Posted on 11/08/2008 1:04:20 AM PST by Soliton
Two top aides with the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain have denied the anonymous accusations circulating in the press about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate's vice-presidential pick.
"The towel story categorically is not true," Steve Schmidt, top former McCain campaign aide, told The Washington Times in the course of telephone and e-mail exchanges Friday evening.
Newsweek had reported that at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Mrs. Palin had greeted Mr. Schmidt and Mark Salter, a fellow top campaign staffer, in her hotel room while "wearing nothing but a towel, with another [towel] on her wet hair."
Charlie Black, another top former campaign adviser and close friend of Mr. McCain's, said that with the exception of the gist of reports about Mrs. Palin having bought thousands of dollars worth of expensive clothes, the postelection spate of stories citing the McCain team as angry and frustrated with Mrs. Palin for being an ignorant spendthrift prima donna were all "a lot of ridiculous" falsehoods.
"McCain and his senior staff were happy with her performance and deny rumors to the contrary. McCain and we have great affection for her," he told The Times on Friday night
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I don’t want to accuse the man, but I would like to hear what Tucker Bounds has to say.
Jayson Blair/Steven Glass part II?
Democrat tactics.
DENY, DENY, DENY!
Uh...let me guess which one ... contains the letters "B" and "S" ?
I would like to know what Tucker Eskew has to say too... He was the Palin Sr. Advisor.
“Mr. Black said the stories were being spread by liberals in the press eager to discredit the Republican candidate.”
The press won. Their golden boy was elected. You think they’d be happy with their win, and would move on to glorifying The One’s reign.
But they STILL can’t stop themselves.
Or maybe it was just those two radio jocks, imitating McCain staffers....
Color me disappointed. :(
Just when this election couldn’t possibly hit the bottom, it does then continues digging. This is BS of course, unfortunatly it fits the “narrative is right, but the facts are wrong” world we live in. This will always be used against Palin. Damage done.
Due to the asinine nature of the Palin rumors, I suspect that they originated from DU trolls. “Oh, I heard that some McBush campaign workers said...”
So as the story filters out across the various sources...here is each rewritten copy:
Penthouse: The new hottie elect VP, Sarah Palin....met with some handsome and hot studs before the convention at her hotel room where she was wearing a very, very short towel....and cavorting around the room....teasing the old men left and right. Later, both men ran back to the open McCain-bar and drank whiskey sours.
NBC: Oddly-built Governor Palin, a moose-hunter by trade, was seen in her room with a bear rug hung around her thick and bumpy body while entertaining two losers from the McCain staff. The moment lasted thirty seconds before both men realized that she was a dimwit and they left quietly to weep in the hallway over their impending loss.
CBS: Two male McCain staffers....anonymous but seen as part of the McCain “machine” were seen in the Governor Palin penthouse suite which costs $14k per day and features eight giant plasma screen TVs. The governor was wearing business garb typical of Alaska and barely could speak to the gentlemen because of her lack of culture and understanding. She mentioned that she knew several Republicans by their first name....but could never quiet come up with the names.
Fox: A major one-hour discussion in the Governor Palin hotel suite led to fourteen major points and a absolute plan of attack on Biden and Obama. The governor later took a shower because of the sweat this generated. Both gentlemen left and worked through the day in their sweat-stained suits.
I could write all of the scripts for the top twenty news outlets if they paid me....and its all off one story which is mostly bogus to start with.
They came from Carl Cameron on Fox News.
Those were individual reporters. These claims come from multuple reporters/different sources (i.e., Newsweek, Fox News, etc.)
Are you suggesting a conspiracy or multiple falsifying reporters?
me too....
He reported on things reported by Newsweek, too.
Keep going, they’re HILARIOUS and SPOT ON!!
...”The press won. Their golden boy was elected. You think they’d be happy with their win, and would move on to glorifying The One’s reign
But they STILL can’t stop themselves”...
Without hatred, most of the MSM would have no energy. Rush Limbaugh commented this week on their hatred and how it will not go away and therefore, must find some kind of outlet of expression. Otherwise, they would turn it on one another. Sarah exposes the shame of the core of their ideology..abortion..and they hate that most of all.
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