Posted on 09/26/2008 6:21:10 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
A 60-year-old white woman from Spring Hill, Florida is quoted as saying that there is no chance a black man can win the White House. This same woman, Sandra Cichon, is quoted in a total of three St. Petersburg Times stories, the latest being from September 15. But in a follow up interview, Barbara Sowell of digitaljournal.com finds that Cichon claims she was never called by a pollster, as the paper claims, and never told any reporter that she wouldn't vote for a black man.
So who is right? Did the St. Petersburg Times merely make up racist quotes out of whole cloth and put words in the mouth of this woman or is she suddenly trying to take back what she said by claiming not to have been interviewed about Obama? Here's the story and you can decide.
On September 15, Adam Smith of the St, Petersburg Times wrote a story headlined "Black 'issue' hangs over presidential polls." Contained in the story are the following lines...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
A better question is why does the same old bag in Florida keep getting interviewed?
Sue for defamation. Another jihadistliberalreporter detonates himself and his paper in service of the One.
They eventually did a story on Rocco and I believe he explained his technique for getting his name in the paper. I didn't care enough to remember what he did.
I wouldn't be surprised if the woman in Florida "changed her tune" strictly as a way to get her name in the paper. Again.
Anyone ever again doing a background check on this woman will find it recorded that she is a racist bigot.
I think it is simpler than that. My wife volunteered to teach CCD at her church. Over time, she got volunteered for almost everything else including being a minute”man”. I think lazy people go for the easy solution. If you know someone gave an interview in the past (particularly one consistent with your position), you go back to that person again and again rather than taking the time to find someone new.
So what if she said it? Don’t we still have the First Amendment? Anyhow, the candidate is not black; he’s as much white as he is black.
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