ABC Reignites 'Troopergate': Officer Portrayed as Victim, Palin as Guilty

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ABC Still Attacking Gov. Palin

On its Blotter from Brian Ross Blog, ABC News is trying to re-ignite the "Troopergate" issue by portraying Alaska state trooper Mike Wooten as a victim of "threatening phone calls." And, in reporting this new aspect of the story, ABC waits until the last sentence of the story to mention that Governor Palin was deemed innocent of charges of ethics violations in trying to be rid of Trooper Wooten even as 90% of the story pounds home what the supposed charges against the Governor were. Further, ABC misrepresents the charges against Wooten as a simple "she said" argument by Palin and fails to mention that he was actually found guilty of many of them.

In fact, this whole report subtlety makes Governor Palin look like the bad actor in this situation and garners sympathy from the reader for Trooper Wooten. In the first paragraph, the piece talks of Palin's "harsh allegations" and states that he has been "taken off patrols recently for his own safety" because of "threatening phone calls." The report mentions that both Wooten and his union are whining that he cannot get over time pay since he's stuck on a desk job "for his own safety." Looks like ABC thinks Trooper Wooten is a victim here.

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The next paragraph goes on to recount how "Palin, her husband and top aides worked to get the trooper, Mike Wooten, booted from the ranks of the Alaska State Troopers" and says that "two separate investigations" eventually became the "'Troopergate' scandal." The ABC piece then goes on to report all of the "harsh allegations" that Governor Palin charged against Trooper Wooten. But, the way these several paragraphs are presented the charges are only discussed in a "she said" style.

Of course, the ABC piece did find room to mention that Wooten denies the charges and also gives Wooten's pals room to argue for his innocence.

Wooten has denied the claims or said his actions were misrepresented. His supporters have said Wooten was unfairly targeted by Palin and her family, because of his prolonged custody battle with Palin's sister, Molly.

So, all we get is Palin's claims of his guilt, the Trooper's claims of his innocence, and a lot to discussion of how an ethics panel found Palin herself guilty of violating ethics. We also get the sob story about how Wooten has been threatened over the phone and how this has caused the police to fix him to a desk job where his union whines that he now cannot get over time pay.

Not one of the charges that the article says "she said," though, were compared to the actual findings of Wooten's guilt. The piece did not, for instance, report the fact that the Alaska State Police actually found Trooper Wooten guilty of several of the charges directed against him by the Governor. The piece leaves his actual guilt unreported.

Here is the last deceptive paragraph of the story, the only paragraph that has any exculpatory words for Governor Palin at all.

The first Troopergate investigation, by the Alaska legislature, found that Palin had broken state ethics laws in her quest to punish Wooten. The second probe, by the state's gubernatorially-appointed Personnel Board, found she did not. Palin did not respond to inquiries from KIMO.

Notice that this report does not mention that the first panel that found Palin guilty of ethics violations was run by a partisan Democrat group out to damage the Governor. But also notice how they phrase the probes. The partisan Democrat panel is only called an investigation "by the Alaska legislature," whereas the second one is termed a probe carried out by "the state's gubernatorially-appointed Personnel Board." This is ABC's way of saying the first board was free of partisanship yet the second was made up of a board that Palin appointed!

This entire piece is yet one more slanted, hit piece against Governor Palin.


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What is in it for ABC?

Can someone tell me the real meat behind this bias?  Money?  Power? Stupidity? Elitism? All of the above?

I liked the story the other day before the election about how some cop who tasered his kid at home (on video) was eventually fired.  The same day same website had a story sticking up for this fool trooper in Alaska who did not only the same thing but many more worse things.

Also, when she was exonerated, it was like they didn't even skip a beat in twisting not only the headlines but even when the headline said she was exonerated, you get into the story and the bashing ensued anyway.  I have seen numerous stories where the headline suggests that they may be giving her a break and as soon as the first paragraph is over the story goes back to the baseless bashing.

