Oops: WaPo retracts report Sarah Palin is going to Al Jazeera Update: Sarah snarks back

Hot Air.com ^ | February 13, 2013 | MARY KATHARINE HAM

[Kaslin]

What started as a condescending “cautionary tale” about Sarah Palin’s mixing of celebrity and politics quickly became a cautionary tale about mixing contempt for Sarah Palin with desperation for the traffic her name will generate.

Suzi Parker of the Washington Post‘s She the People blog reported Tuesday that Palin, in an attempt to “stay relevant,” would join the Al Jazeera America network, to “reach millions of devoutly religious people.” The only problem is the report comes from “The Daily Currant,” a parody site whose lead story today is “Catholic Church considering Jerry Sandusky for Pope.” A sampling of the original “report:”

After leaving Fox News, Palin said she was hoping to reach a broader audience with her message. When contacted by phone, Palin said Al Jazeera – with its extensive international network – offered her the best opportunity to broadcast to millions of people.

“As you all know, I’m not a big fan of newspapers, journalists, news anchors and the liberal media in general,” Palin said. “But I met with the folks at Al-JaJizzraa (sic) and they told me they reach millions of devoutly religious people who don’t watch CBS or CNN. That tells me they don’t have a liberal bias.”

Now, the original item has this correction appended to the top:

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post incorrectly reported that Sarah Palin planned to contribute to the Al Jazeera America news network.

The article clips out the erroneous bits, but John Hayward has reproduced them as they were, with the silly quote and all:

Late last week Al Jazeera America announced the former vice-presidential candidate would be joining their news network.

“As you all know, I’m not a big fan of newspapers, journalists, news anchors and the liberal media in general,” Palin told the Web site The Daily Currant. “But I met with the folks at Al-Jazeera and they told me they reach millions of devoutly religious people who don’t watch CBS or CNN. That tells me they don’t have a liberal bias.”

E.M. Zanotti offers the upside:

The good news is, the Washington Post is still interested in digging up the hard news on failed Vice Presidential candidates from five years ago. They’re really that tenacious in their reporting. And you have to be in this day and age of the Internet and technology and smart phones and whatever. You really have to be at the top of your game on things that happened in 2008. They are important to the face of political discourse in America. And if you stop reporting them, Julianne Moore will have absolutely no reason to do a sequel to Game Change.

And, they’re dogged about it. More than an hour after other media reported the mistake, the Washington Post Twitter feed sent this out:

Sarah Palin’s plan to reach ‘millions of devoutly religious people’ through al-Jazeera wapo.st/Y6Bt7A

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 12, 2013

Iowahawk takes the downside:

Leftwing satire headline: “Palin to work for Al Jazeera.” Rightwing satire headline: “Al Gore sells CurrentTV to Al Jazeera.” #SatireisDead

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) February 12, 2013

Update: Sarah Palin responds:

Hey @washingtonpost, I’m having coffee with Elvis this week. He works at the Mocha Moose in Wasilla. #suziparkerscoops #idiotmedia

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 12, 2013

@suziparker Nah. Turned ‘em down. Their $22 million offer was too low…. just kidding. Really. #suziparkerscoops #idiotmedia

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 12, 2013

A @washingtonpost writer once promised not to write about me for a month. That was a good month for me. #idiotmedia

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) February 12, 2013

[pfflier]

Palin derangement syndrome in overdrive!!

[Sarah Barracuda]

LOL those tweets are priceless GO SARAH!!!

[Sarah Barracuda]

Sarah Palin ‏@SarahPalinUSA WaPo & like-minded MSM entities, you're about as credible as, well, Barack Obama. Can't wait for tonight's SOTU to point out more examples. LOL Sarah on FIRE!

[Da Coyote]

Face it, MSM,

Sarah is self accomplished.

Your president is not.

Sarah is smart.

Smarter than you.

And smarter than the bat-eared-b*stard.

[Steely Tom]

And smarter than the bat-eared-b*stard.

He's not bat-eared!

[Alaska Wolf]

Suzi Parker=gullible dumbass.

[ConradofMontferrat]

You’re right, those were Uncle Frank’s love handles.

[freekitty]

Obama misinformation program going strong.

[mozarky2]

Suzi Parker used to write paid obituaries for the Arkansas Democrat-no Shiite!

[Bratch]

And now they've turned her into a comic book villain.

Now It’s Sarah Palin Vs David Tennant In America’s Got Powers

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In America’s Got Powers from Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch we’ve been used to seeing a little photo reference going on with the head scientist being “played” by David Tennant and the US Senator involved with the superreality TV show bearing an uncanny resemblance to Sarah Palin.

In America’s Got Powers #5, from Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch out today we get to see them both again. Minor spoilers going ahead so, you know…

We get Sarah Palin saying things like…

Or showing where she stands on the issue of gun control.

Or giving her total supervillain bad guy ultimatum.

But then we have her plan suddenly opposed by The Doctor David Tennant who offers an alternative to her handgun-held-against-hostage approach.

So it’s celebrity icon vs celebrity icon, all the time while massive superhero battles go on above their heads. And by massive, we mean massive, Bryan Hitch takes his giant battles of The Ultimates and takes it up a peg. It really is rather good.

But would Sarah Palin and David Tennant approve of their likenesses being used in this comic book?

That’s alright then! And I know they got Tennant’s permission in person. Still, who’s the one with the gun?

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FYI, David Tennant has played Doctor Who.