Palin Africa Story fake?
Nobody knows you're a dog on the internet, as the saying goes. Blogger poses as McCain policy adviser and disses Palin. Well, what a surprise. I'm really a 16 year old posing as a retired librarian so I can use big words to fool Murray. And the media buy into it (Palin stories). I wonder if he was the source of the clothing cost stories too?- 24-hour network news channel MSNBC has retracted a story it ran claiming a source inside the McCain campaign that Governor Sarah Palin was unsure of whether Africa was a country or a continent.
The channel says it was duped by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and partner Dan Mirvish, who posed as a McCain policy adviser in a blog. The men allegedly took the name Martin Eisenstadt, a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. But neither that person nor the institute exist.
The "fake" adviser claimed Governor Sarah Palin mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.
The former Republican vice presidential candidate has denied the report from the time it was released.
This isn't the first time "Eisenstadt's" name has been used in a phony report. The Huffington Post once quoted the phony adviser in a story on John McCain and the Hilton family. Other duped outlets include the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic. 700WLW
NYT story.
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3 comments:
I wonder if anything said about Palin from Noonan to Eisenstadt was true.
No one in the Palin campaign, including Palin, ever denied the clothing stories. The only thing they ever disagreed about was whose remarkably boneheaded idea it was to spend $150K on clothing to outfit a "hockey mom" while much of America is struggling.
You're right, though, that Palin never tried to be anything but what she is: humilliatingly uninformed, intellectually incurious, opportunistic, vindictive, boastful and pathologically dishonest. She wears it all proudly like a $150K (plus another $20-40K on her staffers' personal credit cards) wardrobe. Funny how even an expensive outfit can look cheap if the character of the person wearing it lacks all integrity.
Obviously, we use different sources. You hate her; you found support. She's a huge threat.
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