http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/smearcampaign/ en-us Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:27:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076873/posts Given that we’re more than halfway to the century mark in Palin smears, I think it’s time to take another brief look at the left’s method of smear dissemination. The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076873/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:27:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076610/posts Bay Buchanan was interviewed by Campbell Brown and debunked smears associated with the jet Palin put up on Ebay. video eyeblast.tv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076610/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:33:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076763/posts Sarah Palin's first year as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, could easily have been her last as she became embroiled in personnel challenges, a thwarted attempt to pack the City Council and a bitter standoff with her local newspaper. The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076763/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 17:54:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076493/posts I'm surprised it took this long. “So Sambo beat the bitch!”This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Bob Parks: Black & Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076493/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 04:13:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076497/posts Rumor That Palin Called Obama 'Sambo' Spreading Across Internet By Terry Trippany September 6, 2008 - 22:31 ET A new whisper campaign is forming in the blogosphere and creeping into web search engines across the internet as a self proclaimed e-zine called "LA Progressive" is spreading a false rumor that Sarah Palin called Barack Obama 'Sambo' while dining in an Alaska restaurant. Charley James, the author of the article that is unlikely to have his blogspot site shut down for Obama bias, also claims through 'anonymous sources' that Palin called Hillary Clinton a "b#^@h" in the same breath. It is... Newsbusters.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076497/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 04:19:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076423/posts The National Enquirer is reporting Gov. Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair. The story doesn't mention when the alleged affair happened.My sources in Alaska say the incident occurred in mid 1990s, right around the time she became mayor of Wasilla. Todd Palin's partner in a Polaris snowmachine dealership in Wasilla, Brad Hanson Hampton, and Sarah were reportedly flirtatious and but never consummated the relationship.When Todd found out, he reportedly dissolved the partnership and sold the dealership. Hampton is now a member of the Palmer City Council. He was married at the time of the reported flirtation. Here's the response from... Alakan Abroad http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076423/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:07:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076419/posts Anger at fake Sarah Palin photos as smear campaign makes her 'look like a stripper' Last updated at 23:52pm on 06.09.08   Skirting the issues: Clearly mocked-up photos like this are being used to undermine Sarah Palin's image as a serious politician Sarah Palin's credibility as a possible American Vice-President is being undermined by a series of spoof photographs circulated on the internet.The saucy pictures, which exploit her glamorous image, have been published amid a concerted ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against the former beauty queen, following her surprise appointment as 72-year-old Republican candidate John McCain’s running mate. One shows her apparently... The Evening Standard (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076419/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:49:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076386/posts Cripes, this has gotten ridiculous. Folks, look, let’s just run through a list here. (Updated.) Yes, she is Governor of Alaska. No, she’s not the Lieutenant Governor. No, she’s not currently Mayor of Wasilla. Yes, she was Mayor of Wasilla, some years ago. Yes, there are people in Alaska who think she’s too liberal. Yes, she did push for and approve the Wasilla Sports Center. Yes, it did cost a lot of money. (People keep saying $20 million, that article says $14.5 million, but then they also added a $1.2 million dollar food service/kitchen piece. This year, since Palin was... Exporations http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076386/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:52:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076387/posts Two members of Barack of Obama’s campaign, Dick and Sharon Price, created a post today on their “LA Progressive” blog that accuses Sarah Palin of using the name “Sambo” to describe Barack Obama. Aside from the fact that this constitutes slander, for there is absolutely no evidence - sources, etc, there is more to the story about “Dick and Sharon”. First, their blog only came into being on 10 March 2008 according to whois records. This is about the time that several satellite Pro-Obama blogs began to appear around the internet, several of which were found to be funded by... Macsmind http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076387/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:52:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076209/posts Tons of readers are sending the latest, most pathetic smear against Gov. Sarah Palin. It is laughable beyond belief. One “Charley James” accuses Palin of exclaiming the following after Obama defeated Hillary: “So Sambo beat the bitch!” Read the entire “investigative report” here, which comes off like a really, really bad Onion parody. If you think these things should just be ignored, take a look at how it’s already spreading: michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076209/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:14:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076054/posts "I'm a f***in' redneck who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes. But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s*** and just f***in' chillin' I guess. "Ya f*** with me I'll kick (your) ass." Ah yes. Class and eloquence return to the White House. GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin must be trembling in her NRA hip waders after reading those words on her future son-in-law's MySpace page. Except it's been deleted - I wonder how many six packs of Moosehead it took to get... Northwest Florida Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076054/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:25:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075840/posts Whoopi Goldberg: Sarah Palin 'Is a Very Dangerous Woman' By Whoopi Goldberg I just have to talk about Sarah Palin’s speech a little bit. She gave a really amazing speech, very strong, very strident and it gave the Republicans everything they wanted to hear. They know that she’s a tough chick and she’s a babe and she’s a mom and all those other wonderful things we should be celebrating — the first time I think we’ve ever celebrated all of these things in a woman. Maybe Hillary Clinton wasn’t