Sunday, November 02, 2008
Palin's pipeline and the anatomy of a smear
The Anchorage Daily News, which has endorsed Barack Obama, rips apart -- in what bloggers would call a fisking -- a very negative Associated Press story about Sarah Palin's handling of a natural gas pipeline. Read the whole thing to get a full sense of the sheer intellectual dishonesty in the original article about Palin.
All of this would be easier to take, of course, if these same reporters had done more research into Barack Obama's past than to read the cover blurbs for "Dreams of my Fathers," but that terrain they have abdicated to foreign journalists and conservative opinion journals and bloggers.
CWCID: Lucianne.
2 Comments:
By 
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Sun Nov 02, 09:37:00 AM:
The tranparently partisan agenda of our major press organizations brings to mind a sage quote by fellow Missourian Mark Twain: "It ain't what people don't know's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so." AP, the Times of both NY and LA, and many others are clearly on a mission. Its goal is to create as many people as possible who know things about Gov. Palin that ain't so.
By , at
Sun Nov 02, 02:24:00 PM:
Skip the pipeline, install a liquefaction facility, and ship the stuff wherever we please. Pipelines are a pain in the @ss to maintain, but small canisters of compressed gas are quite reasonable.
