John McCain's campaign spokesman is reporting that the media has deluged the campaign with demands that it provide DNA samples to "prove" that baby Trig is the true offspring of vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin. Imagine the effrontery of this demand? Imagine the ignorance and outrageousness of this attack that Governor Palin is receiving at the hands of the Old Media? Worse, realize that this storm has been raised by gutter websites like DailyKos and the DemocraticUnderground! The media is not only indulging in the lowest of attacks they are allowing the most extreme, unhinged of the far left to dictate the direction of their coverage. The Old Media are worse than dancing puppets for the hatemongers on the left.
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reported that McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt is being buried under an avalanche of these unseemly demands for Palin's DNA by the media establishment.
In an extraordinary and emotional interview, Steve Schmidt said his campaign feels "under siege" by wave after wave of news inquiries that have questioned whether Palin is really the mother of a 4-month-old baby, whether her amniotic fluid had been tested and whether she would submit to a DNA test to establish the child's parentage.
Imagine the temerity of these media scavengers?
Even Kurtz admits that hate sites like DailyKos is leading the media around by the nose.
The intensity of media inquiries hit a new level after an anonymous blogger on the liberal Web site Daily Kos last weekend charged that McCain's running mate is actually the grandmother of Trig Palin, the 4-month-old baby born with Down syndrome, and that the real mother is her daughter, 17-year-old Bristol Palin. That led to mainstream media inquiries, which prompted the McCain camp to disclose in a statement Monday that Bristol is five months pregnant and plans to have the baby and marry the teenage father.
These disgusting allegations were proven completely false on the same day that the ignorati at the DailyKos raised them. Dozens of photos were produced that proved that Palin was pregnant and eyewitness accounts were brought forward cooberating the photos. Yet the mean spiritedness of the press corps pressed onward anyway with these hateful attacks on a mother of a special needs child, a baby with Down Syndrome and a teenaged girl.
And now they have the gall to demand DNA?
It causes me, at least, to ask some salient questions. WHY didn't the press ramp up their demands for DNA during those fateful days when the Blue Dress filled with Bill Clinton's DNA was all the topic of the news? Why have they not been demanding DNA evidence to prove or disprove John Edward's is or isn't the father of the Rielle Hunter's baby? They don't seem all so interested in DNA in those cases, do they?
The Old Media double standard is in full effect here, folks. Any tiny line of smear can be used freely to destroy a Republican and their family members -- including children. But when it comes to liberals... why, it's hands off, it's all about safeguarding a candidate's privacy, sex isn't a topic, and leave the candidate's kids alone!
To be a journalist is the most shameful profession on earth at this point. And they just keep sinking lower and lower.




















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I knew that the left-wing
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 02:45 ET by mostlymoderateI knew that the left-wing MSM was irrational but never this bad. My god, this poor woman and her poor daughter. It is no wonder the United States never gets extraordinarily-WONDERFUL politicians to run for office; the media scares them OFF with their harassing tactics.
Family members of candidates should be OFF-LIMITS with only a few minor exceptions. Period. Palin's daughter is 17!!! Not 12. Her life is her life now.
I just hope that this little
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 02:47 ET by MrSnugglesI just hope that this little fact gets heard by every american.
That's the hard part.There
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 02:57 ET by obxrayThat's the hard part.There is so much info they never tell.
It needs to be
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 03:19 ET by well99Shoot there should be a ad with this.Let everyone know what kind of scum the media is.
Just so I'm clear...
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 02:56 ET by mastersofdeceitThe 17 year old daughter of the state Governor of Alaska, who probably has internet access the media has tried to look at, walked around for nine months pregnant and nobody noticed?
Okie Dokie
I thought we were supposed to be talking about "the issues", remember msm?
Oh, the MySpace page will
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 05:21 ET by motherbeltOh, the MySpace page will probably be next.
As the mother of 19-year-old, I have had first-hand experience with MySpace, Xanga, and Facebook.
That is what teenage boys do. Those pages are their fantasy lives. Each tries to make himself sound badder than everyone else. it's all bravado and doesn't mean squat.
Young Turk
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 05:31 ET by Cool ArrowOK, so he's the boy I warned my daughter about. Handsome, jock, full of youthful bravado.
I just don't see what Bristol Palin could possibly see in him, do you?
/sarc
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
fooling the media
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 04:49 ET by AgnosticThis is what happens when the media is caught off guard. They had their scripts to attack Romney, Guiliani, Pawlenty, etc. but they didn't have their script ready to attack Palin. So now they are in knee-jerk reaction trying to find as much dirt as possible and get it on air before people have a chance to make up their own minds (worst case scenario for the activist media). In the end this will all be McCains fault for not letting the press know ahead of time so they could find information to attack Palin with without going after her family.
