Bill Press Calls Todd Palin A Terrorist

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The mainstream media has resorted to attacking GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's husband Todd Palin.  At the bottom of the hour of Bill Press's radio show at 6am this morning, Press said the following:

PRESS: What's the difference between a secessionist and a terrorist? Isn't a secessionist just another form of a terrorist? Ask Abraham Lincoln...Let's find out what the "First Dude" was going to do in order to secede from the union. I tell you it wasn't going to be peaceful.

Has Bill Press lost it? The first glaring difference is Todd Palin never blew up innocent people or landmarks all over the country.  Comparing Todd Palin to Bill Ayers is just plain nonsense and disingenuous.

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The first line of attack on this issue was that Governor Palin was a secessionist.  When that was debunked, the left went after her husband.  More importantly,  he was never shown to "terrorize" others like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn did. 

Todd Palin registered with the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995 but later registered as undeclared  in 2000 and later again in 2002.  How active was he, though?  Many states have 'Independence' parties, and they get their numbers from people who believe they are registering in no party at all. 

Palin has no real active history with the party and later registered as "undeclared," so he may have thought he was truly declaring himself an independent voter...the individual the media loves these days.

Keep in mind the Republican party in Alaska was very corrupt at the time he did this.  It took his wife's reforms to cleanup the GOP in Alaska later on, in fact.

*H/T to Freeper x for this possible explanation:

...whenever you see a reference to Palin and the Alaska Independence Party in the 90s that doesn't mention Walter Hickel, who was elected governor on that ticket in 1990, what you're reading is a smear and an attempt at manipulation.

Hickel was a former Republican Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior who ran on the AIP ticket and won. He rejected the Independence platform. Palin didn't "join" the party, he selected it as his party preference when he registered to vote, and the odds are he did it to indicate his support for Hickel, rather than for independence. More here.

It's also been said that Joe Biden voted for legislation that might lead to Hawaiian independence. 

Liberal blogs have been lit up comparing Ayers to the governor's husband this past week.  As usual, the media picked up the talking points of these blogs.

The typical line of the press these days has been that the McCain campaign is getting desperate, so they are attacking Obama over his relations with Ayers. If anything, this line of attack from Press looks like the media is becoming even further desperate.

*Updated at 8:45pm Est. Oct.10, 2008

Cross Posted at Video Done Right

Kerry Picket is an Associate Producer at the Media Research Center's Eyeblast.tv

 


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Has Bill Press lost it?

Press never had "it".  Or if he did he lost it many, many years ago.

The man is a Leftist lunatic. (or do I repeat myself?)

he's donated to dems

http://www.campaignmoney.com/finance.asp?pg=2&type=in&criteria=press&ra=228369&rc=295&prevpage=1&cycle=08

This partisan hack Press has a history of donating to Dems.  Funny noone mentions that when he is on tv. 

Saddam Hussein and terrorism.  The rest of the story...

http://www.regimeoft...

 

Bill Press is brain-dead

Logic has never been part of Bill Press's arsenal.

Liberal, emotion-filled rhetoric ... that's Bill's mainstay. 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

Registering as an

Registering as an independent, or being undeclared somehow makes you a secessionist..  and then a terrorist? What am I  missing here?

What am I missing here?

The Gene that makes you an unhindged dumbass, as far as I can tell : ]

 

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Uh..  thanks.. 

Uh..  thanks.. 

I grew up in Alaska

I grew up in Alaska, and many people have a similar secessionist attitude towards the federal government. It's not that we hate America and want to leave, its that we can't stand having 90% of the land owned by the Federal Government and have them slowly take over more and more while they kill our small towns.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. - Ronald Reagan

Ely...Bingo! I lived

Ely...Bingo!

I lived there nine years and this subject is not new...many people feel the same...we did.

You have congress stopping any progress in Ak. which was promised them when they joined, taken away while towns and the economy die with all the rules, regulations by the greenies and stoppage of ANWR to top it off is the straw that breaks the camels back for a lot of people.

Mills and logging were almost nil when we left as they let a vast area on the Kenai Peninsula die from beetle bark, whether than go in cut it and stop the spread...on and on...

I'm not even going to go into the fishing industry and all that has been attempted to be put upon them, and has, some of it.

....while people in their elite bubbles know not what they are talking about in the msm...makes me furious.

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

Secession

If Barry is elected, maybe it is time for the Republic of Texas to rise again! 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

Another case of liberal

Another case of liberal mind reading. He actually KNOWS what Todd was going to do and it wasnt going to be peaceful? This is the essence of desparation.

