Exclusive: Palin Emails ABC News to Push Back on ‘Taliban Muslim’ Twitter Controversy
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin uses Facebook and Twitter to make political statements and communicate with her followers.
Today reporters noted that she had apparently used Twitter to list as a “favorite” of hers a tweet from conservative commentator Ann Coulter showing a photo of a sign labeling President Barack Obama a “Taliban Muslim.”
The image was a church called “The Blood of Jesus ATLAH World Missionary Church” with a sign reading “The blood of Jesus against Obama history made 4 Nov 2008 a Taliban Muslim illegally elected president USA: Hussein”
“MY NEW CHURCH!” Coulter’s tweet declares.
Asked for comment, Palin wrote to ABC News:
“Jake, I've never purposefully ‘favorited’ any Tweet. I had to go back to my BlackBerry to even see if such a function was possible. I was traveling to Alaska that day…it was an obvious accidental ‘favoriting,’ but no one can mistake that Ann Coulter was obviously being tongue in cheek with that Tweet. Shall I correct this with whichever wonderful media outlet ran with this (an obviously bored reporter…since there must be nothing going on in the world today, like, um, ramifications of a shake up of power in the U.S. House of Representatives?).”
Palin “favoriting” this Coulter tweet was picked up by the Washington Post, Mediaite, New York Magazine and ABC News.
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“Jake, I’ve never purposefully ‘favorited’ any Tweet. I had to go back to my BlackBerry to even see if such a function was possible.”
How did she “favorite” a fundraising appeal from her PAC if she had no idea how this function worked?
You’ll have to go to the Gawker screegrab because all of Palin’s favorites are now deleted.
I guess she “figured out” that function.
This is a stupid story but it does show what a dishonest sociopath Palin is.
Posted by: Ryan C (resident curmudgeon) | November 4, 2010, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm
It **is really easy to accidentally favorite tweets. I only purposefully ever favorited 1, but found to my surprise I had dozens marked.
Posted by: MayBee | November 4, 2010, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
The twitter favorite function is pretty broken…
Posted by: yarrrr | November 4, 2010, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm
Palin has the gift of never being wrong. Kind of like Jesus.
We all screw up. Some of us own it, apologize, and move on. Others lash out, deny responsibility and snark.
Also.
Posted by: trifecta | November 4, 2010, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
This just shows what a pathological liar Sarah Palin is. How did you mark other tweets as favorites . Especially the one about her fundraising arm? Wow! What a liar!
Posted by: Gail | November 4, 2010, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
No, she just figured out that ABC News is among the distributors of the White House’s Oppo Research Team
product. ABC News didn’t come up with this, the WH did.
Now she knows that ABC, among others, is working for the Other Side. But we knew that already.
Silly jounolistas, you tipped your hand.
Posted by: section9 | November 4, 2010, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
“Obvious question: has Palin ever used the favorite function before on Twitter?
If she hasn’t, then this probably was inadvertent”
Apparently she had according to the screengrab on Gawker (you can look up the sotry there)
One of the fav tweets after the one in question was from her PAC making a fundraising appeal.
Another was on women running for office.
All of the favorites are now deleted.
Posted by: Ryan C (resident curmudgeon) | November 4, 2010, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm
“This just shows what a pathological liar Sarah Palin is. How did you mark other tweets as favorites . Especially the one about her fundraising arm? Wow! What a liar!”
Yup.
Stupid story that she makes an issue thru her dishonesty.
Posted by: Ryan C (resident curmudgeon) | November 4, 2010, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
palin may be riding high now, but i’m going to bet that history’s not going to treat her too kindly.
Posted by: crister | November 4, 2010, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm
Jake… I think you gave wrong ‘attribution ‘to where THIS Story started. The Palingates blog ( one of sarah’s Favorite blogs )posted it this morning, Andrew Sullivan linked to it as well as Gawker and some others. Glad you are covering it.. BUT I think it started at Palingates… You can follow the timeline to get the FACTS straight. Read on though.. there were more Updates and since the story broke she DELETED her Favorites.
Posted by: honestyingov | November 4, 2010, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm
Any one remember President Obama mistakenly answering George Stephanopoulos “my Muslim faith” in an interview? It was an obvious mistake.
People can and do make many mistakes.
