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Palin: Interviews Scheduled Including 2 Full Days with ABC
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by PEP | September 9, 2008 at 02:41 am
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The only problem with that story, like so many others about her, is that it is false. And there's more.
During long hours as the attack went on, the news of her upcoming media schedule, including two days unrestricted access for a crew from ABC News, was already public information. While the bashing of her for her alleged "no press" stance continued, stories and blogs about her announced schedule were already readily available.
In fact, the negotiations for ABC's two full days of shadowing her and interviews had been ongoing since last Friday, according to the story in the second highlight. That article is now almost 12 hours old--a huge amount of time in today's instant communications world.
The original announcement of the ABC News extensive interview was made on Sept. 7.
Gov. Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson for her first interview since winning the Republican vice presidential nomination, the network's news division confirmed today.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will speak at her son’s Army deployment ceremony on 9/11 and spend two days with ABC News crews later this week as part of a McCain campaign plan to increase Americans’ comfort with her as a leader.
Campaign and network officials had said on Sunday that her first television interview would be a sit-down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News.”
But it turns out that she is spending much of Thursday and Friday with Gibson — at the ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, and at her home in Wasilla, Alaska.
Campaign aides said the anchorman will get extensive, repeated access to Palin throughout her first trip home since becoming the nominee.
“ABC News will have plenty of time to question her and examine her and spend time with her,” a campaign official said. “They’ll do multiple interviews over two days. No topics are off-limits – there are no ground rules. There’s tons of time to talk to her about every topic.”
The remarkable rollout reflects new confidence in Palin by her handlers, who initially had suggested it would be a while before she did interviews. Now, there will be several.
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at 02:50 on September 9th, 2008
A couple of comments. I have no idea why the highlight thingy isn't working, unless it's because I'm working with Chrome.
I didn't put an Opinion flag on this because the material isn't an editorial or an opinion--it's fact. While Palin was being attacked on NP for allegedly not being accessible to the media during her campaign, news about her upcoming two days with an ABC news crew had been published--the day before.
I truly didn't want to do the work of posting this. Finally, I had to.
My question is: how can we have reasonable political discourse if we strip facts out and go by gossip, rumor, innuendo, smears, and sometimes outright lies? Frankly, I miss good, old-fashioned political debate without personal attacks. And my opinion--in this comment--is that we've all lost a great deal by sliding downwards to a lower level of discourse.
at 03:38 on September 9th, 2008
PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff. Factcheck.org has put up this interesting report. It covers many of the terrible slimes Obama supporters are putting out about Sarah Palin. The article is quite long. Here is an excerpt:
Sliming Palin
False Internet claims and rumors fly about McCain's running mate.
Brooks Jackson, Jess Henig, Emi Kolawole, Joe Miller and Lori Robertson factcheck.org Updated: 6:55 PM ET Sep 8, 2008Summary
"We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.
Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.
She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.
She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesty" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.
Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."" Factcheck.org
at 03:50 on September 9th, 2008
Sheer jealousy and sexism are cropping up everywhere on the left, it seems, along with the usual "let's trash everything we can find" type activities. I'm amazed at how actual libels have become "Biblical truth" for leftists.
The left cheerfully threw their viable woman candiate overboard, and now, it seems, they're really afraid of a strong, smart, successful woman--and one who doesn't intone their mantras. Leftists get very afraid when they think they can't control, whether by libel, lies, or riots in the streets.
I worry about solid political discourse surviving as anything except the equivalent of brawls in gutters outside seedy bars. The only possible good I can find in all this is that the attacks on Palin and her child have been so vicious that people are starting to react to that type of tactic.
Funny, early in the campaign, Obama went a bit ballistic over stories about his wife. Declared his family off limits. And oh, how the left rejoiced and agreed that was a good thing!
Until Palin came along.
at 04:14 on September 9th, 2008
PEP, here's another recent related story on the upcoming interview of Governor Palin by ABC News' Charles Gibson: Sarah Palin: A Coup for Gibson, http://www.nowpublic.com/world/palin-interview-coup-gibson
at 05:00 on September 9th, 2008
Thanks so much, Rhonda. Proves the point--the lies contine even when the material with the facts is on the same website! ;}
I'm glad that snopes shot down the false story about the list of books she allegedly tried to ban. Snopes is good!
at 05:07 on September 9th, 2008
You are very welcome, PEP.
at 05:44 on September 9th, 2008
Now, Obama himself is contributing to the smears, using the term, "lying" to describe something said by McCain and Palin.
at 10:26 on September 9th, 2008
PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff.
I fixed the highlight issue for you as well. Your links just needed to be un-hyperlinked.
at 10:36 on September 9th, 2008
Thank you Amy, on both counts.