Just how much are liberal bloggers driving the mainstream media attacks on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin?
According to a report in Saturday's Politico, postings by the Netroots Friday concerning a friend and former business partner of the Palins trying to have his divorce records sealed created a media feeding frenzy in Alaska.
This was to be the smoking gun tying this individual to a National Enquirer piece last week that alleged Palin had an extramarital affair some years ago, which according to Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel, sent mainstream press members scurrying like rats to a small courthouse thousands of miles from their nests (emphasis added, photo courtesy AP):
Surely, the Netroots speculated, that friend must be the unnamed business partner whom this week’s edition of the National Enquirer alleges — without proof so far — was romantically linked to Palin. The McCain campaign's characterization of the story as a "vicious lie" seemed to only fuel more speculation.
And then the moment of truth, as the motion to seal was denied. The filings, housed in a district courthouse in this town about eight miles east of the Palin’s hometown of Wasilla, contained a lot of hot news — presuming, that is, you’re interested in the child-custody agreement reached by Scott Richter and his ex-wife Deborah Richter, or in the former couple's holdings, which include a recreational property that Scott owns with Sarah and Todd Palin.
That hasn’t stopped a stream of journalists and couriers from NBC, the Los Angeles Times, Court TV and other outlets (including this reporter, presently serving as Politico’s Alaska bureau) from making their way to the Palmer courthouse to photocopy, at 25 cents a page, the 75 or so pages in the Richters’ marriage dissolution file.
So this is the state of journalism today: a liberal blogger can post any unproven claim about a Republican candidate or elected official, and mainstream press members will be all over it like white on rice.
How disgraceful.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.





















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What a joke. No proof what
September 6, 2008 - 15:38 ET by midnight cowboyWhat a joke. No proof what so ever of the allegation, and the dem wolf pack press is praying for a story. In 1992 there were tons of stories about BJ Clinton and his extramarital affairs. Where were the press hounds then? Oh yeah they were too busy burying the reports of Bill's unzippy dicky.
affairs
September 6, 2008 - 17:37 ET by tejanodiabloMcCain/ Palin '08 ... Palin/Jindal '16 ... Jindal/? '24
never look a gift skunk in the tail ..
Great pic, NS!
September 6, 2008 - 15:42 ET by BlondeSarah Bear!
I see the bottom feeders are up to their usual antics.
We need a pool here, how long until this appears on MSNBC?
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Olbermann's "Mini-Me" Maddock
September 6, 2008 - 15:56 ET by kgOlbermann's "Mini-Me" Maddock has been doing most of the lying lately. She/He even calls McCain a liar when he referring to Omaba. Yet she never backs anything up with her version of truth.
Not only does she sound like Olbermann, she has picked up his antics and facial expressions as well. How crazy is that?
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On Obama Like White on Rice
September 6, 2008 - 15:52 ET by allanfAre these same journalists as quick to pour through the documents concerning Obama's relationship with terrorist William Ayers?
Let's bring back some bitter memories...
September 6, 2008 - 15:54 ET by JeffWeimerAnd if a sitting president gets busy with a girl in his employ, why, we should just move on....
I don't mind necessarily
September 6, 2008 - 15:56 ET by MikeknaJI don't mind necessarily that they're so rabid about pursuing this "lead" about her.
What bothers me is how just the opposite they were about Obama - even on issues that actually had substance. They had to practically be pushed out the door with a zamboni in his case - Wright, Ayers, Rezko, etc.
It's the double standard that is the story here.
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Mike
September 6, 2008 - 16:01 ET by Noel SheppardMike,
I do agree with that. If there would have been the same media feeding frenzy over Rev. Wright, Ayers, and Rezko, then we would all agree that what's going on now with Palin was a warranted quid pro quo. In fact, we'd call it good investigative journalism.
But, since the Messiah got a pass on all these issues, and he's running for the top spot, staking out Sarah's laundry basket this way is unacceptable. ns
Exactly. With Wright, Ayres
September 6, 2008 - 16:09 ET by MrShyExactly.
With Wright, Ayres and Rezko -- an angry racist and USA hater/conspiracy hustler, a domestic terrorist, and a corrupt player in the Chi/IL system -- all being KNOWN GOOD FRIENDS/ASSOCIATES of O-Force, it's outrageous that he's gotten this far, and all thanks to an abiding MSM.
Even just one of these, you'd think, should have been enough to take him down back in the primaries.
