It’s one thing to be a run of the mill, left-wing press agency. However, on Monday, Politico took their bias to a whole new (yes, rabid) level. On a morning when gas prices were approaching record highs, the EPA blocked drilling in the Arctic, Obama escalated America’s role in Libya, and the IMF predicted that the Chinese economy will surpass our own in a few short years, this bastion of journalistic hackery chose instead to promote a group of nuts “on a mission” to destroy Governor Palin, as their top story. As William Jacobson noted:
Under the guise of reporting on the anti-Palin movement, Politico manages to dredge up almost every crank accusation against Palin. The fourth word in the first sentence of the article just happens to be “promiscuous.” How nice.
In the course of the article, Politico manages to compare Palin to Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Hitler, and Father Coughlin, but only because such people were controversial and celebrities, of course. And Politico did not make the connection itself, it merely quoted someone making the connection, that’s how real reporters do it, right?
Politico even refers to Rebecca Mansour, an aide to Palin who helps with SarahPAC, as an “attack dog,” with an embeded link in Mansour’s name in the Politico article to the viciously anti-Palin Palingates website. This is beyond contemptible even for Politico.
Politico’s writer, Ken Vogel sets out in this piece to legitimize crackpot websites like “Palingates” and authors like Joe McGinniss to make them mainstream for his own readers. After interviewing all of these individuals, Vogel indicates that legitimization is actually what these anti-Palin writers wish to accomplish:
A number of forthcoming books promise to delve deeply into — and, they believe, give mainstream credibility to — some of the more salacious Palin rumors and conspiracy theories that have sprouted in the anti-Palin blogosphere and on supermarket tabloid stands but have mostly been rejected by the mainstream media.
Well that settles any question about how “mainstream” Politico even considers itself.
The first person Vogel tries to pass off as a credible critic “on a mission,” is the ever present Sherry Whitstine. Now I know Sherry is a fruitcake because I’ve had the unfortunate experience of having a back-n-forth with her online. This woman if full of anger and is a classic hater in every sense of the word.
Back in March of 2009, the aforementioned Rebecca Mansour wrote a piece noting that she had received an email from Whitstine in which Sherry referred to Governor Palin as “the whore that rides the beast.” She wrote:
Today I encountered the most frightening case of Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) I’ve witnessed to date.[…]
The “whore that rides the beast”? So now Gov. Palin is the “Whore of Babylon”?
If you have Google Toolbar and have it set to suggest search terms as you type, you can type in the words “whore of babylon” and “whore of babylon sarah palin” will pop up as a leading search — even before “whore of babylon catholic church,” and my fellow Catholics have been called the “Whore of Babylon” for centuries before Sarah Palin was ever born. This is the level of insane vicious hatred we’re dealing with, friends.[…]
People who are critical of Gov. Palin have the same First Amendment rights as the rest of us. However, people who behave in this manner of PDS-vileness should not be taken seriously by any news outlet or any other serious-minded person. Their behavior regarding Gov. Palin and her family discredit them from the word “go.”
One would tend to think, but here we are two years later looking straight at a news outlet taking Whitstine very seriously, and even promoting her agenda for her.
The next person Vogel highlights as a credible foe, is far-left writer and Trig Truther, Geoffry Dunn. Dunn has been around for a long time and has made numerous claims about Governor Palin that are not true. Dunn used to write for HuffPo where his anti-Palin shtick was welcome, but now must look elsewhere to post due to his loony conspiracy theories. The Huffington Post banned Trig Truther posts from their site, which humorously now makes them much more credible than Politico. Go figure.
Next, Vogel turns to Frank Bailey’s upcoming book which was actually written by Jeanne Devon. (Click here to see Jeanne in a mask attending an anti-Palin rally set up by the Democrat party)
I’ve read the transcript, and I can tell you that Bailey’s book is garbage. We covered it extensively here and elsewhere.
What article promoting anti-Palin loons would be complete without a section cut out for Griffin? Griffin, who was fired from his teaching job for his online nuttiness, has a long record of deranged behavior regarding Governor Palin, amongst other things. It’s truly mindbogglingly that any journalist would even admit to talking to Griffin, much less cite him as a reference.
Vogel then sets out to promote world reknown stalker, Joe McGinniss’ new anti-Palin, Trig Truther book. McGinniss, also known for referring to Palin supporters as the “hounds of hell,” has been given credibility by the mainstream press before, only later did they regret it. The man is crazy and giving him more than two seconds of airtime clears away any doubts of that.
Politico has never been a very unbiased source for news, but what they did on Monday will further denigrate their credibility. Giving proven liars, disgruntled losers, stalkers, and suspected psychopaths a platform to promote their agenda driven products, is NOT news. It certainly isn’t worthy of a four page spread, splashed across readers screens, front and center at the beginning of a busy news week. The article was shameful, and only proves that those of us who have been preaching to our neighbors to not trust the media, are correct. Would Politico ever highlight and promote people who write books and blog articles about Barack Obama’s alleged homosexuality or any other number of strange conspiracies about the President? Heck no, nor should they.
The title of the Vogel piece reads “Mission for anti-Palin movement: Expose her.” Considering the article is full of baseless conspiracies and outright lies, the only one ‘exposed’ here is Politico. The nuts cited in the piece exposed themselves a long time ago.
I could end by asking Politico to be professionals and plea with them to stop their politics of personal destruction in regards to Governor Palin. That would be an empty plea considering so many writers over there are highly motivated to do just that. Perhaps we should just stop reading this garbage. I don’t read the National Enquirer, and after what Politico did with this article, I don’t see much difference between the two.
Mark Levin weighs in and coins a new name for the political rag – “Pervertico”
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