September 4, 2008
Your Morning Sarah Palin Oppo Research
| Don’t scoff — McCain’s base reads this stuff, religiously…
This week’s Us Magazine:
As for The National Enquirer, it’s sleazy, but right on the heels of breaking the John Edwards affair, the Palin headlines, true or not, will carry weight:
We don’t know about the affair allegation, but, apparently, the Enquirer forced Palin’s hand on announcing the pregnancy of her unmarried 17-year-old teenager: “The ultra-conservative governor’s announcement about her daughter’s pregnancy came hours after The ENQUIRER informed her representatives and family members of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol’s child, that we were aware of the pregnancy and were going to break the news. In a preemptive strike Palin released the news, creating political shockwaves.” |
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…in the hope all you folks with more time and energy than I have can use all this great stuff (I’m kinda up-to-here with Proposition 8 stuff, and actual real-life stuff):
Previous Batch-O’-Palin fun:
Sarah Palin News Coming Fast and Furious
September 3, 2008
If you read nothing else about Sarah Palin today, read this:
Archives of Alaska Papers Reveal Disturbing — And Goofy — Details from Palin’s Past
Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, September 3, 2008
Rank inexperience, cont’d:
Official: Palin’s never issued an order to Alaska Guard
George Bryson, Anchorage Daily News, September 3, 2008
When average isn’t good enough
“She’s not qualified to be president, and in picking her, McCain shows that he has little respect for the presidency.”
Sam Harris, Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2008
On Palin’s “historic” RNC speech:
Palin Fails by Her Own Standards
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet, September 4, 2008
Sarah Palin: The Pro-Big Oil, Anti-Environment Candidate:
CNBC “Kudlow & Company” Interview - Transcript
July 31, 2008
Sarah Palin: A Champion For Big Oil
ThinkProgress, August 29, 2008
Palin comparison: Alaskan greens say McCain’s VP pick has anti-environmental record
Kate Sheppard, Grist, August 31, 2008
Palin on the Environment: Far Right
Bryan Walsh, Time, September 1, 2008
Sarah Palin and the Environment
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
And Big Gas:
Governor Signs Administrative Order 242
DNR to Provide Support in Gas Development
State of Alaska, August 20, 2008
More on Palin’s disdain for endangered polar bears:
Beyond the Palin: Alaska will sue over polar-bear listing
“Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) will sue the Interior Department over its decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species.”
Grist, May 22, 2008
Protecting polar bears gets in way of drilling for oil, says governor
Tim Reid, Times UK, May 23, 2008
Palin: Gung-ho for slaughtering wild wolves (and bears) from the air:
Defenders of Wildlife Asks Judge to Shut Down Palin’s Wolf Bounty Program
Bounty Law Repealed in 1984 – Alaska Does Not Have Regulatory Authority to Impose New Incentives
Defenders of Wildlife, March 27, 2007
Wolf slaughter
Linda McNamara, LTTE, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, July 31, 2008
14 Wolf Pups Executed in Alaska
Rodger Schlickeisen, NewsBlaze, August 1, 2008
Aerial wolf hunting: A look at Palin’s preferred method of killing wolves
David Roberts, Grist, August 31, 2008
Alaska Governor Palin’s Stance On Wolves
Save the Wolves Now, September 3, 2008
Sarah Palin Supports Shooting Wolves and Bears from Airplanes
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, September 3, 2008
Governor Sarah Palin: A Champion for Brutal Aerial Hunting
Warning: Graphic video
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
And she loves killing big animals, just for fun:
Moose hunter Palin draws U.S. comedians’ fire
Steve Gorman, Reuters, September 4, 2008
Picture of Sarah Palin’s parents with dead animals all over their walls
Picture of Sarah Palin with a bearskin, head and all
Picture of Sarah Palin with a moose which she personally murdered her very own self
Picture of Sarah Palin in a fur coat
Q. What happens when you’re a maniacal right-winger who opposes sex education, opting instead to rely on the proven failure called “abstinence-only”?
A. Your underage daughter gets knocked up.
3. Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?
SP: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.
Palin opposed sex-ed
Ben Smith, Politico, September 1, 2008
Oopsy! The page Ben links to has already been scrubbed. Tsk, tsk. Fortunately, The Wayback Machine has it:
…and these folks have preserved the Google cache:
http://www.webcitation.org/5aY59rbm5
Did Sarah Palin have an extramarital affair? Not as far as I know.
Palin denies affair rumours
Anne Davies, The Age, September 4, 2008
More on Palin’s “moral values” hypocrisy:
Is Palin a hero or villain?
“…I didn’t make Palin’s historic Republican candidacy about her indoor plumbing and what she decides to do with it; John McCain and evangelical voters did. I’m only applying the family values guidelines conservatives refined over decades of culture war-mongering to package Murphy Brown and Gennifer Flowers and Britney Spears. Under those rules, Palin’s decisions as a mother are fair game.”
Rebecca Walsh, Salt Lake Tribune, September 04, 2008
Picture of Sarah Palin in “I may be broke but I’m not flat-busted” T-shirt
More on Palin’s earmarks:
Palin Received Millions In Earmarks, Clouding Reformer Image
Sam Stein, Huffington Post, September 1, 2008
Palin on Earmarks: ‘We Did Well!!!’
Mike Lillis, Washington Independent, September 3, 2008
More on Palin and Alaskan secession:
Palin’s secession flirtation
“It’s untrue that Palin has no foreign policy experience, anyway. In fact, she appears to have seriously flirted with the idea of trying to turn Alaska into a foreign country. … Over the years, Palin has actively courted the Alaska Independence Party, or AIP, an organization that supports Alaskan secession from the U.S. To be clear, we’re not necessarily talking about friendly secession either: As the AIP’s founder, Joe Vogler, told an interviewer in 1991: ‘The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. … And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.’ The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. could learn from this man.”
Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2008
More on Troopergate:
Palin wants quick state board ruling in trooper probe
CNN, September 3, 2008
More on Public Safety Commissioner-Gate:
Governor to Turn Over Findings
State of Alaska, August 13, 2008
Other worthy reads:
A tale of twin cities
“When McCain-Palin supporters talk about their candidates’ willingness to battle special interests, do they mean the business interests that Republicans in Washington have courted for years?”
Houston Chronicle, September 3, 2008
The top 10 things you should know about Sarah Palin
Grizzly Bay
The Best for Last: Peggy Noonan, et al., reveal true reactions of right-wing pundits to Sarah Palin as VP pick: “It’s not gonna work” … “It’s over” … “political bullshit” …
Oy … Live Mics Are Such Dangerous Things
Josh Marshall, TPM, September 3, 2008
More to come, my fellow research junkies!
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