There's always gay lounges and private "parties" you could do.. Stop the videos.. ask your boyfriends for a "reach around"! -- Rog "all class" the Shrub, YouTube :p
Media sponsor Obama
September 6, 2008 - 16:21 ET by MaximusBraveheartIf they had done their job equally, Hillary would likely have won. They treated their chosen child special. Just like the Clintons were treated prior.
Bottom line...
September 6, 2008 - 16:34 ET by Joe C.if B. Hussein wasn't half Black, he wouldn't have made it out of the blocks. The only elections he's won, he's been essentially unopposed due to mysterious circumstances.
HAHHAHHAHHAHHA!
September 6, 2008 - 16:15 ET by Joe C."...a recreational property that Scott owns with Sarah and Todd Palin."
Scandalous! Those Palins have no shame. Next thing to come out: they once were at the same Wal-Mart within hours of one another.
HAHHAHAHAHHAHA!
From what I've heard. This
September 6, 2008 - 16:16 ET by danboFrom what I've heard. This sounds like the same kind of thing that happened to Obamas compeditors. Blair Hull and Jack Ryan. Obama has never won an election where either lawyers of the press didn't take out his main compeditors.
Can someone subpeona the records of these news agencies to see if there is a collaboration between these news agencies and the Obama people or the Democratic party.
The American people have the right to know.
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Just like with Edwards
September 6, 2008 - 17:19 ET by JerryGosh, this is just like the feeding frenzy of "investigative" journalism displayed during the John Edwards affair.... NOT
What an embarrassing contrast. Journalistic integrity indeed.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
I just hope some
September 6, 2008 - 17:26 ET by JerryI just hope some independent journalist is up there recording the feeding frenzy of these dipwads.
And I also hope the McCain campaign begins planting false stories to "chum" the waters and further expose these blatant partisans for the hacks they are.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
I was thinking exactly the
September 6, 2008 - 20:52 ET by ThisnThatI was thinking exactly the same thing, Jerry. It would be so easy for McCain or anybody else to divert the attention and energy of these nuts down ratholes for the next 60 days, given their propensity to chase rumors.
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Let's hope they don't find
September 6, 2008 - 21:20 ET by danboLet's hope they don't find out about her connections with Gavrilo Princip. That would be embarassing. And hard to explain.
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Unsealing of Divorce Records - Nothing New with Obama
September 6, 2008 - 17:29 ET by Gat New YorkI spotted two events that were too similar that were necessary for Obama to get the party nomination and to eventually win the general election.
http://www.siu.edu/~ppi/PDF/papers/Obama.pdf
The readers of this paper are likely to know that the story took a dramatic shift shortly after the primaries were over on March 16. Before the primary there had been persistent rumors about the Jack Ryan divorce case. The court files on Ryan’s divorce from actress Jeri Ryan had been sealed at Jack Ryan’s request. His explanation was that he was concerned about protecting the privacy of the couple’s son. Some of Ryan’s Republican primary opponents alluded to the sealed file and made vague reference to it in debates before the primary, but nothing specific came out. Then shortly after the primary a court in California ordered that the file should be unsealed. The file contained rather damaging allegations by Jeri Ryan against Jack Ryan regarding incidents related to their sex life. The story became an explosive one and an overnight sensation among the media. Here was another divorce file, and another set of charges by a former wife coming into play in this Senate race. It was very reminiscent of the situation which had effectively derailed Blair Hull’s candidacy before the primary; however, this all came out after the primary. The timing could have hardly been worse for the Republicans
It was The Chicago Tribune that filed the lawsuit in California to unseal those papers. It was State Supreme Court Judge Robert Schnider who went against the wishes of Ryan and his ex-wife (who both claimed it would be harmful to their child) and decided to unseal the records for the “public good.”
The reason given for Ryan’s sudden exit after the GOP primary may be a coincidence or maybe not. For the Democratic nomination Obama was running against a very popular and wealthy Blair Hull. The early polls had Hull leading his next leading rival (either Obama or Dan Hynes) by at least 10 percentage points - a lot in a 10 person race.
But then just before the election, the polls showed a tremendous surge for Obama to put him in the lead well ahead of Blair and Hynes.
What happened?
