Daily Archives: September 13, 2008

Why McCain is going so negative, so often

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Follow this link to an article on politico.com.

The following quote from the article should give you an idea of what you will learn:

McCain strategists now have became even more sure of themselves after the picture-perfect reaction — in the GOP’s view — to the decision to put Palin on the ticket. The choice provoked derision from elites, jubilation among conservative voters long skeptical of McCain and uncertainty from Obama about how to respond. If you are a McCain staffer, it doesn’t get better than that — so who cares that the candidate had met her only once and her chief foreign policy credential seems to be that she lives closer to Russia than other Americans.

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes

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Follow this link to the New York Times article on Sarah Palin’s political history.

Just for the record, I am not too thrilled with the New York Times for its recent history of promulgating administration propaganda without caring to look into its veracity.  This means I am not necessarily endorsing or trusting the report to which the above link points.  Just take it in as a piece of data to consider.

While I am at it I might as well include this link to the Huffington Post item that pointed me to the above story.

While reading comments on Huffington Post, I found this link to a guest column in the Juneau Empire.

Oh, what the heck, this link points to a Washington Post story titled Report: Palin Did Not Visit Iraq. In turn, that mentions this link to a Bloomberg.com story titled McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials.

I hate to pile on, but this link shows a video of some reactions from Alaska residents about the choice of  Palin as VP. Then there is this link to the story on an Anchorage TV station Alaska Women Rally Against Palin And Are Threatened.

Greenberg’s Law of the Media

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Follow this link to see The Worcester Telegram & Gazette’s publication of my letter that states Greenberg’s Law of the Media, “If an item has a number in it, it’s probably misleading.”

I was taking them to task for an editorial that misused numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to make the case that Bush’s performance on unemployment has not been too bad.