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'Us' Readers Protective of Palin TMZ is reporting that a large number of "Us Weekly" readers have canceled their subscriptions in protest of the magazine's treatment of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: There were reports as many as 10,000 subscribers bailed..

And their explanations, from ‘Yikes!’ to ‘They’re all in somebody’s pocket’ The following 143 journalists made campaign contributions from 2004 through the first quarter of 2007, according to Federal Election Commission records studied by MSNBC.com Television: (D) ABC News, Mary Fulginiti, "Primetime" correspondent. Click for details. (D) ABC affiliate in Boston, WCVB, Sangita Chandra, producer. Click for details. (D) ABC affiliate in Wichita, KAKE, Susan Peters, anchor. Click for details. (D) CBS News, Serena Altschul, correspondent for "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details. (D) CBS News, Edward H. Forgotson Jr., producer, "CBS Sunday Morning." Click for details. (D) CBS affiliate...

The New York Times finally recognizes that Palinmania is the real thing. Gov. Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain’s new running mate, has been rocking Republican crowds with her mocking digs at Senator Barack Obama and his campaign’s central theme of “change.’’ [snip] Ms. Palin was speaking at an airport rally that drew thousands of wildly enthusiastic people in Colorado Springs, rock solid Republican territory, where the crowd waved a sea of American flags and chanted “Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin.’’ Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin appeared to the booming sound of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation,’’ an anthem of the...

Alas, we have just passed another marker on the way down. That's "we" as in "We, the people," and that's "down" as in "glug, glug." This marker will stand as a testament to the savage zeal with which our mainstream media gentlemen (hah) and gentlewomen (double hah) of the Fourth Estate, cosseted darlings of the Free World standing ever-vigilant to ensure that truth will out (hah hah hah), have sunk their teeth into the Palin family. What started on or about Labor Day and has continued ever since, is what's known as a media "feeding frenzy," a condition of non-abating...

A political talk show on Iranian state-run television last week featured criticism of US Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin that almost word-for-word echoed the talking points of US Democrats. Interviewed on the show was Mohammed-Ali Fardanesh, a political science professor at a state-funded university, who characterized McCain as a dimwitted old man who will continue what he called the "awful" policies of the current US administration. Moving on to Palin, Fardanesh focused almost solely on her perceived lack of experience, and insisted that she only became governor of Alaska because her predecessor was so corrupt the people would...

So powerful are the media that they have been referred to as the fourth branch of government. Indeed, they can make or break reputations. Example: when former Vice President Dan Quayle misspelled “potato” by adding an “e,” the press magnified and harped on the incident so much that Quayle never escaped the general perception that he was a light-weight. By contrast, when Barack Obama stated earlier this year that he had visited 57 states, the media glossed over the gaffe, sparing Obama the Quayle treatment. Double standard, anyone? At times, the media’s power goes to their head. When Sarah Palin...

We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that she’s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction. Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. How long before we learn she never shot a moose?...

posted by Ari Melber on 09/06/2008 Sarah Palin is an able liar, as her acceptance speech showed. She may be a coward, too, at least when it comes to facing down the reporters she blasted from the comfort of that solitary podium in St. Paul. The McCain campaign has admitted to a ban on most press interviews for its largely unknown but popular running mate. McCain's aides are selling this highly unusual approach with rank contempt for the public. "Who cares?" laughed Nicolle Wallace, when pressed on why Palin won't take questions by Time's Jay Carney, on MSNBC. "But I...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The McCain Campaign is denying a supermarket tabloid story alleging that vice presidental candidate Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair, and is threatening legal action against the National Enquirer.

I know many of you have probably already seen these covers on the news stands but thought I would share them. Then compare them to Obamas coverage from these magazines.

After the GOP attacks the media over stories about the vice presidential nominee's family, TV networks and newspapers deny bias and say Republicans opened the door to coverage. News executives Thursday tried to shake off the excoriations of the media emanating from the Republican National Convention, defending their coverage of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as responsible and evenhanded. While top television network officials and newspaper editors largely dismissed the critiques as partisan rhetoric, some fretted that charges of media bias had reached a new and disturbing level. "I really do take exception to it," NBC News President Steve...