In February the media revealed that Hull’s divorce from his ex-wife, a Chicago real estate broker, had been messy. The divorce paper revealed that she had obtained two restraining orders against him and that there had been a minor physical altercation (Lawrence and Fornek, Chicago Sun Times, March 5, 2004, 10). Although Hull admitted the marital problems and the essential facts, the story, coupled with the negative media coverage of it, seemed to stop Hull’s campaign cold. He went from leading the horse race polls to a weak third place in a period of about two weeks. No amount of pleading extenuating circumstances, pained explanations, and mea culpas appeared to gain him much sympathy. In the end, Hull finished a very distant third with just under 11% of the vote. The clear beneficiary of the Hull collapse seemed to be Barack Obama. His poll numbers rose in tandem with Hull’s decline.
So using divorce records against an opponent is part of the Obama playbook.
From The Smoking Gun:
September 6, 2008 - 22:06 ET by Andantehttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0905083palin1.html?link=rssfeed
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" -- Obama
This is absolutly
September 6, 2008 - 17:35 ET by SnappyThis is absolutly insane.....every story that never broke about Obama had to literally be written for the media and handed to them just to get a mention in passing---usually bylined with the statement that the Republican hate machine was raising a ruckus about it, so this is really the only reason we are bringing it up---- and yet if you whisper the word "Palin" all three networks CNN and MSNBC are at your doorstep drooling. Pathetic, but it does show that she is no longer just herself, a gov from Alaska, but instead an "everywoman" type figure that people can relate to. Liberals for years have put out movies about the ordinary joe becoming president, they LOVE this story, as long as that joe is espousing the far left viewpoint. Now we actually have in real life an everyday woman who is on the VP ticket and she is getting shredded. Thankfully to her credit she appears as though she doesnt really care what they say, at the end of the day what she has is her family, and her own self respect knowing that she has upheld her beliefs and constituents as well as she promised.
Where's the BO birth certificate paper chase?
September 6, 2008 - 17:36 ET by JaykeHow about some of these "journalists" finding out what hospital BO was born in. I actually called one of those BO hotlines and asked a female on the other end "Can you tell me what hospital he was born in?" Her response was astonishing. She said "Why is that imortant?" Well, if he was born in Kenya it would be pretty important. She quoted something about him having a Hawaiian COLB and I said "So what? His sister Maya was born in Indonesia and she has one. It seams that anybody can get a Hawaiian COLB whether they were born there or not." It seems like his mother had a penchant for having children overseas and registering their births in Hawai. That doesn't mean they were actually born in Hawaii. The converstaion ended with her saying she would "Google it" and me saying "Good luck." Why is this such a mystery? I want answers!
Melungeons blogging for Sarah Palin
September 6, 2008 - 17:43 ET by lareeMelungeons are a group of people who settled the Blackwater, Newmans Ridge are of Tennessee. They are associated with Sneedsville, Tennesse A very old isolate group a sub group to the other inhabitants of Appalachia, for example the Scots Irish or Hillbillys or Hillfolk if you like. I may end up guest blogging, I have been trying to stay out of Political blogging but it has a strong pull on a person. The Reagan Democrats, the Jacksonians, The Scots Irish. They are covered in detail in Senator Jim Webb's book "Born Fighting how the Scots Irish shaped America" These are the folks Hillary Clinton, won in the Primary, and Barack Obama is having trouble wooing right now. Another good read on these folks is "Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America" A Democrat candidate can't get elected without them.
http://sarah-palin-2...
Busy little buzzing bees
September 6, 2008 - 17:58 ET by bigtimerBusy little buzzing bees now aren't they...
What happened to the it's her personal business...what happened to it's their personal lives, what happened to can't we just moveon....
Hypocrites in desperation mode....
All this is going to end up doing is make more and more people love her and go the her side, no matter the outcome...these filthy little critters jut really do not know or understand with any sense of reality whatsoever how much they are despised by the American people.
Backfire a comin' on down the road...big time!
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Not the Netroots Mr. Sheppard
September 6, 2008 - 18:27 ET by Lame CherryMr. Sheppard,
This is not the netroots feeding this frenzy, but it is the Obama campaign itself.
To answer the poster above, there is not an "if" connection but a complete axis of evil.
I documented this in the trailer tra_sh story. I break that world up BECAUSE GOOGLE CRAWLERS WERE HIGHLIGHTING IT to be used in the smear.
I was the first to break that Barack Obama is an intelligence asset of the globalists like William Ayers. What is occurring is a Goebbels type intel smear against Gov. Palin.........the same thing the Chicago Obama syndicate led by David Axelrod did to the PUMA Hillary people.
