{"id":347,"date":"2008-09-13T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2008-09-13T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T02:48:04","slug":"once-elected-palin-hired-friends-and-lashed-foes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/13\/once-elected-palin-hired-friends-and-lashed-foes\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"New York Times article on Sarah Palin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/14\/us\/politics\/14palin.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1221343324-tGxa66AkDRYq1tsNYpjoIw&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the New York Times article on Sarah Palin&#8217;s political history.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 This means I am not necessarily endorsing or trusting the report to which the above link points.\u00a0 Just take it in as a piece of data to consider.<\/p>\n<p>While I am at it I might as well include <a title=\"Huffington Post article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/13\/palin-hied-friends-and-hi_n_126215.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the <em>Huffington Post<\/em> item that pointed me to the above story.<\/p>\n<p>While reading comments on <em>Huffington Post<\/em>, I found <a title=\"Juneau Empire Guest Column\" href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/stories\/090508\/opi_328880444.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to a guest column in the <em>Juneau Empire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what the heck, <a title=\"Washington Post story\" href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/09\/13\/report_palin_did_not_visit_ira.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> points to a <em>Washington Post<\/em> story titled <em>Report: Palin Did Not Visit Iraq<\/em>. In turn, that mentions <a title=\"Bloomberg Story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&amp;sid=a1J0tfV3XJYs&amp;refer=politics\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to a <em>Bloomberg.com<\/em> story titled <em><span class=\"news_story_title\">McCain-Palin Crowd-Size Estimates Not Backed by Officials.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hate to pile on, but <a title=\"YouTube Video \" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PNlcYaEOLRM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> shows a video of some reactions from Alaska residents about the choice of\u00a0 Palin as VP. Then there is <a title=\"Anchorage TV report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G8pewzwBybc&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story on an Anchorage TV station <em>Alaska Women Rally Against Palin And Are Threatened<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the New York Times article on Sarah Palin&#8217;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.\u00a0 This means I am not necessarily endorsing or trusting the report to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}