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's unemployment rate bolted above the psychologically important 6 percent level last month for the first time in five years -- and it's likely to go even higher in the months ahead, possibly throwing the economy into a tailspin as Americans pick a new president....A blizzard of pink slips propelled the jobless rate from 5.7 percent in July to 6.1 percent in August, the Labor Department reported Friday....So far this year, a staggering 605,000 jobs have vanished -- slightly less than the population of Alaska.

Been away for awhile, busy at work. I wanted to point out today some observations I made about the republican convention. The news media and Katie "Koran" Couric have presented the Democratic convention in glitz and glamor with touching family scenes with Obama and his little girls and with big talk about the past 8 years being crap. (never mind that the 8 years previous with Clinton, the fact we are at war, and the rat congress are mostly to blame. Especially Clinton and the Dems. Lets not forget the RINOS.) All the Democrats are bringing up how their policies...

You can’t imagine all the kinds of deeply deranged “facts” I had people report to me this week from various blogs, websites, and news reports. About the best list I’ve seen is here, but even this list is woefully incomplete. They all turned out to be lies generated by the angriest, and most irresponsible parts of the extreme left. But that didn’t stop the news media from reporting them, or from anyone who considers themselves part of the “elite” from repeating them. And rumors being what they are, it will probably be months before any but the worst lies will...

The same company that owns US Magazine also owns Men's Journal. If you subscribe to this magazine, this is information you should have.

From a New York Times editorial on July 3, 1984, on Geraldine Ferraro's nomination for vice president: Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? . . . Or where is it written that mere representatives aren't qualified, like Geraldine Ferraro of Queens? . . . Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial? . . . Presidential candidates have always chosen their running mates for reasons of practical demography, not idealized democracy. . . . What a splendid system, we say to ourselves, that...

Susan Reimer, columnist for the Baltimore Sun, is shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that people took exception to her tactless bashing of Governor Sarah Palin in her September 1 column, "A woman -- but why this woman?" In fact, Reimer is so upset that people where exercised enough to drop her a note, give her a call, or write an email about her baseless smearing of Palin that she says in her September 5 column that she feels "frightened." Do you want some cheese and crackers to go with that whine, Reimer? On Monday, I wrote a column criticizing the...

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A.P.: 6 IN 10 SAY PALIN IS UNQUALIFIED The Associated Press has released the results of an A.P. poll showing only 4 in 10 adults believe Sarah Palin is qualified for the presidency: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=35240. According to that same telephone poll of 505 people, only 4 in 10 felt “more favorably about her” because of her decision to give birth to Trig, a baby with Down Syndrome. The reader is obviously entitled to draw his or her conclusions based on those numbers. My conclusions are, one, that the A.P. poll is as flawed and biased as the A.P. is flawed and...

Oprah taking sides? The queen of talk says it ain't so. Winfrey reacted strongly Friday to a report posted on the Drudge Report that claimed she and "a couple of her top people are adamantly" against booking newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her show. "The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue," Winfrey said in a statement sent to news organizations in reaction to the DrudgeReport.com posting. "There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to...

Media to Republicans: We're Sorry ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry. On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry. We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked. We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her?...

When we asked Washington voters who they thought the Media was rooting for, 52% said Barack Obama…while only 8% feel the Media is rooting for John McCain.  35% think the Media is trying to be fair to both of them.Want to see full results of this poll? You can see them right here.

If anyone knows what it is like to be Sarah Palin right now, it is James Danforth Quayle. "It sure sounded familiar," Dan Quayle chuckled, his voice coming over the telephone line from Phoenix, 20 years and a lifetime away from the explosion of shock and negative news stories that greeted his ascension to the vice presidential nomination, as it has hers.

If anything can sum up the charm of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and now the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, it is perhaps the nickname she gave her husband, Todd: “First Dude”. It would, after all, take an icy heart not to warm to an oil rig worker and commercial fisherman from the far reaches of Alaska’s North Slope: a man’s man; a beer drinker; a salt-of-the-earth type. As far as the US public was concerned, Mrs Palin might as well have been married to Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. Adding to the charm were the stories about the...

More paranoid fallout from the We-Didn’t-Get-To-Vet-Her whiners in the MSM. Palin is afraid to face us!! Grab some Rolaids, you’ll have to suffer through Olbermann and Howard Fineman to get the initial story.

