SCANDAL: A Reporter Accuses Palin of Racism -- and Gives Us a Glimpse Into His Own Prejudices »
Posted By Karlyc 8 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsOver the weekend Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of "palling around" with terrorists--a reference to his longstanding friendship and professional association with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, husband-and-wife Chicago college professors who are unrepentant about their activities in the Weather Underground gang.
According to an "analysis" by Douglass Daniel of the Associated Press, "[Palin's] attack was unsubstantiated." Palin said she got her information from the New York Times, and we suppose it says something that this isn't good enough for the AP. Odder still is Daniel's claim that Palin's statement "carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret."
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Karlyc8 months, 4 weeks ago
This article presents a good analysis of the tactic of Obama and his followers to accuse his critics of being racist, rather than presenting the facts about his policies.
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"Daniel does no reporting to back this up. He accuses Palin of racism because in his mind, terrorist implies Muslim, Muslim implies dark-skinned, and dark-skinned implies black."
"This exercise in free association scarcely qualifies as analysis. Nonetheless, let us consider it step by step:
"Terrorist implies Muslim. It is certainly true that America's terrorist enemies today are Muslims who justify their actions in Islamic terms. The terrorist fringe of the 1960s far left, by contrast, has withered away (or "sold out," in the parlance of the times). But there is nothing distinctively Islamic about tactics like bombing and kidnapping, which were used by outfits like the Weather Underground in their time "-
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mesodude8 months, 4 weeks ago
ROTFLMAO I love watching prancing cons spin and high-step in desperation. This will REALLY distract Americans from the disaster of an economy brought to America by McBush. Yeah...This'll work. Wow. ;-x
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Candida8 months, 4 weeks ago
Karlyc,
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You and your friends remind me of a dog with a bone. You just won't let it go. This is a non-issue from the get go.
I agree with you that it's doubtful that the remark was racist. It's the same kind of remark as the pig with the lipstick. Just because it conjures up certain images in some people's minds, it doesn't mean that that's how it was meant.
In my view, Sarah Palin's comment was not racist. It was ordinary, run of the mill slime. -
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kobzikov8 months, 4 weeks ago
You picked this "article", Karlyc. If you wanted to talk about Obama's policies, I imagine you wouldn't have submitted anything by James Taranto who has a penchant for not talking about anyone's policies, but can engage in politics of slime and subterfuge at great lengths.
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There is little doubt in my mind that both Palin and McCain are racists and I go by both their policies and what they said. So since you are itching to talk about policies, let's discuss Palin's policies toward Native Alaskan Tribes. Please explain to me, how is opposing native lifestyle, tribal Sovereignty and voting rights for Native Alaskan Tribes does not amount to racism?
http://community.freespeech.org/palin_opposes_alas...
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looter8 months, 4 weeks ago
ahahahaha.. I can't help laughing... The Gallup poll says Obama is leading by 9 points, Fox poll says Obama leading in all battleground states. Palin's racist idea is to wake up extreme right is not going to work. Because even those extreme right people are facing the harsh realities of the economy, wars and above all outright lies by McCain and Palin. Lets face it buddies, Barrack Obama is the next president and right now, McCain and Palin or any other Christian extremists or Islamic Extremists can't do anything about it.
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Karlyc8 months, 4 weeks ago
There was even more:
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"Getting back to Daniel and Palin, it seems his claim is that her speech was racist because it somehow called attention to Obama's race. To be sure, there are people who are prejudiced against Obama because he is black. Shame on them. People like them used to have a lot more influence on elections than they do now, both because they were more numerous and because in many parts of the country they disfranchised blacks (including through terrorism!)."
"Yet we'd venture that there are voters who are troubled by Obama's palling around with terrorists irrespective of his, or anyone else's race. Does the public not have a right to know because some part of the public may be racist?"-
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hyperbola8 months, 4 weeks ago
My what whiners the wingers have become! Palin is such an ignorant incompetent that we should simply ignore any further stories about her failings.
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Palin Goes Ballistic
The issue of John McCain's health has been somewhat muted thus far in the presidential campaign, possibly because no mainstream media talking head wants to appear to be picking on someone who is old and sick, not to mention frequently querulous. If McCain were to be elected and then die or become incapacitated, Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin would become president. Many Americans who are particularly concerned by the issue of war and peace have also expressed reservations about Palin's worldview and the type of decisions that it is likely to produce.
