bob, not only non-liberals look to outside sources for their news coverage, but unlike you, we choose to get it from someone other than Fox.

They are continuing dictating to the public what they will not allow. This has gotten out of control. This is not a game show – Why is this being allowed? Of course the public has made their own perception that this woman was not vetted and the McCain camp is afraid letting her speak alone with all the dictating to the media not to get to close to her…. I have lost much respect for McCain for this kind of distraction even if his camp forced this decision upon him.
still undecided. Palin needs to go away immediately!

This is a masterful move by McCain. The media and the American people don’t even realize that they are being manipulated.
You see, McCain and the Republicans are the richest and most powerful people on the planet. They keep themselves in power by being so very effective at playing the “victim.” They use these kinds of tactics to bate the media into complaining about their secrecy and then McCain and Republicans turn it around and say, “…the liberal media is attacking us.” Unfortunately the American people fall for it.
The only way this will ever change will be for Americans to wake up and realize that the richest, most powerful people on the planet realize that we American all too often act like sheep. SNAP OUT OUT IT AMERICA: BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn’t let the networks near any important meeting. They’re not interested in anything that is news, their agenda is to trash the Republican ticket at any cost

The more they hide her, the more suspicious people become of her!

When the Republican ticket is one big JOKE, they should be trashed. Amazing that so many people are even voting for and considering voting for grandpa and his little Saracuda.

Another cover up…
Sen McCain and his campaign are afraid of exposing their inaptness. One, they didn’t vett Sarah Palin properly. Two, they are interfering and hi-jacking the Trooper gate investigation. Three, they have been preventing the media from asking Palin fair questions, and now this. They are preventing the American public access in these important meeting, that will help us decide with Palin is capable and qualified to be our next VP and possibily our president.
What are you hiding??????
Cover up after cover up… just like the Bush/Cheney administration…
Poor Judgment… No Credibility…
McCain/Palin 08 – Thanks, but No Thanks

steve
sounds just like you and the republicans did with
wmd
Iraq
aluminum tubes
Brownie
judicial appointments
gonzales
rummy
Katrina
Myers
Libby
closed door energy meetings with Cheney
wall of silence
deregulation moves
energy speculation bills
abu ghraib
shall we go on…
throw these bums out

Why does McCain insist that our troops fight so hard to secure freedoms in Iraq, but at the same time he is fighting so hard to take our freedoms away? What kind of a role model will the United States be for democracy when we shred and mock our own constitution?

The notion that Palin’s media timidity has anything to do with the nature of the press rather than her incomprehensible lack of qualification is self deluding fantasy. The mind set that thinks that if you keep saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong in hopes that it will just become true.

when will the outrage start already? Aren’t we entitled to see how Ms. Palin handles herself with foreign dignitaries? Isn’t that the point of why she is running- according to her she is qualified and didn’t blink when asked to come onboard the ticket. Are we just to take her word for it? We’ve had eight years of lying and deceit. Enough. She needs to be under a microscope if she continues to hide. What a sham this is, and will be even more if the press doesn’t make this an issue.

Palin is a joke. Plain and simple.

Liberals sound desperate!!!!!!!!!

Sarah Palin is a big joke. The way she’s being guided and guarded gives me the creep.
This is a Lady that may become the Vice President in a few months and considering McCain’s age and Mortality, POTUS.
And to think that the Press is handling the hide and seek game with Levity is a big disappointed.
The Ban by the networks is a big relief. I hope Fox News will not renege.
And I also hope that the Networks will not change this position even if the McCain Campaign eats the humble pie.
He needs to be thought a lesson in humility and openess.

Now that you’ve read Kate’s comments –
Now that you’ve read down through all of this –
Can you blame McCain?
The carcass of journalism has reached the bottom, and the bottom-dwellers are in a feeding frenzy.

If we wanted someone who can’t be accountable and honest, we’d keep Bush up there. It’s final, McCain will not get my vote.

rpla,
If you dont like the press, we should hurl the all to jail then. Like they do in Darfur.

60,000 people seemed to like Palin in Florida???????

Allow me to paraphrase Liberals on offense: “Sarah Palin is a joke and anyone who doesn’t think so is stupid.”
That’s exactly why you guys keep losing presidential elections. Please keep it up because I am looking for a landslide in November.

And that’s because the 6 o’clock news might catch Palin saying somthing like this……. “And thanks, but no thanks to that brid……” You meant that has nothing to do with the UN, but that’s all they taught me to say so far” She had better start the college cramming process – there is alot to learn for the great leader of Alaska

I am so sick of this cover up>>> no more and I as an independent will NOT be voting for these two so Obama here we come This is a sad time for this country why are they allowed to do this ….Oh YES<MC CAIN is honest to hell he is she should be vetted by the American people I don't believe he even picked her for her brains it was a woman wow ride on the skirt tails of a female it is over John…..

Just because Obama has to have an entourage of reporters everywhere he goes (even to take his daughters to school), does not mean that McCain and Palin think it is necessary to be followed everywhere. Honest to God, you people complain when the press does an article on McCain/Palin saying it is not newsworthy and then you complain when they don’t want press coverage and you look for some big deep dark secret that is being kept. Just keep following the “Rock Star Obama” and covering every little itty bitty thing he does so we can confirm how arrogant, ridiculous and inexperienced he is. Leave our candidate alone, they have nothing to prove to us. We know they are the better choice and that Obama just is not an option to be elected president.

Okay…so don’t cover the McCain campaign anywhere, any time.
Move on.

In LIFE there are consequences to each decision a person makes. GOOD or BAD but there will be consequences.
YOU the PRESS chose to print lies-more lies-untruths- along with half truths.
I have learned over the years half knowledge is often times worse than NO KNOWLEDGE! YOU the PRESS have chosen and to continue to choose the above process in YOUR reporting of Governor Palin. Why would anyone in there RIGHT mind even want YOU about them…authors of LIES !!!YOU the liberal press PLANTED the seeds NOW YOU the LIBERAL PRESS CORPS are reaping what you have SOWED !!! Deal with it !!!By the way JUST WHERE WAS THIS CHICAGO “good ole boy” born, what country ?HMMMMMM?

Joanne600, Name call all you want. This conservative knows that she is a joke. That is not the issue here….. PRESS FREEDOM. Like it or not!!!!!

the only response. dont cover it at all, we’re sick of hearing about her.

They actually have a point. I mean, whose toddler gets publicity when it learns to walk? OK fine, so the footage may end up on “America’s Funniest Videos”. She’ll get 10 grand to take home to Wasilla, which she could donate to help pay down the debt on the ice rink.

For you McCain/Palin supporters: What in the hell are you supporting?
A blank check?????

***The libs just cant handle the fact that Palin is kicking Obama’s rear…I guess she spoiled his coranation!!!!!!!

RJ,
Since the first amendment!!! Since the UN is a public event. Since the same protocol has been followed with all REAL leaders……A make-believe leader cannot change it now !!!!!

And the Republicans can’t figure out why
the media is biased. Looks like we now
know the reason.

It’ll all be out on the table before election day regarding McCain and Palin’s gross inadequacies for high office. Palin’s been able to fool the voters of Alaska for years but she will not get one over on the majority of citizens in the lower 48, we’re a different breed. The networks should just settle down and go along with the camera feed.

rplat,
I reckon McCain and Palin will become President and Vice President of the right wing only if they win.
I kind of forget that the election is for the President of the United States of the Republicans and not the United States of America.
I suggest that you give it a thought before you click on “post” botton next time.

Hello Boys and Girls -
The media has voted to not attend…that happens to be ALL the media including FOX News.
This time it’s bi-partisan!
WOO HOO for consensus!!

