Posted on 07/05/2009 1:14:08 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
As Gov. Sarah Palin blasted the media Saturday in a tough Facebook post, her attorney delivered a strong warning to news outlets that they should not report any stories that allege the Alaska governor is leaving office because she is under any kind of federal investigation.
CNN has not reported these allegations were in any way connected to the governor's decision to leave office early.
"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," said lawyer Thomas Van Flein in a letter (pdf) sent to reporters Saturday.
"This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation… that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Heh heh heh. As the Oprahans love to say, “You go girl!”
Good!!!
Is this all it takes to stop the ankle biters?
Shannyn Moore, I am reaching for my barf bucket.
The MSM must keep in mind that Palin has the First Amendment Right to say that she will file suite against any media outlet that reports rumors regarding the governor.
You must have “actual malice” to win, if you are a “public figure” -— meaning if you are a celebrity or public official of any type.
“Actual Malice” must mean that you knew it was false before you said it or printed it.
Notice has been given.
Now, every time it pops up, it is “actual malice”!
The Palins will strip her life open like an over ripe banana and expose where her finances are coming from. I'm guessing the name "Soros" is somewhere to be found.
And we all know how lawyers love deep pockets.
Don’t know but I’ve got a feeling we’re about to find out. Time for Sarah’s lawyers to start lightening up some of these loudmouths’ bank accounts.
This is a half truth intended to make Palin look like an authoritarian, anti-1st Amendment censorship queen. They can print all they want about the dimwad Moore's allegations. What they can't do is plunge feet first into the malice party, representing this garbage as truth without any substantiation beyond Moore's sayso.
Shannyn Moore...... This POS blogger and a few others pretty much drove Sarah Palin out of office. Hard to believe, eh?
They filed all these BS ethics complaints against Sarah Palin. Filing an ethics complaint is super easy in Alaska
Palin has spent 4600,000 on legal bills and owes money on them
We could probably do some investigation of this Moore person right here on FR.
Soros is too deep but you got the right idea. This POS blogger is paid by some Soros type of 527. My speculation anyway
Found it interesting about Spenard’s in Alaska. When I lived there in the 80s, Spenard’s was it if you wanted construction materials. Hadn’t heard the name in a long while.
Alaska needs to tighten up the process against abuse.
unless the person who posts it can come up with a source which she heard it from...and so on and so on....
Good for her its a typical tactic for leftists to repeat and repeat and repeat their accusations even after they’ve been disproven.
OMG Scaaaary!
This nasty conservative woman would sue the nice,innocent,fair,...and smart MSM? Oh no!
Hope that Sarah have good lawyers and...bodyguards!
SOROS and hese kinds are such scums
She was a bait they couldn’t resist. She is being a mensch about it with this warning — she could have simply let them do it and then slammed them with multi million $ lawsuits.
Bodyguards schmodyguards. She’s the lady who goes out in the morning and shoots the polar bear she’s going to eat for lunch, remember?
CNN pretty quick in defending themselves. MSNBC should be the ones worried after Shuster invited Shannyn Moore who is spreading the rumor and trying to imply it's true.
http://www.facebook.com/profile/pic.php?uid=AAAAAQAQcp2RDEXzc37b4TB12FS9JAAAAAkHMsgx1Vs6mdnFiMCPIGbq
Rebecca Sinderbrand is an editor of The Washington Monthly.
You can e-mail her at rebecca.sinderbrand@washingtonmonthly.com .
She was a staffer for the network, Newsweek magazine and the Associated Press
From HuffPo--->>>
June 21 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says her political enemies are abusing state law with a flurry of frivolous ethics complaints against her, putting her more than $500,000 in legal debt.
Those filing the grievances _ there have been at least 18 cases so far _ say it's their legal right to hold the Republican governor accountable for what they see as abuses of power.
The truth is probably somewhere in between.
"Are Alaskans outraged, or at least tired of this yet _ another frivolous ethics charge by a political blogger?" Palin asked in one statement.
Most of the complaints have been filed since last August, when GOP presidential candidate John McCain picked Palin as his running mate. And most have been denied.
Palin's office has called the multiple dismissals "mounting evidence that accusations of wrongdoing by the governor lack merit and have been politically or personally motivated."
Even some of Palin's critics question the validity of some of the complaints, and her supporters have waged a weeklong Webathon to raise money for a legal defense fund set up for the governor, ringing up more than $109,000 by day seven, Sunday.
So Moore is admitting that she uses the MSM to spread rumor and innuendos.
The “C” in CNN stands for clueless
By Michelle Malkin • July 7, 2008 04:19 AM
clueless CNN (hit) piece about Col. Day written by Rebecca Sinderbrand
She's a liar! Of course, she 'couldn't be reached for comment'. I bet I can find her, Anchorage Daily News, and so could you if you were honest!
She at the very least admitted to spreading rumors without facts and the MSM that has ever had her on their programs should now ask her to prove all her allegations so as they don’t get sued.