The difference: when you are someone like Sarah Palin, it gets amplified 10 times over.
Posted by: Paul Seale | November 4, 2010, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm
Hey ‘section 9′( C4P Fan )
The WH and ABC had NOTHING to do with this story. It was posted on Palingates early this morning. If you keep ‘spinning around ‘ in circles like that.. you will get dizzy..? Yu.. betcha!!
Posted by: honestyingov | November 4, 2010, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm
She not only favorited it, she re-tweeted it. And when she tweeted it, many, many people made comments to her about it at the time. The fact is, she does not do her own tweeting, someone else does it for her and she needs to fire the person speaking in her name.
Posted by: peg | November 4, 2010, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm
It could be that she never marked a favorite. After all, can it be proven that she has ever written on of her Facebook rants, or typed in a tweet? She has a LOT of people on her payroll, and poor demented Sarah just can’t keep everything straight. This story is not new. The original photo and tweet about Coulter and Palin’s support of the church’s sign were several months ago.
Sarah Palin: the American Taliban
Posted by: Sally | November 4, 2010, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
And these are the sickos the American people have and want to elect to represent them. Truly disgusting and disgraceful. This kind of hate fueled the election along with massive amounts of money from corporations foreign and domestic. These tweets are representative of terrorism. The Tea Party will be the extremists of the US. We really are headed for destruction with these nuts in power and the Republicans that sold their souls to the devil.
Posted by: Bea | November 4, 2010, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
Dingbat will do or say anything to keep her mug on the front page, and ABC News and other media happily oblige. Someone please build a galic necklace that is large enough to immunize us all.
Posted by: Steve from Danville | November 4, 2010, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
All Palin knows how to do to get publicity is to deny and dennigrate. Why does she never tell us any ideas on what can be done to solve problems?
I guess it is too hard for her to do anything but discredit the world around her.
Posted by: Spicerun | November 4, 2010, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
If Palin chooses to exist primarily on twitter, does that make her a twit? Just asking…
Posted by: badcafe | November 4, 2010, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm
She’s isn’t a vampire but she can suck the life out of the 24 hour newscycle with the flick of her wrist. ABC News and all other media are happy to help. Thanks Jake, but shouldn’t you be writing your memoirs now?
Posted by: Steve from Danville | November 4, 2010, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm
This is for section 9: You sound as delusional as your idol, sister Quittypants.
Section 9? You sound more like someone headed for a section 8!
Posted by: Jo | November 4, 2010, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm
Much ado about anything PopMedia can get its hands on to try and shame those it disagrees with.
Today’s penchant for ‘squeaky clean’ politically-correct discourse is like a poison. Leave it to strong independent conservative women to tell the critics to bug off.
Watch as PopMedia thrashes about trying its worst to demonize Sarah Palin, the gal who is ‘no threat’ politically.
Posted by: bluecollarbytes | November 4, 2010, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
This “class act” (tongue in cheek)thinks she is presidential material? Pu-leeese!!
Posted by: mrnmom | November 4, 2010, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
For some reason this supposed controversy didn’t affect my life, unlike Obama telling me my health insurance would go down
$2500.00. It went up $1200.00. Now that’s a lie you feel.
Posted by: sodakhic | November 4, 2010, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm
Who do you think sent Coulter the tweet?
Mark Lamont Hill, Best known as the Left’s black race baiter that is seen on MSNBC, CNN and FOX.
so Mark Lamont Hill tweets an insult/joke to Coulter, she responds, Palin favors it, and now she is racist (again)?The church preacher that put up the sign was black.
And since when does favorite-ing something mean you actually like it (despite the name-favorite)? I use it like bookmarking, so I can find it again.
Why doesn’t this article say that the tweet originated from Mark Lamont Hill?
This is highly misleading. and further proff that the lame stream media is DEAD!!!
Posted by: idesign | November 4, 2010, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm
Hey Jack?
You should resign now………
Posted by: idesign | November 4, 2010, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
MSNBC did miserably last night, and for good reason. Spectacularly childish–even infantile.
And how ’bout that Alan Grayson? Eighteen points!
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | November 4, 2010, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
I tend to believe Sarah. She would not intentionally tweet like that. Give Sarah a break. I am sure their are more important things to focus on now, like Pelosi.