Keep it up, folks. Us Weekly is feeling the heat. And now, they are pleading with readers to stick with them. Reader Susanna sent the following protest e-mail: During tense political times, it’s always nice to open up US Weekly and lose myself in some mindless gossip and fashion news. So imagine my DISGUST when I saw this week’s US Weekly cover: a revolting, sensationalist, bottom-feeding, partisan attack on mother and career woman Sarah Palin. You know, I’ve been rolling my eyes at your adoring coverage of Barack Obama, but I’ve put up with it in order to be...

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New website which helps organize action against Us Magazine for its outrageous lies against Gov. Sarah Palin in the latest issue. It provides a centralized list of all major advertisers from the past 6 issues for those angered to "express" themselves. Great response so far to this FReeper-made site. Spread the word.

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While watching those speaking at the Republican Party's National Convention on Wednesday and Thursday night, I realized there was a steady theme from those addressing the GOP faithful. There were many opportunities to slap down the mainstream media and I'm happy to say those opportunities were taken advantage of. In fact, a nice swat should be taken at the mainstream press whenever possible. Indeed, media swatting should become a part of the Republican platform. Let me see...lower taxes, smaller government, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, etc. and anti-media, but not necessarily in that order. It's about time Republicans start calling it like...

The 24/7 Obama press was sent into frenzy last Friday when John McCain named the one VP running mate that they had not performed preemptive personal sludge searches upon in preparation for the announcement. They thought that they were ready to bury whomever McCain announced, but nobody had Sarah Palin on the war room radar… Lacking any sludge prep on Palin, the Obama press immediately turned to left-wingnut blogs like Daily Kos for anti-Palin material.

To wipe your ass with US mag would be offensive to asses everywhere.

There is such a thing as a black Republican, but they have been all but invisible at the party's national convention which is hardly representative of America's diverse population. Among the party's 2,380 delegates gathered in St. Paul only 36 are African Americans and very few other visible minorities were to be found on the convention floor.

Apparently Ted Anthony of the Associated Press thinks it is somehow "contradictory" of the GOP to show VP candidate Governor Sarah Palin's kids at the GOP convention on TV. He seems to imagine that, since the GOP objected to the media attempting to use the kids against Governor Palin, that the GOP shouldn't be allowed to have the kids attend the convention to see their Mother accept her nomination. Anthony's "analysis" hit the nets on September 3, the day after Palin's wonderful acceptance speech on night 3 of the proceedings. Naturally, the AP trolls our left leaning universities to find...

Courtney Hazlett over at MSNBC's "The Scoop" is reporting that thousands of "Us Weekly" subscribers have not only called the magazine to cancel their subscriptions -- some reports say up to 10,000 cancellations have occurred -- but have also contacted advertisers and expressed their outrage that they are advertising with the celebrity news magazine that would so blatantly try to destroy Governor Palin. Hazlett is hearing that the editorial board of "Us Weekly" had thought they pegged it right that media pressure and attacks would see Palin pulled from the McCain ticket even before her debut speech. Because the media...

NEW YORK -- News executives Thursday tried to shake off the excoriations of the media emanating from the Republican National Convention, defending their coverage of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as responsible and evenhanded. ______ "I really do take exception to it," NBC News President Steve Capus said. "These terms get thrown around in an awfully cavalier way, and they're incredibly damaging. We're in the business where words matter, and those are awfully, awfully strong accusations."

Michelle Obama on the view arrives with a list of topics they can't ask about while Cindy McCain DOESN'T.

In a 2008 revision of the Limbo dance, the dance often mistakenly attributed to Hawaii but having originated on the Island of Trinidad, the New York Times is proving “how low it can go”.

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=27186 This is my first post in some 6 years, so please excuse me if this is already posted...I did look around, but I've been away for so long. (I haven't been excited about politics..REALLY excited) until the Palin announcement, but I digress: CONTINUING TO BREAK!!! CONTINUING TO BREAK!!! CONTINUING TO BREAK!!! OH SHIT THEY BETTER HOPE THIS RUMOR IS NOT SUBSTANTIATED!!!! groups.google.com/group/rec.boats/browse_thread/thread/634a96041c4bb0c6/363792f8e08a97fe#363792f8e08a97fe Valgard Toebreakerson Sep 2, 3:24 pm Looks like Harry’s masters as DailyKOS have pulled the Sarah Palin post by arcxix: dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223 Markos also pulled his diary: arcxix.dailykos.com/ Word has it that some of the right wing blogosphere...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — John McCain's campaign is denying a tabloid report that vice president candidate Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair. "It's a vicious lie," spokesman Steve Schmidt said. The campaign is considering legal action, the senior adviser added.