Why no protest a couple of months ago when Obama was sending his press entourage one way, then slipping out the back door?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-ditches-p.html

Looks like they are keeping track of what the public perception of Palin is at this time. Let’s see how she responds to “World Leaders” without it being apart of “America’s Funniest Videos” and etc.
All we can do now is laugh without crying at this time. I actually throught they had a winnder during the convention speech. They should have hid her for much longer after the speech because once she started talking and all the facts came out – What a shocker and now she has made the “camp” look foolish.
What a bad choice for McCain..

Voting for Mccain because of Palin,
What does that say about you? Why on earth would you vote for the second in command that clearly does not have the experience be President. Everytime you see her she reading a script. You either see Mccain or one his people protecting her from the public. See just is not ready for this type of job. Maybe in a few years of prepping she’ll be ready.

i am waiting to hear which candidate is honest enough to come forth and admit (that given the theft of our tax money) that campaign promises made are no longer in the budget. bye, bye, entitlement programs. time to chop your own wood, and grow your own food.
undecided purple person

Sarah Whoo going to the U.N. ?
We have only controlled, edited,
digitally enhanced film that is also
capable of having her located on
the surface of the moon! Hmmmm
not a bad idea, maybe she can see
Russia from there too.

This is pathetic…is this a candidate for Vice President of the United States or the poster-child for some S&M video?

Always has to be the way Sarah wants it. She is like a spoiled child. But one thing for sure, she refuses to answer real questions, except on Fox, and then, well, those are real questions, are they!
Hannity is a baffoon.
Hey, I have a question for Sarah. WHO THE HECK IS THE WITCH DOCTOR LAYING HANDS ON YOU, TO HELP YOU WIN THE VICE PRESIDENCY?
AND SARAH, WHY DO YOU BELIEVE, AND YOUR CHURCH TEACHES, THAT CATS, ALL DOMESTIC CATS, ARE EVIL, AND FROM SATAN?
Sarah wants to turn this country into a Theocracy! No thanks, I am not an Pentacostal Assembly of God member.
If your Jewish, catholic, Episcopal or Mormon, forget being Muslim, you are in big trouble with sister Sarah, she literally despises you!

I cant wait for there to be the moment when she is asked about relations between Washington and Caracas and she responds by saying, “Carcass? I’ve seen many carcasses! Charities come pick them up and give them to poor people to eat!”

Vladimir McPutin!

Looks like Little Miss Sunshine wants the copyright on “newsflash”.

Im sick of every news story being about Palin. I’m so bored by her. Were in the midst of a financial crisis and were supposed to care about her mooseburger recipes?

Friends…
Only my opinion –
It seems like McCain/Palin are setting up the rules to make the leaders they visit with feel more comfortable, instead of feeling like targets of a rabid U.S. media frenzy.
Since Palin is meeting leaders of other countries for the first time, it seems logical to ease into her role at first, instead of risking overkill by the media of some comment likely taken out of context.
Yes, Charles Gibson was insulting to Palin. I watched the interview and his body english seemed snide to me.
No, I haven’t made my final decision about which candidate to case my vote for. Both sides have their pros and cons. I certainly don’t believe the hype that McCain is a Dubya clone, and I don’t believe any of the anti-Obama spam making the rounds of the Internet.
I’ll keep evaluating both sides until I’m convinced in my own mind that my choice will be the right leader for America.

sarah Putin

YOu know, you journalists (and I use that term loosely) are not the end all, be all. You maliciously attacked Sarah Palin for days after her nomination… spread vicious horrible rumours.. why should she give any of you the time of day? Just so you can twist and distort and attack? You guys have NO CREDIBILITY with the public anymore.
Posted by: Angry Voter
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Thats because they are trying to find
something credible with her!

Why would the McCain camp want any reporters record Palin while she’s in the middle of job training? It is obvious that Bush/McCain polices do not include Freedom of the Press unless they stand to benefit. What an embarrassment for our country on top of this latest Economic meltdown…”Gidget goes to the U.N.”….
More proof to the world that those in power who run this country, do not care about how we appear to the rest of the world. As an Independent female voter, McCain will not get my vote based upon his record on deregulation, and for the VP selection which was probably the biggest insult of all.

Did I miss the memo that states that a candidate for VP who could very well ultimately be called upon to lead this entire country gets to pick and choose exactly what the public and the press get to learn of her character, decision making abilities, character and qualifications for that position?? If she doesn’t want to run for the office, wonderful. If she’s going to run, she had better pull them together and let the public see who she is and what she’s made of politically!

Why is media not covering Biden with the intensity similar to Palin?I am happy to see them jumping up and down including AP. Even fictional writers do better job than AP guys.

Perhaps this will give the press time to spend in Obama’s South Chicago area. Ever noticed they don’t walk down the streets interviewing anyone there?

Nice to see that a quickly resolved internal dispute is still a top news story on abcnews.com.
It always warms my heart to see standard, throw-away issues reported as a huge controversy when it has something to do with Sarah Palin.

Just following along,
We understand the situation..
Sarah Putin wants not reporter (as is customary…cameras and an editor with other REAL leaders), she wants only cameras…..why want it prefentially.
Reminds me of the free press in Russia, close to Alaska

THE REPUBLICANS COMPLAINED THE WHOLE TIME WHEN OBAMA WENT OVERSEAS, THEY COMPLAINED THAT THERE WAS TOO MUCH MEDIA COVERAGE, WHY THIS NOW? BECAUSE THEY WANT TO START THE RUMOR THAT THE MEDIA DOESNT FOLLOW THEM LIKE THEY FOLLOW OBAMA???

I wish the press had just stuck to their guns and not covered this at all. Now only one CNN reporter will be allowed in. One opinion that the McCain camp will undoubtedly slam if they say anything remotely critical. Let her do it alone. No pictures, no coverage. All Palin has EVER been for the McCain camp is a media distraction. A way to take the spotlight off Obama. Then the spotlight got a bit bright for them and they started complaining immediately. Hypocrisy at its finest.

coloradorocket123,
Had it been Obama, what would have happened.
Remember how the hospital visit in Germany was understood for the misunderstanding that is was………
I wonder how the repubs pray!!! I wont be able to face the Lord with the type of double-talk they “evangelicals” are into !!!

60,000 DID NOT SHOW UP TO SEE SARAH, ANYMORE THAN 23,000 SHOWED UP IN VIRGINIA.
20,000 SHOWED UP IN FLORIDA, AS DID 6-8,000 IN VIRGINIA.
IT’S THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN, LYING ALL THE TIME, TO EVERYONE.
JOHN ‘KEATING 5′ MCCAIN, DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT THE ECONOMY, CAUSE JOHN ‘KEATING 5′ MCCAIN, IS TRYING TO COVER UP THE KEATING 5 CONTROVERSY.
WELL, HERE IT COMES SENATOR MCCAIN, IT’S COMING BACK NOW, TO HAUNT YOU. OBAMA MANNERS ARE TOO GOOD TO BRING IT UP IN THE FIRST DEBATE, BUT I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED TO SEE A COMMERCIAL SOON.
AFTER ALL, IF THE ROLLS WERE REVERSED, AND IT WAS BARRACK ‘KEATING 5′ OBAMA, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN HEARING THIS ALL YEAR LONG.
JOHN ‘KEATING 5′ MCCAIN, I CAN HEAR THOSE WORDS NOW!
HE ENABLED MILLIONS OF SENIORS TO DIE IN POVERTY WHILE BEING RIPPED OFF.
SOUND FAMILIAR? SOUNDS LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
THEY’RE ASKING THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER TO RE-FUND THEIR 401K’S AFTER THEY STOLE US BLIND.
ANYONE GOING TO JAIL, HECK NO.
MCCAIN WANTS THE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY MADE PERMANENT!
MCCAIN WANTS
1. WAR WITH RUSSIA
2. WAR WITH IRAQ
3. WILL START THE DRAFT AGAIN!
EH SAID HE WOULD, SO YOU BETTER BELIEVE HE WILL. ANYONE 35 AND UNDER, WELL, GOOD LUCK TO YA’. WOMEN TOO THIS TIME. NOT FOR COMBAT, BUT WOMEN WILL BE EXPECTED TO SERVE!
IF i COULD MOVE OUT OF THIS COUNTRY, I WOULD, TODAY!