Posted by: kottaras | November 4, 2010, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm
I could at least muster an ounce of respect for ms palin if she just put on her big girl panties and admitted that “favoriting” that tweet was a stupid sophomoric mistake. That doing so was crass, ignorant and juvenile. But alas, in typical palin fashion, she played the spoiled teen age beauty queen. She’s always the victim, and never wrong. That shtick gets old quick.
Posted by: Jilli | November 4, 2010, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm
PLEASE… Wake up; this is something my nine year old would say when he is on the spot for something he shouldn’t have done.
I didn’t do it; must have…….
Wow, don’t read into it all; just think about it…
Posted by: SERIOUSLY | November 4, 2010, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
Ahh, the old “i’m not racist, just a moron” defense. How about Palin sticks with technology she understands, like Lite-Brite or a Speak & Spell?
Posted by: pyrite | November 4, 2010, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm
No way do I believe Palin on this. No way. This is the same girl who said Obama was hanging around with terrorists.
She is lying.
IMO there is a reason they call her Worst Govenor Ever. It is stuff like this.
Posted by: WasillaMan | November 4, 2010, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm
So her argument is:
Like, um, it was an accident.
And, like, um, it was tongue-in-cheek anyway.
And, like, um, doesn’t the media have something better to do.
And, like, um, I’m the victim. Again.
Posted by: Sherman | November 4, 2010, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm
Come on you guys, how many times have you pushed the wrong button. Sarah is human too.
Posted by: kottaras | November 4, 2010, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
Anything to take the spotlight off the real issues…. Bernanke prints 600 billion more. President doesn’t think election was a reflection of his agenda. President’s trip costs Millions or Billions?
But ABC says Hold the presses! Sarah tweeted something. Disgusting.
Posted by: wheresmymoney | November 4, 2010, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Keep your eye on the ball – Obama and the liberals are the problem. Palin makes Obama look like a little girl or the school yard punk.
But you ABC CBS NBC MSNBC can continue to beat up Plain – all of you are such jerks – None you are worthy to mention her name you all so anti American.
Why don’t talk about the oost of the junket Obama is taking? Oh no that would br real reporting.
Let’s talk about Palin and how rotten you think she is we are not stupid that is why Fox News beats all of you — THEY ARE BETTER – unless these so called news stations start reporting like Cronkite your jobs won’t be around much longer just look at prime time programing (Gad)
They need to replace all the anchors with real news people if there are any left.
Posted by: A citizen | November 4, 2010, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm
Hmmm, I guess this makes Mark Lamont Hill, obama’s staunch defender AND the person that sent it to Coulter, racist too.
Anyone check on why Mark would do such a thing???
I thought not.
ROFL!
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 4, 2010, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm
Sarah Palin’s previous favorite go-to guy in the “lamestream media” was Mike Allen of Politico, but just a few weeks ago when he co-authored a piece describing the GOP changed attitude toward her, she ranted that he was “a joke”.
Now her new BFF in the LSM is Jake Tapper, of ABC. Why, you ask?
Well, ABC has bent over backward (something her daughter is strangely unable to do, being so heavily corsetted) to make Sarah Palin happy, signing Bristol Palin to a stint on Dancing With The Stars despite having absolutely no talent for the medium.
And no other cable news network but Fox will deal with Palin.
And she’s burned her bridges with CBS and NBC/MSNBC.
So, why not “reward” ABC?
Posted by: KarenJ | November 4, 2010, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm
How could this rate as an “exclusive ” piece of news is amazing. Sarah’s twitting mistake pales in comparison to some of the major news happening at this moment.
Posted by: kottaras | November 4, 2010, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
Ceeleelee and others should get their heads out of the toilet of Fox News.
The cost of Mr. Obama’s trip are a figment of the imagination of the right’s extreme conservative base. You people are so gullible to keep spreading this trash. Get a mind of your own and read and listen to something other than the no-heads owned and programmed by Murdoch and the Koch brothers.
Posted by: Vallybear | November 4, 2010, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm
ABC is the ODUMA Network so what can you expect ?
Posted by: flaguyxx | November 4, 2010, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm
vbEAR -
I said nothing about the cost of obama’s trip.