It is much easier for the media when it was Obama selecting a VP because it didn't matter who he picked the narative was going to be the same: 'Brilliant decision', 'Solidifies the ticket', 'Fills in the gaps', 'Shows Obama's good judgement'....
Obama could have picked Palin, not that she would have accepted, and the press would be showing her as a wonderful supportive mother with executive experience to combat Obama's singular weakness.
They are beyond
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 05:15 ET by motherbeltThey are beyond contempt.
How can they look themselves in the mirror?
I guess that's easy...they are convinced they are on the side of the angels.
What baffles me is how their spouses and families can look at them, knowing what they do.
If my husband were a "journalist" acting like this, I would be ashamed of him.
Oh! Bama
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:02 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsPerhaps the McCain people should demand the same of Obama regarding his children. After all, there is a history there, his mother slept with dozens or hundreds of people so maybe that behavior (on Michelle's part) is what attracted him to Michelle.
I'm just saying.
D
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Names
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:36 ET by saw the lightI wish the McCain campaign would take the gloves off. Release the names of the reporters and organizations that are asking the questions. Let's see the backlash then!
The funniest thing the McCain campaign could do
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:44 ET by sarcasmoIs find a way to refer every DNA request to meet with the National Enquirer reporters who broke the Edwards story without each side knowing who the other is, and then film what happens when they all get together and figure out the joke's on the media. Done right, this could be hilarious.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
→ Popcorn
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:50 ET by Cool ArrowMore fun than Al Capone's vault, that's for sure.
Rocky & Bullwinkle '08
And...
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:54 ET by Warner Todd HustonAnd JUST as empty!
What they'd have to do
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 07:00 ET by sarcasmoIs get the Enquirer's Edwards reporters to believe a bunch of corraborating sources for their story will be meeting with them, while convincing all the media types who are curious about Palin that the Enquirer reporters are actually going to be sources for Palin DNA. Then, to properly stage the event, hire Sasha Baron Cohen's people to hide LOTS of microphones all over the room where they'll meet.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
I bet those twits
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:54 ET by well99Cant spell DNA.
The jaw drops, the mind
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 06:59 ET by motherbeltThe jaw drops, the mind boggles at the unmitigated GALL!
Who the hell do they think they are, demanding anything!!
I say again what I said in the other thread:
Pond scum is a layer of rose petals compared to these people.
" Release the names of
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 07:44 ET by chessplayer" Release the names of the reporters and organizations that are asking the questions."
Think they would admit it? They would just call him a liar.
The anonymous blooger at
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 08:14 ET by Hunter12The anonymous blooger at the Daily Kos is probably some 12-year-old kid, who didn't realize how simple it would be to find photos of a govenor of a state in various stages of pregancy. What's pathetic in this is the grasping at straws the MSM is doing to discredit this candidate. How sad!
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
Now...
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 09:18 ET by Warner Todd HustonNow is that 12 years old mentally, or...?
Lets make a trade...
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 09:19 ET by JTPPalin will have the DNA test to prove she is the mother when all in the media take a DNA test to prove they are human. I think the former test may find a few reptiles.
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
Reverse psychology
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 10:01 ET by CobraManThe left is trying to use a kind of reverse psychology on McCain and Plain in order to draw attention away from their own problems. It's classic displacement and the MSM is helping them in their attempt to deflect criticism away from themselves.
Questioning the parentage of her child and request DNA tests = John Edwards affair
Questioning her experience = Obama's lack of experience
Questioning her vetting = The Democrats vetting of Obama (Wright, Ayres, Rezko, etc.)
The list goes on and on.
The more the left accuses Palin, the more they attempt to hide the actual skeletons in their own closet. They’re not objecting to Sarah Palin, they’re objecting to themselves but they just can‘t admit that. McCain needs to run an ad comparing the alleged questions of Sarah Palin and compare them to what’s happing to Obama and the rest of the Democrats and ask: "Who do they REALLY object to, Sarah Palin or themselves? You make the choice."
Obama: My job is above my pay grade
Such (Hypocritical) Irony
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 11:43 ET by Wildcatter1980The lefties claim they are for our Constitutional rights. Free speech, freedom from self-incrimination, equal protection, etc. If someone demanded their DNA without probable cause, i.e., a court order, they would be screaming that their Constitutional rights were being infringed upon.
Yet, here they are trampoling all over a Republican and conservative AND her family's constitutional rights and privacy in their efforts to disparage a genuine threat to their candidate winning in November.
Yet the MSM wonders
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 13:29 ET by Captain KirockYet the MSM wonders why they are so hated and despised by the general public. This is just one sad example of many, many outrages committed by these swine.
I knew I was right.
Wed, 09/03/2008 - 19:43 ET by scoutI was right! 30 years ago, I considered going into Journalism for a career, but seeing what has transpired in the interim, I made the right call by opting for a military career instead. By making that decision, I made less money, but I have my ethics and morals intact, unlike the thimble brained yoyo's reporting the alleged News.