Hey Angry Voter: If you want to know everthing about the person(s) who may be president, you better start with Obama first. He’s got enough skeletons in his closet to make the Mummy 4. But NO, the Liberal media won’t go there. His House deals with Resko, His Organizing with Ayers, His 20 years with Rev Wright, and so on, and so on, and so on, etc, etc.
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We know all the facts, and they were legit.
BTW, How are the Keating 5 doing?
Does Cindy still have that Shopping Center
investment put together by the Keating party?
McCain has been there for 26 yrs, what has he
done during that time? I see very very few bipartisan legislation passed by him during that time.

You don’t have to be an Esoteric to know that Palin is a joke.
It takes only a discerning mind devoid of emotions associated with party affiliation to see her for the joke she is.

How can anyone think that having a VP that needs minders, tutors, and must be coddled is a good thing? I can understand that a lot of people who share the same religious beliefs as she does may appreciate her brand of conservatism, but even the most ardent evangelical must be able to see that she does not have the education or experience to be on a world stage. If anything should happen to McCain, if he were to win, Palin would only be able to act as a puppet that needs someone to pull her strings. She would not be able to function as president, she would only be able to read the speeches and inform the American public what her controllers have decided.

Emman
what a dim whit you are! Obama is goving speeches and behind the scenes trying to talk the Iraqi’s to delay the troop drawdown so he can take credit. The surge is working and he was all wrong. He even admitted this on O’reily. This guy is a great speech giver and that is it!!

60,000 DID NOT SHOW UP TO SEE SARAH, ANYMORE THAN 23,000 SHOWED UP IN VIRGINIA.
20,000 SHOWED UP IN FLORIDA, AS DID 6-8,000 IN VIRGINIA.
IT’S THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN, LYING ALL THE TIME, TO EVERYONE.
JOHN ‘KEATING 5′ MCCAIN, DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT THE ECONOMY, CAUSE JOHN ‘KEATING 5′ MCCAIN, IS TRYING TO COVER UP THE KEATING 5 CONTROVERSY.
WELL, HERE IT COMES SENATOR MCCAIN, IT’S COMING BACK NOW, TO HAUNT YOU. OBAMA MANNERS ARE TOO GOOD TO BRING IT UP IN THE FIRST DEBATE, BUT I WOULDN’T BE SURPRISED TO SEE A COMMERCIAL SOON.
AFTER ALL, IF THE ROLLS WERE REVERSED, AND IT WAS BARRACK ‘KEATING 5′ OBAMA, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN HEARING THIS ALL YEAR LONG.
JOHN ‘KEATING 5′ MCCAIN, I CAN HEAR THOSE WORDS NOW!
HE ENABLED MILLIONS OF SENIORS TO DIE IN POVERTY WHILE BEING RIPPED OFF.
SOUND FAMILIAR? SOUNDS LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
THEY’RE ASKING THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER TO RE-FUND THEIR 401K’S AFTER THEY STOLE US BLIND.
ANYONE GOING TO JAIL, HECK NO.
MCCAIN WANTS THE TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY MADE PERMANENT!
MCCAIN WANTS
1. WAR WITH RUSSIA
2. WAR WITH IRAQ
3. WILL START THE DRAFT AGAIN!
EH SAID HE WOULD, SO YOU BETTER BELIEVE HE WILL. ANYONE 35 AND UNDER, WELL, GOOD LUCK TO YA’. WOMEN TOO THIS TIME. NOT FOR COMBAT, BUT WOMEN WILL BE EXPECTED TO SERVE!
IF i COULD MOVE OUT OF THIS COUNTRY, I WOULD, TODAY!
Posted by: Mike from Augusta
Your right!!
How dare they give our money to bail-out anything without safeguards and no investigating and jailing these criminals that cause this?
Now they are blaming the people that were suckered into buying the American dream with deceptions and fraudulent practices.
Let fine and jail the fat cats that cause this problem. That would pay for most of this so called Bailout! Tha will send the right measage!
Lets us not forget who the fat cats friend like Bush and his rubber stamp McCain that set it up for then to steal our money.
Can it get worse – Dummies YES If you vote for McCain!

McCain is a sick and confused old man that will do anything to become president….lie, slander, smear…and protect a completely incompetent possible VP to be scrutinized by the press and the American people. No McShame, no McShame ever. Send him where he belongs to, retirement in AZ

Why should anyone be surprised by the republicans manipulation of this too? This is facist communism in action!
It is time to take our country back! I am sick to death of the lies and manipulations of the past 8 years!
McCain and his crony republicans have made a mockery of what America stands for and it is very clear what we are in for should he be so lucky to steal a win in November! So much for Country First!!
People had better wake up! Our financial systems are now state owned, our so called free press is muzzled and only a matter of time before some get closed down for their views, our privacy (via the Patriot Act) is down the toilet. Our Constitutional Rights have been stolen from us by a bunch of criminal politicians, and all people want to do is bicker over lipstick and pigs!

spacerook1
bring it on. Let’s know ALL about the 4 candidates.
The only two that have been investigated or being investigated by a house (state or national) are John “Keeting” McPutin and Sarah Putin.
Your turn….

I’m sure Kate Snow is still waiting to hear her orders and talking points from David Axelrod and the Daily Kos. It’s okay Kate, there will be more important lies about Palin in the next 5 weeks. Just be patient. Winner and Associates are working tirelessly to bring us the very best the left can offer. Axelrod is paying them a good fee, I imagine. Truth be damned, just as long as Obama (the socialist) gets elected. Who CARE’S about Rev. Wright, Saul Alinky, Father Pflager, William Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis and Tony Rezco. Like, duh!

Liberals sound desperate!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: ynot
****************
Hmmmm, The RE PUBIC ANS sound
delirious.

When there’s biase favoring Obama and giving him the halo-like visionary over his head while painting the McCain’s camp w/viscious lies and smears… rude, sexist comments … have you even heard of the extreme liberal media loons out there against McCain and Palin. The McCain/Palin ticket are marching to the beat of the people who trusts them to lead… not the biased media.
By now, most of the McCain/Palin supporters are tired of the media already… hence, you’ll see mostly liberals complaining everything Palin, and we on the otherside, have heard your vitriol, and have decided to push your hate aside.
If the press wants to cover fairly, no one would complain. But no, they’ve chosen the leader… not the people. So why give them the satisfaction of spinning the facts to favor their candidate… when the people deserve raw information, not media spun information.

justrightto,
I said bring it on..
Lets talk about Rev Wright, Troopergate, adultary by McCain, plagiarism by Biden etc etc..
BUT DON@T START THROWING THE PRESS TO JAIL…..THIS IS NOT RUSSIAN…..DOESNT MATTER THAT YOU SEE RUSSIA FROM YOUR HOUSE.

Again, McCain/Palin supporters are missing the point of the article. There is a standard practice that is followed for certain meetings. The press is allowed one camera and certain written press media. This is standard practice, not something they were trying to do just because it is Palin. However, the McCain campaign wanted to go against this standard until there was push back that nothing would be published from these meetings. Then they agree, but still are not within the standard practice. If Palin is so ready, and their administration will be so transparent, why go against standard reporting procedures for these meetings?