What I did say was that the picture originated with Mark Lamont Hill, the great obama defender. Did Murdoch, Fox News or the Koch Brothers influence Mark Lamont Hill to send that picture???
What’s more, I, like a lot of other people, read of this story first on this news blog. Stop reciting and applying Media Matters and HuffPo’s talking points to everything and everyone you disagree with.
And trust me, no one is more gullible than an obama supporter.
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 4, 2010, 11:38 pm 11:38 pm
Birthers…! The real question is, were Palin and Coulter actually born to HUMAN parents… or are there Neanderthals still living among us?
Posted by: JLS1950B | November 4, 2010, 11:40 pm 11:40 pm
I love being called “un-American” by someone who’s never met me.
Posted by: Sherman | November 4, 2010, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm
Palingates? Well that explains it. A bunch of conspiracy theorists who believe Trig isn’t Palin’s son. Figures the media would be taking stories from them now.
Posted by: Lily | November 5, 2010, 12:07 am 12:07 am
Lily Darling,
If you must impugn the integrity of one of few blogs which accurately report on Sarah’s shenanigans, please get your facts straight. Palingates asserts that Trig is not Sarah’s “biological” child . . . HUGE difference your proclamation above. Her ever-changing birth story is complete & utter fiction, and you’ve obviously bought it hook, line and sinker.
Posted by: Sarah Palin Lies w/o Blinking | November 5, 2010, 12:39 am 12:39 am
“i love being called “un-American” by someone who’s never met me.”
I have never met this fellow Awlaki. May I call him un-American, or must I wait until we are introduced?
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | November 5, 2010, 1:13 am 1:13 am
Ahh, the old “i’m not racist, just a moron” defense. How about Palin sticks with technology she understands, like Lite-Brite or a Speak & Spell?
Posted by: pyrite | Nov 4, 2010 10:38:58 PM
_______________________________________
now this may be the funniest post I’ve read in a long time. I bow down and kiss your feet!!!!!! Thanks for the smile :-)
Posted by: dk | November 5, 2010, 1:37 am 1:37 am
There is only one word that comes to mind when ever I hear or read Coulter’s name and it starts with a b and ends with something I would scratch.
Posted by: dan | November 5, 2010, 2:49 am 2:49 am
I couldn’t care less about the post, as she says, it’s obviously a joke, not serious.
What I do care about, is politicians lying!
She didn’t “accidentally” do this, she clearly did it on purpose but without realizing how controversial it would later prove (and again, I agree the post’s being blown way out of proportion). She obviously decided the best course of action would be to claim it was an accident and so is happy to lie and cover-up the truth because it’s ever so slightly politically beneficial for her. Morals and honesty be damned.
Typical politician….
Posted by: John | November 5, 2010, 6:56 am 6:56 am
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Brilliant! Looks like Sarah baited, hooked and reeled in the MSM on this one.
What better way to show Media Bias?
And you idiot Liberals say she’s stupid.
Pfffttt!
Stupid is as stupid does and we all know who is being stupid on this one.
: o )
Posted by: Noz | November 5, 2010, 7:10 am 7:10 am
…sarah the run from hot kitchen half gov… she supported laura when she used the N word but got peeeed when the retarted word was used…now she got caught expressing her racist agenda… she calls it a joke…or I dont know how to use a black berry…hmmmmm
Posted by: Mamasrudeboy | November 5, 2010, 7:36 am 7:36 am
It looks like the JournoListers are putting the band back together. Seriously, with all that is going on in the world, the media still has time to pick at Palin?
Thanks idesign for doing the job that the JounoLists won’t do:
“Who do you think sent Coulter the tweet?
Mark Lamont Hill, Best known as the Left’s black race baiter that is seen on MSNBC, CNN and FOX.
so Mark Lamont Hill tweets an insult/joke to Coulter, she responds, Palin favors it, and now she is racist (again)?…”
Posted by: Sammy | November 5, 2010, 7:55 am 7:55 am
Dood morning, kids!
Today we’re going to continue with the gloating over the election results. We’ll have loads of fun together!