You’ve got to love Megan Kelly of FoxNews. Besides being smart and gorgeous, she interviewed an editor of "Us Weekly" yesterday, the magazine that printed the most vile and outrageous of the smears Obama’s people are spreading about Sahah Palin and her family. Megan went point-by-point over the article and made the editor look like a schoolboy caught torturing a kitten.

Sarah Palin has a lot to thank Democrats for this week. As a result of relentless attacks from angry far left Democrats assisted by their friends in the media, her speech became the most widely viewed of any speech given by a Vice Presidential candidate in the history of the world and Republicans emerged more energized than anyone could have dreamed. The audience was unusually large due to the weeklong controversy surrounding Palin’s children. Over the weekend, nasty rumors swirled around the internet that Palin’s fifth child, Trig, who has Down Syndrome, was not really her child, but her 17-year-old...

This week's treatment of Sarah Palin has been an appalling display of sexism and elitism. But the hatchet-men are in for a rude awakening. The attacks over the past few days come down to two things: First, Sarah Palin is supposedly out of her depth. She's only been in high office for two years, age 44, and has no foreign policy or national security experience. They say she's not ready for the big game. Second, they imply she's a bad mother. She has a Down syndrome baby, and her 17-year-old daughter soon will have a baby as well. Some are...

Hard to believe, but Meredith Vieira is apparently not a regular NewsBusters reader. The Today co-anchor would otherwise have avoided an embarrassing lapse. On Today this morning, Vieira claimed that it was only "blogs" that went after Sarah Palin's family matters. That left her vulnerable to McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt's zinger, pointing out that one of her own network's anchors had questioned Palin's ability to serve as vice-president while attending to her children' needs. Schmidt was presumably referring to Brian Williams. As we noted yesterday in Williams Hides Behind Pantsuits to Take 'Who's Minding Baby?' Shot, the Nightly News...

The trust-funded Beautiful People of the mainstream media and the Democratic Party are unanimous. Sarah Palin is a bad person. A very, very bad person. Here is a list - a very partial list - of the reasons that the governor of Alaska is not qualified to be vice president of the United States. She has never been on “Meet the Press.” She doesn’t - or didn’t - have a passport. She didn’t write her own speech Wednesday night.

HOWDY FREEPERS;You know folks, Shawn Hannity is right. Journalism as we once knew it is dead.I don't think it could have been anymore evident than the disgusting treatment that Sarah Palin and her family have been getting at the hands of the establishment media.When you contrast all that to the gussing favorable treatment that Michelle Obama has been receiving, it's understandable why more and more people are throwing bricks at their TV sets and hanging picutres of TV news anchors on dart boards and throwing darts at those pictures and so on.I think it's quite obvious why all this is...

Poor Meredith Viera. While interviewing McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt this morning she kept asking why the press isn't liked. Schmidt answered firmly, noting that pointed questions were focused at Palin and McCain while hinting the Obama doesn't receive the same harsh treatment. Maybe the MSM is finally getting the picture.

Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it. Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following the printing of the issue. “I’m hearing it’s 5,000, maybe more,” says one well-placed source in the industry. Another source claimed that as many as 10,000 readers have already cancelled their subscriptions. A spokesperson for Wenner Media, which publishes Us,...

The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media's effort to destroy Gov. Sarah Palin. Members of the Fourth Estate behaved more like a Democratic fifth column this week than they did like honest reporters. Palin's stunningly effective speech Wednesday night showed they will not easily take her down -- but their malicious attacks on Gov. Palin's family prove that they will stop at nothing to achieve their aim. Since when is the private life of a 17-year-old fair game in a political campaign? Apparently only when that 17-year-old's mom is a Republican candidate. Make no...

"The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?" -- NBC correspondent Amy Robach "How dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be Vice-President. How dare they do that. When do they ever ask a man that question? When?" -- Rudy Giuliani Since Sarah Palin exploded onto the national scene a week ago, the American Left, including Obama's press team AKA the mainstream media, has engaged in a bizarre orgy of sexism, misogyny, and grotesque attacks on her family....