I know who posts the cry baby crap, and its because the CNN and NBC can’t get to Sarah enough to “decimate”her. Thats what they want, not to cover the news but to find fault and destroy her. SHAME on you, stop pretending to be so lofty, you are slime and should be forced to write weather reports, then at least you can be right 50% of the time and blame everything on god, oh I forgot most of you do not believe in God.

Kim,
At least the press should say something before you start to protest.
Sarah Putin wants the press muzzled.
That sound Russian to me.

dmsc – It’s fine to not support Sarah Palin based on your disagreement with her work history/accomplishments – but to base your opinion on twisted logic, lies and half truths is just silly.
1. “book banning” The truth is, Sarah Palin never banned a book and documents at the city of Wasilla’s Web site show that she did nothing more than ask about policy and, at a resident’s request, asked about two books.
2. “firing of any one not agreeing” There are no documents to back this up. She was fighting a corrupt system when she took office and did what she had to do. Records on file at the city of Wasilla’s website do not indicate that people were fired for not agreeing with her but for other reasons.
3. “putting her own politoco;s in cabinet even tho ignoramus’s” not sure what you’re talking about here – when you elect an official, you expect them to “clean the cabinet” and install their own people – it’s one reason why we elect new politicians.
4. “padding all the trips and books” She also put the state budget on the Internet, so that everyone and anyone can review the books. Her spending was not even close that that of her predesseors.
5. “her children family as AMERICAN FAMILY VAKUES!!” Ummmm – did you say the same thing when Obama put his children on tv and let them do an interview with Entertainment Tonight?
6. “no interviews and openess, must be treated with reverence” – She has given several interviews – you must have missed them. There’s even been a book written about her – it’s in bookstores.
7. “explain why the foreign visitors would even meet with her;” They would meet with her for the same reason foreign leaders met with Obama – out of respect for our political process – something many Americans like yourself seem to have forgotten.

I wish the media would just boycott the McCain campaign completely. Let them have their little KKK rallies in Florida with no coverage at all.

Lillian Hanson,
Every private meeting in the white house is documented.
Sarah Putin’s meeting in Alaska should have been documented…I hope she has not been destrying records of those meetings !!!

The PRESS is “out of control” STUPID. They act like pons for Obama. The PRESS is afraid Sarah Palin will be liked and admired by world leaders! GOD FORBID a world leader says something positive about her ! What will they do !!! Go hassle the Iranian President, let diplomacy happen.

So maybe McCain and Palin, like the rest of us regular people, are merely pissed off at the Legacy Media and all their machinations and manipulations? Nah, couldn’t be that!

Just wanted to point out that NO MEDIA was present when Obama met with the Iraqi foreign minister – the same meeting when, according to the foreign minister’s comment to the Washington Post, Obama asked that any US troop withdrawal be delayed until after the election – and the same one where he referred to Bush as being in a “weakened state of confusion.” I wonder why Obama didn’t allow cameras and reporters in that meeting? I wonder if Obama supporters were equally outraged by Obama’s snubbing of the press in that case?

Me again,
it they suppress in Iraq, fine.
This meeting is taking place in the USA

Emman,
My post was meant primarily to point out the selective outrage of leftists and their hypocritical “police state” rhetoric.
However, the difference, since you ask, is that Palin’s meetings are meant to be conversations between leaders while the Obama event was a completely open, public and media event. Certainly, you see the difference.

I think McCain picked a running mate he is now reluctant. Well, McCain you made history alright. The embarrassing moment.

And lets hear it from voters that were brought into the fold by ACORN: If you don’t know what ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is all about, you better bone up. This left-wing group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers — you and me — and has leveraged nearly four decades of government subsidies to fund affiliates that promote the welfare state and undermine capitalism and self-reliance, some of which have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and encouraging voter fraud. A new whistleblower report from the Consumer Rights League documents how Chicago-based ACORN has commingled public tax dollars with political projects. Who in Washington will fight to ensure that your money isn’t being spent on these radical activities? Don’t bother asking Barack Obama. He cut his ideological teeth working with ACORN as a “community organizer” and legal representative. Naturally, ACORN’s political action committee has warmly endorsed his presidential candidacy. ACORN head Maude Hurd gushes that Obama is the candidate who “best understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about” — like ensuring their massive pipeline to your hard-earned money. Let’s take a closer look at the ACORN Obama knows.

ABC — as well as the entirety of the MSM — have shown they have abandoned their role as news gatherers and have assumed the one of pro-Obama propaganda mills. As such, they no longer deserve press privileges. Let then spend their time spinning lovely fairy tales about Obama — that’s the only thing for which they’re good.

How convenient for Palin to have cameras only, and just one at that! This way the gaffes can be carefully edited out to make her look as good as possible. I wonder if there will be retakes of botched lines. I’m sure CNN will more than happy to oblige.
Cripes, this woman is getting to be the worst political joke in American history!

Will ,
Your points are perfectly OK….your point of view.
What we don’t do is to suppress (or even tolerate a semblance of an attempt to suppress) the press in the USA. That sound Russian

A little over a month before election day and the McCain campaign is attempting to prevent America from knowing anything meaningful about his VP candidate? How about this? HOW ABOUT IF ALL THE NEWS MEDIA REFUSE TO COVER PALIN UNTIL THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN STARTS TREATING HER LIKE A REGULAR CANDIDATE? AND MCCAIN TOO FOR THAT MATTER. He’s getting tons of coverage in the way he wants, but not nearly enough heat for not making himself available to the press. Yeah, Fox will probably still cover her morning, noon and night, but they lost a whole lot of credibility with that soft ball interview with Hannity. Also, a countdown on all other networks and no hint of a free ride for McCain should do the trick. A candidate with no news coverage is a candidate who can’t win. The McCain campaign knows that. That’s why they caved on letting the CNN producer in to today’s meetings. I hope they’re taping the whole thing! No more letting McCain push the American press and the American people around.

Hey -
The press do not want to decimate her…they just want to understand her more.
FOX news was in on this boycott so it was across the board.
Her avoidance of ANY press in ANY situation is unprecidented.
I thought this campaign was about being transparent.
The more they hide her…the more it LOOKS like there is something to hide.
As I said, if she is as fabulous as the McCain folks think….then SHOW HER OFF!!!
spoken from a dissatisfied republican, by the way.

It’s not that she’s a political Joke Judi…… It’s called attempted rationalization of the fear by any means compunded by the indisputable fact that the left screwed up… They should have selected Clinton. And they all know it!

Mack,
Messing?? No, he was being thugish and low class. He had no right to block ANY media at that public event. That O’Reilly had to scream over security and the campaign thug in order to get Obama’s attention is disgraceful. It also shows, if nothing else, Obama at least knows when it’s time to do the visually correct thing. Unlike his ill-trained staffer.
But do go on downplaying this incident. My point was leftist selective outrage and you’re illustrating it beautifully.

Emman – It does not matter where the meeting between Obama and the Iraqi foreign minister took place – the media follows Obama everywhere and they were not allowed in that highly controversial meeting. Cameras and a reporter are being allowed in Palin’s meeting. Funny thing about the Obama-Iraqi foreign minister meeting is that Obama banned the media – the Iraqi Foreign minister later told the Washington Post about the meeting and Obama called the Iraqi Foreign minister a liar. You might have missed that story as much of the media chose not to cover it, but it highlights what can happen when the media is actually banned from a meeting.

I cannot believe you republicans!!! You vote against abortion which is your main agenda and then totally be oblivious to the fact that the war in Iraq was wrong in the first place which killed a million Iraqis and displaced 4 million Iraqis(of which many are children). I guess Iraqis are not human to you all and children dying there in a wrong war are not children!!!!

In what respect, Charlie?

This is the same network press that sat on the John Edwards story. They have no credibility. The National Enquirer, however, got the story correct. When will the news report about their own failings?

