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Bill O’Reilly calls Courtney Martin from Women’s Media Center on the carpet for never once defending Sarah Palin.

Thank you Mr. O’Reilly!

The Women’s Media Center is also encouraging people to write Fox News about Bill’s comment about Helen Thomas. I say we need to write the Women’s Media Center about not defending Sarah Palin.

from Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points and a mention of Gov. Sarah Palin.

Judge Obama on Performance Alone Let’s not celebrate more ordinary speeches.
By JUAN WILLIAMS

With the noon sun high over the U.S. Capitol, Barack Obama yesterday took the oath of office to become president of the United States. On one level, it was a simple matter of political process — the symbolic transfer of power. Yet words alone cannot convey its meaning.The calloused hands of slaves, the voices of abolitionists, the hearts of generations who trusted in the naïve promise that any child can become president, will find some reward in a moment that was hard to imagine last year, much less 50 years ago. Our history, so marred by the sin of slavery, has come to the day when a man that an old segregationist would have described as “tea-colored” — the child of a white woman and an African immigrant, who identifies as a member of the long oppressed and despised black minority — was chosen by a mostly white nation as the personification of America’s best sense of self as a nation of power and virtue.

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Yes they can, put a man in the white house who will, as soon as you are deemed successful, take from your pocket and put it in the pocket of the man on the corner who has no intention of getting work.

Yes they can, put a man in the White House, who intends to penalize struggling small businesses with fines and higher taxes.

Yes they can, put a man in the white house who has promised to shut down an entire industry, despite the fact that it will bankrupt many companies and put hardworking American’s out of work AND promises higher electric rates for all!

Yes they can, select a president who was friends with a domestic terrorist – a man who wishes he had done more to damage the good old USA and stood on our American flag after the 911 attacks – Obama couldn’t be a supreme court justice or a secret service agent having an acquaintance like this – but he CAN be president of the good old U S of A!

Yes they can, put a man in the white house who’s whole campaign did nothing but attack and demean our current president of the United States….a president who faced up to some of the biggest challenges ever to face a president. Yes they can, put a man in the White House who promises to raise money for all his programs by charging the American People a progressive capital gains tax – make a $100,000 profit? Better pay $28,000 or the IRS is gonna getcha!

Yes they can, elect a man who had the audacity to blame the Bush Administration for the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle – even though he pocketed more money from these organizations than any other senator.

Oh, yes they did!

Governor Says “There You Go Again”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-04

Governor Palin Says to Media, “There You Go Again”

January 8, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today expressed dismay at continuing efforts in the media to take her comments out of context to create adversarial situations.

Ironically, the latest media eruption concerning the governor came out of an interview she gave to a filmmaker who is creating a documentary on distortions by the national press.

Gov. Palin gave the interview Monday as one of many voices contributing to the film “Media Malpractice…How Obama Got Elected,” concerning the performance of the media last fall. The filmmaker posted excerpts from the interview on YouTube.com, which then led to misleading reports in the press.

Particularly troubling was a post on Politico.com titled, “Palin: Media Goes Easy on Kennedy.” The headline inflames the governor’s quote in the transcript, in which she answered a question about media treatment of the prospect that Caroline Kennedy would be appointed to the U.S. Senate: “It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be.”

“I was not commenting at all on Caroline Kennedy as a prospective U.S. senator, but rather on the seemingly arbitrary ways in which news organizations determine the level and kind of scrutiny given to those who aspire to public office,” Gov. Palin said today. “In fact, I consider Ms. Kennedy qualified and experienced, and she could serve New York well.”

The governor’s interview came as news organizations pursued erroneous and often outrageous leads on a variety of non-issues.

Just this week, false stories in the media surfaced alleging improper influence by the Palin administration or the governor herself. In one case, a state union alleged that the administration delayed serving an arrest warrant on the mother of Levi Johnston, the father of the governor’s grandson. The union admitted within 48 hours that the allegation was not true.

In another case, an irresponsible talk show host in Anchorage alleged in a newspaper column that the governor must have intervened to get a job for her future son-in-law, circumventing eligibility rules for the position. Again, the allegation was immediately discredited by proof that the governor did not influence Levi’s employment.

Meanwhile, bloggers, the Atlantic magazine and even the Anchorage Daily News continue to give credence to the sensational allegation that the governor’s child, Trig, is not hers.

“As a public official, I expect criticism and I expect to be held accountable for how I govern,” Gov. Palin said. “But the personal, salacious nature of recent reporting, and often the refusal of the media to correct obvious mistakes, unfortunately discredits too many in journalism today, making it difficult for many Americans to believe what they see in the media.”

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