AP Devotes 11 Reporters to 'Fact Check' Sarah Palin's Book

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If you didn't think the mainstream media was already biased, the latest move by the Associated Press is best piece of evidence that proves there's a left-wing.  The AP has devoted 11, yes 11 reporters to 'fact check' Sarah Palin's new book Going Rogue, which has liberals cowering in their footsteps.  When Vice Idiot Joe Biden was announced to be our undocumented president's running mate, his book Promises to Keep was not 'fact checked.'  However, it could be because nobody thought Biden could actually read or write!

The AP is turning heads everywhere, especially in the wake of the Fort Hood killings by an Islamic extremist and President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other terrorists in New York City, which the media should probably be focusing on just a little bit more.  The fact remains, especially after hearing the outrageous attacks against Palin, the left is terrified of her because she is a threat.

Sarah Palin represents most of the women in America and that scares the Democratic party.  If the left can't convince women that they need to be hardcore feminists with butch haircuts who don't need men, they will be in trouble.  Sarah Palin is the first real threat the left has seen from a woman.

Now taking a step back, where was the AP during the presidential election and why didn't 'fact check' any of Obama's books?  Just imagine what they could have uncovered about our undocumented president!  They could have found out, from Dreams of my Father, that Frank the Poet was Communist and pedophile Frank Marshall Davis, who mentored Obama at a young age in Hawaii and instilled his resentment for white people.  Or that Obama was and is friends with the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, who helped launch his political career.  But no - Palin getting $150,000 in clothes from the Republican party is much more important!

This sleazy move by the AP just shows how far-left the media is in this country.  Sean Hannity is right - journalism is dead in America.

Justin Credible is a contributing editor for Habledash.

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Kaleokualoha  - Fact Check Frank Marshall Davis |2009-11-18 20:45:58
If you do some fact checking yourself, you will discover that "Frank" was neither Obama's mentor nor a pedophile, although Davis wrote fiction about imaginary character Bob Greene's encounter with an underage girl. His memoir-novel is similar to Nabokov's fictional character Humbert Humbert's encounter with Lolita, and Gulliver's fictional encounter with Lilliputians.

Although Obama's book indicates "Frank" was a family friend who offered him advice on racial issues, Obama wrote that Davis "fell short" and his views were "incurable." Obama did not even visit Davis for three years before going to college. Obama's book, itself, proves that Obama did not consider Davis to be a "wise and trusted counselor," which is the definition of "mentor." By what creative definition can Davis be considered his "mentor"?
wow  - awful |2009-11-18 22:21:14
your uneducated blather certainly does nothing to counter whatever "problems" you see in investigative journalism. how did you learn to post online?
Anonymous |2009-11-18 22:41:07
He probably learned to post online the same way you learned what the female body looked like - by staring at your sisters in the shower.

Gee, a lib from Brooklyn, New York, what a surprise! How do you have time to use a computer when you're always so busy collecting government handouts?!
Anonymous |2009-11-19 19:21:00
I will not result to name calling and mud slinging like you are. But I will strongly suggest to you that you do some research of your own, and not believe everything the biased right wing tries to tell you.
Kaleokualoha  - Disinformation |2009-11-19 20:58:41
I agree. Let's examine these claims on their own merit, rather than regurgitating false accusations from the blogosphere. Let us distinguish speculation from verifiable fact.

There is no proof that Obama "is" (or even "was";) friends with Ayers. An association does not friendship make!

If "Sarah Palin represents most of the women in America," then why did most female voters choose Obama? She is a bald-faced liar, as evidenced by her "death panel" claim and confirmed by McCain's campaign head.

There has been extensive fact-checking of the outlandish claims against the Obama-Davis relationship. Through innuendo, half-truths and outright fabrication, Obama’s opponents have deliberately misrepresented a casual family friendship as sordid political indoctrination sessions or worse.

In their fervor to malign Obama, they sought to transform the legacy of a relatively obscure leftist poet into a “Stalinist agent” who corrupted Obama’s values. Slander and libel were their tools of the trade, because truth was no obstacle. Destroying Davis’s reputation was collateral damage. Cliff Kincaid may rationalize his deceit as a Leo Straussian "noble lie," but in reality it is a dishonorable attack upon our political system.

Although “I'm hardly interested in proving my research to Kincaid or any of those whose work is a travesty to scholarship," University of Kansas Professor Edgar Tidwell, whom AIM's Cliff Kincaid cites as "an expert on the life and writings of Davis," dismisses misrepresentation of Davis's influence in one simple paragraph:

"Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a "closet member" during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans" (see http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/Kaleokualoha ).
Mike Hunt  - Stop Trolling |2009-11-19 23:34:28
Wow! Another drone with his very own website through our undocumented Commander in Chief's official Brown Shirt site!

So tell me, Kaleokuahloha, does everyone off of Duffer Drive in Las Vegas think the same way as you?

Oh and the "death panel" claim? That was proven to be real. Just like the rash you still have on your inner thigh.

I'll give you props, though, connecting Communism and the Constitution was the funniest thing I've heard in awhile. I'm surprised Obama lets you blog about his past so openly!

M.H.
Kaleokualoha |2009-11-20 01:34:33
As a matter of fact, even Fox News debunked the death panel claim. All the health bill offered was one-on-one counseling, not a panel of any sort.

Once again: Let's examine the truth of the specific claims in the OP, instead of juvenile personal attacks, if you have the courage to do so. Otherwise, I understand your reaction as a resident of Right-Wing Fantasyland (see http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Kaleokualoha/gG59cf):

"Jumping to conclusions seems to be quite common in the fantasyland of the right-wing blogosphere. When asked to substantiate their conclusions, we may encounter bluster, red herrings, and ad hominem attacks more often than rational, focused answers.

Military Intelligence students are quickly disabused of such behavior, and learn the value of supporting every conclusion they proffer. Researchers at the Rand Corporation and other highly regarded research institutions often come from such rigorous backgrounds, where conclusions are based on empirical evidence, rather than wishful thinking.

It's a pity that blogosphere researchers and commentators are not held to similar high standards of accuracy. It's a pity that their fans consider clearly documented misrepresentation to be insignificant as long as it confirms their biases. It's a pity that such predisposition to believing disinformation can be exploited just as easily by Accuracy In Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid as it was by the Bush administration in selling the Iraqi threat."

As they say on C.S.I.: "Follow the evidence!"

As a retired Air Force Intelligence Officer with specific training in Deception Analysis by the C.I.A. in 1989, I am researching the persistence of irrational disinformation in the blogosphere. I am familiar with disinformation campaigns, including Pope Gregory's misrepresentation of Mary Magdalene, Russian and German misrepresentation of Judaism, Operation Fortitude protecting the D-Day invasion, Operation Left Hook protecting the coalition drive into Kuwait, and the misrepresentation of the Iraqi threat this century.

This disinformation campaign fits the pattern epitomized by "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," where a target is smeared through deliberate misrepresentation. Relying on unsubstantiated claims of mentorship to implicate Obama makes no more sense than relying on Curveball's unsubstantiated claims of mobile weapons labs to implicate Iraq.

Why should you be surprised that Obama let's me "blog about his past so openly"? I have carefully documented and refuted numerous lies against the Davis-Obama relationship, identified as "specific misrepresentation," in my Redbaiting Barack Obama post at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/Kaleokualoha/gGxdvX

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln

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