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | November 5, 2010, 8:38 am 8:38 am
she has a crush on Obama have to love it lol hahaha
Posted by: Jeremy | November 5, 2010, 8:46 am 8:46 am
Bill Maher, anti-Mohammedan bigot:
Those who accuse the once libertarian Bill Maher of becoming too much of a liberal apologist might want to clean their ears. Maher made a Juan Williams-esque confession on his program when he apprehensively noted that Mohammed has just become the most popular baby name in Britain. “Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that?” Maher asked his panel. “Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years?”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | November 5, 2010, 9:02 am 9:02 am
where to start? interesting that a woman who has a twitter account, facebook account, etc., slams the media. from the outside, seems like all she really wants to do is expose and communicate herself to everyone all the time. isn’t that what social media is all about?
she is a walking press release, constantly putting out nuggets for the masses to ingest. now she questions the media who decides to report it? please.
does that seems hypocritical to anyone but just me?
Posted by: jeff hupp | November 5, 2010, 9:23 am 9:23 am
Sarah who?
Posted by: Wayne | November 5, 2010, 9:34 am 9:34 am
“does that seems hypocritical to anyone but just me?” – jeff hupp
Jeff it just might be you all on your lonesome.
The Twitter/Facebook stuff is social media all on it’s own.
Reporting these trivial happenings in the Main Stream Media is silly because it’s not relevant news. It’s what Jon Stewart was pointing out, “we amplify everything and thus hear nothing”. Something of that sort. The point that Sarah is making, that the Main Stream Media really shouldn’t lower itself and become Social Media is legit, not hypocritical.
Posted by: Noz | November 5, 2010, 9:36 am 9:36 am
So she can use twitter as a way to push her agenda but the media shouldn’t report on it becuase it is not really news?
Posted by: Tibs | November 5, 2010, 9:52 am 9:52 am
Come on you guys, how many times have you pushed the wrong button. Sarah is human too.++++++++++++=The problem is she wants the power to push “the big button” but can’t work a Blackberry.
Posted by: Tibs | November 5, 2010, 9:54 am 9:54 am
WHAT IS PROBLEM ?I DON’T SEE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE THE ABC, CNN, NBC AND ALL THE MEDIA MARXIST WE HAVE HERE IN THIS COUNTRY PUBLIC AND SAID HORRIBLE THING THE DIFFERENT CONSERVATIVE PERSONALITIES ,AND ATTACK THEM PERSONALLY, IF YOU WANT I GIVE YOU MANY EXAMPLES FOR THIS
YOU KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS WITH HER ALL YOU BUNCHED OF MEDIA AFRAID TO HER THAT’S OBVIOUS ,SHE SAID ONE THING AND YOU MULTIPLY TEN TIMES FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE
Posted by: YOLY | November 5, 2010, 9:54 am 9:54 am
She knows exactly what she’s doing. She’s conniving, manipulative, hateful and mean-spirited. She is not human or should I say humane.
Posted by: jem | November 5, 2010, 10:00 am 10:00 am
With Palin in the lead, we take one more step toward civil war! It should surprise no one at this point what Coulter, Palin, and other trash say. We are heading toward a civil war, my friends. One side wants to create a White, Christian nation (others allowed of course as long as they know their place in society), and the other side trying to create a pluralistic society where everyone is accepted and tolerated, and where there is no state religion. It may take 50 years to play out, but it is already starting.
Posted by: Jim | November 5, 2010, 10:04 am 10:04 am
Ann Coulter – your prejudice is showing. People like you keep the birthers and Muslim haters alive and ignorant in the extreme. How many times do people need to get it into your blonde moment head that Obama is not Muslim but Christian? Why would Obama send 30,000 extra troops into Afghanistan if he was cozy with the Taliban? You are good at causing division in the country. How about changing your attitude now that your party (the GOP) has won?
Posted by: Bob | November 5, 2010, 10:13 am 10:13 am
Palin is meerely a polotical pundit hardly worth any news cocverage. The Washington Post – clearly a biased left winged rag – would have been better off to cover the way that goof ball Chris Mathews on MSNBC covered, commented and treated election winners on his little watched MSNBC news show on election eve.
Mathews was giddish, sophomoric, and a joke. Tom Brokaw and NBC news management must be stupid to allow that crappola to continue. Mathews irrational & biased performance would have made for a great story on national news media malpractice — but alas, the liberal media hasd no intention of ever cleaning its act up! Only Fox!
