O'Donnell left unchallenged Bush Cabinet member's suggestion that Obama was responsible for rumors about Palins
SUMMARY: On MSNBC Live, Norah O'Donnell did not challenge Transportation Secretary Mary Peters' claim that if Sen. Barack Obama really stood by his denunciation of any public discussion of Gov. Sarah Palin's children, "he would put a stop to everything that's going on in the liberal blogosphere." O'Donnell did not ask Peters how Obama "would put a stop" to what is being written by people unconnected to his campaign, nor did she note that commenters on McCain's own website have posted falsehoods and smears about Obama.
During the September 2 edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Norah O'Donnell did not challenge a claim by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters that if Sen. Barack Obama really stood by his denunciation of any public discussion of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's children, "he would put a stop to everything that's going on in the liberal blogosphere." O'Donnell did not ask Peters how Obama "would put a stop" to what is being written by people unconnected to his campaign. Nor did O'Donnell point out that commenters on McCain's own website have falsely claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is a "closet muslim," that he will "implement Sharia law," that Obama is the "anti-Christ," and that "Obama = Hitler." Some of those comments have remained on McCain's website for months.
From the 11 a.m. ET hour of the September 2 edition of MSNBC Live:
O'DONNELL: Secretary, as you know, this has really ignited, in some ways, a debate across this country: one, about this teenage pregnancy; two, whether children of politicians are off-limits. I understand you have a personal story related to this as well. Tell us about that.
PETERS: Yeah, Norah, absolutely. First and foremost, a candidate's family, a candidate's children, should be strictly off-limits. And I think if the Obama campaign truly believed that was the case, as Barack Obama said yesterday, he would put a stop to everything that's going on in the liberal blogosphere.
But let me get to my personal story: you know, I was married when I was 17 years old, had my first baby when I was 18 years old. I'm very pleased to have just celebrated my 42nd wedding anniversary with my husband, and that daughter is now a wonderful, beautiful 40-year-old mother, professional. And so I think that we need to afford Bristol Palin and the Palin family the privacy to work through this challenge in the privacy of their own family, and not to have it, as The New York Times did, three times on the front page of that paper today.
O'DONNELL: You know, it's interesting, Secretary, and I'm so glad you're joining us as someone who is now a secretary of transportation, and who had a child at a young age. One of the things that's come up, and I think with Governor Palin because she has five children, one of them who is pregnant, and a four-month old who has Down syndrome, is what's on the front page of The New York Times today, this new twist in the debate over mothers.
I don't think these people have any idea how the internt/blogging works....
(it's a series of tubes you see..)
Al Gore's invention is apparently beyond their comprehension.
(In case anyone is confused: It is my intention here to 1) satire the RW smear of Mr. Gore, 2) Give Mr. Gore the credit he actually desevres, and 3) Portray the Republicans as stupid and out of touch. Just don't want anyone to misunderinterpricate.)
The ONLY reason she was even considered is her ability to speak fluent Troglodyte.
The ONLY reason she was even considered is her ability to speak fluent Troglodyte.
Yeah, but NOt being able to 'talk the talk' has been McCain's biggest weakness. (Or strength depending on you point of view.)
What is revealing about the Republican party (and self proclaimed Conservatives in the media, print and radio) is that they are portraying this as something great of Palin.
Family values, traditional values, abstinence only, no funding for sex education etc., ALL get thrown out the window and claimed as something every family goes through when the VP candidate's teenage daughter gets pregnant. Instead, we are told to believe that the VP candidate is just like us.
The hypocrisy and self serving nature (without regard for humanity) of these people is mind boggling.
Family values, traditional values, abstinence only, no funding for sex education etc., ALL get thrown out the window and claimed as something every family goes through when the VP candidate's teenage daughter gets pregnant. Instead, we are told to believe that the VP candidate is just like us.
Attempting to follow the right-wing "logic" for a minute here, my daughter did NOT get pregnant at 17. She's 31 now, unmarried, but still not pregnant. Does that mean that her mother and I are failures as parents???
This is very interesting. Will Whatshername withdraw before or after her name is officially placed in nomination?
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - Republican John McCain rallied behind his vice presidential pick Sarah Palin on Tuesday and his campaign accused Democrat Barack Obama of sexism for questioning her level of experience.
First off, Obama cannot "put a stop" to private citizens exercising their right on any blogosphere. It's a ridiculous assertion by Peters.
However, the headline and the implication that Peters "suggested" Obama was responsible for the rumors is also ridiculous. She never said that, not in the text printed here. She said Obama should stop it, not that he was responsible for it.
Inflammatory and unnecessary charge by MMFA, headline should be changed.
So by saying that Obama should stop it, she was not i"suggesting" that he had nothing to do with starting it?
It's like saying Russia should end the Iraq war.
I agree that MMFA may have headlined it wrong.
It's no rumor that Palin supports a rapists bill of rights, in which victims of rape and incest are forced to carry the baby to term.
Cry me a River
While Sarah "believes that Iraq was a mission from God" Palin gets a free pass for her outdated, statistically failed abstinence only beliefs and her Dukakis "even if my own daughter were raped" moment, her daughter faces some unwarranted media scrutiny...lucky for her she's not a Democrat's kid or she'd have been skewered. The media, ignoring that McCain himself mocked Chelsea Clinton allows him to make a baseless assertion that mean ole Obama is behind this...not to mention Cindy "First was a Mistress" McSame started the family attacks by lashing out at Michelle.
BIZARROWORLD ELECTION '08
Punks.
I mean its almost on par with the Rightwingnuts glee over the Edwards fiasco while championing McTorture who also cheated on his hospitalzed wife...these freaks know no shame
How about the police state the GOP has implemented in St. Paul? Republicans are a blight on the Constitution.
I want Obama to run a video of unemployment lines, flag draped coffins, people losing their houses, Katrina, Bush aides being supeoned, Abu Gahraib, allies we've lost, billions of dollars flowing to Iraq, Osama still making YouTube videos, gas prices over four bucks and in the forefront- WIngNuts- chanting 4 more years, 4 more years
I'd approve that message
The ad continues, as Jeff described the visual, to fade to McCain hugging Bush as the narrator repeats McCain is for more of the same Bush policies that has destroyed the middle class. More of the same tax cuts that benefit the wealthiest 1%...more of the same...more of the same.
It was pretty good and represented a good departure from the mild mannered campaign Obama has run so far.
Police State?
Vandalism, assault? All things that no doubt Democrats find accepatble in a modern society I suppose? Minnestoa is notably a blue state and has been for a long time. But your ideological fervor no doubt allows you to easily transcend thought processes that masked, rioting, vandlaizing rebels without a clue aren't the thugs they are, but somehow better than republicans?
bah!
Politically targeted, pre-emptive house raids, where phones and computers are seized, based on mere suspicion. Then to have the "suspects" later released with no charges are police state tactics.
Now, you need to get yourself to St. Paul with the rest of your authoritarian brothers and bask in the glorious Republican police state.
Punk.
oh and this is a must see video
Palin says God wanted the Iraq War
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
Pass this shizz on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, wait a second, maybe Obama could use his vacation on his foreign policy resume'...
The Enquirer is taking credit for the pregnancy announcement, and they are about to break a story about an affair Palin supposedly had with her husband's business partner.
It's going to be hard for the GOP to blame all this on Obama since they recently praised the Enquirer for breaking the story about Senator Edwards that helped the GOP.
McCain has threatened a lawsuit, so a CBS artcile says " the McCain camp has knocked down the Enquirer's Palin Rumor". Can they have their scandals both ways?
Enquirer: "The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news.
In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves. "