Matthews on Palin: A Pitchfork Secessionist

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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews charged GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin as being a member of Alaska’s Independence party. Members of this party advocate to secede from the union and place all federally owned land under state control.

Even after Howard Fineman mentioned he received documentation from the McCain campaign showing Palin had been a registered Republican since 1982 and never a member of the Alaskan Independence party, Matthews continued to make the connection of Alaskan secessionist leader Joe Vogler to Palin.

Joe Vogler’s views are pefect media fodder to make Palin look fringy. It seems as if MSNBC and others are looking for their own William Ayers or Jeremiah Wright to pin on the McCain Palin campaign to scare away voters. Matthews quoted Vogler:

“I’m an Alaskan not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”

The connection to Palin still remains weak.  If the media is so interested in fringe movements candidates were actually involved in, the currently ignored Annenberg papers provide all the information needed.

 


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only one secession

   Chris Matthew's brain has seceded from reality.

Mathews Corrected this on air

Buchanan went after both Mathews and the NYT on this when Mathews had to correct that the source of this was wrong.

Drill here, Drill Now!

buzzbee - Matthews should..

Yea, it's nice that Matthews was forced to correct himself -- but I wonder, did he come right out and offer a personal apology to those he harmed by his want to push rumors rather than news? What Matthews should do, just in case it isn't being demanded by media watch groups, his bosses,  and the candidates is resign from his position.

I suspect that 5 years of hard labor in the RNC research department might straighten him out a bit. (;~> gary

It sometimes takes awhile

It sometimes takes awhile for Matthews and Olbermann to get the news.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Hmmmmm

when hit with facts, the guy keeps on spewing forth his retarded logic.

And in sports news, the Super Bowl (SB) champion New England Patriots finally received their SB rings to commemorate their smashing SB victory and their undefeated season.

What, they lost to the Giants in the SB??  They did not go undefeated?

Anyways, as I was saying, it was smiles all around the Patriots training facility today when they got those rings. <sarc off>.

The liberals are all in

The liberals are "all in" on this one. They have to be. If the McCain ticket wins, they are screwed so bad it will stick out their backsides. Even if McCain loses, Gov Palin will still be around for 2012 -- She must be destroyed at all costs.

That's the marker, it's war, so what are Conservaitves going to do about it?

I think they are scared of

I think they are scared of the fact that if McCain wins,  then Sara will in fact be the next president after McCain. She will effectivly shut out the Democrats from a presidency till at least 2024 and probably longer if she does well. That would mean the end of any presidential hopefuls that are big in the Democrat's party at this time.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

The "Laugher" curve

Chris, that tingle you feel is you pissing down your leg.

Hey Chrissy!

How about a quote or two from William Ayers?

I spilled some spot remover on my dog. He disappeared. ---Steven Wright

Now don't confuse Chris.

Now don't confuse Chris. They're both from Alaska so they're obviously in cahoots! Can't you all see that?!

[ahem]

Chrissy - what a spittling pansy -

He clearly does not have the brain power to go to a different story when confronted with the facts.  More importantly, he has every opportunity to prepare and report the facts or truth yet is unable to do that.

Wow, the modern liberals - somewhere, there are lots of villages missing lots of idiots.

Delicious Irony

More outright lies about Sarah coming from the "elite" media. Matthews, of course, is one of these liars. And I find it deliciously ironic that it is the Repubplican Party which is quickly becoming the party of real "change". Sarah does not represent the "elites" in the media or the "elites" in Washington. In fact, she is the opposite of them.  That's why they despise her and are trying to destroy her. She's not from Harvard or Georgetown, she's not got her nose in the air. Here comes Sarah, our nextdoor neighbor with 5 kids and a husband in a union,---what? Now she's got the "elites" shaking in their boots! She doesn't believe that her 17 yr. old daughter's child will be a "punishment",  but rather another gift from God, as is her own new baby. She doesn't believe in all the "elitist" claptrap. And she and John are about to bring our government back to the people. They are about to clean house. And the Dems and the media hate them for it. Yes, change is on the way--- not from a "rock star" but from John and the litttle girl down the street. WOW!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Exactly

For the reasons you stated many independants will also swing to her.I may not agree on everything with her but for the reasons listed above it will be a nice change to have a "Real" person running.Not some created elite piece of garbage who has no real clue about regular folks.