So the national news media keeps blowing smoke (like Sarah Palin nasty tweet-o-grams) up the butts of Americans trying to call it news.
The election night was also a referendum on the national lamestream media’s performance. Polls showed that FOX news viewers outnumbered ABC – CBS – & NBC COMBINED!
Those news netorks will be gone very soon! See ya Diane, good bye katie, asta lavista NBC guy – whatever your name is!
Posted by: Mr.Data | November 5, 2010, 10:18 am 10:18 am
This woman is clearly not suited morally to be elected to anything but perhaps president of her local holy roller church lady society.
Posted by: sickofgopbs | November 5, 2010, 10:39 am 10:39 am
I am STILL WAITING for a single good idea from Palin on how to put Americans BACK TO WORK. She seems to specialize in extremist retoric and positions but doesn’t have a clue on how to improve the economic competitiveness of American business and workers.
Posted by: AlChemist | November 5, 2010, 10:43 am 10:43 am
Yawn….
Posted by: tjp612 | November 5, 2010, 10:45 am 10:45 am
We all hate you Sarah Palin… you betcha!
Posted by: Atheist 1 | November 5, 2010, 11:03 am 11:03 am
The propaganda I’ve received all my life is that the Left were “compassionate” and “pro-women” and for “diversity in thought and opinions”… wouldn’t know it from all the hate being spewed upon conservative women by posters on this board.
The Left’s Mission Statement: “We are for diversity, women, and free-expression of thought” (as long as your ideology is the same as ours, otherwise, gird yer loins)
Posted by: tjp612 | November 5, 2010, 11:17 am 11:17 am
Its time ‘We the people’ take back our country from the extremists like Palin.
Posted by: Rick | November 5, 2010, 11:29 am 11:29 am
Just say no to the hate emitted by Palin, Coulter and Bachmann. They do not represent the majority of this nation and certainly do not represent American patriotism.
Posted by: Rick | November 5, 2010, 11:31 am 11:31 am
I HATE JOHN MCCAIN – For bringing us this devil wannabe stand in for Hillary Clinton on the conservative side. The fact that she even Follows Ann Coulter is an example of how extremist she is… Ann Coulter who said the 911 widows husbands were probably going to divorce them and should take thier settlement money and shut up. Is she a “true” American to say something so heartless about the women who lost thier families in that tragedy? Why would anyone who would want to be a presidential hopeful consort with someone so foul. Ann Coulter is worse than Osama Bin Ladin. She’s a complete B#$@%~! and should shut her ugly mouth!
Posted by: devonmila | November 5, 2010, 11:39 am 11:39 am
Ann Coulter is a childish entertainer at best, not a political authority. Sarah Palin is not a pundit either and she’s not entertaining.
Posted by: Opus | November 5, 2010, 11:57 am 11:57 am
Yeah the papers can examine every little mistake any Conservative does especially the women. But they look the other way for anything a Marxist Democrat does. If they put 100th the energy into examining Obama’s experience and past as they do any conservative Obama would have never been elected. Just keep your tingles going so called Press.
Posted by: Harley2002 | November 5, 2010, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
What a big non-story
Posted by: DJ | November 5, 2010, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
So, what about the ‘favorites’ that she posted before? She has one from Tammy Bruce dated Oct. 11, the one from Coulter dated Oct. 26. one from C4Palin dated Oct 31, and yet another one dated Nov. 2 from NROcorner. (HT to Gryphen)
Posted by: Little_Me | November 5, 2010, 12:37 pm 12:37 pm
“The propaganda I’ve received all my life is that the Left were “compassionate” and “pro-women” and for “diversity in thought and opinions”..”
See that is the key “thought”.
Palin is a regurgitator not a thinker.
And bizarre lies like the one she tells in this article are more indications of her being a sociopath.
Posted by: Ryan C (resident curmudgeon) | November 5, 2010, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
My only comment is “What bunk”.
Posted by: MrGrumpy | November 5, 2010, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm
She of all people should know that whatever she does is closely scrutinised by everyone. It shows very poor judgment on her behalf. Mainly though it shows she like many other politicians have little respect for this President. Would something like this have gone down while Bu$h was in office. from Joe Miller defiantly yelling ‘You lie!’ to this, it will continue unless someone steps up and says enough, have some respect. You may not like him, or you disagree with his policies but he is the President.
