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Bumiller Stands By Her Story...After Paper Retracts
johnmccain ^ | Michael Goldfarb

Posted on 09/03/2008 7:21:25 AM PDT by flyfree

Yesterday the New York Times ran a front-page story by Elisabeth Bumiller that was riddled with factual errors. Among them was the assertion by Bumiller that Governor Palin "was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party." There was no evidence offered to support this statement, and as this campaign pointed out, it is untrue. Now the Times reports:

The information in the Times article was based on a statement issued Monday night by Lynette Clark, the party’s chairwoman, who said that Ms. Palin joined the party in 1994 and in 1996 changed her registration to Republican.

On Tuesday night, Ms. Clark said that her initial statement was incorrect and had been based on erroneous information provided by another member of the party whom she declined to identify.

Just to be clear, Bumiller asserted as fact what turns out to have been an "incorrect" statement by a single, unidentified source. Given that the story appeared on the front-page of this country's 'paper of record,' we might be forgiven for expecting a slightly more rigorous standard of reporting, yet Bumiller makes no apologies. Howard Kurtz reports in today's Washington Post:

Elisabeth Bumiller, the lead author of the Times report, said she is "completely confident about the story." As for the campaign's criticism, she said: "This is what they do. It's part of their operation."

She is completely confident in the word of a single source who has since retracted her claims? What kind of operation are the editors at the Times running?

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: palin; palinattacks; propagandawingofdnc
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1 posted on 09/03/2008 7:21:25 AM PDT by flyfree
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To: flyfree

How Ratheresque. Fake but accurate.


2 posted on 09/03/2008 7:23:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (McCain/Palin '08! Real change you won't have to "believe in." You'll be able to see it!!!)
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To: flyfree

One that is about to have fire sale.


3 posted on 09/03/2008 7:23:58 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: flyfree
The more the MSM and other DNC pundits instigate these tactics against the Palin's, the more the public will be made aware of them, check them out for themselves, and then be drawn to the Palin's side.

...and the worse and worse it will reflect on the instigators who are digging their own political graves.


HOW THE PALIN PICK TRUMPS OBAMA-BIDEN

4 posted on 09/03/2008 7:24:40 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: flyfree

The New York Times ceased to be the “paper of record” many years ago. They care nothing for the facts.


5 posted on 09/03/2008 7:24:48 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (I would spend more time on FR but I have to make sure my tires are inflated.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

In Michelle Malkin terms, Palin Derangement Syndrome.

The leftists really, really fear Gov. Palin. The more they attack, the stronger the support for the Governor and her family.


6 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:15 AM PDT by milford421 (U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
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To: flyfree

Sometimes it difficult to let go of a lie. I seen the liberals do it time and time again. It’s just their nature.


7 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:38 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: flyfree

Another sample of the rag Times and their bias in reporting. They should have checked the source before printing. What a total bunch of turds.


8 posted on 09/03/2008 7:31:33 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: flyfree
She is completely confident in the word of a single source who has since retracted her claims?

No. It was a single source who heard it from another unidentified single source. The journalism profession has prostituted itself to the left.

9 posted on 09/03/2008 7:34:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: flyfree

Elisabeth Bumiller, Dan Rather, casualties of the Media “Josef Goebbels” press club


10 posted on 09/03/2008 7:37:24 AM PDT by realcleanguy ("I have not yet begun to fight")
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To: flyfree

Because of people like her, the NYT is going down by the bow. And what does she do? More of the same.

Happy Layoffs NYT!


11 posted on 09/03/2008 7:44:21 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Logical me
They should have checked the source before printing/

And ruin the story?

This one was TOO GOOD to verify.

12 posted on 09/03/2008 7:45:38 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: flyfree

Elisabeth Bumiller - the Dan Rather of the Dead gray Lady! (FKA: the old gray lady).


13 posted on 09/03/2008 7:48:56 AM PDT by RightWingTeen (Support FREE education - Homeschool and FREE your kids from SOCIALISM!)
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To: flyfree

Elisabeth Bumiller equals a bleached out Jason Blair in drag.

Both are liars and write garbage full of errors which pose as news to slander and rip conservatives.

Is Bumiller another maggot infected gay posing as a journalist at the Ny Slimes?


14 posted on 09/03/2008 7:58:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Snowbami, the Oreo Bozo, wants special-ed treatment as an untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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To: flyfree

Elisabeth Bumiller equals a bleached out Jason Blair in drag.

Both are liars and write garbage full of errors which pose as news to slander and rip conservatives.

Is Bumiller another maggot infected gay posing as a journalist at the Ny Slimes?


15 posted on 09/03/2008 7:58:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Snowbami, the Oreo Bozo, wants special-ed treatment as an untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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To: flyfree

I’m glad to see the McCain camp fighting back.

There’s a groundswell here. Conservatives are pumped about the selection of Sarah Palin and pi$$ed about the bias of the MSM. I’m hoping this will build to a major backlash and the left/MSM (redundant I know) will wake up shellshocked on November 5.