... In short, based on what Palin has actually said, her foreign policy would be like that of George W. Bush, only worse. She would extend NATO up to the border of Russia and be prepared to fight Moscow if it objects; she would refuse to negotiate with any country that hates "what we stand for"; she would let Israel attack Iran; she would continue and expand attacks by U.S. forces inside Pakistan; she would move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, making peace with the Palestinians impossible; she would stay in Iraq indefinitely and expand the war in Afghanistan; she would support democracy promotion; she would base all American foreign policy in the Middle East on Israel's interests; and she would target "Islamic extremists" worldwide. She also believes that terrorists and other "bad guys" are out to get us because they hate our freedom, and she just might believe that a war that would end the world could be God's will. If a lot of it sounds like something we've heard before, it should.
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hyperbola8 months, 4 weeks ago
James Taranto!!! Come on wolfie, this guy has been supporting GOP corruption ever since Iran-Contra. Sounds like he is on the corruption gravy train with this kind of article.
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Bush, McCain and the Old Iran-Contra Team
T he vetting of Sarah Palin for the McCain campaign by an Iran-Contra alumnus brought an epiphany. (See “ The Man Who Vetted Palin,” CounterPunch, September 8, 2008.) The American people’ s inability to control this crime spree we call the Bush administration is not because we’ re lazy, narcissistic or willfully blind to human rights violations, as much of the world now views us. It’ s because we’ ve been misidentifying this crime spree as “ the Bush administration.” What we’ re clearly confronting is the Iran-Contra Alumni Association masquerading as the Executive Branch, replete with domestic spying, dark ops, fake journalists, fake news reels, press intimidation, protester arrests, infiltration and torture. Their latest maneuver is the woman with zero foreign policy experience a heart beat from taking that 3 a.m. call. A call which, of course, they’ ll answer for her as they have done for Bush II.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/18/bush-mcc...
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Wolfie20078 months, 4 weeks ago
FTA
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Neither can Daniel, so he changes the subject:
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
Most troubling, however, is how allowing racism to creep into the discussion serves McCain's purpose so well. As the fallout from [Jeremiah] Wright's sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America's promise to treat all people equally.
Wait, didn't the Jeremiah Wright controversy prompt Obama to give the most magnificently brilliant speech on the subject of race since Martin Luther King, or at least Abraham Lincoln? That's what it said in the papers, anyway.-
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hyperbola8 months, 4 weeks ago
Actually wolfie, compared to Palin's goofy "preachers", Jeremiah Wright is a model of American patriotism. Can you match his record? Your posts here sound awfully anti-american. Are you American (or maybe an isreal-firster)?
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Here is what Ronald Reagan's Asst. Secy. of Defense has to say about Wright - kind of puts in perspective the degradation of the GOP since then.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a True Patriot
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation. What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?....
(Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. )
http://www.counterpunch.org/korb04052008.html
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Wolfie20078 months, 4 weeks ago
This guy Daniel is a natural at fiction but as a journalist he sucks.
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antibrainwasher8 months, 4 weeks ago
Thanks Eagle Eye, the republican shills employeed by Propeller/ AOL/ Time Warner/ right wing neocon conservative 100% repuiblican board controlled media empire are scamming the system, paying republican shills to moderate and projectile vomit their propaganda up to the top stories.
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Classic repugnicoward lying scamming crap.
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donald518 months, 4 weeks ago
I laughed at her answer to Katie that she "supports all contraceptives" to "include the morning after pill" then she said she "supports life at its conception"! What a moron women, a truly failed beauty queen mentality!
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International experience everytime Putin rears his head and flies over Alaska!
Heaven help us that McCain's judgement is so flawed to have made such a poor VP selection! I now feel sorry for Arizona!
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orndorffter8 months, 4 weeks ago
THIS WAS A VERY GOOD STORY TO READ. VERY INTERESTING. THE REPORTER WHO ACCUSES PALIN OF RACISM IS CORRECT. TO ME I BELIVE IN THE BIBLE, ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL. IT'S NOT THE COLOR OF ONES SKIN THAT MATTERS , IT'S WHATS INSIDE OF THE PERSON THAT MATTERS, CAN NOT JUDGE A BLACK PERSON UNLESS I BE JUDGED FOR JUDGEING ONE. BELEAVE ME WHEN I SAY I FEAR THE WORD OF GOD, SO HE SAID IT, ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL AND I DONT'T WANT HIM PASSING JUDGMENT ON ME ,BUT I DO THINK THERE ARE SOME WHO DOES TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GOV HELP.I'M SORRY IF I'M WRONG BUT I DO BELEAVE IT.
