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• 1 tehehehe // Mar 27, 2009 at 8:57 am

  Your link takes us to a “disappeared” page. Did CNN woithdraw the article because of poor scholarship?

  I tried a variety of google searches to find out the “meat” of the CNN piece (which comes up in a search, but also leads to the same dead link).

  It looks like CNN may have withdrawn their report. We can only specualte as to why. Maybe its another one of those “the CIA used chemical weapons to kill GI captives in North Vietnam” stories?

  http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=JMMQQlYQTK0p8QPnJ1Zxy2MzpJW1yggTgSklYbNzhJfpr12T1tWn!877445902!2004912927?docId=5006658908

  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=1140

• 2 tehehehe // Mar 27, 2009 at 8:59 am

  Hey. Not your fault. I am not blaming you. No need to “defend” CNN. They published something, and you believed them to be a legitimate news source. Lots of people make that mistake! Don’t feel bad or get defensive.

• 3 tehehehe // Mar 27, 2009 at 9:02 am

  Here is something you may want to comment on. The G-20 confab and the response it is generating:

  http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/27/the-coming-g20-riots-the-spread-of-mob-rule/

• 4 tehehehe // Mar 27, 2009 at 9:07 am

  Oh. I finally found a link that addresses the story. At least it references what was in the CNN report in case your readers want to know what the issue is about.

  http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/26/new-drama-mccain-staffers-angry-at-palin-for-saying-she-didnt-want-to-pray-with-them/

  This is very non-partisan. Not a propaganda link.

• 5 tehehehe // Mar 27, 2009 at 9:17 am

  Ouch! Apparently Social Security is broke, as in “no money”.

  http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/26/video-social-security-surpluses-gone/

  Time for a “bailout”?

• 6 stacyb // Mar 27, 2009 at 10:26 pm

  Sorry about the link- I saw other blogs had the same problem- they linked to CNN political ticker and it said “page not found” and I think the reason is ‘the political ticker’ is just that- a ticker and the story doesn’t stay there long, which is strange since I would think they would want people to link to the stories. Unless it was some other problem. I replaced the link in the post so it should work.

• 7 Pink Frankenstein // Mar 29, 2009 at 12:44 pm

  “This is very non-partisan. Not a propaganda link.”

  Michelle Malkin
  Founder, Hot Air
  April 24, 2006

  Uhhhhhh, yeah.

  How “low” can “you” go?

• 8 stacyb // Mar 29, 2009 at 1:29 pm

  Pink, I agree.

  Malkin is toxic and her over-the-top, often hateful, fear-mongering rhetoric is meant to be as divisive as possible thus, even when she may make a worthy point, the point is muted because it’s hard to take seriously.

• 9 stacyb // Mar 29, 2009 at 1:44 pm

  I forgot to mention, the hotair link about Palin and the prayer comment seems to summarize what has been going around post-election- that Palin has been publicly dissing former staffers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways and seems to blame them for any negative publicity she received during the campaign.

  As the CNN article (and hotair makes reference to it I believe) also pointed out, Palin seems to not distinguish between McCain’s high level advisers (ie. his inner circle) and those McCain aides who were sent out to travel and advise Palin on a day to day basis- in other words, many of the McCain people Palin was dealing with may not have been responsible for some of the higher level decisions. I’m not saying that the McCain people didn’t make any strategic mistakes with respect to how they handled Palin, because I think they did, I just think Palin is being a bit unfair.

  Also, there is nothing more annoying than a politician who constantly blames someone else for their mis-steps and as far as I’m concerned, that sort of person won’t make a good leader. And for me, that’s not just a partisan thing- one of the things that has bothered me for many years is/was how the Clintons seemed to take no responsibility for any of the things which tarnished their political image and instead made themselves out to constantly be the victim. I hate that. Now, I do think there were times when some on the far-right were so obsessed with bringing Bill Clinton down that they lost sight of what was good for the country as a whole, but many of the things that befell Bill Clinton and Hillary were directly related to things THEY had done.

  I don’t really care who Palin does or doesn’t want to pray with- that’s her business, but you have to ask yourself why Palin would come out publicly and make a point of saying she didn’t want to pray with the McCain people? It’s hard to see how it was meant as anything other than a slap in the face.

• 10 tehehehe // Apr 10, 2009 at 9:20 am

  You can be critical of Malkin. Many people are. But she CAN be informative (heck, it can be informative to listen to Hugo Chavez even though he is a tyrannical dictator). And I would argue that she does not TRY to be divisive. She is often critical, and that may turn people cold, but she is TRYING to make people think differently by looking at things from a different perspective.

  The particular article is, however, not partisan, as I stated. It may come from a source that is “typically partisan” (which she typically is), but an objective person has to try and look beyond that, as difficult as that may be.

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