Posted on 10/05/2008 11:45:08 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
(SAN FRANCISCO) Before her campaign plane took off for a Sunday fundraiser here, CBS News asked Sarah Palin to respond to an analysis by the Associated Press that concluded her attempts to establish a friendship between Barack Obama and Weather Underground member William Ayers were “unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.”
"The Associated Press is wrong,” Palin said. “The comments are about an association that has been known but hasn't been talked about, and I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy's living room.”
Palin was referring to an event that Ayers hosted for Obama early in the Illinois senator’s career. But the AP notes, “No evidence shows they were ‘pals’ or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career.”
In what the AP called “a deliberate attempt to smear Obama” in a way that was “exaggerated at best if not outright false” and at a time when the McCain campaign has been losing ground in the polls, Palin on Saturday told an enormous crowd in Carson, California, that Obama “sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists.”
Palin repeated her string of highly personal attacks against Obama’s character and judgment at two private fundraisers throughout the day, even as she lamented that CBS News’ Katie Couric asked her questions in a series of interviews that made her think, “C’mon, let’s start talking to the American people about the issues you guys want to know about.”
Palin on Saturday painted Obama as someone who “is not a man who sees America as you and I see America,” and on Sunday, Palin did not back down an inch in hammering the Democratic nominee.
“And he, of course, having been associated with that group, a known domestic terrorist group, it's important for Americans to know,” she told CBS News. “It’s really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is."
The AP analysis noted that the McCain/Palin campaign’s decision to raise the issue of Obama’s “otherness” is one that the Arizona senator may come to regret, if not on a political level, than on a personal one.
“John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret,” the AP wrote. “He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol.
“When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin's perhaps more so if he wins.”
cant we easily prove this?
wouldnt there have been a press release?
Palin on Saturday painted Obama as someone who “is not a man who sees America as you and I see America,” and on Sunday, Palin did not back down an inch in hammering the Democratic nominee.
“And he, of course, having been associated with that group, a known domestic terrorist group, it’s important for Americans to know,” she told CBS News. “It’s really important for Americans to start knowing who the real Barack Obama is.”
Points for pithiness.
Excellent Response!
Gotta love how the AP editorializes the news.
If we saw anti-palin media frenzy before - she’s actively attacking Obama now, and hitting where it hurts.
They’re getting so overt now. Read that article carefully and see all the snippy comments.
AP=Anti Palin
http://americanissuesproject.org/
Here is the BILL AYERS ad, pass it around.
I heard an interview with someone from this project last night, it was absolutely CHILLING.
They spent a big chunk of money on lawyers to even get this produced, all of it is true, Obama’s high priced liberal inside D.C. lawyers were all over them before they even released it. They are being intimidated with CRIMINAL prosecution for a political ad.
What is going on with Obama is pure Stalinist tactics. In Missouri, as he said the threat of being CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED for not telling the truth about Obama is enough for 95% of people to Shut Up.
They were threatening CRIMINAL prosecution if you disagreed that 95% of people would get a tax cut with Obama’s plan.
Please also watch this video too and pass it around.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094322/posts
Our only way to fight back is to educate people, about 20-25% of the people are lost in this country, we will win this election.
“Palin did not back down an inch in hammering the Democratic nominee”
What I want to see in every whiny story penned by some MSM weenie.
Seriously.
I had to reread it just to make sure that the AP wasnt quoting some BaaBama flunky. Nope it was the actual AP article writer!
Will the American people see through this ridiculousness. Don't back off an inch, Governor! The American people need to know about the truth about Obama's associations.
The AP can easily prove their assertions by demanding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge release its notes. No? They can’t handle the truth.
That ad needs to be on YouTube where it can be seen by more people.
“John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret,” the AP wrote. “He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina's Capitol.
“When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin's perhaps more so if he wins.”
This closing passage, more than anything else, tells me that this new McCain strategy is working. The press is trying an emotional appeal directly to McCain (who they know is susceptible to that kind of pablum).
It is, in essence, saying, "please stop this attack before you cost The Messiah the election!"
What a twisting and perverting of logic.
Ayers and his Bomber Wife are both white.
There is a clip when Obama used his time as chairman for Ayer’s group in Chicago as justification of his executive experience. It’s somewhere out there.
The story wasn’t written by “The Associated Press”.
It was written by the AP writer DOUGLASS K. DANIEL.
He was the same guy who smeared Tony Snow in his AP obituary.
So, a vital piece of the Obama campaign machinery concludes that a fact about Obama is "unsubstantiated".
