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How Palin is Playing in the Supermarket Aisles [more disgusting attacks]
ABC ^ | Sept. 2, 08 | Rick Klein

Posted on 09/02/2008 4:29:31 PM PDT by cdchik123

Rick Klein, from ABC’s The Note, reports: Let’s say you don’t read The New York Times or The Washington Post (or The Note, for that matter). Let’s say you don’t follow the big political blogs and you’re not obsessed with every turn of the screw of this fascinating presidential race.

Let’s say, instead, like millions ofworking-class Americans, you get your “news” on the political race from the supermarket aisle. Let’s say you’re -- I don’t know, a “hockey mom” -- and you’re intrigued by this Sarah Palin person you’ve been hearing so much about since Friday.

So you’re shopping this week -- and what do you see on the cover of US Weekly? That esteemed journalistic institution is taking it right to John McCain’s running mate -- with a hard-hitting piece that details the “scandal” involving her daughter’s pregnancy.

“BABIES, LIES & SCANDAL,” screams the headline on the cover, with a picture of a smiling Palin holding her fifth child, 4-month-old Trig.

Inside is a collection of Palin lowlights -- from her daughter’s now well-known pregnancy; to Internet rumors that the governor pretended to be pregnant to cover for her daughter; to “troopergate”; to her onetime support for the “bridge to nowhere”; to a radio appearance where she giggled while shock jocks called a political rival a “bitch” and a “cancer.”

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But this, to me, is the clearest evidence yet that the McCain-Palin campaign is losing the battle over Palin’s image. US Weekly readers are the voters her selection was designed to attract. There’s not much to like in this early take -- and not much to indicate that the next round will be much better.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; palin; palinattacks; palinfamily; propagandawingofdnc; smearcampaign; tabloid; trashtv; yellowjournalism
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To: cdchik123

Lying efn scum! I wouldn’t use their rag to wipe my dogs a$$! Time to fire up the letters to these slimeballs- set them straight. This is war.


21 posted on 09/02/2008 4:43:54 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for president Bush. Pray for our troops. Pray for congress, Pray for our nation.)
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To: cdchik123

The National Enquirer is on it, too:

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/sarah_palin_at_war_with_her_daughter_over_pregnancy_wedding/celebrity/65370

SARAH PALIN AT WAR WITH DAUGHTER OVER PREGNANCY & WEDDING

Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to quietly have her daughter Bristol get married before news of her pregnancy leaked out, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is reporting exclusively in its new issue.

Palin planned for the wedding to take place right after the Republican National Convention and then she was going to announce the pregnancy.

But Bristol, 17, refused to go along with the plan and that sparked a mother-daughter showdown over the failed coverup.

The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.

In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.

The ENQUIRER has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career.

Palin’s ongoing war with her ex brother-in-law Mike Wooten, a state trooper, has caused multiple sources to come forward with shocking allegations about the governor.

Details of those allegations, the family feud, and Palin’s attempt to cover up her teen daughter’s pregnancy are in the new issue of The ENQUIRER.


22 posted on 09/02/2008 4:45:32 PM PDT by skipper18
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To: cdchik123

It seems like the attacks are becoming more and more visceral by the hour. Even on other boards that I go to that seem more moderate, people seem to be taking an unnatural glee that Mrs. Palin is being trashed so much.


23 posted on 09/02/2008 4:46:26 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: cdchik123

Obama is really afraid of this little soccer mom. he is spending hundreds of millions to smear her in the media. She must threaten his short man syndrome tremendously


24 posted on 09/02/2008 4:47:09 PM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: cdchik123

This is Rick Klein’s sly way of giving a bigger megaphone to a scandalous article he knows is not fit for print; with his additional snide, lie, told as as a presumption that most “hockey Moms” read and care about the scandal sheet he refers to (as though they are too “stupid” to read anything else.

Now, let’s ask him just one thing: when exactly did HE know about John Edward’s affair??? (and failed to ‘report’ it)


25 posted on 09/02/2008 4:48:29 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: cdchik123

Obviously Sarah Palin is the right pick. The only other times the MSM has gone ballistic like this was when Republicans are in the news.


26 posted on 09/02/2008 4:51:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Joe Biden's first wife killed herself and her daughter.)
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To: Wuli

I believe the National Enquirer was the fist to run with the Edwards Love Child Story.


27 posted on 09/02/2008 4:51:39 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: skipper18
Mr. Wooten- seems I read something about this guy and there's domestic violence involved. This is playing hard ball.

I just hope our side can take the heat, and give as good as they get.

28 posted on 09/02/2008 4:52:27 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for president Bush. Pray for our troops. Pray for congress, Pray for our nation.)
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To: trumandogz
Sorry, but that was well after he dropped out of the race.

