Posted on 10/25/2012 1:35:31 PM PDT by Bratch
Governor Palin posts another Facebook note today laying out a list of questions that the media in this country SHOULD be asking the Obama administration.
Via Facebook:
There are many questions about the Benghazi attack that Americans deserve answers to. It’s been too long an “investigation” and too tragic for the families of lost loved ones for the White House and its friends in the media to ignore these questions:
- When and why did the YouTube trailer of the anti-Muhammad movie surface as any kind of credible reason for the attack?
- Where is the proof that that video was linked to Benghazi? It’s a weak excuse to claim some supposed rumored link between Benghazi and the attacks on our embassy in Cairo. Benghazi was very different. “Spontaneous” protestors don’t come armed with rocket-propelled grenades.
- What was the President’s response to the previous Benghazi embassy attacks in April and June? Why did officials ignore the requests for beefed up security to protect Americans after these attacks?
- Why did the Obama Administration assume a YouTube video was the reason for the Benghazi attack but not all the evidence to the contrary from the postings and emails that circulated that night in real time as the attack took place and Americans were being killed? And why weren’t those emails disclosed until this week?
- Why did the Obama administration spend our tax dollars to make and air television ads that ran in the Middle East apologizing for the YouTube video when they had so much credible evidence that it was nothing but a red herring?
- How much did President Obama know about this? In an interview he gave to CBS News on September 12, President Obama alluded to the fact that the Benghazi attack was not—as his U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and other officials were characterizing it—a “spontaneous” protest triggered by the Cairo embassy attack and the video. He told CBS News in that interview, “my suspicion is that there are folks involved in [the Benghazi attack] who were looking to target Americans from the start.” If he suspected this then why did he allow his administration to continue blaming the attack on the YouTube video? And why didn’t CBS News call him out on this when his comments in their interview with him, which they didn’t air until a month later, belie the administration’s YouTube narrative?
Someone in the media must demand answers. Until the media does its job to give us the Who What Where When and Why of this cover-up, there will be even less trust for this “cornerstone of our democracy” – if less trust and respect for the media is even possible today. We sincerely want to be able to trust the media. We need to be able to trust them. Their job is so important, and we appreciate all the good journalists in America. Our troops fight to protect all our freedoms including the freedom of the press.
- Sarah Palin
One more damn time, dumba--!
She has a national audience to express views that I believe in, I don't, most people don't.
Can't you pound it into that thick, twisted mind of yours, that it's about the conservative message and her ability to get it out to many people.
Her success at doing that doesn't diminish me in any way, her success in any facet of her life doesn't diminish me in any way.
I'm a confident and fairly successful person myself in my life, only losers put down other people because their successes.
That's called envy, little buck-a-roo.
So she’s a hero because she’s famous, not because of what she says.
Gotcha.
Because you say the same thing but you aren’t a hero.
Because you aren’t famous.
Got it.
It's the ability to get an audience, poor, poor Humgun.
Damn, your brain has to be one of the densest objects in the universe, neutron stars and black holes got nothing on you, bud.
I really can't believe you're that stupid, ya got to be yanking my chain............I hope for your sake, still laughing!
Perfect!
First of all, I don’t know if Rollins “trashed” Palin. He simply said she “had not been serious for years.” ...or something like that.
Looking back he was correct..... the bus tour, the dvd promotion, all the reality shows. Not exactly the characteristics of a serious contender for a candidate to be the president and leader of the free world.
Secondly, didn’t Palin herself throw a few elbows at Republicans? Bachmann was inexperienced...... Perry was a crony capitalist.... Newt was a narrow minded machine goon....
Ed Rollins is a POS. Frankly, I lost a fair bit of respect for Bachman when she hired him, well before he made that slam on Palin. And I’m someone who was quite geared to support Bachman during her run, as she has a stellar voting record, the best of the lot. But my confidence in her was also later eroded a bit when she would go after Perry, Newt and others tooth-and-nail in the primary debates, but always leave Romney alone. There was something uncomfortably discordant about that.