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retakeusa-968 months, 4 weeks ago
Whatttt......You mean Palin knows how to read a newspaper????
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I am so surprise since it took her 6 years to graduate from
college and we still don't know what she majored in. Some
say it was basket weaving... I can believe that.....
According to an "analysis" by Douglass Daniel of the Associated Press, "[Palin's] attack was unsubstantiated." Palin said she got her information from the New York Times, and we suppose it says something that this isn't good enough for the AP. Odder still is Daniel's claim that Palin's statement "carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret." -
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ETproductions8 months, 4 weeks ago
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Obama knew and briefly met Ayers, a man who was engaged in violent protests against the Vietnam war back when Obama was 8 years old.
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Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party in the 90s. She switched to the GOP to run for mayor of Wasilla in 1996. Tod remained a member till 2002. Before his murder in 1993 in an apparent plastic-explosives deal gone bad, AIP founder Joe Vogler said charming things like; "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." Then there's "The fires of hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American government." And "The problem with you John Birchers is that you are too damn liberal!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Vogler
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/6/11852/0400
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nostalgia8 months, 4 weeks ago
You need to find better sources of information than Wiki and the Dailykos
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Factcheck.org: She (Palin) 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.
The party's chair originally told reporters that Palin had been a member, but the official later retracted that statement. Chairwoman Lynette Clark told the New York Times that false information had been given to her by another member of the party after she first told the Times and others that Palin joined the AIP in 1994. Clark issued an apology on the AIP Web site
You need to stop spouting "facts" that have already been discredited as out and out lies
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nostalgia8 months, 4 weeks ago
"Douglass Daniel of the Associated Press"
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That name was so familiar and I seemed to recall him being associated with another controversy. Then I remembered what he wrote when Tony Snow died.
He wrote Tony Snow's obituary for the AP
"The AP's Douglass K. Daniel, with the assistance of longtime Bush basher Jennifer Loven, felt it necessary, within hours of Snow's passing, to characterize him as "not always (having) a command of the facts," questioning reporters' motives "as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing," and turning his briefings into "personality-driven media event(s) short on facts and long on confrontation."
And couldn't resist adding "Snow resigned as Bush's chief spokesman last September, citing not his health but a need to earn more than the $168,000 a year he was paid in the government post."
You can read it here:
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hyperbola8 months, 4 weeks ago
Well Tony Snow followed in the traditions of Ari Fleischer as someone willing to lie serially to Americans, so there shouldn't be much sympathy.
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ljponejolic8 months, 4 weeks ago
obama is the most dangerous candidate for president this country has ever seen you really dont know what he stands for this is the biggest scam ever put on a society based on fredom and democracy to many people have died to make sure we have fredom we cant let someone like this take it away
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antibrainwasher8 months, 4 weeks ago
You mean like the freedom and life taken from the 5000 dead us soldiers you neocon cowards sent to die for a neocon lie?
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You villiage idiots murder 5000 us soldiers for a neocon lie, and now you call Obama dangerous? You villiage morons want to bomb Iraq, which would make the current financial republislime cricis look like a blip, and you call Obama dangerous.
The only thing dangerous is republican ignorance and right wing extremism, which you bush voting inbred religicons call patriotism.
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Natureboy8 months, 4 weeks ago
The author of this nonsense is a real sad sack - doesn't even understand what the AP IS, holy cow, just because he works for the Wall Street Urinal and Rupert Murdock pulls his strings, he assumes that the Associated Press is similar.
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But the AP is a press ORGANIZATION to which any legitimate publication can belong - AP membership not only allows papers the right to print AP stories, it makes the paper's stories available to the AP.
So when you talk about the Associated Press, you are talking about THOUSANDs of separate news agencies, not one monolithic entity as the author supposes. I review and print AP stories daily for our paper - some stories are biased, IMO, but there is no UNIFORM bias, the cant is generally minimal but when present it runs in various directions, there is no propaganda agenda as there is with Faux News.-
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donald518 months, 4 weeks ago
...so why did 2 out of 3 newspaper endorse Dumya? Journalists are only as good/open-minded as their editors/owners allow them to be!
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