Cowards indeed.

Oh, please. A State

Oh, please.

A State Trooper whining about "threatening" phone calls?

Boo freakin' hoo!

And if he didn't whine about them, they wouldn't have taken him off patrol. What did he expect?  To stay on patrol but be provided a police escort for protection?  LOL

Can you imagine a MSM news anchor supreme court justice?

I can only imagine how the criminals of the world would be empowered if the goons on these TV stations were justices with the same amount of "objectivity". It is unbelievable how the perps of this country have somehow gained more rights than the people who were perpetrated against.

WTH is right.  This was

WTH is right.  This was just an unneccessary, biased hit job on Gov. Palin.  But why?  To discourage her from running for national office again?  You would think the media would love for her to run again since they seem to have so much ammunition against her.

»→ Good for ABC

You've got to admire a Network that will take a firm stand as an advocate for wife beaters and child abusers.

Tazer a child for fun?  With a State Government issued weapon?  Heck, Gov. Palin ought to be issuing a commendation to Wooten.  No way that kind of behavior is an invitation to a lawsuit.

Thank you ABC for standing up for the misunderstood wife beaters and child abusers of the country.

  • read as satire

I was gone for 2 days

without tv or a puter, geez, was that nice...lol. anyways, I know i'm a day late, and i'm sorry for using this article asa basis but, I wanted to see what NBers said about the Carl Cameron/O'Reilly piece on Palin.   So after going back a page, then clicking on the story; I had to slug through 90% of BS and trools and responses to trolls to get SOME very little comments on what I thought was a VERY big hit piece on Palin. The few people that did comment, blamed Cameron, And as far as I know (even though there were nearly 300 comments) I want to be the first to blame BOR!!!

As you regulars prob know, I cant stand or listen to him anymore, but was doing channel surfing and saw that they were gonna do a piece on Palin, MY MISTAKE, for tuning in to Bill again. I think Cameron just did what he thought was reporting....O'Reilly is the one that 'Aired' that trash. Again, I'm sure thats his idea of being 'fair and balanced'. So Ive decided to give up on MOST 'news' programs from now on. Its just gonna be Rush and NewsBusters. Goodbye Neal, Glenn, Sean, Laura, I love you guys but I just have no desire to listen to choirs singing to the choirs anymore. We know what we got to do and ohhh... I will still listen to Mark, but my blood pressure doesnt need 24 talk anymore. 

Palin and Pravda

Hey girls and boys, get ready for more of the same! The Mini Mouse Media is not going to waste their time trying to uncover anything bad about their annointed one! After all, hes the messiah! Haven't you heard Oprah? "Once again, we are all united"! They will keep the emphasis on the opposition to increase the Commiecrat majority in Congress and get a larger mandate for the Obamessiah's reelection. By that time, there will be a constitutional amendment to allow the Holy One more than two terms. I wouldn't be surprised if it allows him to be president for life! After all, Hugo Chavez is his pal! While he continues to implement Communism on all of us, his pinko Commie pals in the press will be digging for dirt on any opposition to him. You can count on seeing story after story about Sarah Palin and any conservative who dares defy the Annointed One. I'm thinking about moving to Alaska and joining the Alaska Independence Party! Alaska may end up beeing the last free state in the union and perhaps seceeding from Communist Omerica!

Haven't you heard Oprah?

Haven't you heard Oprah? "Once again, we are all united"!

Oprah is a liar.  Did she happen to notice that almost half the country did not vote of Obama?

This indeed is the miracle,

This indeed is the miracle, Seashell.

Suddenly we are all transformed and will flock to his banner. 

When Bush was elected, the cry from the media was that he had to "reach out" to the other side.

Has anyone heard anyone in the media laying the same responsibility on Obama?

»→ That's right MB

I want to hear how "bitterly divided" we are.  Hard to forget that from '00 and '04 isn't it?