But we’ve all got to fan the flames of the fire.


16 posted on 09/03/2008 8:04:34 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (McCain-Palin '08)
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To: flyfree
While I pray for the Palin and McCain families during this season of leftist's self-exploding heads, I do genuinely find it absolutely humorous to see the leftists so unbelievably out of control. Their propaganda is laid out so...so...badly, so cheaply. It's like I'm reading a really bad novel.

Each and every one of them KNOW that Sarah Palin will be the POTUS in 2012 and aside from her dropping out, which I pray she does NOT do, there is NOTHING the leftists can do to stop the conservative tide that is about to drown their Marxist plans. To watch them self-destruct is priceless.

I foresee the GOP retaking the house and senate in the next 6 years with the McCain-Palin victory and the leftists see it too. Just like they saw that if Obama won we would see a leftist tide that may not reverse itself without a near, or actual, revolution.

My tag line has come to be rather applicable to the leftists.

GOP prayers up.
God bless & save bless the USA
(unlike Obama's pastor/mentor's prayers)

17 posted on 09/03/2008 8:10:26 AM PDT by woollyone ("When the tide is low, even a shrimp has its own puddle." - Vance Havner)
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To: 1035rep
Sometimes it difficult to let go of a lie. I seen the liberals do it time and time again. It’s just their nature.

WHAT THEY DO IS CREATE A LIE, REPEAT IT OVER AND OVER UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT....and want everybody else to believe it. Michael Moore has built a career on the MO.

(not yelling--too lazy to redo.)

18 posted on 09/03/2008 8:11:19 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: flyfree
The New York Times: Just keeping it real for my homey, Obama.


19 posted on 09/03/2008 8:11:28 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Joe Biden's first wife Neilia Hunter killed herself and their daughter.)
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To: flyfree; abb; nutmeg; neverdem; Ernest_at_the_Beach; STARWISE; LucyT; SE Mom; PhilDragoo; ...
Here is something, we can all do this week to start eliminating the NY Slimes as a threat to our nation.

We can do it at our computers and do it in less than 1 hour. Besides sending a severe warning to the NY Slimes and the mutual fund companies which buy and own NY Slimes stock. We will improve our precious investment capital being wasted on NY Slimes stock.

If a few thousand freepers did this simple action this week and a few thousand new freepers, friends and relatives each following week, we will have a terminal impact on the vile NY Slimes acts like their trashing of Sarah Palin.

Please send this how to your blogs, friends, relatives and email lists. This action will serve as a cannon shot across the bows fo the other Dinosaur Liberal Fish Wraps re sedition will not be tolerated any more.

INSTRUCTIONS FROM Grampa Dave:

 

Want to smash the NY Slimes?
Check your mutual funds to see if they own NYT, the NY Slimes Stock

 

 

How many of us own mutual funds which own NY Slimes stock and even worse have increased their NYT holdings this year.

NYT investment by a mutual fund company is a terrible investment re the dollar loss in Stock value the last 2 years. Those investments are an attempt to keep the NY Slimes afloat with our mutual fund $'s.

Now it is very evident that the NY Slimes is an agent and abettor of the al Qaeda Serial Killers. The Slimes is endangering the lives of our families, friends, innocent Americans and every warrior of ours.

Go to this link to see if your mutual fund owns NYT.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/ownership?Symbol=NYT http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp

When the MS Money stock home page comes up, enter NYT into the search area and hit enter and the following screen will show up re ownership of the NY Slimes stock:

The New York Times Company: Ownership Information

  • Shares Outstanding 145.00 Mil

  • Institutional Ownership (%) 83.40

  • Top 10 Institutions (%) 58.60

  • Mutual Fund Ownership (%) 42.64

  • 5%/Insider Ownership (%) 7.77

  • Float (%)

Highlight the Mutual Fund Ownership and hit enter.

If thousands of Freepers, whose mutual funds own shares of NY Slimes did the following:

  1. Sell those mutual funds or trade them for funds not owning NYT.

  2. Send a letter to the fund managers and the CEO's of the mutual fund company telling them why you sold/transferred their mutual fund owning NY Slimes stock. Then demand to know why they are wasting your precious $'s on a lie based fishwrap company which is a terrible investment.

  3. Contact the SEC to investigate why this mutual fund and mutual fund company invested your $'s in one of the worse investments of the past 2 years. Was the investment of yours and others a political bailout of the NY Slimes.

  4. Send this how to re Mutual Funds with NYT stock to everyone on your email list for a wakeup call.

We might have a lot more impact than trying to boycott companies which sell to the elite liberals of NYC and advertise in the NY Slimes.


In closing: There are no free lunches, and we must support Free Republic on a regular basis! (Link to Donate/Become a monthly donor to Free Republic)

20 posted on 09/03/2008 8:20:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Snowbami, the Oreo Bozo, wants special-ed treatment as an untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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