Sarah Palin’s ‘nonsensical’ plea for more drilling (TrueSlant)

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By Sara Libby
TrueSlant
June 2, 2010

Hi, kettle? It’s me, Sarah Palin. Umm, you’re black.

It might as well have been her latest Facebook message. Instead, Sarah Palin lashed out at environmentalists, repeatedly calling them “nonsensical” for opposing oil drilling following the worst oil spill in our nation’s history that was a direct result of … oil drilling. WHO’S nonsensical, now?
She writes:

Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.

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Fox and Friends Criticize DOJ Investigation Into BP & Gulf Oil Spill (Mediaite)

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by Colby Hall
Mediaite
June 2nd, 2010

News broke yesterday that the Department of Justice is launching an investigation into whether any laws or regulations have been violated by BP in the lead-up to (and clean-up efforts) of the Gulf oil spill. This morning’s stock market opened much lower, in part due to the 15% sudden decrease in BP’s market cap valuation, or so surmised the hosts of Fox and Friends this morning.


Hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade reported on the $20 Billion dip in market cap as a result of the DOJ investigation and openly wondered how smart it was for Attorney General Eric Holder to make an announcement that lead to the dip in the Dow index. Doocy exasperatedly wonders how BP is going to get that $20 Billion back if they are faced with all these lawsuits.

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Is Glenn Beck trying to discredit fact-checker websites? (MediaMatters.org)

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By Terry Krepel
Media Matters
June 01, 2010 

On his Monday radio show, after repeating guilt-by-association claims by the Obama-obsessed WorldNetDaily reporter Aaron Klein that President Obama is linked to the Gaza flotilla through Bill Ayers, Glenn Beck and his crew took aim at fact-checking websites such as Snopes.com and FactCheck.org.

Beck asked of Snopes, “Aren’t they originally funded with [George] Soros money?” Nope -- it started in 1996 as a list of urban myths and legends by amateur folklorists David and Barbara Mikkelson and evolved into fact-checking. As The New York Times reported earlier this year, the Mikkelsons still run the website, which is self-supporting through advertising. Further, the idea that the Mikkelsons are driven by liberal ideology has been debunked by FactCheck.org, which noted that Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen, while David Mikkelson is a political independent who was previously a registered Republican and has no public record of having made political donations.

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McGinniss is just doing his job, Sarah (Worcester Telegram)

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Dianne Williamson
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If you listen to Sarah Palin and her somewhat hysterical supporters, you'd think her new neighbor was armed with a pistol instead of a pen.

On Fox News, the pundits have dubbed author Joe McGinniss a stalker, a creep and a threat to Sarah's family. An apoplectic Glenn Beck has called for a boycott of McGinniss' publishing house. And the spinmeister herself, never missing the chance to play victim, once again frames the issue as an unfair attack on her children:

“People have said already, oh, the guy, he has his freedoms too, and he can live wherever he wants to,” Sarah said. “Well, of course he can, and he can do what he wants to do. However, I think any mom, in my position, if they put themselves in my shoes, that they would feel the same way. You do your thing, you keep your distance, and you better leave my kids alone.”

Of course, there's no indication that McGinniss has any designs on Sarah's precious and politically expedient children. But he is writing a book about their mother. And when an opportunity fell in his lap to rent the house next door to his subject, he took it. He's a reporter. He goes where the story is. But I trust he has no interest in catching Sarah mowing the lawn in her underwear.

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Evidence can't be ignored: It's been a disaster (Augusta Chronicle Editorial)

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Little more than a year into his presidency, Obama's luster is tarnished by a dismal record

Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff

Sunday, May 30, 2010

President Obama's core supporters, though increasingly lonely, are no less convinced of his greatness a year-plus into his presidency.

The problem is, like a writer to The Chronicle's Rants & Raves on Thursday, they're hanging their hats on the indisputable glory of his breakthrough election in 2008 -- not on what he's done or not done since.

Supporters claim his critics just can't get over his election; in truth, it's his supporters who need to move on, as the rest of us have.

A dispassionate review of the president's actual record -- not emotions for or against him -- is what we should judge him by, and what historians absolutely will weigh.

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Stories that could rock the summer (Politico)

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By DAVID CATANESE
Politico
5/31/10

On the eve of the summer campaign doldrums, the narrative for the midterm elections seems well-established: Big losses are in store for Democrats in November, incumbents of all stripes ought to be looking over their shoulders and the political establishments in both parties are out of favor.

Yet as fixed as those story lines might seem at the moment, there’s plenty that could still go wrong — or right — to alter the Democratic Party's or Republican Party’s trajectory over the next few months.

Natural disasters could wreak havoc. Crimes might be exposed. Jaw-dropping gaffes that could be committed, and unforeseen political forces could yet be unleashed.

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Jake Tapper Launches Twitter Campaign to Get Sarah Palin as Guest on This Week (Mediaite)

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by Tommy Christopher
Mediaite
June 1st, 2010

















On his uber-popular Twitter feed this morning, ABC News’ Jake Tapper launched a campaign to entice former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to “broaden her reach” by appearing on This Week. There’s no question that ABC’s Sunday morning talk show would be the perfect forum for Palin to reach beyond her loyal base, but will she do it, and will Fox News let her do it?
I asked Jake why he has chosen Twitter as the vehicle to entice Palin onto his show: (via email)

“We’ve been trying for sometime now to have Gov. Palin as a guest on This Week, so far to no avail. Knowing how connected she is to the internet and how responsive she is to her supporters, I thought appealing to her on twitter might work. We’ll provide a fair forum for her to share her thoughts on politics and policy; I hope she comes on.”

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Ann Coulter: Calling Sestak Job Offer ‘Business As Usual’ Is Like Telling Your Mom ‘Everybody Does It’ (Mediaite)

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by Frances Martel
Mediaite
May 31st, 2010

Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak’s allegation that the White House offered him a job in exchange for his backing down from running against Democratic Senator Arlen Specter is the kind of story that seems to never die. Keeping the flames burning are last night’s Geraldo at Large panel, where host Kimberly Guilfoyle wondered about the White House’s “sinister” intentions and Ann Coulter offered as proof of improprieties the fact that the job was not given.
On a panel with Fox News political analyst Juan Williams and former White House counsel David Rivkin, Guilfoyle made it clear that she is not buying the claim that nothing inappropriate happened, and that she suspects perhaps White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel of being the guilty party:

“I think that’s kind of a ruse, this whole thing about Bill Clinton… this is just a distraction, throw Bill Clinton across the screen here, ok? So people are chasing after Bubba gone run amok, and, in the meantime, the story is perhaps Rahm Emanuel. Because right now what they’re suggesting isn’t going to get Clinton in any trouble for offering some kind of paid position, the fact pattern doesn’t match up with what Sestak is saying, so perhaps an investigation is warranted.”

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