Maddow went into much the

Maddow went into much the same crap lastnight on MSNBC.

 

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Press is just aping the

Press is just aping the talking points that have been all over the msm, he couldn't think this up all by himself...

Press didn't lose anything, he never had anything between his ears to begin with.

Vast empty-space.

Btw...these talking points aren't going to work, no matter how many times they repeat them, the majority of the people in this country know the difference between Palin and Ayers...the people that don't, are the same people that will vote dem anyway, no matter what.

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

Spouse

I thought the spouse of a candidate was off limits.

Press

Press is the ex-state democrat party chairman of California.

That tells you enough when a man is chairman of The Granola State - What ain't fruits and nuts is flakes.

scrambling

allow me to love America

once ACORN and the relationship between Barry & Billy, show they had the foundation to this mortgage crisis in their hands.

everyone is fair game.

BHO is now humpty dumpty-and no one can put this one together again.

Good bye Barry????

SS: No, I believe that

SS: No, I believe that ruling only applies to black spouses.

All In The Family

The first line of attack on this issue was Governor Palin was a secessionist

Alaska state Supreme Court refuses to halt investigation into Gov Palin 

JDW


DAILY WAVE

'Hey Chuck, Stand Up!'

Is the Community Reinvestment Act part of free enterprise?

Get used to what were seeing

Because it is nothing like the demonization that we will be subjected if The One is coronated.

Get used to

what we're seeing, that is.

Or if he ISN'T.

Or if he ISN'T.

 

Press Ganged: Don't know much about history

Isn't a secessionist just another form of a terrorist?

Err, No, you dimwit.

But to expand... from my OED:

SECEDE: withdraw formally from membership of federal union, an alliance or a political or religious organization.

Of course, one of the most famous secessions in history began thus:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

I guess the yellow Press dimwit doesn't know this obscure piece of history, that's never talked about these days.

I guess the American secessionists from the United Kingdom of Great Britain, (the lawful governors of the 13 colonies), were merely TERRORISTS? Interesting.

POP QUIZ...

Q. Who was the only President of the United States to have applied for a commission in the British army, and to be rejected?

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Quite, Jack

But if you're Whoopi....it's "successionist".

Sheesh...these lefties.

Leave it to you to come up with a lesson in American history, nicely done! 

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

 

Blonde -- ah, but it's our

Blonde -- ah, but it's our shared history!

Yes those successionists are a terrorist dream! Whoopi de doo. 

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Jack...

Actually, I thought the Brits considered the revolting colonists to be terrorists.

It is interesting the leap Press makes, though.
Bill Press, once an idiot, always an idot. 

If conservatives are RIGHT, then liberals must be WRONG.

LK -- they definitely

LK -- they definitely thought them revolting.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Jack, I love it when you

Jack,

I love it when you quote the Declaration of Independence. I get very animated when discussion it and the Constitution with my girls. I am having a pint in your name tonight. Unfortunately, I cannot answer your quiz question. I know that Washington was a Lt. Col. in the F&I War, but am largely unfamiliar with the early military records of most of the US Presidents.

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hermano -- thanks buddy!

hermano -- thanks buddy! Enjoy that pint.

George Washinton, the first President of the United States, as now constituted, (if you don't count all the others prior to Philly) applied for a commission to join the then British army in 1763.

And was rejected. I think GB made a mistake.

Another interesting factoid, from memory, the first 7 Presidents were also not natural born citizens of the United States, all being British colonial subjects at birth!

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Help this man!!

Poor Bill!  Isn't there some type of medication to help him with his condition?

Yes, cyanide. "All

Yes, cyanide.

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

IJF... LMAO...yeah, that

IJF...

LMAO...yeah, that would do the trick.

Problem is, he wouldn't follow instructions on label.

...to all you trolls....don't take everything literally before you start squawking...you have to have some humor in life.

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

The Media Hall of Shame keeps growing

Throughout the campaign, I have been keeping a list of what I call the Media Hall of Shame.  These are the worst of the obnoxious media sorts, those who have gone too far in their Obama worship.  Here is the list so far:

Bill Press, Keith Olbermann, Evan Thomas, Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Jonathan Alter, Terry Moran (Moron), Chris Matthews, Jack Cafferty, Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Frank Rich

Magazine Unit: Newsweek, Rolling Stone, US, Time

If you have any additions, let me know.  I'm sure the list will grow.

