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Distorting Palin’s "Holy War" |
ABC’s Charles Gibson: "You said recently, in your old church, ‘Our
national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.’...Are we
fighting a holy war?"
Sarah Palin: "The reference there is a repeat of
Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said...‘Let us not pray that God is on our
side,’ in a war or any other time, ‘but let us pray that we are on God’s side.’
That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie...."
Gibson: "But you went on and said, ‘There is a plan and it is God’s
plan.’...Are you sending your son on a task that is from God?"
— Excerpt from an interview with Palin shown on ABC’s World News,
September 11.
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"Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right.
Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them
out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re
praying for: That there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan. So bless
them with your prayers, your prayers of protection over our soldiers."
— Palin’s actual comments delivered at the Wasilla Assembly of God church,
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Urging Obama to Fight Back |
 "Over the past few weeks, the McCain campaign has really gotten down and dirty.
A lot of their ads have been flat-out lies, and Obama needs to really take the
steering wheel back."
— Newsweek reporter Suzanne Smalley at approximately 12:55pm EDT
September 12 on MSNBC News Live.CBS’s Dean Reynolds: "After
a drum roll of promises that Obama would now toughen his approach, the audience
here was clearly expecting more than this."
Barack Obama: "I just have a different philosophy, and that is that I’m
going to respond with the truth. [Audience applauds.] I’m going to respond with
the truth."
Reynolds: "They applauded, but what bothers many Democrats is what
happened next: The audience literally coaxing a word from him that baldly
describes what many think of the McCain camp’s tactics."
Obama: "You have ads that are based, are just fabricated. They’re just
made up. And-"
Man in audience: "Lies!"
Obama: "Lies, that’s the word I was looking for."
— CBS Evening News, September 12. |
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Nasty, Ugly Republicans |
 "[It was] the toughest of the last two weeks. Far and away the toughest speech
we’ve seen so far....What I wonder about is how it came across on television. A
little too nasty? A little too ugly? I don’t know."
— ABC’s George Stephanopoulos moments after Rudy Giuliani’s speech to the
Republican convention, September 3."I thought, very smug, very sarcastic,
very cutting. And you know what? The Republicans had been trying to portray her
as a victim for the last couple days. Well, she’s not going to be a victim
anymore. She’s going to be a target."
— CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin after Sarah Palin’s speech to the
Republican convention, September 3. |
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Decrying GOP’s New "Bullwhip" |
"There’s a phrase I wonder about, ‘community organizers.’...Is this the new
‘welfare queen?’ Is this a new symbol, that we’re talking about here?...I think
what they’re getting is urban, downtown, trouble, tough neighborhoods.
‘Community organizer’ is not a winning phrase for a place like Scranton....It
seems to me that the use of the word, ‘community organizer,’ is almost like a
bullwhip.... Are they saying that, that Barack Obama is Al Sharpton? Is that
what they’re saying?"
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to various guests on Hardball, September 8. |
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Those "Hard Right" Republicans |
"The abortion platform here is pretty hard right when it comes to the
abortion question — with which you have some disagreement, I think, with the
party still."
— NBC’s David Gregory to ex-New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman,
MSNBC convention coverage, September 2."Bottom line here, they are
going hard right on abortion rights."
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during his network’s live coverage of the GOP
convention, September 2.
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George’s Impartial Analysis |
George Stephanopoulos: "A night of perfect political choreography. The
only problem Barack Obama has right now, and it’s a high-class problem, as Bill
Clinton used to say, is can he top what happened tonight?"
Host Terry Moran: "An extraordinary series of speeches [by Bill Clinton
and Joe Biden]."
— ABC’s Nightline on August 27."I think every night in this
convention has built on the one that came before....The speeches have gotten
better every night."
— Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, August 28. |
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She’s a "Wacko Right-Winger" |
"If [Bobby] Jindal had been governor of Louisiana in 2005 [during Hurricane
Katrina], everything would have been different, and he would be John McCain’s
running mate instead of this wacko right-winger."
— Co-host Mort Kondracke talking about Sarah Palin on FNC’s The Beltway
Boys, September 6. |
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Olbermann’s 9/11 Meltdown |
"I’m sorry it’s necessary to say this, and I wanted to separate myself from the
others on the air about this. If at this late date, any television network had
of its own accord showed that much videotape, and that much graphic videotape of
9/11, and I speak as somebody who lost a few friends there, it, we, would be
rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for
exploiting the memories of the dead and perhaps even for trying to evoke that
pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize. It is a
subject of great pain for many of us still and was probably not appropriate to
be shown."
