ABC Edits: Palin Smarter in Late Night Than in Prime Time

September 12, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

ABC edited Charlie Gibson’s interview with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin so heavily for the World News Tonight airing that her answers came off as disjointed and incomplete, in some places cutting off the Governor mid-sentence, in others picking up the conversation mid-answer, and leaving entire illustrative portions that fleshed-out the Governors responses on the cutting room floor.

In contrast, the Nightline version of the interview seemed more complete and found the Governor with a rounded and coherent understanding of International affairs.  It also provides more context for the YouTube video, which was presented in an incomplete and biased way during World News Tonight.

Written transcripts of the interview released by ABC show a third version of the interview, where Palin provides even more detail and challenges Gibson when he misquotes her and distorts her meaning regarding the infamous “Task from God” quote recorded from within the sanctity of her place of worship.

An objective viewer can only surmise that the World News Tonight version was purposefully and maliciously edited to cast Palin in the least positive light possible given the available footage.

Last I read, World News Tonight gets about triple the viewers of Nightline.

Palin Strong Under Heavily Edited Gibson Grilling

September 11, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

From what I could tell between the ham-handed jump cuts and content edits, Governor Sarah Palin stood strong against a rapid-fire barrage of pointed questions posed by interviewer Charlie Gibson of ABC News and presented herself and her worldview quite well.

I’d advise Governor Palin to only agree to live interviews in the future, though.  You could tell by the edits that they were lopping out huge portions of her answers, especially in the first segment.  I doubt they edited it to present Palin in a more complimentary light.

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The Senate’s Other Community Organizer: Robert ‘KKK’ Byrd

September 11, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

Apparently, I’m not the only one sick of the Democrat’s line du jour to explain away Barack Obama’s pitifully thin qualifications to be President of The United States while simultaneously demeaning Governor Sarah Palin: “Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a Governor.”

Capital Research Center examines the life and times of the Senate’s other former community organizer: West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd. Byrd organized the Ku Klux Klan within his community.

Byrd, who as president pro tempore of the Senate is third in the line of presidential succession…

How scary is that? So if Obama gets elected, we’ll have a community organizer, an idiot plagiarist, and a community organizer in that order?  Yikes.  Back to the quote.

…was a “Kleagle,” an official recruiter in the Ku Klux Klan, who received $10 for each new member he brought in to the hate group. Byrd, who later renounced his association with the Klan, was so esteemed in the community-based organization at one time that his local chapter elected him “Exalted Cyclops.”

Robert Byrd was a community organizer.  Henry Justin Allen was a Governor.

Jesus organized the community on behalf of God.  Byrd organized the community on behalf of the KKK.  To which do you think Obama’s days with ACORN is more akin?

Sorry, Pilate-like Governor Patterson of New York, no racial coding for “black” in my use of the term.

National Enquirer Palin Slam Debunked Before Release

September 11, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

The National Enquirer plans to finger Track Palin, son of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, as one of the culprits responsible for a “notorious” school bus vandalism incident in 2005.  New York’s Daily News, however, has disproved the report before the Enquirer could even get it to newsstands.

The Enquirer is to be published tomorrow, September 11, the same day Track will be departing to defend our country in Iraq.

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Obama Mania Like Any Other Market Bubble

September 10, 2008 |   |  Obamessiah

James Pethokoukis of US News and World Report makes a pretty compelling analogy between the Barack Obama campaign and other market bubbles like the tech bubble in the 1990s.  He determines that the Obama bubble has burst.

The brief article is worth the read, and the points are so rapid-fire and dead-on that it’s impossible to excerpt.  Here’s the thesis.

The evidence? Here goes: 1) The final 10 national polls in June had Barack Obama up by an average of 7 percentage points. The past eight polls this month have John McCain up by a bit more than 2 points, according to RealClearPolitics. 2) Right around the same time that Obama’s polling lead was entering landslide territory in June, his odds of victory over at the Intrade betting markets were hovering at a sky-high 70 percent. Today, Obama’s chances are right around 50-50 vs. McCain. 3) And now, according to a New York Times story yesterday, the deluge of donations has started drying up: “Pushing a fundraiser later this month, a finance staff member sent a sharply worded note last week to Illinois members of its national finance committee, calling their recent efforts ‘extremely anemic.'”

Speculative bubbles have come in many different varieties: flowers, railway shares, Florida property, Beanie Babies, comic books, technology stocks, exurb McMansions. Does Candidate Obama qualify? Well, the candidate does sound a bit like a lot of the hot Internet companies back in the late 1990s. Not much of a track record. Lots of media hype. Parabolic ascent. And now a stomach-dropping decline.

Barack Obama Has History Of Campaign Sexism

September 10, 2008 |   |  Obamessiah

A brief review of the Presidential campaign so far finds that Barack Obama often uses sexist and misogynistic tactics, some subtle and some not, and passive-agressive actions and words against his opponents.

Obama’s personality combination — absolutely zero impulse control and thinking he’s so much smarter than everyone else that we won’t understand his compulsive subtle digs — is making September a very uncomfortable month for the former front-runner.

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Belligerent Obama Assails ‘Pig’ Outrage, Media

September 10, 2008 |   |  Obamessiah

An angry and belligerent Barack Obama assailed those who dare to be outraged at his attack on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a “Pig in Lipstick” and Senator John McCain as an “Old Fish” and the news media who dared to report the gaffe.

“Spare me the phony outrage,” said Obama.

Obama made the comments yesterday in front of a crowd of supporters in Lebanon, VA.

“You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.”

“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”

Apparently, the Obamessiah’s  own “phony outrage” regarding questions about his patriotism that never happened, accusations that he’s a closet Muslim that only he seems to be forwarding, or the use of the term “Community Organizer” are still fair game.

Barack Obama thinks he’s the smartest guy in any room. He thought he was going to slip these snide, offensive allusions past most of us with only a few in the intelligentsia taking notice.  It angers “The One” that we commoners caught his subtext in much the same way he was angered that we were accidentally made privy to the “bitter clingers” comments he made in front of an elite San Francisco crowd in the spring.

Sorry, Barack.  We’re not buying it.  You knew what you were saying, and we knew what you were saying, and it wasn’t the only “lipstick” reference made on behalf of your campaign yesterday.  You thought we weren’t going to catch it.  We caught it.

Fighting Palin Smears: Earmarks and Bridge to Nowhere

September 10, 2008 |   |  Presidential Election

One of the smears against Governor Sarah Palin is that, contrary to her public persona and the claims in her speeches, she abused earmarks as Governor of Alaska, was a big spender with tax dollars, and “was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.”  As with most claims about Governor Palin found on left-wing web sites and the leftstream media, this claim is provably false.

Senator Jim DeMint takes on these smears in today’s Wall Street Journal and compares Governor Palin’s record to that of Barack Obama.

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