Ash – When did anyone vote for or against abortion? Until Roe v Wade is overturned (if it is overturned) it will not be an issue for voters to decide on – the Supreme Court made the decision for us to legalize abortion. It is far from the “main agenda” of the Republicans – abortion is used more as a scare tactic by the Democrats.
As for the war in Iraq, yes, the war needs to end, but not everyone agrees on when or how. Although Obama tells voters that troops need to be withdrawn right away, when Bush announced he would begin withdrawing troops, Obama met with the Iraqi foreign minister and suggested delaying the withdrawal of troops until after the election. Visit the Washington Post’s website and read the story. If you get all your news from the mainstream media, you will be ill informed.

What whiners. Instead of trying to ambush Palin in private conversations, why don’t you go sniff out Obama’s medical records, his birth certificate, his Ayers ties, his Annenberg Challenge rip-offs, his Sual Alinsky ties, his ACORN ties & so on. Get a cry towel too. Bunch of eletist Lefty cry babies…

Will,
Biden claimed small amounts of donations on his returns. That does not mean he did not make more donations, it is just he is not reducing his tax burden by writing off donations to charity. I don’t think there is a tax law that says you have to claim all donations. Why not complain about the McCains filing separately to hide part of their estate? Oh, that is because there is nothing wrong with them doing that.
Running from going to Vietnam, like Bush did by joining the National Guard using his Daddy’s influence. There were a lot of people who avoided drafts during that time. Some went into college, some got medical reasons, some ran to Canada, and some went into the National Guard. I also believe we had another president who did not serve in the military and who had this country not running in the red and people had jobs, President Clinton. So, who cares about whether Obama thought about serving during peace time and whether Biden had deferrments and medical releases.
Obama worked with Ayers on education reform, not some sort of underground organizing like you try to make is sound.
Nice job parroting the republican’s partial truths. They will be so proud.

@Tex, get real. We did that already. Stop rehashing old issues that the public has been satisfied with.
If you are not satisfied, fo research it yourself.
Obama was vetted, Palin gets a free ride.
Elitist?
Do you even own a dictionary?

Just another mom,
I think you have that wrong the Bush administration is the one that wanted to wait on a timeline until after the election according to Prime Minister Maliki. So stop the blame game here. The one that has the control is the Iraqi government and the Bush White House. But I guess your a typical Republican that will defend your party even if the got us in a war of convenience not of necessity

>>You vote against abortion which is your main agenda
Huh? I’ve never voted against abortion. The Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision took away my voter rights by claiming abortion was a Constitutional right that could not be denied by my vote or Congress.
I vote for Republicans because I want them to appoint judges that interpret the Constitution and don’t legislate from the bench.
getting back to the topic at hand… The media weren’t entirely banned. McCain was just trying to send a message that if you continue to be a partisan Obama hack, you can expect some retribution. About time McCain showed some balls against the liberal MSM!
Go McCain-Palin!
Down with terrorist-associating (William Ayers), criminal associating (Tony Resco, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick), sitting in racist church for 20 years, throwing grandma & Rev Wright under the bus, NObama!

Any new facts to present GOP about Obama other than rehasing old debinked myth from last year?
Please, last I checked, we knew all that stuff and Obama still leads your boy McBush.
Let us ask Palin and see where you go in the polls.
You are afraid, and instead of ANSWERING QUESTIONS, you create another distraction.

@Noodles get a life, its Carabu Barbie as far as I’m concerned.
I don’t hear you saying Senator Barack Obama, Esq.

@Former Hillary Supporter….beleive me…the USA is dumb, but we are not that dumb.
Apparently you are if you think this works.

@Kitty: Utter nonsense. Palin visited Alaska National Guard troops as Governor of the state. Obama was visiting *Germany* (not Iraq) as a _candidate_ and followed the wishes of the military by not using wounded soldiers as political props. He *did*, however, meet privately with wounded soldiers.
You can be pro-Palin all you want. However, the least you could do is to get the basic facts straight before maligning her opponent.

I am from Canada. I have been closely following the US campaign since January 2008. I too find this a joke. If a VP candidate (man or women) will not be subjected to prudent questions as well as interviews that are vital to this election, than all voters are being duped. There is something wrong with this picture; since the selection process VP Biden has over 80 interviews to Palins 2. What ever happened to Democracy? How are any of you (male, female, young and old) expected to make an informed decision on who you want to vote for. Is she suppose to be for the people? At this point, I highly doubt it. This should be a two way street.
Here’s A quick solution: All News Media deny Palin the news & photo shoots she is hoping for (not just her meeting with foreign leaders & heads of states) Take steps beyond Wednesdays meeting until she starts answering questions & agreeing to interviews that all the American Voters deserve. The News media should only be focusing on the candidates that are coming forward with interviews and answers.
Something to be concerned about
Brenda

Quit crying ABC. You guys don’t complain when Democrats do the same thing. Obama did it too but he’s your man so its ok.

Good point, lets see who listens.
“You can be pro-Palin all you want. However, the least you could do is to get the basic facts straight before maligning her opponent.”

@RS
When did Obama do this?
Proof?
I did not think so

Obama didn’t let the press in on his meet and greets with leaders in Europe this summer. How come no panties in a twist over that?

Here is some advice to ABC and the other news networks: stop covering McCain. Let Fox cover him. Let the tide of silence wash him far, far away from the White House.

Ash, get real. The world loves the United States & loves Americans. That’s why they all want to come here. It’s just the vociferous Left around the world that hates American values.
Marx lives on to them.

I am not an Obama fan but now you say he is spreading lies about you. Everything here is a lie? You tell us.
Possibly charged rape kits to victims, does not believe in evolution, religion is questionable, encourages shooting bears and wolves from lowing flying planes, troopergate, no abortions for rape or incest, supported the bridge to no where before she opposed it. Has a pregnant teenager, her only experiences with Foreign Relations is the fact she can see Russia from AL, Questioned a librarian about book banning and later the librarian was fired. Does not believe in Global Warming, and left her city in debt as Mayor.
Has not submitted her tax returns yet.

This is ridiculous! Please don’t publish pictures if press is denied access. The American people want to know what she thinks and what she says.

Someone wrote that McCain is making a joke of the election…you are WRONG…McCain is making a joke of the American People. It is one big game to McCain, Karl Rove and Bush/Cheney and they are all laughing at everyone of us. I cannot believe that the people are permitting this–it might be best to give Ms. Palin no air time. What a joke they are making on everyone. Sad, but true.

Palin is an insult (as a retarded candidate) to every intelligent person in the world.

The main networks need to learn the sort of fair and balanced reporting that Fox has become famous for:
Hannity: ‘You’ve said you’re a wonderful person. I agree, but how did you get to be so wonderful? That’s something I think the American people need to understand. Can you help the American people with that issue?’
Palin: ‘Gee, Sean, that’s a toughie but let me start by saying…’

Why didn’t the media have a problem with Obama’s private meetings in Iraq? Just said that they’re private, and left it alone. Double standards, BIG TIME.

The press has been licking the boots of Obama for over a year now. It’s insane how liberals are turning a blind eye to the fact that Obama gets almost ZERO negative press, even though he has lied repeatedly and voted for infanticide, and Palin gets attacked for weeks about how she wanted to ban books (which has been PROVEN false). God bless John McCain and Sarah Palin. I hope they don’t talk to ABC or any other horse s*** media outlet until they are in the White House.
http://www.factcheck.org

Let the Tasmanian devils in…. to cover
what…?
To go tsk-tsk: she’s awful. What a joke!
snigger, snigger.
We don’t have a free press in this country
we have a liberal Obama machine.
You could see it when she answered the
question about accepting the vp nomination: arrogant, impulsive, doesn’t think…
And, if she’d answered it the other way,
she would have been: indecisive,
weak…
Sarah Palin can’t beat the press. It
wants her dead. Period.
She is best to stay away.
It amuses me no end that the media
want access to do journalism. Have
they covered her 18 pages of vetoes
last year alone…? Has anyone covered
her experience reforming, cleaning up
the Alaskan Republican Party.
No, just Troopergate…
Damn, Tasmanian devils. Little pointy
teeth: kill, kill, kill Sarah.
No thank you!

