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

Dr_Patrick said:
Considering the interviews and comedic mockery involving Palin during the Presidential campaign, it's not at all surprising that they are putting her under so much scrutiny. I really don't think it's a partisan move, because as the above poster pointed out; they would be fact checking all right wing books and not just hers. Does this justify their absurd fact checking? Not at all. They are merely doing it because she's still a hot topic and any story about her is going to make for good ratings/sales/etc. It's more about sensationalism than political bias.
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It's so non-partisan, that they're not fact checking anyone's work.

This is nothing less than the fear the Leftists have of Palin. They all know, that if she went un-molested by the Liberal smear machine, she would be sitting in the Oval Office on 21 January '13.

The Libbos won't allow the Republicans to elect the first woman president.

It's a good thing Obama is a left field Liberal. There's no telling how many watermelon jokes David Letterman would have told, if he had been a Conservative.
 
lizzie said:
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.
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Personally I never got the hype that people had about her. She did seem a bit more genuine than most politicians, but as I said earlier I think it's more due to the fact that she isn't really cut out for that world. Much of the hype around Palin reminds me of a lot of the hype that surrounded Obama. She's very pretty and smart, but I honestly don't see what is so special about her.

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.
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Lots of people have been disenfranchised by politics for a long time. This certainly isn't a new development.
 
apdst said:
It's so non-partisan, that they're not fact checking anyone's work.
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I don't think Palin's political affiliation has anything to do with the fact checking. As I said before, it's because she's still a hot topic and by scrutinizing every little thing like they have in the past it almost guarantees ratings.

This is nothing less than the fear the Leftists have of Palin. They all know, that if she went un-molested by the Liberal smear machine, she would be sitting in the Oval Office on 21 January '13.
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And this is based on? Sorry, but this totally reads like a regurgitated right wing talking point.

The Libbos won't allow the Republicans to elect the first woman president.
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As does this.

It's a good thing Obama is a left field Liberal. There's no telling how many watermelon jokes David Letterman would have told, if he had been a Conservative.
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Yeah, because only Liberals are capable of political bias. :roll:
 
Dr_Patrick said:
I don't think Palin's political affiliation has anything to do with the fact checking. As I said before, it's because she's still a hot topic and by scrutinizing every little thing like they have in the past it almost guarantees ratings.
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yeah, right...:rofl

You can bet your sweet ass that this wouldn't happen to a Liberal.
 
apdst said:
yeah, right...:rofl

You can bet your sweet ass that this wouldn't happen to a Liberal.
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Do you have proof to back this up? If this were really a smear for purely partisan reasons, why didn't they fact check all other right wing books? Why just Palin? And no, I don't need to hear more regurgitated talking points about how the "Libbos" are terrified of her.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
Do you have proof to back this up? If this were really a smear for purely partisan reasons, why didn't they fact check all other right wing books? Why just Palin? And no, I don't need to hear more regurgitated talking points about how the "Libbos" are terrified of her.
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Do you have proof to back up what you're saying? Or, are we both just expressing an opinon? Lemme' guess, you're right, because you said it.
 
apdst said:
Do you have proof to back up what you're saying? Or, are we both just expressing an opinon? Lemme' guess, you're right, because you said it.
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Well, I'd say the fact that they are just fact checking her book and haven't fact checked other right wing books is a good indicator that it isn't for purely partisan reasons. What do you have to back your assertion up?
 
The FEAR of Sarah Palin has generated on everyone left center is unprecedented, and the attacks from the Lame Stream Obamedia is having an effect the Socialist/Marxist leadership didn't account for. They have caused such a backlash that Sarah's appearance on Oprah got the Highest rating Oprah had in two years and much higher then even Rock Star Obama.
At a book signing going on right now there are over 1500 people waiting to see her. I just found out that in some Cities she drew larger crowds thatn Obama during the campaign last year.

Do I support her if she runs for President? Not right now we have a lot of time for us to decide and for Sarah to get the kind of political advise that could make a huge difference by the time the election comes around.

In the mean time we can expect the Liberals to keep making the mistake of making Sarah Palin front page news. The old adage "Any publicity is good publicity." is very true when adverse publicity is so obviously partisan.

I THINK THE FUNNIEST THING I ALL OF THIS IS THE GRANOLA LIBERALS ARE SUDDENLY CONCERNED ABOUT HONESTY WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN FALLING FOR LIES FROM OBAMA, PELOSI, REID AND OTHER SOCIALIST/MARXISTS AND NOT ONLY LICK UP THE LIES BUT GO OUT AND DEFEND THEM WHEN THE LIES FROM THIS BUNCH ARE DELIBERATELY DESTROYING THE ECONOMY AND WITH IT THE NATION. ALL WHILE IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION. GOOD JOB LIBS
 
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Dr_Patrick said:
Well, I'd say the fact that they are just fact checking her book and haven't fact checked other right wing books is a good indicator that it isn't for purely partisan reasons. What do you have to back your assertion up?
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How many Left wing books have ever been fact checked like this? Can you name one?
 
