THIS thread looks like a job for the....Viking Kittehs!
Posted on 11/10/2008 1:47:10 PM PST by unspun
By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.
So yes, to be clear, last week I was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News who works with Cameron. Carl and his producers are good guys, and I don’t want them to have to worry about protecting their sources (and going through the wringer ala Judith Miller or Matt Cooper) on something like this.
As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.
The real thing we had to constantly remind her was to never, ever compare herself in any way to Hillary Clinton, as she had at her announcement speech. We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.
What's the correct story on this? This guy is real? Doesn't exist? The entire thing is a hoax and we still don't know who leaked the anti-Sarah stuff to Carl Cameron, et al?
Thanks in advance... :o)
I may have to watch O’Reilly and see if he says anything.
Pinging others.
So did "Marty" also hoax Carl Cameron and FoxNews so that the entire story is without substance (as it always appeared to be)????
The bigger, more important question is this:
Was supposed “information” from this “Marty Eisenstadt” the main source of Carl Cameron’s story as well??
IF this hoaxer is the one that put Cameron onto the “story” in the first place, then Cameron easily could have gotten 2-3 lukewarm non-specific “confirmations” ala “yeah, we RINOs never did like Sarah Palin” etc.
IOW, we must force Cameron and Fox News to come clean: did they ever have a real story at all or was this hoax b.s. the entire story?
The (marijuana) smoke hadn't even cleared from the Obama victory party and they were busy launching an ingenious, but evil assault against the person whom they fear most in 2012 - Sarah Palin.
2) He is a known Internet hoaxer - but there appears to be a real person running around presenting himself as Mr Eisenstadt /see post #37
3) We do not know the sources Carl Cameron relied on, nor what sources Newsweek had. However, it appears they have some ‘xplainin’ to do.
Now that the hoax has been exposed.... it’s time for Mediascum to roll out the tried and true....
“FAKE BUT ACCURATE” defense!!
No joke, expect it to show up any minute now if it’s not out there already......
One of those interesting Eskimo knives (the ULU) might help him behave himself in the future, if you can have a future after being helped. (SEE: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2009/2101302028_0b5d2291e7.jpg )
THIS thread looks like a job for the....Viking Kittehs!
Yes, and yes.
So now we're left to wonder whether someone else did leak and/or make things up, or if Carl takes information from fakers and goes on the air calling it fact.
Yep, he’s completely fictitious.
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/06/conservative-blogger-m-thomas.html
So, did Carl Cameron actually get the story from imaginary man or is this fake person just taking the credit??
Can someone please start a new thread and summarize this whole story? There is too much conflicting and confusing info in here.
Thanks!!
Sarah was right about one thing...he is a jerk!
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Eisenstadt arrives at the Torrance McCain election headquarters only to be dissed and essentially asked to leave. All after bragging about his many connections and how well know he his.
unspun didn’t. The mod added that.
If he's the source, Carl Cameron is this year's Dan Rather.
Well I know that. I just chose #1 to reply to.
The guy who started this whole snowball was “McCain strategist” Martin Eisenstadt, also known as Mike Eisenstadt, also known as a prankster and hoax-perpetrator who was the first guy who purportedly linked Wurzelbacher to the Keating Five scandal.
This is why it is so hard for conservatives to really win- we are eager to believe the worst about our politicians. As a group we will allow them to be trashed and taken out very easily. The dims on the other hand can find one of their politicians standing over a dead body with a smoking gun and either claim it is all a smear, or say it doesn't matter and go on.
I don't know what the answer is- I surely don't want to blindly stand by a bad apple, but we need to at least make sure what is being said is actually true before we help hang them. Maybe we could just show a little loyalty until it is proven they need to be kicked to the curb.
If Cameron actually fell for a hoax; then he needs to go down hard. With all the enthusium he showed while reporting it, he needs to come clean or quit.
can a fake man take credit??
I am getting awfully confused with this thread...
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