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AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check'

There's no way she would so that's a moot question.

Back in early 2007 there was no way Obama would beat Clinton....



Why do you think we are so anxious for the GOP to take the bait.

Because that would be the only way for you to continue your Palin obsession fetish.
 
What did you expect? She can't write. She's not a writer. She has no original thoughts and can't organize the unoriginal ones she does have.

Oh,so you read the book I take it?
 
AP is simply making a business move. Devoting 11 reporters to fact check increases the chance they will find something to report. That will then create a media frenzy, as the left jumps to attack her and the right tries to defend. In the process, AP will make a nice profit with all the attention on their story. It is the same reason that Micheal Jackson had more than 11 reporters covering his death: reporting stuff about famous people sells papers. Never attribute to partisanship what can more easily attributed to greed.

For the record, I disagree with AP's choice, they would be better served by fact-checking politicians who are writing laws that are infinitely more important than a celebrity book.
 
For the record, I disagree with AP's choice, they would be better served by fact-checking politicians who are writing laws that are infinitely more important than a celebrity book.

No doubt. They could actually be doing the public a great service.
 
Back in early 2007 there was no way Obama would beat Clinton....

Not true. I don't think anyone discounted Obama's chances. He was a strong contender from 2004 on. Hilary looked like...and was a strong foe...but I don't know anyone who didn't think Obama had a very good chance.
 
11 reporters to fact check 1 book? :rofl

As for some claiming AP is "left wing" because of this.. how fast the right forgets how AP brown nosed the McCain campaign quite a few times during the election.. then they were okay right?

No they were not okay. The AP is largely the reason why McCain was the Republican candidate. Several good candidates couldn't get their name in an AP story unless they killed someone. McCain, the liberal wiener that he is, was the MSM's ideal Republican. Soft on all the topics that half the country cares about.

But suspect they fact checked Palins book for following reasons.

She is a popular person in some circles and very unpopular in others.. aka a highly controversial known person. Non of the others mentioned so far get anywhere near her at the present time. Plus Palin herself is pushing her book big time everywhere, which ups the media and general interest (both negative and positive)

Obama fit that category in 2007 and 2008, yet they never even asked him hard questions. Where was the extensive investigations into his youth, his education, his friends and acquaintances from his previous jobs, etc? Yet when Palin was announced, they sent dozens of people to check into everything she had ever been involved with from grade school up.

Do you mean to tell us that you don't see the difference in the treatment here?



Also because of Palin's "past history" with bending the facts and truth, then it is only wise to fact check her supposed own book is it not?

But saying that, putting 11 reporters on it .. overkill... and waste of resources... but then again fact checking is not the strong suit of American media these days is it now..... maybe they out of practice!

Again, selective memory. Obama's books have proven to have glaring, blatant "errors" concerning just about every aspect of his life. Yet these go largely unreported in the MSM. Maybe if the AP had dedicated 11 reporters to investigating Obama in the two years leading up to the election we might have had a different outcome.


:ranton:For the record, I voted for McCain only because the other option was totally unacceptable. Palin was the only one expressing even a small part of my beliefs on the final campaign trail. Had Americans been given equal access to information and interviews with all candidates without the typical liberal slant on every story, McCain would never have been the Republican nominee. And the world would be a better place.:rantoff:
 
i find it interesting that you omitted this part of the article:

The attraction to Palin doesn't appear to be partisan, since AP didn't fact-check recent political tomes by Republicans Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich.[/go figure.

Neither Rudy or Newt look good in a bikini, that's why.
 
Never in the history of politics, have I ever seen anyone attacked the way the media has attacked Palin. If she had stolen millions from the Alaskan treasury, or was a grand wizard of the KKK, then I might understand it. The only thing she's done, is dare to be a very popular conservative woman.

What's so funny is, they invest so much time and resources attacking the woman, while at the same time proclaiming she's a "joke" and she doesn't matter politically. If she doesn't matter, then why is she such big news to them?

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So John Kerry was not attacked by the Media?
 