With all the hatchet jobs the press had done on Palin, eh hmmm… Charles Gibson and the fine editing at ABC, no wonder the McCain campaingn has reservations.

ABC editing and CNN grandstanding has turned my candidate into an idiot!

MarcB: I would add: Where was all the outrage when bo kidnapped a whole plane full of reporters and sent them off to Chicago when he stayed in N.Y.? And where is all the outrage when the MSM can lob misogynist remarks at ALL women candidates (former and current)?
bo supporters “want the truth” — but the fact is they can’t handle it. All they do is act like a bunch of idiot sheep and bray like a bunch of indignant asses.

If telling the truth is doing a “hatchet job” on Sarah Palin, then so be it. Hatchet away. Sarah Palin is yet another liar masquerading as a good Christian church goer. Her record of lies and fabrications and distortions is ridiculously long for someone who’s only been in polictics for 2 minutes. Do a little research on this joke of a woman before you start defending her, because her actions are indefensible.

Kurtis 41….Charlie Gibson was civil with “poor, little Sarah”. Why is it, when anyone questions her, they are being sexist, mean or whatever. As far as I can see, she has been treated, by the media, no differently than anyone else running for office. She wanted to play with the “big boys” so she needs to toughen up. Also unscripted question and answer sessions would be nice so we can see how she can hold her own and what she actually knows. If she can’t even talk to the media on her own, how is she going to be President should something happen to McCain. After all, he has had a few surgeries for skin cancer, a couple heart attacks and is looking much worse for the wear.

WHAT r they afraid of?

Hilter also controlled the media during his rise to power.

Bottom line- Palin can’t deal with the real world.

I think she’s just trying to beat Cheney’s record on being the most secretive VP candidate of all time. Oh wait, I forgot she said that it’s a “Palin-McCain ticket”.

LOL….well done to McCain and Palin.
Give them a taste of what they have been dishing out since Obamamania took over the msm.

Hmmm…maybe Obama gets the better press because he’s the better candidate? Maybe he’s out there trying to convey that if you make under $250,000 you’ll be better off voting for me than for McCain? Or maybe Palin shouldn’t put down Obama’s years of community service a week before McCain has to go on National TV and talk about how important it is? The truth is the Republicans are running a horrible, lie-riddled campain and Obama is doing the right thing; discussing the real problems facing Americans.

**Hmmm…maybe Obama gets the better press because he’s the better candidate?**
Hahaha. Thanks BrianS, I always enjoy a good laff.
NoBama is the most HARD Left candidate in American history.
He’s just another Chicago BIG Machine politician, willing to say & do anything to try to fool the voting public.

LOL…what did you all expect. Every time that Palin or McCain open their mouths they make crucial mistakes….so they are now refusing to meet with reports, so they won’t make any more mistakes. So people….how much longer are you all going to take this?

**Sen. Biden said that after the great stock market crash, FDR got on TV and reassured the nation! In 1929, Hoover was President, not FDR, and no one had TV. Do we want him a heartbeat away?**
I sure don’t want Biden **a heartbeat away**. Or even in the Senate anymore.
The truth is, Biden’s weird and he’s still better than Nobama.

Don’t any of you whiney McCain supporters recall the way Charlie Gibson treated Obama in his debate with Hillary? Palin ain’t seen nothing yet!
Bring it on, media! Show us what the moose slayer is really made of!

**The media is the media, they are neither left or right – the bias is in your mind.**
Woo Hoo! Another knee slapping joke!!
Today’s News Nutwerks are so far Left, they can only walk & talk in circles.

All this hatred and saying that Palin is inexperienced and a moron… Abviously you didn’t hear the Comments that Biden made about the stock market crash in 1929 and the president went on TV…. There wasn’t TV then. and he even named the WRONG President. He named Roosevelt. and it was Hoover.
Biden has also said numerous this directly opposite to the “Obama” Platform… So really take a look and see just who has the most inexperienced or Dumb .. Running mate and tell me if Mr Obama has show good judgement in his choices.
I think NOT.

**you never know with the Palin family**
Or yours…
Hey you’re the one who brought it up in the first place. Is that the way people are reared down in the great sstate of Texas?

Tex ,
That means that we should hurl the press to jail in your book. And dont leave out Rush Limburgh while you are at it.

**That means that we should hurl the press to jail in your book.**
For what? Lying??
Aside from never saying that, if that were a crime, NoBama would be in jail for his claims about Ayers.
And all his MSM News Nutwerk pals would be in there too, for helping him cover Ayers up.

I find it very hypocritical that Palin blasted the media during her RNC speech and then is now trying to USE the media for photo ops when it is beneficial to her campaign. Can anyone say two-faced?

“Someone who wants to crimminalize a woman’s right to choose what she wants with her body.” – Actually, the “crimminalization” [sic] is over a woman’s right to KILL HER UNBORN CHILD just because it is “inconvenient” to let it live at this time. I have always been confounded by those who are frantically in favor of preserving animal and plant life, but are equally (and paradoxically) against preserving the life of an unborn human being. Call it “Pro-Choice” if you wish, but it is actually “Pro-Killing” or “Anti-Life”.

**But instead of crushing her, all this media attention has stolen the spotlight from the MIGHTY OBAMA!**
While showing the News Nutwerks to be as biased as they truly are.

Mccain and palin have avoided any press conferences for about 40 days.
Hmmmm – they something to hid? What if Obama/Biden did this same avoidance? Come on get real america – Palin cant handle the questions – she cant even level w/Alaskans. IF PALIN/MCCAIN ARE ELECTED WE GET WHAT WE DESERVE. ECONOMIC/POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DECLINE.
YOU REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO BE THE 1ST TO CRY TO; JUST LIKE TODAY WAAAA WE NEED 700 BILLION. PLEASE

Tex,
Ofcourse the media is bias. So what do you do? Kill the freedom of speech ? Pathetic and u know it

My bets are that the pig lady won’t make it to November.

Yes folks that smell is the smell of fear … and the smell of all those rabid leftwingnuts defecating in their shorts.
PRICELESS

Barack Obama’s economic plan is unsustainable… Taxing the upper 5% does not cover the $1 trillion planned spending in his plan.
His speeches sound wonderful and I cannot argue he’s an eloquent speaker, but his plan of overtaxing the top 5% to cover healthcare for the entire nation, is a Socialist plan that will eventually affect the middle and poor and will in turn increase unemployment.
If we are complaining about our current unemployment rate of 6.1%, here are the unemployment rates of a few Socialist nations in Europe:
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES:
France: 7.5%
Spain: 10.9%
Belgium: 8%
Itlay: 5.9 % (lowest they’ve seen in yrs)
The average unemployment rate throughout Europe is 8%
Let’s face it, those obove the 250,000 income level are the ones that take risks, make investments, and create jobs for you and me. By overtaxing them, the unemployment rates will significantly rise.
What good is a tax cut if you don’t have a job?
We have friends of ours that make about $260,000. They have a small business and said that if Obama wins this election, they will have to let 2 employees go and fire their personal trainers.
How is this going to help our economy? Let’s face it, people who are well off and even rich, spend a lot of $$ on “stupid things” that go right back into our economy… The very rich, will still continue to spend, but those like our friends, they are well off, but not rich… They will have to make some adjustments.
I feel overtaxing those who are successful to give to the poor… goes against our Democatic system and against the American Dream… We will all suffer in the end.
Middleclass Mom of 3

I do not believe the ‘Liberals’ understand the real threat against civilized nations in the world today… I must vote for a candidate I feel will keep my children safer.
I do not feel safe with a candidate (Obama) who makes comments like these: “Iran is a tiny nation that poses no threat to us”. Is Obama aware of Iran’s nuclear plans and how over and over again they have threatened to “wipe Israel off the face of this earth”?
Obama would like to shrink our military in these dangerous times and “convince” extremist radicals to disarm…
McCain / Palin is the better and safer ticket for our Nation and it’s children

They should just NOT COVER these clowns and their campaign of lies and deception. What a disgrace, this effort to sell a pig in a poke. Of course they don’t want the electorate to see just how clueless Palin is…..McCain dies, and we get an anti-woman troglodyte who thinks she can handle complex foreign policy because you can see Russia from Alaska. This is the mentality you’re dealing with….people who are too stupid to know just how stupid they are.