Whatever, Buttociated Press.
Sarah unleashed. Just keep the sword behind your back for a couple of days.
About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans?
After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which was Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago.
In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ’seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?
In May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was ’sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’.
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ’small’ Inter
The comment was cut off there.
Please, anyone, refute or substantiate these facts. This would be a sincerely troubling pattern if true.
Sarah has the msm absolutely desperate and it ain’t pretty.
Gov. Palin pointing out that the AP is “wrong” is the best part of this. Voters have to understand that a vote for Obama is a vote for the establishment, and for more of the same.
Payback's a b*tch, ain't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I&feature=related
just a refresher for some of the people out there.
Come on, Sarah. Don't you know that there is "no controlling legal authority?" The AP's word should be good enough...
So proud to have been happily surprised to hear her say this in person.
....“When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin’s perhaps more so if he wins.”
Yeah!!! Right. Give me a break
For the record, I loved Sarah the moment she spoke when McCain introduced her. She is this country and I think it is wonderful how one woman will (with our help) tuen this country around. America the beautiful is waking up.
bttt
I love it. The MSM and Obama’s campaign managers are going to regret the day they kept saying that Sarah wouldn’t do interviews or speak to them. They’re getting an earful now and they don’t like it.
I love it. The MSM and Obama’s campaign managers are going to regret the day they kept saying that Sarah wouldn’t do interviews or speak to them. They’re getting an earful now and they don’t like it.
I would prefer if Palin would hit hard on other issues like Biden’s enormous # of false statements (read the whole list, fast, using the teleprompter, make it a 12 days of christmas chant (except it’s probaby more like 48 days of christmas).
Also I’sd love her to name names (Johnson, Gorelick, Raines) and say what we all know: Obama isn’t naming names because his silence has been bought.
Calling Gov. Palin’s attacks on Obama over Ayers a “highly personal attack” gets my blood boiling! This just happens to be true, unlike the extremely personal attacks against Gov. Palin and her family that came the second she was announced as McCain’s running mate.
Someone needs to get hit with a big ol’ clue stick, and it isn’t Gov. Palin.
That ad is great. One flaw is that the voiceover “serious” guy overdid it, and sounds exactly like that J.Peterman guy from Seinfeld. Listen to the way he says “Barack Obamaaaah.” He should have been more straight talking.
bttt
It's a beautiful thing to behold.
Well...not what I mean...surely he was loking for press coverage...there must be some archived press releases or local TV coverage...
“Gotta love how the AP editorializes the news.”
I just fired off an email to them on that very point.
What about Rev. Wright, the left’s David Duke? What is the media going to say if she goes after associations with him? Predictable but not right.
BTTT
Moronic AP finds race an issue? I don’t get it - Ayers is white!
Reminds me of an incident a few years back, when Rush called some large women “water buffaloes”. And this was somehow considered racist! Just a few minutes prior on that very day, I called a large white guy who messed up some work on my home a water buffalo, unbeknownst to me and the rest of the world that that had a racist connotation.
The AP is truly part of the Obama campaign. Again, I have no clue as to how his association with Ayers makes this a racist statement.
So they admit the connection but say there is no connection at the same time. That kind of a connection to a terrorist that they acknowledge is quite substantial - and they act like it is no big deal for someone to have an event hosted for them by a terrorist in their home? Are we living in the twilight zone or what here?
LOL, you said it so much better than I did.
Can you imagine her as veep and legislation not going McCain’s way? The dems would be scared to death that she’d go straight to the people and slam the idiots!
Dignifying the tripe that Mr. Douglass K. Daniel writes as "analysis" is absurd. He is a partisan hack, not some AP oracle of truth.
I did some searching, and Mr. Daniel shows up frequently with this kind of misquoting or quoting suspect sources as truth. For instance, AP Reports 'Bush Lied' Study Funded by Ultra-leftist George Soros which dissects one of Mr. Daniel's efforts.
NewsBusters also has this page http://newsbusters.org/people/douglass-k-daniel with some more of Mr. Daniel's work. His hateful piece on the occasion of Tony Snow's death was especially disgusting.
Of course, when your best known literary effort is about a television series (Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama), you are still probably a cut above your average AP reporter.
Just you wait and see. Now that she's fighting back, the narrative will once again change. They're going to ramp up the Palin Destruction Squad to annihilate her once and for all.
I think Palin is thinking, "I not leaving the national stage without giving these jerks as good as I got." They've been merciless to her, why shouldn't she go down swinging.
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