Here is how it works. Obama has his smear meeting. Axelrod, Hildebrand and Plouffe send out the plant words and information to someone like John Aravosis who is the shill to post smears on the internet.
The like minded them form a chatter on Huffpo, DailyKos etc...
Then, the shills for Obama in the low media start posting the story like Tom Blumer found at the Post Chronicle.
Then the search engines are employed at Google and Yahoo to start spreading the story onto the internet.
THEN people at Newsbusters are manipulated into starting to expose the story as false.
By the end of the News cycle of the prime time hours at CNN, MSNBC and Charlie Rose on PBS, by miracle ALL THESE EXPERTS show up repeating a new line of talking points to trash someone.
You must understand Mr. Sheppard that the netroots are no different than you in political passion, but they have wolves among them directing stories which the Obama intelligence machine knows exactly how to feed into a frenzy.
They direct the entire story and by the time the reporters have been sent to Alaska there is already a list of molotov mob cocktails being sent out to start more smears that will be knocked down BUT NO ONE IS INDICTING THE CRIMINALS IN OBAMA INC.
I pointed out that this demfamation is illegal and covered under the RICO Act. Obama is the godfather of this and it stops being politics when laws are broken.
Bill Maher used racist terms he got from the Obama people in the way they are using eskimo which is a highly N word offensive term to Inuit peoples.
None of this happens by accident and until you Mr. Sheppard start exposing Barack Obama instead of pointing at netroots it is like arresting the hooker spreading VD instead of the pimp giving it to her infecting the entire nation.
One of my sources who was right where you were at Minnesota that there are threats to the media reporters that they will be smeared as crazy if they even mention Lawrence Sinclair coming directly from David Axelrod.
A blogger who runs Ameica's Right yesterday was laughed at for daring to ask about the Phil Berg story.
Greta who knows very well the Sinclair story was baiting Sinclair in Washington DC pretending she would do a segment on it, but now is stating the false arrest of an invalid, terrorizing him by Biden's Delaware syndicate is "not a story".
I ask you people on here IF, Sarah Palin had had a gay person, with a brain tumor, held without a lawyer for 4 days, without their medications, had Social Security cut off their benefits, used the media to smear that person and had her Attorney General's office threaten life imprisonment for a misdemeanor where charges are now dropped........
DO YOU THINK GRETA WOULD BE ALL OVER THIS STORY???????
That is exactly what Obama and Biden did via Beau Biden and Susan Dwyer in Delaware.
And yet in this where is the right wing media? No place but silent except the Washington Times.
We get fed stories on Whoopie misspelling, what the pretty people are coming up with on the top level of the Obama intel project on "qualifications" and divorce papers, but no one is bringing out the criminal syndicate operating by Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
For the record folks, this is the same bunch who brought you Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. They are thee globalist underground government using presidential coups and destroy people to get what they want.
Forgegate was these people and no one dared go after them as they are so connected.
For a reality check, who runs the passport operation, but Obama and Hillary supporters as they were the ones doing the illegal data mining.
NO ARRESTS as they are overnight billionaires connected to the same Obama web.
Lawrence Sinclair on his website had ICANN monitoring it. ICANN is the government non agency which is the intelligence hub for all internet domain names and protocols.
NOW WHY IS A BIG BOY OUTFIT LIKE THAT CARING ABOUT A STORY WHICH GRETA SAYS IS NOTHING?
Want to know another exclusive I broke?
I for interest sake did a net search on ICANN around midnight and found the address linking to a Dr. Twomey who runs the whole operation.
I happened to post on a Sinclair blog not mentioning Twomey's name, but a "director".
10 hours later I happened to do a recheck and found both Google and Yahoo completely scrubbed of Dr. Twomey and the ICANN address links.
Now the only people who can scrub the internet like that is alphabet intel groups.
Is what I'm being inspired to post and research being tracked by the Obama people via government agencies...........you bet it is and so are a number of people's internet expressions even here.
Now that is all illegal, and we know from Obama's own camp in a published report that they have the information tracking millions of Americans even their credit card information.
They have this so refined that they know when you open emails each day so they time the emails to stack up into your inbox on top right before you start opening the account.
Mr Sheppard, this is not netroots, these are the ghosts of the left running an intel operation and I urge people to check all of the above to verify it as it is real. I had to stack my research into different accounts because the Obama group monitoring in Yahoo was censuring the email until I wrote to the president of the company asking for an explanation.