Posted by: Enorme Nuez | November 5, 2010, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Seems the Leftists pay more attention to Sarah than do Conservatives…
What a hate-filled bunch.
Posted by: tjp612 | November 5, 2010, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
I couldn’t agree with her more . . .the press only continues to prove how utterly lame it is.
This woman just helped wreck the Democratic party and began a takeover of the Republican Party – with just about everyone but everday conservatives baying for her blood for two years – and this is news?
Tweet favorites . . . Weak beyond all telling.
Posted by: publius | November 5, 2010, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Seems the Leftists pay more attention to Sarah than do Conservatives…
What a hate-filled bunch.
Posted by: tjp612 | Nov 5, 2010 2:15:51 PM
Oh sure. Palin gives a ‘thumbs up’ to a hate post about the President and the media and the ‘lefists’ are supposed to ignore it. Still blaming the victim these days I see.
Posted by: Dan | November 5, 2010, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
Why is Sarah Palin denying this? Did she not call “Senator” Obama a terrorist by implication. The problem with Ms. Palin is that she lies a lot. She denied that she quit her job to make money. Who would forget her picture in the internet with a caption,” I may be broke,but I am not flat chested”. She is also a hypochrite. She criticized President Obama for using a prompter but she did not see why she was ridiculed so much for writing notes on her palm, besides the fact that any serious-minded politician should have remembered what she had on her prompter/palm. These are just two innocuous examples.
Posted by: politics | November 5, 2010, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm
Jake, don’t YOU frequently state that your own “retweets” are not an endorsement of the tweet?
Posted by: Valerie | November 5, 2010, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm
For someone who aches for Presidential power, Palin’s “pushing the wrong button” defense is disconcerting. Oops! Just hit the nuke launch button. My bad. You Betcha. Sorry.
Posted by: New No | November 5, 2010, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm
Will ABC get invited to President Palin’s press conferences?
Posted by: JAY | November 5, 2010, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
Keep yanking their chains, Sarah!
(ROFL! :D)
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 5, 2010, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
Palin and Coulter… two Republican vamps doin what they can to control the world.
Posted by: ashabot | November 5, 2010, 9:59 pm 9:59 pm
Facts are facts! And we all know, if we fact check Sarah Palin’s statements, she lies alot more than she tells truth. This has occurred all through her whole political career, and is presently seen.
This Pastor Manning of this church depicted in her Tweeter is scarey and quite radical. This Pastor was investigated and interviewed by CIA during 2008 Presidential Campaign. He uses these radical statements only for his own personal gain for popularity.
But documented proof in black and white does indeed reveal Sarah would like him quite well, as he also hates the Muslim Religion. Hate against all people who are Muslims are evidenced in many of Sarah Palin’s speeches. I have not seen a politician in a long time who
politically during speeches/tweets/etc
delivers such strong hate filled rhetoric and enticement to her followers to act illegally. Sarah Palin appears by her own comments made -she could care less if she causes a political assasination. Mob type hysteria causing destruction is difficult to control. Just check FBI and all they had to deal with during presidential campaign. Huge waste of taxpayer money from Sarah Palin’s terroriist/hate comments. Threats increased dramatically against Obama
, and huge increases security had to be implemented and was needed.
Sarah Palin and her big money backers use a political strategy approach plan that uses scare/hate filled tactics on US public citizens. Sarah Palin used terrorist, racial prejudice during many of her rallies with known “key word/s statement, etc during 2008 presidential campaign.
Go read the psychology books, politcal strategies psychlogical approaches
to use on US voters books.
Why public citizens react more to hate and fear filled rhetoric is a whole field of study that has been explored well? Well, Hitler used same approach in Germany. People react. Psychology books/research explains in more detail.
TRUE FACT
Sarah Palin did factually on Twitter
support this Pastor Manning and his
enticement messages for his readers and followers to possibly assasinate President Obama, commit illegal acts against US government, commit actual damage to actual people/property, etc.
This favorite Tweeter designation of hers supports same as what Sarah Palin has used all along as her strategy. These opinions are well documented in black and white. Do go check.