 

Mary

You are forgetting the 3 nimrods on The View, Meridth Vera (?), Mika Brewzinski (?) just to name a few 

"The devil is a better theologian that any of us and is a devil still" A.W. Tozer

Does that mean

that all Native Americans are terrorists because their lands are not considered part of the US? 

I tell you what...

If Obama wins, i'll become a sucessionist myself.

I used to be just annoyed

I used to be just annoyed with these people. But now I think I'm really growing to hate them. I find their specious attacks on everything Republican to be tiresome and infuriating.

I just finished reading a Marxist blog that the whole global meltdown can be laid at the feet of Capitalism and that capitalism must go... by force if necessary. Can you believe it? The Socialists and Marxists cause the problem by interfering with Capitalism and trying to control the markets, and when that Marxist interference blows up in their faces... they blame it on Capitalism.

Now, they're trying to say that Todd Palin is a terrorist because he was a member of a political party that wanted to secede, yet their own guy has been palling around for years with a guy who said he didn't plant enough bombs and didn't blow up enough people...

These people make me so mad, I don't know what to do... but I can tell you I'm stocking up on food and ammo.... and batteries, solar panels and a windmill just in case the excrement hits the fan.

____________________________________________________

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." ~ Ayn Rand

Neither secession nor

Neither secession nor joining a union of states is terrorism.  Of themselves, they are both pefectly legal if proper procedure if followed. 

The charge of terrorism is absurd.  The Ayers issue must really be getting to them. 

Mr. Obama, what did Mr. Ayers see in you?

Let me put it in terms this

Let me put it in terms this idiot can understand. South Carolina seceded after a terrorist act on Fort Sumpter.

"The devil is a better theologian that any of us and is a devil still" A.W. Tozer

Stop the Press!

If you’ve ever listened to Press you would have found that he is one of the more incoherent liberals in the MSM. He’s sort of on a par with Phil Donahue.

In his latest rant, he had to reach deep down into the sewer he calls a mind in order to make such a detestable statement.

It is telling in that it further illustrates how petrified the MSM are of Palin even to the extent of going after her family.

So, this has what journalism has become - a pathetic forum for name calling.

sucessionist

I would rather be a sucessionist than a socialist anyday!!

Bill Press

Bu))$#!T

Secession

Its ok for the dem to have the bumper stickers "Dissention is the highest form of patriotism" and to associate with domestic terrorists, but somehow Todd Palin is bad? 

If Todd has said something about sucession, so what; who hasn't?

I am surprised that a state hasn't sucsseded yet, to be honest. I can see it happening in Alaska, Montana or somewhere similair. I say more pwer to them and when you get right down to it; the lower 48 needs Alaska much much more than Alaska needs the lower 48. 

Don't you think

Don't you think that if Todd Palin had committed one criminal act that the media would have hung him by now. Hell, they already crucified him for a 20 year old DUI.

This crap isn't about changing votes, it's about getting us so involved defending minor incidents that we stop going after the stealth terrorists, Barrack Obama and his far left allies.

Incidently in California decades ago I registered as "Independent" . At the time that meant no political party.  I now find that an Independent party was formed and I was a registered member. I have now changed to "decline to state". 

You Mr. Press are a

You Mr. Press are a partisan hack -- covering for Obama as usual.  You couldn't wear Todd Palin's jockstrap -- and Gov. Palin would destroy in a one-on-one discussion.

 

Press Can't Be Taken Seriously

Let's not forget that this flaming jackass was one of the idiots who fell for the "Lovenstein Institute" hoax a few years back, whereby a nonexistent institution found that Dubyah had the lowest IQ of any President. As I recall, when he was busted for it, Press blamed his falling for the the hoax on Bush.

But what's important is this-Press whines about Todd Palin being a member of a "secessionist movement". But he totally ignores the fact that O'bama and Chia Pet Biden both voted in favor of the Akaka Bill, which would let a single ethnic group, the Hawaiians, secede from the US. Even the US Civil Rights Commission opposes the Akaka Bill. But the Democrat Party embraces it.

Connects Obama to Odinga

You read Palin's Email - Now look at Obama's

 http://www.jeremiahfilms.com/released/news/Palin-Password.html#1010

Just Say No Bill!

 Bill Press must be a pothead.  That is the only explaination I can find for him to come up with the notion that a man who has no violent history can possibly be considered a terrorist.  Step away from the bong Bill and maybe you will no longer assume that Todd would be doing something that isn't peaceful when you have no evidence to back up your claim. 

 

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?  I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”

B.H. Obama