  • Where's my welfare check?

§ True

§ Correct Cool!!

ster.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

»→ Arise §ir §ter

Thou art a Knight of the Realm.

  • Where's my welfare check?

§ Ster FEELS

§ Ster FEELS GOOD!!!

Ster.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Thanks Cool!!

§ Cool Rocks!!!

Ster.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

»→ No prob

Glad to help

  • Where's my welfare check?

§ NCguy!!! Now...On to

§ NCguy!!!

Now...On to the Trolls!!!!

NCboy....COME HERE!!!

I Shall Find You!!

Uber...You are Old....You Bore ME!!!

Ster.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Same song, second verse

WHY is anyone buying products that advertise on Oprah? Write the sponsors and tell them you no longer will buy from them if they continue to advertise on her show. If the 1/2 of the country that voted conservative does so, then we can make an impact.

 DO NOT SPEND MONEY ON THE COMPANIES WHO ENABLE THIS TO HAPPEN!

The election may be over

But the trashing and bashing of Conservatives will continue. The aim is to marginalise and demonise until the Republican Party/Conservatives are eviscerated and left for dead, unable to ever again win the Presidency. This isn't normal give and take politics the end is to turn this country into a Socialist Republic a one party State. The degree we are "socialised" will depend on how ruthless the Dems want to be and are able to get away with. We are going to get whether we like it or not either sappy sugary European Socialism or the stronger more repressive variety. The MSM has voluntarily turned itself into an organ of the new socialist regime ( I think regime will be more fitting as time goes on instead of the usual administration) couple this with the "fairness doctrine" and most dissent will be stifled. I can come to no other conclusion in the light of the continued bashing of Palin et al.

Dear John

Meanwhile where is John McCain?

Meet The Real Sarah Palin Blog, Has a posted a “Dear John Letter” to Senator John McCain, with a link to send your feedback, about his lack of support of his running mate, election has been ABSENT “Don’t Forget Your Wingman John”

http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/11/dear-john-letter.html

I Agree!!

I've been saying to my husband "where the heck is John McCain?".  He praised her to the very last campaign stop.  He should be ashamed.

MSM

Palin is being vetted more fiercely AFTER the election than Obama was BEFORE 11/4.

Wait A Minute

Isn't this the same network with Elizabeth Vargas who interviews Palin and their headline became something like "Looking to 2012", implying that her "not for naught" statement meant she was in it for the future.  Then the actual interview came out and you could see she was talking about this past campaign with McCain.  I think they ended up adjusting the headline.  I saw Wolf Blitzer hyping it as her looking past McCain before I saw the interview.  I sent an e-mail to CNN complaining about how they were portraying that answer.  I was amazed to see Blitzer and a panel discussing her answer (they showed the clip) and they agreed it wasn't about 2012 (begrudgingly).  Unfortunately, these networks focus on their incorrect headlines and the follow-ups are very brief.  I doubt you'll see much about the interview Palin did with local networks when she went back to work, other than to have that picked apart negatively by Olbermouth.

While I'm typing this, I just saw an ad on NBC for a dvd you can purchase through them "Road to the White House".   Their triumphant son is on the cover.  Surprise, surprise!

Oh boy!  Freshly

Oh boy!  Freshly re-packaged lies, distortions, propaganda, and dysfunctional news analysis.  Yum.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

needle... ...and to

needle...

...and to think, we have four more years to go yet with the re-packaging...propaganda, distortions ect...

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

Staying True

Glad to see that the Anybody But Conservative network continues true-to-form.  By guess is ABC and other MSM will continue to hammer at Palin for the next four years.  They will do their best to destroy her for 2012 and it also will keep any negative focus off the Chosen One.

This is the same Brian Ross

This is the same Brian Ross who claimed that the head of a conservative think tank was on the client list of the "DC Madam". Then, when the story aired on 20/20, that charge had suddenly disappeard.