I’m an Independent who will be voting for the McCain / Palin ticket.
The fact that Sarah Palin was disinvited from the rally against Iranian Pres, made me think… The Republicans have always seemed more willing to work in a bi-partisan manner, while the Democrats seem uncapable.
The Irananian threat is serious folks. No time for childish games. Hillary should have stood side by side with Sarah Palin as Americans supporting Israel. Gov. Palin was willing to do it, but Hillary decided to put politics ahead.. Not only did she refuse to attend, but pressured the organizers to “disinvite” Gov. Palin… Not very presidential like.
I’ve made my decision and even know a couple of Jews who will now be voting McCain.
Country First

Like I said liberal nuts as SOON AS THE MEDIA REPORTS SOMETHING ABOUT OBAMA OTHER THAN THEIR LOVEFEST. The media is a joke. Independents and Conservatives know it. That is why their ratings are down. “If you don’t cry at a OBAMA speech you aren’t american!” Chris Mathews. The view Barbara Walters we were all talking in the back we thought you were very attractive( to Obama). Charlie Gibson “Are we in a Holy war?” referring to Palin’s comment for God to bless the troops etc. Media give us a reason to beleive you are objectionable and not carrying Obama’s water and the tail of his robe.

**They should just NOT COVER these clowns and their campaign of lies and deception.**
I agree. Until NoBama fesses up about Ayers, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, & a lot of his other questionable activities, nobody should cover NoBama/Biden.

The media has lost total credibility and I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
I’m Independent and must admit, I’ve felt insulted with the way the media and the Dems have treated Gov. Palin. I do feel it’s because she’s a woman. A man would have never been asked the questions she’s been asked.
I’m leaning towards the McCain / Palin ticket.
She’s authemtic and I feel I can relate to her.

Tex,
I agree too..
Let us talk about Rev Wright, Keeting five, troopergate, Biden plagiarism…everything on the table.
And while we are at it, throw in (without name calling) the tragedy of teenage pregnancy.

Country First
Posted by: Robert | Sep 23, 2008 4:01:06 PM
Don’t you mean Alaska First? Since Palin & her husband are members of the Alaska Secessionist Party and Alaska to become its own independent nation? Though of course she’s denied it just like she lies about everything else..
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

**And may we ask why Sarah Palin managed to rally the “base” so effectively?**
Sure. Because she’s a REAL middle class American Patriot. It’s just that simple.
**Because she is the reason the wingnuts need not to vote for a black man, no matter how good he is.**
IF he was **good**, I’d vote for him in a heart beat. Instead, NoBama’s just another Leftist rabble rouser, with no respect for the authority of the Constitution.
**And before you start talking about the AA are here, this young white man, owning a software biz knows that as a fact from talking to “colleague”..**
Gee. I’m touched. You talked to a nutcase & found what you were looking for. I’m soooo surprised…
**SHAMEFUL**

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…
If you : grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
If you: grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, don’t believe in global warming…a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.
If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black
President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that
registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law
professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over
750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services
committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a
state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign
Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t
have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6
years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as
the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to
become the country’s second highest ranking executive.
If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2
beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real
Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.
If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the
proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no
other option in sex education in your state’s school system while your unwed teen
daughter ends up pregnant, you’re very responsible.
If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city
community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t
represent America ‘s.
If your husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI
conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and
once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA ,
your family is extremely admirable.
OK, much clearer now

** agree too..
Let us talk about Rev Wright, Keeting five, troopergate, Biden plagiarism…everything on the table.**
Go ahead. I’m a good listener. & I wont tell anyone. So, get whatever you want off your chest right now. Maybe it’ll help you.

**Funny how “panicked” the Dems are that they keep harping on Gov. Palin’s Inexperience on foreign policy when Bill Clinton had “zero” foreign policy experience. “Zip”, “Zero”, “Nada”.
Yet… I’ve been very impressed with his comments. He has said only positive things about Gov. Palin. He may not agree with her views, but stated, just today that he felt she was an “excellent” VP pick.**
Bill & Hillary are a lot of things I don’t like. But, they are both very bright people.
The Clinton’s are looking forward to the 2012 campaign, & with NoBama as the current Democrat nominee, can anyone blame them?!

After the pilloring the “unbiased” MSM gave Palin, there is NO benefit or advantage to letting Palin have MSM coverage.
In fact, as nasty as the attacks have been by the so called “unbiased press” it would actually be better for Palin if there’s NO press coverage. At least it won’t be as much crap as negative. Except for the MSM like ABC and MSNBC making up stuff. But they will do that anyway, they’ve already proved that.
My advice to McCain’s campaign is to keep out ANY press that has been disrespectful, and only give interviews to the ones that show they are truly unbiased.
Someone above said they have never seen anything like this.
Well, at 57, I’ve never seen anything like the total left bias the Media has shown this election cycle. And I’ve seen some nasty stuff, but NEVER as bad as this year.
And the Hollywood crowd has went totally over the edge. Palin has gotten the far left hysterical. And that’s EXACTLY why Mainstream America will support her.
Anyone that the far left moon howlers hate this much is just what we need as a leader.
It’s only 40 days, then we will see if what I say is true.
I am going to start a suicide assistance company and will make a “killing” when all the howlers completely flip out on Nov 5th.

HA HA HA Mark..
The “Annointed One” doesn’t do too well without a teleprompter..
Oh… and did you hear who is preparing him for the debate??? The lawyer who represented Elian Gonzalez’s Father… Paid for by the Cuban (Communist) government….. there’s another great association for you… HA!

I agree… Let’s forget the Left-winged, Nut, Looney media. I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
The debates are what counts and McCain will sweep the floor with the “Mesiah”.

**I agree… Let’s forget the Left-winged, Nut, Looney media. I wouldn’t give them the time of day.
The debates are what counts and McCain will sweep the floor with the “Mesiah”.**
Agreed. I’m only here now, cause it’s (thankfuly) been a slow day.
Most of the time I try to ignore the MSM News Nutwerks & their pals the DNC spin cycle machine.
Besides, it’s much more fun to challenge these Moon-Bats in person with facts.
The look on their face is simply priceless…
It’s the kind of entertainment you just can’t buy!

As a Canadian (who is a big fan of the U.S.), I am deeply disturbed to see that the U.S. media is allowing itself to be pushed around by the out-of-touch, “hockey Mom”, who greatest experience is in running a one-horse town in Alaska that none of us had ever heard of until 4 weeks ago. Please do yourselves and the world a favor…don’t accept this manipulation and abuse of your media rights. And for God’s sake don’t vote for this lightweight, holier-than-thou nitwit!

McCain / Palin all the way.
May the US continue to be a Democracy and not a Socialist country.