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?

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)

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!
 
apdst said:
How many Left wing books have ever been fact checked like this? Can you name one?
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Your point being? That proves even more that they aren't doing it for partisan reasons. They are doing it because the spotlight is still on Sarah Palin and because they know it will garner ratings.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
Your point being? That proves even more that they aren't doing it for partisan reasons. They are doing it because the spotlight is still on Sarah Palin and because they know it will garner ratings.
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Yeah, ok, whatever, dude. All because you said it, huh?...:rofl
 
apdst said:
Yeah, ok, whatever, dude. All because you said it, huh?...:rofl
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Then where is your proof? I'm still waiting. I could see your point if there were other right wing books that they were fact checking, but there aren't. Care to try again? :2wave:
 
Dr_Patrick said:
Then where is your proof? I'm still waiting. I could see your point if there were other right wing books that they were fact checking, but there aren't. Care to try again? :2wave:
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The proof is in the puddin'. Can you show me a single Left wing author that got this kind of scrutiny, by any media outlet, ever?
 
apdst said:
The proof is in the puddin'. Can you show me a single Left wing author that got this kind of scrutiny, by any media outlet, ever?
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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.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
1. She was the first female Republican vice-presidential candidate
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Republican being the operative word in that sentence. Funny how that keeps coming aroung, huh?

2. She did interviews where she was made a fool of due to lack of preparation or whatever.
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She was interviewed by idiots. What'cha expect?

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.
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So was PBO. Did CNN factcheck any of the Palin skits? Didn't, did they?


4. During the Vice-Presidential debate she ignored questions and talked about what she wanted to talk about.
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And, that's different from who, how? Surely you don't mean that Joe Biden has something over Sarah.

She scares the living **** out of the Libbos and that's why she get smeared the way she does. She is the first woman, to ever have a reasonable chance at sitting in the Oval Office and being there for something more than a head job.
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j-mac said:
Tongue firmly implanted in cheek no doubt.....:roll: Look, the reason that the AP does what they do concerning Palin, or the Daily Show, SNL, or for that matter Newsweek, who this week stole a photo from a running magazine to try and embarrass her, is two fold, they hate her to the point of mental illness, and 2, they are scared ****less of her.


j-mac
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Yes....you are absolutely right. We are deathly afraid of her. Please don't select her as your nominee in 2012.
 
disneydude said:
Yes....you are absolutely right. We are deathly afraid of her. Please don't select her as your nominee in 2012.
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Yeah, we know thats what ya'll are hopin'. Why else give her the attention ya'll give her.
 
apdst said:
Yeah, we know thats what ya'll are hopin'. Why else give her the attention ya'll give her.
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Absolutely....she is our worst fear. Again...please don't nominate her. We won't know what we could possibly do to defeat her. Please tell all of your friends to fight against her nomination. Do it for us liberals.
 
I will laugh my ass of if Palin actually does beat Obama....you Liberals would be on 24/7 suicide watch.
 
Strucky said:
I will laugh my ass of if Palin actually does beat Obama....you Liberals would be on 24/7 suicide watch.
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There's as much chance at that as there is of Bush's legacy being that he was an outstanding President.
 
disneydude said:
There's as much chance at that as there is of Bush's legacy being that he was an outstanding President.
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What would you do if she did win?
 
texmaster said:
Remember, the liberal media doesn't exist :roll:

Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently "Going Rogue" is no normal book.

When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.

The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it also speculated into Palin's motives for writing "Going Rogue: An American Life," stating as fact that the book "has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto."

Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post titled "Really? Still Making Things Up?"

"Imagine that," the post read. "11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to 'fact check' what's going on with Sheik Mohammed's trial, Pelosi's health care takeover costs, Hasan's associations, etc. Amazing."

The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.

This really is shameless. 0 for liberal books but Palin gets 11 fact checkers :roll:

AP Turns Heads for Devoting 11 Reporters to Palin Book 'Fact Check' - FOXNews.com
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Don't kill the messenger, man.

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.

She's an idiot--an example of the Peter Principle in pubic office. They hired some partisan hack to write for her--a second rate Anne Coulter. If you were looking for hard facts, fallowed up by intelligent analysis... Don't hold your breath.

So they vetted her book for factual content. The facts are stubborn things.

Get over it and accept that your Caribou Barbie is not that bright.
 
Realistically, Palin has a better chance of winning by running as an independent than she would running as a Republican. She could never come close to winning anywhere near 50% of the vote. But if she could fraction the vote in a three way race, she might stand a chance, but even that is unlikely.
 
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