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.
"Eisenstadt" also spread the story that "Joe the Plumber" was related to Robert Wurzelbacher, Charles Keating's son-in-law.
After the story went around the internet long enough, some people were even saying Joe was Wurzelbacher's son, but in fact, there were at least two Robert Wurzelbachers, and Joe's family had nothing to do with the disgraced financier Keating.
His bio is one his website. The most interesting fact is that before getting involved with McCain, he worked for Guiliani---so now we know which camp is behind the denigration of Palin--not Romney, but Guiliani. Which makes sense, as Guiliani is the next likely heir to the "economic but not social conservative" wing of the Republicans.
No way — this scumsucker doesn’t merit such a national media platform — it’s enough that other people debunk his garbage, not that he should be allowed on camera anywhere.
As it is he’s probably gonna end up rich when he writes a book about this fiasco.....
Wow-glad he was hoax. Would have been pretty bad if this was the sort that worked for McCain.
Easy now! (But I was just as upset as you!)
Check my post #50 and post#37 (video). The man’s a fraud. (And I mean fraud as in hoax.)
So, who was Mr Cameron speaking to??? I think it is time for FOX News and Newsweak to come clean....
“One must hand it to Martin (aka Michael, M. Thomas) Eisenstadt. Despite the supreme handicap of not actually existing, the guy has managed to assemble a strong list of media types willing to link to him to further their points.”
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/08/la-times-happy-to-use-hoax-martin.html
Perhaps this article should be pulled.
More evidence that Eisenstadt is a HOAX:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=M._Thomas_Eisenstadt
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/08/la-times-happy-to-use-hoax-martin.html
The source has to be different than this faux “Eisenstadt”.
I totally agree. But this appears to be some elaborate hoax.
Palin had to know bascially none of that stuff to effectively govern Alaska. She’s bright; she could quickly learn every last one of these acronyms and organizations, and she could study a globe. She could memorize countries, capitals, and leaders. Big deal.
The real story, hidden in this scumbag Eisenstadt’s continued smear of Palin, is that this weasel thought it was a good idea to “leak” this stuff in the first place. What was his motivation for doing so, especially within days of losing an election? That’s where the real story lies.
I think the left will do anything to discredit Palin.
A good question.
This elitist turd needs a burlap bag and a 2X4
He didn’t work for Rudy either! The man is a hoax — he didnt work for McCain either.
The man is a hoax — do you know what that means and do you know that anyone can go in and change Wikipedia?
Eisenstadt- IF you exist- perhaps the blogs all around hte world can invent lies about you and not apologize for them, and when the damage to your name is solidly done, then and only then perhaps the blogs can make retractions-
The Democrats have played this kind of dirty despicable politics- damaging the name of hteir oponents with lies, and when called on it, they just go ‘oops’, and come then come up with more lies while ignoring the fact that they were caught in the previous lies- only dirtbags engage in such tactics, and hte dems are masters of this- they have NO sense of self-esteme- NO honor, and NO respect for anyoen but htemselves- and hten they have hte nerve to turn around and accuse the Republicans of playing ‘dirty politics’ by presenting the public with the TRUTH? Go such an egg scum
Perhaps you are right.
Ahh... I see later in the thread that this scumbag “Eisenstadt” is a hoaxer.
Nevermind....
If Eisenstadt was the source of the leak and he is proud of it, how come the dirtbag waited so long to fess up?
LOL! So the cowards who slimed Palin are still cowards.
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