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on September 4 after his network aired a less than
three minute 9/11 tribute video during the GOP convention. A week later, MSNBC
aired more than three hours of news coverage as it originally aired on NBC back
on the morning of September 11, 2001.
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"Sniggering" At Mrs. Palin |
"Before Gov. Sarah Palin came flying in from the wilds of Alaska for the
Republican convention in St. Paul, there was a lot of sniggering in media
rooms and satellite trucks about her beauty queen looks and rustic hobbies,
and the suggestion that she was better suited to be a calendar model for a
local auto body shop than a holder of the second-highest office in the
land....In the press galleries at the convention, journalists wrinkled their
noses in disgust when Piper, Ms. Palin’s youngest daughter, was filmed
kitty-licking her baby brother’s hair into place."
— New York Times media writer David Carr, Sept. 7. |
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Palin the Nutty Extremist |
Anchor Campbell Brown: "Her [Sarah Palin’s] view is that global warming
is not man-made. Now, that is different from what John McCain believes and
different from even President Bush, who’s come around in this issue."
CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin: "It’s a very extreme view....The view of global
warming reflects an extreme outside-the-mainstream view that John McCain doesn’t
share and, frankly, no respectable scientist shares."
— CNN’s 8pm EDT Election Center, September 9. |
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Plus, She Hates Polar Bears |
"You know, the one thing that I don’t think anybody’s said yet is that she’s
very mean to animals, this woman. Why does she have it in for these poor polar
bear and the caribou and she aerial kills wolves? That’s a very mean thing to
do. I think that that’s an important point."
— ABC The View co-host Joy Behar explaining her opposition to Sarah
Palin, CNN’s Larry King Live, September 9.
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Barack Obama Scrutinized? Ha! |
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani: "Why did Barack Obama get a
pass on his experience? And why is Sarah Palin’s experience, which from the
executive point of view is considerably more than Barack Obama’s, under such
scrutiny?"
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: "But who says he’s been getting a pass? He’s been
scrutinized for months and months and months."
Giuliani, laughing: "I haven’t seen the scrutiny of his experience or his
record."
Blitzer: "Do you read your hometown newspaper, the New York Times?"
Giuliani: "I do....Maybe that’s the problem. I read the New York Times
and I haven’t seen much scrutiny of Barack Obama."
— Exchange during CNN’s convention coverage, September 2.
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He’s No "Showcase Appointment" |
"It’s important to point out, as we have not so far, Barack Obama was not given
this nomination, he won it. He was not offered a nice title like Secretary of
State, like Condoleezza Rice got from the Republicans. He was not offered the
title of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs as Colin Powell was, or Secretary of
State. He won the nomination of a Democratic Party voting together. He defeated
all other opponents and took the prize....He is not some popular appointment or
a showcase appointment."
— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews during live coverage before Barack Obama’s
convention speech, August 28. |
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Who Gets Shafted If She Wins? |
"If Sarah Palin becomes Vice President, will she be shortchanging her kids or
will she be shortchanging the country?"
— NBC reporter Amy Robach on Today, September 3. |
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Another Loopy Conspiracy Theory |
"I’m not that convinced that that’s her baby....The daughter — who we know is
fertile because she’s knocked up again, or maybe for the first time...she did
like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to
indicate quote marks] ‘mononucleosis’ right around the time the baby was being
born. And the mother, the so-called, you know, okay, maybe it is the mother,
but, you know, she was back to work three days later. You don’t smell
something?...It’s not like they’re not willing to lie about everything else."
— HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, September 5, promoting the left-wing
conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin’s infant son is actually her daughter
Bristol’s baby.
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PUBLISHER: L. Brent Bozell III
EDITORS: Brent H. Baker, Rich Noyes, Tim Graham
MEDIA ANALYSTS: Geoffrey Dickens, Brad Wilmouth, Scott Whitlock, Matthew Balan, Kyle Drennen,
and Justin McCarthy
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: Michelle Humphrey
INTERNS: Lyndsi Thomas
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