So Newsbusters as you sit here on the small stories, I ask you like Greta not to be lulled into thinking you are safe just because Bill Buckley's family is the base of your operation. This group gets into power and they are going to make the operation the Clinton's ran look 3rd grade. There are nasty people Soviet style in the Obama campaign and they will graduate from the brown shirts to the real KGB thugs banging on your door if they win this selection.
These people are criminals and have an intel operation going on. It would be nice of the "pundits" who are being financed by the same money would start exposing these felony acts.
Why though the silence in the right media?
Biggest stories in the world, Biden steals his Iraq Plan from Borchegrave before the entire Senate and not a peep. Invalids brutalized and not a story. The RICO Act initiated by Obama's criminal group and not one person mentions it.
Great million dollar spokespeople we have on the right looking out for America's interest.
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The press enjoys the
September 6, 2008 - 19:42 ET by danboThe press enjoys the status of a privlidged class, due to freedom of the press. Shall make no law abridging freedom ... of the press, does not exempt the press from grievence if that freedom is abused. The 1st amendment also provides room to petition the government for a redress of grievences.
It seems there is the right of privacy if a woman wants an abortion. However if the press wants to look at someones divorce records because they might be able to destroy someone. There is no right of privacy.
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Cherry... I think you are
September 6, 2008 - 20:46 ET by Clear thinkerCherry...
I think you are correct. Today I checked out two new Obama sites for comments to collect and post. I found the lies and hatred for the Palin family overwhelming and sickening. Never have I seen the left stoop so damn low, never! Children Of Conservatives - Trailer Trash
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Whatever happened to that
September 6, 2008 - 18:34 ET by LTKWhatever happened to that Edwards scandal, the one the MSM refuse to print because it came from the National Enquirer?
LTK... Just dust in the
September 6, 2008 - 18:58 ET by bigtimerLTK...
Just dust in the wind...not important and never was to them, he has a 'D' after his name after-all and he didn't run for Prez or possibly be named VP...why heck, can't we just move on....
No Bias...No Bull now is there?
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darn, another $18.75 wasted
September 6, 2008 - 19:05 ET by mom_roxMaybe I should fabricate a rumor so journalists will have to spend time in Alaska on more wild goose chases. I'm just trying to help the Alaska economy.
Check out this Sarah Palin rumor blog by Charles Martin.
What's the difference between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin?
One is eye candy while the other kills her own food.
What a load
September 6, 2008 - 19:39 ET by NorthCoasterof Dimwit S$$$T. I suppose that if you have friends you can't spend time with them alone. You have to have witnesses to prove that your intentions are honorable. B$
The hateful lies from the
September 6, 2008 - 20:40 ET by Clear thinkerThe hateful lies from the left are only making me dis-like liberals more than ever before. I say it's time we start pushing back through the media by emailing all of them to "LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE"!
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Noel Name the reporters
September 6, 2008 - 23:19 ET by danboNoel
Name the reporters and who they work for.
They deserve what they're trying to do to Palin.
In fact the RNC should also do this openly.
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When did ---- and how long
September 7, 2008 - 01:00 ET by usinkoreaWhen did ---- and how long into ----- Obama's campaign run --- did the stuff
about Wright and that church get out?
What amount of coverage did it receive?
How much follow up material has emerged?
How in depth did the media dig?
What side stories did it spawn?
When will the media cover Ayers?
Obama has two books about his life out there that given anti-Obama people lots of fuel for conspiracy and other types of hit pieces.
How much has the media worked from them?
-----[We all know here --- the media has gone out of its way to knock such stories on the head and rebury them as quickly as they have popped up.]
Sarah must be the biggest
September 7, 2008 - 11:02 ET by cocodrieSarah must be the biggest problem that has confronted the left-wing extremists in quite a while. The bigger something is the more effort is required to bring it down. judging from the level of personal destruction aimed at Gov Palin the dims must be terrified of her. Great article Noel. P.S. I liked your "white on rice", down here we coon-asses use the term "gravy on rice". We eat gravy on everything.
Gravy
September 7, 2008 - 12:15 ET by RukusOh yeah! Down here in south MS we even put gravy on hamburgers, YUM! French fries too! Gravy rules!
"Nuke 'em 'til they... oh hell, just shoot 'em!"
----
September 7, 2008 - 11:03 ET by dahliatraversto photocopy, at 25 cents a page, the 75 or so pages
The trees! Think of the trees chopped down to satisfy your craving for dirt!
Have you no soul?!