This lady has never admitted when she is wrong. She always gives an excuse, or vehemently attacks those who criticize her. She and Todd use this thug-type approach strategy on any of Wasilla-(population approx 3500 and is very small town) that react negatively/
or publicly speak out against her or her beliefs and their name is disclosed. Poor residents have their livelihoods, etc. attacked. Does this exist, sure does. Some under the radar stories have leaked out. And many times
adequate proof did exist.
Sarah Palin is only continuing this hate and fear filled message because her money backers want her to. She has been given a god given talent for public speaking and mesmorizing people at her rallies. She quit Alaska to get her name known for a 2012 run for President. We all know name recognition in and of itself is a positive. Many big money political
backers are pushing Sarah Palin. Robert Murdock is one. Koch Brothers are another. Etc.
I am just hoping her name is also associated with her made dispicable and shocking lies, hate, and fear. A political candidate who tells her folowers to reload and entices
gun violence is dangerous to the personal safety of all Americans. Guns should be allowed, but must be regulated as to types that can be purchsed, and background checks done prior to delivery of any gun for
ownership.
Sorry Sarah you did mark this as favortie.
Posted by: Sharon | November 6, 2010, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
Go Sarah go…..Keep on talking, tweeting, facebooking.Keep stirring up that republican base. You have earned the Republican nominee for president in 2012. With all that education you have. you know the communications degree, from Caribou University. That doesn’t require you to read books.Against that over educated Harvard Law Professor that was editor of the Harvard Law Review.That had the audacity to write a book while you had’nt even read one.You let it all go Sarah and let the voters decide who they trust to run this county.
Posted by: creig | November 7, 2010, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
Why is no one mentioning that this was actually Dr. Marc Lamont Hill’s tweet? He took the picture and tweeted it to Ann Coulter. Why? Because they go on TV a lot and one of their running jokes is Pastor Manning.
Ann RETWEETED IT BACK TO HIM WITH A SARCASTIC REMARK. IT WAS A FRICKIN’ JOKE!!!!!
Palin claims it was an accidental favorite. She’s on her blackberry all the time and it’s really easy to hit the star. Jake Tapper himself found out in the wake of all this that he had favorited a bunch of tweets without realizing it, so it does happen, but even if she did it on purpose, IT WAS A JOKE.
Posted by: Lynda | November 9, 2010, 9:07 am 9:07 am
Lying scum MSM usually kowtows to the lowest denominator of lying scum radical leftist bloggers and hollywonks like me but here they are jumping the shark and now just manufacturing ‘stories’ on their own. Fellow lying scum radical leftist bloggers and hollywonks take notice, this is an outrage! After all, wasn’t it I who told you the lie that Bristol is Trig’s real mother? Wasn’t I who broke the lie that Sarah denied rape kits to rape victims? Who else but someone like me could twist the truth so much to make Sarah’s factual interview response, “They’re our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska,…” into the lie that she said, “I can see Russia from my house.”, a lie so big that even Joseph Goebbels was heard laughing about it all the way from Hell?
Please allow me to introduce myself ….
Posted by: Can you guess my name | November 12, 2010, 9:31 am 9:31 am
Fight the Republicans and liars like Sarah Palin
Posted by: Eileen Lime | November 24, 2010, 11:35 am 11:35 am
Dear Pyrite –
Yours is the ‘brightest’ and appropriate comment yet, pardon me for quoting, but it’s brilliant:
Ahh, the old “i’m not racist, just a moron” defense. How about Palin sticks with technology she understands, like Lite-Brite or a Speak & Spell?
Posted by: pyrite | Nov 4, 2010 10:38:58 PM
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CHEERS PYRITE!!
Posted by: KonaRose | November 24, 2010, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
Sarah is an idiot. thanks to a desperate man tring to win the white house. republicans must now watch as a mindless wannabe uses the springboard to become better known.. who doesnt know her now? why would any intelligent person want a know nothing to guide this country. as we leard more of what sarah doenst know, which i think is about what a 5th grader knows, and im being generous,we ought to be able to see this is a joke. sarah as president is a joke. bot look. nixon got elected. he brought spiro agnew in…say…. maybe sarah does have a chanch. pretty scarrrrry
Posted by: doowrah de | June 1, 2011, 9:53 am 9:53 am