»→ Brian Ross is no mystery

He knows what it takes to get his buns buttered.

  • Where's my welfare check?

It's time for Fox News to come up with a new ad.

I have the perfect ad for Fox News.  You show a big fish tank with the names of all the networks on the fish and then show Fox News above the tank with one comment: "We're the only major network, not in the tank.  News you can trust. Fox News"

What's becoming obvious is an Obama Administration is going to try and minimize the impact of Fox News.  If the major networks allow this to happen, it won't be long before the new administration starts punishing those that report in a manner they disagree with.  How bad will it get?  As bad as the networks allow it to get.  If they're in the tank, during the administration as they were during the campaign, we're in deep doo.   

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

Did you forget?

Obama already has unleashed the 'truth squads'. Comrade Glorious Supreme Leader Obama showed that side in the midwest not too long ago... if you do not agree with, or question Comrade Glorious Supreme Leader Obama, the brown-shirted truth squads will come visit you. Be afraid... be VERY afraid.

Truth Squads

Actually, the shirts will be blue to avoid the negative connotations associated with 'brown shirts'.

PALIN/McCain 2008

Attack

Has it occured to you folks yet, that, the only way the conservatives are gonna have a voice are a chance of winning a major National election is, first, to ATTACK and DEFEAT the msm and force them to fire the current crop of "star" talking heads, and force them to report the news and election coverage in a truthfull, fair, and unbiased fashion. I think the way to do that is to hit the networks in their pocketbooks and to hit the "talking heads" in their pocketbooks and job security. Turn the tv off for 30 days and send the major networks an e-mail/phonecall every day telling them why they are being boycotted and what they have to do to end it. We need an organization to organize, lead, and co-ordinate this effort. Any "volunteers"?? Any suggestions??

The list of talking heads to fire is a long one so in the meantime i challenge you to make a list of who you think should be fired, along with an apropriate "nickname" to acompany each nominee. I will start with my favorites;

Tom 'Brokebrain' Brokaw

'Katty Kitty' Couric

Brian 'Yellowbelly' Williams

Charlie 'Gimpbrain' Gibson

(Not necessarily in any particular order)

(GRINS)   kilrod

Remember, only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier

Personnel Board

..."the state's gubernatorially-appointed Personnel Board." This is ABC's
way of saying the first board was free of partisanship yet the second
was made up of a board that Palin appointed!

 

ABC also didn't bother to report that all three Personnel Board members were appointed by the previous governor, Frank Murkowski, not by Sarah Palin. One of the three was reappointed by Palin. (And only one of the three members is a Republican.)
But why let facts get in the way of a good hit piece. 

 

 

ABC should be investigated

ABC should be investigated for impersonating a news organization. There is a definate liberal agenda behind the recent Palin attacks, and how many millions of dollars have been spent 'investigating' her? Let's see- A tropper gets fired, and it's a 'national incident' but a liberal drunken Senator drives off a bridge, leaves a woman to drown while saving his own sorry butt, and narry a word is said? Media bias? Says who?

http://sacredscoop.com

barbara walters is a liar

just yesterday i read an article that had baba wawa saying that abc was the most fair news source, what a liar!  this story is over and done with.  i was surprised that the ruling came the day before the election.  i thought it would come out after the election.  joseph goebbels must be smiling up at us to see how the united states drive by media  has turned into a democratic socialist political propaganda machine.

When does ABC officially

When does ABC officially announce they are one of the publicity arms of the DNC?

 

"Gov. Palin has been subjected to one of the most massive and dishonest pile-on smear attacks in the history of liberal media."  -- Lowell Ponte

 The liberals and the

 The liberals and the drive-by media are deathly afraid of this woman, team her up with Bobby Jindal and destroy the obama socialist machine.

Legislative Investigation

The first Troopergate investigation, by the Alaska legislature, found that Palin had broken state ethics laws in her quest to punish Wooten.

