![While Palin's book sales are skyrocketing, the media seem intent on "putting stink" on her parade.](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/hash/25/cf/25cfd3ee9d0de6855cd5087d95d842e0.jpg "While Palin's book sales are skyrocketing, the media seem intent on "putting stink" on her parade.")
While the Sarah Palin whirlwind book tour continues and her poll numbers are rising, according to Fox News Channel's Steve Doocy on Friday morning, newspapers, magazines and broadcast journalists are dissecting her bestselling book Going Rogue.
For example, the Associated Press allegedly assigned 11 reporters to fact checking Palin's book. Unfortunately, the number of reporters fact checking President Barack Obama's memoir is unknown.
In the words of a veteran New York City police detective, "These reporters are trying to put stink on her book tour, her political aspirations and her conservatism."
This is not surprising to many observers who've noted that, since her nomination in 2008 as the GOP's vice presidential candidate, the campaign to devalue and marginalize her has become a passion of many journalists and the left.
The denizens of this nation's newsrooms pride themselves on being our watchdogs within the political realm, however it appeared that in the last presidential election cycle, they were MIA (missing in action).
First and foremost, we have the political mystery man, Barack Hussein Obama. The news media -- men and women -- behaved like star-struck teenyboppers at the mere mention of his name. To say Obama got a pass on anything that could be construed as negative is the epitome of understatement.
According to one of Florida's top talk hosts, Matt Bruce (News/Talk WSRQ) there is a laundry list of facts that were either unreported, underreported or dismissed as being irrelevant:
When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist. The media said it didn't matter and failed to report it.
When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, the media said it didn't matter and didn't report it.
When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, the media said it didn't matter and it was anti-Islamic to mention it.
When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction". The media said it didn't matter and totally ignored it.
When he admitted in his own book that he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, the media said it didn't matter and went as far as labeling him a political moderate.
When he traveled to Pakistan after college on an unknown national passport, the media said it didn't matter.
When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, the media said it doesn't matter.
When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, the media said it didn't matter and actually helped with damage control for Obama's campaign.
While Obama was a young lawyer, he worked for SEIU (Service Employees International Union) and its offshoot ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) as a community organizer and trainer, yet in the midst of the ACORN scandal, the media have failed to mention Obama's link to that arguably corrupt and crime-ridden organization.
Senator Hillary Clinton during her battle with Senator Barack Obama for the Democrat Party presidential nomination claimed that she wanted to be an Olympic athlete and NASA astronaut in an effort to humanize the New York Senator, says the editor of a controversial quote book.
The Associated Press published remarks by New York's junior senator at a symposium on Title IX, the federal law prohibiting gender discrimination in certain educational programs. "I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," she is quoted as saying. "...[But] I couldn't jump, I couldn't run, I couldn't swim... So I wrote to NASA and said, 'How do I sign up to be an astronaut?' And they wrote back very politely and said, 'We don't take girls.'"
While NASA did not have female astronauts when Hillary was a kid, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto has pointed out that Sally Ride was only 3-1/2 years younger than Hillary when she became the first U.S. woman in space -- a revelation which calls into question the validity of this latest public claim by the former first lady.
“This tall tale by Hillary was calculated not just to make voters feel warm and fuzzy about the senator, but to make specific points about her compassion and goodness,” claims Kuiper, whose quote book features over 500 provocative quotes carefully collected from 63 books and over 100 articles and news reports.
“As the many fully attributed quotes in 'I've Always Been A Yankees Fan' demonstrate, she is constantly trying to manipulate her image through the press. Here, she’s trying to show that she’s ‘one of the girls,’ although nothing could be farther from the truth.
“Hillary Clinton has a long history of telling whoppers," asserts Kuiper. "As I document in my book, she lead people to believe that Chelsea was near the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim which Chelsea herself disputed."
On one occasion, she implied that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who died at the age of 88 during her campaign, but Sir Edmund climbed Mount Everest years after she was born. "She also said that she and Bill wanted another child, a maternal desire quickly forgotten after election time! Hillary is not just about pandering, but about rewriting history and her place in it."