Juan Too

Kerry,

Juan Williams also brought up that smear on Brit Hume's show on Monday. Fred Barnes patiently waited for his turn to talk, then let Juan know that it was false. It was then, and only then, that Mara Liasson piped up, "yes, that's been refuted" or something like that.

So, even when they know something is false, they continue to let the lies circulate, unless called on it.

What horrible people they have proven themselves to be, eh?

You can read it here, but they didn't put in Mara's agreement with Fred, but it is in the video, I am sure.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,415823,00.html

Who is on the fringe?

I posted yesterday about Chris foaming at the mouth over this. He had to do a mea culpa over this early this morning blaming the source (was it the NYT?)

Wally Hickel was elected as governor in 1990 under the AIP label in a three-party race, not because he (or his voters) wanted Alaska to secede, but because it was his best chance to get elected.

I keep repeating this but Alaska politics is different and obviously very misunderstood by the MSM Beltway political reporters and pundits. Since when does a "fringe party" elect a governor?

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944

mom_rox

The host state of the RNC is Minnesota....can anyone say Jesse "The Body" Ventura?

I think he ran as an independent, but I'd call him a "fringe candidate". 

As for Chris (and Obie, too), I think we need to start a pool for the on-air meltdown.  We could do a daily double as well, for multiple melts.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

b, lol

b, lol - yeah, I'd agree that Jesse is a fringe candidate.

But I can't say the same about Hickel:
  '66-'69 - Republican Governor of Alaska - his 1st term
  '69-'70 - Secretary of the Interior

My point is that the candidate and his voters were mainstream, not fringe kooks, although the MSM would never disclose this.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw, 1944

ANY non-Democrat & non-Republican party

WILL be referenced as "fringe" in the news media, despite the difficulty & risks assumed by those forming/helping the alternative party, who at least care enough about their state/country to DO something. In this case, it's looking like Sarah Palin's "sin" was to politely listen to these people, but that's more than enough for an antilibertarian biased media (ask Ron Paul...). It's an unwritten media rule to only reference third parties by their most extreme positions/individuals (while masking similarly-extreme individuals/positions in "major" duopoly parties) while using terms like "quixotic" & "fringe" to the point that people like me occasionally turn it into a drinking-game.
JMR

The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.

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Here here!  And another thing, whats so bad about wanting to break away from the US?  Not only is it perfectly legal, but texas has wanted, nearly as an entire state, to do it for years.  Hell libs want to just GIVE california back.

 Of course its not like libs have ever tried to push completely illegal issues through the courts before... oh wait.  So a legal view is radical and dangerous because its not leftist, but a leftist view that is radical and dangerous is good because it is leftist... ok just making sure I got that right. 

MW this is patentently

MW this is patentently false "but texas has wanted, nearly as an entire state, to do it for years" as there is a fringe, read looney" group wanting to do so but most of us realize the union should stay.  BTW the war between teh states proved it was illegal to seceede from teh union.  We in the south know this because we are taught teh true reasons behind the war.  States rights.

Sometimes we might wish were would ceede from the union but not really.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

All these slime merchants

All these slime merchants need to have a bucket of ice cold water thrown on them - they are absolutely out of control. can't someone, anyone tell Matthews, et al, to SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!

McNotObama '08

good news

Chris and his cohorts are going absolutely nuts over the Palin pick.  I am thoroughly enjoying their misery.  It underscores just how powerful a pick Palin is. 

McCain has stolen the media spotlight from the dalibama and reframed the debate. 

You can count me as one of the many conservatives who are "energized" (finally) for November.  The more she is attacked,  the more I will advocate for them - I even kicked in some bucks.

Lastly, McCain should also exploit the fact that her husband is half Innuit Eskimo.  If that is indeed true we need to point out that the opposition to Palin and her family is not only sexist, it's racist.