Still regard Bachman as a totally top-notch conservative “politician” who can be counted on, whatever the issue. But Palin, with her unique mixture of conservatism represents me and my ideology far-and-away more than any other leader on the scene today. Moreso than anyone has since my days of supporting Reagan.
And for those same reasons, my support for Palin eroded.
Palin also called Rick Santorum a knuckle dragging Neanderthal.
Reagan never attacked other conservative Republicans like Palin has. I don’t remember him attacking ANYONE like what she has done.
The Santorum comment occured after he made a rather jerky, ass-worthy comment that Palin wasn’t attending a certain conference because she was more interested in more financially conducive pursuits. So Palin did slam back at him, albeit more tongue-in-cheek than the way it reads, and he well deserved it.
Considering the ratio of attacks/responses on Palin by GOP figureheads is probably well beyond the realm of 1000:1, I hardly buy your argument that Palin is some kind of unhinged attack dog on fellow Republicans. And considering the rancid treatment she’s received at the hands of her own “Party,” I’m amazed at her ability to hold her tongue. They stood by silently when her church was torched, when Dem operatives deliberately tried to financially bankrupt her and her family, when her children were dragged through the tabloid mud, when the media tried to pin the Tucson mass-murder on her, and endless other attacks. And to think how she worked her tail off for the GOP in 2008 and 2010, and this is the kind of gratitude she gets.
The main lesson I learned, is that the Republican Party, which I’ve supported and voted exclusively for my entire voting life, is rife with dishonor and cowardice. It makes me want to vomit.
I am afraid the alphabet press is in the process of covering the traitoress handling of Bengahzi with constant “NEWS” of the hugest storm to hit Americe since the beginning of time.
I wish Gov Romney would begin mentioning the traitoress handling of Benbahzi and the intentional murder of Chris Stevens, his assistant and the Navy Seals. I personally think the president, the secretary of state and the joint chiefs of staff should be brought to trial and answer to the parents, family and American people why they did not act to help these Americans. It was and is still an act against America and all She stands for.
Romney has to talk about this if he wants the MSM to even mention it
I don’t know of any conservative Republican who has been as harsh with Palin as she has been with fellow conservatives.
I don’t agree with her that Perry is a crony capitalist, Gingrich is a narrow minded machine goon or that Santorum is a Neanderthal.
And none of them have been that harsh with her.
That being said, I think she is doing a good job at what she does and I wish her success in it.
I don’t know why you’re so hung-up on the Santorum thing. It was a laughably minor dust-up. Santorum started it, and Palin’s response was pretty tongue-in-cheek. Within 24 hours, they’d both made peace via a phone call.
You like Bachman, yet you don’t find fault her for her wild, scathing attacks on Perry? Only Palin, due to her brief, one-time reference to his cronyism? And Perry, despite some solid qualities, has a history of crony deals. He’s my governor, and I’ve followed his doings for 14 years, and seen how he’s treated his big-money contributors (Butts, Perry, etc.), and how they’ve treated him. Rick Perry could be a decent and reasonably reliable conservative president, but he’s not and never has been a reformer who would tackle the corrupt political system.
And good grief, when in blazes did Palin call Gingrich a “narrow minded machine goon?” That’s certainly news to me. She supported him, observing him the most likely of the candidates to indeed shake up the corrupt DC class... despite his own background of occasionally wading in it, not to mention his odd bouts of statist solutions and musings (his academic/intellectual mindset veered him in some poor directions from time to time).
But I’d vote for Bachman, Gingrich, Perry, Santorum, all in a heartbeat. All decent conservatives. And Palin too. But Palin is the only one I’d truly have confidence in to tackle the ossified system of sleaze that runs DC.
Is there any doubt that Gov Palin is the greatest intellect American politics has ever seen?
I totally agree with you!
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