“There is not an ounce of authenticity to her public pronouncements," adds Kuiper. "Hillary is [attempts] to rewrite the past, but the truth is out there. My book uses dozens upon dozens of independent sources to paint a picture of the real Hillary -- a person who is often profane and always ambitious beyond justification.
"It's no wonder that Hillary's spokesman tried to change the topic when the New York Times asked him about 'I've Always Been a Yankees Fan,'" Kuiper quipped.
These are the same media elites who are now delving into every aspect of Sarah Palin's life in an obvious effort to destroy her politically so that she will not be a threat to the Empty Suit Barack Obama in 2012.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a columnist for The Examiner (examiner.com) and New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's a blogger for the Cheyenne, Wyoming Fox News Radio affiliate KGAB (www.kgab.com), Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.
He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer and columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. Kouri appear regularly as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Fox News Channel, Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, etc.
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Why is it smearing if they are fact checking?
I should add, that what you are doing would be more considered smearing than those checking the her facts are true.
I just wish the folks checking the facts in Palin's book spent a tenth of that energy looking into the stimulus and health care boondoggles. Amazing what the media's priorities are. Scary, in fact. The Left really fears Palin and will do anything in its power to destroy her and those who think like her.
"When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said it didn't matter."
Perhaps you should do some fact checking on your own, because you are wrong on both points. Obama never said he was mentored by Frank. Davis was a closet communist, not an avowed communist. There is no evidence that Obama even knew of Davis's CPUSA connection.
Although Obama's book indicates "Frank" was a family friend who offered him advice on racial issues, Obama wrote that Davis "fell short" and his views were "incurable." Obama did not even visit Davis for three years before going to college. Obama's book, itself, proves that Obama did not consider Davis to be a "wise and trusted counselor," which is the definition of "mentor." By what creative definition can Davis be considered his "mentor"?
Oh, so Obama said that. Well, the writer stands corrected. NOT. Obama wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on his ass. By the way, read Kouri's column about the similarities between serial killers and some of our political leaders. Anyone who denies Obama is a Marxist at best, a Maoist at worst, is either a liar, an Obamaholic, or ignorant. Which term describes you?
It is astonishing but a tremendous piece of good luck for republicans that the left did not zero in on Bill Clinton's assessment of Palin (". ... She's got good intuitive skills. They're significant,") rather than dismiss them out of the hand and default to the Palin-is-an-idiot" mode.
As if they (media such as A.P.) learned nothing from the remarkable ascent of Palin's fortunes, which seems inversely proportional to the media's attempt to drop her, they still keep digging for the silver bullet that will
put her in political purgatory.
I assumed what was quite likely to happen: those who liked Palin would like her more when the book came out; those who detested her would find nourishment for their rancor. The real surprise is watching the boffo reviews trickle in from abroad. Palin's popularity is growing in the U.K. and Canada.
That is stunning.
If someone can derail the Palin Comet they better do it quick. The woman is on an almost unprecedented role. She's got huge mo'
Palin brings on scrutiny by her actions and radical beliefs.
There is not a camera or headline she does not love.
The book of blaming everyone but herself for anything negative or
mistakes is a book that deserves fact checks.
I know many love her but there are also us who are totally turned off by her spewing of hate, anger, division of our country and fear mongering, never hesitating to lie, distort and attack. How is this being a good Christian as she claims?
Palin has proven herself to distort, stretch and bend the truth, so it's only prudent that we have to check everything she says.
It's like what your mom used to tell you: It takes just one lie to ruin trust and it takes a long time for people to trust you again.
I'm glad they are checking.
Seems to me that if that many people are that threatened by Palin's book, there are a lot of people feeling threatened by what was probably ramrodded under the carpet during the campaign and is now working its way to the surface for all the world to see. Where there's smoke there is usually fire and I for one am not and never will be an "Obamaphile". I think the media was blinded by the same stars in its eyes as the people who voted for Obama and now alot of the shiny wrapping paper is starting to come off.
If we as a nation of free people don't start doing our own research and stop paying attention to what is now an arguably liberal press we are going to be in some deep manure. This nation had plenty of religious freedoms but in recent years those freedoms (which did allow plenty of room for people of other faiths to peacefully practice their religious beliefs) are displacing Christian with prohibitions on mentioning God in public places and prayers. Open your eyes America!
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