That letter appears to be authentic, and I sure hope it is. If so, good for you Sarah and Todd and your attorneys. It’s past high time that the liars and haters and their henchmen in the media are held responsible for their calumny.
I take particular satisfaction in the naming of specific organizations such as MSNBC and the rest.
Gird for battle!
These same fruitcakes have been trying to smear Sarah Palin since McCain announced her has his running mate.
Jeanne Devon, known as AKMuckraker (Huffington Post contributor), is an Alaskan writer &
transplant from the NYC area whose husband is the Director/President of Alaskans for Truth.
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They are freaked. Just check out some of these comments...
On Friday July 3rd, I received an email that indicated there may be an indictment looming against Sarah Palin. Although I didn’t post the information here, I did post it as an update to an essay published elsewhere.
I believed it at the time, and am not yet totally sure the information as erroneous. That update may have been the first of a cascading set of events that Shannyn is now taking the heat for, totally without justification. If the heat should go on anyone for this, I suppose it should be me.
But I didn’t post it as “fact,” but that I had received the information as part of an email. And in the article to which it was an appended update, it fit into the context of trying to speculate on the ramifications of very quickly breaking news that made little or no sense. It still makes little or no sense.
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AK Muckraker at Huffington Post:
Despite the fact that she specifically refers twice to the report as a “rumor,” Van Flein says she portrayed the story as fact. The only fact is that there are rumors. I know because I’ve been hearing them since last October. They even have a name - “Housegate.” If you Google “Palin Housegate,” you get 8,600 references, beginning back with an article that appeared in the Village Voice. Googling “Palin sports complex scandal” gets you 230,000. How many mentions are required to constitute a rumor? It’s probably less than 230,000. I’m not exactly sure how the legal dynamic duo of Palin-Van Flein is planning to un-rumorize almost a quarter of a million online references to a rumor that started 8 months ago, but it will be interesting to watch.
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Linda Kellen Beigel at Celtic Diva’s Blue Oasis:
I watched Shannyn’s piece on MSNBC...both she and David Schuster were VERY CAREFUL to say that what she was discussing were rumors circulating in Alaska for weeks. Up here, you can’t ignore rumors. (You know, like the rumors circulating for weeks about Bristol’s pregnancy...those sure turned out to be false, didn’t they?)
Regarding the speculation (something we are doing a good bit of on this blog as well), Palin CANNOT expect to leave the State of Alaska...hell, the entire country...hanging and not expect rampant rumors to persist. Then again, she’s Sarah Palin...I guess she expects to have EVERYTHING the way that SHE wants it!
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/
The ‘tolerable’ left at it’s best. Just remember this when they preach ‘tolerance’...
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The Virgin Palin, Our Lady of Eternal Anger, gave birth to the New Jesus at some point last year — or not, who knows
encourages the use of the Holy Infant as a cheap political prop as long as such cruel hackery is performed by the Virgin Palin herself.
Palin’s fury was such, when she found out some blog “on the Internet” had combined a picture of her cradling one of her Magic Babies together with a picture of her Jedi Master, some dingbat old radio talk-show clown in Alaska, that she did verily send her dumbest disciple, “Brother Meg,” to start a Jihad against the Entire Internet.
But we know what happens when a fear-and-anger crazed Snow Witch starts a vain war she can never hope to win: The Internet Strikes Back.
Which is to say, Palin basically poked a stick in the world’s largest beehive filled with cheap & tireless insanity, and the SomethingAwful.com goons have unleashed a pack of Photoshop Dogs From Hell to make the most incredible collection of Sarah Palin Desecration Images in the History of Time, the end.
http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/
Combinations with the word "scandal" must necessarily appear fewer times.
When you make a search for a given expression you have to bracket it with quotes or you will get the total word count for all the words in the expression.
She'd just seen Sarah Palin appear on the TV that'd been provided for people waiting.
I asked her what was wrong and all she could do was to keep screeching "she's a cockroach, she's a cockroach".
I wrote it off as delerium tremens ~ a problem frequently found in Democrat terminal alcoholics.
You should have asked her her name. We want to get the names of the real cockroaches.
Could have done that but I figure she’d already freaked out enough that the Secret Service had her on file with the 400,000 other creepazoids they track.
It’s not necessarily winning or losing any defamation lawsuits that is the essential goal here, although there are a great number of irresponsible people who richly deserve to be legally kicked in the teeth.
It’s the “discovery” process. It will be enlightening to see how many cockroaches scurry away from the light if the scurrilous attacks against the Palins continue and the Palins bring suits against the attackers.
Sounds like a job for the Pajamahadeen to me.
I think one of the things we can do to help is link back all of our findings to the Conservatives4Palin website. This is where her lawyer has decided to make the public legal announcements of intent. Anything of “value” and not “noise” will help in here legal work as well as discovery process.
Sounds like an invitation. Win or lose, Palin could bankrupt this idiot by keeping it going through the courts.
Shannyn Moore might need to take some time off from stalking Palin and get a real life. Can I get sued for that?
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