Is this what they mean by hoisting oneself on your own petard?

This is like Christmas. 

Lost It

The media's frenzied attempts to make Governor Palin look weird are only having the effect of making the media look weird.

Secessionists

If the media is so against secessionist politics, they should take a look at the policies of the congressional delegation from Hawaii, especially Sen. Akaka (D).

 

 

Can't repeat that name, Michigan Tim

The last time a republican said something close to Akaka, he lost to his opponent.

Here's a fringe group that

Here's a fringe group that Matthews can attack.

Except for telling outright lies about the Ayers connection and the CAC, the campaign has done everything in its power to show us that it does not believe there is a free speech right to examine Obama’s record — such of it as has not been buried or “lost.” The unexamined life of Barack is what they prefer we vote on.

In any event, despite these objectionable tactics Kurtz was able to tell us a bit about what he found in the first few days of the five-day window he’s been given to study the CAC files.

He reiterated what I’ve said earlier: CAC seems to have gone through $110 million to fund an educational program which two assessments — one by the Annenberg Foundation and one by an outside team — both found had accomplished nothing for the public school children of Chicago. It is still unclear how and why Obama was made chair of the CAC, but so far it seems that former Weathermen bomb-maker and leader Bill Ayers picked him for the slot. 

And

...the story was that Ayers was an old professor in Mr. Obama’s neighborhood who just happened to host a fundraiser for him in 1995 which launched his political career.

Some mush was thrown in along the way about having served with him on a charity board, but Obama did not correctly describe the charity or the dates or the extent of their association on it.

The truth is that the two men worked closely together for years, beginning several months before that 1995 fundraiser. The fund Obama chaired and which was supposed to improve public education in Chicago never met its stated purpose of improving public school pupils’ performance and, in fact, probably hindered it, despite having blown through $110 million in the process. And as chairman of this group Obama funneled this money to politically useful types including Fidelistas and Maoists who like Ayers (now vice-president elect of the American Education Research Association) are working to make our public schools indoctrination centers for the left .

Once the public learns more of the CAC, will the voters decide that the manner in which Obama exercised his sole opportunity at executive authority was so good that he deserves the keys to the Oval Office?

And finally, in case you're a democrat or a member of the MSM, Bill Ayers is not a nice man.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

You know the leftists like

You know the leftists like Matthews and all...repeat a lie often enough!

Not working though ...they are in La-La-Land...and will be remaining there until th 4th of the eleventh month of this year.

Poor leftists...trying to throw pure crap out there and hoping something, anything, will stick.

LMAO!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

so?

I'm having some trouble figuring out what exact position the MSM is taking on Palin.

One minute Alaska is a useless wasteland with 13 people and some caribou, and the next it's a vital part of the union.

Someone help me out here.

PS I love how the video shows them blatantly ignoring the facts. Matthews is told straight out that the story is false, but they continue right on talking about how damaging it is for Palin. Truth literally does not matter to these people.

Chris Matthews graduated from the D. Rather school

Never let facts get in the way of a perfectly good story.

I'm waiting for Olberman to make Palin his "worst person in the world" soon for daring to subject her family to all the media scrutiny over non-existant issues.

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

The Ghost of Dan Rather

Dan is alive, if not in person then in spirit, whispering in Chris Matthews ear all his secrets to success in the News Media. You go Chris, make your hero proud.

Okay, Chris.

I'll play this game, too.  I heard from a friend, who heard from friend who went to a Muslim country once, that Obama is a Muslim.  That's at least as reliable as your source, isn't it?  Oh, wait a minute, YOU DON'T HAVE A SOURCE!!!!!!!!!!  You have supposition from wingnuts in the extreme left.  But I guess that is okay, as long as it's an allegation about someone that doesn't make your leg tingle.......

Matthews on Palin: A

Matthews on Palin: A Pitchfork Secessionist

With Obama tingling running up and down his legs, Matthews must be having sleep derivation which causes ones mind to have hallucinations of importance and the creation of inane characterizations of people.

If you’ve watched his failing show, this is his stock and trade - coming up with cutsie phrases to describe the people he doesn’t like.

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