such a babe but she was defiantly strident and strong and... The Women on the Web aka. wowowow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075840/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075743/posts Nutcase bloggers will have to find another smear against Sarah Palin … again. Did you hear that Todd Palin’s former business partner tried to get his divorce records sealed? Conspiracy theorists immediately began speculating on line that Sarah Palin — that vixen! — must have had an affair and broken up the marriage. Why else would the partner suddenly act to seal his records? As the Smoking Gun discovered, Scott Richter wanted them sealed — to protect himself from conspiracy theorists: --------------------- So when the blogosphere discovered today (via an online court docket) that Scott Richter, a Palin associate, personally... hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075743/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 01:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075574/posts Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been subjected to an intense amount of media and public scrutiny since she was named as John McCain’s vice presidential pick one week ago. Many of the attacks have come in the form of unconfirmed reports on the Internet. Among them: 1) Palin “Joined a Secessionist Political Party” The Charge: Unsubstantiated Internet reports insisted Palin was once a member of the Alaska Independence Party, which critics call a secessionist political movement and supporters say is dedicated to seeking greater state control over federal lands across Alaska.The Facts: Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982.... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075574/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 21:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2075549/posts 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. BoycottUsWeekly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2075549/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:14:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075219/posts 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... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2075219/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:20:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075229/posts ST. PAUL, Minn. - Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain , dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said on Thursday. Mrs. Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Mr. Obama since the Democratic convention last month, will include a forceful response to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Ms. Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday night, Obama aides said. MSNBC/NY TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075229/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:32:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075107/posts 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. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26549704/ MSNBC-Scoop http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075107/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:11:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075059/posts SPOKANE, Wash. (Sept. 4) - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems to have switched colleges at least six times in six years, including two stints at the University of Idaho before graduating from there in 1987. Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain's campaign. Associated Press via AOL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075059/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 03:32:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075048/posts An e-mail smear targeting the seventeen year-old daughter of GOP vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin is burning up South Carolina inboxes - and may have originated from a South Carolina public school e-mail account. According to a copy of the e-mail (entitled “Sarah Palin’s Drunken Daughter”) obtained exclusively by FITSNews, five pictures alleged to portray Palin’s underage daughter possessing alcoholic beverages (and one allegedly portraying her holding a gun) were attached to the following message: “(P)ics of Sarah Palin’s knocked up daughter Bristol kicking it. Yeah boozing it up is pretty standard for a seventeen year-old, especially in Alaska where it... FITSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075048/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 02:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074950/posts Rasmussen: By 10-to-1 Public Says Reporters 'Trying to Hurt Palin' By Brent Baker Created 2008-09-04 19:20 “Over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage, and 24% say those stories make them more likely to vote for Republican presidential candidate John McCain in November,” Rasmussen Reports announced Thursday in posting survey results which determined “just five percent (5%) think reporters are trying to help her with their coverage, while 35 percent believe reporters are providing unbiased coverage.” In Thursday's “Grapevine” segment, FNC's Brit Hume highlighted the findings from the poll of... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074950/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:46:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074800/posts WASILLA -- Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so. According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully support her and... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074800/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:39:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074790/posts New website which provides background info on Us Weekly's filthy lies about Sarah Palin, and a complete list of Us Weekly advertisers with phone/email. BoycottUsWeekly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2074790/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:26:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074599/posts I thought Palin's speech was quite good: well-written, well delivered. And, as I said earlier, I think she's a genuinely engaging person, and comes across very well. There were just a couple of problems. One, which I have seen people notice, but which I suspect won't be a big deal for a lot of voters, is that it had very little substance. The other, which the commenters I saw on TV for some reason neglected to mention, was that she told a lot of lies. A few that stood out for me, or that I spotted in my quick run-through... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074599/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074704/posts Since the first article on American Thinker warning about the forthcoming types of attacks on Sarah Palin was posted last Friday (Defending Against the First Attacks on Sarah Palin), the assault has come fast and furious from both the media and the Democrats. Perhaps the only surprising thing about it has been, however, the depravity of the attacks.   While the campaign against Governor Palin has been viscious, certainly more so than any I can remember previous, it has managed to expose the soft underbelly of the Democratic Party, including the mainstream media. The Left is, at its heart, a movement... americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074704/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:35:11 GMT