They ( the Edwards campaign ) had bought the mistress a three million dollar mansion down in Santa Barbara, and were giving her a 15,000 dollar a month "allowance". They were flying her all over the damned country, as well as the Carribean, in a private lear jet. The Enquirer claimed that there was a paper trail several miles long.

29 posted on 09/02/2008 4:52:27 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: silentreignofheroes

The way the Dems are in full attack mode, their internal polling numbers must be simply devastating.

I’m in NY (land of the over-taxed and virtually surrounded by liberals). However, many of my lib-leaning coworkers are now openly saying that they’re paying attention to Palin and McCain. In fact, the Hillary supporters are openly switching sides and are fed up with the Dems’ response/attack.

Folks, this is in New York!!

McCain hit a home run.


30 posted on 09/02/2008 4:52:56 PM PDT by Skywarner (The U.S. Armed Forces... Producers of FREEDOM for over 200 years!!)
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To: Pajamajan
Lying efn scum! I wouldn’t use their rag to wipe my dogs a$$! Time to fire up the letters to these slimeballs- set them straight. This is war.

This story will boost the sales of Us Magazine and the National Enquirer and that is the only reason why both outfits are leading with this story.

And yes, they would do the very same thing if a Biden or Obama daughter were in the same situation.

31 posted on 09/02/2008 4:55:36 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: skipper18
The Enquirer is owned by a friend of the Clintons. He bought the tabloid so that he could run hit pieces on Hillary's opponents while keeping Hill and Bill out.

OTOH, what I've seen from People Magazine was very fair, so far.

Sarah Palin will give her speech at the RNC tomorrow. It will be very heavily watched, and it's likely that she will be extremely impressive to anyone who isn't a hardcore lefty.

McCain was tortured in the Hanoi Hilton for 6 years, so I think he can take 60 days of this crap. He's a really feisty campaigner, but he's been more or less unopposed for 20 years in Arizona so you don't see it so much.

Sarah Palin is also tough as nails, so I don't see her backing away from a fight either.

Meanwhile, the left has deranged itself that if they're just a little more shrill and over-the-top they can get McCain to dump Palin or they can get Palin to drop out. It isn't going to happen.

Plus, all this is REALLY sucking the oxygen out of the Obama campaign. Obama gave "the speech of the century" last week and it seems like 50 million years ago.
32 posted on 09/02/2008 4:55:56 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Sarah Palin got more votes running for Mayor of Wasilla than Joe Biden got running for president.)
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To: cdchik123

Liberals are just plain nasty. They don’t care who they destroy so long as they can advance their socialist agenda. It is ugly and getting uglier.


33 posted on 09/02/2008 4:55:57 PM PDT by goldfinch
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To: cdchik123

I know women who read this garbage and they’re all brainless, zero IQ liberals, not potential McCain/Palin voters.

“While the more profitable single copies (of Us Weekly) in the past had accounted for more than half of the magazine’s sales, it now accounts for less than half.

“Newsstand sales had accounted for 50 to 55 percent in the past. It’s now 54 percent subscription and 46 percent single copy,” Rose conceded.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08062008/business/magazines_see_poor_circulation_123261.htm


34 posted on 09/02/2008 4:56:27 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: Wuli

WE LOVE YOU SARAH !

We love you Sarah . .
More today . .
Than yesterday . .

We love you Sarah . .
More today . .
Than yesterday . .

. . but not half as much . . .
as tomorrow . . .

I agree with the guy who wrote on FR that if McCain were to throw her under the bus, he would not vote for McCain if he dug Ronald Reagan up and somehow managed to breathe life into him and name him his VP pick.

The MSM does NOT like you, John McCain. Remember that.


35 posted on 09/02/2008 4:57:36 PM PDT by Twinkie (TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT !!!)
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To: HokieMom

It was more of an open question. Maybe some pressure on their advertisers would help.


36 posted on 09/02/2008 4:57:38 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: cdchik123

Sarah Palin should get a copy of all these rags, and make fun of them during her speech. She needs to literally hold them up for ridicule.


37 posted on 09/02/2008 4:59:03 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: cdchik123

Take heart folks. The campaign knew this was coming when they offered Gov. Palin the job. I think the libs are falling right into the trap that was set for them. The “baby trading” stuff might even be a great big bonus.

What is the trap? Well I really don’t have a clue. But I cannot imagine that a campaign run this well up to this point was unaware of what the disgraceful obots, MSM and tabloids would do with a teen pregnancy.

Have faith that they planned for this and will shove it in their collective faces shortly and pray a lot too.


38 posted on 09/02/2008 4:59:24 PM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: Cyropaedia

As I recall the Edwards Affair story was around long before he dropped out of the race.

This is not political for the Enquirer but simply a way to sell their tabloid.


39 posted on 09/02/2008 4:59:35 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: mojito
Thanks for the phone and email.

Going to give them hell right now!

40 posted on 09/02/2008 5:01:30 PM PDT by roses of sharon ((Who sent Barack Hussein Obama?))
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