They are scared because Palin was able to motivate the group of Americans who are usually quiet, polite, and unobtrusive. Palin was, in effect, and probably unintentionally the basis of what is a growing movement of people who are sick of politics as usual. Sick of republicans, sick of democrats, sick of insane spending and trying to micromanage the lives of individuals. They are sick of supporting those who want to sit on their a**es and collect a check, while they work hard and struggle to take care of their own families. They are sick of the nanny state, both personal and corporate, they are sick of special interests, and they are sick of hearing people scream everytime the word "god" is spoken. I could go on, but you probably get the gist.

Palin ran on the republican ticket, but she is not representative of what has become the republican party- or maybe it always was the republican party, and many people just had no clue. Whatever the case, lots of people are extremely disenfranchised with politics as usual, and she is the antithesis of the standard politician.

Biden has never quit on his constituants in midstream.

Biden was picked as a VP running mate by a candidate who actually won the presidentcy.

How about the ex-gov Palin?
 
Biden has never quit on his constituants in midstream.

Biden was picked as a VP running mate by a candidate who actually won the presidentcy.

How about the ex-gov Palin?

When Biden started his campaign, he was my choice for President. Then as things went on, I kinda hoped Dean would make a comeback as his VP. YEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
 
Neither Rudy or Newt look good in a bikini, that's why.

I don't know about a bikini, but Rudy makes a fine looking diva

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I don't even want to know what depths in the slimy underbelly of the internet you had to search to find that picture. :sick:

I am going to go find pictures of beautiful women to purge that awful image from my mind.
 
Do you have proof to back this up?

Not sure if this has already been answered.... but let me ask a few questions:

- How many AP reporters fact checked Al Gore's [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Truth-Planetary-Emergency-Warming/dp/B000QEJ0WY/ref=pd_sim_b_1]An Inconvenient Truth?[/ame] when it came out?

I can't hear over all the crickets chirping...
 
Not sure if this has already been answered.... but let me ask a few questions:

- How many AP reporters fact checked Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth? when it came out?

I can't hear over all the crickets chirping...

What is your point? Can you name any other right wing authors that were fact checked by AP? Al Gore isn't as polarizing a figure as Sarah Palin.
 
What is your point? Can you name any other right wing authors that were fact checked by AP? Al Gore isn't as polarizing a figure as Sarah Palin.

I guess you forgot about when Al Gore won the Nobel Prize.
 
What is your point? Can you name any other right wing authors that were fact checked by AP? Al Gore isn't as polarizing a figure as Sarah Palin.

My point is obvious - the AP is conducting a witch hunt for partisan reasons. Tell you what, name ANY non-fiction book written by a Democrat or Liberal that has had AP reporters fact checking it when it was released.

I know... so what right?

:rofl
 
My point is obvious - the AP is conducting a witch hunt for partisan reasons. Tell you what, name ANY non-fiction book written by a Democrat or Liberal that has had AP reporters fact checking it when it was released.

I know... so what right?

:rofl

If it's based on partisan reasons, where are the other right wing fact checked books? Why just Sarah Palin?
 
Every political book release is fact checked. The more people you put on the job, the faster it gets done.
 
There hasn't been a single Left wing author that has garnered as much attention as Sarah Palin has. I'll clue you in as to why she has garnered such attention:

1. She was the first female Republican vice-presidential candidate
2. She did interviews where she was made a fool of due to lack of preparation or whatever.
3. She was mocked by SNL countless times in skits that are now absolute classics that are being compared to skits from the early days of SNL when the show was actually good and cutting edge.
4. During the Vice-Presidential debate she ignored questions and talked about what she wanted to talk about.

Essentially she marches to the beat of her own drum and while that is admirable it does tend to garner attention. If there was a person on the left who had garnered such attention they would be scrutinizing it just as much.

Obama didn't get as much attention as Palin???? :spin:
 
So does anyone know if this is an unusual number of reporters to fact-check a book, or is this just another hysterical non-issue?

I can see how it would take 11 though, given Palin and the right wing's penchant for abusing the truth.
 
If it's based on partisan reasons, where are the other right wing fact checked books? Why just Sarah Palin?

Why are you bringing common sense into this? And why does it matter how many fact checkers check her book...if she was honest, they will declare her so, if not, then 11 will just point out the innacuracies faster. Should books not be fact checked?
 
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