"[F]or allegedly not knowing [that Africa is a continent], Sarah Palin got pilloried. Only as the New York Times reports, the story turned out to be a hoax. Or at least part of it did:'It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent."Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. "Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks," Mr. Shuster said.
'Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn't exist. His blog does, but it's a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow--the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy--is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.
'And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.
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'An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network's misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. "It had not been vetted," he said. "It should not have made air."'[MY NOTE: Wow, and that's exactly what they accuse us pajamamedia bloggers of doing, isn't it?]
"We tracked down the Web site of the Harding Institute, which describes the organization as "a Washington-area think-tank in the truest sense of the words"--i.e., a place where people think about getting tanked. The Associated Press, though is careful to keep score on just what is a hoax and what isn't:
'The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin--not the FOX News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.'"Because, after all, there are 6.6 billion people in the world, and just because Eisenstadt isn't the source doesn't mean one of the other 6,599,999,999 isn't."
David Shuster and all of MSNBC, all the above-mentioned other news outlets, and bloggers at the New Republic, Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post, were all fooled and many of them were even forewarned that Eisenstadt wasn't a real person, numerous times, yet they all were duped and ran the "story."
So far, no one has found any "real" Martin Eisenstadt. Never mind one who was a McCain adviser.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold: your beloved news media at its "best." And yes, I include Fox News in that too as they were just as duped.
When will the liberals ever start questioning what they get on the TV and print news? When will they ever start reading deeper and on both sides, seeking truth?
What will it take? An atom bomb?
You gotta hear this 90 minute blogradio on why the media has a blackout of the looming Obama Birth Certificate Constitutional Crisis:
http://politicalpistachio.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-is-obamas-birth-certificate-still.html
I personally hate Sarah palin and believe that people should stop talking about her . Who cares she lost and id now ou of the picture. People need to stop obsessing over her.
I don't hate any human being.
Your right I should'nt use hate. I dislike her and her poloicys
Your right I should'nt use hate. I dislike her and her poloicys
The irony of Plain's moral integrity vs. Obama's is staggering. Palin;s life stands as a moral rebuttal to everything Obama stands for and has voted against. Obama while a Illinois Senator voted and led the way to let babies born in spite of their abortions die in the soiled linen closets of Chicago's hospitals as was being practiced. These were late term babies being aborted mainly because the were mentally retarded. Last time I checked when you take a first breath your covered by the Constitution of the United States. The Great Obama, the so called Great Christian didn't get this by Christ nor by the Constitution. (Google this info, it is readily available.) By the way when this bill made it to the US Senate it was voted for 98-0 (this is before O got there) by ever abortion rights senator and now is the law of the land and called The Born Alive Baby Protection Act. The Great One also answered when asked what he would do if one his daughters got pregnant and wanted an abortion, he wouldn't stop her because it would be her right. Did that goof think once that it would be his grandchild that would be aborted. What did Sarah Palin tell her daughter? "Oh, Honey you have a great RESPONSIBILITY and will have to grow up fast but we will be there to support you." The life within her daughter and herself was recognized as real and to be protected. Palin deals with reality which results in life and Obama with philosophy that in the end results in death.
If you're interseted in reading Obama's arguement against the IL born alive infant protection act, here it is.
http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf
Notice that he never makes the case that the act would be redundant, the argument his campaign made in the general election. They pretended that Obama couldn't really be sick enough to oppose such a merciful law. He is.
BO made two arguments. The first was a hysterical argument that if an abortion survivor was given rights then courts might also apply them to children due to be aborted.
His second argument is that if the child is "previable," then she has no rights and giving her rights is unconstitutional.
The second argument is particularily nasty. He's assigning the determination of viability to the butcher hired to execute her.
BO's argument also exposes the phony claim that abortion is about the right for a woman to control her body. Mom might be in another state by the time her baby is killed by neglect.