**Please do yourselves and the world a favor…**
dennis, until you have a Constitution that has the protections that our’s affords us, just try to worry more about Canada.
We’ll be just fine here. Just like we always have been.

In a recent interview, Obama stated the U.S. was the #1 nation in the world, yet he wants to instill healthcare programs and government control methods as in Europe.. I find that ironic and arrogant at the same time.

Mccain and palin have avoided any press conferences for about 40 days.
Hmmmm – they something to hid? What if Obama/Biden did this same avoidance? Come on get real america – Palin cant handle the questions – she cant even level w/Alaskans. IF PALIN/MCCAIN ARE ELECTED WE GET WHAT WE DESERVE. ECONOMIC/POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DECLINE.
YOU REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO BE THE 1ST TO CRY TO; JUST LIKE TODAY WAAAA WE NEED 700 BILLION.

Wow, I hadn’t realized how nasty the remarks from south of the border could be…right I forgot, W did set you Republicans up as the “dad” to the world. Sorry it’s not working so well for you. Can’t wait to hear you complain when your economy is destroyed and Sarah is making cookies on the Whitehouse lawn to cover your ridiculous spending on war!

**Mind you, this thread started because someone is afraid of the press.**
McCain?Palin aren’t “afraid of the press”. They, like anyone else who has been treated so unfairly, have choosen not to participate in the fraud of the “press”.
At least this way, the “press” can’t mischarecterize things.
So be it.

**Can’t wait to hear you complain when your economy is destroyed and Sarah is making cookies on the Whitehouse lawn to cover your ridiculous spending on war!**
Easy there dennis. Don’t forget, you’ve got thousands of Jihadi’s living up there. If our superior surveilance capabilities go down, a lot of Canadian heads will be chopped off, by the hating radical Islamist, that live right in your midst.

Tex, yes it is. And they will elect the President this time around.

**What a fantastic election. The media has tried it all. Attack the family, attack the gender, attack her experience, attack her personally, the silent treatment. And regardless of what they try, she just attracts bigger and bigger crowds. Now they want to be there to report after two weeks of silence?? Fantastic! Keep going, Sarah. You’ve made fools of the liberal media and you are a hero here in middle America!**
Precisely. And, well said.

**IF she’s treated with the respect & common decency ANY Governor & major party candidate should be, rather than continue to be mischarecterized & abused, she’ll likely attempt to become more open with the “Press”.**
If you change all the she here to he, it sounded like how faux news and wingnutty arm of the press was treating Obama earlier.
Too much to ask about the “bridge to nowhere?” Ops, we are voting for a QUEEN,my mistake.

Wow, no wonder it is hard to take you seriously outside of your own country…our health care sytem sucks???and now we have thousands of “jihadis” living in Canada. Sounds like you’re one of those folks who thinks that Canada is smaller than the U.S. and that Toronto is a suburb of Montreal. Time for some education on world affairs!

Tex, you’ve got a deal…if only you can convince your President to stop bothering with our politics or the politics of the world. It seems that your terrific country has enough to do to clean up the mess that it currently (and sadly) finds itself in. The idea of Sarah Palin unravelling your financial quagmire…or bringing a sensible end to your foray in Irag is truly frighening. She is not a stateman…or even an unlightened, knowledgable politico. And by the way, while we love America too, thanks Tex, we’re pretty happy living where we are.

As the lines blur between leftist crackpot media outlets and the legitimate main stream media, look what happens. The members of the media who object to this treatment do so because they get lumped in with the loons. Don’t the members hiding behind the legitimate, objective journalist tag know they can, with only a camera feed, still use the sound to belittle and ridicule Palin and still abandon any semblance of objective journalism all-the-while pleasing the left wing news coonsumers?

**Tex, you’ve got a deal…if only you can convince your President to stop bothering with our politics or the politics of the world.**
We barely bother your politics. And, regarding world geopolitics, surely you’re aware, the strong survive the weak do not.
With that true, no, we won’t stop bothering the politics of authoritarian despots, such as in Iran, or elsewhere.
Tyranny anywhere always threatens liberty everywhere. That’s sadly just how the world works.
**It seems that your terrific country has enough to do to clean up the mess that it currently (and sadly) finds itself in.**
We haven’t bitten off, or stumbled into, anything we can’t deal with ourselves, over time. Those that doubt that, should be very wary indeed.
**The idea of Sarah Palin unravelling your financial quagmire…or bringing a sensible end to your foray in Irag is truly frighening.**
I trust any true American Patriot, more than I do any self aggrandizing Left leaning political climber. And Governor Palin is a Patriot first & foremost.
**She is not a stateman…or even an unlightened, knowledgable politico.**
The average engaged American adult is much more aware of issues, simple & complex, in considerable depth, than those in much of the rest of the world. As a long time world traveler, I’ll attest to that as fact.
Also, Governor Palin will do fine & I’m confident she’ll make a dynamic VP, Or president, if opportunity, or need, be so.
**And by the way, while we love America too, thanks Tex, we’re pretty happy living where we are.**
Then things have changed considerably. Or, you’re not aware of how things truly are.
Whatever the case, rest assured, we will continue to endure, & overcome. Always.
Our Constitution gives us the tools to do so, despite whatever challenges we may face along the way.

It amazes me that the media just doesn’t get it. It is not surprising they are kept at a distance after the disrespect shown throughout this campaign. Come on, guys, this is the first time meeting of the various leaders. Who can focus and concentrate with all this activity going on. This is unfair. Besides who can blame them. My worst enemy does not deserve treatment that has been displayed by some in the media.
Disrespect to anyone is not accepted especially for a professional.

LaughingAtTheMSM, That why the media can’t really be called “journalists” any more. They’re just a lefty hit squad. They deserve no consideration by the Mc Cain camp.

Please tell me, why someone who might maybe become an elected official is meeting with foreign dignitaries as a representation of our country? How did politics get this sleezy?!? How else would it be that someone would bring the governor of a state to meet international big wigs?!?
Outrage!

Look, Sarah deserves a little privacy don’t you think. She is a working mom and a soon to be grandmother and she says she fired the cook from the governor’s mansion because she likes to cook for her family. That’s a lot of work, on top of her regular job of being governor and commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard.
All she wants is a little quiet time alone with the leaders of friendly foreign countries without being hounded to death by the leftist media shouting out irrelevant trick questions like, “Should the US pull out of the UN?” or Should the US abide by the Geneva Conventions?”, the answers to which they will just twist for their own twisted benefit.
You would want the same for yourself now wouldn’t you?

I am horrified that this light weight might be representing the US before the world. What does she bring to the ticket? Certainly not wisdom. intelligence, knowledge, gravitas. Can anyone imagine her negotiating a treaty with Putin, the North Koreans? This woman is a sound bite. I am ashamed. Why are the Republicans dumbing down the Presidency? The world and our Country are a mess. We NEED serious people who have their head in the game. Not some bimbo who looks good to some and sounds better to others. Palin….GO HOME TO ALASKA, TAKE CARE OF YOUR KIDS. THEY NEED YOU. AMERICA DOES NOT…..

It’s crystal clear why Palin is not talking to the media. Same reason my dental hygeinist would keep her mouth shut if she were nominated for VP. Pure, unadulterated ignorance. Well, not that pure. It’s mixed with a healthy dose of right-wing televangelist nut-job-ism. The few times she has opened her mouth has only put a spotlight on her paper-thin understanding of any issue, written by speechwriters and faithfully regurgitated. Good thing Vice-presidents don’t have to be quick on their feet or have any understanding of the economy, international affairs, or energy. If they did have to know this stuff, we might be in trouble.

America is becoming a joke because we, the American people, are letting it. Wake up people! We need a leader and that leader is Obama. McCain is a joke and Palin is even more so.