The Legislative panel only agreed to release the report prepared by the investigator.

The Legislative panel has never made any findings regarding Palin.

The investigator found no violations of law.

He cited no facts in his report to support his finding of an ethics violation.

His finding of an ethics violation is in his report, but is completely bogus.

What disturbs me most

 about this "troopergate" stuff is none of these "news" organizations EVER mention the fact that this cop tasered a ten year old. Regardless if he was an in-law or not, the man should have been fired yet the ignorati in the press can only focus on destroying Palin. I bet if a cop tasered one of their kids they would not be going after the person that fired the cop.

United we stand, divided we fall

OK, chorus, once more from the top

 wotsizname   Wooten was married to Sarah's sister.  They were in a divorce.  Sarah and Todd were concerned:  Wooten allegedly or admittedly shot his stepson with a trooper issued non lethal weapon; taser.  Was reported by a bartender as drinking and probably driving.  Was stopped by another trooper for possible dui.  Was found another time by a trooper to have been drinking and was driving his patrol car.  Threatened to murder Sarah's father if the family interferred with him.  Acting on the Constitution's agreement that a citizen has a right to petition the government for a "redress of grievances," concerned family members did so.  The troopers had investigated, gave Wooten a few days off and sent him back on duty.  The family concerns for their safety and for the trooper administrators lack of sterner actions continued.  Walt Monegan was told to retire from the Anchorage Police Department, was hired by the State.  He seemed to have his own view of how the Troopers should operate, was not a team player, was insubordinate, and initiated actions contrary to the Administration's goals.  He ignored or rejected requests from the Administration and  for this was transferred to another State Agency.  He was never fired, he resigned from State employment.   Trooper Wooten still works, Monegan wants to "clear his name,"  and remain prominent.   Sarah's political opponents who had a phony "investigation" said that Todd, the legitimately complaining citizen just shouldn't have.  Sarah filed a complaint  against herself with the three member lawfully instituted Personnel  Council (she appointed one, the others were already there) so a legitimate study could be done and the correct answer published.  They in turn appointed an independent counsel who found no basis for any action and that charges by the unhappy politicians were irrelevant.  But the Sarah Bashers dream on.  This is second hand information, but I feel it is accurate.

Sarah Palin was bashed within hours....

        On 29 August, the day Sarah Palin was taken on as Veep for McCain, the Seattle P I was bashing her within hours ala their left wing cartoonist, and blogger David Horsey. He had one of his meant to be piercing cartoons with Palin packing a hi powered gun, fish hanging out of her boot, etc, etc. Like I said at the time, almost all people in Alaska have friends or relatives in Washington state, and I didn't understand the reason for the attack in the first place, but that's hitting pretty close to home, just to stroke some left wing followers in your blog. As a person, Sarah Palin is a total winner, and to this very day I don't understand the point of the attacks.Sarah Palin will go back to Alaska and be more sucessfull than she already has been. One thing is for certain, she's one hell of a lot wiser about the weasels in D C, and for sure, the MSM, which showed how immature and shallow they are over a long period of time now.  And McCain......won't back her play now, but he'll go down to Leno's show this week. Is that a let down, or what?

And who is......

Who are the sponsors for ABC evening news?

 AND WHY are any conservatives BUYING from these people? Send emails to the companies that advertise on evening news casts saying we will no longer buy your products. The network news teams are on the brink as it is. Maybe with their sellout of integrity, ethics and fairness they should be OUT OF BUSINESS.

 

DO NOT BUY FROM THESE ADVERTISERS! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

Advertisers

Short of suffering through hours of watching their programming, is there a way to see who advertises on such shows? That would be useful information, so I'm nominating you to put together a list so that we can contact them and otherwise avoid buying their products. Take one for the team!

However, I would suspect that they also advertise on FNC, etc. So, we can only hope to persuade them not to advertise on Obamunist networks.

PALIN/McCain 2008