September 2008 NYC
Posted on 09/01/2010 8:03:50 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
It's not looking good for Vanity Fair when CNN's Peter Hamby has joined liberals such as Ben Smith, Dave Weigel, race-baiter Charles Blow, and Kirsten Powers in denouncing the Vanity Fair hit piece.
Hamby tweets:
@benpolitico is right re: VF article. I was w/ Palin for entire VP bid. never got a hint that she "lashed out at the slightest provocation"
Meaning
cnn is running scared and fading away.....
I have never seen such a concerted effort by the msm to destroy someone that was not Ronald Reagan or George Bush.
But hey, Sarah can take the heat.
Anyone reviewing the latest Vanity Fair article about Governor Palin should at least do so armed with an awareness of the words of Mary Hargrove, a former editor and investigative reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
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This, of course, is something which appears lost on Michael Joseph Gross, for it seems that he was too busy interviewing anonymous people who admire Governor Palin; anonymous Republican leaders who privately dismiss her; an anonymous bellman; anonymous maids; an anonymous onetime gubernatorial aide to Palin; various anonymous aides/close aides/ campaign aides; an anonymous close friend of Governor Palin; one anonymous person with firsthand knowledge of the situation; anonymous others who have worked with Palin; an anonymous leading member of Wasilla’s Church on the Rock; independent Democrat bloggers who have produced some of the most robust reporting about Governor Palin (like the stories they fabricated about a federal investigation and an impending divorce, their conspiracies about the parentage of two of the Palin children and their investigation into the shape of Trig Palin’s ears); anonymous strongest supporters; anonymous insiders; anonymous rumor-mongerers around town; one anonymous person who has been a frequent houseguest of the Palins; some anonymous people who say that Todd Palin is henpecked; anonymous general consensus in town; anonymous eavesdroppers; an anonymous high-school classmate; an anonymous source; and one anonymous woman in Wasilla.
Clearly, during his time in Alaska Mr Gross encountered a situation familiar to Joann Byrd, former editor of the Everett Herald in Washington state,"I think there are more anonymous sources per capita in Washington than there are anywhere else in the world. Nobody has a name in Washington."
For "Washington" read "Alaska".
Laughably, and here we see the true measure of Gross’ hackery, one person who is named in the article is someone called Sandra, whom Mr Gross feels able to quote despite never having met her.
Perhaps he ought to have been more thorough in that aspect, amongst others, for she is a person well known to the readers of C4P as the pseudonymous Sandrainoregon, or EclecticSandra, or SandraBuehler, or R2D2…… a retired, elderly, archetypal basement dwelling, pajama clad resident of Portman, Oregon, who, for reasons best known to herself, presumably, is devoting every day of her twilight years attempting to undermine Governor Palin by posting inflammatory and provocative comments at pro-Palin blogs.
She is known, for example, to be an active participant at the German blog Palingates, whose European contributors obsessively pursue abysmal conspiracies about Governor Palin, Todd Palin, Track Palin, Bristol Palin and Trig Palin.
Of course, readers will have noted that Mr Gross did interview one other anonymous person, a local Republican who delivered 90 minutes of praise for Palin… though not a word of that praise has been reported.
"Freedom of the press is integral to our democracy, but reporters must be held accountable because with power comes responsibility. A corrupt, deceptive, and manipulative media can ruin the lives of good people, disrupt families, destroy reputations, and ultimately hurt our country.
I’d like to believe that it’s not too late to demand integrity from our media." Sarah Palin
Lamestream is yellow journ0lism 24/7.
The threat is November! The sleeping giant has awakened...
Right! She’s done a lot of damage to the Marxist and his Marxist congress and his death panels with her candidates, speeches, and FaceBook. She’s been the target.
Do you have a legitimate link of reference for this headline? I don’t see one.
“an anonymous bellman;”
etc...
For the MSM,
ANONYMOUS=IMAGINARY! More than a few of these journolists ought to be on antipsychotics, IMO.
September 2008 NYC
One of the best books I ever read.
There must be a special course Gross took at some point tha tells how to write fiction and make it sound like nonfiction. There are a few sentences that seem to be factual, although unsubstantiated, but the rest is insinuation, hearsay, and conjecture.
He seems most annoyed by not being able to get access to any real information.
A nice bonus in the issue was a piece by Christopher Hitchens called “Unanswerable Prayers.” He is quite the man of the hour on the religious blogs, it seems, and there is even a special day designated to pray for him: September 20. The range of people praying for him runs from those who want him to suffer to those who think he’s not beyond redemption just as he is but are praying anyway—for healing of his terrible illness if nothing else.
That is a great picture. Lot of natural warmth in those eyes.
Palin should sue these people.
LLS
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Anything goes! No sources needed They’re anonymous!
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